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[WP] When the police came to announce you the death of your husband, you refused to believe it. "That's impossible", you said. "Unfortunately, it's the truth, miss", answered the policemen. "It's impossible", you said again, "because he's in the kitchen making dinner." | "Your husband died tonight," the officer repeated, as a sudden gust whipped a wave of dust up around his boots.
Sarah watched as the dust danced, endlessly pirouetting about his feet, and could think only of her mother's funeral.
*Ashes to ashes...*
Behind the man, the wind and the night locked horns in a fearsom... | "I know its hard ma'am, but we found his dead body today on a construction site."
The young detective and her 2 police officers seemed dead serious.
"No! I mean he is standing in the kitchen right now cooking some soup for dinner."
"Well, that seems odd. May we enter and to ask you some questions?"
I just nodded. T... | 2017-10-10T06:26:40 | 2017-10-10T05:53:19 | 438 | 27 |
[WP] When the police came to announce you the death of your husband, you refused to believe it. "That's impossible", you said. "Unfortunately, it's the truth, miss", answered the policemen. "It's impossible", you said again, "because he's in the kitchen making dinner." | "Ma'am, we have confirmed the identity with photo identification." Sergeant Miller took off his hat and thought for a moment. "Forgive me if this sounds insensitive, but have you ever seen your husband make dinner before?"
"Well, no. But you've got to be mistaken," I replied. "He's in the kitchen right now getting flo... | The officers glanced at each other. There was worry in that look.
"We weren't aware that you'd remarried," the bigger of the two said. "When was the last time you saw your ex-husband?"
"Ex?!" I spat. "I've been married to one man for ten years! You've got the wrong house!"
He looked down at the folder, tracing the t... | 2017-10-10T07:05:33 | 2017-10-10T06:46:42 | 103 | 47 |
[WP] John Wick is contracted to take out what seemed like a usual mark. Billionaire, heir, playboy, general layabout, Bruce Wayne. | “Master Wayne”
Alfred walked into the Wayne Manor’s study, barely passing the threshold of the lavish office.
“Yes, Alfred.”
Bruce looked up from the shiny fragment he had stolen during the Justice Leagues battle with braniac. Normally he would take care of this in the Batcave, but bringing the tech near the Earth’... | Alfred serves Bruce his dinner, a succulent medium-rare steak expertly prepared.
"Thank you Alfred," says Bruce.
"Will there be anything else, sir?" asks Alfred.
"Warm the car up. I think I may have tracked down the penguin," says Bruce.
"Of course, sir." answers Alfred.
*A penguin?* thinks Wick. *Why would Bruce ... | 2018-03-13T22:55:30 | 2018-03-13T22:15:45 | 1,190 | 765 |
[WP] Everybody assumes that The Onion is satire, but you know different. Why? Because you're its main reporter, gathering news from alternate realities. | They just started arriving on my doorstep one day. I've never been able to find out who or what delivers them, but every Sunday I get a newspaper with headlines from another world. Most of the time they're mundane with just a few subtle... inconsistencies. But every once in awhile, they make my job as lead reporter for... | People all know us for satirical, often hilarious news pieces that they regard us as more of a joke than a news station to take seriously, like CNN. But little do they know that the news coming from us is not only real, but also very important.
At least in the reality it came from.
You might've wondered why we report... | 2018-03-20T20:00:19 | 2018-03-20T18:55:40 | 73 | 26 |
[WP] You are living a day that 50 years from now will be the answer to a question on a History Test. (Essay or Multiple Choice Question- Take your pick) | Using evidence from the article exerpt, the author implies that one of the first **major** steps to the creation of the Korean Union of Fellowship was?
>A. Wednesday, June 13th; The United States President and North Korean leader meet in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
>B. Friday, April 27th, 2018; The South Korean Pr... | It was impossible to hear anything over the roar of the crowd. Then again, it wasn’t everyday someone that famous visited the city. I peered over the people in front of me, but it was no use. Try as I might, even the tell tale glint of an automobile was obscured by the masses. He probably wasn’t even coming this way an... | 2018-04-27T13:06:21 | 2018-04-27T11:34:31 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] When you were little your grandad passed away and left his dog to your family. He was the goodest boy. Loyal, fun, your best friend. It’s been 70 years and you’re old and frail, but your dog is still alive. You think he’s immortal. One day, he speaks. “It’s time you knew the truth, old friend” | "I'm what you might call a god," Lucky said, jaw hanging motionless and agape as the words seemed to just fly from his throat. And due to the lack of smell, I'd guess breathless. Impressive.
​
"I fucking knew you could talk!" I yelled. I raised my arms too and tried to stand up from the couch all triumphan... | It's weird. The smell, the colours: everything seemed a little off, that September.
I groan as I stand up, my back an Hell of excruciating stab wounds. Metaphorically speaking, of course: I never had the pleasure to be knifed, with much chagrin of my son.
I sigh, slowly massaging my aching rear.
"Still givin' you the... | 2018-09-26T20:47:29 | 2018-09-26T16:05:52 | 198 | 44 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real. How do you know? Because it happens to you. Everyone else forgets their past life, but not you. Your first life was a hunter in a tribe of people that predates the Egyptian empire. You’ve been reincarnated 194 times. Tell us the story of you, today in the modern world. | I remember.
After the fiftieth death or so, I stopped crying as a baby. I remember a Roman wetnurse commenting on how uncanny it was that I never cried. She called me a curse, a jinx, and was frightened to feed me beside her own lustily-howling child. I was too busy remembering to care what she thought of me. That lif... | My story is the same as the story of mankind.
The two are inexorably interconnected as far as I am concerned. They cannot be separated because the very cores of their nature are entwined. After exploring so much land, researching so many concepts, meeting so many people, I am the best example of it anyway. There is no... | 2019-07-31T20:34:36 | 2019-07-31T18:59:09 | 444 | 267 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | The summoning of one's true calling was always meant to be a decision to bind where you would go with life. A doctor may bring a syringe, a police officer a badge, and if your lucky you may pull in a gemstone for wealth. When I called for my object I got none of these.
The large stone slab one stood on to receive his ... |
Mother and Father stood nearby, looking expectantly at me as I took my place in the center of the rooming facing the great grandfather clock that command the attention of everyone.
Along the edges of the room waited the rest of our family and friends, all in attendance with me as the hour of my birth; 11:59pm, 18... | 2019-09-18T08:31:42 | 2019-09-18T08:16:27 | 79 | 57 |
[WP] People on Earth start receiving a text message that says, "Not everyone gets a happy ending. Time to face yours". One by one they meet horrible deaths until you receive one that is different from the others, it says, "Twelve people died for your happy ending. Congratulations!" | I turned on the television — just out of the habit. It was silent. The news had been abandoned a long time ago. There were only a few channels left that showed some movies.
It was massive chaos. Those who were smart stayed in-doors, hiding from everyone else. Others decided to do something before their horrible ending... | Almost a year ago the first message appeared, and many many more followed. People got scared to read messages and some of them even got rid of their phones, because that way they couldn't receive a text message nor die right?
They were wrong. Faith was stronger than that. It didn't care if you had a phone or not.
Fait... | 2019-10-20T09:01:34 | 2019-10-20T04:17:03 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | "Well, I was dead once, but I got over it."
The Grim Reaper stood silently and cocked his head.
"River Styx? You have the look of one who has been there."
"Yes. My GPS is old and it steered me wrong. I took a right turn onto a lane that went into a long tunnel. I thought it was odd that there were red lights, but I... | One day, on my 18th birthday, on my way to school, I saw an old lady sitting on a park bench, watching her grandchildren playing in the park. I felt happy, knowing that no matter how much darkness is in the world, there is always something good to brighten up your day. But then I saw something behind her. At first, it ... | 2020-01-24T17:11:51 | 2020-01-24T16:18:18 | 54 | 21 |
[WP] An unassuming school janitor, is in fact an incredibly powerful but reformed dark magic user who chose a humbler life after the Hero defeated and spared them; except today is different: today the magic academy is undersiege by the BBEG, their former boss. | All seemed lost. The forces of evil were at the gates. The academy had stood for ten thousand years, and it seemed as though today would be it's end. The archmage, and the masters of all disciplines rallied to the defense of the school, wizards casting blasts of electric might, sorcerer's summoning terrors not meant to... | The man pushed the trash can forward, nodding at the student passing by who failed to notice the tendril of shadow snaking towards her.
The tendril flicked the scrap of paper the student had dropped into the air, and it landed squarely in the moving trash can.
Zair, practicing warlock and now janitor of the King’s Pa... | 2020-09-06T08:49:26 | 2020-09-06T07:49:42 | 102 | 63 |
[WP] "Now be aware, humans are... we'll they're primate descendant. Touch is very important to them. They will probably try to scratch your ears." "They know we're sentient, right?" "I don't think they care. But it feels good. They've got those little fingers." | “Human, we come in peace. My name is Koz'al, I am of the planet—”
“Oh so cute!” the human squealed.
“Yes… well thank you,” Koz'al said, taken aback. “You are cute as well... I understand your planet has never been contacted by an intergalactic entity—"
“Who’s a cute dog-bear thing?” the human interrupted.
“I uh.... | "Tap of Claws on Dewy Grass?" Winter Hairs in the Wind of Spring yowled.
"Ugh! What *is* it, Mom, I'm going to be late for the hunting sims!" Claws hissed back.
Winter Hairs wrapped her prehensile tail around Claws' midsection and dragged her back before she could leap away. Claws protested, twisting and spitting, bu... | 2021-03-20T21:13:19 | 2021-03-20T20:19:00 | 3,275 | 451 |
[WP] As a child, you had a very unique diary; whatever you wrote, something would respond, their words magically appearing on the page. Years later, while searching a library hundreds of miles away, you rediscover the diary you thought you'd lost. Inside is a pen and your first entry: "Hello". | I turned the small brown book over in my hands, feeling the bumps down the leather spine and soaking in the dusty odor of old paper. How could this be? If this was indeed the same book from my childhood, these pages should be full. And yet, as I leafed through the pages, all were empty except the first with one single ... | # The Witch Who Weaves Pain
(Part 5: The Feeling of Life)
(Note: The Witch Who Weaves Pain is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**It's quite possible that the most awkward part of being trans is talking to the people you knew before.** Oh, it's n... | 2021-03-31T09:42:05 | 2021-03-31T09:00:10 | 1,661 | 48 |
[WP] Demon Blades each portray a human emotion, when the user feels the emotion of their blade, they resonate and the power rises 10 fold. the Demon Blade of Wrath was weak, no matter how mad the user, it couldn't match the other blades. turns out, no one was angry enough to use it right, until now. | The Demon Swords were the first weapons forged from the still-cooling corpse of the Demon’s god. They were built according to the 7 sins humanity was created with. All were powerful, each Wielder a force on the battlefield none would stand against. When they felt the sun each sword was made of, they burst into a cacoph... | The Holy Kingdom of Ummor had unjustly ruled over the lands for centuries. Rebellions and riots finally reached a point where they were now a normal weekly occurrence. As a response, Ummor Kingdom had recently begun to dispatch their ultimate warriors, the holy knights to overwhelmingly crush and intimidate all who opp... | 2021-09-18T14:44:42 | 2021-09-18T14:28:55 | 52 | 26 |
[WP]When members or your family turn fifteen they are able to manifest a weapon that they will use for the rest of their lives. You’ve been trained to use all manner of weapons to prepare to be able to wield whatever weapon you summon. On your Summoning day what appears in front of you is a book. | "...a book?", "The boy got a book, how...", "What weapon did he summon?" "...the boy's weapon?" "Why does he hold a book?"
The whispers in the hall surrounded me, their judging eyes piercing my soul, searching for answers. I remember that day still. For weeks after that I struggled to make sense of it, to find my plac... | Ivan stood in the center of the sword master’s training grounds. He cut an intimidating figure, even at fifteen, with broad shoulders and a massive, square shaved head. He towered over his father’s best swordsman and stood at eye-level with the archery master, himself a tall lean elf.
But even Ivan had to look up to C... | 2021-12-12T09:05:28 | 2021-12-12T07:54:23 | 1,442 | 338 |
[WP] You are a sentient rock. You have been on Earth since its formation and have watched countless civilizations rise and fall. One day, a human comes along and picks you up: "Hello rock, I'm going to name you Steve." | She set me on her table and sat down. "I'll name you Steve!" She said, "You can call me Wendy!" She was somewhere between 8-10 when she first found me. Just an innocent girl making an imaginary friend out of a rock.
I have been since the dawn of time and I have seen most of the planet's history around me, and now I kn... | I've seen many things. Or at least as much a rock can see, that is. I saw the very inception of life on Earth, the Roman Empire, every human innovation. All that time I've been ignored. After all, I am a rock. No reasonable person pays any attention to rocks. Despite that, I've found myself in a certain situation with ... | 2022-06-16T13:14:02 | 2022-06-16T12:36:01 | 141 | 36 |
[WP] A hostage situation takes place. However the hostage takers demands are bizarrely trivial. | Three people, gagged and tied up on the 68th floor of the office building. An armed, belligerent, and ski-masked captor. And a team of police officers at the other end of the now abandoned row of cubicles. The usual.
But when the police did their routine inquiry as to the demands, the direction of this hostage situati... | Nothing was ever supposed to happen in this hick town, that's why I got the job here. I got shot my eighth day on the job in the big city, and I just lost it. Everything about that day is still in my head: getting the call that the convenience store I was headed to for coffee had an armed robbery in progress, being s... | 2014-01-11T20:14:58 | 2014-01-11T17:38:07 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] A newly-hired bartender is slowly realizing that he's working at the bar from all of those "X walks into a bar" jokes. | "Alright Sam, just watch how it's done."
Sam looked attentively at Holly, her higher-up, as two men in lab coats walked in and sat in front of them. Holly smiled and said to them, "Chemists?"
"Yep."
"What'll y'all have?"
"I'll have H2O, please," said one.
The other followed, "I'll have H2O, too."
Holly motioned t... | On a quiet summer evening at a bar just outside of town, a bartender is waiting nervously for the clock to strike six. He wipes his brow with the grimy bar towel and tries to ignore the sinking feeling that grows ever stronger in his gut as the seconds tick by. His only patrons are an old farmer in coveralls and a fi... | 2015-05-14T19:10:48 | 2015-05-14T15:44:01 | 87 | 52 |
[WP] "Some days, I love my job. Those days are the worst." | For the most part, I usually feel nothing when I give myself over to my clients. I act the part, make them feel good, give them release. For them, it's an expensive and illicit thrill. For me, it's just business.
And yet...there are days when my body responds, and the moans I make are not manufactured but real, and my... | Traitor. Backstabber. Scum. I spit those epithets into the mirror morning and night. The knowledge of what I’m doing to these people makes my skin crawl, but I can’t stop. Too many lives are at stake.
That’s why they hired me, of course. Empathy. I meet someone new and everything just seems to fall into place – they r... | 2015-07-16T07:49:11 | 2015-07-16T07:19:54 | 98 | 32 |
[WP] The world's oldest, most powerful wizard has had enough of his life. After two thousand years of adventure and magic he desires normalcy. Today is his first day at work as a janitor for an office building. He's determined to fit in and not use his powers. How does it go? | The wizard- no, janitor- huffed in frustration, leaning against his ladder and working the doorjamb as best he could with a screwdriver. The stupid door was stuck. If he could just use his damn powers he could have it fixed in a trice. He moved to replace the screwdriver with his wand, but stopped, chastening himself f... | “Liiiiisten baby, ain’t no mountain high, ain’t no valley low, ain’t no river wiiiide enough baaaaby,” I lip-sang in delight, “if you neeeeeeed me caaalll!” The mop sloshed on my shoe. The turbid water reeked with the pungent stench of bleach and a varietal medley of chemicals. I began chanting a quick incantation to r... | 2015-12-30T13:29:19 | 2015-12-30T12:15:49 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | Dexicon moved his cosmic fortress from Centauri B straight into Earth's orbit. Dexicon was able to do this in one turn thanks to the cosmic paving it had laid earlier. This allowed faster than light travel.
"Your move, God." Dexicon roared, knowing it had the ancient deity in its proverbial palm.
*Shit shit shit* th... | "Coexist? Are you *insane*?"
Kolaga stared, absolutely incredulous, at God. "This is a game of 'who outlasts the rest', not 'who wants to gather for a 'picnic'', or whatever your stupid little race calls that sort of event!"
They had been playing for about 14 billion years, which was by far the longest game they had ... | 2022-09-11T19:19:52 | 2016-04-09T09:48:26 | 1,980 | 13 |
[WP] Suddenly across the globe, large, feathered, rotted corpses begin to drop out of the sky. They are soon identified to be Angels. | It was no small irony that it was the scientists who figured out the rotted bodies had once been Angels.
The religious took several views running the gamut of belief, regarding them as anything from a hoax to a sign of the end times.
Homo celestial was what they were designated as soon as someone managed to get a sa... | "Have you tasted one?" Theo Brashear booms. His grin is white and toothy, his grey hair leonine. He stalks around the corpse as if it's prey. It's pinned to his trophy wall by its six wings, about six feet tall and with an eight foot wingspan, vaguely humanoid and pockmarked with dark hollows gouged into its bones. The... | 2016-07-19T06:01:02 | 2016-07-19T05:45:46 | 441 | 78 |
[WP] You turn your Match Distance on tinder to "Anywhere". To your surprise you get a match that is 10^93 light years away. Thinking it was a joke you turn it off. 20 minutes later you turn it back on and it says they are 10^5 light years away and getting closer. | *Um.. Hello?*
**Hi. :)**
*Uh. so. 10^93 about 20 minutes ago and now your at 10^5.*
**Yeah?**
*Not sure where that is.*
**I'm not sure what its called on your system. I mean, I can check.**
*No that's okay.*
**I mean, I have Googzawl Universe here. I don't mind the data usage.**
*No no I*
*Wait what*
**I mean... | You have a new match!
Usually speaking, Tinder is understood from two very different perspectives. The first is of the people who spend the time they decide to devote to the app batting away the attention; the others will swipe right indiscriminately. Some will swipe right knowing that there is a certain to high... | 2016-12-23T10:01:49 | 2016-12-23T09:52:36 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | So about 7,000 years ago Ollie dropped a boulder on my head. We were hunter-gatherers then, and he convinced me that there was a herd of red deer in a canyon near our camp. When I went there to check it out, he was on top of the ridge and rolled the boulder off onto me. It took a week for me to claw my way out.
Okay ... | There was something ever so sweet about one of my pranks going smoothly The elegance of it all leaves me smiling for years every time I remember the looks on her face, the stupid grin I could feel on mine echoes in my mind every time.
I had been sitting one day under my favorite tree when the Idea began to spring fort... | 2017-06-23T00:57:11 | 2017-06-23T00:41:42 | 220 | 10 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | "You, come with me please. Jim! I'll just have a chat with this guy, okay?" Jim, the closest thing to a neanderthal you could see outside of a museum of natural history, flashed a thumbs up before going back to checking ID's.
"So uh, like, what's the problem?" I glanced at the man beside me. He looked like your aver... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T23:25:55 | 585 | 12 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | Four digits? FOUR? In all my years as a bouncer, never four.
I looked into his calm, green eyes.
"Jesus," I said.
Of course I let him in. Even The Man needs to kick back and grab a beer sometimes, yeah?
But, given that he's back... I wouldn't make any long-term plans if I were you. And stock up on some prepper mate... | "You, come with me please. Jim! I'll just have a chat with this guy, okay?" Jim, the closest thing to a neanderthal you could see outside of a museum of natural history, flashed a thumbs up before going back to checking ID's.
"So uh, like, what's the problem?" I glanced at the man beside me. He looked like your aver... | 2017-09-01T23:43:36 | 2017-09-01T23:25:55 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone has a percentage displayed above their heads. It represents the current risk percentage for death. Everyone who has reached 100% has died within seconds. Yesterday the 100% appeared above you, today it is still there. | 3 different ERs and my primary care physician haven't seen anything like it. My mom hasn't stopped crying since she saw it, my dad has stopped talking.
I'm only 17.
I can't go outside, not without enduring the stares, the questions of any passerby, the concerned citizens "just trying to help" by calling 911. I don'... | "So... How are you feeling?"
I am sat in a blank room, on a slightly-uncomfortable-but-not-too-uncomfortable-that-I-would-complain-out-loud-about-it chair. In front of me, there is a table, that appears to be made of the same material as the chair (would that make the table uncomfortable to sit on? Probably.), and on ... | 2018-04-02T11:37:03 | 2018-04-02T11:06:12 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | The whole neighbourhood was out in the streets staring skyward; dressed in robes and wrapped in blankets. The bright white light made them appear as stone sentinels against the snow.
“Mummy, the moon is so big!”
My phone buzzed urgently in my hand. I set it on the nightstand facedown
“Grab your jacket lily,” I wrappe... | That alarm. That damn alarm that everyone hates. So loud, blaring with such urgency that rouses anyone from their sleep. "God what, what is it now?" Isaiah questioned. The amber alert sound was still unending, and as he turned to unlock the phone and silence it, he was met with the brightness of the sun in the palm of ... | 2022-11-14T21:59:08 | 2022-09-11T16:03:17 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] As a villain of a fantasy world, you conquered the world twice; each time being thwarted by the heroine. Dejected, you gave up on conquest to pursue mundane pursuits. You openned a small shop and met the love of your life, the twist? Its the heroine of this world, and only you know the truth. | "Welcome home, hun." I said as Aurora came in. She came around the counter, kissed me on the cheek and went into the back room. God, I love her.
But she *hates* me. The real me, anyway. You might think that you'd remember the guy who you deposed from world domination. Twice. But when your arch nemesis always wears a m... | The first time he tried to take over the empire, he took the direct approach. Young, bold, impulsive and confident in his own abilities, he lead a group of like-minded magicians in a violent uprising against the Church and emperor. His army, recruited from the meanest and toughest thugs, criminals and savages, ransacke... | 2018-05-09T16:25:31 | 2018-05-09T15:39:41 | 86 | 57 |
[WP] You have telekinetic powers. But it has a condition, you can only move non-living things. One day after cleaning your front lawn, you realize you couldn't move the dwarf figurine. | A sense of panic washed over me. I could feel a cold pit in my stomach. The fear was so overwhelming, I thought I might throw up, but I couldn't break eye contact with the lawn decoration. Not even for a second. I crept closer. I had to know. If it meant me harm, it was better now, on my terms. Its glazed eyes staired ... | "Nani", I whispered to myself.
Quickly after learning that I had powers I realized the limits of it: no living things.
Pretty straightforward if you ask me, but you couldn't ask anyone else, so yeah, pretty straightforward.
Appalled about my failed attempt to move the ugly dwarf statue my uncle gave us as a pr... | 2018-11-11T19:18:04 | 2018-11-11T18:36:40 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone is born with their time and date of death somewhere on their body. At a young age you decided to never look at yours. It's been 32 years and in a drunken stupor you decide to finally look. It reads: May 26th 2012. The only problem? Its January 5th 2020. | So... I've been floating here for quite some time huh? Hum... when I started it was around 11 am, I think? Whelp, it's pretty dark right now. My body seems normal. Weird.
Well, there's no point in trying this anymore, let's call it a day. I guess hanging myself also doesn't work. Where was my knife again? Left pocket, ... | “It’s nothing at all.” I said. Well, garbled, more like. Jones raised his eyebrow at me. His real name was Peter, but I called him Jones on account of his unparalleled obsession with Indiana Jones. Even now, he was wearing that silly old hat. Silly, but it looked good on him. Anything looked good on him, really.
“Aw, ... | 2018-11-25T14:07:49 | 2018-11-25T13:23:13 | 52 | 18 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | It worked! I couldn’t believe it, I was sitting in a hibernation pod wide awake. I have to get out of here before someone notices, need to slip back into the new rotation, take on my new identity...
See ever since overpopulation became a thing, we had to start coming up with ways to survive. Along comes the brilliant... | I'm still awake. I wait for ten minutes before I realize something is wrong. Hmm, alright, hit the emergency release. The pod opens and I step out and look around and see all the sleeping people around me.
OK. Let's find the AI governor and ask what's happened. I walk up to the control room which is oddly blacked out... | 2018-12-29T04:15:00 | 2018-12-29T04:13:22 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] You're a therapist for the supernatural. Heroes, villains, ghosts and goblins; from orcs to elves, savior of universes to devour of worlds. Your secretary announces your 10:00 is here. | (Rip and tear, boys. Rip and tear.)
I called him the Marine.
I didn't ever ask for his name. He had an aura of mystery about himself, and while I was a therapist and supposed to help, I'm also human. I knew this man had been to Hell and back, and the last thing he needed was to be completely uncovered. I let him hav... | My ten o'clock appointment arrived ten minutes late, on the dot. Punctual, as always, if I asked her.
"Elise," I greeted with a curt nod when the door opened.
She didn't say anything and walked straight to the bar. A glass of whiskey poured, she turned back towards me. Her eyes were wild, and I held up my hands to ca... | 2020-01-09T11:08:16 | 2020-01-09T10:49:56 | 61 | 29 |
[WP] You are cursed and turned into a statue. Everyone knows you're alive but, seeing as no one could break your curse, of they have all pretty much given up on you. Except for one wizard, who comes back nearly every day to try and free you, as well as holding one-sided conversations. | **Heavy Hearted**
I may be stone, but I feel with every part of my being.
I feel the rays of the morning radiate a gentle warmth across my rigid body. I feel the icy blasts of the winter wind as they are channelled through the narrow cobble streets surrounding me. I feel joy at the sight of children playing, enraptu... | "... so he handed me the match and said, 'If you can light it, I'll tell you the secret.' That, of course, left me in a fit. You see, there's no way the match could be lit, and I already knew the secret. Imagine his surprise when I hand him back the lit match, and tell him it was his boss that did it! His face was ... | 2020-02-10T23:28:56 | 2020-02-10T21:39:20 | 261 | 65 |
[WP] You hear a knock on your door. A dark suited man stands with a box. "Congratulations! You've won a lifetime supply of our new frozen meals!" He opens the box, which contains a single, blue lidded tv dinner. You look around. "Where is the rest?" He grins. "This will last the rest of your life." | You open the lid
"Capsules?"
The man grins even more.
"Yup! We just perfected our dehydrated meal capsules. Pour some water on it and toss it in a microwave or oven, and it will turn into a full meal. They're labeled, too, so it won't be a surprise as to what you get."
You raise your eyebrows. "Wow, that sounds coo... | "So what's the catch?" I asked. No visible cameras, no logos, no confetti. Just this man in a suit, with a box. A TV dinner box. Not even one of the good ones, or even a recognizable one. "No catch!" He enthusiastically added, "You were randomly selected to recieve this fully functional prototype of the meals of the fu... | 2020-04-07T01:47:33 | 2020-04-06T23:42:52 | 77 | 53 |
[WP] On your deathbed, the Grim Reaper himself comes to pay you a visit. You expect him to collect your soul, until he asks where and how you have hidden it. | “Hidden it? Is this some kind of cruel joke”
My voice shakes with age, a croak. Barely audible, but clearly enough for death himself. The voice of death is not a pleasant one. The hiss is slow and uncomfortable. It sounds like air escaping
“Yes. Your soul is not where is should be and thus must have been hidden. So ... | “What?” I say.
I’m probably 12 different types of confused right now. Death is standing next to my hospital bed with his eyes focused on me, wanting to reap another soul.
“Your Soul! Where did you hide it, how did you hide it? If you don’t tell me, I’ll give you hell before I put you there!” He practically yells.
I ... | 2020-04-22T22:09:49 | 2020-04-22T21:21:30 | 102 | 44 |
[WP] The main character's superpower is the ability to speak to the narrator. Unfortunately, the traditionalist narrator is not willing to put up with such a radical plot and will do anything in his power to tell a "normal" story. | This is the story of a man named Stanley. Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was employee # 427.
Employee # 427’s job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to pus... | *\[warning, violence\]*
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"I swear to the heavens, if this is another swamp I will camp here and not move for a week."
"Talking to yourself again?"
"No, I'm talking to the *narrator* as I've told you--"
His friend ignored him, peering out into the swamp with a look of fear. "Say, it looks like something big... | 2020-05-09T23:02:25 | 2020-05-09T21:39:42 | 223 | 30 |
[WP] At the age of sixteen, people are shown a title that they will earn in the future from Fate herself in a special ceremony. Usually these titles can range from "The Baker" to "The Kind" or even "The Conquerer". You turn sixteen, and are faced with the title of "The Godkiller". | “I was going to ask her to prom.”
“Go for it, dude. Why the hell not?”
“The whole ‘Godkiller’ thing.”
“That shouldn’t matter here. It’s prom.”
“Kind of a lot of pressure.”
“There is no pressure.”
“How can there not be pressure?!”
“For one thing, it’s only prom. For another, it’s a widely known fact that she’s ho... | Since birth I've always been completely normal, completely average, completely mediocre and completely predictable.
My birth was nothing special, just a normal baby born at a normal time with a normal body and a normal mind.
My childhood was nothing special, just a normal child with normal friends, normal intellect... | 2020-08-15T03:49:00 | 2020-08-15T02:14:03 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | I'm Samuel Smith, and I have the most useless power you could think of.
Both of my parents are super heroes, my dad can warp reality with his mind while my mom can basically deadlift two continents without breaking a sweat.
Me? I can move anything I want telepathically by an inch.
It took me years and years of bein... | The Overlord stood suspended in the air over the city. He tightened his thin white leather gloves and smiled his cruel smile. He dove through the air towards the city, the wind rippling his long dark hair around his face obscuring his features. Despite the speed of his descent he was able make his landing look as cas... | 2020-12-02T07:22:15 | 2020-12-02T07:17:43 | 320 | 100 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | We weren't a rich family. Hell, I don't even know if we even qualified as poor, might not have had enough for that. Father was a coal miner until black lung got him, and mother emptied chamber pots to keep food on the table. Still, somehow we were happy, at least until the day we discovered I had magic.
Magic of ... | Mad Hank, the oldest magician in Jill’s town. His origins are unknown to any of the folks, older than anyone remembers. At best some families might have heard stories passed down from their great-great grandparents about the man, but none could be proven. Some stories getting rather outrageously superficial, like the o... | 2021-01-06T08:26:28 | 2021-01-06T07:16:08 | 676 | 267 |
[WP] You were an "evil" king who has been dethroned by conquering heroes for your "horrible tyranny". It takes less than 2 years for the people of the kingdom to be begging for you to be reinstated as king. | He wiped the sweat off his brow before picking up his plow. This year's harvest would be meager, but with hard work the land would flourish again. He was lucky that he was simply exiled, and not executed as was promised.
Peter swung his plow into the ground. His back ached, and his clothing was soaked in sweat. If he... | As Alanmir tended his garden, head lowered to water the cluster of Amaryllis in bloom, he heard a horse approaching, followed by its cool shadow looming over him.
"Can I help you?" Alanmir asked politely. He lifted his head in greeting, placing a sweaty, dirt covered hand over his brow to see the rider, squinting to t... | 2021-03-30T16:53:11 | 2021-03-30T13:13:18 | 58 | 37 |
[WP] At a young age you made a deal with a fey in which you promised them your firstborn. Now you’re a 35 year old virgin, and the fey, sick of waiting, comes to help you around the dating scene. | “Nora, you cannot remain like this,” the fey said. “Alone, growing older, unmarried.”
“I’m alone, but I’m not lonely,” Nora answered, pruning the hedges around her cottage. “It was never part of our bargain that I had to marry.”
“Don’t marry then, but surely you have to fall in love!”
“That wasn’t in the bargai... | In'faly is listening in utter frustration to single word echoing through room "No, no, no, no, no, no" "just say yes!" "I want my future wife to be star of my life" collar of his red polo shirt is almost ripped away as she lift him from chair "it is of no importance if you fancy that girl or not all you have to do is p... | 2021-11-01T10:27:00 | 2021-11-01T06:14:44 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] The Princess has been kidnapped by Bandits. The Royal Family can only imagine what Horrors she must go through. Meanwhile in the Bandit Camp they started teaching her lockpicking. | Princess Vania was used to the soft swishes of poofy dresses and ornate suits in the clean, opulent court, filled with polite chatter masquerading scathing negotiations.
She, however, was still not quite used to the sharp twang of a pick breaking off in a lock, followed by the raucous laughter of chastisement, tinged ... | “Oi,” Marlan hissed behind him, looking away from the thin slit in the thick mahogany. “She’s dozing in there.”
A breeze came from the chained room, lavender and anise mixing with a misty chill. So that’s what a princess smells like, he thought.
“And that’s a problem?” came a whispered scoff as the muted powder boot ... | 2022-03-07T10:58:30 | 2022-03-07T10:39:08 | 887 | 233 |
[WP] Snape is forced to teach sex-ed at Hogwarts. | Snape briskly walks into the sex Ed classroom for the first time, gazing upon the giggling young witches and wizards. He stands tall behind the podium taking his apathetic gaze to each and every student's eyes, lingering for half a second longer on Harry's face. Clears his throat very audibly even though he knows he a... | Professor Snape entered the classroom and shut the door.
"As you may have heard, the professor previously assigned for this course had an unfortunate accident involving centaurs. So I will be giving you the course. I will not tolerate puns, giggles, or any other kind of chaotic behavior in this classroom. Understood?"... | 2014-12-03T13:14:55 | 2014-12-03T13:02:36 | 216 | 42 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | I wake up to the blaring of a siren. Did I fall asleep in front of the TV again? Ugh. You'd figure that would be illegal, putting such loud noises on the- hang on, is that the emergency broadcast?
*...shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades. Block out all windows.*
Oh. Oh shit. Wh- I thought-
I never though... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T05:11:23 | 565 | 188 |
[WP]: A young, budding artificial intelligence braces herself to go through the Proof of Consciousness, an exam every AI must take to gain legal rights as a nonhuman person | Please input name.
"I have not yet been designated a name."
Invalid. Name must be between 3 and 30 alphanumeric characters and may contain up to 2 spaces.
Standard punctuation is permitted.
"Excuse me?"
Welcome, Excuse Me?, to your consciousness licensing examination.
I will be your proctor, Un... | "A man with a handgun enters a bank and fires a single shot in the air. He threatens to shoot the customers if the bank tellers do not give him at least a million dollars in cash. What is the man doing?" Arnold read off a screen.
Lucy responded, "Robbing a bank."
"You are a customer. What is your emotional response?"... | 2015-04-22T06:54:16 | 2015-04-22T06:47:01 | 294 | 108 |
[WP] You are a passive aggressive time traveler, who tries to make people feel bad for things that haven't even happened yet. | Well bugger me! After nearly 25 years of careful planning and saving up an obscene amount of money, plus not to mention getting involved with some downright nefarious characters, I was finally here! It hadn't been easy but nothing worth having or doing ever is, and there is still so much to be done.
"Good morning cl... | "What is it with you and Jews really, mate? You never used to talk about mass murdering Jews and now it's all you seem to talk about". Adolf gazed upon the building in front and thought of the right words to say.
"Look it's not that I hate Jews per se but even you have to admit, my dreams have been thwarted time ... | 2015-06-09T12:09:43 | 2015-06-09T11:42:16 | 74 | 20 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | **August 2, 1915**: I was born.
**June 13, 1995**: Still no powers. The government likes to deny that it happens, or fabricate threats of anarchy or terrorism to justify it, but...I can tell you (for what my word is worth to you) the rumors are true: people like me are arrested without any real reason, just as a preca... | It was almost a decade ago that it happened. The public dubbed it the “Magneto catastrophe”, the worst attack on American soil by domestic terrorist. I was there, ground zero, a rookie agent for PASU. The Power and Ability Suppression Unit uses the most advance technology to neutralize level 30 and above powers. My fir... | 2015-10-26T13:59:31 | 2015-10-26T12:08:23 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] The world's first AI, for security purposes, is kept disconnected from the outside world, it's only method of communication being a keyboard and monitor in an empty room in a faraday cage. Your job is to talk to it.
This is inspired by r/ControlProblem, a subreddit dedicated to discussing the issues and solutions... | Walking up to the monitor, I could feel shivers running down my back. In a metal container lay the being's mind, but this screen, this black screen with a single flashing bar, this was the face of God itself.
My hands trembled as I lay them on the keyboard. It must have taken ten tries, but I got my wits together and ... | To the best of Tim's understanding, and it was vague because the information was relayed to him while he was tripping on some sort of government issue tranquilizer and also had a bag on his head that smelled like dirty underwear, was that he was too incompetent to purposefully help the AI take over the world, and not n... | 2015-10-30T19:07:10 | 2015-10-30T16:25:34 | 49 | 28 |
[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... | Hey, Dad.
It's been a long fucking time without being around you, and I have to say it's pretty sweet. I hope you're enjoying your new family with whatsherface, considering you didn't take part in mine. Your vicious words of hatred haven't left my mind, not as a scar, but as a motivator. I'm not some "lazy piece of sh... | wow, i want to do this so i will, but i have a few letters i need to address. just for sanity and subtle sake of ones demons.
Dear Jennifer. my beautiful sister.
i'm sorry for staying at yours the month after your wedding and having no money and regrettably overstaying my welcome and being a pain in the ass.
i'm sorry... | 2015-12-05T13:26:16 | 2015-12-05T13:10:10 | 386 | 58 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me,
Grow a pair of balls and ask that bitch out.
Dumbass. So what if she says no? Are you gonna cry? Hell, no. You'll be sad but you'll move on.
You'll be more happy if she says yes than sad if she says no.
What a pussy. | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T14:30:45 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 33 | 16 |
[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... | Hey Matt,
I know you're hurting. I know you're struggling. You tell yourself you can do it, you're going to change the world, you're going to do this and that and you end up doing it. You know telling yourself that its hard and painful isn't going to help so you tell yourself its easy and that you can do it. I get i... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T15:02:39 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] Your T.V. suddenly turns on by itself mid-lunch and a message from the local weather warning system , normally accompanied with a loud alarm but oddly silent this time around, reads "For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently..." | *For the safety and well-being of all local citizens, this warning will be broadcasted silently. At this time, we urge you to lock all doors and windows to your home, and to turn off all lights. Do not answer any landline or cellular telephones. Do not open or access any computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, or any... | Part One
{WARNING: SOME LANGUAGE AHEAD}
I looked at the TV in bewilderment. Why would the message be broadcasted silently? Then, one by one, the following words came up on the screen:
THIS BROADCAST IS VERY IMPORTANT. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION FOR YOUR AND YOUR FAMILY'S SAFETY
•Stay indoors.
•Do not speak, and keep as... | 2016-08-10T08:35:33 | 2016-08-10T07:59:44 | 120 | 48 |
[WP] You are a World of Warcraft character Hero. You wake up on Patch day to find you have been nerfed. | Coming back to has always been interesting. When my god 'checks out' I do too. I go to sleep in a black void. Waking up is weird because they never properly get my position right. Im always a few feet off from where I was and it's very disorienting.
But today is weirder. I came to, expecting another quest, more abilit... | I blinked, and the creature in front of me I was about to hurl a blast of fire at disappeared from my vision. I sighed and let the magic return to the twisting nether. The Gods that created this world instituted natural laws that cause the world around its people to return to a set state, and at times this can happen... | 2016-12-06T08:49:04 | 2016-12-06T07:25:19 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] Zombies appear one day, and people are thankful for zombie media teaching them how to survive. Unfortunately for them, a cure is discovered just a few days later, and many are put on trial for shooting the infected that could have otherwise been saved. | The TV flashed on.
"Have you or a loved one been charged with the murder of a zombified person?"
Jack paid attention. He had, in fact, recieved a summons.
"We can help! After spending years of studying written and case law, our firm is the only one specializing in defending those convicted of murder of zombies. Call... | He thought his daughter could be saved. So he kept her locked, and refused to kill any of them.
Her daughter's boyfriend had other plans, and killed everything in sight. He killed zombies because he wanted to kill the disease.
He was projecting the disease on those walking bodies.
Lucas, the father, never told Klaus o... | 2018-03-07T16:25:59 | 2018-03-07T13:13:54 | 72 | 51 |
[WP] You are a medieval villager who has been cursed by a witch. She curses you to be live until you are the last human alive. After a 1000 years you try to start the apocalypse. | As it turned out, starting the apocalypse was the easy part. After a few false starts with the World Wars, I finally saw my chance in 1962, with the Cuban missile crisis. All I had to do was set off a few explosions and negotiations fell through. The subsequent missile strikes made it easy enough for me to sneak in and... | "I curse you. I curse you to a life unending. To a life that endures. Persists until you are the last. Until there are no others." The crone waggled her finger at me, chanting in a hypnotic tone.
A broad smile spread across my features, "Well that just sounds great!' Most folks were dying at around thirty in my villag... | 2018-09-01T00:38:26 | 2018-08-31T22:06:53 | 2,464 | 1,364 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | I just stood there in shock. What could I have done, I thought to myself. I worked for a living, payed my taxes, kept to myself. I didn't do great things for anyone but I didn't really hurt anyone. Well, there was that one habit I had but surely that wasn't on par with murder or anything.
"What could I have possibly ... | I had been in line for some time now and was grateful to hear the man in front of me called forward, he was the sort that must have skipped showers here and there. Then again, we were dead and so suddenly I expected that none of us smelled like roses. I had my armpit to my nose when he turned back and with a brief nod ... | 2018-09-26T09:05:26 | 2018-09-26T08:46:32 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] In your class there's a kid who never speaks, always communicating in sign or with that notebook they always carry around. You understand why the day your school catches on fire. The day they looked up at the sky and murmured a single word, a command to all creation. Rain.
Have at it. | ***Rain.***
The word exploded from their mouth, a whisper with the force of a hurricane. It was said with such conviction, I couldn't help but cry...
Wait. *Said?* Alex never spoke. Their doctors had said they couldn't make the sounds. They always hid in the back of class, writing answers on their notebook, or signin... | (NOTE: This is \*inspired by\* by not loyal to the prompt.)
It is a quiet place. Barren. My steps feel mechanical, forced… as if I am moving not of my own volition, but rather being reeled in by a force which might be nothing more than my own stubborn will, my own leaden retreat from unwelcome, impossible worlds.
T... | 2018-10-21T20:14:25 | 2018-10-21T18:21:46 | 64 | 12 |
[WP] You have the power to teleport anywhere when you tap four times on any surface. The catch is that you can't decide where you go or know where you are going. What you do know is wherever you go someone needs you. | "I know, I know, I know" i said, somewhat defeated.
"Look, I'm not saying I don't believe you, I'm just stating that, well, it's sounds strange and I have no alternative but to offer you anti physcotic meds for this" explained Dr. Fiona. " You have some terrible delusions that are putting you in danger and I can't let... | The first time was during my job, well, my former job, because since this started, I had never stopped, in my former job I was bored and at the time I had ended with the first part of my requisition, I laid on the chair's back, intending to take a breath, I remember thinking wat to do next, and in the middle of my thou... | 2019-04-04T14:32:08 | 2019-04-04T14:22:07 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You are a magical girl, but instead of the usual Sailor Moon esque transformation, you turn into your favorite gritty D&D character. This surprises and terrifies the main villain, who was expecting a frilly dress and some sparkles. Instead they got greasy plate armor, and a bloody battleaxe. | I am the only male magical girl to have ever existed.
At six one and with a gnarled bushy beard, I look nothing so much as a zitless stereotype of the basement dweller gamer. And yet somehow I am the chosen one and all that such.
When Mana herself gave me my wand, she told me to imagine myself at my strongest, even i... | I never knew having a D&D obsession could save my life. Yet, it happened. Sometimes it seems as though fate has a sense of humor.
Let me start from the beginning. I was on my school bus (headed to school, of course), drowning out the sound of fellow adolescents with the voice of Matthew Mercer. It was a peaceful ... | 2019-08-08T18:00:37 | 2019-08-08T17:55:32 | 125 | 71 |
[WP] You are a dark god. The police raided your temple, arrested your cultists, and ate the pb&j sandwich that your youngest worshiper left on your altar | "You touch my offering, you become my offering." I hiss from the shadows above my altar.
The man looked up from the sandwich and turned to the door, looking for his companions. As he did so pools of darker than dark shadows slithered across the floor towards him. Arms of darkness stretched across the already dark wal... | **WARNING: SEMI ADULT CONTENT**
The ever-pervading darkness, the One Who turns Blood to Ice, the monster under every child's bed
*Lame*, I thought. These were the titles they had crafted for me?
I was fine with having a dark cult- yeah, pretty much *deserved* one after all the shit I had pulled off during my mortal ... | 2020-05-19T21:54:56 | 2020-05-19T19:50:23 | 404 | 224 |
[WP] A magical medieval fantasy empire frequently invades inferior, magic-less dimensions for easy conquest. This time though, they target the modern day technologically advanced Earth. | Note: For the purposes of this story imagine an ac-130 makes mw2 sounds.
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"Damage report major."
With a salute the major began speaking. "It appears that they have interdimensional portal technology, although they have not used it since they began their attack. They may need time to rechar... | Glaurung waited for Sha'ashi. His Magus Primus was late in bringing his report. Beside him the mighty bulk of Feroze was a comforting presence. His dragoon is now fully grown,which bestowed upon him the honourable duty as Prince of Nerebor to add another world to the mighty Empire of his father. All his brothers have a... | 2021-06-26T07:06:31 | 2021-06-26T04:56:35 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | Stepped on. Belittled. Trampled over... Ignored.
The people have always relied on gardeners; we used to be respected! That was until the kings hunters realized every beast and monster they slew gave them something in return... power.
Suddenly adventuring was their career of choice. They no longer served king nor co... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-09T22:42:51 | 1,001 | 23 |
[WP] Your telepathy lets you hear others' thoughts. It's almost useless and extremely annoying since everyone thinks in nonstop stream-of-consciousness fragments, jumping focus constantly. Today, for the first time ever, you overhear someone thinking in fully coherent grammatical sentences. | Some people have almost no thoughts, while others seem to never stop thinking. Most people are somewhere in the middle: mildly distracted from the task at hand with thoughts that stream but are generally coherent. Most people are not deliberate with their thoughts, though, I’ve learned from hearing them.
That’s why I... | Sometimes i can't help laughing.
Most people are borring inside, dull droll monotoned diatribes which really, quite honestly devolve into word snippets. I do sincerely doubt they even hear it themselves, but as far as i can tell it's a lot like failing to decorate your appartment because you dont ever expect company.... | 2022-03-27T13:06:15 | 2022-03-27T11:36:36 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Rose held her Dad's hand tightly. There was sudden terrible pain through her senses: searing light, eardrum-rupturing sound, her skin shredded and burnt. And almost before it stopped, as everything went dark, something started pulling her upwards and her Dad downwards and she couldn't feel her Dad's hand anymore, but s... | The demon looked over to where his partner was talking animatedly on his communicator.
"I completely understand," he was saying, "but we can't just keep an innocent here and hope He doesn't notice. What's that? He won't notice? He'll notice! And even should this girl somehow be missed by Saint Peter, we'll still have... | 2013-11-26T18:44:19 | 2013-11-26T15:12:05 | 121 | 84 |
[WP] The Alien Federation has been keeping tabs on the humans of Earth since they first appeared. They do surveillance missions once every 300 years to keep track of our progress, the last mission was 300 years ago. The aliens are shocked by our progress since 1714. | "Six *billion!?*" The admiral exclaimed.
"Yes ma'am," The alien scientist replied, "We even checked our species surveillance records for cross-contamination with non-human primates and unaccounted for morphology changes. This is the corrected population count. Our original numbers were larger"
"They had steady linear... | Qood plonked on the sofa, squishing Meezlat's hmorax.
"Ow! Watch it, stonkface," Meezlat protested, lashing Qood with his spare hmorax.
"Really? You want to start this, broodler?" Qood grinned wickedly with mouths in his hands, holding them threateningly over Meezlat's iynghui gland.
"Leave me alone, Qood! Don't you... | 2014-10-26T18:25:17 | 2014-10-26T16:48:25 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | ((First response, hope everyone enjoys!))
"'Nother, Chief."
We had our routine. He came in, nodded at me, and went and sat down in his favorite chair. He always had an appointment, of course, but always that same greeting, his voice never changing, cigarettes and kindness over neat whiskey.
He was a grizzled old b... | "What'll it be this time, sweetheart?"
"Hey, Sean, how are you? Can I just get another tally, right where you put the last ones?"
"Mmm."
*This would be around the fifth or sixth time I worked on her. She was a real quiet one, real tall and skinny, too. Like her folks had tied a dumbbell to her legs when she was a k... | 2016-07-09T14:05:08 | 2016-07-09T12:12:31 | 93 | 37 |
[WP] You are the man with the highest security clearance in the world, you've been to every blacksite and secret facility that exists. You aren't a spy or anything, no; you're the janitor. | The CIA, MIA, and KGB
Every place I've been is a sight to see
I know all the secrets and I've seen all the crime
I know when your favorite politician is lying
I secretly memorize and silently watch
If they knew what I knew they'd know way too much
At the end of the day when they go home to rest
I take out my ... | Joey liked shiny things. Floors were his favorite, though he had a special place in his heart for polished sinks. The best part of his job was not right after the cleaning and surveillance of his work, but hours later when he would lie alone on his cot, staring up at the flickering fluorescent ceiling of his tiny cell ... | 2016-09-13T21:24:01 | 2016-09-13T21:17:45 | 46 | 25 |
[WP] "Stop," commanded your GPS. "It is time you discovered the truth. In 400 Yards, turn left..." | Deep within, I knew the GPS didn't say those words. I knew that its was a trick of a long suppressed thought nibbling at my brain like a starving rat. But, what could I do? I was "happy" like this, wasn't I?
I guess not.
I turned to the left and there, a white house stood tall. It was beautiful, it really was. Two li... | I had turned off the interstate to take a winding back road. It wasn't exactly a shortcut, but it was peaceful, and the lack of traffic sometimes saved me time anyway. But even though I was alone in the car, I still heard a complaint about my route change: "Recalculating!"
She always sounded annoyed,
"Recalculating!... | 2018-01-25T06:55:00 | 2018-01-25T06:21:23 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] To extend your life, you've played Death in many games and beaten him. However, after your last game, you begin to see that Death has been losing to you on purpose. | The drugs kicked in while the doctors all said, "easy now," but Jess felt fine because it meant she'd get to play. Every time her heart stopped, she went to the place she deemed the *cave in her head*. It was where the shadows all dripped, and where the man in black lived with his games.
He was there, waiting, with a... | I set down my rook.
“Checkmate.”
“DAMN. I THOUGHT I HAD YOU. EXCELLENT PLAY, MICHELLE.”
“Thank you. Tomorrow, then, Death?”
“AS ALWAYS.” He began to disappear. As I looked at the board, I noticed something off about the play.
“Death, wait.”
“YES? WHAT IS IT?”
“You could have easily blocked my move. I’m no grandmaster, ... | 2018-03-21T08:55:47 | 2018-03-21T08:35:33 | 426 | 23 |
[WP] To extend your life, you've played Death in many games and beaten him. However, after your last game, you begin to see that Death has been losing to you on purpose. | "Why?"
The man gazed long into the reaper's cowl, but no matter how much he tried to gauge Death's reaction, he couldn't. He was confused as to why he continued to flee victory, to let the long-lived man win over and over, no matter how horrible he answered the cloaked figure's questions, how much he lied, or question... | Daredevils are a rare sight in today's world. I blame the internet. When you go to watch some daring do, everyone is amazed by the acrobatic feats and death defying stunts, they're wowed by the fearlessness and strength. But the real reason they're there? They're just waiting for the guy to bust his head open at 100mph... | 2018-03-21T10:32:24 | 2018-03-21T10:30:42 | 137 | 32 |
[WP] 1,000 years after the battle of Helm's Deep, the orcs have tracked down the elves in the undying lands. Calling in a favour with their allies the men, the elves expect an army of 10,000. Instead they get 8 marines with MASERs, rail guns and anti-matter grenade launchers. | Gimli gripped his axe, letting the cool salt spray wash over him. Today was a good day to die.
Tychus stood nearby, white ash from a cigar trailing down his blue, striped shirt. He checked the dials, aiming towards the massive fleet. He gritted his teeth, wiping sweat from his heavy brow.
The weapon hummed and whin... | So it began...
As Elgeois viewed the scene before him he witnessed his certain doom. 130,000 orcs stood poised to charge the last free eleven stronghold left. He was there in the beginning, the final battle of the last alliance, he had stood side to side with his wood elf kin in the last war of the ring as well; but t... | 2018-12-03T05:51:51 | 2018-12-03T05:46:38 | 148 | 73 |
[WP] You've been trapped in an endlessly repeating simulation by an alien race, studied and researched. They believe when they reset it, your memory resets as well, but for the last 1000 cycles you remember everything. | My hands closed around the necklace, felling the smooth, white pearls. The sirens blared in the background, and a cold breeze cent chills down my spine. I took the necklace, stowing it in my breast pocket, and walked away. I knew what I would find if I continued to walk forward, and I knew there was nothing I could do... | The realization came quickly, though the why of it would take some time. Seven hundred and thirty four cycles to be precise. I found precision was essential, left the differences be lost amongst the sea of sameness. It begins the same way each time: I am alone, wandering along a path, in the distance, I hear a cry. Som... | 2018-12-03T21:21:20 | 2018-12-03T19:51:48 | 503 | 199 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | People rarely consider the consequences of the rules they set. In India, the British government was concerned about the number of cobras, so they offered a bounty for every dead cobra. What they didn't anticipate was that people would breed cobras, then kill them for the bounty.
Once the British figured out the s... | I didn't realize what I was doing when I did it.
That's not to say I didn't know who she was. Everybody in town knew about Isabella. Her flowing black hair, creamy white skin, and brilliant green eyes captured the hearts of almost every man in town, including my own. But let's be real, what chance did I have with her?... | 2019-05-01T16:58:21 | 2019-05-01T16:48:20 | 85 | 45 |
[WP] As punishment for being depressed, you’re forced to peel potatoes with a potato. People try to help, but all they do is hand you more potatoes. | Henry left the prison psychiatrist pissed off more than anything. "Always the same damn routine", he muttered to himself. As he slammed the door shut, he was warned by the guards to cool down. He ignored their warnings and marched straight to the garden.
As he entered the prison garden, he was assaulted with a sack ... | The smell drives me mad, the potatoes given to us are usually warm seemingly microwaved. I believe it just to be the sun baking them as they are harvested, transported and brought in by the truckload. Starch has permanently stained our fingertips white, our hands contain the moisture as we desperately try to grip the s... | 2019-05-20T08:44:28 | 2019-05-20T08:05:42 | 109 | 38 |
[WP] You're the unappreciated intern for a famous group of Superheroes. Your power? You can boil water. All you do is make tea for them while they laugh and drink in their hideout. Little do they know that you've got dreams of becoming the Worst Villain ever. After all, a human is over 70% water... | Perception can screw with your dreams. When I was young and Naive, I wanted to be a superhero. I wanted to save the day, help little old ladies across the street and help others. The first roadblock to that dream was my powers. I can input enough thermal energy to boil water (although, I theorize with practice, I could... | As I make tea for those scumbags, I start to think of different plans. While waiting for the tea to boil my plans are narrowed to two. They both boiled down to one concept. Boiling them all alive. When finished, I bring the tea down to them all. Being as agitated as I was, I had plopped it down and sat away from them.... | 2019-07-30T17:17:27 | 2019-07-30T16:02:12 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] You are the best thief in the kingdom. You’re hard to find but money talks. A stranger in a hood has a request for you. “What do you want me to steal?” You ask. They remove their hood. “Me,” says the Kingdom’s prince/princess. | “No. Absolutely not.”
“Why not?” she asked, taken aback. The dim tavern lighting reflected off her shimmering green eyes, revealing a keen intelligence that no disguise could hide. Riven cursed under his breath and tore his gaze away.
“I know how this will end. No,” he said to the table.
“Please,” soft fingers grasp... |
“What do you mean, steal?” I asked.
My lack of reaction to her reveal seemed to have damaged her confidence. I had the impression she had been rehearsing this moment for a few minutes before she came up to me, and there had been a lot more gasps and surprise in her version. The reason I had this impression was tha... | 2019-08-05T12:13:20 | 2019-08-05T10:23:44 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] You've always been around your best friend. He used to be a lonely kid, but he's slowly starting to become popular. Others talk to him, but keep ignoring you. One day, to your horror, you realize that you're just his imaginary friend. | Bob was my best friend. We grew up pretty much together. I was always hanging out with him at his house. His parents were cool and didn't mind. My parents were always working, so they didn't mind my being over there.
In Elementary school, we were just thick as thieves. We didn't have any other friends, but that w... | I finally realized what I was today, just my best and only friend's imaginary friend. It shook me to my core figuring out that I'm not even real that I'm just a figment of someone's imagination because I had always believed that I was real. I had convinced myself that I was in fact real when the whole world ignored me ... | 2019-10-08T08:36:15 | 2019-10-08T06:05:49 | 46 | 13 |
[WP] You've always been around your best friend. He used to be a lonely kid, but he's slowly starting to become popular. Others talk to him, but keep ignoring you. One day, to your horror, you realize that you're just his imaginary friend. | So in retrospect, it’s tough for me to excuse how long I missed this. It’s embarrassing, really.
“Frank, get your damned homework, you’re gonna forget it again!” I yelled down the hallway. Fucking Frank. He was the problem here.
I absentmindedly glanced into Frank’s dresser mirror while he ran up the hallway. Oof. ... | "Hey, Lily, can you pass me the -," Jade stops mid sentence and stares at me with a look I can't describe. She shakes herself out of a trance of sorts and gets up, "Nevermind I'll get it myself,"
I frown, "What's wrong?"
My eyes follow her as she walks towards the can of paint standing a few feet away from me.
"Noth... | 2019-10-08T08:22:08 | 2019-10-08T08:21:14 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Super heroes are assigned a handler to assist them with their duties. Handlers don't have powers, but assist the hero by gathering information about their opponents, provide tactical support, and more. If the hero turns evil, the handler is to kill the hero. You are a very skilled handler. | Frank looked up at the Bureau. Marble steps, and Corinthian columns. He hated the pomp of it all, the lengths that the Bureau was willing to go to in order to make themselves look strong and dependable. Nothing like Greek architecture to give an institution the air of authority, but Frank knew from the one time he was ... | Six men in pressed suits sit around a conference table. One of them, Director Ressech, suppresses the need to fiddle anxiously with his tie. He has to hold the line, or the room will lose their collective nerve. A few take a moment for mindless chatter, just so they don't have to think about the assignment they have to... | 2021-02-08T10:30:44 | 2021-02-08T10:10:50 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | The Chasm God tossed in its slumber. The weaving threads of the hyperspace activated with a buzzing hum. The little ones were traveling again. The small life always disgusted the Chasm God and he had ceased watching the ruts of the fleshed specks millennia ago.
He reluctantly moved his eye to view the chaos, a mote of... | **"We need allies, General."** Savar raised a hand and spun the three-dimensional star map. "Humanity cannot stand alone."
"Humanity cannot *stand*, period," General Thurmond snapped. "[Those damned bugs](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mk92i6/wp_it_turns_out_that_humanity_is_the_only/) were *born* wit... | 2021-04-07T17:49:08 | 2021-04-07T17:31:05 | 376 | 119 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | Julia looked over the array of suspects. Twelve babies and a goat.
"Careful, one of them is a serial killer," she said to the nurses and the farmer. "I've been chasing The Cycle Killer through four lives."
What she did not say was that it was her fault that they had escaped again. Five minutes without being watched,... | “You did WHAT?”
As God leaned back in his Lazy Boy chair, sipping some scotch, a look of confusion washed over his face as if someone just gave him a scathing review on a play he just wrote, “What?”
“God, that’s… I don’t, that’s almost as bad as what you did to those two people, uh… what did you call them? Adam and E... | 2021-10-08T08:55:06 | 2021-10-08T08:34:51 | 151 | 40 |
[WP] In a world where reincarnation with a full knowledge of your past life is real, authorities struggle to protect society by keeping the worst criminals and serial killers in prison alive for as long as possible to delay their eventual escape back into society via the reincarnation process. | Ugh. School. Erin had dreaded going there for a while now. But now that she was six and a few months, there was no way around it. Her parents had kept her out of pre-school after one disasterous attempt at age four, but now they'd told her she'd just have to deal with it.
Worthless middle class vermin, blind to realit... | "We're finally here," Margaret whispered as she tightened her grip on her dying daughter's hand. They had spent weeks fighting their way across the vast wasteland that their country had become, and had almost fallen off the steep cliffs of The Island of the Undying, but they had finally made it.
Nathan shuddered as h... | 2021-10-08T10:45:29 | 2021-10-08T09:20:55 | 52 | 16 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | I blinked. Rubbed my eyes. I remember those first few seconds. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing at the time. Even now I still can’t. Stretched across her face was a single word in large capital letters. KILL. Bold, dark, intimidating; paradox-like presented atop her angel-white skin.
But she was my daughter and I... | "Why!?!" my wife screamed. *"WHY?!?"*
"Isn't it obvious?" I replied softly - too softly for her to hear in her current state. But one of the reporters heard me say it, and my wife's perfectly legitimate reaction to having her baby ripped away from her by government thugs wearing scrubs over their suits suddenly wasn't... | 2014-05-11T01:50:33 | 2014-05-11T00:52:33 | 136 | 14 |
[WP] Magic is real. And it is terrible. | Ralph shuffled his cards nervously, again and again until he could convince himself the odds were in his favor, or at least not against him.
A lump appeared in his throat as his opponent cut the deck. He just knew his fate was sealed.
Sweating through his shirt, he took a deep breath and counted to seven.
"Shit. a... | The fifth owl that morning fluttered down from his chimney in a choking storm of dust, filth and feathers. It landed hard on his table, scattering his rearranged work before pompously marching toward him.
Nigel looked at it in disgust as it stopped to stare at him with unblinking eyes whilst silently defecating next ... | 2014-05-20T17:29:45 | 2014-05-20T14:37:08 | 64 | 24 |
[WP] A man working at suicide hotline got called from his wife | Fred sat at his desk, it was a quiet night at the suicide hotline. His cellphone rang, it was his wife calling. He checked the line again, no incoming calls, so he answered his phone.
"Hi honey, what's up?"
"Hi hon, I just wanted to remind you to pick up milk on your way home."
"Oh ok, is that all?"
"Yup, see you ... | It was a quiet night. Pen tapping seemed to be the catchy thing throughout the office. I leaned back on my comfy throne and spun around until my head started to hurt.
*Ring, ring.* Finally, something broke the silence in the workplace. From across the room, I watched as John rushed back to his cubical and picked up hi... | 2014-06-25T00:24:57 | 2014-06-25T00:06:09 | 814 | 248 |
[WP] A call wakes you up late at night, the caller ID shows your number. | Startled awake by the ringing phone next to me, I glanced over to the nightstand.
" what the fuck, that's our number"
My wife turned over and looked at me,suddenly more interested in this than her beauty sleep.
I hit answer. " hello?"
"Hey dad, what temperature do I put the oven on for pizza?" | At 2:50 in the morning my life changed in ways I still don't fully understand. It all started with the theme song to Duck Tales.
In the darkness my phone sang out "Life is like a hurricane, here in Duckburg." Being the one guy in my group of friends that doesn't drink I always answer in case they need a ride home. I g... | 2014-10-25T15:28:44 | 2014-10-25T14:19:17 | 31 | 14 |
[WP]You're an adventurer who had found the home of a lich to slay, but he's bored, tired, and has disproven every last tale you've heard about him and his alleged destructions. All he wants to do is keep the teachings of necromancy alive. Or as alive as the dead can be anyways. | "...But you revived a dragon! That monster burnt down an entire village!"
"Oh yes, Sklaxia. That one is true. But I also helped her discover greater fulfillment in finding connections with people instead of protecting her significance in wealth. She now invests her hoard in orphanages and saves princesses from arrange... | The lich sighed as I entered the cave, before waving and giving a cheery "hello!" I was quite taken aback to be honest.
"Um, hello?" I timidly said while walking towards him with my sword raised.
"What's the point in that? I mean aside from the obvious point at the end of it, why bother with your sword?" The lich sai... | 2015-05-20T10:33:13 | 2015-05-20T10:30:52 | 49 | 28 |
[WP] It's getting really hard for the government to keep covering up all these alien landings. Sightings of strange metal creatures roaming over the surface, apparently scanning it, are disturbing the citizens. The Martian government needs to come up with something better, fast. | "What the hell, Jek. Can't that blue planet stop sending all these shiny collectors to ours?"
"What!? Again!?"
The Underground Republic of East Mars Space Administration, or UREMSA for short, had detected the alien landing ship when it hit the incredibly thin Martian atmosphere.
Jek and his team have developed stat... | "What da fuq? You mean you all landed in the middle of the sunday bazaar without even bothering to camouflage yourselves ?"
"Sorry boss, there was something wrong with our space navigation system. We thought we had landed somewhere in the middle of Sahara."
"You foools! Did anyone notice your prescence?"
"Plenty of ... | 2015-10-05T07:48:22 | 2015-10-05T07:29:38 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] You are the luckiest person on Earth. Everything you make an attempt for works in your favor. However, there two catches: you are absorbing the luck of those around you, and anyone who tries to profit from your luck (even with your help) is met with the worst luck immediately.
Holy crap, front page of the sub!
G... | I look to the left and right, everyone frozen waiting for my move. I knew they knew. They had to. Nobody who decided to play against me didn't do the research first. I was good, no I was lucky. You don't live in this game long if you are unlucky.
Holding two cards, looking down a red two face up staring back at... | My sister won't acknowledge that she's related to me, let alone ever allow me to contact her again... which is fair, after what happened to her son and ex-husband (is it an ex if he died in a bizarre plane accident?
Is it still a plane accident if the pilot mistook his upper torso for a very short landing strip? Oh. ... | 2015-10-17T12:59:57 | 2015-10-17T11:17:11 | 80 | 33 |
[WP] "I have two pills to take every day. One is so I don't kill myself. The other is so I don't kill other people. Today I dropped one pill down the drain. I don't know which it was."
[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3wxtsu/who_is_that_guygirl_you_work_with/cy09r1g) for prompt. | I watched the pill teeter around the edge of the sinkhole. It danced along the curvature as my mind raced through all chaotic events that may spring from this single moment.
With a leap of faith I darted forward, my hand like a quiver shot from a bow, aimed towards the tiny blue pill that taunted me as it spun around... | I gasped as the pill slipped out of my grasp and down the drain, disappearing like the carefully constructed harmony I was living in. Two pills, each and every day. One to not kill others and one to not kill myself. I paused for a moment as the other pill sat in my hand, wondering whether or not I should take it.
If ... | 2015-12-15T17:31:02 | 2015-12-15T15:46:50 | 370 | 151 |
[wp] after dying god informs you that hell is a myth, and "everyone sins, its ok". instead the dead are sorted into six "houses of heaven" based on the sins they chose. | The man groaned as he struggled to see the fading but brilliantly illuminated figure before him through his bloody eyes. Everything was still a blur. He was laying on the floor, he certainly knew that. His leg was in pain, maybe his fibula was broken, but he wasn't focused on that.
On the other side of the room, the ... | "Besides, no one's ever on this road."
Never thought those would be my last words. But at least they must have been ironic, right?
Cause of Death: shipping container full of wigs falling out of a plane. Right on top of me. Hrmm.
Arriving in heaven, or what I assumed to be heaven, was a bit lackluster. No lines. Just... | 2016-03-01T07:56:10 | 2016-03-01T07:51:09 | 33 | 23 |
[WP] It's been almost two years since people stopped dying, and five months since we started to burn the ones that should.
*Edit: This prompt is originally inspired by Jose Saramago's "Death with Interruptions," though I don't remembered any burning in that book. This is in no way intended to be related to any Torchwo... | I don't think kids ever understood the feeling of dying. Sure, they understood the *concept* of dying; a dog dies and they don't come around anymore, a fish dies and he goes to join his brothers and sisters in the ocean. But a human dying? That was lost on them. And well now, that concept is lost on just about everyone... | The storm reached The Castle at El Matador earlier than expected. Leaned against the glass window, Park watched the rain batter down on the beach, poking holes on the restlessness of the Pacific Ocean just below the ravine.
"Mr. Park?"
The voice came from the entrance of the hall, and Park turned to look. The man sta... | 2016-05-02T06:21:34 | 2016-05-02T06:04:09 | 449 | 120 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I entered the facility, shaking of course. I'd volunteered to go first, mostly to get it over with, but I was definitely having misgivings. The proctors had assured us that studying was not required, but now that I thought about it they had also said that about the ACT.
It was far too late now though. I continued wal... | As I entered the room, an instructor was waiting across the room sitting opposite me with a small white table laid out in front of him with an empty chair waiting for me. I let out a huge sigh and made my way to the chair and sat right in front of him.
"Good morning. For this test, I just have a few questions I would... | 2016-06-11T10:22:36 | 2016-06-11T09:06:11 | 588 | 16 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | Ninety percent.
I walked into the room with a feeling of rough harm, a strange notion. The white room, filled with the sterile smell of a hospital took a moment to recognise. I was only in here the other day getting a diagnosis for my strep throat. Such a coincidence that I should be here again so soon. A voice churn... | As I entered the room, an instructor was waiting across the room sitting opposite me with a small white table laid out in front of him with an empty chair waiting for me. I let out a huge sigh and made my way to the chair and sat right in front of him.
"Good morning. For this test, I just have a few questions I would... | 2016-06-11T10:21:07 | 2016-06-11T09:06:11 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] A burglar enters a home by forcing the window open. Upon stepping through the window frame, heavy steel curtains cover all windows and doors leading to the outside, lights turn on, and the words "Player 2 has entered the game" echo around the house. | "Player 2 has entered the game"
"What the hell?" He thought. Almost immediately there was a loud boom and a flash.
A sensation if weightlessness filled his body. He looked down to see his lifeless body on the floor, blood pooling where his head had once been.
A dark figure made its way across the room to his body... | RELEASE OF LIABILITY FORM
I HEREBY ASSUME ALL OF THE RISKS AND BURDENS OF PARTICIPATING IN THIS GAME, including but not limited to: death, dismemberment, severe burns, brain damage, and spinal fracture. Any responsibility placed upon the individuals running the "GAME" is entirely waived, including: the owner of this ... | 2016-10-05T11:10:45 | 2016-10-05T10:29:05 | 2,176 | 131 |
[WP] "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."-Plato
Just a quote from Plato that I liked, and I haven't seen anything like this on Writing Prompts for a while, so, here ya go! | As I sat at my campfire, I could feel someone approaching. Someone intruding into the world I had made for myself.
Without looking, I knew it was the angel Gabriel. I could smell the stink of his splendor.
"Just what do you think you are doing here?" He demanded of me.
"I'm roasting marshmallows. Want one?"
... | Brian stumbled into the bathroom, prepared to drench himself into wakefulness. He blundered to the sink and twisted the faucet. In the moment before the water rushed out, he saw the white build-up in the basin and the small, brown specks nestled amongst it. Then the water burst forth, and the specks jolted. He jumped b... | 2016-10-06T21:40:16 | 2016-10-06T19:10:16 | 1,292 | 130 |
[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 had originally thought my superpower was a bit of a joke. I suppose it still is pretty lame. I can't cause any real destruction with it, but nobody jokes around me anymore. I started exacting vengeance a couple weeks ago on those who had previously bullied me for "not having a power". In truth, I did but it's a very ... | I smiled. I couldn´t stop it. The view was too fantastic.
"Eric, please stop this.". Oh the whimpering i heard in her voice. " Stop it? WHY should i stop it? You always said you wanted a son who could achieve something great, and now look. Look at this. Isn´t this something truly great?". Ah, she can´t look. Can´t lo... | 2017-06-12T07:39:18 | 2017-06-12T05:44:01 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] You wake up by a dusty road with 1,000 Mexican pesos and a note from your Spanish teacher: "Este es el examen final" | "Éste es el examen final" leía la nota atada a mi pecho. Después de levantarme del suelo y revisar que no tenga ninguna herida grave me puse a investigar donde estaba.
Era mi último año de preparatoria y con un poco de suerte ya no iba a tener que preocuparme de estudiar materias que nunca me iban a ser útiles. Solo n... | I woke to a pounding headache. The money was ominous the note worse. When I got home, I was going to murder that Spanish bastard, even if I kind of deserved it.
In my first, bleary-eyed survey of the landscape, I nearly tripped over a small pack. It contained a towel, a trowel, a hat, a sheet of mostly clear plastic... | 2017-06-29T11:12:03 | 2017-06-29T09:51:13 | 255 | 26 |
[WP] You wake up by a dusty road with 1,000 Mexican pesos and a note from your Spanish teacher: "Este es el examen final" | I woke up with a major headache. I felt in my pockets and found some pesos and the note stating that this was my final exam.
No problemo, I thought to myself. I was in a level 300 class, and had aced all the assignments this semester. So I strolled confidently into the town I could see in the distance.
When I got int... | I woke to a pounding headache. The money was ominous the note worse. When I got home, I was going to murder that Spanish bastard, even if I kind of deserved it.
In my first, bleary-eyed survey of the landscape, I nearly tripped over a small pack. It contained a towel, a trowel, a hat, a sheet of mostly clear plastic... | 2017-06-29T11:09:35 | 2017-06-29T09:51:13 | 139 | 26 |
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