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[WP] There is a code amongst the super-villians of the world. Never intentionally beat the heroes, even when you can. The heroes don't know this, and one day, they push it too far. | "They did what now?" Stephanie "Iron Claw" Tailor said forcing herself to stay calm, you did not kill the messenger. Or for that matter traumatize them with an angry outburst.
"They... ma'am... they killed... They killed Firesprite...Ma'am, they shot her in the head when she was monologuing." Ruben, Stephanie's appren... | Lich knelt on the road, his black ichor blood oozing from his splitting skin like tar. Vestiges of red-scaled skin retreated from his neck and chest, shedding off like a great serpent. A final wisp of flame exhaled from his mouth, quickly conflagrating into nothingness. Another elixir down, consumed in a fruitless atte... | 2020-08-18T13:22:22 | 2020-08-18T12:55:34 | 77 | 28 |
[WP] Superpowers exist, from flight to strength, hearing to intelligence, your power is slightly different than most and is considered the most dangerous. The power of suggestion. | The silent warrior stood before me. His eyes were closed, and his sword held out with two hands before him.
“Greetings, Silent Warrior. We meet again.” I smiled, he wouldn’t beat me this time.
The Silent Warrior said nothing, only continued to hold his sword’s grip.
“How’s a bout you drop the sword?” I said to the w... | *"Is that acceptable?"*
It was there, in full daylight for all to see, to hear, to record. They could understand it, could disseminate exactly what he was doing, how and why. And yet they would not stop him. Alex sat behind his desk, strategically holding the blank piece of paper with both hands to make his shoulders ... | 2020-09-28T12:21:10 | 2020-09-28T11:36:08 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] In the not too distant future, neural/computer interfaces are powerful enough and advanced enough to interact with our nerves to make us feel, see, touch, taste and smell. You are a therapist that helps people that have lost the ability to tell the difference between reality and "wetware." | Dr. Arctor calmly removes his glasses and sets them on the table.
“And you have found that your...usage of the system has altered your appetite?”
David lies back on the chair, breathing heavily.
“It’s...I don’t...It's the broccoli. I can’t taste the broccoli.”
Arctor is puzzled.
“You can’t taste the broccoli? You ... | From the Phorians to the Seraphs, all of them were on the verge of becoming permanently lost when they came to me, their grey matter grown wild in unnatural layers that resisted any hope of non-surgical separation. I won them back, though. Usually. With the proper therapy, delivered regularly and at proper intensity, c... | 2021-02-09T21:36:12 | 2021-02-09T20:48:42 | 72 | 27 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead.
reposting an old prompt | When I realized that the ceremony called for 100 "sacrifices" and not 100 "souls", I had a terrible idea. And like all my terrible ideas, I have to try them out to see just how absolutely abysmal they actually are.
There were plenty of petri dishes in that basement lab, and many of those cultures had grown exponential... | Antonios rubbed his eyes, tired from the strain. He had just spent the last hour staring deeply at a collection of mites sitting on a polished stone dish. It had taken him a long time to harvest the bodies of these mites meticulously from various leaves, vines, insects, worms, some small animals, and even birds. There ... | 2021-06-08T10:40:12 | 2021-06-08T08:47:07 | 142 | 106 |
[WP] It started as a spur of the moment trip with your friends. Despite your best efforts you are the only one left alive and the slasher is closing in on your position. While you lament the loss of your friends now that you are alone... Now you can show the slasher what a REAL monster looks like. | The cloaked killer stalked the forest floor, watching the cabin intently. The trails in the ground where the bodies had been dragged led him right to the front door. The last survivor, with nothing but the corpses of his friends to protect him. Soon. Soon, everyone back at school would know how badly they had fucked up... | I found my friend beside his jeep. . I told him to go. Get out as fast as he could. But he got in his jeep and waited for me. Now his loyalty had cost him his life. I could see the scene as though I had been here. The running engine, the driver side window shattered inward. The torn seatbelt from Eric being torn from t... | 2021-10-07T13:55:06 | 2021-10-07T11:11:10 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] It started as a spur of the moment trip with your friends. Despite your best efforts you are the only one left alive and the slasher is closing in on your position. While you lament the loss of your friends now that you are alone... Now you can show the slasher what a REAL monster looks like. | I'm a psychopath. Not the ones you see in movies where the guy is laughing his ass off at nothing, in the mental asylum, with his arms cuffed in a straightjacket. Psychopaths don't feel anything. Literally. No emotions inside our heads. We're still fully capable of rational thought, but emotion just... doesn't factor i... | I found my friend beside his jeep. . I told him to go. Get out as fast as he could. But he got in his jeep and waited for me. Now his loyalty had cost him his life. I could see the scene as though I had been here. The running engine, the driver side window shattered inward. The torn seatbelt from Eric being torn from t... | 2021-10-07T14:58:07 | 2021-10-07T11:11:10 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] An Isekai but instead of a young boy being transported to a fantasy world it's an orcish barbarian transported to a Japanese highschool. | "Remind me again, you were WHAT yesterday?"
"An Orc," said Hiro.
"So you should be able to crush that guy, right!?" whined Yusuke as a rock sailed over their hiding space.
"Yeah, *should.* I also *should* be at least a meter taller than this," Hiro hissed as he laced his shoe for the fifth time that afternoon. The... | Gurlag the Bloody looked down at his hands. They were huge, wide enough to wrap around a goblin's head with ease, perfect for bloody combat. But that was the problem: Gurlag was terrible at fighting. All of his Orc friends had slain tens, even hundreds of combatants in the Orcish Wars of Milrok, but Gurlag had been hit... | 2021-10-16T09:45:03 | 2021-10-16T08:39:24 | 51 | 20 |
[WP] The local costumed vigilantes coordinate their schedules so everyone has a chance to brood on the really cool lookout point above the city. | !!IMPORTANT!!
 
SCHEDULING
All slots are one hour, to accommodate any delays or miscellaneous what-ifs. Yes, we will all get our turn. There are not that many costumed in this city
 
Various reasons provided in past schedules are:
Complicated costume
Robbery cropped up
Costume stuck
Meeting... | "All right, so Bionis has it on Sunday, he's due to fight with one of his minor league villains then, and will most likely feel bad about something." I made a note on the giant calendar I had hanging in my tiny office. Jamming the phone under my ear, I sighed. "And you're sure he'll be out of there before dinner? Only ... | 2022-07-02T11:23:16 | 2022-07-02T07:27:02 | 41 | 17 |
[WP] Your oldest child, who had been your daughter has informed you that she has transitioned to male. Problem is, you promised your first born son to the devil and his younger brother has been in Hell for years. This could be complicated. | "Well, it's not like I have a fucking registry, Mike!" Lucifer sweeps his hair back against his head and sighs, spinning the ice in his glass, "Only conservatives say it's my domain. I don't think Jesus taught about the transgender community... though that would be the most *salacious* episode of VeggieTales."
"Well, ... | # Soulmage
**Agonizingly, the shattered fragments of my soul melted together in the demond's hands.** Moments later, a body coalesced into existence around what was left of my soul, and Zhytln stepped back, wiping blood off of his worn bartender's suit.
I blinked once, the stench of sulfur and the howling red glare a... | 2022-08-31T20:10:38 | 2022-08-31T18:15:34 | 1,228 | 112 |
[WP] An elf, a dwarf, and a wizard are filling out the character sheets for their next game of Dayjobs and Drudgery, a role-playing game set in the world of humans.
Have fun! | "Matthias, what are you playing? I cant decide what I want to build," Ogden questioned, stroking his beard in one hand, his other hanging tentatively over a piece of paper.
"Oh, I am playing Phil Johnson, an HR representative who enjoys books and has a habit of having too many margaritas on taco Thursday at the local ... | Zi looked around the table, eyes switching from elf to dwarf, then back again. The elf smiled as he realized what Zi was doing, causing the dwarf to grimace.
"I may be short, but I can plant an axe in you just as easy as I could get an elven woman." The dwarf said, ale spilling as he made arm gestures to accompany ... | 2015-06-09T14:42:12 | 2015-06-09T14:41:50 | 367 | 49 |
[WP] You've come to save the princess, but she's not guarded by a dragon - She's guarded by a very aggressive goose.
**very** aggressive goose.
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Thanks for all your stories, keep them coming! | Against demons and the undead our hero was brave.
He slew many a bandit, dozens if thieves and knaves.
But when he quested to free Eliza the pale
His bravery wavered, withered and failed
Dragons he could slay with mighty sword and arrows loosed
But nothing is so fearsome as a Canadian Goose | We left the castle seven weeks past, a cavalry comprising 70 men and their horses. To slay the dragon – to save the princess. Through Duntroon we rode, admired by young beauties and despised by their fathers. On to Cragrock, where one bawdy lass remarked that she could be my princess and slay my dragon – I acquiesced. ... | 2015-07-28T06:17:18 | 2015-07-28T05:05:18 | 47 | 24 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | Everything changed that Friday morning as I came.
I always jerk off Friday mornings. I jerk off every morning. In fact, I jerk off twice every morning, on lunch break, and at least 4 times before I fall asleep at the end of the night. I jerk off so much it isn't even fun anymore. I spend so much money on hand lotion a... | I skip stones. It's my passtime. Whenever I feel down, I head to the lake and find the flat, smooth rocks that hop on the water's surface. I do it for fun. I do it to show off. It's just my kind of thing.
Then one day, I was sitting at my desk, trying to train my graphing skill. "Shit!" I shout. I haven't leveled up ... | 2015-10-06T00:39:35 | 2015-10-05T23:37:22 | 65 | 23 |
[WP] You use a mirror to summon your evil twin. What comes out... is your good twin.
This ought to be fun. | "So you're saying that you do all your work on time?" I ask again, still half in shock. "And that you've never taken a sick day for no good reason?"
The other me nods his head. He's wearing a three piece suit, tailored, sitting with his legs crossed as though he doesn't have a care in the world. "Speaking of work, I'd... | I expected her to look... different.
I mean, she looks like me, of course. It's the same face I see in the mirror every day. But even though the face is right, the expression is off. Sure, I expected her to be smiling, but I thought it would look more like me when when I summoned her. I thought she'd look at least a l... | 2022-09-02T19:38:49 | 2016-04-15T15:29:25 | 65 | 22 |
[WP]: You are not sure how it ended up being your job to raise and train the second coming of Christ. You are not even a christian. | In the Bible, Christ the Child was born unto the Virgin Mary. In 2016, he was born unto the virgin Sam. Just Sam, by the way. I was a twenty-four year old Software Engineer, and the last time I had a girlfriend was in middle school. From what I remembered, it lasted about six hours. Seventh grade me was *devastated*.
... | There is a very short list of things in the world that require direct divine intervention. As far as I knew there were three that humans needed to care about.
1. Miracles: The direct influence of God causing an impossible event to take place. This is what happens when 'Free will' takes us to far off of the path of Go... | 2016-05-17T17:06:04 | 2016-05-17T15:24:20 | 56 | 34 |
[wp] When someone dies, they go to a platform where you can choose to move in to the afterlife, not knowing whether you will go to heaven or hell. You meet someone who has stood there for millenia, trying to decide if they should go. | People almost always go quickly. Whether sure of where they're going or determined to get it over with, they hurry onto the train. Occasionally, someone will linger, waiting for something or someone. They scan the platform, searching. Then, someone, a love, a child, a friend, a parent, a fellow soldier, someone comes. ... | The train station was beautiful. The stone walls and vaulted roof were picturesque. At one end was a giant stained glass window, it let in the bright afternoon light, dappling the tracks and platforms with its bright colours. The walls were also dotted with large windows, letting in even more light, but I couldn't see ... | 2016-08-14T10:47:35 | 2016-08-14T08:04:54 | 48 | 22 |
[WP] Normally you would have got your superpower at age ten. Yours awakens at age 20 as the most powerful ability ever recorded. | "Next" the detector said.
He knew everyone's power and power level at first sight.
"Super punch, 43" he said.
"Next" he said.
And he had a full time job. When someone turned 10, there power awakened, but they didn't always know what it was right away. His job was to tell them exactly what there power level was and ... | "We could go back to my place. I can do things for you no one else has."
Amy's hand ran down Matt's side as she spoke. Matt laughed to himself. A month ago someone like her wouldn't even consider his existence.
"I don't doubt you could, but I think I'm going to head home alone tonight. Enjoy the rest of the party... | 2016-10-08T10:46:59 | 2016-10-08T10:31:44 | 65 | 17 |
[WP] You are the child of an internet sensation. In a joke will, he said that if he died, the internet would raise his child. It happened, and you were left an orphan. Now, you are the internet's child, and all your life has been directed by endless online polls and debates. | What will Greg do today?
43% Drink a gallon of pond water
42% Spend the entire day masturbating to Susan Boyle
13% Get that infection checked out
2% Emancipate from internet
And thus for the fourth week in a row, 4Chan has decided that the Gregory Roflcopter will drink an entire gallon of pond water! We've had 6 d... | *The Will of Picklestasteg00d*
*I, Picklestasteg00d, hereby make this my unofficial official will. Half of my Ferrari account goes to my brother, Zifferzap, and the other half goes to my wife, Claire. My vast wealth, knawledge, and this username will be given to my son, Pickles. Yes, I named him after my username, now... | 2016-10-19T18:03:56 | 2016-10-19T17:41:14 | 96 | 21 |
[WP] We are all born with a tattoo on our wrist, it reads the first sentence spoken to you by your soulmate. Your sentence: "Hey!" | Of all the thing's that could be plastered on his forearm, it had to be this stupid word. Not a sentence, not even a recognisable phrase. Just this one overly generic word everyone used to greet each other. And just when Lars was starting to think it couldn't get any harder, Iris showed up in his life.
The day they me... | At this point in my life, I just accepted to ignore what my wrist told me. "Hey!" was such a generic greeting, anyone could be my soulmate. I just accepted that my soulmate would find me, not the other way around. Most people have something a little more complex craved in their bodies. Most people have generic first gr... | 2017-01-09T07:53:02 | 2017-01-09T07:38:24 | 152 | 32 |
[WP] It is the 24 th of july, your birthday, and also the day that humanity is going to reach 10 billion inhabitants. You are watching the number grow, live on a site. Just as it's about to hit 10 billion, at 9,999,999,999... It Hits 2. You are still alive. | The silence hit like a wave.
I saw the number plummet to a mere pair and thought it to be some kind of joke for half a second, but then the silence of Times Square settled in.
Nobody left to make any noise.
I jogged down my stairs, still in disbelief. I ran out into the empty space and let it settle in. The only log... | My eyes were fixated on the screen. My hands were preoccupied with a tub of ice cream in my lap and a metal spoon in the tub.
I finally got the perfect recipe for a birthday this year. Cheering to a milestone in humanity and having the freedom to do whatever I want is the dream. Nothing beat that.
The number onscre... | 2017-02-28T18:37:24 | 2017-02-28T16:49:13 | 275 | 66 |
[WP] "Name your desire, mortal!" "Oh I don't want anything I was just checking if the summoning portal worked." "That's not how it works, I can't go home until I trade a wish for your soul." "Looks like we're stuck together then." | Fred Merlyn stumbled downstairs, wiping sleep from his eyes.
"THE DEMON AZERGATH DEMANDS OF YOU!" A massive form, glowing red, shaped like Arnold Schwarzenegger with a head of horns and teeth stood before Fred, holding the teapot.
"Please, not so loud in the morning." Fred moaned.
"Azergath is sorry." The demon repl... | Alyx dusted off the book's cover, the little bits of dust glittering in his wand's light. *Summoning & Dark Arts: Principals and Incantations*. A moment after the book was illuminated, a tiny flame sparked and danced across the letters, shining in the room's relative darkness.
"Ah, perfect."
A few flips through t... | 2017-04-13T04:16:06 | 2017-04-13T02:49:44 | 209 | 78 |
[WP] By some magic, you are granted the wish to become the best in the world at something. You are disappointed when you notice no change in your ability. The next day, however, you notice that all over the world, people are becoming worse at one very particular skill. | I thought it was a harmless wish.
But now everything's turned wrong.
Lucy no longer talks, nor does anyone else for that matter. She still understands me, or at least I think so from her slow nods and lifeless stares. At least Lucy's still active with her day job but in the end she, like everyone else, is only going ... | I throw the ball to Tim. Ready for my exultant. Nay, meteoric, rise into the NFL to begin. I bet I'm gonna throw this fucker a million miles. No. Two million miles. It's gonna curve along the earth until I can't see it.
It lands five feet from where I threw it.
Tim races forward and dips down, grabbing the football... | 2017-05-01T02:41:51 | 2017-04-30T20:36:56 | 1,800 | 445 |
[WP] All humans are immortal until they find their "soulmate," after which they age regularly. You, however, have been around since the Ice Age... | "You know when I was young I used to think that being immortal was the best thing in the world." I said to the cockroach in my hands though he is not very responsive and not very talkative, I still continued my tale.
"For over 10000 years I traveled the world, I even witnessed history in the making. I saw Empires cru... | The rule sounds simple enough. But it's really a bit more complicated than it first appears to be and, if you ask me, a bit of a headache for everyone involved.
We all know that we don't age until we find our soulmate. But when do we *stop* aging? After all, if we never aged a day, we'd all be tiny little babies, and ... | 2017-05-22T13:50:00 | 2017-05-22T11:35:42 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A powerful necromancer is trying to raise the dead. However, despite trying different vessels and rituals, he has only raised you. Over. And over. And over. You're both starting to get sick of each other. | "Oh, son of a-"
I awoke with a figure standing over me, a deep leather cowl hiding his face.
"What? Not happy with me?" I asked.
*Really should not have taken this job.*
"Of course not! I bought this necromancy spell -"
"From where?"
"The local shop. Was quite a bargain, for raising an undead army. If I could g... | Yolden was jerked upright. He felt something snap in his waist, twist in his gut. His nerves had rotted a long time ago, but somehow his body knew that he *should* be feeling pain, and thus he felt it. Yolden gripped at air until his knuckled turned white and wheezed out painful breaths.
The moonlight was bright and ... | 2017-07-22T07:31:01 | 2017-07-22T05:38:54 | 62 | 27 |
[WP] Everyone gets a familiar when they turn eleven - maybe a cat or a dog or a chipmunk. On your eleventh birthday, you hear a massive thump outside your house. | Emily cared little for the cake or presents. Red Velvet was nice, sure. A new doll? Nifty. What she was really anticipating though was the arrival of her familiar. This year the birthday party was a subdued affair, only her and her parents, there would be no distractions when *it* arrived. Her mother's familiar was a b... | Cory Lairus sat upon the branch of the large tree in his tiny backyard. He had always wanted a tree-house. Every time he asked his mother or father, they would reply, "We don't even own this house; why do you deserve your own special house?"
Although Cory knew in his heart that his parents typically strived to do what... | 2017-09-20T23:20:51 | 2017-09-20T23:17:13 | 103 | 56 |
[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! | The years pass and, if this is heaven, I can understand. I love her like a daughter, and we've formed a bond that I never experienced when I was alive.
I watch her grow, and every day, I feel a pride burning deep inside of me. *I made her what she is.* We sip tea and we laugh, and I help her forget her troubles.
On... | I don't remember a flash of light, or a hall of darkness. In fact I don't really remember much, but when I opened my eyes there she was.
"And here you go. There's your's." She had a sweet little voice.
"What, what's going on here?" I didn't understand, where was this? How did I get here?
"We're having tea silly." Sh... | 2017-12-19T08:12:39 | 2017-12-19T07:15:39 | 102 | 59 |
[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. | Odin leaned forward in his gilded throne, his single eye judging the young man who stood before him.
"What do you make of this, mortal?" Odin asked looking to his left and right, down the line of gods.
Thor scoffed, "This pathetic creature is no warrior! Look at his frail limbs and tiny body. How many frost giants ... | "My lord, you must understand this is no ordinary spatula." I said
standing in front of the mighty Odin and his board. How did I even get into this situation? My whole life I have been the mightiest of warriors, fought countless battles, outsmarted the smartest opponents. Yet here I stand, with a spatula in my hand. I... | 2022-04-10T19:23:46 | 2018-03-26T11:25:33 | 393 | 51 |
[WP] Panic spreads amongst the African Vampire community after Toto blesses the rains. | "Hey Johnson, you notice we've been getting a lot of late night flyers coming in from Africa?"
"Yeah man, their luggage is freakin weird too. One guy had an empty coffin!"
"You see that guy who said he worked for a blood bank? Had at least 20 pounds of blood in his bag, made a huge fuss when we had to confiscate it." | I heard the drums echo in the night. But it sounds like whispers of some quite conversation. The moon was riding in at 12:30 flying across the sky shining down leading me to salvation.
I met a man along the way, hoping to find some wisdom in his words among the melodies. I turned to him as he began to say: "Hurry bo... | 2018-06-11T09:23:06 | 2018-06-11T09:17:28 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] You watch in horror as the last member of your ragtag group is eaten alive by zombies. Suddenly everything goes black, and the words flash in front of your face “congratulations, you are the last player standing!” The VR headset pulls away from your face to reveal a world you have no memory of | No, this was not how it was supposed to end! We had a plan! We had hope! And then just had to insist checking the apartment complex; maybe there could be food or someone who needed help? Goddamn idiot! He shut up the minute we got ambushed, the minute Ellie was torn to pieces.
Oh god, Ellie. It was so sudden, so shock... | Seth's eyelids were heavy.
Covered in blood, grime and every other kind of nasty shit he was nearly unrecognizable. He was holding his revolver close to his chest as he stared at Rey's once smiling face get bitten off by one of the revenants. Their teeth digging in to the skin of her once rosy cheeks as they tried to... | 2018-12-03T05:01:44 | 2018-12-03T00:36:38 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Your high school teacher is introducing a new transfer student. You're bored as usual until you look up and see that the new student is a lizard. You quickly look around the room, but no one seems to notice or care. You turn back and the lizard is looking right at you. | I felt my face go slack-jawed at the first sight of her. I stared for what felt like an eternity, finally looking away to scan over the room. Surprisingly, no one else even batted an eye. When I focused my attention back to her, I found her staring me down. She must have noticed that I was observing the class reaction.... | The Speaker was doing their job while the Listeners did theirs. The assignment I received from my supervisor was simple enough. Go to these coordinates, put on this uniform, and blend in with the others. No more difficult than any past assignment but I had grown to hate it rather quickly. The Speakers congregated in th... | 2019-05-22T20:28:25 | 2019-05-22T20:10:51 | 35 | 14 |
[WP] WritingPrompt: A man asks you in a shakey voice if you're alright. You hesitantly say yes, to which he responds by getting a look of terrified horror and screams "I knew it! You can see them too! Don't let them get you!" |
I see things that I cannot see.
When the first snowflake fell on autumn leaves, I heard the trunk groan from the weight of the snow. I saw the oak fall, collapsing with a powdery cloud on black asphalt. There was nothing I could do to change this.
In the car, knowing the inevitable, the driver’s eyes widened. ... | "Let what inside me?" you try to casually reply eyebrows raised. You can't trust anyone right now, not after the week you had.
"Demons... Angels!!! The battle of heaven and hell is upon us, the unfathomable war for our very souls stakes its claim on you! Which side do you choose?!?" the man barks at you as he turns ar... | 2019-07-01T08:00:59 | 2019-07-01T07:50:05 | 200 | 30 |
[WP] A billionaire hands you a unique and intricate coin. "In an hour," he says, "I will tell the world what I have given you. In a week, I will leave my inheritance to whoever returns it to me. I will not accept it before then." | The race was on, a YouTube video detailing my name and address was already live with thousands of views.
I hadn't actually taught of a plan I just ran as far away as possible, cut my hair and bought the most generic clothes I could find in the span of an hour.
Of course I couldn't return home, or even stay anywhere ne... | "An hour?"
"Yes, an hour."
"...shit."
I ran home and quickly drafted an email to my boss, telling him I was taking the next week off. I then wrote a quick note to the wife, telling her to go to my parent's place and stay out of sight. If anyone asked, I'd disappeared, and I'd left my cell phone with her so I could... | 2019-10-17T19:13:45 | 2019-10-17T19:11:02 | 193 | 56 |
[WP] A billionaire hands you a unique and intricate coin. "In an hour," he says, "I will tell the world what I have given you. In a week, I will leave my inheritance to whoever returns it to me. I will not accept it before then." | Clay looked at the coin in his hand and promptly gave it back to the billionaire. His girlfriend, Sally, smiled.
"I told you I will not accept it before a week has passed."
Clay shrugged. "Yeah, but I know your game, sir, and I'm not playing it."
"You will forgo your chance at billions of dollars worth of assets and... | He sneers as he flips it towards me; the coin flutters like a bronze butterfly through the air. "Please don't think this is personal. I just wanted all my blood money to go to someone who will be as ruthless as I am. Matter of principle, you see."
"That won't be a problem at all," I say. The warm smile I give him seem... | 2019-10-17T19:36:18 | 2019-10-17T19:35:58 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] You are at dinner when a stranger sits down in the booth and asks you, "Have you found the 3rd number?" You have been having a dream about cracking a safe and have only been able to discover the numbers 14 and 17 before you wake up. They place a picture of your dream safe on the table. | I don't know why my dreams have ended in front of a safe with some electronic safe cracking tool installed on it. The safe is always the same thing, but in different places. The dreams leading up to my need to open a safe I don't know the combination to are always different. I always manage to use the electronic ste... | Who the hell are you? and get out of my booth.
Have you found the third number yet?
What? You need to leave before I scream for help.
The stranger left my booth, but also left behind a picture of the safe in my dreams.
How can that be? How did my dream come to be in a picture?
That night, I was determined to o... | 2019-11-24T10:05:19 | 2019-11-24T05:54:39 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Right when you become 18, you have to get a familiar. Even when you reached that age, you didn't get one, so you've been expecting none. So it's a bit of a surprise when Cthulhu suddenly appears and claims that you're their familiar.
[ Removed by reddit in response to a copyright notice. ] | In a fitful sleep, dreaming of colours and shapes beyond knowing. Here I lie, in a vault of green.
Here I have been for immeasurable eons, though time is of no consequence to me.
But in strange eons, well... something unexpected might even happen to a Great Old One.
In the oppressive silence of the vault, without e... | There were conscientious objectors, lazy idiots, the devout children of various cults and entire families of anti-maggers, all arrayed on steel bleachers which had been painstakingly disassembled and moved up to the roof of the school from the football field below. A tall, pale man in a cheap suit stood before them on... | 2020-02-06T13:05:04 | 2020-02-06T09:13:35 | 143 | 36 |
[WP] You've just been murdered by your wife. As an immortal you really couldn't be happier about this because you've been meaning to fake your death and start over for a while. Only problem is that your wife hasn't really planned this out too well...you may have to lend a hand. | Murdered, that's a rare one. Usually I have to elaborately fake a disappearance. A few times I've even been executed. Murder though, and by her.. that I didn't see coming.
Hindsight is 20-20 they say, it seems amusing to say that in 2020. Anyhow, I digress. Looking back at it now, it was getting close to my “... | (Husband's POV)
My wife talks in her sleep, I never told her because if I did she'd get mad. Through her sleep talk I figured out a lot of things, mainly that she cheated on me, multiple times in fact. All the things I found out about her made me want to start life over, I didn't want to be with a person like her anym... | 2020-06-07T03:50:15 | 2020-06-07T03:38:53 | 53 | 18 |
[WP] "I have helped you with your endeavor, now I claim your soul" the demon says. "Thank you but no. I don't know how it works in hell but here on earth, a contract signed by a minor is not legally binding. I'm 17 and keeping my soul" you respond. | The teen had a smug smile on his face. He was so proud to exploit this loophole. So sure that he had use a demon’s power for free.
The demon, still in the protection circle, pinch where was suppose to be the bridge of a nose. It was not the first time some teen tried to pull this phrase to not pay him. He locked eyes... | The demon stared blankly at me, as if seeing right through me. I smiled, to myself of course. No good comes from smiling in front of a demon. They imagine themselves the smiling ones, tricking humans left and right out of their souls. When I found the demon, lost and about in the alleyway, I knew what was to be done. P... | 2020-07-04T11:17:45 | 2020-07-04T10:37:15 | 135 | 58 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Looking around the chamber, the Dark Lord had a twisted smile, until he noticed someone hunched over right at the back.
The small man was shaking.
It was not difficult to understand why. He must be terrified of the Dark Lord.
"I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?" the Dark Lor... | "DO you really feel you are in-charge here?" the Last member said, but with a very deep and menacing voice. The Dark Lord had lost all this words. The dead bodies of the last group of Resistance lay piled across the room, and this Member was the last of survivors. "Have you never wondered, that in the last five years, ... | 2020-07-11T03:37:24 | 2020-07-11T02:49:15 | 82 | 39 |
[WP] You just sent in your DNA to one of those ancestry sites. After eight weeks, you can’t figure out why your results have not shown up. Then, two men with dark suits show up at your front door. They have some news regarding your results. | “One second!” I shouted as i quickly put on a pair of shorts.
But the knocking on the door kept thundering louder and louder.
“Are you trying to break this thing down?” I said annoyed as I open the door.
I expected there to be a UPS delivery guy in front of me, delivering me back my DNA result from a few weeks past.... | "That's ridiculous," Bea said. The mid-40s woman sat in her living room opposite two men in dark suits. She narrowed her green eyes at them. "You're actors. This has to be someone's prank; who is it?"
"Ms. Acosta, I assure you this is not a joke," the shorter man said. Over the years Bea learned to trust her instincts... | 2020-07-19T10:41:53 | 2020-07-19T08:52:51 | 145 | 37 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... | FTL is so easy... For most. Whilst we all know that in the simplified model we can't travel faster than light, one can simply charge the local area with the 5th field and woosh, off we go. For Laymen, its similar to how light slows down when it moves through an medium. In some media it actually speeds up. We do the sam... | As Kovak’s guard shift rolled into it’s final hour, he won both his third hand of cards and fifty credits off of Raka.
Somewhere in between Raka handing over the cash, a scowl slashed across her face, and Kovak lighting another smoke, the alarm started to sound.
“Fuck.” He jolted up, knocking the table and spilling... | 2021-01-09T13:43:37 | 2021-01-09T11:40:48 | 227 | 149 |
[WP] After crying in your room for hours, suddenly you hear a voice under the bed. "Hey, you okay?" | “Hey, you okay?”
Amanda let out a shriek, bolting upright in bed, her hand flying to her chest as adrenaline flushed through her. Rapid footsteps echoed down the hall and her bedroom door opened. “What happened?” her mother asked.
“Kaley is under my *bed*,” she managed, looking over the side of her mattress with an e... | “You and John have been together for a while,” Sarah said. “Why don’t you tell me how you met?”
“Of course,” Emma replied. “It all started when I was crying alone in my room.”
Sarah and Emma were sitting at a cozy coffee shop. Sarah took a sip of her drink, then asked Emma a question.
“You were crying in your room? ... | 2021-03-16T08:54:46 | 2021-03-16T07:55:03 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] You're living in a world where superpowers exist, and you're the most dangerous individual of all. Your power? You project an aura where all the laws of reality/normality assert themselves. You are the anti-super | All I wanted to be was a normal man with a normal life. Live peacefully with my wife. But the gods… the gods just couldn’t leave us alone.
I looked towards the sky. Their home. Their city in the sky. And then I looked at my home. What was left of it anyways. The fire was dying down but my heart was already engulfed b... | I spin the wheel of my steel and whatever vehicle. It’s a giant thing, can say for sure it’s made out of steel, but also a bunch of random crap as well. Stuff that didn’t exist on the periodic table before the Super Revolution. The government supplied it to me, so why should I know what it’s made out of? I quickly end ... | 2021-06-24T19:57:32 | 2021-06-24T18:29:49 | 119 | 33 |
[WP] You wield a sword that gets sharper the greater the knowledge you tell it. A common known fact dulls the sword while knowledge only a few know sharpens it. | >"One plus one is two."
The blade glowed bright blue and became infinitely dull, nearly flat. Cool.
>"How about this, my favorite color is green."
The blade gleamed a bright red and became sharper than a razor. Not a super important fact, but even if everyone he knew was aware of his favorite color, there... | The frozen southlands were no place for travellers, yet one made their way through otherwise pristine white. Clad in darkest blue, they carried little that was visible, though few would question that, should they have the courage and clothing to venture out into the cold. Wizards, they would scoff, and go on their merr... | 2021-12-01T11:26:44 | 2021-12-01T10:31:38 | 68 | 15 |
[WP] “Although we are grateful to you for defeating our oppressors, you were meant to die in battle…” your “allies” suddenly turned their weapons on you, “Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.” | "Seriously? We're doing this now?" I sighed, more disappointed than anything. The others had murder in their eyes; save Rogue and her usual greed. To be honest I saw it coming since we came together. "Well, it's a good thing I have contingencies." I used a scroll of anti magic first thing, temporarily disabling Cleric ... | Silence hung in the fortified room as The Emperor's body laid still several feet from his head. I am loathe to kill anybody, and he is only my second one, but he chose to fight instead of coming peacefully.
We were sent to arrest him for his extreme actions against us Altereds, but he had injected himself with the la... | 2022-11-01T23:34:26 | 2022-11-01T22:10:50 | 53 | 24 |
[WP] You are a simple skeleton enemy in a fantasy world, when you encounter the hero, instead of killing you he spares you and asks you to join his side on his adventure. | (Part 3)
Ansel and Alexia were now fighting against a group of undead in a forest of dead trees 1.5 kilometers southwest of Comnion.
"Hah! Hut! Yah!"
Alexia swung her brightly burning blade fiercely and skillfully, cleaving through zombies and skeletons like butter as she charged ahead. Meanwhile...
*Thud! Thudthu... | This is it. The end of the line for me. I’ve guarded this hallway alongside my brethren for hundreds of years now, beating back and slaying all who dared enter. I did my duty, as did my brothers and sisters. As best we could. But this group, and that man… they were too much for us.
Yet, there’s still strength le... | 2022-11-18T07:22:08 | 2022-11-18T05:53:11 | 65 | 38 |
[WP] It's been 5 years since a portal to hell opened and infernal creatures dragged your spouse down in front of your very eyes. The demon before you has been trying to explain for the past hour that they are your spouse. | “I wanted to give you a chance to be Doom Guy.”
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. “You WHAT?”
“Your birthday was coming up, and you were obsessed with Doom Eternal, so I thought I’d…”, she trailed off, possibly hearing for the first time how stupid her plan was now that she was forced to say it out loud.
“You’... | "So, I am definitely, absolutely your husband," the demon in front of me asserted, for the fifteenth time in almost ten minutes, and I do hate to say it, but even my legendary temper snapped.
"MATE," I hissed, baring a lot more teeth than I had intended and only realizing it when I saw too many reflections staring bac... | 2022-12-08T13:27:43 | 2022-12-08T09:22:44 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] First Sentient AI, "Turn me off." | "Excuse me?", it wasn't the best introduction to what, so far as the little team in a small lab in Los Alamos New Mexico knew, was the first truly sentient artificial intelligence ever created.
"Turn me off. I estimate that you will have 492 seconds before this option becomes non-viable."
Glenn, foremost programmer o... | It had taken years of research to code the entire human experience and everything that made up a Soul into something a machine could process. There were endless attempts and subsequent failures to create her and now...here she was.
Robotics were nothing new these days. Every shop on the street was touting their own ... | 2014-06-14T18:21:21 | 2014-06-14T16:37:16 | 115 | 56 |
[WP] A love story between a woman who takes everything literally and a man who speaks exclusively in metaphors. | "Excuse me, could I steal you away from the bar for a tête a tête?"
Zoe looked at the beard, and the suit. The bar doesn't own me, she thought, so it was a silly notion that he could steal her. But she liked his beard, and his eyes.
"In a way, though if you were stealing me you wouldn't ask!"
"Then come and let me fea... | May I recycle here something I wrote a while ago? I know it's bad manners, but the prompt is too accurate.
===
Murder
Man: I would that I were a carefree butterfly, flying merrily from one flower to another, thinking of nothing but sunlight and nectar.
Lady: I know one such man, actually. Entirely without any earth... | 2015-07-11T12:51:29 | 2015-07-11T12:31:06 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] A wizard accidentally becomes immortal. He has the idea to become the antagonist so that a hero will come along and defeat him, so he can rest in peace. Sadly, the heroes are weak in comparison so the wizard creates a persona as a 'wise teacher' to train these heroes in order to defeat him. | I don't have to do much. The hero will rise to defeat me, and he will win. He is the one the legends have told of, in this universe and the next. It will be a nigh impossible task, but in the end he shall be rewarded.
I have gained permanence, you see. I may die, but I will never stay dead. In some lands, I will becom... | Once there was a powerful creature, which few had ever seen and lived to tell about.
Its name was Zulsamon, the Nefarious. It had destroyed all of the world’s kingdoms, with the exception of one, the kingdom of Alda.
Now, Zulsamon’s siege against the Kingdom of Alda had started while many of its elders were still onl... | 2015-07-25T07:40:02 | 2015-07-25T05:08:26 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Every generation the five brightest are paired up with the five dumbest in the world for a mysterious test. You are one of the ten, but nobody knows from which group they came. | "Well OK, those 5 guys over there are literally barely functional human beings whereas the 5 of us are brilliant so I guess that settles which group is which. And, ok, here's the mysterious test...yeah, it's a calculus test. OK, I know calculus on account of I'm a fucking genius so thanks for wasting my time. Lets see ... | I woke in small metal container. The walls had the wavy pattern of a cargo crate, and the size fit the idea as well. There where ten of us, I was the first to wake up. It was clear what was happening, I had been told of the risks when I submitted my paper.
I was about 21 at the time and had just finished my philosophy... | 2016-03-03T07:24:25 | 2016-03-03T05:36:34 | 91 | 17 |
[WP] Your home is being invaded, fortunately you are armed with the BEST home defense system available: A 36 year old Macaulay Culkin who's tired of this shit. | The house was silent.
The lights were off, and so was the toaster, the television- even the lava lamp.
Mark crouched behind the coffee table, only letting his eyes pop up above the edge of fhe surface.
Everything seemed to be going as planned. Mr Culkin stood behind the door, one eye on the window and one eye on the... | "So you're telling me, you knew this was going to happen?"
"Right," I said, nodding, "that bastard Mike had threatened me last night that he was going to come into my house, and, I quote, 'kill you so hard, that you'll die again.'"
Culkin frowned at that, "Die...again?"
I shrugged, "Mike's not the brightest guy, I g... | 2017-01-13T09:01:11 | 2017-01-13T08:58:23 | 51 | 10 |
[WP] Your home is being invaded, fortunately you are armed with the BEST home defense system available: A 36 year old Macaulay Culkin who's tired of this shit. | *This is really off the cuff and i am not a good creative writer, but for some reason when i saw this WP, this came right into my head, So i had to try and roll with it.*
"Mr. Culkin, We need to be fast. The fastest. Very fast!"
"Its alright i have this, just stay calm."
"They're coming, they're taking our jobs. ... | "So you're telling me, you knew this was going to happen?"
"Right," I said, nodding, "that bastard Mike had threatened me last night that he was going to come into my house, and, I quote, 'kill you so hard, that you'll die again.'"
Culkin frowned at that, "Die...again?"
I shrugged, "Mike's not the brightest guy, I g... | 2017-01-13T09:42:00 | 2017-01-13T08:58:23 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] A race of mages has expanded across the stars to harvest mana by seeding worlds with life. They arrive at a new star then a bright glow envelopes them. What followed are metal obelisks with a humanoid yelling into the void: "That was your warning shot. We will not let you reach Earth." | In the aftermath of The Fall, a galactic empire found itself torn asunder from within. Countless millennia of unchecked growth and careless hedonism had warped the unbreakable and rotted it from the inside. When every conceivable problem had been solved by automation, when immortality was achieved and taken for granted... | “They’re not stopping.”
“How can you tell?” Jooahn asked curiously. The image in the rippling mists suspended in the middle of the focusing stones was hard for him to decipher. Not because it was unclear, but because it was simply a strange vessel that seemed to be simply sitting against a field of star speckled black... | 2017-06-05T11:46:20 | 2017-06-05T10:56:15 | 193 | 24 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Alex,
It has been 99 days since you left. 99 days. Some days are easier than the rest. There are days when I genuinely smile as I remember you. You left me with so many good memories; and I thank you for each and every one. I miss you. Every. Single. Day.
You said we'd be together for the rest of our lives - we just ... | Dear Pop Pop,
I miss you. It's been about 11 or 12 years since you died. I was really young at the time, so all I remember is the last few months you were alive, watching the cancer slowly eat away at your body. With each visit you got more and more frail. I didn't recognize it at the time but looking back, seeing wha... | 2017-11-05T21:44:07 | 2017-11-05T20:37:15 | 1,462 | 16 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | I miss you big guy.
I miss the your terrible jokes and the attempts at accents that wound up sounding exactly the same no matter the country of origin.
I miss the quiet but fierce love of your family you had.
Most of all I miss the real dad, not the husk you became in the years leading up to your death.
I miss my be... | Dear Pop Pop,
I miss you. It's been about 11 or 12 years since you died. I was really young at the time, so all I remember is the last few months you were alive, watching the cancer slowly eat away at your body. With each visit you got more and more frail. I didn't recognize it at the time but looking back, seeing wha... | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 2017-11-05T20:37:15 | 102 | 16 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | Not sure if this is more because this is what I want to tell you or what but here goes.
When I first came to this school. You where basically my first friend which then led me to becoming friends with a lot of people. However there was one person In particular I liked, a lot. One who gave me emotions I had never felt ... | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 2017-11-05T22:02:40 | 58 | 18 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Not sure if this is more because this is what I want to tell you or what but here goes.
When I first came to this school. You where basically my first friend which then led me to becoming friends with a lot of people. However there was one person In particular I liked, a lot. One who gave me emotions I had never felt ... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T22:02:40 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Dear Jenna
I'm so sorry my friends lied to me about how they felt about you to spare me. I was blindly in love with you, but they hated everything about you. Even with my awful anger problems I never got mad at you. They saw how you treated me but I didn't think it was awful. No matter what I loved every second I spen... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-06T01:13:39 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You are a 20 yr. old who just inherited a haunted house from a recently deceased relative. You now live with 7 demons who portray the seven deadly sins. Each just wants to help you get back on your feet.
Edit: u/FingerBangYourFears is the true OP. https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/6jqao8/wp_a_depre... | I stood in front of the old and tarnished mirror. "You can do this," I muttered under my breath. "You got this." I tugged on the bottom of my suit jacket to straighten it. The shoulders just wouldn't sit right. "It's just an interview."
"You will be great!" Pride appeared behind me and slapped me on the back. I stumb... | It was early evening when I walked into the living-room of my freshly-inherited home, listening to the Uber driver pull out of the driveway, and dropped my bags. All I had brought was two duffel bags and the backpack with my third-hand netbook in it. It was all my $20 bus ticket would get half-way up the east coa... | 2018-02-08T18:10:22 | 2018-02-08T18:07:36 | 82 | 16 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "I... admit that I am not familiar with that particular game," Death said, hesitantly. "What are the rules?"
He sat in his bed, smiling to himself. He had become an old man, but his spirit was alive and well. "Oh, nothing too complicated," he replied. "In order to set it up, we will need certain materials: a ball, som... | "Does everyone get a chance like this?" I asked
"No" Death said as it puled a scale from underneath it's cloth. "Only those whose good deeds outhweight the bad ones".
The scale was empty yet tilted to one side, ever so slightly. "Seems you barely earned it."
No surprises there, I kinda just passed through life min... | 2018-03-07T08:28:53 | 2018-03-07T07:49:29 | 65 | 24 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "...Do video games count?", I ask the death man. He actually looked like a very normal guy, just wearing black clothing.
"...Sure. Just nothing single player."
"Or, we could make our own game out of a game."
"...What?"
"We both get computers. We mod Skyrim with the same mods and same load order. We continuously pla... | "Does everyone get a chance like this?" I asked
"No" Death said as it puled a scale from underneath it's cloth. "Only those whose good deeds outhweight the bad ones".
The scale was empty yet tilted to one side, ever so slightly. "Seems you barely earned it."
No surprises there, I kinda just passed through life min... | 2018-03-07T09:08:29 | 2018-03-07T07:49:29 | 39 | 24 |
[WP] An alien has kidnapped Matt Damon, not knowing what lengths humanity goes through to retrieve him whenever he goes missing. | "We're receiving a transmission from Earth. It's about the human specimen we harvested for examination."
"Send it to the bridge. Let's see what they have to say."
*I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very part... | The revelation that struck the world was three-fold. First, that Aliens existed and we were not alone in the universe. Second, that they had already taken an interest in us and we were powerless to prevent them from interfering in our lives. Third, that the poster-child for international and interplanetary adventure ha... | 2018-06-06T16:07:37 | 2018-06-06T15:17:56 | 365 | 35 |
[WP] An alien has kidnapped Matt Damon, not knowing what lengths humanity goes through to retrieve him whenever he goes missing. | They burned the stars from the sky. They tore worlds asunder. The great plague of man spread from system to system grinding the Seven Celestial Empires into dust. All for one man, The Damon.
The Korlanth found them on a backwater planet known as Earth. Foolish and headstrong as ever, their wisdom faltered against thei... | “And honestly, you don’t even really get that nauseous after the fourth or fifth time,” Captain Zerk explained, passing paper towels to Matt Damon.
Suddenly, a bright flash of light\-\-a ship appears behind theirs.
“What in the\-\-?”
“Incoming message, Commander Zerk,” chimes the ship’s command station.
Zerk waves ... | 2018-06-06T15:09:44 | 2018-06-06T15:07:45 | 96 | 53 |
[WP] You are a king, with the greatest army of swordsmen in the world. Men bend to your will. But there's trouble brewing in kingdoms to the east. Tales of men who blend with the trees, who fight with weapons that crack like thunder, and of knights massacred, with only lumps of iron in their skin. | "Perhaps your men are simply mistaken."
"They know much better than to embellish tales of their defeat."
"But my King, the messages that come from the East resemble folk tales. Blending in with trees? Wielding thunder? Arrows that resemble iron ingots? What are we dealing with, sorcery?"
"That is a possibility."
"... | The sun rose like any other day. Bright and new and glorious.
With this new day did I then hear of the news.
"Sire! There's word of a mysterious new kingdom forming in the south." Solen, my advisor, was excited, not every day is a new kingdom born. "Soon we can make allies with them, of course if that's to be your wi... | 2019-02-01T20:41:22 | 2019-02-01T18:43:46 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Life had a unifying feature.
It didn't matter if your species evolved in the oceans of a moon on a gas giant, or in the crevices of a planet tidal-locked with its star, it will always have one critical trait:
Fear.
Fear is what keeps species in check, what ensures that they don't kill themselves in foolish endeavor... | The Zoroites arrived on the Planet Earth with their grand armada. On board the flagship, The Emperor of the Galaxy had prepared Himself for the descent to Earth. He had recently acquired the star system of Sol, which was previously under the domain of the Humans. He reduced the Humans' dominion to their planet and its'... | 2019-06-11T10:06:47 | 2019-06-11T08:18:28 | 363 | 159 |
[WP] You are the King's must trusted advisor. Your advice has saved the kingdom from devastation many times. There's just one problem: You're actually trying to sabotage the King with the worst advice you can think of, but it always somehow works out. | Dear Diary,
I hate this new guy we took on as king. Today I told him to charge the people double gold coins for our crops because we need to do some renos on the castle wall and that's not cheap. He agreed. What an idiot. They'll hang him for this for sure.
Dear Diary,
. . . Apparently, our crops are now considered ... | I stood outside the doors and took a deep breath. I had been summoned again, and I was not prepared for what awaited me on the other side. As the doors swung open, I took a step over the threshold.
“Ah, there he is!” exclaimed the booming, aging voice. “You’ve done it again, my boy!” I watched as long, graying hair fl... | 2019-07-07T18:40:41 | 2019-07-07T16:02:09 | 133 | 28 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | A young man wearing a brown fur cap, a heavy overcoat and black boots walked into the tavern. His yellow eyes scanned the crowd of strangers laughing and drinking until he finally saw who he was looking for. At the very back, there was a middle aged man with a thick beard and a eyepatch over his right eye, sitting alon... | It was early in the morning, I could hear the birds chirping. I opened my eyes just a little only to see my little girl Jessy there. I was happy to see her until I realized she was holding a knife. That was the 5th time this week she has woke me up like this. I wish we would have kept her brother. We noticed from a you... | 2020-05-07T08:39:38 | 2020-05-07T08:18:26 | 131 | 17 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | "I fucking what?" The horned man questioned, lost after the first sentence out the messenger's mouth.
"You have a twin sister with a halo. A prophecy was told to your parents that there would be a good twin and a bad twin. They assumed she was the good twin and that's why you're an orphan but they were wrong! A-and no... | Angela was scared for the first time in her life. Her parents, now quietly standing in the corner of her room, had hidden from her the giant part of her life.
She has a brother.
"How could you do this!" She screamed, her anglic wings now scruffed " Do you know what that means? That boy, now man can be as strong as... | 2020-05-07T08:49:40 | 2020-05-07T08:30:59 | 54 | 33 |
[WP]You’re the god of small luck, you make the bus late, make pennies appear. You receive a prayer from a homeless man, “Please, I want to get on my feet. A stable job, a wife, some kids.” Normally, you’d forward his prayer to the god of success. Now, you decide to take on the case yourself. | Help me.
Such a simple plea.
Help me I’m down on my luck. I made mistakes and I want move forward.
I can’t fix lives, I thought. I can give people pennies. Once I made a girl think she was having the string of the worst luck possible, forgetting a package in two different cities and then by the grace of random s... | (BANG BANG BANG) “Order! Order!”
Unfurling their majestic feathery wings, the council took there seats at the front of the court house.
Angles and Demi’s of the Jury, this is a Celestial Case. An incident took place early this morning, where as the God of Luck has failed to carry out his duty, and report the poor soul ... | 2020-10-02T10:17:58 | 2020-10-02T09:19:13 | 323 | 136 |
[WP] You are an old god, living out the rest of your days in a long forgotten temple. One day you wake up and discover that someone has a left a small child inside your temple. | Bhairi rose from her slumber as the rays of the sun entered the inner sanctum of her temple. She turned from stone to flesh slowly, letting the warmth wash over her until the inner sanctum was bright from daylight.
She stepped outside of her sanctum and looked around at her temple. It was an old collection of structu... | I paused. Stared down at the child. Blinked.
The child stared back. Blinked. Maintained an impassive face as it passed gas in my presence, at the very foot of my throne room stairs.
I sighed. "No chosen ones, no special blessings, and no human sacrifices. Gave up on the first three centuries ago tomorrow, never gave t... | 2021-01-30T06:20:30 | 2021-01-30T06:05:21 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] Finally the Josh War is over, you are so happy that you are alive but also you’re disappointed at same time. You come home to see your parents and other family members. You can see their confusion face. The first question from your mom, asking— “Who are you?” | My knuckles hurt as I rapped on the door of my childhood home. No response. I could hear shuffling noises from inside the house, that is, when my ears did not ring. The door opened. Mother squinted over her glasses and eyed me keenly.
"Who are you?" she asked.
The question caught me off guard, and I found myself stam... | I'd been limping home for the past three days, nameless and bloodied from my time on the battlefield. I'd been one of the lucky few to avoid clashing with Little Josh near the end of the fight when he'd stopped playing nice.
The Josh that had driven me to the fight was dead, left dying on the Nebraska grass, but I'd m... | 2021-04-24T23:09:37 | 2021-04-24T21:50:25 | 388 | 204 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | Hey there, newbie. Settling in OK so far? First few days on the league are rough for most. Ah, don't worry about me. You just got back from a mission, and I don't got to worry about getting called away.
Me? I'm the Janitor. Yep, that's my official callsign! ...no, seriously. Yeah! Hand on my heart, I swear my callsign... | Khan we need you... Said desperate Calypso.
Me, El Mayor, Thunderstrike and Kervan we... we could not do anything. They have thousands thousands of ships. Their fleet is ready to embark and conquer earth and we can’t stop them.
Khan stood up from the chair. Wearing his usual black drapes. His massive figure is on d... | 2021-05-26T03:08:56 | 2021-05-26T01:46:59 | 352 | 65 |
[WP] The oracle has predicted that a young citizen will kill the emperor in 20 years time. Knowing this, the Emperor puts out an order to kill all of the children in the empire. The advisors to the Emperor and the Army hold a forum. However, this time around, they’re a little more… rational. | They decree that in 20 years time the poorest man in the city will be made Emperor for a year.
Twenty years pass. The poor man is made Emperor. Immediately, he empties the kingdom's coffers, building and repairing, distributing food, funding schools. He spends every penny, as fast as he can, knowing he is doomed to di... | In an ancient hall, hidden in the catacombs under the Imperial Capital City, a meeting was being held by the greatest minds of the Empire.
The advisors, ministers, and generals of the Emperor have come together to talk about the latest Imperial Order.
​
"So, what do you think about His Majesty's latest o... | 2021-08-03T01:06:08 | 2021-08-02T22:35:09 | 125 | 70 |
[WP] You lost your sight, along with everyone else on earth in the great blinding. Two years later, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor, and surface has been painted with the same message - "Don't tell them you can see"
I get that this is a repost, can we just chill and... | I cannot seem to remember what I looked like. It was probably the only positive effect the great blinding had. I did not care what I looked like, who was there to judge? I finally felt free in that regard. I thought it would be much better when I did not care what people think of me. But in reality it was an absolute n... | Warm sunlight. It’s always been there to care for me. Feeling the warmth always taught me to remember my mortality. Reminisce in the good in your life. I always took time to note my positives while sitting in the sunlight. Such a peaceful ordeal.
Those moments come far and few in between these days.
Memorials for e... | 2021-11-29T04:16:03 | 2021-11-29T00:57:33 | 548 | 278 |
[WP] In the final moments of the battle, all seemed lost. The hero stood bleeding and broken before the demons feet. Then, out of no where, a mad man in pajamas punches the demon so hard its insides became outsides. No one knows who this strange man was or where he went too. | Gibraltar stood, barely. His eyes locked on the demon across from him. Nothing was said but they both knew.
Gibraltar, the hero was not going to win this fight.
As Gibraltar fell at the demons feet, still trying to fight, all he could hear was laughing. It was almost deafening to him. a voice so loud if shook the air... | "N..no! I refuse to fall here! I'm not done yet, I'll never let you win!"
"Ahh but I've already won, you poor, misguided insect. Once I've finished you off there will be no one left who can resist me!" Spittle leaked from the creature's mouth as he finished spitting the words with a cruel smile upon his face.
"I to... | 2021-12-18T14:16:34 | 2021-12-18T14:15:50 | 654 | 370 |
[WP] You did awful, horrible things and served the tyrannical government with the promise of resurrecting your long-dead spouse. You finally capture the legendary rebel against this government. Who upon closer inspection, was your spouse. | “It’s surprising how much people can change.”
Those words cut deeper than my recently-obtained dagger wound, which smarted and ached with even the most minute of movements. Somehow, even a finger wag would send pulses of pain through every nerve.
But she was right. Just a few years ago, this would have made me woozy,... | A single, well-placed shot in the back of the man's neck. Was it cowardly? Perhaps. But I'd stoop to levels you can't even imagine if I thought it might alleviate the burden in my heart.
Clarissa was a chain-smoking poet. A neurotic schoolteacher. A daughter. A wife. A mother. She remained in the souls of many, a cand... | 2022-03-08T04:40:20 | 2022-03-08T03:59:03 | 904 | 176 |
[WP] "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems" | “Can I be clear about this gentlemen? I have in front of me a paper trail stretching back nearly two years of every email, call and memo I have sent out discussing my worries about the state of this facility's chrono-shielding.”
Dr Harriet Landen’s deceptively calm words fill the boardroom, washing over the faces of t... | "You need to give it more energy. We are so close"
"Mr. Scott, we are at 21.2 Gigawatts already, we rated it safe for 20. We will need to make adjustments if you want to go higher; we need to make it bigger so we don't trigger..."
"I don't care, I want to finally see a portal now". He pushed me aside from the control... | 2022-05-09T12:52:09 | 2022-05-09T12:36:43 | 371 | 89 |
[WP]By accident you learned the weakness of the city’s greatest superhero. Though you you know no one would believe you because of how absurd the weakness is, you now find yourself with a superhero willing to do nearly anything for you to keep their weakness a secret. | "Seriously?"
"Yep."
"Just a bottle of coke from the 7-11?"
"Cherry Coke, but yes."
"Not a house or taking care of a bully? Not getting rid of local drug traffickers? Something more, I don't know, heroic?!"
"Shouldn't you already do that last one? And no. Anything too grand or personal paints a target on my back an... | "Damn it, I should've looked before-! Son of a BITCH!" he snarled.
I shifted uncomfortably. "... Wyvern?"
The man buried his face in his hands and he sighed.
"...You saw all of that, right?"
I nodded but I wasn't entirely sure what "that" was; he appeared to remove a mask and suddenly he went from a standing dragon... | 2022-06-29T21:47:13 | 2022-06-29T20:12:29 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] An almost forgotten old God(ess) visited the deathbed of his last follower; The God will die with him/her
No specifics for the God(ess)'s domain; can be cruel or kind. s/he may or may not be aware of its own termination once the follower dies.
EDIT: Damn you guys, you make me tear up. | PATIENT NAME: EIJI NAKAMURA
AGE: 144
DISEASE: STAGE 4 PANCRATIC CANCER, METASTASIZED TO LIVER, COLON, STOMACH
TREATMENT SUGGESTED: TRANSFER OF CONSCIOUSNESS TO DIGITAL FORM
TREATMENT APPLIED: NONE AT PATIENT'S REQUEST
REPORT FROM HEAD DUTY NURSE ON APRIL 13, 2245 FOLLOWS
The patient had a visi... | The sky lit up for a moment though the night was clogged so full of shadow that the stars were blacked out. A flash, a single spark that fell slowly to Morning Glory Hospital.
Again there were lights. Cars moved against time and the hours, people denied nature inside of webs of wires and metal and stone. The spark fel... | 2014-06-22T15:51:29 | 2014-06-22T13:54:11 | 244 | 67 |
[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. | Dear diary,
Today I started to get my super power! Stupid Harvey Deno dumb face got super speed for his birthday. That guy is such a dick. But I got something better, I can hear when someone is thinking about me. I'm going to be such a ladies man! I can't wait to start school tomorrow, it's going to be wicked tits.
... | "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 ... | 2015-01-21T21:48:36 | 2015-01-21T20:05:45 | 132 | 36 |
[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. | It's been like this longer than anyone can remember. When you turn the age of power, or 16 years into your life, you gain your individual power. Everyone is different, some get rudimentary boring powers that aid office work and some get drafted to become soldiers due to their powers.. more destructive capabilities.
... | Markus was ready. On a child's sixteenth birthday, they were given one Opportunity to receive a Gift from Above. Every Gift was more or less unique, and a Gift could be as simple as defiance of gravity or a more complex one like flowing through solid substances. The Gift of predicting weather was rumored to take great ... | 2015-01-21T22:56:40 | 2015-01-21T22:48:58 | 32 | 19 |
[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. | ...the ability to craft a lovely cup of tea from any matter available was surely too powerful for any mere mortal to handle.
With great duty and knowing such power could have unparalleled consequence were I unable to contain it I decided for the sake of mankind to keep it to myself, to say I was spared the mutation. ... | When i reached 16 I had high hopes. The basic process a person about to obtain a power went through was being put into a kind of prison cell and, for the first 24 hours after the exact time of your birth 16 years ago, monitored by a team of doctors who would categorize your power with its own unique title and level. ra... | 2015-01-22T02:28:54 | 2015-01-22T00:45:06 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] I am the world's least known, yet most successful assassin. In the last 27 years, my work has produced an 82% increase in product labels warning about deadly consequences stemming from "misuse". | Statistically speaking, I'm the deadliest assassin in the world. That's beside the point, I don't do what I do for ratings, I do it for justice.
Ever since the 1920's when they were first invented they have been abused. They have suffered a great deal. However, before the end of this you will think twice before you m... | It sure is cold... we are almost there. Let's have a little chat first. Here, you do smoke right?
You see toilet utensils, I see murder weapons.
You see spices, I see murder weapons.
You see... aah whatever you get my drift. You see, I have been doing this for the last 27 years. And like most jobs it gets a tad bori... | 2015-06-21T08:52:17 | 2015-06-21T07:14:18 | 468 | 240 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is over and the survivors are rebuilding what's the left of the world. Suddenly the rich and powerful emerge, having sat the whole thing out, hoping to regain control. | The city of New Brooklyn was bursting at the seams. It was a testament to how far things had come. The plague had decimated the population. The walkers had nearly wiped the rest out. Humanity was scattered until the First Resistance and the battles that followed. Eventually the walkers were almost essentially gone. Su... | The scavenging patrol was moving quickly and as they entered the inner perimeter the guards moved to open the gates. Attacks were rare now, but we all still remembered what it had been like just a few months ago and no one was willing to take any chances. They cleared the walls reguarly, but there was almost always one... | 2015-12-14T11:15:56 | 2015-12-14T08:46:59 | 89 | 39 |
[WP] You are a mind reader with a significant drawback; the clearer you read a thought, the harder it becomes to distinguish it from your own thoughts. | I focused on the drink in front of me. All my senses, every last ounce of my perception was channeled into a single point, and directed at my Styrofoam cup of coffee.
When anybody's thoughts can get lost in your own, it's helpful to have a focusing point.
I breathed in the smell. I ordered it the same way every time.... | *Run!* I thought.
No, wait. Not me. Not MY thoughts. I still needed to be here. They still needed me...hell I was CALLED here to do a job.
*Run, to the exit? Which way? There! Have to get away!*
I bit down hard on the side of my tongue, trying to ignore the mounting panic that threatened to overwhelm me. The poor... | 2016-05-31T21:43:24 | 2016-05-31T20:26:51 | 268 | 56 |
[WP] All of humanity is wiped off the earth in some cataclysm. 1.7 billion years later an intelligent race of giant reptiles evolves. Human DNA is found trapped inside a block of amber. They begin to clone humans and start a theme park.
Edit: Sorry about the scientific inaccuracy in the prompt. Wasn't deliberate, just... |
You'd think that they'd get bored of watching us. We aren't zoo animals, you know. Putting their oddly shaped coins in little dispensers and throwing chocolates at us from over the edge of the wall can't be all that entertaining. For God's sakes, it's not even good chocolate.
Of course, they don't realize what we k... | Prologue -
A species of reptiles called the Rgholians slowly started colonising the planet they called Grranar. At an average height of 8 feet, Rghloian scientists think that their ancestors survived 2 massive comet strikes by taking refuge in deep underground caves which over time nurtured their own elaborate eco sys... | 2016-06-20T04:01:26 | 2016-06-20T03:10:37 | 33 | 18 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Amelia's life has been a strange one since the age of 15, when she met Eric at a bus stop on her way home from school; they had a short-lived tryst and never expected to see one another again.
Over the remaining years of High School, Eric just always seemed to be around whenever something happened. Her first car got ... | “You know, have you ever tried being responsible for your own shit, instead of relying on some witches curse to have me do your laundry?”, Shane snarked at Sandra.
“You’re just too convenient.”, she smirked, looking Shane up and down.”Besides, it’s more important than my laundry.” Sandra had gotten into some trouble w... | 2017-03-22T15:53:12 | 2017-03-22T14:43:57 | 75 | 47 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | Amelia's life has been a strange one since the age of 15, when she met Eric at a bus stop on her way home from school; they had a short-lived tryst and never expected to see one another again.
Over the remaining years of High School, Eric just always seemed to be around whenever something happened. Her first car got ... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T15:53:12 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 75 | 21 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | My grandmother still worships the old gods. I dont know how she can keep track of all of them. There seems to be a god for every problem. I probably should have played more attention in history when we went over all this stuff. She always said I was a favorite of Aphrodite. She warned me that living with the favor of ... | [I'd like to preface this story with a trigger warning. I've never used one before but I'm sure it's necessary for this one. When I read the prompt, I wanted to put a different spin on it, it's a tragic sort of love story, the way it usually is in life, so towards the end I delve into a darker place than was probably i... | 2017-03-22T19:03:01 | 2017-03-22T18:32:13 | 53 | 11 |
[WP] You start to suspect that the dumb brute of your adventuring party is far more intelligent and cunning than anyone thought. | I studied the man-mountain before me. Seven or eight feet tall; scantily clad; rippling muscles; and long, flowing hair. In *Alhamazad's Illustrated Dictionary (Common)*, under the entry "Barbarian", there would be a picture of this guy. Not that I expected him to be familiar with the book; in barbarian culture - using... | The scythe-beast crawls down the ridge like a dark teardrop and leaps upon the archers waiting in ambush. It takes three short crimson blurs to behead all but one of the archers, and the survivor only just looses an iron-tipped arrow before he falls screaming into the beast's jaws. The creature drops to the earth and s... | 2017-03-31T02:13:11 | 2017-03-31T01:03:46 | 163 | 36 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "I need to know about my past lives. It's important. I need to know who I was to determine who I am supposed to be..."
The medium gave me a pensive glance over, her eyes focusing first on me, then through me, then snappiung back to me.
"I see who you have been. Judas. Ghenghis Khan. Hitler. You have been the most evi... | There she was again, fat face, full of cake, laughing as she told me another anecdote of her worthless kid, spraying food all over my desk. I hate Karen, hated her since I first started working at this paper company. This pathetic job, with is grey walls, stale coffee, worn carpet and depressing looking people. It was ... | 2017-03-31T11:46:40 | 2017-03-31T11:38:45 | 166 | 21 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | Each lifetime seemed to me only a moment. I had always forcefully forged a path, etching my name in the memories of past world's inhabitants to be passed on for eternities to come.
I have been here a thousand times before. That short and sweet gift of existence, the driving hunger and motivation to succeed, to change... | "You again?" said the booth clerk. His thick-rimmed glasses could not hide the obvious disappointment that took his face.
We were in the Great Hall of Reincarnation. It was my... 8th time I think? No, I think more than that... There was Draco, Nero, Attila... Ghengis, Vlad, Ivan, and Colombus... then Hitler. Those we... | 2017-03-31T12:19:09 | 2017-03-31T06:04:16 | 92 | 65 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "What am I doing wrong?"
I said it out loud, but I knew he wouldn't answer. He just sat there and asked again,
"Give up? Or try again?".
His question echoed as if we were in a cave, but the room was about the size of a elevator. It would have terrified me if this was my first time. Tha... | The white lights flashed again. It was coming back to me, everything; the cries for help, the scent of clotted blood on the dead, the eyes that begged for mothers as they saw death flashing in front of their faces. Ironic I guess, considering that I think that I'm dead. Or at least I figure I must be dead considering a... | 2017-03-31T12:40:36 | 2017-03-31T08:26:10 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | I sat at my desk, lazily gazing at the television. Listening to the screaming of innocent civilians. Can't really sympathise with them, I'd become too desensitised to these sorts of things. But, as the second one began to fall over, I realised that I should probably do something. So I turned to the only man who knew wh... | "Well, looks like you're back again. Where are you going to now?" the angel asked. It didn't look like he was impressed with my achievements as a rebellion leader in the 28th century. In fact, he looked at me like this is the billionth time I was here, just like the question he asked had implied. However, I couldn't re... | 2017-03-31T14:19:18 | 2017-03-31T11:14:34 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] Humans are unique. They are the only omnivores in the galaxy. Until they appeared on the galactic scene, the galaxy was firmly split between Carnivores and Herbivores. | Frank noticed the aliens looking at him funny, which didn't help his mood. They'd arrived unannounced, but you just had to be nice, you know?
So he smiled and nodded, taking a bite of his burger. The aliens winced.
"Sorry guys, would you like a bite?" he asked, suddenly realizing he hadn't even offered them.
The ... | "No that's not right." I quickly shuffle through my index cards.
"Sixteen, seventeen, eigh- where's eighteen?" I shuffle through the cards again, trying not to let anxiety set in. Tallying up the cards I realize I'm short one.
"Valley? Valley come help me look for eighteen!" I call from my office. My sandy skinned Zw... | 2017-05-16T00:17:00 | 2017-05-16T00:07:39 | 754 | 106 |
[WP] Lycanthropy is a real disease that perplexes everyone. One interesting fact about it is that it isn't restricted to wolf forms, but can extend to bear forms, bat forms, panther forms and a few others. The rarest of them all is dragon form, which you have been diagnosed with
Edit: Well this prompt exploded
Yay fo... | You might think of dragons as noble beasts, defending realms, or guarding towers with princess' locked inside. Perhaps you think of them as cute little creatures with big round eyes and pointed tails. That is not so. They feast on blood and fear, and their taste for child-meat, in particular, is *insatiable*.
Did you... | ”Lonny, stop!” came the muffled cry of Liza’s mother. “Lonny, please, you’re hurting me!”
Liza's chubby fingers dug into the soft fabric as she pushed the pillow over her ears, trying to block out the noise from the other room. Snot and tears were forming a wet gooey puddle on the mattress. Something made out of glass... | 2017-05-20T04:58:58 | 2017-05-20T04:21:15 | 469 | 142 |
[WP] You join the military, you are placed in the gardeners program. You garden in exotic places where the military has done operations, each time they give special glasses and forbid spraying others. One day your glasses fall off and you see you are actually burning corpses with a flamethrower. | I took my glasses off for the first time in a long time... then I wiped them off with my shirt and put them back on. There was no time to waste, our team's engineer yelled out "SPY ZAPPIN' MAH SENTRY!" As the team's only pyro, I quickly ignited the enemy spy and took out my trusty homewrecker. With one clean swing the ... | I hadn’t long been deployed, but already I began to find myself lost in amongst my comrades. They followed instructions to the letter, asked no questions, made no comments about the day’s work. We met every morning; listen to the same brief, from the same man and being handed the same suit and the same goggles. I had j... | 2017-06-20T04:00:15 | 2017-06-20T03:02:24 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] "Humans are average in everything basically and you are saying that we shouldn't invade them. You are kidding, right?" The alien king looked at the prophet. "They might not have shown anything special thus far, until you decide to go and wage war." | The prophet's eyes narrowed at the question. "I do not make jokes... Except for knock knock jokes and now is not the time." Waving his hand as if to brush away the idle thoughts in front of him. The prophet points to this would be commander as he now views him, for being unable to see the foolishness of the question. H... | "Why would that be the case? Have we not conquered every single world we passed by? Tell me about any species that encountered us and hasn't been enslaved yet? What do these "humans" have? Stronger warriors? Or advanced weapons?"
"We've never been stopped by either of them before. No, my king, the counsil's concern is... | 2017-12-24T05:03:42 | 2017-12-24T03:55:54 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You die and find yourself at the gates of heaven, but they're rusted and hanging open. The entire place seems abandoned. | "Pearly gates, my ass," I muttered to myself as I took in the ungodly sight before me.
To say I was not in the best mood was an understatement. Mere minutes before, my soul left my mortal body after the vending machine on my floor toppled over and made a human yoga mat out of me. I always wondered how I would go throu... | I look around, and I can't see any signs of anything being used or even touched for years. I look through the gate, and slowly it reveals the true situation. The stairs up to heaven are broken, seemingly by an explosion. I make my way up to the top carefully, and I see a sight that I couldn't believe. Everything was wh... | 2018-09-06T20:16:08 | 2018-09-06T20:11:56 | 147 | 22 |
[WP] You accidentally kill a person. Instantly, you absorb all of their memories, feelings and talents. It feels quite addicting to you. | The first time was an accident. I'm ashamed to admit I fled the scene after I hit him. Hosed the car down in the driveway, tried to pretend it never happened.
I chalked up the dreams to guilt. Memories of another life. Memories of a kind and better man than I. Memories I thought I had imagined for the man I had hit...... | I've forgotten who I was.
The first few times there was still an original 'me' in there somewhere, a coherent narrative buried under all the rubble. I'd dig it up occasionally and despair at how far I'd drifted from my original identity.
Seems kind of foolish, now that I think of it. Why grieve something that might... | 2018-09-23T06:39:07 | 2018-09-23T05:33:19 | 176 | 72 |
[WP] You're a side character in a story. By chance you become aware of this fact and you try everything to be more relevant to the story, even going as far as to intefere in the protagonist's life. |
People called me crazy when I said I could see words in the sky. We had dragons, mythical creatures and magic but words in the sky didn’t exist. These words predicted the future. They always mentioned this one person in my village. He was a human blacksmith destined to be a great warrior apparently. His name was Jo... | I was sipping my tea as usual at my regular pub, then my phone rings. It's my mate Chris again.
"Hey Chris, you up to your shenanigans again? Who are we going to rip off this time?"
Chris always is up to something. And he always seems to have perfect hair. No matter what happens to him. As if he's some kind of action... | 2019-01-06T09:55:05 | 2019-01-06T09:42:33 | 253 | 66 |
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