prompt stringlengths 20 5.8k | chosen_story stringlengths 226 10k | rejected_story stringlengths 227 9.43k | chosen_timestamp timestamp[ns]date 2012-07-26 17:01:55 2022-12-31 14:34:19 | rejected_timestamp timestamp[ns]date 2012-07-26 14:23:36 2022-12-31 12:20:41 | chosen_upvotes int64 14 23.1k | rejected_upvotes int64 10 4.26k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
[WP] Humanity is dead; you were asleep in a cryogenic facility for super-human soldiers. Aliens have woke you centuries later to fight for their survival from the aliens that ended humanity. The problem? You're actually a janitor that fell into a pod and all of the soldiers died in the previous war. | It wasn't easy to convince the aliens that you had something up your sleeve. Janitors have their tricks, and when you're given every key, sometimes you figure out some of the secrets you had no business figuring out. And the biggest secret of all would be the key to helping the aliens defeat the evil invaders who exter... | The hum of machinery grew in my mind, perturbing the nothingness. It was abrasive and terrifying, like looking to the foot of your bed and seeing a figure not present before you closed your eyes.
A *swoosh* contrasted the repetitive and unfamiliar clicks and thuds, familiar to me like an alarm set before; annoying ye... | 2018-10-13T17:04:26 | 2018-10-13T07:35:13 | 397 | 53 |
[WP] You are a superhero looking for your sidekick who recently went missing. In your search you run into your archnemises who is searching for their henchmen who also went missing. You two soon discover that your sidekick and their henchmen are dating. | Fiona had been missing for over three days, I was worried. But when Nyx contacted me, my heart sank. Her voice was cold and calculated. She asked for a parlay on neutral ground to discuss "the situation" with my sidekick. She gave me a time and location, and nothing else. I agree. I'd never met Nyx before or fought her... | \*on the top of a skyscraper
"turn this damn shield off" said lex
​
"where the fuck is he" yelled [fireball?](https://www.classywish.com/best-superhero-names/)
​
"ill kill you for taking my daughter you sick fuck" yelled lex "you took it too far by taking her, don't you know that she was just... | 2020-11-11T06:49:19 | 2020-11-11T04:06:32 | 86 | 29 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | “I won’t agree to that job.”
I stared across the booth at Dirk, who hissed at me angrily in response, the flicking of his tongue practically a dead giveaway of his alter ego, The Serpant. It lashes out a mere four inches in front of me. When I started out, his demeanor would have shaken me, but now, more sure of my pr... | The first two that came to me I thought was just a coincident. Like I run and own a multinational company chances are two people would be connected by my company. But when the fifth came to hire me as a shapeshifter it started getting insane. Now I've been hired by almost all superheros and villains beside one of each ... | 2020-10-19T08:55:56 | 2020-10-19T08:03:28 | 375 | 17 |
[WP] You finally build up enough courage to talk to that cute someone you see on the bus. Their face turns dark as they respond "You shouldn't be able to see me." |
It takes a lot of courage to do something that other people would never think of doing.
Like sitting in the middle of a crowded city bus in the brightest neon purple dress that you could find on clearance, paired with those joke neon green socks that your Aunt gave you last Halloween. I mean, only a crazy person ... | It was midnight and Samuel only just got into bed and that was only because his mom stormed into the bathroom and pulled him aside. “Sam, I need you stop. Go to bed,” she said, barely able to keep her eyes open from the piercing light.
“Five more minutes, I’m still practicing,” Samuel said.
“Honey, you’ve been pract... | 2020-03-27T21:11:20 | 2020-03-27T18:48:52 | 100 | 31 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | All of us saw the bizarre irony of the situation. The luckiest people on the planet, all confined to a maximum security prison in a highly classified location. We called it The Institute.
Luckily (heh), it wasn't a standard prison. We were confined because our luck potential made even interacting with us fundamentally... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:28:18 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 88 | 26 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. |
"Here you go creep." You say to the weird-looking ticket taker as you show him your ticket, the same ticket that materializes in your pocket every day.
The ticket taker looked at you with its expressionless face, grabbed the ticket, and broke it in half with its long fingers. He had the form of a man but was a far cr... | The only thing I remember is a kiss. Soft lips brushing my temple, warm breath on my skin, and the words _Until death do we suffer_.
I can't tell you how long it's been since I've been on this track. I was a child when I found myself here, and yesterday I discovered the first strands of gray growing out of that temple... | 2020-07-17T13:57:05 | 2020-07-17T13:21:25 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | "You're going to have to say that again, because I have no idea what in the fuck you're trying to say," I inform the sparkling conversationalist that just conversed in little more than grunts and growls.
"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years," the young man behind the counter informs me, seemingly confu... | The man behind the counter froze in the middle of typing out my order. They looked up at me wide eyed and said,"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." Sounding somewhat surprised.
That night, standing in the empty 24/7 McDonald's of our small desert town, it finally happened. The thing that I had been wa... | 2018-06-24T21:55:57 | 2018-06-24T20:39:44 | 80 | 41 |
[WP] The king demands a weapon the likes of which the world has never seen, the greatest craftsmen in the world gather to create swords, bows, hammers and all variety of great weapons of legendary and unrivalled quality. You can't help but scoff, poor fools misunderstood the assignment | "And this Your Majesty, is a sword that will never rust, nor grow dull—" The King waved a hand, dismissing the poor craftsman. He was around the thirtieth one to fail. I stood in the back of the throne room, as usual, trying not to be bored. Court reporter was not a particularly thrilling job when there weren't any cri... | The craftsmen display their weapons one after another each with extraordinary quality but all the same boring thing. Sword, bow, axe and morning star. That is until the final weapon was revealed.
At first the weapon stunned the guests and even the king himself. How do you use such a thing? How is it lethal? And why i... | 2022-07-13T05:21:50 | 2022-07-13T05:14:26 | 147 | 18 |
[WP] A young blind kid goes on a stroll through the autumn woods, but during their stroll, they come across a lonely Medusa who’s isolated themselves from the world out of fear of turning anyone who looks at them to stone. | "Who goes there?!" I heard a woman call out.
I had been going on a walk in the woods. Which was a bad idea on my part. I usually go on walks with a friend or family member, so I don't trip on anything. Or get lost. But I have a schedule to keep so I went alone today. Well, almost alone. My dog barked a few times, I n... | The stroll had been a pleasant one. The path was known and easy to traverse, after hundreds of similar trips. The leaves crunched under foot with a sound reminiscent of Dad's Sunday newspaper, when the cat decided it would make a better bed than source of information. But that intermittent crunch of leaves gave way to ... | 2020-11-23T13:51:14 | 2020-11-23T12:29:53 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity has begun to explore the stars, but continually finds we are the most developed species, most alien species are still evolving. Suddenly, a message is transmitted to all human ships simultaneously, “WARDENS, DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR DUTY?” The signal itself is not of human origin. | After 3 hours of communication, Captain Knott was still confused. "And you're blaming us for this... *why?*"
The aliens rolled their – well, he couldn't see their eyes, given that it was a text communication, so he wasn't sure if they even *had* them, but it was clear they were frustrated.
**•WE TOLD YOU| YOU HAVEN'T... | **May 8th, 2530**
Marissa scowled as she heard another wet plop behind her. Looking would make her day worse, but she inevitably lowered her laser drill and looked anyway. Lying behind her on atop a pile of excavated rocks was a tiny mass of flesh the size of a fist. The creature had bright green skin, webbed feet, a ... | 2019-05-08T15:25:08 | 2019-05-08T14:37:30 | 91 | 44 |
[WP] For all your life you have been able to see someones’ age floating above their head. You’ve seen people who don’t look their age before, but you’ve never seen anything like this. Standing before you is a small boy and above their head is the number 13.8 billion. | By all rights it didn’t make sense. I’ve never seen a number like that before. Never. 13.8 *billion*. I look up at the kid. He looks back at me, quiet. His skin is pale, his brown hair neatly combed. His clothes are worn but pressed. He’s been quiet since he got here, picking at his clothing while waiting. I sigh, set... | I'm pretty sure that I'm not actually insane. Not certain, but, pretty sure.
According to my psychiatrist, I don't have schizophrenia, I'm not delusional, I don't have early onset dementia, or... Well, much of anything else, aside from anxiety, panic attacks, a small bit of PTSD, and depression.
I don't hear voices... | 2021-06-15T23:16:15 | 2021-06-15T22:05:43 | 287 | 113 |
[WP] Build up a tense scene, then destroy it with a deus ex machina.
Make it as cheesy or poignant at you like.
In case of confusion, a deus ex machina (from [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina)) is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the cont... | "Are you fucking crazy!" Tomas yelled at the the stranger in his living room. The house reeked of gasoline, promising an inferno. The stranger simply smiled, in one hand a pistol pointed at Tom's head and in the other a Zippo lighter.
"Do you see what happens Tom!?" The man screamed. The manic smile never quite leavi... | The Chase had gone on for five long years.
I looked over my shoulder as I was running, "Run son, faster, FASTER", they were behind me, all of them.
I saw a building, "John head for the building, I'll hold them off." I did not know how I would do that, I had nothing with me.
John ran on as he heard the screams of his ... | 2014-01-18T10:02:00 | 2014-01-18T09:33:59 | 160 | 48 |
[WP] As a death god, you’ve begun to take note of a young child who seems to be lurking each time you retrieve a soul as of late. The mortals have begun to say death follows the child, personally it’s freaking you out too now. | The floor creaked. This annoyed Death. Not so much that it happened. She had gotten used to that. What annoyed her was that it should be impossible. As an insubstantial avatar of the afterlife she could not in the course of her duties affect the living world farther than was required to collect souls. But the floors al... | The Reaper recalled well the first appearance of the Child. When the first man passed outside the bosom of the Earth, in a mechanical monstrosity revolving around it, he came to collect their soul as he always did. The Child had stood at the head-end of the bed and watched him without a word. Dressed in an overly large... | 2022-11-15T09:40:16 | 2022-11-15T07:30:21 | 61 | 24 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | Sel Bintar, a Plothian of low regard, and even lower standards, was known for only two things. The first was that he worked cheap - he could almost always undercut the competition. The second was that he would do almost anything to get the job done.
By Plothian standards, he wasn't bad looking. A towering three feet t... | Before the door was even opened ,the energy was so thick a static arc crackled as the handle touched his hand .
Slowly the large metal door glided along a well oiled track to reveal dim blue flickering lights and the smell of hot transformer oil filled the nostrils.
Stepping into the dim lit room became anxiously di... | 2020-03-05T22:12:24 | 2020-03-05T17:47:27 | 174 | 20 |
[WP]You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago, today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor". | I had my crossbow trained on the bushes before I even managed to fully wake up. I'd always joked that I could kill a demon in my sleep by now, but I was just using it as a turn of phrase. Apparently it was true.
"Show yourself," I told the quivering bunch of leaves across the clearing. My legs were still encumbered by... | I was splayed out on a filthy hotel mattress, at least two other naked bodies tangled in my limbs, every brain cell in my skull burnt out, when the devil came for me.
He'd gotten fatter since I last saw him, putting on the pounds of middle age, his hairline receding up past his horns. His beard had gotten thicker, jo... | 2016-06-27T07:06:05 | 2016-06-27T06:47:57 | 311 | 89 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | "Welcome to The Agency Mr. Aranha," the masked man said in a dull monotone.
I looked down in shame and began sobbing.
I was born in the South Side of Chicago. My father left me when I was 3 months old and my mother purportedly ran off with another dude. I jumped from foster home to foster home, eventually landing ... | Everyone knew this day would come, the day that would determine the rest of our lives. No one knew where the mutation came from, my parents always told me that it was just a path of life, that their parents had mutations and so did the generation before them. Today was the day, my 21st birthday, my grandmother had alwa... | 2015-03-04T02:35:31 | 2015-03-04T00:56:46 | 109 | 13 |
[WP] Norse Gods have faded into legend. Thor, with his trust-worthy Mjolnir, decides to rebuild his fame,by becoming the best damn construction worker known to man. | "You're drunk, Jerry. You're drunk on the goddamn job again. Do you ***want*** to get fired?"
"No, man, I'm telling you, the new guy straight up welded the entire fitting *with his bare finger*. Just dragged it around the line real smooth and it was done. And Barry saw him driving the beams. He was using that cust... | For his first day on the job, he is tasked with hanging sheet rock on the lower floors of a partially complete multi-floor building. One swing of Mjölnir and the building topples like a house of cards. Three months later, our hero discovers that his brother Loki is the steward of the local union who has been denying Th... | 2018-05-27T16:01:21 | 2018-05-27T15:23:12 | 2,397 | 84 |
[WP] In a world of superheroes and supervillains your nemesis finally crosses the line. This step forces you to break a critical rule of the business. | What the hell is going on here?
This is the thought that thunders through my mind as I watch the Wardens, the same group I fought half a dozen times before, get beaten before my very eyes. Getting beaten by a bunch of newbies robbing a bank. My bank, but that's beside the point. Their powers sure as hell aren't on my ... | I stepped into the mudroom of my house. I tossed my briefcase and overcoat on the floor. No one greeted me as I shut the front door. “Honey,” I said. “I’m home.” I loosened my tie and unbuttoned the top few on my shirt.
I looked in the living room. No one there. I looked in the kitchen. No one there. I looked in the d... | 2015-02-20T21:54:42 | 2015-02-20T20:41:10 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] A genie gives you two options. One is to get your three wishes now, or to get one wish a day for five days. He tells you that no one before has survived and gotten all five wishes. You choose the latter. | I only rubbed the lamp as a joke. It was *just a stupid fucking joke* between my friends and I as we were bored standing around the antique shop where we worked. It was a hole in the wall joint in a bad part of town so we were lucky if we saw three actual customers a day. With that spirit crushing reality, of course we... | "That won't be a problem."
Rovif had scaled several mountains, slain a giant eagle, and even incurred the wrath of a mage's guild just to reach this ancient temple. The fact that he survived all the deadly puzzles and tests of wits on his way to this underground altar room only gave him more confidence in his goal. Wh... | 2019-06-04T11:28:14 | 2019-06-04T10:57:08 | 200 | 91 |
[WP] One sundaymorning everyone wakes up with the worst crime they've ever committed tattooed on their forehead. It's breaking news on television. Yours says 'thief', your husband's says 'cheater'. As you go wake up your seven year old daughter, you see the word 'murderer' tattooed on her forehead.
[removed] | Hats had become ubiquitous. Everywhere, people wore ballcaps pulled tight and low over their foreheads. spme chose to wear scarves. Newscasters fumbled their words as they made feeble attempts to explain what had happened, interrupting themselves to adjust the sweat stained tape plastered across their foreheads. I hadn... | It's a quiet Sunday, and the whole house is still asleep, except for me. I look in the mirror and rub my fingers over the mark - 'thief'. when I first saw it, I couldn't believe it was there. It's true. I'm a thief. I stole my wife away from another man. I'm actually shocked it doesn't say 'adulterer' or 'fornicator'.... | 2019-09-16T16:51:56 | 2019-09-16T15:44:07 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Our War Council was surprised when these Humans asked what we knew about the Aldins' own core worlds.
"What are their defenses, their detection systems for tracking ships jumping in from deep space?"
We told them that what we knew from our own attempts to fight in Aldin systems was that they were passive at home, th... | The Fothrill had betrayed us.
We Esvenkin was an old race, and yet we were strangers to war. And thus, as the Fothrill army marched through our planets and colonies, we couldn't do anything. And in spite of that, the Council of Elders in our home world could do nothing but quarrel.
"I'd told ye, giving Fothrill FTL d... | 2016-05-13T06:30:06 | 2016-05-13T05:58:29 | 87 | 45 |
[WP] You summon the most powerful and notorious demonic being in the universe. The reason why you summoned it: You are lonely, and are in need of a friend. | Mitchell stared nervously at the pentagram on his bedroom floor. he made sure everything was perfect for his new visitor. After arranging all the materials, Mitchell stood on the northernmost corner and began reciting the incantation. The floor beneath him twisted and morphed into a fiery black pit. From the pit rose a... | There he was. I still couldn't believe it.
A colossal being, he stood towering over me, a giant, his legs as thick as trunks and as long as I was tall. His flesh was made of a thick black mist, wisps of it circled him, shrouding him, concealing him. He looked almost like he was part of the darkness that filled the sma... | 2014-07-20T08:32:52 | 2014-07-20T08:32:27 | 98 | 15 |
[WP] "We have DNA evidence that puts you at the crime scene." The Prosecution smiles arrogantly as he believes you cornered. "DNA? How interesting, none of my components are made of biological material" | "We have DNA evidence that puts you at the crime scene." The prosecutor directs a smug smile at me. This time, he thinks, he's got me. THIS time.
"DNA? How interesting. I don't have a shred of biological material in me," I reply.
The judge gives me one of *those* looks. He's waiting for me to say it's a joke. My eyes... | "Mr. Roy, we have found very large amounts of DNA at the scene that proves you were there the night of the murder." The prosecutor smiled, "And the knife that we found in your home proves you were the one who stabbed her."
"I'm sorry, did you say you found my DNA?"
"Yes, that is correct."
"Well I hate to tell you th... | 2021-03-30T14:18:45 | 2021-03-30T14:02:32 | 177 | 17 |
[WP] Ever since travelling 1,000 years into the future, you have been getting along well with the people who live there. That is until you say "Merry Christmas!" The room falls silent, and the looks on their faces resemble... fear? | “Hey looks like it’s about midnight, Merry Christmas everyone!” As soon as the words left my mouth, the mood of the party shifted. Countless eyes stared daggers at me, and my buddy Russell pulled me to a corner and into a room, away from the party. The silence was broken by the uncanny robot-DJ thing resuming the playl... | In the year 500 ATD (after temporal disturbance), Santa showed himself to the world. He was not the kind old man of our dreams - he was the cruel taskmaster of our nightmares. He was originally from another dimension but was banished for his cruelty. In this dimension his strange Powers give him the ability to see ever... | 2022-11-11T23:29:21 | 2022-11-11T21:58:35 | 102 | 41 |
[WP] Five years ago you answered an ad from a small robotics company looking for an ideal body model for a new domestic servant android. Today they are the biggest company on the planet, you now live in a world where everyone thinks you are just another customized unit of their top selling product. | "Hey buddy, hold onto this for me." A particularly fat gentleman said, shoving an armful of heavy damp clothing into my arms before storming off to the back end of the laundromat.
I proceeded to set the clothes down on a nearby bench that the man failed to notice and stepped away, but not before pouring what was left ... | "I am sorry, iMan, but we're gonna have to talk to your owner. As you well know, I can't let you buy alcohol without an adult present. Otherwise, it would just be way too easy for minors to score alcohol these days."
"I'm telling you, man, this is a real ID. My name is Robert Mandeus. I'm an actual person, for fuck's ... | 2021-04-05T04:33:56 | 2021-04-05T01:53:43 | 255 | 97 |
[WP] the grim reaper appears in your bedroom. You look at him, and notice a version of yourself standing next to him. The grim reaper tells the other you "if you don't change your ways, this is how you end up." The other you is mortified and vows to change his ways, and they vanish. | When it happened the first time, I thought it was a dream.
*"If you don't change your ways, this is how you end up."* The black-hooded figure with the skeletal face told the younger version of me, before vanishing into thin air.
I picked my head off the pillow, stared at them and dozed-off, dismissing it as a weird d... | "What... the...?" James whispered, still staring at the spot where the other him had been. Perhaps it was because of all those movies, but the first thing James did was pinching his own cheeks. It hurt. A lot. And *that* was truly disappointing. He had hoped that he would've woken up from a bad dream.
Of course, he co... | 2018-12-30T13:02:35 | 2018-12-30T11:57:19 | 144 | 20 |
[WP] You realize you are immortal or more specifically that you cannot die. The issue is that you only realize this once the man who is attempting to torture you to death can't finish the job.
[removed] | Well, I had a good run.
The best thief in the history of Skazer. The amount of nobles I'd robbed was, frankly, ridiculous. Even I had lost count. Hell, I probably could have retired after the first three or four jobs, buy myself an island in another country and live like a noble.
But in my view, that wasn't much of ... | I shouted as his knife stroke into my skin again and again and again until it got through. I was screaming in agony but with my last breath i said
"I didn't do anything to you for which i deserved this pun-" He cut my sentence
"Oh yes you did,dont you remember you flithy worm what happened on the summer of '83?"... | 2017-02-08T09:11:52 | 2017-02-08T07:32:48 | 457 | 157 |
[WP]Your girlfriend is an alien whose species is only slightly different from human beings. What are those changes, and how do you find out?
Potentially NSFW | Jacki was one of those shy butches with hidden tattoos and an alternative undercurrent, despite being outwardly pretty normal. We met at a bowling night, of all things, where I lost two acrylic nails to a ball that was too heavy for me and she bandaged my bleeding thumb from a little medkit in the back of her Vespa's s... | The first time my girlfriend Alaina’s arms suddenly transformed into a vast array of writhing tentacles that could reach into the voids of time and space and allow her to show me visions of prophesy, we were sitting on the couch watching TV.
We were into the fifth hour of our 24 hour cable news marathon. There we sat,... | 2015-09-05T12:53:55 | 2015-09-05T12:51:46 | 456 | 50 |
[WP] You live in a world where humans actually do get 3 wishes, one when you're 5, one when you're 10, and one when you're 20. | I wonder.
I wonder how my life would've turned out if I had wished different wishes. I wonder how my life would turn out if I had a fourth wish. I've heard many people stating this. People, too immature at the time, wasting their precious wishes for nonsensical stuff that wasn't important to them anymore after a short... | Childhood wishes were a dilemma. We're not yet old enough to understand the full weight of our choices. But, on the other hand, we decide what we really want. Or, at least what we wanted back then.
At five years old, I wished I could have chocolate ice cream whenever I wanted. I loved ice cream, so it seemed like ... | 2015-09-26T13:06:16 | 2015-09-26T13:04:21 | 216 | 11 |
[WP] It's your job to sort out the mixed-up letters between Satan and Santa, when one day you find a letter that could be for either one, but sending it to the incorrect recipient could have... interesting results nevertheless | I looked at the letter in front of me with disbelief... "This can't be right!" I thought, but suddenly realized I had actually said it out loud.
"What is it?" asked Franklin, my coworker at the mail sorting plant.
"This letter, I can't tell if this is written to Santa or Satan!"
"Wait, wha?!" Frank snorted out, hal... | Hey there ya big red man, there is something with my little sister.
Recently she has been getting on my nerves and I just don't know how I am going to deal with her.
I was wondering if it is possible that you could help me out with her. I just need you to take care of
her and get her to shut up for good, in the w... | 2015-12-27T21:59:36 | 2015-12-27T17:23:34 | 75 | 29 |
[WP] You're just a chicken farmer. An ordinary chicken farmer. You're not a warlord. Definitely not, and you also don't command your chickens to do your bidding. Preposterous. Insane. Rumors. | Molly was in the middle of whisking when the knock came - three of them, actually, one after the other, loud, imperative. *It figures,* she thought to herself, and quickly wiped her hands on the hand-embroidered dish cloth and headed out of the kitchen. She paused in the living room to shoo a few hens out of her way - ... | ######[](#dropcap)
"That's a mighty lot of chickens you got there, Jim." Steve squinted out onto Jim's farm. Most farmers had one henhouse, maybe. Some of the richer ones, two.
But Jim, Jim had ten, and he let his chickens roam free all over the place.
Steve scratched at his beer gut, then leaned over the fence a ... | 2018-05-10T12:58:33 | 2018-05-10T12:43:32 | 501 | 30 |
[WP] You're the most powerful villian in the world. Formerly. Now you run a bar, that works as a neutral zone for heros and Villians alike. One day, a hotshot hero tries to arrest you. | "OVERLORD!"
I haven't heard that name in a long time, and apparently neither did anyone else in the bar. All the conversations immediately halted. I stopped polishing the glass in my hand and looked up.
He was about six foot nothing and covered in more enough black to blend in with the streets. Black trench coat, ... | The Dealer threw the glasses up, caught them all neatly on his arm, and spun to catch the liquid spilling out of the cartwheeling bottle above his head. He struck the match between his teeth against a rough patch on his black suitcoat and tossed it straight up into the neck of the bottle, sending fairy glass exploding ... | 2020-10-09T22:09:08 | 2020-10-09T21:42:05 | 82 | 54 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | They both knew they were going to be millionaires.
In the great whirlwind of New York City business, it's rare for a meeting to occur that feels like instant destiny. But then along came Nate Carpenter and Hunter Bryson. One dinner party and one handshake later, they were partners.
*
"Cheers, my friend. To a first ... | I looked at her as she looked back
We looked at the button, unassuming black
We kissed deeply, in the matte dark
We looked at the button, the paradigm Mark
I looked at her as she looked back
Fear and emotion and a need for no lack
We kissed as we pushed, together, in tandem
What happened next, was far from rando... | 2016-07-16T17:29:20 | 2016-07-16T17:08:32 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] You're 90% sure your flat-mate's a vampire, unfortunately for him you're a vampire hunter. But he does pay half the rent so... | "Vlad? Vlad, what happened to my crucifix collection?!"
Vlad yawned as he emerged from the bathroom, wearing a stylish red morning gown even though it was seven in the evening. He had just finished brushing his blindingly white teeth (something he did a lot).
"Can you keep it down, Jim? There's no excuse for yelling ... | His name is Edward. He sleeps during the day. In a coffin. He only ever seems to drink "V8". And he owns several books that he "inherited from his great-great-great grandfather". If I didn't know any better, I'd say his transparent attempts to emulate the mannerisms of a vampire were more than that.
"Walter. If you co... | 2015-11-10T04:42:18 | 2015-11-10T04:34:27 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] Aliens find "Never Gonna Give You Up" on Voyager, and after studying human culture realise that they have been rick rolled. They're not happy. | "On behalf of the people of Earth," said Xiang, "I would like to assure you that we never included that song on the Voyager Golden Record to begin with, and we have no knowledge of how it came to be there when you intercepted it, and we are extremely, extremely regretful at how this entire situation turned out."
Xian... | Silence fell as everyone on the spacecraft listened to the song and viewed the accompanying image. The last pieces of content on the golden disc they found on Voyager.
They'd been rather impressed by the record, thus far. It included greetings in various human languages, natural sounds of the humans' planet, images of... | 2016-11-04T04:56:49 | 2016-11-04T03:57:12 | 190 | 94 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | "Doc, we need your help!" Said Corporal Paine through his handy dandy communicator. "The Dreamcatcher has us on the retreat! Our numbers are dwindling! Hurry!"
"I'm afraid our time's up, Serena." said the Doctor, trying to hyde his earpiece.
"Already? I could have sworn it had only been 30 minutes." The patient repl... | Known in the underground as the villain "the dark masquerade" as a supervillain yourself, but as lord niceties as you superhero persona. You have been tasked by the council of hero's to find and arrest the evil "dark masquerade." Chuckling you head out on your mission and adopt the mysterious persona taunting your fell... | 2020-02-25T16:06:39 | 2020-02-25T14:53:54 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] The villain has amassed the most well-meaning people in the world as his henchmen. Their generally polite and helpful attitudes makes it extremely difficult for the hero to get passed them to their boss. | “Sorry, am I in the way? I don’t mean to be, its just you know the boss, he’s a real hothead. But I can’t be too rude about the guy, he does put food on my table. Without him I would work some boring nine-to-five office job, instead I get to just stand around here looking menacing. Plus, these costumes he gave us, I’m ... | "He thinks he has me fooled. He thinks he has outwitted me. Me! The most stunning, the most magnificent knight of all the land." Those were the words of our 'hero' when the king and I tried to come clean.
We don't tell him such, and I, a bard of the land, would not sing of such. But, through that long golden hair and ... | 2020-12-13T19:48:50 | 2020-12-13T19:26:21 | 49 | 16 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. |
When Rainbow Girl woke up, she knew she was in trouble.
Wherever she was, it wasn't LightSaber's secret base. The bed she was on was not her own - and there was a blanket over her. It was... fuzzy. She sat up slowly, checking cautiously beneath the blanket. She was wearing nearly nothing, but it was the same ne... | *Finally.*
She swiped her talons across the chest of Captain Jaguar. Her nails caught against his blue super suit as he leaps back. Before she could feel flesh in her hands something small darted and slams into her arm. She lets out a screech as her knees buckle under the weight but she twirls with it, using its wei... | 2020-03-26T17:05:24 | 2020-03-26T15:36:32 | 61 | 40 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Please, please, please, let me in. There's a thing coming for us! I dropped my keys and-please open the door!" My wife begged as I kept the door locked, making sure to barricade it with one of our kitchen chairs. At first, I was going to open the door and ignore the warning. She was my wife. I loved her. It was only w... | I feel a buzz in my pocket. I pull my phone out and see an emergency alert across the screen. "EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC."
"Panic?" I wonder out loud, "why would I panic?"
Just then I hear a knock at the front door. I walk over to it and peer through the blurry glass. It seems like my g... | 2019-01-12T06:12:19 | 2019-01-12T03:53:40 | 1,687 | 190 |
[WP] You slowly start to realize that all of your friends are undercover agents tasked with keeping you alive. Then, at your birthday party, with every friend surrounding you, the people trying to kill you finally find you.
Have fun. | Most people grow up with family around— parents, siblings, uncles, aunts… Joseph only ever had Friends. As far back as he could remember, he was always surrounded by Friends. Great ones. The kind that stick by you no matter what. Joseph couldn’t imagine his world without them. They always came to him when he needed the... | Trust. Love. Friendship.
Do you know what those things mean? I'll tell you a secret. If you ask someone what any of those things mean, and they give you a straight answer, then you know their full of shit. The answer isn't that simple.
I swirled the wine in my glass. There is a whole art to understanding various qua... | 2014-11-22T19:21:09 | 2014-11-22T15:04:09 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] It's 2050. The Queen is still alive. People are starting to be suspicious. | Quick edit for readability: a lot of comments are telling me the time skips aren't showing up on mobile, since you can't see the break lines. So I'll just add in dates.
Westminster Palace, 2050
Rodney Bradley eased himself to a stand and felt a series of clicks in his left knee. He straightened his back to a chorus o... | About 30 years ago Prince Charles died a very mysterious death. Some had said he was trying to overthrow the Queen only months before he died but most put that down to tabloid rumours.
30 years on and the Queen still reigns at the ripe old age of 122 with what seems like the enthusiasm of someone in peak physical cond... | 2022-09-28T19:15:05 | 2018-07-08T22:02:26 | 1,931 | 205 |
[WP] Your best friend is a delusional, incompetent, and dangerous superhero who causes more trouble than its worth. To help keep him out of further trouble, you have taken it upon yourself to become his arch-nemesis. | I saw the spark in Nova's eyes disappear as I tore my mask off of my face in a desperation to get him to stop. His fist still raised above my bloodied face, he froze just long enough for me to twist free and throw him aside to scramble away.
"What the hell are you doing here?" He wiped his knuckles on his spandex and ... | There I was, sitting in my high rise apartment in the beautiful city of Metropoly, when my walls were completely blown out and a figure flew into my living room, glowing with red eyes.
"Oh great," I groaned.
"Roger!" the figure roared, but I could now tell it was my ex best friend Strongholt, the superhero.
"In case... | 2020-03-24T17:02:15 | 2020-03-24T13:32:02 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. | “....happy birthday to you!” The crowd finished singing and I blew out the candles that spelled out “50”.
No one asked what my wish was; I think we all knew. We all only had one wish these days: to get off the damn train.
A short while later, the cake was divided into pieces and divided among the crowd. We were final... | The train shuffled to a stop, and people hurried off. The seats beside me were emptied, and I dropped my tense shoulders. I released the death grip on my bag, exhaling in relief. There were only a few people left in the train car, so I could loosen up a bit.
I pulled out my clip-on headphones and set them to my ears. ... | 2020-07-17T10:44:10 | 2020-07-17T10:24:49 | 7,614 | 97 |
[WP] You and your crew are the first humans in recorded history to land on the moon. However, near the landing site, you discover a lone white flag set by someone before you. | “The Eagle has landed.”
You could hear the shouting and cheering through the line. We made it. *We made it!*
“Alright, Buzz, you’ve got the window. Is it really made of cheese?”
Silence.
“Buzz?”
“Neil… are we parked next to a probe? Us? Russian?”
“No, we picked the site because it’s someplace we haven’t explore... | At first, it was not obvious. It was confusing, bewildering, even!
"Richard, what do you reckon' left it here!"
"Na idea, mate, but it sure as hell wasn't humans, we would have known."
"Wait... not people... white flag? You don't think..."
"Naa, I dannae like where this is goin' mate."
The Moon seems farther ... | 2022-12-14T11:54:27 | 2022-12-14T11:18:35 | 294 | 114 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | I felt groggy. My back was stiff. “Where am I?” I thought. “I must have slept in. I can’t remember falling asleep.” The mattress felt unfamiliar. I eased myself into a sitting position.
​
“She’s up!” a voice to my left yelled, startling me to no end. I wrenched my eyelids open to take in my surroundings. W... | They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die, but it didnt happen for me. In fact I didnt get anything. Just black out and fade into a dimly lit room.
"Candles? The fuck is this? A fucking Bath and body works?"
The large room contained eight beings of which I paid no mind.
I wandered up to the table in... | 2019-01-12T21:06:01 | 2019-01-12T15:27:37 | 631 | 18 |
[WP] Humans have always been feared throughout the universe for surviving in the harshest environments, drinking and eating highly poisonous drinks and foods as well as taming and even domesticating dangerous beasts. One applies for a position at your company. | “Unfortunately there is only one position available at the company thus we are going to put you through a couple of tests to see who would be the best fit.” CEO Dolgrump stated slowly lowering his sunglasses and adjusting his universal translator while reviewing the new potential candidates. His tentacle hurt from all... | These humans...
Weird? Yes.
Dangerous? Yes.
Expensive? YES.
Worthwhile? As they say, A BILLION TIMES YES!
There was this one time that our mercenary company had to deal with a Omega-Omega. World ending stuff.
Their behavior before this, or any mission, really, has always been - Odd.
Treating the whole thing like... | 2020-06-15T21:45:38 | 2020-06-15T19:48:03 | 462 | 315 |
[WP]A plague kills 99.99% of human life, leaving no corpses and few immune survivors. In this desolate new world, there's no shortage of anything, and the greatest resource of all is human companionship. A survivor recounts his story of how he found his current group, years later. | For the first few years, I was happy. Does that surprise you? In fact, I left the remains of Seattle, loaded a few belongings into my truck and drove to one of the long-dead towns of Oregon. I was tired of watching the hospitals closing, one by one, as the dying begged on their doorsteps. More than anything, I was sick... | "Well, it was really luck" Jack mumbled. He stared into the fire, knees to his bent chest.
" There were a lot of times when I thought I'd never find another person. I was just a young man when it hit. I didn't know too much. I think I was about sixteen." Christie, Jacks wife, listened carefully to him as he didn't tal... | 2014-12-25T20:06:35 | 2014-12-25T19:22:45 | 413 | 12 |
[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. | I was the odd case. Everyone has super powers, nobody knows why, even the people with super intelligence as a power can't figure it out. There really is no way to observe it. Which is why I am so different.
Everyone has a power, it sort of just come, like puberty or growth spurts. What can I say, we solved the e... | They didn't respect me. Never did. They laughed as I pointed, laughing that my power was useless, that no one would ever respect me.
But, over the years, I've realized something. I've realized that without this thing, Laser Beam Man won't have the strength to fight crime. Super Strength Woman won't even be able to lif... | 2015-04-12T21:19:46 | 2015-04-12T17:51:32 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] You, an atheist, have died. All the gods that have ever been line up to offer you their version of heaven if only you believe in _them_. Turns out souls are currency and yours is up for grabs. | I took the time to read through each one of their books thoroughly. Most of them were over 400 pages, so it struck me as odd when I walked up to the last of the gods and saw a young girl with a 3-page pamphlet.
"You're just a kid," I pointed out to her, stupidly.
"That is my soul you're seeing. I am Fun."
"Fun? T... | "Right..."
Sideways glance at the never-ending line of a variety of creatures ranging from scantily-clad buxom beauties to indescribable horrors. Suffice to say his gaze lingered on the more visually appeasing side.
A brief, polite cough into fist. "Right, then. Looks like we aren't going to resolve this any time so... | 2017-07-09T05:04:36 | 2017-07-09T03:56:58 | 58 | 43 |
[WP] It was then Harry Potter realized the last 7 years in Hogwarts was actually a mental institute. The man he thought to be Dumbledore was just an elderly caretaker. Harry, looking at an old broken twig he once believed was a wand, started to remember what really happened during those years. | Decided to try it out in a different POV.
McGonagall remembered when they took in her favorite tenant, Harry ‘Potter’. He had lovely parents, but by the time the boy had turned 11 his delusions had painted his family as foul ugly human beings. It was his mother Petunia who was most broken hearted by this development.... | Dumbledore? But you're... you're... dead. Snape... he well...
Wait, where am I,?
Where's madam pomfrey? And what happened to your robes?
I'll get us out of here Albus.. Alohomora! Alohomora!
Why is it not working?
"Oh Harry.... are you having nightmares again?
Here, have a chocolate frog. It'll make you feel better." ... | 2019-04-09T11:00:30 | 2019-04-09T09:58:52 | 326 | 54 |
[WP] You often pick up pennies you find on the ground, inspecting them for date, markings, etc. One day, you find a penny from 2044. Even more shocking, it's your face on the front. | "Sir? Sir, can you hear me?"
The nurse was leaning over him, watching his pupils while keeping an eye on his vitals from the read out. He might be getting old, but his wits hadn't completely abandoned him yet, so he knew he was in a hospital. How he got there, however, was a mystery.
"What happened?"
"You had a hear... | Dear Journal,
As I’ve written to you before, I am hometown-famous for picking coins from the ground and inspecting them thoroughly. It was a childhood hobby that turned into an adult hobby.
It started when my grandfather once told me that if I found a coin with a misprint, misspelling, or any imperfection that it wo... | 2018-06-27T08:20:49 | 2018-06-27T06:26:07 | 1,673 | 243 |
[WP] You were filled with horror when you were told that you got sent to hell after you died, the horror faded somewhat when you were then immediately handed a shotgun and noticed the broken bodies of demons everywhere | *Nicholas is helped up by a man with an old early 20th Century Army uniform*
The man spoke with a thick accent through his gas mask: “GET UP!...... it’s not safe here”
Nicholas: *looks around and noticed the trenches, bombed out craters, kilometers of barbed wire as well as gunshots in the distance* “where am ... | Oh yeah! OH YEAH!!
I'd always wanted to do something like this. You know, like when there were articles about rich Russians going on pirate hunts in Somali waters, stuff like that? Sounded super exciting. But maybe also a bit wrong - though, if anyone has it coming it's pirates, right? - so I never did anything like t... | 2019-09-29T09:17:12 | 2019-09-29T09:01:09 | 205 | 75 |
[WP] You’re about to spray down the first wasp nest of the spring when one of them hovers in front of your face and shouts, “Halt! The Queen wishes to negotiate!” | The wasp hovers in front of me, and I take a deep step back with my can of Raid held out as a weapon. I look from left to right to see if anyone else heard the miniscule voice, seeing no one I say, "Are you real?"
"Yes kind sir, I am an emissary of the queen's royal guard. We have studied your language through the ... | "And don't you come back in, until it's done!" Your wife shouts after you. Sighing dejectedly you trudge out into the yard, wasp spray in hand. It is the first day of spring, and your wife already wants you to wipe out a wasp nest.
You spot it, swinging malevolently in the breeze. Hanging from the shed. Marching for... | 2017-03-19T15:28:51 | 2017-03-19T14:17:29 | 189 | 11 |
[WP] At birth, each child is given 5 objects that they must carry with them, or have near at hand, for the rest of their lives. These objects have seemingly prophetic significance on the lives of their owners. | I swear, the program was playing a massive joke on me. Do programs have a sense of humor? This one must. It isn't too crazy to think that a program that had the ability to vaguely make out the strings that pulled the limbs of the universe could make a joke. A joke like making a man carry around a bible, full sized prin... | "All right. I've communed with the spirits surrounding your child and, based on your survey results, aura reading, and the series of short tests we just conducted, come up with the best list of totems for your child I can suggest. The ones marked with asterisks can be replaced as they are expended or broken, all others... | 2014-12-26T12:02:40 | 2014-12-26T09:42:04 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] Write a seemingly adorable heartwarming story that is implied to be rather disturbing, without at any point outright making it disturbing. | It had been thirteen hours and the sprinter van converted into a camper was a little cliche -- white van, no windows -- but it was to be a cozy home for her for the next six weeks. She'd been granted short term disability, thanks to her psychiatrist, who'd recognized the burn out, the fatigue shadowing her dark eyes, t... | "Ah Jerry look! It's a stray puppy!" Amanda exclaimed, pointing to the whimpering animal.
"It looks lost. Hey little guy, are you lost?" Jerry asked, bending down and petting the puppy. The dog rubbed his head into Jerry's chest, wagging its tail and jumping to lick the man's face. Jerry laughed, trying to keep the ex... | 2022-06-01T14:38:25 | 2022-06-01T12:46:05 | 44 | 11 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | I treated it as a sign from god, maybe. A source of motivation from up high.
The digit 1. Always 1. No other number showed, lit up and sparkling on the floor in my bedroom, an ethereal, otherworldly light source that bothered me day and night. And so, I aimed for it.
Studies. Work. A pickup basketball game. For years... | "Honey, sit down. I have to confess that I'm an expert wood craftsman and changed the roofing's construction after our first date" she exclaimed.
I was visibly concerned because I doubt she got the proper paperwork and clearances and me being a proper blockhead, I never noticed.
She continued, "Babe, I changed the w... | 2020-09-03T03:06:18 | 2020-09-03T01:56:01 | 636 | 64 |
[WP] You are an assassin. You do not use guns, knives, or poison. You are a master of the butterfly effect and chaos theory. | Five dollars and thirty cents. As bounties go, it's not much, but that was all the little girl could find in her piggy bank, and between the couch cushions.
"Name?"
"Uncle Jerry," the girl says clearly. Her fists are clenched, and her eyes red. I don't even need to ask what he had done.
I take out my phone and do a ... | *What is Chaos?*
The target was lying still, dead.
Cause: most likely the fallen bamboo support that had pierced his head.
*It is a thousand coins, flung into the air.*
Cause: most likely the two construction workers,usually the best of friends, who had been fighting, pushing and shoving without care.
*Each one tu... | 2019-12-21T17:06:51 | 2019-12-21T16:15:02 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] In the near future, all the world's superpowers switch to AI to make their military more efficient. The AIs do the unthinkable: They negotiate world peace. | They ask me how we did it, they ask me how we managed to pull off world peace. We didn’t. If you are reading this, it either means that I am dead by my own hands or I’ve been killed to hide the truth. I hope you do the right thing, reader.
My name is Commander Duncan and I was one of the people heralded for my part i... | "Does someone want to explain to me why my guns aren't firing?"
The artillery commander stormed out of his command tent angrier than hive of wasps. "Sorry sir," a Specialist snapped to attention, "I don't know what happened. One minute we were putting in a new targeting solution and the next the system shut down!"
"C... | 2018-03-29T07:06:18 | 2018-03-29T06:26:21 | 1,881 | 157 |
[WP] Killing Hitler is the second worse crime that a time traveller can commit. The first is preventing the Beatles from breaking up. | I don't get it.
I mean the No Killing of Hitler order was perfectly understandable. There were so many variables, so many ways the future could possibly turn out bleaker had Nazi Germany not been there to counterbalance all the other powers of the time. Stalin's Soviet Russia, just to name the obvious. Churchill ove... | "Why? Why, can't we kill Hitler?!" asked the disappointed corporal, finishing up his laces.
The captain looked up from his weapons-check, "Having a guy in place, like Hitler, before the advent of nuclear weapons and time-travel is important. Its the only thing that will show people who come after them what the warnin... | 2017-02-08T10:20:03 | 2017-02-08T08:41:19 | 53 | 34 |
[WP] After being killed, you wake up in a courtroom, the judge presents you as a witness to sentence the person who killed you | There is a difference between KNOWING something and BELIEVING something. The most recent tool the justice system started using is a great example. In lieu of video evidence, to ensure absolute certainty in the prosecution of criminals, the dead could be summoned back for a short time to face their killers. It was expen... | “Look at me. No, over here Mr. Caldwell. How many fingers am I holding up?”
“I’m … uh. Three.”
“Good. Perfect. You know who I am?”
“You’re… Blackwell. James Blackwell.”
“That’s right… your attorney. We’ll give you a few moments to get settled before you’re filled in.”
James motioned to the nurse standing by to com... | 2022-11-18T03:31:30 | 2022-11-18T02:47:19 | 89 | 21 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Pops,
You were a real fucking piece of work you know that? I don't think I've hated anyone quite as much as I hated you. You called me lazy, good for nothing, useless. Made me spend my youth being the mule in your construction business instead of spending summers with my friends. You absolutely hated the fact... | Dear Natalie.
So here I am. Funny how things work, right? Never thought I'd end up penning this letter, but I guess something prompted me to do it.
I know. I've known ever since it happened what your real motivations were, and you never had me fooled for a second. After you apologized, and said that you were just mes... | 2015-12-05T17:35:16 | 2015-12-05T14:43:55 | 182 | 26 |
[WP] You are an immortal that was caught by the mafia after you betrayed them. They deal with you the same way as traitors, chained to a cement bloc and trown in a lac. After 300 years you are finally discovered by divers. | Initially, I thought the first 30 seconds were the worst. Holding my breath, feeling the acid build up in my blood, the anxiety overwhelming knowing that I'll run out, and *soon*. Then I thought the next 5 minutes were the worst. Water in, air out, the body's natural painful response of thrashing with all the life left... | "Hey, *bitch*!"
His booted foot slammed into the side of my face, forcing me into the ground. It hurt like hell. I screamed in pain, despite knowing full well this wouldn't last forever. I cradled my jaw in my hand, struggling to get back up to my knees. I got a glimpse of the man beating me. His name was Cody.
It lo... | 2018-11-24T11:21:13 | 2018-11-24T11:03:28 | 1,956 | 270 |
[WP] "I wish for infinite wishes." "Everyone knows that's not allowed." "Then I wish for 1000 wishes." "Nope, not allowed either." "Fine, then I wish for negative 6 wishes." | The genie stayed stone faced, as he had been since he first appeared. But after a quick blink, the first one I had seen him make, I had realized, his emotionless stare was slowly replaced by a wide grin of recognition. "Wait, hold on," I stammered, "I take it back. What did I just do."
The genie floated silently f... | "But you can't."
"I can."
"No."
"I think that YOU can't."
"..."
"This makes me think. Can you make a rock so big that you yourself can't lift it?"
"Eh...I don't know actu-"
"Oooh ok shut up I got one."
The genie pinched the bridge of his cerulean nose. "As long as it's a real wish..."
"I wish that I could rees... | 2022-12-09T12:11:00 | 2022-12-09T10:47:24 | 174 | 25 |
[WP] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification (e.g., Thief, Warrior, Cleric, etc.) tattooed on their dominant arm | *This is my first time responding to a prompt because this one just looks so fucking cool. So, without further ado, here goes:*
Day 1: The tattoos appeared. It was a normal day for everyone, except we woke up with a tattoo on our dominant arm. It was just our names; nothing more, nothing less. Of course, the internet ... | The smell in the Horry County Melee Classifications Office was halfway between entering a small domestic airplane and the Dentist's. It was in Conway near the DMV, or in other words between nada and jackshit, but still at the end of many clogged-up roads on a Wednesday afternoon. David imagined how the air in his car w... | 2015-07-14T01:01:26 | 2015-07-13T16:33:16 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | The newly minted King Agralin stared at me, eyes red from Kastian ale. Half a goblet of that fine vintage stained the front of his doublet. I grimaced at the dreadful waste, my nose wrinkled at the scent; it had been a while, but my senses were slowly returning.
‘What are you doing here? I kicked you lot of wastrels ... | The warm light of the candle i felt upon my hand as a read the letter from the new king. It seemed like a dream and a nightmare all at once. You see there is a society in the city called the "unscaved" and their only mission is to kill people of power for a price.
The old king was part of a family that used to be a... | 2021-02-28T04:13:58 | 2021-02-28T01:29:14 | 1,113 | 153 |
[WP] You buy a special camera at the pawn shop. Every photo you take, it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago. You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy. Everything is all fun and games, until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night. | I took a picture of Sally down by the river, and according to the camera she was three dogs and an angry goose. I shrugged, snapped another photo, and this time she was three dogs and a dead goose. I didn't think *too* much of it, but Sally was pretty put off so we went back to the pawn shop where we got the camera.
... | I took the picture, smiling inwardly. I wonder how it'll look? I'd only been living there for a few months - I wonder what it had been like 10 years ago? What pictures would be up on the walls? Was the building even 10 years old?
I went to the darkroom, dipping the photo into the chemicals. I'd always enjoyed the proc... | 2016-12-22T03:21:41 | 2016-12-22T03:14:16 | 58 | 11 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | part 1 of (I don’t even know)
let me know if I should post the rest
"this is all they could come up with?"
Jennifer shrugged, not really having a worthwhile reply. We sat at our assigned table and looked around the large, mostly empty, conference hall surveying its eight other occupants. "I thought it would be eas... | I woke in small metal container. The walls had the wavy pattern of a cargo crate, and the size fit the idea as well. There where ten of us, I was the first to wake up. It was clear what was happening, I had been told of the risks when I submitted my paper.
I was about 21 at the time and had just finished my philosophy... | 2016-03-03T06:19:08 | 2016-03-03T05:36:34 | 40 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a superpower, but no one knows what theirs is until they are forced to use it in a life-or-death situation.
edit: Thanks for all the great responses :) | It's not a scam. I get results, it's just that I have to make people think they've been scammed first. Listen, here's how it works:
Everyone wants to know what their power is. Absolutely everyone. Even the "supers are the spawn of satan" people have a power and even they want to know what it is. I know because th... | "What do you think happens when you Emerge?" The person in front of me in line asked. I shrugged; it was a pretty closely guarded secret. Some of the older kids at school said that they'd take your powers away if you ever told anyone what happened. "I heard that they torture you beforehand," someone else said. "They wo... | 2014-11-18T14:58:19 | 2014-11-18T14:26:22 | 2,228 | 367 |
[WP] A supervillain kidnaps a civilian and keeps them hostage, taunting on live television for the superhero to come find them. Unbeknownst to the villain, the kidnapped civilian is the superhero.
Did I butcher the title or what?
This is blowing up! All the responses have been diverse and really cool!
| **The Law**
***
Someone up there is having a hell of a laugh at my expense right about now.
The odds of this happening were...staggeringly low at best, honestly, it was probably because of my powers, they leaked sometimes, and affected me and those around me without me consciously commanding them to. I was sipping co... | **G:** Hey Dave, look! I've found us a super cool new writing prompt to do today! It's all about superheroes and supervillains and supe-
**D:** *Really Greg? Of all the pages and pages of high quality, well written submissions - we're going with this? A three-line title with half the plot of Megamind scrolled over it?... | 2017-01-28T08:11:18 | 2017-01-28T08:01:15 | 73 | 18 |
[WP] A religion is proven true but not the one you expect how do people react? | "Gwen, calm down. He's just a kid. Sure, he's a bit lucky, but there's nothing really strange about him beyond that. Nice kid, really. Are you sure you're feeling well? Maybe the stress..." Gwen scowled and stormed out of the teacher's lounge, leaving Mrs. Hutchens alone with her coffee.
Gwen headed for the pla... | We all thought it was an elaborate cash-grab, invented by some manipulative, greedy man who could invent an elaborate story to coax millions of dollars out of thousands of people.
We all thought it was a gathering of idiots who apparently had nothing better to do with their money than spend on a "religion" we all *kne... | 2014-03-19T10:47:08 | 2014-03-19T10:09:23 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] In a world where everyone survives off of basic income, companies have to convince you to work for them.
Credit to u/SearingEnigma & u/abkleinig for the idea. | Chris's dad dumped the pile of colorful envelopes, postcards, and packets onto the kitchen table muttering about 'why any goddamn body would still use paper this day and age...'
Chris shrunk behind his cereal bowl. He glanced at his phone looking for an escape from the inevitable conversation that waited behind the a... | "I quit." I tell my store leader (SL) after a friendly conversation over lunch. "What, why?" My store leader asks nervously. He fidgets with his tight collar as he begins to sweat. "We need all of the help we can get." I nod my head no. "Maybe you should consider giving people time off to be with their families!" I say... | 2016-04-21T10:01:08 | 2016-04-21T08:13:54 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] A woman makes a deal with the devil... but before signing, she actually reads the contract. She is the first to do so. | "What are you waiting for?" the beautiful man said to Natalie, handing her an ornate, black onyx needle to prick her finger. "Sign the contract and I will give you anything your heart desires."
"Yes," Natalie Wright responded, turning the needle in her hands, "But first, I would like to read the contract."
The beauti... | I was alone and about to kill myself in my living room when I met the devil. He appeared with a smirk, saying how lucky I was to meet him, just in time.
'Just in time for what?' I asked, with the sharp razor still hanging above my wrist. The devil gave me a cold smile, and handed me a piece of paper with a gold founta... | 2016-10-14T04:15:11 | 2016-10-14T04:00:42 | 103 | 22 |
[WP] The Greek god Apollo has fallen in love with you, remembering how his previous relationships went, he’s decided ask Zeus to make you a minor god so that you don’t bite the dust. | “Pols?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you understand why I am absolutely, truly, fucking INCOMPREHENSIBLY pissed at you right now?”
“Is it, um. Is it ‘cause my step-mom turned you into the goddess of baked potatoes?”
I smiled a livid, slightly deranged smile.
“Hey, you figured it out. Now FUCKING FIX ME!”
This was not what I signe... | As I was approached by a man claiming to be Apollo, at first I was scared because a crazy man was talking to me, then he pricked his thumb and the blood was gold, and that scared me more. Then he said that he would like to go out with on a few dates. I was not opposed to the idea but was still trying to comprehend th... | 2020-09-21T12:06:03 | 2020-09-21T11:58:19 | 121 | 16 |
[WP] The city hired your company to clean up an old lake just outside of town. At the bottom you find the body of a woman with her ankle handcuffed to a cement block- presumably a mob killing. You pull the body out of the water and it starts coughing. She's alive.
EDIT: **WOW** thanks for all the great responses! This... | Something was lodged in the net and I was straining to pull it up. It wouldn't have been so bad if big Alan was here. Company cut backs meant we were sent out solo for more and more jobs. Pay was the same but we had to work twice as hard, typical. This part of the park was like a valley, steep banks bordered the perime... | There she was, drenched in water, laying on the ground. Millions of questions rushed through my head. Am i in trouble? Who else saw me? Who is she?
"Worry not, mere mortal, there is nothing to be afraid of now". Million of.... Voices overtook all my thoughts I had. "I am Mortima, i have been stuck on this lake hundred... | 2019-11-15T07:31:11 | 2019-11-15T05:55:26 | 61 | 29 |
[WP] You see a spider run across the floor and run under a couch cushion. you lift up the cushion and see the spider along with a $20 bill and a note saying "Rent Money" | "Huh..." I declared, more to convince myself I hadn't dozed off in front of the computer again. Yep, that was a $20 under one of the spider's hairy front legs, as the other pushed the scrap of paper towards me. A brief smile curved my lips as revelation struck me. This wasn't a spider, this was some kind of remote cont... | Alison's heart missed a beat when she saw the large hairy spider run across the floor. She tried stomping on it before it could hide, lurking to bite her when she was least expecting it. Maybe that wasn't true, but spiders terrified her ever since her friend had been bitten by a brown recluse. Luckily they were able to... | 2022-02-06T23:40:35 | 2022-02-06T21:54:00 | 112 | 54 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "IÄ! IÄ!" the masked priest cried, lifting the sinuous dagger above his head. "SHUB-NIGGURATH! THE BLACK GOAT OF THE THOUSAND YOUNG, COME TO FEAST!"
The woman next to Jon tried to scream through her gag as the knife plunged into her breast once, twice. Then she lay still, her eyes full of tears but slowly going dull.
... | Once again I awaken. It has been a long time since I have last walked the land but I must always slumber or there will be no land to walk.
The ground is frail, as always. The crust was not made to hold a weight like mine. I stand from the green light-feeding life that has grown to entomb me . I tear the forest appart ... | 2017-05-05T07:40:26 | 2017-05-05T05:28:24 | 172 | 14 |
[WP] After God has decided to reveal himself to the world, he ranked every human according to how vital their existence is for mankind. While everyone you know has a blurry mess of shifting numerical digits up in the millions and billions, you are ranked number 6, despite being completely average. | I woke up that fateful day to see my wife sleeping next to me, with the number 1,492,316 above her head. I slipped out of bed to brush my teeth, and saw a 6 floating over my head. "Hmm, wonder what that means," I murmured to my reflection as I washed my face. Ever since God started answering prayers again, things had b... | The year was 1904, i was a young boy, merely 15 when God revealed himself. I still remember the pain and confusion I felt.
"6?" I cried, "I am only a boy! Why have you burdened me with this knowledge?"
"Because you my son, are the most important boy on the face of the planet. Maybe not now but certainly one day."
... | 2019-09-26T07:28:18 | 2019-09-26T07:24:24 | 585 | 143 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | I had lived for 8 star-cycles when I first learned to Farstep. By 10, I had earned my Intercity Teleportation license; by 15, my Interplanetary.
While similar, the magic used for a Farstep is actually not the same as a Teleport. Farsteps use corporeal magic, which means I can go a short ways - as far as I have energy ... | 200 years ago, humanity discovered that the new elemental material, Unductindenium, could be refined into a light warping spacecraft shell, allowing humans to travel faster than initially thought, by transferring energy that was being carried by quantum particles, we could now bend physics to our will.
And at first th... | 2019-01-18T12:49:38 | 2019-01-18T10:08:27 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | I looked at the man in the cage. He looked young. No one could’ve guessed that he had been here for close to two hundred years.
He lit a match and looked at the fire till it reached and scalded his fingers. He had always been fascinated by fire.
“Ray? You doing ok? You need anything.”
He smiled at me. “No thanks, ... | “Hey Mike Murderer”, Winston said with a sigh as he entered the wooden cabin.
“Hey! Back already? Did they even let you in the town this time?”, Mike said. Mike sat up on his dusty, worn out floor mat, which he used as a bed.
“Nobody recognized me until I was looking at the chess pieces, then they found o... | 2021-06-19T17:55:46 | 2021-06-19T17:26:49 | 616 | 400 |
[WP] You are a witch who offers couples deals in return for their first born child. You run an orphanage full of children freed from their would-be parents irresponsible enough to make a deal with a witch in the woods |
The townsfolk for miles around had always called what the old witch was doing dark magic. I mean, for what other purpose would she be collecting children in the shadows of the dark forest.
In all honesty, she preferred the rumors. After all the parents who offered up their children to a witch practicing dark magic... | I am not a bad witch, but I am not necessarily a good witch either. I simply provide a service, and in turn I claim my reward. I do not take advantage of these irresponsible people; however, I do feel pity towards their offspring. Or rather, their would-be-offspring. Love is a fickle thing, and I noticed over my many y... | 2020-01-14T13:39:59 | 2020-01-14T13:36:33 | 69 | 14 |
[WP] The crew-member examines the now-empty, malfunctioning stasis-pod. The specimen is of a species that had spread to and became apex predator of every region on its homeworld. The captain must be warned, even though it's likely everyone on board is as good as dead already. The human has escaped. | "Damn!" Ixil looked at the remains of the stasis tube, still covered with a chilly mist. He turned to a nearby ensign. "Call the captain, sound general quarters, we need to get ready to fight!"
"What? What's going..."
*"Now!"*
Alarms began to sound as the ship roused itself to battle stations. Moments later, the... | “Physically she’s not the most intimidating but her main ability is her ability to think quickly. Unfortunately the one that has escaped was a Soldier before she was frozen so she will be far more dangerous then most humans. By no means should she be allowed to access our Laser Weapons as even if she does not have trai... | 2018-07-31T16:36:31 | 2018-07-31T11:16:40 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] You were the world's best homicide detective. When you died, your cynicism got you sent to hell, but it turns out it’s not so bad. In fact, you and the devil become friends. Then, one day, he shows up at your place with disturbing news: “God is dead. I want you to find out who did it." | "I suppose I always thought you two were bound together somehow. If one dies, so does the other, y'know? I mean, you're the ultimate representation of duality--"
"Normally, you would be correct. At the end of all things, we would have both ascended to the next life. But His passing was...unnatural. Unusual."
I take a... | O mighty one dead,
How did this happen?
Who rules instead,
Osama Bin Laden?
It all started in Hell,
When he came to me,
Told me God had fell,
Who could it be?
It’s now my work,
I have to know,
Who was the jerk,
Who killed the show?
I asked the Devil,
He has no clue,
But Jesus is evil,
I asked him too.
But when he s... | 2018-05-03T17:19:37 | 2018-05-03T15:20:57 | 108 | 20 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | I got to my room, lungs burning as I ran the first floor. "It's all right Jack, you don't have to be afraid, you have done nothing wrong, everything will be all right." Said the calm voice of Professor X. Part of me immediately started to relax, but I could not slow down the heavy rapid breathing. I messed up, and peop... | I haven't been here long at this school for gifted.
In fact, it's not really a school at all, it's a school for the mutant kind.
It's home to some of the famous students like, wolverine, Cyclops, storm and many others.
As for me, my power is I can freeze time, i tell people i can teleport, seems easier.
After get... | 2020-07-15T05:54:34 | 2020-07-15T05:51:59 | 137 | 33 |
[WP] You are a villain, but you have standards: when lesser villains try to hurt your archnemesis' wife and kids, you show them why you are the biggest fish in town | Violet Shadow had never been so angry in her life. Sure, Steelstrike was a massive nuisance at best and a genuine threat at worst, but targeting his family was crossing a line.
It was bad enough that these new small time baddies were trying to muscle in on her turf. They probably thought all the stories about her pow... | To anyone who believes that they can get their way by killing, stealing, or hurting others in any way, you're not a real villain. You're a cheap asshole. A real villain presents an argument for the hero. You have to be a foil for the hero, to make him question what's right and wrong. Be like me, I study philosophy for ... | 2022-09-27T17:31:13 | 2022-09-27T16:28:10 | 94 | 28 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | Elli was born without the names. Some people thought that she was blessed. She was not faced with knowing the name of the person who would kill her. Others believed it was a curse, some kind of disability. She had to admit that not having the names made her wonder if there *was* something wrong with her. Everyone has t... | I wonder how to find her,
while avoiding a murderous fate.
A friend of mine used grinder,
Then served up on his killers plate.
The dating apps all hinder,
The odds you will survive.
Another friend used Tinder,
Then was met and burned alive.
So I made an app called Same.
Matching tats of those like you,
But I ... | 2018-03-11T09:04:19 | 2018-03-11T08:30:35 | 270 | 15 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | My phone rattled on my nightstand, and I ignored it.
Twenty minutes later, it shook again. The quiet buzz would usually go unnoticed during the day, but the same volume amplified twofold in the middle of the night.
The phone’s shake persisted. I felt myself pried away from a deep slumber.
I grabbed my phone and p... | Sean groaned and swiped down on his phone screen, adjusting the brightness to something much less blinding. He read the alert on his phone again. *DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS, what a joke* Sean thought to himself. He stumbled off to the bathroom and threw some water on his face, before crawling back into bed. It was then... | 2021-01-11T19:03:59 | 2021-01-11T18:25:32 | 1,394 | 40 |
[WP] Everyone's flaws are listed in a translucent white box above their heads. One day, you meet a man whose 'box' is empty. | Georgina Lomax. *Vain, selfish, tight-fisted, cheat.*
I am gorgeous, rich and successful but all that shit doesn’t matter anymore. All that people care about are these stupid flaw clouds. It’s meant to stop people from being taken advantage of, taken in by people who are trying to hide their true characters but instea... | "Get out !" the sales manager shouted.
As I walked out of the office with my resume and the usual feeling of disappointment. It feels like that i was blessed with longest list over my head. I have been cursing god for it since my childhood.
Walking of the corner street i thought of buying flowers for my hopefu... | 2014-10-27T05:10:20 | 2014-10-27T04:41:34 | 738 | 13 |
[WP] Simultaneously, across the world, everyone hears a voice in their head. " In 2 hours, the server will be shutting down for the final time. Thank you for playing Human ®." | So it was indeed a simulation. Alice was oddly calm about it, even for her situation. It's rare to have a theory just confirm itself. She has been working for three years on the thesis by this point, trying to find some evidence, anything, even delving down to minute irregularities in quantum physics. Now, the most dir... | It took a little, but it finally hit me. I sat there in front of my computer like I did most Friday nights. I wasn't the one to go out and party or get hammered, and even if I was it isn't like I had anyone to do it with. With my time short, and I assume the same for everyone else, I could only sit there. Why couldn't ... | 2019-09-23T04:18:23 | 2019-09-23T04:08:06 | 183 | 47 |
[WP] There's an old adage in the galaxy about humanity: roughly translated, it means "Never push the pink-skins to the thin ice."
Credit: phrase originally taken from the trailer "Prelude to Axanar." | Thirteen Wishes, the Valorian's cultural attaché, hovered closer to the viewscreen. On it, the Taj Mahal evaporated in a stream of ionizing radiation. Beside Thirteen Wishes, the handler hovered, nervously preening a mandible. Separation from the pod-waters gave Six Blue Stones anxiety.
"They have no idea what they've... | Humanity is an unremarkable species according to practically every single member of the Allied Planets. They weren't physically remarkable, their intelligence was just sufficient to have them classified as average, and they shared no unusual trait or talents that were of benefit of anyone. When first contact was made w... | 2016-07-24T16:32:31 | 2016-07-24T15:38:58 | 41 | 25 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is the first human to die, and had taken it upon himself to walk the deceased to the afterlife so that they do not have to feel the loneliness he felt. | I was weary. It’s hard to imagine someone who is dead still being able to feel, but maybe the constant exposure to extreme human emotion had allowed me to still feel. I had wallowed in immeasurable suffering, but had also bathed in the light of someone surrounded by family, going to meet their god. I didn’t know what w... | "Are you ready?"
I had always expected the physical representation of Death to be carrying a big scythe around in black robes, or to be a devil of some sorts, or some sort gauntish figure. And yet, the entity standing in front of me calimng to be the reaper was wearing khaki pants and a blue polo.
"I'm sorry?" I sai... | 2019-07-10T11:52:12 | 2019-07-10T11:49:23 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] Your soulmate finally moves into your flat. However she warns you that she has to spend 2 hours every day to "clean the inside of her skin" alone in the bathroom "so that her skin won't rot", and under no circumstances are you to see her "without her skin on". She refuses to elaborate further. | I’m pretty sure I’ve never needed to pee this badly in my life before. I pace up and down the hallway outside the bathroom trying to ignore the pressure in my bladder; the steam drifting out from under the door smells of lavender and geranium and is mixed with the sound of the shower and Suzie’s off-key singing. Usuall... | I first met her after work. We worked different shifts, different departments but the same building. We talked over some trivial fantasy stuff, later into medieval era history and connected. Later, we dated. To me, she was the one. Oddly enough, I couldn’t help but notice how strange her skin looked in a few places, li... | 2020-11-17T05:11:23 | 2020-11-17T01:05:28 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] You wake up in a tub of ice with a two insicions on your back and a note that reads "Why don't you have any kidneys? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?" | It sounded like I was in a drink, ice makes the most unusual noise. My hands were so cold it was hard to hold the note with out dropping it, crumpled in my half form fist. The words from the note floated through my head, taking whatever order suited them.
"You don't have kidneys. What? Why the fuck?"
I squinted at th... | "Shit." That's all she can say for now. She knows they aren't going to call anyone. Who the fuck would believe them but, she still rather be safe then sorry. Of all the ways to get figured out, this shit happens.
She doesn't know who or what she is. She was left at a church and the nuns raised her. She never got sick... | 2015-12-31T00:04:58 | 2015-12-30T22:36:20 | 73 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone receives a Skill or Talent on their 16th birthday. Yours is Dragon Tamer. But dragons don't exist. | "A dragon tattoo?" John asked, looking at the tattoo of a European style dragon looking up and breathing fire that had appeared on his shoulder.
John's father, Mark, looked at the tattoo and shrugged, "Maybe it has something to do with breathing fire?"
John couldn't figure out how that would even work, how would he m... | My Talent arose on my skin in the form of a stylized dragon, with a human figure riding it, on my 16th birthday. Dragon rider? Dragon Tamer? Not all marks were literal, but this one seemed pretty straight forward. Except that dragons didn't exist. I read a lot of books, so maybe I was going to be good at writing dragon... | 2021-08-03T19:50:53 | 2021-08-03T17:51:50 | 268 | 43 |
[WP] An excerpt from the most cliché young adult novel
Ex. Futuristic dystopian society where vampires roam the streets | I felt plain, like a bagel. Today was supposed to change that.
Because today I faced The Test: that mysterious process that sorted people into their proper personality types. It was a simple process. A man asked you what you wanted out of life, and you told him. Then he told you which personality you belonged to.
I u... | It was a day like any other day.
And I was in charge of more than someone my age should be, a symbol of my advanced specialness even at my tender age of 16. I had hair, so much hair, undulating in the wind since we can't have awesome capes in this place.
I wore the same clothes as everyone else, yet different, and my... | 2015-05-14T07:47:10 | 2015-05-14T07:16:19 | 94 | 13 |
[WP] You die and go to hell. There you are greeted by 3 demons. They ask you which one of them do you want to torture you for the rest of eternity. Feeling regret for your sin you pick the scariest one but he decides not to torture you because no one have ever picked him before. | "So, you're not going to torture me?"
"No. There's no point."
"At the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, why do you say that?"
"Look, those other two, Fek'lar and Balobra, they're good du...bad dudes? Whatever. The point is they only earned their demon status a few thousand years ago. They haven't realized t... | Hell wasn’t like I had imagined it at all. No flame-engulfed landscape of cracked red rock with magma flowing beneath. If heaven was a wide-open space in the sky, then surely hell was a narrow underground cavern riddled with jagged red hot glowing stalactites and stalagmites. No, instead hell was more like a BDSM dun... | 2017-07-30T07:00:21 | 2017-07-30T01:09:06 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] One day a time portal opens in your backyard and a time traveler comes through. You quickly realize he just came back from making some change to the past and that, to him, our world is the terrifying alternative time line resulting from that change. | "Alright, let's start again..." Philip said, his hand covering his eyes. "What is the year?"
James set down the cup of tea in front of the mysterious, confused man. "2015."
"And what happened at 0? Or 1? Whatever."
"Um..." James considered, "Think it was supposed to be around the birth of Christ."
"Alright, that ... | So there was an astronaut at my front door.
Or at least I think it was an astronaut. It had a helmet and all the fixings. I was too polite to ask, really. It just stood at my door, hunched over, breathing heavily. Kinda sounded like Darth Vader, which gave more support to my astronaut theory.
"What year is it?!" it a... | 2015-11-13T15:49:03 | 2015-11-13T14:24:37 | 174 | 14 |
[WP] A teenage boy is sentenced to a fate worst than death. His internet history is to be publicly read at his high school assembly. | "It's public humiliation!"
Owen had never seen his dad's face so red before. He was practically bursting a vein with rage, leaning over the headteacher's desk and spitting in his face.
"This is illegal!"
Mr. Paulson, a mild mannered man with bad taste in ties and a worse taste in shoes, removed his frameless g... | The balding, stout principal stood in front of the sea of faces, ready to dish out Chad's punishment.
"Chad Gissler's internet history:
6:55PM Facebook, Jennifer.Traeger.
6:58 PM Facebook, Jennifer.Traeger, Music.
7:03 PM Google query, 'Who is Kurt Cobain?'
7:04 PM, Wikipedia, Kurt Cobain.
7:07 PM, Wikipedi... | 2014-03-23T05:13:27 | 2014-03-23T04:22:46 | 248 | 93 |
[WP] Walking home one night you find an old lamp and a Genie pops out. He tells you that you have 6 wishes, 3 more than usual. You take it home to sleep on it, because this is important. You must be sure! You wake up to find a frantic Genie. You only have one wish left because you sleep talk. | "Wha-what time is it? WHAT ARE ALL THESE DICKS DOING IN MY FACE"
"Hey good morning. I mean just say the word and they all go away BUT BEFORE YOU TALK just know you have only 1 wish remaining..."
"What? One? I thought you said I have six" \*Brushes four penises out of his face
"Yeah well this stuff has an order to it... | I woke up still undecided. How is it so hard to make six wishes? There are so many things I can choose from. Suddenly I realized that the ceiling I was looking at wasn't like the one in my room, it was golden and... Wait this isn't even my bed. I looked around to see a completely different room with everything in it ch... | 2019-09-20T12:33:00 | 2019-09-20T11:33:57 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You are notified that in 24 hours, every human will try to kill you for 1 hour. Your preparation starts now. | 24 hours left.
So many people had tried and failed before. But not me. I wasn't going to fail. You know why?
I'm not a fucking idiot.
Everyone thinks it's easy. In theory, it is. I mean, you just have to survive an hour. But people are so goddamn narrow-minded. They always try the same thing. Lots of guns, barricad... | For the past few months I had been low on money. I took the advice of a friend and signed up for a clinical trial of some sort, I'm not really sure what it was at this point. Suffice to say they were testing genetic targeting. I received a call a little while ago from the team lead Dr. Sullivan. She said that a contagi... | 2015-06-14T16:18:12 | 2015-06-14T13:21:20 | 56 | 23 |
[WP] You are a literal genie, taking wishes like "jump higher" resulting in turning the wisher into a frog, stuff like that. Your latest "victim" has just pulled out a book with their 3 wishes in EXTREME DETAIL on EVERYTHING. "Try and mess this one up." | I have been a genie for thousands of years and I truly love my job. Taking the petty dreams of mortals and twisting them into their worst nightmares is not only my bound task, but my calling.
Some genies twist wishes out of spite. Me? I do it just for the pure joy their despair brings.
You ever hear of Midas? Yeah, t... | “I’m afraid this isn’t my native language. Hold on a moment while I run the text through google translate. I wouldn’t want to get confused by any subtle distinctions.” I smile as the human starts to stammer and swear. He knows how bad this could get.
“So, looks like first we’ll have to go through Welsh, detour it ... | 2022-09-28T16:24:54 | 2022-09-28T16:23:50 | 207 | 107 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.