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[WP] You were forced to attend an interview for a job you do not want, but, no matter how hard you try to screw up the interview, the interviewer just becomes more keen to hire you. | Silence resounded from every corner of the room. Such a quiet place to work, Sam thought. Though he may need to suffer through this interview, Sam took comfort in the knowledge that he would need not endure such silence every day.
The room itself was plain enough. No larger than Sam’s own bedroom, the walls were bare... | “So, why do you think you deserve to work for us?” The interviewer asked me.
“I don’t,” I replied with cruel honesty.
The bald man, in his forties, laughed at me. I showed him a muffled expression.
“You seem like a jokester! Exactly the kind of a person we aim for!”
“I don’t want this job, you know…” Again, I need ... | 2017-08-29T09:34:17 | 2017-08-29T09:16:02 | 77 | 24 |
[WP] A serial killer is called for jury duty. At the trial, he finds out that the person on trial has been falsely accused for the serial killer's crimes. | There's no way this guy could use a hammer to smash a girl’s teeth out while she screams for mercy. The way he slumps in the defendant’s chair writing notes on a legal pad tells you that he probably doesn’t even own a hammer much less having ever swung one with prejudice.
When the notice that I had been called for jur... | My life to this point has been, in a word, shit. My wife left me. I'm working a dead-end job in the middle of nowhere and my boss treats me like the scum of the earth. Even my recent trip to Costa Rica didn't cheer me up. I think that's the point when I...unravelled.
I'm a fairly composed guy on the surface. I mean, m... | 2015-05-31T16:08:31 | 2015-05-31T15:18:52 | 259 | 58 |
[WP] In a Supernatural society, everyone is born bearing a name such as “The One Who Dances.” or “The One Who Flies.” This gives people an unnaturally strong ability in their named field. Your name, however, is simply “The One.” | From birth we have all been marked with a title. Peculiar runes written on our foreheads by some mysterious all knowing force. The runes fade by ones 4th birthday, but their meaning affects the rest of your natural life.
These titles normally take the form of describing what one is good at, and almost always start wi... | I can remember the day as clear as anything. There I was sitting around my other crib mates, all waiting to get our name chosen.
“Preston Vantelie!” The speaker barked.
I didn’t know Preston that well, he was very tall for his age and everyone thought he was older than ten, but now he walks to the chooser to get his ... | 2018-12-21T17:42:14 | 2018-12-21T12:07:49 | 49 | 31 |
[WP] Write a conversation between a number of characters, one of whom is a liar. Make it hard to tell who the liar is. | The lights returned to normal as Raj gawked at the body on the floor, looking to the other people standing around it.
“Fess up,” he said. “Who killed Tom?”
Every shifted glances to their neighbors, the air thick with skepticism.
“It wasn’t me,” Mary said. “I hated the bastard but I wouldn’t have killed him, at least... | “I can feel the difference you know.” She tells me, placing her hand just below her rib cage. “Not right now, but at night when it gets real quiet. Just before I got sleep I can tell that the kidney you gave me is bigger than my own.”
The surgery had only been a week ago. She was still recovering. There were a lot of ... | 2015-04-10T08:14:58 | 2015-04-10T08:01:04 | 68 | 10 |
[WP] As it turns out, Hell has a healthy supply of scientists and engineers and is thus much more technologically advanced than is usually portrayed. | *Warning*: the last segment contains some graphic descriptions.
An inhuman shriek pierced the eternal night of Hell, waking Dr. Roberts with a start from his dreamless sleep. He pulled the covers tightly over his head, unwilling to face what waited in the shadows. As the echo of the shriek returned from the far wall... | Past a certain point in time, the upper echelon of Hell realized something. With the massive influx of damned souls being taken in as humanity progressed to modernity, punishing them all became a wildly inefficient practice. There were only *so many* demons, and the humans kept increasing in number. *Eternal* punishmen... | 2016-06-01T18:52:30 | 2016-06-01T14:26:33 | 314 | 226 |
[WP] You have realized that your best friend is your son/daughter from the future who wants to hang out and get to know you since you die before he/she was born
Not sure if this has already been made but just thought of it :)
Edit: WOW didn’t expect so much people to comment on this! Thanks everybody! | ######[](#dropcap)
"Why are you staring at me like that?" The corner of Mina's eyes crinkled into a smile. "If you keep looking, I might just believe you're in love with me."
Kaitlyn laughed, her smile bright. "How do you know I'm not?"
Mina rolled her eyes. "I think Freddy would have a problem or two with that," ... |
“It’s just a prop gun. You can’t really shoot anyone with it,” I said, looking confused.
Samantha frowned again, turning it over in her hand before setting it down like it might bite her. “Didn’t some actor get killed by one of these before? I know I heard it has happened at least once.”
“Well, yes, but.. “ I pau... | 2018-10-30T10:56:38 | 2018-10-30T10:17:03 | 929 | 164 |
[WP] After too many ridiculous and lengthy lawsuits dominate the world's courts, the world leaders decided to pass a law to remove all warning labels. The Darwin Act has just been passed. | Sarah Miller, exhausted from a double shift, put her green blouse into the washing machine. She poured her Clorox Bleach in and washed the garment. 30 minutes later she mindlessly threw the blouse into the dryer and set it for 50 minutes. Sarah promptly fell asleep, looking forward to her job interview for the next ... | "Mr. President...we can't just mobilize our armies to take down General Mills on your premise that "they tried to assassinate you via pizza roll,"" the leader of France began to explain.
But Donald Trump immediately interjected, "François Hollande, I'm a smart man. And I can tell General Mills is a smart man too."
"H... | 2017-03-23T22:37:31 | 2017-03-23T22:17:01 | 3,008 | 58 |
[WP] When your grandmother died, the inheritance was divided between you and your two siblings. One got all the money; the other all the property and possessions. All you got was a packet of gardening seeds. | I think most people would have hurt feelings about getting "nothing" out of an inheritance.
For me, though... when I held that little packet of seeds in my hand, it took every fiber of my being not to break down sobbing in front of the attorney and my siblings.
Growing up, our mom was pretty... explosive, to put ... | *A true story narrated by Wesley Bingham Gerhardt*
Gran was one of those old mysterious types and would probably have been condemned a witch in the early eighteenth century. She owned a large estate in some German wald where she spent the remainder of her days. I shouldn't say this, but I suppose I was her favorite gr... | 2020-03-31T09:52:23 | 2020-03-31T07:19:24 | 48 | 29 |
[WP] You are a tutorial character, your job is to guide new players through the bigining of the game. You're used to the usual eye-rolling and the occasional newbie but one day you encounter a speed runner. | "He went through the ceiling," she mumbled, face down on the bar surrounded by empty shot glasses.
Oh boy, she has had waaaay too much to drink. I moved over to her in an attempt to wake her up.
"Hey, I think you'd have enough."
She suddenly looked up at me, eyes wide and tear-streaked mascara running down her face.... | I could sort of see the new trainee pressing 'X' again. I had an urge to strangle him for his insolence, but NPCs couldn't do that. Instead, I was resolved to have my painstaking teachings ignored. I continued on in the same tone, making sure I didn't arouse any suspicion regarding my inner emotions. The tutorial ended... | 2017-08-17T20:43:30 | 2017-08-17T15:58:45 | 81 | 24 |
[WP] One night, you decide to put your phone under your pillow. When you wake up in the morning, your phone is replaced by cash totaling what you paid for your phone. Turns out the tooth fairy takes more than just teeth. | Working night shift is something I enjoy thoroughly. Between not having to deal with angry bosses face to face, and a distinct lack of coworkers, it was nice.
But, today was our big day. My wife was getting back from her internship at an overseas dig site of sorts. She has been gone since the semester started back in... | ''It was a rainy night and I was a little tipsy and I remember going to bed with the phone in my hand. I must have put the phone under my pillow for some reason before fell asleep.''
My friend Powell looks at me like I’m crazy, ''Where is your phone now?'' He asks.
I shake my head, ''I don’t know, it’s gone and I fou... | 2020-11-14T09:38:03 | 2020-11-14T08:22:21 | 352 | 36 |
[WP] You kept getting reincarnated into new fantasy worlds upon dying. Everytime you die, you keep a small part of your power, forever increasing. One day, as you sacrifice yourself for the world once again, you wake up not as a newborn in a fantasy world...but as a scavanger in a zombie apocalypse.
[deleted] | It was a familiar event to me. First, an empty void. Floating in there for what seemed to be both seconds and years at the same time. I would think about what I had witnessed, and what I had done. I would plan other courses of action. And I would experiment with my growing power.
Next, I began to fall. It was as thoug... |
Gunfire echoes through a dark metro tunnel, distant and irregular. A gaunt, disheveled figure in a green hooded jacket makes their way through a maze of ramshackle structures. Little whispers fill the air from behind tattered drapes covering open windows. The figure smiles, her chapped lips parting slightly.
The wom... | 2022-01-05T12:25:12 | 2022-01-05T12:09:32 | 344 | 31 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | We thought getting rid of them would bring a stable peace to the World.
After all... Americans started the war. They were the main Military power on Earth. Without them in the picture, we wouldn't see a need to fight one another anymore. Real issues like Global Warming could finally be dealt with.
We expected World P... | The calm winter breeze slid along the surface of the Earth as the clock struck midnight, an orchestra of death preparing itself as the aggressors of the last war came out of isolation, prepared to reclaim the throne upon which they once resided.
Except the throne has been dismantled decades ago.
They sought to use t... | 2018-01-18T00:24:00 | 2018-01-17T23:33:14 | 254 | 13 |
[WP] Every time you die, your power brings you back a bit stronger. As you slowly become less and less human, the other heroes become more wary of you. Today, for the first time, you were mistakenly attacked as a monster…and no one is coming to help. | Every time I came back I looked a bit different. That was a given. My team knew that. They expected it. My body adapted to each death. Thrown into a vacuum? Came back with pressure safe skin and nictating membranes. Stabbed in the heart? Came back with interlaced ribs. Drowned? Came back with gills and retracting webs ... | Blood pools at my ears as a knife is ripped out of my throat. The purple hues of the setting sun above, obscured by branches. Scattered, scared voices. They won't stop screaming.
I struggle to my feet, and the insects back away. The wound closes. As they always do. I feel something pierce my ribs. Something's loosed a... | 2022-08-26T15:52:54 | 2022-08-26T14:19:10 | 89 | 23 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | Jason never donated blood before. He felt nervous, but he wasn't sure if it was a slight fear of needles or the fact that clinics looked so ghastly at night, the only time he could make it in. The bright yellow lights buzzed out of the windows and the stillness of the night held a foreboding presence.
Jason reminded h... | This is the third time this week. After all the unanswered letters, the messages, the unanswered phone calls. They've actually come knocking on my door.
I refuse to answer. If I just wait they'll leave. If I...
"Mr. Wyatt, we know you're in there. Please open the door. We just want to talk to you."
The hell you... | 2018-08-27T15:19:20 | 2018-08-27T14:46:19 | 136 | 12 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | There was only one time he was ever caught on video. It was from the time the Crimson King troupe brought a gang army to take over New York City.
“Is it rolling, Dave?” Asked a man with a crimson bandana and a gleaming golden gun with red highlights in hand.
“Yes sir,” The cameraman answered, holding a th... | yet another kid stopped me today. he actually wanted to spar. i just wanted to take a shower. \_he\_ was very draining today. i slung the weapon on my back and trudged into the ready room and this candy-coloured fool stopped me to ask if i wanted a sparring partner. said he'd watched me sitting in the Danger Room an... | 2021-05-26T04:36:03 | 2021-05-26T03:48:48 | 1,742 | 153 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | As my thirtieth birthday came I happily put one more point into my only skill. Not that anyone would notice. See everyone always asks what skills did I put that allowed me in the end to build such an easy life for myself, and I just smile and tell them that it's my little secret. See in the list of skills and their der... | At the doctor's office again. I tripped over my foot again out in the courtyard, holding all of my notes from last night's study session I had with myself in the library. I think i sprained my wrist. I should be back in the library trying to find my dissertation. I was looking at some pigeons the other day, by the wate... | 2018-09-12T09:54:07 | 2018-09-12T09:36:26 | 74 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | The end of all galactic life had been going on for nearly 10 standard cycles. The Enemy was as relentless as it was ancient, still no one knew where they had come from, or what their purpose was beyond mere universal destruction.
A long time ago, most sovereign governments and most of the colonies had all but given u... | "Don't fuck with humans" was the general received wisdom in the galaxy. They had a history of obliterating the people that fucked them over. A long, bloody history.
There were a few who didn't heed that lesson, like Zartok the Slaver. I don't like Zartok. Nobody likes Zartok. But he pays his tab and he doesn't cause ... | 2017-03-06T02:43:37 | 2017-03-06T00:33:00 | 121 | 61 |
[WP] All your life you've been able to temporarily enter someone's body and use it to your advantage. One night, you drunkenly decide to take over your ex's body. The next morning, you can't get back out, and it looks like your body is somehow awake... | "Well, look who's finally awake..."
My head was throbbing in pain, and I rolled over towards the source of the voice that was somehow familiar, but also different. As the sheets slid across my body, not even a hangover could mask the sense of wrongness I was feeling. I opened my eyes towards the voice, and saw the las... | Apologies if this is bad. This is my first time posting here and I did not bother revising/rereading what I wrote.
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“Trapped. That was the one word in my head as I tried to leave Melissa's body and return to me own. Or maybe the one word in Meli... | 2016-11-13T14:18:55 | 2016-11-13T13:41:33 | 83 | 21 |
[WP] You've always dreamed of becoming a supervillain when you got your powers, and just because you were bestowed the power of healing doesn't change anything | "Fifty-seven."
The man spat out a bit of blood and shook his head. "Fifty-seven what? What the hell are you going on about?"
"Fifty-seven," I replied, pacing around the chair to which he was currently secured. "That's my current all-time record."
"You're a lunatic!"
Well, he wasn't wrong. I laughed.
"That's as may... | It's true, I was very discouraged at first. I have always wanted to rule the world and crush any resistance with my powers. All that seemed impossible when my power turned out to be healing. Weeks I spent ignoring my abilities. Hiding at home, playing video games and slowly giving into despair. In retrospect of course,... | 2019-01-30T06:23:21 | 2019-01-30T04:46:58 | 194 | 51 |
[WP] Write a story that seems like random notes until the very last statement/ paragraph which stitches it all together. | "Alright, let's see what we got." Gerald sighed with a rag held over his nose and turned over a hunk of metal to expose a cracked tablet with a bright glowing screen underneath.
"Anything useful?" His partner peered over his shoulder with his hands on Gerald's shoulder.
"Well give me some breathing room, will ya?"
... | "Remember to buy pizza"
"Take dance lessons"
"Repair dads truck"
"Bring the dog to the vet"
"Talk with the insurance"
"Visit dad"
"Visit dad"
"Buy some beer"
"Scratch note above, found weed"
"Talk with health insurance"
"New job: starbucks 22A Goethe Place"
"Apply for food stamps"
"Funeral next friday"
"Vi... | 2017-06-04T12:30:58 | 2017-06-04T11:55:36 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] Every 13,000,000,000 years, the universe collapses and then reforms again. Everything occurs exactly the same as it had before, and humankind always meets its apocalypse on January 1st, 3000. You were just born - and yet, have retained all the knowledge of your previous life. You remember. | I was born with direction, and maybe that’s where things went wrong. From the very beginning. All I could remember was the end, the heat, the screams, the look in her eyes…and all I could think about when I came back was stopping it.
So as a child, I couldn’t enjoy things. My mother would always call over my friends f... | It’s December 31st, 2999. I am writing this blog post because I hope that it isn’t real. The last time I entered the 3rd millennium the world went white. When I say it went white, I mean that I don’t know exactly what happened, I just know that I have no more memories past that point. Why am I here again? I’m much youn... | 2019-07-26T21:03:18 | 2019-07-26T21:00:29 | 74 | 19 |
[WP] It’s the zombie apocalypse except only the senior citizens are infected. With frail joints and no teeth, the general population is merely inconvenienced by rapid grandpas and grandmas trying to gum them to death.
From a post by u/icantseemtopoop in r/CrazyIdeas
edit : Loved all the responses so far, it always am... | I was born in 2050 to a loving mother and father who were so excited that they were able to have a child in a world where pregnancies have become increasingly rare. When I was a child I remember how special I was to everyone around me. People always gave me attention because seeing a young person was just not common,... | They all sat in the waiting room of a large warehouse. The invitations were exclusive and only by word of mouth. The speaker had set up a podium where the reception desk would have been. He addressed his audience familiarly.
He made eye contact with a woman in the first row and asked, “Shirley, how is your practice ho... | 2018-02-10T09:52:21 | 2018-02-10T09:01:25 | 69 | 15 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | "Daddy! Look! Shooting stars!"
Joseph Barker looks up at the night sky and feels a chill run down his spine. Indeed, there were shooting stars. But years of work developing some of Earth's defense systems meant he knew they weren't meteorites. He watches in terror as Earth's defense grid burns. "Yes Jacob. ... | The armada had been the greatest project of our civilization-six hundred mighty ships to cross the unimaginable void between solar systems. Faster than light travel was impossible, of course. All those years in hibernation would be worth it, though, if our astronomers were right.
We'd been warned in the briefings tha... | 2017-03-26T09:19:46 | 2017-03-26T07:38:47 | 74 | 30 |
[WP] You are one of the best contract killers in the world, but one day, at your dead drop, you find $31.25 in small change, and s letter written by an eleven year old boy | “*Defrost chicken - check, pick up dry cleaning - check, murder Vanessa - check, order Mom’s birthday cake - check. What the hell am I forgetting?*” Rob mused as he strolled out of the bakery. Ah, the third trash can in McGregor station!
Quickening his pace to match the flow of commuters, he descended into the bowel... | I used to live in a Colombian city on the Caribbean called Barranquilla. I was a contracted to be a stuffed bear killer. It was a no blood spill your guts kind of a gig. Then today of all days, I received sign about capsizing on Columbus Day. I finally hit my mark and get my cap & gown.
The letter my 11 year old ... | 2020-10-07T16:49:51 | 2020-10-07T16:21:55 | 170 | 11 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | If I were to punch a person, the other party would feel pain.
Not a foreign cause and effect, by any means. If you were blessed with super strength, like Maximus, the end result would be the same. Run at the speed of sound like Sonic the Human, and plenty of pain will be tacked along with that punch.
I didn't quite h... | Ugh, well it’s been a while since I’ve talked about this, but having the “superpower” of acid spit gets incredibly crappy after awhile. You’d think fending off bad guys would be an easy task, but nope, here I am in public running up to the bastard who just stole a ladies purse trying to get into the best possible posit... | 2020-12-02T09:23:54 | 2020-12-02T07:06:24 | 78 | 38 |
[WP] The end of times has come. Heaven, hell, and earth are thrown in a three-way war. It's a little unfair how advanced Earth is, though. | At one point in time, I had thought my fallen son was the greatest deceiver.
My mind had been changed quickly, no more than a few hours into the endtimes that I had intended to last little more than a few days.
Oh, my seraphim had cleansed the land with winds of fire, and had been making easy work of the legions of... | Mission Report: 2408123
Subsection: Military
Unit: Beta
Officer: Lieutenant Reeves
Dear Mother,
We've moved into what's left of Venus's hell-like atmosphere. My unit was hit hard by the gasses, it took us nearly twice as long to adjust to the pressure difference as Alpha unit. Our losses have been minimal, and I'm in... | 2015-09-24T10:14:59 | 2015-09-24T07:05:34 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | My name is Harold, and in a world where everyone has some amazing gift or power, I never seemed to have one. I grew up, got married, and had children... My wife at the time never seemed 100% happy, probably because my presence didn't "enhance" her abilities (telekinesis; immaterial to the story but I thought you'd like... | John and I were heading to the pub to do the speed dating we signed up for. We hoped to see if we can find our soulmate. John was able to see 5 seconds in to the future. Which was good, but not great, and was hoping he can see farther. He wonders how far he would see if he finds his soulmate. I, on the other hand, can ... | 2015-10-10T09:09:09 | 2015-10-10T08:42:59 | 103 | 21 |
[WP] You are the mayor of a fantasy town. Six times, once each six years over 30 years, you gave a young peasant girl from the hills or fields as a gift to a demon that gave you power. Now six years after the last time, all six are riding into town, trained by the demon to be great warriors | *The demon may bargain, and may offer great boons, but know that he never helps without drawing a cost greater than those boons*. - The World Beyond.
I had made a bargain.
Power for innocent girls.
So long as the Demon kept getting those girls, I wrongly believed, the Demon would be satisfied.
While I always knew... | A 6 year old child stood on the edge of the chasm with me. Her face uneasy as we looked down the carved steps fading into the darkness below.
Five times before have I stood here, a price paid for the protection of the village. Each time another young girl stood by me, each braver then the last as they braved the jour... | 2022-02-14T22:31:22 | 2022-02-14T17:07:16 | 51 | 15 |
[WP] You’re cursed with immortality, not because you sold your soul or you’re a sort of immortal creature but because a few thousand years ago, you stepped on the back of Death’s robe and being the petty shit Death is, he hasn’t forgiven you since.
Edit: okay, wow, I definitely did not expect this to get so popular an... | “Pray for death? Why would I do that? He’s an asshole”
This was my message sent to the EZ-Comm translation module I’d installed to communicate with these tall slimy fucks. Who knows what it will actually relay to the Korthonian ship blotting out the galaxy in my view port.
The earth is dead, well, all life on earth... | The smell of lilacs sour in their vase wafted towards me as I rested on the hard surface of a bar stool in my kitchen. “Another one,” I thought as I pulled them from their resting place and left them wilted in the rubbish. Walking out into the back patio, I sought my new prey from amongst rows and rows of brightly colo... | 2018-10-12T11:42:03 | 2018-10-12T11:14:01 | 55 | 13 |
[WP] The not-so-distant future. With dozens of billions of people on Earth, the number of unique sentences that were never uttered before is unstoppably dwindling. The world is growing obsessed with the upcoming shortage of never-used sentences. | Maybe I am mad. Perhaps they are right and I am just ungrateful. Perhaps I can't see beyond the petty reasoning that lie inside my head. Perhaps. But perhaps I should explain first.
I am a writer type. I was never good at it, but I managed and things went along as things will do and everything was fine. Of course you... | This is it, my first chance to shine. I have been working for the world's biggest newspaper, the Sun, for two months now and I did excellent work, they tell me. This time I am in charge of the headline. The sun is the most reliable news source there is and should be read by everybody (offtopic: Note, how this is a uniq... | 2017-02-10T08:18:22 | 2017-02-10T08:13:48 | 55 | 11 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | Ambition finally got the better of me after half a dozen lives.
I'd tried being a school teacher the first time, and it hadn't been half bad until I caught the plague and took my last breath through a buboe-covered throat.
Imagine my shock of waking--healthy again--in the body of a child, in an unfamiliar bed, an u... | Well, I can cross that off of the metaphorical list. --Died when having sexual intercourse-- Best death yet. Oh well, life 70 will be my 'Cure cancer year' I could of done it in life 69, but come on! If you are that sexually well endowed and it's life 69, you can't not have shit tons of sex!
Note to self: *Stop say... | 2017-05-25T12:51:56 | 2017-05-25T12:23:12 | 144 | 43 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | We were told our first experience with a "Heyumin" was to be dealt with caution. A lifeform from the planet the heyumins called "Erff," though they pronounce it a bit differently than I am able, was considered a forbidden territory, as ordered by the Hazard Treaties of year 12903. A cruel planet with skies of oxygen th... | Human ships are always docked in a hard vacuum bay, with a full environmental seal.
Why? Hydro-oxy supported life form, rarest in the galaxy. They came from a planet mostly covered in slightly tainted propellant. Yes, dihydrogen oxides. Capable of eating through your stability layer and dissolving the rest into the dr... | 2020-05-18T13:04:11 | 2020-05-18T10:59:20 | 216 | 121 |
[WP] in your world, everyone has a almost entirely unique symbol on their wrist, soulmates have the same symbol. Your whole life you've been drawing on a symbol with a sharpie to hide the fact you don't have a soulmate. One day, you meet someone without a symbol, just like you.
Thank you everyone for informing me that... | Pool party. I'm an idiot, right? For someone like me, wouldn't a big body of water by the prime place to avoid?
Most of the time, my brain's thinking clearly, and I would have declined the invitation. Hell, I've gotten really good at thinking about all the twists and turns of any sort of social interaction - will t... | I sighed and stuffed another empty into the bag. I had no idea how they managed it, but the guys always made a hell of a mess when they came over to watch the game. It had actually gotten a bit better when Bill met his soulmate and there’d been a woman around. Of course, the rest of the guys had gotten over that in a m... | 2017-08-06T17:01:38 | 2017-08-06T16:04:39 | 594 | 268 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | When I was told my team would be the first to land on Mars, excitement welled within me. 'Pioneers', they called us; and really, how many people can call themselves pioneers? It's exciting. It's scary. It's... unlike anything else.
And yet, as I stood and looked across an expanse of nothing but reddish brown sand and... | *sorry for my poor English, and I wasn't paying enough attention when I read the prompt so I used rover instead of men*
"Okay, that'd better be good." I get out of the bed, cursing, and turn the TV on just in time.
"And so," says the President, "I will let the NASA Administrator speak".
Well, half of the nation doe... | 2016-08-16T10:03:13 | 2016-08-16T09:26:31 | 139 | 44 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | William grabbed a recliner out of thin air, sat down, made some snacks of his own, and began to watch it as though his life were on a projector screen.
He witnessed his birth and early months where his mother got into a car accident, leaving his father to raise him by himself for a couple of years since the grandparen... | "Happy 80th birthday to us, Mr. Gloves!" I whispered to his ears as I slowly lulled him in my thin and wrinkled arms. Mr. Gloves is my twin cat, being born on the same day I was eight decades ago, which is essentially today. Little is known why and how cats always seem to have a *twin* human, and why they also pass awa... | 2020-07-20T03:16:22 | 2020-07-20T02:51:13 | 1,541 | 127 |
[WP] You are a vampire who likes to help humans instead of hurting them, so you became a doctor. Over the hospital's PA system one day you hear "Dr. Acula, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you." | Too many thoughts went through Acula's mind for the normal human to process. Fortunately, he was not normal. Or human. And being alive is also up for debate.
The fluorescent light gleamed off his pale skin. The taps of his shoes bounced from the marble floor. If his heart could beat as easily as it once did if would b... | "Aww jeez, damn not him, why is he coming to this hospital out of all of them"
The PA system speaks again: *Doctor Acula please come into room 57, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you*
"I heard you the first time jackass"Acula mutters to himself in a distressed way "all right Acula, remember the pledge to Hypocrite, he ... | 2017-10-01T08:29:12 | 2017-10-01T04:44:18 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | David pulled the car to a stop, and parked in the weed-choked yard. Nobody had been taking care of the place for years. "Here we are, guys!"
Mary, Tabitha and Tom were all excited to go check out the abandoned cabin in the woods, but Richard wasn't feeling it. "Hey, look, can we not do this? This is bad news, all ... | In the night the cockroaches come. The anemic fields of lonely grass sways all gray. The last sea that I will ever set eyes upon. And the ships of metal creak in the wind and walls of concrete nearby sighs. Here I am abandoned. Everything is abandoned.
How long has it been? How many birthdays have passed? Am I a girl... | 2017-05-05T07:54:16 | 2017-05-05T04:53:47 | 73 | 27 |
[WP] Your phone is sentient, and knows the girl you like is interested in you. It uses auto-correct to try and "subtlety" get you to ask her out. This has been going on for a while. | “Siri, take one high resolution picture of my dick and send it to Carla, with the message, 'Here's what's on the menu this Friday ;)'.”
No response.
*Oh whoops,* John thought, ashamed. *Almost forgot my manners. Even machines respond positively to a little common courtesy.*
“Siri, **please** take one high resolutio... | *My sensors have indicated a strong probability of attraction between my owner and "Stacy". Data shows master lacks the confidence to request "Stacy's" presence on a date. Analyzing romance movie and novel data to assist my owner*
Ok, breathe in John, just talk to her. How bad could it be? You message other girls all ... | 2016-02-16T20:25:23 | 2016-02-16T18:12:19 | 308 | 199 |
[WP] Your mum has told you you're sick all your life. You take tablets everyday and agree to travel in a wheelchair because she says you're too weak. One day a counsellor and police officer come to your door. They tell you your mum has been taken away and everything she has ever told you is a lie.
​ | Lies.
That’s what they told me. Everything I have ever known was lies. The medicine? The wheelchair? The homeschooling because I was too weak? All of it lies.
She’s gone, and I’m alone. Who will take care of me?
There is a knock on the door and I’m wheeling myself to it before I know what else to do. I open it, and... | I'm seventeen, and it's the summer holidays. Being woken any time before nine is considered disrespectful.
'Five more minutes.' I say without opening my eyes.
I can tell by just squinting that it's bright, and could very well be past nine.
'Get up.'
It takes a sleepy second to realise the voice is male and direc... | 2018-09-04T08:29:43 | 2018-09-04T07:48:06 | 369 | 118 |
[WP] You are a medical wonder due to the fact that you can regrow your organs. You became a donor and everyone thinks that you are a good person. What they do not know is that you can control every reciever whenever you like. | I woke as I always have after a procedure, comfortably in my recovery room at the Organ Center. The Organ Centre was built fifteen years ago, about five years after I made my first organ donation. Once the doctors had identified my extraordinary gift, it was determined that a special facility should be constructed stri... | "You're a medical wonder"
"You're saving all these lives, a modern day hero"
"Be proud of what we've accomplished here, it's something only you can do"
At least that's what I could make out, whenever I drifted in. I don't know how long I've been here anymore. But every time I wake up I'd have a new scar, and more pai... | 2019-06-13T07:54:14 | 2019-06-13T07:40:31 | 56 | 22 |
[WP] It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening, it already killed half of the strike team. Please send help | ######[](#dropcap)
"Please send help," Reagen whispered into the walkie-talkie. His legs were becoming cramped, but he didn't dare move a muscle, for fear that the *thing* would hear him. "I'm begging you," he added.
The forest around him had become deadly silent. He could only pray that the log would hide him. That... | SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH AMERICA
“We need backup NOW!”
“It should be on its way.”
“Not on its way, NOW!”
“Guess we’ll just have to survive till then.” Mavin chuckled, but immediately stopped when he saw the creature approaching them.
“Wait now it has THREE legs? I thought it had two?!”
“Idk dude, this morning it had fo... | 2018-08-15T16:16:58 | 2018-08-15T15:02:11 | 1,108 | 44 |
[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. | A small, scrawny lad, I had been, when I had applied for Kingsley's Academy of Prestige and Knighthood. The recruiters laughed when I made my approach, laughed when I set the properly filled paperwork before them, and attempted to laugh me out of the room. Their laughs stopped when I kindly reminded them of the King's ... | 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.... | 2022-09-14T22:36:06 | 2022-09-14T16:33:52 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] "I just want to go home," said the astronaut. "So come home," said ground control. ‘‘ｓｏ ｃｏｍｅ ｈｏｍｅ’’ said the voice from the stars. | "Say that again ASTRO-1, we couldn't hear it properly," ground control voiced through our intercomm.
"I said: I just want to come home," I repeat it louder. "Over"
"We got that, we didn't get the last one though."
"I didn't say anything else, ground control."
"Must've been the static then. ASTRO-1, your mission is ... | Here’s an undeniable fact: multiverses are rain drizzle caught under streetlights. They swirl with every Fold, suspended for the briefest of moments on Mathison’s holoscreen before being whisked away by an unseen celestial wind.
Undeniable fact number two: despite three times more Folds than the *Advisable Limit for ... | 2017-11-24T08:09:32 | 2017-11-24T07:52:47 | 79 | 12 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | It had taken him years to come to terms with his score, to accept it. So it was something of a shock when he finally figured out what it actually meant. He started cackling to himself, like a madman.
* * * * * * * * * * *
Mike's Assessment, at 6 months old, was routine. They were always routine. After so much t... | Every individual is required to take the "Humanity Test" on their 18th birthday. The test was designed to separate humankind based on their potential for evil and deviancy. Once you take the test, you are to go and live within a community of people who scored the same number. This was the governments way of minimizing ... | 2016-08-26T16:31:07 | 2016-08-26T14:15:51 | 81 | 44 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear David,
So many things have happened since you left. As you know, dad is gone too. Mom hasn't handled losing you or dad very well. Ok, that's putting it mildly. Mom has lost her shit and gone off the deep end. You wouldn't believe the difference. Drugs. Alcohol. Living with an addict thy she has professed her undy... | Dear you,
I've always meant to write this letter to you, but I was never able to really put it all together. We've gone through a lot together, to say the least.
I guess I just wanted to say thank you, for everything. For your generosity, for your openness, your pride, your confidence. I truly admire you as a person... | 2015-12-05T16:20:18 | 2015-12-05T15:18:49 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] A boy is born, and as he grows older his parents realize he can only speak the truth. | The parents looked at the boy with concern.
“What colour is the sky?”
“Red at dawn and dusk, and blue during the day.”
The mother looked away, while the father spoke, “NO! I told you! You are meant to lie to me!”
“Leave him, Tom.”
“No, I can’t accept this. Not like this.”
The boy looked bewildered, h... | "You don't want that, Mom" he had said, his eyes screwed up; confused. "Why even bother pretending?"
His hand were squashed into fists pushed firmly to his stubby sides. My son, my Luke, had just spoken greater verity that his father could ever muster. He was six.
"You always say to John that you're fine with him g... | 2014-11-14T14:59:18 | 2014-11-14T12:10:54 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | "Is this some kind of joke?" You ask, barely making any effort to conceal your frustration. You know better than to go off on the first guy you stumble across in the afterlife, but this is growing remarkably tedious.
The man behind the desk doesn't even meet your gaze and seems quite irritated by the disturbance. "I d... | I woke up on a clean white bed. I remembered last night, remember my heart stopping after a long battle, but it all felt like a dream. Where ever I was, it was a place I didn’t want to leave.
I got up off the bed, expecting the familiar creak of my seventy year old knees, but I instead found myself young again. Odd. ... | 2018-07-04T01:11:05 | 2018-07-04T00:13:18 | 640 | 141 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | So here’s the sitch: I totally do play video games. And no, I’m not one of those r/notliketheothergirls who insists I’m the only girl who games, or that I should receive all the sexual admiration for it. I’ve dabbled in just about everything - FPS, MMORPG, VR, PC, console, mobile, puzzles, survival, capture/collect, si... | "You cant even fight what even is your power?" - Sven, an old friend now chairman of the hunter superorganisation and Doom slayer incarnation
Johnsons corpse was still fresh I couldnt keep my eyes away from it.
Just as I turned around the demon lunged at me and tore of my arm "Im gonna die here, im gonna die for re-"... | 2019-08-12T00:38:07 | 2019-08-12T00:09:11 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] Craft a short story that breaks every rule on Elmore Leonard's "10 Rules for Good Writing" list.
[Elmore Leonard's "10 Rules for Good Writing"](https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/tips-masters/elmore-leonard-10-rules-for-good-writing) | Prologue
One fine partly-cloudy (With a chance of thunderstorms) evening, a man named Jim was born.
Chapter one
Jim was a slim guy of an average build. He had silky, smooth brown hair but always kept it under a hat. When he smiled, he would squint, and every woman within 20 square miles would be instantly impreg... | Prologue:
A stormy gust blew in from the southwest.
Chapter I
"Don't touch my baseball cards!!!!!!!!!" Timmy exclaimed with vigor. That's when shit hit the fan.
"I'm gon' take you here baseball 'cerds' and 'bern' 'em!!!!!!!?!one1!" stated Frank in his monotone voice.
Frank was an ugly fellow. He had brown hairs.... | 2015-10-29T20:28:09 | 2015-10-29T18:58:34 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | “So what is your power?” The administrator says. Everyone has one all we know is they are made from our worst fear, once our worst fears are fully developed at around age 10 - 12.
“Well, I am not entirely sure. Sometimes things just happen. They tend to happen?” I say as to misdirect the conversation. For some context... | That Bruce Wayne guy had the right idea. He was afraid of bats, so he dressed up as bats. Good shit, I say.
My childhood friend was afraid of his alcoholic father, so he drinks to cope with his childhood.
Jfk said, "the only thing we have to fear... is fear itself." What a good quote. Imagine an anti-hero that breaks... | 2022-05-14T22:11:22 | 2022-05-14T18:35:53 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] Once a year you switch bodies with a random person who is best in the world at a certain skill. You can't change back until you discover what this skill is. You've been changed for a month and are starting to get worried. | It had been six months. Janney had tried everything she could think of to test this body's skill. As far as she could tell, it had terrible muscle memory, was not athletic, and was, in fact, completely uncoordinated. She had played every video game, tried crossword puzzles and Sudoku. The body killed plants. Anim... | There I am, sitting on the couch, with the chips of course, reflecting on my glorious, wondrous, incredibly successful past lives. I remember being the world champion of ping pong back when people were executed for losing a game. I reflected on when I was was the very greatest at jumping over newly born babies on a sno... | 2016-09-26T08:33:17 | 2016-09-26T06:51:01 | 33 | 23 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | 28, 34, 21, and 54.
I remained where I stood, nodding to the guests in silent affirmation that they were allowed in. As they trudged past me and through the door of Barney's Strip Club, I reached into my pocket, fumbled for a cigarette, and stuck it in my mouth. Now where was my lighter? It would be so much easier i... | He watched, bored as people streamed in the bar, only stopping the ones underage, and occasionally a few just over to keep suspicions low. His kind was uncommon, and people
hunted for his power. It seemed like an odd thing to want, most just wanted it to make them feel *special*. At least, those that knew about it. Som... | 2017-09-01T23:18:34 | 2017-09-01T21:45:33 | 189 | 25 |
[WP] The Hero bursts into the bar, weapon raised, and proclaims that the Villain is hiding somewhere among them. You avoid his gaze. It's not that you can't take him. It's just that it's your day off, dammit, and you're gonna enjoy it. | Goddamn. Can’t a man enjoy his margarita in peace?
“I know you’re in here, Doctor Destruction!”
On second thought, Hank should have ordered a drink with a proper buzz. There was no way he could handle that dorky media-gifted nickname otherwise. So he had a PhD and happened to blow up half of The Louvre last Tuesday—c... | Give it a rest Jeff. Can't I just enjoy my tequila in peace? My evil plan doesn't even start until tomorrow, but this bozo just can't wrap his pea sized brain around the fact that it's my day off. His life is so pathetic and meaningless that he has nothing to do on his day off.
He doesn't even take days off. Talk abo... | 2022-01-03T21:30:09 | 2022-01-03T21:27:04 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Your name, age, height, weight, and race all flash across the T.V. screen. You look in horror as you see your dead body being dragged out of a river as a reporter announces that you've been brutally murdered by an infamous serial killer who has been on the run for years. | I wake up naked on my apartment floor to the sounds of my TV blaring.
*Kellan Shaw - 25 - 6'1 - 196 lbs - Human.*
*"The young man's body was was discovered in the Ashur River after one month of investigation. He was asphyxiated with a chain before being stabbed in excess of twenty-five times. The MO is consistent w... | The news knocked me on my a**. I couldent keep the shock from crossing my face, like it mattered. Sam dident even know I was in the room watching the news with her. I just wanted to reach out and hold her. Instantly the thought drew tears from my eyes, I’d never hold her again. Frantically my mind searched for the last... | 2020-08-01T02:51:49 | 2020-08-01T02:47:27 | 48 | 12 |
[WP] Every ten years, you must go in front of a board of peers who will evaluate your life for you. If you do not "Impress your peers" you will be executed. | “Now seeing Mr. Philip Johnson. Please step forward, Mr. Johnson.”
Phil stood up, his hands clasped together. He was shaking.
This was Phil’s third life evaluation. They came every ten years, on the day following one’s birthday. It was June 24, and Phil had just turned thirty years of age the day before. Each ... | I had gotten the job when I was twenty-one. I was a shoe-in since my second meeting with the Board, they said. Studious, friendly, nice penmanship... they said I was a "good image" of what they believed in. I hated the system, I hated the lies... but refusing a Board job meant Failing for sure. So I bought their stupid... | 2014-06-15T14:22:57 | 2014-06-15T11:23:06 | 55 | 12 |
[WP] As a joke, you write “We now own your soul” under the new Terms and Conditions of your social media company, which of course no one reads. Little did you know, souls are real, so you now own millions of them and the Devil has shown up to find out why he’s losing so much business. | My corner office had wide windows for a priceless view of the city, but they were currently closed, cloaking the office in the dim light of my computer and a single lamp in the corner. I preferred to work without bright lights, just finding them distracting. My eyes were on the screen as my keys flew across the keyboar... | I resume the piles of paperwork on my desk after firing one of the newbies. This young girl who slandered my company for mistreatment of employees on my own website is no longer involved with us. She should have known better.
There is complaint after complaint about those who joined the new platform who claimed to fee... | 2021-05-07T16:23:49 | 2021-05-07T14:01:03 | 1,382 | 50 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | “Shit, there goes another one.” General Turr mumbled to, Taek, his first officer, “They’re getting a lot more accurate, they used to miss by a few thousand kilometres.”
Turning the ship towards the newly arrived HomoSapien space liner, the Exerprise H56, the Kantian war ship set about tracking the liner and getting al... | "You wish really really hard and then you push the button."
"Really really hard? What does the wishing do?"
"Frustrates the hell out of the new recruits when they realize that the incredibly genuine way we insist that they wish as hard as they can is just a ploy to make them look silly to amuse the rest of the crew."... | 2017-03-30T23:17:22 | 2017-03-30T23:13:22 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] Describe a battle with an army against a single man..... Except that man is a level 20 D&D character.
Bonus points if that character is a Bard, or an unpopular class. | *“Today we will be discussing why necromancy is so reviled and outlawed. Many of you have heard the legend of The Black Crow. A wizard of great power and a specialist in necromancy. Before for The Black Crow necromancy was considered a tool. Dangerous like fire, but still useful for cooking, brewing, and smithing. With... | It was felling day, as the armies of Water's Deep and the Host-towers found themselves, improbably, allied. Wizards and warriors, Criminals and scholars, joined with a single purpose, a single target.
As they crested the final hill, they perceived his dreaded sanctum, a small tent in the valley below. The horses charg... | 2016-03-16T22:52:15 | 2016-03-16T20:29:35 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] It's the year 2300, a young child asks a museum curator, "Sir, why is the Declaration of Independence held together by masking tape? " | "Sir, why is the Declaration of Independence held together by masking tape? " the child asked pointing to the glass case that held the yellowed and ragged-edged document, the text just barely a wisp of red iron-oxide, looking like blood on old evidence.
"What is your name son?" the guard asked.
"Dorian," the boy rep... | The curator goes silent for a second and looks down at the child and begins to kneel. Then he stares deep into the small boys face. as the smile quickly fades from his young face. With Eyes full of fire as the curator grits his teeth then angrly says in a hushed tone "because Nicholas cage is an asshole" | 2015-06-29T13:34:46 | 2015-06-29T10:52:57 | 20 | 13 |
[WP]: There is a special place in Hell for english teachers. Not because they had any more tendency for evil than anyone else, but because there are so many subtle ways to torture them that wouldn't bother anyone else. | Even before the car hit the barrier, I knew where I was going. When I opened my eyes again, I wasn't drunk anymore. I was looking around at a room that closely resembled my high school English classroom, except the guy sitting at my desk gauging my reaction was indubitably a devil. I wasn't surprised to be in Hell. I w... | Well I can't say I have any honest clue as to what goes on down there, all I know is that I'm in heaven and I'm typing out short stories I did back in high school right? I type it out, God prints it, puts it in a tube and sends it to hell, and I hear a trillion screams of pain all at once that lasts for about 15 minute... | 2018-08-08T16:29:17 | 2018-08-08T15:56:08 | 40 | 25 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished", he says. "You are the punishment." | The last thing I remember was a heaviness in my chest that grew until darkness took over. As I open my eyes, wondering if in fact that Chinese food really was too old, I look around me and see I’m not in my bedroom. In fact, I am now in a very cute, post-modern designed sitting room complete with an empty chair opposit... | [Poem]
Well howdilidoodily I end up here
God I pray you can still hear
My life was always in your glory
Yet all around me is hell clearly.
I don’t doubt you almighty
By golly I’ll be alrighty
But what is my task here lord?
YOUR PRESENCE WILL HAUNT MOST
YOUR PRESENT STATE AS FLANDERS-GHOST
WILL TORTURE THOSE WHO SINNED... | 2020-01-10T18:07:21 | 2020-01-10T17:34:40 | 124 | 19 |
[WP] They killed his hound, and stolen his steed. The rogue knight returns from retirement to teach them a lesson. He was known as the man you call to kill the shadow itself, and he was known as John, the Wicked. | "it's not what you did, son, that angers me so..."
Lord Vigo paused and had a servant bring him another goblet of wine. The first had been tragically ruined when his son, the prince saw fit to drink it before being stuck in the gut by one of the royal guard. Now the boy lay sputtering on the throneroom floor, no doubt... | The man was dead. She nudged him for the third time, still not quite believing. Still dead. She let the breath go that she had held in burning lungs.
‘What do I do now?’ She wondered, sitting beside his dead body. She licked her lips nervously. Through the fear and panic of what she had seen, a single joyful voice rem... | 2018-09-05T05:49:25 | 2018-09-05T04:30:12 | 435 | 21 |
[WP]Humans are reverse Kryptonians. They are weak on their home planet but strong everywhere else. No one knew this until Earth was attacked and humanity was taken off of earth to be enslaved. | What is it, to be human?
When the takers came, they harvested us, claimed us as property. Our sapience, our humanity, was not acknowledged, and perhaps not recognized.
There was a girl. Karina Valda. She had a brother, and parents. A cat. Grandparents. She lived in a small house, shared a room with her brother.... | Ten years. For ten long years he had been held prisoner. As a slave. The war was one sided. Mankind became timid after their loss. Afraid. Broken. And yet, He remained defiant. While his people cowered under the whip, He quietly raged as he took his lashes, stoking and feeding a little ember of armageddon his soul. And... | 2021-05-18T08:43:59 | 2021-05-18T08:17:20 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] There is one Ironclad rule in the world: If you have powers, you are probably going to be a Hero or Villain. You have some extremely powerful abilities, but you said you never wanted to be a Hero. Now everybody is convinced you want to be a Villain, and won't stop trying to "save you from evil" | Casey was a plain girl in most ways, average height, average weight, average looks. The most unaverage thing she did was summer labour on her cousin’s farm. That had been her status quo for 17 brief years of her life.
Had.
She wasn't certain when her powers manifested and she didn’t much care for them. T... | My name is Naomi Gallagher, and I live in a world full of powers. Everyone born in this world was usually born with a power, I’m no different, but my power is not really for one side or the other.
I call my power, Null and Void, basically I have a small area around me that, as soon as any power is activated or is use... | 2022-10-04T19:48:24 | 2022-10-04T12:27:12 | 165 | 116 |
[WP] All politicians must wear Nascar like uniforms showing the logos of who is sponsoring their elections. Everyone is shocked when the President of the United States makes a speech wearing a new uniform. It's all blank except for one logo. | Ironically, it was the skill and money brought to bear fighting the new uniform requirements that led to the revelation, or at least the public admission, of their existence. Stranger things, and more ironic things have happened, I suppose. I hope you'll forgive me if I cannot think of any.
The Clinton's fought this ... | As she steps up to the stage, people are proud that she is proudly proclaiming who her sponsor is but even though it cover her from head to toe, no one can make out just exactly what it is. As she is making her acceptance speech, the camera zoom in closer to her uniform to see who her sponsor is that she would be so pr... | 2016-09-19T19:30:21 | 2016-09-19T18:22:35 | 94 | 23 |
[WP] The year is 2022. A virus has wiped out everyone over the age of 60, decimating world governments and and the mighty 1%. Generation X is too relieved from the constant badgering of their parents to rebuild society. It's up to the Millennials to put the world back together. | The first ones went painlessly. Nobody thought anything of it, not until the patterns began.
60 years of age was the threshold. People reached it, and a week later began coughing and spluttering. A week after that, they were gone too.
“I’ll be off in a sec.” Kayley said, brushing a strand of hair from her face as sh... | Cindy peered over towards Jacob, fumbling with the mechanical contraption in her hands. Just when she thought she had it, the object inexplicably slipped through her fingers and went flying half-way across the room. She threw up her hands in exasperation and slumped backwards.
"Just how the hell are you supposed to op... | 2019-07-26T06:29:11 | 2019-07-26T06:28:00 | 1,767 | 12 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | "So your power is you can talk to animals?"
The police officer looks incredulous. I shake my head.
"I can talk to crows."
"Crows. Only crows?"
I nod. It's not easy to explain such a seemingly useless power. Well, useless until today.
An image of flurried wings and blood flashes through my mind. And the screams. ... | People never really saw me for who I am, they saw a facade. I put on a calm, brave face, but in reality I was a raging inferno of hatred just waiting to unleash my fury. It had been this way my whole life, there were times when I really thought I was going to kill someone because of how angry they were making me.
Then... | 2019-09-08T09:54:34 | 2019-09-08T05:15:24 | 822 | 120 |
[WP] Job hunts are literally that: You seek out the job you desire and kill the one who has it, or even engage them in ritual combat to claim the job as your own. You have just turned of age and desire your first minimum wage job. | Everything was better in the past. Sure, we have reached immortality and society is practically all automated, so the world would be paradise by the futurists in the past, but they are always wrong. Spoiler alert: it's not. It's all so boring you want to die.
I studied AI, robotics, mechatronic and a dozen other colle... | "What? We can stay in the same job? And we don't have to kill the others to get the job? Are you for real, Jake?"
"Pretty much, yeah."
"That's insane, man."
"I'm only saying what's practical and doable. Moreover, if more people start their own businesses then more companies will spring up in the future, there will b... | 2020-11-15T11:58:49 | 2020-11-15T11:51:59 | 83 | 51 |
[WP]Sometimes children get born with weird diseases like vampirism or lycantrophy. The effects of these uncurable illnesses only get detectable when the kid is around 8 years old. Many parents then abandon their child. You run an orphanage for these children. | I was getting the little ones all settled for dinner when the ringing of the doorbell split my concentration. A part of me wanted to go see who it was so they'd stop ringing the bell (even if no one but myself could hear it), while a larger part wanted to make sure everyone at the table got dinner now that I had got th... | Two puncture marks.
I tied the bandage over his arm.
"Jenkins, what went wrong here, is that you're just missing routine." I sighed.
I could see him bristle at the words. His teeth were set and he was grabbing his right bicep.
"Breathe, this part won't hurt," I said in my best relaxed voice
I looked him in the... | 2019-01-17T07:58:51 | 2019-01-17T07:08:25 | 61 | 24 |
[WP] You realize you are immortal or more specifically that you cannot die. The issue is that you only realize this once the man who is attempting to torture you to death can't finish the job.
[removed] | “Well, now that is remarkable….”
I opened my eyes, coated in blood, to see my murderer standing in the doorway. He seemed even taller now that I was slumped into the fetal position in the corner of the small room he had kept me in for the last three days. He had his left arm wrapped around a tall, pale skinned woman; ... | *Pain . . . mind searing, endless pain. . .*
"What? You don't like the new Celebrity Apprentice?"
Andrew's wrist chaffed from the ropes that held him suspended from the ceiling.
"It's not that I don't like it, it's just not as good as the original--"
Vladislov's right hook rocked Andrew's teeth loose.
"You shut ... | 2017-02-08T09:41:30 | 2017-02-08T08:32:02 | 300 | 44 |
[WP] You were forced to attend an interview for a job you do not want, but, no matter how hard you try to screw up the interview, the interviewer just becomes more keen to hire you. | The water bottle was obviously full of something other than water. I took small sips in the waiting room, the smell of vodka stinging my eyes even with the orange juice to water it down.
I had somewhere to be and it wasn’t in a job interview.
“It’s good practice,” my wife had encouraged. “You just need to get back ... | Sixteen-year-old Theodore Cruz slouched in the cheap plastic booth, sucking the last dregs of his soda with obnoxious zeal and using a ketchup packet to paint a frowny-face on the table. In preparation for this interview, he’d donned his “Sperm Donor” T-shirt and smeared a tablespoon of lard into his hair. The look h... | 2017-08-29T12:08:53 | 2017-08-29T11:49:17 | 57 | 24 |
[WP] You're not the protagonist. You know you're not the protagonist. The protagonist knows you're not the protagonist. Literally everyone else thinks you're the protagonist because you have bright blue hair.
edit: Thanks for the gold | "At last, I've caught up with you, Blue Bolt!" Dr. Sinclair stopped, and his visage suddenly went from maniacal to calm. "You have no idea how long I've been rehearsing that line. I sound like a proper villain, don't I?" He chuckled.
"I've got good news and bad news," I replied. "The bad news is, I'm not _actuall... | [Poem]
"It is written in the lore,
They claim it's true,
My doom will come to me
With a mane Blue"
"But with magic deep,
With spell and with spark
I will cheat fate
For I am the lord of dark"
So cackled the old Lich
As he punched me again in the fac... | 2019-06-19T10:55:29 | 2019-06-19T09:40:06 | 44 | 32 |
[WP] You are a B-list superhero on the verge of losing your job. During a battle with a villain, you accidentally end up killing one of the most prolific superheros of your time. That's when you realize that with your niché power that was useless as a hero, you could be an A-list supervillain. | I'm a lucky guy.
No, seriously, I have a superpower that makes me lucky. How do you define luck? If I had to put it vaguely, it has to do with causality. I can only put it vaguely. There's no scientifically concrete way to explain it. The cosmos, luck, the force, divine intervention. However you want to describe it, ... | I was born with a very specific power. Since young, I have struggled to make sense of my power and how to use them for the greater good. After all, it was a power that was based on trust. The more someone trusted me, the more vulnerable they will be to me. How do you get a villain to trust you? It was impossible - they... | 2021-04-14T07:33:00 | 2021-04-14T04:55:59 | 367 | 275 |
[WP] As a minion of the devil charged with stealing souls, you're used to people being too holy, too strong, too smart, or even too fast to capture on first try. And then there's this guy... | "Nah."
For the last three weeks, I've been trying to tempt this guy. Now, let's face facts, I'm good at my job. Stealing souls has a bit of a formula to it. Go in, find their desire, offer an exchange, and let the rest work itself out. Boss does the actual granting, but a soul is a soul and I'm on a roll!
Well, was. ... | Everyone has flaws. Or. Scratch that. ALMOST everyone has flaws.
Some of them are incredibly strong, but they lack the kindness to resist Evil. Some are smart but don't have the force of personality to stand up to Evil. Some are quick, but even they cannot outrun their own temptations... But this guy? He was all of t... | 2022-11-15T11:38:03 | 2022-11-15T08:14:56 | 537 | 119 |
[WP] One day, in an industrial accident, fire is found to have a new use. One we would have never expected. | Farming became an industry sometime in the twentieth century, chickens grown on conveyor belts were 20% fatter. Contrary to the commercial belief, happy cows do not produce better milk, cows milked by robots borrowed from the auto industry made 6% more milk and the milk was 2.5% better according to numerous focus group... | Screams of pleasure and acid
Wash over the little children
Leaving nothing but bones
.
Shattered fingernails and teeth
Rip my eyes from me
And give them to the poor
.
"It's okay, Ma'am"
Brilliant darkness is unpure
Licking at my toes
.
Orange agony fills them
But pain is not present
Fire cle... | 2015-03-25T11:10:09 | 2015-03-25T10:15:32 | 86 | 16 |
[WP] You are not a superhero. You are just a Scout with a magical Bag of Holding and an incredible dedication to the motto "A Scout is Prepared". | Clearly, I never did it with the expectation of a reward. Any scout will tell you that. Typically, you get a "thank you," and honestly, that's the best-case scenario. Anytime things are different, it's usually for the worse. I got a dime once, which - it took me almost two minutes to get you across the street, lady, wi... | “Who here has a cellphone?!” Yells Scout leader Miller, with obvious fear in his voice. Your entire group has managed to get themselves locked inside of an abandoned building. Who’s idea was it to go in here anyway!? Not like it matters. You’ve got your bag of holding that you purchased as merchandise at Universal Stud... | 2018-06-08T08:50:55 | 2018-06-08T07:58:01 | 1,510 | 65 |
[WP] “The goddess of humanity was the smallest and gentlest of all the races’ guardian deities... How did humans become the most destructive species?” “They looked into an infinity of malicious gods and declared that they would protect her. And now she lives in fear of her children.” | Inside an interrogation chamber, deep within one of the great war machines of the Zzyth fleet, a single human sat tied to a chair.
He was bare chested, and the Interrogator could see the scars that lined every inch of his body. These faint white lines were crossed and covered by more recent wounds. Cuts, bruises and ... | In the beginning there was nothing. Nothing that stretched on and on forever although forever was too small a concept to embrace that empty space. For an eternity or for a moment that was the state of all things. The moment after brought first dust, then light, and finally something more. They started pure of form, eac... | 2021-01-23T03:30:07 | 2021-01-22T23:22:04 | 796 | 506 |
[WP] You are queen of this land. You are asexual, a hand-picked heir, like each queen since your nation's birth five generations ago. Today, on your 30th birthday, a witch knocks at your door. She wants to know where the hell that firstborn is. | “Firstborn, you say?” The queen suppressed a laugh as she eyed the dignified-looking lady in robes standing before her. “I’m afraid we don’t do that kind of thing here.”
The lady’s expression faltered. “What is that supposed to mean?” she asked, taken aback. Her voice then grew cold as she mockingly continued. “Do you... | Resting for the first time in a month, Rose felt all of her anxieties drift away as she felt the calm and wonderful embrace of *sleep.* Ready to awaken fresh tomorrow and fix another bucket of problems that ranged her beloved kingdom. She knew that being the sole leader of Placerville wasn't going to be easy, but reall... | 2020-04-19T14:06:22 | 2020-04-19T12:18:07 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed, but what she doesn't know is that the monster under her bed protects her from the true monsters - her parents. You are that monster.
Thanks for the huge amount of responses! Loving most all of them, thank you! Sorry it was a bit simplistic though. | It's a little different, being the good guy, when all you get is flack for scaring a few kids here and there. I mean sure, it's weird that I live under a bed, under a kid's bed no less, but a gal needs a home just like everyone else. Scaring those kids was an accident anyway. I don't like living under kids that are ... | "It's scary though"
"Don't worry. If you don't believe in monsters they die"
I seethe, sharply drawing my breath as her father turns to leave. I shift as familiar weight settles upon my back. I can feel the sharpness of the words, digging into me. Gradually she begins to drift away. From downstairs I can hear the b... | 2014-05-14T14:09:03 | 2014-05-14T13:08:42 | 26 | 17 |
[WP]Your father comes from a long line of superheroes. Your mother comes from a long line of supervillains. Every year, against your parents wishes, your relatives come together to celebrate your birthday. It's your eleventh birthday and the city's evacuated as your relatives start to arrive. | Dakota looked at the news and sighed. She just hoped her uncles and aunts didn’t make too much of a mess this year. She remembered last year when Uncle Dan had gotten drunk and shot off a few blasts of his lasers.
It was embarrassing. At least the mayor was friendly with her dad and understood.
She got ready and we... | I heard the tires of a car shriek as it pulled in into our driveway. It was the same Honda I have seen every year ever since I was 8. It was my dad’s parents.
Once grandpa Tony saw me playing in the garden, he rushed towards me with his arms wide open.
“If it ain’t my favorite grandson, Alex.” He said as he hugged me... | 2020-08-03T23:40:04 | 2020-08-03T23:09:40 | 421 | 53 |
[wp] When someone dies, they go to a platform where you can choose to move in to the afterlife, not knowing whether you will go to heaven or hell. You meet someone who has stood there for millenia, trying to decide if they should go. | "The choice is simple," the angel said to me, "you can go on or you can stay here."
"You know your life better than all but the Lord himself. You know your deeds. You know your faith. And so you can determine for yourself whether to move forward."
Each wing seemed to glisten, less like feathers than like butterfly... | The train station was beautiful. The stone walls and vaulted roof were picturesque. At one end was a giant stained glass window, it let in the bright afternoon light, dappling the tracks and platforms with its bright colours. The walls were also dotted with large windows, letting in even more light, but I couldn't see ... | 2016-08-14T08:59:41 | 2016-08-14T08:04:54 | 3,433 | 22 |
[WP] You live in a world where everyone is able to develop super powers. Your super power is that for as long as you are alive, no one else’s powers are active. Everyone is aware that someone’s power is inhibiting everyone else’s. No one knows who it is, but you. Everyone is trying to hunt you down. | “Hey cripple, how’s that power of nothingness going for you?” Dean Thompson yelled out.
They all laughed. I was sitting up on the empty bleachers reading a book as he and the rest of the football team walked from the field after evening practice. I’m not actually physically disabled by the way, it’s just what jocks ca... | Normal.
The media was slow to notice. The world was changing, nobody seemed able to admit it.
Ayo first realised something was wrong when he was woken up by the cars. Thousands more of them than normal; roaring, spluttering along, carrying confused travellers unaccustomed to following the laws of physics.
... | 2019-10-05T04:19:51 | 2019-10-05T03:21:37 | 762 | 142 |
[WP] Voyager 1 has unexpectedly returned to Earth. It was found at Cape Canaveral, with a note written in a strange, unknown language attached to it. Scientists have translated that note and have called a press conference to reveal their findings. | John sat in front of the TV watching as the press conference started. The woman’s eyebrows scrunched as she pulled out a piece of paper and placed it on the podium. She turned her gaze to the camera, and said “I will now read the message. It says: ***Our world is being attacked, please help us.*** That’s all it says. T... | Today was the day. I'd been milling over the results for weeks now; we hadn't been allowed to come forward sooner. How would people react? Would there be mass hysteria? I wasn't sure if I could handle the consequences, but the people had the right to know.
"Dr Samantha Clairmont will now announce the findings." the m... | 2016-11-27T09:28:52 | 2016-11-27T09:15:46 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] Each morning, every human on Earth must pray their Reasons for not dying that day to the God of Death. If the Reasons are sufficient, that person will go on living, potentially forever. However, you are the longest living human by far, and people now hunt you in order to hear your Reasons. | I woke up with my arms tied behind my back and my body restrained to an old, rickety wooden chair. The smell of wet moss penetrated my nostrils.
"Hey, Vince! He's waking up!"
Kidnapped again. It was becoming less of a nuisance and more of a minor inconvenience these past few years.
"What the hell do you two id... | *Dear Merciful One, I beg of you to grant me one more day under your watchful benevolence for I am... I need to... I must go to work in order to recieve a salary so that my family doesn't starve...*
An old excuse, but one I hadn't used in a while. I feel a trickle of sweat drop down my brow, but I feel that familiar t... | 2016-07-05T20:59:14 | 2016-07-05T18:50:20 | 60 | 35 |
[WP] You're immortal, but the procedure that made you so also created an evil doppelgänger. After centuries of conflict, using any means necessary to subvert each other's plans, neither of you are sure which one of you is the evil one, or if either of you were ever supposed to be evil at all. | He performed the ceremony during his twentieth winter.
His people had spent generations building the raised circle of giant stone slabs; the names of those who started the project had faded even from myth before its completion. Visitors would regard the henge with awe, thinking the placement of the heavy stones to be... | Hello my friend, we meet again.
Friends we're not, you dare pretend?
Have we not known each other well?
It's your smug tone that I shall quell.
Smug? Not I, believe me I pray.
Ha! You think it is the end of days?
No dear me, just hear me out!
What is all this you're on about?
It's this charade, I ca... | 2016-11-29T10:12:13 | 2016-11-29T06:05:19 | 445 | 142 |
[WP] Katy t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m, looks back over what she wrote ten years later
Here is the original copy pasta
hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up spork my name is katy but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me _… im 13 years old (i... | Katy carefully balanced the tablet on her stomach while opening a fresh beer bottle. Work had been particularly trying today. Lying back on the sofa she prepared to loose herself in pictures of wise cats with bad grammar and other people's problems...but then *it* got linked again. God damnit, does the Internet never f... | It is October 12, 2006, and I am 13 years old. I am sitting before my family's computer. The room around me is cool and silent. I close my eyes and listen to my thoughts; I feel alone. I open my eyes to refocus on the screen, and suddenly I am no longer alone. I am with those who love what I love, those who understand ... | 2014-11-19T10:38:12 | 2014-11-19T10:15:47 | 64 | 10 |
[WP] The other hero's don't understand your power. They just think you're stupidly lucky with everything. But they don't know that your true power is timing. Not the power to control time, but the power of perfect timing, everything around you, that you're involved in, happens at the perfect time. | The day I discovered my "super-power", if that's what you want to call it, had been the strangest day of my life. I don't think I can accurately explain how these events occurred, but I'll do my best.
It was about two years ago now, and I was headed to work just like any other day. I always considered myself a fairly ... | You don't have much to complain about in life when your life is perfect. Perfect to the point that I arrived on time for your wife's third cousin's daughter's second birthday in New Mexico after stopping a guy who almost shot an automatic gun inside a bar in New York. Sometimes I compare my battles to those of Superman... | 2017-10-13T08:46:22 | 2017-10-13T07:31:13 | 122 | 72 |
[WP] We contact alien life and find that the vast majority of aliens exist in a slower time frame. Humans are perceived as extremely agile, mentally quick, and have very short lives. | "So, as I was saying, my dear, old friend, or might I even say, my '*dearest, oldest*' friend, ha ha h--nj-hhhh-zz-ggggghhhh-nj-hhhhzz ..."
Ambassador Brigel was caught in a fit of coughing and it was hard to not roll my eyes at this pathetic creature. I pretended to be concerned and patted him, very reluctantly, on ... | They live and die in an instant; in one moment of my sense, one flash of pain or fill of my belly. Before I have even finished drawing but one breath, an entire generation has lived and died, flourished and withered to dust.
Humanity is but a flick of my eyes on the scale of our world.
They are not unlike the creatu... | 2016-08-22T18:22:03 | 2016-08-22T18:04:04 | 386 | 226 |
[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | I should have picked up on it sooner. But then, how could I have? What kid doesn't have an imaginary friend at some point?
Casey had "introduced" me to Stewie three weeks ago. She'd come running in from playing in the woods and and asked me for a cookie. When I got her one, she'd looked up expectantly at me.
"One fo... | _When I grow up, I want to be a monster catcher, just like my daddy._
He lowered the crayon drawing. Weariness crawled over his limbs, sinking into his muscles, his veins. His eyelids slid shut. The desk lamp glowed fiercely, burning his pupils anyhow.
_"And how many claws does Stewie have?"_
_"He doesn't have cl... | 2022-06-01T12:14:28 | 2022-06-01T11:57:33 | 36 | 25 |
[WP] An imaginary friend can't stand the child to whom he/she/it has been assigned. | "Fuck you, Ma."
Her lips pressed together, so hard they turned white. Gerry Salamander was grinning at me, green thumbs raised high. His t-shirt said, "GOOD WORK!"
"You need to *go*. To your *room*. *Now.* And when I am ready to talk to you, you need to have thought about what you're going to say to me."
I padded ba... | Day 249 plus some. Shit I should have started counting earlier. I forgot I could file for a new kid after day 365. I never thought I'd have too... now I see why some imaginaries go all "monster under the bed" this kid deserves a monster...
"Hairy, where you at bitch?" Damn, it. Well they always said at the Academy tha... | 2014-04-10T12:36:59 | 2014-04-10T09:47:24 | 63 | 20 |
[WP] "Liar." "I'm telling the truth. They put themselves in pressurized metal boxes and launch themselves out of their planet with liquid fuel canisters. Humans are insane." | The Dors were humanoid in theory, though Avery didn't think much of them. They were bipedal, with arms and hair and eyes. They just didn't move like humans. They were just off enough that it bothered Avery, scared her even.
Yet, she was the oddity. They looked at her species like they were tadpoles or weird glittery ... | "And this chemical, they put it in their veins?"
Hambruck could barley comprehend the concept.
"Yes bro! Humans are insane! You've gotta try this!"
Hambruck wrapped his varsity jacket tighter in the cold air, he paced up the hill following Chad.
Chad jumped into the pressurized metal box that was waiting for them ... | 2017-12-16T14:07:25 | 2017-12-16T14:05:38 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] You wake up in a hospital with a massive headache. As you regain your vision, you notice the room is packed with terrified scientists, politicians, and soldiers aiming their rifles at you. A five star general walks in, gives the order to remove the muzzle around your mouth, and only asks "Why?" | Why?
That was such a good question, wasn’t it?
I wish I knew the answer.
Instead all I could do was gaze out, tears already beginning to pool and blur my vision as I came to, focusing so hard on my breathing. It felt like my chest would collapse with the slightest nudge, giving way easily and submissively to the ... | "I just had to. There is no use in words now, you should have been there to understand" I said, barely awake
"Don't give me this crap, son! I've seen the things you did, the remnants of your seeds, my men cleared the rubble in your wake"
"You think you saw all of it? But did you live even a part of this madness? You ... | 2019-10-15T08:57:36 | 2019-10-15T04:34:23 | 56 | 23 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | John saved enough money for the last 45 years to go live in one of the last cities that still existed near the frontier of the United States.
It was now time to actually go there, although it was still 8 months until the official event in which the US would open his doors to the world, and viceversa.
At the time ... | No one know why.
Or how.
But they knew where; here, Home.
Or what remained. A crippled nation, shriveled into isolation by a mixture of fear and disgust over their own actions. Perhaps society was recklessly distraught; not one individual left without trauma; and thought it better to die than to endure another war. ... | 2018-01-18T02:24:06 | 2018-01-18T00:11:50 | 210 | 34 |
[WP] "When entering the academy students often bring their pets. Most being the typical miniature dragon, gryphon, sabertooth, even the occasional golem. However you decided to bring this...this thing. I'm afraid the headmaster will need to hear of this." | "Are you kidding me!? Leonard's not a 'thing', he's my puppy!" Rusty shouted, holding the tiny corgi puppy up to the Deputy Headmistress's face. Deputy Headmistress Stroude let out an uncharacteristic shriek and jumped back.
"GET THAT FILTHY LITTLE DEMON AWAY FROM ME!" she screeched.
"How dare you say something like ... | The magical academy was odd, you see. They would make it against rules to bring basic things like hamsters, but allow golems the size of a person? Wacky rules.
So, when people were asked to show their pets, I showed my pet. It was animated using magic, it had a sticker mouth and googly eyes. It could walk around fine... | 2021-08-02T09:56:00 | 2021-08-02T08:28:32 | 706 | 52 |
[WP] You are a magically immortal being who snuck onboard a generation ship to travel beyond the solar system. It's been a couple hundred years, and it's getting difficult to conceal your immortality from the crew. | "I'm not sure I understand" I said, staring at the gentleman sitting across from me.
"It's very simple. I'm immortal. I've been around for a long time even before this ship took off. I decided to come along so that I could experience something new, something... different. When I came on board just before takeoff I inf... | "Did you hear about the genius inventor on the 44th deck?"
"Oh no, the way you phrased that.. did he die?"
"I mean, sort of. Apparently he made an exact android replica of himself in his current age of 144 and downloaded his consciousness into it. He called it "his final epiphany to immortality" in his note."
"Wait,... | 2018-06-13T13:52:07 | 2018-06-13T13:40:05 | 42 | 22 |
[WP] A kaiju is shrunken down to the size of a kangaroo by the anti-kaiju defense force during its latest battle in Tokyo. As a result, the kaiju wanders through the city at night, and discovers an entire world of beauty it had never seen while it was 120 meters tall. | These are the streets of the dying. Water collects in oil-swirled puddles. Foil paper wriggles and glistens and roaches search the scraps for food. A black-laced boot hangs from a power line. These are the dark streets that once were filled with paper lanterns alight with color, with origami swans that danced in an ora... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Interlude 1: Thoughtfriend)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Thoughtfriend felt the pain of every fish in the sea as if it was its own.** Lounging at the bottom of the Big Gu... | 2021-04-12T22:28:15 | 2021-04-12T22:20:01 | 71 | 45 |
[WP] In a world where everyone survives off of basic income, companies have to convince you to work for them.
Credit to u/SearingEnigma & u/abkleinig for the idea. | *I can quit*, Anna realized. She had never enjoyed her line of work--as a teenager, being a barista seemed like a fun, cool idea. But from the day she first started working there, her perspective had quickly changed. She wasn't much of a people person in the first place, and the added stress of the fast-paced yet un... | They're banging on the door again. They always are. It's my god damn doctorate. They just won't leave me alone.
"Come on, Jess. Just go talk to them."
I massaged my temples with sweaty fingers.
"I don't *need* them. I'm happy now!"
She looked me in the eyes, pleading.
"You know they won't stop until they have... | 2016-04-21T09:35:09 | 2016-04-21T09:33:27 | 41 | 10 |
[WP] You are a unimportant background character just trying to survive whatever nonsense the main characters are up to. However you keep finding yourself being drawn into dangerous stituations, and to your horror you realise that you're a fan favorite character the show is giving more "screen time". | "Hot dogs! Getcha dawgs here! Hot and ready from good old Eddie!" A man shouted, pushing his food cart around the streets of London. He was a a short, rotund man that had a deep Philly accent and a thin, stubbly beard. The cart he pushed around had the words Eddie's Dog's with a cartoon version of his face on the side ... | My life was in the sweet spot, wake up, breakfast with the family, stand with my kids at the school bus stop and then it's off to work. Sales isn't the most glamorous jobs in the world, but it pays, and in a good sales month, it pays real good.
But lately nothing has been sweet, I've had way too many close calls! I've... | 2022-11-05T00:50:30 | 2022-11-05T00:10:06 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Magic can only be performed by twins, and only so long as both of them are alive. You're the third-born of a set of triplets. Your elder siblings are mages, and you aren't. At least, that's what you've told everyone. Truth is, you've got a new kind of magic. | **Bloodborne**
To be a twin is the highest honor. Oh yes. On our birthday everyone gathers together to celebrate "the twins", how they rescued the town from drought, how they even had dinner with the Lord of the city up north. The twins can do magic, you see, so they are instantly catapulted into fame and glory. Few s... | Anthea and Althea were treated like royalty in our small town. Twins were rare, and they were the only pair in our town. Everywhere they go, the townsfolk would offer them gifts to try to earn their fancy.
An can create magic potions and weaponry enhancements. She was even given the title of "Esteemed Mage" and had a... | 2018-02-20T04:42:28 | 2018-02-20T03:59:06 | 81 | 57 |
[WP] You are an astronaut in the I.S.S. The last message you received before the world went dark was "turn off all electrical signals,or it will find us." Now as the sun comes over the horizon you see a massive shadow on the earth. | The request did not make sense. It was too quick and unprofessional. Attempts by the communications crew to reestablish contact had failed. There were more than a thousand sensors and experiments recording data and relaying them to earth.
"We're not able to get the signal through," Viktor said in his thick Russian acc... | The blue orb of Earth lazily drifted through space. As though nothing at all was wrong. Shane had never gotten over the sense of wonder that his home planet conveyed to him since he launched into orbit. It had not occurred to magnitude of loneliness one could feel as part of the 6 human beings outside of that orb.
The... | 2016-12-12T21:35:52 | 2016-12-12T19:51:15 | 1,800 | 49 |
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