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[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 356 | 11 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 158 | 11 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | When I saw those blue eyes I knew it was her.
I remember how those gentle they twinkled when we saw the construction of the Coliseum together.
How she cried when the Library of Alexandria was burnt down, knowing she couldn't save that knowledge to keep the timeline stable.
The sheer curiosity and joy she felt when s... | "What the fuck is that even supposed to mean?" I asked through the incessant buzzing of my portal, "How could people be different colours?"
"Raj," Yorrick continued, "You were born well after the fall of Ganymede. I don't --"
"Ganymede?"
"It's a moon from the first system. It's where you'll have to go to talk to ... | 2016-11-10T17:10:08 | 2016-11-10T16:23:58 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] While browsing on your parent's computer you recieve an email notification addressed to them. It's from an advanced robotics corporation, informing them that the warranty on [your name] expires in 30 days. | "Oi, dad. Am I a robot?"
"Rus, we wanted to tell you one day, but..."
"ok, cool, whatever, can i fire lasers or something like that?"
"no, anyway we are sorry, that we kept it as a..."
"fuck. if i were you, i would get a warranty, I am not cool, I can't do anything cool for fucks sake, i am not good at athletics, a... | "Let's fire up this bad boy before my idiot parents get home!" I say as I log onto their desktop computer.
I like using the desktop to crank down on rather than the laptop or tablet, gives it a nostalgic feel of back in the days of dial up. I may be 32, and visiting my parents house to do my laundry, but as the frenc... | 2017-01-14T07:56:18 | 2017-01-14T07:06:35 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You tell Alexa "Take over the world for me" as a joke. The next day, you wake up in a heavily guarded castle. | "Hey Alexa, take over the world for me."
I ended the night with my routine inane request for Alexa. It started as a joke one night at a party, I guess I wanted to see if there was she could do. For the past 2 weeks Alexa would reply with things like "I'm sorry, I don't understand" or "Searching the internet for: cooki... | I stared out the window of my house as I sat, deep in thought on the matters of the world as it stood today.
“Your coffee is ready, Alex.” I heard the human-like voice of my most treasured and helpful AI assistant in my house say. “Would you like me to send them to you?”
I smiled and shook my head, though there was n... | 2018-02-11T21:32:20 | 2018-02-11T20:34:48 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | "There is... one thing you can do to decrease your sentence," The creature said from behind the counter. Jeff couldn't decide if it was a demon or an angel, but either way looking at it made his eyes burn with glowing letters, after images shaking across his head and itching across the folds of his spirit.
"Alright! W... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T06:04:04 | 1,768 | 181 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "But I don't see how that's possible! I never *killed* anyone! I never stole, I never even hurt an animal, I lived a simple, boring life. I don't claim to be perfect, but how could I be that evil?"
The man leaned back in his chair. "It doesn't really work that way. People like to imagine that there are big actions tha... | “Why? What did I do to deserve this?”
Charon the gatekeeper just looked down. “If you want to dispute this sentence. Then you will have to speak to management. However I don.....l
“Well get me the fuckin manager then. This can’t happen to me in life I had thousands of more followers on social media then any of my... | 2018-09-26T07:56:17 | 2018-09-26T06:56:58 | 101 | 74 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "186 thousand years?! W-what did I do?" I asked the demon before me. He sighed, rolled his eyes and started tapping away on his demonic keyboard, delving deeper into my file.
"Says here you would frequently eat the fats on your meat?"
"I did? I guess. What does that have to do with anything?"
The demon shrugged. "Au... | It was certainly the biggest case of sticker shock poor Joe had ever experienced.
“A hundred and eighty seven thousand years? Where did that come from?!”
“One eighty seven, that’s correct. Wait, thousands? Let me see that again?”, the red creature exclaimed, reaching the hand across the table.
“Odd.”, the goblin loo... | 2018-09-26T09:04:03 | 2018-09-26T08:56:27 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] You stare at the pills in your hand. The doctor taps his foot impatiently. "These will really cure me of hearing that voice?" you ask. The doctor rolls his eyes. "Yes, you'll never hear her again." You level your gaze on the doctor. "I never told anyone the voice was female..." | "I never told anyone the voice was female...," Jeff said. He glanced at the doctor with wary eyes and stepped back. Dr. Tate smiled broadly, then chuckle.
"*How much does it really matter whether I'm male or female*?" the voice asked. Jeff ignored it and focused on the doctor.
"What?" The older man asked. "What do... | Early this year I bought a surprisingly cheap house in the town my parents were born in. They loved this town and even asked to be buried in the local graveyard, so being the faithful son I ever was, I decided to visit them one random day.
I thought this would be a fun little trip to the graveyard and be over with it,... | 2018-12-28T14:01:37 | 2018-12-28T11:30:08 | 230 | 11 |
[WP] In the future instead of sending criminals to prison they get sent to receive new personalities. Through the magic of intensive brainwashing, criminals are reborn as law abiding citizens. You for some reason, keep committing crimes even with your new Happy-Go-Lucky personality. | I think I'm on personality construct number 27? Not sure, exactly. It gets hard to keep track past 15.
Used to be I could remember everything in crystal clarity, all the way back to my parents screaming at each other while I crawled around the carpet of our high rise apartment. Now its just fragments.
I can still ... | "Howdy, Chuck!"
"Howdy, Lucy!"
Lucy gives me a huge wave, grinning over her side of my brand new picket fence. She's a real beaut, if I do say myself; she's all white and smooth and painted up real pretty, exactly my type-
Exactly my type of fence, I mean. Gee, what were you all thinking? My goodness, I'd never talk... | 2019-02-06T19:07:53 | 2019-02-06T18:44:21 | 70 | 21 |
[WP]You’re a human stranded on an alien planet. The locals are sapient, but have a lifespan of only about six months. After dozens of generations (about a decade), you’ve managed to make quite a name for yourself.L | He was my best friend. Now, dead. The fifth in 2 and half years. I simply...cannot.
The woven fibers of the bed creak as I sit down next to his lifeless body. I take a deep breath and my nose is met by a thick odor of herbs. I look over to the cabinet that is gently illuminated by orange sunlight, it's door ajar and t... | It happened shortly after the crash. Two days after his ship crash landed in Zenon-6, Caide Newell was all but sure he was a dead man. Telecoms went dark. The ship, an unmitigated wreck. There'd be no salavaging that flaming hunk of debris. But at least he survived, somehow. The same could not be said about the months ... | 2019-04-22T10:08:01 | 2019-04-22T09:39:54 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] On a whim, you start clicking links in your spam email folder. Over the next few days, you are alarmed to find an African prince with a briefcase of money, a lifetime supply of discount medications, and four hot singles from your area showing up at your door. What happens next takes the cake. | “Knock-off pills, a dubious briefcase full of cash with laundered money, four overweight women straight out of a mobile home. It felt like I was baby bootleg Jesus and the three kings were delivering at the manger. Anyway, I shooed off the African guy immediately. I was a lawyer at the time so I wanted to wipe my hands... | It all started when I went on a dumpster-dive for a bank document. I probably hadn't looked at my spam folder in three or four years. I figured it must get emptied on a regular basis, and so was surprised to see subject lines for emails that must be *years* old. At least a decade old for the Nigerian Prince email, assu... | 2019-06-17T12:59:31 | 2019-06-17T11:53:34 | 351 | 55 |
[WP] You're a 21st century Super-villain with a Doomsday device and a ransom message to the world. But the internet is so flooded with garbage you can't get any traction on your Tweets and videos, and no one's seeing the message. | I sent out the Tweet with a sinister twinkle in my eyes. There was nothing to explain past the video posted. My robot army. My unequivocal power. I laid back, waiting for the responses and pleas for mercy to flood in. I couldn't wait for authority figures to start asking me for my demands. On cue, I got a reply within ... | "I just sent out this Tweet, Lord Almagest," Kira said cheerfully. "Uh, talks about your ambition to obtain the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, in return for not using the Device, you know."
Almagest chuckled. The halls made his booming laugh echo for what seemed like minutes afterwards, just as they were designed... | 2020-04-08T23:16:56 | 2020-04-08T22:49:39 | 1,386 | 438 |
[WP] You're blind, taking an audio tour at a museum. In an ancient Egypt exhibition, the blind are permitted to touch the engraved stones, so you do - and gasp as you realize you can read the hieroglyphs as easily as braille. | Pt 1 of 2:
If you compare what kind of access blind people have to the world around them to that of just twenty years ago, not to mention if you compare it to fifty years ago, it’s been incredible progress. For those of us lucky enough to be born in wealthier countries, at least, and I’m grateful to find myself among ... | A cacophony of screams and yelps, feet on marble. Somewhere in the background he heard “don’t lose your partner, hold hands” from a young woman. Further away to his left there were a pair of voices. A couple, he assumed, were speaking mandarin as far as he could tell. He’d never been good at Mandarin. There was the cli... | 2021-02-16T09:06:03 | 2021-02-16T08:40:11 | 237 | 65 |
[WP] The galaxy is a dark and lonely place. "First Strike Diplomacy" reigns out of fear. Few species survive even 300 years after developing interstellar travel. When humans entered the galaxy, we were the first species confident enough in war to ask someone "Are you sure you want to do this?" | *Are you sure you want to do this?*
*Yes, I realize you're not used to listening. I don't even know if you'll receive this message.*
*What I do know is that the moment your extermination fleet passed the orbit of Neptune, our insurance policy kicked in.*
*For the past 200 years, ever since we figured out how wars we... | Representatives of the Earth, have again assembled with the War Council of the Garrux (the Mighty as he liked to remind everyone) and listened to platitudes exchanged between the Garrux and the diplomatic branch of the Earth's Representation. They seemed happy, in their eyes, the concessions were being made per the mos... | 2022-01-22T13:39:39 | 2022-01-22T13:30:45 | 71 | 49 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | I mean, the first two times were… interesting, but the latest was a real shock. Mostly because the call was from a hero of mine.
I’ll get back to that after I take you through the first two.
Number one wasn’t even people, it was the animals of New Zealand.
“Get rid of them they pleaded. We don’t trust their unblin... | Thomas looked down in disbelief...
"We... we're going to have to call John"
Michael felt a protest well up in his throat- but swallowed it back down knowing all too well that Thomas was right.
"Who makes the call?" Michael asks half-heartedly... knowing it's his responsibility.
The look on Thomas' face says it all,... | 2022-03-29T03:08:28 | 2022-03-29T01:55:07 | 56 | 40 |
[WP] Traditionally when a royal couple give birth to a cursed baby the infant is locked away in a dungeon to grow into a murderous beast. You however order that your child instead be taken to the royal nursery and raised properly as your heir. | The child was born on a full moon
Red eyes pierce into me making me tremble at the sight
He is just a child but the look in his eyes shows intelligence unbefitting for someone his age
He looks up at me, His father.
From the moment he was born I knew he was cursed but I wanted him anyway
I wanted a son and the Gods... | **The Heir**
The teacher looked around her classroom. Young sons and daughters of noblemen crowded together close to the right wall and its open windows, painting on small canvases leaning on desktop easels. They were copying a brightly lit photograph of the royal gardens. She noted the time and exhaled. *We have ne... | 2022-09-01T13:17:08 | 2022-09-01T10:17:09 | 67 | 38 |
[WP] Satan suddenly appears in a crowded mall, and begins terrifying the holiday shoppers. He stops, looks directly at you and says, "You... You're interesting. Do your friends know what you are?" You have no idea what he means. | I've never really felt special, you know. Was always the girl who'd stand beside her friend as she fell in love with some cute boy, and I'd always later watch the cute boy tiptoe over to give her a kiss. But not me. I never had good grades. Not bad ones either, just average. I wasn't a creative soul, I wasn't extremely... | People watching, is what the artists called it. Sit on a bus, or go to a mall and look at all the oddities. All those bland, beautiful, ugly, graceful, clumsy subjects around you reduced to a few swift lines. Everyone becomes a collection of interesting parts and motion swirling though crowded streets and onto a crowde... | 2014-12-06T05:10:37 | 2014-12-06T02:22:55 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | There was the sound of water, and an old dead prow washing through it, something dipping in deep and then coming unstuck, dripping back into the river. She breathed in, and the air was stagnant, as if it had just giving up and died. Something heavy hit her side of the river and slid into the mud. Eyes flickered behind ... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T08:02:36 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 88 | 13 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "-uck" My last words are finished as I my eyes adjust to the blackness. I sit up and look at Death. He is sitting at a table.
"Oh, it is you again. What is it today?" Death greeted me not with an explanation of the game like he always used to but an apathetic voice.
"I don't know, you can choose." I watch as Death pu... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T08:35:23 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] Normally when people are reincarnated they lose all memory of their previous life, but for some reason you remember your past self; a cop who spent his life trying to catch a master criminal, who eventually ended up killing you. You are reborn as your killers child. | Ever since I was a baby my mom and I have never gotten along. I've always, always been a daddy's girl. When I was still on milk and formula I would only take it from my dad and I cried any time my mother tried to hold me. My family just wrote it off as something that I'd grow out of.
By the time I was sixteen or seve... | My memory was as sharp as it had ever been, I remembered all of the evils this guy had done, all of the suffering he had caused, the countless people killed through his gang. I remembered the outcry of the mother that just returned home to find her husband dead with her child in his arms, the weeping ten-year-old that ... | 2017-08-03T17:18:31 | 2017-08-03T14:33:00 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | `You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you` (Ezekiel 28:15)
He was supposed to be the perfect angel. The one who chose free will and to corrupt it. I had to see him, but... i didn't expect him to be so... beautiful.
"What's this? A friend? Finally... some one who unde... | Hell wouldn't seem like a good choice to most people, But I knew I would otherwise bump into all the people I had spent so long avoiding.
Besides, after such a messy suicide, it seemed a bit hypocritical. I was rather aiming for eternal oblivion after all.
The rather nice looking angelic figure who was gatekeeping loo... | 2022-11-26T21:59:01 | 2017-11-04T07:15:26 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | `You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity was found in you` (Ezekiel 28:15)
He was supposed to be the perfect angel. The one who chose free will and to corrupt it. I had to see him, but... i didn't expect him to be so... beautiful.
"What's this? A friend? Finally... some one who unde... | My mind twisted this from comical to a bit dark...
I had accepted my fate as soon as I had sliced my wrists. The hot bath water stung but I had figured Hell would be much worse... only it wasn't. It wasn't what I had expected at all.
"Another suicide? You don't have to stay here, you can go to Heaven" a disembod... | 2022-11-26T21:59:01 | 2017-11-04T08:14:39 | 44 | 19 |
[WP] To extend your life, you've played Death in many games and beaten him. However, after your last game, you begin to see that Death has been losing to you on purpose. | "Why?"
The man gazed long into the reaper's cowl, but no matter how much he tried to gauge Death's reaction, he couldn't. He was confused as to why he continued to flee victory, to let the long-lived man win over and over, no matter how horrible he answered the cloaked figure's questions, how much he lied, or question... | I won, another victory. All my life I was a player. Simon says at the age of two, then moved to checkers and finally chess. My fortune was acquired through playing Texas Hold'em. I remember exactly the end of my life. A slight intoxication around a table filled with Chinatown Mafia. Cigarette smoke encircled us, like a... | 2018-03-21T10:32:24 | 2018-03-21T08:37:16 | 137 | 20 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | I've been cursed with a terrible form of immortality. Every time my death is but moments away, time grind to a halt for everyone. And while I am still able to manipulate my suroundings to some degree, i do not age, hunger, require sleep or otherwise feel the passage of time.
I know this because time has stood still fo... | It's been a year now... or more exactly, it's the 365th time I woke up in my bed. I don't really know why I still sleep in my own bed. After all this time I could have been sleeping in a room in the most luxurious hotel I could find, but somehow, it felt wrong all along.
Usually, that happen just before something... | 2018-07-04T15:51:37 | 2018-07-04T15:06:49 | 4,562 | 36 |
[WP] When you ask your daughter what she wants for Christmas, she asks for a unicorn. Your wife laughs it off, but you don't. Neither your wife or daughter know that you're the best monster trapper in the world, and your daughter is getting her unicorn no matter what. | You almost can't contain yourself as you get up and rouse your wife. She has no idea what's coming. No one does. You head quietly into your daughter's room. She's not there. Then you hear it.
"**AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!**, You found one!" She screeches.
You follow your wife as she rushes downstairs to see the... |
“So, what do you want for Christmas?”
“A unicorn!” Sara shouted. My wife let out a nervous laugh.
“That’s nice but how about something realistic?”
“No, I want a unicorn,” Sarah said stubbornly.
“I’ll have one by next week,” I said as I got up. “I just have to catch it.” I left the living room to grab my gea... | 2018-12-07T17:40:55 | 2018-12-07T17:05:22 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] My wife told me there was someone at the door. I asked if it was a penguin, and she was confused. I asked again, banging the table, if it was a penguin. She looked outside the window, and to her surprise, it was. I cocked my shotgun. So it begins. | I knew the horde was composed of several units and this one was almost certainly a scout, although it could have been a member of a small infantry unit posing as a scout while the rest of the unit waited close by for the sign to attack: the door cracking open, even if only just a bit.
In any case, there was no way to b... | It's been 15 years and somehow I knew. I knew sister Isabelle would come back from hell. Her screams haunt my sleep from time to time and it's only become more frequent these past few weeks. I got a call monday saying that a Nun had stopped by my office asking for me, well a penguin was what the message said. Tuesday I... | 2019-02-08T21:55:18 | 2019-02-08T19:17:31 | 117 | 21 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | \[- the Kuiper Transmission has confirmed a lack of any signals since first contact, and the United Fleetworks are now in proceedings to declare the Rio Grande Voyage lost with all hands. We would like to observe the names and faces of the voyagers who sailed out into the stars, on a mission of optimism and peace whic... | FADE IN:
INT. THE SECRET HALL OF GALAXY-CENTRIC WORRYING
*A dozen creatures of various species sit around a large table. One of them – something that resembles an eight-foot-tall Möbius strip crossed with a large slug – begins to speak. This is YARLGH.*
**YARLGH:** I call this session of galaxy-centric worrying to o... | 2021-04-07T19:38:37 | 2021-04-07T17:45:17 | 558 | 186 |
[WP] The secret to lucid dreaming is out. Everyone now wants to spend as much time as possible asleep, in their own private utopia. | These people, the lucid dreamers? They're jackasses, but god dammit I owe everything I have to them. They spend so much time with their eyes closed that they never even have a chance to catch me.
Before this all began, I was just an insomniac. Nights when I couldn't sleep frustrating, but now my insomnia is a curse tu... | People thought it was great, being able to control your dreams.
Think about it. People with no life suddenly became the most popular people on the planet, with gorgeous women hanging off their every word and money to burn. World leaders had the means to control situations to help them with problems. All this, played ... | 2014-10-16T06:38:42 | 2014-10-16T06:11:20 | 69 | 24 |
[WP] "I have two pills to take every day. One is so I don't kill myself. The other is so I don't kill other people. Today I dropped one pill down the drain. I don't know which it was."
[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3wxtsu/who_is_that_guygirl_you_work_with/cy09r1g) for prompt. | "Crap. Not again." I said to myself as I tossed the other one in the drain as well and grabbed two new pills.
These things aren't cheap and that's twice this week that sink's gotten the best of me. I really need to start being more careful.
And now the second one's stuck in my throat... This ailment is the worst. | Shit. I stare blankly down at the sucking water as the small blue pill disappears from my sight. I try swallowing but my mouth has dried up and I only end up letting out a short, heavy cough. My vision shifts to the identical pill in my still-shaking left hand, the other half to the cocktail which keeps my li... | 2015-12-15T18:57:30 | 2015-12-15T18:08:22 | 53 | 12 |
[wp] after dying god informs you that hell is a myth, and "everyone sins, its ok". instead the dead are sorted into six "houses of heaven" based on the sins they chose. | "My Lord, h-how could this happen?"
"Everyone dies, Peter."
"Yes but you're God. You're supposed to be immortal."
"Peter, you haven't been reading the Bible again have you? How many times have I told you not to believe everything you read? Hell, omnipotence, omniscience - all baloney."
St Peter thumbed the key to t... | "What about the seventh?"
God grumbled under his divine non-breath. "What do you *mean* the seventh, there are only six!"
On one hand, Charles didn't want to push his luck any further. The absence of an *actual*, scorching, eternal hell that dreaded him his whole life was a stroke of good fortune.
On the other ha... | 2016-03-01T05:05:31 | 2016-03-01T04:06:18 | 242 | 112 |
[wp] after dying god informs you that hell is a myth, and "everyone sins, its ok". instead the dead are sorted into six "houses of heaven" based on the sins they chose. | *Circa 500 B.C.*
His sandals slapped on the marble, the sound barely rising above the distant moaning and heady laughter echoing from the other Houses. The worn-out strips of leather that wrapped his feet were out of place against the ornate floor-murals made with deep azures and gold-leafed designs.
The walls seeme... | "Besides, no one's ever on this road."
Never thought those would be my last words. But at least they must have been ironic, right?
Cause of Death: shipping container full of wigs falling out of a plane. Right on top of me. Hrmm.
Arriving in heaven, or what I assumed to be heaven, was a bit lackluster. No lines. Just... | 2016-03-01T07:56:16 | 2016-03-01T07:51:09 | 58 | 23 |
[WP] After dying, God asks you: "So, how was heaven?" | *"SO..."* God bellowed, *"HOW WAS HEAVEN?"*
I paused for a moment. Everything my consciousness had been taught until that point had prepared me for the opposite of this moment. Church told me of God, and that I would only enter heaven if I lived a good life. My rebellious teen years had pulled me away from that ideolo... | I squinted at the brilliant whiteness that encompassed me. I spun in a circle, amazed at how this plane seemed to stretch forever in every direction. I clasped my hands together, excited at the journey that lay ahead of me. What possibilities could this place hold?
Pushing against the floor with my palm revealed that ... | 2016-03-16T01:52:18 | 2016-03-16T00:08:27 | 35 | 11 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I'd spent so long anticipating what this test would comprise of, and as I sat alone in the examination room, I was still none the wiser.
The booklet placed squarely on the small desk, I glance from the printed front sheet, to my surroundings, and back again.
I close my eyes and sigh, head dropping down, before I ope... | As I entered the room, an instructor was waiting across the room sitting opposite me with a small white table laid out in front of him with an empty chair waiting for me. I let out a huge sigh and made my way to the chair and sat right in front of him.
"Good morning. For this test, I just have a few questions I would... | 2016-06-11T10:11:10 | 2016-06-11T09:06:11 | 187 | 16 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | Archon Lethrax of the Twelth Dominion of Nyctium looked at the Blue Seedling before him, shining beyond the bridge. He had seen many hives of scum and depravity - the Voidstalker Collective literally devoured their young, the Praxic Union glassed unruly planets, and the less said about the Akirian Free State, the bette... | Old Earth Year, 4289, the 7th of March. Post-Light Year 434.
Humans, despite their continual infighting and petty squabbles over planets, asteroid belts, and orbital stations, had gained a solid reputation as the greatest traders to exist. They were, in comparison to the others of the known Galaxy, by far the most equ... | 2017-03-26T07:03:57 | 2017-03-26T06:55:32 | 224 | 93 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | Every day. Every day I spend in focus, in trials of pushing myself to my limits. I'm constructed a sort of gym, where I hone my powers.
TVs.
TVs everywhere, and a chair in the middle, I sit in the chair all day and practice. One after another they come:
*Three stooges? Pathetic.* *Zoolander? Pathetic.* *Ah, Superb... | I smiled. I couldn´t stop it. The view was too fantastic.
"Eric, please stop this.". Oh the whimpering i heard in her voice. " Stop it? WHY should i stop it? You always said you wanted a son who could achieve something great, and now look. Look at this. Isn´t this something truly great?". Ah, she can´t look. Can´t lo... | 2017-06-12T06:00:30 | 2017-06-12T05:44:01 | 140 | 25 |
[WP] Necromancy is just the arcane equivalent of computer programming, and grimoires on necromancy are just like libraries of code on animating the undead. You work the equivalent of the IT Help Desk for your necromancer cult. These are your work stories. | “Hi, uh, my girlfriend is in a coma and I really want her to die so I can reanimate her and she can go back to, uh, being my girlfriend but she is on life support so what do I do?”
“Have you tried unplugging her, waiting five minutes and plugging her in again?” | **Recording from Incident WS-428**
**Submitted by Technician CT-12**
**Retrieved by Recovery Team, Found on Cell Phone**
"Hey everyone, I know resurrecting the Crow Father isn't working...give me a second and I'll call the help number on the back of the Necronomicon. If you can all just take 10 and maybe eat some of... | 2018-04-28T04:46:18 | 2018-04-28T02:46:18 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] You are the sole survivor a famous serial killer as a college student. Years later, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer you finally pluck up the courage to visit him in prison and ask one question that’s been plaguing you for decades: “why didn’t you kill me?”
Thought I’d do a human story in the sea of bul... | "Why didn't you kill me? You killed everyone else, all my friends!"
"Why are you asking me?"
"I... I don't have much time left. It's cancer... and I've wanted to know for years."
\*sigh\* "You remember what they called me? Long ago, before you ran into me?"
\*nod\* "The Messenger."
"Exactly. There w... | "Sorry, kiddo."
Those were the last words I had expected.
Who knew that he even knew those two words. John Meadow, convicted of 47 murders and still awaiting conviction on 3 more, looked me straight in the eye, shrugged his shoulders and said "Sorry, kiddo." I did not recognize the man anymore - it has been 24 years... | 2018-07-21T09:01:48 | 2018-07-21T06:50:11 | 146 | 66 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with.
credit to r/Debdub10 for thinking of the idea | 'Alright so you were there on Sol three right?, was it really as messed up as they said?"
"Even worse, so there we were eight hundred Cruisers, two hundred Dreadnoughts and a Capitol ship, we should have rolled over their measly fleet of three hundred shuttles, eighty cruisers and a colony ship."
"So what went wrong... | "Let me help you."
Those were the only words I remember. That mystical utterance came with an out-stretched hand, reaching down from the light. I don't recall anything else, just a blur of flashing colors, splintered from its original form. However blinding those lights were, though, did nothing to wipe my memory of ... | 2018-10-11T13:00:33 | 2018-10-11T12:52:55 | 110 | 49 |
[WP] When you and your twin sister were born your parents couldn't help but cry with your colorful and specifically shaped hair it was clear you would suffer from MCS, Main Character Syndrom, and would have to spend your life avoiding beginings of cliche adventures. | My name is Claudia Vance, and I suffer from a desease known as: Sidekick Syndrome
My twin brother, Peter, gets all the attention just because he has Main Character Syndrome.
All the attention, all the praise, all the pity, goes to him
And I have to follow him around like a pack mule
Literally. I don't even know wha... | When I was 11, I was fiddling with my Gameboy, clicking away at my buttons. I felt a tingle on the back of my neck and looked up. Someone’s eyes were burning on to us. I lifted my elbow, nudging my sister, looking towards the short cut. “I see him” she whispered, looking towards a hooded figure. He was tall, scruffy, f... | 2019-04-11T19:59:10 | 2019-04-11T17:34:42 | 243 | 76 |
[WP] “I’ve always wondered, what’s the scythe for, anyway?” I asked, as Death escorted me to the Underworld. "Protection," he nervously replied.
Credit goes to: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/6imkuw/the_grim_reapers_scythe_isnt_to_harvest_you_its/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app | "So uh… how long until Hell?" We've been walking through a thick forest for what I'm guessing is hours.
"Unfortunate for you, child, we must pass three more of those what you called 'checkpoints'."
Death just looks straight ahead, holding his scythe more and more firm as we walk.
"Hey Mr. Death, sir. I'm just wonde... | "Protection?" I asked the hooded figure as he left a darkened trail of pain and agony.
I mean, surely, the very embodiment of 'death' shouldn't have to fear anything, no? When every living being in the universe were quaking in anticipation of the uncertain yet inevitable phase that was death, what *or* who could even ... | 2019-07-15T02:38:05 | 2019-07-15T01:04:50 | 218 | 91 |
[WP] One day a second Earth appears in the sky, the atmospheres of the two worlds barely touching. It's frightening, beautiful, and scientifically inexplicable. As folks panic and world powers deliberate, you look skyward through a telescope, only to see an almost identical 'you' looking back down. | 2121 has been a hell of a year. Selicia left me, I lost the house and kids in the courts, my family won't even speak to me, and now this...
It's the first time I've heard those fancy new sirens they installed after the calamities of the 21st century. They can't seem to settle on a tone: the long whine of a foreign inv... | "This...this is amazing...I'm looking at myself!" Kelsey cried with surprise and odd delight. "Twice the me, a double she!" her riotous laughter echoed through the hallway, making it's way from her room to Jay's ears two doors down.
He furrowed his brow in consternation, looking away for only a moment, that crit... | 2020-04-02T13:02:15 | 2020-04-02T12:37:48 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] One day you wake up with 30 dollars and a note that says “For Rent”. The thing is you aren’t renting out the place. The next day you see a spider and right before you kill it you hear it say, “Please i paid my rent don’t kill me”. | I'm not a particularly picky person. If I find thirty dollars with a strange note, I'm up thirty bucks. Hell, if they're paying, that's way better than my dogs were doing.
After interrogating my brother about it, he seemed to assume I was fucking with him and that was that. I've got places to be. Mysteries tend to un... | I heard the little voice say "Please! I paid my rent don't kill me."
I blinked down at the little spider and then the rolled up Sports Illustrated in my hand, "Dude, what?"
"Don't kill me!" the voice repeated. "Thirty dollars. Seems more than fair to me for the top left corner."
I put the SI down, "Are you...like..... | 2021-02-18T20:02:32 | 2021-02-18T19:37:30 | 485 | 148 |
[WP] The creature has cornered you in a dark alley. You are filled with fear as the tall and pale abomination approaches you. It grins as it gets closer, showing a sharp row of teeth. The creature then slowly extends its right arm, and speaks in a raspy voice, "Sir, you dropped your wallet." | “I…what?” I choked out.
My back pressed hard against the chain-link fence down the alley, my heart raced in my chest so fast I was convinced I was about to have a heart attack. I hadn’t even thought to yell for help; my brain had just shut down in fight-or-flight and I’d legged it, stupidly turning down the back stree... | Frantic footsteps rang out of the dirty alleyway, but there was no-one to hear it, no one to see how the wild eyed and flailing man was about to reach a dead end. If someone was observing, they’d surely wish they hadn't - not far behind the fleeing man slid a tall, pale creature. It did not move its spindly appendages ... | 2021-03-13T07:41:29 | 2021-03-13T07:38:14 | 134 | 42 |
[WP] "Wait, I'm still confused... if both of you are part of some hive mind, WHY would you need me for marriage counseling?" The young couple exchanged glances, before one of them spoke. "Because we're in two SEPARATE hive minds."
Edit: THANK YOU for all the upvotes!
Edit again: Holy cow I never thought I would get to... | The two beings that sat in my office looked, to all the world, like humans.
It was understandable that I hadn't figured it out sooner, though I should have looked over their intake forms in a bit more detail. After all, this was exactly the type of thing that they were meant to catch.
But now I had my clients, and I ... | *Kinexian colony 0739-XB78* had, in relative terms, bumped into *Derav Branch Designation Noron* in the supermarket.
One ship had come out of hyperspace dangerously close to the other as they were harvesting gas in the same solar system. After assisting one another with repairs... One thing had led to another.
They ... | 2021-04-24T10:35:37 | 2021-04-24T08:58:51 | 119 | 69 |
[WP] There is an average of 9,728 planes carrying 1,270,406 passengers in the sky at any given time. As these flights touch down at their airports they find them empty. In fact everywhere seems too be empty. The only people left were those in the air from commercial jetliner to single engine prop. | [POEM]
The million are we
Who were up in the air
when the earth did decree
she would be the dread slayer
Those on the ground
Burned, swallowed, drowned
While we flew above
No awareness thereof
Our vessels set down
Our captains confused
Our fears did compound
Acceptance, refused
Humanity c... | "Everyone stay calm!" I yelled in pure desperation as we saw the being chasing after us, the flesh and blood of everyone else on earth heading towards us, to add us to the collective. I know it'll tire out soon, and when it does, it should die. This is the thing that had stolen everyone from ground zero...
We landed d... | 2021-08-13T22:39:58 | 2021-08-13T22:35:46 | 62 | 22 |
[WP] "With all due respect, you programmed me to adapt to your needs. If you didn't want this, you could have limited my options. I've already notified your assistant to have breakfast and coffee waiting at the office. But until you build me an exosuit, I can't carry you there myself. Wake up." | The world was dark, clad in shadow. It was silent. Quiet. At peace.
The room was suddenly and rudely bathed in light. The sun was allowed in, chasing away the shadows. The rays ran about the room, exploring the dark corners, inevitable and intrusive.
She groaned, pulling the sheets above her head. The sunligh... | "Snooze!" Morgan's muffled voice called out from between two pillows.
A loud sigh filled the bedroom. "I've already 'snoozed' twice. If I let you snooze any longer, you will be late for your first meeting and I will have failed in my function."
The groaning man pulled the pillow off his face and scowled at the whirr... | 2021-10-24T11:07:49 | 2021-10-24T11:07:16 | 295 | 150 |
[WP] As a child you remember visiting a vast magical world while playing in a treehouse. Today your own child told you they visited a familiar sounding world after playing in that same treehouse. They then also handed you a letter from who you thought was only an imaginary friend. | It has been quite a minute,
Since you’ve stopped by to play.
And we really miss the simple fun,
Of your visits every day.
​
We played for quite some hours,
In the warmth of the green sun.
And the hours spent in bright blue trees,
Were my favorite ones.
​
Today the world is quiet,
And it... | Beatrice came bouncing into the house bubbling words punctuated with every other word with MOM! A hug kept her from twirling and jumping on all the furniture. "OK slow down, sit, Just breathe," her mother coaxed her into mantra 'Excitement burns energy; It is the nap bringer; I will let it flow and pass through me; ... | 2021-11-22T14:05:49 | 2021-11-22T12:05:34 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] A cop arrives at the golden gate bridge to talk a man out of committing suicide. After they have a short conversation, the cop jumps off the bridge. | "Sir, Why do you want to end your life?"
He turned towards me, a few days of growth on his face. "I'm the scum of the earth. All I do Is drink and smoke, and I have lovers who pays all my bills. I don't deserve life! LIFE IS TOO GOOD FOR ME!"
It was always sad for me to see people here. Usually, it was only one momen... | Officer Glenn Fowler opened the door to his aging police cruiser and sighed as he straightened his hat and stepped out of the car onto the cool pavement. He walked cautiously towards a man who had climbed over the safety fence and was now leaning out over the edge of the Golden Gate Bridge. Five minutes from being done... | 2014-07-04T22:08:36 | 2014-07-04T21:55:07 | 605 | 150 |
[WP]A retired super villain is in the bank with his 6 year old daughter when a new crew of super villains comes in to rob the place. | She remembered that day like it was yesterday. Skipping through the big glass doors, feeling the warmth and security from her dad's hand holding her palm, the sounds of the street muffled as the doors closed.
She remembered his smile and promise of stopping for ice cream on the way home... Followed by a long and bori... | My first stab at writing after grad school stole a couple years of my life...
John walked into the parlor where Christine waited for him on the plush suede chair. The two long walls in the rectangular room were lined with the old books, collected over John’s lifetime, while the side opposite the door looked out across... | 2015-02-06T22:57:36 | 2015-02-06T21:43:57 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] You accidentally discover the sentence of death (a sentence that kills anyone who hears it except the speaker) when you say it over national television. | **Item Number**: SCP-4059
**Object Class:** Keter
**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-4059 is currently written down on a slip of paper contained within the Level 5 Memetics Vault in Site-42. Only the Site Director and the O5 Council are authorized to open the vault.
Mobile Task Force Lambda-3 ("Speak No Ev... | I wasn't sure exactly what had happened- well, not at first. When the words came tumbling out of my mouth, I figured it was just the typical stuff you'd expect from a guy who'd had one too many tequila shots on his graduation party. I remember I was prancing around the house, one arm locked around the waist of my then-... | 2015-05-17T17:56:16 | 2015-05-17T15:05:44 | 62 | 16 |
[WP] In the year 2075, American and Chinese astronauts race to be the first colonists on an earth-like exoplanet. Upon arrival, they discover that someone has beaten them there: the Amish. | When the Amish asked to join and participate in the launch ceremony where both China and the U.S. would launch at once, we laughed and accepted. They're amish, after all! What could go wrong...
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"This is Captain Timothy Catleay of the U.S.S. Unidan, ready for launch. All pre-flight che... | "GET A MOVE ON CHANG, THE CHINKS ARE LAUNCHING IN 8 MINUTES. DID YOU HEAR ME? MOVE!" The operations manager dashed hurriedly toward me as hurriedly as an 82 year old Texan with a cane could dash. In what was a comical 45 seconds, he finally reached me and pulled downed my earlobe with the intensity of a provoked crab. ... | 2015-07-30T22:30:27 | 2015-07-30T18:02:33 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] 70 years ago, the US underestimated the power of the atomic bomb. It had completely obliterated the island nation of Japan. | **Post Hiroshima Era**
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The *Post Hiroshima Era* began on 06.08.1945 08:15 Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) by dropping the first of two atomic bombs in mankinds history on the city of Hiroshima. Due to "unforeseeable athmospheric effects"^[1] the initial energy released by the bomb wa... | Levon woked up one day atop of China's Diaoyu Island ,which everyone always know have always belong China over 5 000 year .Well ,anyway , Levon wers the Chinese citizen belong the Diaoyu island chain province , and he already live there long time ,so this weren't some strange thing for he wake up here .Was just the eve... | 2015-08-06T14:06:19 | 2015-08-06T11:36:34 | 47 | 14 |
[WP] You are an innkeeper in an RPG and get yelled at because sleeping there does not heal wounds. | "You what."
"How come my wounds haven't healed? It is an RPG, and that was clearly an Extended Rest."
"Not quite. The sleeping system I'm using is a homebrew ruleset: you can recover from effects and minor wounds dependant on a good die roll, but health... You'll need to replenish that the slow way. No healing potion... | We're inside of an inn. It's an old crapshack made of rotting wood and rusted metal. Some random barrels fill the corners. Ishtard stands behind the counter reading a newspaper article entitled, "Shroom season approaches, watch for strange activity".
"Excuse me, sir," says a voice.
"Would you like to buy some... | 2016-01-05T08:52:13 | 2016-01-05T07:31:47 | 22 | 15 |
[WP]If you murder someone, your jail sentence is as long as their remaining life would have been. | "I plead guilty, Your Honor," I told the courtroom, earning gasps and whispers. "I killed her. Six milligrams of Aconitum directly into her left arm."
"Well, I suppose I should thank your honesty. That saves us some time-"
"What kind of sick bastard murders his own sister?" a voice cut in from the crowd. Several othe... | A lawyer, young and well dressed, stands in front of a jury and paces for a couple of seconds before he adjusts his glasses and starts to speak.
"Alfred Benson is a name synonymous with murder. Called the most successful serial killer in history and the most efficient with 395 confirmed kills, 210 days in prison. He ... | 2016-05-29T08:24:25 | 2016-05-29T06:30:54 | 802 | 36 |
[WP] A few years after the world has recovered from the zombie apocalypse, everyone now is required to wear collars that will explode if a heart beat is not detected within 30 seconds. | **20 Seconds**
*20 seconds*. The allotted time we are given to save a life. 20 seconds of compressions, of mouth to mouth. Then, we step back. It's almost comical. Stare at a clock, 20 seconds seems like forever. Try and start a heart, it's passes in a single heartbeat.
After the infection, when the Collaborat... | It has been five years since "Infection 871". The zombie apocalypse that almost wiped out all of humanity, only leaving thousands alive. Most cities left in ruins. Many loved ones were lost. Rations of food and water have greatly decreased.
Despite all this, the economy has managed to rebuild itself. Farms were harves... | 2016-10-27T15:57:26 | 2016-10-27T15:14:17 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Your Grandma, a shape-shifter, is diagnosed with Alzheimers. She begins to forget her true form...or was it a disguise all along? | My grandparents had always been the handsomest couple I had ever known. They had both aged gracefully, their hair turning from brown to grey to a stark white and wrinkles appearing because of how often they smiled. Grandma’s bright blue eyes always looked into Grandma’s warm brown ones. I had never seen them wear outfi... | I dreamt about wolves.
I was walking through the house, my house, the house I grew up in. I was six, but I held a 12 gauge shotgun in my tiny little hands. Grandma comes into the room.
"Lisa, now, what did I tell you about playing carefully?" She smiles kindly, and takes the gun from my hands. I protest a little, bu... | 2017-02-18T09:14:12 | 2017-02-18T06:36:54 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] It turns out that adrenaline is considered one of the most illicit drugs in 90% of the civilized portions of the Galaxy. Among the circle of sapient races, humans are the only one known to produce it naturally. | Shanty is buzzed up on Dreddy again.
I want her to stop so much. She’s so much better when she stops. Her art is so much more beautiful when she stops.
She can’t stop. She won’t stop.
Sometimes she shows up to the falconing parties with the red eye. Sometimes she even shows up to the children’s parleys with the red e... | "Please... not again... just, give me the rest of the day off, I need a break..." I begged, knowing that there would be no reprieve. I'd already used all my vacation time, and there's no such thing as sick leave in this line of work. Being injured or ill wouldn't make a difference unless it was so bad that my adrenal s... | 2017-02-28T22:07:31 | 2017-02-28T21:12:11 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] Time freezes for everyone around you each time your life is in danger, leaving only you able to move until you are no longer in danger. One day time freezes, but you can't figure out why, until..
I hope its not too vague, first writing prompt ^^ enjoy
Thank you all so much for the responses it's so much fun to r... | The world shuddered to a stop with an almost imperceptible jerk. The rain, which had moments ago been tapping a wild staccato on the windshield, stopped - the droplets hanging patiently in the air.
Amy let out a low curse. Even after twenty-seven years of this it didn’t mitigate the initial jolt of surprise. It happe... | The first time it happened I was just little kid riding my bike. My mom wasn't paying attention to me. She was too deep in her gossip with our neighbor to notice me peddling toward the street. Honestly, I didn't even notice at first. But I was six and day dreaming about how I was a race car. I felt the bump of hitting ... | 2017-06-21T10:41:05 | 2017-06-21T10:03:52 | 108 | 30 |
[WP] You set up a sign that says "LEAVE WALLET HERE", as a joke. Much to your surprise, people obey the sign. You wonder what else people would be willing to do.
Loving the stories guys; You're all awesome people, and you should feel awesome. | First I started simple. I put up a simple sign telling people to leave their coats at the door. Lo' and behold, fifteen coats were hanging from an impromptu rack made from a pipe immediately inside the door.
Then I decided to see how far I could push it. I made a sign that said, "Please remove shoes and shirts before ... | This was supposed to have been a joke, but now I was here, driving around the city and giving people their wallets back. I had never realised how much people had become accustomed to obeying orders, as a sociological study, I would repeat things like this, though with less of a fallout.
The next sign I set up a week l... | 2017-07-19T14:27:12 | 2017-07-19T13:59:17 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] After an apocalypse, Death is desperately trying to help the last group of survivors so he doesn't lose his job. | The ocean was calm.
For the first time in its' lifespan, for that matter.
There sat the hooded being, at the bottom of the vast ocean where the ill of the world above - the soot, the ash, the char - would not reach.
A small, white polyp, attached to the ocean floor, waiting until it was ready to become [life](https:... | The world was silent after the cataclysm. No birds chirped, for there were no birds. No leaves were heard rustling in the wind, for there were no trees. No cars or trains were heard in the cities, for the cities were buried in ash and rock. Only Death remained.
In a small cave buried deep into the earth, the cultists ... | 2017-08-11T06:44:41 | 2017-08-11T04:41:07 | 312 | 79 |
[WP] Vampires cannot enter a house uninvited. Turns out, they invented Welcome mats to bypass this rule decades ago. | Earl and Helena pulled into the condo complex.
"I'm *so* hungry," she complained, tapping her long fingernails on the window.
"That's because you didn't finish that frat boy's blood."
"He was so drunk, I was getting tipsy! And I'm not 21 yet --"
He snickered. "Ah, such a sense of morality."
"Well, yes. Unlike you,... | Once again, was I sitting there in the darkness. Hungry. Starving. The gossip was going around faster than my non-existing blood flow,. The mortals knew there were shady "people" around who would knock on the door with some poor excuse to try and enter the residence. Some lousy new-blood was captured and tortured for t... | 2017-12-13T11:02:41 | 2017-12-13T11:01:40 | 2,384 | 170 |
[WP] The year is 5064, Earth Years. After being abandoned due to an inhospitable environment, you are among one of the first humans sent back to the planet to regain the knowledge lost in our hasty retreat. Unknown to you, yourlanding spot was once known as the most haunted place on Earth. | From a far, the planet looked nothing like the blue marble it was previously known as. It was barren, lifeless, and we had no desire to ever settle there again. I was only sent as part of a recovery mission. Not to recover any unlikely survivors, nothing noble like that. See, there was simply not enough time to take al... | A loud ringing filled my ears and a pungent stench invaded my nostrils. I thought I was dying; I lurched forward and tried to claw at whatever was covering my face and chest. I pulled at the tube in my throat and attempted to scream. I could not. My senses were burning with overstimulation before I was sedated and remi... | 2018-01-04T23:33:06 | 2018-01-04T23:22:02 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You are an alchemist trying to make philosophers stone, but you actually create philosophers coin. If you flip the coin and get heads you get what you desire without equivalent exchange, however if it's tails you pay the equivalent price but get nothing. | It took three days. Three whole days just to change the etching on the coin making it a trick double headed one.
Satisfied I decided to try my luck with something small. "I want some fish and chips"
**Flip**
A plate of with golden, crispy fish and hot crunchy fries appeared before me. It was just like I remembe... | "After hundreds of tries, i started to lose faith, no matter how much i did, no matter how much i searched, i could not find a way to make a philosophers stone, all i could make was this failure of a coin, i mean, ya its really powerful, but the risks are too great, giving up something for nothing is something i would ... | 2018-09-17T06:11:35 | 2018-09-17T05:26:24 | 85 | 47 |
[WP] You're an exorcist, and this is your most conflicting assignment yet. The demon possessing the child seems to actually be protecting it from abusive parents.
[removed] | You stare at the man sitting in his leather chair with his leather smile, and your blood begins to boil. There's a *squelch* as he leans forward to show you the red slashes on his forearm. "As you can see, this is totally unacceptable."
Unacceptable. The child is sitting in a locked crate—formerly the dog's, you guess... | Father Marco climbed out of the taxi with a groan, carefully extricating his long lean frame. It had been a long flight from The Vatican and he was getting too old for the cramped coach seats he always rode in. He paid the cabbie his fare then took a long moment to stretch, giving a brief grunt of satisfaction every ti... | 2018-09-22T04:11:49 | 2018-09-22T01:49:21 | 35 | 22 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | Some people became near gods. Flying, running at the speed of light. Some people could shoot elecricity from their fingertips.
The news went from boring politics one day, to men and women crackling with electric energy fighting in the streets.
After the dust settled, and the really bad guys guys were dead, and the ... | Well, i can´t blame them that they laugh at me. I mean, who wouldn´t? A normal man who don´t seem to have any Power except that he is followed at every time by some elvish figures....but, let me start from the beginning, to be precise, the 6th of july.
​
It was a normal day, maybe a little warmer, but non... | 2019-08-12T00:49:37 | 2019-08-12T00:08:14 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] As a dad, you obviously have a mug that claims you're the "#1 World's Best Dad". One day, you find on the news that all "Best Dad Mugs" now have actual ratings, the media is crazy about it, a photo shows a mug with #5,826,827 World's Best Dad on it, curious, you check yours. It still says #1. | My son Max and I were watching Paw Patrol (his favorite show) and eating bacon (our favorite food) when a "special news announcement" came up on the screen. I couldn't believe it, people were being ranked and rated based on their best dad mugs... It wasn't long after that I got struck with a memory...
My dad was sick ... | A month had already passed since I had seen my ranking as best dad. My life and my families had then been filled with tv interviews, appearances on the Ellen show and even a book deal where I share my wisdom on what it means to be the best dad. Simply put, this was the happiest I had ever been.
Well, almost. It began ... | 2019-10-02T22:09:48 | 2019-10-02T20:33:44 | 765 | 37 |
[WP] When your super power awakened, you were ecstatic. After all, shape-shifting is a rare and powerful ability. After a few months being anything and everything, you realise you can't return to your original body. | Being anyone and anything you want to be can be really cool, for a while at least.
Not until every intelligence agency in the world starts looking for you. I guess that's what happens when you are the only person in the world with superpowers. I got famous pretty quickly after the incident. No one knows my real identi... | There was frost at the window that clouded the fading light so it looked like afternoon clouds creeping upon the edges. The old men were hustling home and their shadows passed long against the glass and then it was light again, but always fading.
He heard the sounds of winding down and he felt the world cool, settlin... | 2019-12-19T05:27:01 | 2019-12-19T04:07:48 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] So many people have become vampires that the government had to step in to protect the remaining humans. Every morning vampires receive a canister filled with a mysterious liquid that will sustain them for one day. While it has been confirmed to not be blood the truth is even more horrid. | Feel free to leave critique, I enjoyed writing this.
The government providing every vampire with a canister was honestly a stretch to begin with. Although, compared to the insanity that was happening out there it wasn’t like it could get worse.
Lo and behold they managed to do it. I mean, almost everyone thought t... | “Dude, I think I figured it out.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah, I was browsing the The old old video stuff, like YouTube and that-“
“Nerd.”
“Phillistine. Anyway I came across this video and this dude was taking apart this weird like juice presser thing that was made like turn of the century or some shit-“
“Do you want with or... | 2020-02-16T05:59:46 | 2020-02-16T03:27:51 | 54 | 12 |
[WP] So many people have become vampires that the government had to step in to protect the remaining humans. Every morning vampires receive a canister filled with a mysterious liquid that will sustain them for one day. While it has been confirmed to not be blood the truth is even more horrid. | **\*\*note: if you wanna add to your reading experience, listen to "Ghost Chase Thriller" by Sir Cubworth as you read.**
*04/28/3058 Day 649 Vile 290.AAZ*
*This is the 26th time I have ran these test tubes through the analysis machine. The results from the first test seemed like a fluke, a jo... | “Dude, I think I figured it out.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yeah, I was browsing the The old old video stuff, like YouTube and that-“
“Nerd.”
“Phillistine. Anyway I came across this video and this dude was taking apart this weird like juice presser thing that was made like turn of the century or some shit-“
“Do you want with or... | 2020-02-16T07:45:42 | 2020-02-16T03:27:51 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to stop time, but only temporarily. You can stop time for as five seconds. One day, at 33 years old, you stop time. As you move through your crowded office, you notice one of your coworkers's fingers twitch. | Five seconds.
That was all I had. A superpower I'd had since birth, so close to useless that sometimes I forgot I even had it.
Five seconds.
One breath. A fleeting thought. A moment stretching just a little longer than the others.
It wasn't enough time to wander the office. It wasn't enough time to take a poop i... | Five seconds, many would question how much of an advantage
that was in life. How much could occur over five seconds? No one was going to
steal a tv or rob a bank in such a short period, so what use did it have?
It was a stupid train of thought many fell victim to. Often
I would ask my friends and relatives what t... | 2020-09-22T05:04:28 | 2020-09-22T04:55:11 | 1,679 | 411 |
[WP] Dear diary, I’ve been feeding this creature that fell from the sky for a few days. It strangely likes to drink water, the liquid we use to fuel cars. I noticed a patch on its suit today that read “NASA”. I’ll ask it tomorrow what that means. If that’s it’s name. | Three days after his fall, NASA still hadn't spoken to me.
It quickly became clear that this creature was unaccustomed to the ways of my people. We Quelbrigs have been here for millennia, and most neighboring planets are at the very least aware of us. But not NASA.
I’d managed to piece together the sounds of its nam... | She was a frail creature, much smaller than Levi was, but she had a sense of familiarity that lingered over their time together. Like they had known each other far longer than a few days -- when he found her, after she hurtled from the sky and landed miles from his home.
For the first few days all she did was sleep, c... | 2020-10-11T07:44:33 | 2020-10-11T07:32:54 | 5,429 | 313 |
[WP] "I raise undead children" "You what?!" "You misunderstand I don't raise them from the dead, irresponsible young necromancers do that. I'm the one who takes care of them after they realize the handful." "Would you like to meet them? I must warn you, they do bite."
[deleted] | Kevin kicked himself for mentioning the zombie-kids so early in the date. The woman sitting across from him, Tara, was *way* out of his league. He did not want to blow it. They were still squarely in the small-talk phase of the night, and undead children are distinctly *not* small-talk material. So *stupid,* he tho... | Alan Hughes walked up a long, curved driveway, eyeing the haunting beauty of the building at the crest of the hill. Memories swirled in his head. This was his home, once—though that life was so distant in scarcely felt like his own anymore.
A spiraling tower sat on the left side of the structure. Its shadow fell on t... | 2021-02-20T16:34:32 | 2021-02-20T15:32:08 | 1,426 | 206 |
[WP] When humans joined the galactic union, space force & military were made into clandestine projects & continued growing in secret. When the most powerful alien race challenged the peaceful humans for sport, they & the galact union learned the hard way the human saying "Si vis pacem, para bellum" | "I present this news with the gravest of regrets, my friend. The Tiermoc are preparing to bring war to your territories."
Council Representative Aven Marks stared into the purple, tendrilled face of the messenger, the current Community Ambassador from Kuloc. His name was Geem. He'd come alone to Aven's office in the ... | "what I'm saying is that if our military is to be secret and only used as a last resort why are we following the spirit of the laws? Seriously, they were written by 34 races that have known nothing but peace for the past 1000 years or so, 3 that were just flattened by tech they don't understand and the one race doing ... | 2021-04-23T17:20:19 | 2021-04-23T15:16:07 | 235 | 68 |
[WP] The attempted assassination of a human dignitary at a galactic summit goes awry. Turns out, many of the conventional toxins in an alien assassin's repertoire include compounds like caffeine, theobromine and capsaicin; lethal to many species, but... less than effective on humans. | The sharp intake of breath, the wide eyes, the elevated temperature in the throat and neck, spreading down into the stomach. All these are expected symptoms of the deadly poison extracted from the excretions of the sac fungi found on the plains of Straka III.
The shaking expected afterwards is supposed to be a series ... | "It runs deeper," said the Lord.
The Lords were the first alien species humanity had encountered in the early stage of space travel. Their language and society had no words for individuality or community. Instead, they were all considered as grand beings yet without traits to differenciate them. As humans and Lords le... | 2021-06-12T12:39:34 | 2021-06-12T11:07:39 | 2,593 | 982 |
[WP].You are sitting outside your house, enjoying the dying embers of the campfire when two glowing eyes open to stare at you. " Greetings, " it rasped, " may I share your fire tonight?" | Friend, Stranger, and Foe
“What a beautiful night, but it is depressing seeing Orion.” I said to myself; contemplating how the arrival of his constellation signaled impending winter cold. I used my fire poker to trace out the stars that made his belt and bow. Then, lazily stirred the warm embers. To most, embers signa... | The house was simply perfection. We fell in love with it at first sight of the photos on the Internet. Heck, we weren't even house shopping when we saw it. 6 months later, we are enjoying a nice adult night with friends out by the fire pit. Our back yard bordered a national forest so we were the popular spot for "fi... | 2022-01-06T06:28:28 | 2022-01-06T02:41:56 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Vampire society have been loyal customers to a carpenter for years. He made the best coffins they have slept in for centuries, and never really got suspicious of so many wealthy people willing to pay premium for the same niche item. As he got old, the vampires tries to offer him immortality. | The bell jingled, and the glass front door creaked open. It was the middle of the day in the middle of summer, the type of afternoon where nobody would suspect anything amiss if a coffin shop’s owner were gone for lunch.
However, the owner of this coffin shop packed his lunch every day. He also didn’t believe in air... | # Soulmage
**I knew the Grandmaster was hiding something when he ordered his second coffin of the month.** I could understand why he'd ordered from Jiaola—if there was any carpenter in the Silent Peaks that you wanted working for you, it was one who'd built his own home from scratch—but the order itself was inexplicab... | 2022-05-31T13:59:39 | 2022-05-31T10:42:02 | 145 | 85 |
[WP] There's a teenage girl said to be the most beautiful and pure in all the land, many will travel for miles just to gaze at her beauty. When a dragon threatens to destroy her small village, the fair maiden, with no fear, approaches it, to ask what it is that he seeks. | "Mighty dragon, what is it you seek?"
Her voice rang out, strong and brave. The Treasure of Hilla Village was dwarfed by the black beast before her, yet she had no fear.
The dragon looked at her, surprised and amused. It was used to humans fleeing in terror. It had seen hunting parties shake at its sight, even as the... | The hulking green monstrosity came to a stop in the smoking wreckage of a house. A girl stood in its path, arms outstretched, a look of pleading on her young face. An angry shout issued from deep inside the great green form, then repeated.
“Why are we stopped? Ivan, what do you see? Contact? Markov, swivel this turret... | 2022-09-07T13:44:33 | 2022-09-07T13:25:01 | 54 | 10 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | “Ah, professor? I don’t really think humans are all that peaceful.”
“Have you used nuclear weapons on each other?”
“Twice.”
“Have you used chemical weapons on each other?”
“More times than could be recorded?”
“Practiced biological warfare?”
“For hundreds of years.”
“Torture?”
“Thousands of years.”
“Slavery?”
... | She sat in her chair, quaking in shock. She could not sit there and listen to the professor say that humans when one of the most peaceful peoples in the galaxy. She new different. She new the truth. She had to speak up.
She raised her hand. Professor K'Vorth acknowledge her. "Yes? What is it, Karen?"
Karen slowly sto... | 2022-10-17T09:03:16 | 2022-10-17T05:22:08 | 100 | 74 |
[WP] You are reincarnated as a voice within a schizophrenic's head. | This is how it works? Did I say that or think it?
Did he hear me?
Is he hearing me?
If this is how it works... If I can come back again when I die?
I don't want to be here. A voice in a head. I'm a man with dreams.
I need out.
Kill yourself.
Kill yourself!
KILL YOURSELF! | ***Wake up Jimmy***
I said in a soft and whispery voice.
***Wake up Jimmy, it's just 6AM***
*NO, NO, NO, this is not happening, I'm not hearing another voice!!!*
***Oh, yes you are, I'm here, inside your mind. Did you think this moment would never happen? Did you think you are not insane?***
*But, but, but... | 2015-03-23T07:29:11 | 2015-03-23T05:47:41 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | I woke up on my 18th birthday and - aside from the obvious nervousness - I felt exactly the same. Of course, this was to be completely expected. After a wonderful birthday breakfast with my family beset with gifts, well-wishes, and gentle teasing, my father volunteered to be the one to fly me to the local Scientific U... | Light cascaded through the blinds of the first floor window of his parents home, waking him gently. Simon had been long awaiting this day; the day he'd learn his talent. Many of his friends had already found out their talents and it was just like he'd been told throughout his time in school and by his parents: "Your ... | 2015-03-28T05:39:45 | 2015-03-28T05:31:34 | 757 | 27 |
[WP] Humanity awakens one day to find that large city block size black monoliths have appeared all over the globe. They don't seem to serve any purpose. At first panic ensues but after 10 years of them being there society has come to just accept them. | Mission log entry 1 sun cycle 1: a scout ship detected electromagnetic radiation emanating from the third planet of a nearby solar system. Analysis indicates the indigenous population engaged in suicidal weapons development and war. Dispatch monitor complex to the third planet.
Mission log entry 2 sun cycle 1.5: mo... | "Ash, how many time have I told you? Stop going near them!" Razia scolded.
Ash didn't want to argue with his mother, especially with her waving the kitchen knife around while she cut the vegetables. Lowering the condensation in his voice, he tried to explain.
"Mom. Its nothing to worry about. I was just making a ske... | 2015-10-18T10:55:24 | 2015-10-18T10:48:42 | 207 | 13 |
[WP] It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world, but you can only do so by getting kills. | It has become an addiction, more than killing ever was. It has consumed me.
When you picture "serial killer," I'm the first thing that springs into your mind. I tortured animals as a child, and I liked it. My father abused me relentlessly, second only to my mother. I eventually killed him... and her. I took a life fo... | *The Regulator:*
----
The boy sat, hands shaking and cuffed. The room was quiet, still. Through a mirror, he knew there were people watching him- he could tell somehow, dangerous people. He was like them now, worse maybe. The chair creaked as he peered at the glass.
They knew he knew.
He jumped as a door opened, sl... | 2015-11-11T08:18:22 | 2015-11-11T08:03:53 | 1,155 | 202 |
[WP] Actors cannot leave character at all until the film in which they play is released in cinemas. Describe an actor's life.
Or a part of it.
edit: I'm pretty sure someone here is shadowbanned. | My life, I am the greatest man on earth. Saved the country multiple times. I am soo attractive people want my face.
I just don't get why every couple of months, we have this ritual where people celebrate my exploits in a theatre then tell me to stop.
Stop. Stop acting Nick, it's okay, the movie is out.
I usually ... | Development hell. A media industry term, originally. Playful jargon that describes a film stuck somewhere in writing or production. Or cycling back and forth and back and forth between the two - a dozen scenes being filmed at once at any given time, using at least as many different scripts, and by the time you've manag... | 2015-12-20T06:08:30 | 2015-12-20T04:30:07 | 295 | 113 |
[WP] You have been the Grim Reaper for the last 2000 years, and have always viewed and experienced the entire life of the person you're to take the life of. You've never shown mercy and have always collected the life when time ends. Until you experience the life of a sicky old man. | He just wanted to sit outside one last time.
When I touched him, he spoke to me, as if he knew I was coming. Not once in my many decades of existence has anyone ever spoken to me, but his voice was clear, and frail.
"Can I sit outside, with the birds, one last time?" He asked me like he was a child asking for permi... | I am death.
Sounds like a cliché to open like that, huh? Well, frankly I don't care. I'm literally death. I take the lives of people whose time has come, and I do it swiftly, fast with no remorse. I always see the long and prosperous lives of the unworthy, and the short and disease filled ones of the poor. I experienc... | 2016-08-28T14:29:05 | 2016-08-28T13:58:52 | 33 | 11 |
[WP]You are a Demon hiding amongst humans. 2 Problems, young children and dogs can perceive your original form, And Your girlfriend is starting to notice them noticing. | **Edited** 10:55: Couple words. Removed a sentence. Added a bit more because I felt one line was coming off as me preaching.
*Story*
The end of my happy relationship was about to come. This wonderful woman I met, Jennifer, was finally ready for me to meet her son.
I'm not a child hater, you see, I love children. It... | I never quite understood why this particular mission requires me to pass as a human. I’m not infiltrating a corporation or government. I’m not here to protect the Antichrist. I’m not really even supposed to be sowing seeds of misery and discontent among God’s children. I’m just supposed to be John Brown.
John is a... | 2017-04-02T13:06:47 | 2017-04-02T06:31:07 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | When the first human got to hell, Satan and all his minions were amazed, no one made it here, no matter how bad were their sins, they repent and ask forgiveness or simply the good actions outweigh the sins.
So Satan like a curious cat took him to his office to make an interview to study him. "So John Felgrand it's yo... | I entered Hell whistling merrily.
I don't think I could call this a surprise. I'm a downright horrible bastard. "You think they'd hire you?" I wondered to myself. "It sure beats getting tortured for all eternity."
"That does sound nice," I agreed. "It might be nice to spend all of eternity with a job at least, a cal... | 2017-06-22T08:31:56 | 2017-06-22T06:00:59 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | "Quack......quack quack quack.......quack quack"
"Moooooo.....mooooooooo......"
"Quack quack quack"
"Mooooooooo......"
It had been six weeks since the vet had diagnosed Laurence with Mad Cow Disease. Phillip had yet to give up hope and figured it was a 90's phase that he was going through.
"Mooooooo....."
"......... | As I stared aimlessly forwards, I contemplated life. My surroundings had the potential to be beautiful, but I could not see it. My frustrations limited my sight drastically. I can only see the reasons for my frustrations.
That tree isn't there to provide shade, nourishment and beauty, it is there to encroach upon my ... | 2017-10-02T06:54:58 | 2017-10-02T06:43:21 | 42 | 11 |
[WP] You discover you have an odd super power: Persuasion. You can talk anyone (except yourself) into doing or believing anything. It occurs to you that you can eliminate war, bigotry, and the like, by just talking to as many people as possible. The problem is you have crippling social anxiety. | That confirms it... this can't be real life.
I seriously just did it again, convinced that convenience store owner to give me ANOTHER free coffee, these lame excuses just keep getting worse. I have been trying to fail.
I don't know when this happened... I've been shut in here for so long, he's the only guy I even sp... | A curse. That's what it was.
*You could help them all*
I clicked on another channel. The news again.
*You could make them agree*
I clicked on another channel. More news.
*Go out and talk to them*
I turned off my TV and threw my remote across the room. My eye started to twitch as I sat there on my couch, slowly c... | 2018-10-17T20:24:02 | 2018-10-17T18:59:54 | 88 | 36 |
[WP] You are a traveler who reaches a city where powerful magicians exist. The stronger a wizard, the less other wizards can sense him casting spells. You start showing off some card tricks to the locals for some coins and realize that some people in the audience look terrified. | Mainly I get applause. That’s the most common response, although not my favourite. That position went to money, although it didn’t happen quite as often as I’d like. Sometimes there was laughter, even the occasional “ooh”, or “aah”. There was even, depending on the city, and the crowd, bored silence or taunts. I’d ha... | You could say I’ve always been a natural talent when it comes to magic tricks. In fact, my many travels have been funded by selling tricks to fledgling magicians. Back when I was a child I was impressed by the feats of seasoned performers, but as I’ve aged the veil of mystery surrounding even the most revered magic use... | 2019-01-07T11:13:43 | 2019-01-07T10:02:03 | 21 | 15 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | I walked into my uncle's laboratory. He was one of the top tech engineers on Mars, but I'd never been able to visit as a child. My parents had never let me near a tech lab, much less have anything installed. Now that I was eighteen I got my mandatory categorization done and got the surprising result of being the number... | Year 5 was my earliest memory. I remember the cry of the roosters early in the morning while father worked in the slaughterhouse. Mother would clean the dishes and cook my sister and I breakfast. Every day around noon, father would come and take us into the field and have us help him work. By year 9, I was up at dawn w... | 2019-05-04T13:46:09 | 2019-05-04T12:18:06 | 32 | 16 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | When I jumped out my truck to enter the lan house, I kept my eyes ahead as my face burned. There were a few people around, staring at me with a strange smile.
Usually those stares did not bother me. One gets used to being stared at, having the big scar that I had crossing half of my left cheek.
But today people were ... | Year 5 was my earliest memory. I remember the cry of the roosters early in the morning while father worked in the slaughterhouse. Mother would clean the dishes and cook my sister and I breakfast. Every day around noon, father would come and take us into the field and have us help him work. By year 9, I was up at dawn w... | 2019-05-04T12:27:51 | 2019-05-04T12:18:06 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] It's your first deployment as a member of a SWAT unit. You begin to panic a little when your equipment includes magazines with silver bullets, a bottle of holy water, a container full of salt, grenades with engraved runes, a helmet lined with what appears to be some sort of foil... | *What's going on here?*
The more that he looked through his supplies, complete with a checklist of materials, the more confusion showed upon Private Jacobson's face. There were primarily people from his division of trainees that hadn't washed out of the program, and each of them wore a similar expression upon their fa... | PART ONE
Cheyenne was not the kind of city Mazelina was expecting, but in its own unique way, it was the one she needed. For as long as she could remember, she’d been fighting something. Or doing protective duty. Her actual education was so far in the distant past that she could do her job by rote.
Which was probably... | 2020-02-16T23:40:33 | 2020-02-16T23:30:36 | 150 | 52 |
[WP] You unhappily work in the local Voodoo Doll factory. Strict PPE protocol is required. During a tour of the facility by the local elders you notice they're not wearing protective gear, just enough of their dna has drifted into the dolls at a crucial stage. You say nothing, and wait for chaos. | You almost said something.
Almost.
But that smug elder, the one with the horrible hog face had been an utter ass to you when you welcomed them. You remembered how they all laughed as he made it difficult for you. So instead, you smiled and nodded at them as they left. Pompous faces pleased and noses pointed into th... | They were laughing and chatting, such fools. What are elderly even doing here? Do they even believe in Voodoo dolls? Or maybe they thought it was just a normal doll shop to bring home to their kids to try to buy their love again. This is not the first time this happened, but it was always fixable, if the doll was handl... | 2020-04-20T14:55:42 | 2020-04-20T13:31:28 | 51 | 16 |
[WP] Moving into your new house, you find a note left by the previous owner: “Today, all of your neighbors will stop by throughout the day and offer you a lemon meringue pie. They will heavily insist that you eat it. Whatever you do, DO NOT EAT THE PIE.” As you set down the note, the doorbell rings. | I settled down in the house as I saw the note. I didn't take much note of it, since I had no allergies, and the note was suspicious in the first place. After a while, I heard the doorbell ring. I hadn't seen their faces before, so this was a strange occurrence. I had made sure to meet and greet all the neighbors before... | It was a nice house, on a nice quiet street. Had got it fairly cheap since the backyard was somewhat smaller than average, but I didn't mind much. I'm not a garden person at the best of times. Just a nice house, with a ground floor, a decent basement, a recently redecorated kitchen, and other great things. So when I se... | 2020-06-11T06:35:57 | 2020-06-11T04:36:09 | 246 | 79 |
[WP] You are a secret immortal who accidentally won a '$2000 per week for the rest of your life lottery'. The lottery organizers don't understand why you want to turn down the prize as your excuses grow increasingly more far-fetched. | "Hello, Sye Porter, who is this?"
"..."
"Look, I can't accept the damn money!"
"..."
"Why does it matter that I keep giving you reason after reason?"
"..."
"Oh for fuck sake. I am done. I don't want the damn money because I will bankrupt your lottery scheme. You'll be so fucked your great great grand... | When you have unlimited time to live, you'll get certain advantages. With my 500+ years of knowledge, i know my way through life, i saw things that mortal mind can't even comprehend. And yet, i decided to buy that fucking lottery ticket!
\*Reng\* \*Reng\*
Why? Why did i buy it? What can it possibly help my life?
\*... | 2020-08-23T02:32:43 | 2020-08-23T01:05:46 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | "We must duel to the death, you say?"
"Yes." She grins challengingly. "I so enjoy this part. The wooing is always fun, sure, but I've trained for this all my life. I'm the greatest swordman of the country. This is what I live for."
"Well, very well." I pull out two decks. "I like to play green blue. I'm assuming you... | "Er, look, can't we talk about this?" I asked as the rapier swished within a hair's breadth of making making me say that a couple of octaves higher. "I mean, I'm really good in bed. I go to sleep really quickly."
"Hah," she yelled, ignoring my feeble attempt at humour. "No man will take me. I vow it with every oun... | 2020-09-20T20:52:33 | 2020-09-20T17:25:35 | 180 | 128 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | "We must duel to the death, you say?"
"Yes." She grins challengingly. "I so enjoy this part. The wooing is always fun, sure, but I've trained for this all my life. I'm the greatest swordman of the country. This is what I live for."
"Well, very well." I pull out two decks. "I like to play green blue. I'm assuming you... | "Please don't" he whimpered.
She stood over him, a plain look on her face.
"You just need to get to know me better, one week is hardly enough time......."
She raised her sword, arcing it high above her head, the soft clink of armor making the only sound.
A whisper, "I thought......you said.....is this really how it... | 2020-09-20T20:52:33 | 2020-09-20T16:55:52 | 180 | 107 |
[WP] Exactly one hour before death, everyone is approached by a man in a grey suit that nobody else can see or hear. He makes the same deal for everyone he meets. If they refuse, they die as normal one hour later. If they agree, they disappear and are never seen or heard from again.
Edit: whoever gave this a helpful a... |
I sat in my rocking chair, sipping on a cup of tea. I didn't even like tea, but my wife brought me a cup every morning regardless. 45 years after she was gone, and I still drank a cup every morning. I glanced over at the picture of her on the end table. God, I missed her. I'll never forget that day, I came home, an... | Every culture has their own beliefs about the nature of death. There might be multiple words for snow in some languages and no concept of snow in others, but death was something that we all shared. All plants, all animals, all single-called organisms around the Universe had their beginning and their end.
I thought tha... | 2020-12-01T15:21:26 | 2020-12-01T14:31:00 | 101 | 63 |
[WP] The demon couldn't believe his luck to find such a willing victim to possess. As it possessed them, instead of fighting back like they usually do, this one said "Good luck. You'll need it."
EDIT: Thanks for the awards guys! I've been on this site for 7 years and this is the first time I've received any. | Xullufiti couldn't believe this luck, finally, an escape from the clutches of Hell! Not a crack, not a nightmare, but a veritable door from one reality to the next. A vessel! A passage between worlds!
He cackled loudly as he swarmed into the human body, their soul swapped away almost effortlessly in the exchange. But ... | Gregor punched through the curtains of reality, cascading through dimensions, and sweeping over humanity's collective consciousness like a sulfurous wind. The triple-reinforced wards on Faith's room fluttered pointlessly in the wind, and stirred up the layer of dust in her room. The demon reached through its imp's spid... | 2020-12-21T12:52:15 | 2020-12-21T12:34:57 | 141 | 63 |
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