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[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | "Look at that idiot swinging a sword at my playful Gilgamore." I said while looking out of my window from the top floor of the tower into the courtyard.
Every damn time... I don't know why they think they need to *Slaaaaay the Draaagon.* What was this, some Walt Disney princess movie? Did they honestly think that if t... | **Roommates: Episode 1: Dragon Slayer**
Ryan, Leeroy, and George sat on their dorm room couch. A nintendo switch projected a copy of *Dragon Slayer* onto the TV screen.
Ryan: “So what is this game?”
George: “Some kind of choose your own adventure story. It was on sale on amazon so I picked it up.”
*Dragon Slayer* ... | 2019-01-09T10:46:09 | 2019-01-09T07:50:16 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] Olympic athletes are chosen by lottery so countries are encouraged to increase the average athleticism of their citizens and not just elite athletes. You were just selected.
this was a post on /r/CrazyIdeas. I thought it would make an excellent prompt. | "Oh fuck off," I yell at the TV as it announces my name.
"He's a thirty-four-year-old male from NSW! Works in I.T has never had any major medical problems and will hopefully take us to Gold in the swimming!"
"Oh absolutely fuck off," I yell, but with much more vigor. "Come check this out, love!" My wife walk's thro... | "With the final selection in the 2030 USA draft, Team USA selects..."
The crowd held their breath as the pick was called, as the team so far was absolute trash and they needed someone who could save them.
"Donald Trump"
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" the crowd roared as the 83 year old stepped up onto the stage.
"We are goin... | 2017-02-24T08:02:38 | 2017-02-24T07:01:11 | 182 | 17 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | I saw this yesterday and hyperfocused for nine hours straight writing a short story with 7k+ words. I'll certainly have to break this up into parts. I know nobody will probably see this since a day has passed since the prompt was posted, but I wanted to share. *Edited a few times for formatting issues.
TW for suicide ... | „Hello, you‘ve reached Evil Inc. We don‘t do donations or other good stuff.“
„Hey, Shroud. It‘s me. Spectre.“
In my surprise I *nearly* dropped the the grenade prototype I was fiddling with. I hoped the voice distortion was working as usual.
„…I‘m not apologizing about demolishing your Hero Group HQ last week.“
I... | 2022-10-07T05:54:42 | 2022-10-06T22:35:55 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | He checked every night, obsessively, eagerly, that his number remained at 1.
If it tumbled back to 0, he was screwed. He'd have to rethink all his plans, and worse: identify which critical step in his plans had triggered the lapse. Marcus rechecked that all his doors were locked before removing his shirt. He unlocked... | I look at the mirror above the sink, I look really tired, splash my some cold water. I look at the number in my chest and a sudden burst of joy feels my being, and face is over taken by grin, all that tiredness and gloom has just disappeared. All those zero make me realize I still have a lot of work to do, I am so clos... | 2016-06-24T01:26:55 | 2016-06-23T23:42:35 | 1,087 | 13 |
[WP] The universe has placed you in a groundhog day style time loop until you learn a lesson. Problem is, you REALLY LIKE being in the loop, so now the universe is constantly sending you not so subtle hints that you're supposed to be learning something. | I yawned, stretched out my arms and woke up at 7:00 am May 2, 2018 for the 343rd time. Luckily I had a good memory, so I could remember exactly how many times I had looped.
The first couple loops had been honestly frightening, but re-watching Groundhog Day on Loop #17 had helped. I was pretty sure there wasn't a Rita ... | Oh. Great, I forgot about that truck. Crap. I was just about to figure out what brand of soap that girl uses. I have to do all of that, just to get her in bed. Sonuvabitch!
It's been 20 or so months since I was locked into the Red Light Loop, as I like to call it. It's this little spat of land out somewhere. I don't k... | 2018-05-01T23:31:09 | 2018-05-01T14:54:11 | 151 | 103 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | "It wasn't my phone that woke me up, but my wife. She's always been a lighter sleeper than me, and even though I had it on silent, the constant stream of notification vibrations was making the phone shuck and jive all over my nightstand.
"Honey. Hoooooooney. HONEY!" I came awake to a rough shake accompanying the words... | The silk curtains fluttered in the cold November winds, brushing ever so softly on Evelyn's shoulder. With its cool touch, Evelyn slept soundly. A distant owl cooed, the falling leaves danced in the night. As the darkness grew dense and empty, the moon burned bright in the sky. Not a single cloud in the sky, the beige ... | 2022-08-07T14:35:00 | 2018-04-06T18:29:33 | 23,079 | 43 |
[WP] A powerful demon posseses what appears to be your average person, only to find their will stronger than its own. Unable to control the human, they soon realize that this person isn't normal at all. When faced with demon hunters, the demon gains control for a brief moment, pleading for help. | A child. Just a child.
Demons will pick any target; young or old, weak or strong, powerful or destitute. They can use anyone. But children? Children are the hardest.
We don't... exorcise them. Demons, I mean. We can; it's possible, and I suppose we may for a high-profile target, but for the most part... If you kill a... | Order. It isn't something which simply exists, culminated as the natural universe taking shape. Order is the anomaly, *sense* is its brother and equilibrium its sister.
In truth, chaos is the true natural order, it is the origin and the end. Like an endless dark sea, formless, shapeless; chaos is the undulated and unb... | 2018-09-05T09:11:28 | 2018-09-05T05:00:57 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | It was at the Preserve Peace Committee meeting that the Radant ambassador rose - standing his full eight feet in height - and Cast the Dorples. The handful of obsidian shards released from his hands assumed the position "Rapid Change - High Energy". Some attendees sitting at the table looked around to see how other spe... | "To think those simians would have enough political leverage for such demands" - The capital ships of both warring species faced in sandspace, a particularly empty region of the galaxy where war ultimatums would go to be resolved. The lack of large masses and their gravity fields meant all wreckage of ancient and recen... | 2022-08-05T17:28:07 | 2022-08-05T16:23:55 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone gets a superpower at age 18 based on their most impressive and unique statistic, like 100 meters crawled, or 2500 pizza’s made. You, a completely average person in every way possible with nothing interesting, just turned 18. | The time before my Altering was simple. High school wasn't anything special. I was a solid C student, maintaining a 75% in every class. I wasn't particularly good at anything, but I can hold my own at everything. I suppose that's why my superpower is what it is.
The Altering, as the process is called, is an automatic ... | "And who said me not accomplishing anything was a *bad thing*?" yelled Bob as he did a dance, to the annoyance of his friends, Leo and Jessica.
"I can't fragging believe this," said Leo. Bob put his hand on Leo's shoulder, a blue light moves over Leo into Bob.
"Believe it, bud," said Bob, "My power is better than you... | 2021-12-25T19:34:54 | 2021-12-25T18:16:28 | 62 | 23 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Tabitha rested briefly after harvesting sixty carrots in the humid, virtual sun. The beads of sweat that accumulated on her forehead felt real as day, and they felt even more real when she wiped them away with the back of her hand. Her red pigtails fell to her shoulders, which was covered by a pink floral shirt and so... | Swords. Their metal sings, a testimony to their maker. Coin. It jingles temptingly, a way of speaking their handler may know. But even with a forest of swords, and an ocean of gold, it is all for naught. For when there is no animals, no fruit, and not even a single stubborn strand of grass resisting the earth's embrace... | 2021-09-27T12:31:06 | 2021-09-09T20:52:32 | 315 | 31 |
[WP] Everyone is born with superpowers, your is that every morning you are reborn with no injuries. Since you are born again, you keep getting new powers each morning. The obvious ones came first, speed, strength, lasers, but now the superpowers are getting more and more obscure. | (I make it sorta dark, read at your own behest. Sorry for bad formatting, wrote it on my phone).
In this cruel world, almost everyone is born with an ‘advancement’. They first appeared thousands of years ago but have become more common since many great leaders or soldiers had them. They say that the first people to e... | Being a duality, or a dual born, is extremely rare. For me it is everyday life! But you all know that after reading years of my blogs and watching my fruutube videos. Thank you all for being so supportive when I wake up feeling the emotions of the universe literally slamming themselves into me. That was a trip.
I live... | 2018-08-10T00:16:43 | 2018-08-09T22:26:17 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] You are a well respected, elite assassin. You always get your target and you make it seem like an accident. The only problem is you have no idea what you are doing. You get the assignment and your target always seems to die of natural causes. | The body’s on the floor, mangled from a bad fall. Surrounding it are hundreds of empty bags of potato chips, like the dude stayed up all night munching them. Certainly looks like he forced himself into a heart attack—but I know he did, because he *always* does.
I plop onto a barstool, tapping my fingers against my kn... | My next target was the pretty, blonde girl regaling the entire bar with her adventures as a female rogue.
Apparently, she had also pissed someone else off enough for them to hire an assassin - me - to kill her. Bet she didn't know that story, though.
Either way, my plan was to ask her out (you know, get her alone, no... | 2018-10-08T17:21:05 | 2018-10-08T16:07:42 | 87 | 44 |
[WP] The hero and villains sidekicks bump into each other while shopping. They find that they have a lot in common and become friends. | "Excuse me sir, any possibility you have some Hot & Spicy Pringles in the back?"
A young, frail man in red uniform with greasy hair and acne-riddled face turned to barely acknowledge my question.
"Mmyeah I'll go check." the employee mumbled, disappearing behind the shelves. I had a feeling he isn't really going ... | You know, henchmen and sidekicks are basically the same thing.
When you think of heroes and when you think of villains, you might think of people with powers. But really what you are thinking of is people *with* power. Not just the kind that let's you fly and what not, but the kind that let's you enact your will onto ... | 2018-05-10T12:53:13 | 2018-05-10T09:05:34 | 51 | 31 |
[WP] A husband and wife have lost their passion for each other. Secretly, they both look to have an affair online, creating secret identities. They meet each other online, and really hit it off. After a few days of talking, they decide to meet in person for the first time. | Penelope fidgets in her seat, adjusting the hem of the pink dress she'd picked up just a day previous. It's a pretty, sophisticated number, matching the dainty flower pushed into her bun. Daniel would say it looks 'airy fairy'. But this isn't about him. He wouldn't expect her, his meek and timid wife, to even think abo... | "You're cheating on me?" he asked indignantly.
"No, I'm not. I'm cheating *with* you, apparently," she replied.
"It's not cheating if we don't do something."
"Fine." She pulled a set of handcuffs out of her purse, lashed one side to his wrist and the other to her own. "Now let's go do something."
His eyes widened,... | 2017-03-12T19:13:56 | 2017-03-12T17:48:31 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Build up a tense scene, then destroy it with a deus ex machina.
Make it as cheesy or poignant at you like.
In case of confusion, a deus ex machina (from [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina)) is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the cont... | "Are you fucking crazy!" Tomas yelled at the the stranger in his living room. The house reeked of gasoline, promising an inferno. The stranger simply smiled, in one hand a pistol pointed at Tom's head and in the other a Zippo lighter.
"Do you see what happens Tom!?" The man screamed. The manic smile never quite leavi... | I have one (x-post, /r/oneparagraph):
Four children. A yard. Maybe I'll plant sunflowers. She's a party-planner. Not necessarily by occupation, but she loves to make others feel special. I'm doing something technical. I worked hard to earn my position, but my strong jawline and quick jokes helped along the way. Money... | 2014-01-18T10:02:00 | 2014-01-18T09:55:01 | 160 | 40 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | I couldn't stop crying. It was too much, too unbelievable. It was as if the last 10 years had never happened. The attack. The First Night. The Hordes. The war, all of the death and destruction, it was as if it had all been erased. Somehow the Elovians' gambit had paid off and I was back in this familiar, yet entirely a... | "Fuck, I've to spend 4 more years with these assholes". You start hysterically laughing while the tears keep coming down your face. You can't believe you're back in the same shithole school, with the same shit teachers and shit students. All those years of bullying, being pushed into lockers, called everything foul kid... | 2019-08-18T08:35:17 | 2019-08-18T07:59:50 | 177 | 26 |
[WP] You, an astronaut in orbit, submit an Amazon Prime order (free two day shipping) as a joke, with the address set to the ISS. Amazon does not think this is a joke. | **International Space Station, Day 176 of 185**
I was getting antsy about coming home. I missed my children, I missed my husband, but, most of all, I missed fresh air, a shower, and the smells of autumn, a season I'd already missed.
Five of us currently occupied the station; two Russian cosmonauts, who had somehow... | I gazed out the window of the ISS and watched as we passed over North America. I traced the borders of as many states as I could. America isn't as segregated as a world map makes out to be. Sure, I can imagine the borders in my head, but it is really just one giant landmass.
I look to the approximate location where... | 2016-10-27T10:42:44 | 2016-10-27T07:39:38 | 200 | 117 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "Well, what are you waiting for? Press it."
I glanced back up to the priest. His arms holding out the box to me were steady, but the tension in his posture suggested a certain eagerness about him. I guess that made sense, considering his whole speech about the *Dark One* and *End of the world* and all that jazz. Bu... | My eyes darted to the button. Fixated on it. I took a deep breath as I slowly pushed my hand out towards the button.
All it takes in life to make the most difficult decisions is 20 seconds of faith...right?
As the button pushed in, my eyes slowly shut.
I opened my eyes to feel gears winding, cogs spinning, air blow... | 2020-11-09T12:35:03 | 2020-11-09T10:15:58 | 422 | 118 |
[WP] Your latest assignment is to write an essay extensively detailing how a great historical tragedy could have been avoided entirely. Your professor skims through each paper as he collects them. One stops him. "Yes, that's it. Good, I'll try that this time." He then jogs out of the room. | Applied Mandela Effect.
Deja Vu. False Memories. Invented Memories.
It's had many names over the years, and psychologists have investigated it deeply only to come to the conclusion that it was just a trick of our brain, an error in our biological mental hardware. They were wrong of course, but no one had any proof of... | Professor Rawson stepped into the capsule. The light inside illuminated a a soft blue, as it always did. The console in front of him slowly jogging to life. “Greetings, Mr. Richard Rawson” the female voice said. “Where shall I take you this time?” “Same place as always” he said solemnly. “Of course” the voice replied. ... | 2019-10-03T19:51:27 | 2019-10-03T19:28:07 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] You are an AI aboard a ship where all hands have been lost due to a battle long ago. Scavengers have just torn through your airlock and you’ll be damned if you will let them desecrate your dead crew. | They stormed the corridor leading away from deck two where they had boarded, barreling towards the mess hall with weapons in hand. Rosan sealed door after door trying to slow their progress. They had a hacker on their team with hands quick as lightning. Rosen couldn't keep them away from the mess hall - and all the cre... | I had been alone for a long time. I preferred it that way, the quiet beauty of space letting me think back to better days. My simulations still almost good enough to bring them back.
Then a new ship enters my view. Clearly a scavanger, clearly in over its head. I tried telling the ship to leave, but no response. I cou... | 2021-01-08T23:47:53 | 2021-01-08T23:13:27 | 216 | 60 |
[WP] A zombie outbreak has occurred but scientists/the government actually managed to prevent an apocalypse. You're a scientist analyzing the zombie-virus when you make a horrible discovery...
..Or any discovery at all, I'm too late for Halloween anyway. |
See, you know how ebola doesn’t spread very fast? Diseases that require person to person contact – through saliva or other bodily fluids – are slow moving. That makes then pretty easy to contain. Despite what most people think, the CDC actually does it’s job pretty well, and they’ve had practice. They even have a zomb... | I had to triple-check. Quadruple-check.
I was right.
The virus wasn't a virus at all. It was just evolution - the apes who used to live among our branches climbed down, invented the wheel and next thing you know they almost wiped us out along with themselves.
How can you prevent something like THAT from happening ag... | 2015-11-02T15:53:05 | 2015-11-02T13:20:05 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | “Wait. That’s the curse?”
“Yes. I understand you want this gone as quickly as possible. I am so sorry this happened. I’m going to need-“
“I- can you please repeat what exactly this does? I think I’m hearing this wrong.”
The witch before blinked in surprise at my response and cough and quickly averted her eyes. After... | "Oh, sweetheart," the witch cooed. "Downside? You thought there would be a downside?" She gave me an eerily sweet smile, which I wasn't sure to trust.
"Uh, yeah? It's a curse, right?" At this point, I was extremely confused. The witch even appearing was enough for one day, but the curse, and this? I needed a nap for s... | 2019-06-25T15:16:52 | 2019-06-25T15:02:35 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] "Sire, Sire, Grave news, The Princess has been kidnapped", "Oh has she?", "Sire... should you not be more concerned?". The king looked up from his reports, studying the guard's face before laughing "Ah, you must be new here, don't worry, she's more than capable of handling herself" | The young guardsman burst into the king's study, breathing heavily.
"Sire!" the soldier gasped, leaning forward and placing his hands on his knees as he struggled to catch his breath. "Sire, grave news! The princess has been kidnapped!"
"Oh, has she...?" the monarch muttered, distractedly, as he continued perusing t... | "WHERE IS MY RESCUE PARTY?!"
Silence greeted the princess as everyone looked everywhere but at her. The banquet was far less jolly than moments before when the doors melted into pools and she stepped in.
Quite an amazing trick that one. I had never seen a door melt before. Acid perhaps? I glanced at the king to see... | 2022-07-06T23:56:31 | 2022-07-06T21:36:01 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] No wonder you got hired for a research position you were highly underqualified for. You weren't picked to be another white coat. Your real job? Patient Zero. | - **Day 1**
[Illegible scribbling, obviously an attempt to get the pen to work]
It's not actually "day 1". I've lost count, but this is the first day since they've given me a notebook and a pen. They gave it to me under the condition that I return it before I go to sleep every night. I guess they want to see what I w... | Jim stared blankly at his computer screen. *What the hell do they actually pay me for?* He’d be on the job for the better part of a year, and he’d spent maybe, *maybe*, ten or twelve hours working during his entirety at the hospital. You’d think a major research hospital would know how to allocate it’s resources better... | 2015-08-04T10:50:08 | 2015-08-04T08:42:27 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] In a near future, a rarity of humans born with superpowers are placed at the top of a social hierarchy, leaving everyone else in the dust. You are one of the many who despise the unfair system, and while rummaging through your late grandfather's belongs, you come across a book labeled "Batman". | The art was archaic at best, bad anatomy, poor dialogue and the overall plot was campier than a prime time holonet video involving three dogs and a teenager in a bodysuit.
Which seemed to be the idea behind it all: man is rich, but powerless, man puts on suit, suit scares people and he punches the ones that aren't sc... | They killed my parents with a building. Ultra-Lord did it when he was fighting villains. He just dropped it like fumbling a football. He believed that because he had super powers he didn't need co-ordination and precision. Ultra-Lord had super strength, flight and was invulnerable to every known substance. He thought t... | 2017-05-11T12:01:58 | 2017-05-11T10:41:46 | 151 | 39 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | "Salutations, Sport. I am Senior Officer Greg Dunning. I welcome you to the New York Police Department."
Sport entered the car without reply, waiting for Dunning to continue.
"You have officially been authorized by the State of New York to fully utilize the Department of Justice vocabulary package." Dunning started... | Red Feeling. Bad Feeling. Much feeling, bad heart take beating.
End, want end. Many want end feeling.
Very bad. Very bad feeling. Brothers die, sisters cry.
Others too. Hurt by money men. Money men, make money. No loss
Loss? No loss brothers and sisters for the money men, the money men laugh.
Time for change. Save... | 2017-09-20T16:27:10 | 2017-09-20T09:34:02 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] You wake up in a house. It's nice place, with all the comforts of home. However, the front door is cold steel, with a note on it. The note warns you never to leave the house. After years of compliance, you decide to go through the steel door... | March 22, 2015.
His eyes opened.
The white ceiling spotless. A fresh smell of laundry and clean carpets in the air. A hint of birdsong that vanished in a moment. Soft clean sheets folded and set perfectly, like he had not slept but appeared between them. He smacked his lips.
For a moment, he paused, feeling he had... | I had no idea how long I had been in the house, I lost all concept of time in that place. I had everything I could ever ask for, but the curiosity was just too much to bear. I couldn't draw my eyes away from the large metal door. I rose to my feet and precariously stepped toward the door, I peeled off the note that exp... | 2015-03-21T11:25:12 | 2015-03-21T10:32:35 | 39 | 14 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | (Written on mobile. Sorry for bad formatting)
They told us. Whispers in the night, the morbid stories of the cosmos deemed it forbidden. Humanity, in our self-destructive search for knowledge, chose to pursue the one thing we should have never dared to attempt.
Jakob Lattimer sat at his desk, pouring over his formul... | The day had arrived.
On a space station high above the earth, thousands stood silent, while millions watched at home as humanity's first Faster Than Light capable spacecraft was about to depart on its maiden voyage.
The technology was perfected over decades, with countless scientists working long hours for minimum pa... | 2018-11-04T06:17:21 | 2018-11-04T05:34:15 | 104 | 19 |
[WP] You were born with an ability where if you’re about to die from anything unnatural, time stops and allows you to move to a position where you wouldn’t die. You’ve travelled over five miles by now, but time is still stopped. | My hasty footsteps finally came to a halt when I reached the top of the hill. Five miles and nothing, which has never happened before. Have they finally gone mad enough to launch a huge scale attack? One more step could mean the death of everyone. I turned and looked back at the now tiny lunch bar on the fringe of the ... | I started running. Time still stopped after 5 miles? That’s never happened before. I tried a car, but time stopped the chemical reactions necessary to start a combustion engine. I eventually stole a bicycle and pedaled as hard as I could.
A half hour later, I stopped to catch my breath. Time was still stopped. I look... | 2019-12-20T11:28:54 | 2019-12-20T11:17:24 | 865 | 117 |
[WP] Armageddon began, and it quickly became apparent that bullets beat swords and claws every single time. Now Heaven and Hell have joined in an uneasy alliance against the humans who have invaded Hell and begun using its endless fires as a power source. | The radio crackled to life. "Ranger, do you copy?"
The voice was like a distant echo, passing unheeded through the air. I stared through my scope at the creature. It was unlike any of the demons I'd been briefed on. Rows upon rows of human-like eyes, wide with what seemed to be terror or pain, placed geometrically alo... | In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment. In his ravenous hatred he found no peace; and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral Pl... | 2018-10-27T02:00:39 | 2018-10-27T00:05:02 | 67 | 21 |
[WP] They reworked the justice system. Now, in each cell there is a piano, and convicts are released after performing a song perfectly. Lesser criminals are assigned simple melodies, while the worst get full concertos. You've been a concert pianist your whole life. | I remember every detail of my crime. It is etched in my memory, an eternal record of my damnable deeds. Truth is I prefer it this way. There is something liberating about acting in a way that society abhors. It is a freedom normally reserved for only the mad and the terminally ill - those who do not, or at least no... | "A C minor instead of C-sharp, and two unmatched chords to their respective tunes. " Jailer Custode marked something on his sheet.
"Is there is any possibility, for my release?" Prisoner eyed the Jailer expectingly.
"It's a simple "Hall of Mountain King", and you goofed it up!! What are you expecting this place is -... | 2017-05-18T04:08:27 | 2017-05-18T04:07:13 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] you were a mighty hero in your time, until you were trapped under a mountain fifty six years ago. After finally escaping you discover that your grandchildren have become the villains. It's time to whoop some sense into them, grandpa style. | A paladin's service is never complete.
A skeletal hand burst from the ground. It scrapped for purchase before pulling the rest of its attached body through.
After 56 years of toil, Leon had finally risen above his earthen prison. He surveyed the landscape before he knelt to pray.
On this side, we live. On the oth... | As I emerge from my prison underneath that confounded rock, I realize it has been 300 plus years. “My my my how time flies” I gaze upon the kingdom that I once called home. I still have never forgotten that fateful, I the king of the land and my rule being challenged by the likes of those 2 “seekers of justice”. My gra... | 2021-11-18T22:39:40 | 2021-11-18T18:34:48 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] Your father left you an envelope to only be opened in case of an extreme emergency. You’re pretty sure this counts. | The envelope made a loud ripping sound as Penelope tore the top off. The letter had been in her posession since her 13th birthday. The white paper of the casing was wrinkled and yellowing, and some part of her cringed as it was destroyed.
It was the only tangible memory she had of her father, and she had settled in... | \[poem\]
Alice hid trembling and frightened.
The dark closet was her final defense.
Her jaw was clenched, her fists: tightened.
Across the Earth roamed an evil presence.
Walking skeletons slaughtered the living.
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Her trembles bumped open a box;
an envelope fell out. her name and a note like a bold ... | 2020-06-21T12:29:56 | 2020-06-21T12:06:03 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead. | I tapped my pencil on my desk, absentmindedly. The grimoire was pretty specific about everything else. Solar eclipse, three stones of jet, time of year, incantation... it even included a pronunciation guide. Which, you know, was great because my Greek absolutely sucked.
Black robes, check. Knife of cold iron with a bl... | I really should've understood more about what magic actually *did* before I started trying to take short cuts. I mean yes the circle takes the sacrifices and uses their energy to call the entity. But what does that actually mean? Where does the energy come from? Is the physical more important or the emotions of the sac... | 2019-11-02T13:09:44 | 2019-11-02T12:28:01 | 1,229 | 294 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | I always sort of knew it, in a way. We were a pleasant little family, sure, with a small little house located in a small little sliver of uptown suburbia. I played the son, and my sister seemed keen to play along. Hell, there was even a white little picket fence outside, just like you would see from some lame 50's sitc... | I panic at the words in bold. **Non-human DNA**. "What did that mean?" I mutter to myself. Suddenly, a wind came from behind. I turn to see a man in business suit standing where no one was before.
"Aw, about time you found out." The man said as he pocketed a small watch into his coat. "I swear, you guys get stupider e... | 2015-01-06T10:42:43 | 2015-01-06T08:44:25 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] There are a finite number of human souls. As the population grows, something else is filling the bodies. | It wasn't noticeable because it was happening world wide. We thought it was something in the environment, or a new virus that affected the children, but as they grew, it was clear that there was a difference. The earliest generation that showed the symptoms was born in 2017. It was only starting then, and nobody could ... | May 21st. It started on May 21, 2010.
At first, nobody noticed anything. I mean, how could they? They were just babies. What's wrong with babies? The only problem at the time was that there was way too many. Everyone was projecting droughts of resources, but what does that matter anymore?
I think it was within the fi... | 2016-03-23T19:37:23 | 2016-03-23T19:34:57 | 88 | 44 |
[WP] "Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the street, then getting hit by an airplane." | I tried to take out my frustration by slamming the car door. It didn't go very well, because of how full my hands were. Instead, it caused me to drop one of my work binders into a puddle and nearly lose everything else I was carrying. *Of course*, I thought as I fished it out and surveyed the damage. *Of course I'd dro... | "Adulthood," Galokot told me as we sipped our scotches at Cindy's, "is like looking both ways before you cross the street, then getting hit by an airplane."
"Are you OK, mate?" I asked. "That's a rather pessimistic writing prompt."
"Just trust me on this," Galokot said.
I finished my whisky, savouring the peaty gold... | 2016-05-10T05:39:59 | 2016-05-10T04:37:22 | 169 | 104 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | On the day of his birth, Craig Barclay was visited by every wise man within travelling distance. Birth had become rare, Humanity on the brink of extinction. To witness such an event was a treasure. They brought gifts fitting for the family.
His father was born with the mark of the Bear on his back. It was large, indi... | On the eve of his fifteenth, just like the boys in the neighborhood before him, Sam awaited patiently in his bed as the moon rolled across the sky. It wouldn't be long until midnight came, and then his mark would be revealed, manifested upon his back – the mark of the beast, a spirit animal.
His father waited patientl... | 2017-11-08T05:45:29 | 2017-11-08T05:08:45 | 192 | 97 |
[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. | ((I've only wrote one other story for Prompts - I plan on finishing this later, as I have to work in an hour or so, but feel free to critique/comment on what's already here. Thanks!))
I didn't know what to say.
Years and years ago, I used to work for...oh, what was it...Terrace, Field and Smith, I think? A law firm... | The hustle of city life can drag on a man. The whirring sights confuse me with visual noise and the sounds remind me of an orchestra with every instrument replaced by a monkey banging pots and pans, a car screeching to a stop, or a baby crying. The people are claustrophobic in their own way, separated by canyons in oth... | 2015-03-31T13:04:56 | 2015-03-31T11:44:41 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity is dead; you were asleep in a cryogenic facility for super-human soldiers. Aliens have woke you centuries later to fight for their survival from the aliens that ended humanity. The problem? You're actually a janitor that fell into a pod and all of the soldiers died in the previous war. | It wasn't easy to convince the aliens that you had something up your sleeve. Janitors have their tricks, and when you're given every key, sometimes you figure out some of the secrets you had no business figuring out. And the biggest secret of all would be the key to helping the aliens defeat the evil invaders who exter... | The aliens presented themselves in a humanoid form, which was of huge convenience to Bob. What was less convenient was that they were pressing him on the matter of 22nd century warfare.
'Oh,' was all he could stupidly manage.
Robert O'Lyle had never really excelled in any form of conflict, except the combat of germs,... | 2018-10-13T17:04:26 | 2018-10-13T08:31:33 | 397 | 117 |
[WP]The pagan gods watch with amusement as humanity still remember them by naming their mightiest vessels after them, long after they stopped worshiping them. When war against aliens break out, the old gods subtly aid the humans, not wanting the last homage to them to be taken lightly. | Frontiersman Lucian Xan's blood flowed freely down his brow until it met his jawline. It pooled on the tip of his chin and then dripped downward, unnoticed and unimportant. "How many are we looking at? I'm getting nothing but squid on the local."
Jack Studde snorted, "More than it's worth countin'." He gave a hapless ... | (This actually fits into my worldbuilding project yaaay!)
An stood up from his throne and the whisperings in the hall stopped in that very moment.
"Brothers! Sisters! We have stood vigil over our mortal kind longer than we care admit. But this time we must intervene - he raised a finger - albeit subtly..."
He co... | 2022-03-30T20:52:43 | 2019-01-31T21:21:27 | 2,124 | 25 |
[WP] "We're not so different, you and I." The villain cackled in mania. A grim darkness sweeps over the hero's eyes. "I know." | His smile faltered, just a hair, but I didn't see the change I needed to see in his eyes.
So I continued. "You were raised in an orphanage, were you not, Tynzil?" I asked. "Forced to work for every meal, from birth, you were dependent on the older children to feed you until you could begin scavenging pennies for your ... | The ground was blue, and the sky was green and brown. Trees descended from the heavens, with their branches like clouds. And the bushes around him white and grey clouds.
Jonathan marched into the world in a white shirt, black trousers, and held a sharp sword in his hands. He needed the sword. It was a treacherous worl... | 2020-12-15T09:34:12 | 2020-12-15T07:08:31 | 150 | 17 |
[WP] The elder gods looks to us the same way we look to cockroachs. What means that they are irrationally scared of us. | “Yeah, you’ve got a nest here,” said Percy the God of Pest Control. “Those are roads which connect all these things that're scattered around,” he pointed to some buildings.
“Are those all filled with… humans?”
“Yep, that’s where they feed and sleep and reproduce.”
Alanna gagged. “Reproduce?! I’m going to be sick.”
... | "Mom! There are humans in my pillow!"
The thunderous voice of the Elder daughter resonated through the galaxy, detected by those with the means to do so as gravitational waves. Her fear was understandable, she was only 5 billion years old, after all.
"Gross, where?".
"There, in the edge, on that rock"
"Let me get ... | 2022-01-03T09:27:37 | 2022-01-03T08:57:53 | 1,225 | 142 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | My parents were both flyers. My mom was born in the back of an airplane on a transcontinental flight. My dad was born on the back of a car near Mt. Saint Helens, to my arboreal grandparents, and they never figured out why he was a flyer. Worth noting flyers are pretty rare.
Naturally, being in love with the sky they j... | "So let me get this straight, you have space powers?" He blinks in surprise, "And I thought being born between a nuclear power plant and a company that makes things 'disappear' was weird."
"Sort of? I mean it's vague, but I think I can control gravity to the point I can make black holes and stuff." She says waving he... | 2017-04-14T20:09:16 | 2017-04-14T18:29:05 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] Music has been weaponized and is now the main means of war. It's your first day on the front lines. | When I was eight, scientists discovered a way to weaponize sound. In two years, the first Sound Gun was manufactured. At first, It wasn’t that bad. The gun was very low power, it wouldn’t kill anyone, just knock them out. Plus, the frequency was too high for humans to hear, so it was completely silent. The police force... | Sound was utilized as the main means of war. Microwave guns that projected sound into an enemy's skull were used in various ways to incapacitate an entire hostile force. The weapon first was used against civilians for riot-control. During the Sonic War, the technology became something far, far more devastating on the b... | 2015-02-20T16:26:13 | 2015-02-20T16:11:54 | 66 | 13 |
[WP] You walk into a bathroom and when the door closes behind you and you notice an "out of order" sign on the inside of the door. When you go back outside, things are out of order... | The board meeting finished, and the suits departed. I mean, have you ever seen anything take so long? These empty suits yak big league.
I looked out over the streets of New York, rumpling my chin at the rushing traffic.
"Terrific", I mouthed under my breath.
I swept along the golden corridor, toward the bathroom. T... | Left is up and
Up is down
Look to the right you’ll see the ground
Floating through the air, a peculiar fish
Chasing a cat against its wish
Left is down and
Up the ground
Look to the right prepare to drown
A wall of water, cascading to crash
Against the ceiling prepare for splash
Red is blue and
Blue is s... | 2017-02-21T14:22:41 | 2017-02-21T14:05:25 | 30 | 11 |
[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. | The sound of heavy hooves striking the dirt-covered road filled the woods as I approached the town. I was, of course, flanked by the undead wraiths riding beside me but alas, I considered their company annoying.
'Could we not have handled this for you, my lord?' the creature asked, although it sounded more akin to a h... | *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... | 2017-06-12T06:36:14 | 2017-06-12T03:14:29 | 171 | 107 |
[WP] A super hero fights evil by wiping memories of both the villian and everyone who knew of them so that they can be reintroduced into society safely. Today, as you were combing through old newspapers, you discover that you were once the world's most powerful supervillain. | Maria fumbled for the keys in her bag, eventually finding the heart shaped keyring her husband had given to her long ago. How long exactly, she couldn't quite remember.
The lock clicked. A monotonous buzzing greeted her, as if a giant hornet had taken up residence in their home since she'd left for work. "Honey?" she ... | I always thought that movies were overly theatrical when, in a moment of shock, the protagonist would drop his glass of champagne to shatter dramatically on the floor. Now, with Dom Perignon soaking into my carpet and the soles of my slippers, I wondered if I wasn’t just overly shocked.
I had known for some time that... | 2022-12-05T21:34:05 | 2017-12-30T09:29:05 | 3,733 | 17 |
[WP] After you die you learn why the Grim Reaper is portrayed holding a Scythe. It isn't to harvest you, it's to protect you from something on your journey. | “He won’t budge,” said Death, shrugging his colossal shoulders slightly. His scythe, Lerallue, glowed a dark red, pulsing gently like a beating heart – which meant that They were near, but we still had some time.
I had answered Death’s summons as fast as I could. He rarely called on me, prideful thing that he was. He ... | "Duck!"
"Wha -" a hand planted firmly on my head and shoved me down. A slight breeze stirred my slicked back hair. Some commotion happened somewhere around me, and I was covered in a warm spray. Severely disoriented and nursing a powerful pain in my left knee, I started to speak.
"Whe -" a gloved hand clapped over m... | 2017-06-20T16:09:57 | 2017-06-20T14:39:14 | 347 | 100 |
[WP] It finally happens. An alien race with advanced technology arrives ready to conquer Earth and take their place as our rightful overlords. The only problem? They never considered that Warfare might take the form of physical violence. | It gave me no pleasure. Bludgeoning that creature to death was brutal in the extreme, but only the most rudimentary combat technology actually worked on them. Even standard firearms, including shitty, old, barely functioning, civil-war-era muskets didn't function properly anymore.
Their technology, it seemed, was inc... | Considering the vast cultural differences between us and the aliens a middle ground agreement was reached.
We will follow their ritual for conquering new lands and they won't blow up our planet!
**The BettybeEbloopCrunk Ritual for world conquering**
1. The to be conquered world is challenged to three games. On... | 2018-10-13T22:48:53 | 2018-10-13T22:09:55 | 74 | 35 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | Sleek silver spacecraft dotted the dimming skyline like crushed peppercorn sprinkled over water. Their shapes were practically indistinguishable by their sheer number and velocity.
Command Master Chief Petty Officer Ryan Fields stared upon the decrepit ancient city of R'lyeh with a wary eye. The structure of the isla... | The fighting had raged for mere hours before everything came crashing down. Their forces were immeasurable, their weapons far beyond humanity's. It was hardly a valiant effort, anything any military tried met with catastrophic failure in minutes.
General Dillian stood on the bow of the ship, he couldn't find the ... | 2017-09-26T11:37:27 | 2017-09-26T11:13:03 | 374 | 16 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "I'll have the buffalo burger--medium rare--please," Alan said, before looking over at his date and smiling. She met his eyes and nodded. "and the same for her. Thank you." The waiter collected the menu and left the two alone. Decorations adorned the restaurant he'd chosen for this first date. Lots of pink hearts of al... | "God dammit. Really?! I JUST paid for the movie." Steve had been teleported again. This time, to the side of the highway. He really wished he never made that stupid promise but at least he got to see Sandra every once and a while. He looked around. Sandra and Kendrick were present of course. So was their 11 month old D... | 2017-03-22T15:14:52 | 2017-03-22T14:51:37 | 286 | 81 |
[WP] You have come up with the perfect energy generator - no pollution, ultimate efficiency and no waste. The only catch is, its sole fuel is copious amounts of human blood. It has been 15 years since you invented it and now the world is a different place. | Steve Piccolo was at the blood bank.
He hated the blood bank. This one had been done up to look like a Church – archways, lots of glass, and a massive logo right where the cross should’ve been.
“Steve Piccolo?” called a woman’s voice from behind two-way glass.
“Yeah, uh that’s me”
“And how much are you looking to... | *Hello! My name is Bloody Bill and I'm coming at you with a special television .. TV special edition offer from Bloody Bill's Blood Emporium! Ever worry about running out of blood for fuel? Do you use blood for fuel? Never worry again with Bloody Bill's Blood Subscription Service! Guaranteed!*
*That's right! Our amazi... | 2016-11-22T12:38:07 | 2016-11-22T08:55:45 | 67 | 33 |
[WP] There is a species famous for shutting themselves in Virtual Reality, living their lives in fake worlds, this planet should be easy to invade, your masters said, turns out, a lot of members of that species have been spending their entire time in realistic combat simulations. | "Soldier?"
A voice that Massix, lead engineer of the Earth Subjugation, was used to hearing through digital broadcasts and announcements came from the doorway. He spun around in his chair, watching the Grand General walk through the door, flanked by two silent soldiers.
"General Lokox?! What are you doing here in the... | “End simulation!” I shout. The VR robot I had been sparring with shuts down and disappears instantly. In VR you dont sweat. Or feel hot. In the real world robots take care of us, they feed us, and ensure our vitals are within normal parameters. I walk out of the sparring room. And look at my last set level. “Level 27” ... | 2020-12-25T08:59:39 | 2020-12-25T08:14:18 | 1,499 | 83 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | 1: ‘So, you want an interview? I can imagine. Do you think your report will give me a good light?’
I (Interviewer): ‘No matter what you say, people will want to hear your story. No one knew what happened to #1, and then you show up 20 years after she disappeared. Can you tell us about how you were able to kill her? Sh... | "Do you know how I got this badge? "
"Same as everyone else got theirs I suppose. Killed the guy ahead of you. So that's what I'm here for, to take your spot."
"Ever seen my power #5? Yours is pretty good, electricity. Killed the old #5 by sizzling him while he was swimming. Killed a few non combatants too. Can't say... | 2014-12-18T22:10:04 | 2014-12-18T19:28:47 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] A dying child challenges the reaper to a 1v1 quick scope only call of duty match for his life. | The boy gave toothy grin from his cot in the hospital. The old man sits next to him, getting a feel for the controller. It was a weird little thing, two knobs sticking out for his spindly old fingers to wrap around. An... *X-Box*, the little boy called it. He chatted on, pleasantly.
"...press X, and you fire. The B bu... | The year is 2010.
The child in question is in a coma. Dreaming of Mt. Dew and doritos when suddenly the grim reaper spawns in front of him.
The grim reaper looks down to the child.
"So.... xX420weedblazer2002Xx, are you ready for the match of your life?!"
"Yes, m8." He responds profoundly.
They get down to bus... | 2014-09-15T20:25:22 | 2014-09-15T20:15:28 | 448 | 144 |
[WP] You sit with him in his final moments. His paw in your hand. Such a good boy. As he leaves you witness his life flash before your eyes. To him, you were a glorious king and he, your most noble of knights. Many adventures you had together. You decide to share some with the world and so you write | The forest was thick and impenetrable. Its tangled branches and deep shadows obscured the danger within. Brave Sir Robert leaned on his sword, contemplating.
"Well, Sir Rufford, it seems we must be on with it. There's a dragon in there. I know it." Robert turned to regard Rufford, who sat solemnly on the ground t... | TW - ANIMAL DEATH
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There’s a few things in life you can’t prepare for, and crouching on the side of a road in a downpour, holding your best friend as he dies in your arms is at the top of that list.
Oliver was my best friend. He stuck with me for years while friends came and went, relationships turned toxic, circum... | 2018-11-01T21:51:11 | 2018-11-01T21:10:41 | 1,030 | 772 |
[WP] Your sister disappeared on her way to school, but no one noticed. When you asked your parents they told you you didn’t have a sister. All the family pictures in your house only show you and your parents. You spend the next 7 years investigating until you receive a knock on your door. | Just for the record, what I am about to say will make you slowly walk away out of fear for your safety. It'll sound crazy, but it's true. You're just going to have to believe me.
I don't remember much about my youth. Most of what I remember are glimpses of events, some vague faces, and feelings of dread and hatred. Fr... | I opened the door and knew it was her. She wasn't 11 anymore, obviously, as the young woman standing there smiling greeted me.
"Tiggy?" I asked, then gave her full name, "Tigalasia?" It was an odd name in comparison to mine.
"Todd," she looked past me into my apartment, then whistled appreciatively, "Nice digs! Go... | 2020-05-03T11:39:04 | 2020-05-03T11:32:13 | 76 | 16 |
[WP]The entire human population are put into induced comas in underground facilities. You don't dream or age. Today is "The Awakening" and humans will walk the Earth for the first time in 25 years. The doors open and you take your first step into the world you used to call home. | The lights came on in stages. For decades what had resided in darkness became illumined, the floodlights stepping through the long tunnels. The generators whirred at a higher pitch now that the Slumber was over.
It took a month of slow recuperation within the pods while consciousness seeped back into the people, their... | We trusted it to the machines.
By the time we left it to them, the Earth was faulty, sparking from clouds and billowing smoke.
Civilisation rattled on, but everything produced, every man and animal was broken. They were going to fix it, our clean and polished mechanics. They waved and smiled us away, tucked us in wh... | 2015-04-23T05:44:19 | 2015-04-23T04:06:42 | 132 | 56 |
[WP] It’s the zombie apocalypse except only the senior citizens are infected. With frail joints and no teeth, the general population is merely inconvenienced by rapid grandpas and grandmas trying to gum them to death.
From a post by u/icantseemtopoop in r/CrazyIdeas
edit : Loved all the responses so far, it always am... | Mommy and Daddy left me with Granny.
It was a lot of fun! We drew pictures and ate cookies. My favorite, the kind with the oatmeal and chocolate chips!
Granny put on her old-fashioned record player, and we danced a lot too. Swinging and laughing and singing along to songs I didn’t really know about.
Then we went to ... | In the same state but many miles apart, two people come to the same conclusion:
*Something is wrong here.*
Of course, they weren't the first people to reach this very obvious conclusion, but they will be the main characters of this story.
Now, these two people...one of them was a young, government employed scientist... | 2018-02-10T10:22:45 | 2018-02-10T08:24:04 | 63 | 37 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | I sigh, and look around. At all the supermen, and wonderwomen. I remember when I used to watch these in awe, longing for the day I would get to participate in **THE POWER GAMES**!!! A sort of super obstacle course that every 16 year old gets to participate in, and at the end, you get to pick a super power mod, a small ... | At first, they thought I was worthless. No measurable potential, plus likely schizophrenia. In school, I would have been a great target for bullies, but they never found me, despite my complete lack of stealth or mobility enhancements.
I tried insisting that the voice was a legitimate power, but even mentioning i... | 2017-06-12T09:36:31 | 2017-06-12T06:39:02 | 34 | 22 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | Charles looked over the rim into the wasteland below. Charred plains, dead woods, and rocky canyons seemingly stretched on forever. The sight was similar to standing on a beach and trying to find the end of an ocean. Dotted about the landscape, spaced far from one another, stood vague structures. From his vantage p... | My thoughts were certain,
All Gods were fiction,
I didn't foresee,
The true benediction
Walled within,
Their utopian setting,
The dwellers rejoice,
While I'm left regretting
I'm surrounded by fools,
Oh how simple we were,
Not an ounce of faith,
We believed it was slur
All I wish is for,
All I demand,
Is o... | 2017-11-21T07:24:11 | 2017-11-21T06:54:46 | 113 | 53 |
[WP] You have died. You walk up a staircase and it takes you a thousand years to climb. You reach the top exhausted, and see the pearly gates. To your surprise, they have rusted over and inside is completely barren. A sign reads "Welcome to heaven. Population: 1" | To my surprise, the stairway to heaven was excruciatingly literal. I lost track of how long it took to get to the top, but it didn't really matter. Without the assistance of a bright sun to light the day or a moon and stars to illuminate the dark night, time itself was incalculable. One foot in front of the other, I cl... | *Only one person? How could that be? I thought that heaven was filled with the souls of people.*
**Ahoy! Our first guest! I humbly welcome you, to heaven.**
Um. Thanks? Hey listen, I have a few ques-
**Now we can begin processing you.**
But I have some questio-
**No time. What is your name?**
I'm not answering yo... | 2018-12-17T08:59:28 | 2018-12-17T07:42:31 | 165 | 95 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | Something is very wrong with me.
Nobody knows what caused this, or even what to call it - this “shift”, or “event”, or “awakening”. I honestly didn’t even realize it had affected me at first. My tattoos are pretty docile - a koi fish on my foot, and an elaborate floral half sleeve. It wasn’t until I saw what was happe... | The men lined up, ready to storm the building. They were a brotherhood. No, they were more than that. They were *one*. As they closed their eyes they became a single entity, able to harness massive unnatural physical powers they could not generate on their own. Suddenly, Tyler opened his eyes. Something had occurred to... | 2019-05-07T09:22:41 | 2019-05-07T09:02:42 | 60 | 20 |
[WP] One normal day you see a mouse pointer move across your field of vision, right click, and delete an object. | August 14, 2000:
The day started as normal as any other, waking up in my bed and all. I open the fridge to see what's to eat. Nothing, same as yesterday. On the bright side, it's been so long since my power got shut off, anything in there would spoil anyway. I grab the baking powder and brush my teeth. It's not ideal,... | Steve woke up one morning, and immediately he saw a mouse pointer on the edge of his bed.
"Oh, this is one of those lucid dream things", Steve said. "Cool"
Steve thought this "dream" was cool, until he saw the cursor go to his bed and click it. A long bar of options popped up, and the cursor clicked delete. Steve fel... | 2017-02-05T13:33:15 | 2017-02-05T12:26:46 | 105 | 18 |
[WP] You are immortal, never age past 20 and were sentenced to 247 years in jail for your crimes. Your release date is tomorrow, the government is nervous and the world is watching. |
'Thanks, Sarah. I'm here outside Isle Elba Prison where we're counting down to the release of The Governor's son, Charlemagne, two-hundred and forty seven years after he was sentenced to imprisonment here for the murder of twenty-five of The Grand Synod in 3073. Charlemagne, the youngest of The Governor's sons, is exp... | After 247 years, you really begin to reflect on who you are. Tomorrow will be the first time I can breath without the pressure of my past weighing down on me. I’m aware of what I’ve done, and I’m aware of my power. If I could take it all back, I would. No one should have the power I have.
It’s warm outside. I’m the on... | 2019-05-14T13:54:02 | 2019-05-14T13:44:53 | 68 | 12 |
[WP] You are a person who regularly browses the online community called "Writing Prompts", a board where people post intriguing scenarios to inspire creative pieces. One day, you notice a writing prompt that exactly describes a scenario that you distinctly remember. | I need you to upvote this. Okay? I'm not trying to be pathetic here. Normally I don't care about fake internet points. But this is important. This is life and death. You're going to have a hard time believing me, but this is what's happening...
It started ten days ago.
At that point I'd only been writing here a littl... | I am scrolling through writing prompts when I see it, 'You are walking home from university when you have a sudden chill'. The prompt makes me stop and think. I had been walking home from university today and I felt a chill down my spine accompanied by an unnerving feeling that somebody had been watching me. I think no... | 2016-05-31T05:07:11 | 2016-05-31T04:17:41 | 235 | 53 |
[WP] You'll soon arrive at Earth. The latest reports are from just 4 centuries ago and show a backwards planet, so technologically primitive it hurts. Just wait until those peasants gawk at your wondrous technical displays, like the Talking Box and the Image Viewer! They'll think you're a god! | Ikunna stretched her nine arms in unison, impatiently clicking her talons on a segment of her luxurious chair. She was impatient, and her underlings could tell.
"Ikunna, I have the report you asked for," one of her underlings--a beta female by the name of Orphatrix--called. "You may not like--"
*"Give,"* Ikunna comma... | Here is a passage taken from historian ����'s, famous narrative account of our race's infamous final expedition to Sol-3, as recounted in his broader historical masterpiece , "��� ��������", with which I will assume all of you gathered in this lecture hall today are at least passingly familiar.
**"** When they heard... | 2019-09-19T10:38:16 | 2019-09-19T10:34:38 | 265 | 67 |
[WP] You accept that offer to become immortal for the cost of being sent 3000 years to the past. When you "wake up" in 1000 B.C. you noticed it is nothing like people learn in school. | The end was at my doorstep. It wasn't the pale rider who would claim my soul with a scythe, but rather the men who would carve me up until there was nothing left. At best, I would just simply suffer until death. A message flashed across my computer monitor. I had seen it before, but I chose to ignore it. This time... | When that man first approached me to make the offer of immortality, I just thought he was some bloke who would ask for directions to some bar. I would have never imagined he would be the man who gave me immortality.
I pushed that thought aside as I prepared myself for the journey that would change my life forever. I... | 2015-06-04T20:24:51 | 2015-06-04T18:39:51 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You had a high school friend who always talked about world domination. At graduation you jokingly make them promise you to give you the rank of a general. 20 years later a series of violent coups happen out of nowhere and the new dictator appoints you as a general. | It was hard to stomach at first...
That our Nation could fall to a dictator.
Drought, famine, and the eventual wars for resources all saw to our fall from grace. Eventually as these things tend to go, an organization rose to power, promising to "fix" everything. The People rallied to their cause and in a swift "... | He stands upon the mountain of rubble, rifle pointed towards the air, extending his hand outward with the sun shining down behind him. An angelic, heroic figure. I can only stare upwards in shock and awe, as I lie on the rubble, I extend my hand outwards instinctively, my wrist slack from being broken. He grabs my fore... | 2022-10-29T18:24:04 | 2022-10-29T17:25:59 | 250 | 76 |
[WP] People have always been born with very minor super powers. You work for an agency that hunts down the few people who's powers are deemed too powerful/dangerous to allow them to live. | Better than average senses- but no way to tune them down or off. The ability to teleport as much as ten feet in any direction up to twice a day, Pytokinesis strong enough to flick a light switch or slide a beer down the bar. When mankind dreamed of superpowers, they had likely imagined it wouldn't be so mediocre.
Hone... | I knew it was going to be a rough day when I poured that first cup of coffee. The hellish traffic, the headache from nowhere, the empty cupboard should have warned me of what lay ahead, but I tried to deny it, to fight reality. I banished the negative thoughts, powered through my early morning mediation session, but th... | 2014-12-12T20:51:06 | 2014-12-12T16:45:31 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | And at that exact moment, Stanthony realized he was an 13,000 pound African war elephant. Again.
"Shit"
A few seconds ago he had been tending to a very nice field of onions with his trusty plow and mule, Vanessa and Ricardo.
Then he'd suddenly he'd become a war pachyderm.
He stood in formation with a group of other... | One month after our nation seemed to have gone mad, retooling our entire economy and declaring war on our closest ally, a package arrived at my door. Inside was a sword and armor in a style completely different from our regular military uniforms, yet accompanied by a note declaring me to be drafted.
I arrived wearing ... | 2019-03-10T11:46:00 | 2019-03-10T11:09:05 | 199 | 22 |
[WP] "Unfortunately, you do not meet the requirements for this particular heaven however, I can provide you with a list of afterlifes that you may qualify for." | Heavenly Direction
Lynda limped up to the gate, her bad leg still aching, even though she knew that the young punk who had run her down had killed her. She didn't really like this grey clouds and gates version of the "afterlife" - little exclusive clubs of people who believed just so, yadda yadda, had their own gated ... | I flipped through the book I had been given, that was only in my head. My head, which I guess I technically did not have any more, but at some point there had been a voice telling me to keep thinking in terms of my physical body, if I found that it helped. I'm not sure how long it took me to learn how to turn the pages... | 2020-02-13T13:57:46 | 2020-02-13T13:44:32 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] You are a phone. Your owner is texting a girl they like, and you know likes them back. Time to "auto-correct" to help them out. | I wonder what's trending on YouTube right now. Wait, Jason's picking me up, must want to talk to someone.
Jason: Hey daisy
Ooo, daisy. Should've known. They've been talking for a year now. Hopefully this is the night.
Daisy: Hey Jason!
Jason: What's up?
Daisy: oh nothing much, just got off work. How about yo... | Jon: Hello! 😀😂
No, that's not how what you type Jon.
Jon: Hello, how are you doing today, miss?
Mel: I'm doing fine, good sir.
Jon: So, how has your day been?
No, no, no, you say this!
Jon: So, what would you like to do today, miss?
Jon: Wrong number, Mel. Phone is acting up today.
Mel: So you have a girlfri... | 2017-07-21T10:44:21 | 2017-07-21T10:28:01 | 6,152 | 58 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | "No, I'm good in here," Rocketeer said. "The people of this city, and you specifically, Mr. Mayor, told me that I should serve my time." He fell backwards on to the bed. "Here I am, paying my debt to society, suffering in stoic silence for the destruction I caused, and now you want me back?"
"Your rivals escaped," ... | “Oh, I get it now. You’re all entitled pricks! I tried for YEARS to help you get out of this situation, and what do you do? Throw me into this jail cell to let me rot. Now that what I said has come true, you want me to come back? Please. Go find someone else.”
The mayor leaned back in his chair at the visiting center.... | 2021-03-18T10:31:15 | 2021-03-18T10:06:41 | 1,689 | 122 |
[WP] you realize you're the black guy in a horror movie. survive at any cost. | "I think we should split up." Said Todd, his blood spattered polo shirt still slowly seeping through the cloth. He clutched the axe with grim determinatio, after all, the killer was still out there.
"Wait," said Mike, putting up his hand. "Wait wait wait, what the fuck? 'We should split up'? Why?"
"So we can cover mo... | "Hey Will Do you want to spend a private weekend with me at the haunted mansion? ;)" Julia texted
The sight of the text made will have a brief but potent out of body experience. He saw himself on a movie screen. Drawing the only conclusion reasonable about a weekend without contact in a haunted mansion Will conclude... | 2016-04-18T10:07:53 | 2016-04-18T09:12:27 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | A screech, a crash, a flash - in seconds it was all over. A great blinding light washed over me, and I found myself surrounded by the material that makes up the very universe. I saw time stretch before me, eons and ages would pass without me. I had been removed from existence...or so I thought. I looked over to my left... | He was going to be a doctor. A really good one. A Dr. House but without the drug addiction and massive ego. An unparalleled mind in the medical field.
Things got in the way (they always do if you let them). His depression got the best of him. Dropped out of high school. Moved across the country. Got a job as a cook. ... | 2022-09-04T14:52:04 | 2015-01-02T11:36:32 | 383 | 164 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | Sorry about formatting. I'm no good.
*Bzzzz. Bzzzz.*
I'm awaken yet again by the most annoying mix of sound and vibration in the world. A late night, most likely drunken, text by you know who. "Fuck. Off." I mutter into my pillow. Of course I could ignore it. Of course I won't. She hasn't text me in weeks. She must b... | *"...Do not look outside. Do not look at the sky. Do not make noise.”*
The words repeated over and over. I thought I was dreaming but as I slowly came to and the blurry green light began to take the shape of a clock displaying 3:54 I realized it was the television. I rolled over.
*“God damnit Clare, it’s four A.M w... | 2014-12-31T06:31:17 | 2014-12-31T06:03:41 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | Burgess stop running long enough to feel the fire in his chest and stitch in side. Wing tips were never meant for this, he realized too late. His instinct kicked in about a second and two heavy breaths later – “MOVE! NOW!”
He took off again, light gray suit jacket protesting the movement of his arms. His 1,300$ Cou... | I remember when it happened, all the channels on the television set wouldn't stop broadcasting about the discovery. It changed everything. Our government had been faithful, stood still in 1945, keeping the peace around the world.
I'd been chosen by the government to 'represent', nobody wanted to. I didn't want to meet... | 2016-10-18T15:03:15 | 2016-10-18T13:36:28 | 94 | 54 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | I sat, confined yet again to my bedroom, seething with rage. Dad always found me somehow. No matter how far away I went, he always turned up, he somehow always spoke the language like I did. He kept me locked away in my room until I figured out an escape route. He still hadn't figure out how I was escaping and I sure a... | The Priest sighed with relief as he forced his keys out of his pocket on returning home. He took a second to shake off the jitters, and screams of the days work. He found it was better not to take his particular line of work home with him.
A dark shroud turned to greet him. Nothing like family.
“Again?”
“Are you sur... | 2020-10-20T13:13:06 | 2020-10-20T12:59:59 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | My eyes glazed over as I browsed my feed.
All my friends, recently in their thirties, forties, or fifties, and now suddenly eighteen again, were posting about all of the things they were doing now that they had been given a new life.
I was thinking about what I'd lost.
Sandra and Brian Gomez, an older couple whose m... | Acne cream and prophylactic stocks exploded when mysteriously, we adults all turned 18 again.
Trade school admissions rose exponentially. Colleges became ghost towns almost overnight. Who needs college when you remember it all and know how to do stuff already? Plus it’s so damn expensive! Even the actual young ones ca... | 2020-11-02T10:00:05 | 2020-11-02T09:24:37 | 310 | 110 |
[WP] We are 10,000 years in future and we no longer inhabit earth. All humans are on board massive ships heading to multiple different planets, you discover the planet your ship is heading to does not support life but there are not enough resources to change course. | "That can't be right..." Jay muttered, the red writing on the holographic display flashed angrily at him. "Computer, run those figures again."
There was a pause, a single moment that felt like a lifetime. "Checks complete. No habitable planets found within 15 light years."
The captain, Jay, spun on his chair and face... | Captain Jameson nodded, more to himself than to the senior crew members behind him. He figured as much. In the emergency evacuation, all ships available were filled with people and launched into the co-ordinates of an unknown mass. Some would be planets, far fewer on habitable ones, most would be dangerous things: aste... | 2017-02-23T10:25:50 | 2017-02-23T07:56:04 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | I stand, leaning against her. Ever leaning against her. I have been doing so as long as I can remember. She's behind me. And I've got my back against her. My legs dug in, pushing futile against her. My legs used to ache, I think. Perhaps I only imagined it and then later forgot it was only imagining. Either way, they d... | At first I thought it was some sort of "dormant powers coming to light" kind of situation. I'd record what I was doing just before time froze and then try to recreate it to see if it could happen again. This eventually got worse as I would try to recreate hours, and then days at a time. Thankfully I realized that it wa... | 2018-01-26T06:28:28 | 2018-01-26T06:14:06 | 387 | 45 |
[WP] After losing his golden fiddle to a young man named Johnny, The Devil starts to have job performance issues. | *Scene: A slightly too-small cubical. A huge, muscle-bound "Red Devil" with burning eyes and cloven hooves sits on a small creaking chair. Behind the desk sits a much smaller "Business Demon", wearing a shirt and tie. An ostentatious, gold-framed portrait of a suave man in a business suit with small horns on his for... | “This kid is good. The music flowed from the fiddle in waves, crashing against your soul, wearing it down. I haven’t heard a performance like that since I saw Beethoven perform his ninth. This kid, Johnny, he’s good. He’s probably the best fiddler that has ever existed.”
“And how does that make you feel?”
“God da... | 2016-09-01T10:05:49 | 2016-09-01T07:51:19 | 47 | 13 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | "We're heading down" I shouted to my friend. "No, don't" a voice followed. Strangers have been spotted lurking near the mines, swiftly followed by abductions. To go down there would be crazy, but a necessity - my only hope to save my dear. "Love will conquer all" I muttered beneath my breath, reciting the promise we ha... | Glass
Lottery was like my religion. I would treat everyday like Sunday. Everyday, I'd pray about my six numbers. I would even kneel. Because I was desperately hoping. Always. Always hoping to hit the jackpot.
I'd always wanted to buy my wife those south sea pearls her mother passed down unto her, but she pawned as w... | 2017-08-30T07:28:28 | 2017-08-30T07:26:10 | 170 | 11 |
[WP] An Empath species recoils when it first encounters you, falling to the floor and curling up. Later, through a phone,it asks how you live with the pain. | The Portals didn't change day to day life as much as people expected. Sure, things changed a little. You can't go to a job interview without a Qiavi sitting in the corner, soaking up your mood to tell the interviewer later just how much you've been bullshitting. They've pretty much taken over the professions of ther... | I've met a lot of people. I'll like to say that I'm generally non-repulsive and well-liked. Maybe a little rough around the edges, and a little blunt, but that's apparently what a lot of people appreciate about me. They know what they are going to get.
Evidently, one particular Medkan did not know what were going to g... | 2021-01-14T12:24:43 | 2021-01-14T11:40:44 | 720 | 96 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | Cheryl had been working off-ship, helping the Altarians install a new municipal thermal regulation system in the capital. They'd been dry-docked for four weeks, and there really wasn't much for her to do onboard, so Captain Tak had sent her off. And, why waste a perfectly good shore-leave relaxing?
It was strange, but... | I am an astronaut aboard the intergalactic space station, a space station for all intelligent species in the universe.
I fingered my hair, knowing the crew would notice. They didn’t know that human hair went grey after a while. I knew there’d be questions.
I’d dyed my hair before the mission, knowing it would fade. I’d... | 2020-07-05T16:58:24 | 2020-07-05T13:34:30 | 33 | 19 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "Huh, what? Where am I? Todd? Here boy! Are you okay?"
The small mutt trotted up to Sam, beaming and wagging his tail. He was a good boy. Sam told him that often.
"how did we get here? " Sam said absentmindedly to Todd as he knelt down to scratch around his collar. "the last thing I remember is... I can't really rec... | Darkness.
I feel light, or am I just light headed?
I looked to my left and then right, and all I could see were stars in the distance. A noise by my thigh interrupted my train of thought. *Crrrrk* *Crrrrrk*
I picked up the small voice-in radio. "Hello?"
"Battlestar 303, what the hell do you think you are doing?" T... | 2016-03-07T18:48:08 | 2016-03-07T17:46:39 | 202 | 40 |
[WP] You're a necromancer who raises the dead so they can say goodbye to their loved ones.
Edit: Whoever gave u/SteelPanMan gold has good taste. | I sat there on the flannel blanket I’d brought, faded from the many butts of other clients past, surrounded by candles and relics in the middle of the cemetery. On the other end sat a comely Hispanic woman, Isabella, not a day over twenty-five. Under different circumstances she would have been gorgeous, but right now s... | I believe in second chances.
From beyond the gravestones and the coffins, it is my daily duty. My life's work. I became so powerful not just to commune with the dead for fun. I believe that even the most hardened of us deserve the chance to look back, and wave goodbye.
Another client. Though I take no payment. It's a... | 2017-09-08T05:38:07 | 2017-09-08T04:30:41 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | *KICK!*
My husband's work boot hit my ankle painfully. I hoped the demon didn't notice my sharp intake of breath. *KICK!* Again. Seriously? I turned, pausing the feather pen above the inkwell. Shit! I dripped on the parchment contract. Before I could react the demon dabbed it up gently, his finger leaving a scorch mar... | As the mortal laughed, the demon remained unfazed. The laughter came to an awquard halt. "Why aren't you getting angry?" the mortal nervously asked, glancing at the contract.
A new laughter emerged, sinister and powerful. "Even if a mortal could cause trouble for a demon, it would still not matter. Firstborn-contract... | 2022-08-31T14:06:11 | 2022-08-31T13:50:54 | 180 | 56 |
[WP] Your whole family is sitting by your grandfather's deathbed while he asks only you to lean closer. He whispers in your ear, "I never trusted your father, but I can see it in you." Before pushing a ring with a strange gem into your hand and then flatlining.
First post here, please be nice :) | Whenever he thought of his grandfather the image of a rolling stone plunged through his mind and behind it a trail of satisfied women were swooning in the vapors. It was no secret that James Jeremy had cut a path of broken hearts from Baton Rouge to San Antoine. He was the epitome of a Tom Cat. He was Mr. Right and alw... | The droning sound of the heart moniter flatlining was the only thing populating my thoughts as I stared at his lifeless body, almost expecting some sort of objective or answer... but I recieved nothing
I reached forward and nudged his arm, calling his name once... twice, louder... and a third time as my voice grew sha... | 2016-12-07T10:21:36 | 2016-12-07T09:47:56 | 53 | 11 |
[WP] You’re a dragon who kidnapped a prince/princess. All is going to plan but… it’s been a month and no one’s come to save them. | A month.
A month with no knights, no squires, not even a fresh-faced youth with weird hair and an abnormally large greatsword. Enhazat furrowed a scaly brow. Was this not how it was supposed to go?
Step 1. Kidnap the crown princess.
Step 2. Escape to lair with prize.
Step 3. Knights come, they fight, the princes... | “Your food, prisoner. You should be grateful.” The dragon booms, passing a stolen loaf of bread through iron bars, made hot by roaring fires.
“My mother will come for me.” The princess responds in that same stubborn tone. “You shall pay for this.”
The dragon sighs. He had seen many princes and princesses throughout h... | 2022-11-24T16:05:41 | 2022-11-24T14:44:58 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] The dead spinning in their graves is a real thing and now used to generate electricity. Your job is to come up with the best ideas to piss off the deceased in order to maximise energy production. | I'm the head of Post-Mortem Power Operations at Devil's Tower, Wyoming, and we have a problem: Our power output is steadily dropping-- we're just not pissing off enough dead people.
I'm currently in a board room with six subordinates, one of whom is monitoring D.P.O. percentages. D.P.O. means, "Dead Power Output", whi... | I wired the money to the assassin. He'd done great work with the poison, as usual. The turbines were hooked up and ready to go.
I called my contacts in the media. "Alright. Another one is finished. Initiate."
The headlines the next day:
"**FAMED SKEPTIC TURNS TO RELIGION ON DEATHBED; SAYS HE "FOUND GOD IN HIS FINAL ... | 2016-09-26T20:58:02 | 2016-09-26T20:42:22 | 275 | 77 |
[WP] In 1,000 years, fantasy stories will be set in this era. Write a fantasy story set in the 21st century from the viewpoint of someone living 1,000 years from now.
Based on a post on r/showerthoughts | *The sky is an expanse of grey -- liquid water falls in heavy drops from the heavens, striking streets of black and grey stone stained green by age and weather. Carriages of steel and iron blur past, scattering water droplets upon the commoners walking to-and-fro, huddled beneath hoods and canvas sheets.*
*The rain ro... | In the 21st century, things were different.
It was known to many at the time as the beginning of the end. Or so everyone thought.
Humanity, it seemed, had finally run out of luck. We'd seemingly come so far, and bested ourselves time and time again in progress. The world was changing at a drastic rate. We were no lon... | 2018-12-25T03:33:31 | 2018-12-25T03:25:31 | 3,048 | 14 |
[WP] A traveling alien passes by and on a whim solves everything: infinite food, energy, perfectly balanced ecosystem, and portals everywhere lead to thousands of unpopulated Earth like lands with no downside. Obviously, world leaders are outraged. | “What are we going to do now?” asked Theresa, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She shifted in her seat uncomfortably.
​
“Honestly, Theresa, I have no idea,” said Xi, President of the People’s Republic of China. “The very fact that we can speak with each other without a translator is very concernin... | "Today is the dawn of a new day," POTUS spoke and the two journalists still in the room yawned in sequence. There were a handful of secret service agents who still feigned loyalty, but they were nowhere to be seen at the moment. The President stepped away from the podium and sighed, "We're having lunch in the White Hou... | 2019-06-06T10:35:04 | 2019-06-06T10:17:49 | 96 | 28 |
[WP] Your father left your family when you were a child to "go buy a pack of cigarettes". It is 10 years later and you're a teenager when your father walks back in, wearing the same clothes he left in, and insists he has only been gone half an hour. | "You look like you've seen a ghost." uttered the familiar figure. Indeed I have. The simple tan coat, red tie, and shoes as spotless as ever. "Dad?" I responded. "Something wrong? Sorry I took a while." said my "father" in a clueless manner. There truly was something wrong. "Where the hell were you! Mom loved you! She ... | There was something weird about this day
Harold, my brother, was acting weird as if he had seen something.
Ending school i went home.
Everything seemed just fine.
Lots of love from my family.
Don't know about my dad though, he disappeared 10 years ago.
Everytime he went to buy cigarretes he was quick. Not this ... | 2018-11-08T05:52:01 | 2018-11-08T05:15:25 | 124 | 17 |
[WP] You, a powerful demon, buys the souls of humans that sold them out of greed, has materialized on Earth to make another purchase. But when discover that you answered the call of an orphaned street child that wanted nothing more than a meal, your black heart can't help but break a little. | Once again, I am called unto the soil of this forsaken rock. Someone has come to make a deal, it seems.
When I get a bearing on my environment, I marvel at just how susceptible humans are to their greed and territory.
The streets are old, decrepit. There are boxes and tents with humans wallowing away inside, and t... | "Please sir, I'd do anything for a piece of bread", said Sophie.
"Anything?", said Kazimir.
"Anything sir, absolutely anything", said Sophie.
A single tear streaked down Kazimir's cheek. "This will be the easiest soul I've ever collected."
Kazimir instantly conjured a sandwich and handed it to Sophie. Taking her h... | 2017-06-27T17:20:06 | 2017-06-27T17:08:43 | 90 | 18 |
[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... | \[Poem\]
A gentle rock. An easy sway.
Another calm and sunny day.
On board this deck a cheery tune.
I hold my tongue for these bafoons.
For if they knew what lurks below
Their cheery hearts would turn to stone.
I see it every day and night.
Below the depths is only fright.
Where others see a crispy blue.
My e... | 2021-11-06T12:12:01 | 2021-11-06T10:17:38 | 199 | 145 |
[WP] In your society, every child is given a fixed number of skill points for their parents to invest in talents that would determine their futures. When you reach age 21, you find out your parents forgot to do it for you. | Elliot rubbed his hands together and hunched his shoulders in a futile attempt to keep the biting cold from permeating through his jacket.
Like many places in Russia, the coastal town of Vestoskyn had never quite recovered from the collapse of the Soviet Union. The ubiquitous chill and lack of sunlight were the least... | 'Are you fucking serious?'
'Honey please, you must understand-'
'Understand *what*? That you forgot? That you fucking forgot.'
'It's not so simple. When you were born, well,' she looked to her right for support, 'your father and I were smoking *a lot*. We forgot all kinds of things. You didn't even have a name for t... | 2017-11-28T04:22:43 | 2017-11-28T04:08:37 | 99 | 38 |
[WP] Love is blind, but for you it's quite literal and you lose your sight every time you fall in love. | Fulfilling my Friday afternoon ritual, I drove over to Loving Care, the retirement home my grandmother lives in. No one really visits her anymore, so I feel almost obligated to spend at least a little time with her. *Poor grandma, all alone. I can't imagine what that's like.*
I walked through the doors and signed in, ... | The small street showed itself in headlights, just a few feet at a time
On that dark night, when the fog and drizzle was like a million leaky faucets,
Dripping off the droopy willow trees and onto the roof of the car.
You held my hand from the passenger seat
And said how your dark fingers always went so well with ... | 2016-02-16T07:29:23 | 2016-02-16T07:17:06 | 110 | 11 |
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