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[WP] One day in class you decide to scream something in your head to catch mind readers. As you do, you see your crush flinch | There we were, math class again. Typical Friday afternoon waiting for the weekend. Everyone around me focused on the board while I sing to myself, waiting for someone else to answer the question as I chant 42 to myself.
Today's song just happens to be about a beautiful girl in class. My Sweet Caroline in fact. I feel ... | Her eyes, they moved me in such a way that made my heart skip. A joyful splendor rushing through my veins as she stared into the abyss.
Where did her eyes wander off to, when she stared off into nothing. Her lips pursed as she watched the black board with such intent.
The clock's ticking flooded my ears, with ... | 2017-11-13T19:47:06 | 2017-11-13T19:36:15 | 236 | 76 |
[WP] Night after night you see the same girl in your dreams. Dreams with her are strangely vivid and easy to remember. Sometimes she's your wife, or your girlfriend, or your maid, or the princess you're saving, or the evil alien queen, or a vampire hunting you down. You're starting to fall in love. | Some nights you're a doctor
Plastic stethoscope
Held firmly in your hand
Pressed against a patient's chest
The operating room is small
Painted pink
Some nights you're a princess
White dress straddling your hips ... | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/8m1a8d/wp_night_after_night_you_see_the_same_girl_in/dzkeyr5/) | [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Hydrael_Writes/comments/8m4cjm/dream_date_part_3/)
Tonight it was an alien I was saving her from. It looked like an octopus had a baby with a scorpion, and that ... | 2018-05-25T06:39:13 | 2018-05-25T06:23:00 | 751 | 475 |
[WP] You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries" | The sound of a display stand crashing to the ground snaps me out of my daydream
“Shit” I mutter under my breath as a can rolls under a shelf. I get down on my stomach, stretch my arms as far as they can but I’m still unable to grasp it. Suddenly the unit lifts up and I quickly snatch the tin. I stand up just as a man... | My whole life I’ve had this. . .thing. A gift, perhaps? I’ve always had the ability to know people’s names just by looking at them. It makes mundane tasks more fun when I turn it into a game; “how many people with the last name Smith will I walk by” or “who’s got the most unusual name I can find today”. And it makes fi... | 2018-11-05T21:26:20 | 2018-11-05T21:12:06 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] You have been in a coma for years, but the people around you worship you as a deity, leaving offerings and notes with wishes and prayers. You aren't a god- time simply stops any time you wake up, leaving you alone in a frozen world. You accept the offerings and do what you can to grant prayers. | I do not remember how I came to be.
The only thing I remember of my origins is falling asleep and waking up an era later. In a tomb at the summit of the tallest mountain in the world, overlooking civilisation.
The view changes every time I awake, frozen in time until slumber retakes me.
The first was of a bustling... | All around me — offerings upon offerings, wishes upon wishes, prayers upon prayers.
Hope upon hope.
It’s a scary thought, to be worshiped as if you had something to worship. It’s one that I have each time I wake up from my deepening sleep, struggling to reach the floor with my weakened limbs, falling asleep beneath... | 2020-12-28T08:45:15 | 2020-12-28T08:24:05 | 280 | 100 |
[WP] You're 34 years old with a wife and two kids when your School of Sorcery application was granted. You sent that application 20 years ago and told them you were no longer interested. They replied that refusal is not an option and that you will be taken in 48 hours. | Dear school of sorcery representative
I am 34 years old and perfectly capable of telling what and what I do not refuse.
If your kidnapping services are as swift as your respons to my application 20 years ago, I assume you made a typo and meant to say "you will be taken in 48 years", not hours.
If you however still... | Twenty years! Twenty fucking years and now they think it's a good time. I'm gonna tell you what. I can't fathom this shit! It's like they want to see you run up the walls. Why would they do this to me now? I have you now! And my kids!
Yes! I really wanted to learn how to brew magic drinks and potions and to curse your... | 2021-03-12T11:12:31 | 2021-03-12T10:57:15 | 2,416 | 43 |
[WP] As an immortal, one of the things you hate is visiting museums as almost everything people guess about history is wrong and you can't correct them. You have resorted to online forums and recently found a 'conspiracy theory' thread that seems suspiciously accurate. | Once you get to a certain age one gets bored easily. To break such back breaking boredom many immortals take to trolling the mortals for fun, it's been happening for centuries. I'm sure it's not hard to look into certain folklore hard enough and at least consider the idea that the origin must have been a prank that som... | "A true masterpiece, this painting..."
"You shouldn't disregard the vase next to it. A great artist made it in the Yin Dynasty..."
"And likewise this statue..."
With difficulty I restrained a sigh, forcing myself to put on a smile as one of the sponsors looked at me critically. Seconds after he turned his att... | 2022-07-14T12:14:44 | 2022-07-14T12:00:38 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] A shapeshifter befriends a lonely human multiple times throughout his or her life, but the human thinks it's a different person every time. One day the human realizes that all of his/her friends are really the same person. | "All of them?"
"... Yes"
"Jan, Christie, Jason, Tim, Mia?"
"I'm sorry."
"But.. how? Why?"
"I wish I knew."
"All of them? This whole time?"
"It's a lot to grasp, I know."
"Why?"
"You were lonely... and I guess I was too."
"I need to sit down."
"I'd understand if you never want to speak... | Doga lived by himself in the middle of the forest. He had lived there for many years for he had once killed a man when he was young. It had over a woman they both loved, and while they had danced in infatuation, she toyed with them and plucked at their honour like the chicken and the butcher. It was a choice between de... | 2014-08-15T10:44:35 | 2014-08-15T10:39:53 | 131 | 38 |
[WP] Frighten me without using any blood, gore or explicit violence. | The crowd was the largest ever to attend an such an event. Nearly everyone across the globe could not take their eyes away from their screens. The unthinkable had happened.
"Ladies and Gentleman, it is my honor and great privilege to introduce, the First First Lady of the White House, your new President of the United... | It started out as a conscious decision. At least, that's what I remember.
I just wanted to live a more relaxed life, without having to wonder about what's new in fashion or about the latest office gossip. I unscribed from my magazines, and no longer read the paper on my way to work.
Shortly thereafter it started. As... | 2014-11-18T11:31:11 | 2014-11-18T11:25:16 | 44 | 12 |
[WP] You are an assassin that hunts superheroes. You haven no powers yourself. | Every Achilles has his heel. Every Samson has his haircut. Every Superman his Kryptonite. You get the picture.
Remember Titanius? Of course you do. Among many other feats, he was the hero that killed that massive Kraken in Columbia City Harbor. He had unbreakable armored scales that covered his entire body, making hi... | Yeah yeah, I know it's a typo. I'm taking inspiration from it, go away.
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Havening powers is pretty difficult. It takes a lot of smarts, but those who do can are generally considered all-powerful. You see, everyone is born with a power or two. Now, these aren't big powers. Contrary to popular belief, those are not ... | 2015-11-13T07:28:28 | 2015-11-13T06:30:01 | 545 | 68 |
[WP] Choose an idiom (e.g. "stone-cold killer"). Write the story that caused the phrase to be used literally and therefore introduced it into the language.
Idioms can be from non-English languages also if they work well | In a land far away, there was a young prince that had a weakness.
No mater which plant they were from, seeds made him terribly ill, and for this illness no cure existed.
When this fact was discovered by the court doctors, his father, the king, sent out guards to burn all farms to the ground. No one was to use seeds ag... | There were once two rag-doll puppets who loved each other very much. One was a girl and the other was a boy. The boy was made of soft wool and the girl was made of fine linen. They never thought that they could be together, but somehow they came together. Their buttoned eyes would gleam in delight whenever they saw eac... | 2015-12-10T06:50:00 | 2015-12-10T00:16:19 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] It's halfway through 2017, and already it has proven to be one of the most uneventful years in recent memory. Not a single mass-shooting. Not a single attack, no mass die-offs or heat records broken. Slowly, people begin to realize that something is terribly wrong... | Elvin was whistling as he boarded the N-Train from Brooklyn to Manhattan. A few riders stared or rolled their eyes, but he simply smiled. Taking the nearest seat, Elvin nodded a greeting to the dour-faced woman beside him. Her face twitched and she grimaced, turning away. Elvin shrugged and opened up his copy of *The N... | I grew up in Cypress Creek, a few miles east of the Redwood Forest and just across the street from the Promenade. My father owned Hammock World for a while, a popular store with both locals and tourists until Hammocks ‘Я Us staged a hostile takeover and forced us out. Eventually, Dad went back to work at Globex Corpora... | 2016-07-15T16:16:48 | 2016-07-15T16:14:12 | 185 | 20 |
[WP] Never fall asleep with an empty seat facing towards you. You don't know what sits there whilst you sleep. | *The following pamphlet was found in a dumpster in San Francisco, California. Looking through public records, it was determined that no such establishment actually exists and the address stated on the pamphlet leads to an open grassland.*
...
Welcome to the Coastal Motel. We are committed to providing a relaxing an... | The windy sound that accompanies a deep intake of breath was the first thing I heard when I came to life. But, it was not my own. I looked around at my world, my world? The world I found myself in. This world.
What is this? I looked down and saw what I assume is my shape. My physicalness. Thin limbs. Long limbs. And a... | 2016-08-09T12:10:19 | 2016-08-09T11:47:12 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] A person awakes from a coma to find the world has become a Utopia. They've read enough literature to believe there must be something wrong with it. There isn't. | "My God!", I cried out as I woke with a start,
"The buildings are shiny, the walls decked with art,
The people I see are awash in their bliss -
So tell me, be honest, is something amiss?"
"Is the huge starving underclass hidden from view,
While the luxury here benefits just a few?
Did you all build the paradise ... | Her long brown hair cascaded down her back in thick waves, bouncing as she walked down the sidewalk in a flowery silk dress. Never in my life had I seen someone so beautiful; the second I saw her, I knew I needed to know her. Without thinking, I stepped into the street. A car honked and my head jerked to the left, seei... | 2017-03-17T13:46:03 | 2017-03-17T12:08:51 | 197 | 138 |
[WP] Five people wake up in a metal room with no windows and only one door. In the middle of the room is a revolver and a piece of paper. "One of you has to die. Kill this person, the door unlocks and the survivors win $1million. Each wrong person dead halves your prize. You have four bullets." | I woke up.
I didn't know where I was, but I soon realized my circumstances.
Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang.
Being raised against gambling and 23 years of math experience quickly led me to conclude that if I killed the other 4 one by one I could get out alive with at least $62,500.
Unfortunately, I forgot to account for... | I woke up in this dim room with a gun, a note, and a pounding headache. I grabbed the piece before anybody else came fully to; four bullets. Hmmm. I heard one the guys moaning as he came around. Looked like he had a nose bleed. I checked my own schnoze. Seems the five of us had had a good time. Too bad I didn't remembe... | 2017-10-30T21:24:32 | 2017-10-30T19:50:05 | 82 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity wipes itself out through nuclear war, but everything on the Internet still exists. Another sentient race on Earth millions of years into the future develops an Internet and somehow manages to gain access to the human Internet, revealing everything humanity had posted and stored online. | It was a big moment for all spiderkind. Our species had been working on uncovering the secrets of the Progenitors all over the globe, and some of our best researchers had finally cracked the secret of the ancient global communication system they called "the Web". The Progenitors had left a single Monolith in the desert... | The *Compendia Galactica* neared completion. It was the product of a millennium of tireless work amongst the allied species. Forging a union between the space faring races had been difficult, building the trust required to construct the *Compendia* had taken the best diplomats generations of careful negotiation. Ultima... | 2018-05-19T18:05:20 | 2018-05-19T17:46:16 | 2,294 | 1,491 |
[WP] Humanity wipes itself out through nuclear war, but everything on the Internet still exists. Another sentient race on Earth millions of years into the future develops an Internet and somehow manages to gain access to the human Internet, revealing everything humanity had posted and stored online. | The whispers of the ancients first sang to us a long time ago. Merely an accident at the time, we danced around the warmth of the sun, listening to the everbeing of the universe, when we heard new truths amidst their chaos.
It brought knowledge, carried on waves amidst the cosmic void. Through them, we learned of ha... | Three months, thirteen days and eleven hours of exposure to the rancid air of the surface world. Every minute, every hour bringing greater strain on the enviro\-suit; forever filtering the same bath of salt water I came with. But, I couldn’t bring myself to return home. So many trips I’ve made to the same access node, ... | 2018-05-19T21:57:29 | 2018-05-19T20:24:11 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | Joey walked into Subway with 5 dollars in his pocket. He meandered up to the counter and looked up as his friend Tiffany walked around from the back and said "Welcome to Subway!" without looking up.
"Hey Tiff, what's good?" said Joey
"Joey!" said Tiffany, "Not much, 10 minutes to close so day's almost over. What can ... | Psychologist, neurologist, whatever other brain doctors, I went to see a series of them after I had nearly drowned as a teen. I would tell them that often times I would get migraines and a number would pop in my head, it would stay stuck in my mind for a few seconds, sometimes minutes. The doctors couldn't find anythin... | 2018-11-17T20:16:10 | 2018-11-17T20:10:45 | 55 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone has magic and the magic they have is based off of their name. Society uses a small range of names because they know the magic that comes with it. Your parents decided to give you a very ancient name that does not have a record of its accompanying magic. | Words have power. It was one of those old world sayings, something to make you think about what you were putting out into the world. But long ago we learned we could literally harness that power, bind it to a person. That's when things started getting really crazy.
Governments started mandating what children would be... | My full first name is SpagetthiBeast Jeeves ShenronOurobourosTheDestroyer III-49th. My last name is Jones.
\--
Alright so let's sort my powers. My best power is SpaghettiBeast's Spaghetti\_Engage. I see the whole universe, or whatever, part of it I want. Then I go to an Infinite Void. Then some guy named Jeeves walks... | 2018-11-23T21:02:58 | 2018-11-23T20:26:08 | 63 | 10 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When I first regained my sight I saw the messages, "Don't tell them you can see".
I wondered who "them" might be. I'll be honest, my first thought was space aliens of some sort of monsters from a Stygian realm. I was terrified.
I carefully got out my cane and went about my business, often closing my eyes to make the ... | When I was younger, my mother told me that no matter what happens I needed to be strong. She told me that the world was a cruel place and my sister Kay needed protecting. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, this world was full of wonder and adventure. My thirst for adventure led me to the Army when I was eighteen. ... | 2019-08-26T10:33:57 | 2019-08-26T10:19:31 | 62 | 22 |
[WP] "You'll never rest", they said. "Eventually, you will come to hate your eternal curse", they warned. 6 billion years, 3 intergalactic voyages, and more planets than you can count later, and you're still skipping along, having the time of your life with your 'cursed' existence. | A restless wanderer on the Earth. That was what I was supposed to be. But when the moon landings happened and no heavenly retribution came, I thought I'd try to slip my leash. When humanity took to the stars, I followed them.
I traveled between planets, watched proudly as they tamed untold wildernesses and coaxed fort... | I guess you could call it my chamber of solitude. Thousands of archives and artifacts are devoted to simple pleasures, quiet and violent romances, and grand adventures to resurrect dying worlds. You haven't lived until you've saved ten solar systems by having sex with a squid-like empress who commands the star crusher.... | 2020-10-25T10:47:12 | 2020-10-25T10:37:57 | 942 | 208 |
[WP] Space piracy is just another legitimate and legal business as long as you have a license for it. You are trying to get yours but the paperwork is driving you crazy. | Arthur Boone, 22, presently sat in the waiting room of a certain Mr. Funkel, with an envelope full of documents resting neatly on his lap.
"Next," the dead voice of the computer shouted over the speakers as the number on the screen behind the desk flashed 77.
Arthur got up and smoothened his trousers. He buttoned his... | No one could tell her it wasn't a daring plan, at least.
Stupid? Maybe. Dangerous? Absolutely. But no one could ever call Lucy boring, timid, ever again.
The move of humanity to space was bound to result in piracy- a consequence that somehow no one foresaw. What was space other than a boundless ocean? Those who felt ... | 2021-07-11T05:16:01 | 2021-07-11T04:24:05 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] "And now, I require a test of bravery." You sneer, "Oh, and what shall it be? Slay a dragon? Or something equally stupid?" The Fae smiles knowingly, "When was the last time you visited home?" Your face pales... | "Home? Er... It has been a long time I'll admit. Why?"
"No reason. I was thinking it would be a good idea for you to visit your old "stomping grounds" as you folks call it. After all, I am sure your parents are worried about you..." She held up my private journal in her dainty left palm.
I froze. No matter how hard I... | "Another, *burp*, another round! For entire bar, you hear? On the Prince of Thyrese!"
The band picked up its tune, the crowd cheered, and the two maidens who had been competing for the prince's eye batted their lashes. Fifty mugs of ale were poured and fifty mugs of ales clinked to the beat of the song.
"Long li... | 2021-09-26T11:23:44 | 2021-09-26T11:02:11 | 374 | 51 |
[WP] The villain defeats the hero but the world turns out to be a better place because of his twisted views. | His prison wouldn't budge, not even with a hundred super-powered punches or close range lazer blasts. Its clear walls remained strong and intact, nothing as much as a smudge from the assault. The emotionless face of Alister's mask remained fixed on the prisoner.
"Even after that display, you still deny my logic?" The... | The body fell slowly. Later, people would say the visual itself was stunning: it was a man blocking the path of a tank, with only his body; it was a person jumping from dozens of floors up to flee a burning, collapsing building. They would say the entire speech--death knell to some, manifesto to others, salvation to mo... | 2014-02-06T17:17:25 | 2014-02-06T16:00:13 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] A young girl has two monsters in her life: her step-father, and the one under her bed. She manages to befriend the latter to deal with the former. | It was quiet in the house like it always was. Quiet enough for her laughter to carry through the house and wake him up. His eyes shot open and glared, bloodshot under a heavy brow.
"Son...of...a...bitch..." He muttered vehemently, his fingers clenching the blanket tight.
"Huh? Whuzzat?" Her mother groggily muttered... | I hear a soft, barely audible whimper above my head. She's a quiet one, normally. Her soft breathing is what I fall asleep to, her on the mattress, me below; her, blanketed in fleece, me the darkness. But every now and then, as of late, our ritual is interrupted by this, and her whimpers break the rhythm of slow steady... | 2015-01-23T11:04:32 | 2015-01-23T10:23:26 | 96 | 14 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | They what?
*They're punching us sir.*
Does... Does it hurt?
*No sir, it feels... wet.*
Jenkins you nasty bastard! Punch them back then.
*But si-*
Don't but sir me, just punch them.
*But they're soooo pudgeey!*
Man up Jenkins! We got a planet to save!
**- On the other side of the universe -**
*SOMEBODY CA... | “They took the water.” That is one of my favourite apocalypse stories, and I'm living it right now. We have heard the speculative tales of laser-wielding aliens, thermonuclear war, zombies or deadly diseases over and over again. I like “They took the water” better, probably because of its relative rarity and the whole... | 2015-04-16T10:20:20 | 2015-04-16T09:54:49 | 48 | 13 |
[WP] You are in possession of a necklace that will glow if you are about to make a bad mistake or decision. You have used this to your advantage to always make good choices, but one day you wake up and no matter what you do the necklace does not stop glowing. | It was always there.
The light constantly pierced my eyelids, granting me a permanent squint that made my coworkers suggest glasses. None of them could see it, the sun shaped medallion hanging around my neck. Its constant glow rivaled the sun, driving me almost to the point of insanity, before I made a discovery. T... | *Groan.*
Another work day, I lazily sat up on my bed, turning off my alarm. I picked up my necklace from the bedside table and dropped it into my briefcase. Won't want to forget this, especially today, I thought. I trudged to the toilet, beginning my daily morning ritual.
At least today is worth going to work for, I th... | 2015-05-26T05:21:15 | 2015-05-26T01:44:22 | 68 | 41 |
[WP] After years of gentile persuasion your best friend since childhood finally agrees to seek professional help for serious mental problems. Much to your dismay, as she begins to improve you slowly start to realize that you are her imaginary friend.
Edit: I see what I did wrong and I see what you did there ;) I'm lea... | "He keeps telling me there's something wrong with me. That I'm sick in the head or something."
"Well, how about we talk about your problems? Would you like something to drink?"
"A Coke would be nice."
"Sure. You want a snack with that? How about some pork rinds?"
"Oy gevalt!" | Anna gave a rough, barking laugh, strained around the edges, and waggled a manicured hand at the doc.
“You’re a character, shrink.” She plucked a strand of coloured hair, twirling it around her finger. “Go do a Broadway bit, your talents are wasted here.”
“I assure you,” the psychologist adjusted his glasses, “I am n... | 2015-11-17T05:55:31 | 2015-11-17T05:49:12 | 101 | 53 |
[WP] Someone shows up on your door to tell you that you're the chosen one they've waited their entire life for and they're here to train you. Which is awkward because the real chosen one died and you stole their identity, but you feel bad about it so you go with it. | *Knock knock knock.*
Wha... what? What time is it?
*Knock knock knock.*
4 AM? Who the hell is knocking at our front door at 4 AM?
*Knock knock knock knock.*
"I'm coming... Jesus."
I walk to the front door and open it without thinking, which probably isn't the smartest thing to do at 4 in the morning, but clear th... | “Damn it, Flour,” I yelled at the white cat blinking at me from the window perch. Her squeaky mouse toy nearly tripped me. *Lucky little fur-ball. It’s a good think I like cats.*
After two months, the dark, isolated farmhouse felt like home. Donny’s clothes fit well enough – the shoes were a half-size too small, bu... | 2016-07-18T11:07:39 | 2016-07-18T11:03:18 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone has a reaper. The further away it is, the longer you have left to live. Every day it inches a little bit closer, but it is always there. Except yours, which disappeared three weeks ago | So, it's been three weeks since I died. I know I know, everyone says I look a little rough, a little blood stained, head askew, all that nonsense.
I saw my reaper creeping up. He kept checking his watch and giving me this terrifying bony smile. I knew I needed to cross the road, everything looked clear. Just when I s... | I haven't written anything in a very very long time so please forgive any errors. Thanks!!
“Have you ever heard of that rumor, Paige?” Anna asked me, her deep blue eyes not leaving the outside scenery.
“What rumor?” I asked, already having a feeling I’d know what she was talking about.
Anna briefly looked at me wi... | 2016-11-23T11:03:32 | 2016-11-23T09:10:32 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Your wife is from another time and place, a waitress in a small Irish town from the 1900s. Every night she takes one of your video games and retells it into a grand epic to all the patrons. | It was my first time using the TymeX, I was taking everything in all at once. My interest got the best of me, I sat in the pub just people-watching for a good while before she came to the table.
“What’ll it be for ya then?” She said with a curious look on her face.
It was as if she could see through my disguise... ... | *Edit - RES Posted before I had edited/finished, so should be a touch punchier than those who read first time around*
"So Mary, tell us what's happened to Frank last night?" The heavyset cooper called from his stool. The question was echoed around McDaids and the buzz in the pub quietened. Indeed, the locals came here... | 2017-06-25T04:14:03 | 2017-06-25T03:43:38 | 29 | 10 |
[WP]You're the deadliest unit in the U.S's Army, but people get suspicious when you head shot 5 Taliban from behind a wall and yell "Get good."
Best way I can describe the idea is a COD:WAW mod menu that you can toggle. | I paused for a moment in the dimly lit hallway as the menu that I alone could see lit up beneath my hands. I quickly bypassed the main menus, arriving at a simple screen displaying a list of configurations. As I selected the "Legit" config, the world around me began to glow with boxes, lines, and mountains of text. I q... | Not exactly following the prompt, but I want to get this story out there anyways so I could continue at a later time. Any criticism would be appreciated, as this is the first time I've wrote on this sub, and the first time I've wrote a short story in a long time.
I back away slowly, dust blowing quickly away from the... | 2017-07-26T14:26:19 | 2017-07-26T12:45:03 | 87 | 34 |
[WP] You've gained the gift of necromancy, ability to raise armies of undead. But you're just a nice person and have no desire to take over the world | After the two unexpected visitors left my mansion, I closed my front door behind them. My roommate Mark was still in shock, with eyes wide and face flushed.
"Was that who I think it was?" he demanded.
"If you think it was a very nice man and woman from the Van Helsing Institute, then yes, you'd be correct."
Mark was... | Just another day, just another damned day in this... place. Day in day out, people just go from one place to another but they always just end up going nowhere in life. It's been about 3 months, 19 hours, 43 minutes and 11 seconds since this happened to me, this gift that curses those above and below. You might be wonde... | 2018-01-08T13:13:09 | 2018-01-08T12:52:16 | 122 | 10 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly willingly hosts monsters and demons in his bar. When terrorists kidnap his children they learn the hard way how close he is to them. | *"A terrorist they call you. A freedom fighter you label yourself. How... quaint."*
"Come out into the light, you coward or I will first kill you and then I will kill these kids"
 
*"Don't worry about the kids, they are already at home in their beds. This night will feel just like a rather weird dream to th... | "You call the police and we'll kill your kids, got it ?" Click.
Edgar put the smoke blackened phone down with a trembling hand. His babies, his Tara and little Vince kidnapped. What the Hell could he do ? He thought as he burst into tears. The terrorists didn't have to worry about him going to the police, the jackasse... | 2018-01-31T06:46:29 | 2018-01-31T06:04:29 | 233 | 59 |
[WP] You are tearing down an old abandoned home. In the attic, you find an old radio with a microphone attached. You plug it in. FDR says that the United States has been attacked by the Empire of Japan. You say, "hello?" FDR pauses mid-speech, and responds surprisingly, "Hello? Who is that?" | "Uh," I pause, thinking over the situation. "It's Paul. Who is this?"
A crackling sound follows for a few seconds before the man on the other side says, "This is Franklin Roosevelt. May I ask who exactly you are?"
I chuckle. What kind of stupid prank is this? Who could be doing this to me? I set down the radio, dis... | The walls within Partition 11 are beaten and bruised with the disease of age. Stains mar the thin walls separating the rooms in which I crouch, probably from broken pipes within their inner organs. My job here is simple; find any items of interest, marking them down for retrieval later. The area is devoid of people, ex... | 2018-02-05T15:10:34 | 2018-02-05T14:50:50 | 715 | 31 |
[WP] he stalks his targets. He knocks them out, and takes them to an unknown location. When they finally wake, whatever illness or injury they had has been surgically healed. No one has caught the Dr. Harmless. | "you have to do something!" A man in a white label coat was shouting at the police, it had been in the news everywhere. A dr. Named Dr. Harmless was going around curing everyone of illness and disease. He would come like a swift wind and suddenly the whole bus felt healthier, no sniffles or coughing,
I walked down th... | When I was a child, I used to believe that hot Apple juice was alcoholic. I saw that wine was made with grapes and stored in a cellar on TV once, and automatically assumed that all hot juice was alcoholic.
I remember my mother telling me that a drunk man tells no lies. He drinks from the fountain of truth and spews o... | 2018-09-06T19:36:01 | 2018-09-06T18:52:57 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | "...Okay."
That word brought Shaji's speech to a halt. To be truthful, the silence was more concerning than the explanation. To be fair I get why they might want to convince me.
I'm somewhat of a wanderer. And for better or worse, it's netted me some unfortunate nicknames. But that's probably because at the end of th... | "Mister Overlord, sir," I said as I bowed to the Dark Overlord himself. I didn't expect his presence. Not here. Not in the middle of the camp. Outside I could hear the leaves rustling in the evening wind. A dog snored peacefully, undisturbed by the entity that had materialized at the foot of my makeshift bed.
"Mister ... | 2019-09-26T06:23:09 | 2019-09-26T06:10:22 | 280 | 101 |
[WP] The royal advisor isn't sure why everyone thinks he is going to betray the king, perhaps it is the skull on top of his staff, maybe it is the ominous dark flowing robes or simply the way he laughs, regardless he decides to hire an advisor to help him act less suspiciously | He looked down at his seemingly flourescent new suit.
"Are, uhh... You sure?"
"Trust me darling you couldn't possibly be mistaken for a malicious wretch in this. It is simply fabulous!"
The team of three advisors looked him up and down, all nodding together in unison and excitement.
Raghul had always worn black and... | The kingdom would burn. Let it! Dana thought. He'd done all he could.
He sunk into the plush turquoise cushion and brought his coffee up to his nose. Deep breath, eyes closed, he soaked in the ambient, idle chatter of the little coffee house's patrons. No politics here. No diplomatic concerns. No talk of wars looming ... | 2019-12-20T06:50:28 | 2019-12-20T06:18:29 | 305 | 141 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | Worse, it was my name.
My teachers had always called me a narcissist. They said that no one would ever be good enough for me, except me. They said it would stunt my relationships. And my mom had said she felt sorry for the person who ended up with me.
I guess the person who ended up with me is me. The one I love...... | Your eyes stare down the clock in front of you. Your fingers impatiently tapping your table as you wait on the ticking hands.
"Come onnnn!!!" You mutter to yourself as the clock strikes 2:31. "3 more minutes!!!"
You jump up from your seat and begin pacing the room. The excitement coursing through you and causing you ... | 2020-01-18T22:31:14 | 2020-01-18T21:46:35 | 245 | 46 |
[WP] You've discovered time travel. You travel 30 years into the future, only to discover that in doing so, you've been missing for the past 30 years.
[deleted] | The plan was simple.
Step 1: Get the down low of the last 30 years from future me.
Step 2: Wall Street shall have a new God.
I would wait at my hometown's Starbucks, not because they do good coffee- stuff's sweet enough to make a baby sick. But unlike babies from my hometown, this place was the only thing I knew wou... | I kissed Mom goodbye before I left. It was the least I could do.
She didn't understand why I'd go. She tried to, but she couldn't. Everything she'd ever needed was here. Dad, me, my sister Sara, the house, and friends and family just a phone call away. But Mom was Mom, best mom I'd ever had--hell, best Mom anybody cou... | 2020-03-03T05:24:42 | 2020-03-03T04:32:42 | 1,446 | 115 |
[WP] Days turned into weeks. Weeks turned into seconds. Years turned into meters. This time machine wasn't working very well. | # The Cost of Progress
“Why won’t you sodding work?”
Jenna slapped the machine’s cooling vent.
Time ran backward.
With a tiny *pop*, the cup of coffee on the sideboard exploded. Wet clay and a pile of pigments dripped mournfully onto the floor. A coffee bean, under the force from the change in pressure, ricocheted ... | Harsh are the rules of the universe. Unbending. Relentless. And completely without mercy. You cannot appeal to the compassion of gravity, nor can you argue yourself out of entropy. And the harshest of all, must be that what was written, cannot be unwritten. What was done, cannot be undone. Words cannot be taken back, a... | 2020-07-22T07:38:42 | 2020-07-22T07:16:29 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded to conquer and enslave humanity, however "slavery" to them involves only working the equivalent of 12 hours a week while having healthy food, shelter, and means of entertainment taken care of so the human resistance is having trouble with defectors preferring to be slaves. | Idea 2:
"... and so, to pay us back, everyone will be working... 12 hours a week!" Trarn thundered, his amplified voice carrying across the fields of assembled masses.
Well, if you consider a group of 327 residents of a tiny midwestern town 'assembled.' Or 'massed' for that matter.
Trarn expected terror and submissi... | Part 1.
I bit down hard on the leather strap, felt a sharp edge press into my gums, but still a whelp escaped my lips as the scalpel slid through the flesh on my buttock and tongs were pressed into the wound. The barb was all the way in, I could tell by how deep they were going, I'd been hit real bad this time. The so... | 2020-11-22T12:27:11 | 2020-11-22T11:32:53 | 268 | 92 |
[WP] You’re a hitman who’s “hits” survive your assassination attempts, despite your sincere best efforts, only to die soon after each attempt by comical forces outside your control. The hitman community can’t be convinced you’re not the most creative comically effective assassin alive. | The plan was perfect: when the target drinks the poisoned beverage, he’s gonna die from poisoning. Expect when the EMT’s arrive, they’ll think it was a-
Wait a minute, he’s not drinking it, what the hell. Instead, he’s just flailing it around, cheering about something. Come on you drunk, take the shot.
Oh Shite, it’s... | My name is Morton Montoni. They call me The Clown. You'll see why in a minute. I have a problem. Some mook keeps getting credit for my hits. I've killed 23 people just since last August. I ain't got paid a penny, and I'm getting pissed.
There was Fat Mikey McElvaney - not a made guy because, well it's obvious from hi... | 2021-04-04T15:49:35 | 2021-04-04T15:34:05 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | It was an exhausting hunt. That boar was faster than it should have been, and all the times it happened, it was always because of the fear of death.Not that it mattered though, I still got my target, like I always have.
I got home, in the middle of nowhere, where I have spent most of my recent years in retirement from... | I've always been goal oriented. Hunting gives me that in a simple fashion. As does dressing the meat. Today I managed to get a young buck. For some reason, I've always preferred Venison. My hut is simple, most of the dressing happens outside it. But as I return, I notice the door slightly ajar. I always leave it closed... | 2021-11-03T22:42:30 | 2021-11-03T22:30:35 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You are a dark wizard who decided to go good. Problem is, it’s really hard to help people when you only know “dark magic.” | "Now, listen well, little one. I will only say this once."
The sage's voice was dark and haggard, like glass scraping against rock. The bony hands pointed to places of interest, the sunken face and hallow eyes giving little in ways of the sage's emotions.
"You will see and feel things that will scare you. Know that s... | I don't like how prejudiced people are these days, I get it, I'm a necromancer, I've studied the dark arts and I have six loyal skeletons that follow me around everywhere, that doesn't mean I'm evil. People always scream and run from me, some throw vegetables, one guard even tried to arrest me for "disturbing the peace... | 2022-04-25T09:49:48 | 2022-04-25T09:36:28 | 70 | 29 |
[WP] Write a children's story with a terrible moral. | ~This is a gem from the Children's Reading Section at Penn State's library~
It was a perfect summer day when Johnny left the park to head home. As he was walking he noticed a car following him that he didn't recognize.
"Hey buddy!" cried a man's voice from inside the car "Can you tell me how to get to Henry's Genera... | Once upon a time, there were two little ducklings who lived on a pond. The ducklings were identical twins, and they were beautiful. Why, even Mr. Toad had to admit that they were the best looking ducklings he had ever seen on his little pond. And Mrs. Robin could hardly look at the ducklings without pangs of jealous... | 2015-02-18T21:10:42 | 2015-02-18T20:06:32 | 50 | 10 |
[WP] In 2025, the mission Mars One is a full success. Upon arrival on the red planet, the astronauts notice some kind of cave, containing a single human skeleton – and four words, carved into a wall. | **2025**
At the ripe age of 23, Dave Milkwater was the youngest astronaut to ever touch down on another planet. He squinted out the starboard viewing port of the Mars One spacecraft, the red expanse glared back, beckoning him forth.
"Dave put on your helmet, I'm about to depressurize the cabin" said Mark, checking hi... | Holzerhein paused, rolling his stiff and aching shoulders, trying to ease the torment , wearing the damn EVEs caused. He wished he could massage his shoulder, but thick, clumsy protective material, made them as inaccessible as the far side of the sun. EVES, hah, designed by Adam JC Kommalski , (and that's DOCTOR Komm... | 2015-02-19T15:22:48 | 2015-02-19T15:16:32 | 99 | 21 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | Your whole life story, I could read with a look
That's my mutation, but there's a big hook.
I was in love at the time, you see
And she always said, "you're the only one for me."
But I quickly discovered it was nothing but lies,
She was saying the same thing to two other guys.
You got lucky with your gift, the oth... | "Wait, are you serious?"
"Yeah, man, that's what I'm tellin' ya."
"Dude, that is amazing! You know what you could do with this power? You could-"
"Change the world, I know."
We both sat there, in silence and in awe. My new power was unique, it was different, and the limitations of it was virtually endless, and that... | 2015-03-04T03:19:01 | 2015-03-04T00:50:47 | 1,168 | 507 |
[WP] Humans have always considered themselves to be a violent species. What they don't know is that the rest of the galaxy considers Earth to be the most peaceful planet in the milky way. | My day was rather okay, had a couple boring classes, took a test, nothing special really. I did, however, progress in my "road to Jennifer" conquest. I managed to not only make eye contact with her once, but twice! I was about to exit the school, happy with myself, when BAM, my pants get pulled down in front of all my ... | "We're really not that bad once you get to know us," director Ellen said, palliating to the Truvians in the first Human-Truva interaction. "I'm sure that after years of observing us, we might seem a bit, err, *irrational*."
"That's an understatement!" affixed Jeff, Ellen's head of communications. His team laughed alon... | 2015-11-15T18:14:14 | 2015-11-15T17:36:23 | 127 | 68 |
[WP] The humanity is wiped out very sudden. An alien race finds the planet afterwards and connects to the Internet just to find a lot of bots chatting with each other. The aliens are trying to communicate with all the bots believing that this is the humans that have uploaded their consciousness | The first house immediately overwhelmed me. The main hall, and all the other rooms I entered, had that specific stank of settled dust and fungi. The smell got stronger the further I walked until I entered what appeared to be the main room.
Most of the room had gotten overgrown, dusty, or covered in thin white strings... | I never wanted this assignment. I wanted to stay home. I wanted to research our *own* lost civilizations. Our own history. Why does no one seem to care about that anymore? How have we come to lose interest in our own past?
Perhaps that's too self-reflective a task for the beings we've become.
They wanted my skills on... | 2017-10-03T07:47:15 | 2017-10-03T07:26:26 | 1,765 | 420 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | After five hundred years of not quite darkness, did I find myself back in the world of the living. Or at least, supposedly other conscious beings. They took me to a pristine white room first thing when I woke up, rather rude if you'd ask me. I was hoping for more courteous treatment than this.
A typical doctor wal... | Pure silence. A quiet more soundless than the empty page of an armless writer with nothing to say. A defending nothingness, in all directions, from this space here to the end of time.
*THUNDER*
A crack explodes in to existence. Cutting itself in to this world mercilessly. The violence roars in a mounting creshendo. Bu... | 2017-12-17T02:51:43 | 2017-12-17T02:36:12 | 169 | 11 |
[WP] Long ago the legendary sword Excalibur was melted down and lost to history. The mythical blade's steel ended up in your butter knife, with all its magical properties intact. | The Blade cut into the frozen butter as if it were... butter, its holy radiance softening its foe for perfect spread. Applying the knife to the sliced bread caused the smell of toast to waft into Sals nose, as he observed butter melt into the freshly crisped bread.
"Ham, egg and sandwich spread?" Sal directed to his e... | There is a running joke about "how British is your morning?" Usually, the idea encompasses tea with butter on toast, perhaps some morning Stephen Fry in the background. Well, I doubt anyone is going to be able to top "spreading butter on your toast with fucking Excalibur," for a good fucking while.
The morning was lik... | 2018-03-06T11:37:34 | 2018-03-06T10:17:53 | 434 | 17 |
[WP] You are the lesser known 5th horseman of the apocalypse. Today is the end of the world, and all of the other horseman are too lazy to bring about the end of days, so it's up to you to do it alone. | The others told me to go.
You would think they'd have better excuses. One of them governs over the petty squabbles of man, another their ills, third their everlasting will to consume - and the final would ultimately come to them all.
So why not them? They weren't able to give me a convincing enough reason themselves,... | "For hells sake Death, would you stop putting empty milk jugs back in the fridge? I mean, I'd get it if war did, but he's an ass. I expect better out of you. Besides, you don't do shit around the house. Time to carry your own weight."
"Oh," death said, numbly flipping through the channels on the big screen, "that was ... | 2018-03-13T11:10:09 | 2018-03-13T10:17:43 | 107 | 28 |
[WP] Everybody assumes that The Onion is satire, but you know different. Why? Because you're its main reporter, gathering news from alternate realities. | They just started arriving on my doorstep one day. I've never been able to find out who or what delivers them, but every Sunday I get a newspaper with headlines from another world. Most of the time they're mundane with just a few subtle... inconsistencies. But every once in awhile, they make my job as lead reporter for... | "We can't print that."
7pm is a shitty time to be stuck in the office but it's not exactly news. What's news is a piece of information that, for the thirtieth day in a row today, comes through our fax machine with a churn at exactly 7.04.
"Technically, we're not going to *print* it. We're fully digital."
Jeremy is s... | 2018-03-20T20:00:19 | 2018-03-20T19:28:01 | 73 | 30 |
[WP] A robot uprising, a zombie apocalypse, multiple Kaiju attacks, and an alien invasion happen all at once. Much to humanity's joy, they seem to be cancelling each other out. | *-And for our weekly Weather and Hazards report, we turn to Matt.*
Thank you, Jill. Well folks, it looks like another stay-at-home week for most of Manxton. We have *three of the four* major threat groups present in the area of this week. All those leaving their homes are reminded to wear DAC approved Hazard wear, *p... | Brad's day was getting worse by the hour, or was it better? At this point he really didn't know. At around 0800 this morning dispatch had called him to check out a domestic dispute, first coffee of the morning in his hand being drained as he drove with a raw recruit in the passenger seat they pulled into a run down lit... | 2018-08-23T12:22:02 | 2018-08-23T10:10:52 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] You are a fresh junior researcher at NASA. While out for drinks with your new boss, you jokingly ask her why NASA hasn't explored the ocean with its resources. She turns pale and leans in close, then whispers, "We have. Why do you think we want to leave the planet so badly?" | Most of my co-workers were suitably inebriated; even the strict, authoritarian manager Margaret was smiling.
For a laugh, I asked her if NASA had ever considered exploring the ocean instead - the S could be changed to stand for Sea, after all.
The color drained from her face. Leaning in close, she whispered: “We ... | I laughed, thinking Sherry was joking. Then I looked at her face. And her expression made me very afraid.
"What did you find?" I asked, not really sure if I wanted to know the answer.
All she said was, "Nothing good." I couldn't get another word out of her the rest of the night. I got no sleep that night, either. W... | 2019-08-07T22:59:17 | 2019-08-07T20:31:42 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] You are a fresh junior researcher at NASA. While out for drinks with your new boss, you jokingly ask her why NASA hasn't explored the ocean with its resources. She turns pale and leans in close, then whispers, "We have. Why do you think we want to leave the planet so badly?" | Most of my co-workers were suitably inebriated; even the strict, authoritarian manager Margaret was smiling.
For a laugh, I asked her if NASA had ever considered exploring the ocean instead - the S could be changed to stand for Sea, after all.
The color drained from her face. Leaning in close, she whispered: “We ... | The look she gave me should have clued me in, so that I would shut up. I stupidly continued pressing her, calling bs and wanting an explanation. She just kept pushing back, telling me to forget she said anything. The worst thing I could have ever done. I threatened to tell people. I wasn’t going to actually do it, but ... | 2019-08-07T22:59:17 | 2019-08-07T21:39:32 | 49 | 17 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | Contrary to popular belief, I found out that waiting until the last second does not, in fact, summon a cooler object than if you blow your load at the stroke of midnight on your eighteenth. My acquaintances and friends had all received cool shit - steering wheels that turn into vehicles on a whim; swords and other weap... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T08:09:25 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 751 | 37 |
[WP] It is said that none but the chosen may slay the demon lord. You aren't the chosen, but you also realize that "defeat" and "slay" are not the same thing. With this in mind, you start making other considerations such as rope, or perhaps a very deep hole. | The Starborn is a prophesied figure who shall wield righteous light and fire to smite the evil from our world. A living, breathing Avatar of the gods above, suffused with the old magicks of the world, who will act out their will.
I met him, a few days ago. He is naught but a child, barely a man; perhaps fifteen or six... | "Well Lawrence? Any update?" I asked, coming back into my room from my dad's office where I was studying. The scent of lilacs crawled in through my open window on the early May weekend.
"Nope. The Demon Lord is still in your backyard. Just sitting on an adirondack chair on your deck. He still has that glint in his eye... | 2020-04-27T10:21:48 | 2020-04-27T09:30:44 | 189 | 128 |
[WP] Demon Blades each portray a human emotion, when the user feels the emotion of their blade, they resonate and the power rises 10 fold. the Demon Blade of Wrath was weak, no matter how mad the user, it couldn't match the other blades. turns out, no one was angry enough to use it right, until now. | Amnayel surveyed the battlefield. Every century or so, they and the other divine virtues would lead the forces of heaven in a pitched battle with the armies of hell, who in turn were commanded by the deadly sins. This time, it was not going well. Just ahead demonic forces were breaking through the angelic ranks. At the... | As I gripped the greatsword with my left hand, it transformed into a small saber that I could comfortably wield with one hand. Sensing my unbridled rage, its demonic powers erupted and instantly rose to levels they had never been to before. A red leather belt with appropriate sheathe formed around my waist, and I sheat... | 2021-09-18T12:46:34 | 2021-09-18T11:46:13 | 66 | 45 |
[WP] Your military experiment accidentally tears a portal open to Hell. However, instead of the demon hordes pouring through, you discover that they are frantically trying to close the portal from their side. | "By the Satan's tits, THEY'RE BACK!"
It was pandemonium in the Demon World. Barons ran amok, trying to calm the populace, but it was futile. It hasn't been 20 years since the portal opened and THAT came out, slaughtering and massacaring countless of their bretherens. Everyone remembered him. Everyone feared him.
Th... | “General, the portal is opening sir, but our handshake protocol isn’t being received and Earth says they’re still powering their end of the wormhole.” Head nerd Dr. Neumann said, staring at a monitor looking at data that General Howard couldn’t make heads or tails of.
“This thing took twelve hours to power,” Gen... | 2022-09-12T07:27:10 | 2022-09-12T06:49:18 | 1,203 | 79 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | "Mommy, mommy tell me again the story about the twelve gods"
Sigh "ok sweetie but then its time for bed ok"
"Ok, so long ago there were twelve gods, and while they all knew each other they did not live at the same time, legends said that they just sprang into existence one day, the first god named Randy was saddened ... | 2106 CE
Planet Lares, on the borders of Confederation Space
Thirteen men stood before a gray alloy ring rising out of a perfectly square platform of fused stone. They were an elite squad of Confederation Space Marines, led by Staff Sergeant Jackson, and they were about to become the first humans to transit a dimensio... | 2014-09-02T14:24:23 | 2014-09-02T10:39:27 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] Throughout your childhood you are made fun of for "making up your own language", till Earth is contacted by another race and you are the only one that understands them. | The countless doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, researchers, and even priests all said I was “just being a kid” or “making it up.” My parents believed me to an extent, but eventually they believed I was lying. I couldn’t explain it – that was the main issue. I tried explaining it as a language, which, looking back... | "Arqur Terra, sordeis arqur terra." I whisper to myself bemusedly. "Rultes tain surendo carble tres."
My daughter, Silvia, looks at me uncomprehendingly. "Mommy, what are you saying? I can't understand you."
I smile down at her, patting her head. "Oh, don't worry about it, Sweetheart. It's just a weird language... | 2015-04-18T14:00:52 | 2015-04-18T10:09:15 | 99 | 57 |
[WP] A person's eye colour correlates to what superpower they have, activated at age 18. You are the first person to be born with totally black eyes. | Black is the absence of color, a canvas waiting to be painted.
For the first time the boy- the young man- could remember in his entire life, he felt fear.
Anxiety wasn't new to him, nor was nervousness or the general feeling of being unsettled. But never had he been genuinely afraid until the moments before his 6,57... | In this world, one look into your eyes and your path is set in stone. It is common practice that schools would check your eye color before sending you to class. Your eyes told them what sort of abilities you had, after all.
There really were no special abilities associated with brown eyes (unless you were just differ... | 2015-11-15T09:12:01 | 2015-11-15T08:41:34 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | Dexicon moved his cosmic fortress from Centauri B straight into Earth's orbit. Dexicon was able to do this in one turn thanks to the cosmic paving it had laid earlier. This allowed faster than light travel.
"Your move, God." Dexicon roared, knowing it had the ancient deity in its proverbial palm.
*Shit shit shit* th... | God observed the human species with growing tension. It had taken billions of years to get this far, with only a few interventions. The other deities had already advanced their civilizations to the galactic age, while the humans where still trying to get to the solar age. The stats panel still listed only one planet as... | 2022-09-11T19:19:52 | 2016-04-09T07:47:11 | 1,980 | 122 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | I watched as Spencer danced around on the rooftop, his hair as always sticking out at wild angles and his skinny jeans seemingly painted on. He was cheering as another flash of lightning lit up the night and another meteor like object began its descent.
"Yes! Fucking 'ave it lad!" he yelled pointing to the firery str... | The Shepherd hadn't strayed more than a dozen miles from his home in all 54 years of his life. He had learned his trade from his father, as his father had learned from his father before him. He knew the winds and clouds that swept over the Moorlands better than any other... he knew which wisps in the sky portended fai... | 2016-07-19T08:04:43 | 2016-07-19T07:36:46 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | Every child is born with a power, they have been since the dawn of man. Each human possesses a latent ability based on where they were born. For example, if you were born on a mountain, chances are you can run faster, train harder and break the limits of the normal human body, blessed by the gods. If you were born at s... | "Hey, look, it's the *astronaut*!"
"Ah yes, our savior with the powers of the cosmos!"
There were snickers from the posse Mark had around him, leaning against my locker. The guy was your stereotypical asshole. Ugly face, huge teeth, tall, well built, you know the like, the kind you would find in your local Bullies-R-... | 2017-04-14T17:13:33 | 2017-04-14T16:01:20 | 383 | 229 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | "Solar Girl!" The police chief reveled. "Thank god you're here."
Solar Girl landed and faced the chief. "What seems to be the problem Chief?"
"All we know is there is some poor kid in there with a bomb strapped to him. We don't know where the detonator is or how it works, but we know it's the work of-"
"Quizno."
"Y... | For the 32nd time in the last ten minutes, Mr. Courageous checked his phone. No notifications. He tossed it onto the wing of the Courage Jet. "Alphonse!"
Alphonse's kindly withered head appeared at the top of the basement stairs. "Sir?"
"Any calls?"
"No, sir."
"Mail?"
"I'm afraid not."
"Has Julie been by?"
"I ha... | 2017-04-15T10:13:56 | 2017-04-15T09:48:16 | 1,686 | 328 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | In the fire were the last remnants of my plan. The plans to finish what I had started. I dismissed my minions to finish my last orders to deliver the basilisk venom antidotes and cleared the traps on my way to the throne room. The only thing to do now is wait.
The echo of metal foot steps in the distance reverberated... |
"You monster! Innocent people will die because of you! You better tell me right now where the bomb is!" screamed at me Venera. She looks so lovely when she is angry. Her cute blond braids shake as she is hitting the table out of frustration. I should have thought of getting captured - and getting some alone time with ... | 2017-04-15T13:38:25 | 2017-04-15T12:37:54 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | "I'm sorry sir, but this ID is fake."
"Who the hell do you think you are boy? If you had any idea who I-"
"Sir, I"m going to have to ask you to present me with some real proof of identity. You are not 24."
"What the hell do you know you insolent prick, this ID is more real than anything you will contribute to this s... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-02T00:20:37 | 1,321 | 10 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | "Next... Next..."
Another group of kids shuffling into a Baltimore club for a heavy metal gig. Another night for some carding and cash.
I rubbed my hands together, urging the friction to do its thing. Wouldn't be enough, though. This January was mighty cold.
I looked up at the line of kids that approached, noting th... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T20:18:58 | 585 | 208 |
[WP] Create the most Overpowered, god-mode character ever. Then kill him in the most idiotic way. | "There he was, the most powerful creature that could ever possibly exist probably had powers beyond our puny human imaginings. And yet, there he went."
"So, what happened to him?"
"You see, he slipped on a banana peel"
"What?"
"He was going undercover as a human to see what we were like. He had 'temporarily disable... | Bullets bounced off Nimbus' rock hard abs.
He pointed his finger at the Humvee and it exploded, killing most of the swat team. A few flaming, broken bodies writhed on the ground. Nimbus ignored them and turned to face the greater 'threat'.
A squad of capes. Most were class C, with two class B and a single class D. ... | 2017-09-04T12:54:07 | 2017-09-04T12:38:25 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] Society has introduced a day that’s the opposite of the purge- a day where all crimes no matter how small (jaywalking, littering) are punishable by death. | WELCOME TO CONNECTICUT the sign read.
*Finally*, the truck driver thought. *I've been on the road for three days now.*
He suddenly realized that today was the Egrup.
He broke out in a nervous sweat. The dial read sixty-*six* miles per hour. He was supposed to be traveling sixty-five.
He quickly eased up on the ... | Part One of Two
There never used to be much special about the sixteenth of May in Westlake. Maybe if it fell on a weekend and the weather was nice, families would get in their cars and in search of a new grill or a fishing rod, kids would be on their bikes, and all the wonderful things of a New England Spring.
Hallow... | 2018-01-06T21:23:00 | 2018-01-06T21:19:03 | 98 | 27 |
[WP] Society has introduced a day that’s the opposite of the purge- a day where all crimes no matter how small (jaywalking, littering) are punishable by death. | WELCOME TO CONNECTICUT the sign read.
*Finally*, the truck driver thought. *I've been on the road for three days now.*
He suddenly realized that today was the Egrup.
He broke out in a nervous sweat. The dial read sixty-*six* miles per hour. He was supposed to be traveling sixty-five.
He quickly eased up on the ... | I should have paid attention to the comments when I had a chance. They'd seemed like jokes at the time though.
"AWWWWW SHIT! We gon' go to jail for this! I'm sure I'm already at the top of the FBI's wanted list. They should be here any minute."
"Not my proudest fap, but neither will the one I have in my jail bunk. I... | 2018-01-06T21:23:00 | 2018-01-06T20:36:43 | 98 | 23 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "Aye, you've heard about the devil's asshole right?"
It was more of a rhetorical question. At this point, everybody had.
A few years back, Bridgeport Connecticut experienced a minor tremor from a minor earthquake. No one thought much of it at the time, save for Mr. Hoolihan whose backyard now sported a three foot wid... | "We'll never get there..."
I cursed quietly, honking repeatedly. The road leading to the Hole was cramped as usual.
"Should've asked for a helicopter."
She said, fiddling about with the map.
"Please. I've had enough trouble getting the board to sign the papers."
"I was talking to myself. Meeting Johnny Depp might ... | 2022-06-02T19:21:41 | 2018-01-13T09:01:49 | 4,551 | 77 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "Aye, you've heard about the devil's asshole right?"
It was more of a rhetorical question. At this point, everybody had.
A few years back, Bridgeport Connecticut experienced a minor tremor from a minor earthquake. No one thought much of it at the time, save for Mr. Hoolihan whose backyard now sported a three foot wid... | On the first day of summer, two thousand and eighteen years after the estimated birthdate of a Jewish carpenter whom a Roman emperor named Constantine called the Son of God, a hole was found in Greenland.
It was almost perfectly circular and as wide as a city block, with smooth vertical walls cutting down into the ic... | 2022-06-02T19:21:41 | 2018-01-13T09:28:39 | 4,551 | 20 |
[WP] There are many gods, who create many universes. Our god, a preschooler, has just submitted our universe for his universe making class. His teacher sighs, shakes her head, slaps an F on it and begins to explain where he went wrong | “What is this? I asked for a universe and all you handed me is this blank canvas.” said Mrs. Smith
“It’s not empty. See, look! I put a dot on it. That’s my universe,” protested Stella.
Immediately Mrs. Smith brought her hand up to massage her forehead. “Oh dear, why can’t you be more like the other students Stella?”... | "I'm sorry, Yahweh, but I can't give you a pass on this project."
Yahweh was the kind of god that grew up in a... troubled environment. I won't say specifics, but let's just say he wasn't blessed with the best of kin. So it didn't exactly surprise me that his universe making project went awry.
"B-b-but Mrs. Gaia, I t... | 2018-03-16T08:25:36 | 2018-03-16T07:52:52 | 156 | 49 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | ######[](#dropcap)
It was one of those surreal moments that you only get to experience once in life.
Linda was working on the script for the next show when her phone began to buzz. Slowly at first, just a couple messages. Work friends, she thought. Thursday was always their night out for drinks, but she had been too ... | The silk curtains fluttered in the cold November winds, brushing ever so softly on Evelyn's shoulder. With its cool touch, Evelyn slept soundly. A distant owl cooed, the falling leaves danced in the night. As the darkness grew dense and empty, the moon burned bright in the sky. Not a single cloud in the sky, the beige ... | 2022-06-10T18:58:05 | 2018-04-06T18:29:33 | 308 | 43 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | I'll admit it: Looking after school kids isn't my idea of a good life, but there was really no other job for...someone of my talents.
Y'see, after the men and monsters realized that the War of the Dusk was a pointless waste of resources, men started intergrading monsters into regular society by giving'em jobs that sui... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T15:15:28 | 2,554 | 79 |
[WP] You have telekinetic powers. But it has a condition, you can only move non-living things. One day after cleaning your front lawn, you realize you couldn't move the dwarf figurine. | A sense of panic washed over me. I could feel a cold pit in my stomach. The fear was so overwhelming, I thought I might throw up, but I couldn't break eye contact with the lawn decoration. Not even for a second. I crept closer. I had to know. If it meant me harm, it was better now, on my terms. Its glazed eyes staired ... | The sun wasn’t visible now, only a thin band of warm hues remained over the tops of the roofs that lined the west side of the street. He wiped his brow and leaned the rake over against the side of the old house and surveyed his handiwork. ‘I’ll just move that gnome over here and I’m done,’ Ike thought to himself as he ... | 2018-11-11T19:18:04 | 2018-11-11T17:05:38 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] 99.9% of the universe is filled with magic. Sentient races believe that life cannot be started or sustained without magic, and it just so happens that Earth lies in a giant void of magic. One day, you accidentally use magic, suddenly attracting the attention of the rest of the universe. | "Turns out that being devoid of magic might have been a blessing in disguise. While it's true that our race can't turn lead to gold or generate energy by just thinking about, it also means that none thought we existed.
This ended 13 years ago. A simple meaningless act, barely slowing myself from falling after trippin... | A split second after the 'incident' my bedroom light flickered and started to glow a deep cyan, pulsing slowly, throbbing, before culminating in a wet fart 'splurge' sort of noise and appearance of an angelic looking fairy lizard dressed in a sharp blue suit.
"Alright sunshine", it exclaimed. "What have you been doing... | 2018-12-10T07:42:45 | 2018-12-10T06:38:57 | 871 | 223 |
[WP] An alien, a centuries-old vampire, and a werewolf raised by wolves go to college. They dorm with a human and do their best to blend in and act natural while infiltrating humanity. The human realized day one they weren't normal - But the daily theatrics are too amusing to let them know that | “I’ve been caught!” thought Max, the werewolf, as his human roommate walked up beside him.
“Hey were you just howling at the moon?”
“N-no! I-“
“C’mon man, that didn’t even sound real! You’ll never convince Mr. Brandt you’re committed to the part like that”
Max lets out a sigh of relief, then chuckles a bit.
“Yeah... | "Winthorpe is a vampire, without a doubt, babe—I saw his tongue light on fire after he took a bite of that Parmesan Garlic Shrimp Scampi we made the other day." Johnathan gazed across the campus greens, watching people mull about a summer student gathering with vendors, campus resource tents, plus student groups and al... | 2018-12-23T20:53:10 | 2018-12-23T19:50:44 | 70 | 33 |
[WP] the grim reaper appears in your bedroom. You look at him, and notice a version of yourself standing next to him. The grim reaper tells the other you "if you don't change your ways, this is how you end up." The other you is mortified and vows to change his ways, and they vanish. | Immediately I sat up off my bed. “Hold up, what the FUCK”. Furious, I walk down the hall towards my garage, cell phone in hand. I rummaged around a bit, before finding the incredibly dusty and thick book containing the yellow pages.
Thumbing around the book for a few moments, I find and call a number. After a couple o... | "What... the...?" James whispered, still staring at the spot where the other him had been. Perhaps it was because of all those movies, but the first thing James did was pinching his own cheeks. It hurt. A lot. And *that* was truly disappointing. He had hoped that he would've woken up from a bad dream.
Of course, he co... | 2018-12-30T12:51:54 | 2018-12-30T11:57:19 | 63 | 20 |
[WP] You were filled with horror when you were told that you got sent to hell after you died, the horror faded somewhat when you were then immediately handed a shotgun and noticed the broken bodies of demons everywhere | As you stare at the shotgun, you notice the shells appear indefinitely in the chamber. That would be strange in itself, but the moment you notice there comes an angel floating down towards you.
"This is your eternal quest for the world you left. Cleanse hell off of demons so they won't flood the Earth." - says the div... | Death comes to us all. What happens after though?
As an atheist, Teno was always challenging religion. Thinking that death is just a final state of life. When he was falling down, he just thought that he had a decent life but it should end now. There was nothing left for him after all.
But then he saw a hood. A scyt... | 2019-09-29T10:07:40 | 2019-09-29T09:18:03 | 52 | 11 |
[WP] You’re an archeologist. On one of your digs you find a note book identical to yours, contents with matching handwriting and all. Except this notebook is extremely ancient and has an entry in it that yours doesn’t. | It had taken me a lifetime, but I finally had enough solid evidence to prove my grandmother's theory of the universe. Approximately every twelve thousand years, existence would reset and play out exactly the same each time with only slight variations. I just didn't expect that I would be the key to this theory.
My gra... | Andrew had been digging all day without any luck. The desert’s hundred-degree weather was really weighing down on him. It wouldn’t be too long until he would have to head back to base.
“Any luck out there, Andrew?” the voice of his assistant, Sheila, bellowed out from the radio on his hip.
He unclipped the radio fro... | 2019-10-17T16:06:44 | 2019-10-17T15:18:35 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] A massive underground cathedral-like temple is discovered. You are one of the people sent to study it. As soon as you enter, the sheer size of everything inside tells you it was never ment for human worshipers.
*meant | When we opened the second set of doors was when we figured that whatever was behind the third, it wasn't built for creatures our size.
The first doors were massive: 22,540 kilograms each and they rolled on a breath of pressure. Less exertion was required to open them than was necessary to put on particularly troubles... | Seven years ago, NASA sent the probe 'New Horizons III' to Pluto. Now, the far-flung icy dwarf grew large in the
spaceship's window. It had been a long and lonely journey, but for all his grumbling thus far, Ron Meyers secretly relished this lifetime opportunity to be one of the first humans to step foot on the mys... | 2019-11-16T10:09:09 | 2019-11-16T09:48:19 | 1,546 | 21 |
[WP] A massive underground cathedral-like temple is discovered. You are one of the people sent to study it. As soon as you enter, the sheer size of everything inside tells you it was never ment for human worshipers.
*meant | When we opened the second set of doors was when we figured that whatever was behind the third, it wasn't built for creatures our size.
The first doors were massive: 22,540 kilograms each and they rolled on a breath of pressure. Less exertion was required to open them than was necessary to put on particularly troubles... | The golem rumbled behind them as they ran, stones shaking loose from the enormous vaulted roof, dust billowing up from its slumber as they struck the ground. Merwyn shifted to her side as a slab hit the ground where she had been standing but a few moments ago. Its surface was white with a black dappling running throug... | 2019-11-16T10:09:09 | 2019-11-16T09:58:16 | 1,546 | 17 |
[WP] You are cursed and turned into a statue. Everyone knows you're alive but, seeing as no one could break your curse, of they have all pretty much given up on you. Except for one wizard, who comes back nearly every day to try and free you, as well as holding one-sided conversations. | "But enough about me," she said with a chuckle. "Tell me about your day?"
It wasn't funny the tenth time either.
"I'm just messing with you," she said with a grin, patting me on the shoulder. I didn't really "feel" it, but I knew it was happening. "Do you think I should ask him out? He's very smart. Maybe he can hel... | "Day 126. Subject is still in stasis." The wizard scribbles in his journal as he talks aloud. "I wonder if you sleep. It's a long time to be in there and must get boring." The wizard taps his paper and adjusts his glasses as he swallows the last of his breakfast, an apple turnover, again.
I don't sleep. I mean... he'... | 2020-02-11T00:07:21 | 2020-02-10T21:41:54 | 1,413 | 217 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | Something changed. The air grew steadily colder.
Nick looked more somber than afraid. “I really wouldn’t do that. Please, stop this, for your sake. Let me help you.”
“For years you lot have used and abused your power. All of the Guardians have. And where are they now? I’ll tell you: they fled Sanctuary. They abando... | You see me, a superhero, walking down the NYC deserted streets in winter. I’m a slightly overweight, balding, 40-something white guy, 175cm tall. I kick an empty can which is picked up by the wind, rolling down the street.
Miserable, that’s what I’d call it. There are nine superheroes in the world, and I’m supposed to... | 2020-12-02T07:40:36 | 2020-12-02T07:33:44 | 999 | 324 |
[WP] You are an elder god taking a vacation on Earth when aliens invade. You teleport to their capital ship and explain them that if they don't leave you will wipe out their entire species with a single thought. They dont believe you so you wipe out 10% of them to show you're serious. | A lone girl stood in the center of the mothership, in front of the captain. A few moments ago this irregularity made us hesitate in our attempt to take over the planet we so desperately needed. Even against stronger foes, a single individual infiltrating a ship of this size would be impossible. Yet, out of nowhere, the... | [Part One]
I had crawled from a black hole in some backwater, middle of nowhere spec in the universe. I spent several billion years trying to figure out where the fuck I was. I knew many secrets, secrets that would break the minds of those I found myself living amongst.
Did you know there wasn’t a Big Bang? There was... | 2021-05-04T23:49:48 | 2021-05-04T21:15:08 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] A small unassuming tavern is run by a retired superhero. The janitor used to be the biggest mob boss in the world. The chef is a monster hunter. The waiter is the head of a massive cult. They don't know each other's identities. When the tavern is in trouble, all four thought: "I got this." | The demons burst through the front door of the tavern. Four of them snarling menacingly, talons as long as knives and teeth dripping black ichor. Their black skin was stretched over bodies of muscle and bone. Behind them a dark hooded woman stood, cackling quietly to herself.
"Mortals!" She shouted, raising a dark nai... | The robbery was taking longer than anyone would expect. The scene stretched for extended moments of silence punctuated by uneasy glances between the participants. There was an odd lack of urgency from the tavern’s owner, Gunther, despite the presence of a loaded shotgun aligned with the bridge of his nose. Gunther had ... | 2021-05-19T17:03:25 | 2021-05-19T16:54:21 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. WMDs. | It’s been a century since we entered the galactic stage. The face we’ve shown the galaxy has been peaceful and friendly. We’ve appeared thoroughly non-threatening. It’s even seen as laughable that we maintain a military at all. Our weapons are seen as primitive, still using cased chemically propelled projectile weaponr... | Lord Dunbar could not believe his eyes. The Planet Lo was there a moment ago, a loud bang, a shockwave felt in space and blinding flash, the entire planet was gone.
3 billion lives, extinguished... but how?
This was not the Lothrax's homeworld, it was a long established colony world, just on the outskirts of Lothra... | 2021-07-04T22:03:04 | 2021-07-04T14:51:29 | 137 | 99 |
[WP] You are powerful... but too powerful. You shake the floor when you try to walk softly, you break steel hinges off when trying to open a door with the tiniest amount of force. Everything is so laborious. Everyone wants to be mighty and strong, but you just want to be weak. | Most of the rules I had to follow as a toddler sounded normal.
No throwing toys. No slamming doors. No hitting or head-butting or biting.
But there were other rules I had to follow that always gave outsiders pause. No hugging mommy or daddy. No holding hands. No playing tag. No piggy-back rides.
It must have sounded... | They sat at opposite ends of an abandoned train tunnel through the mountains, whispering sweet nothings in each others’ ears.
For people born on opposite sides of the planet, Henry and Tala couldn’t have been more alike. True, he’d never heard of her favorite singer and she thought his was terrible, but being born fro... | 2021-08-23T18:27:39 | 2021-08-23T18:13:14 | 108 | 41 |
[WP] An unconventional healer uses death spells and harm spells to heal patients. “Symptoms? The symptoms will just disappear when the parasite inside you is dead. Now stop moving, don't make me miss my death-to-all spell.” | I was naive to think that lives could only be saved through healing and to think healing was a noble art.
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to save lives. I grew up at the wrong time. Before I could learn healing magic, many healing temples had been put under scrutiny by the government. Healing had been used fo... | “Avakeem! Avakeem!” The shouts came again, louder. I heard them when they were miles away, now I could see the little boy scampering up the hillside, his older sister not far behind. My ears had become tuned to the sound for I knew the weight it bore with it. The kids always made it through first, I wondered if the adu... | 2022-05-23T22:35:38 | 2022-05-23T19:23:25 | 117 | 46 |
[WP] Turns out wishing on a star does work, it just takes about 81,000 years for the wish to get to the star and back, and for the future civilisations of earth, its pure chaos.
Thanks for the amazing story responses on this. ❤️ | *Nothing* is faster than light.
Certainly not new information. We... sorta knew that already? But never has it been more evident than when, well... wishes made for falling stars came true. It just takes a few thousand years for the wish to travel *to* the falling star and then *back* to Earth.
Let me tell you; this *... | "I've found it! It's the right distance and everything!" Doctor Redux collapsed into the bunker where the presiding Head of Supernatural Defense, Peyton Pine, spun his chair around, watching the monitor to see how many disasters would fall upon the planet today.
"Found what? What are you babbling about, Redux?" Pine ... | 2022-12-08T21:22:36 | 2022-12-08T19:44:01 | 638 | 315 |
[WP] Write a suicide note from an established fictional character
Has Dr Eggman had enough of being bad? Did Woody just see too many toys thrown in the trash? Can Han Solo not take any more of Leia's nonsense?
Sorry if this seems inappropriate, I just thought it'd be interesting, to get in the mindset of someone odd ... | I have lived for over 1200 years and I just don't want to do it anymore. Wandering desperately through space and time for centuries. I have always felt alone, though I've often had companions with me; horrible things eventually happen to most of them. I have been the cause of so much grief, loss, and disappointment, an... | I feel like I should leave this here.
I've pretty much had it with my life. I mean look at me: I work at a low-end restaurant that pays less than minimum wage working with an annoying person and a cheap, frugal boss. I live in the cheapest neighbourhood possible with shitty neighbours because it's the only place I can... | 2013-06-11T20:48:22 | 2013-06-11T19:54:33 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You're an exhausted paramedic. You just finished a 48 hour shift and you stumble into the hospital elevator to head home. You hit the button to head to the first floor and as you turn, you see death standing in the corner. What do you talk about during the elevator ride? | We stared at each other for half a minute. Thirty seconds of unbroken eye-to-eyesocket contact. I should have been terrified, but... it had been a long one.
It was difficult to tell, but he seemed... surprised. Or, at the very least, a little chagrined.
As smoothly as I could, not daring to look away, I reached over ... | Must get home, so tired. Good thing I just got that place down the street. I wouldn’t be safe behind the wheel of a car in the condition I’m in. Two whole days off, it will be amazing. I can’t wait.
I hit the call button on the elevator and rest my head against the wall as I close my eyes. My body, hurt. I listened to... | 2014-05-15T11:32:46 | 2014-05-15T11:32:42 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] The Apocalypse began six years ago. Nobody has noticed until now. | “Goooooood Morning! This is the 6:15 AM Morning show with Scott and Lisa. Today’s weather will be in th….”
Another day. Same as yesterday. Scott and Lisa starting off the day with the weather report. I suppose I should get up and put on some pants so that I can get the coffee started. Arms reached towards the sky in a... | **Climate Change** **World Cup** **Snowden A Hero** **Assange's Wikileaks To Release More Documents** Headlines screamed impatiently across the bottom of the television screen.
"I don't know how nobody realised... I knew the second I heard that Chinese government had shut down industrial areas in the weeks ahead of th... | 2014-06-25T09:52:37 | 2014-06-25T09:13:04 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] You die and go to Heaven - only to discover that you are the first human being who has ever been able to do so. | "I'm the only one?"
**Yes.**
"Out of everyone? Everyone ever?"
**That's right.**
"*WHY?*"
**You followed all the rules. All of them. You shaved your beard right, you never spilled semen on the ground, you cared for others, yo-**
"What about my parents? My neighbors?"
**They're being tormente... | Day 1 after death-
I stop, in total disbelief of what I've just heard. I get that I died. I'm surprised I still exist, but it's a nice surprise, I rather like existing. But as I stand in front of the gates to heaven, what the angel just said to me makes no sense at all.
"Really?" I say to the angel "The first one? I'm... | 2014-09-04T11:55:59 | 2014-09-04T11:37:20 | 129 | 14 |
[WP] Far in the future, parents now purchase the traits of their perfect child. They decide everything from intelligence to looks. Better qualities cost significantly more money. Tell me about the imperfect life of the most expensive child ever born. | A tiny speck of dirt marred the perfection of the mirror in front of him. The urge to wipe it off presented itself to Adam, and he obliged. He didn't know whether his cleanliness was a learned behaviour or a part of the expensive pack of genes which his parents had assembled for him. He had never asked them exactly wha... | sorry for the length...I'm wordy and this is my first time. Be gentle
I glanced down at my doodle in progress while professor Gaul prattled on about one number or another. Every circle perfect, not a single smudge marred the penciled shading, and every flaw perfectly calculated. Da Vinci himself would envy it. Surely... | 2014-09-10T07:07:52 | 2014-09-10T07:05:46 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | My first prompt here!
We did it. We finally captured him. Heh, he thought he could run away from us forever. Fool. We could never let go an opportunity like this one. The boys are running some tests right now, it shouldn't take long...
"Sir, the results are out. You are not going to like this."
"What happened?"
"... | I've known about my power since I was 8.
Early bloomers don't do well these days. No one knows when it started but it started here, in Los Angeles, and spread throughout the world. Some powers were benign; talking to squirrels, manipulating telescopes, etc. But even the most subtle, unassuming power can have devastati... | 2015-10-26T12:10:03 | 2015-10-26T11:01:55 | 32 | 23 |
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