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[WP] You’re a necromancer that has been run out of every town you’ve ever settled in for being who you are. You wipe tears out of your eyes as you dig a deep hole, finding solace in your work. Your shovel bangs against bones and you stop, tears suddenly forgotten. Dinosaur bones. Now they’ll pay. | Necromancy was the oldest magic known to the world. The first mages had stumbled upon the soft touch of magic as they carved their glory upon the bones of their prey, their rivals, and the finds of their scavenging. It had been the bedrock of civilization, what had brought humanity from apes banging stones together to ... | "Its just not fair!"
I shouted in the rain as I dug. I had been run out of yet another town, for what? I had saved them, when the bandits attacked. A couple of stabs had brought one down, and then his body fought for me. I hadn't killed anyone important, but apparently they didnt care.
I never wanted to hurt anyone. ... | 2020-08-30T11:24:51 | 2020-08-30T09:54:08 | 78 | 40 |
[WP] Humans have the reputation of being both an extremely dangerous species and social creatures that are easy to bond with, making them great crew members for voyagers. You and your shipmates are worried about your newly recruited human because you don't know what an introvert is.
Inspired by various "Humans are spa... | An eerie silence had fallen over the big, sparsely populated cargo-ship. What had started out as a run just like all the others had turned into our greatest nightmare. Yet everything seemed so great in the beginning. We had been curious to meet our new crew member, especially as no one had met a human before.
Sure, t... | When Elaine had a moment to relax, she liked to stare out the porthole in her room and watch the planet pass below. Staring at that amber marble, with its black seas and swirls of white cloud, filled her with a sense of awe and longing she couldn't quite explain. When she joined the science vessel, she thought she coul... | 2019-11-17T02:35:00 | 2019-11-17T01:24:32 | 904 | 253 |
[WP] As it turns out, the Avatar is still being reborn to this day. Unfortunately, if the government finds the Avatar, they’re killed before they liberate society. The handful of Benders left are few and far between. And you, an introverted Earthbender, just froze the liquid in your cup of tea. | "Whoopsies."
The young waitress froze, her hand still clasped tightly to the handle of the tea kettle. The once scalding brown liquid in my cup was now a rounded block of dark ice. And it wasn't stopping. Even as I sat there, dumb fingers wrapped firmly around the cup, I could feel the energy emanating from my hands a... | "Black tea please."
I took a seat near the end of the bar table and out of the corner of my eye I saw a Patrol squad enter the bar.
*Fuck*.
I cinched my hood tighter.
They took their seats at a round table right behind me.
Static buzzed from one of the soldier's radio transceiver, "Arsonist on the run since la... | 2018-01-21T11:30:02 | 2018-01-21T09:13:54 | 2,313 | 1,088 |
[WP] "I saw it during WW1. It had no meat, no bones, just veins and nerves. And there it was, striding toward us, bullets sliding off it like water. Men came apart or became things just being nearby. We know now it's a war god from another world. And it was drawn by our war like a fly to a wound. " | “I remember the Woëvre”
The grizzled old veteran half muttered. He slouched a little further over the oak bar, and with a sigh took a hearty gulp from his drink.
“That day was hell” he stiffly pronounced, “I don’t really have patience for gods, but that was the day I prayed“
He sighed, pensively nodding to the ba... | I was in that war, and by God it was a war. My men and I were stationed at the very front, as sandbags to soak up the grenades and the bullets, the stones and arrows. Every morning we woke up to the whizzing sound of Death taking potshots, and those sounds kept us alive. My men were machines created to win wars, but in... | 2019-02-27T19:40:27 | 2019-02-27T18:30:16 | 51 | 10 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | Like I said, I was always used to this up until The Moment. Even as a little boy, I had to pretend like I didn't see a picture of a broken heart over someone's head or a cartoonish smashed car. Words eventually replaced the images and they got more scientific as my vocabulary grew. Old age... cancer... coronary embolis... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T07:48:21 | 241 | 123 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Life had a unifying feature.
It didn't matter if your species evolved in the oceans of a moon on a gas giant, or in the crevices of a planet tidal-locked with its star, it will always have one critical trait:
Fear.
Fear is what keeps species in check, what ensures that they don't kill themselves in foolish endeavor... | I sat watching the news, petting my cat, Harry.
"A civil war has broken out in South Sudan once again, with estimated deaths in the 100 thousands. Around 500,000 child soldiers- Breaking news: a massive object has entered the atmosphere. Scientists cannot recognize any part of it. The government-"
I perked up my head,... | 2019-06-11T10:06:47 | 2019-06-11T05:53:12 | 363 | 99 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | Should I ask him to repeat himself?
Is that rude?
I can't exactly be at fault for not listening too well. I wasn't exactly expecting... well... words...
"Did you get all that Steven?"
Oh wow, ok yeah he definitely spoke and I completely missed it.
"Will you do it?"
I stared blankly at Jasper who was sitting over... | Life is unfair, they all say. Tim, who was just slightly stronger than us, grew up being able to lift mountains and move continents. James, who enjoyed taking apart stuff and putting them back together, grew up be one of Earth's most celebrated inventor, revolutionizing the industry.
Me? Cats only seem to like me. The... | 2016-12-30T08:57:01 | 2016-12-30T08:28:43 | 2,633 | 56 |
[WP] You gain a magic coin that can grant wishes, but only if you flip it. If it lands on heads, your wish is granted, but if it lands on tails, the opposite of your wish happens. | Wiping a tear off his cheek Derek opened the box he received this morning. Coughing from the dust that that had settled on the box his thoughts went to his grandma. She had been amazing, taking him in when his parents had abandoned him. Raising him to the man he was today. Glad to help his community and to work at the ... | My guide to life is a 2 euro coin.
I know, it's really weird, but the coin is my genie.
If I flip it heads when I ask for something, I get that. If I flip tails, I get the opposite.
Having already failed several times, I keep testing my luck. I've been robbed of my entire house, fortune, and knowledge in a night. ... | 2016-08-26T07:51:15 | 2016-08-26T07:21:22 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The Captain filled a small container with what had to be bourbon, carefully sealing the spout to prevent any of the liquid from floating away. As I dogged the hatch behind me, I saw that he already had his drink in hand.
First day aboard a starship, and I'm drinking with the boss? Not a bad start.
Captain Leonov sent... | My first ever writing prompt attempt, part 1..
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'Well this is a conundrum', I bemused whilst nursing my coffee on a dreary Monday morning. My reflection staring back at me as the scenery dances past in a blur of colour.
Barely noticeable a small tattoo peeks out from behind my ear. So small and brief the words spe... | 2018-03-11T08:45:50 | 2018-03-11T07:50:31 | 120 | 24 |
[WP] The Hero is ridiculously overpowered but has none of the usual moral objections about using their power. They just defeated the last major supervillian and now the city nervously waits to find out what happens next. | Vulture Storm stood above the wreckage of Hero Tower, watching as Darkness drew her last breath. *It’s over. It’s finally over.* Above, a camera crew flew, the blades of the helicopter spinning in near silence. To his left, the final pillar on the tower he had called home, collapsed back onto the empty street. The crew... | # Soulmage
**The elf's skin bubbled and snapped as he rose from his crouched position.** As one, the four of us took a step back—we all knew Iola could kill us with a snap of his fingers, if he so desired.
"Well." Iola turned towards us, grinning a smile that drooped and melted. I had no idea what his eldritch flesh ... | 2022-06-27T08:38:54 | 2022-06-27T08:06:16 | 348 | 26 |
[WP] One day people's spirit animals appear and they turn out to be first generation Pokemon. You are happy with your Charmander, since most got a Magikarp. Your significant other, who has never seen Pokemon, calls and is very excited about their "blue-eyed, pink, floating cat-like thing". | I sat in my living room, staring blankly at my Spirit Animal, pondering where I'd gone wrong in life to deserve this.
...No, sorry, scratch that, staring blankly at my Spirit Pokemon. Charmander, I'd gotten Charmander. I knew one day he'd evolve in to Charizard and I absolutely dread that day. I live in a cruddy apart... | "Jase I found it! And I was able to cancel the plumber and the guy checking the hot water tank before they got here, apparently they're all backed up with a bunch of other people who had the same idea—"
"That's nice," I said absently. "So where was it?"
"In the freezer." She sounded ridiculously proud of herself. "No... | 2015-06-20T14:05:27 | 2015-06-20T13:54:47 | 118 | 37 |
[WP] School is now mandatory 24/7 around the world for kids. They eat, sleep, and bathe at the school, much lIke a prison. The biggest mystery is the disappearance of the kids who can't make good grades. | All day.
Every day.
A few years ago, if you asked, I could tell you my favorite thing to do when I got home every day from school. Seventh grade was a pretty tough year for me. And those eight to three school days felt like they'd never end. But of course they did end as every day before had. And like every day befor... | Please see me after class.
I was so close to passing. I had studied and crammed for weeks on end. All for it to end up with a 69. What a sick joke. Alone and drowning in sorrow I awaited my teacher to come talk to me.
"Nelson. You were not satisfactory. Please follow me."
The hallway seemed darker than normal. Humm... | 2017-09-15T17:49:51 | 2017-09-15T17:36:42 | 228 | 39 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | It didn't take a super genius to know that our world didn't exist within the herculean struggle between justice and evil as the media would have us believe- but rather our choices often blurred the lines. There was a spectrum- shades of gray as it were.
Gray like my prison cell.
But within the shades of daily gray,... | “Micah, my boy, what do you think is the truest expression of evil?”
The wizened old man sat the wrong way on his chair, arms resting across its back, chin and long, wispy gray beard atop them. He wore plain clothes, his body no longer conforming to the tight, chiseled physique expected of a super-anything. The man ac... | 2021-05-20T07:09:29 | 2021-05-20T06:23:15 | 350 | 211 |
[WP] Ever since you turned 18, every day, without fail, one random person tackles you to the ground, covers you as if they're protecting you from something, inspects you to see if you're ok, lets you up, dusts you off, and walks off without another word. One day, you dodge one... | At my feet lay the crumpled figure of a defeated man. He looked just like anyone else on the street, a simple hoodie and jeans, but after 4 months of this torture I could see the difference. The slight bulge of elbow and knee pads, the simple shades and ballcap combo that made a face impossible to recognize, and the wr... | For a man with no direction, my gaze doesn’t tend to sway very often. When I am on a delivery, I move through countless environments. The subway, the street, the malls, the apartments, all those people, and yet almost all of the time I look straight, my mind somewhere else.
*“I’m sorry,” she says, hugging me hard, the... | 2019-01-28T16:54:33 | 2019-01-28T16:12:35 | 2,452 | 1,207 |
[WP] You and your fellow Succubi and Incubi are gathered together in your favorite bar in hell, swapping stories of your sexiest, funniest, and weirdest times being summoned. NSFW
I am on mobile so I hope putting NSFW in the title counts for tagging it. | Khan's is a shit hole, With all the health inspectors down here, you'd figure it would have been shut down a long time ago. There hasn’t been any electricity here since the owner decided it was witchcraft, even after several practicing witches tried to convince him otherwise. For music there’s this terrible bard who on... | "I never really understood *why* you've gone so soft in the last...what was it..." a silver skinned succubus twirled a lock of dark violet hair--the majority of which was put up in a chilling headdress with a jeweled skull centerpiece. "Three centuries? With all these humans practically falling into our laps these days... | 2014-12-08T17:07:45 | 2014-12-08T14:22:13 | 37 | 17 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | **Eldrich The White Knight**: "Fair gentlemen and gentlewomen of Farlandia. I have come to avenge the deaths of your good King Fairlawn and his daughter, Princess Moon. For years since the Black King took over, you have lived in this" *Motions around* "squalor. I for one seem to- uh... look I don't usually do questions... | "A great man has died", the ink at the top of the first thick brown page of the Adventuretown Times read.
Olaf skimmed the next few lines as he sat eating a crust of bread with cheese at his sturdy wooden table. Their so-called glorious leader and hero, Smartin, had been brutally murdered. Luckily, the paper stated, hi... | 2016-07-10T15:53:09 | 2016-07-10T11:47:00 | 2,386 | 230 |
[WP] Superman announces on the news that he is going to kill each person on earth, one by one, until humanity is wiped out, in alphabetical order.
What would happen? What would happen from a local to a worldwide level? | "I'm not sure why you are helping me with this, Bruce, you know I'll have to kill you eventually too." Superman said, hovering above the supercomputer in the bat cave. A very aged batman sat in front of it, typing at a rapid speed.
"I understand why you're doing it. Maybe it will shock the world out of their re... | Mr. A Aaron Aarons had always hated his name. It was after all a clerical error at the hospital that led to the unique handle. His mother had told him that she wanted to name him Adam Aarons after his grandfather, but somewhere in the haze of drugs and child birth she signed A Arron Aarons and the name just kind of stu... | 2015-07-12T23:51:26 | 2015-07-12T21:32:54 | 295 | 16 |
[WP] You are immortal, but a quirk of your condition also renders the person nearest to you immortal as well. A selfish king obsessed with living forever has gone to extreme lengths to keep you as the closest person to them at all times. | The chain was chafing again. It wasn't really a big deal, but after four hundred years it was the little things that got you. The best food, staring at the most beautiful women and immortality. It wasn't a bad life, but the chains that attached my neck to that of the most powerful kings that had ever lived was getting ... | Humans.. so absolutely delightful. Their fears, so handsomely written across the pages of their faces. Painful portraits pristinely polished to... *Perfection.*
Bashful Bastards Boasting Battered Broads. Cantankerous *Cards* Crawling Carefully Clasping Coat-tails. Dangerous Deeds Deserve.. Dashing *Deaths*. And I smil... | 2017-05-13T06:16:05 | 2017-05-13T06:03:50 | 259 | 26 |
[WP] Out of sheer boredom, God decides that us humans must speak the brutal and honest truth no matter the consequences. The absolute excrement hits the metaphorical fan for twenty four hours straight. | Jarvis woke to the sound of sirens.
The consistent wail had become familiar to him, living in this city. Every few months or so he would return home to his parents house in the suburbs and marvel at the silence that surrounded him when he was there.
The drone had become a constant for him. A sort of noise-blanket t... | Ben: Hey, Frank!
Frank: Oh, hi Ben. What are you doing here?”
Ben: Frank, I came here to tell you the worst secret I have ever kept from you: last year's Christmas, when I was invited to your family dinner party… and I kissed your father on the mouth for the first time.
Frank: Ben, what-
Ben: Frank, please don... | 2019-03-15T11:48:36 | 2019-03-15T10:53:46 | 189 | 31 |
[WP] The eldritch god stood before the girl, in almost human form. "Your parents sold you to be my bride. I accepted, knowing that if I don't they will just try another deity, but I will not force this on you. Have this credit card and live as you wish. If you want something else instead, just ask." | My father was not a good man. Not a man at all really. He tried his best. Sometimes I wish he hadn't, but no one chooses their parents. I'm lucky I had one who cared to try at all. My birth parents were sick and angry addicts, desperate for any kind of power. What was a daughter when compared to endless cosmic fire... | For years I have been nothing more than "The offering "... less than the any servants for they had purpose to their lives, less than the animals for those had names.
Never any kind of human interaction other than the basic teaching done by masked teachers who never told me their names.
It's just the biggest irony tha... | 2022-08-09T17:25:18 | 2022-08-09T16:56:10 | 514 | 118 |
[WP] During a flight you accidentally damage a window and find out that they aren't actually windows, but monitors. | 1:43AM. Michael checked his watch. His knee pulsed up and down impatiently with a mix of anxiety and excitement. Flying was never his thing, but work kept him in the air. LA, Seattle, and Miami were the corner's of his own personal Bermuda's Triangle, a blackhole that sucked away his time and life.
But in the cent... | He was 10,000 feet in the air when it happened. Mr. Brandt was flying out to Los Angeles (from Fredricksburg, VA) for the weekend. He boarded South West, flight 7456. He remembered getting his ticket, boarding, and the rush and sensation of taking off. He was a few hours into the flight when he had to get up to pee.
M... | 2015-02-05T07:50:56 | 2015-02-05T07:44:50 | 297 | 22 |
[WP] Some assassins are paid extra to make deaths look accidental. Your job is the opposite. You're hired for those rare instances in which accidental or natural deaths need to appear as if they were murders. | How do you make an idea last? Make it really grow roots into the minds of men, when such minds are fickle and rarely capable of grasping any idea fully? You make them follow a symbol. Someone who can speak the words to them and make the words and indeed the very idea a part of their soul, if only for a brief moment. Bu... | My job title is crime scene creator, I bet you're wondering how I came into this role?
Unfortunate circumstances really, my step mother was a narcissist, she relied on my father's money, and verbally beat him down constantly.
She needed to go, and I was willing to do whatever it would take.
The decision was made, I s... | 2020-07-20T14:55:28 | 2020-07-20T14:26:08 | 2,020 | 192 |
[WP] For his kindness, the dragon taught the squire the dragon song. A song that was sure to make whoever sang it irresistible to the ladies. In hindsight, the squire should have known that by ladies, the dragon meant lady dragons. | “MINE!!!”
Phyrra grabbed Hughie and pulled him close to her chest as the three women walked by. They just gave a concerned look at her and kept walking.
“Hehe, sorry. She’s new to the whole conversation thing.” Hughie laughed while breaking out of Phyrra’s hold. “Stop being so territorial.” He nudged her. “These aren... | It should have been clear from the start... That there was something that I was missing when the great Níðhöggr offered to teach me the "Draki Að unna", the dragon song. They said that it would give me the power to be irresistible to ladies...
As soon as I started singing it because very clear who the target audienc... | 2022-11-06T08:07:08 | 2022-11-06T07:55:05 | 85 | 30 |
[WP] What they didn't tell you about having a catgirl girlfriend is that beyond the cute "nya!"s lies the other, more annoying catlike urges like getting stuck in trees and bringing dead mice to their boyfriends. | Around the world, millions of young, lonely men have dreamed of living my life. They fantasize about girls with perfect round eyes, twitching feline ears, and a long, sinuous tail. They imagine them purring, enjoying headpats, and making cute little "nya" noises when satisfied. And they do all those things, it's true. ... | \[poem\]
A cat girl.
A genuine feline, looking fine, all mine cat girl.
She's cute, kawaii, she's all kinds of fun.
When she's mad she pouts, when bored she'll pounce.
But most of the time she just lays about.
With a nyan and a kiss, she's my number one.
Yes a cat girl!
Furry eared, human reared, little f... | 2021-12-17T12:28:51 | 2021-12-17T11:50:18 | 218 | 34 |
[WP] Scientist have created a machine that allow people a window into alternate realities. It becomes mainstream and people talk about alternate versions of themselves. Finally you decide to take a look only to discover that there are no alternate versions of you. You're the only you in existence. | "Mr. Coleman," the suited man on the stairs said, still and stern as the near clone beside him. "I believe we have the answer to your problem."
Daniel set down the icing spatula and was about to open the door when something stopped him, a gut feeling something was off about these guys. "What problem?"
The man lifted ... | An eye peeking through a hole leading to an incomprehensible multiverse of infinite choices... and I'm not one of them...
The other realities change by very little, I can see various people still looking into the windows, seeing us from the other side, I can see my milkman, who in this world is a pop star, I can see m... | 2021-06-02T05:38:51 | 2021-06-02T02:58:45 | 508 | 58 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | Galactic Records Archive:
Section Jardol 5. Subsection 253A: The Greatest Wars Of History Listed Chronologically.
319-2847-2017 \~ The Battle of Wanbortol;
The "East" side of the planet of the war's namesake was vaporized by a beam of concentrated sunlight, controlled by the forces of Harbringham. The "West" then... | we thought of them as saviors when they first came they expected immediate surrender on our part. They thought after slaughtering millions of lives we would surrender. they were wrong. We were faced with what could have been our destruction our annihilation but we would not so easily bend into their fold. Nay we rose a... | 2019-12-17T14:24:25 | 2019-12-17T11:20:18 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased with your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell and we're the demons. You have just been summoned... | Damn Netflix!
​
Someday I'm going to grasp why I cannot, for the life of me, remember a damn password that I made up myself.
​
I, for one, blame all the auto-logins. If I lacked that convenience I'd probably have no issue using whatever streaming service I wanted when I got a new phone.
&... | As our lips grew closer, I closed my eyes and I heard her whisper:
"ARISE, DEMON! DEMON ARISE!"
​
I bolted open my eyes, and there, inches from my face, wasn't my beautiful bride-to-be, but instead an impish creature with red skin, horns, and a great white bushy beard. Strange symbols looked to be tatt... | 2019-04-25T19:10:16 | 2019-04-25T19:06:22 | 42 | 20 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | ***“This landmass”*** the eyeball beckoned, bubbles in its chamber. ***“Look at it”***
Xerena tilted her head to the hologram. “Yes?”
It blinked. Flushing the liquid in its giant, pillar of a beaker very slightly. It was blue, and transparent, complementing the sleek and oppressively small color pallets of the rest o... | *we saw as our family’s, friends, love ones was massacred right infront of our eyes. Everything we loved and build destroyed. No lies nor deception was going to keep us from getting revenge. We slammed our fist down and screamed at them.*
*”STOP LYING, WE LOST EVERYTHING ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING AND YOU EXPECT US TO BELI... | 2022-12-17T17:54:36 | 2022-12-17T12:26:17 | 181 | 91 |
[WP] Satan is a single father trying to raise his son, who, in a rebellious phase, is all into peace, love, and harmony. | It was humiliating. Lucifer was the mightiest of angels, though fallen, and he alone ruled the most feared realm in existence, and yet here he was, pushing around a shopping cart full of items they didn't need. His son Azazel was the one doing most of the shopping, though.
"Dad!" He called, a large smile on his face. ... | "My son, why are you behaving like this? Why are you always so kind? Why do you not enjoy ripping the hearts out of poor little mortals? You know what, to let you know what are missing out on you little prick, I'll send you up to the real world, so you know what true suffering is!" says Lucifer.
"I'll prove you wrong ... | 2016-11-06T07:08:47 | 2016-11-06T05:39:27 | 211 | 99 |
[WP] One day you decide to make a deal with the Devil to change your life around for the better. But everytime you try to summon him, nothing happens, not even a 'Hello'. So you decide to summon regular demon, only to have them bow before you and call you King. | Nothing. Again. I knew the Lord of Darkness was a busy entity but he could have at least given me a sign. Even just a "Hello.". I was a nice evil sorcerer with decent powers, I just needed him to give me a chance to impress him. I had been trying to contact him for a while now, but neither the pentacle invocation nor t... | [Poem]
I wanted them gone
I wanted them to die
No one would listen
No one would try
I wanted the devil
I tried and tried
Nothing would work
Satan wouldn't pry
So I summoned a demon
And on the last step
The demon was summoned
I was filled with delight
But before I could open my mouth
The demon looked at me ... | 2019-09-12T03:04:44 | 2019-09-12T02:42:41 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] The world of Avatar is real, only there are not 4 elements, there are 118. For every element on the periodic table there is a group of benders. You are one of them. | *"OXYGEN BENDERS SAVE CHILDREN TRAPPED IN AVALANCHE*
*NEW CARBON BENDED DIAMOND SELLING QUICK ON MARKET*
*RADON BENDER PREVENTS URANIUM MINE FROM LEAKING DEADLY GAS*
the same old stories on the newspapers again. another boring shit bender saves the fuckin day again, by doing some boring shit. i grab the newspaper an... | Iridium. Atomic number 77. Transition metal. A commonly forgotten element, unless you study the periodic table for an excessive amount of time in your 7th grade science class or used a random number generator to pick a random element.
Or maybe you know it because you control it.
There is a small group of people w... | 2019-09-19T09:14:49 | 2019-09-19T08:40:23 | 251 | 162 |
[WP] You are a superhero who keeps his identities private, even your sidekick doesn't know your normal identity. Today you come home to find your wife in bed with your sidekick. | *I don't want to play hero anymore*
I would have never imagined something like this: I believed to be a good husband, friend, confident, partner or whatever she needed at that moment, every single moment of joy and pleasure of my last months came from spending time with her at home, my work is my façade and not me... | A Hero Just Like You
“Donna?” Her eyes shoot open and nearly bulge from their socket; her chubby cheeks turn that classic rosy red that she gets whenever she gets too flustered. At that moment I nearly forgot that I just saw my girlfriend changing out of a superhero suit. It’s the first time she’s been nak... | 2022-03-23T11:32:15 | 2022-03-23T10:09:46 | 60 | 29 |
[WP] His childhood trauma had made him truly sinister. His crimes had grown more and more severe as he grew older. The FBI has his house surrounded. The negotiations had ended poorly and SWAT teams were primed to breach and clear, but Kevin McAllister just smiled. This was to be his masterpiece. | It was this day two years ago that I was first handed the McAllister file. Some of his earlier crimes, when he was just a kid, had a kind of whimsy to them – setting off a firework in a teacher’s car, rigging a locker with gum to explode in a bully’s face. Okay, yeah, it was illegal but it wasn’t the end of the world. ... | The screens painted the room dull hues of grey and blue, reflections dancing off of his glasses as he eagerly watched. This house is the culmination of years of planning, preparing, and now execution. *Heh*. *Execution.*
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Pleased with his well-timed double entendré he swung around in his chair. Situated ... | 2019-07-30T05:17:13 | 2019-07-30T05:14:33 | 216 | 21 |
[WP] Your roommate is literally the Devil. Surprisingly, he is the best roommate you ever had. | You can imagine I was at least a bit skeptical when he dropped the news. I mean sure, he'd always had that de-facto superhero villain evil vibe around him, typically coming home fully suited as if he himself were giving out the Oscars to whoever had given him the most soul. Skeptical as I was though, the confirmation o... | Charles opened up the fridge to grab some milk for his coffee. He bent over slightly to put his head into the fridge and then paused when his eyes landed on it. Wrapped neatly and with consideration with cling wrap there sat an entire goats leg on the middle shelf. Everything that had been on the shelf had been moved t... | 2016-03-10T11:15:45 | 2016-03-10T09:49:42 | 107 | 39 |
[WP] Your significant other is possessed by a demon. Soon after; you realize you love the demon and not your SO anymore and it's actually mutual. Now the exorcist has arrived. | Laying down on my couch enjoying its softness, hearing the sound of rain outside combined with the sound of a knife repeatedly cutting veggies and the smell of something delicious from the kitchen, these were the ideal conditions for a short nap. A truly peaceful one.
Unfortunately, someone interrupts my little ritual... | "Right then," the exorcist, a man in a black suit with a white clerical collar said as he walked in the door, closing it behind him, "Where is it?"
"What?" Ian said.
"Where is the demon? I was summoned here to perform an exorcism."
He looked at Ian a while, who remained silent, before eventually turning to Alex, wh... | 2017-10-10T03:19:24 | 2017-10-10T02:15:25 | 156 | 32 |
[WP] Stereotypical 'chosen one' story but the chosen one is a 46 yr old mother of three who ran out of fucks to give five years ago | The night was stormy. Driving rain, gusts of wind, flashes of lightning that illuminated the entire sky. In the bitter cold I trekked down the small road, the staff in my hand *thumping* softly against the pavement.
Until I found myself standing in front of a moldy green bi-level home.
I made my way to the front ... | "Crysthast Jeriesiel, run faster, she's gaining on us!" Yelled Carlylian to his gnome brother Bogsworthis as he took a moment to look back.
"I'm going as fast as I can, it'd be a lot easier if you carried me" Bogsworthis shouted as he continued to pump his short stubby legs as fast as he could.
"You're too heavy, you... | 2022-04-13T01:12:58 | 2022-04-12T22:46:58 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | “You mean I can do anything I want?”
“Anything”
“What’s the catch?”
“There is no catch, just a way for you humans to fulfil all their earthly desires before fully passing on to the other side”
Interesting. I didn’t have much regrets in life, I had lived a good one, probably a little above average but nothing as br... | Let's see.
Top of your class. All of them. For all fifteen years. Easy enough with a lifetime of knowledge.
Managed to get with Jessica too, huh? We thought it was cute, while it lasted. Monica, after that. Then Jen. But you only did that to get back at Barry Allen didn't you? Broke his heart you did, and hers. Then ... | 2020-07-20T03:18:26 | 2020-07-20T03:18:12 | 184 | 67 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | The crunch echoed through the room.
Kevin didn't think much of it, until he realized just how quiet everyone had gotten. Opening his eyes after chewing the harsh texture for a moment, he noticed how many eyes were on him.
"...What? What's wrong?" He asked.
No one said anything. Some of them still sat there dumbfound... | The examiner smiles at you.
"Well done for seeing beyond the superficial, and choosing what your heart desires. I have been waiting for this day. Captain Table"
With that bite, you gain the power to turn into an inconspicuous table at will.
People laughed at first, Captain Table is a lame name they said. But the... | 2020-03-19T09:06:50 | 2020-03-19T07:02:46 | 587 | 388 |
[WP] As the infected sprinted towards me, I quickly swung my bat. It connected and he fell in a heap, crying out in pain. He looked scared and confused, but his humanity only showed for a moment, before the rage took hold again. It appeared that pain made these 'zombies' briefly human again. | He’s right behind me, and fast, faster than me, but less coordinated. In complete panic, I take sharp right into the sporting goods aisle. Too sharp. I trip sideways, just dodging his outstretched hand.
My back slams into the baseball bats, causing them to clatter onto the ground around me. I barely have time to raise... | If some people screaming on the streets are to believed, and that being a zombie is truly retribution from god, Chandler Hines would have been a zombie sixty times over.
Instead, he looked down from his penthouse, as naked as the day he was born. Sometimes, he liked to imagine that he was giving it to the city, and up... | 2022-01-15T10:44:02 | 2022-01-15T09:38:46 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | Jack was smiling, for once, even though he was handing a bag of coin to the tax collector. Though taxes hadn't been lowered since 'The Hero's execution and the death of his Rebellion (in fact, they had been raised somewhat), the benefits of having an Evil King with full coffers and a fair Princess with a degree in econ... | This herald speaks for me, King Loatheb: Butcher of the Ruling Class.
You are under my rule now petty citizens, the 1000 year age of darkness begins today. Lord Xanthar the Just's head adorns my mantle. No longer will your young men be conscripted to fight and die honourably to destroy the ruling tyrants of neighbouri... | 2016-07-10T18:13:31 | 2016-07-10T15:59:45 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Post-mortems become a lot easier when you know the answer in advance. They change from an exercise where you are searching for small pieces to solve a much larger puzzle to one where you know the answer which tells you what to look for to support the thing you already know. I figured out around high school that patholo... | He worked alone, he always had. Not because he wanted to, but people just had a tendency to not notice him. It was depressing really. Every person he ever met instantly forgot him, or tried to ignore him, it was hard to tell sometimes. As for his work, well, he worked in travel, a mostly administrative position.
As ... | 2015-03-31T11:16:39 | 2015-03-31T09:57:05 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You were born with special eyes, the sea was as clear as glass to you, by the time you got old enough to join a ship's crew, you were smart enough to not tell them about everything you saw below the waves | I was young when I first realized that not everyone else could see the Other World. My mother pulled me away from the pier when I asked my questions, shushing me with fearful glances over her shoulder. “Not now, *Dia,* tell me about it later, okay?”
I would wait until evening to tell her of the Others, the ones who wa... | We finally spotted what looked like a small island in the distance. We had been out at sea for longer than intended and hoped we could find some food on the island as we were running dangerously low.
As we approached the island I spotted a sunken ship. As we got closer to the ship I noticed movement. When we were fina... | 2021-11-06T12:12:01 | 2021-11-06T09:19:07 | 199 | 62 |
[WP] You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you." | Snow always fucked up Julia's commute. As a nurse, she had to go in, regardless of the weather, and her all wheel drive car did just fine, but the other idiots always slowed things down. But she didn't work for four more days, so when she got home she was really looking forward to stripping off the scrubs, taking a cri... | *You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you."*
After telling the sha... | 2022-12-05T09:58:58 | 2022-12-05T05:55:43 | 77 | 41 |
[WP] You're a dragon who enjoys living a peaceful life away from humans when one day, a princess shows up asking you to "kidnap" her so she doesn't have to get married. | “I... I just need a place to stay for a few days. Or weeks. Maybe a couple months, but no more than a year. Or two.”
The dragon looked down, his scaly muzzle betraying how incredulous he found his current situation to be.
“I knew it. You’re blind. Well done on finding me, all things considered, but I am a dragon. Bu... | ######[](#dropcap)
*What's wrong, little girl?*
Tharos glanced at puffs of blonde hair that stuck out of her head as little buns.
"I don't wanna get married."
*Sometimes these choices are not up to us.*
"Can't you just take me far, far away? Aren't dragons supposed to kidnap princesses?"
He trained his larg... | 2018-05-05T23:10:15 | 2018-05-05T22:32:22 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] In an apocalyptic world, the last of humanity live in controlled, supposed paradise cities surrounded by towering walls; taught that the world outside died to wasteland centuries ago. You’re a smuggler, helping people escape the wall into the world beyond. | The haze of smoke in the bar was thick; a veritable smokescreen that hid its occupants from the world outside and wrapped them up in the embrace that they so badly craved throughout the workweek. I sat in my usual place at the corner of the establishment, my eyes glued to today's paper as I nursed my coffee.
I would ... | I didn't know where I'd end up. I still don't. All I know right now is I'm running for my life, and as I do, I think about how I got here.
It was fairly simple, all things considered. But I was terrified. Scared that with every step I took, someone might notice me and say "Hey! Guards! She's escaping!" I remember tha... | 2020-12-16T08:53:13 | 2020-12-16T08:40:23 | 46 | 19 |
[Wp] The scariest thing in Hell isn't the endless halls of torture, the demons, or even Satan himself. It's the sweet old lady living in the cottage in the middle of a lake of fire. | I was raised to be a believer, and taught to live as a caring, decent person. And while I had given up on a purposeful life in my teenage years, I had always suspected that maybe I would pay for my years of sin. The subtle urge to repent lingered throughout my life, but I never cared to act on it, even as I awoke in th... | The man desperately struggled, his arms whirling through the air as his feet pounded against the lake of fire. The lake itself was not fire in the strictest sense, but rather viscous lava. A single moment wasted would cause him to sink slowly into the lake, ending in an eternity of sinking through the molten rock. He s... | 2017-07-04T10:48:56 | 2017-07-04T10:47:10 | 128 | 14 |
[WP] Aliens aren't surprised when most of humanity is considered a 'level 1 threat', the lowest possible. although they are shocked when they scan a singular human and find that they are a 'level 10 threat', the highest there is. | Jace stepped through the scanner carrying his duffle bag, pausing at the sound of an alarm. Odd, that hadn't gone off for any of the aliens entering the station ahead of him. Sure, he had his trusty Ka-Bar (never leave home without such a useful tool, especially if it doubled as a self defense impliment), but he was to... | “Why the artifice around the creature’s expiration? Don’t they expire on a regular basis?”
“Sir, it’s quite common on their planet, they call it, ‘Faking your own death.’ And we…well, this specimen is rather unusual…”
The High Admiral exuded irritation. “Explain.”
The functionary—actually he was an Administrator b... | 2022-08-28T07:56:59 | 2022-08-28T02:05:46 | 79 | 22 |
[WP] Everyone has magical control over a single thing. When a person finds thier domain, they are called The (blank) Witch/Wizard. You don't seem to have a domain. That is, until one faitful day at a pizza shop, where you find it. Now begins your legend. Now begins the legend of The Pinball Wizard. | The jealousy used to consume me. My friends had found their masteries a long time ago: matchsticks, bottles, even drawers. All the while, I used to sat crossed-armed, gazing at them disdainfully, blood welling on my the back of my face.
But that's long gone. I, by sheer fortune, have found my mastery: the pinball. Yes... | John did not find his domain until a ripe age of twenty-three at the faithful pizzareia. Even then, his life was virtually unchanged, because really, what use is a pinball wizard besides bragging rights on his occasional nights out or the satisfaction of overflowing the high score? That is what John and everybody beli... | 2018-11-04T06:11:56 | 2018-11-04T05:13:16 | 62 | 35 |
[WP] A new rule on Earth is made which allows everyone to legally kill 1 person in their life, this affects the world severely & changes how everybody acts. | I was 25 years old when they eventually enforced it as common law, for about 2 years before we had the protests, a few riots but low and behold the shit still passed. Took a little while for people to grab hold of the idea but once those early hitters started hitting the theory became practical pretty quick. At first t... | Every since The Amendment, there has been an increase in kidnappings; babies in hospitals to lonely adults. People started buying slaves, the rich buying by the dozens. The Amendment states that anyone who is a registered citizen is allowed to legally kill one person registered or not.
The only country that has not ac... | 2017-12-03T08:18:16 | 2017-12-03T06:28:57 | 89 | 39 |
[WP] The Dark Arts are fair: for a terrible, personal price, they offer raw power. And lots of it. Self-centered villains typically renege on the contract and thus their powers fail them at a crucial moment. Now, for the first time, the heroes face someone who paid in full. The powers are all theirs | When I was younger, I could never understand the villainy of greed. The villains I read about were motivated by many reasons and philosophies. Rage, lust, pride, these were the reasons that compelled me to love the villains of the story. Standing alone among the common motivations of evil was greed. He did all this for... | How much would someone pay for power? For some, not a lot.
For others, it was as far as the human limit would allow.
But each and every single one of them could not deliver. Sure, some paid half, some even paid 99% of the balance.
But nobody paid in full.
Until now.
Reduced to a former husk of himself, he was done... | 2021-06-27T21:16:41 | 2021-06-27T18:54:42 | 102 | 55 |
[WP] Skin is actually an alien parasite that long ago enslaved the peaceful skeletons of Earth.
That's all I'm giving you to go on. Use your imagination. | "You don't have to go in there if you don't want Jones."
"I can handle it boss, trust me."
"Listen Jones, it's barely been a month since you moved up from the desk. We can make you first one something easy, a regular homicide. Not this-"
Jones walks through the front door, leaving detective Morrison standing outside... | Imagine two skelebros just reclining in chairs, and then they see the first line of skin parasites fall from the sky.
Left one shouts, "oh shit!" And jumps to his feet.
The right one said, "we gotta scare 'em off. You know how we need to do that."
"Aw yeh."
Then they both break into a spooky scary skeleton dance, w... | 2014-11-18T20:20:06 | 2014-11-18T20:05:34 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] An advanced alien race has done extensive research and deems us an easy target. As soon as they invade, all earth governments simultaneously reveal all their secret weapons. | "Sir, it's a shitstorm! We've lost the Sentia, aldjynm, and &#€×€!£€!"
"What do you mean lost?!?!"
"Sir, our information was incorrect! They're insane and far more advanced than what's on the surface!"
"Control yourself soldier! Now tell me what's happening."
"Sir, the continents separated from the others have ... | The US: We are bringing back the Nuclear Railgun! We can launch these damn Manhole Covers so fast, they could vaporize half the ship!
China: Alright, so while you were all bickering about North Korea, we built a secret Laser Station in orbit, the thing can vaporize the alien invaders!
Canada: We sent them a Welcome Gif... | 2018-01-12T12:59:38 | 2018-01-12T10:40:07 | 102 | 76 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | 3:30am. Time always seems to slow down as I wait for the demon to show up. The first couple of times he came looking for a latte was absolutely terrifying. I can always smell him before he actually opens the door, the stench of sulphur and blood. It puts you on edge. It’s like your subconscious knows that smell and wha... | I poured the cream in the Dark Lord’s latte. I was told to make it dark as a corpse’s soul, and sweet as the honey of a million deceased honeybees. Whatever the hell that meant.
The demon lackey grunted when I handed him the latte, and tossed a penny in the tip jar.
“Thanks,” I said with the most insincere politeness... | 2022-10-30T08:38:35 | 2022-10-30T08:28:01 | 2,033 | 73 |
[WP] On everyone's 25th birthday, they gain the ability to shapeshift into an animal. The animal is always random for every person. People once laughed at the animal you got, but 10 years later are now envious of what you can do. | Try getting a date when you're a cockroach.
Girls want to date tigers. They want to date eagles. Maybe they might settle for hippoes or giraffes but there's no way any girl wants to be with a cockroach.
When I turned 25, my parents and my friends were shocked, but did their best to pretend it wasn't a big deal. I ju... | Was I upset about getting the snake? Not really. Something vegetarian might've been a bit more palatable to be sure, but it's not so bad. People had their opinions of course; I'd say it's human nature but that's kind of a contradiction now isn't it? It's interesting, how a creature so feared in the world could also be ... | 2021-05-02T22:24:18 | 2021-05-02T20:19:46 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] Aliens arrive at our planet, but strangely their technology is decades behind ours. Apparently the key to hyperspace travel is an easy one that humanity simply missed and kept creating new sciences instead. Now, the secret to traveling the galaxy is sitting in orbit, protected by muskets. | The airship's bridge was buzzing with activity. Science officers were carrying in handwritten reports from the observation deck for their assistants transcribe via typewriter, the head engineer was briefing the first mate on the state of the genusinc engine, and all of the crew members cwere discussing the magnificence... | First contact was a lot less flattering than we expected.
The craft didn’t appear in Roswell or Siberia or wherever you might reasonably expect, but instead in the main street of Middlebury, Pennsylvania, to a crowd of about a hundred people. It came down quietly, humming and making an odd popping noise, and plopped d... | 2018-10-11T19:48:58 | 2018-10-11T19:11:47 | 154 | 71 |
[WP] While at a football game, you notice the man sitting in front of you is livestreaming the game to his cell phone rather than actually watching the game in front of him. You see on the screen a player running the football in for a touchdown, 32 seconds later you watch it happen in real life. | Am I allowed to post a story on my own writing prompt? Oh well...I'm going to anyways. Hope you guys like it...its been awhile since I've done any writing!
I tried not to stare but I wanted to so badly . I must have been confused. He was just watching a different game from a different time and it was just a coinciden... | Holy fuck, it happened. It just happened.i couldn’t believe my eyes. The next thing I knew, the screen showed a loud explosion during half time . 💥 I immediately got up from my seat and began running. Pushing, shoving everyone out of the way. No time to think, no time to explain, no one would believe me, I had less ... | 2019-01-09T23:38:19 | 2019-01-09T23:22:09 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] You are the villain in a typical superhero story. Knowing that the superhero must win in the end, you try and stall killing your victim as much as possible for the hero to swoop in at the last minute. However, the hero seems to be taking a while. | We all have problems. Every one of us. Right now, my problem is that Power Man hasn't shown up for work. Normally I kidnap someone or steal a serum or some good scientist's prototype. Then Power Man comes and kicks in my door, calls me a menace to society, and breaks some of my stuff before flying back off into the sun... | I stood glowering over the top of the princess, her confidence in her own escape withering away as she struggled and failed against the ropes binding her.
"You thought you could stop me? I, Evil McBadGuy? You have no power in this world, Wonder Woman. I alone hold power here!"
She slumped, defeated, against her bo... | 2016-01-02T13:30:43 | 2016-01-02T12:50:16 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] It's the future and you just purchased a brand new device that lets you know how much someone has left to live. Right as you try it out while going through the city, you realise that everyone's remaining lifespan is the same. | Dorian looked at his watch. Men in suits brushed past him on their way home from work. Cars honked, and people rolled down their windows to shout at their peers.
“Stop blocking the sidewalk, Punk,” someone said and elbowed him in the ribs.
The device finally whirred to life, and Dorian turned it against his attacker.... | There was no doubt- it felt good. No, *great*. The hottest tech product since the first iPhone, and he was the first person on the entire planet to own one. There was no thought of the week's worth of vacation days he taken from work to stand in line, or the fact that the glasses cost roughly that week's wage. He felt ... | 2017-06-20T15:24:59 | 2017-06-20T14:53:09 | 81 | 16 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | K- 1210 had long ago been logged under observation by the deep range scouts of Zel ‘Ot expeditionary forces. This tiny blue planet near the far edge of known space had been written off of strategic plans for longer than an intelligent species had existed on it in a meaningful way, due mainly to the remarkably harsh con... | I should have known. They had it all there, available to view on their version of the Hypernet. So much information, the sum of all of their human knowledge all sitting their in that database they called Wikipedia. Their science, their religions, their philosophies, but most importantly their history.
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If... | 2019-02-26T11:10:09 | 2019-02-26T10:58:57 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] Humans have just entered the galactic community, using our patented versatility to make ourselves noticed. One thing, however, stands out about our culture: almost all of our scariest monsters are based off of ourselves, and a lot of aliens are getting worried about our species’ mental health. | Garrick sat, thinking. He found himself to be doing this particular activity more than what he was actually supposed to do—the relatively mindless task of typing numbers into little rectangles—as he considered his new friend, X’ytok’s words.
He didn’t dislike it. This thinking business, anyway.
“Now that I think abo... | A1: Uhhh, so, why are most of your monsters vaguely human?
H1: Because of the uncanny valley.
A2: The what now?
H1: There is a measurement of what imagery is disturbing or endearing based on how similar it is to us, the bottom of the endearment hill is stick man figures, further up is the simpsons, then old school D... | 2022-03-02T18:38:26 | 2022-03-02T18:07:30 | 629 | 134 |
[WP] Every time you sneeze you find yourself in someone else's body. It's usually no real problem; you change back in 60 seconds. This time when you sneeze you find your tied up. In front of you is guys with guns. "Alright Franky, you got 30 seconds to explain why we shouldn't kill your ass" | ######[](#dropcap)
Andrew wracked his brain. "I have a family. Please, my child is sick and I'm the only one with a job in the family, and my wife has been severely ill since the pregnancy, and I just... please!" He didn't even understand the words coming out of his mouth. His mind had blanked as soon as he saw the bl... | *Alright Franky*, Jess thought to him, *Help me out of this*. But of course Frankie's brain was off line. *Useless*, Jess shook her head in her/his mind. She had never tried to see what would happen if she died in the body she was in. She did know that her body back at home zonked out and looked like she was asleep. Th... | 2018-11-15T13:47:51 | 2018-11-15T13:15:12 | 1,084 | 623 |
[WP] Immortal monsters of legend have returned after lying dormant for thousands of years. However, the legends were made before guns were a thing, and the "immortal" thing was kind of overblown. | “Now Mortals! I, The lost King of Babylon Kuzaamanaga the Immortal, have risen from my unearthly tomb to once again rule the kingdoms of gods and See a thousand years of tyranny!”
“Well That’s all mighty fine there, you filthy Arab. But how bout you you drop the sword and staff and come with me so we can sort you out.... | "My skin is iron to their puny swords! One swing of my limbs could level entire villages! My breath is a whirling typhoon which had sunk ships and destroyed entire coastlines!
And yet here you are, a lanky child standing with an old book and a twig? Come forward maggot and face the wrath of Myz Chu'thl!"
Those were ... | 2019-03-20T19:36:22 | 2019-03-20T19:35:21 | 129 | 48 |
[WP] After working hard your whole life you’ve finally done it: You have a stable job that’s rewarding, a wonderful wife, two young children, and you just bought your first home... You awake. “Thanks for grinding out those beginning levels for me.” The stranger says. “Your money’s in the bank.” | You're groggy...the lights are too bright, the noises too loud.
"Wai... Wha.... But.... Jul, where'sjul" you say in a voice more slurred than coherent.
"hey, hey...it's ok, this is totally normal, just take some deep breaths while the disconnect finishes up" says a voice overhead.
You turn your head, trying to grasp ... | There is always a delay. It is the worst part of being a lifelunder. It is the most agonizing 11 minutes one can endure. You are receiving information. Seeing again. Hearing. Feeling your environment. For the first time in 8 months. Senses you've depended upon to be brought to you are gone, and your brain literally com... | 2019-09-12T23:49:21 | 2019-09-12T22:23:29 | 2,563 | 43 |
[WP] You died at the gym as you were trying to take a selfie while bench pressing. Thus you find yourself in Swaghalla, the Halls of Brodin.
EDIT. "Swaghalla" was the best pun I could come up with for Valhalla. Use something else if you have ideas.
Note: Swolehalla seems to be the proper name, pardon my mistake
seco... | Darkness. Cold steel pressing against my neck. Cries of "oh shit bro!" Echoed in my ears. And then, I saw the world turn to a blur. Time held no meaning, and I knew not where I went.
And so it was I found myself staring at the iron bars the All-Spotter had built as an entrance. An entrance that to some is Hel... | "Woah."
The world around me is eerie and bright, like a morning hangover. I flip down my neon plastic shades. Much better.
How the fuck did I get here though? I was hulking out at the gym and--what's that sound?
*Clank. Clank. Clank.*
Wait, that's the gym. Someone's dropping plates. Scrub.
Hazy white mist swirls an... | 2015-11-02T07:45:58 | 2015-11-02T06:32:26 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You are a traveler who reaches a city where powerful magicians exist. The stronger a wizard, the less other wizards can sense him casting spells. You start showing off some card tricks to the locals for some coins and realize that some people in the audience look terrified. | It was Balthasar the Brilliant's first night in the Kingdom of Igok, and he had to admit, he was rather enjoying himself. He'd never even heard of the Kingdom before, never seen it on a map, and yet he already felt at home. He'd been travelling through the mountain-pass, when he'd seen it sparkling like a golden jewel ... | The city, set on a hill in an unrealistically beautiful landscape gleamed in the sunlight. The birds chirped a perfectly beautiful song. Water cascaded in the river merrily. The walls were a perfectly creamy white. Not a single stone was out of place.
Theo hated it. Magic poured out of every orifice. All he could do w... | 2019-01-07T08:01:35 | 2019-01-07T07:56:05 | 305 | 221 |
[WP] Your mum has told you you're sick all your life. You take tablets everyday and agree to travel in a wheelchair because she says you're too weak. One day a counsellor and police officer come to your door. They tell you your mum has been taken away and everything she has ever told you is a lie.
​ | "Mom?" The house is quiet, aside from the squeaking of my wheelchair as I roll across the wooden floor into the kitchen. The clock on my bedside table read 11:32 when I finally mustered the strength to climb into my wheelchair on my own. Mom usually doesn't let me sleep this late, insisting that I start on schoolwork t... | Thud!
"Uh! What was that!?" I slowly opened my eyes, the light from the window made it hard to see.
"What time is it?.. 11:15am!", my mother wakes me at 7:30 every morning. "Shit! I've missed my first round of meds, and the second are due at noon. Where's my mother?".
I dragged my legs over the edge of the bed and slid... | 2018-09-04T09:06:23 | 2018-09-04T07:51:57 | 43 | 20 |
[WP] On every planet, there is one being who is a living recorder for everything that happens. During the yearly recorder meeting, one always comes in emotionally drained. “Look. It’s the guy that has earth” | Every year, they held a conference between key recorders of all the habitable planets. This conference has been a tradition of the Salkin race and is treated with almost religious dedication. Currently, the conference table had one free seat, Aztal still yet to make an appearance. Annoyed whispers moved throughout the ... | “You okay, Zekt?” asked Regg. “You look you haven’t slept in a week. Your eyes have rings bigger than Saturn.”
“Ah, I’m okay.” Zekt slumped down into the seat next to Regg .”Just another one of those earth years, you know?”
Regg slapped Zekt’s back, “Relax, only another billion and you’ll get yourself a new assignmen... | 2021-08-13T07:22:55 | 2021-08-13T06:38:07 | 714 | 535 |
[WP] You are a demon that takes firstborns as payments. When it comes time for payment, you don't do anything evil with the children. Instead, you raise them to be outstanding people. You are responsible for generations of leaders, Doctors, and Heroes. | "But why?" asked the demon hunter. He finally let up and put the cross away, hesitant as he may have been, which allowed me to speak with more comfort.
"Because they deserve better," I said. "What kind of a parent gives up their child for a sack of infinite turnips? Do you honestly think they would have had a better l... | I love them all like they are my own offspring. Those humans, forsaken by their own kin, traded like nothing but mere coin, they have become my own family through the years, decades, and even centuries that I have kept up my business.
Even though I gifted those neglectful parents with every riches, power, fame, ... | 2022-02-05T10:32:19 | 2022-02-05T10:20:44 | 465 | 108 |
[WP] You arrive in the year 1000, and all you have are the clothes on your back, a laptop with the entire Wikipedia library, and a solar charger. | Day 1: I awoke in what I can only assume to be a wheat field.. (maybe barley?...whatever..). The sun is low in the sky...east...it must be morning. This is not the first time I've woken to find myself in a strange place, but at least I'm wearing pants...sometimes it's best to focus on the positives during times of c... | I should have prepared more. I didn't though it will work on the first run. And the return mechanism is not ready yet - and never will be now. I do have most of the required knowledge and a good memory of my own plans but even with all that knowledge I'll never be able manufacture, or in that manner, create the machine... | 2016-12-27T18:00:37 | 2016-12-27T12:31:19 | 128 | 21 |
[WP] It started normally enough: A doctor brought you back from the brink of death after an accident. Then it happened again after illness. Then again after a heart attack. Hundreds of years have passed and you can't die or age. He always drags you back. | As sweat runs down my face I keep praying that this goes right. I am on second highest floor of a brand new building. After living in the mountains for almost two hundred years, I have an affinity for tall buildings. For now, I am living in this high rise apartment that finished construction just a month ago. No tenant... | Light begins peak through as I gently open my eyes. I feel my chest rising and falling letting me know that I am alive.
Again?, I think hoping and praying that this is a different experience.
As I regain my senses and turn my head to the left I realize I am in the hospital. An adorable holographic nurse tells me tha... | 2019-09-14T08:49:52 | 2019-09-14T08:22:20 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] A son dies, and his parents leave his room untouched. A year later, the son's distant father enters the room for the first time since the death. He decides to look through his son's computer in an attempt to finally get to know who his son is. | OP, I forgot you said a year later by the time I started writing, so I changed it to 10 years. I hope that's okay. Otherwise, you're still going to hate me when you finish the story.
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As I opened the door, the first thing I saw was the dust. No matter where you looked, that was the first thing you saw. A thin film... | My first attempt at responding to one of these :)
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He sighs. The weight of his sigh lies on his shoulders, nowadays in a permanent stoop. He is in mourning.
The door stands slightly ajar, as it always has.
She doesn’t go in. They haven’t, since that day. One year ago today, when their... | 2015-02-25T13:14:20 | 2015-02-25T13:08:16 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] You've saved the lives of thousands. You're the reason names and dates aren't associated with horrendous disasters. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, you're an uncatchable serial killer with inscrutable motives. | There are lines, you know. No, not that kind of line, not the ones I cross when I take a life. Take a lives. Take lives? Yes, that’s it. Sorry, they distract me. The lines, that is.
They’re everywhere, all over the world, coming together, flowing apart, from person to person through time and space and heartbreak. Joy,... | It's said that death is the great equalizer. And if that's so, then call me Death.
I was granted this power long ago by the spirits of the dead, and for a time, I was terrified to use it. Getting to decide who lives and dies was a responsibility that only those with the highest morals would have. The responsibility th... | 2019-04-03T06:10:47 | 2019-04-03T06:06:49 | 220 | 12 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | “It’ll be pyrokenisis”, my dad said, for the thousandth time, as his fingers sparked the hob beneath the kettle. “It’s one of the most heritable powers, and we already struck out on Dan. I’m just saying, the odds are on our side."
Mum rolled her eyes, for the thousandth time. “Whatever it is, it will be wonderful”, sh... | I took a deep breath in. Closing my eyes as I started to open the packet. The research done about my powers took a lot longer than everyone else's. It has been some months after I took the power test. Once the results was mailed in, I sat there excited. My packet was different from the others. Bringing my hopes up that... | 2022-05-08T12:14:09 | 2022-05-08T11:24:06 | 241 | 91 |
[WP] The Genie looks at you puzzled 'So... you wish for everyone to have 4 arms?', and you say 'yes, I wish that tomorrow everyone wakes up having 4 arms, no explanation, just 4 arms, and if they only had 1 arm or none now they have 4' | I stepped out onto my front porch, and greeted the sunrise with a yawn, and a wide stretch of my arms. The hands of my *other* arms rested on my hips. It felt like I'd always had the extra limbs, even though I'd just woken up with them today.
*"I wish everyone would wake up tomorrow having four arms! No explanation, j... | I pulled myself into the Genie's cave, cursing every inch of rocky ground. "Genie!"
The only answer was the drip-dripping of water into a distant pool of water.
"Genie," I growled. "I know you can hear me."
She popped out of the air with a laugh. "You knew the rules. One wish. No take-backs. Be sure about your wish,... | 2022-07-11T09:31:58 | 2022-07-11T09:12:18 | 549 | 210 |
[WP] "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." | The summons for Lucia Farrowstone came, as they always did, a pinch too late and a tad too cryptically.
“Harperston,” the parchment read, “North by northeast, two hundred miles. Forty-eight hours before situation becomes untenable. No others available, you’re on your own.”
Having served its purpose, the parchment sl... | The mist was thick and wet and Hugo could feel it pushing down on him like a thousand tiny hands; it was as if something was warning him, *imploring* him, not to go any further. No, he was reading too much into it. He was still feeling jittery after the ship's near-miss.
"Hello," he yelled out, but his voice was swall... | 2017-02-22T10:14:57 | 2017-02-22T10:02:36 | 899 | 44 |
[WP] Two years ago the sun winked out, utterly without warning. You are a member of one of the last human settlements on earth, huddled around a geothermal vent in Iceland. This morning, again without warning, the Sun rose. | I went a little overboard with this and the story ended up being almost three thousand words long. So, this is just the introduction. But thank you for the great prompt and motivation to do some writing!
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The Dying Light
Haley-Deanne was born April 14th, 2021, at 3:47 pm on a beautiful sunny spring day... | Do you think on the lives of ants when stepping on the ground?
Do you erect a dam and consider what animals drowned?
So how can you blame us when we snuffed out star
considering how negligent you are.
***
We surrounded your star with metal to take heat,
and never once did we consider the effects of this feat.
You... | 2018-07-21T12:59:48 | 2018-07-21T12:21:38 | 67 | 38 |
[WP] Obsessed with using postit note reminders after learning of Alzheimer's Disease running in his family, a man tries to offset the disease early in life. One day he discovers a postit note warning him that something or someone is in his house. A postit note he doesn't recall writing. | Jeremy savored the feel of the cold water on his face. After a long day's work in the July heat, it was just the thing he needed. He toweled his face off and noticed something that he swore hadn't been there before; a post-it note on the mirror in front of him.
*GET OUT!*
Jeremy stared at the note. He didn't remember... | It's like living in a fog; everything clouded in a mix of déjà vu, jamais vu, time like a scroll, curling up on both ends and you have to tack it down.
They make paperweights for that very reason, so that you can hold things down. There was a time once where a really really long piece of paper was unrolled and even th... | 2014-12-11T08:02:51 | 2014-12-11T04:08:01 | 44 | 28 |
[WP] You are 16, living with your parents, a man claiming to be your long lost brother shows up at your door with a gun, he slowly says, "They... are not your family"
[A unique version](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/56fbbe/wp_on_a_fine_friday_afternoon_you_find_yourself/?st=IU0NPQJ7&sh=2cc3d789(... | Clay was alone. Finally. How long had it been since he'd last had the house to himself? Weeks? *Months*? Callie was back from college and equal parts jobless and hopeless. She spent most days sprawled out on the couch in the living room, hugging a MacBook to her chest and sighing loudly. Dad didn't have any friends. Mo... | He barges inside the house, slamming the door behind him. He bites down on his cigarette and grips his shotgun like a holy book.
"And who the hell are you?" I shout.
"Your long lost brother. This ain't your family. I'm getting you the hell outta here." he says, looking down the hall and into the living room before bu... | 2016-10-07T20:23:45 | 2016-10-07T19:38:09 | 141 | 46 |
[WP] A soldier almost dies on the battlefield. While bleeding out, a valkyrie descends to take him away but he's saved by a medic just in time. He keeps on volunteering for increasingly dangerous missions in hopes of seeing her again. | Blood obscured his vision as Scott woke up until the combat medic standing above him wiped his eyes clear. As his eyes focused on the face, he discovered that for the second time today Kris had saved his life.
“Fuck, Kris. Stop this. Let me go!”
Scott grabbed his weapon, stood up, and rushed back into combat. Bulle... | "Okay, listen up" said the Mission Coordinator (M.C.). "This is another suicide miss-"
A hand shot up.
Nobody was surprised.
"Craig, why don't you take it easy, huh, bud? You've been on the last 15 missions. Our mental health unit is starting to get worried about you. Your luck isn't going to hold out forever."
C... | 2019-06-02T11:58:54 | 2019-06-02T09:36:45 | 169 | 88 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Years ago, when visiting a "haunted" house in the oldest neighborhood in the city, Dave had first felt what he now referred to as "The Pressure". It was a sense of dread, a prickling of the hairs on the back of the neck. Every sense in his body would key up, warning him that Something was coming, and it wasn't friendly... | "Just get out of there, fuck off..."
The shadow slowly trickled down on the floor from the closet and slowly crawled towards the bedroom door. Alex threw himself down on the bed and turned off the lights.
Soon the thumping in the stairs started, Alex slowly turned over and looked at his door, contemplating if she wou... | 2017-05-05T07:22:19 | 2017-05-05T07:21:53 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | Three years in and still I needed remedial tutoring. It was humiliating. I knew all the spells, could recite all the formulas, but once it came time to actually put it into practice, the magic always did what it wanted, when it wanted, no matter what I tried. It did have a bad tendency to knock random items off walls a... | Magic, magic is controlling the way electrocules react with other electrocules. Animals evolved with a vascular system that contained magnetite-surfer molecules which reacted strongly with ambient electrocules. This fluid is called magein. It evolved as part of our bodies to enhance blood flow and electrical signals.. ... | 2019-04-05T15:47:48 | 2019-04-05T14:03:34 | 102 | 19 |
[WP] You have the ability to see ghosts and other supernatural beings, but have to pretend otherwise so that you won't get their attention. You had been successful, but after your spouse died in an accident, you struggle to ignore their attempts to interact with you. | I lay down on my bed, eyes closed, tears steaming down my face. The worst part of this whole funeral business is knowing that if I open my eyes, I’ll see her. My wife Janette has been, for the past few weeks after that man tried to car jack us, telling me that it’s not my fault. I saw the shadowy figure that looms over... | You linger
In my mind
Juliet
On my mind
Everyday
Moonlight that should
Give way
To dawn
I see you at the kitchen table
As I hold my tea
And add in salt
In splishing splashing drops
A slick rainbow smudge
Drifts aimlessly across ... | 2019-03-30T05:08:22 | 2019-03-30T02:32:25 | 86 | 26 |
[WP]You are a patient in a psych ward. You decide to break out, but find that the entire place was abandoned long ago | *Janet Morgan.*
My name, my mantra.
It's really the only thing I can remember now - my identity is the only thing left, the thing I cling to. This institute is the only thing I can remember; countless hours of ECT and endless jars of potent pills have destroyed my childhood and my adulthood.
Only white walls, whi... | I opened my eyes. The room was blurry at first, but soon everything was clear. The walls and ceiling were white, as was everything. I looked around, trying to figure out what was going on. But then I remembered. They had thought I was crazy.
When the vision first came to me, I thought I was insane or something. Well, ... | 2015-06-25T19:48:31 | 2015-06-25T19:46:56 | 103 | 57 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | "I don't understand general, how can you expect to beat them with so few!?"
"What do you mean ambassador?"
"We gave you their numbers ahead of time. They have over 200,000 units in the city! Why did you only bring 300 of your own?"
"Ambassador, you also gave us their equipment specs, a full layout of the city, and ... | "Radiation?!" The general sputtered "That’s... Insane!"
The chamber evidently agreed. The war council of the senate had been silent until this point. But learning that the humans had defiled Kresna 4... shudders shook the room.
"How will they resettle their young?" The senator from the Iron Spire gasped "They've pois... | 2016-05-13T09:31:34 | 2016-05-13T09:18:50 | 40 | 26 |
[WP] Your significant other is possessed by a demon. Soon after; you realize you love the demon and not your SO anymore and it's actually mutual. Now the exorcist has arrived. | Laying down on my couch enjoying its softness, hearing the sound of rain outside combined with the sound of a knife repeatedly cutting veggies and the smell of something delicious from the kitchen, these were the ideal conditions for a short nap. A truly peaceful one.
Unfortunately, someone interrupts my little ritual... | Arthur knocked on the door, and waited.
This case was right up his alley. Woman reported a sudden change of personality on her husband, started seeing lights around the house and was sure she heard the man speaking tongues. She was worried he had been replaced , and wanted an investigator to come take a look.
Of co... | 2017-10-10T03:19:24 | 2017-10-09T15:40:03 | 156 | 23 |
[WP] You're a supervillian. Your power? Making anybody and everybody nearby feel the same emotion you feel except 100x stronger. Mostly you've been using it to force people to donate absolutely all their life's savings into charities. Superheros aren't quite sure how to deal with you. | The Salvation Army Santa Claus was busier than he had ever been. He waved his bell eagerly as a line of people waited to place personal checks, bankers notes, and piles of literal cash in his collection bucket. The line wound down the block, around the corner, and down a bit further even from that.
Heartstring watched... | "Guy's Doctor Evil Mpath is doing it again, he broke into an EA board meeting and had them all jump out a window."
"Finally some real evil from the Doctor, I've had it with explaining to the media that i'm a good guy and was only beating up civilians because they were generously donating to charity."
*Five hours late... | 2018-12-17T13:44:56 | 2018-12-17T13:19:43 | 657 | 126 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people summon an animal that perfectly fits their personality to be their Guardian Spirit.
The animal would probably not be of the user's choice.
Just putting that out there. | *ritual soon omg cant w8 u onli summon once so #yolo #yoso #spirittime*
*@kaseters omg excitd wat do u tink ure gettg*
*@cutecheekbuttswag i dunno prob sth kool lyk a jaguar for mi inner beeyatch lol or sth random lyk a penguin or eggsotic lyk a peacock*
*@kaseters wat if it's #uknowat*
*@cutecheekbuttswag ill kill... | Her family all sat around her, waiting. Before long, there was a fog in the house. Her family smiled, knowing the spirit was coming. Out from the fog came a man. Not an animal, a man. The girl's family shrieked in fear and ran, while the girl let out a chuckle as the man slaughtered her family.
The Girl Was A Monster,... | 2014-06-26T02:25:59 | 2014-06-26T00:07:08 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | The Herald of the Council rose to its microphone. A robotic voice in Galactic Standard came through the speakers.
"We have assembled the Galactic Council; Sector B: Neutralization required. All options: 1) Ground combat. 2) Short-range space combat. 3) Long-range space combat. Option ~~|0) Diplomacy|~~ has been ter... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T08:01:35 | 431 | 18 |
[WP] You are the dark lord in a fantasy world however you rule a fair and just kingdom you just like to look evil while doing it. | *It's loud.*
Murmur sounds outside my castle. I groggily opened my pocket sundial. *It's only 7. What's with the commotion with these people? Shall I have Remilia reminds them of the rules?*
"開," I said with a sigh, disliking when people disturb my beauty sleep. Immediately, a small cloud appeared in front of me, all... | From my granite balcony I surveyed the depths of my domain. The sky was a bloody orange, flecked with clouds and the rising smoke of burning buildings. People, the size of ants, were torching statues and government buildings, the legacy of my rule. I turned around.
‘Why did you have to do all of this?’, the Hero said... | 2017-06-12T03:14:29 | 2017-06-12T01:33:38 | 107 | 21 |
[WP] You are one of several Princes fighting in a battle royale to inherit the Kingdom. All the Princes get a God as a sponsor, who grants them boons and abilities. Powerful sponsors include gods like Zeus, Ra and Neptune. So, it was a surprise when you found out that your sponsor is Death. | I knew this contest would be the death of me. A last grand gesture of my father to ensure the rest of his aristocrat friends had something to be entertained by before a new king was crowned. It wasn't like him in his wisdom to search for bloodshed. It wasn't right, but I was the only one fit for the job.
I'd been at ... | My brother's mocked as my sponsor was announced. Death by no means was strong or powerful. I was used to the mocking, being the youngest of 13 Brothers was never easy. I gazed around the field looking for him, my only chance of living to see the glories of tomorrow.
A cool breeze chilled my back, the hairs on my n... | 2018-11-14T09:21:33 | 2018-11-14T08:39:17 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] A stereotypical High School Anime, but the main character is a loud and proud American girl from Texas who moved to Japan with her family. | Saving to come back later. Anyway:
She has blonde hair, sunkissed skin, freckles on her face, speaks broken Japanese (although quite well for what its worth) and has beautiful green eyes.
She sits next to me in class. She was shy at first, and I could tell she had just moved here from America, but I could also tell... | It was her first day of school after moving. The 16 year old female stood in front of her mirror adjusting her skirt. It was rather weird seeing her in a school uniform rather than her normal getup of pants and a t-shirt. She felt out of place even though she was only in her room. Her ma said the last time she had worn... | 2021-07-17T10:03:01 | 2021-07-17T08:39:54 | 109 | 33 |
[WP] Video games were just added to the Olympics. | "...and I hear when the games are over, everyone just goes back to the village and has some sort of giant fucking orgy."
"Thanks, Max. Glad to hear it," said Ben halfheartedly.
"Are you kidding me right now? That doesn't excite you? Pure, 12 hour shifts of straight fucking?" Max's voice was ecstatic.
"Max, take ... | "..and in Olympic news; the inaugural year of the Gaming sub-division has started out with a smashing success. Live broadcasts of the games over the internet combined with traditional TV viewers broke records as fans tuned in in record numbers to watch the first of five eight nation tournaments.
The first tournament, ... | 2014-01-17T06:59:13 | 2014-01-17T05:46:41 | 60 | 12 |
[WP] An uncontacted island tribe ventures off their land for the first time in millennia, only to find the ashes of a long-gone, long forgotten highly advanced society.
Full disclosure: this is not my idea. Credit goes to /u/manwithfaceofbird, from [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/689m90/fed_u... | Our people built boats- it was our finest craft.
We bent wood and weave and Water to carry us across the rivers of the jungle. It is a miraculous thing, when you think about it. This conquest of water through cleverness and craftsmanship. We often forget how many marvels surround us, when we have grown up surrounded b... | We have left the island were my people originated, seemingly forever. It seems like only yesterday that I sat with my brothers fishing for food to help the village. On that fateful day the gods sent us a sign. My oldest brother had caught a fish on his line and was reeling it in when we caught sight of it, a ship. A sm... | 2017-04-29T18:04:15 | 2017-04-29T16:26:41 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] Dear diary, I’ve been feeding this creature that fell from the sky for a few days. It strangely likes to drink water, the liquid we use to fuel cars. I noticed a patch on its suit today that read “NASA”. I’ll ask it tomorrow what that means. If that’s it’s name. | Dear diary,
This is my first entry into this notebook. I don’t really know why I’m doing this, but I guess that it will help me record everything about the creature that I found. Yesterday, something out of metals hit the surface of my jakura-fields, right from the sky. It resembled a bit our space-racers, but it was... | She was a frail creature, much smaller than Levi was, but she had a sense of familiarity that lingered over their time together. Like they had known each other far longer than a few days -- when he found her, after she hurtled from the sky and landed miles from his home.
For the first few days all she did was sleep, c... | 2020-10-11T08:16:19 | 2020-10-11T07:32:54 | 1,195 | 313 |
[WP] You are a superhero, and your mask has just been ripped off by your arch nemesis. Lucky for you, when you aren’t busy saving lives, you live as a hermit away from all of society. Having your identity revealed means next to nothing, and the villain has no idea who you are. | Scorpious lifted his foot off of my chest and let go of the neck of my costume. My mask still clenched in his fist.
“You’re.... just some guy....WHAT?!”
The lower part of his face was in pure shock. His mouth hung open in disbelief.
I rolled over to my side and back into one knee. Wiping the blood was from my nose... | I gently step away from him.
Well shoot.
Now that he’s seen me, he’s gonna try and use that against me.
“So The Pesky Bird’s true identity is...who? What? I don’t...” My arch-nemesis Moredoor looked at me, bewildered. I heard them softly mutter, “what the hell...”
“May I have my bird head back? I kinda need that.” ... | 2020-08-21T05:56:23 | 2020-08-21T05:31:55 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] You have the power to wipe memories. Instead of becoming a super villain like your brother, you started a service for people who want to watch the same movie over again for the first time. | She arrived on a blazing summer afternoon in an ocean blue dress. Her eyes were concealed beneath the shades, as if the straw hat had yet to hide her face enough. She tapped on the glass, short and decisive, enough to disrupt me from my nap.
"I heard you can erase memories." - her strawberry lips wasted no time.
"I ... | It was the 25th of June. I was awakened by the sound of trash cans being tossed, as well as blaring sirens. The rank smell of burning rubber permeated the air. I jumped out of bed and grabbed my panic alarm. My twin brother had given it to me, after the 3rd time we were confused with each other.
You see, he was now... | 2018-01-12T04:04:41 | 2018-01-11T23:10:01 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] Create a fictional mythological race, (werewolves, vampires, skinwalkers, etc) and the legend behind it | Bright red letters warned on the TV weather report: “Polar Vortex expected this evening. Low of -23C. Vortex Bears likely. Stay inside.”
“I’m tired of the damn vortex bears.” I grabbed my coat. It was going to be an extra hard day at work, knowing that I might not be able to go tomorrow due to the cold.
“Dad, what’s ... | The TuneMakers;
The tune-makers are the undertone of everything, they play the strings that string theory itself consists of.
As they operate outside our perception of time there is no need to say when they began as in a non-linear fashion they have always been. Some speculate they were a paradoxical creation of an ... | 2016-12-16T08:46:55 | 2016-12-16T08:06:49 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | Her eyes settled on her blood-covered teammate. He walked along with the others up front, boasting about how he single-handedly won this for them, and they should all be buying his drinks.
She could feel her head pounding, and her anger slowly building. What would a rogue know about carrying a team? What would he kno... | “You used me as a heal bot. I did have other spells you know.” The desperate anger in his voice sounded so... sad.
“Treble, come on man, let’s talk about this.” The mostly self proclaimed party leader tried to placate him.
*Treble’s player developed a wicked grin, “roll a wisdom saving throw”*
The warforged bard br... | 2020-01-05T10:33:13 | 2020-01-05T07:42:58 | 1,546 | 889 |
[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 have been in the superhero game for a lot of years, since I was a preteen as a matter of fact, and have grown to become one of the best and most successful heroes in the world. I’ve served on countless minor teams from the Combat Kids to the New Crew and even spent a couple of years on Young Victory, the “feeder team... | ***GOO (Short story)***
Chapter One:
“The Gelatin! The Gelatin!” The people cry out my heroic name as I step through the masses to face the bank in which the tellers are being held hostage. “The Gelatin! The Gelatin!” Okay, I mean, my hero name sucks, but The Hero Association is the one that gives out names according... | 2020-12-02T11:03:41 | 2020-12-02T10:37:43 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | Only a human could be this mad. For millions of years the Galactic Federation of The Milkyway (GFM for short) had known about nuclear power but since it was not abundant outside of Earth we never thought to use it as a power source. Instead we had just propelled our solar energy techniques to be able to create power ou... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T05:25:06 | 431 | 25 |
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