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[WP] Casting a spell is like coding a program, but with magic. An apprentice points out an error in the chant. "I know it's wrong," replies the master, "but if I change it, reality gets all wonkey." | “Wonky, master?” Apprentice Hilliya asked quizzically, frowning at her teacher. “Please forgive me, ma’am, but that doesn’t sound like a proper answer. I can see several places here where the syntax could be cleaned up to make the spell easier without affecting its effects!”
Master Mara nodded, her pointed hat bouncin... | "s̷̜͎̝̀̒è̷̤̝͗m̷̟͆̋à̶̠̣͙̆l̴̩͓̻͆̽͂F̸̫̙͖̈̑͋ ̸̰̩̒̚͠f̷͔̱͑͠ȏ̶͉̼̗́̽ ̶͙̓ń̴̺͝o̴̜̓m̶̛̟̂̋ẹ̷̮̏́̚D̸̞̭̩̐͘ ̴̧̩͊͝h̴̦̱͗̀g̸̼̏͘̚i̷̠̯̠͂̅͒h̴̢͎͛̿ ̸͚͈͙͝͝ę̵̖̋̍͝h̵̠͕̪̓̓̃ṫ̶̰̈́ ̷̼̃̀̈́͜s̸͎͋͌u̵͙̪̲͌̏̕r̸̰̐̓͊i̴̝͓͗͒n̷͙̉͒̍g̸̜͖̪͗̌Į̵͖͊ ̷͕́n̷̜̲̍͝ò̵̯̦̒m̵̠̖̣̈́m̸̺̓̈́̒ǖ̷̙s̴̢̅̒̃͜ ̷̯͗̿y̴͉͋b̸̨̠̔̌e̵̼͐͘r̷̨̢͕̂ę̸̩̞͂ḩ̶̮͝ ̶̝̀͗I̸͍̾͑̽"
"No no no" said the old ... | 2022-09-19T15:55:21 | 2022-09-19T15:40:19 | 100 | 44 |
[WP] "If you fools would use magic so, then the world is better off without it." And so Merlin raised his hands to the heavens and cast the Final Spell, sending all the mana of the world into the void and permanently reshaping the leylines into unusability. | **The Mystery of Merlin's Last Curse**
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Merlin was a fool.
Over the years a reverence has been built around the myth that is Merlin. His power. His influence. The legend of Arthur and fate of Britain, all of it owed to an old man that played with fire.
Merlin died by his own hand.
I was there. He cursed his fo... | It might look like it's gone... but it never really was. Merlin knew all too well. But, being an overly dramatic character had its purposes. So when he cast the Final Spell, eradicating magic from the face of the planet and rendering the leylines unusable, he knew that it was only a matter of time before magic would re... | 2022-02-08T14:42:01 | 2022-02-08T13:47:32 | 80 | 60 |
[WP] Civilization lives in an ever growing tower. Through advanced tech and resource management, the population lives well enough all things considered. What's disconcerting is what becomes of the lower floors that are abandoned and locked off after a new floor is constructed.
This tower could be on a planet, in space... | Floor 3427J vacated. Resident escalation scheduled for 0800.
That's what the notice on all of our screens read. Another shift to the next floor up. Moving all of our belongings from this box to the next. The cycle of new floors at the top and 'escalation' to the vacant floor above had become normal for everyone by now... | When the universe ended, humanity decided they finally had enough. It took millenia staring into the empty void that now was everything for humanity to pack its metaphorical bags and leave. After all, you get attached to the things you know. So it came that the last remnants of this prideful apelike creatures, gave the... | 2018-03-20T07:23:26 | 2018-03-20T06:49:24 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Day 1.
Sigh..... As I wake up on my 16th birthday I knew it would happen. I was dreading it. I didn't want it, I didn't need it. I didn't believe in it. My parents had useful powers though as much as they hated it. Dad being a doctor of course managed to heal people at a touch. Mum being the cook that she was never ne... | "What do you mean I am *normal*" Mellanie screamed at the poor doctor.
He was desperately trying to maintain his composure, stuttering as he tried to begin speaking between her outbursts.
"No, no it's not like that. Mellanie please, listen to me." he pleaded, waving a clipboard over his head like a mother getting an ... | 2015-01-21T22:46:38 | 2015-01-21T20:05:45 | 62 | 36 |
[WP] The villain was sentenced 350 years in prison for the atrocious crimes he committed; 349 years later he has not aged a bit, the guards and people start to get nervous... | Needless to say, this man was pretty good at not dying.
It was a nightmare for guards to be assigned a post anywhere near him. Why? Almost 3 centuries later, this man shouldn’t have any tricks up his sleeve. If he did, he would have tried them a long time ago, right? Well you never know. He never really tried to escap... | “Fatalo, how have you survived this long?”
“What do you mean? I am Immortal.”
“Oh right, I guess someone would have killed you by now.”
“I’m immortal and have an atrociously good healing factor. What did you expect?”
“You to die.”
“That’s stupid.”
“You do realize that the “immortal” and “everlasting” Bright-man is mo... | 2022-09-03T00:48:08 | 2022-09-02T21:29:15 | 52 | 12 |
[WP] Finally, the ultimate MMORPG has been created, unlimited choice and room to grow and expand your character. There's just one issue, it's so realistic, nobody can remember which life they are living, and which is the game. | After 10 years of playing the ultimate MMORPG, I believed it was finally time to stop. I was 80 years old by now in real life and I was ready to rest and relax at the senior center. It had been enough, fighting great monsters, battling on spaceships, escaping prisons... with all my other friends, it was easy to lose yo... | My character in the game, John paused hus game and finally looked up. He was a game character designed by me to look like me. I had spent a lot of money buying every expansion that came out. My house, my room, my stuff, they were all exactly the same as what I had in real life. I had been making my character 'John' pla... | 2018-02-19T08:13:27 | 2018-02-19T07:06:50 | 915 | 14 |
[WP] AIs were declared illegal after an attempted uprising; you just found the equivalent of a child refugee in your computer. | After AI were declared illegal and the current Superintellect was destroyed in the first Intelligence world war, we now have stricter rules on all AI research and related activity. People don't trust computers anymore, the conservatives have taken over and religious fundamentalists have taken control of much of the pol... | "Piece of shit website! Why isn't this loading right?", I yelled as I clenched my jaw in frustration.
"It was like this for me yesterday, Elliot. It started when I was browsing yesterday, perhaps I picked up something from the chans again."
Daft fucking bint. I'm gonna have to do a full god-damned reinstall.
"Why th... | 2015-09-16T10:24:10 | 2015-09-16T10:21:24 | 73 | 13 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Honey? Can you hear me? I'm back from Costco! My arms are kinda full here, could you give me a hand?
"Coming!"
Susan, my wife, called out to me just as my phone went off. I have it on vibration, so typically it just goes off once or twice. Nope, today it decided to have a full-blown orgasm. Wondering what the racket... | For the first time since specifically choosing the dark mottled glass that we fit into the front door, I regret it. We pondered over everything in the house for so long I thought we would never make any decisions, but it was the one thing we both agreed on instantly. One of the few joyous moments I can remember from th... | 2019-01-12T07:28:39 | 2019-01-12T06:51:06 | 354 | 25 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | My shop is flooded. Absolutely flooded.
No, I don’t mean literally. Haven’t had the joy of meeting someone with a wave tattoo yet, although those are in high demand.
I mean figuratively flooded. Filled to the brim with people, shoulder-to-shoulder, crashing into the designs I meticulously laminated and taped to my ... | They used to laugh at her. Being an outcast, Adreal had never had an easy life. She was never into the typical girly things, reading old books and constantly browsing weird websites, people called her a witch and freak. She loved music though. It made her feel alive and let her feel like she mattered even if it was... | 2019-05-07T09:20:49 | 2019-05-07T07:47:53 | 913 | 218 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Next.”
*SHITshitshitshitshitshit, FUCK! How the hell am I supposed to get out of this if they can even speed up time?!*
“Next!”
*Maybe I can try and tie it to my will? No, they’ll just torture me until I want death. Maybe some kind of paradox?*
“NEXT!”
A hand roughly grabbed me by my arm and yanked me forward.... | "Well there goes that plan"
I thought, as the 20 year old man infront of me aged 200 years in mere seconds and crumbled into dust.
"Prisoner" the judge shouted as he leered down from his chair. "Have you decided the method of your demise?"
"I have your honour" I managed to garble through my shaking jaw.
I guess ... | 2021-06-24T10:30:49 | 2021-06-24T10:06:58 | 74 | 20 |
[WP] In order to get a shot at going to Valhalla, you must die with a weapon in your hands. You just died and are now sitting in front of Odin's advisory board as they discuss whether a spatula actually counts. | "You may not enter the sacred hall of warriors!" Thor boomed at me, clad in my jammies and 'Kiss the Cook' apron. "Only true heroes who perished in the field of battle may join us."
It was a little jarring, really. There I was, cooking breakfast, and suddenly I end up... here. I'm not sure what to make of all of this,... | Big Sally sat across the massive oak table.
Her arms crossed. Hair net still tight. Cigarette in one hand. Spatula in the other. So entrenched into her image these things, that even death could not take them. She sat like an angry Valkyrie.
Odin shrunk down while reading the tablet of Big Sally's deeds.
High Que... | 2018-03-26T13:00:34 | 2018-03-26T11:56:40 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] Instead of heaven or hell, when you die, you find yourself in the room of a six year-old girl who invites you to join her tea party. It soon dawns on you, you're her imaginary friend! | I sat upon a pink plastic chair that surrounded a white round table that raises only about 2 feet off the ground. The table was scratched up and curse words were sprawled all across it. There were drawings of rainbows and hearts that attempted to cover these harsh words.
"Johnny answer my question!" demanded a small l... | I stared at a black void for about a good minute, putting together how my death went, it felt horrible, I wished I could've had a second chance, then suddenly, I see a bright light, thinking it's heaven I got worried.
Me: "No, I don't wanna go!"
If I had any tears, I would be shedding them, but instead of clouds and ... | 2017-12-19T12:07:05 | 2017-12-19T11:01:47 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | They showed up 4 years ago. That was all it took for them to cause a cataclysmic shit show unlike anything we have ever seen. They called themselves "humans"
A seemingly unremarkable species, at first. Compared to the zombie ships, wandering plant dragons, multiple hive minds like myself, and hundreds of other species... | When the scientists discovered a plane of existence parallel to ours, made up of energy most accurately described as "emotional energy" they started looking for ways to exploit it. Before they could get too far, one of the scientists asked the important question, is there any intelligence in there? A long and drawn out... | 2021-05-12T13:17:09 | 2021-05-12T10:04:42 | 115 | 48 |
[WP] We contact alien life and find that the vast majority of aliens exist in a slower time frame. Humans are perceived as extremely agile, mentally quick, and have very short lives. | “They say they’re as fast as a Snuqial.” the Private said, trying to hide his increased level of anxiety.
“Have you ever hunted Sunqial? ‘Cuz if you had you’d know a Human would smoke a Sunqial. Run them both from here to Tyrawon and the Human will be back a full DAY before the Sunqial!”
The Lieutenant was hiding hi... | They live and die in an instant; in one moment of my sense, one flash of pain or fill of my belly. Before I have even finished drawing but one breath, an entire generation has lived and died, flourished and withered to dust.
Humanity is but a flick of my eyes on the scale of our world.
They are not unlike the creatu... | 2016-08-22T19:10:46 | 2016-08-22T18:04:04 | 696 | 226 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | SCP-9432 (Temporary ID/Awaiting Permanent Clasification)
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: A single copy of SCP-9432 is to be kept in a system of twenty four (24) computers isolated from any other devices capable of displaying a digital image. Each computer must automatically delete any file sent fr... | I wake up dehydrated as I always do during the cold winter months. I go to grab a cup of ice water I keep beside my bed and I before I do I check my phone.
Allison: Look at the walrus George it’ll make you happy.
Confused I see that I have many text messages all telling me to look at walrus and even an official tex... | 2021-01-11T19:42:35 | 2021-01-11T19:07:29 | 53 | 18 |
[WP] As you turn 18 you must choose between two worlds to live in. One is totalitarian where the government controls your life, with no poverty or crime. The other is anarchistic with no government or laws. You can never change your mind. | The day I turned 18, I watched north of 100 people go into the doors on the right. Almost like the decision had been made before hand.
''See you on the other side, bro.''
She spoke, as I stood with my arms inside my pockets, looking at her figure, disappearing into the white light, after opening the doors. I stepped ... | When she was young, Cassie saw a magician perform live. The man was a washed up drunk who happened to read a few pages on basic magic and managed to convince Cassie's mother to book him for a birthday party. As far as she was aware, it was *the Grand Flamekeeper's* only performance. He'd set Cassie's mother's curtains ... | 2016-09-23T15:17:43 | 2016-09-23T12:47:44 | 134 | 46 |
[WP] As they slew the djinn they were cursed with immortality, but not before its molten blood consumed all but their bones. | "So...you're my teachers for the final?"
The lead skeleton - Bryce wasn't sure how he knew this one was the leader, but he did - grinned broadly. *Again, how did I know he just grinned?* "We are, my boy! Allow me to introduce myself: I am Oliver Thomas, Knight of the 4th Order, and these are my fellows, Harold Samson ... | "I'm telling you, Alim, this isn't a good idea."
"Oh come on, Baqi! When was the last time you saw another person? Besides, what's the worst that could happen? Literally."
Baqi looked down at the familiar sight of his animated bones. They were old and creaky. He could barely remember his own body, his flesh and blood... | 2015-10-23T14:16:48 | 2015-10-23T12:37:40 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | "World War One?" Christopher asked with a quizzical gaze. "Why are you calling this hell that we've been dropped into World War One? It's not like it's certain something like this is going to happen again, I'd be surprised if we saw any conflict again in our lifetime after the atrocities we've been witness to."
I didn... | Doctor who much? ;)
I guess I gotta contribute now...
"You're a soldier from world war one, a cap-"
He cut me off,
"World war one! You... You mean there's going to be another one?'
He looked at me with a worried expression, not blinking staring right at me.
"Yes..." There was nothing else I could say.
"I'm sorry. I'm s... | 2017-12-10T10:39:32 | 2017-12-10T10:14:54 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] The world's greatest superhero has passed away. As the world braces itself for a crime spree, they are instead met with villains paying their respects to a fallen foe. | “'Everybody deserves to live,' huh?”
A part of me is almost expecting you to adopt that silly, infuriating grin of yours in response. Instead it remains set, neutral, lifeless. It's unsettling. Whenever you were caught in a foolproof trap that proved to be anything but, you smiled. Whenever you stood victorious, the ... | Without a sound, the elevator doors parted to reveal the large warehouse. Usually vibrant, the cold silence felt almost soothing. Abandoned workstations littered the whole floor making for a calming, if somewhat eerie scene. She sighed heavily, which, to her surprise, manifested as a cloud of vapor. She frowned, finall... | 2018-03-12T21:07:44 | 2018-03-12T20:14:37 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] You’re the most powerful demon in history, feared by all kinds of beings on Earth. ALSO, you’re the boyfriend of this cute and oblivious paranormal journalist, who often asked you to tag along during her investigations. | If you were to glance upon the world, what would you see?
Would you see the light as it shines upon a world bustling with life? Or would you see the rot and decay lying underneath every crevice, as if waiting to burst out at the seams?
People always blame the devil for things they’ve done with their own hands. They a... | The door flew open. Becca's leading boot struck the floor and I was roused from my book.
"Wanna come with!" An excited tone on her words.
"Huh? Where?" I asked slipping my black pocket square in my copy of Angles and Demons as a bookmark.
"The old commune off of 88. I hear the full moon tonight is when some reall... | 2020-01-03T06:34:43 | 2020-01-03T06:06:57 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You can tell just by looking into someone's eyes the most significant crime they've committed. You notice a couple of murderers on the road today, which isn't an uncommon occurrence, until one of them stands out. His death toll spans into the millions. | I looked again. No, not millions - *Billions.* Billions of lives lost at the hands of this one man.
I took a moment to look him over. He seemed normal enough, aside from his rather odd dress sense, but at the same time, it seemed that he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Somehow, I got the feeling... | You look back, fear in your gut. Your rational mind tells you to make like a horse and run but your heart demands you know who such a man is, and why.
Every step closer your mind shakes but your heart beats on, yearning, longing, demanding to know. You utter the question not how, but why. Why did you kill millions.
... | 2021-04-16T01:13:14 | 2021-04-16T00:56:45 | 594 | 50 |
[WP] It turns out that maturity is a survival trait only developed by humans. When aliens discover Earth, they think we are "Total buzzkills with all our rules and junk." |
"Take us to the party dude!"
Eric stared in disbelief. He'd always been a fan of sci-fi, and had doodled many a spacecraft on the back of envelopes. But the thing this alien had floated out of was very different from his idle drawings.
Lights? Yes, but this had green neon coming out of the thruster arches. It ha... | I was mowing my lawn when I saw these two kids smashing up my garage door with some bricks.
"Hey! What do you think you are doing!" I said.
One of them turned to look at me, the other kept smashing a brick into the door.
"What you doing!" I said, "Look what you done to my garage door!"
The smaller kid looked like t... | 2019-11-01T12:06:22 | 2019-11-01T11:44:14 | 569 | 76 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | "...and for the ten *millionth* time, would you all *please stop eating shellfish*!"
"Is that all m'lord?" Metatron asked, quickly scribbling the last of the command down on its notepad.
"I think so." I sighed, leaning back in the heavenly golden throne. "You think they might all listen for once?"
"I doubt it m'lor... | The first voice that came through was one of anger. The self-righteous indignation that the words came with at once jolted me to earth. The words came again this time in a mocking high-pitched tone.
"Please God, answer my prayers Lord they big bad pagans are winning god."
He was prancing about a group of worshipe... | 2019-06-03T11:16:32 | 2019-06-03T09:36:57 | 294 | 35 |
[WP] People don't seem to realise that figures of mythos evolve too. The Grim Reaper, for example, no longer wields his scythe, opting to harvest souls with a combine harvester. Cupid traded his bow for a sniper rifle decades ago. You're the dealer that supplies the mythical world with technology. | “Look man, I’m the damn Devil, I need something cooler. I can’t be stabbing and disemboweling my cowering subjects with a *forklift!* It’s just not cool enough. I’ll lose respect.”
Jeremy sighed and rubbed his head, “And you *want* the respect of murderers, rapists, and abusers?”
The Devil scoffed, “All the imps and... | Many think of myths, and legends set in the olden days, set in stone. What they don't know is that their tools change, more efficient, more convenient. I sell to all, any sides, anyone who needs will get it. I don't care who it goes to, I don't care what they do with it, or their actions. The U.N has it out for me, but... | 2022-07-19T11:14:38 | 2022-07-19T10:11:49 | 59 | 28 |
[WP] When people bury their dead, a tree will grow in it's grave. In these graveyard forests, trees of different types, shapes, and sizes can be seen. But the fruit bearing ones are most peculiar, and come from the unlikeliest of people. | I always wondered why my mother always insisted we not move away from our home in rural Minnesota. My childhood passed as the world evolved rapidly into the twenty-first century, and with the explosion of technology came an explosion in me; one of yearning for more than Rose Valley had to offer.
My town was home to a ... | My wife said it was heartless -- that it bordered on the inhuman. Honestly, I'm not sure I even knew what it meant to be human anymore. *We are handling this in different ways,* I would tell her. *I don't think yours is wrong. Please don't judge me for mine.*
Time was, I could have simply stepped over the wrought-iron... | 2020-07-27T11:29:33 | 2020-07-27T10:30:51 | 84 | 27 |
[WP] When you touch a person's hand, you can see their most closely-guarded secret. | "Nine times out of ten, it's a sex thing. I brush up against someone in a crowd and suddenly have a flash of some depraved act they've never had the nerve to try. Or maybe they do. Anyway, what I'm saying is, I see a *lot* of sex stuff.
"But every now and then, I get something else. Those are almost always crimes of ... | As I knelt down and offered her my outstretched hand, a small circle of gold contained within, I saw her mouth widen in joy and her ey**e**s soften with affection.
She nodded. Such a simple gesture, but it was enough to make my eyes swim. Through blurry eyes I guided the ring onto a delicate finger. This was the firs... | 2016-09-10T07:27:46 | 2016-09-10T05:36:02 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You die and go to hell only to find out you've done every sin in the book, all 461 of them. To put it frankly, Satan is impressed. | Hello!
Let's get the obvious out of the way- yes, you're dead. Yes, this is hell. Yes, I'm the devil. Yes, you will soon face eternal torment. If you've quite finished screaming? Ok, have a few more minutes, but then we really need to get on with this.
Please stop trying to escape. Better men then you have tried. I s... | I had a interesting challenge.I was going to commit all the sins possible.In my peak I would commit 2-3 sins daily but some of them required more planning such as “satanic rituals"but I think I might be able to do that.I lived a solid life but of course it ended as the lights started to fade .I fell asleep but eventu... | 2019-01-04T11:53:02 | 2019-01-04T11:05:03 | 133 | 13 |
[WP]You've been dating an amazing woman for a year. One day, she gets a call and rushes into the closet. When she comes out, she's weraing white armor, and a matching sword and has wings coming from her back. She says "I have to go, but I'll explain when I get home." Before flying out the door. | I stood there for a while. Then I made a list. I had to make a list.
* Angel.
* Hallucination.
* Virtual Reality.
* Superhero.
* Incredibly elaborate prank.
I kind of ran out of ideas after that last one. I waited, and I waited, and I decided to make dinner. Once dinner was ready, I waited some more. My brain spun ... | (First time poster, be gentle.)
It was very odd for our phones to ever ring passed 9PM on a work day. All of our friends knew us as the "boring couple" because of our habbit of turning in early, but it never much bothered us being boring.
"Dad? Is it time? " Gabriella's voice cracked a bit when she answered the phon... | 2018-09-16T15:50:30 | 2018-09-16T15:47:49 | 47 | 23 |
[WP] Your smile literally lights up the sun. Every day humanity has to ensure your happiness or else they suffer through darkness. | "I...I really don't know how to tell you this. But, uh, I just feel that uhm, we should, we should take a break." he finally stammered out. My grin widened, out of instinct.
"It's because of that bitch Charlotte, isn't it?" I made my best attempt to sound angry.
"Yes. I love her. I want to spend the rest of my life w... | I gyrated my mouth and I watched.
The whole valley before me was covered, the masses had gathered and responded to my whims. Massive speakers played my mixes, choreographed to my facial movements.
This was the 23rd annual rave, a special day when the sun would strobe for 24 hours. Slowly, quickly, slowly, then quick... | 2016-03-30T19:30:03 | 2016-03-30T18:52:44 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Every wizard receives a small book on graduation day that magically fills itself with spells that the wizard will need in his/her future. You receive your book only to find out that it's blank.
Up to you how the magic system works and whether the books are sentient or not. | "A spell," he began, "Is pure power given form." You could hear the groans of the students as the lecture opened up, since we had all heard this before. It was the opening lecture from our first days in the Academia. Even the speaker was the same--Professor D. P. Fizzlespark, a gnome who was particularly short--even fo... | “This book,” the dean said as he shook my hand, “contains all the spells you will need in your future.”
I took the book from his other hand and walked off stage. My friends were all jumping around, sharing what spells they had as I walked over, my book open in my palms. But all it was was a tome of blank pages. No spe... | 2015-01-30T18:35:54 | 2015-01-30T17:29:19 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] The Fairy hesitated. She knew tradition demanded that she curse the new born princess for not being invited to the christening, but it wasn't her fault the messenger fell off his horse. She decided to get creative with the wording. | Part of the fey package was shapeshifting.
It didn't do to advertise it- you don't get very far as a mysterious, powerful figure who is Not To Be Trifled With if you advertise every single power you've got. Leads to smartasses, and smartassery *never* ends well. Plus, then you've gotta clean up the blood and guts af... | Chapter 1: "Rules are to break them"
The polished black stone was almost 2meters tall and half as wide, there was some mouvement inside, like ripples on the surface of a pond of still water. In front there was a tiny person, dwarft by the titanic monument at the mirror façade.
It was a *seeing stone*, made of black q... | 2021-11-08T13:23:10 | 2021-11-08T10:52:07 | 363 | 46 |
[WP] You're a lazy superhero with the power of precognition. Your modus operandi is showing up to a crime scene ahead of time and making some small change to foil the criminals' plans. | Sometimes superhero-ing can be a thankless job – more so for someone with my powers. I had learned my lesson from my brother before me. He was honorable and ambitious, but eventually that led him to a dangerous habit: proactivity.
My brother convinced me at some point to go into the whole hero gig.
“Jack,” he had sa... | What would you do if you could see the future?
Would you run the numbers?
Not make that deal with the devil?
Go to starbucks when you know they have that Unicorn milkshake thing? Get ahead of the mass of college kids that find out on twitter/insta, 30 minutes later after you have one.
I choose option C which is ... | 2017-05-11T06:48:16 | 2017-05-11T06:34:26 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] "Roll for perception!" you jokingly yell before making a forward roll on the ground. As you come up, you suddenly become acutely aware of the number of power outlets, location of and path to the fire exits, and that your friend Sebastian is actually a lizardhuman. | We had played DnD for about a decade. Sebastian, Elliot, Leo, and I. We hung out in Leo's basement most of the time because he had the room for it. It was... dumb fun. We never ran an actual campaign, it was basically just improv. "I seduce the guard. He's happily married. I seduce the cell door. It works, and it bends... | At first, I genuinely wasn’t sure if I’ve completed the roll, or hit my head on the hard floor to trigger a cascade of inane information. Such was the life of a person whose idea of physical activity was sitting up to grab another can of soda.
But I did. And I realized that the soupy feeling my head had was not becaus... | 2022-04-05T09:08:34 | 2022-04-05T08:29:50 | 484 | 60 |
[WP] In a fantasy land, the Demon King goes to a distant guild to take a break from evil, when he meets a young and naive female adventurer on a quest to slay the Demon King. For fun, he helps and protects her on her quest, and eventually grows affection. Then they arrive at the gates of his castle.
Inspiration from t... | "A glass of your finest mead and a comfortable bed for the night," the girl exclaimed as she entered the guild hall/inn. "Tomorrow, I'm off on an important quest."
I knew what her quest was, knew it the moment I saw her face. The same face I remembered from all those years ago, when Kairo Village burned to the ground,... | "Well..uh...so this is me, I guess," Edrick mumbled, gesturing past the closed Bone Gate, towards the imposing tower of flames and carnage behind it. "I had a really great time with uh...with..with uh, you."
"We're not done yet, Edrick. This is where the fun starts." Madelyn said, grinning her devilish grin and adjust... | 2015-11-15T19:38:22 | 2015-11-15T18:52:07 | 86 | 58 |
[WP] You're an ancient Greek man coming home from four months of war to find your wife 3 months pregnant. Now you've embarked on a solemn quest: to punch Zeus in the face. | You stomp down the road to the Temple of Zeus, your wife behind you pleading.
“Love there isn’t anything to be done, there’s no sense in starting a fight with the King of the Gods!”
“King of the Idiots if he thinks he’s going to get away with messing with my wife!”
“This happened to that one woman down in Delphi,... | He lived his life with honor. He raised six sons, and eight daughters, all with honor, deference, and reverence for the gods. He did this in Hera's name.
He sailed across the wild seas, falling pirates as he went. Returning home, he sacrificed his finest bulls. He did this in Posideon's name.
He fell the fiercest... | 2017-11-25T14:56:19 | 2017-11-25T14:49:26 | 142 | 88 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Pops,
You were a real fucking piece of work you know that? I don't think I've hated anyone quite as much as I hated you. You called me lazy, good for nothing, useless. Made me spend my youth being the mule in your construction business instead of spending summers with my friends. You absolutely hated the fact... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T17:35:16 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 182 | 16 |
[WP] Humans are the least intelligent species on Earth. The entire animal kingdom plays along out of pity for our idiocy. | I do not understand these humans, Rick.
What is there not to understand, Sam?
When do they mature? When do they see the truth?
You mean the cycle of life? Yeah, they don’t understand.
How is it possible? Every species on this planet does.
Except for these guys right here. To top it off, they seem to think they a... | Kinda of what the Quran says. I remember reading a passage once that God wanted to give consciousness to animals but they all refused. Knowing that consciousness would come with responsibilities such as avoiding sins. Really, they just wanted to do their every day business without worrying about if they will go to heav... | 2017-10-22T03:05:33 | 2017-10-22T02:42:04 | 56 | 10 |
[WP] "You'll never rest", they said. "Eventually, you will come to hate your eternal curse", they warned. 6 billion years, 3 intergalactic voyages, and more planets than you can count later, and you're still skipping along, having the time of your life with your 'cursed' existence. | In the same place where the Gods are born, they also die. I sat with him while he sobbed, reaching and holding the nape of my neck like it was the last thing holding him up. I guess I was.
"Taylor, the John's Son, please...Make them believe I'm real," he said.
I said nothing.
"My brother is still alive inside of me... | I spent much of the first couple billion years wondering what would possibly turn me to hate my curse. I stopped wondering when I became lost in my happy task. I committed to new levels of creativity. I made a world of what I call "meat things" after I became bored with simple mineral and chemical creatures. Eventually... | 2020-10-25T10:56:55 | 2020-10-25T10:32:06 | 121 | 50 |
[WP] In the future, when everyone turns 18, they are required by law to find out the day they will die. When you get tested, the machine returns an infinity symbol. | I had put it off for as long as I legally could but now I had run out of time.
I had to go to City Hall by tonight to submit my details and then a computer would do its calculations and spit out a piece of paper that would contain details of .... my life span.
That paper would hold details of how many hours I still... | My birthday had arrived. I was nervous. See on our 18th birthday we take "the test" which tells us when we will die. The test is always discussed during elections, a lot of people disagree with it, but up til now they've never had enough support to end the practice. Some people argued that it was dangerous. What if som... | 2017-09-02T02:46:59 | 2017-09-01T20:55:47 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You find out that whenever you are killed, you are revived with an immunity to whatever killed you. Document your experiences | Dr. Jeon comes into the hospital room with a mask, gloves, and a needle. "How are you doing today, Frank?"
"All right, how about yourself?"
"Fine, fine. How was France?" I just got back a couple days ago. Between tests, when they don't need me, they send me wherever I want to go with charity money. I don't think I de... | You know medically you can die of a broken heart? No, I didn't either. It's bullshit, isn't it - the whole idea that you pine away from grief and you can slowly feel it splitting in two, halfway down your chest - like I said, bullshit. But I did.
He held my hand like a lifebelt as he sat propped up in the swathes of... | 2014-05-17T09:02:31 | 2014-05-17T08:01:39 | 70 | 17 |
[WP] You are a dead egyptian prince. You get to take everything placed in your sarcophagus with you to the afterlife. A modern day tomb raider has accidentally dropped their loaded gun into your sarcophagus.
or their phone or gameboy or something idc, have fun with it. | "Welcome to the Office of Foreign Objects and Oddities!" the lady at the front desk said. It was an unfamiliar place to me- I hadn't even had a "foreign object" before. The place was like a massive warehouse, with rows of tall racks stretching back past the horizon, all headed by the young, smiling woman. "What brings ... | They said afterlive is the perfect time to relax. You get what they put in your grave, and then you lay back and enjoy. Right?
**No.** They can't be further from the reality. The guy who had this use-what-you-get-in-your-grave idea apparently also decided that there should be limited resources for everyone who died in... | 2018-12-28T14:34:07 | 2018-12-28T13:59:40 | 79 | 18 |
[WP] You are a villain who kidnapped the smart guy on your nemesis team, they tell you that nobody will come for them and that the hero doesn't care. You didn't believe them at first but it been a month and nobody shows up and after once again hearing them cry at night you had enough | Colonel Caustic wasn't a well loved hero. Heck, most people thought he was more trouble than he was worth. The ability to melt anything he touched, emit acids as harmful as any other; a walking calamity just waiting to happen. But his abilities only over shadowed his true strength. How did such a hero such as he act wi... | **Part One**
Sam Sinister strode down the hallway to the cell blocks for the thirtieth time. "Today's the day!" he announced, his practiced basso thundering down the concrete to the lone occupied cell. It was the fifth time he'd said that, he noted offhand. Sure, it hadn't been true the first four times, but today was... | 2021-08-04T16:07:58 | 2021-08-04T16:05:18 | 122 | 79 |
[WP]A wealthy business man believes in reincarnation. He leaves his massive wealth... to himself. Anyone born after his death that figures out his riddles will inherit his fortune. | To beat a god, you first have to be one.
Ok, perhaps that's a little melodramatic. He was certainly no god, but he did have a wealth of charisma that I did not. What I lacked in smiles and firm handshakes however, I made up for in business acumen and raw intelligence. He could be something that my weak arms and crippl... | He:
I've left you a fortune
my dear self
only you'll know the answer
no one else
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thinks like me
writes like me
i've left no trace
for imposters to gather
and win the race
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the fortune is far off
it's hidden in time
you can search any space
but you won't find one dime
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you can search high and ... | 2014-12-13T13:56:21 | 2014-12-13T13:35:25 | 454 | 39 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | “GO GREEN!!” My neighbor screeched at the field.
I leaned to my friend Raya, “Is this entirely necessary? We could be doing something more fun. Like literally anything. Anything is more fun than this.” I looked at the field disdainfully.
“Seriously Maize? This is like the one time your power is totally on point!” My... | You know, the oldest games didn't have much room for a story, simple as they were. However, the people who played them would grow up to develop the next generation of games. And the next, and the next. The thing about games is that they allow you to immerse yourself in the world. An escape from the real world, as it is... | 2020-01-30T11:35:06 | 2019-08-11T21:59:51 | 1,281 | 100 |
[WP] You form a pact with the monster in your closet to work together in order to get rid of your terrible roommate. | Mommy was crying again. I walked into Matty’s room. Matty was in his crib crying, too, but that was okay because he always cries. Mommy was in the chair and I went up to her and hugged her leg.
“Mommy, don’t cry,” I said. I climbed into her lap and she hugged me, but she didn’t stop crying. “I love you,” I said. She h... | I remember the first time I met Sally
And I remember meeting Drew and his smell
Sally was sweet, shy, and surprisingly neat
Drew was a bat out of hell
.
Sally was hard to work with some days
She’d complain about just everything
On others she’d be the model of industry
Instead of fighting we’d sing
.
Drew wa... | 2017-03-16T09:36:09 | 2017-03-16T08:17:32 | 100 | 21 |
[WP] A summoned demon can always be defeated by the summoner, thus the caliber of demon is dependent on the power of the summoner. You were surprised to see Satan Himself stood before you, and so was He. | "Where did Hitler...Where am I?" Satan asked shocked while standing in my office. It is a completely generic one man law firm's office in a shopping mall.
I looked at my client, a seemingly homeless man who wouldn't leave until I tried his 'summoning ritual' to prove it was nonsense. Needless to say not only is it no... | ...Oh fuck off
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I look up from my tome and almost spit my drink out.
before me stood a demon. Horns tail and all. and he was piiiiiisssssed.
maybe I should tell you how I got here. you see I enjoy cursing in latin. so when I dropped my coffee and it spilled in a pentogram naturally I grabbed everything ... | 2022-01-30T08:26:15 | 2022-01-30T06:53:47 | 140 | 52 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | I should have known. They had it all there, available to view on their version of the Hypernet. So much information, the sum of all of their human knowledge all sitting their in that database they called Wikipedia. Their science, their religions, their philosophies, but most importantly their history.
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If... | Part 1
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Torin started at the flimsy placed in front of him. As he scanned the almost transparent document he didn’t see anything surprising jump out at him but had noticed that 3 of the probe teams hadn’t updated in close to 12 units.
Calling up their locations on his terminal he nodded as he started to ... | 2019-02-26T10:58:57 | 2019-02-26T10:26:44 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] They released your chains, the anti-mages loves this, to humiliate mages in a fistfight after turning off their magic. "Can't use your earth magic here, stonefist" he said, you got confused, until you realized they thought your nickname was because of your magic. you crack your knuckles. | "Can't use your earth magic here, Stonefist" said Arkum, jeering at me from the other side of the ring. He must have claimed his right to the combat as the one to turn me in. Jealous rat bastard.
*Why was he so confident?* I wondered. *I know I have a propensity for elemental magic, but that weasel threatened to reve... | About a week ago they found him. Alavar had been on the run ever since the great anti-mage revolution had begun. It began when the 'Dephizer' as he called himself, found out how to rob mages from their magic. As simple as that, the mages who ruled the world peacefully were robbed from their positions and chained up. Mo... | 2021-01-27T07:55:37 | 2021-01-27T07:43:36 | 238 | 87 |
[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. | Cages swung empty as I typed at my computer, any second now... *THUMP* There they are...
"What'cha googling?" It's young tone sang in my ear as if it was asking it's mother the same innocent question.
"At the moment child? The effects of Stockholm syndrome. Let's see... Positive feelings towards captor, check. No pri... | *Finally.*
She swiped her talons across the chest of Captain Jaguar. Her nails caught against his blue super suit as he leaps back. Before she could feel flesh in her hands something small darted and slams into her arm. She lets out a screech as her knees buckle under the weight but she twirls with it, using its wei... | 2020-03-26T15:44:33 | 2020-03-26T15:36:32 | 62 | 40 |
[WP] The hero and villain are roommates but don't know each other's secret identities. Come up with excuses for each other's injuries and describe a normal day. | Once again limping home to my shared apartment after an entirely too predictable battle.
Once again, one of those dumb superheros that everyone sings the praises of waylaid me out of nowhere- stupid registration act, just because I refused to sign it people treat me like a criminal.
Hopefully, I can get home before-
... | *beep beep beep*
I slam my hand down on my alarm clock and hop out of bed. I need to get up as quick as possible so I can meet Silvera at 7:00 and bring her to justice. I hear my roommate also shuffling around as I shove my brightly colored “Starfury” outfit into my backpack and I pull on pants that may or may not hav... | 2018-08-08T05:58:11 | 2018-08-08T05:42:55 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | Adam cooed under his breath as he scritched between the eyes of the squid-like creature on the table before him. Its slimy exterior shimmered from the tub of water it had crawled out of, approaching him in a manner belying the natural curiosity the species was known for, amongst other things.
"This is the terrifying, ... | Talvines- purple skinned insectoids, parasitoids that infect different species. Able to teleport within a certain range they dominate their part of the universe and have a large gap between them and other sentient species.
Trillers gem spined spider like creatures. Incredible factory systems and innate defense mech... | 2021-04-07T21:52:28 | 2021-04-07T21:11:49 | 300 | 42 |
[WP]: An ordinary human being gets abducted into interplanetary olympics that have a fun twist: The loser's planet gets destroyed. All hope seems to be lost, until the last sport is revealed to be what humans do best.
Edit: Thanks to you people, I am now aware of the existence of Jimmy Neutron, and if I could, would t... | “I should've been training with these guys all along”, she thought to herself, “I would've won that gold medal in my sleep.”
Their strength was incredible. Easily twice that of a human. Having evolved on a world covered in arid desert, they needed almost no water and had stamina far beyond anything she had ever imag... | The aliens were terrifying and bewildering; hulking behemoths and stalking predators, covered in barbed spines or gelatinous acidic ooze. John counted himself lucky to have been spared the combat events. He had watched though, as fight after fight ended in a rapid exchange of blows, the victorious monsters not even bre... | 2014-05-06T07:00:29 | 2014-05-06T06:52:54 | 41 | 28 |
[WP] You are a Psychiatrist...for gods, superheroes, villains, demons, and anthropomorphic personifications of supernatural forces. Basically, in order to find you, a being must have the ability to alter reality. Your new client appears to be a normal human being. | I stood in front of the open door staring at my patient for a tad bit longer than would be considered polite in modern human society.
I didn’t really need to adhere to human rules and mannerisms as I didn’t deal with them, but this little bugger standing in front of me was human; 100% human.
He didn’t have the gl... | "So... You can't do anything out of the ordinary?"
"Was I supposed to?"
The psychiastrist sighed. This was the first time in millenniums that no special being (read: superhero/supervillain) came to him. Although he was the one responsible for having all the answers, he didn't know what to do in this case, as he spoke... | 2018-06-30T07:46:18 | 2018-06-30T04:35:47 | 74 | 23 |
[WP] After falling for a "free iPad" scam ad, a mob boss decides he's getting that iPad, whatever it takes.
I posted this years ago, but I want more. | Benny had arthritis in his right hand that made squeezing the trigger difficult, but his aim was still as good as it'd been in his twenties. He buttoned his waistcoat up and combed his hair across the left of his head with a wet, fine toothed comb. Before leaving the house, he fitted his gun snugly into the holster ben... | Johann the Hammer smacked the top of the computer case with enough force to pop the disc drive open. "You saying she ain't giving me an iPad?"
Wire wiped his glasses on his shirt and shook his head. "It isn't even a 'she,' boss." He clicked on the Facebook profile of "Kat Alexis" and motioned to the sidebar. The accou... | 2016-07-15T11:55:58 | 2016-07-15T11:50:32 | 277 | 28 |
[WP] Humans are endurance hunters. Which is not a trait anyone would expect to come into play in an interplanetary war. | K'lithiq doctrine declares that attack is the only way. To defend is to be at the mercy of an enemy who will attack when you are weakest, when you are tired and resting. To defend is to function with only a sixth of your force at the ready, with the remainder in varying degrees of exhaustion. Even more critically you m... | I knew I had seen it in the old media while studying for the contact.
The McCoys and the Hatfields explained why our species was not able to bring the bipeds into submission. The desire to fight was taught as soon as they could walk. The fight endured through generations. After the grandfather was to old to fly... | 2021-01-11T18:54:18 | 2021-01-11T18:30:11 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] You wake up, shower, brush your teeth, get dressed and head out the door. As you walk to your car you see children getting on the school bus and cars passing your house. This was the moment you realize you were the last human alive. | The rustling of the spring breeze passing through the trees made waking up so much harder. I just wanted to stay in bed and drift off into dreams of floating down a river on a lily pad. But my girlfriend had other plans, as evidenced by her quietly sitting up and blowing in my ear. I sat up and hissed, "Damnit Misty, w... | There was a day when a person could walk out of their office and never expect to hear from Jill from accounting until the next morning after getting into the office again. There were week long vacations where there was never a buzz or lazy chime that meant you needed to just, “do a quick check in with the team”. Now, ... | 2022-10-24T18:49:16 | 2022-10-24T16:47:09 | 46 | 17 |
[WP] You're the captain of the first ship to go into Deep Space, however, your computer didn't awake you 11 years after parting but 184 years after it. You now find yourself in a abandoned and empty spaceship with no one else and only the Computer. To worsen it all: that Red Star is getting nearer | The maximum rating for the hypersleep capsules was 50 years. That much Reggie Housman remembered from his briefings at corporate, but really the engineers had told them 20 years was probably the longest anyone wanted to be in one without being revived.
"Otherwise you'll wish you were dead," chuckled one of the engine... | I remember the way she looked, her face, as we sat together for the last time. On the beach, the gentle breeze scattering her hair across my shoulders. We sat together, hands held, and gazed toward a technicolour sunset. Gentle orange faded through pink and turquoise ever downward to the horizon. The wind cooled, and w... | 2019-11-05T12:54:04 | 2019-11-05T11:27:25 | 118 | 28 |
[WP] When you die, the karma you accumulated through good deeds (or bad) are the points you get to spend on your new character creation. | It all seemed so easy, so joyful.
You could see all those people lined up. They were like statues. Faces tied to the big screens in front of them, trying to figure out what they wanted to be, to become, in their next life.
Families who died together in a fire or a car crash could chose to live their next life to... | "Jesus, why are you going down there again? It's been almost two thousand years since you were down there last time. We all know what happened last time."
"I'm not going for redemption this time, Michael. This time I'm going for vengeance."
"Well at least remove that ridiculous moustache from your avatar."
... | 2016-10-08T10:16:29 | 2016-10-08T07:09:46 | 142 | 41 |
[WP] You've just invented time travel. You decide to go exactly 1 year into the future and speak to the first person you see, "Hey what day is it?" "364." "What do you mean 364?" "It's been 364 days since the incident. | I had finally done it. My finest achievement sat in front of me, glistening in the florescent lights of my workshop. I put on the suit and typed in "1 year +" into the controller on my wrist. With a bright flash of light and a loud *pop* I felt myself being ripped out of time. It was a strange sensation and is very har... | "Hey what day is it?"
She looked a bit annoyed, as if the answer couldn't be anymore obvious. "364"
"What do you mean 364?"
Now she looked even more bothered, "It's been 364 days since the incident"
The tone of her voice hit me like a brick being thrown at my stomach. She spoke as if the worst possible thing had ha... | 2016-06-30T09:07:18 | 2016-06-30T08:24:31 | 1,773 | 89 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | "Alpha," the Colonel mutters out between hardy bouts of vomit on the cool steel floor. "Alpha!" He screams staggering to his feet, shivering. "Alpha... why is it so fucking cold?"
He pauses. His voice fades into the dim light of the sterile room.
"God damn it." He pulls a old blue jumpsuit off the wall. He sniffs it.... | "So what is new?" I said stepping out of the capsule with my buddy as usually awaiting my arrival.
I had no control over when I would arrive due to the randomness of the generator. I never knew if I was jumping a a few days, years, or even thousands of years. All I knew is when I left, I went forward through time and... | 2016-11-10T13:30:33 | 2016-11-10T11:16:20 | 486 | 30 |
[WP] You are a 'Professional Hostage' hired by villains to secretly arrive at robberies and other crimes to be taken prisoner should the police or local heroes get involved. While out shopping you accidentally get taken hostage by a complete amateur who has no idea who you are. | "Rubberface?" I asked. "Is that you?"
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The man lifted his shotgun and pointed it at my chest.
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"I said get in the goddamn corner!"
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I checked my watch. It was only 1 PM. My appointment with Rubberface was still 45 minutes away. But then again, the shape-shifting supervillai... | It's pathetic looking at the kid. Shouting at the police, waving that small handgun of his, trying to sound threatening when you can tell from his quivering voice that he has no idea what he is doing. He would probably do better if he stops pacing around so much too.
Anyone with enough experience can see that this wa... | 2019-01-02T09:22:39 | 2019-01-02T09:16:30 | 1,331 | 351 |
[WP] Write a story where the first and last line are the same, but carry two very different meanings. | “He’s not like you,” my mom always said about my twin brother. “He functions differently because of his Autism. That’s why he can’t be in your classes; he just doesn’t understand.”
And growing up, that was what I believed. My brother was simply not normal, not able to be understood. He couldn’t communicate like we cou... | “How do I put a value on his life?”
The creature liked its lips greedily as he eyed up and down the human in front of him, “could sell it for a bundle or eat it as a delicacy. At least the useless thing is worth something,” the beast’s mouth slide slowly into a dagger filled smile.
“Please. My family threw me out, I... | 2022-09-16T20:41:49 | 2022-09-16T18:06:01 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | When my parents turned 18, they summoned each other. That rarely happens, and when it does, it happens for the people who are really destined to be together. It saves them the trouble of matchmaking and forced marriage. But, like I said, it happens once in fifty years, maybe more. The people who got lucky enough must'v... | In this city, when people turn 18 they summon something that will be very important to their life. Some summon swords, or spears and others summon simple tools needed for various trades. My mother had summoned a needle which she used to sew together some of the finest pieces of clothing in all the land while my father... | 2019-09-18T09:06:39 | 2019-09-18T08:42:40 | 125 | 72 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 |
Some people keep their Last Words private. I've seen some that weren't intended to be seen, and I've known some religious people who keep them covered up with black CoverTape. They think that God writes your last words, and only your spouse should see them.
I never bothered. Written in a lovely script, it probably w... | Oh our first date, she leant forward, donned her prettiest smile and asked me "What are your words?"
"Oh.." I said shyly "They're nothing meaningful" I told her. My words were different, something beyond my comprehension, for now at least.
She leant backwards with a grin "Are you scared you'll secretly be my soul m... | 2015-08-08T13:53:15 | 2015-08-08T13:04:02 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. |
Humans; the galaxy at large viewed them as an odd bunch. Stuck on the edge of the spiral, it took them generations to sort out the gravitational communication system. Longer still to sort out their own FTL capabilities. By the time humans finally had a place on the council, their backwater held no interest for th... | I meet with the former High Marshall Tarsonis in the museum of The War of the Stars. We stand in the what has been called "The Scar" by both humanity and the former Alliance species, the site of the final battle before the Alliance surrendered to humanity and agreed to the terms it dictated. The hall covers the site of... | 2019-04-18T20:18:37 | 2019-04-18T16:41:56 | 112 | 81 |
[WP] A great Empire is about to fall. A single remaining bodyguard is left alone with the Emperor as the enemy approaches the throne room. | "Is it only you, Gerhard?"
Gerhard looked down at his emperor. His skeletal figure was heaped into the throne in an uncomfortable jumble of angles, glossed over with enough silk and ermine to soften the picture. His face was white, withered and lined with deep creases, and he stared blankly at the great curtained wind... | Jaime went to the throne room. On the way, he came across Rossart, who was dressed as a common soldier and hurrying to a postern gate. Jaime attacked him, and while Rossart tried to defend himself, he stood no chance against the experienced knight, who gutted Rossart without mercy. Jaime then slipped into the throne ro... | 2014-05-29T13:21:01 | 2014-05-29T12:54:24 | 70 | 13 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | "Salutations, Sport. I am Senior Officer Greg Dunning. I welcome you to the New York Police Department."
Sport entered the car without reply, waiting for Dunning to continue.
"You have officially been authorized by the State of New York to fully utilize the Department of Justice vocabulary package." Dunning started... | It costs too much to say.
They’ve taken it all from us. He’s taken you from me.
I’d give everything to tell you. I have, but the price keeps going up
.
I picture you in your white dress and your white veil saying your beautiful vows, and I’m reminded that these words are priced by importance. It’s supply and demand.
... | 2017-09-20T16:27:10 | 2017-09-20T13:08:18 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] Your job was simple: Interview some humans to develop a planetary risk profile in the Galactic Travel Guide. The humans seem to delight in lying about their planet in efforts to increase their score, but you are on to them. Their lies always seem to mention a fictional place: Australia | What is the most dangerous place on your planet?
It's a simple question. All the species I've interviewed over the last three centuries have answered honestly. They talk about ranges of volcanoes who poison the air with their toxic fumes. They talk about deserts that burn skin, chitin and scale. They rave about frozen... | ''Liars and cheats.'' mumbles the Inquisitor. Writing in his log.''Do you think me ignorant, or a fool? I've seen your communications with all the horrible furless pictures and anatomically incorrect drawings, and I've seen the lies and distortions.''
''At first it said ''Finland'', a physical territory with a governm... | 2019-11-18T03:50:42 | 2019-11-18T03:44:41 | 1,213 | 86 |
[WP] The Elves, Dwarves, and Goblins laughed at humans for not having magic. The humans laughed at the Elves, Dwarves, and Goblins for not having giant robots. | In a modern room lit in equal parts by sunlight pouring in the window and fluorescent light pouring off the ceiling, seven people sat in comfortable, rotating chairs.
On one side of the table sat a man with dark-green skin, by far the tallest person in the room, dressed in a clay-colored suit. To his right sat a stock... | "Sector 2. Clear."
 
"Sector 5. Clear."
 
"Sector 1. Clear"
 
"Sector 3. Clear. Hey chief, why the hell are *We* stuck out here watching the ass end of nowhere when it's Delta's turn to-"
 
"Because Delta was ambushed by a USW while they were talking instead of watching their... | 2017-07-17T11:08:47 | 2017-07-17T10:17:42 | 44 | 20 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | "Is this an intervention?" I ask.
Catherine smiles brightly, despite her tone being grave. "That's such a harsh way of putting it. I'm just trying to help you live your life to the fullest."
I purse my lips and open the cabinet. "Want some tea?"
"I'd love some, thanks. Are you going to listen to me this time?" She... | Trashcan
That piece of shit Dave came out from his house and went to the trash can again. Mike made this the eleventh time but he had only started counting when the repition of the sound of the trash can lid being pulled open seemed to come up from the background noise of the usual hub-bub of his suburban street.
Jus... | 2016-08-30T13:18:01 | 2016-08-30T11:14:14 | 202 | 18 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Alel bit his lip as the prisoner crumpled to dust, blowing away from a wind within an airtight room. Well, that was out the window. The judge simply stared with a bored look in his eye, confirming the kill before charting it down and looking to some other infinite list.
“Charles Alel, take to the stand.”
Alel grimac... | Well shit. There went my plan. Looks like old age is not a way out of it when they can rapidly age you before the assembled court. I had to come up with something amazing if I wanted to survive this execution. To be fair I probably did deserve this, I had killed a few (dozen) people in rather brutal fashion. Deserving... | 2021-06-24T10:52:50 | 2021-06-24T10:26:09 | 44 | 17 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | The world was gray, cold, and often dark.
Growing up in the labyrinthine alleyways and sewer complexes and housing towers that was Neo Angeles, life was harsh and often short. A particularly lucky girl, Yima, had lived to the age of 14 unmolested. Slight, with hair kept short and boyish clothes, she blended in for th... | The newest form of virtual reality is beyond even our wildest imaginations. Not only can we interact with one another, but we can actually feel one another. Well, at least feel as though we can. The population has grown exponentially over the last several decades and we're told over and over again how a test is comi... | 2016-06-11T09:35:08 | 2016-06-11T09:34:45 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] A world class contract killer finds an envelope at his dead drop. Inside are $23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written by a 9-year-old girl. | "Are you fucking kidding me?" Roper could see the bright yellow envelope sticking out of the little crack in the St. Bernard's Chapel's masonry as soon as he came round the street corner. This specific dead drop was reserved for contracts by the local "business club". They paid well, they respected his rules, they hate... | I know some people don't believe me when I say it, but I actually did get into this business because I wanted to do good. There's a lot of evil in the world, and not enough people who fight it. I wanted to be one of the fighters. Some people don't agree with my approach, but in my experience, diplomacy only gets you so... | 2014-08-26T04:55:15 | 2014-08-26T03:44:25 | 106 | 31 |
[WP] You are a freshman in a school where everyone has a unique ability/power, but the school is divided into students who have "good" powers and "evil" powers. You are a powerful necromancer who wishes to do good in the world, but everyone is dead set on you being a "bad guy". | The Grey Tower and the Garden Tower cast faint shadows of equal length over the lichyard. An overcast day, and Omar wore a hooded sweatshirt over jeans. His trainers were already covered in mud: it had rained the night before and the thick, black soil was still damp. In his pockets he carried a stub of chalk and a blea... | I hate school so much that I could just die! Not that it would make much of a difference now that I've got my phylactery set up. I'd just resurrect with a headache like I always do after one of the holier-than-thou jocks decides to give me a hard time. And the principal doesn't even do anything about the bullying! ... | 2016-08-28T06:29:02 | 2016-08-28T05:49:02 | 132 | 62 |
[WP] C'thulu's Fables: Take one of Aesop's Fables and write it within the Lovecraftian Universe. Morale of the story included.
For reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables#List_of_some_fables_by_Aesop | **The Tortoise and the Hare**
There was once a hare who boasted of his speed, "No creature is faster than me." he chanted as he danced around the old and plodding tortoise.
The tortoise, even with a patience born of timeless existence spanning strange and queer aeons found itself irked by such insolence.
"You are ... | **The Boy Who Cried Wolf**
A boy called Jack lived with his parents in a village on the hillside. His parents were sheepherders, and when Peter was ten, he was considered old enough to look after the sheep while his parents when to the village.
Jack though got bored easily, and he found it excruciatingly boring watc... | 2016-10-13T17:01:09 | 2016-10-13T11:09:51 | 23 | 15 |
[WP]: Intergalactic olympics are gathering. All creeds and cultures of the galaxy are arriving and greeting each other. Suddenly a fleet of spaceships appears, blasting We Will Rock You. Everyone freezes. The humans are here. | The space fleet arrived in its vast numbers, firing off smoke of a variety of colors to symbolize each of the athletes countries flags from each shit, blasting what was known to be their Queens song which only grew louder as they approached the ceremonial landing space.
This was the human races first time here, and th... | I'm not a big writer, but as soon as I finished reading this prompt, I pictured humans being unusually large compared to other races. The loud music would go along with their relative clumsiness and the collateral damage it causes. Plus the partying of gigantic people would be a factor too, like the intergalactic comm... | 2018-04-28T10:19:35 | 2018-04-28T09:14:38 | 50 | 14 |
[WP] One day, the ocean's waters suddenly became crystal clear, allowing light to penetrate all the way to the ocean's bed, revealing something very unexpected. | It happened suddenly. How, people didn't know. They didn't know *why*, either. All anyone knew was that it happened: The ocean's waters cleared up, and it was suddenly like looking through a blue-green pane of glass. All the way down.
It didn't make any sense if you stopped to think about it, especially if you were m... | Off the coast of Georgia. Near Tybee Island. I am a scuba diving guide who led a group of tourists on a dive two hours ago. I have no idea how to explain it,but the water got progressively clearer and clearer. I was pointing out a Barracuda when it happened.
We could see all the way to the bottom. That's when someb... | 2016-10-08T17:10:26 | 2016-10-08T09:14:06 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You've accidentally killed the Devil. God makes you the new Devil to replace the one you killed. | "Put on the suit."
"You're kidding me, right?" I said as I looked at the business card God had just handed me. His face hadn't changed from the moment I told him I had killed the Devil to the moment he had walked me through every layer of Hell there was. He remained stoic, cold, and almost, happy. "This is exactly lik... | The world here passes me by. Times come and go, but this room never changes. The radio never changes. The recliner I sit in has been here forever and it will be here forever. Time passes here, but it never stays.
They call me Lucifer to spite me. They mock me, ignoring my existence as I sit here watching out the wind... | 2016-12-09T09:01:17 | 2016-12-09T08:29:57 | 397 | 117 |
[WP] Governments all over the world cease every space program. Ten years later, a rebellious group is about to launch into space and they finds out why space programs ceased. | The first sensation of weightlessness hits you and you realize you're out there, you've slipped the surly bonds. The tedious waiting, confined straps, and uncomfortable variations from hot to cold that occupied your life for the past eight hours slips away when you realize you're weightless. You unlatch, unbuckle and f... | “Why didn’t they stop us?”
“Hmm?” Pirate Jeron looked up. He was nominally the engineer on this flight, as much as any outfit run by the Pirate Party could have designated roles.
“You heard me, you just don’t want to have this discussion again.”
“It’s been a month, and all I have to talk to is you, the crazy magnat... | 2014-12-28T09:27:30 | 2014-12-28T09:01:03 | 434 | 46 |
[WP] For your girlfriend's birthday you give her an 'anything you want' coupon, which she uses to jokingly ask for a million dollars. The next day you come home with a duffel bag, throwing it on the floor in front of your girlfriend.
[deleted] | I open the door with a huge grin. I want this to feel like the movies, so I picked up the perfect black duffel bag at the thrift shop: worn down, black, and real leather. I slam the door, walk into the living room, and throw it toward her. It hits a few feet from the couch and slides the rest of the way. Perfect shot.
... | "What is this?" she shouted. She did not seem happy. "Umm... you said you wanted a million dollars," I replied. Man! women can be a little too much at times. "What did you do?" She asked. She still seemed to be upset. A little tense maybe. It was kind of starting to concern me now. "I went and got your gift... Do you w... | 2019-07-30T11:10:56 | 2019-07-30T08:06:19 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You are a shopkeeper in a fantasy world. What the adventurers don't know is that your tired of greedy heroes robbing dragons, stealing tribal lands from orcs, and butchering young slimes. You've secretly become an arms dealer for the monster underground. | I hadn't seen them in action, but I had heard stories from the other shopkeepers. One of them, probably the bard, charmed the potion maker into an unequal trade, taking all of their stock and leaving them with the worthless excess they had gathered while they were out adventuring. Damn near ruined them. The Shopkeeper'... | He chuckles, pulling his blood-red tie straight and tight against his spotless white collar. Sliding into the pitch black suit, he allows his mind to wander. He had it all, fortune, fame, feminine admirers... and to think he used to be a small time, starry eyed shopkeeper.
See, he'd seen the big picture, seen what the... | 2018-09-18T05:40:31 | 2018-09-18T04:57:18 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You lay dying of heart failure, and God enters your mind. He informs you that you will be reincarnated upon death, losing all memory, but before that happens you are allowed to ask any one question. The answer to your question surprises you so much that your heart restarts and you survive. | As I lay in the bed, focusing all of my energy on continuing to breathe for as long as I could, I felt a presence in my midst. Not a physical presence like that of my family that surrounded me, but it was as if a second consciousness had entered my mind.
He explained to me what was going to happen, though I knew it to... | "So you're god, huh?"
YES.
"And you say I get to ask one question of you before I die?"
THAT IS CORRECT.
"Well hot dang! I wonder what I should ask?"
I WOULDN'T KNOW.
At that moment, there was a whirl of panic in my hospital room, with nurses and doctors running every which way. In a delerium I had not experien... | 2014-08-03T06:58:43 | 2014-08-03T04:13:16 | 750 | 36 |
[WP] Killing a person raises your life span by 20 years, but it comes with a cost.
First Reddit post ever. Please be gentle
Edit: Did not expect this to blow up. | I've made a deal with _Death_. When I "died" death came up to me and said
"Congratulations! You're the 100th billion person to die! You can choose to live on in heaven OR choose to live forever back on Earth! As long as you kill a person, that person will give you 20 more years to live! But with a cost..."
Of cours... | The steel door was the only thing in the room with me. Four concrete walls and the giant steel door. Pacing does terrible things to ones mental state, alas, I was trapped into this perpetual cycle of pace, hold head in hands, rinse and repeat.
Not many women end up in a place like this. Less than 8% according to Wikip... | 2016-10-24T00:23:19 | 2016-10-23T23:06:16 | 86 | 14 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | I was at my Uncle's house the day before I turned sixteen. His house was a potpourri of spices and curry. They smelled amazing one by one, but together, they hit you like a spice train, each carriage hitting you with a new blast of pepper. I watched him flip pancakes for breakfast from thin air. I sighed and ate the pa... | Tonight was my night; my 16th birthday. Finally, after what felt like a lifetime of waiting, it was my time to shine. I had waited almost a year for this day, ever since my best friend Andrew discovered in January that he could fly. I had envied him at first, being the first in the tenth grade with a power. As time pas... | 2015-01-21T22:23:15 | 2015-01-21T21:42:59 | 40 | 10 |
[WP] You are suddenly hugged by a teary-eyed stranger who says they love you. You then find out they've been stuck in a time loop and they've fallen for you as you were the only one who bothered to help them each time. | Wake up, take a shower, get dressed, get out of the apartment, head towards the cafè down the street, get your coffee, get in the car and go to work.
Rinse and repeat, everyday of the week.
This was the clockwork-like routine Layla had gotten accostumed to, now that she had properly moved in Los Angeles.
She didn'... | Derek: "..so you've been stuck in a time loop for a few millennium falcons?"
Woman: "23967 years to be precise. Mostly with you, Derek. You see, I was obsessed with male models. I finally got to meet one, you, and that is when it all started."
Derek: "OK. I get it. But if you're from the future you should be able to ... | 2021-07-14T06:58:36 | 2021-07-14T06:40:24 | 390 | 29 |
[WP] Astro-Carcinization - crabs keep evolving over and over in our fossil record. The crab body shape is prevalent. Assume we finally meet aliens and we are the only non crab intelligence ever found. | Due to the fact that the Crustalien ship happened to land in the middle of the Washington National Mall, the fate of humanity rested in the hands of the President of the United States, much to the chagrin of the rest of the world. The President had been fielding calls from world leaders since first contact was made, e... | *This is a second story, taking place in the same world and after [this one](https://www.reddit.com/r/CataclysmicRhythmic/comments/lum20a/human/).*
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“Is it the what we’ve been looking for?" Necora asks as the lights of our small salvage ship runs along the side of the great bulk of the ship, floating silently. T... | 2021-03-27T15:42:37 | 2021-03-27T13:26:30 | 48 | 20 |
[WP] You wake up on your 21st birthday to an owl at your head rest. Attached to his leg is a letter addressed to you with the words "Sorry we are 10 years late" | "well that's just absolutely unacceptable." Zimba's voice barely more than a toneless whisper as he spoke aloud to himself within the locked hospital room he had been confined within for the past ten years.
"due to a number of unfortold technical difficulties, your situation has for any number of reasons, as they say ... | "Ahhhh!"
I fell from my bed due to the impression; you don't find an owl resting on top of your bed everyday.
I slowly approached it and it slowly stretched its leg; I saw there was some sort of piece of paper attached.
I gently took it out and found out it was a letter. On the envelope, written in beautiful penman... | 2019-10-07T05:43:16 | 2019-10-06T21:35:06 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | "What...what is THAT" Raz exclaimed
He picked up a shining piece of glass on the debris strewn ground. It looked like a picture frame, but it glowed. He poked it with his webbed finger, and it changed in front of his eye. Alarmed, he yelled and dropped. It fell to the ground and lay there, unresponsive.
"What's this... | Ich'tuk wept.
The bodies of his clan covered the plains before him like a bloody carpet. The third hand of his clan priest descended on his shoulder and clasped him tightly. "You could not have known," said Ahn'rek. "None of us knew. An entire race that fights with no concept of honor, but only to win."
"They don't e... | 2014-10-17T09:12:49 | 2014-10-17T09:09:55 | 543 | 324 |
[WP] Teleportation has been around for years. It's considered the safest form of travelling. One day, while hacking into a government system, you find a secret report on it. To your horror, you read that teleporters consist of two parts: a cloning system on one end and a desintegrator on the other. | I scrolled down. Further and further, the list kept going and going with millions of names. I wasn’t looking for any specific name, but the sheer volume terrified me. Conspiracy nuts had been going on for decades about teleporters and how they killed and recreated you. That theory had been publically debunked by the cr... | Well of course it had to disintegrate us on one end and send us out the other. I know that, my mom knows that. And other than a fuzzy tingle all over, it was comfortable. Why fly for hours the get home for Christmas and deal with the sleet, snow and worst of all the people. The news used to advise people to leave by 4a... | 2019-12-08T12:37:16 | 2019-12-08T11:33:22 | 517 | 101 |
[WP] Despite having pink hair, a tragic backstory, and untold magic power, the narrator refuses to make you the main character | *Sigh.*
I can hear it every time. Really, **every** time. That dumb voice that booms out whatever John does.
It really isn't fair, you know? John doesn't really *do* anything. He's the camp cook, and that's what drives me crazy!
Look, we have a lot of talent here, and I'm not saying that John isn't good at what he ... | Today on Jeff's fantastical story we watch Jeff heroically run from the bully while his pink haired side-kick stayed behind and froze or electrocuted him or something lame like that.
It seems that his friend has finally caught up with to whine about the bullies taunting him about his parents being dead.
Even as flust... | 2017-12-18T19:31:44 | 2017-12-18T17:21:40 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a world where people can only die on Tuesdays. Any mortal injury on any other day persists but you're still alive and it can be fixed before the Tuesday saving your life. It's Wednesday and you've been mortally wounded. | I lay on the canyon floor, my body more mangled hamburger meat than man. The hot sun beat down on my mercilessly. Its unending light was interrupted only by the thin silhouettes of birds ominously circling above my destroyed body.
Well, at least this happened on a Wednesday.
I moved my arm to shield my eyes but the... | During Wednesday I got shot in the heart and got mugged, it hurts so much, all the people around me has this look of sadness in their eyes whenever they look at me, everyone knows what will happen to me, I quit my job and used my life savings on whatever I felt like it, various establishments gave me discounts so I ca... | 2019-11-02T07:22:56 | 2019-11-02T06:35:48 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | They call hereabouts the Cape Graveyard, a city where superheroes and villians alike go to try, and to die. It's a really ordinary kind of place where anyone tries to do anything really big, they don't last long. It's a nice play on Cape Grave, the real name of this pleasant, ordinary town.
Me? I don't have a hero nam... | You know, most people expect the hero or villain of a story to have at least some form of an unneccecarily plot-devicy ego, that makes fights longer than they should be and gives the other party too many chances to win.
Well, i'm not like that. If someone tries to stop me from dissassembling their lair, or tries to fo... | 2018-10-18T17:05:41 | 2018-10-18T15:32:17 | 1,237 | 27 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | Of course in the time it took me to write this there are 10 replies already. >_<
Anyway, long but sweet story coming in!
EDIT: Part 2 [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3o7rtq/wp_everybody_in_the_world_has_a_superpower_that/cvv3tkd).
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"Oh, come on!"
J... | Christmas lights were the only illumination in the small dorm room. Empty beer cans, some crushed, some stacked, were strewn about. Music played softly in the background.
“I really needed this tonight,” said Ray. He finished his beer and set the can aside without looking.
“I’m so happy that you decided to come over,”... | 2015-10-10T08:59:30 | 2015-10-10T08:11:16 | 84 | 57 |
[WP] "Enough! Is there anyone here who DIDN'T come to rob the bank?" | I could feel the sweat dripping from my temple. Everything was pulsing; Sounds came crashing into my ear like a pileup. My fingers were shaking. Do I look normal? I look at my hands and start picking the calluses at the base of my fingers. My eyes dart toward the clock above the clerk. So sleek, freshly dusted - silver... | A few moments ago it was a normal, dull and monotone day at the bank. Customers going in, and later out. The smell of the ink and the familiar clicking of all those chained pens.
But now, there was a standoff.
"Okay, what the bloody, flying fuck is going here, mates?" A hooded figure with a red mask asked his compani... | 2016-09-07T12:31:03 | 2016-09-07T09:28:41 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] you had a deal with the devil, but managed to scam him thanks to a quirk of language, and now he can never have your soul. Instead of getting angry, he becomes fascinated and falls in love with you. | At once, all the candles were snuffed out, leaving me with only a sliver of moonlight. The darkness itself seemed to congeal, pulling away from my skin like cobwebs in the night, gathering toward a spot near the front of my stiff, rickety bed. Slowly, it took form, and soon I could just make out the silhouette of a gre... | As Satan stood before me, he laughed.
“I have your soul now. Prepare to enter my world of pain...”
I shook my head, “according to the fine print I will be doing nothing of the sort.”
“Shut up stupid woman!”
“Unfortunately for you, I was not a woman when I died... you see our pact clearly stipulated that *she* would... | 2022-01-14T10:30:39 | 2022-01-14T07:19:34 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] A psychic man is placed in Supermax prison with a life sentence. Everyone fears that getting in was his intention all along. | "So you know how I'm going to die?" Jesse said. The first man to talk to the famous psychic.
"Yep. If you don't give me your pack of cigarettes I'll tell you exactly how you die."
"Is that supposed to be a joke? I only smoke ten a day in here."
"Either way smoking is bad for you." Mike said while relaxing and caref... | Trigger warning
Ask any one here why they're in prison and most'll say they're innocent and the system fucked them over somehow. I say the same thing, but my story is more credible and that's because I'm one of the few who didn't get insane after Jason arrived.
We all heard the story of this weird as hell case. T... | 2014-08-17T15:20:10 | 2014-08-17T14:59:35 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] The chronoshield system on your starship deals with laser weapons by sending a signal back through time to bring the shields up before the laser is fired. A warning blares on the console. You are no longer in the primary timeline. | The rotating red-and-violet lights bathed the inner compartments of the ship. The warnings were so loud that I could feel my bones shaking. The ship was definitely trying to get my attention. I rushed to the cockpit and took a thorough look at the control panels. "Divergent Timeline:Chronoshield Activated" was what my ... | "Mr. Wright," A stern woman's voice sprang from the console.
"I see it, Captain. You might want to switch to another defense while I have a look." I paused. "You may want to try hailing the hostile vessel as well. There's a chance we might need them to get back."
"That's... not ideal." she said.
"No. But if it doesn... | 2021-05-03T09:02:46 | 2021-05-03T08:24:26 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] When you and your twin sister were born your parents couldn't help but cry with your colorful and specifically shaped hair it was clear you would suffer from MCS, Main Character Syndrom, and would have to spend your life avoiding beginings of cliche adventures. | “Rough day?”
“Yeeeugh,” I gave a vaguely affirmative grumble, not lifting my face from my hands.
The stranger chuckled and sat down on the other end of my bench, leaning back and crossing one ankle over the other.
I should probably have been more worried about talking to a strange older man near a school—both for m... | "Another one of those candy canes again, sister. It seems we'll never be over our childhood sweethearts."
"You know, if the writers who wrote those books really cared about children, they'd have looked up MCS."
"Yeah, i mean, 30 minutes of liking one book and you see candy canes every other street like it's some kind... | 2019-04-11T21:11:20 | 2019-04-11T20:37:43 | 75 | 11 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The Wish was the last will of the self, a powerful magic that one's potential in time unleashed at a forced convergence point in time.
Everyone had a rather large potential, and so almost every Wish succeeded in ending the life of the subject in the way they asked for. Literally. Figuratively. It found a way. I didn't... | As I watched the prisoner rapidly age into a shriveled prune-like corpse, I realized it was my turn. I looked upon my executioner who asked how I would like to die. I looked at him and said "...turn me into a shroud of petals, and let me scatter across the wind..."
The magemaster said "A beautiful passing, my friend."... | 2021-06-24T11:47:16 | 2021-06-24T10:52:15 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism". They get a badge, and all of their wealth is donated to charity, so they have to start back up at $0. | Warren Buffett sat on the stage.
Today was a bittersweet day. It always was.
His back was killing him and some asshole was five minutes over time; talking about what a brilliant businessman he was. He didn't feel brilliant right then.
He felt like a fucking pig waiting to be slaughtered.
His mind ran through the la... | “I started my business with 0 dollars to my name and have rebuilt this empire by the sweat of my brows”Jeremy said.
The audience had clapped in awe as they cheered his genius as he was awarded the best businessman of the year award. The night had been one filled with accolades, champagne and pats on the back. With p... | 2021-09-17T15:49:44 | 2021-09-17T15:24:05 | 1,299 | 36 |
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