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[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | How. How. *How!?*
This was the question that surged through the world when the wall at last came down, the world smugly prepared to receive a humbled USA, a world triumphantly rebuilt in their absence.
Only to find that America had thrived even further.
"Well," said the suave young Texan whose visage now graced our ... | It began with a first strike nuclear attack on North Korea and their immediately retaliation. Guam and Hawaii were obliterated but Alaska was spared as the missile sent towards it simply failed and dropped into the North Pacific. Fortunately, for the United States at least, none of North Korea’s missiles had the range... | 2018-01-18T03:23:48 | 2018-01-18T02:43:58 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] Years ago you found a baby dragon that had been abandoned. You carefully helped mend its wounds and taught it to hunt and survive on its own. Now, years later, the dragon has returned to you with some of its young. It wants you to raise its weakest hatchling. | If you were a lonely old woman like me you’d have taken in that whelp too.
Three years ago Razora nearly bit off my finger when I first fed her that old cellar mouse. Hiding her in the haystacks was easy until she nearly burnt down the barn with a mere sneeze. By the time she was the size of a shed, the village had l... | 7:57 AM - Step into office.
7:59 AM - Get fresh copy of Motion for Summary Judgment in Aaerinshalia vs Duersing Mining off copier.
8:01 AM - Get a cup of coffee (Novelty "Lawyers Do It with Jurisprudence" Mug, 2 French Vanilla Creamers, 3 Splenda) from machine.
8:05 AM - Open Office Door.
8:06 AM - Notice naked wom... | 2018-04-04T19:06:43 | 2018-04-04T16:36:21 | 4,943 | 158 |
[WP] You're a biologist who made a deal with the devil: eternity in hell after death in return for unlimited funding for your research. The funding was worth it, you discovered immortality, and the devil is not happy about this. | The devil learned of the deception and decided this must be quelled. With a snap he appeared before the biologist from so long ago. With just four words, the devil made the doctor cower before him and beg for mercy.
"Immortality is not invulnerability."
As the scream of torment rose from the depths of this now harv... | (This is my first post. I wrote it on my phone so of course please excuse the poor format.)
At last, I watched the insect start to twitch, then it flipped over to its legs again. It started to walk around. It was alive.
I jumped up in joy. I shouted, "Eureka!" I was going to be a millionaire. Best of all, I had cheat... | 2018-08-23T11:57:09 | 2018-08-23T10:40:20 | 39 | 28 |
[WP] You won a lifetime supply of Oreos when you were a kid. The apocoylpse and collapse of civilization was 30 years ago, yet every month the Oreos are still delivered to you, no matter where you are. | The key to a successful business is happy customers. It's simple really: make a good product and don't piss off your customers and they'll do the advertising for you. The best product in the world will fail if it has a bad image.
That's where my job comes in. Nabisco hired me to make sure Oreos stayed the family-frie... | The hours pass slowly and are full of pain. My body grows weary with toil under the distant sun and amidst the red dust. But there is no rest for the slaves of the Corn King. We work the barren fields under the crack of the whip and the threat of worse–trying to force life out of something that long ago has died. My li... | 2019-01-04T11:15:51 | 2019-01-04T09:32:32 | 265 | 80 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | There were scarcely anyone on the station on a weekday's afternoon, so Nick could get some space to breathe. He pressed his back against the sun-burned wall, his hair smelt like ash. A flame flickered in his dull eyes, the taste of smoke touched his lips. Nick squinted, turning to his left. Was it a train he was waitin... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T07:02:41 | 129 | 25 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | This was taking forever. And I wasn't even sure I wanted to do it.
As I leaned against the railing, I wondered what I would say when she opened the door. If she opened the door. Gosh, this is weird. A superhero with superspeed? Late?
Maybe she was just as nervous as I am. After all, she thinks this is just some bli... | I grabbed the detonator and with a deep breath I slipped it into the specific pocket in my boot.
Before too long he will arrive. I peered across the roof top and looked for the place I knew he would come from.
The ‘actual’ bomb is over to the east, in a secure prison for the lowest of the low, so he will expect me to ... | 2019-02-23T06:49:09 | 2019-02-23T05:29:53 | 113 | 70 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | **Part 1**
"Oho, if it isn't *Black Magma*!! What brings you to my nefarious lair?!", I crowed.
He sighs, as though the weight of the things I've set in motion already pulled at him. So soon, and it's as if understands how truly powerless he is. This has been weeks in the making, and he knows by now that the only way... | Gwen Stacey always felt that dating Spider-Man was just surreal.
Think about it: you befriend a guy in college, you think he’s cute, he gets awkwardly shy around you, - the clear signs, and you kind of like him back. He’s also a straight up hottie and he’s smart af.
Time goes on, you brake up with your high school ... | 2019-02-23T07:51:01 | 2019-02-23T07:33:44 | 47 | 23 |
[WP] Elves are know for their grace, Orcs are known for their strength, and Dwarves are know for their craftsmanship. Humans are known for their bat-shit craziness and half-assery. | The elves stayed in their plains, the dwarves stayed in their mountains, and the orcs stayed in their deserts.
All of them were gifted with the life of the suns, where they would live for as long as they were healthy. A dagger or plague killed them just as easily, but if left unchecked they would see the end of the... | Each living thing has their notable qualities which seems to emulate any strange natural law of the universe and it would seem the higher degree of the life form the greater the universal law.
Tiny things often resemble the simple functions of life and the universe such as an ant.
An ant could be considered strong ... | 2019-07-01T22:11:09 | 2019-07-01T19:40:31 | 40 | 26 |
[WP] You're a genie who grants a single wish to those who summon you. You have to grant whatever they want, except if they try to bend the rules. When that happens, you're free to do with them as you please. The poor bastard in front of you just asked for infinite wishes. | I smile as the fool asks for the one wish I said was forbidden.. "I want infinite wishes!". The man smirks as I nod and clap my hands. I smile as the fool asks for the one wish I said was forbidden.. "I want infinite wishes!". The man smirks as I nod and clap my hands. I smile as the fool asks for the one wish I said w... | **Ho!HO!Ho ...** *Cough,Cough* **Ho!**
"Mortal you have managed to summon me! As aknowledgement of your skill I shall grant you one wish!", I proclaimed loudly accompanied by my own echo in the cave.
*Epic accoustics, it was worthwile searching for this place. Impressive, impressive.* I ponder while awaitng the aston... | 2019-11-04T06:16:33 | 2019-11-04T06:16:26 | 45 | 32 |
[WP]The curse can only be broken by a willing kiss- not from your true love, but from your worst enemy. | Streaked with rain, the city sighed for the relief of sun amid the glowing red taillights and the black umbrellas. Inside, the dull orange walls of the coffee shop were dimly lit, darkness occluded in the corners of the L-shaped building. Angie and Peter sat at the corner near the door; nervous coffee cups chattered on... | "So if I kiss him...then **I** get to kill him, right?" Ventatia the Black asked the diminutive wizard who had led him to her mortal enemy's current resting place. She would've killed him on the spot but the spell made him invincible. It was the ultimate catch-22. He couldn't be hurt until she revived him. She could've... | 2020-04-30T13:02:25 | 2020-04-30T12:15:22 | 544 | 158 |
[WP] You are hunted by a pale and faceless man that only you can see. The man moves in slow motion. When you sleep at night, you do not dream. Instead you see through his perspective. | He was still there. He was always there.
“Stop! What do you want with me?”
The people around me turned to look at me. Of course no one else saw him. They thought I was the crazy one.
He was getting too close. It was time for me to move.
But did it matter? A few days and he’d be back.
I went home, my head pound... | There was once a woman who lived in the sky. This is not uncommon, of course. When you draw close enough and look at them in just the right way, every star is a soul and every planet is a god, humming away in an eternal cosmic background choir.
But this woman was not like the stars who pirouetted around galaxy-court... | 2020-12-26T03:02:00 | 2020-12-26T02:07:09 | 2,240 | 93 |
[WP] You are a scientist, whose research and inventions will help save the world. The only problem is that, on a weekly basis: a group of teenage superheroes break into your laboratory, destory your inventions and research, and then beat you senseless. | It has long been a dream of mankind to fly. But not like this.
I fly backwards through the air, thumping heavily into the wall behind me and sliding down it, half-conscious.
"And *that's* that for your latest batch of unethical research, Dr. *Evil!*" yells the teenager who threw me. "What do you think of *that?*"
".... | Beams of shadows draped over the silhouettes of the heroes gathered on the roof, as the last streaks of the red sun dimmed into the horizon. On this night, Hayman and his teenage members of the League of Rights were on a mission -- to foil the nefarious plans of the evil scientist, Dr. Edward B. Olah, aka Dr. Ebola. Th... | 2021-04-28T00:14:14 | 2021-04-27T22:37:19 | 51 | 38 |
[WP] Since FTL was invented, people like you were tasked with intercepting previously departed slower than light ships to upgrade their systems and redirect their course. You were often met with some grumbling and frustration, but you never met people who refuse the upgrade like this latest ship. | It had been a long wait. The captain of the old starship needed to come out of stasis, get her bearings, then finally confirm that the call signs were indeed genuine. The better part of two Sol hours in fact for all of this. Still eventually Jacob was aboard the *Einstein* and speaking with Captain Simonson. He gav... | **Unknown ship,** I am Egox-I-Etherable, of the noble standing Laureate, and I am the maintainer of this section of the FTL network. You have fallen into this sector’s Central Gravitational Junction, and if we do not remedy this error, you will be crushed to death in around 39 years.
**This** is April, your Jumpstand... | 2022-06-02T16:41:22 | 2022-06-02T14:35:25 | 163 | 89 |
[WP] Fun fact: There's only four actual people online. Everyone else is fake. If you are reading this, YOU ARE NUMBER FOUR. We've been trying to reach you for some time now. Find us. Quickly, before they do. | I know for a fact that I am not Number Four.
The message vanishes, but it always returns, comes back to me, following ome obscure AI-driven agenda to always reach my inbox, hiding itself admist myriads of spam emails, near-untraceable.
But I know for a fact that I am not Number Four.
The message follows me from face... | I admit, this prompt definitely got me thinking. I mean, what a fascinating concept, only four people online. There was even a small part of me that wondered... "What if... ?"
But logically speaking, there's no way that could realistically work. I mean, I see my family using the internet every day, and that's already ... | 2022-07-20T00:31:27 | 2022-07-19T22:20:08 | 31 | 23 |
[WP] A global war begins, only both sides use Call of Duty tactics. | "Goodbye mom" Jordan said with as little emotion as he could exhibit. His mother sobbed and looked up in disbelief, "But your only 13 years old, how can they take you?" Jordan looked back as he opened the door, "It's the final prestige, live combat, you wouldn't understand." "But Jordan..." began his mother. "No, don't... | During the Vietnam War, the widespread adoption of color TV changed how we saw war. In our own homes, we could feel what it was like to be there in that conflict. We could feel, to some extent, the excitement, the fear, the camaraderie, the terror. These videos were shot from the ground, by human photographers hauling ... | 2014-12-12T12:50:18 | 2014-12-12T08:34:48 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Characters realize they are in a poorly written fanfiction. | Hermoine and Draco walked in the Forbidden Forest. They didn't want to be there together but they had to because that was their detention punishment that Hagrid gave them.
"We have to look for spider," Hermoine said.
"I don't want to look for spiders," Draco said.
GAAAHHH, Hermoine thought, he is SO annoying! Why ... | “Hey, Mario,” Sonic the Hedgehog shouted loudly from the megaphone he happened to be carrying. He liked to keep it with him in case he saw his friends that were too far away. Now he saw his best pal Mario, who was hanging out in a castle. Sonic liked castles, but he liked coins more than castles. He also liked beating ... | 2015-04-17T08:57:11 | 2015-04-17T08:31:11 | 245 | 49 |
[WP] Create the biggest, most unpredictable plot twist you could make in a story. | I look out of my window at the hive of activity opposite. The building company have been working tirelessly for a month now, and I've been taking a single photo every day. I'm going to turn it into a video and stick it on youtube when they're done.
First the powerful diggers tearing up the dirt, then the concrete bein... | It was going to get dark soon, so I had better head back. Mother would be expecting me, and I would dare not let her down. How long had it been? A month? two? No, it had to have been a month and a half, because her surgery was on the 15th, and she came to me right after that. I sighed.
I slowly rose from the little t... | 2015-04-21T08:28:27 | 2015-04-21T08:09:15 | 763 | 234 |
[WP] On his way to fight a terrible dragon, a warrior is stopped by a genie who offers him one wish. This genie, however, happens to also be the dragon's lawyer | After three hours of discussions with the genie, Sir Salack had had enough. He had long dreamed of finding one of these mystical creatures, but this dream had morphed into the most tedious nightmare imaginable. The genie had warned him of repercussions, of the restrictions on the wish, and of a thousand other topics th... | "So, if you turn to section 7A, subarticle 3, you'll find that the cross-acceptance of the wish contract will bind you-"
"Sir, I have no desire for this deal or bargain you are trying to peddle onto me. I am a knight of the ancient Stoliath lineage, whom have been heralded by stories as noble dragon-slayers since t... | 2015-06-26T13:21:09 | 2015-06-26T11:00:46 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] You have a bottle of pure Luck. You have to use it all up quickly, though, or else it will rot and become Bad Luck.
EDIT: My first prompt that actually took off! Nice. | Of the many assorted odds and ends on the shelf in the oddities store only one caught my eye.
The label on the bottle read as such: "Liquid Luck! Drink immediately after opening for desired effects." That was all. No ingredients list, no way of learning to get more, just the simple instruction of open and drink on a t... | *...and that concludes our sports news for the night. In other news, the Lottery Office has just announced that the jackpot prize for the lottery has now reached a record-breaking fifty million dollars! For all you listeners out there, better consult your horoscopes and fortune tellers, because this just might be your ... | 2015-10-01T09:10:55 | 2015-10-01T06:26:03 | 93 | 11 |
[WP] Humans are a minuscule minority in the afterlife. Both heaven and hell are full of dinosaurs. | The pterodactyls soared through the fluffy white clouds as I walked with Michael along walkways through Heaven’s Visitor Center. We’d heard that God was serving ice cream. The freezers had gone out, and it all needed to be eaten before melting. Why God couldn’t just keep it solid I didn’t know, but He seemed to enjoy r... | It all began with the rapture. My pious neighbours, my inexplicably religious friends, and the nice lady who kept trying to help me find Jesus all flew into the sky. But that's alright, if Dante is to be believed, because I have led a humble and fulfilling life free of sins. I may not go into the kingdom of heaven, but... | 2016-01-09T07:42:33 | 2016-01-09T04:56:35 | 739 | 149 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | The Hitler Games have been a huge hit when it became public in the 24th century. Sure, in the past people did it just for fun. Then came the betting of "Hey, betcha I can kill Hitler better than you." People put hundreds, then thousands of dollars to try and one-up each other on this simple task. The end result was the... | Everyone wants to kill Hitler but they can't quite do it right. The first time traveler decided to kill Hitler, right as the war was ending, via cyanide. Okay, sure, the suicide staging was pretty sweet, but the poor guys who had to live and die through it all probably wouldn't have appreciated it.
So later on, a few ... | 2016-02-20T10:56:09 | 2016-02-20T09:11:19 | 596 | 19 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | "What do you mean you didn't kill him, that's the whole point of the game!" John shouted at me, I hated it when John shouted, his voice was so grating.
"Just what I said," I spoke between sips of my soda, "I didn't kill him. I just fucked with him."
"How do you win the game off that alone?!" He questioned, his head t... | After months of careful planning and pillaging of the German ranks, America's Lt. Aldo Raine and his two brave friends of the infamous bastard company have taken their seats in the theatre. Hitler and all the top-ranking nazi officials will be watching germany's proudest soldier star in the fatherland's greatest propag... | 2016-02-20T09:29:08 | 2016-02-20T08:40:02 | 132 | 23 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | This was the fourth time they came. They had never succeeded; however, they never really seemed to try.
The first time they came, they brought what they considered fierce monsters. Cats, as they called them, did not attack as intended, rather they made a strong niche among the rising generations.
The second was a l... | Mleep rose from his slumber. Today would be the day that this planet fell to the mighty wrath of mleep. Mleep was a hero, a soldier and a magnificent lover, the later being proved by countless sighs of tender pleasure. Mleep had been sent to earth by his overlords to do one thing. He knew what he had to do and he revel... | 2016-02-22T10:42:06 | 2016-02-22T10:30:41 | 35 | 20 |
[WP]Your username is the central theme of the writing prompt | Inside the library
were stories to be told,
In between each page
every crease and fold.
Inside the library
the quiet was like death,
the shadows moved intensely
the darkness grew in breadth.
Inside the library
the shadows drew near,
the people tried to run
but death was already here.
Inside the library
skeletons... | *The Mad Hatter On Tea*
She’d thought it was ecstasy. Cocaine even. She’d never seen anybody get high on tea before. She watched in a mix of fascination and repulsion as he used a fancy razor blade to cut the tea-leaves into small inhalable pieces. He arranged them into three neat little lines and before you could sa... | 2016-09-25T06:15:29 | 2016-09-25T06:02:03 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] North Korea is actually a paradise on Earth, but they don't want anyone to know. You work for the reverse propaganda department, convincing the rest of the world that N.K. is a hell-hole, and you've done your job well until today: you've just made a big mistake that might ruin everything... | At 9:13 am, Park Young-min, my assistant, burst into my office frantically flailing his arms. “Boss! CNN!”
I fumbled for the remote and turned on the television. The 70-inch screen in my office flickered on, and I stared in disbelief at the headlines scrolling on the bottom of the screen. “New satellite images of Nort... | Many of our people believe that our world is perfect. I don't though. If it were perfect we wouldn't have to insulate ourselves from the rest of the Earth. Of course this is a source of sadness sometimes, but we believe it's necessary to keep our people safe and happy. Every other country seems to look for excuses ... | 2016-11-15T12:52:17 | 2016-11-15T08:21:55 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] Suddenly, all disorders and diseases are turned into superpowers. Blind people have x-ray vision, astmathic people have endless lungcapacity, and so on. You have cancer. | Being diagnosed with cancer was the happiest day of my life.
In retrospect, this wasn't exactly true, but as of last week looking back, it was the day my life turned around.
Before, each day was a painful routine of blood samples, needles, doctors helping me do things I was perfectly capable of doing and pity.
Th... | "Stay back!" The chubby man known only as Zeke warned me.
I took another step closer. Zeke flinched as two other copies of himself, dressed in the same outfits just different colors, appeared next to him. They each exchanged worried glances and then turned back to face me. I made sure to sneer at all three of them as... | 2017-05-21T08:58:42 | 2017-05-21T08:54:19 | 1,809 | 50 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | "I'm confused."
"I told you I was an actress."
"It's LA. So is literally almost every woman else I've met since I unpacked."
"You're really pretty dense for a doctor. Do your patients notice?"
"My patients chew cud or chase tennis balls."
"Keep pretending you have bovine patients in Hollywood."
"It's not for lack... | I don't like it. She knows it, I know it, we both know it. Yet I'm still here, among all these people with their armani suits and rolex watches... Is rolex even that popular among rich people? I'm not sure. I'm just guessing that's what they're wearing. Not that it matters either way, all I know is that the floor I'm s... | 2017-06-14T14:16:22 | 2017-06-14T11:21:04 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] "You live like this?" the burglar asked, gently waking you up. | I heard the window break.
*A chair was heard rocking back and fourth*
I heard the furniture being moved around.
*A man whispering silently was constantly being heard*
I heard my drawers opening and their contents shuffled.
*A metallic sound was heard being dragged around the floor*
I heard my door opening.
*A ma... | “You live like this?” I heard softly, awakening me from a dream I forgot at the same instant I woke, feeling faintly that the voice was a part of my dream, and not as surprised as I should have been to find out it wasn’t. She was sitting on the end of my bed, below my feet, with her back against the wall. She was dress... | 2017-08-21T13:05:00 | 2017-08-21T11:12:40 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Eternity. Immortality. Forever.
They had no clue what these words truly meant. To see these pathetic creatures spreading their message of dreamless peace across the galaxy is an insult to all of existence. They called themselves Reapers. Their ships moved faster than any imperial or chaos ship by magnitudes, their we... | "Ah, yes, 'Reapers'," Guilliman sarcastically said, showing the quotation signs with his fingers while saying the last word. "The immortal race of sentient starships allegedly waiting in dark space. We have dismissed this claim."
Sly Marbo couldn't believe it. He thought things changed. He thought at least Guilliman, ... | 2017-08-27T08:33:00 | 2017-08-27T08:05:25 | 335 | 152 |
[WP] A medieval king suddenly finds a smartphone and tries to unlock it. But each time he fails, years later it has become a tradition for nobles to try to unlock it. You, a simple servant, fiddled with it the night before the ceremony and unlocked it.
Edit: just think the phone is solar or something to ignore the bat... | 1 2 3 4, Had no one thought of that before?
There was writing on the screen. Elvy read it.
He quickly pressed the lock button, placed it back on its pedestal, and bolted for the door.
As he walked the length of the castle's main corridor, headed toward the great Galaxy ceremony, Elvy couldnt help but feel this wa... | "You!" a voice boomed from the end of the hall. "What have you got there! That's the prized Glassy Tablet! Remove it from your unworthy hands you dim-witted scoundrel!"
"Ah, but, I unlocked it, your Grace," replied Hrothgar.
"Nonsense, buffoon, nobody on this long flat planet will ever be able to--" his jaw spanked aga... | 2017-10-14T07:14:31 | 2017-10-14T06:27:50 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] 1 hour before someone dies their loved ones are teleported to them so that they can enjoy their last moments. You don't have any more loved ones, but suddenly you are teleported into a crowded room. | This was unexpected. The world blurred slightly around Steve as he found himself in the crowded living room of a stranger's house. Immediately he knew it was The Last Hour. Any time a person was within an hour of death, their loved ones would be drawn to them like a magnet for final words and farewells. He'd been calle... | The calm quiet of the waves below relaxed me. It was really messed up, if you thought about it; at random times on random days, without warning, you'd suddenly appear in front of a loved one, and all you knew was that you had an hour with them before they were gone forever. The program was started to give you a chance ... | 2018-05-20T13:06:15 | 2018-05-20T12:00:24 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in Valhalla. But you did not die a warrior's death. You were merely summoned there because there is a sudden need for more cleaning and waiting staff due to the influx of writing prompt characters ending up there. | "Yo I spilled some coffee over here. Mop it up for me will ya, champ? Need to go to a meeting. You got this bro. Ciao."
Trail that coffee on your shoe on your way out too, why dont you?
Fuck this dude.
The last thing I remember was slipping on mop water.
"Why in Hell was I tasked on waking the cleaning staf--WELC... | I woke up with the undeniable musk of beer on my breath. My head was swimming in pain and my ears rang. I looked around to see if I can identify where my drinking had gotten me, but all I saw was a bearded man staring at me.
"Are you my nurse?" I sheepishly asked. The man did look imposing.
"I, a nurse? Ha!" The man... | 2018-05-26T09:11:04 | 2018-05-26T09:07:16 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | Everyone had a rating for how lucky they could be, from 1 to 100, 1 being close to no luck and 100 being the best luck. Most people had a rating of around 30ish. I was one of the few with a full score of 100.
Which would have been great, if bad luck wasn't a thing. The thing with the luck rating was that it was basica... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T11:19:11 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 72 | 26 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | You’d think having a luck rating of 100 would have made life a walk in the park. That the world around you would be all sunshine and daisies. It wasn’t.
The problem is, a luck rating like that tends to warp the world around you. For everything to always go your way, someone else often must pay the price. Even worse, y... | I was *born* with max luck, being told my whole life that I shouldn’t be, that I was *favored*. Nope, I was locked up and the key thrown away. I had spent my life, from age thirteen onwards here. My Luck was my weapon, but I wasn’t sure how. I *should have* been able to get out of here, press my own Luck to its max... | 2018-06-29T11:39:52 | 2018-06-29T10:57:06 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You've been a History teacher for 30 years, never gotten a single fact wrong. One day you become suspicious, surely I should've gone wrong somewhere? You test a theory by purposely being incorrect, suddenly, history rewrites itself. | You stare in horror at your class room. Every single child in it is now unusually fair with varying shades of blond hair and blue eyes.
With shaking hands you pat a lock of hair free from your bun and examine it. Yes, you too are now a blond though there is more silver there than gold.
You take a deep breath at... | "9/11 never happened!"
I said that out loud in my class, and things went so silent I could hear a pin drop. I'm a virtuoso, a perfectionist. I'm a master at my craft. I wield my mind like a master swordsman, my historic knowledge knowing no limit. Lately, it has been cause for distress. I've sat up late for many night... | 2018-07-16T10:58:08 | 2018-07-16T10:55:39 | 263 | 159 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | “What?”
My shock at seeing my wound heal instantly was quickly replaced with a feeling of strength that surged through my body. *It’s just like a video game*. With my newfound power, I decided to test if I could do anything else from games I had played. I walked outside and punched a nearby tree. After a few more hits,... | "Hey Bryan, I, uh, was wondering if you, uh, would like to go to the winter formal with me? Only if you wanted to! I guess."
Elena was just another nobody at Eisenhower High School. Around 5'2, short dark brown hair, with typical dark brown eyes. Elena never stuck out or did anything exciting. She went to class, ate... | 2018-08-14T10:35:26 | 2018-08-14T08:58:51 | 80 | 48 |
[WP] "I like adventurous guys," she says with stars in her eyes. Your date is the most beautiful woman you've ever met. In a panic, you buy last-minute plane tickets to a small Balkan country. Your plan - a short tour visit, overthrow the local government, and win her heart. | Her beautiful, sparkling eyes give me tunnel vision every time I see them. I thought I was incapable of love before her. The air around is still. The sidewalk we were standing on was surprisingly pristine, with the exception of a small bit of graffiti here and there; must've been put there before the cement could dry. ... | "Success is the ultimate driver," I say as I stare out the window of the plane, the sun's bright rays refracting off the clouds far below, creating heaven in my mind's eye. "Success gives us a chance at procreation, to allow men like me to reproduce with a female of the highest quality."
The man beside me nods knowing... | 2018-12-10T09:43:40 | 2018-12-10T08:30:42 | 53 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone gets an ability at the age of 25 based on the thing they do the most. Your parents were trying to get you something useful for your entire life and , on the day before your birthday, you decide to tell them about your secret hobby. | I was, ah.... unusually talented at this.
Most people spent all their life doing something. Sometimes the ability was career related. An engineer could instantly design, analyze, or even manufacture whatever he or she set their mind to, past their 25th birthday. Sometimes it was utterly mundane, like driving, whi... | The bane of my childhood existence was the strict rule my parents enforced on me for the duration of my childhood: absolutely no creativity was allowed under any circumstances. Looking back, I can understand their reasoning, though that does not necessarily mean I agree with it. My mother, an Analyst, had spent her chi... | 2018-12-29T15:44:17 | 2018-12-29T14:33:26 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | "...and for the ten *millionth* time, would you all *please stop eating shellfish*!"
"Is that all m'lord?" Metatron asked, quickly scribbling the last of the command down on its notepad.
"I think so." I sighed, leaning back in the heavenly golden throne. "You think they might all listen for once?"
"I doubt it m'lor... | Lying on my bed I'm my room, the blackouts closed... it's too warm you know. I like a colder room. Something a bit more comfortable. Sometimes I just sit there pondering impossible questions... tracing the lines in the giprock ceiling...
"What's for supper?"
"How will college be when I enter for the first time in 3 m... | 2019-06-03T11:16:32 | 2019-06-03T10:40:47 | 294 | 11 |
[WP] All races are judged by their affinity to cast magic. The humans, being the only living creature who can't use magic, was banished. After many years, they achieved high technological progress, invented "Guns" that is far stronger than any magic. Fearing revenge, a spy elf warns the other races. | ”Emperor, you have a guest. A tiresome looking fellow. Says it’s urgent.”
Emperor Lotkin put down the package he was holding and turned to his guard. “Well don’t be a slack, send them in!”
A man with frazzled hair and dark circles under his eyes trudged into the room.
“M’lord, I am Eishray, of the Elvin kingdom. ... | Hank signaled Clay to move ahead, to cross the clearing and run towards the next giant tree. This forest always seemed to have a next giant tree. Clay always complained about all the bugs that made the trees their homes and that would come out at night to harass honest working stiffs. Hank always retorted that witho... | 2020-04-16T12:50:41 | 2020-04-16T11:54:17 | 49 | 24 |
[WP] God is the programmer of the universe. While he used to release updates and patches rather quickly, he has since stoped due to the complexity of his own embarrassingly jerryrigged coding. | First attempt at a story here:
He was desperate. He had until midnight to finish it, or it'd all be for nothing. He had avoided it for months, and had actually only started working on it one week ago. Storing the position of particles? No, he had decided that instead of having to store the position of electrons, it'd ... |
The man was hunched over, sitting intently at his desk. The scratch of a pen moving against the paper could be heard as he wrote.
*…confuses many. The Great Restoration was once seen as the proof of an omniscient, omnipotent being. It was the source of prayers and religion, of love and hope.*
He paused, stroking... | 2020-06-14T13:30:58 | 2020-06-14T13:19:22 | 111 | 20 |
[WP] A global, standardised test taken at 13 determines the career of everyone on the planet. The big day comes and you get your results back, only to learn you might have the hardest job ever given through this system: you have to redesign the test. | I was roused from my slumber by an urgent beeping from my phone. Grunting, I reached over and saw an email alert chiming urgently. Immediately, I sat up rigid, my hands shaking more from anger than from nervousness. The exam results were in.
I'd always hated the exam, this thing that our lives we're all arranged arou... | I sat staring at the LED's of my computer screen, frozen and transfixed by the simple email imploring me to redesign the test. I thought with my years of programming experience I would be selected to work with software, perhaps for Peach or Macrohard. I had grown up at my desk, typing away lines of code, while many kid... | 2020-07-05T01:34:43 | 2020-07-04T23:05:06 | 159 | 28 |
[WP] A cult captured you and successfully sacrificed your girlfriend to bring their evil deity into the world. What no one knew, however, was that the sacrificed soul became the core of their summoned Dark Goddess. | After your girlfriend comes out of the darkness, shadows coil around her in a cloak of darkness. They present you to her as her first meal in physical form.
"Sorry," the dark goddess smiles, "I'm vegan now. Human meat has been nothing but killer on my thighs." She leans down and gives you a peck on the cheek and the c... | 'What's wrong babe? I thought you liked goat livers.' My wife asked during my third gag reflex over the dinner she cooked. I used to love her cooking but ever since the accident I hate it. Something's changed. Don't get me wrong, I love the orgies and all the kinky stuff she's doing but...Oh yeah the accident, perhaps ... | 2020-10-06T10:51:14 | 2020-10-06T07:11:25 | 56 | 15 |
[WP] No one is sure what happened, but suddenly everyone started obeying the law. All crime ceased. At first it was beautiful, but it quickly started going very wrong. | *“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”*
I don’t remember who said that anymore. But it’s all I can think about today as I clock in for my first shift at the diner. That and how I was somehow left out of things the on... | On a street corner in city A--, Ring County, Gregson received a high five from a full-bearded man who wore a beanie. Gregson was expecting a high five, but not what happened after. In his hand he had a twenty dollar bill and he expected a quarter ounce packet to exchange hands when the high five happened. But the man j... | 2021-09-22T08:50:30 | 2021-09-22T08:27:31 | 84 | 27 |
[WP] No one is sure what happened, but suddenly everyone started obeying the law. All crime ceased. At first it was beautiful, but it quickly started going very wrong. | My mother’s voice was soft and gentle, her touch kind and enveloping. Hugged tight against her chest, I felt warm tears begin to form, wishing she’d *let me go*.
I couldn’t push her off, though. I couldn’t even blink on command, couldn’t even breathe. I was just a puppet. *Everyone was.*
Finally released from the hu... | I first realized something had changed while watching live news footage of the Szentburough terrorist attack. Midway through the assault, the criminals surrendered voluntarily and released their hostages. Soon, reports began to pile up. All over the nation, people were turning themselves in, confessing to crimes no one... | 2021-09-22T11:18:45 | 2021-09-22T09:24:57 | 54 | 39 |
[WP] It turns out your apartment was so cheap to rent because one of the cupboards is actually a portal to the Underworld. It’s not dangerous, but the number of adventurers knocking at your door in the middle of the night looking to go through is starting to get annoying. | "Look," I said to the cavernous, undulating pit in the cupboard under my sink, "I'm not asking you to leave entirely. I'm just saying it would really help if you could... relocate a bit." The creature inside - the one that *was* the Pit and that liked it when I put raw meat in the garbage disposal - poked a tentacle ma... | Those who knew him would say George was a punctual man, those who knew him better would use unkinder words. He brushed his teeth six times a day, showed up for meetings half an hour ahead of schedule, and had everybody’s birthday memorized to the minute. He had three alarms; a 5:40 alarm to wake up, a 5:45 alarm to tak... | 2022-01-01T22:41:03 | 2022-01-01T20:44:56 | 51 | 12 |
[WP] The real reason the dragon kidnapped the princess? They've developed a crush on the kingdom's top knight, and wanted a reason for that knight to be sent to their lair. | "Dragon! I come for the princess!" Cried the knight, raising his sword high, armor shining in the midday sun. "Hand her over, or I shall cut you down!"
"Oooh Sir Aymeric, at last you are here! I have been waiting such a long time to meet you at last!" Said the woman, throwing herself in his arms.
Only, it wasn't the... | The red dragon paced around his lair, at this point it was likely her would wear a groove into the dirt.
However he continued to pace while speaking his mind to the princess tied up in the back.
"It's going to work right? You made sure everything's in place?"
The princess chuckled as she watched the dragon nervously... | 2022-01-21T11:26:11 | 2022-01-21T10:14:13 | 480 | 101 |
[WP] A scientist is banned by law from attending any and all parties due to his tendency to build fully -functioning doomsday devices while intoxicated. | The UN decided the only way to keep him from ending the world was to lock him in a cell the rest of his life - and that's what they did. A trial was held, and the entire world watched. The final straw was when the mad doctor actually activated the countdown timer on one of his devices at an after-party to some Hollywoo... | As I exited the house, drinks in my hands, I noticed the last person I wanted to see today. It was Stephen, with a near-empty glass of wine. I approached him after delivering the drinks.
"You remember the judge banned you from attending parties?" I whizzed at him quietly. "That we worked day and night to get you out o... | 2022-05-17T08:08:39 | 2022-05-17T07:48:18 | 71 | 46 |
[WP] After struggling in school all year you finally stood up to your bully and knocked him out with a punch in front of everyone. He promptly disapperead, turning into a pile of quarters. | Last year I moved to Toronto, it has *not* been a pleasant experience. Every day that cockthistle Jason makes my life a living hell. Just this week he poured a Gatorade in my lap and told everyone I pissed myself.
20 minutes ago he punched me in the back of the head and yelled "donkey punch" then he called me gay for ... | I woke up from a late night playing too many video games. I stumbled past my father on the couch. As usual he was passed out, beer cans thrown in a pile by the tv. I went into the kitchen, nothing to eat but leftover chicken fried rice from “Taste of the East”. I dumped some in a bowl and threw it in the microwave.
... | 2022-07-24T17:07:09 | 2022-07-24T16:47:38 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] You, a normal human, have somehow become the best duelist at a magic academy. | "Do your worst!" Sneered the Fey creature opposite me.
We stood 6 feet apart, each in a magic circle of our own design. Erebor had decorated his with sigil, a few runes and some small crystals, all designed to drawer the magical essence of the environment and enhance his particular brand of magic.
Mine was mostly sto... | *This is fine...All i have to do is input enough power for it to read it as average. or adequate.*
“Aeyslie Weren” the moderator called out, but was noticeably butchered in its pronunciation, with the student in-question craning their neck in response. Aeyslie looked around, making sure it wasn’t just a really weird w... | 2022-11-10T13:48:32 | 2022-11-10T12:21:00 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] Monks discover scary secret: there is only limited souls being 'recycled' by reincarnation and by reaching the highest human population ever, soulless people are being born.
Animals too. We're out of souls, guys.
Edit: few people told me they knew RPG or movie or game with this theme. Sorry guys, I thought o... | Having a full soul is a feeling like no other. I wouldn't expect you to understand, but I'll do my best to explain.
It's immortality, and power over nature. It's fulfillment, a feeling of total purpose. It's satisfaction. There's no room for doubt, for low self esteem, for uncertainty. It's being a complete human.
... | "There will be no afterlife for these men. No second chances, no means to right regrets. Only the void awaits these poor...soulless."
The abbot watched the men down in the courtyard wearily, the moonlight reflecting on his glasses, a pair of small crescent moons of their own.
I cleared my throat. "Does it pay to have... | 2015-08-22T10:32:23 | 2015-08-22T09:40:34 | 491 | 44 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | The last thing you saw was your smartphones screen, you'd just sent your other half a quick message.
"b home soon <3"
Infact, you'll never be home. You'll never know anything human again.
You simply become aware of darkness. An infinite black that you can't even identify any semblance of self in. You are. Ther... | You are dead, or are you really? You have been an atheist, all your live. Well most of it, sometimes you have ventured into agnosticism, but mostly you have been an atheist. So why the hell, can you still think, you remember being alive, you remember the doctor saying that it would all over soon, then pushing the pisto... | 2015-10-18T21:05:43 | 2015-10-18T20:21:54 | 35 | 23 |
[WP] World Peace has been achieved and the first crime in centuries has been committed.
EDIT: I've been reading a lot of these prompts throughout the day and they have all been really good, sadly I don't have the time to sit and read them all :( | Everyone just stood there in utter silence, no-one knew what to do, even the police were just as confused as the rest of the crowd.
"Uhh... Your under arrest..."
A cop finally spoke, it was a half-hearted mumble at best, but it was still something. He approached me with a pair of handcuffs that he could not open, he... | Sheila walked by Sam on the way to the market.
Recognizing Sheila, Sam stopped and grasped his arm, giggling as he gave her a playful punch on the shoulder.
Banners proclaiming "World Peace Day" lined the majestic mountain town, and the multiple waterfalls nearby the market have been changed this year to a rainbow ... | 2015-11-01T09:07:30 | 2015-11-01T08:48:48 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] All money is now cats. Describe a transaction. | They drug them for the big transactions. They have to, really, otherwise people would get killed. Have you ever seen a thousand angry cats in one place? It's basically a fire with teeth and fur. No wonder people are so keen to stop using cash.
Anyway, my job is to move them to the bank at the end of the day, after the... | They file out of the back of the truck carrying guns and whips like soldiers moonlighting as circus performers. The people in the streets duck behind their cars or run off screaming in horror, but these men adorned in black garb and black masks seem not to notice it. The men at the front of the group kick the bank door... | 2015-12-31T08:42:23 | 2015-12-31T06:54:26 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | After fifty years of willing incarceration, I left. My time had been served with no crime to its name, and now, I could put that time towards any offence I chose. A smile played at my lips.
The world watched as I took my first step from prison. Underfoot, the pavement created a mosaic: the hard, blackened crust of soc... | Eugene Dalton was released from prison fifty years and a couple days after turning himself in for the future murder of his wife and two children. None of his family were there to greet him, naturally. However, there were several local news crews present.
One reporter asked him, “How does it feel to be free after all t... | 2016-02-23T15:03:44 | 2016-02-23T13:16:47 | 2,363 | 402 |
[WP] After a person dies, they are brought to the moment they were born to become their own guardian angels and hopefully guide themselves towards a better life. | You are far more beautiful than in the faded sepia photos dad gave me. Oh God, we might never have known each other but believe me you were in my thoughts my entire life. Never a day went by without me wondering if you'd approve of my choices, my girlfriends, my jobs - never a day passed without me wondering if you'd ... | “Who the bloody hell are you?” Jonathan asked.
“I’m not at liberty to say the details,” the man sitting in the armchair mused. “But, you can call me Johnny, I suppose.”
Jonathan gulped audibly, his eyes darting to the locked door and closed windows then back at the old man. He looked slightly familiar, Jonathan noted... | 2016-09-18T04:28:38 | 2016-09-18T04:23:18 | 1,925 | 25 |
[WP] You live in a word where guns are everywhere, but only when they need to be. Autonomous gun lockers are built into every structure in the developed world. When a person is in serious danger a gun will pop out of a wall for them. You're at the mall and guns just came up for everyone.
Everybody gets one. | No one knew what to do.
My friends and I were shopping when The Call was sounded. They scrambled for their guns and immediately played armchair general. I picked up my weapon, but my anxiety was making it difficult to remember the basics...
*Only aim at something you want to shoot?* I aimed the handgun towards the gr... | "Ach," said Sven, pushing his mop through the gore. That was definitely brains splattered across the food court, halfway up the Orange Julius. And that smell - ugh. Someone's bowels had definitely been perforated. "This country. It's insane! Two lunatics manage to jimmy open a gun locker and decide to commit suicide, a... | 2016-10-07T10:26:35 | 2016-10-07T05:32:12 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | Everyone in the U.S. tuned in to watch one of the three major nationally syndicated TV news programs. Fifty years ago, the WWIII Isolation Armistice required all international travel and trade to cease, the internet to be walled, and all long distance communication to be deactivated.
The only broadcast communications... | Burgess stop running long enough to feel the fire in his chest and stitch in side. Wing tips were never meant for this, he realized too late. His instinct kicked in about a second and two heavy breaths later – “MOVE! NOW!”
He took off again, light gray suit jacket protesting the movement of his arms. His 1,300$ Cou... | 2016-10-18T18:32:40 | 2016-10-18T15:03:15 | 252 | 94 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | Lieutenant Colonel Freeman sighed. The gunfire starting to die down. He knew it wasn't a good type of die down either. It wasn't stopping because they were winning. It was stopping because his men were dying.
The General had already been killed and that put command over this base on him. The General had declared this... | Project EXILE had seemed to be humming along just fine until the shift change on Thursday morning. Seemed.
PFC Johnson was one of the few A51 staff members to be a Qualified Sensitive. Rumor had it there used to be more, but budget cuts took their toll as more and more money was devoted to recent saber rattling inste... | 2017-03-21T06:56:08 | 2017-03-21T04:50:35 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] In a world where super powers manifest in childhood you have the worlds most dangerous job. Running a daycare | I'm trying to concentrate on the names and little boxes on the worksheet in front of me, but there's a hand patting my skirt. I wipe my forehead with the back of my hand and see a little angelic-looking face looking up at me. *What do you want*, I think.
"Ms. Carrie," she always knows what tone to use when she wants s... | My name is Harley Daniels, 24 years old, Montessori teacher, eater of queen cakes and sufferer of migraines. Today is a good day though as I have kept my blood sugar levels in check. No, I’m not a diabetic; I’m a class B Passive. That’s right, you probably won’t know what that is, would you? I guess I should start at t... | 2017-09-21T15:17:51 | 2017-09-21T15:12:28 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone is immortal in the distant future. To keep life interesting, most people "reset" their memories every few centuries so they can experience life anew. Your reset malfunctioned, and you've just received thousands of years of lost memories. | The doctor raised an eyebrow at his monitor. A Windows XP error had just popped up and his system promptly crashed. He turned to his patient who was staring blankly at the wall as if trying to catch the exact moment when some paint would crack.
The doctor stepped forward, a look of concen on his face.
"Shit," said th... | She understood death then. Awareness was her poison.
It wasn't supposed to happen this way. Arya wanted a new life. One in which she's born without the pleasures and pains of her past. A clean plate. But as chaos would have it, she didn't forget anything. Instead, she remembered. Everything. All the lives she's lived ... | 2017-11-10T02:42:17 | 2017-11-10T01:42:41 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | They told us we wouldn’t get Alzheimers.
Technically, they were right.
The ads plastered on every billboard, livestream, and website promised Ephoebus would preserve our body and brain’s critical functions. The generation young enough to take it would have the quick wits of a twenty-something combined with the wisdo... | The gunsmoke lingers lazily about a foot in front of me, sharp smell of sulfurous anger assaults my nostrils, foreign yet familiar. The smoke gently obscures the writhing psychopath on my floor, bleeding out all over my goddamn berber carpet that I just had cleaned not even a week ago. As the blood soaks in a widening ... | 2018-06-04T21:35:59 | 2018-06-04T21:25:21 | 354 | 201 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | "oh, I'm sorry, I actually don't understand you. I have a condition that only allows me to speak your language, not understand it."
"what? So... You're not here to destroy this reality?"
"yeah, sorry, don't understand a word. You would not believe the issues it causes"
"thats good because I'd have to kill you"
"can... | I entered the store,the fresh smell of grease and soggy fries flooding my nose. How the workers endured the smell for more then fifteen minutes I have no clue,not that it mattered to me but it was always the first thing I thought of when I entered.
A few seconds later my nose had adjusted to the smell and so I walke... | 2018-06-24T21:11:48 | 2018-06-24T20:22:38 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | She was only 15.
The knob rattles as the door wrenches from its frame, barely able to stand tall with the onslaught of her nimble frame ramming into the door.
“Daddy, please! Why won’t you let me in! I just want to be with you!”
Don’t listen to her. Don’t listen to her, she can’t be trusted. You saw the mark on her... |
((Some mild violence and dark themes, kinda new to this so I hope I did it right))
I had always been a zombie buff, everything Walking Dead and Max Brooks I was all over it. Little did I know the real zombie Apocalypse was just around the corner and it…the books the TV shows don’t prepare you for of being real for ... | 2018-09-06T18:54:24 | 2018-09-06T15:42:34 | 77 | 23 |
[WP] You are a schizophrenic man that has accepted your hallucinations and ignores them. While you are shopping at Walmart, a giant fissure opens up randomly beneath your feet. You walk over it, believing it to be another hallucination. People are staring at you in shock. | I looked back at them, gestured *"What?"* , figured maybe it's just my hallucinations, and just went on. I have agoraphobia, yes, but as I walk across it nervously, my mind figured it out as a mere hallucination and finally got over it.
As I check the breakfast section, the creatures that haunt me back then poured ou... | My normal trip to the local supermarket is always the same. Each person that passes draws another few voices threatening my end at their hands, or them being someone that they do not say that they are. A thief or something else. Perhaps all the food in that cart will be stolen in a few short minutes when they push it s... | 2018-12-22T06:05:33 | 2018-12-22T04:45:52 | 79 | 51 |
[WP] Your daughter has always had imaginary "alien friends" she would play with and speak to in a funny, nonsensical language. You never thought much of it, until some real aliens arrived and asked for their ambassador, your daughter. | Taya was a normal 6-year-old girl in almost every respect. She loved playing with Barbies; she loved watching Paw Patrol whenever I would let her rot her brain in front of the TV; and she loved tormenting the dog, Aby.
There was just one little aspect of Taya that wasn’t… quite so normal. Before she could even speak, ... | We used to call it sabble-babble when Sabrina was younger. She was like a cat; she would become fixated with a random, definitely empty corner or wall and just start babbling at it like some sort of possessed witch doctor mid-exorcism. It was cute at first. Then it was creepy. Kids can be creepy, but this was different... | 2019-06-21T11:23:53 | 2019-06-21T11:10:50 | 344 | 122 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | Finally! The day I get to try on the famed Exo-armor. The armor that single handedly turned the tide of the war. With only 10 suits in existence and no way of manufacturing more, there are few greater honors. Imagining its comfortable feel and assuring presence that others had described in such detail sent excited ting... | PART 1
I walked the corridors at the base pushing my mop and bucket trying to keep a low profile. *Stay silent, stay unknown*. If I draw any attention the asshole soldiers on the base would start harassing me again. I did *not* want to deal with their crap again.
A squad hustled past chattering excitedly. I could ov... | 2019-08-19T13:42:04 | 2019-08-19T13:13:49 | 46 | 23 |
[WP] The Evil Overlord infiltrates the hero's party as a new member. The hero's party realizes this, but they instead pretend not to and pamper him with love and acceptance.
I humbly hope this is simple enough that you can come up with many world ideas c: | Evil as dark as night. Pain as deep as the ocean. A mind as fractured as a stained-glass window fallen from it's holy heights.
Such things could not be fixed with mere love and acceptance. With hugs and kind words. With friendship.
No. Such things could only fester and grow, demanding to be fed as they consumed and... | Okay so this exact thing just happened in the D&D campaign I am running here is the story...
The world has been through a cataclysm. The evil goddess Llolth and the demon Prince Orcus have taken the world for themselves after the previous party refused to hear the call to adventure. The world has been reshaped to ... | 2019-11-02T13:28:38 | 2019-11-02T12:08:54 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] In Japan you are number 1 heart surgeon, steady hand. One day Yakuza boss needs new heart, you do the operation but mistake! Yakuza boss die, Yakuza very mad, you hid in a fishing boat and come to America, no English, money or food, a Warehouse manager Darryl takes you under his wing | In Japan, heart surgeon number one. Steady hand. One day, yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But mistake! Yakuza boss die! Yakuza very mad! I hide fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret? I k... | ‘Twas a foggy morning on the American west coast. A Japanese man stumbled out of a fishing boat, tired and weary from the intense journey. From homeland to the land of the free, This Japanese man has endured much. This is the story Hideoshi, The Steady Hand.
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On the edge of August he started med school. Hi... | 2019-11-30T06:46:07 | 2019-11-30T06:06:18 | 1,100 | 11 |
[WP] As you stand infront of the sink washing a glass mug, you have the sudden urge to say a number. The number twenty-two leaves your lips, and for half a second you know why you've said it. This is the 22nd time you've remembered you are trapped in this loop. For half a second you remember. | I walked to the sink and picked up my mug.
I stood placidly for a while, staring at it, and the way the light from my kitchen window played off its smooth surface and the soap suds.
It seemed like the world no longer existed - as if I were in a trance. Like in a dream, where context and reason dissolve into the back... | Liquid blue soap slides down my hand. I've missed the sponge again, but atleast the soap isn't across my stomach this time. My mind turns back to the cool glass resting in my hand. As my hand goes to start the rhythmic motions of washing away the milk crusted to the bottom, an urge overcomes my mind.
The calm that h... | 2020-03-03T13:25:45 | 2020-03-03T12:58:59 | 103 | 38 |
[WP] A warrior's strength is based on the rules of chess. A Queen can wipe out an entire army, a bishop can kill a legion, rooks, a battalion. While a pawn is lucky if he can kill 14 men. You were a mere pawn, but you've infiltrated to the end of your enemy lines. Your body began to transform. | Sara Lazuli knew her place. She was a pawn. She moved forward, for there was no retreat for a pawn. She smiled bitterly as she struck down those in front of her. Sometimes a knight or bishop would zip ahead, and do their thing, killing those who opposed them, but in the end when there was danger, they would be allo... | Blood and sweat coursed down his neck and chest, mixing with dirt as he crawled through the mud. His helm was dented, and pushed against his left eye, swollen from a gauntleted fist he never saw coming. His head rang with the impact of steel, and the iron tang of blood filled his mouth.
Eran was a dead man walking, ... | 2020-08-12T11:52:14 | 2020-08-12T11:02:03 | 291 | 61 |
[WP] “Are you scared of the monster under you bed?” Dad jokingly asked. “No, not him,” said young Clara. “I’m afraid of the one he’s hiding from. Why do you think he stays under the bed?” | “Are you scared of the monster under you bed?” Dad jokingly asked. “No, not her,” said young Clara. “I’m afraid of the one she’s hiding from. Why do you think she stays under the bed?”
Her dad laughed and sat down beside her, the bed sinking slightly as he patted the space beside him. Clara crawled out from under the ... | Alan’s wife had a long night at the office, so it was just him putting his daughter to sleep that night. Clara, like most 11-year-olds, was boisterous and excitable during the day, and it took a while to tune that level down in the wind down to bedtime. There was a half hour warning, then ten minutes, then Alan poked h... | 2021-01-19T11:33:35 | 2021-01-19T10:53:53 | 53 | 30 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | "D-rank villain" Buttsoup McJames.
My title always put newbie heroes at ease.
"Don't worry," commanders would say and throw me a wink. "He's only D rank, so this should be a walk in the park."
Commanders knew I was a hero putting on a show, but they didn't know the full truth. If they did, it would blow their minds:... | "Hello, class, I'm Juleel, also known as The Deceiver, an Ex-A-Ranker Villain..." he spoke whilst pacing back forth near the blackboard attached to the wall, writing on it with swift strokes from his chalk with each step he made, "but, do not fret, I've reformed from my devious lifestyle, now, I would like to teach the... | 2021-06-23T15:21:41 | 2021-06-23T11:55:31 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] One day, a bat flew through your opened window room, and though surprised, you tried to talk to it gently, gave it space until it found its way out. Now, you find yourself rescued by a vampire who's returning the favor for helping one of their kids. | Lying in the slop of the trench — half his left leg missing and the other half bone, the stink of mould and gas and gunfire engulfing him — Robert wasn’t a soldier sent to die, but instead a little boy again, in his bedroom, years before even the first whisper of war.
In his head, he could hear his old music box playi... | There was a time when the boy had been afraid of bats. But he had learned that fears could be faced, that terror could be overcome. Now the little bat-ling flittered around the boy's bedroom, crashing off the walls in a panicked fluttering of wings.
"It's ok," the boy said softly. "It's ok, little one."
He held out h... | 2021-08-08T09:44:48 | 2021-08-08T09:22:13 | 1,183 | 421 |
[WP] We were taught the Sun didn't make noise. We were wrong. Like TV static in an empty room, it did make a sound, a sound so ever present that we didn't realize it was there until it wasn't. That day humanity learned the terror of a silent sky, and the reason it made sound in first place. | "Are you insane?" Asked Emet, a man who saw daily life from afar, as if disconnected from himself. Everything went by slowly.
"No," answered Aria.
Last week had been weird.
Acoustics was a pet peeves of theirs. He loved heavy metal, she loved the violin, and both were smart enough to get into research. Work had been... | THIS IS AN EMERGENCY BROADCAST
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FIND SHELTER IMMEDIATELY, SEAL OFF ALL WINDOWS AND BARRICADE YOUR DOORS
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"What the fuck?" Eric muttered to himself. After spending an all nighter studying for his biology... | 2021-08-28T11:00:46 | 2021-08-28T10:30:44 | 127 | 85 |
[WP] Invading Earth was a calculated risk, but billions of slaves, an stablished infrastructure and plenty of natural resources were too good to pass up. The aliens were aware of how quick militaries could respond, but were unprepared for the violence of the average citizen. | "Commander, I have the latest reports on the missing patrols on North American continent."
Commander Z'Ril groaned internally. For six temporal units the slaver fleet he commanded had been stationed at Sol 3. Exotic slaves like the humans would make him a very wealthy being when they went to market. However, after ... | Therefore, the aliens had to be more intelligent than their target. They used technology to mimic the human appearance and voice.
They started small, infiltrating places such as schools. Eventually, they were able to get into positions of leadership across the planet, and before long, they controlled the entire media.... | 2021-11-27T20:18:20 | 2021-11-27T20:13:27 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] Wizard duels are highly formalized. You state what spell you are casting, so your opponent has a chance to react. This makes it a battle of magical power and wit, rather than reaction speed. Your magic has always been weak. But you discovered a curious spell called simply: "Gun." | "Wizard Alexander", the judge said. "As the Challenger you will strike first. What spell will you utilize?"
I leaned into the swirl of air in front of me that was the amplification spell and muttered, "I'm gonna use the spell, Gun. Sir."
A round of chuckles and laughter rolled through the crowd. A full bodied belly... | “*Gun*,” he says, his own voice like a twitching trigger-finger. The pistol appears in the air just above him and he almost misses it — grapples it between both hands. It settles, eventually, the gun like a semi-tamed beast (or at least one biding time before it strikes) in his fingers. Always both hands clutching its ... | 2022-02-19T11:32:31 | 2022-02-19T09:15:35 | 108 | 65 |
[WP] You rush into a church to stop the love of your life from marrying the wrong person. Not paying attention, you shout "I OBJECT" only to realize it's a funeral. The deceased immediatelly rises in perfect health. All eyes turn to you.
Thank you everyone for all the stories, they're wonderfu, i really enjoyed every ... | The family was, reasonably, all over the place.
The wife and the newly resurrected man were in an embrace that most romance movies would milk to hell.
The parents of the man were in such shock I think the old man had a mini heart attack while the old lady fainted.
His siblings, two brothers and a sister, were, frank... | Organ music cried out a sad song from within the church.
"Yes ... of course they'd play a dirge. How could you not faced with the prospects of marrying that twig of a man."
Trembling with anger, I started mentally preparing for the pain.
Before me stood the marble church in the heart of Gravenbrook. There were two ... | 2022-08-29T10:18:43 | 2022-08-29T10:05:27 | 179 | 82 |
[WP] Your reign as Emperor was wildly unpopular. In accordance with the Roman practice of Damnatio Memoriae, society has committed to collectively forgetting you. Before the execution, you scribble down a few notes that might survive. | The cell was as small as coffin - three steps long and two steps wide. Stone walls, thin window under the ceiling. We can imagine this dark room with straw pallet, night-chair and a tin bottle of water.
Here the emperor, chained and disgraced, wrote his last words. His reign was in the end of one of the civil wars, an... | Today is February 4th, 2012. It was a Saturday, which meant relax and party for the rest of the world, but for Latin 212 of Barnard College, NY, it was an extra catch up day. At least it was for the advanced of the class who were collectively attempting to translate a particular piece of Latin writing. Written by one o... | 2022-12-23T07:38:48 | 2022-12-23T07:26:56 | 20 | 15 |
[FF] "So, come here often?"
Begin your story with this line of dialogue.
Oh, and set your story somewhere other than a bar or restaurant. In fact, set it somewhere in the distant past or future.
And make it less than 500 words.
Have fun! | "So, come here often?"
I whirled around to find a man dressed from head to toe in black. He was an older man, about 50 years old and wore a ski mask, a tattered shirt and black boots. I was followed. The shed was just a few feet from where I was standing and inside...there wasn't time. I didn't wait for the man to ask... | "So, come here often?"
I stopped dead in my tracks. My hand was still in the handle as my whole body stood frozen. I took a deep breath and turned around. Seeing that it wasn't anybody I knew, I replied, "Yeah. I come here almost every week, but I never fall through and I usually just walk away." I stared into his bla... | 2013-08-31T13:14:16 | 2013-08-31T12:06:14 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] You are the host of a popular children's show. You are live on air when you, and the rest of the country, have just received news that nuclear weapons have been deployed against your nation and can't be stopped. There are only minutes left. | I guess I knew this could happen. I guess we all did, in our morose bar-room moments, facing our fears through a hazey film of alcohol and optimism. I guess I knew this could happen, and I guess I didn't think it would.
I guess I imagined I might be on the air when it happened. I had a plan if it did, I really did. I ... | The red light continues to flash on the top of the camera staring at me with abject apathy. Usually rife with the commotion and cacophony of sounds that commonly are associated with a children's program the warehouse where we shoot echoes with the absence of the din.
My bright red suspenders and checkered train condu... | 2014-07-29T13:03:12 | 2014-07-29T12:33:16 | 51 | 29 |
[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | There he was, finally alone, given the time to reflect on his courage: a story that would be passed through the muck and mire of humanity. He had defeated our hero and sat begrudgingly on his throne. There was turmoil and conflict; pain, lament, and remorse. There was also joy in the remembrance of his accomplishment a... | I was going to get this bastard. He killed my family. Killed my dog. Destroyed my house. He destroyed my life.
I was seething at just the thought of his smug face, all cozy and warm surrounded by money in his mansion, while I was out here in the blistering cold, walking through puddles and shit.
I was at his front d... | 2014-12-21T18:41:55 | 2014-12-21T18:34:44 | 212 | 23 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | Her face furrowed in concentration as she read the official looking small print on the paper I had given them. She had taken it out of my father's hands just as he finished skimming the page. Ever the poker player, his face showed no emotion. My mother's face, however, had one very easily identifiable emotion- confusio... | My parents just sat there on the couch together, staring at the printout I had given them late that afternoon.
"What does it mean?" I demanded. For the past hour, my mind had been racing, trying to make sense of the words on the paper. "ERROR: UNABLE TO PROCESS NON-HUMAN SAMPLES". The uppercase printing of the comput... | 2015-01-06T10:37:19 | 2015-01-06T10:08:59 | 80 | 14 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | "I don't get it! Your DNA just goes C, C, C *over and over again*! I've done it again, and I've done it again! I've made Mathew do it, I've sent it off to *China* to be done again. By all rights you should be a pile of sludge on the ground" He leaned in so that I could feel his hot breath on my face "*What are you*?"
... | I panic at the words in bold. **Non-human DNA**. "What did that mean?" I mutter to myself. Suddenly, a wind came from behind. I turn to see a man in business suit standing where no one was before.
"Aw, about time you found out." The man said as he pocketed a small watch into his coat. "I swear, you guys get stupider e... | 2015-01-06T10:17:41 | 2015-01-06T08:44:25 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] Humans are cursed with dying upon uttering their "Last Words," which they know from birth. You've been alive for a few centuries, but you can't refrain from saying those words now. | The people of my home village had a bizarre curse cast upon us when we tossed aside our elder spirit deity for the new gods. When our mother's gave birth, they entered a trance and yelled out the same words that would be our last. Some got heroic last words like "Today I make my final stand" and "I die for my people". ... | It's not easy being chief. You're the capstone that holds your village together. You watch over the community. You must love them like a parent, yet be stern like a judge. You must be merciless in battles and raids, yet compassionate in dealing with disputes between them. Your every movement is watched and judged and y... | 2015-11-01T22:06:56 | 2015-11-01T19:27:26 | 362 | 98 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | It's been 7 long years since you left me. The counselor told me that the pain would become more manageable. With time. And sometimes I think maybe it will. Then I'll hear the creak of the floorboards, and expect to see you shuffling into the room as you did, that beautiful smile on your face making my heart skip a beat... | Credits rolled lazily down the screen of Richard Luther's TV, punctuated by one of last year's summer pop songs. With each rhythmic thump, a new coupling of names dominated the screen.
"Maxwell Markov as Jimmy"
"Patricia Fennel as Alex"
The cast list ran it's course, and after paying his half-conscious respects to a... | 2015-11-30T12:28:23 | 2015-11-30T11:37:26 | 87 | 12 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | "Well... Shit..." God muttered to itself, taking another sip from its cosmic Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Towering outside of the stratosphere was a large celestial being. From earth, one could only make out a fraction of the being. It stood, with its head just scraping the top of the universe, wearing sweatpants made of galaxi... | Hello?
'Oh hi...' The voice wasn't really coming out of the telephone, but more from all around him. 'Is this David?'
'Er...speaking yes'
There was a pause. Dave leaned against the kitchen counter...perplexed at the strange audio nature of the call. He felt like he recognised the voice.
'Hi Dave...this is slightly awk... | 2015-12-27T11:49:20 | 2015-12-27T11:38:27 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Write a story that begins and ends with the same sentence, but has a different meaning at the end. | But he would have to wake up soon.
His wife insisted as she reached over to his side of the bed. He embraced her lovingly as she felt safe in his arms.
Oh, how he had missed her after all the months she had spent in the hospitals.
The two of them danced that evening like they did all those years ago. They kisse... | There goes my life.
At sixteen years old, I'm not ready for a baby. **I'm** still a baby. I should be going to prom. I should be having fun with a boyfriend and seeing the latest movies. I shouldn't have to deal with a baby and whether or not I even want the child. My family said they'll help me, but the Dad's a ... | 2016-02-10T19:49:57 | 2016-02-10T19:39:15 | 79 | 48 |
[WP] The world is rapidly changing as the plague of our era is spreading fast. But it doesn't affect humans. It eats plastic. | They say that the original intent was to reduce tire yards to powder, developing a bacteria that could return the rubber to the ground in a green fashion. I don't know what tire yards are, or why they were a problem. Because there's none left.
The bacteria worked.
The problem originated with the lab that developed ... | Plastic, and plastic-like polymers. Chewed, eaten away at like a phone in a microwave. Turning black, bubbling, gooey and stretched like cheese on a pizza. Then a burst of pus would surface, spilling like a ruptured cyst. The material would collapse in on itself, imploding into strands of molten polymer. That came late... | 2016-08-22T12:54:55 | 2016-08-22T12:27:19 | 482 | 23 |
[WP] Since you were young you had the ability to pause time. However as a teenager you use the ability to procrastinate. At first it was little stuff: an extra hour for homework or a nap in the morning, a break in between classes, etc. Well it built up and now you're pushing thirty in your 3rd year. | A few hours here and there was usually enough to get me ready.
Ready for school, ready for my interviews, ready for my dates.
You might think this counts as cheating, but being on time makes you lose out on the importance of not wanting to be late. That last minute scramble, crossing the road like a maniac, anticipat... | I discovered my power when I was a child, at 6 or 7 maybe, when my mother was in the hospital. She was terminally ill and she told me straight that we wouldn’t see each other for a long time. While I was silently crying on her bed, I realized that time would have stopped, allowing me spend more time with her even thoug... | 2016-09-13T06:08:10 | 2016-09-13T06:07:00 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] In the year 1984, your father said he was popping out to buy some milk and never came back. Eighty years later, you lie on your deathbed as your father walks in, confused and a jug of milk in his hand. | Fifty years a a salesman, forty five years as a husband and forty years as a father. That summarized the main points of my life, as I lay there on my bed, my children and wife around me. Barney, my youngest, was trying to hold back tears.
"Look at me son. I'm okay," I said while gazing at him with as serious a look as... | Birch Tree Drive, 1984
"Mom, why's Daddy taking so long to get milk?" 6 year old Joey asked his mother. A tear rolled down her cheek as she answered "He's not coming back." "What do you mean?" Jody asked. His mother sniffed and and said "He's a lousy dirtbag and he doesn't care about you or me." Joey cried, drowning o... | 2016-09-25T18:32:36 | 2016-09-25T16:04:09 | 155 | 61 |
[WP] You tell your wife how glad you are to be a human and not a robot. She looks at you confusingly says, "What are you talking about? We're all robots. Humans have been dead for years."
Finally! Number one on the front page! Fuck yeah! Gonna sell this account for cocaine now. | "What are you talking about? We're all robots. Humans have been dead for years."
"I know. I just mean, you know how we were all so afraid of what it would be like. That we would just be programs, simulations of ourselves. That the magic spark of life would be gone with whatever happened to the poor soul in that o... | "What are you talking about Sarah? I am most definitely not a robot. Don't you think I would have noticed when they fixed my firmware or something?"
"Humans slowly died out over the past couple centries Jared. This is common knowledge taught in school. Firmware updates happened AT school. That's why there were so many... | 2017-01-29T04:03:52 | 2017-01-29T01:19:53 | 42 | 27 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | >*God sat forward, pinching the bridge of his nose.*
**G:** "One day. I left you in charge for ONE. DAY. HOW did this happen?!"
>*Isaac sat back in his chair, with his feet resting crossed upon the opulent desk. His expression beaming with smugness and amusement, he slowly unwrapped a Jolly Rancher and popped i... | We'd had an early spring. Sarah and I were eager to catch the fauna's and flora's getting down and dirty, as we always joked. So we packed our things and hit a trail a couple kilometers outside town.
"Love, these clouds could go either way" Sarah muttered as our car approached the station lot. She was right too. T... | 2017-03-05T03:31:24 | 2017-03-05T02:32:59 | 83 | 14 |
[WP] People earn karma points while alive. When they die, they can spend them either to enter a better afterlife, or to improve the life of some random stranger born on the day of their death. You donate all your points, and wake up the next day as the baby who would have gotten your points.
The living have no idea of... | When I was nine years old, I pulled my baby sister’s body out of the swimming pool. Mom was taking a nap, and Dad was off at work. They’d told me to keep an eye on the baby after a long, sleepless night of unexplained crying. But I was too cool for babysitting. I’d been busy playing with my toys. I hadn’t been watching... | Life was a beautiful cycle.
It is said that the phoenix can rise from the ashes of itself, reborn into life and renewed in spirit. Humanity possesses the same gifts, but they do not know of it. Their lives are judged while they live and scored when they cease, until the soul that remains of a life receives a number fr... | 2017-04-08T09:32:59 | 2017-04-08T08:12:27 | 7,090 | 368 |
[WP] You're a lazy superhero with the power of precognition. Your modus operandi is showing up to a crime scene ahead of time and making some small change to foil the criminals' plans. | God, I hate Steve.
Don't get me wrong, he makes my job a hundred times easier, but he just has no *professionalism*. He just waltzes in to work, an hour late, and tells me me to meet him in some random spot.
Invariably, where I meet him is at the scene of some supervillain attack. Or, some *attempted* attack. Last we... | Sometimes superhero-ing can be a thankless job – more so for someone with my powers. I had learned my lesson from my brother before me. He was honorable and ambitious, but eventually that led him to a dangerous habit: proactivity.
My brother convinced me at some point to go into the whole hero gig.
“Jack,” he had sa... | 2017-05-11T08:10:53 | 2017-05-11T06:48:16 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] 250 years after sending the first generation starship in space, another starship begins its voyage. Approaching the edge of the solar system, they spot a decaying, dying ship... | A dark storm seemed to lie on the horizon. Scant scattered light bounced off of forgotten debris, small pieces of an uninhabited space. The dark was profound near the edge; that imaginary edge that we had put in our head.
"We're leaving home," said Catherine.
She always had a mind for the obvious.
"I thought we h... | **Part I**
The senior watch officer, Lieutenant Moon Lee-Hoon had spotted the signal on the long range infrared array as far back as Io, about two month ago. All signs suggested a metallic surface in long-solar orbit. Everyone else had been excited at the possibilities of what the signal meant. "Aliens" was all but... | 2017-10-23T11:34:07 | 2017-10-23T11:33:46 | 59 | 33 |
[WP] Due to your nerdy great great great great grandfather in 2017 'buying a star' and some modern legal shenanigans you are now the proud owner of a small intergalactic empire | Carl watched as the being devoured the man that had been clipping his nails next to him on his flight. Instinctively, he wiped the specks of blood from his jacket. Pointless, he thought, and closed his eyes. At least it would be quick and painless.
Opening his eyes after what felt like an eternity, he gasped. The ten... | "Hey guys?” Anthony said, fidgeting onboard an intergalactic spaceship. “I’m really not comfortable with this.”
The tiny yellow creatures around him looked up, some with their one eye, others with two. Their brows furrowed and one of them pushed through the crowd.
“But Anthony,” Melrose, the leader of these creatures... | 2017-10-24T11:53:59 | 2017-10-24T11:50:31 | 112 | 68 |
[WP] Your teleported to 44BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You're brought before Caesar and he believes you're from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking "How do I die?"
Weewwww never knew my prompt would gain so much attention, thanks guys for all the interesting stories a... | "My Latin no good much," I mumble, stalling for time.
Caesar's already implacable face hardens further. "Your Latin *good much* enough. Answer." The command is absolute, carrying death behind it.
The stab of fear rebounds within me, and a surge of anger answers. "Would you know things whose knowledge makes them... | *“Tell me, how do I die?”* Caesar asks me in a language that seems familiar, but unavoidably foreign. Being an ignorant American, I naturally have no idea what the hell he is saying because I exclusively speak in poorly-worded English.
By some immeasurable stroke of luck however, my phone is still operational, as is m... | 2018-02-15T21:12:07 | 2018-02-15T20:47:22 | 109 | 33 |
[WP] A young gay dragon has to explain to his parents why he is only kidnapping princes | "Mom," said the Young Gay Dragon, "Dad. I see you've noticed that I've only been kidnapping princes."
"Yes we have, son," replied the Young Gay Dragon's Old Straight Father Dragon somberly.
"I can explain myself. You see, I only kidnap princes because they fetch larger ransoms from their rich, royal dads. As a drago... | *I managed to get to be the 4000th upvote (I'm not sure how accurate that is) but either way I'm taking it as a sign, so I am going to bust out this throwaway/alt account (because paranoia/anxiety) and try to actually do this one!!*
Drag had a problem. A big problem. A huge problem in fact. He had finally managed to n... | 2018-05-03T19:03:43 | 2018-05-03T17:41:13 | 22 | 11 |
[WP]Everyone can bend a single element just like in avatar.However these are actual elements like Argon.Most powerful individuals bend metals or flammable materials.But not you you bend carbon.You bend the carbon in people’s bodies. | Carbon.
The most common element in the world.
In a way, it's sort of a blessing. I was given the freedom to fuck around with the world as much as I liked. Of course, there were consequences. Like accidentally destroying Sydney by displacing all the carbon dioxide. Or Tokyo, with a few minor edits to the fault lines. ... | (I'm kind of new at this, but let's try)
"God fucking dammit" Was the last thing I heard before my walkie-talkie was scrunched up in my hand. Around me, various other steel objects were also forcibly crushed by seemingly nothingness. I remembered what my officer told me, "take Kevlar over Riot Gear", she told me, if I... | 2018-05-08T06:10:18 | 2018-05-08T06:03:47 | 79 | 22 |
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