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[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | I could never be the chosen one, I realized that now. I could never defeat the necromancer in the dark tower. I could never stop the raging dragon at the edge of the kingdom. I could never turn away an army of orcs singlehandedly. I could never find another love.
That's what I thought when Sarah left. We were a modest... | The whole party was there standing just beyond the town's gates. All the friends who had spent their whole lives together. Before they left, they were just drinking buddies, going to the taverns making up stories of adventures they wanted to take and the women they would leave their wives for.
It had been their dream... | 2022-08-12T21:29:36 | 2022-08-12T17:18:13 | 53 | 26 |
[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... | —disclaimer—
English is not my first language. And i am purely on my mobile. So any typos and stuff, please report them below. Thank you.
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It was my 18th Birthday after all. Everybody in my whole family has distinctive remembrance of the day they turned that age. It is the day, you can summon for the ... | They all screamed as the orange haired president doubled over in pain live on national television as I laughed maniacally in the back of the bar waving his severed member in my hand before throwing it into my drink.
“Steve!!” “what the fuck man?!” Randy screamed at me as he vomited onto the floor. “It’s your birthday... | 2019-09-18T10:21:20 | 2019-09-18T09:37:18 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity split into subspecies: Alters, who alter their genes, Augmented, who augment flesh with machines, and Ascended, who uploaded their consciousness. After centuries of coexistence, the tenuous peace between the ideologies is threatened.
I swear I corrected that before commit. Sorry.
The Altered, The Augmen... | "Father *please.* We must leave," pleaded Euna.
The chief of the village shook his head slowly as he gazed at his people. "For centuries this has been our home, Euna. But did you know Euna, before this, we had nothing. You do not know because you weren't born yet. Our ancestors fought with their lives to make this fo... | I looked upon the strewn limbs and streaks of blood. The remnants of a failed Altered attack. A disappointment to their leaders, I'm sure. The Augmented fought bravely against it, the metal and flesh bond providing them with prime offensive abilities. Even a genetic mutation like an Altered would have trouble with crea... | 2018-07-01T09:37:07 | 2018-07-01T08:29:02 | 1,371 | 110 |
[WP] You've been in this time loop for centuries. You know how to break the loop already, you just want to make sure you've done all you wanted and learned everything you need while you're still here, before returning to a "normal" life. | I'm almost ready.
She smiles at me as I give her the bottle of perfume. It's her favorite, and rare, and I was lucky that there's a bottle here in town.
I've lost count of how many times I've handed her that same box, wrapped in a delicate floral pattern. I've lost count of how often her fingers dance over the ribbon... | Reality. Everyone yearns it, right? What's a relationship if not real. What's the truth? Who am I? I want the real deal. The real brand. Real friends. Real. Real. Real.
But it's all fake.
All of it is fake.
None of it can be real.
Everyone.
Every human experiences a different baseline of reality, a different view... | 2022-01-25T04:46:28 | 2022-01-25T01:39:19 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Your wife is from another time and place, a waitress in a small Irish town from the 1900s. Every night she takes one of your video games and retells it into a grand epic to all the patrons. | It was my first time using the TymeX, I was taking everything in all at once. My interest got the best of me, I sat in the pub just people-watching for a good while before she came to the table.
“What’ll it be for ya then?” She said with a curious look on her face.
It was as if she could see through my disguise... ... | Almost everyone in the town had crammed themselves into the diner again; looking forward to a new story told by Angeline. Nobody knew where she went off to during the day, but she always walked into the diner at 5:58 on the dot. She would work her shift then tell another story.
"Everyone quiet!" Someone close to Angel... | 2017-06-25T04:14:03 | 2017-06-25T03:30:34 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | What eight year-old boy hasn't seen their older sisters having a sleepover and tried to figure out what was going on?
When Kaitlin had her slumber party, she had made a show of hanging the "No Boys Allowed" sign on the door. Since her room was on the second floor, overlooking the cranberry bog, there was no way for a ... | John's eyelids flutter and he slowly comes to. At first the man is groggy and doesn't take notice of his surrounding - the white walls, the smell of medicine and the beeping of a heart rate monitor. But after a few seconds pass, he realizes where and why he is.
*Fuck* he mutters to himself quiet as not to wake up his ... | 2015-03-07T04:03:33 | 2015-03-07T01:52:00 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Your superstitious aunt gives you a pretty necklace that supposedly protects you from love spells. You go home to show your fiance but something is very wrong. You don't feel the same way about them at all. | I hadn’t seen my aunt since I was 15. I only have a few memories of her and all involved her being superstitious. When my mom sent her a knife set, my aunt sent her a penny. Whenever we visited, she’d drip water behind us and say it was for good luck. She also said ‘Rabbit Rabbit’ on the 1st of every month.
Despite my... | Man I swear my aunt is weird, but hey at least I only have to visit her like once a year, and this year to top it off she gave me this pretty sweet necklace, I mean a guy wearing a necklace is weird but this one, well this one just matched perfectly with my outfit.
Supposedly, it's supposed to protect the wearer from... | 2020-01-01T06:50:55 | 2020-01-01T00:45:04 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] After a Pyrrhic battle defending their homeworld, the defenders detect another fleet. It's the Humans, and they're sending in the hospital and engineering fleets. | Of over 1000 ships that stood by in defence of Acvia, less then 200 returned. Most bore significant battle damage, leaking atmosphere into the void of space. Some were barely held together, others had lost most of their crew. It was a sobering sight.
The Acvians were joyful, but even that rang hollow. With so many sh... | [poem]
We'll rebuild your schools, and neighborhoods. Some medical personnel will stay, for good. We have interpreters, social workers understood...your need for macro-synergy and resources, like wood.
Yes, you've been defeated. But how would we want to be treated? Let us agree to repair collateral damage, when battl... | 2021-01-30T11:31:38 | 2021-01-30T10:37:25 | 329 | 38 |
[WP] It has been verified that dying will result in going to heaven, no matter what. You are the government, trying to lower the suddenly skyrocketing suicide rate. | "Tom, we've got to do something."
"I understand, Bill."
"How many?"
"So far? We might as well be handing out Kool-Aid on the streets."
Bill slammed his fist on the table. "Tom, tell me. Tell me how this got out."
"It was the Russians, of all people. They were the first to figure out the algorithm for the subatomic... | The world was failing and the bodies were building. There was only plan B.C. left to try.
All of the radio station were set in gear and prepped for the last stand. All tv's were under the government's control.
3...
2...
1...
"Oooooh baby do you know what that's worth, oooh heaven is a place on earth"
Belinda Carl... | 2015-02-02T07:18:10 | 2015-02-02T06:43:00 | 206 | 126 |
[WP] You are a superhero without powers. You know a good bit about martial arts and you're resourceful, but the main reason you're so successful? Every time a villain monologues their plan, you calmly and clearly explain to them why their plan won't work. | “Search him. Put all his weapons on the table.”
There was a flurry of activity as the spiderfolk poked and prodded at the white and black robes. A large leather tome flew onto the table, moving it at least three inches as it landed with a thud. A string of beads soon clattered after it.
“All clear, boss.”
Doctor A... | Equal yet Opposite
Why hello there! You see the villains there, giving their monologue? Their plans and grand act? I know what it is, I know what the flaws are. I’ll tell them why it won’t work, I’ll tell them where it’ll fail and how they’ll die from that plan. But for now…you’re probably wondering…who am I?
I am E... | 2020-09-27T10:12:32 | 2020-09-27T09:35:45 | 42 | 27 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | @OP: love the premise! I'm going to take it in a bit of a different direction.
I felt Jennifer's hand tighten in my grasp as we waited. I glanced back across the desk at the official. This wait was awful, I figured the reports would be instantaneous like credit scores.
My wife and I are sitting in a case worker's of... | “You sure this is the name?”
“Of course I’m sure. I’ve dated the guy for like three months now.”
“We always have a grand time. I think he’ll get a high enough score,” I added.
Gus looked at the dark alley behind me then pocketed the crumpled piece of paper.
“Let’s hope he does,” Gus muttered under his breath. “Wait... | 2016-09-24T11:47:42 | 2016-09-24T11:40:10 | 405 | 21 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | “The Red Phone” was a joke. My wife had bought it for me as a prop when I had told her I got elected President of the book club.
“A President needs a red phone!” had been her gleeful cry when I had opened the mysterious parcel. It was a cheap plastic thing, garish and bright. A child’s toy.
And I loved it.
It sat on... | In the middle of nowhere sits a small plot of land, trees on all sides, no road leading to or away. On this plot of land there was a house. It does not exist on any deed or map, one day it simply appeared complete and whole with plumbing, furniture and electricity. This is where he lives.
He is no farmer, though he... | 2022-03-29T02:39:22 | 2022-03-29T02:26:11 | 609 | 81 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | Erryn relished the moment. There was something cathartic in holding between his tendrils the terms of surrender, in knowing that you hold the only hope for a dying race. In that moment, he held the power of life and death for the fifteen billion humans on the planet below, as well as the one who sat across the table fr... | The Orak believed the war with humanity would end in blood and glory. Instead it ended in a white flash while they struck the outermost colony of Elysium. Humanity attacked their home planet Orakus. Citizens on Orakus felt no pain or suffering as the humans on Elysium did. Instead it was a white hot mercy that the Tsar... | 2020-02-07T14:00:31 | 2020-02-07T13:21:46 | 106 | 18 |
[WP] You made a deal with something incomprehensibly powerful and ancient, sealed outside the material universe. You expected it to demand something like your soul or servitude in exchange, but it turns out the eldritch abomination really just wants someone to talk to after aeons of isolation. | "There are plenty of people that are capable of incredible things."
While the statement is all encompassing and frankly speaking, quite unclear, it's carved upon the everlasting tree that stands at the center of the world.
While not unlike the myths of the human world which refer to it as, Yggdrasil, the world tre... | The summoning ritual was done, now, it was just time to wait.
Hours and hours, as his sacred soul transferred across the border, but just his soul, only his soul, never his body.
And finally, a small shiny blob punctured the air.
The mighty şika had finally come to make sure I honored my side of the deal. To t... | 2020-03-11T10:03:43 | 2020-03-11T06:07:23 | 72 | 37 |
[WP] Abstinence-only education just means that teenagers are going to experiment by themselves and get hurt. The power of dark magic is all too tempting in today's stressful society, vote yes on giving our children comprehensive hex education. | The Elder Representative slammed his fist onto the table with surprising strength, making the quills rattle.
"Hex education? For the children? Have you gone mental?!"
The whole hall jolted awake after nearly dozing off from the day's discussions, and murmurs filled the room. Nobody seemed to mind this highly unprofes... | A man sat on a chair, coughing into his hand as he read from a book of spells, "Ah, hello, wizard and wizardlings. My name is Kaledo'oun Ivurian, and I'm here with an important message from the Mage's Guild of America."
He'd once again cough into his hand, licking his finger and flipping the page on his tomes, "Hex. P... | 2018-07-17T17:27:16 | 2018-07-17T13:32:53 | 183 | 79 |
[WP] In late 2014 a website which provides weather forecasts is discovered on the deep web. Its predictions are never wrong. On a day in February 2017, temperatures everywhere on the fifth day of the five day forecast read in the thousands. | Kevin wasn’t your stereo-typical hero. All his life he had been just below average in so many ways. He was short, but not noticeably so. He was chubby, but not fat. Girls didn’t pay much attention to him, his friends were milquetoast and forgettable, he was neither creative nor brave nor witty. Just about the only... | The President of the United States of America was making a speech, a speech about how we should live our last years in dignity. Resources were considered irrelevant, Economists were trying to work out the best way to deal with the situation. Researchers studied. Philosophers debated. Many spent their time spending all ... | 2014-10-24T15:50:58 | 2014-10-24T15:45:24 | 109 | 18 |
[WP] “Hell has Satan, Heaven has God, and Purgatory has me.” It reached out to shake your hand. “Welcome to my domain.” | The creature was perfect monotony. There was no lilt, no detectable inflection in its voice; no feature in its face that evoked emotion; no flaw or harmony in its gray and translucent being that drew attention. The creature was and that was it.
"Thank you for the welcome," I said and observed my surroundings.
Purgato... | "Where... Where am I? Am I..."
"Dead? Yes. Yes you are my friend." The pale white of the ferryman's skull stood out against the dark hood which he wore. From within, a bony hand reached out, offering to me... Something. I glanced around, looking at the desolate land which I stood, the bright light above shining upon t... | 2022-11-26T08:18:43 | 2022-11-26T07:37:26 | 500 | 70 |
[WP] start your story with a sentence that is upbeat and happy. Then end it with that same sentence but this time is dark and chilling. | Her eyes are beautiful.
When I first saw her, walking through the school corridors, I knew that she was the one. I couldn't take my eyes off her. It didn't take me long to figure out her class timetable. I started to watch her from afar, making sure that she wouldn't notice me watching her. In fact, I had to make sur... | the sea is beautiful.
thats the only thing i could think about this whole trip. three weeks of travelling on the shoreline spending each day in a different fishing town. my friends stayed close to shore, always, but i found a new fisherman or boat lender to take me into the deep sea even if just to see the sun sinkin... | 2019-09-07T06:54:50 | 2019-09-07T05:38:28 | 76 | 23 |
[WP] You are reincarnated as a voice within a schizophrenic's head. | When I woke up I was in someone else's head. It took me a while to realize. At first I thought it was a long and vivid dream. I was following a little boy around as he lived his life. I could see him wake up in the morning and go to eat his breakfast. I could see him being driven to school and playing football in the b... | "Hello?" The darkness is strange and all around me and I am filled with the most terrifying feeling of emptiness. "Hello, is anyone here?" My voice seems to echo.
At last something comes back to me, faintly at first but growing. I can't quite make it out, but as it gets louder (closer?) I can finally hear it. "Go awa... | 2015-03-23T06:37:44 | 2015-03-23T05:16:21 | 1,040 | 112 |
[WP] You wake up in a room with someone else, no doors, just a a paper taped on the wall that says "One of you is the A.I." | "What's the difference?"
I held the paper tightly in my hands. It read, *One of you is the A.I.* I looked at the man sitting across from me, watching me intently.
"W-what are you talking about?" I asked nervously.
"What's the difference between me," he pointed at himself then at me, "and you?"
I frowned.
"Isn't it... | I'm still groggy as I read the paper and slowly turn around to face my roommate. Surely I can't be an AI, can I?. I see his face and the trepidation melts to the floor around my feet replaced with a schoolgirl giddiness. "Holy shit, Allen Iverson! Can I have your autograph?"
"No." came the Answer's reply. I wish I wer... | 2018-02-22T17:08:17 | 2018-02-22T15:09:55 | 106 | 34 |
[WP] You wake one morning and find your reflection in the mirror is gone. A few seconds later it rushes in mouthing the words "Sorry! Sorry I'm late. Let's get started. You ready?" | And as suddenly as it happened, my reflection synced with my own movements again.
I stood there a moment, motionless, staring at my own expression of disbelief. *What the fuck just happened?* I thought. I continued to stare a moment, then:
"I saw that, you know. You can't just pretend that didn't just happen."
Still... | I blinked. Just as quickly as it had happened, the reflection snapped back into place. I shook my head gently, trying to clear the morning's fogginess. I'd never been a morning person. Years of reliance on caffeine to start the day had done nothing to aid my early morning perception. I snorted, my initial shock giving ... | 2015-11-16T11:07:05 | 2015-11-16T09:13:58 | 86 | 25 |
[WP] Music is a dangerous weapon, if not careful entire species can fall to madness upon discovering it. It has been theorised that any race with more than a thousand songs could wipe out all intelligent life, which is why Humanity is so feared in the galaxy despite no human really ever knowing why | Oh god dammit, a space orcs one and I'm six hours late!? Why do I only ever see these at the dead of night dammit?
Steve was the last one.
The last of his platoon on the desolate moon whose name he couldn't pronounce, they were only one of the many sentries that got hit that night, the Grol'Naaks attacked in droves,... | In a small house in the countryside, with the paint peeling off the shutters, a man called John lived alone, having been divorced for quite some time now. John was retired now, and was someone you might not really pay attention to if you saw him on the street. He wore glasses and had a slight hunch. His favourite black... | 2019-09-28T09:19:53 | 2019-09-28T08:13:14 | 59 | 24 |
[WP] This morning you found a note in your own handwriting, glued on the bathroom mirror and dated nine months in the future. “You suffer short-term memory loss and you are sueing the surgeon who caused this by operating on the wrong side of your brain; check your diary under the bed .” | Consciousness edged slowly into my mind as the sun peeked through the blinds, insistent that it was time to be awake. I laid in bed a while, torn between rolling over for a little longer, and my body's aching reminder that the bathroom is required. It's difficult to tell how long passed before I gave in, sliding out of... | “I was out with my daughters the other day, we were getting some ice-cream, yea that’s it, ice-cream. Lilith loved cookie and cream ice cream. I wanted to get her some... yea I remember, I wanted to get her some because I accidentally threw Mr. Teddy in the trash because she wrapped him up with some used wrappers in on... | 2020-08-03T00:30:55 | 2020-08-03T00:19:23 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] You're offered the chance to stop the death of your Mother's first true love, and avoid ever getting with your abusive Father. But, of course, the consequences for this are you not existing.
. | At the funeral, a little girl I'd never seen before grabbed my hand in the line and said, "How come you ain't cryin'?"
No one else looked or flinched or did anything, so I suppose they couldn't hear. I wanted - very much - to be angry at the implication. To squeeze her little hand harder than any adult should. But she... | "Look at them," says the seer, and I open my eyes.
Mother's hair shines in the moonlight; it ripples like silk as she laughs. Her toes look pale next to the young man's. Together they draw ripples in the water. He tucks a lock of hair behind her ear, leans in and kisses her cheek.
I blush a little at the intimacy. ... | 2017-06-13T06:43:49 | 2017-06-13T06:32:12 | 56 | 16 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | Shirley enjoyed a pleasant stroll down 14th Avenue, as screams and death filled the air.
The piercing screech of metal-on-metal as cars collided into each other up and down the avenue.
People sobbing in pain, crying out for help. A panicked roar as a frightened mob surged the streets and trampled each other.
Shirley... | I was powerless. I was disowned by my superhero parents. Everyday I suffered with the bullies giving me the worst wedgies in school.
The day the gift came really made me happy. I immediately folded people in half --- crushing their beloved spines. 70% of the people of the city are now dead.
"Who's useless now?" I sai... | 2017-06-12T09:57:10 | 2017-06-12T06:49:33 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] Every baby is taken away by the government and returned when they are ten years old. They never remember what happened in those years, but they always recognize their parents. You, however, remember everything. And those aren't your parents. | "Joey! We've missed you so much!", the strange woman said to me, but I've never her? "Me and your mother have are excited to start our lives as a family together!"... What? My mother? Family? These aren't my parents.
Exactly 10 years, 8 hours, 7 minutes and 50-51-52-53 seconds ago I was born. 9 years, 2 minutes and 2... | They call me an anomaly. They say that I'm resistant, and that I need to be cured. But the fact is, I know that I'm fine. I guess I am an anomaly, though. I think that I was the first kid to forcibly cover his eyes during the "cartoons".
Maybe I should backtrack a bit. Back at the facility, the food was good. We... | 2016-09-26T18:30:43 | 2016-09-26T16:02:32 | 161 | 72 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | So you're in line getting tacos, right, like you do every Friday for lunch. It's a beautiful day, the sun is out, not a cloud in the sky. Seventy-five degrees, light breeze, absolute perfection. You order *dos de pollo* in your shitty Spanglish, hand the man three bucks through the dingy frosted window, and pause a mom... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T08:58:50 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 1,714 | 10 |
[WP] You can’t kill a god, but you can erase it. Bound in enchanted chains weighed down by cold iron anchors, followers slaughtered and your temples burned, for all intents and purposes you don’t exist. You’re cast into the ocean, hopefully never to be heard from again. You are the drowned god. | Lungs inhale water until they break, then grow anew. The pain of drowning no longer affects me, for I have suffocated a million times yet I still not die. Though a lesser god might. Those Gods on the North Rim who brag of their resolve yet flee at the sight of their own blood, who send followers to fight in their stead... | In my domain, none may challenge me. All look upon me and rejoice, for I am merciful and full of strength. The land brings forth a bountiful harvest, the seas and rivers offer up their fish freely, and all live in peace and joy. I watch them, my subjects, and know that I am good.
But the dreams always end. I have watc... | 2022-07-09T12:31:40 | 2022-07-09T12:24:13 | 199 | 17 |
[WP] your entire class was summoned to another world and told after death you would be sent back to the exact time you were summoned. The average time everyone else was in the other world was only 3 years but you lasted a whole 90 years so you are unsure of what to do in you “normal” life now | The Long Lives. That's what they call us. The five who stayed the longest. We are... Different. All 40 people woke up where they were at the same time, but you can tell we didn't sleep, nay, we did not *live* there for the same duration of time. Ugh, English is so difficult.
The dozen or so early deaths adjusted the ... | It's not unusual to be squeamish at the site of a fresh corpse. Blood oozing from their wounds, eyes glazing over. Some lose their stomachs over it, and most try to forget about it.
But it's these moments I crave. Seeing death up close never fails to disappoint me.
I can't tell you how many lives I took. I was doing ... | 2022-01-17T16:29:01 | 2022-01-17T15:24:35 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] To get in Heaven, you have to confront the person who you hurt the most. You were expecting an ex, your parents/relatives, or a friend. You didn't expect to see yourself. | “It’s going to be mom, no – dad.” I kept telling myself repeatedly. I fidgeted and tried not to immediately see who was walking towards me. The footsteps were deafening.
“Please let it be mom..” I pleaded lightly. But I knew who was coming. The person I had actually hurt the most.
To my surprise I found a y... | Eyes narrowing in confusion, she stares at the person before her. Moments of silence balloon to fill the space between them before she finds her voice: "I...I'm sorry. But there must be a mistake. I don't know you."
The other girl tilts her head, ringlets of brown hair cascading onto her shoulder. "You do, Claire. Y... | 2016-08-15T07:45:18 | 2016-08-15T05:36:25 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries" | "Here you go, sir."
Her voice was one of the finer variety, not all too sweet nor insufficiently warm. I could basically hear her name in the way she said *sir.* It was a strong pronunciation, and I knew her name, as I know everyone's name, before even seeing her.
"Thank you, Circe" I said, moving my hand to accept t... | The building began to shake. The produce the man shelved fell onto the floor and he stepped on it as he began to walk towards me.
"It's a shame, I have found enjoyment being among you humans for the past 500 years. I guess that I must relocate again."
"Wait, what? I didn't mean to say Dracula, why would I say Dracula... | 2018-11-05T20:38:03 | 2018-11-05T20:03:44 | 1,434 | 794 |
[WP] World Peace has been achieved and the first crime in centuries has been committed.
EDIT: I've been reading a lot of these prompts throughout the day and they have all been really good, sadly I don't have the time to sit and read them all :( | Dale was a Walker. It had almost become a derogatory word: a person whose job was so menial and filthy that it couldn't be done virtually. Not programming new games or creating new objects for the virtual marketplace. No; a walker had to actually leave the simulation tank to do the job. And there were so few Walkers le... | When I killed Sam, I didn't know what I was expecting.
I spent the many of my hours the following day waiting for incredible torture to arrive.
I spent most of my hours the day after that waiting for unimaginable punishment to arrive.
I spent some of my hours the day after *that* waiting for punishment to arrive. ... | 2015-11-01T08:22:37 | 2015-11-01T08:20:20 | 1,397 | 992 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | We smiled at each other as my heart sank. I sat at the dining table as the guy I was used to handing me cash and envelopes was standing in front of me, wearing a kiss the chef apron.
I steeled myself for what was about to come. I had to maintain my focus and keep my fear in check. I ran my hand over the familiar conto... | Rachel was so exited for me to meet her folks and the only thing I was worried about is if they wouldn’t mind my casual clothing. Is a flannel over a AC/DC shirt with jeans and sneakers good enough to present to parents? I usually have a okay track record with them and it almost always gets better once I tell them my j... | 2020-06-05T14:11:34 | 2020-06-05T14:04:11 | 750 | 10 |
[WP] Write an upbeat post-apocalyptic tale where life is (for the most part) much better than it was pre-apocalypse. | You know, except for the goat-rabbits, life in America after the global nuclear apocalypse wasn't all that bad. I kind of enjoyed it, actually. I'd never been much of a people person, and it was nice to have some time to myself.
Basically everybody who didn't die to the Ebola X pandemic wound up perishing in the nuc... | My kids will never read it, but I can distinctly recall a book from before the war written by some French guy centuries ago. I was forced to read it for some class or another and I can’t remember the title to save my life, but I sure as shit remember its ending. I remember how all of the characters settle down on a far... | 2016-01-19T22:08:08 | 2016-01-19T21:44:49 | 902 | 35 |
[WP] Your Spouse goes into the bathroom only to come running out 15 seconds later. Clutching you close they tell you they fell into another dimension and what felt like seconds to you was a 1,000 years to them. They now want you to follow them back because they have built a life for you there. | The trees were huge, comically huge, video-game huge. They sprouted from beneath the clouds under them and
blossomed in huge umbrellas of green, yellow and red leaves over their heads, casting cobweb shadows on the sunlit path under their feet.
Henry walked carefully. There were no railings on the edge of the path – ... | The musky smell of sweat covered him as he pulled me into the bathroom. I had never seen his eyes so filled with life in the eons that had passed.
"It's right there honey, come follow me." He pointed at the mirror. I decided to take the bait, wondering what prank awaited me this time. He touched the mirror, and... | 2022-10-29T18:50:12 | 2017-02-20T20:51:41 | 510 | 59 |
[WP] You are a successful artist who has a condition where you randomly black out. When you wake up, you see that you have created beautiful masterpeices that you don't remember painting. Lately, all of your paintings have been more and more disturbing. | I stood aghast before the dark canvas. My god, my god. What had I done? My hands were covered in cracking black paint. There was no doubt I was guilty of the crime that towered above me.
A woman lay surrounded by a jabbering crowd at the top of the painting. Their faces were twisted into hateful broken things, pointi... | Eloquent and endearing, each stroke carried a vibrancy of colorful congruence. Her mind’s eye had already visualized it, but seeing the brilliance gradually materializing on the canvas was something else entirely.
Like a stiff coryphée on a private stage of white ice, the brush swayed and pirouetted, leaving trails ... | 2017-04-16T07:23:44 | 2017-04-16T06:34:53 | 166 | 58 |
[WP] Now that he has 8 years executive experience, Obama can apply for the job he REALLY wants | "Those were totally tubular moves there dudes."
"Oh god, not this guy again..."
The kids, gathered in a circle with their helmets on their heads and skateboards in hand, were approached by a tall black man in unkempt clothes.
"That was a sick heel flip there Jimmy. And Chad, great form on that 50-50, it was totally ... | January 21, 2017, Obama's first day as not being a president. He decided to create his own construction firm. Him, along with actor Tom Hanks, founded T.Hanks Obama Construction. Because of Obama's credentials as the former president, he was able to get government related projects. It wasn't the best client though...
... | 2016-02-23T03:32:48 | 2016-02-23T02:16:34 | 75 | 34 |
[WP] Create a fictional mythological race, (werewolves, vampires, skinwalkers, etc) and the legend behind it | "The grengrams got my shoelaces again," little Rick Leon said to his mom. "So I can't tie my shoes. Not today."
"Oh...my god, come on, again?" his mom said. She was clearly angry with him, possibly even frustrated. He had learned that word from his father.
"It's okay, I don't mind."
"Your shoes are going to fall off... | The thing about a myth is how it defies logic. All reason and analysis go out the window. Those are things for the cold light of day! For men to discuss over tea, reducing the world until it is nothing at all.
But myths, well, they slink in the shadows. Dance around the edges of your mind where the spirits and demons ... | 2016-12-16T09:14:56 | 2016-12-16T08:22:56 | 122 | 30 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | “Bring out the wretched Human!” The voice boomed from all angles. “Let the council decree his fate.”
Steve Stevenson was dragged from his cell by two exceptionally large Moroxi. The Moroxi had an unnerving similarity to the long extinct Kangaroo from earth, but with four arms and scales. The guards sneered at Stevens... | From within the smoky dome could be heard the human prisoner shouting "Dude, start the gas already"
This wasn't the way death sentences normally went, the prisoner was placed into the dome. The smoke ascended, which doubled as a descency filter, and justice could be heard to have been achieved by the screams. The pr... | 2020-05-20T10:46:26 | 2020-05-20T08:01:56 | 3,523 | 1,403 |
[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. | Society was broken up into blocs. Since individual skill was easily determined based by point allocation, and point allocation was something you could easily access, things became caste like.
It wasn't so bad as caste systems you might expect; after all, belonging to a given caste was voluntary, and indeed, people bei... | 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... | 2018-09-12T08:04:08 | 2018-09-12T07:01:42 | 108 | 20 |
[WP] After realizing you are in a work of fiction, you immediately rush to the person you think is the protagonist in an attempt to get plot armor as their best friend. But when the "protagonist" dies, you realize you may not have thought this completely through. | "Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!" It's all I could say as I stood over Derrick's body laying in the street. He was the protagonist - he couldn't be dead. Tall, good looking, square-jawed, charming, ladies-man Derrick couldn't be dead. My brain had gone into some kind of loop. I was supposed to be either the comedy relief or... | Thick whites crags stretched far ahead, craning over a large gulf. I shook my head vigorously, only to collapse and dry wretch from the throbbing pain that drove from skull to neck. My mouth scratched itself like sandpaper, and in swallowing I had the sensation of choking on air. I pushed myself up, drying needles fro... | 2016-09-05T11:20:34 | 2016-09-05T10:50:48 | 313 | 14 |
[WP] You wake up by a dusty road with 1,000 Mexican pesos and a note from your Spanish teacher: "Este es el examen final" | "Este es el examen final - Señor Chen" read the note. Attached were what I counted to be 1000 mexican pesos. I'm sure "BANCO DE MÉXICO" means Bank of Mexico.
Gaining a little bit of confidence in my Spanish, I did my best to Interpret the note: "Este es el examen final"... East exam final. Well, it's clear Señor Chen'... | I woke to a pounding headache. The money was ominous the note worse. When I got home, I was going to murder that Spanish bastard, even if I kind of deserved it.
In my first, bleary-eyed survey of the landscape, I nearly tripped over a small pack. It contained a towel, a trowel, a hat, a sheet of mostly clear plastic... | 2017-06-29T10:13:16 | 2017-06-29T09:51:13 | 79 | 26 |
[WP] Sometimes, anomalies are born. Beings whose power can flare brighter even than the true Gods – all of it for a fleeting instant of time. The eternally living Gods are wary of such might, and try to ignore these beings. Until an old and wise, but relatively weak Goddess visits one such anomaly. | A knock at the door brought the attention of the parents; mother cradling child, and father looking with protective fear. He picked up a sickle, his only protective weapon, and approaches cautiously.
"Who goes there?"
"Only an old woman, Child. An old woman seeking help, with the promise of a gift."
The returning v... | "For once! Why you just turn around and don't helped the elf?! She needed the help and it would become into something more, probably, and an adventure would be in front of us!"
"Sheesh, don't scream Venus. I am not in the mood to go fight the demon lord."
"She asked help to find her son!"
"Who got caught in an accid... | 2022-10-15T21:19:46 | 2022-10-15T17:45:46 | 98 | 11 |
[WP] You don't know how or why, but since birth you knew you were given an antagonistic role in life. Every chance fate got, it made sure to remind you of your place. No good deed gets to anyone as intended, instead it filters through as an offense somehow. You still hope to break the pattern. | Do one good deed a day and soon everyone will start to notice just how special you truly are.
Those words from my late mother still echoed in my mind as I passed through the bustling streets, tucking my hands into my sides so I didn’t hit anyone. At first, I thought I just had bad luck. No matter what I did, it alw... | It was getting darker and darker, I buried my head into my hands. Why did I need to do this? All I ever wanted was friends! But I'm the bad guy... My eyes burned as the water poured out. I was being pathetic, crying on the street after another fight with Iced- the Hero- I closed my eyes and tried not to think about it,... | 2022-07-20T01:23:21 | 2022-07-20T00:38:17 | 148 | 18 |
[WP] An alien race encounters the most terrifying predator imaginable. A lone, unarmed human. | We shouldn’t have attacked.
The humans had established one of their “Research Stations”, a facility designed for science. Within its walls, they had tested many different species of the flora and fauna present on distant Xel’ji-5, a planet that was still ours, still under the dominion of the Korlan Empire despite it ... | "Jac'que, it just killed another drone!"
Jac'que rubbed his mandible, it had been a long day.
"By the Great Queen... how is it doing this?! That was the third one! What does it want?!"
The worker clicked on its pad which showed a series of graphs and what seemed to be hieroglyphs to the untrained eye.
"Our research... | 2014-08-06T12:53:08 | 2014-08-06T12:08:26 | 353 | 21 |
[WP] It's the end of the universe. You're the last soul to appear before God and Lucifer to be judged in the end times. Unbeknownst to them, you are Death and have come to claim them both. | "Well this is a peculiar one." Lucifer scratched at his horns. "Remarkably clean, considering everything."
"Yes, Morningstar," God groaned, "I would like to go at least one day without you mentioning the mess you made of my world."
"It was quite a brutal end." The man confessed.
"Well, congratulations man! You're th... | *Meanwhile, in The Land Where All The Writing Prompts Are Simultaneously True....*
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"I'd like the soup," Tom said, "and can I get some of the extra crackers?"
"We don't offer crackers anymore," Tom's waiter, Satan, said.
Tom frowned. "I mean... they're crackers. How expensive can they be?"
Satan sighed and r... | 2018-12-10T10:05:29 | 2018-12-10T08:36:41 | 41 | 16 |
[WP]: Being thrown back 200 years in time sucked. However, making a living as a freak circus attraction turned out to be pretty sweet. | Never listen to a Tallahassee drug dealer when he says “trust me, the high is worth the come-down.”
The air in the tent was hot and thick with the smell of horseshit and watered-down beer. The nearest city was 3 days away, and the nearest room with AC was 170 years further.
“Still, isn’t the worst gig I’ve ever had”... | Time-traveling sucked, Mary thought, but at least the pay was sweet.
Mary smirked at the crowd, trying to make her expression menacing as possible. It seemed to work, as the crowd hurled back mocking jeers and taunts at her. She'd been thrown off at first by all the negativity directed at her, but she'd learned soon e... | 2016-09-27T14:53:24 | 2016-09-27T10:38:23 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You're a god. It's pretty sweet, being immortal and stuff. Only problem is, you've fallen in love with a mortal, and now they're sick. Like, really sick. Your devastated, and your trying to convince the other gods to make them immortal so that you can be with them forever. | I didn’t think they’d make me climb Olympus on foot. Sure, it wasn’t that much work, but Sierra was a heavy gal, and she tended to shiver when she got cold. I’d gotten her a sweater, but she still shivered in my arms as I made my way up. The walk was fine, and she enjoyed the sights, I think. I’m never really sure ... | “We’ve all been there,” Zeus said to his grieving daughter. “When the finite meets the infinite, the finite will always wither.”
“But why father?” Persephone cried. Her black tears spoiling the ground where they fell.
“We are the sun and they are the rose. It is through our light that they grow towards their potenti... | 2021-02-23T07:42:07 | 2021-02-23T07:39:14 | 89 | 11 |
[WP] You've been magically gifted the ability to speak all languages. Anything you say comes out in the first language of whoever you're looking at. One day, you try to greet someone on the street and they gape in horror as ancient, unknowable eldritch sounds exit your mouth. The ground shakes... | The ground shaking was the first warning, the first sign, the first intimation that somewhere, somehow, the boon I had been granted was unmaking something vital within the realms outside of normal reality. I pursed my lips and watched the reaction of the man in front of me with bated breath. If this truly was his first... | " You, do you have any idea what you have done ?"
The breathtakingly beautiful woman says as she glares at you.
You quickly look down out of embarrassment and shock .
"What, what is happening..."
You mutter as you look at the ground then your hands as if you didn't even recognize yourself anymore.
Speaking others ... | 2019-01-11T15:55:30 | 2019-01-11T12:49:48 | 36 | 20 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | The Humans were sort of a 'middle-of-the-pack' species as far as technology goes, their AI's were mediocre, interstellar space flight basic, and weapon capabilities abysmal, they were deemed a class 5-E species by the Hierarchy's research teams, 5 being their current technological standing, and E being their likelihood... | Jak'tur stood on the command bridge of the galaxy's most massive Dreadnought, The Bastion. His suction-cupped hands continued to subconsciously wipe at his scaled combat suit, and his black, bulged eyes continued to scan the screens around him for any activity. The entire crew was on high alert, for they had just tresp... | 2016-03-13T19:19:26 | 2016-03-13T18:23:49 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] You're a college history professor. You realize that your textbook has gotten a part of history completely wrong, and you know it's wrong because you're immortal and lived through it. | The last day of class is always my favorite. Earth History 101: four and half billion years distilled into a semester. When we wrap up the course, I like to kick off a discussion about historical What Ifs. What if there was no Moon? What if the Oxygen Catastrophe never happened? What if the development of mammals had b... | SANDWICH! A BLOODY SANDWICH!
The professor roared across the small lecture hall compelling his students to attention after reading the first paragraph of the 678-page textbook titled Chapter 9: The beginning of the World War.
Let me tell you sonny boy, I was there! I remember how it was. It was the hottest summ... | 2022-09-06T01:11:52 | 2022-09-06T01:06:24 | 587 | 15 |
[WP] Your gimmick is the ability to jump back in time 10 seconds. You're in a pub trying different pick-up lines with this one girl and resetting with each failure. As you walk up for your next attempt, she tosses a drink in your face and says "How many times do I have to say no!?" | Since I was young, I've always had this weird phenomenon happen. I would throw a ball, then suddenly I would have to throw it again. I would be talking to someone, and then I would have to repeat a sentence, because they hadn't heard it. At these random points, time would suddenly jump back ten seconds.
It was complet... | Having a time travel power is pretty great. You can do a lot of things. Experience events of your life at complete perfection or simply have fun with it without interferences. To make a long story short I had numerous experience with my powers. For exemple, I cheated death numerous time.
After some time experimenting ... | 2020-05-30T07:34:00 | 2020-05-30T07:22:25 | 102 | 11 |
[WP] Your significant other is possessed by a demon. Soon after; you realize you love the demon and not your SO anymore and it's actually mutual. Now the exorcist has arrived. | You had always wondered if a chair propped under a doorknob would actually keep a door closed. Now you knew it did, but you wished it was under better circumstances.
At first you thought that Stacy was just hung over; it was a wild night, after all, and you both had spent entire mornings just groaning and eating every... | Arthur knocked on the door, and waited.
This case was right up his alley. Woman reported a sudden change of personality on her husband, started seeing lights around the house and was sure she heard the man speaking tongues. She was worried he had been replaced , and wanted an investigator to come take a look.
Of co... | 2017-10-10T02:01:46 | 2017-10-09T15:40:03 | 1,140 | 23 |
[WP] You live in a world where the repetition of certain acts grants special abilities. Someone who does 10,000 push-ups will gain super strength, someone who runs 10,000 kilometres will gain super speed. You are the first person in history to drink 10,000 litres of alcohol. | They often asked me what I am or what I can do.
A good question, a common one. Most of the time asked by oneself in front of the mirror or the silent hours after sundown whilst lying in bed, but before sleeping.
Answers vary, but hearing them as an outsider, someone who isn't involved, is always worth the time.
"A b... | My life is ruined.
This morning I did what I always do as the very first thing when I wake up: I opened a new bottle of vodka and drank heartily, but this time it went differently.
First a nice burning sensation, then came the warmth and the relaxation, but then something started to happen. I very quickly got immense... | 2018-07-06T03:01:45 | 2018-07-06T01:02:41 | 545 | 341 |
[WP] You were warned that your newest crew member, a "Human", had vastly different biology from all other known races. This mad made very clear when they drank all of the galaxy's strongest known poison, saying that they "needed a drink of water." | We were told our first experience with a "Heyumin" was to be dealt with caution. A lifeform from the planet the heyumins called "Erff," though they pronounce it a bit differently than I am able, was considered a forbidden territory, as ordered by the Hazard Treaties of year 12903. A cruel planet with skies of oxygen th... | "Bro! What the fuck?!!? We've been collecting that shit for 50 centuries! My father died in a war over 4 ml of it on Archon 9, that was enough to wipe out the entire Andalin sector of this galaxy, how are you still alive???"
"What? You mean that glass of water? What else was I supposed to drink? That green ooze with t... | 2020-05-18T13:04:11 | 2020-05-18T12:24:02 | 216 | 70 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | “D-did you just bite the table?” The hooded figure asked.
“Yeah.” The teenager shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly.
“Why would you bite the table?” The hooded figure took off his hood exposing his aged face.
“I dunno, just felt like the best option.” The teenage picked at his teeth, apparently apart of the wooden le... | My heart pounded relentlessly as I took the angsty act of rebellion and chomped down on the polished oak surface.
At first, nothing happened. The eyes of onlookers glazed over in mild disappointment.
And then, my abdomen began to extend, stretching disproportionately to my flailing limbs.
An ominous CRACK resound... | 2020-03-19T13:33:44 | 2020-03-19T10:30:18 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | "So what exactly are your powers, Lin?"
I looked up from my desk at the speaker. Bill Ferrar, born on Earth, super-strength and super-stamina. The professors and higher-ups have fancier names for the powers, but none of the students used those terms.
Bill was smirking down at me. "I mean, you got to have a power i... | "You shouldn't be here, powerless freak." Growled John, the new kid at the school. He's been harassing since he got here. He really hates people without powers.
"Back off John"
"And what if I don't? What are you gonna do about it?" And he flicked me in the face, causing me to fall backwards into my locker with a bloo... | 2022-11-02T07:22:45 | 2022-11-02T03:58:00 | 2,213 | 476 |
[WP] *Knock on door*, "sir have you found Jesus?", "uh No. Goodbye" *shuts door* Jesus steps out from behind door with gun and said "good answer"
Taken from a post in IMGUR. Work your magic. | A heavily bearded and bedraggled Jesus kept his gun pointed at me, and signalled towards the sofa. I sat down and groaned at the hopeless absurdity of my situation. Jesus put his handgun down on my glass coffee table with the barrel aimed at me. He proceeded to pull a box of smokes from his top pocket of his flannel sh... | He breathed a sigh of relief and went and sat down, finishing the coffee I'd made him that should no doubt have been cold by now, but was miraculously still warm.*
I smiled at that. These things just happened around him. His shirts came out of the laundry one time already pressed. They just happened. His brilliance a... | 2016-07-28T06:00:39 | 2016-07-28T04:12:39 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Legends of Dragons "Breathing Fire" are actually referring to their incredible rap prowess. | Bodies were strewn about the streets of the village.
Mothers were weeping as their sons lost all street credibility
The Great winged beast they called 'Drake' sat atop the castle, bumping the new 2ChainMailz just waiting for a fuckboy to step in for battle.
I was at the shitting hole when i first heard the beat... | The portly group of knights dismounted before the cave
Twelve heroes in all, well trained; nary a knave
The dragon within had terrorized these lands
But these knights came prepared, with rhymes in hand
They belted out stanzas, cantatas, and scores
Arrangements, verses, setups, and more
They each shouted rhym... | 2016-04-07T09:12:48 | 2016-04-07T08:47:11 | 102 | 24 |
[WP] You are secretly an alligator posing as a human to infiltrate their society. One day, someone says "see you later, alligator!" and you think your cover is blown. | “Why are you here?”
I can’t look into his eyes as I respond: “I blame myself, really.”
“Go on.”
The mid-30s, dirty-blonde man across the table from me is exactly what you’d imagine a TV personality with high ratings would look like. He is all-professional, possessing that gleam in his eyes that most people probab... | “It’s been 4 days and I’m starting to be able to walk. Cooping myself up in this hotel room is starting to get to my head. But it must be done. I can’t use a walker forever. It draws too much attention to myself but it’ll draw more attention if I crawl on my belly. It’ll all be over. I need to get accustomed. That son ... | 2018-05-07T13:25:55 | 2018-05-07T12:28:30 | 88 | 10 |
[WP] MacMiller's Pub, a place where superheroes and super villains alike can sit for a drink, so long as they leave their feuds at the door. | At the sound of MacMiller clearing his throat, the hubbub in the cozy pub died faster than a civilian at the hands of Dr. VonDoomenstein during a drunken bender. Even the doctor himself, currently on a drunken bender, suddenly straightened up and felt almost sober, possibly saving a few lives.
The existence of this p... | Yoooooooooooooooo
Welcome to my pub, and here's the deal
This is a place where blood don't spill.
Heroes and villains both get a pass
This is my place, so drink and relax.
Superman, we got the beer for you
Kryptonite infused in a brew.
Just a bit, to get you blitzed, not even enough to affect your dick.
You'... | 2017-02-04T00:39:36 | 2017-02-03T19:21:16 | 116 | 22 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
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I'm ... | The once great city of Torsaval now sat in sad disrepair, the people living within slowly becoming poorer with each passing season as the weather destroyed crops and ravaged the city in the storm seasons. The dilapidated homes had slowly emptied, as the population either died off from starvation or left in the hope of ... | The street conmen and their dark magic - the few that choose to specialise in things like shadows or eldritch included, as much as they think they're being clever - might give you the wrong no impression, but in the diamond trade, Dark Mages are more often than not the good guys protecting the jewel.
There's something... | 2016-11-12T10:08:11 | 2016-11-12T10:00:09 | 756 | 18 |
[WP] The hero was too afraid to commit to the ultimate self sacrifice at the climax of the story which costed many lives. Everyone turns away from the hero and calls them a coward. The villain seems to be the only one that sympathises with the hero. | I was tilling the blighting soil next to the victorious Demon Lord's castle, the plow strapped to me as I furrowed the lines, when the Demon Lord herself came out of her castle, guards flanking her as she approached me.
"Good Morning, Hero." She said that last part hesitantly. She held a well lacquered box in her ha... | I sat at the bar of a diner with a newspaper in my hand, my fingers brushing over the embossed text as the diner's noises buzzed around in a soothing cacophony of chaos.
*Headline: Mark "Super Savior" Shannon Missed His Bus; 350 Die in Car-tostrophic Wreck*
"Jeez, this guy really screwed up. Good timing though, I had... | 2022-10-17T19:53:47 | 2022-10-17T19:25:36 | 157 | 25 |
[WP] You are born without emotions; to compensate this, you started a donation box where people could donate their unwanted emotions. You've lived a life filled with sadness, fear and regret until one day, someone donates happiness. | "It hurts," I mutter to myself and clutch my chest. "Oh god, how this hurts."
I close my eyes, and I see it. A husband, happy, a pregnant woman by his side. Then, a truck. It runs them through like a bullet to bone. Scattered and ripped, torn asunder like the man's soul, once so complete and bright, now floating insi... | And there is so much! Its glorious! You find the donor a few hours later because you have to know: van everyone have this? Why did they give it away? How could they bear to let it go?
The man who donated looks at you with kind slightly sad eyes. He is wearing the uniform of the homeless: layers and layers of dirty clot... | 2017-04-05T06:14:33 | 2017-04-05T06:08:33 | 45 | 27 |
[WP] The color of people's eyes are based on what that person has seen in life.
This is a fairly open prompt that I thought could be very fun to write about! There are several ways this prompt can go and I am very excited to read what you come up with!
| Waves pounded the bow of the longboat as it navigated the choppy waters off the coast of Ireland. But the strong winds beat the billowing sails, and the crew of the *Njal* was making good time. They'd be sailing into Dublin before any of the coastal watchtowers could even send a rider. Hopefully the Irish had grown fat... | The dark green colour of Phil's eyes was bred by countless summers spent running around the Georgian forests. Exploring, climbing, playing pretend. Constantly looking up, around seeing the green leaves in the trees, the grass, the moss. Everything. The fresh air. The humidity. Coming home just in time for dinner, with ... | 2015-09-03T13:20:14 | 2015-09-03T12:34:49 | 69 | 38 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 1,321 | 585 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "I'm going to hide in the shadows and prepare for a sneak attack," said Mark.
"Alright," said the GM. "I need you to make a luck roll."
Mark picked up three D6, shook them in his hand, blew three times for luck, then gently rolled them across the table where they bounced around for several seconds before stopping wit... | "A runner arrives with your orders. Would you like to read them out?"
"Sure." Katie unfolded the paper that Danny, the DM, just passed her. "It says that the Ruskis are carrying the guns away, and want us to stop them."
"So we charge those guns? That sounds ... dangerous."
"There's, like five-hundred guns. What are ... | 2018-05-29T08:01:06 | 2018-05-29T07:34:04 | 326 | 104 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | The Prime Minister walked into the cell and stopped short as he first sighted the prisoner. "Bloody hell, they do look like us," he muttered. He'd read the reports, of course, but nothing beat good old fashioned eyeballs.
The prisoner turned at his voice. Its skin had a bluish tint, and its frame was smaller than his... | The scouts had a fairly easy time going undetected, their crude translation of radio signals making them appear as blips on radar and forgotten in an instant. Very rarely did they encounter any other air-fairing species of this planet that would approach and inspect, though only the smallest of them would attempt attac... | 2021-01-21T21:32:31 | 2021-01-21T18:50:40 | 130 | 16 |
[WP] Everyone can become infinitely powerful if they so choose, however the more power you gain the less you remember about who you are and what you wanted. The greatest beings in the land have no feelings on anything and are more an extension of nature than the deity's they had hoped to become. | **The Will of Ożwei**
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_Legend has it that the Gods were once mortal._
The Gods are not cruel. The Gods are not caring. They simply exist. I imagine prayers gather at their feet like mail at a the door of a dead man.
Legend has it that they were once like us. Men and women of mortal life. Walking the world, s... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Interlude 3: The Once-Child Named Awe)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections. That being said, if you want further context, check out [these](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comm... | 2022-01-27T08:04:10 | 2022-01-27T07:47:56 | 173 | 25 |
[WP] A man moves into a haunted house from (insert scary movie here). The demon in the house doesn't realize how dangerous the man really is. | The old Russell residence stood abandoned years after the horrendous murders that Tim Russell had committed. Its lawn had overgrown and the pavement leading up to the house was cracked. The paint on the walls had succumbed to the elements and had fallen off in most places, revealing the wood underneath, yet, for a hous... | This idea is stolen from the greatest line in the watchmen, so I'll set it up like a trailer:
Lightning crashes and illuminates the old house as a seemingly normal man walks in from the rain...
Cut to black scene
A low rumbling begins on screen where you only see a glimpse of a horrific monster instantly flooding t... | 2015-03-10T09:39:27 | 2015-03-10T04:24:13 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You and your identical twin are constantly getting compared to one another. They are described with “shiny raven black hair, and strong intelligent eyes”. People dislike you for your “dirty black hair, and shifty narrow eyes”. It’s starting to bother you, since you look exactly the same! | I trudge down the stairs from my bedroom. Today is no ordinary day, today is my birthday, and that means the torture will be redoubled. The only bright side was the potential for gifts, like a new dog, or a laptop.
“I don’t want to throw a joint party but I’m not sure who would show up for Amelia’s if we separated th... | "This is the sixth time this month we're out here." Shania gesticulated at the shriveled cacti and dusty expanse around us. "Nothing! No unicorn!"
Catching sight my expression, she rolled her eyes. "There you go, scowling again. It's no wonder people say you're the foul-tempered one."
I adjusted the strap of my rifle... | 2020-10-24T19:39:50 | 2020-10-24T19:26:20 | 590 | 158 |
[WP] You were told to never stay up passed midnight. You went to sleep at 12:04am, it was still 12:04am when you woke up. | When he awoke, the clock shone in bright red numbers that cast shadows around the room 12:04. Gregory rubbed his eyes, still clutching the teddy bear he’d fallen asleep with, and looked at the clock again. The number hadn’t changed. Surely he’d been asleep for longer than a minute. He rolled over, closed his eyes, ... | I knew that a night out with friends was a bad idea.
I have been told since I was able to understand it that I couldn't stay up past midnight. I was never told why, never given an explanation. But every night I followed that simple rule.
One night, I was out with friends from school. We were blowing off steam because... | 2017-05-25T11:36:11 | 2017-05-25T11:08:28 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] The year is 2030. Bakery art is so realistic, literally anything could be cake. The uncertainty has gripped the world in fear. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is cake. | The TV was always on, buzzing against the back wall of the homely living room, volume up loud. Ray could hear it through the door as he fumbled with his keys. He punched out a sigh as he opened the door and stepped in. The volume multiplied without the barrier of the door to protect his ears. His feet hurt. His back wa... | As I held her close, I remembered all of the times that her having "cake" meant that she had a nice ass. The only problem was, as much as I agreed with the other zombies, that she was incredibly fit, I fought as hard as I could, to not actually take a bite, hoping that it would satiate my undying hunger. I fought as ma... | 2022-04-26T16:51:39 | 2022-04-26T16:48:49 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You are a medical wonder due to the fact that you can regrow your organs. You became a donor and everyone thinks that you are a good person. What they do not know is that you can control every reciever whenever you like. | I woke as I always have after a procedure, comfortably in my recovery room at the Organ Center. The Organ Centre was built fifteen years ago, about five years after I made my first organ donation. Once the doctors had identified my extraordinary gift, it was determined that a special facility should be constructed stri... | Did they do tests on me? Surprisingly, no.
I became a donor because, um, I can regrow my organs so why wouldn’t I give them out like candy?
My family is proud of me, and everyone must think I’m a good person. Little do they know.
I couldn’t believe it! The guy I had controlled, he wasn’t being controlled! He normall... | 2019-06-13T07:54:14 | 2019-06-13T06:19:56 | 56 | 15 |
[WP] You are the result of a high school girl being given 3 wishes. She wished for the perfect boyfriend, so you were magically created. Now she’s trying to erase you because the boy next door loved her all along. She’s literally trying to kill you because “You never existed in the first place!”…… | "You can't do this to me!" he said. His deep, melodic voice was attractive even in its broken, choke-filled state, but Stephanie, her will hardened by the fact that Noah, the boy next door who she had hardly realized had noticed *her*, and who was *actually* real, had fallen for her, kept searching anyway.
"Steph, *p... | Being someone's 'perfect boyfriend' sounds like every guy's dream. It's not, I know because I was created to be such a thing. Every day, from the moment I wake, until I fall asleep exhausted, the only thing on my mind is Her. It's tiring, serving her hand over foot, and when she wants space, I give it to her, but even ... | 2021-01-07T02:59:36 | 2021-01-07T01:54:01 | 116 | 77 |
[WP] The first time machine is mounted to a satellite in order to map the Earth through its entire life. As the data comes in, it becomes apparent history drastically differs from what we previously thought it to be. | The machine only showed one picture a day, you could photograph different parts of the earth, but only at the same time minimum, another day.
You couldn't have a picture of the same portion of land in more granularity, such were the rules of "time photograph" physics.
The calculations took time, but the satellite w... | "Aliens?"
He looked again. There it was, an alien craft.
In the search that followed, they found more and more of them... and a pattern. About every 10,000 years, a craft came by, something got out, and went hunting. the last visit dropped an ice comet on the planet.
Looking further back... they had even hunted di... | 2015-08-17T13:28:15 | 2015-08-17T12:55:51 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | 3...
2...
1...
*SSSSSSSsssss*
The hiss of mist flew up around me and when it faded I looked into the mirror, the same my all my forefathers looked into to first look at their wolf-ly animal self for the first time.
"I don't believe it." said my mother.
My father didn't say anything. I think that was worse.
Starin... | My parents lit the candles that were stuck into a strip of venison. We began to count down as the clock ticked closer to my time of birth. It would mark my fourteenth birthday and my transformation into the animal that guided my soul.
10-9-8-
I started to sweat.
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I stared at my sister in front of me.
-... | 2017-01-21T20:02:50 | 2017-01-21T17:14:16 | 215 | 108 |
[WP] You have the power to swap places with anyone, anywhere, at will. You've set up a business where you charge by the hour for tourists to swap places with you. Today is different, because your latest client sent an emergency request. It is a hostage. | Eric sat silently across from Mr. Yokota. The tea that rest between them was long forgotten and growing cold.
"That's a lot of money Mr. Yokota," Eric finally said trying to understand the situation.
"She is my only daughter. There is no amount I won't pay to get her back. You are the only one that can save he... | Phone call: Monday 18th of June 13:54
“Bound you say? With guns pointed at your head you say? Pardon me asking, but exactly how are you calling me with bound hands?”
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“They gave you a last phone call? How kind of them. Say, is there anyone you dislike in particular?”
…
“Haha! Yes, I can imagine. It’s never easy t... | 2017-04-20T06:15:02 | 2017-04-20T05:25:03 | 577 | 11 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | 8
8 times they've locked me up and thrown away the key.
8 times i've broken out of whatever cell they make for me.
20
20 times now have we met
20 bodies I have left.
I am John Reyes and I am a killer.
I order another scotch, the bartender slides one over. He's too scared to hand it to me, I can tell.
Foots ste... | As I heave the 20mm auto-cannon into place I go over my plan, flawless, yet simple; create nuclear diversion immediately after capturing Lois. Couldn't be more simple. Now to watch as the bait brings the flies, Superman won't know what hit him. "Ahh, Lois Lane." I say to myself. "Superman's kryptonite... Except for kry... | 2018-10-18T17:19:34 | 2018-10-18T16:23:28 | 47 | 14 |
[WP] The monster has torn its way through half the crew of your spaceship. Your only clue about it is the pictographs on the side of the capsule it came in. A rectangle with fifty white stars in one corner and 13 red and blue stripes. | 'Weird" we said at the same time.
I stared into his cold green eyes and he stared right back into mine. Same hair, same eyes, same fucking person. We even had the same god damned space suit on.
The only difference, aside from what appeared to be a tenacious thirst for blood on his part, was the small rectangle patch ... | The intruder has breached the door to my room. It comes in dressed in a power ranger outfit and a cowboy hat, wielding a revolver in one hand and an A1M1 Abrams in the other. My life us near its end, I can feel it. It turns towards me and yells "MURICA MOTHERF*****". It strikes me down with the revolver, and immediatel... | 2018-12-07T09:47:07 | 2018-12-07T08:06:23 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You die and go to heaven and in heaven there is a rule. Every time someone on Earth says your name with the intention of mentioning you specifically, one dollar is added to your bank account in heaven. You lived the most average and mundane life on Earth but you are a billionaire in heaven. | Joe was a totally average Joe throughout his earthly life. He got high C's or low B's in his classes all throughout school, and went straight into the workforce as a cashier after graduating. It was at this time that he picked up the hobby of coin collecting. He would bring a few dollars of his own change to work every... | I wake up in a room completely unfamiliar to me. It is perfect. If I had seen it on Earth I might have not looked twice at it, but something here is different. I sit up in bed. It even smells nicer. More clean, somehow. I am confused, but not in an unpleasant way. More like I am waiting on a surprise that I know will b... | 2017-04-01T18:21:59 | 2017-04-01T17:33:40 | 513 | 101 |
[WP] A time travel "hub" has been invented. The moment it is activated people will be able to travel to any point during it's existence. The machine is turned on and someone immediately walks out. | Dr. Borlaug felt his heart skip a beat. He had anticipated the possibility, of course, but this was beyond his wildest hopes, to see such immediate vindication of his theories. The man strode out of the time portal, eyes intent, clad in a dull orange jumpsuit and a complex earpiece fixed to his head. "Greetings!" Borla... | The traveler was a pudgy, red-nosed man with slick backed hair and a body that was far from what anyone would call "attractive." There was also no sign of awe on his face at all. He seemed to have taken the experience of time travel with the same nonchalantness that Mark had passing through the facility's revolving doo... | 2016-04-20T14:15:21 | 2016-04-20T14:02:32 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] For a thousand years, you were trapped alone inside your tiny lamp. Now that you are finally free, all you want to do is reward your savior, but for some reason, he seems to think you are trying to trick him with the whole "three wishes" thing. | ######[](#dropcap)
"What can I do to make you believe me?" Casden, or as his friends called him, Genie, looked at his savior with an expression of hopelessness.
They had been at this for over an hour, Casden promising the boy plastered against the wall of the cave riches and true love and almost anything else he co... | First time ever submitting here. Don't expect much!
“For the FINAL time let me make it clear to you child the risks you take in denying my charity. In my heyday I was once King Solomon’s greatest advisor, a title that was stripped from me when lesser beings, afraid of my awe inspiring power, trapped me in this accurse... | 2018-04-14T15:59:39 | 2018-04-14T10:32:48 | 53 | 17 |
[WP] "Why do you abduct me aliens?" "To destroy our predator that has hunted us for decades." "But why me?" "Because you are the greatest speedrunner of Doom Eternal." "But I can't..." "Relax, we don't need you to physically help us..." The aliens then give me a controller. | "Seriously?"
The aliens pause. If I knew which glassy things were their eyes, I'd say it was a dead-eyed stare.
"We know you've read *Ender's Game*. Just think of it like that."
"I only watched the movie, actually."
In the background, one of them lightly smacks another one in its secondary shoulder and mutters a co... | The fingers felt stronger. Not my fingers, not any more. Their fingers. Hands, lungs, eyes, even my back. All had slowly been changed. Every time I complained that some part of me was not up to the challenge, the Ani had a solution.
The finger tips, my finger tips, were blue, like the Ani's own. I could reach across t... | 2021-10-27T06:57:32 | 2021-10-27T04:10:01 | 332 | 55 |
[WP] You swerve to avoid a squirrel. Unknown to you, the squirrel pledges a life debt to you. In your darkest hour, the squirrel arrives.
Edit: Wow, great stories so far! Made the front page too. Obligatory thanks! | Picture this: a felled tree, lashed to the roof of a pickup truck; a tree stump, rising through the snow like an island; and a naked girl floating in the air, pointing accusingly at me.
I will admit, when I left this morning to get a Christmas tree, this was not what I was expecting.
**YOU HAVE DESTROYED MY HOME,** s... | "Shit! A squirrel!" I yelp, as I jerk the wheel of my car. Time slows as my car crests the berm at the side of the road and lofts into the woods, striking a girthy oak and cartwheeling into a nearby stream. As I'm thrown free of the car (I'm glad I didn't wear my seatbelt), the last thing I see is a rock in the water.... | 2015-03-15T14:53:53 | 2015-03-15T14:32:22 | 138 | 25 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | Cups. Motherfucking cups. Not super strength, not teleportation – just bloody *cups*. It had always been this way, ever since I could remember and it pissed me off. Only I would get such a useless superpower! We had more than enough mugs and glasses in my house and it’s not like there was a shortage of plastic cups in ... | Well to be fair I had one of the most sought after superpower in the entire world. I was not like Jake who could control the dense flow of current, or Alice who could read a thousand books a day and recall 900. For most people their superpower came with a drawback of sorts, Jake had to stay in his room to control his p... | 2015-10-10T09:43:23 | 2015-10-10T09:03:49 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You're a paramedic. In fact, an immortal paramedic. Since you first treated a wounded soldier on the fields of the 30-years War, you didn't age and followed the development of "Emergency Medical Service". Your coworkers are astonished by your knowledge, but sometimes, you slip into old habits.. | Well this is peculiar, I've never seen a writing prompt that seemed so directed toward me. It's especially odd that I'm seeing it tonight, on Reddit's front page. I'll just say this - I'm actually a paramedic, in real life. I think you're already pretty iffy on that, so I won't elaborate about anything else. From what ... | Bike Accidents and Bone Saws
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“Unit 522, requesting medical assistance at Franklin and 38th, I repeat, medical assistance 38th and Franklin.” the radio beamed.
“Sounds like showtime, eh Gregory.”
“EMT 1436 responding,” Gregory spoke into the microphone as he flipped the sirens on.
“I told you to call... | 2019-01-05T17:28:29 | 2019-01-05T17:27:49 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming
| The priest straightened his clothes and took a deep breath. He prayed to God for help under his breath. He watched pensively as the boy approached him.
When the child walked up in front of him, the priest cleared his throat and said with a shaking voice, "Hello my son. God bless you for coming to pray. What is it tha... | Jack opened the briefcase and ran his fingers through the bills, caressing Benjamin Franklin’s tattered face.
“I see you have it,” whispered Michael. Michael was wearing blue jeans, a red and white flannel shirt, and grey sneakers. His blonde beard glowed in the black night of a San Francisco alley. He was a short an... | 2014-01-21T13:19:39 | 2014-01-21T13:03:03 | 74 | 17 |
[WP] You chant "Bloody Mary" three times in your car's side view mirror and then hit the gas laughing all the while as she sprints towards your car desperately trying to keep up.
Edit: Optional inclusion, it's the eighth time you done this. | "What is she doing?" I asked myself in the mirror. I had sped away about four times, giggling as she trotted behind me, totally unable to keep up. Every time she looked a little more tired. Now Bloody Mary was in a fetal position on the side of the deserted highway. I felt a pang of guilt. I grabbed my emergency k... | I pulled to a stop at the red sign, keeping my eyes on the rear-view mirror. This bitch was supernaturally fast. I had left her in my dust and here she was already rounding the curve, her eyes burning with anger.
"COWARD!" she shrieked, and I laughed, but nervously - like laughing past a graveyard.
I tossed a quick g... | 2018-10-01T12:01:02 | 2018-10-01T11:05:06 | 5,296 | 125 |
[WP] You're midway into your flight when you, feeling bored, decided to surf the Internet. You read breaking news about another plane disappearance. You're on that flight. | This wasn't my first time flying, but it was my first time flying transatlantic. I was on a red-eye from New York to Frankfurt, Germany. Everyone was sleeping and I could only stare out the window into the dark ocean for so long. Finally I gave in and pressed the button to summon a flight attendant.
"Yes?" whispered ... | I wrote a song in response to this prompt. The lyrics are below; you can listen/watch here: [http://youtu.be/5bvrHcgqTdk](http://youtu.be/5bvrHcgqTdk)
**We'll Be Fine**
I had a dream that I was on a plane,
and everyone on it looked the same,
and a passenger whispered in my ear,
"I've got news, but do not fear... | 2015-04-07T19:26:24 | 2015-04-07T18:51:34 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You have a distant uncle who seems to have an uncanny knack of giving you the exact birthday gift that you’d desperately need sometime during the next year. This year’s gift, however, is terrifying. | I always opened *his* gift first.
The typical size, I cannot say, simply because there wasn’t one. Each year was a brand new mystery, wrapped in unexceptional brown paper and fastened with white string.
They started coming when I started college, as soon as I was living on my own, once a year, at my doorstep by the c... | It was my 24th birthday. Uncle Jack was an atheist, but he had an almost divine insight into what gift I needed most each year. I’d never met him; he lived far away, my ultra religious parents said with some derision. My Mom hated Dad’s brother, Jack, with all of the fire and brimstone her faith could muster.
They... | 2020-06-23T21:07:39 | 2020-06-23T19:49:41 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Instead of your life flashing before your eyes as you die, your life flashes before your killer's eyes. You're an assassin who has killed time and time again, but something stops you as you are about to finish off your next target. | I slide through the crowd like water through a grate, slipping past the strangers going about their lives. It's raining, turning my city slowly into a pit of mud. Everyone's eyes are locked with the ground, shuffling home.
Fine with me. It's better they don't look.
I subtly rearrange my jacket and gently tap the in... | He swayed from side to side, standing above me with a hatchet in his left hand. His eyes were too wide, his movements too fast. The famous Blade of the Black Council was full freakin' looneytunes.
I hadn't seen his face around Edinburgh before. An Asian man, short and built like a rhino, if rhinos partook in steroid... | 2016-02-09T23:10:22 | 2016-02-09T20:33:17 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dearest Sara,
It touched my heart to receive your letter. I so rarely get post these days that I must admit I ripped it slightly in my haste to open it. However, it now sits on my mantle, repaired with a piece of tape, as one of my most prized possessions.
To the matter of your Christmas gifts, in that regard I'm a ... | Dear Ralphie,
Of course I will send you a Red Ryder BB gun. Don't worry about your eye, and practice with the squirrels and cats in your neighborhood. Make those others worry about their eyes. Especially that teacher. I would have given you a solid B+. Anyway, you're going to make it.
Your pal,
Mephistopheles | 2018-10-28T16:54:58 | 2018-10-28T14:20:56 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You've recently realized that all your life you have been secretly the protagonist on a truman-esque reality TV show. The show runners don't know you know. Time to have some fun... | Okay so to be fair, they have been holding me captive my entire life and manipulating me in order to create entertainment, but I may have gone a little overboard.
Realising I was on TV was not as hard as the films make out. I mean seriously, it would be so much easier for them if they actually created an original rea... | You wake up in the same way you've woken up so many times before. Lie in the perfectly made bed, in the perfect white house, in a street of identical white houses, in a town full of identical streets. For years, it had seemed like home, but now, as you look out the window, you see it for what it truly is.
A facade.
... | 2022-11-26T14:51:07 | 2022-11-26T14:42:59 | 136 | 28 |
[WP] Suddenly, everyone on Earth becomes immortal, free from physical injury or disease. Except for one person. | Scapegoat, *n*. (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
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And on the eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord two thousand and thirteen, the Lord said *LET JOHN GAFFNEY OF MIDDLEBOROUGH OHIO BE ... | It's been about 50 years now but you wouldn't know it from looking at people, except for John that is.
Back then we were just 15 and didn't really care about what people were saying on the TV, we were equals back then...but time has changed that, he aged as the world & I did not.
So here we sit he with greyed hai... | 2013-12-10T11:35:07 | 2013-12-10T08:45:33 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] It has been verified that dying will result in going to heaven, no matter what. You are the government, trying to lower the suddenly skyrocketing suicide rate. | "Tom, we've got to do something."
"I understand, Bill."
"How many?"
"So far? We might as well be handing out Kool-Aid on the streets."
Bill slammed his fist on the table. "Tom, tell me. Tell me how this got out."
"It was the Russians, of all people. They were the first to figure out the algorithm for the subatomic... | As the slide came up the board of government officials sat there in awe at the advertising suggestion.
"It's amazing." "It's exactly what we need". "That's perfect." "You can't argue with such infalliable logic."
"I take it that means we can start running through the campaign th-"
"Immediately."
Within 10 hours the... | 2015-02-02T07:18:10 | 2015-02-02T06:40:57 | 206 | 71 |
[WP] The armies of Hell stood and hovered at the ready. Today would be the day of reckoning. Earth and all its souls would be theirs. But when they burst through the ground to launch their surprise attack they found the humans already at war... With aliens. Time to pick a side or fight both. | I watched as the horde of demons shuffled impatiently as they waited at the Narrow Chasm of hell. At the end of the chasm was an ancient metal gate, rusted by the ephemeral passage of time and yet, it withstood its ground for countless centuries.
Until today.
"Patience my fellow fiends..." Satan's voice echoed from ... | Continuing a story from this [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7s4xzt/wp_the_gates_of_heaven_torn_asunder_angels_lay/dt29ajg/) because I feel they can go hand in hand.
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With every step towards his dark throne, Lucifer swore. With every word, the fires of hell burned hotter. He could not bel... | 2018-03-28T08:00:49 | 2018-03-28T07:54:39 | 299 | 17 |
[WP] The year is 2577. Everyone is genetically modified before they are born to have the best triats possible, resulting in everyone being amazing athletes and looking like super models. Your family decides not to genetically modify you, but you are born with a trait that everyone can only dream of. | *Freak.*
*Retard.*
I first found out I was different when I was seven. Mr Ray, our PE teacher, stood in the sun, the light perfectly accentuating his toned muscles.
“Now, kids,” He said, “You might’ve all been born with the best genes out there, but if you don’t exercise properly those muscles will become smaller an... | "Wow that movie was really good." Said Dave as he and his two friends exited the theater.
"Oh yea," agreed Kevin, "The way they set up the twist was amazing. And the cinematography was incredible."
"I really liked how they introduced the love interest as a Helen of Troy type, while also working in homages to Romeo a... | 2018-01-16T19:53:08 | 2018-01-16T17:34:30 | 726 | 314 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. |
I knew he was trouble when he walked in.
He came in, head held up high, posture like someone had shoved a metal rod up his ass. Young, cocky, asshole. It was slow day, only a couple of people were around. None of the regulars. A guy working on his laptop, and another girl watching the snow fall over Union Square out... | When I graduated from college, I had no purpose in life, no direction. As a part time job I began working at a local cafe in my hometown, owned by my dad.
The cafe had been an establishment in the town since long before I was born. My parents opened it together, right after they married, and now it’s mine.
My mom d... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T18:59:07 | 1,330 | 628 |
[WP] A hero has been fighting the same villain for years. Over time, their positions slowly switch. | It had been a noble thing at first. Fighting crime, keeping the order, keeping the less than upstanding citizens in line--the gangsters, the drug pushers--I've been doing this for nearly two decades, keeping my city of Crestview safe from anyone who would hurt it.
The Forsaken, The Enigmas,The Inquisitors, The King's... | I knew him by the flower pinned to his chest - a wilted, burned up thing, as fragile as a songbird's hollow bones. The elements should have shredded it to dust years ago. Gods know what he had done to preserve it.
The flower seemed to sit still, to hover as he slipped past my blade; floating left, then right. Instead ... | 2016-04-15T20:29:23 | 2016-04-15T18:17:09 | 162 | 48 |
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