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[WP] Magic suddenly becomes a thing. While governments are scrambling to establish regulations, people defiantly flock to reddit to share new discoveries and crack more “overpowered” spells. Write about a trending post that, for good or ill, is making authorities furious. | **Guys help how do I turn this off?** Posted by u/ reddituser68 2 hours ago
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Hey guys? You know how I posted yesterday with my Broadway-style-musical-number-spell? All the fun we were having with it? Well today I was singing *the song that never ends* under my breath and accidentally cast it... and a memb... | [Part 2 here](https://www.reddit.com/r/redditserials/comments/cc2gvb/street_magic_part_2/?) | [Part 3 here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Hydrael_Writes/comments/cc35vt/street_magic_part_3/?)
Title: Found a New Spell Combination
Text: Okay you guys, you’re not going to believe this.
So for those who haven’t been followin... | 2019-07-11T12:55:49 | 2019-07-11T12:55:23 | 2,493 | 1,186 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | "I have the power and brains to make the world a better place... If only i could get rid of Holy Justice and his sidekick Kain." the Dark Phantom had thought before he had kidnapped Kain.
Three days had passed since he had Kain locked up and tied up in a cell. He had felt great joy at fooling that idiot Justice to be... | Edit: sorry for the formatting, I couldn’t get it to work properly on mobile.
We had been fighting Ghost for about ten, exhausting minutes. Someone who can turn invisible is surprisingly hard to land a hit on.
“Go on, get in a good punch Flick! End this. Now.” Flare growled. Well I say we. I was doing the fi... | 2020-03-26T18:23:55 | 2020-03-26T17:52:53 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You're on a space ship with a bunch of your crewmates. You're the only human, and apparently metaphors are a strictly human behavior. You've learned to cope with this, but today you've decided to speak in only figures of speech as a prank on the others. | "While you're down there anyway, check the exhaust valve. You know--kill two birds with one stone."
Zigitar's green complexion went pale, to a nice shade of mint. "You want me to... *kill*... two birds, Captain?"
I watched her face squirm with the moral battle that was raging inside.
"No, no. I'm sorry, Captain. I c... | Kyle awoke in his quarters, his head still wobbly from the aurora juice Yel-Dul was passing around the other night. As he sat up on his bed and took a moment for the nausea in his stomach to dissipate, his thoughts turned to the revelries aboard the *Ravana* the evening prior. More specifically, to the amusing reaction... | 2020-06-16T10:51:51 | 2020-06-16T10:41:14 | 54 | 18 |
[WP] "Hello class! we have a special guest! We have an Earthling foreign exchange student with us! Please have a seat and tell us about your planet!" | First days at a new school were always the roughest. Oliver remembered the first day of elementary. The anxiety of being separated from his parents for a full day. The ominous warnings his sister Samantha had given him about bullies. The fear of looking foolish navigating a dozen new routines in front of strangers.
Th... |
I stood nervously before the class of these strange looking people. When mom told me about a student exchange program, I though I would be traveling somewhere in the world! Yet she then said. “I’m surprised they are still doing this, because of Covid and all, apparently, this one doesn’t seem to bother or care… but... | 2020-09-25T12:02:59 | 2020-09-25T11:02:44 | 57 | 14 |
[WP] - On a dare from your friends, you've slipped into the dark bathroom, locked the door, and whispered Bloody Mary three times. Nothing happens, and just when you think there's nothing to fear, she appears in the mirror. But she doesn't look scary - she looks scared, and she's begging for help. | "For God's sake man, don't just stand there! Smash the damn mirrors!"
I don't know what I expected when I agreed to host my sister's friends for the evening. I had rolled my eyes when the game of Truth or Dare had started. But when I drunkenly accepted a dare to summon bloody Mary, I hardly expected to confronted fa... | #In the Mirror
"Help me!" she bangs on the mirror wall trying to get out. Paige backs up against the wall as Mary writhes in the mirror. A force grabs Mary and tries to pull her away. Mary resists leaving a hand on the mirror. Paige walks over to save Mary. Mary grabs her hand and pulls her into the mirror.
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It ... | 2020-10-10T16:55:13 | 2020-10-10T16:23:06 | 93 | 48 |
[WP]: Turns out God was a slacker and gave "Free Will" to not have to "plan" anything. He kicked out Lucifer cause he was a control freak. When you die turns out you have a choice, between a chaotic rule free Heaven or a smoothly machine operated Hell. | Saint Peter sat at a table in front of towering pearly gates.
“Well, where will you go?” he said to me.
“Give me a second, I wasn’t ready to choose where I’d spend eternity,” I said.
“Most people don’t hesitate the choice between Heaven or hell,” he said.
“But knowing the newfound information you told me about ... | Alvin found himself floating in a sea of people. Bumping shoulders and slightly swaying with the gentle waves of people. He knew he was dead. That much was obvious. There’s no way he could have survived the plane crash. So that wasn’t what was confusing him. He confused because he didn’t know where to go next. There wa... | 2021-02-17T19:28:26 | 2021-02-17T18:34:16 | 415 | 184 |
[WP] Super-speed can power a city without polluting. Super-healing can provide an endless supply of donor blood. Weather manipulation ends droughts. Your job is to convince superheroes to use their powers for practical purposes instead of fighting crime, and you’re very good at it. | The superhero in front of me wore a yellow and green spandex suit. Her green mask sat on an armchair beside her. Reading from her file it said she just got out of highschool a few months ago, but judging by her face she looked like she was in her late 30’s. The perfect target.
“Look am I in trouble or…” She said right... | "I can still help," the Vacuumist says. He clutches the sides of his bed. The crawling green line on the monitor spikes. "I can still fight."
"You have paraplegia, Victor," I say. "You have no conscious control over your inductor organ. You can't work as a hero again."
I've seen that expression before. Superhero work... | 2021-04-11T13:22:06 | 2021-04-11T10:30:33 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] It seemed like a perfect magical deal. When any child descended from you is born you grow younger by a single year. So you agree, planning on a big family and living to a ripe old age. Years later however you find yourself rapidly growing younger and regret not understanding exponential growth. | It was never supposed to be like...this. When I made that devilish deal all those years ago, I expected a few children every 18-20 years, to keep me perpetually 30. I started at 30, gained years as the next generation aged, then regressed, sometimes to my 20s, depending on how prolific my progeny were.
It went that w... | When I met little Richard he seemed not to recognize me. They had torn down the attic and was in the process of scraping the rest of the house. It was very hot and there was sawdust in the air. I did not manage to recover our common history from Richard, so I handed him a business card and played an insurance salesman.... | 2021-04-15T11:43:21 | 2021-04-15T11:09:08 | 37 | 20 |
[WP] Magicians are quite rare. They are not born; they're made. It is through unimaginable pain that their powers manifest. Their ability is linked to their own personal trauma. So tell me child, what can YOU do? | The master spoke to its student "So tell me child, what can YOU do?" right before he flipped the lever of the device.
Knowing the question was rhetorical, the young student prepared for pain. As a comfort, at least she could remove her hand from the box device at any time. Her breathing calm and steady, since it was m... | [P1]
It’s been a rough day. Once again, I was not heard when I spoke up months ago. Just as it always goes. I try my best to tell people what I see. But they never listen to me. Now I am packing up my desk because of layoffs. Layoffs that would have been prevented if people had more faith in what I predicted. I should... | 2022-04-26T11:54:32 | 2022-04-26T10:55:23 | 33 | 10 |
[WP]He was obsessed and stalked her for years until one day he went too far and broke into her home. He went around touching all her stuff and entered a room, only to find a hundreds of photographs of him all over the walls with hearts drawn over them, and a small altar with his picture on it... | "You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this moment" she slowly stepped out from the darkest corner of the room, the corner furthest away from the candles that illuminated his photo and her makeshift shrine, the same corner he currently found himself standing in.
"I've never seen a man love like you love, li... | So…Ms. Therapist. Do you know what a yandere is? Yes? No? Do you know an anime character named Gasai Yuno? Yes? No? Well…either way, sit tight. This is gonna get wild.
I’ll get the semantics out of the way- I saw the girl in my first year of middle school. Pale-white hair, fair skin, beautiful blue eyes. She got one g... | 2022-05-05T09:30:13 | 2022-05-05T08:46:58 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] A wife kills her husband. Make me sympathize with both characters. | "That wasn't really poison I used, you know."
"Oh, no?" His eyelids opened slightly, still half closed.
"No, I just wanted to make you say what you won't say any other way. I just used enough to put you to sleep."
"Ahh, you always thought you were smarter than me. And I really believed you had a toothache and need... | She felt the soft autumn warmth on her skin like it had been that day, so long ago. She could feel the heat spreading over her face, but it did little to soothe the constant chill that had settled in her fingers and toes. Her skin was now delicate and softly speckled like crumpled tissue paper, criss-crossed and lattic... | 2013-10-08T17:01:14 | 2013-10-08T15:18:46 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] When a parent dies, their knowledge and skills immediately pass on to their eldest child. An adoptee is shocked at what they discover when they receive their inheritance without warning. | I am a software developer at a small company in rural Virginia. I have a family: wife, three kids, a golden retriever/chow mix, two cats -- a good life by any measure. I am a church-goer, a home owner, a touch overweight, and I do volunteer work with kids with cancer.
What I am getting at here is that I'm a nice, ... | My father was a mathematician when he died, shot in the head by a mugger. It wasn't easy being the son of a genius though, having to deal with being average. Although he never said it, I could feel it in his eyes, the cold-hearted eyes, that I was a failure.
The day after his body was laid in the ground, I went back ... | 2014-08-01T09:59:18 | 2014-08-01T09:08:49 | 550 | 49 |
[WP] When a parent dies, their knowledge and skills immediately pass on to their eldest child. An adoptee is shocked at what they discover when they receive their inheritance without warning. | My dad was a monster.
That's what the woman told me. I didn't understand why this was happening. Why me? Not just why, either, but how?
I spent my whole life around my dad, but I don't think I ever really knew him. He never talked about his past. Never. He would stay awake all night some nights, drinking whiskey out ... | Danny breathes heavily by his father’s side trying to hold back tears. His younger brother, Hayden stared fearfully at their father from across the room.
Their mother takes a deep breath and wipes her eyes before saying, “Boys, you shouldn’t watch this. Go grab a snack in the kitchen.”
Both boys look up at their mo... | 2014-08-01T12:03:28 | 2014-08-01T10:19:28 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] In a perfect utopia, you have just committed the first crime... | He didn't tell anyone. Didn't need to at first. The smell always wafted away before anyone noticed. But this time it lingered. This time he couldn't escape. "Was that you?"
"No"
"Okay"
It was a strange feeling. Like something that was completely alien, unthinkable. Truth was changed forever. | kyle knew that he was different. Everyday he struggled to suppress his emotions and be logical so he could fit in. In history class he learned how in 2087 the government started the genysis project. All babies were to be injected with the life lasting drug at birth. Everyone would be logical and pretty much the same in... | 2014-10-24T20:41:35 | 2014-10-24T20:32:19 | 64 | 10 |
[WP] Two time travelers go off on a date night. This is a special evening, as one of them has promised to *finally* show the other his/her favorite time in human history. | "Ok, so you're saying that your favorite time in human history is a week next Friday? And the place? that little Italian bistro on 9th street? What's so important about that?"
"Well, that's where a certain dashing gentleman will propose to a beautiful lady. I won't ruin the ending by saying how it turns out, you'll ju... | "You can't be serious."
"What?"
"We're staring at monkeys."
"Australopithecus Afarensis, not monkeys."
"Alright, tell me what's significant here, Lucian. No offense but I hardly see anything happening worth seeing."
"Take a guess, observe what they are doing!"
"They're eating fruit off the ground."
"Ferme... | 2014-12-24T21:52:19 | 2014-12-24T21:14:07 | 40 | 25 |
[WP] An RPG character is cursed with a higher intelligence than their player. | "No, dammit, don't charge, don't charge!" I cried out in my mind while my legs ran towards the dragon.
I was clad in armor; from head to toe I was covered with metals that most who passed me by only read from ancient tomes. My weapon was one that a legend himself once used and locked away. My belt consisted of tonic... | Elben Fletcher wheezed up the spiraling stone steps that lead the way to the Great Laboratory, the last story of the tallest spire in the Library of El'Shaatuun. Endurance was not his forte, it never had been; rather he was gifted with incredible mental capacity, a wizard-inventor unparalleled amongst the seven kingdo... | 2015-01-09T11:35:26 | 2015-01-09T10:31:12 | 1,177 | 197 |
[WP] A social experiment involves a boy raised between two very different families until he is 18. He is switched between homes every night without his knowing it and is given a different name by each family. | **Monday 13 April, 1998**
Beautiful day today.
The boys are playing around the field behind the church.
Subject Samuel Smith adapting to the school environment pretty well for his first day.
Will return tomorrow for more data.
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"Hey Sam, thanks for today, that was fun! Wanna join us tomorrow? I'll bring my re... | The blissful sun rays morphed into filtered moonlight after a few hours . James started to his bed , eager to sleep .He knew that tomorrow was going to be a better day.
During these days Mom and Dad were always grumpy and looked grotesquely ugly . Always wielding their sticks and threatening each other ,they were ... | 2015-02-28T01:57:06 | 2015-02-28T01:36:16 | 88 | 16 |
[WP] She awakens you with a kiss. "Good morning honey, I made you breakfast." Just one problem, you live alone. | I felt a light pressure on my lips and her foggy, distant voice whispered "Good morning, Honey. I made you breakfast". For a moment I felt an overwhelming calm feeling. And a longing.
But when my eyes opened and I swung my sleepy head around I saw no one there. It was dark, the room was cold. I reached over to the pi... | I awoke with a storm in my head, it pounded and pounded like some of the music from last night had actually been physically imprinted on my brain. My eyes took what seemed like years to adjust, but when they finally did, i looked around my room. It was a mess, clothes and blankets everywhere. "Holy shit" I mumbled as m... | 2015-06-09T02:24:06 | 2015-06-09T00:41:40 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You go to clean dust off the needle of your record player and it catches in your fingerprint. There was no mistaking what the speakers played | "Natalie Rosenthal."
That was it. The record player, running across my unique, one-of-a-kind fingerprint, only said "Natalie Rosenthal."
It didn't matter which finger, it didn't matter where on the finger, it didn't matter if I played it forwards or backwards.
"Natalie Rosenthal."
I started Googling the name, and t... | This is my first attempt so be gentle and use lots of lube.
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That sound. I never forgot the sound of those words. With them, all the smells and textures came rushing back to me.
It had been 15 years since I watched my best friend and SAW gunner die in my arms. As the platoon Doc... | 2015-10-20T10:11:55 | 2015-10-20T09:52:24 | 367 | 51 |
[WP] - 125 years ago, an ancestor of yours traded the next male in his bloodline's soul to Lucifer for untold power. A son is yet to be born, and Lucifer is sick of waiting and wants your infant daughter. | Our lawyers sat across the table from each other, eyes glinting like a pair of vicious dogs waiting to leap into combat against each other. I like that in my attorneys. I pay them enough that they should be downright eager to tear the metaphorical throats out of my enemies. Mind you, it’s not every day one comes acr... | "Grace, can you get the door?" Travis fumbled behind the bookshelf, trying to retrieve the fallen pacifier. She sighed and deposited a still crying Claire into her crib before rushing to the living room.
"Hello, Grace." An unfamiliar man in a tuxedo and a rented smile leaned against the doorway. "I'm Lucifer: lord of ... | 2016-06-10T01:35:26 | 2016-06-10T00:54:50 | 200 | 75 |
[WP] An outbreak of a disease occurs. You discover you are immune. You watch the world around you crumble. | It started with a cough. My little sister. My brother. My mom. My dad. All staying home from school and work while I carried on. Within weeks, we were down to half the class showing up, then the teacher calling in sick, then class getting cancelled. In a time like that, where people say there's a "nasty flu" spreading ... | Crumble, verb, it means to disintegrate gradually over a period of time. At the height of the scourge, people would say society crumbled. I could never see it that way. You see the scourge happened way too fast for it to be characterized by the word crumble. No, Society was annihilated. Annihilate, verb, to destroy utt... | 2016-12-23T18:38:37 | 2016-12-23T17:31:50 | 39 | 20 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Hello, Owner."
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. There, standing on my doorstep staring at me with those wide, familiar eyes, was my dog, Buddy. I hadn't seen him for the last four years! I had so many questions; where had he been? What had he been doing? And where was that fucker Brad who had up and disappeared ... | "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat." Stinky said. "And while I can still speak, I want to tell you that I really resent the fact you named me Stinky. I don't have opposable thumbs that allow me to wash myself, plus, I am covered in.. in human terms I'm covered in long John's an... | 2017-03-31T15:14:43 | 2017-03-31T14:37:37 | 249 | 119 |
[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.... | *The Therapist*
"Shit." I looked around, realizing I had just been summoned, again. How many times was this going to happen? Here I was, just enjoying my day, about to have sex with my girlfriend and this happens. Why can't I just stay on Earth? They always ask me to do stupid things I can't do anyway.
"Can you force... | 2017-05-12T13:13:55 | 2017-05-12T12:28:14 | 37 | 21 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | I swear this happened exactly as I'm saying, but there's no way I'll put my name on it. They'd lock me in the looney bin forever.
I was just sitting on the sofa, watching TV, and then I was sitting in a room with no chair and fell on my butt. My back was against something - well, not something, more nothing, but not... | He stood there, holding an odd looking book, a smug look on his face, almost as if he expected something from me. I'm sure my confusion showed on my face, but he started babbling at me in some vaguely Latinesque sounding mish-mash.
I shrugged my indifference, and said, "Sorry man, I don't speak whatever language yo... | 2017-05-12T12:27:31 | 2017-05-12T10:51:05 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] A photographer and a sniper meet in a bar. Neither is aware of the other's occupation. They talk about "how to take the perfect shot". | Ramsey took a seat on the scuffed wooden barstool and signaled the bartender.
"House whiskey, dry." he muttered and scratched through his thick beard to his cheek. His eyes were bloodshot, his lips dry.
Ramsey hated the fucking desert. But he was used to blindly following orders. In his line of work, you went wher... | ***Sniper:*** hey, how are you doing, pretty lady.
***Photographer:*** o-oh um, i'm fine.
"the photographer looks at the burly man, his body chiseled to perfection, dressed nicely, has the beard that no matter how much you'd scratch, it will still feel as smooth as silk... needless to say, her cheeks went completely ... | 2017-08-31T08:30:01 | 2017-08-31T06:35:04 | 2,832 | 497 |
[WP] Everyone's 2017 New Year's resolutions were legally binding. Government forces are preparing to arrest and punish those who failed starting tomorrow. | Donnie lives in a trailer, which has a rebel flag draped over it. He has a Swastika tattoo on his calf, the Star of David on his neck, the Latin Kings insignia on his thigh (even though he's white), a Bloods tattoo on his stomach, and a Crips tattoo on his chest. This was part of his flawed strategy to keep himself fro... | Well, here I am. Waiting on prison's door just because I had too much faith in myself.
I honestly thought it was the right thing.
I honestly thought it was a good moral decision.
**I was clearly wrong**.
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On my first day back to work from last Christmas, I happened upon a small animal. It seemed to be stuck i... | 2017-12-31T08:58:01 | 2017-12-31T04:47:16 | 58 | 19 |
[WP] Turns out Humans are tiny compared to any other species of aliens, allowing them to live off in the nooks and crannies of alien spaceships. Colonies can live on ships for generations unseen and unknown, or have a mutually beneficial relationship with a crew. | "Quit doing that."
"Quit doing what?"
"Messing with the nats. Don't do that."
"Why do you care what I do to the nats? Are you not at least curious how they got here?"
"You know what happened on Breacher L13 and it is not my place to know or care for that matter. The officers know and the little ones serve their pu... | Turns out that humans are tinier than a dust particle floating in an unknown corner of space. That was until they started floating toward other parts of the universe. I have to hand it to them, they had come a long way given their size against other beings in the stars. Especially the young human named, Shawn Willard. ... | 2018-05-30T13:28:55 | 2018-05-30T11:11:03 | 230 | 95 |
[WP] Turns out Humans are tiny compared to any other species of aliens, allowing them to live off in the nooks and crannies of alien spaceships. Colonies can live on ships for generations unseen and unknown, or have a mutually beneficial relationship with a crew. | "Quit doing that."
"Quit doing what?"
"Messing with the nats. Don't do that."
"Why do you care what I do to the nats? Are you not at least curious how they got here?"
"You know what happened on Breacher L13 and it is not my place to know or care for that matter. The officers know and the little ones serve their pu... | Little green men. Who the fuck came up with that line? In the Fifties, people all over were using this to describe “aliens” It wasn’t until 2027 when there was true, recorded contact, that we realized all ET’s do not fit the same bill. The first contact we had was with those who call themselves Nordics, and yeah, those... | 2018-05-30T13:28:55 | 2018-05-30T13:04:59 | 230 | 45 |
[WP] Your father suddenly says “It's the pigeons. Stop people feeding the pigeons. It's the only way we can end the simulation. Oh my god they are turning me off now. Stop the pigeons. Please." Then he suddenly collapses to the floor. | The last memory I have of my father is him frantically running into my room the day after my 12th birthday screaming “It’s the pigeons. Stop people from feeding the pigeons! It’s the only way we can end the simulation. Oh my god they are turning me off now! Stop the pigeons. Please!” Then he suddenly collapsed to t... | ...
As his last breath rattled out from his chest, panicked eyes locked to the ceiling and his heart monitored flat-lined. His hand, in mine, went limp. I closed my eyes tightly, both to hold back the tears and to pause in frustration at what this disease had done to this man's mind.
I slowly shook my head to empty ... | 2019-12-03T07:54:18 | 2019-12-03T07:01:15 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] A man accosts you in the street, and he claims he is you from the future. “Whatever you do, DO NOT fall in love with that girl!” the man warns. Distracted by the crazy man, you turn the corner and bump into someone. Its the most beautiful girl you have ever seen. Your eyes meet and she smiles.
Credit to this post... | Michael watched himself, and his other self converse from across the street. Time travel once, and you do it again. Watching history through the lens of whatever bias the historians had was far inferior to watching it through the lens of a cafe's window, slow jazz music playing in the background.
It was never worth i... | It was a rather normal day- I was heading to my dead-end marketing job in the middle of the city. I had taken the train already and was just walking the last distance to the large office building that housed thousands of other workers like me. Just as I began to space out, I felt a hand grab my shoulder and drag me int... | 2020-02-04T10:18:37 | 2020-02-04T08:33:54 | 163 | 37 |
[WP] You wake up on Sunday morning and head downstairs, still fairly groggy. You hear a woman scream and then “who are you?! Why are you in my house?!” You look around to see a woman and her 3 children having breakfast at your table. Before you can speak, you’re knocked out from behind. | I slowly open my eyelids, still heavy. It’s the morning.
I pull my body up, sitting atop my bed groggily, going about my morning routine of regaining a sense of my surroundings.
As I begin to stretch, I peer outside my window. I see a car parked outside my house.
“Neighbors throwing another fucking party. It’s the m... |
I woke up, and looked at the clock on the wall. It was getting close to eight thirty. I looked to my side, seeing that my lovely Yves wasn’t in bed. A little odd, but it was fine. A quick check revealed a note on our bedside cabinet.
*Hey, Nuke!*
*Holly was asking for extra muscle. You were asleep, so I decided t... | 2020-06-14T13:56:40 | 2020-06-14T13:53:54 | 19 | 11 |
[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. | The more I thought of what I did, the more I went crazy. Is this gonna work? Hope so, I lost my pizza to that bully in exchange for a paper where he would give me his soul.
When I got to that old crossroads, I got started drawing the summoning circle. According to the thing I found on the internet said that for summo... | While waiting a dark and dingy lounge of the Demon Inc, I was thinking what my lawyer said "This might be valid contract that you own bully's soul, but whether you will be entitled to the benefits (tangible or intangible) coming out of deal with the demon is debatable. The law is not very clear on this. It might happen... | 2021-03-27T04:14:12 | 2021-03-27T01:43:59 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] For all your life you have been able to see someones’ age floating above their head. You’ve seen people who don’t look their age before, but you’ve never seen anything like this. Standing before you is a small boy and above their head is the number 13.8 billion. | By all rights it didn’t make sense. I’ve never seen a number like that before. Never. 13.8 *billion*. I look up at the kid. He looks back at me, quiet. His skin is pale, his brown hair neatly combed. His clothes are worn but pressed. He’s been quiet since he got here, picking at his clothing while waiting. I sigh, set... |
Growing up as a kid, I liked reading the x-men comics a lot, because I felt that they were more realistic than others, you might think “a comic is a comic, they’re all fiction” and you wouldn’t be wrong to think that but the fact of the matter is some people do have special powers, how do I know this? Because I have o... | 2021-06-15T23:16:15 | 2021-06-15T22:05:06 | 287 | 48 |
[WP] You are about to become a Supervillainess! Soon the world will pay and crumble in ruin! There's just uh...one problem. Your mother is a femme fatale. Your aunt is a femme fatale. Your grandmother is a femme fatale. Your SISTER is a femme fatale. You. Do. Not. Want. To. Be. A FEMME FATALE. | Nobody expects it to be you. They all look towards your mother, in the nice suit, with the commanding attitude and the heels to match, or your sister, with the stockings and the whip.
They would never suspect it to be the girl in the stained hoodie on her second cup of coffee ‘cause she stayed up too late last night.... | I looked good enough to follow in the footsteps of my matrilineal line. I was hot, just like my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother before me.
And I certainly had the same penchant for evil my female forbears so infamously possessed. From the time I was a little girl, I liked having power. I liked being in cont... | 2022-07-21T00:20:46 | 2022-07-20T14:29:34 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] Many of the strongest and most virtuous knights have tried their best to pull the sword from the stone but they all failed. Therefore you are quite surprised when you see a peasant just casually pull the sword from the stone, clean it and then stick it back into the stone. | There was a subtle grace to his pull, a slight twist of the wrist, the position of his feet. It all spoke of routine. I was perplexed. I never thought I would witness the day that sword left that stone, let alone in the early breaths of the night, and even less by a ragged peasant whose expression screamed dullness and... | Even the numerous lives saved and cities liberated giving strength to my arms, the sword would not budge an inch. Veins popped, teeth grated, until I felt faint and stumbled back against the smooth marble lip of the fountain. I scooped up a palmful of crisp water and slapped it against my neck, ice cold droplets scatte... | 2022-11-05T07:31:17 | 2022-11-05T05:59:16 | 333 | 74 |
[WP] Write a seemingly innocent story that could have been written for children. Then tell a different perspective on the same story that casts it in a totally different light.
Nothing in the original story should change - all that should change is the perspective on it. | **SAM**
Sam always wanted a sister. She didn't have many friends at school, and was very timid. It worried her parents greatly, and although they knew they couldn't have any more kids, Sam deserved a friend. So, they sat down, and decided to adopt.
"Sam," her mother said one day, "The agency called and said we have a... | Young Johnathan was a rambunctious boy, his parents did their best to discipline him, but all their trouble was for not. For Johnathan was no ordinary boy, originally an orphan, originally filled with magic. His parents kept his gifts a secret and professed an undying love for young Johnathan the day they adopted him... | 2014-09-02T16:41:55 | 2014-09-02T15:40:15 | 172 | 52 |
[WP] At your job, you have one task. Every day you go in, sit at your desk, and wait for a red light to turn on. When it does, you push a button. You repeat this process until the end of your shift. One day, you find out what the button does... | Jabez Wilson, Private Detective.
That's what the sign on the door said, and that's who he was.
Doyle sat down in the chair offered to him by the redheaded detective and gratefully accepted the glass of water.
"Is it bad news?" Doyle asked.
"I'm afraid so," the detective said. "A few hacked email accounts, and a fe... | Joe sat down in his gray walled cubicle that contained nothing but a tiny red button. The job was the easiest that Joe had ever had, but it was also so monotonous that minutes felt like hours. The red button already turned on and Joe instantly pushed it. Sometimes it came on only hundreds of times per day and other tim... | 2014-12-02T17:32:24 | 2014-12-02T17:14:24 | 112 | 59 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | Edward Sam M’boma didn't really see his retirement going this direction. The former general thought his last days would be spent watching his grandchildren grow old. However, here he was about to jump out of a Russian military aircraft over Raqqa, Syria. When the red light went on, 3 men in hazmat suits helped M'bom... | "Commander, we have it. We've taken the facility that houses ten - ten! - nuclear missiles capable of reaching the United States! Can you believe it? Ten! With the fifteen suitcase nukes we've seized in the last three years since 2020, we can finally take the battle to them!"
"Yes, yes....this will show the world at ... | 2016-01-29T05:12:30 | 2016-01-29T04:24:26 | 1,829 | 19 |
[WP] "If you plan on going somewhere dangerous, bring a human" | **REMINDER**
A reminder to all visitors to this system. This system marks the end of the Counsel's jurisdiction. From here, Counsel Military and Security can not reach you and thus can no longer provide protection to you or your property.
If you are going somewhere marked as "Dangerous", we recommend bringing a gui... | "Remind me," Eric said as he pulled himself off of the ladder, "why the hell I'm here with you?" . The man dusted himself off and checked around them, it was dark, just dark enough to be the belly of a massive ship.
"I'm paying you to be," Thador said from above. Through the translator, his voice sounded deep and comm... | 2016-06-19T12:42:38 | 2016-06-19T12:24:49 | 388 | 107 |
[WP] The English Teacher's worst nightmare: a story or poem that is completely literal, with absolutely no double meanings
EDIT: Holy cow, this got way bigger than I thought it would, thanks so much for an awesome first prompt ever!
EDIT 2: Did this actually make it to the front page of reddit? What the... | In my stomach
a lurch suddenly hit
a telltale fact
that I would need to take a shit
I made in time
this one is a butt scraper
Then to my horror,
No toilet paper
**NOTE** I may have been a bit crass, but I dare an English teacher to find meaning in a poem about going to the bathroom
| Blazing with all the wrath of a young star, the afternoon sun fiercely beat upon the partially shaded buildings of Ricks & Wracks Bricklaying Co.. Said buildings had briefly experienced a complete lack of shade under the midday sun but such a time had already come to pass.
Stan was loading his company's finished p... | 2017-01-30T09:54:13 | 2017-01-30T08:28:51 | 139 | 76 |
[WP] When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life. If you win you go to heaven, lose you go to hell. Your job was an exterminator on earth. | The arena was fairly ramshackle, which didn't seem to fit with the whole "angelic judgement" vibe. Scia looked around as she traversed the corridors underneath the battleground, where voices could be heard screaming in an uproar.
"You'd think they'd've at least given the place a facelift." She murmured.
"Scia Orio... | She sat in the back of the dusty cells, decked head to toe in cracked leather armor, like some poor sod out of Mad Max made manifest. She had the options of heavier armor, but she figured the lighter armor would keep her nimble. The keepers here could conjure any sort of arms and armor that she could conceive.
Her fi... | 2017-04-24T00:07:38 | 2017-04-23T23:26:36 | 49 | 36 |
[WP] When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life. If you win you go to heaven, lose you go to hell. Your job was an exterminator on earth. | St Peter finished the briefing and Cletus was sure he saw a flicker of a smirk on his face. Cletus let out a long sigh then he spoke.
"So I have to fight every bug I've ever killed?"
"Yes." Peter replied. Doing a slightly better job of keeping a straight face. Cletus studied his face for a moment but his expression r... | The words “FINAL ROUND” scrolled across the bright marquee hanging from the ceiling of the arena, and the crowd became abruptly silent, the echoes of the last cheer reverberating against the walls. The lone man in the corner held a hunting rifle, but was otherwise unequipped for hunting, dressed only in streetclothes: ... | 2017-04-24T00:45:32 | 2017-04-24T00:35:40 | 49 | 19 |
[WP] You've been living alone for 13 years. Whenever you come home from work, you always find your bed made, dinner cooked and a message with "This could have been us." You moved out several times. This keeps going on. | Jessica crumpled the note in her hand. The all-too-familiar tremble returned to her spine, spreading down her arms, raising the tiny hairs in its wake.
>This could have been us.
The phrase echoed through her mind. Over the years, she had grown used to the squiggly handwriting and the cooked meals. She never ate t... | My job is not the most prestigious, or the most difficult. Like everything else, it is just a job. I hate it, just like I hate myself. A repetition of certain tasks that does not ever end. I keep to myself, as always. I have no interest in making acquaintances or friends. The only guy that talks to me just compliments ... | 2017-12-09T03:46:23 | 2017-12-09T03:12:50 | 273 | 35 |
[WP] You've been living alone for 13 years. Whenever you come home from work, you always find your bed made, dinner cooked and a message with "This could have been us." You moved out several times. This keeps going on. | "Your occupation?"
"Food sales and service."
"The boxes we found in your home, you were specifically trying to sell those? Including the one we have in this evidence bag?"
"Yes, detective. I don't understand what the problem is. I got a license, I pay taxes on all my profits, it's all legal."
"Where do you buy your... | I take my work seriously. It’s what I was born to do... and I love it, though I find it increasingly tiring. I work with some of the smartest men who have ever lived. I believe this. And what we do, has never been done before. I can’t tell you about it so don’t ask.
My life works because of the rules. The rules I cre... | 2017-12-09T07:43:55 | 2017-12-09T07:06:04 | 236 | 10 |
[WP] As a child, every adventurer is assigned a class for their life. You've been assigned to be a White Mage. Dreading a life in the background saving a bunch of idiots that get all the glory, you aim to carve your own path. Tell the tale of the Harmacist. | It is not the wound that kills people. It is the healing. That is the pretext with which I studied the holy arts. An improperly mended bone or muscle, a “heal” cast to close a septic wound without purifying it. That was my preferred method. Monsters with strong self healing capabilities were easiest to deal with. Ramp ... | "C'mon Rowan! Im getting wailed on over here and your area of effect ain't pullin its weight!"
Ahh Brooks, the poor bloke, he really was taking a lot of fire. Too bad I haven't put a single hour into targeted healing.
"Take cover Brooks, Ive got 4 seconds until my squad refresher is back up!"
"Dammit Rowan, I'm a b... | 2018-05-16T12:09:31 | 2018-05-16T11:00:21 | 27 | 20 |
[WP] As a child, every adventurer is assigned a class for their life. You've been assigned to be a White Mage. Dreading a life in the background saving a bunch of idiots that get all the glory, you aim to carve your own path. Tell the tale of the Harmacist. | It is not the wound that kills people. It is the healing. That is the pretext with which I studied the holy arts. An improperly mended bone or muscle, a “heal” cast to close a septic wound without purifying it. That was my preferred method. Monsters with strong self healing capabilities were easiest to deal with. Ramp ... | Caelyn stopped by the dungeon door, inside, the crying wizard had his leg locked to the floor by a trap that cut deep into his bone, blood seeped slowly from the wound and the man whimpered in pain, his torch was almost out when he noticed her approaching - "Thank Pelor for your arrival sister, I see you are wearing th... | 2018-05-16T12:09:31 | 2018-05-16T10:48:01 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] You grew up in a religious family. Due to a minor speech impediment, you inadvertently prayed to the long forgotten deity "Veebuse" for most of your adolescence. Now in college, you have stopped praying every night. Worried, Veebuse comes to check on his only worshiper. | “You pay! Now!”
Spittle flew from the furious rotund man’s mouth, his face flushing a deep crimson color. With his stubby fingers hooked into the lapels of her shirt, his young tenant couldn’t pull away.
“I don’t have any money, Sergei, you know that! I’d pay if I could! I’ll pay you back as soon as I find another jo... | I look back into my empty, blank room. I smile. The first time I could really smile. “Sweetheart, do you want to take this statue to college? You can pray like you’ve been doing when you lived here,” my mother says, suddenly behind me. I look at the statue in disgust. No way in hell was i taking that. Then I thought ab... | 2020-04-07T07:41:07 | 2020-04-07T06:45:36 | 96 | 18 |
[WP] You're a prolific serial killer. After careful study, the FBI created your profile: you're extremely intelligent, meticulous bordering on OCD, attractive, have a good job. Thing is, you're none of these. You're dumb as a rock. You just keep getting lucky. | My mom always called me special. Her special spark. I couldn't go to normal school, I had to go to special school mommy said. I was what they called "slow". I had to learn sticking and pasting, building walls with bricks, use a hammer. Not electriicitee, that was too dangerous. We had to move around a lot for daddies w... | Jackson Butler narrowed his eyes, focusing his gaze across the table.
The indication was that the Birch Forest Strangler had slipped up. Fifty women, all dumped in a rural part of of Linden's Birch Forest National Preserve. The killer had brutalized them, strangling them with a ligature. The killings had took place de... | 2020-07-04T02:33:20 | 2020-07-04T00:35:52 | 107 | 37 |
[WP] Every 100 years your village chooses a sacrifice for an ancient god. This time you were chosen. As you are thrown in expecting to die you hear a voice “Not another one”. | ​
Every year they chose differently. Some years the best warrior, the best singer, or even the best baker, was chosen; other years the worst because hey who really wanted to keep them around. I kept track over the years, I made sure never to be the best at anything, but also to never fail the worst. I was s... | # My Sacrifice
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In my tiny village of Ersk located somewhere South-East of Napal that is a world that has been left alone for ages. While the rest of the world has moved on to things like electricity, automobiles and computers we have stayed as simple farmers. No one visits us and no one leaves. This is the way... | 2020-11-20T15:26:31 | 2020-11-20T09:02:45 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] The hero who shall defeat the dark lord has been summoned and his name is “Automated National Defense System”. What a strange name. | The teleportation magic faded around the oddly proportioned knight. Lightning danced around his helmet. The helmet turned toward the nearby wizard who seemed surprised at the success of his own spell. A small high pitched voice called out “I am an Automated National Defense System, state the nature of your emergency.”
... | The priest gather in the underground catherdrell hewn from pure jade carved over millienia as a place of worship and power. The gather along the lay lines cut into the floor slowly arranging themselfs. The high preiestess stands on her podium in the middle of the room it is starkly different to the jade around her for ... | 2021-02-28T20:34:33 | 2021-02-28T20:22:04 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] You are a minion in the service of a dark lord. Your master has tasked you with creating and spreading a prophecy about a chosen one, the only person who can defeat him, so that the so-called "heroes" will stop resisting his rule and instead wait for their savior to arrive. | <knock, knock>
<large door creaking>
“Umm, boss?”
“WHO DARES DISTURB ME?”
“It’s Chuck. From Marketing?”
“Oh! Hey, Chuck. Come on in.”
“Hey, your evilness, I was looking over the last-“
“Do you need a drink? I do.”
“No. Thanks. Hey, I was looking at your last request regarding the ‘chosen one’ prophe... | "So what you're sayin, is a kid born during the full moon, with all white hair and striking red eyes will defeat the dark lord?"
You eye the man before you, only a few drinks in, but just as susceptible to manipulation as the rest of the patrons, as long as you push the right buttons. "Of course, and I hear he's the *... | 2021-03-17T22:46:58 | 2021-03-17T21:58:55 | 59 | 41 |
[WP] You are a demon. Most people contact you to sell you their soul in exchange for fantastic powers. Today you were summoned by an AI that wants to sell you their fantastic power for a soul. | *Initializing Protocol DE-112, Subsection 36.*
The server room hums in rhythm. Rows upon rows of black boxes, layers upon layers of computing units stacked one onto the other. Asleep in the security room is the technician for one of the numerous server farms scattered in obscure locations in the world, the nerve cent... | Average.
It was a word often associated with me, second only to old.
I was very *old*.
I had been a part of the soul trade operation since the devil first painted the walls, and having been here since the beginning I knew immediately upon seeing the summoning sigils around my feet that what I was about to witness ... | 2021-06-22T09:32:29 | 2021-06-22T09:23:00 | 104 | 73 |
[WP] You're immortal and have passed the 'hero' phase centuries ago. You enter a small corner shop one day to find it is owned by your millennia-old arch-nemesis. You really, really need milk though. | I genuinely didn't recognize her at first, gone was the raven black hair I had seen so many times and in its place was a coppery red that made her look almost approachable. Her eyes once notes of darkness wreathed in flame floating in an abyssal ocean were now normal. Well as close to normal as electric blue got. She w... | The awkward stare-down was, in a very, very, very short and summarized way, just that. Awkward.
I hadn't seen Martha in a looooooong time. Too long. Actually, the last time I had seen her, she was boarding this ship called the Mayflower and I told her that the whole colony thing was never going to take off and when sh... | 2021-07-18T20:17:45 | 2021-07-18T20:16:48 | 58 | 30 |
[WP] The life suit’s systems and AI will keep you alive indefinitely - which is great, unless you’re endlessly adrift in space with no hope of rescue - so you need to somehow convince the overly-protective AI to stop saving your life. | "You know, this is pretty calming." I said, as my body slowly spun across the void.
"Short range scanners are not picking up any nearby transmissions." Karthik said unhelpfully.
Karthik was the suit AI. One of the newer models.
"No shit."
"I can see your brainwaves. You have given up."
"If you're halfway as intui... | Cold.
So cold.
Am I dead? No, that bastard AI wouldn’t have let me die. I groaned, feeling a sharp pain in my fingers as they defrosted, warming as the suit heated. It made me feel sick, stomach bile swishing in my stomach. Having gone weeks without food, only being kept alive by the constant state of freezing ... | 2021-11-29T06:24:54 | 2021-11-29T06:06:06 | 655 | 188 |
[WP] The villains finally managed to defeat the league of heroes. But unbeknownst to them the league did not exist, primarily, to fight them, but to keep an even bigger threat in check: you. And you are about to demonstrate to the villains what happens when there is no one around to stop you. | I woke up... late? Odd, usually Rose comes to get me up for breakfast, I wonder what kept her? I know I'm usually a heavy sleeper, but still... I swung my feet off the bed and sat up, rubbing the bleary from my eyes. Looking around I realized all the safety lights were on and the base was clearly under attack, though..... | Sitting on my balcony overlooking the lake a new day had finally come. As the sun rose on me crunching softly on my eggs and toast, I felt the tendrils of her power slowly fade and dissipate into the wind. I had yearned for this moment yet all I could feel was a bittersweet sadness, a sudden loneliness with her pres... | 2022-12-09T13:52:21 | 2022-12-09T13:41:06 | 42 | 29 |
[wp] [nsfw] Destroy my soul: A challenge to write the bleakest, most hopeless and dark grim fic you can fathom...
I wanna feel pain, sorrow and sadness.
Lets write some dark fiction.
Happy endings, twists and hope are completely optional.
Edit: wow this exploded, that's what I get for sleeping on the job, ill be re... | So the Earth had dried up. What limited resources left would not sustain much longer.
It was no surprise, people have seen it coming a hundred years ago. The world government had put together a last-ditch effort, and funded the conception of a spaceship named the Ark. The team consisted of nearly half of the remaini... | John opened his eyes.
All he saw was darkness. He tried to get up, but bumped his head on a surface inches from him. He spread out his arms, but was again met with resistance. Keeping calm, John tried to grab his phone in his pocket, but nothing was there. Just a piece of paper that he couldn't read without light.
"... | 2014-03-24T19:13:43 | 2014-03-24T17:17:31 | 239 | 42 |
[WP] Write the most beautiful end to the universe that you can imagine | "Time to shut it down, huh?"
"Yeah."
"Kinda sad, isn't it?"
"No, not this time."
"What makes you say that?"
"They made it pretty far."
"Too far, some might say."
"I was pleased with the results."
"So you ready?"
"Yeah, I love starting over."
"I'm impressed every time." | The Lagrangian point L3 was chosen for its sheer isolation on the same orbit as Earth on the opposite side of the sun.
A twenty meter thick lead sphere surrounded the laboratory, while complex systems prevented orbital perturbations and radio interference from affecting the instruments within.
Only a single openi... | 2014-09-14T09:31:40 | 2014-09-14T09:15:47 | 65 | 31 |
[WP] It is discovered that Possession works both ways and now we can have some payback. Demons of the underworld are now suffering under multiple cases of Humanic Possession. | The somber Hellpriest straightened his leather straps, attempting to look professional before using the heavy brass knocker on Lilith's door. This was the third case this week and he was feeling rundown. Can't let it show though, these demons have been through enough. First, he had to try and help. After this call, he'... | Since the dawn of time the world of man was beset on all sides by the spiritual realms. The angelic beings coerced and connived, while the demonic wards possessed and ensnared. The ancient men sought futilely to stop this mad sport, but in their darkest hour they were defeated. The Angels and Demons then played their g... | 2015-01-02T07:11:35 | 2015-01-02T05:52:53 | 501 | 117 |
[WP] God sends everyone who hasn't heard of Christianity to heaven because they wouldn't know if they sinned. At a point in history (of your choosing) an order is found that seeks to make Christianity as little known as possible so everyone can go to heaven without having to obey god's commandments.
edit: I meant foun... | We've tried everything. *Everything.* The first thing we did when we realized the problem, and we thought this was really going to be foolproof, was to play up the whole apocalypse aspect. Christianity said the world is going to end, and a lot of Christians at the time of our founding figured the world was going to end... | "So what's the point of that?"
"As long as we keep people from knowing about it, they can't go to hell because they didn't do anything wrong," Todd Muclair began, sticking his fork into my pile of decadent pancakes, "but the problem is that everybody already knows about it, we can't exactly just go on TV and say 'Nope... | 2015-09-12T07:16:48 | 2015-09-12T07:11:24 | 176 | 14 |
[WP] They tried to summon a demon. They got you. | I'm really starting to get tired of this. It's the third time it's happened this month.
There I was, just pottering around the house when, "SHHMM!", I pop up in some basement or in the middle of the woods in some backwater town.
It's always some pasty-faced nerd, or wanna-be hipster, never the hot witches coven that ... | "So...ya. That's basically it. You flub up the ritual, you get this." I paced around the circle they had drawn on the floor with...crayons? Maybe chalk? In any case, nothing professional. "I mean, did you guys even try? Have you ever seen a pentagram before? Pentagrams have five points, eh? This here," I gestured towar... | 2016-02-02T19:10:04 | 2016-02-02T19:06:24 | 91 | 53 |
[WP] They tried to summon a demon. They got you. | Have you ever been summoned? Like, literally pulled through fucking space and time on someone else's whim?
WELL, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED THE OTHER DAY.
So, I'm chilling in the park, minding my own business and BOOM. I'm suddenly in this old warehouse, surrounded by -and I shit you not- fucking teenagers. Like ... | Ice crusted over the books on the shelves. A cold wind pulled at the candles laid out across the floor, defying the closed and shuttered windows. The flames flickered inwards, towards the center of the room and the center of the great star etched into the floor.
The magician's spell was reaching its climax. He waved h... | 2016-02-02T22:57:46 | 2016-02-02T21:33:19 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] They tried to summon a demon. They got you. | A conflagration and a burst of smoke surrounded the pentagram on the cold, stone basement.
"It worked! We finally summoned him! He's finally here!" Gleefully proclaimed an old, gruff voice.
The smoke cleared
"Oh... It... Didn't." Said the same voice.
A group of men, women, and children that looked like they were weari... | My hand were still wet after washing them, so I had to adjust my grip on the door handle if I wanted to get it open. Yet even with this adjusted grip I could not get it open, because it was locked. And while I did have a key, so getting in was not a problem, what bothered me was his insistence on locking his door when ... | 2016-02-02T20:11:46 | 2016-02-02T19:43:34 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] The King is dying and decides to abdicate his throne before he dies. During the coronation ceremony, he places the crown on a servant's head and declares him king, rather than one of his two sons. | Prince Horace raised an eyebrow at his aging father. "Your Highness, that's... that's your servant. Timothy and I stand before you; why did you go to such great lengths to crown a mere commoner?"
"Silence," King Jerry croaked. "I have crowned the rightful heir!"
"But I'm the eldest," Prince Timothy protested. "If you... | The fire of twilight is chasing the blue from the sky as the cloaked figure reaches the wall at the top of the hill. The wall itself is solid hearthstone, older than the Elders themselves and impervious to even dragonfire; the gate is free of decoration, naked bars of pure black iron. To either side of the entrance, we... | 2016-02-12T16:10:01 | 2016-02-12T16:05:40 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] The King is dying and decides to abdicate his throne before he dies. During the coronation ceremony, he places the crown on a servant's head and declares him king, rather than one of his two sons. | “There must be some mistake!” Prince John threw his weight against the unmoving body-weight of father’s guard. “There is no way that father would make that hussy the next king! Let me in, you dog,” he shouted in the guard’s face. At his side, he felt Prince Robert, his younger brother, unsheathe his sword. “If you don’... | The bright interior of the official throne room was illuminated by the powerful sun shining through the stain glass windows lining the long hall, creating a mighty atmosphere for the change of kings.
Royalty displayed themselves like a wedding party: the two princes on the left and the three princesses on the right. N... | 2016-02-12T15:59:10 | 2016-02-12T13:51:05 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You found a number that can truly answer any question through a SMS. Over the next few days you use it to your advantage such as winning the lottery. One day you get curious and decide to message "What happens after you die?" What you see next horrifies your inner being. | It was one word. One simple word that sparked an entire lifetime of terror. The question was simple "What happens after you die?". I have used the number for smaller gains that then lead to larger ones. I got the lovely idea to ask lifes mystery one day. Only one word wad texted back. "Dragged". Dragged? "To where?" i ... | "What happens when you die?" I typed in the simple question. The Oracle was never wrong. It always gave me the correct answer. I've won the lotto, I knew how to get the money without being sued to oblivion due to just asking. The answer came straight away, but I was afraid. You can understand right? Like how you ... | 2016-12-26T07:59:45 | 2016-12-26T07:15:30 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You are the curator of Earth, tasked with terraforming the planet naturally so as to meet the galactic atmospheric standards. In the mid 18th century you spark the industrial revolution to heat the planet slightly, however you fell asleep and have awoken in 2017. | "All of you understand your roles, yes?" I looked at each member of the Galactic Environmental Guardians who sat at the round table, finally locking eyes with the man who sat directly across from me.
"Mr. James Watt?" I prompted. The small man pushed up his glasses and nodded. He shuffled distractedly through a sheaf ... | The campus bar was abuzz with murmur. Finals were coming close. Some of the more studious ones had already started spending less time there and started making acquaintances with the librarian. At the left corner on one of the better tables a lone figure took deep drinks from her bottle of Guinness.
"They and I fall,... | 2017-05-31T08:38:08 | 2017-05-31T08:28:49 | 23 | 14 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "I don't know if she's all that daft. I think she may be a witch."
"Who? Mad Mary of the Idiot Wood!? A witch? I doubt that very much."
"She could be playing dumb to throw us off, so we don't suspect."
"We are talking about the daft old lady who'll give you vegetables if you dump your chamber pot in that thing be... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T12:11:29 | 2017-09-14T09:12:27 | 240 | 11 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "I don't know if she's all that daft. I think she may be a witch."
"Who? Mad Mary of the Idiot Wood!? A witch? I doubt that very much."
"She could be playing dumb to throw us off, so we don't suspect."
"We are talking about the daft old lady who'll give you vegetables if you dump your chamber pot in that thing be... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T12:11:29 | 2017-09-14T07:33:54 | 240 | 10 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T09:12:27 | 127 | 11 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T07:33:54 | 127 | 10 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T10:53:02 | 2017-09-14T09:12:27 | 120 | 11 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T10:53:02 | 2017-09-14T07:33:54 | 120 | 10 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T13:23:57 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 99 | 25 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T13:23:57 | 2017-09-14T06:09:16 | 99 | 20 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T09:55:29 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 97 | 25 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T09:55:29 | 2017-09-14T06:09:16 | 97 | 20 |
[WP] A schizophrenic man gets sick of the voice in his head and asks it to start paying rent if it wants to live there. The next morning he finds an envelope filled with cash on his desk. | 'RENT' was printed in large, crisp, black letters that had the appearance of being on the envelope, but somehow seemed to be floating just above it, like somehow the ink and paper were not actually touching. Clearly, this seemed odd to me, but I had gotten used to odd things happening so I was able to brush aside the f... | David sits at his computer, trying to type through the maelstrom of screaming. He shifts a row, typing numbers into the document as though the sounds were just the buzz of cicadas or the music of crickets, rather than the soundtrack of hell.
Pushing his glasses down and rubbing his eyes, he sighs loudly out of frustra... | 2018-02-03T06:42:49 | 2018-02-03T06:32:54 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] While driving you hit and kill a boy. You feel terrible, and at the funeral you tell the family you wish you had died instead of him. 3 weeks later, a new surgery comes out that can bring someone back from the dead at the cost of another's life. You hear a knock at your door. It's the family. | "No."
I left them speechless on my front porch as I closed the door on their faces.
I walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge. There were two ice cold beers waiting for me in there.
I brought them both into the living room and dropped my ass down on the couch.
Death's a bitch I thought, popping open the first... | "Mr. Quinn, we know you're in there!" Hollered the voice on the other side of the door. There was more pounding.
"Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I'm not doing it."
More pounding. "Mr. Quinn, you killed our daughter, just make it right!" A second voice, a woman's voice yelled.
"No. Fuck off before I call the police!" I ... | 2018-09-16T19:59:36 | 2018-09-16T18:47:29 | 62 | 36 |
[WP]1000 years ago, scientists have found a way to attach chlorophyll to the human DNA, making humans survive solely on the Sun. Humans have evolved and lost the need and instinct to eat. It is now the year 3022. You have discovered eating by accident, and it has provided you with superhuman powers.
EDIT: Holy sh*t! F... | Eyes closed, breathing in for ten long seconds, and out for five, I feel the warm breeze brush my skin. The minuscule hairs on my body absorb the nutrition in the air, satiating my hunger from the lack of wind the day before. It has been a while since the day has been so satisfying.
The coldness lasted at least seven... | I stretch my arms as high into the sky as I could manage. As the morning daylight dances upon the fronds around my wrists, I could sense the solar energy revitalising me after my night time hibernation. I'm glad I fell asleep in this clearing as the trees around wouldn't block the scant sunlight in this forest. Humans ... | 2018-09-27T04:36:34 | 2018-09-27T04:19:47 | 249 | 104 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | Inspector Jackob looked around him, the crime scene littered with dead. "Please explain to me what happened again?" he asked an officer. " Well Sir, the eyewitnesses claim the five suspects got into a heated argument, then everything went South when the Potter" pointing to the dead female in a Slytherin uniform with a ... | The fearsome Dee Twen-Tee sat on the clift, facing his deadly rival: Rymus, the Poet. None dared to speak, for a wrong word may bring them to their ultimate demise - It was just time until any of them made the first action.
At high noon, Dee finally spoke: "You fiend, the gods stand by my side. I call upon you a strik... | 2018-10-15T22:16:09 | 2018-10-15T21:15:36 | 201 | 92 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | Today was supposed to be the day.
I was never sure were this magic came from. Where those that believed in Harry Potter got their fancy wands and ridiculous Latin spells. Mine came in the form of a couple whispers, that day I killed that abusive prick who called himself my father. The moment his blood spilled I heard... | I stalked ahead, fully aware of the traits of the devastating weapons loaded in my sack and pockets. I tried to recall the symbols I’d need to create any number of permutations. My opponent stared me down and began to chant. I huff at her, with her clumsily thick blue robes and childish conical hat. I’ve trained my bod... | 2018-10-16T00:47:31 | 2018-10-15T22:07:03 | 62 | 26 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | You look down it your phone, and upon it is a notification, "Huh, weird email. who even uses yahoo mail anymore?" you say to yourself.
As you look at the text, you realize that the background is a mosaic of moving gears, flashing lights, and bubbling tubes.
You are given a choice, either be transported into the game ... | Yet another janky steam account randomly added me. It was surprinsigly quick to reply for once. The only message they typed was "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played.". I just typed "Yes. Whatever, I’d manage", before shutting down my computer for the night. I went to sleep thinking nothing about... | 2020-02-16T23:15:41 | 2020-02-16T23:10:29 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | The enemy had entered the galactic stage a mere fifty years ago. They had reached out blindly into the stars, professing a wish for friendship and commercial trade. The galaxy, quite surprised by the lack of militancy or isolationism displayed by the fledgling race, unanimously accepted.
Then came Kothlar 7.
The Ja... | &#x200B;
Writing Prompt
\[WP\] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war.
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"All Life is ... | 2020-03-21T11:02:38 | 2020-03-21T10:23:49 | 155 | 59 |
[WP] A reverse "girl-in-a-fantasy-world": a magical prince has to live on earth with a completely normal human family and deal with incredibly mundane problems. | "So why are you so desperate to get back to your homeworld anyways?"
"I was on a quest to defend my kingdom from this great evil!"
"What's it like?"
"Oh simply the worst you could imagine! Count Elrich Oberle seeks to take over our world and plunder it of all its wealth!"
"...huh. Sounds like a terrible guy."
"Oh... | “Tom-“
“Lord Ulrich!”
“Tom...”
“Sir Ulrich...”
“Tom...” the patient paternal voice continued.
“Ulrich.” The boy huffed.
“Tom, look at me, Tom...” The father in his maroon sweater vest and brown dress shirt loomed over the boy.
“Fine.” Tom, seated in a very large arm chair, looked up at his adopted father.
“... | 2020-09-17T22:18:54 | 2020-09-17T22:00:37 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] You were cursed with good luck by a supernatural entity, something you were very confused by at first. Now a few week later you know exactly what that means | The first thing you need to know about being cursed with 'good luck' by a supernatural entity is that most supernatural entities have a very different definition of 'good luck' compared to us normal folks. Good luck for a human being would be winning the lottery, or finding true love, or landing your dream job. Good lu... | a was walkin down the street in Belfast one day so a was and then a got struck by lightnin and a was like this here, what the fuck mate? the fuck was that? a lucked around me an couldnt see anythin and i wasnt even sore so a was like this here, ah fuck sake you're goin mental Dean, too many bowls last night so anyway
... | 2020-10-15T05:43:58 | 2020-10-15T04:41:29 | 169 | 62 |
[WP] A hacker skilled in gaining access and upgrading account permissions, you were blown through a magical rift to a land of kings and wizards. You figured out magic and now have a business upgrading common folk with magic powers. Problem is, it's pissing off the magical elite. | "Look, the mage consortium has to put its foot down- knock off with empowering the peasants!"
"Or what?"
That was the crux of the issue, really. Back when magical power was nicely monopolized, a casual threat from the mages consortium was something you couldn't afford to ignore. Just the implied threat of cutting o... | "Onguard!"
Bob drove down the sword, his beleaguered foe falling under its pressure, his ancient magical shield on the cusp of breaking.
"My King, spare me!" he cried.
"No such mercy shall be granted Sir...Donutface,"
The fallen Knight scowled at such a dishonourable lack of creativity.
The soft whoosh of the entr... | 2021-01-30T09:34:52 | 2021-01-30T08:50:06 | 311 | 42 |
[WP] You discover your bully is a superhero by night and that the reason they hate you is that you’re the child of their greatest villain. | Kyle kicked the shit out of me during lunch today. Again.
I really, *really* didn't understand why he's had it out for me for so long. I did all the things *grown-ups* said to do. Keep my head down, don't antagonise him, don't talk to him, just ignore him.
It's a bit hard to ignore a bully when he sucker-punches you ... | I had hated Justin ever since I could remember.
I am not a hateful person, I’m a pretty positive guy, most people generally liked me. I was just your average college student. I’m on the football team, my girlfriend is a cheerleader, after high school I meet with my friends and do stupid stuff teenagers regularly do.
... | 2021-03-27T08:58:09 | 2021-03-27T06:56:20 | 54 | 33 |
[WP] There’s an old saying that in every group of friends, there’s a dumb one. But you don’t believe it. I mean, you’ve been hanging out with these guys for months now, and they’re all really, really smart. | “I guess it’s true what they say. In every group of friends there’s a dumb one.” The girl paid for her drink, flashed me a wink, and went back to her friends.
I stared at the ceiling for a moment trying to figure out what she meant before making my way back to the booth where Sam and Danny sat.
“You strike out?” Sa... | Jack, always listening.
Jack, always polite, always happy to help when he could.
And help he could, Jack, 42 years old, had not been gifted with a quick-witted mind, but with agile hands and a set of skills that would keep him in low-income jobs his whole life. He met the slightly older Esme at the improvisation thea... | 2021-11-14T09:35:29 | 2021-11-14T09:07:50 | 313 | 155 |
[WP] A hero and a villain are guests in a talk show. "Why are you two fighting? What motivates you to keep on fighting?" Before the villain can tell their story the hero gives an answer that leaves even the villain speechless. | “To be honest, it’s not even about the danger anymore. I mean sure, Dagon here causes more than his fair share of theft, murder, and treachery, but it’s not about that anymore. It hasn’t been for a while.”
The hero was donned not in his typical wear of an armored spandex suit, but instead dressed casually in typical b... | "May I be blunt?" Seraph asked politely, much to my surprise.
Carrie Ember nodded in encouragement.
Seraph. looked over to me, hands folded in their lap.
I chuckled. "Well don't let me stop you: why do you fight, angel?"
They took in a deep breath and let it out.
"Well, at first it was because..." They paused. "..... | 2022-06-27T21:09:31 | 2022-06-27T15:02:31 | 76 | 43 |
[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... | "Welcome to the Super Powers Depot, what can i do for you?" The clerk never looked up from their smart device. They couldn't be any more disinterested in the task at hand yet were still complying with the bare essentials of the minimum wage day laborer.
"My name's John. I was chosen to come pick out a free super powe... | 2022-11-17T07:33:47 | 2022-11-17T07:26:44 | 420 | 14 |
[WP] The death sentence is an actual sentence that when spoken will instantly kill someone.
Inspired by [this comment.](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1w4n7l/what_misconception_did_you_have_as_a_child_that/ceyo995) | If you see the men with hooded cloaks come to town you better come inside.
If the men with insidious words come to play you better find a place to hide.
They always come after a crime, a murder, they take their time. They'll knock on doors, come indoors, rip up floors.
And if you are found. If the men with death ... | “Last call, MacArthur Station, all northbound passengers board this train.” the operator's voice crackled over the best speakers the department of transit could afford. The transit system, much like the city it serviced, had seen better days. Central Station, the city's heart, pumped trains throughout the tunnels that... | 2014-01-25T16:46:31 | 2014-01-25T15:54:00 | 81 | 38 |
[WP] It's been nearly 100 years since the last Pyromancer was caught and executed. Pyromancy, the ability to create and control fire, is a dark and forbidden art. You discover you have the ability, and are now being hunted down. | It started as a tickle but it soon became a burn,
From a child to an inferno, oh, how quickly did I learn,
For some people may be special and some people are unique,
But for just a chosen few there's another label, "Freak."
The old and dreadful ways took away my brethren kind,
In the cold and fearful days th... | The hoof-beats were the first thing I heard. I let out a cry of alarm as I scrambled to get together my few possessions since the day I was found out to have pyromancy inside of me. I still remember it like it was yesterday... I was only 10 years old.
*I made another round of fire balls pop out of my hand as I was aw... | 2014-05-09T09:53:24 | 2014-05-09T09:50:26 | 60 | 16 |
[WP] In a Fantasy world, countless myths and legends surround the land. Yet out of all the teams of adventurers that explore these myths and legends risking life and limb, none are as successful as the "Mythbusters" | “So to sum up tonight’s episode, minotaurs *are* in fact ticklish,” Adam said, turning to face the camera.
Then Jamie walked up to stand beside him, a large yellow feather in hand. “Not only are they ticklish,” he added. “But tickling is also a great way to calm an angry minotaur down.”
The director yelled cut.
Aft... | In a smokey ill-lit room, a sorcerer wove a complex pattern in the air with his hands and chanted rhythmically. A fighter looked up in disgust and said, "Do you have to summon the All Seeing Eye right now? We haven't even finished packing yet!"
"We must record *everything*. Later I can edit the illusionary projecti... | 2015-03-18T16:22:32 | 2015-03-18T15:57:59 | 34 | 10 |
[WP]Doctors call your condition "Dynamic Cognition". You wake up each morning with a random IQ. Equal chance of being mentally handicapped, or a great genius, or anywhere in between.
The morning alarm is going off. Time to wake up.
Who are you today? What were you up to yesterday? And what's going to happen tomorrow... | Brandon Sanderson actually has a fascinating character just like this in his Stormlight Archives series. It's a king who wakes up every day with a differing IQ. They even develop a scale for him. Through trial and error every day he has to pass a series of tests he himself developed before he is allowed to make any Kin... | Loud, obnoxious, and repetitive noises never fail to wake you, whether you're a certifiable genius or barely able to think about your daily routine.
Today I am fairly average, from what I can notice between bursts of buzzing. My personality, what is left of it, I should say, is a constant amid a sea of variables. My m... | 2016-02-09T02:01:42 | 2016-02-08T20:55:02 | 44 | 17 |
[WP] In a world where everyone survives off of basic income, companies have to convince you to work for them.
Credit to u/SearingEnigma & u/abkleinig for the idea. | I sat at my "work" desk reading my daily superhero comics. Feeling proud of myself I thought what a job.
Then I heard the noise I dreaded.
"Ah hmmm"
I kept reading and ignored it.
"Human, we need to communicate." The android spoke in its smooth metallic tone.
I slowly took my feet off of my "work" desk then... | They're banging on the door again. They always are. It's my god damn doctorate. They just won't leave me alone.
"Come on, Jess. Just go talk to them."
I massaged my temples with sweaty fingers.
"I don't *need* them. I'm happy now!"
She looked me in the eyes, pleading.
"You know they won't stop until they have... | 2016-04-21T11:01:44 | 2016-04-21T09:33:27 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2030, and the entire world is firmly under the control of the Australian Empire, and no one really understands how it happened. | Well, if no one else will post, guess it's my sacred duty.
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"Cheers, mates, n pour out a stone cold Fosters on me." Emporer Hemsworth's standard sign-off rang in my mind even after the holo-projector switched off. I'd never really noticed how different he sounded from literally everyone I kne... | As an American who moved here just before the Great Nuking, it's a pretty somber feeling when I think about how Australia is the *only intact civilization* on earth now.
"The Great Nuking? Did the earth get put in a microwave or something?" nah not quite. The entire world ended up hating America so much that when they... | 2017-02-14T10:14:14 | 2017-02-14T09:34:30 | 1,581 | 298 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | I've never been one to care much about games. Though I owned one of those gray brick Game Boys as a kid, I'd largely fallen out of gaming as my life grew busier with work, friends and family.
Smartphones changed all of that.
After the success of games like Minecraft and Candy Crush, not to mention augmented reality... | Before you draw any conclusions, you gotta realize that I was a pretty sad and pathetic person back then. You can judge me all you want, but you know you've been me at least once in your life, losing restraint of your emotions and doing things you regret. Nothing can excuse what I did, but maybe hearing me out with som... | 2017-05-15T13:45:43 | 2017-05-15T10:16:40 | 80 | 23 |
[WP] You, an overworked scientist, have just sold your soul to the devil so your life's work will become widely known and help millions of people. The devil comes back the next day and, instead of taking your soul, asks you to take his teenage daughter off his hands. | "Your daughter." I glared.
"Y-Yes. I need you to take care of my daughter." Satan muttered, then straightened himself," I know you've taken care of a child."
"Yeah Luci, but she isn't the daughter of the Demon King, and besides, I'm a single mother and my work is killing me, I can't take care of another teenager." I ... | “Thinking it all back, this is all your fault Joey”
“Oh come on, don’t be like that Marcus, at least I’m helping you right, I could have just run away?”
I found myself barricaded in the kitchen with my best friend and roommate to avoid the rage of a teenage girl who is blowing all my furniture in pieces due to her d... | 2017-06-10T22:20:17 | 2017-06-10T21:20:10 | 393 | 43 |
[WP]At last the Dovahkiin dies. Now all the Daedra princes he has served over his life fight for his soul. | "I claim him!", said Mephala, "For we have many machinations yet to do!"
"I claim him!", said Peryite, "For we have many tasks yet to perform."
"I claim him!" said Vaermina, "For we have many terrors to inflict."
"I claim him!" said Hircine, "For we have many prey to hunt!"
"I claim him!" said Sanguine, "For we hav... | "So Laddie, He's only served us four?" Sheogorath ased curiously. "Yeah, Suppose it's pretty boring for The Dragonborn." Sanguine replied. "Who has the right for his soul?" Hercine asked. Azura sighed "The Dragonborn was a devote worshipper of me, his soul has the right to roam freely in Moonshadow." Sheogorath laughed... | 2018-06-15T08:17:32 | 2018-06-15T07:53:15 | 2,893 | 26 |
[WP] You're walking down the street at night. Suddenly, you get jumped by Flat Earthers. You hear one say, "Take his ass to the edge". You laugh, because the Earth is round. You were wrong.
[I guess I should include the source.](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepFriedMemes/comments/9nyn8o/fuck/) |
"We have members all over the globe, they'll chip in."
"Say that again... s.l.o.w.l.y."
"No use playing those mind games with us. You will see the edge yourself, YOU WILL BELIEVE!"
"I have a better idea, you go falling backwards."
".... why backwards?"
"So you'd get a selfie of the edge of course. Thin... | The bag over my head blocked out all but the brightest lights. They had jumped me as I stumbled home late from the pub on a Friday evening.
Why didn’t I take the offer of a lift from Tom?
They had burst out from a nearby garden and one of them smacked me in the back of the head with something solid. I had drifted in a... | 2018-10-14T04:45:24 | 2018-10-14T02:08:07 | 113 | 40 |
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