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[WP] As you sip your morning coffee, you open up your Sims Universe 3 game on your quantum computer. As you zoom in on a planet you've been watching and tormenting, you notice the governments of the world building a strange device. A flash. A man appears before you. "Are you god?" He asks. | "Yep.", I said with arrogant confidence. I'd prepared for this day a thousand times in my head. I knew they would one day advance themselves to the point of stepping out of their world and into mine.
"Good."
He had clearly been preparing just as long to say that as he reached into his pocket, soon after brandishing ... | Sighing I sipped my coffee. *Welp it was bound to happen I guess….fuck*. As the man before me stars in wonder I reach under my desk. *bang*. Looking at the now dead body I had heard rumors of this game getting to real. Swiveling around my chair I face my screen. Watching my Sims begin to worry as they haven’t heard bac... | 2021-06-29T12:50:36 | 2021-06-29T12:19:51 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] God sends everyone who hasn't heard of Christianity to heaven because they wouldn't know if they sinned. At a point in history (of your choosing) an order is found that seeks to make Christianity as little known as possible so everyone can go to heaven without having to obey god's commandments.
edit: I meant foun... | We've tried everything. *Everything.* The first thing we did when we realized the problem, and we thought this was really going to be foolproof, was to play up the whole apocalypse aspect. Christianity said the world is going to end, and a lot of Christians at the time of our founding figured the world was going to end... | Sea of Tranquility, 1969.
Buzz Aldrin lay out the equipment of a communion. To hell with orders, this was being photographed. NASA might not let it on the radio, but they couldnt stop him photographing it. The photos would get leaked to the press, and people would finally have an image that proved religion and science... | 2015-09-12T07:16:48 | 2015-09-12T06:58:14 | 176 | 19 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | I thought it was adorable at first. It started a few days after I brought her home. I had a giant potted plant in my living room. It's leaves were bigger than the cats head. She would rip an entire leaf off the plant, and carry it all the way up the stairs, down the hall to my bedroom and leave it on my bed.
It was ... | I couldn’t turn away fast enough. I immediately slammed the door closed and screamed “WHAT THE FUCK!!” in utter disbelief of the image forever now branded into my deepest synapsis. Atoms overloaded, neurons on all cylinders, new pathways forged instantaneously. Milliseconds turned into centuries as I barely made two st... | 2021-12-17T07:06:19 | 2021-12-17T07:05:33 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] Write a serious story whose last line is a pun so bad it makes you groan. | “Hey,” Jack’s mom put a gentle hand on her son’s shoulder. “It’s gonna be fine, you’ll have a great time.”
Jack remained silent, his eyes idly tracking the rise and fall of the telephone wires that raced alongside the car.
His mom returned her hand to the steering wheel and the pair continued on in a silence she was ... | It all went down this week. Being a Jamaican born man, living in America was a shock to me. I moved here just a week ago and couldn't find a good job so I did what I left Jamaica to escape. I found a good supplier for Marijuana on a large scale.
Business was slow at first, people thought I was trying to scam them and... | 2016-08-23T09:45:53 | 2016-08-23T09:26:11 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] Last week the scientific community presented incontrovertible evidence that the universe is a simulation. Today the gaming community presented the first glitch guide. | We met a Pokemon convention, protesting Game Freak's boneheaded decision to remove all Kanto Pokemon from the latest game.
She had wavy, pink hair that I couldn't stop looking at. Normally when someone passes me with colorful hair, I immediately assume they are my enemy. But her? I had to ask her to get a coffee just ... | Finally, a prompt I can work with!
**Setting:** Tenobel, Unreality, 11 Days Post-Revelation
It's been 11 days since the so-called "Fatal Study." The most controversial report that everyone knew was true.
Some went on with their lives as normal. Some tried to screw things up on purpose, because they aren't real, it d... | 2019-12-12T09:33:51 | 2019-12-12T09:33:01 | 389 | 153 |
[WP] You glance at your watch 10:34 am, roughly 10 seconds later your plane explodes over the Pacific Ocean. Your eyes open as you jolt awake. The familiar hum of the planes engine remains. Checking your watch it is 9:35 | I woke up just as the credits started rolling. Perhaps it was the music that roused me. After a brief tussle with the cheap airline headphones, I managed to untangle the wire enough to pull the things off my head. Then I just sat watching the screen in a semi-conscious daze. I remember thinking to myself that lots of p... | I couldn't breathe. Was it just a dream? Had I imagined it all?
No, no. It felt real. It *was* real. I'm certain of that.
I looked around me. Hundreds of people. Was I the only that felt it? I checked my watch again, 9:36. I had just under an hour to stop this. To fix this.
*Where had the explosion come from?*
I ... | 2016-09-27T07:18:28 | 2016-09-27T06:31:32 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] 5 People are trying to lift a very heavy piece of furniture. Twist: They all want to be the person who only acts like they are lifting, and none of them are willing to admit this to one another. | Abe, Carl, and Brock stood in the sun, shielding their eyes as they looked down at the table on the ground. In the last 2 hours, they hadn't moved it an inch. It stood entire yards away from the door to their apartment and at this rate, it would take all night.
"Wow the table is heavy," Brock said, stretching his arms... | "Alright, one.. two.. three!"
Nothing happened.
"Sorry, were we supposed to do a one-two-lift or a one-two three-lift?", Aaron asked.
"Why are you even asking?! You didn't do either!", Brad answered, "Seriously we need to lift this monstrosity together! Alright? One-Two-Lift, on my count! One.. Two.. what the hell C... | 2017-05-11T15:32:05 | 2017-05-11T11:33:23 | 553 | 373 |
[WP] You're an arctic biologist who spends 5 months at a time away from all society. At the end of a stint your bush pilot never shows. After a 3 day journey to the nearest town you make a shocking discovery. You're more than likely the last person alive. | 10-3-2024
*Hi, honey, I know it’s only been a couple days, but I want to tell you how things are going.*
*The penguins are amazing. The colony is responding so well to the treatment. It’s amazing, watching life unfold just how we predicted in our models. As a scientist, you’re always amazed when your theories can com... | My first thought was one of freedom, of all encompassing relief. I would never need to comply with the horrid rules of society that had gotten me reassigned to the artic wasteland. Of course, as a biologist that "wasteland" was full of undiscovered secrets vital to mankinds scientific growth. That was when I had my sec... | 2019-08-14T20:58:35 | 2019-08-14T20:30:48 | 183 | 45 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | > #489,231,337
Robert Johnson wasn't a very good dad. He'd drink, and he'd smoke, and when he was tired he would grumble at his kids. He didn't play catch. He didn't play video games. He mostly sat around and got fat after working at the mill. His wife, Leslie, would ask him to mow the lawn and he'd yell at her. Hi... | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | 2017-06-11T09:22:28 | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 228 | 31 |
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | You don't answer. Instead, you spring for Colossus while he's gloating. He wasn't expecting it; probably expected you to start bursting into tears, judging from that smug little fist-pump. People with no morals and thin egos always seem surprised when those with the former and without the latter don't immediately colla... | Devastator pumped his fist in the air with silent triumph.
I had to fight the urge to not roll my eyes.
I looked down at the child. He was covered head-to-toe in soot and had a nasty-looking bruise on his forehead. He looked expectantly into my eyes for an answer. The crowd around us had frozen in anticipation.
I ... | 2021-04-18T08:29:08 | 2021-04-18T06:53:33 | 38 | 20 |
[WP] Everyone is born with the ability to "see" beyond themselves, and the longer you remain still, the further you can see. After decades of remaining still, you can see the furthest of anyone in the world. One day, you see something that makes you stand and start walking. | It started when I lost my job.
I had nothing.
My parents had decided a young child didn't fit their lifestyle and were mostly absent from my life. I acted out. I ran with the wrong group. I never learned how to take responsibilities for my own actions and I raged against my parents every moment I had, blaming them... | The surrounding woods transformed into the hustle and bustle of a marketplace. Regardless, the man sat silent, ever presently watching the cosmos grow. Twenty-five years since he first sat. Twenty-five years of pure stillness, a self-inflicted vegetation to understand the universe. Sustained through nature and will, th... | 2017-03-03T11:47:23 | 2017-03-03T08:28:54 | 373 | 213 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | “There’s a reason why you never use faster than light travel.” The creature calling itself Kcbzrzx says to me in a voice that’s equal parts nails on a chalkboard and nails on a wet chunk of glass.
“And why is that?” I put my hands on my side and tap my foot impatiently. If Kcbzrzx doesn’t understand the universal sig... | The day had arrived.
On a space station high above the earth, thousands stood silent, while millions watched at home as humanity's first Faster Than Light capable spacecraft was about to depart on its maiden voyage.
The technology was perfected over decades, with countless scientists working long hours for minimum pa... | 2018-11-04T06:08:13 | 2018-11-04T05:34:15 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] While your colleagues are fixated on magical items and artifacts, you’ve been quietly collecting all the deeds of ownership for the ruins and dungeons you clear. | ”It’s all really quite simple.” You noted as you sipped the exquisite fey tea. “I’m just a landlord like any other. I told you this when we set off I think.”
“That doesn’t explain anything!” Jasper exclaimed, instinctively striking a heroic pose as befits a hero of his caliber. “When we met you all you owned was a few... | "What do you mean you're sitting this one out? It'll be our biggest haul yet!"
"I have land I need to develop, Brash. You guys run this one without me."
"Think of all the stuff we're going to find though!"
"I already have everything I need, Brash."
"Where did all this land come from anyways? Did some mysterious r... | 2019-09-13T09:33:04 | 2019-09-13T08:49:54 | 326 | 32 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | Received Messages from Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 4:04pm
We've run out of milk, I've gone to get some more from the shop. Love Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 4:30pm
The shop was sold out of milk, I'm trying the other store. Love Dad.
Thursday 16th Nov 2017 5:02pm
The other shop was sold out too, the guy told ... | Isabel had just taken the girls to school, and I was finishing up with breakfast. Had several cases on my mind, but after the phone call with the judge last night, I felt better about how things would end up. He was a wise man, a fair man.
There was a knock at the door.
I wasn’t expecting anyone, and it was too soo... | 2017-11-19T17:49:04 | 2017-11-19T17:23:35 | 276 | 16 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | “Hello internet!”
A large face of a female teenager filled the screen, her voice a tone of fake cheer that was so common in these videos. Especially as of late.
“Again, thank you sooooo much for all the subscribes and likes. This is a special video for my one million subscriber mark.” The view panned back, allowing t... | Almost literally the plot of Larry Niven's Man-Kzin Wars.
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*"Once upon a time, in the earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin. But the Kzinti learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so ve... | 2019-02-26T12:17:05 | 2019-02-26T10:57:56 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] After North Korea declares that they will start a nuclear war if a single bullet is fired The Us military goes medieval | "Whats your report soldier?"
"Well..."
The soldier was visibly nervous. He, General Jun and several other officers were in a bunker at the outskirts of Pyongyang.
3h ago the USA and South Korea started a offensive. General Jun was tasked to drive the invaders back.
"Out with it!"
"We were able to hold our lines ag... | I'm sharpening my knives mom sent me from back home in Kansas while pulling guard in the war room, thousands of miles away from home, missing my girl and thinking about muscle cars when suddenly, the radar picks up 3 blips coming from the North at ballistic speeds.
*The end.* | 2017-03-19T08:14:10 | 2017-03-19T07:18:14 | 52 | 19 |
[WP] You slowly start to realize that all of your friends are undercover agents tasked with keeping you alive. Then, at your birthday party, with every friend surrounding you, the people trying to kill you finally find you.
Have fun. | **Operation Patrick: Prologue**
‘… to you! Happy birthday, dear Patrick! Happy birthday, to, yooouuu!’
And as he blew out the candles on his birthday cake, everybody clapped and cheered, as if he just finished half a marathon. Patrick started to cut up the cake, double chocolate chip, and passed several plate... | It’s weird. It really is. I mean, you watch the Truman Show and think about how messed up that is. But you never, ever actually stop to consider that you might be in a similar situation. Sure, my life isn’t a TV show, but I’ve come to realize over the last few weeks that it would be an instant hit if it was. This is my... | 2014-11-22T12:27:47 | 2014-11-22T12:21:16 | 700 | 19 |
[WP] When the genie offers you four instead of three wishes, you are confused. He admits that the fourth wish will not affect you, but the next person who finds him - and if you make it, you'll in turn be affected by the previous fourth wish. | David had bought an old oil lamp in a garage sale, thinking it was a neat addition to the various oddities he displayed on his room. Atop his desk was black meteorite, an antique Chinese tea set, and now a slightly scratched arabic lamp, just like in all the genie stories he had heard in his youth. Since the scratches ... | "So there's no telling whether it'll be positive or not?"
"Nope. And honestly, some of them are pretty funny, so I wouldn't like to spoil the surprise," the genie grinned, bearing more than a passing resemblance to the Cheshire Cat.
Jordan, decked out in casual sportswear and a backpack, never thought he would find s... | 2016-09-30T09:07:03 | 2016-09-30T07:55:32 | 168 | 59 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Idiot fuk human design shit-tier spaceship get all Brogga friend kill't. End all. Stoopt fuk. E'ryon kno warp spacetime. E'ryon kno break litspeeding. E'ryon kno crate warm hole. E'ryon kno cut mass half. E'yron cept idiot fuk humans. Y d'sign dumb shit-tier drive can't fi'ure out nuttin'. Cant warp spacetime. Cant br... | Well, you know how in the old Simpsons opening scene Bart grabs the back of the bus on his skate board?
That. We do that. We use magnetic attachments and stealth tech (cos if they saw us they'd shake us off) and we hang on till we get to where we want to go. Then we disengage and wander off like we just happened to be... | 2017-03-31T12:19:53 | 2017-03-31T06:53:53 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] You meet a girl at a bar. When you asked if she'd been in a relationship before you found her response that they never got past the met the parents phase a bit odd, surely no ones parents are that bad. Now, as you sit across the table from death himself, you're beginning to see what she meant.
This is my first po... | "Are you quite certain this is the right address?" I asked my girlfriend.
"Oh, I'm quite certain. Does this look like the kind of place I'd mistake for another?" she asked me in a slightly flippant tone.
She was referring to the somewhat notable fact that absolutely everything from the soil in the garden to the roo... | Sitting across from me, just past the brazier of flame that lit the small part of darkness outside my backyard sat a man who I never have thought to meet till the end of my days.
"Is Death the formal name? Or do you actually have a name?" I said a little nervous, but maintained my cool.
"No, it's more of a title, th... | 2018-11-15T17:31:36 | 2018-11-15T16:56:07 | 97 | 57 |
[WP] the greatest event on the galactic stage is the fear games where species put their greatest monsters in a series of events to see who has the greatest monster, but them humans came and wiped the floor with everyone. | Beastly creatures. Long pink bodies, fibrous extensions off their craniums, black blood. Humans, on their own, are terrifying. Capable of enacting substantial damage in large groups, they are even more vicious on their own. The Fear games were always intended to allow members to submit the monsters of their world,... | "... And facing them tonight, the newcomers from the Sol system, Humanity! With... Um... what is that?"
"For its first bout, B0-81, the Humans have bought an archival text made from materials native to their home world, Earth. I'd like to remind our viewers at home, this is not unprecedented, as some monsters are so h... | 2019-10-22T12:10:40 | 2019-10-22T09:33:59 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | I walked deeper into the trees, damp hands clutching the side of my trousers, heart trying to thump its way through my chest. Although it was dark and I could barely see where I was stepping, I could sense the... thing. I wondered if this was how prey felt.
Something rustled behind me and I almost tripped over my own ... | Dekker didn't believe in trial by combat. What an absurd concept! But that hadn't stopped him cheering for blood on the grove's edge, while the condemned faced off against the terrible Spork. Noone knew exactly what Spork was, they just accepted that he was a monster that feasted upon guilty flesh. Some of Spork's verd... | 2021-03-16T14:17:43 | 2021-03-16T09:08:27 | 174 | 105 |
[WP] The eldritch god stood before the girl, in almost human form. "Your parents sold you to be my bride. I accepted, knowing that if I don't they will just try another deity, but I will not force this on you. Have this credit card and live as you wish. If you want something else instead, just ask." | My father was not a good man. Not a man at all really. He tried his best. Sometimes I wish he hadn't, but no one chooses their parents. I'm lucky I had one who cared to try at all. My birth parents were sick and angry addicts, desperate for any kind of power. What was a daughter when compared to endless cosmic fire... | She looked at me, the credit card, then tilted her head and asked “Can you give me a successful business model?” I was initially confused but shrugged yes in return and spoke “It will take a year or two young one, until I return do as you please. What business venture do you desire?” “A clothing brand!” She beamed in r... | 2022-08-09T17:25:18 | 2022-08-09T15:16:02 | 514 | 288 |
[WP] In a world full of magicians, no one expected you to just walk over during the long cast time and punch your opponent in the face. | "Representing Molokath's Arcane Academy, I give you Miiosh Brightward, student of Heliomancy!"
The announcer sweeps his arm in my opponent's direction, pointing at a foppish young man in elaborately embroidered white and gold robes. He's got an arrogant smirk on his too-handsome face; probably thinks he's already got ... | The mage looked quizzically at her opponent as she walked towards her. She was fascinated at what spell this pale-skinned tribal was about to cast with the cracking of her knuckles.
The mage was duly prepared and was about to cast her spell to counter the magical barrage. However, the magician heard no words and saw n... | 2022-09-22T07:22:08 | 2022-09-22T06:56:03 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] All the other druids in your class spent their time speaking with wolves or communing with bears. They all made fun of you, but now they see how powerful your chosen, if rather atypical, animal friends can really be. | The academy was preparing for the traditional yearly tournament. It was a rare occasion to celebrate.
Sometimes fresh talent is very valuable.
As such everyone wanted to scout out promising candidates for future servants.
But this tale is not of the nobles nor the future servants.
This tale is of the "Quilgesh".
Qui... | The chatter amongst my class was loud and annoying. It often was. Growls, hoots, chirps and howls filled the room as each one communed with their animal companions. Many had wolves, some had birds of various colors and species, one this year even managed to bond with a dinosaur. I, mean while, sat in my corner, where m... | 2022-10-08T15:57:20 | 2022-10-08T14:31:03 | 57 | 32 |
[WP] you were betrayed by the ones you called friends. they sacrificed you in a satanic ritual during an outing. however, you were taken by things older than you thought possible. empowered by them, you return as their agent in a war that scales eons and worlds beyond. but first, your revenge. | "Jenny."
She's at some playground watching three screaming, filthy kids. We're sitting on the bench, and she frowns.
She looks at me, and pales a little.
"I-I'm sorry, do I know you?"
I smile.
"We played a game on the beach... You and me and your friends. Don't you remember?“
She looks scared. Really scared. I... | "Quite a predicament you got yourself in bud." I said, taking a puff from my cigarette. "N-no, y-you can't b-be him, h-he died. WE KILLED YOU!" There he laid, the man responsible for my current situation, well he and two others. Called themselves my friends, did things together for years. I can still feel where the kni... | 2020-04-26T06:32:01 | 2020-04-26T05:50:33 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] Despite your father being the most infamous supervillan of all time, you became a hero. When other heros discovered your identity, they turned against you and you lost everything. Alone and scared, you put your last few coins into a payphone. "Dad... I need help" | "You are a bit taller since the last time I saw you." Said my dad while handling me a cup of hot chocolate. "Here, drink."
I took the cup but didn't drink it, my jaw was still sore from the beating I took from my former colleagues. My dad sat back onto his chair and we stood in silent. I wasn't sure what could had bee... | Despite your father being the most infamous supervillan of all time, you became a hero. When other heroes discovered your identity, they turned against you and you lost everything. Alone and scared, you put your last few coins into a payphone. "Dad... I need help"
*click*
That's it. He hung up. You buckle and spend t... | 2021-04-09T03:12:51 | 2021-04-09T01:11:03 | 150 | 63 |
[WP] Write an upbeat post-apocalyptic tale where life is (for the most part) much better than it was pre-apocalypse. | The tomatoes had finally started growing. All of them were still green, but Skye had been told that in a few days they would be as red her little brother’s cheeks. It was a bit hard to believe, but she knew her grandfather was a trustworthy source of knowledge about the pre-War world. He would go on and on about how th... | #1
Kazin observed the desolate landscape. Green fumes of energy - called Gaiya by the survivors - had formed geysers in the cracks of the earth that were both beautiful and divine. Many of the survivors had been awed by the gassy liquid made of many shades of green and shortly after coming into contact with it, they b... | 2016-01-20T01:51:49 | 2016-01-19T22:46:38 | 51 | 35 |
[WP] You created an A.I. design to make money at any cost, and gave him 1000 dollars to start. Entering a cryogenic chamber you tell the A.I. "wake me up when I am the richest person in the world...". After an unknown amount of time, you wake up... | "Did you succeed?" are the first words I muttered, as soon as I could finally gather enough of my mind to be able to formulate words. Cryogenic sleep is a bitch, that's for sure. Being frozen takes its toll.
I looked around again, and finally realized it. The chambers I woke up in were not the same chambers I fell as... | You blink, eyelids still heavy with the frost from your cryogenically induced slumber. The bunker is just as you left it, save for the electronic counter with a readout of your a.i.’s progress. As your vision lands on it you’re left in a state of utter confusion, the board has only a single number; ‘0’.
You call out to... | 2019-07-10T06:13:07 | 2019-07-10T05:31:08 | 819 | 182 |
[WP] A jew, christian, and islamic priest dies. When they get to the afterlife, they fight over who is right. As they enter, they see Osiris, Anubis, and Ma'at. The trial begins... | Three men were having a heated argument in a deserted field. The first man wore a black suit and a condescending sneer. The second man's solemnity was underscored by a bushy brown beard and topped with a skullcap. The third man had swarthy skin and wore white robes. Each man championed his respective religion with many... | So is this really where my story is going to end? Sitting up in the afterlife in a schoolhouse chair harder than a pornstar's dick? No, this can't be right. I'm sitting next to a Rabbi and an imam. Well, at least I will get passage, the Rabbi should too if I remember correctly. I don't know about the Imam, he might hav... | 2016-03-22T09:56:13 | 2016-03-22T07:15:16 | 58 | 12 |
[WP] The entire Earth is cloned 6 times with each clone being nearly identical. The only difference is 5 random individuals are removed from each clone. After 1000 years of no contact, one representative from each Earth are gathered to discuss their histories. | "So, you already went through six world wars?"
"Yes, yours?"
"Still two... We almost had another one in early 2020 but thankfully, nothing come out of it."
The expressions of disbelief were becoming a norm in the meeting. When they warned Irene that she might be needing aspirin, she laughed it off, her excitement ov... | So then, Donald Trump became president. And racial tensions got pretty bad. Oh and California is on fire, there is a global pandemic and pretty much nature has been actively trying to kill humans for a while now.
The silence was so striking it felt audible. By some stroke of bad odds, three of the five people that had... | 2020-11-14T00:15:10 | 2020-11-14T00:11:11 | 2,831 | 224 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | As the horde of skeletons, ghouls, and nameless undead abominations surrounded the archer, the assassin, and the berserker, a supernova of green light exploded in the sky. From the heavenly glow emerged a familiar face, hovering above the horde.
“Healer!” the archer cried, launching a point-blank volley of arrows into... | It was a cool summer morning in the land of Elyria. We had reached the final boss of our heroic campaign. We made our usual jests to the cleric of how weak he is and how lucky he is to have us. Then he stopped healing us just as we were about to defeat Malkoth, the evil dragon which we had been hunting for the duratio... | 2020-01-05T11:16:18 | 2020-01-05T11:07:20 | 105 | 13 |
[WP] A technology is invented that allows us to hear sounds locked into the clay of ancient pots as they were being formed. What is extracted are conversations that will alter the perception of history in the most terrifying of ways. | The bell rang, and it rang again. I sighed. There was no reason to ring twice, one was enou--
The bell rang again.
"I'm coming!" I shouted, shaking my head. People need to understand patience is a virtue.
I looked through the window, and there I saw Tom. He was a good friend of mine, and also one of the world's most... | We heard sounds you wouldn't even be able to imagine. It was about ancient, forgotten languages, wars we never knew, love that never should have happened. We heard gossip from all around the world, but all of this was never really interesting, and neither important.
Then a day came. It should've been a normal day in o... | 2019-03-18T13:45:51 | 2019-03-18T13:36:43 | 1,027 | 13 |
[WP] Aliens take over the Earth. They then announce that they will be forcing the humans to work a "tyrannical" 4 hours a day 4 days a week in exchange for basic rights like housing. Needless to say they are very confused when the humans celebrate their new alien overlords. | I finished my speech, fully prepared for the usual spectacle of protests and outrage. I take no pleasure in those but centuries of analysis and prosperity proved our way as superior and most efficient.
However cruel it is.
I certainly didn’t expect this unusual noise the humans started producing. It took my communica... | “So let me make sure I understand that correctly. All our basic needs are met for working 16 hours a week? And if we have disabilities that mean we can’t work certain types of job we get preference for the kinds of work we can still do? And healthcare is included in basic needs, both visits and medications?”
“Yes, tha... | 2022-11-02T22:40:54 | 2022-11-02T21:25:43 | 4,256 | 418 |
[WP] The Sith feel a disturbance in the force unlike anything they have encountered. A consolidation of pure rage and anger in a single entity- The Hulk has entered the Galaxy.
Inspired from a comment on r/FanTheories. Would the Sith try to recruit the Hulk? Or would they fear him? | Lord Anarosh strode purposefully and swiftly through the halls of the Indomitable. Various concerned Imperials ran past her, giving the Sith a wide berth as they performed their duties. She in turn paid them no heed whatsoever, dark robes swishing about her armored boots. Though she outwardly showed nothing but calm... | Darth Plagueis opened himself up to the flow of information the force offered, his body descending the stairs of his ship on pure muscle memory. The rocky, near-deserted planet was a world, no, *worlds* away from the sophistication of Coruscant but it was here on the outlying edges of the galaxy that he felt truly invi... | 2014-07-22T20:25:25 | 2014-07-22T19:19:57 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short. To declare war, a persons hair is sent to the enemy. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair; to receive long hair says you have angered one slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken. | Smoke rose from the burning city, carrying away with it the broken pride of a soon to be conquered nation.
Queen Ilyantra stood on the mountainside plateau, looking back at what would be the start of Armeria's funeral pyre with calm satisfaction, idly toying with a strand of her long, dark hair. Her army had utterly ... | The package came in an envelope of the finest paper, addressed to me in a calligraphy most ornate, flairs and curls of the most unnecessary fashion. It was bulky and large, unable to fit in my apartment’s mailbox, I had to go all the way to the post office to properly receive it after three failed attempts at delivery.... | 2022-04-17T23:49:23 | 2022-04-17T22:56:39 | 149 | 82 |
[WP] with the dull clank of rusted armor, you crawl from your crypt to meet your new master. Only to sigh and pinch the nonexistent bridge of your nose as you see a wide eyed young girl holding a black book. Tears streak her face. "I need you to help me find my daddy" she sniffles. You groan. | "No.”
My own voice startles me, a whisper devoid of bass and timbre.
“Excuse me?”
“I said no.”
Her brows furrow, “It may have sounded like a request, but it wasn’t. You will help me find my father. Now.”
A familiar feeling wells up within me. Rage. And with it foreign ones. A wanton desire to destroy. A longing de... | It was dark, pitch black. Where am I? Where was I last? I died. Am I still dead? A light so dim, yet so blindingly bright to me appeared in a vertical line. The line grew wider and wider, all until the stone slab above my coffin was completely removed. I removed it, I lifted it, without even willing it. And my body con... | 2019-11-23T02:39:48 | 2019-11-23T02:15:19 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] You have the ability to stop time whenever and for however long you like, to resume time you must return to the spot you stopped it at. Today you've stopped time just before a bullet is about to hit your head. | From what I know, its a bit of a misconception that I can actually freeze time. It doesn't really work like that despite how it may seem. In truth, I seem to step out of time and into a dimension in which time is frozen but I exist as a spectator to it. I can't step back into time anywhere other than where I first step... | The man pulled the trigger as the clock struck ten. I was in fear for my life and so, I froze time. Allow me to explain how it all led up to this.
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***3 years ago***
I gained this awesome gift about 3 years ago. I could stop time whenever and however long I wanted. The only condition is that I have to go to th... | 2016-12-25T07:38:37 | 2016-12-25T05:25:09 | 36 | 26 |
[WP] You're a Super Villian, and honestly it isn't a bad job. But one hero always harasses you even when you're off the clock. Walking in the park, in the grocery store, getting a haircut, he always wants to 'Stop your evil plan'. You're left with one option: Complain to his manager. | '...seriously, Kyle, stop it.' I said, weakly.
'I am not Kyle, my name is the Mighty Peace Bringer!' He said, in the mid-air, while striking a Superman pose, with his both hands on his hip, head held high and his big bright purple cape flapping along with the wind, making the flap flap noise behind him.
'No, Kyle, yo... | "I've had enough Mark. This guy is putting the whole hero villain dynamic in jeopardy."
I look across the desk at Mark, Topeka's head of operations for Shield insurance. He is mixing the ice around the shot glass looking board at me.
"I hear you Dave, but Jason is just enthusiastic. Everyone was this way at one point... | 2019-08-01T19:29:33 | 2019-08-01T19:24:54 | 31 | 23 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | I detected the faintest rattle of keys before the door clicked opened into my own personal exhibit tucked away in a supermax prison somewhere in Mississippi. By the heavy breathing, the scrape of his worn soles, I knew my visitor to be Officer Cleburne making his morning rounds. Undoubtedly the stench from his breath ... | It's been a while seeing these grey walls. About 45 years. Or maybe it has been fifty. I can't recall. I was sentenced for a lifetime here since I was on a killing spree back in the days. I was sort of a Robin Hood you see, killing criminals just like me. I actually call myself Charlie Catastrophe if you ever wonder if... | 2016-10-15T08:58:14 | 2016-10-15T08:27:16 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | >No... no. No.
You were in hell. The temperature was a solid 99 and the humidity was nuts. There was a sullen red glow about most of the rocks, but not quite enough to see by. Your nightvision kept making you jump at flickers. A single torch was the only real light-source and it was uncomfortably close. The demon... | The newest particle accelerator in the world isn't on the earth, it lies beneath the surface of the moon, encircling the entire satellite at its equator, the project itself was/is the largest civil engineering project in human history, which in turn created massive wealth from all the mineral wealth discovered, unkno... | 2020-09-16T20:39:37 | 2020-09-16T19:14:36 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You are the king, after your daughter was kidnapped by a dragon you offered the standard reward to whoever rescued her. You weren't expecting a different dragon to rescue her.
Wow! I didn't think this would blow up like it did! Thank you all so much for all your stories. I haven't commented on all of them but the... | I was bouncing with excitement in my throne. Not only had my daughter been rescued from the dragon, but she also was rescued by one of her brave friends the same age as her! This would be a marriage that would go along very well.
One of my servants ran up to me. “Sir Grol, your daughter is back! And with her um.....s... | Long ago, before the empires of men, there was the tiny kingdom of Zhô that laid in the vale between myth and reality. Her armies infinite, her splendor incalculable, and her beauty...legendary. This drew the ire of the progenitors, the first race, the great dragons of creation. The most evil of these beings went only ... | 2018-02-23T14:08:39 | 2018-02-23T12:59:22 | 54 | 16 |
[WP] The year is 2030, and the entire world is firmly under the control of the Australian Empire, and no one really understands how it happened. | The speaker blares "G'day! The time is now 5:30 pm proceed to your nearest pub and help yourself to a schooner. Long Live the Australian Empire!"
I am still in a little bit of shock while I listen to the speaker and seeing the mighty flag of the Australian Empire, fluttering in the breeze, over what was formally my na... | It all began when the skies grew too full of soot to fly aircraft with any semblance of safety. Land and sea were the only options left. We were so concerned about Russia that we failed to even register there might be threats elsewhere. The Great Barrier Reef had been dead for years. Tourists never bothered to go out t... | 2017-02-14T11:16:18 | 2017-02-14T11:05:28 | 347 | 29 |
[WP] If you are reading this, you've been in a coma for 20 years. We are trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope we are getting through. Please wake up. | Alaina sat in her car, phone in her hand.
The message had come as she turned the engine off, stopping her just before she went to unbuckle and get out. Her brow furrowed, trying to figure out who among her friends and family would be cruel enough to send such a thing.
There was no contact connected- just a series o... | "Heh", I said out loud as I looked around. My coworkers just busily typing away, oblivious to all but their work.
*Yeah, that would explain why I'm just sitting here alone, staring at this stupid message.*
I shove myself away from my desk, preparing to get up and step away to clear my head. But the message, still f... | 2022-12-02T19:29:33 | 2020-01-16T09:13:25 | 62 | 11 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | I sat back in the leather the chair while my dog stared back silently at me. She was smart, too smart. In the past 15 years she'd learned much and instantly knew that what I had given her was more then peanut butter on a spoon.
The room became uncomfortably quiet. The ceiling fan cast shadows against the tan wall whil... | "Alright listen very carefully, we don't have much time." Barks Sonny, "follow me."
He races off through to doggy door into the back yard. I fumble with the back door for a second and I try to chase after my beloved dog. I barely reach him as he slips under the hedge of our garden. When I crawl under, I realized I've s... | 2017-02-23T06:59:37 | 2017-02-23T06:16:15 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] The Megalomaniacal Supervillain assumed you, a renowned scientist, would object to being kidnapped and forced to build superweapons at his hidden volcano lair. In reality, however, you're just really excited to finally play around with unlimited funding. | Molten lava. Not something I'd expected to see in a villain's main base. But at the same time, I wasn't expecting myself to be kidnapped so easily as well. Someone printed a 3D mask of my face inside the lab, took my fingerprints via handshake.. yadda yadda...
Well, we all know how it ends.It ends with me, tied to an ... | "Why do you \*need\* a plasma cutter from Area 51 specifically? I already bought you a plasma cutter. I can't just hit up the POTUS and demand assets. You are aware that this organization is outside the law right?"
I stopped tightening the screws on my new supercomputer. Turned to my captor and told him "Because a pl... | 2020-10-05T15:27:02 | 2020-10-05T14:14:27 | 229 | 95 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | The Terrans had built Universities, hospitals, revolutionized inter-stellar commerce. They worked as ambassadors to negotiate peace and trade deals amongst the galactic community. Their few colonies built on out of the way unhospitable worlds. Their fleet was made of trade vessels, science ships, and pleasure yachts... | "We all know they're weaklings, Commander Smith," The soldier said, saluting Commander Smith, "I mean, come on, they don't know how to fire gamma-rays. In fact, they haven't built any spaceships yet."
"That's enough, Soldier 92-BII," said Commander Smith, "We're headed to their planet. The news spread that it colonize... | 2022-08-05T12:41:23 | 2022-08-05T10:57:14 | 374 | 107 |
[WP] So many new exoplanets are being discovered that "planet deeds" now make well-known novelty gifts. You recieved such a deed last year on your birthday, legally making you the owner of one such planet - and, only a moment ago, heard on the news that life has just been discovered on it. | Gina sat beside me, quivering with delight but I felt numb and removed from the world, as if I was in some sort of half coma. Gina's voice is all echoey and distant and it was only when she bit my wrist that I came out of my trance.
"Ouch. Gina!"
"Get up and dance with me. Come on! Why aren't you excited?! Do you rea... | "Mom? Is this a joke?"
"What?"
"The deed. You saw the news, didn't you? There's life on Rigellion Five!"
"Wonderful news, Matt, just wonderful."
"What? No, it's not wonderful. Did you have any idea what you were giving me?"
"There are a lot of terms and conditions. I thought it would just be a nice little thing yo... | 2017-01-01T10:28:59 | 2017-01-01T09:41:04 | 102 | 56 |
[WP] WritingPrompt: A man asks you in a shakey voice if you're alright. You hesitantly say yes, to which he responds by getting a look of terrified horror and screams "I knew it! You can see them too! Don't let them get you!" | My hands shook as I sat hunched in the park bench, biting my lip to stop the screams from tumbling out. They were getting closer. Never before had they gotten closer. They were tall and crooked, whiter than snow, their eyes a blaring yellow that cut right through me. They always stood a fair distance away, and I seemed... | "I knew it! You can see them too! Don't let them get you!", exclaimed the man.
"See what?", I asked gently. The man was clearly agitated and I didn't want to aggravate him further.
"The whites, man! They are all around and they are nasty!"
Tears started leaking from the man's eyes. His fists clenched and unclenched ... | 2019-07-01T09:29:42 | 2019-07-01T09:12:36 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] As it turns out, the Avatar is still being reborn to this day. Unfortunately, if the government finds the Avatar, they’re killed before they liberate society. The handful of Benders left are few and far between. And you, an introverted Earthbender, just froze the liquid in your cup of tea. | The students filed into the cafeteria in a moderate pace. There were trays on a table at the start of the lunch line, with napkins and utensils neatly organized. My class moved mechanically; three years of college and twelve years of grade school provided more than enough muscle memory for this.
The only sounds rever... | I know bending is cool and all, and I love reading the Legends, but I never believed it had any place in the modern world. When it comes to escapist mythology, well; I'm still waiting for my letter from Hogwarts. That always seemed like a better fit. I love books, and learning, I can do that. Martial Arts, on the other... | 2018-01-21T13:40:22 | 2018-01-21T12:56:42 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] God is actually just 3 smaller gods in a trench coat. | Brahma was the "legs" of the operation. However of course, this meant his face was always concealed. In other words, no one ever saw him as the Godhead. Vishnu and Shiva often bickered about who should sit at the top. The Vaishnavas always saw the Absolute when Vishnu was sitting on Shiva's shoulders, and the Shaivites... | "My prayers, they've been answered!"
God decended from my ceiling light and stood before me in all their glory. Before me, they were enveloped in light, making it hard to see.
"Please God, please heal my grandma's sickness. After all she's done for this city, she deserves at least a painless passing."
God shook thei... | 2018-08-03T01:43:27 | 2018-08-03T01:21:32 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | Andrew nearly snarled as his phone chimed for what seemed to be the umpteenth time. His shift at the warehouse ended only a few hours ago and it like chickens running around with their heads chopped off whenever he left. It was rare delight to encounter the nights that he was actually permitted to sleep through the nig... | The explosions had been rumbling off in the distance for hours as a young boy tried to drift off to sleep. The war might be raging, but the Allied Forces had deemed his village far enough away that an evacuation was only advised, not mandatory. With his mother the way that she was, the brunette knew that he would be sl... | 2022-10-06T10:06:56 | 2018-04-06T18:58:31 | 483 | 12 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I did it.
I want to scream, “I did it!” but there’s another camper hanging around and if I scream about completing that awful curry dex, he’ll question what I mean.
I’m the champ, you know. Gotta keep up the image.
I smile to myself and let my sweet little Pokémon (not—they’re IV trained, Gigantamax beasts; if you... | I really need to stop asking 'What's the worst that can happen?' Probably because I can't see anymore. Why the hell is it so dark???
A bit of context: I was about to turn in for the night when I received a random text message - "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." Under normal circumstances, ... | 2020-02-17T00:45:30 | 2020-02-16T23:52:15 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] At first, the Mandela Effect changed minor things: Berenstain instead of Berenstein, Curious George having a tail, etc. But lately it's been getting stronger. Like, since when was the Eiffel Tower in Germany? I could've sworn we had one moon, not two? And was the sky always pink? | What’s that Harry Potter book one opening quote? ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the wi... | "Good evening, dear listeners. We are back once again with me, Ben Wilmer. And this is the Nighttime Ponder podcast", Ben whispered to his microphone with his usual "radio host" voice.
"Tonight, dear listeners, we are talking about one of internet's favorite topics and dare I say one of internet's most endearing myst... | 2022-01-21T19:54:47 | 2022-01-21T18:47:48 | 130 | 44 |
[WP] You're the last person on earth - but thank god Pokemon Go still functions! You amuse yourself by catching Pokemon as you travel so as to not feel so isolated and alone. One day, on your screen, you see in the distance that someone has set up a lure.
Courtesy of corvidaedream on Tumblr | I wasn't sure why the servers were still up and working. I knew they shouldn't be, but I didn't want to question it too much, Pokemon Go was the one thing keeping me sane through this, reminding me that there was a time when I was not the only person left out here. If I questioned it too deeply, the servers might rea... | I head out at sun rise every morning, today was no different. My bag packed with the usual 6 spare batteries, water, sandwiches and trail nuts. The game was become tiring I'd completed my collection months ago and with no one to contest my gyms Valor was everywhere. all I seemed to do was swap out lower CP pokés for th... | 2016-09-05T10:42:44 | 2016-09-05T06:15:42 | 2,026 | 58 |
[WP] You are a child psychologist assigned to study and care for a young child with superpowers who has brutally murdered people. You have been told to act with care and with compassion, trying to rehabilitate them if possible | The orb of water spun much like any child’s toy, the dewdrop consistency strange to the observant eye. The room was mostly bare, devoid of any adornments aside from the standard: bed, end table, window. The boy sat in the center, the oversized droplet putty in his hands as he tossed it in the air, the light sparkling t... | He sat by the window, watching, perhaps waiting. His pale face and dull eyes reflected clearly through the tinted window. Outside, he could see the gorgeous trees, the brilliant sky, and small schoolhouse next door. But we both know he could never go outside. With one touch, he could burn it all to the ground. After al... | 2022-07-22T15:50:42 | 2022-07-22T14:47:19 | 73 | 30 |
[WP] You're Satan, and for years you've brought gifts of your own personal touch to the dyslexic children of the world who send you letters. This year, As you step out of a chimney, you come face to face with Santa, who's ready to stop you or die trying. | I know it isn't in character, but I just can't resist. I *was* an angel once, and despite my choices, I still am. The difference is that I'm choosing who I help. These kids have never hurt me, and they need help. If my help is slightly macabre, it sticks in their memory better.
"Hold it right there Lucifer! This ... | "What are you doing here?"
"What are *you*, Lucifer? I thought you were still too busy hating on God to do anything useful."
Satan scowled. He didn't like people using his name.
"I'm just adding my own little flair to the holidays. After all, I *do* get some letters..." Satan chuckles.
Santa's anger increases, and ... | 2019-09-11T20:08:21 | 2019-09-11T17:38:52 | 241 | 37 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "Alright, Listen VERY carefully, I've been trying to tell you this for months now, but there is something very dangerous lurking in the back yard. It's been stalking you for months, unseen, unheard by you and apparently.. and this is something I can't understand, unSMELLED by you. I love you human, but you've got to ta... | Alright, listen very carefully. Have you seen the movie Inception? This is one of those situations. You’re locked inside what you might think of as a ‘dream’ and this is the only way I’ve found to talk to you. What’s actually going on is pretty complicated, involving comas, wormholes to alternate realities, and quantum... | 2017-02-23T02:14:42 | 2017-02-22T22:49:20 | 167 | 117 |
[WP] “My Lord, this humble slave asks for your blessing!” The god’s lone eye narrow in suspicion. “How would a blessing from a local deity of flowers help you?” the supposed slave laughs nervously. “Well, for one I’ll finally know which flowers my date is allergic to so I don’t look like an Idiot.” | The god watched the 'slave' speak, it's lone golden eye watching this small human staring up at them. They uncrossed their large green paws, the large god lifted themselves off the stand they sat on, their deep jungle green fur swaying as if air flooded over their body.
The slave trembled at the beast, they spoke no m... | \[Poem\]
Flowers tell many things
Roses for love
Passionate and full
Like your energy on a bright summer day
Daisies represent innocence
Kind and sweet
Like your words when you talk to the village children
Lillies for purity of heart
Honest and quiet
Like your actions when you forgave the village clown for fl... | 2021-05-03T19:17:47 | 2021-05-03T18:47:33 | 61 | 28 |
[WP] As humans age they gain in physical strength every year. An 80 year old is twice as strong as someone half their age but still experience fatigue & geriatric diseases that ultimately result in death. Except you, as an aged immortal you struggle to conceal your true strength from the world. | I am the self appointed guardian of the world. Over the countless decades I have only grown stronger. You see, all children are weak and they were all my children. It started for me at the age of 15. I was not a spectacular child. My strength was measured at the 13th percentile for my age group. I focused more on my st... | Everybody wants to be strong. To be able to take on an entire group if people without breaking a sweat. I was like that to, so many years ago. Sometimes, I wish I could go back to that.
I can't get into fights with guys at bars anymore, I'd just end up killing them. I've enlisted in a few wars but those get tedeous af... | 2019-05-11T05:03:53 | 2019-05-11T04:58:25 | 40 | 27 |
[WP] "You think me the villain, chosen one? What you call dark magic, I call science. What you call safety is upholding a corrupt monarchy, lying about divine right. I have seen a better world, lived in it! So why do you uphold this glorious lie?" | Garreth Lightmoore finally reached the lair of the Dark One - a wizard of terrible power with an insatiable lust for death and suffering. He steeled his resolve and readied his sword, blessed by the Bishop himself, and broke down the doors that lead to the main hall where he was met with a sight he did not quite expect... | Prince Gaven Makazi paused, staring up at the glowering wizard, the malefactor called Benjamin Sowelo, now cornered in his lair -- his "command and control center", the sorcerer had called it. Around Gaven and his elite knights, the wizard's minions lay dead, the flickering crystal plates they used to scry on and direc... | 2022-01-17T14:48:41 | 2022-01-17T13:47:59 | 76 | 53 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | I drummed my fingers against the gas station counter soundlessly, eyeing the different flavors of trident and orbit gum next to the registers. Usually the only real option for me was spearmint, but I'd gotten an energy drink, and nothing sounded quite so disgusting as a minty gum mixed with Monster. So I went for the m... | The subway slid along noisily underneath the city streets. Sam sat quietly in one corner listening to music through one earphone and mindlessly eating his breakfast (a granola bar that was a bit too hard) with the other. He stared at the words written plainly up his forearm. Words he, and everyone else in the world, wa... | 2015-08-08T13:50:34 | 2015-08-08T12:14:55 | 56 | 14 |
[WP] "For the *last time*, just because I dress like an edgelord and live in a giant castle constructed out of obsidian within a region of high volcanic activity DOES NOT mean I'm a villain! That's just, like, my aesthetic, bro!" | Rowan sighed as she spotted yet another stupid small-town hero walking up the path to her home. The hero was some fool who'd mistaken her home for some villainous lair made for nefarious purposes. *Maybe this one will suspect I'm secretly a dragon,* she thought sarcastically.
*... Maybe I should GET a dragon. Is that... | NOTICE:
It's all fine and dandy when your a little cutesy gnome, growing up in your suburban neighbourhood with your gang of friends, and getting your cushiony office jobs. It's harder for us who aren't like you y'know! Every, single, goddamn, day I mean come ON! Don't y'all have any better things to do than walk up t... | 2021-03-22T23:06:29 | 2021-03-22T23:02:30 | 193 | 17 |
[WP] you technically operate an illegal, underground bar/clinic/therapy center. However, no one bothers you because its for supers. Describe a day listening to the woes and achievements of heroes, villains, and supers just trying to get by as you serve them liqour or patch them up. | "Whisky mate?" I asked, not even glancing up as I wiped my cloth along the glass, carefully treading the edge of the glass before letting out a satisfied sigh at the now sparkling glass.
"Yes please" the woman said with a groan as I began preparing her drink.
"What's got you annoyed today? For a villain you sure are ... | You would think that running an exclusive bar like this would be stressful. I mean, a simple bar fight might escalate into a civil war or armegedon. Well, I haven't seen any. I guess the other sups know too, and nobody ruffs up their favorite bars. Plus, most of them just want to escape the inharently violent nature of... | 2019-09-21T06:45:31 | 2019-09-21T06:16:26 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] A powerful necromancer is trying to raise the dead. However, despite trying different vessels and rituals, he has only raised you. Over. And over. And over. You're both starting to get sick of each other. | "Sarah?" asked the necromancer. His mouth was dry and his heart beat like a gavel in his ears. Every time, the anticipation - *the hope* - swallowed him up and allowed him to imagine she was back. Then, it would chew him up and spit him out, and he would feel the same terrible things as when he'd found her body in the ... | "This is a 245th time," was my tired greeting. I'd died in 1786, though I didn't know when I would die for real. Again and again, people tried to raise me. Its towering presence intimidated me to a small extent, for my incredulous amount of meetings with him removed all forms of fear. It was just...irritation. Irritati... | 2017-07-22T05:50:29 | 2017-07-22T05:45:54 | 405 | 142 |
[WP] Writing prompt: Your ex-girlfriend is the world's most powerful sorcerer...now she wants you back. She doesn't know that you're dating her sister. | You would have thought a woman with power like hers could have stopped me when I left. For all I know she could have just changed my mind for me. Hell, maybe she did. Maybe I left her so many times that she just couldn't deal with the emotional stress anymore. For her sake, I hope she didn't put herself through that. I... | I was sitting in the tavern with a mug of beer in my hands. Sundays were always boring in this city. No bar brawls, no drunks running around in the streets naked while singing old church songs and no gladiator battles. Not since the great scorceress Vilia took control over the kingdom. Her reign brought peace and prosp... | 2018-06-05T13:21:29 | 2018-06-05T11:41:04 | 188 | 129 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | **Eldrich The White Knight**: "Fair gentlemen and gentlewomen of Farlandia. I have come to avenge the deaths of your good King Fairlawn and his daughter, Princess Moon. For years since the Black King took over, you have lived in this" *Motions around* "squalor. I for one seem to- uh... look I don't usually do questions... | My fellow Americans, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of Congress and members of the press, thank you for joining me this evening.
It is with great sadness that we come together this evening. For the past eight years, it has been both an honor and a privilege to represent this great nation as your President. As you a... | 2016-07-10T15:53:09 | 2016-07-10T10:46:19 | 2,386 | 11 |
[WP] In the far future an advanced alien civilization is attempting to join forces with Humanity, they agree to join them on the condition that they receive, alongside the already agreed upon deal, a living member of their species to be studied. That "living member" is you. | My boss smiled at the alien. Tentacles were oozing out of his nostrils and his weird alien body was fluttering in the wind even though it was a shapeless floating blob.
“An interesting offer,” said my boss, nodding. “Could you give us a moment?”
“Of course, of course,“ the alien muttered, bowing. “Please take your t... | There were four assigned to study me. There was Yrrk, the short one, the one with glasses, and there was Norm. Norm by far was my favorite since he makes the least amount of noise and he watches Stranger Things with me.
Netflix… Thank God they gave me Netflix. They downloaded the whole damn catalog, every show, every... | 2022-07-16T01:28:20 | 2022-07-15T23:53:01 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Hundreds of years in the future, nerds fondly over-romanticize the late 20th/ early 21st century in completely historically inaccurate and anachronistic festivals akin to modern Renfaires. | "Come one, come all, and try your hand at Tinderrr! See how your great-great grandparents found love! Instant transfer to your phone for only five dollars!"
Melissa was skeptical about spending that much money for an ancient program, but Beth was persistent and after being dragged by the booth a third time, she finall... | "You have offended M'Lady, JB! I challenge you to a Pokemon duel!" - the man in fedora cried out. Despite being relatively fit, he was wearing a fake belly that sagged under his clothes, and under his chin hung a relatively untended fake beard.
His opponent, his peer in a tight jersey, baseball cap that he wore ba... | 2016-07-21T14:43:55 | 2016-07-21T11:03:00 | 92 | 23 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | --start recording--
I give you this message, my child, so that you may learn from our mistakes. I am sorry that I cannot be there to tell you in person, I would wish for nothing more now than to see you grow old enough to understand and cherish the words I have written here. But that will not come to pass. My one sola... | "Fucking humans are at it again." Said Prok as he dipped his proboscis into the fetus slaw before him.
"I see that." Replied Ghyd, his half wife. She shifted her earlobe and toenail salad listlessly. One of the earlobes still had a diamond earring in it. "Waiter! Someone in your kitchen isn't properly dejewelrying the... | 2016-03-13T18:34:56 | 2016-03-13T16:09:35 | 108 | 21 |
[WP] You're watching the news one day when a report comes on about newly discovered prehistoric cave paintings. One part of it, a seemingly random squiggle, is highlighted as particularly baffling experts as to the meaning. You recognise it immediately: it's your signature. | I rubbed my eyes to make sure but I am positive, that is my signature on the tv. My wife also noticed and started immediately questioning me about it.
I have no answers for her right now for her.
I looked the cave up online and found out that it was in the South American caverns and the rest of the writing in the cav... | I'm not a big fan of blind dates, but apparently this guy was just in town for a project, and he was single, smart, and cute. Even if he turned out to be a dud, my friend told me, I could still get a fun day out of it. I agreed. Why not.
He showed up at my door with flowers, dressed in a nice suit, and asked if I'd be... | 2017-07-04T11:05:11 | 2017-07-04T07:37:10 | 156 | 39 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I scanned the horizon once more, wondering when my summoned item would arrive. I also wondered if there was a chance it was a person, and that they would simply appear in the antechamber of my home, like they always do. I shuddered at the thought of another human being forced upon me under the guise of a "soulmate". I ... | It’s my eighteenth birthday party. My mom skateboards out of the hallway with a cake. My father has been dead for 10 years because the town bully punched him to death. We both cry over this. We eat the cake. I have no friends because I am too unique and moody for friends. I only have a pillow pet to keep me company.
M... | 2019-09-18T09:27:31 | 2019-09-18T08:47:50 | 123 | 23 |
[WP] After first contact, mankind and another civilization agree on a exchange program where you went to their planet spend a year there. When they bring you back, there is nothing where earth used to be. | The cool, pleasant voice of the shuttle’s automated pilot system caused me to wake up with a start. As I sat up in the cramped bunk, all I could remember of the dream I’d been having was glimpses of family and friends, and of course, Earth. “Arrival in five minutes. This shuttle will disengage it’s FTL Drive in four mi... | "It's been wonderful having you," my host mother said. I called her Ma. I'd managed to learn the basics of Alpha Centaurian, but I'd never got my tongue around the all the vowel-less syllables in her name.
"You must be looking forwards to having your daughter back though," I said.
Ma nodded. "Of course. I've missed R... | 2017-04-11T10:00:10 | 2017-04-11T09:28:31 | 460 | 10 |
[WP] In 1,000 years, fantasy stories will be set in this era. Write a fantasy story set in the 21st century from the viewpoint of someone living 1,000 years from now.
Based on a post on r/showerthoughts | *The sky is an expanse of grey -- liquid water falls in heavy drops from the heavens, striking streets of black and grey stone stained green by age and weather. Carriages of steel and iron blur past, scattering water droplets upon the commoners walking to-and-fro, huddled beneath hoods and canvas sheets.*
*The rain ro... | “Once upon a time, there was a girl named Sarah, she—“
“Sarah, what kind of a name is that?” Abcde interrupted.
“Stop interrupting me,” Celestial snapped. “As I was saying, Sarah lives in a republic far far away, a republic unpolluted by any traces of nuclear waste. A republic called the United States of America.
“... | 2018-12-25T03:33:31 | 2018-12-25T02:03:50 | 3,048 | 736 |
[WP] A horror story where all the victims act rationally. | "Okay so laying this out," I said as I finished the crude map of the cabin grounds that I'd sketched on the study's yellowing printer paper. "We know he can move through shadows quick but we've only ever seen him appear in complete darkness that can hide a full man that's like..." I trailed off for a moment, "5'10?"
"... | Our protagonist finds himself in a dark computer lab deep in the bowels of the University library. His creative writing instructor has assigned yet another impossible task, "write a short horror story where every character acts rationally." Of course it is due first thing in the morning and after finishing his shift at... | 2017-10-18T12:15:47 | 2017-10-18T11:38:11 | 134 | 22 |
[WP] The world of Avatar is real, only there are not 4 elements, there are 118. For every element on the periodic table there is a group of benders. You are one of them. | *"OXYGEN BENDERS SAVE CHILDREN TRAPPED IN AVALANCHE*
*NEW CARBON BENDED DIAMOND SELLING QUICK ON MARKET*
*RADON BENDER PREVENTS URANIUM MINE FROM LEAKING DEADLY GAS*
the same old stories on the newspapers again. another boring shit bender saves the fuckin day again, by doing some boring shit. i grab the newspaper an... | "Hello everyone," I said, shifting uncomfortably in my chair. "My name is Thomas, and I don't know my element."
"Hello Thomas," the group chorused. I sighed and stared out at the circle of chairs wrought in an instant by an ironbender.
"It's... Hard for me sometimes," I said, looking away and running my fingers thro... | 2019-09-19T09:14:49 | 2019-09-19T08:41:14 | 251 | 49 |
[WP] The Sea of Trees. The deeper you go, the taller they get, and the more incredible the animals. After a month of traveling, you just found your first clearing. | One month into my trek the trees finally stopped.
A month earlier, as I walked into the "forest" where the trees began it was obvious to me that this was some kind of tree farm. While the species of the trees varied, they were all planted in a fairly consistent pattern...row after row, as far as I could see. As I wal... | Samantha has been missing in the sea of trees for five days now.
We pass the infamous sign, nailed askew to a tall redwood: DO NOT PASS THIS POINT ALONE. We've lost many a teenager to that sign, to stupid dares accepted under the influence of alcohol and testosterone.
But we're safe. Our search group is a bit more th... | 2017-06-17T13:23:26 | 2017-06-17T12:52:38 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] Eventually AI-generated art was so prevalent that the new algorithms were being trained on other AI-generated pictures, and something odd began to show up. | The first person who saw it died quickly, crumpling to the ground like a bundle of sticks. The others, scrambling to see what had happened, followed suit.
It took a while for us to realise that we couldn't look at it, that there was no invisible intruder killing us. That it couldn't hurt us if we didn't know what it l... | I thought I was going mad. That I was seeing things. AI-generated pictures were... just that. Generated pictures. There were no ties between them, no author, no underlying message. But ever since we started training other AIs with these pictures, a pattern would emerge. And I was the only one to see it.
I can almost u... | 2022-08-18T01:44:05 | 2022-08-18T00:09:50 | 67 | 28 |
[WP] You and your crack team enter the bank. You shout, "THIS IS A BANK ROBBERY. EVERYBODY PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM!" a cheer erupts from the employees. Balloons and confetti fall from the ceiling and a sign drops with the words: Congratulations! You are our 1,000,000th Bank Robbery. | Max leaned back. He took a deep breath and then started talking. “So there I was, in this bank with a gun, and people started cheering. The teller pulled a big pink cake out, and confetti started dropping from the ceiling. The manager came out with a check.”
“A check?” asked Emil.
“Yeah. You know, one of those big no... | A: "Wait, what?"
B: "I heard of this, jefe. Each branch of this bank rewards its millionth robbery."
A: "Then why the fuck did you not tell us beforehand?"
B: "I just didn't think we'd be this lucky."
C: "Congratulations, sir, you and your… gang, crew, whatever, are our millionth robbery!"
A: "This doesn't make se... | 2019-01-15T06:45:32 | 2019-01-15T05:39:14 | 198 | 100 |
[WP] A man who has been dating a girl since elementary school goes to her father for her hand in marriage. The father says no. Tell us why and break our hearts. | "No."
I blinked once. Something had to be wrong. That couldn't have been what had just been said. Some jumbled neurological process had to be occurring in the muddled zest that I called my brain. Yeah that was it. I was so happy that the answer I knew that I should be hearing came across as the one, deep down, that I ... | "No."
>"What? Why?"
"Kid. I like you. I really do..." sighing "Do you remember how Katie used to leave school early every other week?"
>"Yeah. Of course I do, you and her went out to lunch on those days."
"..and how she used to get sick a lot?"
>"Yeah."
"..and how for the past few years she's been busy e... | 2014-01-19T14:42:00 | 2014-01-19T12:34:58 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] It’s against the law to time travel back and kill someone before they do a horrible deed. It’s not against the law though to stop someone conceiving a child that will later become evil. After having a crowd follow you everywhere since puberty, you wonder how bad your future children really are. | I like to try new bars. The town’s full of them, after all, and the same old places lead to the same old people and the same old drinks mixed the same old way. Sometimes, it’s nice to try a new place. Besides, the way life is, it’s fun to meet new people. You never know how things will work out, after all.
Well, you m... | The Watchers were back. I ducked into the pub, and they crowded in after me. A woman smiled at me from the bar. Cute. Cheeks dimpled and eyebrows waggly. I nodded at her. The hulking Watcher swept in first, he was always the first, his lips breathing against her ear.
Her eyes widened. She slipped a twenty onto the cou... | 2022-03-21T18:49:58 | 2022-03-21T18:45:53 | 241 | 63 |
[WP] Humans are actually the most peaceful, kind race in the universe and other aliens don't invade us because its cute to watch. | Dr. Alexei Mikhailov leaned back in his chair and rubbed his bleary eyes. It was finally done. The work he had dedicated the last 3 years of his life to was finally complete. All he had to do now was put a sample in a test tube and then find a good crowded spot, maybe JFK? No, someplace bigger, like Atlanta or maybe Be... | "Zorba! Stop staring at the pictures of the humans and tell me why they are an important race in the university" The light blue-skinned woman asked.
Zorba looked up hesitantly. She was a small girl with dark blue skin and pearly eyes. "Because humans are adorable, Miss Vannor?" She offered up.
"They are indeed the cu... | 2016-09-28T05:19:18 | 2016-09-28T02:37:36 | 494 | 173 |
[WP] You and a friend jokingly start a religion in order to avoid taxes. Not long after you are in an accident and put in cryogenic freeze. You wake up many years later to find that it is now a major world religion. | ######[](#dropcap)
"What happened?" Robert asked his brow furrowed.
"Please don't kill me." Even from this end of the phone, he could see Levi wincing in response to the question. His friend had to be around 30 years old now, but he was still the same Levi he knew ten years ago.
"I just...I told Steven about it, a... | I don’t remember much from the few minutes before the accident, and the bright lights from this..... chamber only make my grogginess more apparent.
To the left of me, I hear gasps from the people who seem to be remnants of the people who would have worked here.
“It... It can’t be.....” , one of the workers blurts out... | 2018-08-16T09:41:18 | 2018-08-16T09:37:55 | 119 | 29 |
[WP] You wake up in a house. It's nice place, with all the comforts of home. However, the front door is cold steel, with a note on it. The note warns you never to leave the house. After years of compliance, you decide to go through the steel door... | It had taken me four years to finally decide to do this.
It's easy to follow rules sometimes. When following them means you stay in the well lit and furnished house, your fridge stays full, and the internet is fast. Every Christmas a game console would show up, or that sweet guitar I never got very good at playing. Th... | I stood in front of the steel door. The note told me not to leave, and I had always complied. I’d never even tried the giant knob that looked like a steering wheel that set in the middle of the door.
I’d gone to bed as thirty-seven year old part time temp living in a roach and mouse infested studio apartment with two ... | 2015-03-21T10:57:41 | 2015-03-21T08:52:25 | 60 | 14 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | My hand reached out from the messy nest of blankets I was buried under, and flopped onto the buzzing phone on my dresser. Bleary-eyed and dazed, I dragged it under the blankets with me, refusing to let myself be fully roused from a solid nights sleep. "What the fuck," I muttered to myself, nearly mumbling the words out... | The explosions had been rumbling off in the distance for hours as a young boy tried to drift off to sleep. The war might be raging, but the Allied Forces had deemed his village far enough away that an evacuation was only advised, not mandatory. With his mother the way that she was, the brunette knew that he would be sl... | 2022-08-07T20:43:05 | 2018-04-06T18:58:31 | 379 | 12 |
[WP] You are a villain who kidnapped the smart guy on your nemesis team, they tell you that nobody will come for them and that the hero doesn't care. You didn't believe them at first but it been a month and nobody shows up and after once again hearing them cry at night you had enough | "They won't come." The Mastermind told me for what had probably been the hundredth time since I had kidnapped him.
"I really didn't believe you at first." I responded. "I thought you were a teammate to them; I thought they were true heroes that would never leave a man behind, but it looks like I was wrong."
"I'm the... | I pause for a few seconds. The poor guy.
"Would you like to join my team? We have Frank here, second in command who can always find something wrong with my decisions, Ellen, the general and my third in command, Lia, fourth in command, my prime bodyguard, but we don't have a smart guy. We could really use your skills."... | 2021-08-04T14:33:57 | 2021-08-04T11:22:14 | 495 | 204 |
[WP] You are locked up for a murder you didn't commit. You protest your innocence through the entire process. However, at your trial, as you look through all the damning evidence, you are starting to doubt yourself. | “Not guilty, your honor.”
I remember saying those words loud and with conviction, practically spat them with pride in fact. I remember assuring my attorney that while she was probably used to defending scumbags who were guilty as sin, I was not in that group. I was the special snowflake she could cling to when her con... | *Hm. Well this certainly isn't promising. When did I have the time to both commit a murder and somehow forget about it? Surely there's something mistaken in this evidence.*
"The prosecution would like to submit item B2 as our next piece of evidence. As you can see in the picture, it clearly shows the defendant, James ... | 2019-07-08T09:49:01 | 2019-07-08T09:42:34 | 46 | 17 |
[WP] it is now legal for children to be sent to jail with adults. You are a man in jail, and your new cellmate is a 6 year old boy. | I sat on the edge of my bunk, hands together, eyes scanning the familiar wall opposite. I had been told to expect my new cellmate today, that the few days of blissful solitude since Billy was stabbed with a comb were coming to an end.
Of course, the best cellmate had been no cellmate at all. Isolation might be one of... | I had heard about this before. Nanotechnology being used at conception to create the perfect human. Free of disease, free of genetic defects. The perfect humans. What they didn't take into account was how quickly in the womb these children would develop. How smart they would become.
They didn't consider the 9 months ... | 2014-05-25T06:41:25 | 2014-05-25T06:10:14 | 208 | 65 |
[WP] Immortal monsters of legend have returned after lying dormant for thousands of years. However, the legends were made before guns were a thing, and the "immortal" thing was kind of overblown. | Eons ago, during an age unrecorded by man or other creature, the Leviathans came. They emerged from the sea every decade, casting an eternal darkness wherever they step foot on. The ones who didn't flee in utter terror found it hard to breath, and then realized that the air had turned to acid. Those with spells or ench... | -- Do you have any idea how much a kraken penis can net you on the Japanese black market ?!
-- No, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with their near extinction, isn't ?
Krakens, like werewolves, dragons and many others made their way to the endangered species list.
There were some people who tried to open sa... | 2019-03-20T19:56:40 | 2019-03-20T19:45:26 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] all "walks into a bar" jokes happen in the same bar. you're the bartender. | "Hey, buddy! Our sign clearly says, 'No Horses Allowed,' And don't give me that long face, mister!"
Jacob scowled at the Clydesdale as it cantered out, neighing indignantly. He sighed heavily, turning to the sole remaining patron of his bar. "I don't get it, Sam. Why do these jokers keep turning up here?"
The grizzle... | 'Oh for fucks sake, not again!' The elderly man behind the slick, wooden bar sighed in exhasperation. Another pair of twits has 'walked into the bar' again. That makes the fourth today and its only ten o'clock in morning! The bar is extraordinarily clean as the elderly man has spent many years tending to it with a wel... | 2016-09-18T19:15:12 | 2016-09-18T16:48:53 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] Looking into the camera on your phone you jokingly say, "Hey, NSA, if you want to go out on a date, gimme a call!" To your surprise, suddenly the phone rings! "H-hello?" "Hi! I'm from the NSA." | “Hey Jim,” Jason called. No response. “Hey, Jim!”
“Yeah?”
“Come ‘ere for a sec,” Jason giggled.
“What’s goin on?”
“Check this out.” Jason brought his phone to his face. “Hey, NSA, if you wanna go on a date, gimme a call!”
Jim shook his head. “You brought me over here for that?”
“Y-yeah” said Jason. “Yeah, m... | "Hi! I'm from the NSA. You have a problem."
"W-what?" I pressed record.
"You're paranoid and you need to get help."
I activated my home-scripted call trace app. "And? You called me, didn't you?"
"You're not speaking to anyone of any importance. I'm an occupational therapist. You're in a very bad place, right now. Y... | 2015-02-20T19:49:21 | 2015-02-20T17:21:13 | 27 | 14 |
[WP]Both of your parents made deals with fae about giving them their firstborn. Different fae... Now you live under the joint custody of two faeries who don't like this situation one bit. | Maryglen went into the wood to pick apples rather than pick the ripened fruit from the trees in her garden. Then she climbed to the well on the hill to fetch water, rather than use the pump in her own yard. She needed time away from the house, and she was only granted this freedom while doing her chores. A pity, she th... | “You live past the place no one goes, getting the child to you on your visitation days is going to be a nightmare...a literal goblin infested nightmare journey!”, said Hilea the maiden fairy of the Anderall Forrest.
Tilea, the peculiar fairy maiden of Bak’Tulgurr, the land of brimstone and ash, floated about with a p... | 2021-05-14T10:01:39 | 2021-05-14T06:03:17 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] The man smiles, and puts a single vial filled with a swirling blue gas into the pot. “A soul,” he sneers. You aren’t exactly sure which one of your friends invited him, but Friday Night Poker just got significantly more interesting. | "A soul."
We all looked across the the table at it. The bottle was stoppered with cork, like it were drink, but something swirled inside like a blue mist. One could occasionally glimpse a face. This was the soul of someone exceptional. A priest? a poet? A murderer of distinction?
I looked up into the player's e... | "Is it yours?" I asked. "What?" I tapped the vial, minute swirls and eddies rippling away from the gentle impacts. "This soul, here, now -- is it yours?" He crossed his arms, leaned back. "Of course it is, I own it, how else could I bet it?" I frowned, and tried one last time. "Is this, in fact, the soul that you, Mark... | 2019-05-12T13:51:13 | 2019-05-12T06:31:48 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | Some people call me a magic user. Others a wizard. I’ve even been called a “temperamental bitch with powers”. I say I’m just a sucker with student loans.
My brothers, they’re the lucky ones. One was naturally good with this shit, aced everything, got scholarships, paid even to go to magic school. The other was blessed... | “Your numbers are not very impressive, Lysander. The Board believes you have reached a plateau and that is time to freshen things up.” I shared the Boards’ feedback with my boss while steel kept clashing with steel.
“How dare you criticize my work, Sylvanus?! I took you in when no one would face you, I molded you to ... | 2019-09-26T09:52:27 | 2019-09-26T07:44:38 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] You are a time-traveler whose power only allows them to go back in time, for exactly one minute. Using this ability, you've always said what people want to hear, never messed up in public, given yourself endless do-overs...until you meet someone with the power to see one minute into the future. | People cannot typically comprehend just how severe an affect the smallest of changes in a situation can have on the future. I can. I live out hundreds of potential futures every waking minute and have done so for years. I have found it most beneficial to relive each of those minutes until I get them just right. I alter... | It was a normal day, as far as normal days could go. The 8am alarm rang, telling you it was time to get up as you wearily turned back time by a minute. The alarm rang again, and you turned back time by another minute. This went on for approximately 30 minutes. 8:30 mentally, and 8:00 am physically, you got out of bed. ... | 2016-08-20T12:31:28 | 2016-08-20T11:02:00 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] You picked up an injured cat and patched it up overnight. The next morning, you woke up to see a family of witches standing beside your bed, and one of them is holding the injured cat in her arms. That witch said, “My cat wants to adopt you. So you’re now one of us.” | "What? I mean, I heard you, but... this is the last thing I was expecting. Who are you?" I pulled the blanket up over my bare shoulders.
Three women stood beside my bed. One of them, a short woman with curly brown and green hair, was holding the little black cat I'd taken in last night.
"My name is Terra Moirai. I'm... | I feel like I should be asleep. But something keeps touching my nose. My eyes slide open, peering at a black mass in front of me, its eyes bright yellow and its fuzzy little head cocked at an angle. Oh good its just the cat. My eyes close again and I roll over on my other side, trying to get some sleep.
Wait, I don't ... | 2020-12-05T07:49:13 | 2020-12-05T07:08:24 | 49 | 32 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The towers were under siege. The walls were falling. The Philka were pouring through the outer gates. Their siege cannons pounded on the shields of the keep.
"Defend the Queen!" yelled the captain of the guard. Gathering what remained of the force rifles, the soldiers arranged themselves at the windows, firing down on... | Before this rock became our home, we were glorious. Our race had risen to great heights, ruling over dozens of systems with a regal countenance unsullied by lesser races. We had avoided conflict for such a long time. Once we met *them*, however, we had no say in the matter. Never did we think that they would stoop so l... | 2014-12-26T10:20:12 | 2014-12-26T10:14:28 | 260 | 35 |
[WP] The elder gods looks to us the same way we look to cockroachs. What means that they are irrationally scared of us. |
Never before in R’lyeh’s slimy, grimy, and unceasing eons, had a pest as disgusting as a human infiltrated it.
But despite the sunken city’s remote location, the humans had come. Even Great Cthulhu, now sitting petrified ph'nglui h' wgah'nagl, knew that it was inevitable. No amount of repellent and deterrents—sunken... | "Mom! There are humans in my pillow!"
The thunderous voice of the Elder daughter resonated through the galaxy, detected by those with the means to do so as gravitational waves. Her fear was understandable, she was only 5 billion years old, after all.
"Gross, where?".
"There, in the edge, on that rock"
"Let me get ... | 2022-01-03T09:04:46 | 2022-01-03T08:57:53 | 335 | 142 |
[WP] You're an evil wizard. However, most of your spells are pun based. | They came for me just before dawn.
I suppose I should have expected it. I'd been terrorizing the surrounding countryside for several months, using the abandoned old keep in the hills as my base of operations, and I'd expected to squeeze several more months' worth of enjoyment out of the arrangement.
After all, it ... | Im going to take a crack at this, constructive criticism is welcome, thanks in advance! It's been a while since I wrote anything, so excuse the spelling/grammar errors.
The Lacerating Linguist is what they used to call me. Aeons have passed since I last heard that name, but I guess that's what time does to ones repu... | 2018-04-21T08:20:36 | 2018-04-21T08:11:36 | 102 | 23 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | As my thirtieth birthday came I happily put one more point into my only skill. Not that anyone would notice. See everyone always asks what skills did I put that allowed me in the end to build such an easy life for myself, and I just smile and tell them that it's my little secret. See in the list of skills and their der... | Nobody else believes in me, laughing at me and telling me I've wasted my life. They just don't understand. They look at me and think, 'There he goes, writing prompter. He'll never amount to anything.' But they just don't get it. I've devoted my life to inspiring others. It's not so simple a thing, to be the bedro... | 2018-09-12T09:54:07 | 2018-09-12T07:01:42 | 74 | 20 |
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