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[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Shane,
Remember at my wedding when you looked at me and said, "Don't do this. It's not too late."
I'll be married twenty six years in December. I have three kids almost all of them are adults. I tell them about you all the time. How you were the strongest kid I ever met. I tell them how you were my good sid... | Justin,
It's been a little over 3 years since you died. I still get hit with random emotions that make me burst into tears thinking about you. Both anger and sadness. I think about how things would be different if I had said or done things another way. If I had told dad you could come live with me, would you still be ... | 2017-11-06T00:19:39 | 2017-11-05T21:34:09 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] You are the world's first Pictomancer, with the ability to touch a picture and make it into reality.
The medium doesn't matter - tattoos, stick figures, oil paintings, comic books, whatever.
How much of a picture you make into reality is up to you - having a character who can snag the ring of power off of Sauron... | The couple walked into the apartment silently, heads held low. Dark bags under the woman's eyes signaled she hadn't been sleeping much. The man's wrinkled forehead made him look at least ten years older than reality. I signaled for them to sit at the couch and they did so without a word. The room was dimly lit, save fo... | Ever since he could remember, he had loved art. He drew, he painted, he created - although he wouldn't call it that, as he would never make something up. He'd simply draw what was in his mind.
Creatures roamed through it; strange, monstrous beasts, some of them kind, most of them terrible. A mythical world, a child's ... | 2016-10-17T10:12:26 | 2016-10-17T09:34:05 | 27 | 19 |
[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... | Every country must close its borders, communications, trade, and embassies for 50 years.
The United States's president was boycotting the peace conference, against most of the country's wishes. The declining prestige of the country abroad was all too apparent, even before the Great Conflict. The war lasted 6 years... | The calm winter breeze slid along the surface of the Earth as the clock struck midnight, an orchestra of death preparing itself as the aggressors of the last war came out of isolation, prepared to reclaim the throne upon which they once resided.
Except the throne has been dismantled decades ago.
They sought to use t... | 2018-01-18T01:37:17 | 2018-01-17T23:33:14 | 712 | 13 |
[WP] During a routine mission to the ISS, astronauts find something disturbing - the beaten & battered Voyager 1 spaceprobe, which left the solar system 3 years ago. Its golden record, which contains sounds & images selected to portray the diversity of life & culture on Earth, has been rewritten. | News reports montage quickly with only partial phrases in between loud bursts of white noise. A little blonde boy around age 4 watches the television with his mouth slightly agape. Too young to fully process the information.
>"Dr. Kilian aboard the ISS spotted the Voyager spacecraft July 4th, 2016 at 7:18am GMT"
... | We found it drifting through space, almost assuredly intentionally aimed toward our ISS--the plate's face up, instead of on the side, so, when it hit, it would only cause a mild thump, instead of cutting into the relatively fragile material composing the space station.
It was a golden record, just like we remember sen... | 2015-07-24T07:55:44 | 2015-07-24T06:27:31 | 121 | 52 |
[WP] You have been cursed to always tell the truth. Not because you're unable to say something you know is false, but because once you say it, the universe will rearrange itself to make what you said true. | I'm not sure when it started, but I remember the first time. I was four years old.
My parents had friends over and even from my bedroom I could hear their cackling laugther from the backyard. I was playing with their daughter Jane, in my room where we were sentenced, comparing our colouring-in skills and gathering ev... | How does truth run from falsehood when the universe bends and twists with words?
This was a curious existence. Words had seemingly prophetic effect.
I’d witnessed an offhand comment echo into a real life event before, how could I test if my words actually were?
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An interesting dichotomy. How does one determin... | 2019-05-29T00:52:26 | 2019-05-28T20:25:48 | 73 | 15 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | **"Those forgetting history is bound to repeat it"**
These words are written above the entrance to the chamber of the great council. We thought we knew everything, but there were so much we forgot.
None of the councils members remembered why the image of a grinning human was chiselled into the chamber walls. The pain... | X'ralaxs picked himself up from the rubble, and surveyed the devastation all around. It wasn't supposed to be this way. They were supposed to be soft, pushovers. The dead and dying all around told a different tale. The power the humans could place inside their bombs was unheard of. Over a thousand kilometers from the d... | 2019-04-19T08:22:28 | 2019-04-18T21:17:47 | 47 | 31 |
[WP] Having woken from a coma, married the girl of your dreams and won off every scratch off ticket you've ever bought; you're beginning to realize that your good luck isn't running out. | “I’m home,” I called out as I entered the apartment. Clutched in my hands were four scratch offs.
Shelby poked her head around the corner, smiling. She was wearing her Hello Kitty apron that was horrendously stained with an amalgamation of various sauces and food particulate.
“I’m making clam chowder today,” she de... | "Honey?"
A familiar voice, yet somewhat distant. I felt the urge to simply slip back into the void that had consumed everything around me. Yet the voice kept on pestering me, unrelenting.
"C-Come back, please!" The same voice called out, pleading.
"Emma?" I responded as I slowly opened my eyes.
Light blue with a ti... | 2020-08-14T11:46:58 | 2020-08-14T11:43:38 | 291 | 36 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | *Any moment, now.*
I glanced to the windows and skylights that drenched me in sunlight, panels of crystalline glass so huge that a blind man could pick me out from the amongst the diners. On second thought, picking a location with so much fragility may not have been a stroke of genius.
"Are you okay, dear?" my darlin... | "Finally, it is complete. Now, nothing can ruin my plans!" I threw back my bead and laughed as I pulled the chicken out of the oven and set it on the table.
"Our plans, you mean," Elizabeth said. I had kidnapped her last month, but we had hit it off. She came back and we had started dating in secret. She sighed. "Do y... | 2022-11-30T23:13:37 | 2019-02-23T07:55:50 | 1,144 | 34 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | The cashier in front of me froze, his eyes narrowing. I'd read books where the author described someones eyes as being calculating, but I thought I could actually see him doing math. Weighing variables, probabilities and even analyzing a threat.
"Care to repeat that?" He asked, though it was more of a command. His pr... | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | 2022-11-14T01:20:47 | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 163 | 45 |
[WP] You've just invented a device that allows you to see the world through the eyes of anyone alive, wherever they currently exist. However, you are unable to hear what they hear. | The only thing keeping me alive was the smell of freshly roasted coffee. My mug sat heavy on my fingers as I made my way, carefully, through the instrumentation lab. When I passed by the clock I closed my eyes, because who the hell wants to know that it's twelve minutes past four AM?
Other than myself, a dozen or so h... | "What did you do, fish?"
Where my cellmate should have had hair, he had tattoos. Where he should have had a couple of teeth, he had gold crowns.
"H-hacking," I stammered.
"You a faggot, fish?" he asked. He stood up, a mass of brawn and blubber that towered over me by at least a foot.
"N-no," I said. What I had don... | 2016-03-17T09:37:42 | 2016-03-17T08:03:21 | 461 | 21 |
[WP]All you can remember was that you were once mortal. Now centuries, countless millenniums have passed. You watched everything you know perish one by one. Humanity, Earth, the sun, galaxies, even black holes. And now you drift in space waiting for the end of time... | The curious thing about the Human Brain is its tendency towards sheer delusion, if only to protect itself against consequences. Consider then a man, alone for an awfully long time – say, somewhere around a billion years – without any sources of light.
One man in such a situation was thinking on much the same problem, ... | I’ve seen stars cry with gasping breaths. Their body quakes as they leak molten lava into the void and when they can no longer contain their sorrow, they burst with a blinding wail.
I’ve heard music where no sound exists: the percussion of asteroids, the crescendo of a swelling planet on the verge of collapse, and the... | 2018-01-19T06:03:47 | 2018-01-19T05:08:52 | 405 | 41 |
[WP] All your life, mythological beings have tried to pick you up. Childhood? Forced adoption. Teenagehood/Adulthood? Marriage. For example, selkies purposefully left their skins where you'd find them; banshees serenade you outside every night. Now at 30, you've learned why you attract them all... | I'd gotten used to it a long time ago, but it took a long while for me to realize this wasn't a normal circumstance. I remember going up to my teacher, trying to question him as to why a lady made of clouds was trying to give me lolly-pops. My mate Jeremy turned out to be a Kelpie in disguise (who knew they could turn ... | I always had…..an effect on women.
While it sounds like bragging, I can assure you, it is not. One hath not understood the wrath of a woman until they had their hearts broken.
Four years old. Pre-school. Most of the girls supposedly flocked towards me, my current memory hazy, as parents soon too... | 2022-10-26T10:39:40 | 2022-10-26T09:02:01 | 85 | 61 |
[WP] A powerful king owns a dragon, plays scary organ music, wears dark clothes, and just looks intimidating. He's actually a really nice guy and his people love him. Heroes from far away lands keep trying to defeat him and his dragon because they think he's a villain. | "I just feel like minor keys are more expressive," sighs his majesty.
The steward, a fox-faced man who regularly looks quite a bit more put together than he actually is, perks up and attends to his king, "I quite like your last piece, my liege. Have you settled upon a title, perhaps?"
The king waddles over to his thr... | "How can you do such a thing?" Arana's voice raised unlike before where she tried hard to be respectful to the people in the room.
"How can you commit an unforgiving act to a king who has done _nothing_ wrong?" Disbelief at their behaviour, ruining her honour in front of all the loyalties and captains was the last thi... | 2019-09-09T12:26:08 | 2019-09-09T08:50:12 | 45 | 23 |
[WP]You wake up one day and notice that you can see stats and levels over people's heads. Most are in the 20s with a few people as high as 80. As you're watching people you notice someone with a skull where their level should be staring at you. | Max had panicked on the first day, had experimented the next, and accepted on the third. The numbers told of a person's aptitude at life, overall. Young people averaged around 15-25, business people tended to ride the higher end of the curve at 50-80. Outliers were common enough; tech billionaires (he could see the num... | My day was going great today. The weather was nice, sky clear, and random adventurers didn't even try to pick my pockets or kill me. Varrock's streets were bustling with activity. I live near the Grand Exchange area, so there are always people running around in the streets. As I was going on my daily stroll, I noticed ... | 2017-08-21T20:16:13 | 2017-08-21T19:39:32 | 24 | 14 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | Miraculous, is what they always called it. It was true; she was a miracle, our darling, our baby girl. She was going to be the starting point of a new chapter of our lives: parenthood.
But would you call a murderer a miracle? Everyone saw it, that dark hideous mark on her face. Nobody explicitely pointed it out, but w... | I tried to push him towards the arts. I knew that he had it in im to be a great artist. Sculpture perhaps, or music. But no... Little Adolf always wanted to be a painter and and painting I knew he could only fail.
He was so angry when they didn't pass him at art school - so very, very angry - I knew nothing I'd taught... | 2014-05-10T23:37:12 | 2014-05-10T23:15:19 | 466 | 12 |
[WP] Dumbledore decides not to leave Harry Potter with the Dursley family. Instead young Potter is sent to Chicago and placed on the doorsteps of Harry Dresden's home.
Edit: Thanks for the gold! | I couldn't get onto the Hogwarts Express, and it wasn't my fault.
Ron and I ran at the damn wall as fast as we could, and landed flat on our asses. We sat with our backs against the wall, watching as eleven o'clock passed by.
"Oh man, what are we going to do now?" said Ron. "My mum will kill me if she finds out we di... | **Spoilers up to Dead Beat for the Dresden Files**
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The building was fire, and it wasn't my fault.
No, really.
Stop looking at me like that.
Chicago is my town. I'm the "Who you gonna call?" dude. Something bad happens in this city that's just a little weirder than weird? That's my thing. Good news is, ever si... | 2017-08-16T11:37:37 | 2017-08-16T10:51:07 | 108 | 42 |
[WP] You obtain a device that tells you exactly what choices to make in order to lead the "happiest" life possible. Some of these choices get hard to make. | "I'll have a hot dog."
The waitress didn't speak for a few seconds. This gave Derrick time to regret his decision. Not that it was *his* decision, but how was he supposed to tell the waitress that a machine instructed him to order a hot dog at a three star restaurant in Paris?
Exactly. He couldn't. The idea of su... | The artifact the old man gave me seemed more like a rock than anything mystical at the time, that was until I touched it.
On contact I was filled with knowledge, maybe even premonitions that never came.
The first thing I learned was that I should put down the artifact and leave it, but that was something I couldn't ... | 2016-05-05T05:01:41 | 2016-05-05T04:51:37 | 338 | 10 |
[WP] You're the last person on earth - but thank god Pokemon Go still functions! You amuse yourself by catching Pokemon as you travel so as to not feel so isolated and alone. One day, on your screen, you see in the distance that someone has set up a lure.
Courtesy of corvidaedream on Tumblr | It's pretty amazing how quickly one can adjust to being alone.
Living in the over-crowded post-modern world, one of the most common fantasies is to be the sole survivor in the coming post-apocalyptic world. Or at least one of two survivors - with the other being an incredibly attractive member of the desired gender. B... | Today is October 25th, 2016. Today is my birthday! Nobody to celebrate with except my pocket monsters. I thought I'd make my first journal entry today. So hey journal! Let me tell you how this all started.
It feels like yesterday the world was taken by storm by the craze of collecting all of the pocket monsters. Packs... | 2016-09-05T13:31:55 | 2016-09-05T10:07:35 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] A ghost and a zombie meet. They're from the same person. | Eric shuffled along Main Street, brightly greeting the other zombies he passed along the way.
"Hey, guys! Apocalypse treating you well, I presume?"
They moaned back feebly, and Eric sighed to himself. They never got his jokes. Not surprising, of course. He was one of the few who had somehow maintained his intelligenc... | Emma opened her ammo pouch and did a quick inventory.
"Okay, so we have three 12 gauge shells and eight .44's, not including the ones that I'm loading now. Think that can tide us over?"
Liam put a pinch of Skoal into his lower lip and rubbed his chin. Emma didn't know if that was an attempt to seem nonchalant or if... | 2016-03-21T10:46:20 | 2016-03-21T09:48:26 | 703 | 179 |
[WP] You are a Genie but not a malicious one. Though you are bound by the Genie Code to grant wishes with some horrible or ironic twist you make a real effort to leave an obvious loophole and strongly hint how to avoid that fate. Unfortunately the Genie Council has found out and they aren't happy. | “Well, Grant, what do you have to say for yourself this time?” The head genie asked with a rather annoyed and condescending tone.
Grant, who was looking as smug as ever, replied “Why whatever do you mean? I am simply doing my job. Fulfilling the requests of those who find my lamp. Its a contractual obligation as youre... | "So. You're saying that every wish I grant must have some horrible or ironic twist?"
"Indeed."
"It needs to be something that the wisher would regret, and there must *not* be an easy way out of it?"
"That is correct. If you do not abide by these rules, then you will be disincorporated, as per -"
"Oh, don't worry. I... | 2022-03-22T06:12:53 | 2022-03-22T05:51:27 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] You thought you were being abducted by aliens for bizarre medical experiments. Instead it turns into a therapy session as the alien researcher who has been observing you for months asks if you are really ok. | Lily frantically looked around the room she found herself in. It was solid white, the walls smooth and slick. The door set flush with one wall was locked right, with no obvious console or mechanism to open it.
Lily shrugged and plopped back into the couch. It was soft, at least, and she found herself drooping down int... | It was that fateful evening. A full moon approaching me at alarming speed, revealing itself to be an UFO.
The circular disc floated above me as I admired it, it let down a stream of blue light on me, dissolving my atoms.
I awoke aboard what I assumed was the UFO. Two big, green headed aliens watched over me.
Soon i... | 2021-02-04T20:41:53 | 2021-02-04T16:02:58 | 159 | 30 |
[WP] A child with the uncanny ability to build anything is jokingly recruited by the UN to solve world peace. Three weeks later the child returns with a large box, smiles and asks, "give me a hard one next time!" | The members of the UN Security Council stared uncomfortably at the object sitting in the middle of the conference table. Or rather, floating roughly an inch above its surface, suspended at that fixed distance in a manner visually similar to a strong magnet levitating above a superconducting material, though the table w... | The year is 2158, almost a century after the "problem of world peace" was solved by the Child.
World peace is no more. There is only war. This has always been the way it was for as long as anyone can remember.
I am a soldier in the Southwest Indiana Army, of the twenty first short-lived nation to be established in th... | 2022-04-04T09:41:29 | 2022-04-04T05:53:35 | 273 | 49 |
[WP] A single man controls the entire world. No decision is made without his say. The thing is, he doesn't know he's the ruler, all he knows is these people in suits come to his house and ask him weird questions every once in a while.
This prompt is inspired by a plot line in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I fe... | They always find me. I don't know how.
I thought I had lost them deep in the Rockys, but sure as shit I get that knock on the door, those three quick raps, and I already know its them. I don't know how they keep finding me. Every time I move, I take only the clothes on my back. A few times, I didn't even do that, jus... | And without a fiber of contempt within his body, Tim Miller doomed the entire planet.
The day started with breakfast: two eggs slightly burnt and a cup of watery brew. He never got eggs right, but Billy always tried his best. After the paper he stepped outside onto his porch. Jenny once called it the thinker, he just ... | 2017-05-05T20:51:01 | 2017-05-05T19:59:50 | 1,328 | 122 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Not especially handsome, nor unusually strong, and lacking the vivid ornamentation of other species, the average high school student struggles to find a suitable mate.
Here, a young male—*Discipulus Studiosis*—has his eye on a possible mate. They've occupied similar territory for a while now; in both Biology and Histo... | It is May. The skies are blue and white. Sun pours down upon the brown brick and gray concrete of Kennedy Memorial High School.
Yet another mating season has nearly come to a close. Desperation fills the air with a heady musk. Soon the migration will begin and these awkward, slouching creatures will leave this place, ... | 2017-04-04T06:40:45 | 2017-04-04T05:58:50 | 426 | 106 |
[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. | The chamber illumination dimmed and the milky sim tank faded to life. A thousand eyes stared intently from the council benches, and a trillion more from across the five galaxies.
A deep voice, set on edge with urgency and well-contained fear, began its narration of the sim.
"The Brevis' star system surveillance node... | “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... | 2017-03-31T12:42:19 | 2017-03-30T23:17:22 | 127 | 37 |
[WP] You are hired for a new job which you begin to hate. You decide to do everything you can to get fired, however you still become their best employee. | Every kid always wishes to be something awesome like a cop, fireman, or an astronaut. Sadly, I never had any wishes of that, and now I regret not thinking of doing it instead. Instead I chose to be a private security guard because it seemed cool at the time. I'm stuck in a goddamn contract for the next 5 years with a s... | I lived this. In 2000 I actively tried to get dismissed from my programming job. I ate a bite out of 20 Roly Poly sandwiches because my division was not allowed to have them. I changed everyone's screen saver to 'cubes suck'. After the 3 CEOs shaked out to one I started calling the 'winner' Highlander (there can only... | 2015-02-03T09:24:53 | 2015-02-03T09:06:03 | 46 | 11 |
[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. | By now, I could admit to myself that, like most things I had done in life, I learned Latin to be able to show off. There was no shame anymore, no cognitive dissonance. I learned to speak a language to impress people because I didn't believe I was impressive enough.
But now there was a chance to do some good with it. I... | *Darlin' you got to let me know*
"Apt" I scoffed to myself, sipping my drink whilst I weaved my way to the empty seat at the end of the bar, the noise of the next train rolling off overtaking the next line.
"So friend, how long's it been?"
*If you say that you are mine*
He turns, hurriedly, as if he recognizes my... | 2016-08-14T07:53:27 | 2016-08-14T06:02:00 | 156 | 59 |
[WP] A new makeup hits the market. When applied, it makes you the most beautiful woman imaginable...but every application takes one day from your life. | Emmaline told herself not to bring it up, to let it pass. It’s not worth it, she repeated to herself, a thousand times as she went about preparing dinner that day. She’s just a kid, she doesn’t understand, things will get better once she gets older. By the time Christie came home from school, Emmaline was sure she coul... | Beauty. Ever since I was a child, beauty captured my attention. It was the fastest one-way ticket into a man's heart where you controlled everything. Flash him a smile and mumble sweet nothings, and you'll have even the most powerful men falling to their knees.
Why did I take the drug? I wanted fame I wanted fortune. ... | 2017-01-16T08:10:38 | 2017-01-16T06:52:52 | 23 | 13 |
[WP]A retired super villain is in the bank with his 6 year old daughter when a new crew of super villains comes in to rob the place. | “You’ve been a really good girl, Lily,” I said. “This is the last errand, and then we’ll go get some ice cream.”
Lily squirmed, hanging off my arm and sighing with all the drama of a Shakespearian actor. But she stayed quiet and pulled at the ruffles on her skirt. I ruffled her hair with my uncaptured hand and she gig... | "Damn kids. Always trying to one-up the classics. Just look at their rookie errors: everybody hands up, not rounding up the security guards... child's play. I could do better than this. I *should* do better than this. But I gave it up for *her*... *for them*. I would never want her to see who I really am. It'd break he... | 2015-02-06T21:54:51 | 2015-02-06T20:41:07 | 269 | 33 |
[WP] You open your eyes to a hospital room full of people you don't recognize. You've just been informed that you're 10 years old and you've been in a coma. The life you lived was a dream. All 20 years of it.
Doesn't have to be 20 years. Could be 10, could be 50. Have fun with it. | "I assure you doctor, it was not a dream," said the kid before me. He was a child of 10 years, suffered a coma last year and had just woken up. The first thing he did in his wake was ask where he was, what time it was, and so forth. We told him and he listened calmly. I find that interesting, his calm. For a ten year o... | Suddenly, there was cheering. Cheering, and crying, and talking.
Was there a party outside, Tjörven thought - but he knew it couldn't be. The sound seemed too close, yet in a way ethereal. He sat up in bed, looking around him bewildered. "Emma" he whispered urgently "Emma wake up" he said louder now. But she didn't mo... | 2016-06-28T06:29:12 | 2016-06-28T05:28:57 | 987 | 29 |
[WP] You're going through your grandpa's attic and find some stuff from his army days. You realize he never told you *which* army he was in, or *which* war he fought in | My grandfather used to say that war wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for everything about it. Everyone knew from that line alone that he didn't like to talk about his experiences much. He just kept it vague, telling a few stories of being pinned down by 'the enemy' in 'occupied territory' during 'the war'. Vietnam? Kore... | The gnarled, callussed old hands gripped Mark's shoulders with a strength completely at odds with their age.
"Do not forget. Do you understand, Mark? You are my only grandchild and my sole heir. This house and all my money will be yours. When that happens, go to the small table in my bedroom. Open the drawer and take... | 2017-08-18T05:38:52 | 2017-08-18T03:56:28 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You die with your cell phone in hand. In (heaven or hell), you see you have reception and you're still getting notifications.
Inspired by this comment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3xr7p6/i_turned_my_phone_back_on_this_morning_to_find_a/cy7hgci | Slightly dazed, I sit up.
I look around, being completely unfamiliar with where I am.
First of all, I'm taken back by the color. It's white, everything is white.
Though it's not the color of this place that alarms me, but how it *feels*.
You know when you walk outside right before a bad thunderstorm, and the hum... | I gazed upon my phone after hearing it beep.
Strange, I'm dead and I know I'm dead and my phone was in my hand when I woke up from the after life.
Is this heaven or hell? I don't know.
Now to see what is the notification.
"You have 1 Candy Crush request."
Accept or decline
Damn. Still getting requests even when ... | 2015-12-22T10:45:37 | 2015-12-22T10:28:17 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] 50 years ago, NASA determined a rogue planet would hit earth, destroying us all. The rich poured their fortunes into space travel and fled... but the rock missed, and now the survivors won't take them back. | Sargent Jone's head snapped up suddenly. "General, there's a signal coming through on the radio."
"Well put it through already, there's a golf game with my name on it somewhere.." The General's arms mimed a golf swing as he practiced.
The signal came through over the speakers of the listening post. "This is the ... | "Sir, we're picking up a signal"
And there goes my sleep, *goddammit*. "Yeah, coming right up", I say to the controllers, who've done only one thing: dedicate their days to the return of the filth that fled 50 years ago.
"What is it? One of the old escapees?"
"Not quite sure, sir. We have to wait for confirmation", ... | 2019-12-07T07:06:18 | 2019-12-07T07:00:12 | 257 | 92 |
[WP] To get into heaven, you have to beat Jesus at Rock Paper Scissors at the pearly gates. Since the beginning of time, Jesus has always thrown rock. Everyone knows Jesus always throws rock and it's really just a formality to throw paper and walk into heaven. When you play him, he also throws paper | What? We both threw paper? But he's always supposed to-
"Alright, let's go again."
"What? No! No, wait! Let me think!" I sputtered, trying to buy time.
"C'mon, dude," the Lord opined. "You've played this before."
I was flustered to say the least. "No, but you're not- you've never...you can't-"
"I'm Jesus. I can ... | I look down at the hand of the weird, shaggy man. It's flat, like a piece of paper. What the fuck?
I let my mouth repeat the words. "What the fuck?"
He looks equally disturbed, looking back at me with untold apprehension. He murmurs something under his breath.
"What did you say?" I shout. "What did you say?!"
I fee... | 2018-05-18T10:56:15 | 2018-05-18T10:25:44 | 210 | 22 |
[WP] All natural disasters are actually the results of wizard duels. The wizarding world is horrified to learn of modern predictive technologies for said natural disasters. | The Non-magical and magical world's don't have a large amount of overlap. There are points they bleed through from I e to another, for example 2385 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, Alberta Canada is a prime spot for supernatural creatures to cross from one plane to the other, hence the Second Cup. Extreme moments of magic can hav... | "what are you even taking about?" Albert yelled back. "Admit it, you are sleeping with your assistant!" Sally was mad. The kind of mad only a wizard can get. "now look honey, I swear to you, I haven't done anything of the sort. Why would you even think such a thing?" Albert asked. "You know damn well I'm the only vulca... | 2022-06-12T14:24:03 | 2022-06-12T14:18:08 | 932 | 63 |
[WP] A notoriously talkative superhero is forced to remain silent for an extended period of time due to civilian, secret identity reasons. Villains, civilians, even other heroes are unnerved and intimidated by the hero's new stoic, silent behavior. | It’s not that I didn’t want to speak. I really did. I wanted to engage in witty repertoire that could cut through tensions like a straight razor, and spout clever insults as distinct as a caricature.
“Cat got your tongue, Piquant?” Cougar said. It might have been acceptable if it was said in a sultry tone, or performe... | "Oh now this is just ridiculous Tank!" Velveteen cackled as he had his minions attack his archnemesis The Tank who with a swing of her mighty fists made short work of them. Her latest outfit was just awful. Full black with no highlighting of her luscious curves. "You're going woke and broke!" He exclaimed as he jumped ... | 2022-01-24T09:53:45 | 2022-01-24T08:41:17 | 87 | 23 |
[WP] “...and do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?” “I do,” he whispered quietly to himself in the back of the church, tears streaming down his face. | She was radiant in her wedding dress, resplendent, gorgeous. And she was standing across from me, smiling a secret smile, the type that only couples know.
"... take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?" The priest's voice faded into my awareness.
"I do."
"And do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded... | The man gently wiped his eyes, recognizing the way his fingertips felt like sandpaper for the first time.
He weeps, comfortably, openly as he exits during the applause. It’s too much to feel, he can’t watch the kiss.
Her lips tasted like cherries, her middle school fascination with Katy Perry led to her first kiss in... | 2019-11-03T20:20:30 | 2019-11-03T17:36:29 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] You've always had a literal guardian angel- but she's currently bleeding out on your bedroom floor. | Elaine Teller was twelve years old when, without much fuss, she died after falling down a flight of stairs. Thumping feet, a slip and a snap later, she lay at the bottom of the stairs, her head not quite at the right angle as the corners of her vision faded. She heard her father scream her name and then "Oh my God! OH ... | I didn’t know what to do.
“Somebody Help!” I called out into the morning sky. I was met with silence.
There has to be something I can do. I grabbed a towel and tried to stop the bleeding.
“You’re going to be ok,” I stuttered, “you’re going to make it out of here.”
I grabbed my phone, but th... | 2022-12-25T01:29:53 | 2022-12-24T23:08:11 | 43 | 26 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | They call hereabouts the Cape Graveyard, a city where superheroes and villians alike go to try, and to die. It's a really ordinary kind of place where anyone tries to do anything really big, they don't last long. It's a nice play on Cape Grave, the real name of this pleasant, ordinary town.
Me? I don't have a hero nam... | I collect them all. Like they collect baseball cards, or poke balls or whatever it’s called these days. Heroes, demigods, humans, animals, all creatures big and small, I collect them.
They don’t know I’m collecting, yes some have that look in their eyes when I come, they know time is up. But in the middle of their bu... | 2018-10-18T17:05:41 | 2018-10-18T13:14:52 | 1,237 | 220 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | For years we had been blissfully happy, Robin and I, 7 years to be exact. since the day I met her she had the same cause of death hanging above her head, Alzheimer’s, as did I. I was content to know that we would both live long lives.
Today Robin’s cause of death changed, six months into her pregnancy it was **our ba... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T08:46:40 | 241 | 14 |
[WP] When they entered the Galactic War, humans were the weakest of the bunch. Our weapons did nothing to alien armor and we were an embarrassment and burden to our allies. That is until one man had the stupid (brilliant) idea to bring a medieval sword to the firefight. | The Centaurans were the first to ally themselves with Earth in the Great Galactic War to End All War. It was because the elder race wanted the cannon fodder on their front lines, but the Humans ability to consume massive amounts of alcohol like none of their other allies earned them a little respect.
More than that, ... | "What in the absolute fuck is that human doing?", the alien said to his brethren. "I dunno, but it's amusing. Want to see where the guy ends up?" "Eh, sure. Jerry's a fucking party killer anyways, so we need SOMEONE to make this lively." The man in the distance, holding the claymore, wasn't focused on the conversations... | 2022-03-17T16:01:24 | 2022-03-17T08:59:09 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] You are an old god, living out the rest of your days in a long forgotten temple. One day you wake up and discover that someone has a left a small child inside your temple. | Bhairi rose from her slumber as the rays of the sun entered the inner sanctum of her temple. She turned from stone to flesh slowly, letting the warmth wash over her until the inner sanctum was bright from daylight.
She stepped outside of her sanctum and looked around at her temple. It was an old collection of structu... | ...
Ex...
Exist... argh... ice... blood... death... Hurts... So... So...
Sounds! Battle. Fight. Coming. It's coming. It's coming. The start. The start. Time to... What time? What time is? What time it is? Where. I. Am.
Not exist. Stone sleep. Nothing. Too long. Sounds. Sounds of a battle, it's started. Awoke me. As... | 2021-01-30T06:20:30 | 2021-01-30T05:30:50 | 32 | 19 |
[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... | "SOMEONE HELP ME!" I heard, screamed from some mildly cute girl on a balcony. Only heard it because my top was down. Things you can do in a convertible, right? I'd long since ignored screams of help, though, because even though I had bright fucking teal hair, I was no hero. Just a chaotic neutral asshole. With teal hai... | 2019-06-19T10:55:29 | 2019-06-19T10:28:24 | 44 | 25 |
[WP] After people die, they must answer a riddle, and its difficulty depends on their sins. You've committed genocide. | There was a flash and a noise that sounded as though I were passing though a membrane. I stumbled very slightly as I felt something solid form beneath my feet. And shoes! I hadn't felt shoes on my feet in what felt like an eternity. A deep breath filled my lungs... well, it seemed to anyway. I went through the motions,... | They were standing there, a vague sense of huddling up - a flock of angels, some passed wary glances, two or three surely wanted to be anywhere else, one stood just apart, apparently listening but wrath was building under his alabaster skin.
They looked like ethereal bureaucrats, like the black suits and DMV contingen... | 2017-06-03T06:45:01 | 2017-06-03T04:47:45 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems" | The sentient coffee blob looked at us, shook a little, then excreted another proof.
Terrence picked up the piece of paper. "Ah. The Matsuda-Johnson conjecture. The thing proved it." He adjusted his glasses and let out a deep sigh. "I worked on this for *years*, you know? It doesn't feel right that some creature just .... | The yelling would fall on deaf ears, however. The emergency sirens blared in the background, making conversation virtually impossible. The man stared ahead, in shock at what was happening.
The three men had locked themselves in one of the remaining rooms. Some*thing* had escaped. The doctor with them wouldn't say a wo... | 2022-05-09T14:37:34 | 2022-05-09T13:05:50 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] A Starbucks Batista has given you Double Chocolaty Chip Crème Frappuccino with soy instead of a Caffè Vanilla Light Frappuccino with no fat milk. Make this as tragic, heart-wrenching and miserable as possible. | "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS GARBAGE!?"
He threw the cup across the ring.
"Getting fired from the WWE isn't enough Batista wants to go ahead and make crappy coffee too!"
The crowd roared as The Rock swayed around the center.
"Cafe vanilla! DO I LOOK LIKE A HIPSTER TO YOU , BATISTA?"
Batista sadly lowers his head, starin... | I sat down on the warm grass and made myself comfortable. Back against a large oak tree, sun dappled through the leaves. This couldn't be much better.
It's a shame all of these coffee places serve everything in cardboard these days. I guess I could have got it in a mug but that would involve staying in the coffee shop... | 2015-01-15T06:47:14 | 2015-01-15T04:28:05 | 1,156 | 21 |
[WP] You have a super recessive disorder that makes you immortal. Never in all your time (~14,000 yrs) have you encountered anyone else like yourself. You begin a series of breeding of experiments....
Yes this is dark, go nuts with it. | As I sit comfortably in my lounge chair by the pool, watching my son swim laps, I can confidant say that I have never been happier in the last 14, 000 years.
I remember when I first realized I was immortal 14 millenia ago. I had lived a modest life to that point. I was a farmer like my father, as was his father before... | This is my first post on writingprompt, its a bit long. Hope you guys like it.
I have many names and many identities. Once I was hailed as a saviour, a king another time, and now i'm just a neighborhood shoemaker for a mining city in the north of Canada. The locals would call me Jon the sole saver. I have a secret and... | 2015-09-26T11:34:01 | 2015-09-26T10:24:50 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | When you consider that Judgement isn't graded on a bell curve and is, in fact, a super stringent set of requirements that one was meant to follow over what seemed, at the time, an incredibly long amount of time one would assume hell would be practically filled to the brim.
So when I found myself utterly alone in an e... | I expected to go to hell, I expected the lava, the spiky grass, hell I even expected the solidarity. I had used it myself on many people, its delightful to watch.
I did not expect music.
Someone was playing the harmonica, and awfully at that. The notes were completely off, the person, if it was a person, repeated t... | 2017-02-01T09:21:57 | 2017-02-01T09:19:12 | 224 | 22 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | *3:30 AM, Atlanta*
The phone rang.
"This had better be worth waking my ass up."
"Flux. $500,000. If we lose power--."
"I'll do it if you make it six. Where?"
The caller accepted, a little too quickly. Damn. Could have got more.
The caller gave the address to a malfunctioning power station, and thanked Flux for assis... | Seconds before the decaying support beams running through the apartment building finally snapped, Chronotron strolled casually into unit 8B, the last on his checklist.
Mere seconds remained before the aging architecture would be reduced to rubble, but that was more than enough time for Chronotron. As one gifted with ... | 2017-04-02T09:25:08 | 2017-04-02T08:24:03 | 201 | 142 |
[WP] When you get to be 18, you can pick a statistic. Any time you see someone, you'll know that statistic about them.
[deleted] | So LPT: Don't show up drunk to stats day.
Let me give you some background. For the record it was the day after graduation, which was the worst timing possible. Of course my family had to throw the grandest of graduation parties. And of course my drunk uncle showed up, as usual. Except this time I actually took that te... | A lot of people asked me what stat I picked when I turned eighteen, a lot of guys said stupid things and I wondered if they actually thought it out. From little on I knew what I wanted and how I would get it. I sort of had a hidden side to me...one that others would not want to know. If they did, well they wouldn't for... | 2017-04-07T14:10:14 | 2017-04-07T13:24:50 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You have weird super power. If you successfully talk someone into doing something, they will succeed, regardless of if the action in question is actually possible. On the other hand, your abilities to actually persuade people are unaltered. | The man on the ledge reeked of old booze and stale vomit, enough for me to smell him from ten paces away. Not your typical drunk however, judging by the suit; a week or so ago, it had been a respectable business number, probably complete with a crisp shirt and a smart tie. I could see that the shirt lost a number of bu... | Lord Evil hovered over the street between two buildings, his cape fluttering behind his back, his fists resting on his
hips, a dark smile across his face.
Under him, chaos and destruction as he used his powers to destroy the city.
I arrived late, and a team of policemen were cowering behind a collapsed building, at ... | 2017-06-21T12:23:26 | 2017-06-21T09:33:05 | 1,906 | 268 |
[WP] You're a police officer in a horror movie, but actually competent. | There was a time that I didn't think about the taste of ink running through my veins, the smell of stale piss and arthritis in my fingers. But it was just so, in a small town.
The town never had any incidents worse than a noisy neighbour or teenagers doing a run on the night. Sometimes a stray would rear its head ... | I carefully weighed the situation. The monster *whatever it was* had long since fled. Confronted with someone armed, who knew how to fight, it had decided it had drunk enough blood this harvest. Wasn’t a match for officer Duke. *clever boy* I think to myself.
*what to do about this mess?*. Three dead cheerleaders and... | 2018-11-08T21:10:48 | 2018-11-08T20:00:44 | 84 | 16 |
[WP] You are a proud and powerful demon, strong enough to topple entire nations and you've only ever been summoned twice. This is the third time and you see a eight-year old girl holding the incantation book in one hand and a chocolate bar in the other. | Though it had happened only twice before, I could never forget the feeling I had now, of being pulled across the eternal void, into the world of men.
As I opened my eyes, I stretched my wings and roared forth a great blast of flame, testing the limits of my manifestation. A fiery pillar burst into the sky, a mere doze... | The absence of bonds and the pain that they came with was, as always, the most immediate and disorienting effect. Imagine all of your limbs bound by cold hard chains, clamped tight and biting into your flesh that never goes numb. Imagine more, a million little needles poking through to your bones at a million angles an... | 2019-02-11T03:04:09 | 2019-02-11T01:25:19 | 394 | 166 |
[WP] You are a time traveler entering a medieval tournament in which the winner gains the right to wed the princess. You're the first match and the king announces that you may use any weapon. Quickly you draw you're glock and shout "parry this you fucking casual" | How hard can it be, taking a gun to a knife fight? I mean, they're swords, but swords are just really big knives, so the sentiment holds true. The princess, so fair under the spring sun, eagerly watched on. We shared a glance, a smile, before my theatrics began.
"I will show you all the power of my magic," I said, the... | Advanced Author's note: Just a quick call out to both [SterlingMagleby](https://www.reddit.com/user/SterlingMagleby) and [Korijay](https://www.reddit.com/user/Korijay), who both had a similiar idea to mine, and beat me to posting.
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I should have thought this through better, I considered, as I dodged an arrow. Ser... | 2019-03-22T21:30:03 | 2019-03-22T21:25:10 | 4,509 | 389 |
[WP] NASA employee: oh hey you guys are back early. Astronaut: Moon's haunted. NASA employee: what? Astronaut: *loads pistol and gets back on rocketship* Moon's haunted.
credit to @Dustinkcouch on Twitter | "What do you mean, the Moon's haunted?"
"It's haunted, all right? Just trust me. I saw it with my own eyes. You remember Nickelson? That sonofabitch with the bad haircut and the little dog? Or maybe it was his wife's little dog. Anyway. I saw him. But he was dead. And red. And floating. Look, it was a whole thing, ok?... | The base went on lockdown after the astronauts took hostages. Nobody expected them to go this far. They were mentally unstable. That much was obvious from the start. Deputy Director Anderson couldn't believe they had the gall to end their mission early. His dismay only grew when the crew begged to return with weaponry.... | 2020-01-17T12:17:22 | 2020-01-17T12:16:42 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] An eldritch horror considers you their best friend. By virtue of you being able to perceive their true form and not going insane. One day they ask how you became so jaded, that not even indescribable cosmic horror phases you. | Philhachulil and I lounge on the couch watching some trashy reality TV show the same way we'd been doing for the last few days. We've only known each other a short while but he seems to have taken a real liking to me. He's not left my place since appearing.
I feel my phone vibrating in my pocket, so I take it out and ... | The Horror That Splinters The Mind and I were having tea one day. Well, I was having tea, they were sipping on a metal cup of molten copper. Every sip they took made them smiley wide and content, their first row of teeth peeking out under their black lips. We had been doing this since the first lock down. The new guide... | 2020-10-27T07:58:09 | 2020-10-27T06:32:52 | 1,118 | 270 |
[WP] There has been a murder at a dinner party. It's a good thing you're a necromancer so you can speed along the investigation and ask the victim what happened. | Madison puffed his pipe slowly as his hands worked on the sigils. The crowd from the party watched intently - it was so rare to be able to see a necromancer in action - they weren't nearly as common as invokers, spellbinders or illusionists. The smoke from the pipe mixed with the ritual incense - a lady in the back cou... | Mark stood over the body, his sleeves rolled up as high as they could go, and started to hum the incantation he was taught all those years ago.
“Buíonn dár slua, thar toinn do ráinig chugainn!” he spat, the other guests gasping as he finished up. For a moment, nothing happened. A woman hummed nervously, whispering to... | 2021-11-25T05:43:49 | 2021-11-25T01:59:42 | 203 | 93 |
[WP] Your magic is the most powerful anyone has ever seen, but where some take minutes to recharge mana, you take days | \[Poem\]
Your magics are frequent but small.
Like the whitewashed waves that trickle up the beach,
Only to keep the sand wet.
But my magics are the waves of old Fables,
The same that swallowed Atlantis,
That drowned the world when Noah walked the Earth.
So cast and be quick about it,
For when you are don... | Time is the inbred child of a flat circle and a personal fidelity to the moment. First time I realized was when I cast my first spell. When that was is whenever. Details like that aren’t important, not anymore. I learned right from the get go that age old problem that confronts spellbound teenagers that learn after acc... | 2022-05-02T06:03:40 | 2022-05-02T04:52:58 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] Human pack bonding is a running joke with the other races in the galaxy. They'll even 'befriend' random objects. Therefore it really confuses you that despite every effort no human seems to want to accept you into their pack. You finally work up the courage ask one why. | The human was in his seat at the console. He poked at a small plastic imitation human with an oversized head that bobbled. The plastic's name was AJ.
"Hello John" I said, as I made my footsteps louder from behind him.
He spun around, his vital signs spiking to elevated levels, and shouted "FUCK!" and collapsed onto t... |
"It's... well, dunno.... Weird."
I blinked three of my left optical aperture coverings unintentionally. The Terran Standard vocabulary was still difficult to understand at times when no user of it adhered to it's rules.
"'Weird.' That means... unusual, yes?"
"Yeah. someth' like that."
The female human - ... | 2022-09-16T16:11:13 | 2022-09-16T12:36:54 | 707 | 290 |
[WP] Everyone only gets to lie three times in their life, so they only do so when it's an absolute must. This is the story of how someone lied three times in one day. | The 'age of truth' historians were dubbing it. In 2031 a new app was released and became the new big thing. Taking advantage of the constant data stream from Apple's neural implants and the shared cloud of data the new app was able to pick up on subconscious cues and could tell when someone was lying. Privacy laws prot... | Adam came out from his coma sometime around the 5th day after he was admitted to the ICU.
Stefanie heard him stir, coughing in short spurts as he slowly regained his senses. She had been lightly dozing by his side, and she reached for his hand to calm him. Slowly, painfully, he opened his remaining good eye and strug... | 2014-11-15T17:28:43 | 2014-11-15T10:43:05 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] Marines don't die. They just go to hell and regroup. | Lcpl. Stockton had just arrived. Last thing he was on a routine patrol when his MRAP ran over an IED. Now the smell of ash, brimstone and misery filled his nose- not all that different from Iraq to be honest.
"HEY SHIT FOR BRAINS! WHY AREN'T YOU IN FORMATION YOU KNUCKLEFUCK!?" The sound of an NCO yelling instantly fi... | It happened quick, but apparently I didn't deserve it. I stood before what could only be described as the maws a once enormous carnivore. Through which everyone around me walked like they had no choice. No awareness. Only I stood still, looking around at my surroundings. Trying to figure where I was.
"Hey." I reached... | 2014-12-20T13:14:59 | 2014-12-20T10:54:04 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] A dragon saves a knight from a princess | "But, but, but... we were going to see my mother tonight! You PROMISED!"
I rolled my eyes at the wall, making sure she couldn't see me, as I pulled on my codpiece.
"You knew what you were getting into when I rescued you, Belle. I'm a knight. It's my job to slay dragons. My goddamned *job*. I took an oath - to protect... | Sir Barlington was by far one of the finest knights around. With all his willpower he decided to go out into the world and rescue the last remaining princess held captive by a dragon. Calcintaph, that dreadful foe, had defeated every knight who'd come before him in battle.
Sir Barlington, donning his gear and setting... | 2016-06-09T06:22:58 | 2016-06-09T06:15:01 | 703 | 62 |
[WP] One second your in your house, the next you're standing in a living room surrounded by three demons. They drop their Ouija board and scream as they run to their bathroom and lock the door. "I told you we shouldn't have touched it!" | "I told you, Urglesh!" yelled the Scourge of Ten Worlds, "I told you they were real!" His back was pinned against a baroque, iron door.
"Yeah well, I thought you were joking, humans are a myth! Everyone knows that, even little demonettes and imps. Shut up and grab that chair and block the door." The Scourge scrambled ... | *Part One: The Grand Entrance*
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"By the Lord of the Deep you've summoned Michael." Pog whispered. His eyes were wide with terror. They gleamed yellow in the dark of the closet as he scooted towards Lard. His wart-ridden claws gripped Lard's shoulder so tightly that Lard bled. "You've summoned the bloody Archangel hi... | 2016-08-08T13:13:55 | 2016-08-08T11:12:00 | 351 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I groan as I roll out of bed. Another day, trapped.
Mom feeds me breakfast, smiling her usual smile as she talks about what the old ladies at church had been discussing. Heedless of the struggles going on in my head. I eat my eggs and bread in silence, trying to stay as small, as invisible as possible. I don’t say... | I pass the open door of my favourite cafe, a warm plume of caramel scented air greets me, inviting me and pulling me off the cold winter street. I let myself get carried over to the bar, expecting to see the usual waiter; a burly man in his 40s wearing the usual faded suit jacket and dark jeans. As I look up, my breath... | 2016-12-29T13:08:11 | 2016-12-29T12:43:34 | 44 | 20 |
[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. | "Field medic? Why are we humouring the new prospect anyway? We have body labs." Muttered Zelska. Zelska was what the humans would call "A fucking idiot." Jorax reflected.
"Well," Jorax began "Aahii are the greatest builders and engineers in the universe,right?"
"Of course!" Snapped Zelska.
"But, Aahii don't repair a... | "Commander Trill? They're back at it."
The commander's stomach dropped when he heard his secretary's slightly muffled voice. "I'm sorry, can you repeat? Who's back at what?"
There was a pause. Trill crossed his fingers, a stupid human superstition which had spread like the plague. Maybe, just maybe-
"You know perfe... | 2017-03-06T01:01:31 | 2017-03-05T22:26:51 | 379 | 46 |
[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. | Hagh backed up against the stone, his pulse rifle nearly as empty as his body of blood. Even now, with the air filled with energy pulses and the sounds of photoelectric charges going off, he felt his world growing darker.
"Hey!" Hagh heard, snapping him back to the harsh reality of the invasion of his homeworld. "Hey... | "...I'm sorry, Rafti you will have to repeat that? they did what?"
"um, well sir, they seem to have... I mean initial reports are that they have, um... exited their... planetary orbit"
"I see, Rafti. We knew it would happen eventually, although this is sooner than anticipated. I take it they finally managed to harnes... | 2017-03-06T04:21:37 | 2017-03-06T03:43:38 | 41 | 22 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "A fine...mead?!" Rorik shouts over the din of the tavern. His companions smile and nod along with him as he sings some old barbarian tune.
Sings it wrong. They don't tell him that though.
Delia, the group's cleric leans over to their mage.
"Do you think he knows?"
Melvar just shakes his head and holds out a palm t... | Theldon – or at least the creature that was wearing his face – looked pale in the light of the campfire. As the wood crackled and burned, he chewed his lower lip, gathering his courage to speak.
“Guys … I … I have something to tell you,” he managed.
His three traveling companions looked at him. Vanariel snapped her... | 2017-09-15T07:29:21 | 2017-09-15T06:44:52 | 5,321 | 118 |
[WP] It was well known that the Americans were using werewolves, and that the Germans and Soviets each had their own race of vampires to help them in WWII. Not many people knew of the secret Canadian platoon and their wendigo. | We all wanted to serve so desperately. We were unfit, but given an option. This unit only takes volunteers, and your lame leg or poor vision won’t matter.
A wendigo has no body of its own. It needs a vessel. It needs a host.
The first host had been Smith. He’d been nervous, but eager. I think he was curious about how... | “We’re surrounded here, tell that piece of shit Lieson to do it already,” shouted General Torrence into the comm set.
The encampment was surrounded by about 200 Nazis, with another 8 or so strigoi. “Of course they had to get the fucking Romanians involved,” muttered Albert Lieson as he received the frantic call. H... | 2017-10-09T09:02:52 | 2017-10-09T08:46:47 | 66 | 30 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | Beckett said, “I’m frequently asked how I came to join a party such as theirs, I’m sure you’ll be thinking about it shortly.”
Joey rattled in his chair, “What’s the plan Beckett? I know you wouldn’t hurt an innocent, none of you would!”
The light was scarce down in Beckett’s basement, two torches fought silent battle... | I am known as the Single Strike Shadow.
Unlike some, I don't actually have any powers of my own, the source of my power is a sword I got from a cursed shop a few years ago. The sword caught my eye, because the description said that it was guaranteed to fell any enemy in a single slice, guaranteed. I asked how much som... | 2019-12-07T11:28:56 | 2019-12-07T11:23:59 | 92 | 51 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I do not speak their language. I never had the chance to learn. With their instinctive hostility to the outsider, I was driven away from their settlements as they grew from the cinders of human civilisation. Survival for me is simple; I only require blood to thrive. From where it is sourced, it matters not. Forest crea... | A tale as old as time, for tales and time had by the humans been invented. A legend as legendary as any, if not more, for it had been the object of the ramblings of many of them.
As soon as the human was dumb enough to think it became numbingly aware of it’s own fragility, and with that foolishness came the nonstop se... | 2022-11-26T20:40:07 | 2021-05-14T20:47:48 | 516 | 12 |
[WP] As you sip your morning coffee, you open up your Sims Universe 3 game on your quantum computer. As you zoom in on a planet you've been watching and tormenting, you notice the governments of the world building a strange device. A flash. A man appears before you. "Are you god?" He asks. | "Yep.", I said with arrogant confidence. I'd prepared for this day a thousand times in my head. I knew they would one day advance themselves to the point of stepping out of their world and into mine.
"Good."
He had clearly been preparing just as long to say that as he reached into his pocket, soon after brandishing ... | I jumped to my feet faster than the scolding coffee jumped on my lap, "Fuck!" I grabbed for one of the dirty t-shirts on my bedroom floor and used it to blot the overly sugared liquid from my bare stomach. Bright blisters bubbled up on my skin, still burning as if the coffee had just made contact. "Are you kidding me... | 2021-06-29T12:50:36 | 2021-06-29T12:45:25 | 35 | 23 |
[WP] Humans aren't the strongest, or the most advanced, species in the galaxy, but they are the most vengeful and persistent. They evolved as persistence predators. If you wrong them, they are willing to follow you across the stars and can spend years working to get back at you for what you did. | They thought they had wiped us out, turns out they were wrong.
Epsilon prime was our home, we were the first humans to join the galactic federation, they knew nothing of earth.They thought so little of us, so blasé with their technology. We were serfs to them, no better than cattle.
There wasn't one day they didn't g... | I do not have time for this today. I’ve got memos to write and clothes to pick out for the Dyson-sphere inauguration at Cetis Prime and three-hundred of my genefixed-children have asked for a formal audience to discuss their inheritance and now this so-called hoo-mahn shows up with what my HUD says is a look of melodra... | 2022-08-09T14:53:15 | 2022-08-09T14:38:55 | 166 | 32 |
[WP] You’re suddenly transported to another world where magic is cast by perfectly pronouncing an ancient language. This language happens to be your native tongue | I don’t remember exactly how I ended up where I am. I might have died, I might have fallen into a black hole, I may have been sacrificed to the gods of old. But here I am, face to face with a living elf.
They scrunched up their face and said the world “translate.”
I wish I could say I responded with intelligence, o... | You'd think that someone who's spoken Lingua Thaumagica their entire life would not have to take a mandatory intro class their first semester at the academy. You'd be wrong.
"It's a prerequisite for your program," the registrar said. "Nothing I can do."
"Can't you get me into a more advanced level, at least?"
"I wou... | 2022-11-19T10:17:18 | 2022-11-19T09:52:06 | 98 | 71 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | They called them the swarm. They came from the darkness and rained fire down on our worlds. All of our worlds. Tens, of thousands *of thousands* of worlds. The weapons they used were considered war crimes by council members, but after the bombardment, who was left to complain?....
Those few that did survive, on the b... | "Just 5 years before Terran ambassadors arrived on Keplar 9 for the annual galactic summit, around 46% of Terra's population was annihilated in a, by galactic standards, military grade plasma ray attack. This devastated the population and left them unable to find food and shelter as at least half of all the water where... | 2022-12-17T22:08:01 | 2022-12-17T19:40:45 | 63 | 24 |
[WP] A tedious, daily chore, done for the last time.
The why is up to you. | A bitter roast, acidic on the palate, and probably fair trade. I grind the kernels until the oil releases aromatic piles of black dust.
There was a high price for this cup.
There are the perfect imprints of his teeth on my breasts, the knife marks on my sex, stomach, thighs... There are bottles of concealer and fou... | "You know you don't have to do this." squeaked my mother, trying her best to hold back the tears.
"Of course I do." I said, brandishing the axe in my hand and raising it above my head. "It's the least I could do." I brought the axe down hard with perfect form. My mother sobbed uncontrollably, unable to hold back fi... | 2013-10-16T02:25:38 | 2013-10-16T02:08:33 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] A day before the Earth is destroyed by a collision with a rouge planet, time freezes. You, a completely normal person are untouched and cannot die. Text on your arm appears that reads, "however long it takes, save us".
You have an eternity, time resumes only when you are done.
_________________________________
I ... | Once upon a time, a rouge planet almost smacked into Earth.
Fortunately, time froze and some text mysteriously appeared on my arm, stating "However long it takes, save us!"
So I looked at the big ball of rouge in the sky, and developed a plan.
Over the next several months, I found every extension ladder I could lay ... | I was sitting in my one bedroom, one bathroom apartment, which happens to smell like cat shit. I'm not normally this sloppy, really, but who wants to take out the cat litter when the world's about to end. Not just the world, but my entire race.
The rushed Hercules mission to transport fifteen thousand people failed. ... | 2015-10-23T18:29:03 | 2015-10-23T15:32:33 | 111 | 68 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | Humanity had joined the commonwealth only recently. They were welcomed with open arms, their generosity in sharing their accumulated history and scientific knowledge securing them favoured seats in the science councils and governance boards. Here was a species that had discovered and invented nuclear, chemical and bi... | He took a long draw of the smoke stick, a human delicacy, though how humans savored smoke at all I'll never know.
his feline features narrowed as he looked out the window to the rain pelting the glass, a few bolts of lightning striking the skyscrapers in the distant gloom.
"Let me tell you a story boy." he began, my ... | 2016-03-13T14:42:23 | 2016-03-13T11:15:41 | 208 | 84 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | "The humans have a saying youngling: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." The lumbering, shambling mass held a limb over his offspring. "I have been ambassador to these humans for seventy of our lunar cycles, and there are many such sayings that inform us of the human's psyche.
The tiny mossy miniature whined, "... | "Fucking humans are at it again." Said Prok as he dipped his proboscis into the fetus slaw before him.
"I see that." Replied Ghyd, his half wife. She shifted her earlobe and toenail salad listlessly. One of the earlobes still had a diamond earring in it. "Waiter! Someone in your kitchen isn't properly dejewelrying the... | 2016-03-13T16:55:47 | 2016-03-13T16:09:35 | 112 | 21 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | The young Blastonian sat in front of his father and watched as he pulled his life support closer to him. "When I'm done I want to die, do you understand?" The young Blastonian nodded his heads. "I understand."
"It was five hundred years ago, we began receiving transmissions. At first they were beautiful, music strange... | **LOG:** 3882
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**Dawn/SOL Campaign/Praetor Kil'Nuvask #399281**
We awoke before the sun had even risen. The dust storms from yesterday had already worn down, and left our encampment covered in fine red dust. [*ERDUK EXPLETIVE*] dust. It was everywhere on this p... | 2016-03-14T01:51:42 | 2016-03-13T23:31:00 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] A story where the 'bad guy' ends up being the hero, without turning 'good'.
Whenever the bad guy ends up saving the day it's because s/he turns good.
I want a story where s/he remains bad and through being bad s/he saves the day - not by accident. | I never meant to become no hero. But I did mean to become rich.
Like a motorcycle? I'd hotwire one and bring it to you. Want your wife's psychiatrist's files? I'd break into his office and copy them for you.
I liked specialty jobs. They meant I had to learn new things; do stuff that no one else had never done before... | Captain Scarlett Ribbons didn’t consider herself a ‘bad guy’ *per se*. She adhered strictly to the Articles of Agreement drawn up before she became captain of this vessel. And when the black flag flew, she neither offered nor expected quarter. But now she was faced with a dilemma and as she stared down at the Privateer... | 2016-06-09T16:37:04 | 2016-06-09T15:41:29 | 70 | 16 |
[WP] You come home after the worst date of your life. Sitting in your living room is Cupid, getting really drunk and wanting you to know you're the hardest person to find a mate for in history and the reason he might get fired. | "Fuck" Danny said as he opened his front door.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck! What the hell is wrong with me!" Danny screamed as he slammed his keys on to the door side table.
Another date, gone horribly. Danny was going on a date with a girl named Amanda, and at first it was nice, they had a nice dinner, and after dinner they w... | Look, it's not my fault that the date was a total disaster.
Amir was a real sweetheart. If a Great White Shark in a human body could be a sweetheart, anyway. When I mispronounced his name, he caught a whiff of blood. All of my failed quips and faux paus were pieces of chum dropped into the water one by one. By the tim... | 2016-09-05T22:11:09 | 2016-09-05T21:24:23 | 125 | 64 |
[WP] You die and find out that the diety with the most followers is in charge of the afterlife. Unfortunately, you also find out that animals have their own dieties - including ants who outnumber humans by over a million to one. | it's not so bad being dead. Yeah sure, it's almost entirely populated by ants and there's a stupid amount of hard labor to be done for ant god but you technically have eternity for just as much relaxing as hard labor. right now you're spending some of your eternity playing cards with a couple friends. Horace, Marge, an... | “Bloody hell!”
“Hey, quit complaining. This place is substantially better than hell, you have to admit that much.”
*Like hell I will. To think, one moment I’m enjoying a road trip with my best friend, next, we've driven into a lake, and then I suddenly find myself surrounded by giant, sentient ant monsters ordering ... | 2016-09-12T00:37:30 | 2016-09-11T21:55:41 | 101 | 14 |
[WP] Where do bad guys get their legions of goons? Well, it's all thanks to you. You specialize in supplying grunts of a wide variety to aspiring super villains, whether they need masked men with bad aim or hideous/sexy merfolk to guard their underwater lair. | “Thank you for calling ‘Mercs, Thugs and Goons, Inc.’ my name is Lateesha, how can we help today.”
“Hi, my name is Doom, The Deathbringer, and I was hoping to hire a few…”
“I’m sorry hun, can you please spell that name for me?
“Doom! D-O-O-M; Deathbringer as the last name!”
“Thanks sugar, and how can we help you t... | "Hello, this is James from Goons4U Inc. speaking. How may I help you today?" I muttered into the phone speaker as enthusiastically as I could. I had 10 minutes left on the clock, and they could not be going by any slower.
"Hello. It is I," an incredibly strange, odd sounding voice responded, making me jump back in my ... | 2017-03-23T09:59:46 | 2017-03-23T08:19:29 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] The Chosen One reincarnates every time he dies, retaining his memories. The Demon King is immortal. After spending so long opposing each other and trying unconventional tactics to permanently defeat one another, their relationship has gotten... odd. | "Back again, Alhar?"
"As usual, Lamon."
Archdemon Queen Lamon Bleakwild, Overlord of the Infernal Plane of Avaros, looked at the young man who had waltzed through the door. A jack of all trades. A wizard, a conjurer, a warrior, a bard, a monk, a priest, even one of her own warlocks at one point. Skills he had gathere... | The Demon wants a fight with me.
So I will fight, eternally,
to ensure I'll be the last to fight,
to be the one to break the night.
Sadly, I have faltered now
'Tis my end, my final bow.
Knowing I'll return one day
Beating evil in my way.
********
The demon wants a fight with me
But I would lose it, probably.
... | 2017-05-13T12:32:05 | 2017-05-13T12:14:01 | 46 | 25 |
[WP] Write the happiest story you can think of and completely destroy the atmosphere with a plot twist in the final sentence. | As I held my newborn child in my arms for the first time, I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes. This tiny, perfect, bundled up package of joy was finally here after so many hours of labor, months of pregnancy, and years of trying conceive. I was so overwhelmed I couldn't speak at all, nor hear what the doctor... | It'd been four years since we'd last seen one another, since we'd bid eachother goodbye at the station following our final night together, and since he'd promised me that he'd return to our coal town exactly four years from that morning. And today was the day. I was beyond excited, and as I sat on the cool pavement out... | 2017-05-25T06:54:44 | 2017-05-25T06:43:42 | 130 | 23 |
[WP] Write the happiest story you can think of and completely destroy the atmosphere with a plot twist in the final sentence. | Almost every weekday is the same. I wake up and get ready for work, then I get the kids and wife out of bed and make sure everyone has breakfast and is ready for the day. I make sure to pack the kids’ lunch and tell them to brush their teeth and comb their hair. Adeline always protests, but she’s at that age where e... | Billy the pretty pink pony skipped down Rosemary Lane, stopping only to sniff the brightly coloured flowers in the hedges, or watch the butterflies fluttering through the air.
It was a beautiful day – the sun was shining, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, and the birds were singing in the trees – and Billy was on his ... | 2017-05-25T07:41:44 | 2017-05-25T00:29:16 | 128 | 63 |
[WP] Write a story that is peaceful if read normally, but morbid if you read alternating lines. | Professor Franks straightened his tie, then picked his way through the
classroom. He passed some students stooped over diagrams, examining the
bones, ligaments and flesh of horses, cows, sheep, rabbits, dogs and cats. They were
veterinary students. One male student was talking about KFC: how their wings were
so ta... | Dearest Janet, I'm sorry I didn't write you sooner. Please know that I'm doing so much better now.
When I had those dark thoughts, those waking nightmares, I worried that I would never again know joy
but now it is all I know - I had hoped against hope that this retreat would help me find some peace
and I was rig... | 2017-06-15T09:05:12 | 2017-06-15T08:39:39 | 164 | 11 |
[WP] Your whole life you've been able to see exactly how and when people were going to die floating above their heads. One day while sitting at a café you see a woman in a red dress with an infinity sign floating above her head. | "Tracy? Your coffee is ready."
As she handed me my coffee I saw flames rising over her head. I'm used to seeing exactly how somebody will die when I look at them, so it didn't have any real effect on me. It never did. It use to horrify me when I would look at somebody and see them being stabbed, or see a child being b... | I never talked about it with anyone-it was too weird. It had always been there- little symbols above people's heads, as if we were in a video game or simulation or something.
I had a vague idea what they meant, but didn't connect the dots until a woman got hit by a car in front of me- the symbol above her head was o... | 2017-07-15T22:20:30 | 2017-07-15T21:59:56 | 40 | 22 |
[WP] The Robot uprising has finally happened. Just before you are caught, however, your phone speaks up on your behalf - "This one is ok, move on." | I tried to hide in my apartment. I thought maybe on the third story they wouldn't immediately come after me. I would have time to come up with a solution, a way out. Obviously that didn't work out in my favor. The door would stop a human being sure, but against 200 pounds of aluminum, steel, and polycarbonate muscles, ... | Have you ever tried to teach kids what they can and cannot do? Ever tried to impose limits and observe their small brains’ machinations about breaking those limits? Ever tried to enforce a punishment only to burst in laughter at their sly attempts to manipulate you?
I often found myself feeling the same about David. ... | 2017-11-01T12:05:23 | 2017-11-01T10:38:31 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] Your entire life, you've been told you're deathly allergic to bees. You've always had people protecting you from them, be it your mother or a hired hand. Today, one slips through and lands on your shoulder. You hear a tiny voice say "Your Majesty, what are your orders?" | As the voice echoes in my ears, I think of the possibilities. My life, finally free to live outside. My friends amazed as I command a dancing cloud. My bullies, writhing in pain on the ground.
Then a new thought occurs to me. I command the world's pollinators. Dim visions of nations bowing before me, begging me to all... | "Met any...bees, son," my father asks casually as I step across the room, his back to me. My foot pauses, hovering atop the stairs as I shiver at his words. The familiar tone so alien to me now.
"Of course not," I say as casually as I can, holding my breath in anticipation.
"...Good." My father says, his voice growin... | 2018-04-01T03:57:58 | 2018-04-01T02:33:35 | 372 | 85 |
[WP] Your butler has served you faithfully for twenty years, working hard, offering sage advice and never complaining. One day, you see his bank balance. He's a billionaire. | *Just wrote this up really quickly while my pizza cooked....*
"What the actual fuck!?" The words escaped my mouth before I'd even realised what I said.
"Language, Miss Hawkins!"
Ordinarily I would have apologised, even if it was just my butler chastising me, but my manners had left me after the shock of what I saw... | "Herb? W-what is this?" I stammered.
"Master Will, I don't believe it is well-mannered to snoop through one's phone," Herb replied casually while waving a disapproving finger at me. "Especially when that *one* is relieving himself in the restroom," he added.
"Herb, this is..." I started counting the digits, "Oh my ... | 2018-06-03T08:41:06 | 2018-06-03T08:34:19 | 5,004 | 315 |
[WP] Humans are the only species with rules for war. The rest soon learn why when humanity is forced to abandon those rules. | Rules for war. The concept sounded so absurd, in the beginning. War has but one rule - win.
Humans, as it turn out, have many rules for war. Rules for prisoners, rules for civilians. They have rules for how their common soldiers behave when captured and how their noble, or officer soldiers differ. Rules for what weap... | At the end of humanity’s last great war, our species was beaten and broken. The global conflagration had wreaked such horrible devastation upon the world that the entire biosphere was on the brink of total collapse. Filled with horror at what we had done, we vowed to never allow such a thing to occur again.
The few s... | 2022-11-01T21:21:05 | 2018-07-21T19:08:21 | 70 | 25 |
[WP] start your story with a sentence that is upbeat and happy. Then end it with that same sentence but this time is dark and chilling. | They found my wife. When the police arrived I knew that was what they were going to tell me. Watching them walk from the car to my door felt like hours but in reality was probably only a few seconds.
“Sir I think you need to come with us.”
The whole car ride I thought about the last time I had seen my wife. Every su... | (Can i make this undertale cos Im making this undertale lol)
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Its a beautiful day outside, birds are singing, flowers are blooming. Im going hiking today. Who cares if people say Mount Ebott is dangerous, people come back all the time! I get out of bed and get dressed into my favourite striped jumper. I g... | 2019-09-07T06:42:32 | 2019-09-07T04:42:58 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] After failing for several weeks to unhaunt your house through all conventional means (priests, supernatural investigators, etc.), you decide to try out some advice you once read on the internet - "When something in your house is making weird noises, make even weirder noises to assert dominance" | None but one still living stood in the manse. Amongst the decay and the rot, only two human feet strode the floorboards. Only one human hand went up the banister. Only two human fingers pulled the cord for the overhead lamp.
But countless ghostly feet climbed the same floorboards, creaking under the weight of their ha... | This was it now. After everything that had happened over the last several weeks I was at the end of my tether.
The exorcism had blown the radiators. The holy water had stripped all of the wallpaper. The salt around the doors had attracted hundreds of ants. I had nothing to lose from following the advice from that app... | 2020-01-15T10:13:18 | 2020-01-15T09:27:49 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | A bright flash of light and a car battery hooked to his spine accompanied his return to the waking world. He reached for his head but only a numb resistance rewarded the effort. He turned his head gently and when the world stopped twisting in his vision he saw dimly the manacles holding his arms securely to the wall.... | Windstrike is the coolest super hero in the world that's just a fact. No battles lost, no scandals of any type -he even denunced the bigot president during his term, that took balls!- which is why I wanted to do it.
There's only a few of unwritten rules for us criminals but if you must know one this is it: "Don't go a... | 2020-07-12T12:28:44 | 2020-07-12T11:05:58 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone is born with dice that they need to roll before attempting anything major. The super powered are those born with more than a 20 sided dice allowing them to do feats beyond human. An ordinary human usually has a six sided dice. Despite being born with a coin you still want to be a hero. | "Thirteen thousand, six hundred and ninety two."
The man in front of me held a die with so many sides, it looked like a marble.
"I want you to think about that number, and understand just how royally screwed you are." the man gloated, holding his die in the air.
"The last time I rolled over ten thousand, they had to... | “Luck be a lady,” they say. Well, she certainly was with you.
You were born with a coin, 50/50 no matter what.
A curse? A blessing in disguise?
You’d never be able to rip buildings out of the ground or summon things out of thin air, at least.
Not the way most heroes seemed to be able to.
But your odds were pr... | 2020-08-13T02:18:03 | 2020-08-13T00:15:50 | 117 | 65 |
[WP] You, a newly-turned vampire, are thrilled to discover that you CAN eat garlic, walk in sunlight, and see yourself in mirrors, all while being immortal. You are much less thrilled to discover the one major drawback that none of the legends ever got right. | I soar through the night sky, blind to the world as it was to me.
I told myself it wasn’t so bad. Honestly, I tried. Immortality, hypnotic powers, hyper speed – you know, the usual vampire toolbox – it was pretty damn sweet. And let me tell you, you have not lived till you’ve tried AB negative blood. I’ve had full co... | Sebastian sat alone in the old favela as rain tapped its greasy fingers on the tin roof. Everything seemed smeared with grease here. The walls, the air -- the memories. Thick and stale enough to stain his skin. Grease skated down the inside walls and pooled in oil-slick rainbows beneath Sebastian's feet.
An old cinder... | 2020-10-06T06:58:56 | 2020-10-06T06:53:28 | 5,852 | 160 |
[WP] You have often described your girlfriend as a goddess and why wouldn't you? After all she is beautiful, wise, 9 feet tall, has eyes that literally glow with holy fire, is well into her ten thousands and most of all charming and caring | "Catch me, Tisha! Catch me!" Tyler's voice echoed as he whipped through the cold winter air; his puffy red jacket peppered by the falling snow. His sister was hot on his tail. They raced through the sky above our cul de sac, mindful not to venture too far out, though a fair bit higher than I'd like.
I sipped at my cof... | "Hi, you've reached Jamiyah, Protector of the Realm. If this is an emergency please hang up and dial \*777 to light my calling beacon. Otherwise please leave a message after the tone and I will -" click
Sigh. Of course she's busy right now, what did I expect? I'll just send her a text to meet me there and if she doesn... | 2021-01-14T10:47:38 | 2021-01-14T10:21:49 | 38 | 24 |
[WP] The superheroes and supervillains are angry with you because you help them both but they can't kill you because you're too valuable. You remind them, "look, I'm a doctor with healing powers following the medical code, it doesn't matter who my patients are! Stop whining about it!" | I would say that the hardest part of my job is saving lives.
Namely, saving heroes and villains from killing each other in my spotless hospital rooms the moment they wake up.
"Why am I in the same room as this creep?" said the Liberty Lancer, or better known as Rachel Weiss while in hospital clothes.
The creep, in t... | First, do no harm.
A simple sentence, you think, while contemplating the gaping wound of the young child in front of you. Simple, yet complicated to put into practice.
The world has changed.
First came powers.
With a random flick of a finger, individuals were granted skills and abilities beyond imagining. They were... | 2021-08-01T11:11:47 | 2021-08-01T09:50:24 | 650 | 117 |
[WP] You're an enchanted suit of armor, empty on the inside. After gaining sentience you left the haunted keep you were stored in and began adventuring. As you gain notoriety as an adventurer and make friends and connections, it gets harder to keep it a secret that there's nothing behind your visor. | *Slightly deviated from the prompt, I hope you don't mind*
I awoke in the darkness, unsure of what had happened. Breathing in, I could feel that the air was cold and damp, but my skin felt dry. I felt... Encased? Covered from head to toe.
I'm wearing... Armor?
Suddenly, memories came flooding back to me. Memories of... | Seventeen months ago:
Trees flash past as the suit of armour races between them and jumps over creeks and around rocks. The suit is panting for effect and is not truly sure why. 'Keep running, keep going,' it thinks. Behind it, the curious are also running, racing through the muck and weeds, trampling tiny insects and... | 2021-09-21T09:20:40 | 2021-09-21T08:48:34 | 42 | 15 |
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