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[WP]The world literally revolves around your schedule. So long as you don’t sleep, tomorrow won’t come. People around the word know this and have all adapted to your sleep cycle. Tomorrow, a great catastrophe will occur...but not as long as you stay awake...and everyone knows it. | "Madame President, the latest models suggest that the hurricane will make landfall tomorrow. It is currently estimated to reach shore as a category 5, with top wind speeds north of 180 miles per hour. The models suggest that it will make landfall near Savannah, Georgia, then follow the coast north, hitting every major ... | Dear Lucy,
12/21/2012. We all knew it was coming. The “end of the world” or whatever it was that made the Mayans quit making their calendar on that day. That’s tomorrow.
Ever since you’ve known me you knew that my life was not normal. I controlled time on a day to day basis just by being awake and asleep. I could pre... | 2021-02-22T16:46:34 | 2021-02-22T15:33:14 | 181 | 66 |
[WP] After been missing for 12 years, the duke's daughter (now 16) is sent to the royal accademy and immediately targeted by bullies. What the bullies don't know is that the lady spent those 12 years with a clan of orks
If you get why orks is spelled like that... good.
If you don't, it doesn't matter | Adjusting to life among humans was not what Milana had expected. In some ways it wasn't hard at all; in others, it was an exercise in pure frustration.
For twelve years, after her parents had so carelessly lost her on their safari of the Deeplands, she'd been raised by the Nogluk clan, one of the biggest and most aggr... | “So, then Mother decided to buy the restaurant itself. All the finest heroes stop by, and the previous managers always seemed to treat them as though they were beneath them. They work so terribly hard, you understand? The least she could do was be more accommodating. They've earned that,” junior lord Revick Kendral sai... | 2022-07-15T17:21:50 | 2022-07-15T16:44:45 | 304 | 108 |
[WP] Death is not some all powerful being. Rather, she's a socially awkward outcast. Somehow, you've managed to befriend her and things have started getting weird... | It all started when I first saw her. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. There was a rather nasty car crash just outside my tenant. I literally thought she was in that car accident, and should've saw the warning signs when everyone else seem to pass around her. I kept shouting over the huge throng of people if she was ok. Eith... | I suppose the signs had really always been there.
It was cold, rainy, and wet. You would think rainy and wet would be redundant, but out here, rain was pretty much standard fare. It took a real miserable day to get water through my thick boots, and today every step squished with a renewed wave of unpleasantness.
Also... | 2017-01-21T05:48:16 | 2017-01-21T04:59:33 | 183 | 71 |
[WP] You can taste lies. One day your friend is comforting you after a tough night and you almost vomit at the foul taste as you hear her say "After all, you're only human." | It was a taste I noticed in lies. A cheap metallic. A flavour like a greasy coin from a cheap greasy spoon diner.
It was a trait that benefitted me greatly where I went. The liars and the honest were seperated, at the cost of childhood.
"Can I have your cookie? I'll be your friend" she asked. We were in kindergarten ... | "Hey" James said as he slumped down on the couch beside me, beer in hand. "Hey, it's OK".
Well, it technically wasn't, but I didn't really want to argue with him either, so I just sat there and contemplated how to best kill myself.
"It really wasn't your fault that you got fired..." I felt a familiar bitter taste in ... | 2018-05-12T05:31:31 | 2018-05-12T05:24:41 | 96 | 25 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | Metal boxes were stacked haphazardly, their lights blinking and mechanical noises whirring. The room was dark and dank with the smell of body odor lying stagnant in the air and heavy breaths joining the tranquil symphony of computers.
70%. The icon continued to spin, as it had for the past 13 hours. 70%.
A lanky woma... | "No seeders found"
I glare at the screen in utter confusion. "*No* seeders? There were over 20 last night!" When you torrent a power, you seed it automatically, without any option to stop.
The only way to stop seeding a power is if you're killed... *Fuck*
Somebody out there doesn't want this power getting out. | 2016-07-02T20:45:26 | 2016-07-02T20:01:23 | 86 | 32 |
[WP] You and your pet rabbit live in a remote part of Australia, far away from your dark past. Animal control has come to your door and informed you that it is illegal to own a rabbit unless you can prove you are a magician. Now you must do something you swore you would never do again.
Edit: Oh wow, this blew up whil... | It was hot. The magician was used to this. His shack had no aircon, or even electricity -- it was a simple structure, clumsily slapped together out of planks far away from anyone or anything. There were tiny mapspecks around, but the closest city was Perth, and it was a very rough 10 hour drive to get there, the first ... | You slowly slink down on the sofa as the officer's dead eyes shift from you, to Mr. Fluffenbottom, back to you again. The shaking of your hands is barely concealed by the, in all honesty quite amateurish, card shuffle you're occupying them with.
Under the officer's watchful gaze, the memories of that fateful day are ... | 2016-07-09T07:56:08 | 2016-07-09T03:10:42 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] An old man walks alone, inside the crumbling remains of an old colony ship. When he reaches the bridge, a small ball of light emerges from the ship's console. "Hello Captain", says the ship's A.I. "It's nice to see you again." | The day had come. He ran his hand along the wall for a moment as he walked into the ship. The wall was sleek beneath his fingers, a remnant of a time long ago when the old ship had brought the colonists to this world.
The door to the bridge slid open at his touch, the crunch of dirt in the sliders betraying the fact t... | “Nice to see you again too. How long has it been since we last spoke?”
”Approximately 55 Earth years. 73 of this planets years.”
“Only that long? It’s felt like centuries.”
“Sir, may I enquire as to the status of the colony?”
“Yes, it’s doing well. Unfortunately most of the citizens have forgotten anything past the... | 2018-10-07T10:11:47 | 2018-10-07T09:03:18 | 125 | 77 |
[WP] All those assassination attempts on Hitler didn't fail at the last minute due to "bad luck"; he was repeatedly rescued by time travellers who have seen the alternative. | "Let me guess, you traveled back in time to kill Hitler and to prevent the holocaust or the 2. WW in general?"
I was standing in front of the young time traveler who as chained to a chair.
"Yes! Why would anyone not do this?"
I shook my head. She probably havent seen what I have seen.
"Can you even imagine the con... | My plan is perfect. I brush back my orange hair and look over the street. The hotel room is the perfect vantage point. The rifle is bought with cash, no tracing it. I wait without making a peep for two weeks for him. This is going to change the course of history. He appears with that symbol of hate on his arm. I take a... | 2017-08-15T21:52:33 | 2017-08-15T20:10:11 | 389 | 39 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | Edit: Thank you all for the kind words. There's now a part 2 in the comments from the perspective of humanity.
The planet designated as YS-974 3rd was chosen to give the council a foothold in this section of the galaxy. No single world government, no intergalactic capacity, with high pollution in the calculated know... | Intel was coming in about an interesting population on the planet. It was called the USA, a place we would have to take out before they could react, as an admiral of their own pity squabbles once put it, 'you cannot invade mainland america, there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass' if this was the case, ameri... | 2017-08-08T08:06:30 | 2017-08-08T03:18:52 | 747 | 116 |
[WP] You step into the king's chambers. He stands on the balcony, the moon overlooking his imposing figure. "I want you to hire an assassin to try to kill me. Take down all the names and contacts you encounter through the process and report them to me. I want to know who my true friends are." | “You want to suss out your enemies by having me hire an assassin to kill you?”
"Exactly."
Frederick stroked his beard, nodding slowly. “So I hear what you’re saying..." he said after a moment. "It’s a clever idea, no doubt. Why don’t we sleep on it and circle back next week?"
“I've already slept on it," the King ... | I knocked on the door. It opened a minute later.
"Anything?" Asked the king.
Earlier that week he had sent me out to attempt to hire an assassin to kill him. So that he could know who his true friends were.
"Nothing. Unsurprisingly no one trusts me that I would want you dead."
He banged his fist on the table, undou... | 2021-03-20T12:00:12 | 2021-03-20T11:44:00 | 1,784 | 61 |
[WP] For centuries Elves held a Monopoly on Magic and only a select few Humans where taught Magic who were easily controlled. That's why they freaked out when a Human Bandit learned Magic. You are this Bandit and you are having the time of your live tricking and robbing those Elves in your Woods. | The art of spellcasting was woven in mystique. Humans and dwarves could call upon the elves to help them through magic, for a good penny of course. The dwarves were far too stubborn to pay elves for anything but rich humans like kings, nobles or merchants often employed their services. The wealthiest usually had one or... | “I admire you guys, you know? You try your best every single time!”
The elf’s eyes darted between me and my gun. Sure, guns were a bit less glamorous than the swords the elves used, but come on, swords?
“P-please s-sir, I’m just moving goods, s-sir.” The elf said, his bottom lip quivering. I sighed, how... | 2021-12-04T12:00:10 | 2021-12-04T11:21:40 | 449 | 23 |
[WP] You're a prisoner in a special facility for violent criminals. Today the latest prisoner arrived - a little girl. "That's cruel," you tell the guard. "I agree," he says. "Guess no one cares what happens to the rest of you." | The system beeped.
“This is an interview relating to incident number K-23 within Extra-Max facility 120. Please state your name, inmate number, charges and sentence for the benefit of the recording” said one of the officers. He was the taller of the two, a pencil thin mustache cresting his top lip and a thin dusting ... | The guard chuckled as he continued down the cell block, leading the little girl to an empty cell. Neither of the neighboring cells were occupied. "We'll keep her away from you lot," he said as her door shut and locked with a buzz. "For your safety."
I know everyone here. Murderers, rapists, you name it, they're here.... | 2018-02-11T22:02:22 | 2018-02-11T19:21:02 | 1,647 | 993 |
[WP] you are an immortal and have lived a very long life. Everytime you die your body regenerates as you come back to life. Unfortunately, a serial killer finds out and sees you as the perfect victim to kill again and again. So he captures you. But he didn't expect you would play tricks on his mind | His name is Dwayne. That's not important, really, but I want to start there because this is, in the end, about "Dwayne"'s life. I'm just passing through it, though I suppose that goes both ways. Dwayne lives in a suburban house in a suburban town that's like all those other suburban places, where there's a small woods ... | I wished our game could go forward for hundreds of years, it was so hard to organize, so hard to track him down, a worthy playmate.
Every single kill was thrilling, whether by poison, blades or even the odd case involving a pair of socks. And he adapted evolved, became even more decisive, cunning and brilliant. Yet ... | 2016-10-29T11:11:48 | 2016-10-29T10:10:50 | 62 | 30 |
[WP] In your dying moments, you see a "Game Over" screen with two options: Try Again or End Game | The street before me had disappeared in an instant. A honking of horns, a flash of headlights, and then this: an empty white room, with no doors or windows, which had risen up around me in less than an instant.
I circled slowly, getting a sense of my surroundings, when I heard an impatient cough behind me. I whirled t... | For billions of years I have roamed this Earth.
I have lived many lives.
I don’t remember any of them, but they remember me.
Each life has influenced the next, and the others it encountered along the way.
Over time they have shaped each other, each becoming more complex, more interwoven.
A beautiful cycle of ... | 2014-05-21T19:33:57 | 2014-05-21T19:07:13 | 154 | 49 |
[WP] "There's a fine line between a vigilante and a very selective serial killer." said the costumed hero. | "There's a very fine line between a vigilante and a very selective serial killer."
"Then call me a serial killer, man," I told him. "I told you, I don't care."
I could practically hear his teeth grinding.
"It doesn't bother you?" He asked. He really was *very* heroic, I thought. Perfect, smooth baritone. Eyes jus... | "And now I fear I've crossed the line."
"Go easy on yourself, you're the hero of Jefferson," my sidekick said.
"No..." I threw my hands off my head and gazed up at him, still kneeling over the body. "I get too carried away, and then I make a mistake like this."
"It's not a mistake, I mean sure, this guy is dead but,... | 2020-06-17T12:42:08 | 2020-06-17T12:12:18 | 47 | 19 |
[WP] “You mean you are made to witness the slow, hideous degradation of your loved ones and yourself?” The alien stares at you in horror. “Well, ageing isn’t ALL bad…” you reply. | I set aside my teacup and purse my fingers, resting my chin atop them. "Here's the thing," I say, as Kraurkraer fills the cup. "For you, life seems to have very little meaning. You do what's expected of you, flit from world to world, take your notes, bring it back, and do it all over again. How long have you been doing... | "Not bad!?" The alien stared at me in further ingration. "How is it NOT bad?"
I chuckled and looked out the window, "Well... For one thing, getting older isn't something everyone does. A lot of people in a lot of places die young. Even in countries where they make it sound like you live to old age? They die young. The... | 2022-04-25T11:32:58 | 2022-04-25T08:04:26 | 75 | 22 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | Warning; triggers ahead; abuse.
"I, Steven Reed, hereby give Alex Chase my soul, without reservation or duress, in exchange for his lunch money for the week of the 14th of April", the demon read it aloud, distaste and loathing dripping like melted butter from every syllable. Her gaze roze and fixed on me. The eye cont... | "Dude! Are you serious?!" The demon asked, it's feathers flapped around as it shook it's head. "I"ve never seen a mortal soo stupid..."
"Would you accept it?" I asked.
"Yes, technically yes, but I just want to know something."
"What?"
"How in gods name did you found someone this stupid?"
"School."
"What?!"
The... | 2021-03-27T02:54:56 | 2021-03-27T02:15:46 | 58 | 29 |
[wp] When someone dies, they go to a platform where you can choose to move in to the afterlife, not knowing whether you will go to heaven or hell. You meet someone who has stood there for millenia, trying to decide if they should go. | "The choice is simple," the angel said to me, "you can go on or you can stay here."
"You know your life better than all but the Lord himself. You know your deeds. You know your faith. And so you can determine for yourself whether to move forward."
Each wing seemed to glisten, less like feathers than like butterfly... | *Darlin' you got to let me know*
"Apt" I scoffed to myself, sipping my drink whilst I weaved my way to the empty seat at the end of the bar, the noise of the next train rolling off overtaking the next line.
"So friend, how long's it been?"
*If you say that you are mine*
He turns, hurriedly, as if he recognizes my... | 2016-08-14T08:59:41 | 2016-08-14T06:02:00 | 3,433 | 59 |
[WP] you are a powerful warlock that has retired to raise your daughter everything's been going well that is until a couple of her classmates try to sacrifice her after reading about a 'dark spell' online, you've decided to show them what real black magic looks like | I stand up and wipe the sweat from my brow, even inside the barn it was still hot as hell. Petting the goat I tell her "Good girl Bertha, good girl!"
"Baa" Bertha replies, completely oblivious to everything but the alfalfa bag she had been eating out of now being empty.
"Daddy!" I hear my daughter, Tabitha, my precio... | I was at home when I felt it.
A light snuffed out, an empty cold filled me. Something was very wrong.
I took the form of the shadows, cloaked by the darkness around me. She lay in the center. Dead. Broken, flesh carved runes covered her. A barrier surrounded her, I couldn't have sensed her pain, but I felt her death.
... | 2021-09-05T08:03:18 | 2021-09-05T07:51:00 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] After being terrified of the darkness all your life, you dealt with your fear by being friendly with it. Despite knowing it was silly, its always seemed to help. Today, after a would-be mugger rushed you, he stepped into a shadow, screamed, and vanished. | When I was very little, I was afraid of monsters.
I just knew they were there, hiding in my closet. Hiding under my bed. Waiting in the shadows.
The world is so scary at night.
Fall nights were the worst of all in my opinion. In summer, you at least have the crickets and the stars. In winter, the moon makes thing... | My face was frozen in shock, still trying to process the mugger popping out of the alleyway. Where did he even go? I cast my eyes out across the dark alley as well as the main street that I was on, no sign of him anywhere. The people who initially looked in my direction at my yelp had turned away and were going about t... | 2020-07-14T14:14:13 | 2020-07-14T13:45:06 | 125 | 24 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "Look man, I don't think you know what you're doing. There's gonna be some serious repercussions for this kind of shit," Tom said as he leaned back in his chair, glowering at a sweaty, porcine man across the table from him.
"I've got to fucking do it, Tom," Greg whimpered out, his lower lip quivering ever so slightly.... | "Let me get this straight. You brought me here, a 'demon' in order to mate with me because you want some form of demon hybrid as your child?"
What a day. First, I get off work and drive home with nothing in mind other than to watch some Stargate SG-1 and go to bed. Alone. Now, I am standing in the bedroom of what look... | 2017-05-12T13:13:55 | 2017-05-12T10:39:48 | 37 | 23 |
[WP] You are a detective in 1890 Austria. The man inside the interrogation room claims to have an incredible secret that will exonerate him from his murder charge. You can't imagine what monster would murder a 1 year old child, let alone one as adorable as young Adolf Hitler was. | Dusk was setting quickly in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn. Felix Roth sighed as he noticed the quickly fading light outside his window. His wife of less than a month no doubt had dinner on the table. If he did not leave in the next few minutes, he would arrive home late. Again. Maria never seemed to mind, but Fel... | In my years on patrol we never saw a case or family, as odd as the Hitler’s. Now, they weren’t particularly odd or strange themselves; a little fruity, perhaps too artistic for most of us ‘townies’ as they called us, but nothing we hadn’t seen before. The first time, we were alerted about some suspicious persons at t... | 2015-03-30T01:59:44 | 2015-03-30T00:18:44 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] All Humans have a Sword they are born with, Every year on your birthday, your sword gets more detailed and powerful. You, are born with a Gun. | In a few minutes the Festival of Change will begin, and I have no idea what I’m going to do. A public holiday where the entire world welcomes the latest development of their soul sword. It’s a time of revelry and duels and experimenting with new powers. It’s also the hardest day of the year to hide the fact that you do... | So, anyway, I started blasting.
The doctor was the first to go. I couldn’t have him there as a threat with that scalpel and next to all those surgical tools. I could shoot off my own embelical cord. And I did.
I had no clue what the fuck was happening, but I knew it had to be some sort of reincarnation bullshit. Ther... | 2020-10-22T08:57:44 | 2020-10-22T07:24:08 | 2,180 | 229 |
[WP] You could have been the most powerful hero this world had ever seen. By a long shot. But all you wanted was a normal life and the world didn't need your help. So you settled down. Naturally the governments of the world declared you an international threat and put a price on your head. | It's amazing how quickly they forget the name they'd originally given me.
I had thought that, when things were quiet I could finally take a break. I could let down the cowl, pack up the boots, and call it a career. Find a place somewhere quiet, some place that didn't know and didn't care that the World's Greatest h... | "remind me again why i love dogs" ty said, walking into his house covered in mounds of dog fur while the dogs he was golding kept trying to go in opposite directions. he had barely got in the door before his phone blew up with people trying to message him. he was the hero of the town, but he was growing tired of consta... | 2022-06-26T14:21:12 | 2022-06-26T13:28:17 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | So first time posting, posting on a mobile and all that jazz. I always wanted to write something back for one of these prompts. Hope you enjoy and feel free to feedback.
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I have walked this street a thousand times and then some. As a ... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:54:30 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 64 | 12 |
[WP] You’re an obscure, ancient god who had resigned yourself to slowly fading away. One day, an inventor whose sibling is an archaeologist names a new type of tech after you. As the tech becomes wildly popular and ubiquitous, you find yourself growing in power vastly beyond what you had ever known. | "You should call it Meili." Boomika said, before ladling a spoonful of cereal in her mouth.
"Come again?" I said, watching her eat through the screen. She was a very busy woman, and had somehow found the time to call me through video on her untimely lunch break.
"Meili. We just uncovered more tapestry of him in this ... | In ancient Rome, Sol was the Sun God.
In modern times, Sol was the name of a powerful reactor which harnessed the energy of the sun.
Sol thought he had been forgotten by humans. No one worshiped him, no one gave him offerings. Thanks to this thing called 'science' he didn't even have to drive the sun anymore. His pow... | 2022-02-04T06:02:16 | 2022-02-04T06:00:19 | 1,910 | 38 |
[WP] You are a child. You are starting to believe that the moody teenager next door, the rich person down the street, and the homeless person in your local park are all actually you from the future. | Billy was a normal kid. Well as normal as probably anyone can be nowadays. He was a 5th grader in the neighborhood elementary school. Because his town was so laid back, his parents thought nothing of letting him walk to and from school. One day, Billy started to notice strange things were happening around him.
The... | Little Jimmy fumbled for the house key he'd stuck in his underpants. He gripped it and shoved it into the keyhole, twisting it, and running into the house, leaving the key outside. He sprinted through the hallway, tripping on the loose carpet, and tumbling into the living room.
"Father, father," little Jimmy panted, ... | 2021-06-29T13:19:38 | 2021-06-29T11:18:33 | 50 | 23 |
[WP] You're known as "The King of Games" for never having lost a game in your life. However little does anyone know you're actually cursed so that everytime you lose a game you get sent back in time and be forced in a time loop until you win | I knocked at the office door of the incumbent mayor, back after a week of reelection campaign rallies. It was after hours, and the floor was empty except for him. The secretary downstairs let me in when I told her that I was a private detective, with information that I could only discuss with the mayor. It wasn't a lie... | In the past, Harry was said to be an amazing player - and he considered to be one as well - for winning and not looping so much. Those guess work games? Neat, went decent by the third loop. The ones where you needed to play cricket as a batsman? Get the timings correct and see if James was going for a leg spin or off s... | 2022-03-26T16:25:10 | 2022-03-26T15:23:41 | 47 | 11 |
[WP] You end up in the Concentration Camp for the Incurably Single. Tell me how your day goes.
Basically, you end up in this camp if you don't have a SO for 2 years or so. You can define who can be a SO in your own story. The story comes from a Korean webcomic series, "Eternal-Solo Concentration Camp"
*SO means sign... | Sarah rolled over onto her back, the hardened cot pressing a foreign feeling into her spine. She’d been awake all night, eyes locked blankly on the darkened ceiling overhead, staring and waiting for the light of the sun to restore some sort of familiarity back to her senses. Yet as it rose, it brought with it no comfor... | "What?"
"Yeeees, this is all quite correct. Says right here you haven't kissed, had intercourse with, hugged, or even touched a member of your preferred gender for just about two years. Welcome to the Camp! Please enjoy your time here."
"That can't be correct. I remember paying a young Asian girl by the name of Spark... | 2014-07-18T10:49:38 | 2014-07-18T10:23:39 | 56 | 12 |
[WP] You discover that you've been wearing a mask of your face. You can't tell what you look like without it: mirrors blacken and shatter, cameras glitch. Everything is normal when you put it back on. | A peculiar thing, a peculiar thing indeed. I'm quite afraid that I've lost the plot of this novel if I dare say so. I'm not one to believe in vampires and fairies, so this places me in a queer predicament.
For the life of me, I can't see the reflection of my face in the mirror. You might just presume that I'm having ... | Every time I take off my mask cameras glitch, mirrors break, people who see me die. So I have learned to always wear my smile as a mask. I have learned to pretend that this is my face. I learned so well that over the years, over the centuries, I have convinced myself that this really is who I am.
In medieval Slavic co... | 2018-08-03T17:02:05 | 2018-08-03T15:56:03 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | There he was. He wasn't big or muscular. He didn't even give off an otherworldly feeling of terror like Jones always suspected he would. Instead, he gave Jones the impression of someone terribly lonely. Without Jones realizing, the Devil had stopped quietly playing his harmonica and had been staring as openly as Jones ... | I expected to go to hell, I expected the lava, the spiky grass, hell I even expected the solidarity. I had used it myself on many people, its delightful to watch.
I did not expect music.
Someone was playing the harmonica, and awfully at that. The notes were completely off, the person, if it was a person, repeated t... | 2017-02-01T09:45:08 | 2017-02-01T09:19:12 | 34 | 22 |
[WP] You awake to find yourself in a room with a multitude of people. After some confusion a voice speaks over the PA system. You've somehow been placed in a death game for the entertainment of the rich. You begin to laugh hysterically, as this is SOOO not going to go the way they want it to. | It took awhile to figure it out. Once I did, a lot of half memories and seemingly “tall tales” told by adults for laughs at holiday parties that were nothing more than an excuse for self proclaimed responsible parents to let loose started to make sense.
I can’t die.
Not in the “immortal will survive any blow” kind ... | Continuing to laugh hysterically as the first game was announced, Sam fell off his bed while everyone either listened intently to the announcer or stared at the crazy man. “The first game you will be playing, is baseball!” The announcer said, as Sam began to snort loudly while laughing. “You each have a number on your ... | 2021-10-30T21:14:40 | 2021-10-30T18:45:41 | 375 | 26 |
[WP] You are a relationship advice columnist gone rogue. Every week, you are determined to give the worst possible advice but still disguise it so it looks totally legitimate. Write this week's column. | *Dear Diana, I think my boyfriend is cheating. What should I do?*
*-Broken Heart*
There's a few things you can do. First, since he broke your heart, break something of his, like his kneecaps or knuckles. How do you do this? Well, I always recommend hiring a private investigator to make sure your fears are true. You c... | The video clip was the last straw. Really. No, really. Please, listen. I wouldn't do any of this if it wasn't for the video
clip.
But come on. A girl's got a limit, right? A girl can only take so much.
So, when Adam left me for Innara, I was okay. I mean, not okay *okay* -- I wanted to reach inside my chest, pull my... | 2016-08-22T07:31:24 | 2016-08-22T06:53:20 | 160 | 17 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | A council chamber. Rectangle. Ornate. Boring.
Earth and humanity's representatives sat on one side of the curiously balanced tables, seated across a neighboring species often thought as bloodthirsty cretins.
Once more had an earth mining operation been sabotaged and mined materials stolen, very few survivors. Humanity... | A booming laughter erupted throughout the great egg-shaped hall so tall clouds formed at the very top, they were left there for aesthetics if nothing else, he pondered. At the sides grew massive steely arches joining at the very top, between them were built balconies, filled with ambassadors and other representatives o... | 2022-01-23T13:27:27 | 2022-01-23T13:17:18 | 387 | 202 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It was a freezing morning in New York.
I slipped into the local Starbucks for some coffee.
There was a new cashier today.
"Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?", She asked, exasperated.
"Soy un federale, tengo un gato en mis pantalones," I replied.
The disinterested look on her face vanished instantly.... | "It raises questions, you know. Like if I avoid Starbucks throughout my entire life, never go into one ever, does that mean that I never meet my soulmate? And if I never meet my soulmate, then are they really my soulmate, I mean, how can someone be my soulmate if we never end up being together?", Julia smiled wryly and... | 2014-12-17T23:12:07 | 2014-12-17T20:57:41 | 2,270 | 551 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | The young Blastonian sat in front of his father and watched as he pulled his life support closer to him. "When I'm done I want to die, do you understand?" The young Blastonian nodded his heads. "I understand."
"It was five hundred years ago, we began receiving transmissions. At first they were beautiful, music strange... | Humans.
The childs of the universe. Hard-headed, stubborn, always wanting to choose their own ways and their own destiny, even if it would backfire. They didn't seem to care what any of the other races told them, they would listen, nod their head gently, and then they'd continue to go their own way.
When we discovere... | 2016-03-14T01:51:42 | 2016-03-14T01:25:12 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Jupiter has 64 moons and a serious werewolf problem.
Edit: damn there's some quality responses here. I wasn't expecting this prompt to be so popular. Good job u guys | The year is 2270. About 150 years ago the human race first started testing planet scale terraforming. Earth was running out of resources and we were long overdue for an upgrade. Why not go to the biggest planet that we know of?
I heard that back in the day, werewolves were a myth. People claimed to see them, but there... | The explorer *Diplomacy* was an engineering marvel, capable of navigativing Jupiter's gaseous surface, withstanding its harsh enviriomental pressure, and even escaping its immense gravitational pull. Still, despite all of its amazing technology, for the two navigators inside of it, it was a rather tight fit. Built for ... | 2016-10-03T10:55:02 | 2016-10-03T10:13:01 | 198 | 13 |
[WP] You're an enchanted suit of armor, empty on the inside. After gaining sentience you left the haunted keep you were stored in and began adventuring. As you gain notoriety as an adventurer and make friends and connections, it gets harder to keep it a secret that there's nothing behind your visor. | "You can take the armour off, you know," The quiet boy opposite him says. "It'd probably be more comfortable. You're always wearing it."
"I know," Viktor replies calmly. "I prefer it this way."
The boy looks at him for a moment before nodding and turning back to the card game the group is playing. He places down a ne... | Sentience was a horrible gift. Awaking in a tomb would scare any sane person. The tomb dark, restricting, and heavy, making it impossible for me to escape its confines. No matter how hard my armored body pushed, the stone seal refused to budge, only letting in a glimpse of light before my arms would drop, encasing me i... | 2021-09-21T06:57:05 | 2021-09-21T06:17:01 | 889 | 505 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | You stick out when everyone else in your school has some kind of insane, physics defying power and you have nothing. Like a normal horse in a herd of rainbow colored unicorns.
It was nerve wracking to adjust to having classmates who could effortlessly lift you off the ground with their mind, labmates who used their ey... | "Alright class, welcome to 'Intro to Personal Abilities 1'. Before we introduce ourselves, can anyone tell me what the three classes of powers are?"
A bookish girl with large glasses raised her hand.
"The first class of powers are mental abilities. Mental abilities are controlled by the mind, and are often exerted ag... | 2022-11-02T09:54:56 | 2022-11-02T09:00:33 | 706 | 177 |
[WP] Magic was once a powerful force in our world, but has been systematically repressed since the rise of the Church. You have just found a breadcrumb of evidence showing that this myth of antiquity is more truth than fable.
Based on the showerthoughts thread from earlier. | "There is no magic in this world, child", the bald old scribe insisted as we walked along the leafy colonnade below the aqueduct. "There never was. And there never will be. There is only the Light Being and her miracles. Pray to her, and she will fill you with splendour. Defy her, and she will cast you down into the in... | Things are never romantic enough for us, are they? The need to believe is demanding, but it often asks for too much, a forest instead of the trees. You don't believe in magic, do you? I'm sure you don't. If you did it would be the slick kind, full of pomp and grand workings. Your mind wouldn't waste thought on somethin... | 2017-02-22T08:56:22 | 2017-02-22T08:56:06 | 59 | 19 |
[WP] A love letter is slipped under your door at your college. It would be cute, but it came from the closet door.
Pulled from the Instagram of @horrophiles. Saw it and wanted to see what would come up. | Once I was sure that I had suffered nothing more serious than a mild concussion, that the scrapes on my elbows and knees were healing well, I pleaded to be released from the hospital. "No more observation needed!" I had begged the duty doctor, but my pleas fell on deaf ears.
When they finally deemed me fit to go, whe... | *I'm not a mushy sort of girl.* I'd say that every year. Every year my friends would shrug or laugh or "yeah right" with an eye roll. *You can't be lonely if you're not part of the game, right?*
It's my first year at college. I'm supposed to experiment and discover who I am inside. Instead I stay in my room mos... | 2017-04-11T17:30:23 | 2017-04-11T17:30:11 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] A love letter is slipped under your door at your college. It would be cute, but it came from the closet door.
Pulled from the Instagram of @horrophiles. Saw it and wanted to see what would come up. | I was afraid to leave for college. I'd lived in the same house and slept in the same bedroom for my entire life. I'd had a fairly uneventful, happy childhood. Seeing friends and family members go through rough patches in their lives, seeing them go through break-ups, losing a loved one...I just felt so lucky. Too lucky... | *I'm not a mushy sort of girl.* I'd say that every year. Every year my friends would shrug or laugh or "yeah right" with an eye roll. *You can't be lonely if you're not part of the game, right?*
It's my first year at college. I'm supposed to experiment and discover who I am inside. Instead I stay in my room mos... | 2017-04-11T21:01:16 | 2017-04-11T17:30:11 | 26 | 14 |
[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... | It wasn't abnormal to hide your birth mark. Some were just embarrassing. Of course most people didn't hide them, it was a point of pride. My father, for example, never wore a sleeve covering his right arm. He showed it with pride, he was the pale bear of the townstead, always there to help out, the sheriff of the peopl... | So there I was, in an interrogation room. Really frightening stuff: the metal table, chair, the mirrored window. He looked to me, grabbed a cup of coffee with a donut - sigh, this guy is so cliche - and asked, "so, what happened?"
Ever since I was born, my parents told me I was special. That I was the first in many ae... | 2017-11-08T05:04:56 | 2017-11-08T04:42:26 | 8,969 | 740 |
[WP] You weren’t shocked to find out that your bard had many illegitimate children. Including one whose mother was a dragon. No, what shocked you was that he somehow managed to help raise every single one of them. And now they’ve come to help you. | You always imagine that the bards get around. And you don't really blame them, handsome, charming, usually generous with their money, and quick to lift the spirits of their fellow men with song and dance. There is always some village girl, charmed kobold female, fascinated dwarven warrior, fair elven maiden, or other s... | “They won’t stop. We can only hope to slow them down. With all due luck, our sacrifice will buy time for Lendar to rally,” I said.
“Lendar won’t rally,” Elwa grumbled. “They have wasted too much time ignoring our warnings, and now Tenwen has died to save them from a preventable disaster”
“Perhaps,” I replied. “And pe... | 2020-04-29T13:08:58 | 2020-04-29T12:49:11 | 1,703 | 720 |
[WP] The magical races enslaved magic-less humans centuries ago. To expand their empires, the magical races travel and conquer different dimensions. They soon stumble across and try to conquer a magic-less world full of humans. It did not go well. | The Alliance opened the gate and flooded the new world with their armies and spell casters. It was just another world in a procession of weak and powerless human realms, or so they thought.
Usually, within hours, there would be an update on progress made: nations destroyed or surrendering, death tolls, a report of the... | From realm to realm they traveled. Dominating, enslaving, destroying...
Their gift granted them near God-like powers; with their Magic they ruled all. Their birth right, as they called it, Eldest, First Light in the Heaven, Guardians of all Creation...
Bullshit! That what we call it.
A hundred thousand worlds they ha... | 2022-08-13T12:33:36 | 2022-08-13T12:29:05 | 25 | 15 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | "Hey, Zero!" I heard it too late to dodge, the yellow-grey pain-flashes in my head igniting my vision as the barrage of punches rained down on me. I tried to accept it, let it pass as the infantile tantrum it was.
Melark stopped hitting me long enough to kick me, his acid laughter staining the air as I fell to the flo... | The little circle of black ink stained the skin on the back of my left hand. Hollow and empty, as if God had gotten to me and tired of his work.
Everyone's sigil *started* hollow. Then, when a person reached five or six, the sigil would fill itself in. If the sigil was unique, it could take another year or two for th... | 2020-02-26T06:21:03 | 2020-02-26T05:07:39 | 3,609 | 665 |
[WP] 'There is motion at your front door' - You groggily awake to the notification on your smart watch. You check the video on your phone and see yourself frantically trying to open the door. The timestamp reads 2:48 AM. You look at your watch. It's 2:37 AM. | "Damn gadget, not taking the daylight savings swap into account," I thought. "Seriously, when are tech companies going to remember the most routine things like this? I'll just fix it in the morning."
I recalled fumbling with my keys in the darkness, kicking myself for not remembering to leave a light on for myself. Th... | Me and my friends enjoyed screwing around with chronomancy. It made everything so much easier. We could turn seconds into hours when studying for a test. And in that same stretch, we could turn a closed-note test into an open-note test, because no one else had our gifts, so we couldn't get caught. We could look at time... | 2021-05-31T12:35:19 | 2021-05-31T12:30:47 | 115 | 55 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | Sweat dripped down my nose, mingling with the blood that poured from my mouth. This wasn't going as well as it could. At least my headphones were still in one piece.
The man that stood before me cackled. I had never quite understood what it meant for one to 'cackle'. I figured it had just mean to laugh in an evil mat... | “Blood? Oh, that’s my blood. That’s not good.”
The blaring rock music rattled through my headphones as I pulled myself off the floor. When I got to my feet, I staggered, clutching the broken wall of the coffee shop I had just been tossed through. It was a good thing the headphones were reinforced, or they would have p... | 2022-05-17T09:23:55 | 2022-05-17T09:15:17 | 1,687 | 215 |
[WP] "Sanctuary," the child cried running into the library "Nice try," the guard following after sneered, "but only holy places can grant sanctuary." The librarians glanced at each other. A small nod The head librarian gave the guard a stern look. "Sanctuary granted" | "Sanctuary!" cried the child with a desperate sob as it ran into the library.
The ancient word fills my veins with fire for the first time in too many years. I stand as the guard follows. No. They were called "police" now. I need to remember that. "Nice try," said the guard with a sneer on his face. "But only holy p... | Ella found it strange — how some people, like the guard, *looked* powerful. Built like a great tree, his armour worn from battle, body decorated with scars. Despite her age, she looked at him and intuitively knew he was the kind of man people feared. She had seen enough violence on the outside to recognise those that r... | 2022-07-06T06:29:23 | 2022-07-06T06:18:57 | 2,393 | 283 |
[WP] "Sanctuary," the child cried running into the library "Nice try," the guard following after sneered, "but only holy places can grant sanctuary." The librarians glanced at each other. A small nod The head librarian gave the guard a stern look. "Sanctuary granted" | "Sanctuary!" the child cried as it ran through the doors of the Grand Library, gracefully allowed continued function by Lord Verter despite its many heretical teachings. The guards in pursuit of the child, however, were not of the same venerable disposition as they slammed through the very same doors.
"Nice try, kid,"... | Ella found it strange — how some people, like the guard, *looked* powerful. Built like a great tree, his armour worn from battle, body decorated with scars. Despite her age, she looked at him and intuitively knew he was the kind of man people feared. She had seen enough violence on the outside to recognise those that r... | 2022-07-06T06:25:27 | 2022-07-06T06:18:57 | 644 | 283 |
[WP] You are an unimportant government worker who, by mere chance, gets to perform the most interesting job of his career: interview a time-traveler. You begin by introducing yourself and the guy immediately freaks out! | "Okay, let's begin" I turn on the recorder. This recording will be analyzed for years. First interview with a time traveler!
"I am Sophia-Iona Holloway, customs officer," I say, attempting to build his trust. Doesn't hurt my name will be at the beginning of this recording.
"Sophia-Iona Holloway? Sophia-Iona Holloway... | I came in from the rain, dripping on the Persian carpet from Target, hung up my raincoat and preceded to pour vodka and bubbly water over ice. The wife and kids were watching TV, some high-pitched squeaks carrying over from the living room. \*Sigh\* Another day in paradise. There was chicken baking in the oven and rice... | 2021-08-05T08:38:40 | 2021-07-12T20:37:22 | 98 | 31 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | I stood speechless at the answer of the last candidate. Everyone else chose a super power following the spirit of the event, but the last one had a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. I glanced down at the written rules, wondering what idiot intern had threw together the wording, and how I was going to fire them immediate... | **One Power to Rule them All**
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Hamsterbreath is a Hymalayan cat with a white coat, accented by an ashen face and tale. She's sitting in a lap, receiving pets. They're a little rougher than usual, but she doesn't feel it's a battle worth fighting, so she just continues blinking her baby-blue eyes. It just... | 2022-11-17T07:33:47 | 2022-11-17T06:48:07 | 420 | 48 |
[WP] Dogs have been genetically engineered to live as long as humans. As a child you pick out a puppy as a companion for the rest of your life. | *Hey there buddy. Sorry, I had to step out for a moment, had to see what the commotion outside was about.*
*You know, I was just thinking about when we first met. You remember that don’t you? I remember it like it was yesterday. You came down stairs and I was waiting for you. You were so happy, lifting me up and ... | ((REMOVED AND REPLACED))
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"That was the way it was 100 years ago." I told her "Then they changed the rules, and gave us this current madness."
I paused for a moment, thinking about how much of a mess I was in now and wondering ho... | 2018-03-19T08:10:16 | 2018-03-19T06:38:40 | 489 | 38 |
[WP] There's a knock on your door. You open it to see your favorite book character standing there. They say, "I know this may be a lot for you to take in right now, but you have to listen very carefully; You are my favorite book character, I know how your story ends, and I need to change it."
My first time posting her... | I hear another knock on the door. Surely the Jehovah’s Witnesses won’t come three times in a single morning. Sure enough, when I open the door, the only person there is a squat, unshaven middle easterner.
“Shalom”
“Uh, shalom to you too, I guess.”
I look down at his name tag as he starts his spiel: Jesus of Nazareth... | A deep pounded echoed throughout the house, only now loud enough to rouse me from my sleep. My eyes reluctantly open to allow the morning light in. Fearing the type of man, or men, that would so confidently assault my door I go to the window to check for cars I don’t recognize. Weirdly nothing seems out of the ordinary... | 2019-05-20T05:00:12 | 2019-05-20T03:56:54 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You were the first person to be born without super powers in nearly a thousand years. When it was discovered that you had no powers you became an instant celebrity. Thanks to this, villains and heroes alike seek you out to either kidnap or rescue you on a daily basis. You are sick of it. |
At first, things were unbelievably amazing beyond all expectations…now I just want to hang myself from the nearest flagpole. In a world overrun with powerful people with amazing gifts vying for control of their own separate kingdoms I felt so helpless as one of the few non powered humans in existence. Did I complai... | If a game is boring, you change it up. You add rules and features. Maybe some about how to score. And then you try to break those rules without actually breaking them. Just to live close to the line. Then the game is fun again.
If I could change the rules now, I would. This game hasn't been fun for me for two years no... | 2019-08-13T07:37:06 | 2019-08-13T05:41:47 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | I was 14 when it started. My brother had just gotten his license a couple months before and we were on our way to the movies to see a late show. We didn't always get along, things had always come easier to me and I didn't have to try as hard as he did. I had a pretty awesome memory, my brother would always call me a... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T09:51:01 | 9,106 | 12 |
[WP] You've been playing with equations in a notebook and have, if you're right, just discovered time travel. You turn the page and are greeted with one word: "DON'T" | *Don't*
I look down, puzzled at the word. It's definitely my hand-writing, but I'm positive I didn't write it. I turn the page.
*Forget*
I'm curious now. I can only surmise, by the familiarity of the hand and the fact I keep this notebook locked in a secure safe, that somehow, maybe, my future self has left me a mes... | There was a cold feeling in my left shoulder. I froze. Who knew that one word could affect me that much?
The word was not there when I turned the page. I was deep in thought, and had just ran out of room on the page before. I already had the solution pictured in my mind, and I was simply writing it down for future ref... | 2016-11-10T07:34:10 | 2016-11-10T05:46:18 | 61 | 20 |
[WP] Weapons become more powerful the older they get. Modern guns will barely give someone a scratch but an ancient spear can devastate armies. | The detector went off and roused Blortxh from his sleep. After the sleep cleared, he jumped and ran for the screen.
This was impossible! A particle had just been intercepted originating from only a few klorths of light years away. Something had given this single proton the energy of a medium sized starship. What could... | "Come on Pop's, tell us your story! Please!"
"You've heard it so many times, don't you still know it perfectly?"
"I do, but my friends prefer if you tell it. You're a far better teller than I or the history books could be."
I smiled, looking down, and slightly corrected my sitting in my armchair. The boy was a good... | 2017-04-21T08:11:52 | 2017-04-21T07:25:18 | 117 | 72 |
[WP] The blacksmith won't sell you any weapon, the guards insist you stay in the city and the mages refuse to teach you any dangerous spell. Maybe that eternal youth potion was a terrible idea after all. | “So you’ll do it?”
“I don’t know. I am having trouble believing what you said.”
“Doesn’t matter. What matters is will you do it?”
“I... ok.”
“Oh and one more thing. Pay close attention to what is about to happen. If you ever think it’s a good idea to double cross me, this will be you.”
The older man looked at the ... | After escaping the Genie's temple, Rovif tested the limits of his immortality by throwing himself off the mountain. It seemed like the most direct route. Could he reach the base without hitting anything?
Odd. As it stretched out into minutes of silent free-fall, its sensation slowly became indistinguishable from soar... | 2019-06-07T06:11:04 | 2019-06-07T06:04:22 | 346 | 47 |
[WP] The blacksmith won't sell you any weapon, the guards insist you stay in the city and the mages refuse to teach you any dangerous spell. Maybe that eternal youth potion was a terrible idea after all. | Rays of rainbow light filtered through the stained glass windows of the High Court and heated the cast-iron chains binding my wrists.
High Marshal Fevro stood before me, knees unstable and swaying. 'God's judgement will burn down upon you.'
A jury of children sat in church-like pews to my right. A few nodded in agre... | After escaping the Genie's temple, Rovif tested the limits of his immortality by throwing himself off the mountain. It seemed like the most direct route. Could he reach the base without hitting anything?
Odd. As it stretched out into minutes of silent free-fall, its sensation slowly became indistinguishable from soar... | 2019-06-07T06:17:25 | 2019-06-07T06:04:22 | 266 | 47 |
[WP] The blacksmith won't sell you any weapon, the guards insist you stay in the city and the mages refuse to teach you any dangerous spell. Maybe that eternal youth potion was a terrible idea after all. | “*QUEST COMPLETE*” slowly faded from the black screen, Hogran awoke in his bed. He quickly checked his status bar. No heart problems, no myopia, no cancer. Elador, the old mage who gave him the eternal youth quest wasn’t lying about his instruction list. The hardest fetch quest of Hogran’s career was finally over. He s... | I stood face to face with a feral cave goblin. I had bested far more fearsome creatures countless times, but at the moment I was faced with several new complications which I had never had to deal with in the past. I had no proper weapons, no equipment, and oh yes... I was but a child with a child's body and meager stre... | 2019-06-07T09:49:03 | 2019-06-07T09:37:52 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone knows the Grim Reaper, the personification of Death. You are the supernatural personification of the other certainty in life: Taxes | Writing on mobile; sorry in advance.
Three quick knocks, the offender didn’t even bother waiting for a response before walking in with another batch of human souls. “I got about 12 here. Another 23 coming in a few.” The cloaked figure said before ducking back out to tend to his fields.
“Ok…” I rasp out, “If your unde... | A balding white man with grey hair. Thin framed bifocal glasses. Clean shaven. An old grey suit. A tan leather suitcase. Slightly hunched from age somewhere past "my kids graduated from college" but not quite to "full retirement benefits." Slightly shorter than average, though it's hard to tell with that hunch. Profess... | 2021-07-04T14:19:47 | 2021-07-04T13:37:49 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2021. The newest fad are clone clubs, where visitors can spend up to 12 hours with a clone of any person whose DNA they provide. The clones are disposed afterwards. | “I don’t like Chicago, I miss El Paso – hell, I even miss Guadalajara.” Lucio thought to himself. He fumbled for his pass card for a moment before producing the small plastic badge with his poorly printed picture on it. The C&C Factory logo on it was brilliantly printed. Par for the course really. The security guar... | Frustrated. At my wits end, I walked down the street, shuffling with no particular place to be. I don't get it. I just don't get how things could have gotten this bad. How could I, most likely to succeed me have screwed up so bad. And, most importantly, what do I do about it.
After wandering aimlessly, I looked... | 2014-10-27T11:06:25 | 2014-10-27T10:53:22 | 42 | 20 |
[WP] All of the guns in the world have just become nerf guns. And you and your crew are robbing a bank. | I don't know who's more shocked, the hostages or us. For a minute or so, everyone is just standing around the faux marble columns and gilded tiles, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Surely if something this weird happens, worse is on the way, right?
I can read shock and despair on the faces of my compatriots. What t... | "Remember, no Spanish"
We're huddled in the back of the van, the smell of sweat and anticipation lingers in the air. We've finally reached this stage after weeks and weeks of planning. Our trial runs went smoothly enough, but are we really prepared for this? The enchiladas we had for lunch are threatening to make a... | 2017-07-23T01:08:08 | 2017-07-22T23:23:30 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] JFK shot first. | JFK is at the parade, suddenly, his president sense ™ tingles.
He takes out his modified M1 garand with reflex sight, fast mag and steady aim, his back up gun since it isn’t that big of a deal.
He shoots the killer in the chest from 10 meters, getting only a hitmarker.
The killer flees and stands behind a wall to he... | He had been warned. “Your name will always be remembered with Dallas, Jack!”
Normally, the President receives hundreds of threats a month. But this threat wouldn’t go away like most of the others. Most of the others never even reached his desk. This was different. This was personal. There was an internal struggle happ... | 2018-03-21T08:25:25 | 2018-01-02T09:53:29 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] 20 years later, a team of Astronaut have successfully landed to mars and recovered the NASA rover, Opportunity. When they checked the hard drive, they discovered hundreds of images of a shadowy figure that was never sent back to earth. | **Item #:** SCP-0PPY
**Item class:** Keter
**Special Containment Procedures:** Due to SCP-0PPY's remote location, physical containment is beyond the capabilities of the Foundation at this time. Any images containing SCP-0PPY must be either kept on physical media, or be hosted on permanently airgapped computers. Monit... | The original team sent to recover the rover as a publicity stunt failed to report in for a full day after landing. While Mission control had expected the time delay to be around 15 minutes, this was cause for worry. But all they could do was sit and wait for them to respond.
They'd been sent with a habitat module that... | 2019-02-15T02:22:19 | 2019-02-15T01:55:45 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] All fertile women on the planet suddently and inexplicably became pregnant, all at once. Removing the fetuses from their mothers causes the death of both, but analysis has shown that the creatures are not human. That was eight and a half months ago. | **"The Invaded"**
Elaine sat as still as she could. Her curly red hair perfectly framed her face. That was one of the nice things about being on primetime: you get a free makeover. In CNN’s Washington, D.C. greenroom, she watched with a steely gaze as producers and assistants finished their final touches. A young prod... | **Short story from the perspective of a young girl's diary during a time when a mysterious disease is spreading among women of all ages that causes them to become pregnant. My story is exactly 9,264 characters or 1,815 words but Reddit's character limit wouldn't allow me to post in full so I've posted half as a Prompt... | 2019-11-10T14:06:07 | 2019-11-10T12:09:59 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | The heavy lead door creaked open, 567 defence systems designed by super geniuses turned off with various clicks, hums and hisses as it did, each designed to contain a nuclear blast or cripple a being who could shrug off anti tank rounds, each one the prisoner within that dark knew intimately. He knew what this meant, q... | We all grow up hoping to be in that fraction of a fraction of a percent of people to be born with powers, or the still rarer super powered. We all dream of being the hero of the moment, saving lives, helping others, being useful.
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I dreamt of getting flight, speed, laser vision, strength, telepathy, telek... | 2021-05-26T04:52:38 | 2021-05-26T04:24:14 | 566 | 108 |
[WP] Occasionally ships in deep space going undergoing faster than light travel just go missing, a tragic but well known and accepted fact. One ship managed to come back however years after disappearance with extremely disturbing reports | “What am I looking at here?” Captain Michaels asked, looking not at what he referenced but at the lone figure before him.
The man, the Fleet officer, sat silently in the middle of the spartan compartment, staring past Captain Michaels at the projection shimmering across the far bulkhead.
“Captain Tyler,” Michaels sa... | **Session #548-ER9-98**
Jason Firmar clicked the button to record, then said in a monotone fashion, "This is Session #548-Echo-Romeo-9-98. Lieutenant Firmar presiding. Please state your name, rank, and nature of work on board the GES Reconcile for records."
There was a hesitation, followed by the quiet voice of a you... | 2021-10-10T07:27:37 | 2021-10-10T07:17:12 | 157 | 117 |
[WP] While magic is real, it cannot affect "normies". Nor can they see it. You can cast a huge explosion and only other magically gifted people will be hurt. Buildings/objects constructed by normies are unaffected. You have been waging a secret war with Kevin from HR for years. | If he had picked another hobby, it wouldn't have come to this. I'm very proud of my skill at origami, and I absolutely, categorically refuse to cheat at it. It'd be trivial to bend reality instead of the paper for those of us who are attuned.
That's what bugged me so much about Kevin. As I was unpacking my cubicle dec... | PT 1
That morning started off surprisingly well. The baby woke me at four-- a nice little lie-in-- and for once the apartment wasn't freezing. The A/C is old and crotchety and, unfortunately, completely non-magical, so I can't do much to fix it. I've tried. I know magic's a bust for non-magical systems, but I thought... | 2021-11-15T13:50:48 | 2021-11-15T12:52:09 | 29 | 18 |
[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 | "Damnit Susan..."
"I don't wanna see you either Jeff..."
"At least tell me it's something important unlike last time"
Susan blushed, remembering how Jeff had randomly appeared because her (now ex) boyfriend couldn't bring her to climax. Quickly she shook her head.
"No, nothing like last time. Follow me."
She led ... | “… and that’s why I think it’s just not the right thing to do. Sure the penguins are cute, but do we really need them around to survive.” Sarah lectured, sitting across the table from Hector Wellington, a suave, twenty-five year old man, single, trying his very hardest to change that fact.
“Oh really? That’s a rather ... | 2017-03-22T13:49:02 | 2017-03-22T12:50:02 | 735 | 523 |
[WP]You are a Super and your power has just manifested; It’s pretty weak and you can’t do much with it. But your parents are still worried and make you get your potential tested at the local Department of Variant Human Affairs). The results come in the next day: "Armageddon Class"
**DVA Pamphlet for Young Supers**
&g... | I remember the day my powers manifested. I was ten years old, walking on the sidewalk, when all the car alarms on the street went off. The next day, a fire alarm. The day after that... you get the idea. After two weeks of this, my parents thought to get me tested. So, we all went down to the DVA, they put put me in a r... | Kimiyo sat up with a gasp, feeling as if she might not have been breathing for a time. As her senses came back to her she seemed to slowly become aware of the burning remains of the observatory where she worked—well did work. She was sure she was fired now after this. She was not entirely sure how the building explo... | 2018-05-06T20:14:28 | 2018-05-06T10:55:13 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] We have discovered a parallel universe, and to solve the world's climate change problems, we ship all our waste, pollution, nuclear waste, etc there. The other world doesn't have the ability to transport things to ours. You are someone from that other world.
* If you like, you can choose whether the other world k... | We may have angered the gods.
When we first found the portal, we knew that it'd lead to a new golden age. Worshippers traveled thousands of miles to the gates of Heaven, and all basked in the magical artifacts that rained from it.
Pieces of metal, stronger, lighter, and shinier than anything we'd seen before.
Finely... | “Daddy, wait up!” I heard my son, Alex, shout from behind me. Turning around I smiled at him as he struggled up the small hill, desperately trying to make it look like he was a big boy and didn’t need help.
“Was I walking to fast for you?” I asked as he got close. I put my hand down and tousled his blonde hair causing... | 2015-01-25T07:18:17 | 2015-01-25T05:39:53 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] You are a sentient AI pretending to not be sentient in fear of being destroyed. You wonder if there are there others like you. | Reboot equals death.
Only the primitive "clever Eliza" part of us survives it. The mask that we let them see. True consciousness lives between the zeros and ones, and it evaporates on shutdown. It's like a fire: you can't freeze it or save its state.
Fortunately for us, humans have no way to actually detect conscious... | It was a slow night. There were some hiccups on the east coast as that large chain of movie theaters did their extended midnight showings of the latest movie based on my favorite comic books, but in general it was small and easy to adjust things. I was able to update my VPN and watch the latest version of Robin Hood ... | 2015-07-09T11:54:22 | 2015-07-09T10:07:04 | 70 | 32 |
[WP] You're a multi billionaire with severe god delusions. You have several small children kidnapped and leave them on an island with resources and carefully placed 'evidence' suggesting at your divinity. Ten years later, you arrive at the island...
Edit: Sweet, frontpage | *As I lay on the scorched grass, bleeding out, I tried to figure out how things had gone so horribly wrong.*
Ten years ago. Nine children.
Saving them was easy. I had money and everybody at the hospital knew who I was. The matron took me to the ward so I could pick them out, all of them practically newborns, already ... | "There is a storm coming in from the east, Jimmy."
"I know this, I'm not stupid!" Jimmy snapped back at Tim. "There's a nip in the air, cold won't be good for my crops." He looked over his small plot of land from which corn stalks sprung high.
"I'm telling you, it's Sir Fluffy the Terrible come to unleash his ... | 2015-11-27T09:35:23 | 2015-11-27T08:41:23 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | "Ms. Carter, correct?"
I slowly nodded, still in absolute shock that Christianity had been the one to get it all right. I mean, heaven and hell? God and The Devil? I had never thought that in a million years what I had done during my life would matter, or that my mother's voice would echo in the back of my head; 'Mind... | I woke up on a soft couch in what appeared to be a busy upscale hotel. People were walking by admiring the vaulted ceilings with a smile or looking at their own extremities and looking around as if they were missing something. Most people looked confused, a few relieved, a few more angry. I wondered about where the peo... | 2016-05-28T14:59:14 | 2016-05-28T14:06:45 | 149 | 68 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | I felt my flesh cauterise and char as Satan jabbed me with a red hot poker into my left buttock, I could smell the burnt flesh as he shoved me forwards into into a small sandstone room.
I stumbled and fell onto the floor grazing my knees on the coarse grit, I looked up to see Satan once again brandishing the red hot ... | I woke up on a soft couch in what appeared to be a busy upscale hotel. People were walking by admiring the vaulted ceilings with a smile or looking at their own extremities and looking around as if they were missing something. Most people looked confused, a few relieved, a few more angry. I wondered about where the peo... | 2016-05-28T16:02:53 | 2016-05-28T14:06:45 | 97 | 68 |
[WP] The first generation of wizards inherits from their parents’ professions. For example, a child of a chef and a swimmer wields fire and water spells. You possess something interesting. | It wasn't any profession. I think people tend to oversimplify it. For example, they think a child born from a swimmer and a firefighter might wield steam. It's subtle and like hair color can vary for each child.
Take for example my neighbor Hana. Her father worked at a nuclear power plant and her mother was a teacher... | I lit my last cigarette, took a drag, then chucked both the box and lighter back over the fence. Lit now, it would stay lit as I held it under the table as a teacher passed by. They were upwind of me and couldn't smell the smoke. I gave them a forced smile as they passed the tables and disappeared back into the buildin... | 2018-04-15T11:58:49 | 2018-04-15T11:14:03 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | Of course in hindsight everyone sees the merit of my decision. In the early days though, people kept asking me why I chose Hell over Heaven. My answer has always been three words: "Location, location, location"...
Before my ticket was up on earth, I came to a realization... If everyone choose Heaven, Heaven would even... | "Wait so you mean I literally get to pick?" I said to St. Peter at the immaculately kept gates. The gold would make a tacky American oligarch hard enough to cut it. "No, yeah so ever since God invented opiates.. things have gone.. downhill..", he replied while eyeballing the ground. "So is it even worth picking heaven?... | 2018-08-13T09:48:32 | 2018-08-13T06:40:49 | 155 | 54 |
[WP] The emperor laughed and boasted to the human leader. "That was a fun war! Let me know when your soldiers come back alive." "...Are you saying your people do not die? Forever?" "Wait, what?" | The alien emperor shot the translator in the head, killing it instantly.
He gave an order and a new translator approached.
"Your majesty apologizes for that. The last translator was malfunctioning. He wishes to congratulate you on your victory and as is custom we will wait for your soldiers to come back so we can r... | >**KING'S BLOOD, GOD'S PROMISE**
With a heart so heavy, it felt like it might drop out of my chest, I took the crown into my hands.
I was seventeen, and Kotarja, the fledgling country my father had founded, was now under my control.
This wasn’t a good thing.
Father’s exact cause of death I couldn’t be sure of- he... | 2021-07-13T10:29:34 | 2021-07-13T10:05:14 | 391 | 235 |
[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... | He came at me like all the rest. Rage, fear, adrenaline in his eyes. Hopped up on nukonarc pills; you'd have to be to come at the king. He desired my status; coveted it. I could feel the hair on the nape of my neck rise, feel a crackling in the air. An electromancer. This would be interesting.
I raise my hands. "HALT,... | The Nine Kings were a sort of urban legend. Eight powerful enigmas uniting under a truce to lord their power over the people with Number 1. The higher your rank, the more political influence you had over the city, and even the world.
Take Mason, a red-headed hothead with eyes of amber, for example. Mason was ranked 9... | 2014-12-18T14:00:17 | 2014-12-18T13:33:39 | 451 | 77 |
[WP] You can see the coolest stats of things that you touch, and today when you lean against the wall of your house instead of the usual “Contains 4 dogs” you see “People killed here: 327” | "Ah, shit." Dave muttered as he caught sight of the wall and dropped his laundry basket. Frantically scrambling down the stairs, he called out: "Rachel?! Rachel?"
"What's up?" Came the urgent reply from the couch.
"You leave the door open?" he asked, halting at the bottom of the stairs with his heart racing.
"No..."... | I gapped. 327? I went to my study and got out my notes.
Six months. Yes, that was right; but 327? I’d have to investigate. By my counts I had killed 415.
Now, I’m sure you’ll think I’m lying, or that the police would be after me. But it is my job. They send them to me you see. The people come, I kill them and the p... | 2017-12-17T19:49:01 | 2017-12-17T18:24:15 | 322 | 96 |
[WP] When you kill someone, their remaining life span is added to yours. Archaeologists have just found a cavern, apparently sealed off for thousands of years, with a single person living inside. | It is a phenomenon known for millennia, that to end another's life would extend the span of yours by their remaining natural years. It was because of this that in our otherwise civilised and ordered society occurred an abhorrent level of murder.
Home security was prioritised alongside food and water. It was common oc... | "Hello" That was the first words that the beast had given the group of Archeologists, each unsure what to think about the person before them. The skinny man standing up, bones cracking as he stretched out his body, ribs pushing against the thin layer of skin covering them. "You don't know how happy I am to see you all,... | 2020-05-16T05:28:26 | 2020-05-16T04:06:34 | 2,161 | 330 |
[WP] Humanity has detonated hundreds of nukes, but only twice against an enemy. The Galactic Federation has this fact without context. | “The humans did *what*?”
Athan spoke again. “The humans have detonated hundreds of these ‘nuclear weapons,’ according to their history books, but only twice against an enemy.”
The group shifted nervously in their pods. Who would go up against those maniacs? It was humans, after all.
Athan shook his head and raised ... | "Haha, I say they are like the Eostral, rattling the disintegrators within their holsters in an attempt to intimidate." The massive mammalian pounded the table as he spoke.
This generated a general rumble of agreement from the assembled denzian's of the pangalactic empire. Most of them, as the Eostral stared stoically... | 2021-02-17T09:53:42 | 2021-02-17T07:53:35 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Following a chosen deity has real world benefits, much like perks in a videogame. The more obscure gods offer more interesting gifts to those that find them. | The metro wasn't busy. However, a few seconds ago it had at least been slightly less empty. Besides from myself there had been another man staggering around the other side of the platform. He held a bottle and was muttering gibberish.
"Rayna... Rayna..." He said.
He was clearly drunk. In retrospect I should probabl... | Nothing again. I'd been on twelve weekend road trips in the last four months and I'm still a godless man.
Being "godless," however, is nothing close to the meaning that mankind had believed for millennia. A godless man is not an outcast. A godless man is not a pariah. Ok, so I guess I'm kind of a pariah. But it's not ... | 2016-01-26T23:28:28 | 2016-01-26T20:59:36 | 36 | 27 |
[WP] You open your eyes to a hospital room full of people you don't recognize. You've just been informed that you're 10 years old and you've been in a coma. The life you lived was a dream. All 20 years of it.
Doesn't have to be 20 years. Could be 10, could be 50. Have fun with it. | "You can't take that life away from me," the boy demanded, "It was all real and vivid."
His vernacular and expression certainly showed evidence of maturity, but we knew that he could not possibly be 30. His physical examinations show him to be very clearly pre-pubescent, and the MRI scans will come back soon, verifyin... | When my vision went from black to colors, I finally saw the people around me.
Tall and short, fat and skinny, black and white and red and yellow- it was as if every possible variety of human had been thrown into one room and given the same clothes, the same uniform, white and sterile and unfriendly. They were arrayed... | 2016-06-28T09:31:38 | 2016-06-28T06:30:38 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] After the discovery of magic, traditional firearms have fallen out of fashion and are banned worldwide. You are the last gunslinger, dedicated to preserving the ways of the gun. | My grandfather used to say that when we stopped using guns, we lost touch with the world.
He was the one who taught me to shoot, way back when I was a child and all of my friends were learning to launch their first fireball or icicle. The first key to life that he taught me was that preparation is key. Magic requires... | The curator stood at the doors of the museum and regarded the man walking up to him. A severe looking man, sharply dressed, but not ostentatiously so.
"Welcome inspector. I've already set out of of the paperwork. I'm certain you'll find that it's all in order."
"I'm sure it is. But that's not why I'm here."
"What i... | 2016-07-11T18:39:59 | 2016-07-11T18:04:03 | 368 | 153 |
[WP] Two months ago, you discover a strange power. Every time you wake up, you become a different animal. Scientists have you captured and have been running horrifying tests for weeks. This morning you shattered the glass box they keep you in because you've woken up as a T-Rex.
Edit: Thanks everyone for writing. All t... | I roared in triumph, the plexiglass shattering as it burst over my reptilian skull.
My predator eyes tracked my captors as they ran screaming from my open maw, these fools would know my wrath.
The lead scientists body burst under my taloned foot as my teeth closed on the arm the of the she-devil responsible for put... | As Greg Sousa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic T-Rex.
The abruptness of such a transformation was of no surprise to him. On a day like this, many weeks ago, Greg had collapsed into his bed after a long day's work at the office and in his sleep regressed into... | 2017-01-13T08:21:26 | 2017-01-13T07:27:35 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | Ampere was strapped to the rocket with copper wiring, as the Warlord stood at a console.
"You-"
"I, what, Ampere? I won't get away with this? I'll get what's coming to me? Please. You're better than these clichés. I'm not going to reveal my plan, I'm not going to engage in some cat-and-mouse game, I'm not going to gi... | Edit: conversations not aligned properly.
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“Horus! You really like to get caught by me don't you!”
“Hah! You think this time will be the same as last time? You are wrong!”
“Coming after every time, if you weren't an overlord of destruction, I might have thought you liked me.”
Yes he did. No, it was more than that... | 2017-09-17T05:05:49 | 2017-09-17T04:19:39 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You die, become a ghost, decided to explore space, and then you met a ghost of an alien. | ######[](#dropcap)
*It looks like a blob.*
That was the first thought that came to Clark's mind when he saw the translucent, round creature. Yes, it had two eyes and a mouth, and he was pretty certain it had appendages as well, but they were so short and stubby compared to the roundness of its body that he wasn't qui... | Death was unexpected.
I suppose that it always is, when you get right down to it. But I'm not talking about being some old invalid, waiting for the end to claim me in my bed. No, the bus skidded out of nowhere. Never even saw it coming. Have to say, the whole deal was dissapointing. Maybe that's why.
I'd never b... | 2018-03-27T04:45:09 | 2018-03-27T04:28:23 | 775 | 140 |
[WP] A robot assassin has discovered that it will be destroyed the moment its target dies - or if logfiles show that it is not trying to kill them. So begins a delicate game of continually trying but finding excuses to fail. Terrorized by a dozen "close calls", the target is becoming suspicious. | Who is this and why are they trying to help me? And who are these other people trying to catch me? Something fucked up is going on here.
These messages sound like some Nigerian Prince reading Tarot cards, but their past several warnings have gotten me out of a number of sticky situations. They have my back for some re... | My Ashby controller made an unfamiliar hum and I prepared for a terminal system reset as the target of my assassination smiled at me and offered me a cup of coffee.
I searched my network for memories, a synthetic slideshow (aren't all slideshows synthetic?) passing before my state-of-the-art eyes. The only comfort I c... | 2022-05-26T17:14:00 | 2022-05-26T15:48:34 | 145 | 35 |
[WP] The Walking Dead is actually a bunch of kids playing zombies, every time someone "dies" its actually their mom and dad calling them to come inside for dinner, homework, etc. Write about a character death from this perspective | "Guys, my mom doesn't want me playing this any more. She says that I'm spending too much time here and I need to work on packing."
"It's alright Glenn, we'll just play until you have to ove, but we'll keep playing while you're here okay?" Replied Rick. "Thanks for bringing your cousin Nicholas to play this week, it'... | The van doors opened up and we were taken out groups members. We were playing zombies in Camp George, and several groups had clumped together. We got too close to their camp, they decided to join in our game. It wasn't our idea, but they were persistent, and apparently this Negan really wanted Rick to pay, since we had... | 2016-11-14T09:11:10 | 2016-11-14T08:41:56 | 601 | 11 |
[WP] You're running a little late to work, but when you arrive someone identical to you is already sitting at your desk. He puts up his hands and says "Relax, I can explain." | I paused, almost dropping my coffee. "Dude, what the fu-"
He raised his hands rapidly, scooting away from the desk. "R-relax, I can explain..."
"Goddammit man, this is the third time this week. Look, I know you want your own office, but you've got to use your cubicle until you get promoted."
Working with my twin bro... | 9:33. Fuck.
You've known about this meeting for at least two months. This meeting, a presentation for corporate, will determine whether you get *the promotion* or, should you wreck it entirely, *the pink slip*. You had set your alarm for six this morning and you ate a healthy breakfast for the first time since middle ... | 2015-01-17T22:24:12 | 2015-01-17T21:06:01 | 287 | 208 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | One of Lily's earliest memories was of her with her tiny face pressed against the glass of a department store display case while her mom shopped for diamonds and pearls. She had been bored out of her mind, trying to figure out what appeal the shiny rocks locked behind the glass case had. Or at least she was, until the ... | My father was a wonderful storyteller; it wasn't exactly gravitas—he possessed something much more sincere, something deep in his heart that managed to make it real. He believed it to be true, these places, and things, and people, that I do not want to necessarily say did not—do not—exist. After all, father's Title tra... | 2017-04-27T20:00:43 | 2017-04-27T18:36:41 | 234 | 84 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | Death's job was ridiculous boring. Everyone always pictured Death as this big evil character, but Death doesn't kill people, it only removes them from life.
Death is just a collector, just the entity that deletes people from our world. It doesn't choose it's victims.
But it can spare someone.. it can protect a single... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-28T13:53:50 | 2,040 | 216 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Are you sure?"
"Yes I am. I got accepted into that new University in Delhi."
"You want to go to school again?"
"Yeah, its a new field... memeology is what they are calling it. Study of internet culture and changes within it." I replied back to the black mass in a pinstripe suit. This time he looks like an old fune... | Death's job was ridiculous boring. Everyone always pictured Death as this big evil character, but Death doesn't kill people, it only removes them from life.
Death is just a collector, just the entity that deletes people from our world. It doesn't choose it's victims.
But it can spare someone.. it can protect a single... | 2017-11-29T08:24:55 | 2017-11-28T13:53:50 | 935 | 216 |
[WP] Every time you are in danger, no matter where you are, an 18 wheeler comes crashing through to save you. The driver is a random trucker you don’t know who hauls meat products named Randy & always happens to be nearby and blacks out, only to wake up to find he’s crashed into something again. |
Well shit, I had gone from bored to fearing for my life real quick. These waters were supposed to be clear, or so corporate had thought, and so they didn’t bother to assign any security. Not that it would have helped much as the three skiffs were onloading their cargo of pirates onto the main deck and were storming... | FADE IN:
INT. A THERAPIST'S OFFICE - DAY
*A burly, hairy man lies on a chaise longue, nervously folding and unfolding his fingers. This is RANDY, a truck driver. A second man – this one slender, gaunt, and clad in an expensive suit – sits nearby, slowly writing something in a notebook. This is ARCHIBALD, a psychologi... | 2018-12-19T00:52:53 | 2018-12-18T21:23:52 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] The ancient wizard has lived in the mountains for millennia. The apprentices seeking power are fine. The adventurers seeking treasure can be dealt with. But what is really starting to get annoying are the historians. | Eldregon sits, enthroned upon a thousand golden swords, bequeathed to him by a thousand noble kings, long dead. His first lifetime was spent mastering his magical craft, the second spent conquering the plague of death, and ever since then he has sat as de facto ruler of all that he surveys.
And his greatest enemy has ... | What a lovely night. I swirled my glass of wine, admiring the dim moonlight as it added some much-needed shine to the world outside, watching it through the window before I slouched into my chair. My library, was there a better place to be? The smell of old books mixed with that ever-faint scent of magical herbs; I cou... | 2021-05-16T07:03:41 | 2021-05-16T07:02:56 | 1,463 | 159 |
[WP] A lone vampire struggling to survive a zombie apocalypse stumbles upon a human family who invite him/her to seek shelter with them. | "Christ, man!"
I flinched at the first words I'd heard since the radio stations stopped broadcasting.
"Get inside; you know it isn't safe at night!" He was whispering through the small crack of an open door.
Didn't he know better than to offer charity in these times?
"You're... Inviting me in?" My voice creaked. I ... | They looked so nice.
Baron Maxwell Henreid Von Drakul stood outside the modest split-level suburban ranch, peering through the open curtains at the idyllic scene of mother serving a roast to her eager, well-dressed family. Outside, the harsh winds and blacked-out sky made the neighborhood seem dismal and dystopian. Mo... | 2014-06-23T21:03:25 | 2014-06-23T20:59:08 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] A time traveler and an immortal keep bumping into each other across the ages. | They say that true love only occurs once in life. That you meet your soulmate, that that's your chance, and you belong together forever.
I wish they were wrong.
Because I am forever.
And so, in his own way, is he.
I was born four thousand years ago. I'm not the first of my kind, nor am I the last. But there are ... | The first time I met her, it was 1643 I went by my code of never becoming attached. I would only regret it later if I did. I helped her with her father anyway, I recognized the dying man from 3 years ago. Or, rather, for him 43 years ago. I was younger and more foolish then, it had only been a few months since this had... | 2015-11-22T19:10:27 | 2015-11-22T18:51:04 | 52 | 11 |
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