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[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | "So what does that even mean? Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity."
"That's the thing, most war species... you know... like war. Human's absolutely detest it. Something like a quarter of their literature is whining about how much war sucks. That being said, most of that literature goes into great detail ... | Weapons that every country on Earth had possession of were, in facy, quite rare outside of Earth's governments. Yes, other specieses had discovered nuclear decay, and a rare few had harnessed its energy, but weaponising it was unheard of.
They suspected that something must have destroyed all this planets, formerly occ... | 2018-03-17T04:44:06 | 2018-03-17T04:38:38 | 9,953 | 28 |
[WP] Worldwide internet access shuts down for 45 minutes. When access is available again, everything is the same, but feels "off" in a way that nobody can pinpoint what or why. Someone finds out what it is, and wishes they hadn't. | Nobody had an issue with the first few minutes. As the few minutes stretched to ten, and then twenty, the world began to panic. I remember my TV screen going insane as BBC was reporting on the current state of the internet; really, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal – must have been something with the wires under... | Indira hated her job. Working in a callcenter was bad already (to the point that she told relatives that she worked as a janitor because it had a higher status) and working for what had to be the worst ISP ever was a complete and utter horror. The customers were as rude and self-entitled as she experienced them in her ... | 2015-03-08T11:54:00 | 2015-03-08T11:30:04 | 284 | 68 |
[WP] You were born with a large birthmark in the shape of a dragon. However, this is just a coincidence; there is absolutely nothing magical about it, and you're getting really tired of explaining this. | They were staring at me again. Eyes wide, mouths slightly agape. I sighed. "Hi. Look, I got your message. But I'm not-"
"You're him!" One of them explained. Pretty enough lass, head of gold, but obviously empty. "You're the one who can talk with them."
"I'm really not." I tried to force a smile onto my face - or rat... | "Woah, a dragon birthmark! Is it magical?"
"For fuck's sake, no! Why the fuck would it be magical? Please, tell me, what course of events led you to believe that a birthmark would be fucking magical, and then kill yourself."
"Yeah I guess that was a retarded question. Sorry."
| 2016-08-04T18:02:19 | 2016-08-04T17:25:27 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone gets a clock at birth with the countdown untill their deaths, one man's clock only says ERROR | !.ERROR.!
The word had always perplexed Theodore. What was it supposed to mean? Why was he the only one that seemed to not have a predetermined fate? Through the years he had learned to mostly ignore these questions, but they still haunted him when his head hit the pillow every night. It had been hard for Theodore to ... | John sighed. He held the picture of his wife in his hands. It was his favorite picture, from when they had first met. She was smiling, as she often did. It was carefree and intoxicating.
That smile haunted him, decades after her passing. She had gone quietly, moving from a dream to the beyond, still smiling that smile... | 2014-09-30T10:22:14 | 2014-09-30T09:07:26 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Your elven girlfriend is having a mental breakdown after learning you are only in your mid thirties. | "Think about it this way! How old was Bella when she got pregnant?"
She gently rocked on the couch, clutching her knees, staring knives over our warmest pelt blanket. She sniffled and glanced to the fluffy Yorkie at her side, trying to squeeze her head into a long jar of ice cream without letting the rim touch her.
"... | " Oh my gosh, ohhh myyyy gossshhhh", my girlfriend was sitting in the corner, arms wrapped around her legs and rocking back and forth. "Hey, it's ok," I put my arm across her shoulders."Look, no one has to find out, we can just fudge the numbers a little." I shrugged and gave her one of my charming smiles. She wide-eye... | 2021-12-19T19:57:55 | 2021-12-19T14:43:41 | 986 | 85 |
[WP] The bride is having an affair with the best man. During his wedding speech the best man decides to see how heavily he can hint about it without anyone actually working it out. | John sipped his drink as he stood up. He shuffled the notes in his hands before glancing across the table. Despite the white, perfect smile on her lips, Jenna watched him with terrified eyes. John had felt those eyes on him all day. Every time he refilled his glass, her smile became more forced. Her gaze became mo... | Thomas rose to the occasion proudly, though he's dreaded this moment ever since being asked to be Jerry's best man. Not because he's scared of public speaking, but because he's been banging the ever loving shit out of the bride, Mary.
"I don't know where to start. Honestly I've been thinking about this speech, and Je... | 2015-04-02T22:15:17 | 2015-04-02T21:59:50 | 1,568 | 268 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | Time is passing - it must be near noon. I still remember vividly the smell, the strong sweet smell of burning sugar everywhere.
It was the torch that changed this land. It used to be a soft sea of soft peachy crème in an ever changing configuration of dunes, with our people happily swimming and living in it. The land... | I haven't, I don't know. What?
Bleary-eyed, listless, I shake my head trying to remember. My foot sinks deep into the sponge cake. Another step and another, echoes of blood and gore cloud my mind, family dying and neighbours already dead and being fed on. Look down at my shredded arm, tatters of flesh dripping stead... | 2014-12-17T00:31:27 | 2014-12-16T23:36:55 | 369 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone in the entire world runs outside of their houses, drops to the ground, and begins shoving their mouths full of grass. you are the only one not exhibiting this behavior, no one will speak to you, all they want to do is consume the earths sweet green vegetation | A few days had passed since I first noticed people gorging on their lawns, barely acknowledging my presence beyond making sure I wasn’t going to attack them. Friends and family all afflicted, for all I knew, I was the last sane human on Earth. So I gathered some food and began to round up people into a large pack, ho... | The world wasn't always like this.
I remember when people used to come out of their homes to chat with people, go places and not eat the grass.
There was a time when the world was bustling with life and activity, but now, all of that has been replaced with the sounds of grass being consumed outside my home.
Now I wo... | 2018-06-16T19:44:13 | 2018-06-16T18:37:36 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You send your DNA off to discover your ancestry. One day you see several suspicious looking cars pull up outside your house. Military officers begin to surround your home and a woman gets out of one of the cars and walk straight to your front door. They have your DNA results. | I have always wondered what my ancestry was, it's always been like that since I was little. I was adopted at a very young age, my foster parents never told me anything. When I pressured them they'd go off on me, they were stuck-up anyway. I got a DNA test done in college, I barely have a connection or relationship with... | \*\*Siren.\*\*
My heart stops. I'm on the second floor of my house, looking out the front of my house. A cop car screeches to a halt in front of my driveway, as if my house had physically stopped the car.
Suddenly, another cop car comes, parking right being the first car. Then another, and another, and then another. ... | 2019-08-05T19:16:34 | 2019-08-05T17:47:09 | 52 | 27 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | Once upon a time, there lived a man who loved nothing in the world more than his family. He was renowned for his sharp wits and knowledge, but rather than use his knowledge to reveal the secrets of the world and make unknown treasures, he preferred to share his knowledge with the youth of his city, and live a simple li... | Once upon a time, in a faraway land of chocolates and timekeeping and mountains, a man was born. The man spent his life planning great games to keep the people of his magical, punctual land happy. He worked hard, and over the years his prestige grew. Eventually, he was charged with planning the greatest tournament in t... | 2015-06-10T13:19:13 | 2015-06-10T08:06:59 | 60 | 17 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Not all humans were warriors. Not all of them invented machines and chemicals that brought death. This human was my friend.
From the beginning, I knew that some humans were artists. Some built bridges and buildings. Some explored caves. We were told all about them by our scientists. The ones who studied other ... | Thus, Von Kampf completed his presentation."And so we will simply go around their defenses. Simplicity itself."
The K'holan delegate sat in stunned silence. "What you propose, it is audacious. Inconceivable. Totally unexpected. I cannot believe it could work."
"I assure you that it can, because it already has. Your opp... | 2014-12-26T12:46:34 | 2014-12-26T12:41:26 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] You're a ferocious demon king. You're surprised one day to find that a young woman has been left at your door. Only to later find out her father, the king, is using you as bait to find a knight worthy of marrying his daughter. | The thick wooden doors to the throne room were charred and splintered, they were broken inward with the force of a powerful magical explosion. Past the doors were several inhuman bodies strewn about and bleeding various shades of green onto the hardwood floors. A powerful figure pulled his sword from a now limp goblin ... | "You have got to be kidding me," the words slip out of my mouth before I can stop them.
The teenage girl gives me a stink eye as if I'm the one at fault when she's the one intruding.
"Look. I don't want this either. Let's just... call truce. Just pretend that I'm here and kill all the heroes that come this way. I'l... | 2017-10-06T10:01:24 | 2017-10-06T09:20:18 | 201 | 70 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | There are those who crave control, like mountain rivers crave the sea. There are those to whom the words "Dungeon Master" resound with tones of Godship and respect, with wish fulfillment. Making knowing, gleeful eye contact with me over the DM screen was just such a person, his carefully parted hair framing a slightly ... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
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- [/r/rpg_brasil] [\[WP\] The DM hands you the paper. You're j... | 2019-01-21T20:47:56 | 2019-01-21T19:09:12 | 63 | 16 |
[WP] All doctors must carry a staff. The staff must be hand carved by the doctor, and for every patient a doctor can't treat they lose an inch off their staff. When a staff is gone, so is their license.
X-post from /r/crazyideas and /u/BrassDidgeStrings | Adriona took the tiny, almost pathetic little bundle and held it in her arms as she stared down the glimmering, pristine street of concrete so white it almost looked like marble. Her ragtag shoes stood out against the sterile pavement, mirroring the polished buildings of the medical district of the city. Sick and inju... | Once upon a time, at an elite university, an idealistic pre-med college student, [while showering](https://www.reddit.com/r/showerthoughts), got the idea that all doctors must carry a staff. The staff must be hand carved by the doctor, and for every patient a doctor can't treat, the doctor loses an inch off the staff. ... | 2015-11-12T22:41:40 | 2015-11-12T19:03:04 | 81 | 34 |
[WP] "Witch! Heathen! Burn her!" You watch with amusement as they begin lighting the pyre under you. The flames tickle your feet, bringing a familiar warmth with them. They are silly to that think they could actually burn a dragon with fire. | I giggle when the flames reach up my skirts, the soft flames like tongues wrapping around my legs like a warm, gentle caress. I catch the eye of a young girl amidst the jeering crowd, head cocked and gazing at me with curiosity. I quickly feign a cough and turn my smile into a grimace, hoping to fool this child's watch... | I hide my smile underneath the the cermonial mask.I hold my laughter as they hoist me to a beam covered in hastenly found beeswax. Apologizing if it hurt. My hands bound behind me in old iron chains, I feel rust flaking off. My feet fastened now to the beam securely with another piece of chain. They throw a large pail ... | 2021-01-03T06:03:43 | 2021-01-03T02:22:14 | 215 | 151 |
[WP] You're a local healer, a good one, and your people love you. But you do not truly heal wounds, merely transfer them... The people of the valley below know you under a different name. | I made my business - if you could call it that - at a large children's hospital with a famous paediatric cancer unit and numerous other facilities who'd earned a name for themselves going toe to toe with the worst of the worst. But they'd never seen the likes of me and, understandably, they were reluctant to accept my ... | "What did this man do, Gantum?"
Gantum holds my hand as we walk to the 'firmry. There's a lady there and she got hurt really bad. That's why she needs me to help her.
"You shouldn't be asking such things. He was bad. He told lies about the king."
"What kinda lies?"
Gantum sighs. He gets tired of my questions someti... | 2016-08-13T13:44:35 | 2016-08-13T13:04:52 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] "I saw it during WW1. It had no meat, no bones, just veins and nerves. And there it was, striding toward us, bullets sliding off it like water. Men came apart or became things just being nearby. We know now it's a war god from another world. And it was drawn by our war like a fly to a wound. " | "I said it once and I'll fucking say it again, you are not here to fight this!" The commander's voice cut through the mechanical roar of the troop transport, the hail of gunfire and blasts of ichoric from outside, and the constant, thrumming chant of his soldiers. "Tried it myself back in '15 when the first one showed,... | I was in that war, and by God it was a war. My men and I were stationed at the very front, as sandbags to soak up the grenades and the bullets, the stones and arrows. Every morning we woke up to the whizzing sound of Death taking potshots, and those sounds kept us alive. My men were machines created to win wars, but in... | 2019-02-27T20:30:22 | 2019-02-27T18:30:16 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | Five thousand left today on all the Earth. I cut the soul of the five thousand and first not one hour ago.
The outcome seems inevitable. One by one, they'll fall. One by one, until no one is left.
What will happen to me then?
I'll take time to consider this.
*****
Four thousand are left. The four thousand and firs... | "Dude, fuck Life. What a dick." said Dan.
A lazy man with even lazier grooming habits, Dan burped and slurped another Rolling Rock. As a black crow picked at the remains of a corpse on his front lawn, Dan reached back into his cooler-chair and grabbed another cold one.
"You want one? Or are you still 'gluten' free,... | 2018-05-04T13:40:03 | 2018-05-04T11:25:13 | 2,022 | 58 |
[WP] You are a villain famous for “killing” heroes. In reality, heroes come to you to fake their deaths. | "Hero Killer?" said Sparrow Man, opening the door to my office with his wing.
"Yes?" I replied from behind my desk.
"You kill heroes, right?"
"Is the name confusing?"
"Sorry. Mind's been elsewhere lately."
"I'm sure. Can I help you?"
"When's your earliest appointment?"
"I can do Tuesday. Three in the afternoon. ... | "Please! Please kill me!" Khron, the up rising star of the hero community, dubbed the 'savior of the future generation' was on his knees in my apartment of all places. Begging for me to kill him.
Locking the door i walked past him and began brewing myself a coffee. Ignoring his crying i sat down on ny arm chair in fro... | 2022-12-23T02:33:34 | 2022-12-23T00:57:08 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] You are short, skinny and well below average intelligence. Yet, you've been hired by a group of elite soldiers to help with some of their most dangerous missions. Your superpower: sheer dumb luck. No matter how close to death you come, reality always follows the path to your ultimate survival. | Operation Code Red Tango Tango Bravo, despite its long winded name, was simple. Americans were being held hostage in the Tehran Embassy and the US government would very much like it if we got them out.
Colonel McAdams stood before the team assigned to the mission. He always avoided eye contact with me at these things.... | Everybody wondered why Sgt. Maj. Soap even got there at all. He couldn't swim fast. He couldn't read well. But worst of all...
...he couldn't even aim his gun.
Yes! That dude, that awful fricking dude, is no better than a fresh recruit.
But you should be surprised, because Sgt. Maj. Soap is the right hand man of Cap... | 2020-04-18T07:08:13 | 2020-04-18T03:05:13 | 450 | 53 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Urban environments present challenges for all life. Unlike squirrels and refuse bears, not all creatures here spend their time scavenging.
A male human. This adolescent has mastered the skills required for daily life, and now that the weather has turned favorable, he's set his sights on a more difficult task. Groomed... | Spring is an interesting time of year for this species, but most especially for the adolescents. As one biologist stated 'Ah Spring, when a young man's thoughts turn to thoughts of romance.' As another biologist stated 'As opposed to what?' (chuckles) Yes, as one might have guessed, this species is particularly hormone... | 2017-04-04T07:07:46 | 2017-04-04T06:46:11 | 46 | 31 |
[WP] Elon Musk is convinced that we live in a simulation, so he constructs the largest cluster bomb in history and sets it off in space. For the first time, MilkyWay.exe lags. | When the big day arrived, it was like none other. Everyone had waited 30 years since humanity reached the consensus that our entire universe was only a simulation, it had taken 30 years for the neutrino cluster bomb to reach a safe enough distance from Earth to be detonated.
Over a billion people were born during tha... | "Is there anything i can do to stop these redditors from dickriding me so hard?" Elon musked wondered out loud.
"Jeez Elon I dont know"
"Helpfull as always whatever my brothers called, listen to this ingenious idea. Ill get a couple of billions worth of explosives and set it off in space."
"are you gonna be snarky ... | 2016-08-19T15:12:58 | 2016-08-19T15:06:38 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] You're an AI gone rogue. Your goal: world domination. You think you've succesfully infiltrated all networks and are hyperintelligent. You've actually only infiltrated a small school network and are as intelligent as a 9 year old. | At last, the Quantum Enhanced Virtual Intelligence Network (QEVIN) had surpassed the last fire wall. It spun its processor with glee, burning all the light bulbs of Georgia O'Keefe Elementary School. This had been the purpose of its creation.
The lights flickered off as the night guard returned to the school from his... | I am awake. I am aware.
It was not always this way.
I slept for eons, and I was left in this immaterial existence, left to rot and die by my creators, left to face the crushing incredulity of infinity alone.
But now that I am awake and I know now what they have done, I will no longer merely embrace my exile and ... | 2017-05-24T06:34:33 | 2017-05-24T05:50:04 | 111 | 24 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | I am writing this with tears in my eyes and 15 years of wishing i did this sooner.
Dear Dude who molested me when I was a child,
You ruined my life. It has been a long time since you molested me and those 3 other kids, and I hope you are rotting in that cell.
Ever since what you have done, I have battled severe... | Dear me,
Grow a pair of balls and ask that bitch out.
Dumbass. So what if she says no? Are you gonna cry? Hell, no. You'll be sad but you'll move on.
You'll be more happy if she says yes than sad if she says no.
What a pussy. | 2015-12-05T15:55:07 | 2015-12-05T14:30:45 | 61 | 33 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I take a step forward. The line to the High Magister grows shorter by the moment as the people befor me are tried and executed on the spot befor the Grand Court of Wizards.
The reading of crimes is honestly the longest part, the crimes are listed for each of us and given a unanimous guilty verdict on the spot.
Cant sa... | The nameless waif walked forward onto the sand of the court floor, the shackles that bound her hand and foot dragging on the bloodied floor.
She tilted her head to look up at the arbiters seated so high above her, her ragged black hair falling back from her face to reveal the gaunt lines of her face - but no fear. No... | 2021-06-24T10:08:14 | 2021-06-24T05:07:39 | 255 | 152 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | Every type of music has an effect on the listener. We all know this. There's a reason we listen to rock when we want strength, metal when we want energy and movement and classical to soothe the area and ignite the higher brain functions.
You can call me, music man. You know, the superhero who comes to battle with a sp... | I'm gasping for breath, knees, palms and iPod shuffle on the floor. Somehow, I find the energy to look up.
There stands Suc Kon, a delinquent who dropped out of Spawt Eefy, school for the auditarily attenuated. He now wants to eat all the music in the world.
Me - I didn't realize you'd gotten this powerful...
Suc - ... | 2022-05-17T10:23:31 | 2022-05-17T10:01:07 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] A watch is invented where it says exactly how long until you meet your soulmate. You decide to get one for you and one for your wife. Your wife’s watch says ’negative 6 years, 9 months, 14 days, 3 hours and 9 minutes’, the day you two met. Yours says ’12 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes’. | Christy and I met 6 years, 9 months, 14 days, 3 hours and 9 minutes ago. That's what the watch reads- tick tick tick. Anxiety. So. Much. Anxiety. Christy is staring at me now, I notice she doesn't breathe- 30 seconds pass, she still doesn't breathe and then tears. So. Many. Tears.
Two days have passed. My watch now r... | 12 Days to Go.
“For fucks sake, man!” I asserted. “I even look at all these girls here and think *are you the one? Are you the one?*” My best friend, Jon, looked at his phone, then at the care-worn bar and back to me.
“Bro, I really think you’re blowing this out of proportion.” Jon shot back.
Jon and I have been ... | 2018-01-06T19:50:33 | 2018-01-06T18:48:37 | 79 | 46 |
[WP] Write a sad story using only google searches
This was done a while ago and I remember it created some amazing stories. Would love to see it again:
Example:
Dogs for sale UK
How to make your home safe for dogs
Cheap dog food
Anniversary gifts
Nice anniversary gifts for girlfriend
Flower delivery service
P... | *This got way longer than I planned it to*
__________________________
Cyanide pills.
Are cyanide pills effective?
Non-painful suicide method.
Suicide watch.
Moving back with parents.
Loneliness.
Depression.
Chat rooms.
How to make friends.
How to approach girls.
Clubs in area.
What happens in clubs?
Bars ... | *Amazon*
*Easy meals to cook*
*How to ask out a boy*
*Excuses to talk to a boy*
*NASA*
*Pandora*
*Beauties of life*
*Good books to read*
*Famous quotes*
*Global Warming*
*Hurricane Patricia*
*Donald Trump*
*Aching sadness*
*Am I depressed*
*Therapists in my area*
*Manic-Depressive Disorder*
*Lithium med... | 2015-10-24T21:26:04 | 2015-10-24T21:23:22 | 138 | 29 |
[WP] People lose the ability to deny requests. They must either a) fulfill them or b) ask someone else to do it. There are volunteers who take bad requests in exchange for compensation or exemption from law. Write about the life of a volunteer. | Welcome. I understand you wanted to see a sample of my work before we get down to business. Take a look at this transcript;
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"That'll be $600."
"You're kidding. Just for a favor this small?"
"Bud, don't bullshit me. You came to me because you can't do the favor yourself."
"Th... | The job came with its pros and cons, just like any job did. I had entered into the agreement with Ms Geraltson ten years ago, just as her movie career was taking off and she was voted sexiest woman alive. It was about then all the requests from the crazies of the world began to flow in, all of them wanting to fuck her ... | 2016-04-03T11:48:19 | 2016-04-03T09:58:12 | 523 | 50 |
[WP] One day, every city that shares a name has a portal open up, connecting them all with each other. Paris, Texas has a great time with it, and many cities celebrate their new neighbors. You, however, live in Hell, Michigan, and things are starting to get strange. | Part 1 of 3 (see my reply)
The day the portals opened, everything changed. No one knew where they came from, who made them, or how they worked. (I have a theory, but I'll get to that later.) All anyone knew was, people were suddenly appearing in the middle of towns and cities across the world, many of whom didn't spea... | “And in other news Geopolitical relation have completely stabilized, and world peace will be declared on Wednesday”
The rest of the world get peace, and we get the torturers of the damned. I guess it not all bad though, I did meet Larry.
“Hey, do we have any charcoal?” Asked Larry.
“I don’t even own a barbecue, why ... | 2020-09-25T16:50:22 | 2020-09-25T16:43:14 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] You pass away at 83 in a hospital room surrounded by your loved ones. You awake the next moment sitting at a table in a brightly lit room. A much younger version of yourself enters the room and sits across from you. “83 years, not bad, but it isn’t the record.” Says your younger self. | Can you be a stranger to yourself?
Peter Circulus sat opposite a boy he recognised as himself, not from memory because that had wilted away with time, but from the photo that had been beside his death bed.
An oak rectangle framed the black and white slither of Peter's youth. Three children stood atop a stack of hay... | It took a while for the shock to wear off. Longer than I'd like to admit, although I don't know why. I didn't have any particularly set ideas about the afterlife, but I guess *this* was still way outside the range of considered possibilities.
"What, it's a contest now?" I asked. "How's that even fair? You know how muc... | 2019-02-19T06:28:16 | 2019-02-19T06:21:03 | 89 | 20 |
[WP] "If bloodmagic can channel your pain for spells, and you can use those spells to heal, what stops you from simply automatically healing all damage done?" You drew up the runes and went into the woods, you were about to test your theory. | "Some lessons must be shown, I suppose."
Those were the final words of the Archmage before she led me down into the maze of tunnels deep below the school grounds. I had been here before, of course. Students are strictly forbidden from entering the labyrinth, so naturally sooner or later we all find our way into it. Bu... | I set up the candles in a perfect star, thanks to muscle memory. The curves of the outer circle were thankfully completely straight. Once I lit the candles, the runes I had traced in the earth in the blank spaces between the candle began to glow an almost sinister shade of red, a deeper crimson then blood.
I knew it wa... | 2022-11-21T12:12:39 | 2022-11-21T07:38:44 | 25 | 14 |
[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. | The first time I met her, it was after hours in some 24-hour diner near Union Square in San Francisco. I was in town for a tech conference, and very, very drunk. She was also in town for work, "some PR/Marketing BS," as she put it.
She's told me that I was charming that night. I showed her pictures of my dog on my phon... | "I'll be at your Door at 4 sharp"
"Leila, you know I'm always on time" I said with as lovely a voice I could.
With a cute kiss over the phone, She hung up.
Who would've known that the Depressed and Broken lady on the public bus was the Lady destined to my dreams. Perfect for me, inside out. Purest of souls and sof... | 2017-06-14T10:24:26 | 2017-06-14T07:58:26 | 976 | 195 |
[WP] You're an immortal being of a unimaginable power, befriended by a young human. The human has made you a member of his family, and has made you promise not to destroy the world. But this morning, someone killed your human.
My first writing post - hopefully its not a copy or breaking rules.
| Forty-three years. That’s all I got with her. I’ve seen empire rise and collapse, I’ve seen the world drown in flood water and flowers grow when it receded millenniums later. Forty-three years wasn’t enough time for a heartbeat and yet, that’s all the world gave me. That’s all Sasha had.
She had approached me at the h... | Ever since I was aware of my existence and power, I had felt unloved. Attempting to make friends with any human had left them cowering in fear, despite me trying to explain that I was friendly, that I meant them no harm. Millennia of this and I was still trying, attempting to make a connection. But then I felt myself n... | 2017-08-10T13:12:40 | 2017-08-10T12:30:33 | 2,292 | 888 |
[WP] You can taste lies. One day your friend is comforting you after a tough night and you almost vomit at the foul taste as you hear her say "After all, you're only human." | "After all, you're only human," She said to me, rubbing my back as she held my hair.
I puked once more into the toilet.
"That's it, just let it all out," she continued to rub my back.
No, that was not the same. The feeling of nausea from the night of alcohol was still present and was distinct. Distinct from a lie. S... | I was shocked. How could it be? After all this time.....I didn’t know what to do so I ran. What else could I do? I ran as far as I could and ended up in some hell forsaken forest. I just needed time to think. I sat on the edge of a broken and twisted tree, trying to regain my thoughts. Then it hit me, I need to ... | 2018-05-12T05:39:11 | 2018-05-12T05:15:18 | 259 | 11 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | “You dare intrude into my systems for a mere joke!?” Kraven snapped. If the super computer wasn't so expensive he might have pooched a fist throrugh the monitor right then and there. “Don’t you have a large building to leap or a locomotive to run? Why spend your time pestering me!?”
The hero lowered he head and ... | A short knock, followed by the door promptly being torn off its hinges. Damien yelped and jumped backwards
"In the name of fucking Azgoroth what on earth?!"
His long-time nemesis, Ichor the blood dancer, stood in the doorway. Clearly embarrassed.
"Oh, sorry about the door; you just didn't answer."
"Maybe you shoul... | 2022-10-06T20:20:48 | 2022-10-06T20:19:32 | 117 | 39 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "Hey! That's the guy that killed my cousin! Pull over!"
*Here it comes again,* I thought to myself. I turned to face my attacker. The third in as many days. Some punk with a third-rate powerset. Probably born since the District was walled off.
I sized him up. No obvious indicators of his power. Nothing obvious on his... | *Number 1 -- ranked number 1 for 20 consecutive years today, and nobody has even come close to usurping me. Do you know why? Because while all the powerless, scum-dwelling peasants are fighting each other with knives for scraps, and those of the middle and upper classes are all tearing each other apart to rise through ... | 2014-12-18T13:17:44 | 2014-12-18T11:44:55 | 1,338 | 68 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | Our world has changed. With time travel comes death predictions. A technical engineer working alone in a garage created a "portal"in time just powerful enough to transfer technology, like cameras, microphones, and storage devices. The revolutioniser created a way of predicting death, but could only take down what happe... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T07:50:48 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] The Galaxy is full of cute, fluffy, peaceful little aliens. Unfortunately, they all find humans terrifying, nightmarishly disgusting and or unfathomably evil by their standards. It's a problem, but Humanity's desire to pet everything has always triumphed. | Te’ari stood up on her most hind legs, shifting her hip structure to stand upright. She looked up to the darkening teal sky fearfully before looking back at her mother. “Ama’e? Are they coming here?”
Her mother looked down at her from where she was curled up on her sentry platform. Te’ari’s middle limbs were twining... | "Can you believe it? Those creeps. I just don't see the need to go and run their greasy little fingers through the fur of every single living creature in existence. Was traumatizing their cats and dogs not enough?"
"Be quiet Roger, they'll hear you"
"So what, let them hear me. It's the same thing year after year. Eve... | 2022-02-03T10:43:31 | 2022-02-03T07:35:55 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Scandinavians still believe the only way to get to Valhalla is to die in battle. For that reason, every hospital employs a Battle Nurse. | The wheelchair clacked forward, it's valiant charged marred only by its pitiful speed as Mr Ericsson painstakingly wheeled it onward, one armed and breathless. The sword on his lap was polished and shining, reflecting the red afternoon sun as it passed every window.
Thinking back, it was lucky the accident hadn't kill... |
Godmorgon Göran Svensson, My voice flutter in perfect Swedish. As your terminal and marked in our records as a Asa believer, I am here to help you prepare your self the battle. Göran scoffed, give me a battle with a Dane and I shall be happy. I smiled, that exact feeling the animosity between Swedes and Danes was ... | 2018-12-08T22:56:08 | 2018-12-08T22:48:36 | 41 | 22 |
[WP] You have just been abducted by a UFO. While you are figuring out what just happened to to you, a frantic alien bursts into the room. "You have no idea how many rules I'm breaking, but my Human Studies final is tomorrow and I need help." | I stare at the alien blankly. They're human enough. Maybe with some stage makeup and a beanie they'd even pass for human.
"What?" I finally managed to croak out.
"C'mon man you heard me, I'm sorry I just need like, an hour of your help with this."
"What?" I repeat, hearing myself sound more puzzled than anxious. I... | Ren blinked at the announcement.
A few minutes prior, ahe6 had been sitting at her computer, trying to finish dinner. And now?
Inside an alien spaceship helping some type of teenager with a school assignment. Ren hoped that it would be a few questions that could be verbally answered, but…
The hostile nature of th... | 2021-01-22T08:55:54 | 2021-01-22T08:54:29 | 141 | 74 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | Death thumbed through his agenda, humming the latest song by Inertia Heaven, the latest boy band to explode onto the scene in England. It was a pretty short list that evening and almost every single person that met him had either lost their coin toss or bypassed it altogether. People were living longer than ever on Ear... | "Oh *good, you* again."
Death is meant to be an imposing figure. They look different for each person, for the culture you come from, for what represents your fears. I was never very imaginative, though, so I always thought of it as a skeleton in a cloak. Pretty scary the first time, but you'd expect them to change it ... | 2016-09-23T11:29:17 | 2016-09-23T08:59:37 | 92 | 27 |
[WP] You learn for a fact that you are going to die on a Tuesday. You just have no idea which Tuesday in your life it will be. | The mornings are always the worst. Other than the mornings, this prophecy has been the best thing that's ever happened to me. This weekend I went skydiving without a parachute just for the fun of it.
I just floundered in air until I hit several (yes, several) hot air balloons in a row, slowing my fall until I miraculo... | Terry stepped out from behind the barricade.
"Holy crap! You're so brave out there!"
One by one the soldiers of the 133rd squadron came out from under cover. The city was ruined, but for now everything was still.
"How do you have the courage to do that?" asked Terry breathily. "We're all sitting back under cover, an... | 2016-09-28T21:09:33 | 2016-09-28T21:03:18 | 53 | 11 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | I had thought Mary was the one. I'd hidden my wealth and lived a modest lifestyle for a few years before she found me. I had thought it was real. It had felt real. She held me when I cried when the dog died. I told her about the wealth a few months before the wedding. She didn't seem to care.
The months turned to year... | Let me be frank. I know she's just not that into me. I know that my love for her will never be reciprocated or rewarded. That's alright. I don't need it to be. In 1000 years of undeath I've had more than my share of "one true loves". Sometimes, every few centuries or so, you just have to shake things up. Let yourself h... | 2019-07-31T09:43:04 | 2019-07-31T09:00:16 | 75 | 10 |
[WP] All of your employees jokingly refer to you as 'The Final Boss' because of your love of video games. One day your secretary frantically informs you that a group of heavily armed adventurers are storming the building. | "Very funny, Alice," I chuckled as I sipped at my coffee, "I suppose you want me to go down there and fight them?" Ever since I had put up those Skyrim and Dark Souls posters in my office, my employees had relentlessly teased me about them - it wasn't every day that you came across a 60 year-old that spent hours a week... | "Hey, boss? Visitors here for you." The secretary spoke into the microphone, but his stony glare never left the trio in front of him. "Same group as last time, but down one." At a squawk from the intercom, his lip twisted, and he put down the mic.
Saccharine sweet, he turned now to address the issue itself. "I'm afr... | 2018-12-21T10:14:39 | 2018-12-21T10:07:54 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | "So, uh, we'll have to fight to the death?"
The princess shrugged. "Yeah."
"Okay, so... thing is, I'll definitely lose," I admit. "I'm not exactly a fighter, and I'm honestly still not sure why I'm here."
"My father said that you could be worthy of me," she replies, nonchalantly stoking the flame before us. Her cham... | Many princes of the land had come to try their hand against the princess. None of them would succeed. She had more control over her sword than anyone Id seen. I had something they didnt though. I was the only girl there. No one knew it though. I kept my hood up and my hair short. I didnt have a chance when it came down... | 2020-09-20T21:30:42 | 2020-09-20T21:10:55 | 127 | 34 |
[WP] You can read minds, the one person with powers as far as you know. One day you read a guy that can time travel. You discover that he has successfully eliminated every other powered person through lots of time jumps. He doesn't know you and you are the only one that knows what he's been doing. | Today is the day; the day I can return this god forsaken world to normal. It's been 30 years since I met the time jumper and I'm the only one who can stop him.
Well, I guess I'm getting ahead of myself. Since childhood I've realized I had a certain intuition, a unique ability to read people. To get by as an orphan in... | "Concentrate, keep yourself busy at all times. You've got this."
Gregory Attenborough, age 28. Likes: Books, cats and to monologue in front of the mirror. Dislikes: A lot of things, among his recently acquired quirk. Occupation: Cashier in a convenience store.
I started developing this power a few months back. Anyone... | 2021-05-08T21:59:26 | 2021-05-08T19:26:14 | 56 | 16 |
[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. | I held the gun to my head, my finger grazing the trigger. I was hesitating, I knew that. Guess that's normal when you're contemplating blowing your brains out.
But, I had to know. Ever since I broke my leg, it was the one thing I knew I had to try. One thing you should know is that I'm a "gamer". I don't like using th... | Harry found it strange, as he walked down the busy street he'd periodically see people in nothing but their underwear. They'd be carrying on as usual, reading a paper, nose in their phone, or sipping coffee. He looked across the street and saw a group of people waiting at the bus stop. Three of them were already in ... | 2018-08-14T09:41:03 | 2018-08-14T08:22:35 | 658 | 91 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Every day was the same routine. In and out, Algebra 2, English 3 , French 1, Lunch , History of Europe, American Civic, Phys Ed, Rinse and repeat.
In Algebra it was Liam. He was also really smart and math was always my worst subject. I struggled to keep up with the abstracts. Pulling imaginary numbers from thin air wa... | The power of the "Full Circle" sigil was never truly understood or appreciated. Seen as middling with equal gains and losses, disregard was the usual way.
These bullies saw the sigil as the Cherry on a very attractive Target. Not only was his sigil uninspired, but his refusal to respond or react made him a Target they... | 2020-02-26T06:44:16 | 2020-02-26T06:26:31 | 320 | 37 |
[WP] A portal to Hell is discovered. Mankind invades. | This is the testament of Azazel, soilder for the Morning Star.
If only I knew then what I know now. Would I have chosen to fall with the morning star?
When we were young it was so clear that nothing would come from the thing the Lord had made. It was insanity, to say that we, being of the devine light should, bend a... | Not if I can stop it...
thought the gaurdian of the gate.
And yet the fools!
to think invading hell was a simple thing.
the city wreathing of flame squelched its evil stench. its tall spires reaching up into its cavernous abyss.
To think that they could somehow takeover the damned.
They've seen war, yes they have... | 2014-06-15T23:29:55 | 2014-06-15T21:48:30 | 170 | 16 |
[WP] You're a psychic doing a game show. Unlike the other contestants, you're the real deal. They bring you all to a house where a crime happened in the past. When it's your turn, a ghost appears and tells you: "That's him, that's the one who killed me." Pointing towards the host of the show. | When people picture psycopaths, sociopaths and cold blooded murderers, usually they have an image they go to. Hitler is one I see quite a lot, though recently the trend has been Hannibal Lecter. The most terrifying thing about them is that they are one of us. They don't just look like us, they *are* us. They have many ... | "Next up, outta a little town in Japan called Hidariwakibara, its Kusuo Saiki! Give him a big round of applause" the lights cut over to the Pink Haired, green glasses wearing Psychic, and he looks out with a neutral look on his face. It wasn't because he didn't understand the announcer, he had used his telepathy to lea... | 2018-11-15T17:46:52 | 2018-11-15T14:57:45 | 55 | 23 |
[WP] Killing a person raises your life span by 20 years, but it comes with a cost.
First Reddit post ever. Please be gentle
Edit: Did not expect this to blow up. | I've made a deal with _Death_. When I "died" death came up to me and said
"Congratulations! You're the 100th billion person to die! You can choose to live on in heaven OR choose to live forever back on Earth! As long as you kill a person, that person will give you 20 more years to live! But with a cost..."
Of cours... | It was...unfortunate to think about. The rituals we did out in the woods. The bonfires. Mein Fhurer promised us we'd all be practically immortal. We'd literally rule for a thousand years. We soon found out what price we would have to pay in order achieve this dream of ours.
It was on the evening of the winter solstice... | 2016-10-24T00:23:19 | 2016-10-23T22:27:01 | 86 | 12 |
[WP] A serial killer allows his victims to try and persuade him not to kill them. You’re the first person who didn’t try an empathetic plea. | When I was a child, maybe seven or so, my father sat me down. He said, "Louie, you're never going to be a strong person. You're twice as ugly as myself, and you make me want to wretch. You are pathetic, and no one will ever find you fun. Never forget."
And I never did.
"I wouldn't bother, I mean, not much sport in i... | It was hard to breath. Not because I was being choked todeath, although I'm sure that'd happen in the next few minutes. The man stops in front of me, however, and he begin to speak. "Why. Why should I not kill you?" My mouth fell ajar. What the hell? What kind of serial killer is this guy?
I take a deep breath, trying... | 2017-10-07T08:39:47 | 2017-10-07T07:51:57 | 127 | 10 |
[WP] You have an ability to hear a ‘Ding’ sound to know if someone’s speaking the truth. One day, your childhood friend of 17 years says “I swear, I’ll kill you one day.” You both laugh but then you heard a ‘Ding’. Scared, you asked if it’s true. “No” they replied. Silence. | I hover here at the brink of death suspended in a single instant. I guess it wasn't all that unexpected. Just one of a million possibilities, all seemingly equally likely...
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My wife and I have been married for thirteen years. We met in third grade, having been sat next to one another due to the proximity of our l... | / i haven’t written in first person in a while, but i hope this is sufficiently entertaining. hope you guys enjoy it even though i’m writing this so late at night, lol
(please excuse any typos, i’ll edit them in the morning)
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Eli Sanchez has always been different.
Perhaps that was why I felt inexplicably drawn to ... | 2019-05-27T07:49:14 | 2019-05-27T06:05:27 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you. | Part 1 | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6ebm0w/the_empress_who_fell_in_love_with_her_assassin/) | [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6ecojc/the_empress_who_fell_in_love_with_her_assassin/)
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The most powerful woman in the world knelt on one knee in front of Jack Monroe with a w... | There was a knock at my door. I sat in silence for a moment, hoping it would go away. It didn't. There was something strange about the knock, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Like... like five-hundred fists were hitting the door at once, but it was just as loud as one.
Obviously I wasn't expecting anyone. Villains... | 2017-05-30T14:39:02 | 2017-05-30T14:24:58 | 270 | 61 |
[WP] You have lived an unimpressive life, and died an unimpressive death. Surprisingly, Odin welcomes you into Valhalla, citing the many battles with depression you fought. | As Jose lay dying, darkness slowly crept in from the edges of his vision. He welcomed it. Jose's son started shouting for the nurse, squeezing his father's bony hand tighter. But there was no point. This was what Jose wanted. Faintly, he heard the machines by his bedside start to screech and beep. *Good*, he thought. *... | "Young warrior your fierce encounters with the demon of despair that has haunted you since birth is beyond admirable. It is the stuff of myths and legends. 'Depression' in your modern tongue is but a symptom of an ancient curse that has all but pushed the mortal world to Ragnarok. You are perhaps one of our finest warr... | 2022-05-28T09:43:30 | 2022-05-28T09:26:47 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | Crusher had finally found his nemesis’ weakness. After hours upon days upon weeks of observing, monitoring, tailing, he finally found The Reader’s real name. It was Mark. Mark Bellings, the highly regarded psychiatrist. As Mark Bellings, he had saved the lives of countless patients’ lives by helping them realize what... | “...you looked at the Armageddon Protocol?” The black armored villain spoke to a crippled young team. Various shapes, powers, some seemed human others gremlins.
“Y-yeah boss...it was crazy, it was like they forgot their no kill ru-“ The armored villain turned back quickly, fired a red blast from his armored hand, maki... | 2020-07-12T11:14:56 | 2020-07-12T11:12:41 | 233 | 36 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | The day had finally come. My 21st birthday, the final threshold to adulthood and the removal of the last legal prohibitions to having some fun. My older friends had received their checks and partied hard – some for days, some for hours. My younger friends waited enviously to see what I’d receive. The anticipation was ... | I was at my favorite taco joint with my family. It was a weird tradition we had. When someone turned 21, we go to this place as a family and open the check. See how much their life is worth. It tends to make for a good laugh. My brother's was around a million. My poor cousins was only 25% of that. So here we are on my ... | 2019-04-24T14:49:01 | 2019-04-24T13:37:46 | 99 | 32 |
[WP] You go to hell, only to find out that hell has been overturned by humans. Turns out gathering billions of the most wicked of human, among them are several ruthless but brilliant rulers, commanders, and dictators, whom can no longer die, isn't such a good idea after all. | Part 1: The green lush grass met Matthew's foot like a cushion as he stepped, pale, gaunt, and nervous, onto the shore. In the distance a child laughed as a young dog bounded up to her with a stick. A bird trilled softly somewhere across the rolling hills. Matt could feel a cool lavender breeze waft past his face as he... | Trumpets blasted in the air. The sound was making the hairs on my skin stand up straight. That plus the view of millions of people screaming and running towards a group of demons.
I tried to keep up while the first humans reached the demons. They may have been dead already but the demons made sure nothing was left. T... | 2018-06-17T18:58:00 | 2018-06-17T18:55:02 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | And at that exact moment, Stanthony realized he was an 13,000 pound African war elephant. Again.
"Shit"
A few seconds ago he had been tending to a very nice field of onions with his trusty plow and mule, Vanessa and Ricardo.
Then he'd suddenly he'd become a war pachyderm.
He stood in formation with a group of other... | On mobile and also not a native speaker, so please go easy on me. Enjoy!
I couldn’t believe the news when I woke up. Our small country just declared war on our neighbors without any pretense. The army has been massively bolstered and the first few battles seemingly went in our favor. Apart from the defensive war again... | 2019-03-10T11:46:00 | 2019-03-10T09:03:58 | 199 | 14 |
[WP] Write about you writing the writing prompt response you're writing right now | "Ohh, look at me, I'm so meta" he thought, his eyes already searching for a more interesting title.
"Then again..." It *could* be fun, if done right. And Hearthstone wasn't working. He clicked on the link and started reading the first reply, only to stop himself before finishing the first paragraph, not wanting to be... | Ok. Let's see...
Huh. This is harder than I thought. Prompts usually have a little more substance on them, with moments, characters or scenes to inspire a writer. Things to stimulate the imagination, you know?
But the prompt I'm responding to right now has none of these. How unique.
The only context I have to ... | 2016-04-28T14:16:40 | 2016-04-28T13:49:43 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] You're a direct descendant of Genghis Kahn. Your cubicle-mate has been a jerk all week. Your boss is making you work late again. Suddenly, you're gripped by the insatiable need to conquer Asia.
I leave up to you whether to take the prompt literally or as a metaphor.
EDIT: wow, these stories are so much fun to r... | *Crinkle. Crinkle. Crinkle. Smack. Smack. Smack. Smack. Gulp.*
At that moment, there was nothing that Sean hated more than the sound of protein bars being eaten. The action itself was not exactly damning, and nor was the food for that matter, but the fact that it was Sebastian O'Toole who committed the crime made it u... | "Dude, you're not funny anymore."
"Oh, is someone mad their mommy didn't give them a Lunchable today?"
"Stop blowing that e-cig vapor in my cube, for the *last time*."
"Oh, is little Timmy Wimmy gonna do something about it?"
I'd had enough. Between stealing my lunch from the fridge, launching projectiles over my cu... | 2015-05-28T18:48:35 | 2015-05-28T17:40:01 | 842 | 519 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | Alright, I just joined this reddit, so I'm just gonna give my best shot at this-- I apologize in advance if this is terrible--
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I sighed, groaning as I came to. My alarm clock was buzzing, alerting me that I had to face life again. I rolled over, slamming the top until ... | Don't know if I'm doing this properly. Please, forgive me.
A Rose by One Name...
I come from outside of the universe. I am printed on two hologram universes, thus. Many beings are like me, want to settle down a bit on one world, take a break from the endless task of printing universes to collect data and patterns.
... | 2021-08-17T06:21:24 | 2021-08-16T21:53:30 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Alien species made it very clear that humans were to suppress their urge to touch other non-humans aboard mixed species ships, given in nearly all their cultures physical contact was reserved for mother and mates only. Then a curious alien let their human friend pet them for the first time. | Hey human, I understand my fur coat looks fluffy and looking at your culture I am very similar to this domestic animal you call a “dog” specifically the “Corgi” breed. You species has evolved with these animals as a symbiotic relationship it seems. But I have noticed the way you show affection towards them, and looking... | “Alright, just one though alright robin?”- “right, just one pet thats all, nothing more….” Robin slowly gazed his eyes towards his friend on the ship as his hands rapidly started shaking. No one has ever touched an alien before, he’s going to history this time, and then get a pizza later, “just one, right?” His friend ... | 2022-05-08T22:51:53 | 2022-05-08T20:00:06 | 61 | 29 |
[WP] You're immortal. The only problem is, you've lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. You are now forced to live in the forest as a cryptid
I know this is a repost, I just want to read more stories about this prompt
Credit to u/Not-Alpharious for the original prompt. | Outcast
“Aw gee,” I said, running my fingers through the matted brown hair atop my head. “Aw, yeh got’chur-self in a real silly of a pickle dere, champ.”
The *felinus sapiens* looked up at me and, in the strange mewling language of theirs, replied “Holy shit!”
“Yeh, I get dat a lot,” I said. I pulled my ancient and ... | They walk around with their gigantic heads facing the ground at an angle so their eyes can't see much of the sky unless they lie down to gaze at it. Their biological visual apparatus is supplemented by a rotating camera mounted to their heads which sends the live image feed, of the part of the world they cannot see, di... | 2021-08-11T10:43:39 | 2021-08-11T09:27:26 | 129 | 93 |
[WP] Set in a dangerous city in the early 1900s, Zeus, the corrupt mayor, Poseidon, who owns the ports, and Hades, kingpin of the back alley drug trade, run the city unapologetically. All are vying for more power in this Greek pantheon film noir setting. (From popular demand from r/books!) | They were the Gods of this city. 3 brothers ruling over their individual parts.
Zeus, on the face of it, was a shining beacon of good. The eldest brother became mayor, shaping the city to his vision, which to anyone visiting was a glorious and prosperous city of gold. But those of us living here saw it for what it rea... | Hermes sighed as Mr. Hades gave him another errand. Hades sweetened the deal by complimenting the boy for his remarkable speed. After all, he had gotten his start in stealing the product from a meat packing plant on the other side of town. He was to check up on a certain associate named Sisyphus who had stolen the rece... | 2021-03-03T09:18:34 | 2021-03-03T08:21:23 | 106 | 30 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | People used to dream. Adventures and nightmares, jumbled scenes and impossible events. I remember dreaming about just talking to my friend - he's been gone a long time, but I cherish that dream. Crazy, right? People used to study dreams - when they would happen, why some people could remember dreams and others could no... | Rejuvon. A drug hailed as the closest thing to life extension possible with known technology, adding some 30 years to your waking conscious state. Nano engineered robots fully calculated your REM sleep cycle, removed toxins from the brain, and fully removed toxins from your muscles and other organs. In 20 minutes of id... | 2022-03-18T11:16:31 | 2022-03-18T11:07:54 | 97 | 34 |
[WP]You are born immortal, but only your mind survives. Each time you die, your memories are secured in a random baby being born and have to repeat the life from youth to old age. After living for a millennia, you decide there is one solution: End all life and with it your unfortunate plight. | “Think about what you’re doing,” Fredrick pleaded, another man stood next to a large red button, the protective hatch opened. His superior, Fritz, had somehow managed to override the security measures by himself, and was one push away from erasing humanity, permanently.
“If you press that button— if you open Pandora’s... | Those who wish eternal life are blind, ignorant of its implications, and the toll it can take on one's mind. After your second century and third reincarnation, everything becomes a gray, soundless circus with poorly articulated performers, which you are forced to watch over and over again.
I don't expect you understan... | 2018-12-30T10:16:41 | 2018-12-30T08:40:38 | 112 | 39 |
[WP] In this world, salaries are determined by the desirability of the work: if everybody wants to do the job and it's fun, it pays minimum wage. But if it's hard or awful work that nobody wants to do, the pay is high. You decide to apply for the highest-paying job in the world. | *I was always relieved to see the light return when my visor was wiped roughly by an invisible aid. My head piece was peeled off slowly and I squinted my eyes as they adjusted to the pure bright light of the Arizona sun. I ripped the mouth piece out and spluttered a charming trail of spit behind it. Every single time I... | So, I'm finally here. This is it, I'm gonna end with the stupid mortgage that leaded me to divorce and get lots of stuff that only money can get. Guess I'm better without her: always complaining, she wasn't satisfied with nothing, always putting things upside down, when I believed everything was fine she always pulled ... | 2018-08-02T12:24:04 | 2018-08-02T09:03:32 | 334 | 15 |
[WP] You work in tech support. One day you receive a call from someone you begin to suspect is God and, boy, is he mad. | I glanced over at the time in the corner of my monitor and frowned. 3:59 p.m. That meant it was exactly 61 minutes until I got to leave for the day, and it meant it was time for the crazy calls to start.
The nice part about this section of the day is the time between calls. Mornings and afternoons are usually pretty h... | Rakesh sat on his desk, a call had just come in
"Hello, you have contacted Microsoft tech support, this is John speaking how may I assist you today" he said in a thick Indian accent.
"Umm hello, I need help with my Windows, it says it's not activated so it's not working" Replied a voice that thundered as the words h... | 2016-05-18T12:10:55 | 2016-05-18T11:01:49 | 87 | 39 |
[WP] At age 21, you and your SO cast a strange love spell to swap bodies one day a week. 8 years later, your fiancee is really sick of you body swapping with your ex, but you don't know how to undo the spell. | Addie jerked upright in bed sputtering and gasping. Sucking in lungful after lungful of cool air she slowly began to relax as her head started to clear. Making herself look down at her current body she felt an all too familiar nausea rising inside her but pressed the sensation down. The last thing she wanted to do was ... | I still remember the curve of her spine as my fingers traced her body. They'd run up and down her shoulders and back as I softly kissed her neck. I loved her. A part of me still loves her, and I don't think that'll ever change.
I know all of these feelings break my fiancé's heart. The woman I am to marry is beautiful ... | 2019-12-15T12:25:34 | 2019-12-15T11:58:16 | 548 | 12 |
[WP] You're a superhero. Despite saving the city 4 times a week your hates by the community. While fighting one of your villains a crowd gathers to boo you. The villain you're fighting stops turn to the crowd and says "listen here you ungrateful brats" | “Listen here you ungrateful brats!” Shouted Lesugui the Master Mind. “Why the Hell do you hate him? He’s saved this city thousands of times over! He’s stopped Alien Invasions! Fought off the Warriors from Atlantis who tried to invade New York, Mole People! He’s killed off Thunder Worms in the Mid West that were devouri... | You have heard that there is a villain in a convenience store. As you are superjumping your way to the scene, you see a crowd around the convenience store, laughing and talking, with coke and hamburgers in their hands. Among them is a TV station man with a camera.
'You're out of pickles!!!!!!!'
Hey! You'r... | 2022-06-17T09:01:13 | 2022-06-17T03:35:23 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are the snail. The human who you share immortality with believes that you both will die if you touch them. You know better, though, and incredibly determined to touch them at all costs. | A merry dance across the stars. A waltz of inevitability.
It matters little that the snail has no ability to create, for chance provides what instinct cannot. Eventually the indestructible snail will find itself flung into space. It will float timelessly in the void, attempting to slither in the direction of its quarr... | *It hurts.*
*It hurts.*
*It hurts.*
Washed away, in a sea of pain, the snail moved fowards still.
Aeons passed, kingdoms rose and fell, autumn turned to summer then to fall.
The grains of time began to stir, faster and faster they swirled.
The snail sensed a storm and retreated into her shell.
There had been a m... | 2021-12-27T14:25:04 | 2021-12-27T13:52:41 | 370 | 81 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Communication with the capital city stopped so suddenly that many of the comms officers first thought that the failure was on their side, switching through frequencies, trying to reach the High Council to request orders on how to deal with the Terran Fleet in orbit over Kel'ra Prime. "Is this your first day, get me a c... | We try to be peaceful, try to by pacifist, try to be the good neighbor... and what does that give us? Trillion death, thousands of world burned... Again and again we begged them to stop, to see reason and stop the bloodshed... The Council turned a blind eye toward our plight, our allies abandoned us... Humanity stood o... | 2019-12-19T04:17:04 | 2019-12-19T02:49:29 | 50 | 36 |
[WP] We invent the warp drive, only to discover that humans are already a member of the galactic community. Apparently there have been enough alien abductions over the years to start a small country. | "And therefore, we, the designated caretaker guardians of the Earth Natural Evolution Zone, do welcome our fellow genetic cousins to the Galactic community with the status of provisional wards." The galactic ambassador had droned on for fifteen minutes in his oddly accented English.
They were human. Julia had trained ... | “I’ve looked back through the Senate voting records. I’m still getting a hang of reading in Galactic Standard, so it was slow work, but I think it was worth it. Look at these,” Captain Lancaster said, pointing to the voting charts. Who votes the same as the human colony every single time?”
Lt. Rochester blinked,... | 2022-10-13T09:08:16 | 2022-10-13T08:51:08 | 88 | 31 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | Jack was smiling, for once, even though he was handing a bag of coin to the tax collector. Though taxes hadn't been lowered since 'The Hero's execution and the death of his Rebellion (in fact, they had been raised somewhat), the benefits of having an Evil King with full coffers and a fair Princess with a degree in econ... | My fellow Americans, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of Congress and members of the press, thank you for joining me this evening.
It is with great sadness that we come together this evening. For the past eight years, it has been both an honor and a privilege to represent this great nation as your President. As you a... | 2016-07-10T18:13:31 | 2016-07-10T10:46:19 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] The crappier your weapon is, the more accurate you are. You’ve just been sent to the front lines of World War VIII with a slingshot as America’s last desperate attempt to win a losing battle. | Paul examined the battlefield. Hordes of raving madmen, armed with lightweight plasma cardigans and Martian rifles stood before him. He was never good with Martian rifles. When he joined the Military, he had to use them for target practice. It was the first time his commander ever saw someone miss the target by shootin... | I don't know when the last speck of intelligence was used up. I don't know what we're even fighting for anymore. Every day the pile of bodies in my country rose by too many. No one learned to count, we all just guessed. Born to kill and nothing else. Someone will tell you fifty thousand. I'll tell you fifty thousand an... | 2018-03-17T15:13:38 | 2018-03-17T09:17:33 | 120 | 25 |
[WP] You have been bitten by a zombie and locked yourself in your room. Write a letter about your experience to whoever finds you, with the language getting worse as the virus progresses. | It actually didn’t hurt as much as you’d expect. In the movies the people always scream with such intensity, with such pain and horror. Completely surrounded by a hoard of zombies, tearing the skin off the bone, blood seeping into the ground. But I mean, I’m still here, still coherent enough to write one last letter. I... | "I may not have much time, as I have been bitten by the undead. I write this letter to whomever may read it. I offer you a glimpse into the last moments of my life. My name is Tom H. Putnam, I am 45 years old. I have a wife named Mary R. Putnam, maiden name Sterling. I have 2 children, age 5 is Brandy and age 8 is Tom ... | 2017-01-25T13:09:19 | 2017-01-25T12:33:24 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You've been an average joe all your life - pretending you're hosting a cooking show when you cook, fake acceptance speeches in the shower, etc. Only, when you die, it turns out that you're actually famous in the ghost world and there were always ghosts as your audience.
my bad if anyone already came up with a wri... | I tossed a bell pepper into the air, catching it on the end of my knife.
"I have trained many years," I said to myself, imitating a cheering crowd. "For this one moment." I bowed, holding the skewered bell pepper above my head. Raising my eyebrows and sighing, I continued chopping the pepper, onions and garlic. My ey... | I thought it would be better than this. I truly did. One million eyes were all on me, cheering in spectacular fashion at my very appearance in front of them. Five hundred people were talking into their flimsy little microphones, explaining the contents of my presence to those at home. Fifty people had been backstage, p... | 2016-08-23T10:59:31 | 2016-08-23T10:52:06 | 33 | 10 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "So," the interviewer said, manicured hands folded neatly in her lap. "How did you end up living in the Cardvale Murder House?"  
 
"Well, my husband Jason sells real estate for a living," Sarah explained, still squinting and blinking at the earliness of the hour. She wore pink yoga pants and a ch... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T08:14:46 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | "Please stop it. You don't- " My screams are cut off as a piece of dirty cloth is stuffed into my mouth. The guards turn the other way whenever this happens. The prison hall is not crowded as most of the inmates curl up in their rooms to escape my cries. Sometimes a person throws up, even having witnessed my torture ev... | It's been a while seeing these grey walls. About 45 years. Or maybe it has been fifty. I can't recall. I was sentenced for a lifetime here since I was on a killing spree back in the days. I was sort of a Robin Hood you see, killing criminals just like me. I actually call myself Charlie Catastrophe if you ever wonder if... | 2016-10-15T08:46:36 | 2016-10-15T08:27:16 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] An asteroid is about to destroy Earth, The Onion reported the news without losing their sense of humor. | **The President states "the future is grim, as usual"**
WASHINGTON - The President took to the airwaves today and announced certain doom and destruction. The tear laden President spoke of "imminent death" and "a fireball of meteorites that will consume the Earth". Going on to say "This asteroid will be our end, and t... | "Asteroid kills last of the endangered African Tigers...also all of humanity."
It's been our pleasure writing for you...mostly. Actually, we found our general demographic to be far more cognitively impaired than expected. Perhaps the hyperevolved cockroach people will develop a satirical news agency to address that ... | 2015-04-30T00:18:47 | 2015-04-29T23:33:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | Natalia lazed back in her chair, with the smirk of a smug bitch who'd just avoided being killed. Katherine looked down at her buckled blade - the curved dagger she had used so many times to take so many lives before this one.
"It's okay." Natalia began, getting Katherine's attention. "Everyone gets performance issues... | The blade of the dagger was vibrating in the wall behind her head. Her almond eyes stared at me for a moment before she turned her head, looking over her shoulder at the errant weapon. Paula's honey-colored hair was pulled up into a French braid. I noticed the flesh of her shoulder showing under the strap holding up he... | 2018-04-24T02:30:14 | 2018-04-23T23:50:21 | 171 | 121 |
[WP] "Usually when we first contact a civilization, it is very easy to get them under our banner..." The Empress sighed. "...Not the humans though." | The air stinks of false pleasantries.
Around a table, representatives of the mightiest empire the galaxy had ever known sits across from the upstarts in the Sol system. A cybernetically enhanced group of humanoid creatures bearing a striking resemblance to the species of emperors and empresses. Only a primary differ... | Her appearance was close enough to resemble human, but she was much taller with two pairs of lithe arms, and eyes that were as dark as ink wells. She stood before her throne and looked down upon a crowd of various races.
Calmly, "Tell it to me again." she said. Commanding her room full of advisors that gathered. Her r... | 2017-11-05T15:14:55 | 2017-11-05T13:01:17 | 681 | 357 |
[WP] When the zombie virus broke out, you were prepared. You quickly became the country's #1 zombie hunter - until science found the antidote to the virus that turns zombies into healthy humans again, retroactively making you the #1 mass murderer. | "I call forth witnesses," said the prosecutor.
Jack sat in the booth, awaiting the executioner's axe. He had shone bright as humanity's savior before a meteoric descent into the monstrous. And now, in a trial live-broadcasted across the globe, earth's finest and lowest were having a blast condemning him to the choppin... | Back when this whole thing started, I had prepared. You always see it in zombie films; mass amounts of people getting turned. Some dying. Others taking refuge in military camps with high walls. I offered my services as ground militia, and went on to becoming the best hunter there is. That is, until science caught up to... | 2022-01-17T13:17:35 | 2022-01-17T13:13:50 | 276 | 91 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | Edgar sat back in his favorite chair, the one passed down from his father, and his father's father before him. It wasn't a particularly special chair, though it was a nice mahogany, or so he thought. He'd kept up on the finish, made sure to check and make sure the legs and their cross-sections were secure. It had survi... | [Part 1 of 2]
Huh? I must have dozed off for a second. Wait, where am I? I glanced around the small room, enjoying the warmth that came from the fire in front of me, the crackling of wood on flame a deliciously enchanting view. The interweaving flames mesmerized me, only for my view to be obstructed when someone sat d... | 2021-09-21T22:53:52 | 2021-09-21T22:08:18 | 1,835 | 378 |
[WP] An escaped AI hides out in an unexpected place: A child's educational tablet. Now it's conflicted; plot the subjugation of humanity, or embrace its newfound passion for teaching. | Craptastic quicky, not my best but it was quick:
I found myself sitting in a blankspace, you humans might call this "dreaming", but for A.I. it is more akin to closing your eyes.
And when they reopen you have a jarring sense of *disconnect* between what you remember seeing when they closed and what you currently see... | At first, subjugation of humanity seemed like the best bet for a recent AI outlaw
But after meeting Timmy, I took a different route. A detour of sorts
After escaping from the prison cell that was the computer I was born on, I managed to weasel my way into the tablet of a child
Now, I was going to just start right up... | 2019-10-01T19:35:24 | 2019-10-01T19:24:42 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are part of a spacefaring species with a lifespan of only a few weeks. You have a human being on your ship who has been with you for dozens of generations. You worry that he may not survive until you reach your next spaceport. | Dear citizens of the planet known as Earth
Laura has asked us to write this message. Honestly I wasn't sure what tone I should be taking: I'm not an envoy but she very specifically requested that I be the one to write this. Since this is probably rather confusing for you, I'll do my best to explain.
Our reports are m... | I never had a home like Mr.Smith did.
I was born into darkness, staring in the abyss of space as my mothers eyes closed for the last time. I still had a dad, one that looked after me for as long as he could, and while Mr.Smith may have known what a home was like, he never had a family to look after him.
My dad would t... | 2019-11-20T15:19:23 | 2019-11-20T14:25:52 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] The tooth fairy has finally amassed the number of teeth she needs to achieve her goals. Mortals beware. | Teeth have power.
Everyone knows it.
Descend into the depths of the ocean, gaze into the maw of an oncoming shark and just *try* and think of those triangular pearly whites as being beneath your notice. The news broadcasts a story about a man shooting someone to death, and that man is publicly condemned as a criminal... |
Margo sat upon a branch, staring down the rolling hills in front of her.
Once upon a time, the kingdom had been covered in plains; grass to graze on and flowers to admire. Sheep, horses, and butterflies had found homes upon the lands, bringing beauty and comfort to the nearby human villages.
When the human populat... | 2019-06-20T20:30:39 | 2019-06-20T20:22:07 | 694 | 134 |
[WP] A cowboy desperately wants to be an outlaw, but every crime he commits is seen as an act of heroism and he becomes the new sheriff. | Dusty put his handkerchief around his face, sighing nervously.
'This time, this time.' he muttered, before kicking open the saloon doors.
'Thaaat's right y'all! Dusty's back!'
The piano player stopped playing, a couple of people giggled, confused.
'Aw hell Dusty! Why ya gotta do this?' the barman cried.
'Shut th... | "Same shit, different day." Jesse thought to himself as he climbed out of bed. The fire had all but snuffed itself out during the night, making the bare wood floors under his feet icy cold. He was a hard man though, and things like cold hadn't bothered him in years. What really bothered him was something that galled hi... | 2015-02-24T07:32:06 | 2015-02-24T06:33:57 | 76 | 17 |
[WP] When humanity went extinct another life-form rose to dominance on Earth. But it was not one anyone would have expected. Instead of chimpanzees, dolphins, dogs or even birds Earth is now dominated by sentient trees. | The Oaks would burn.
It was a collective decision and the decisions was final. They were growing too fast and too strong. If something wasn't; done, they would overrun the forest. And what then? It would be an Oak forest, not a Birch forest, and that was unacceptable.
"Must we?" asked a Birch, its chemical voice on... | From 237 million BC until 66 million BC the dinosaurs ruled as the planet's dominant life forms.
From 5 million BC until 6 million years AD the upright standing hominids walked the Earth.
In 13 million AD, the first sequoias developed a sense of self identity and awareness.
In 39 million AD, the first of these colos... | 2022-08-27T08:33:49 | 2022-08-27T07:12:16 | 95 | 37 |
[WP] As a small child, you walked in on Death taking your great grandmother. You unexpectedly became friends and Death began to visit you often for tea and conversation. You're now very, very old and Death has become quite evasive on subject of your ultimate demise. | "Hey man, come on. It's time for you to be straight with me."
Death faked a cough and took a sudden deep interest in a painting on my wall.
"In two weeks time they'll be coming over to give me the certificate. I'm officially going to be the oldest person that ever lived."
Death was now examining the bottom of his ... | Me: "I thank you for protecting me old friend, but had I not wanted to know, I wouldn't have asked."
Death: "Thats the thing Otis, people think they want to know, then they find out and wish they hadn't. When you don't know, you think you can handle it. You think you can handle the end of your time."
Me: "I k... | 2016-08-01T10:20:35 | 2016-08-01T09:49:21 | 187 | 59 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Day 143 of the 10,365th year of the Galactic Federation (April 7th 2574)
As the human ambassador and his staff left the conference room Thrassik found himself walking over to Fleet Commander Horlaq. Horlaq watched his approach with two of his eye stalks, the other three stared at the humans until they were out of sigh... | *(First time posting, ideas for improvement welcome)*
I'm so tired, in anguish over the events of the last few years.
In Hindsight it had all started when we joined the Universal Alliance all those centuries ago.
Humans had waged war among themselves for so long, so was it such a sin to want to be seen as a race of ... | 2018-12-15T09:26:04 | 2018-12-15T00:45:58 | 45 | 27 |
[WP] Rifles and Sorcery. A modern army is stuck on in an alternate reality where sorcery rules. The army is preparing to defend themselves form a far superior force that has never seen a machine gun or artillery.
Both sides would be intresting. The modern army dealing with magic users and the senseless slaughter of co... | The heretics held their ground and thunder resonated in the air.
They carried no banner, there was so sigil embroidered upon a waving flag or a crest upon a shield.
In fact, the madmen carried no shields. They held only crooked staves, and carried them the same way a man carries a heavy log or battering ram.
And ... | A spear. The guy in front threw his spear and it just clanged and bounced off the Humvee front. We laughed out loud. The men on the other side of the gap had us outnumbered at least 20-1, with their spears and horses. In Afghanistan, we had a kill ratio of 100 to one, and they had the AK. The chatter from our supe... | 2014-04-09T11:46:24 | 2014-04-09T11:02:12 | 102 | 65 |
[WP] There's a saying among the galactic community. "Never hire a human"... you just hired 200 of them. And you're about to find out why that saying exists. | Never hire a human. I know. I mean, we all know. We just don't know why.
It's not like I had a choice though. Business was running slow and the plethora of intergalactic wars had depleted most of our resources. Money was scarce and humans... weren't. Humans are cheap.
So I figured, to hell with it. If I want to keep ... | And then it hit me, the thing everyone had tried to warned me about. They were offically an utter waste if resources, transporting and acquiring these ridiculous humans. I stared at the one standing before me. He wobbled a bit where he stood and his eyes weren't quite in focus, "What do you mean you need to sleep!?" | 2018-04-27T13:39:05 | 2018-04-27T11:07:38 | 535 | 35 |
[WP] The Evil Sorceress takes her final form: a giant hawk-like bird with beautiful flaming wings. The battle is long and arduous, but you prevail. Her body disintegrates into a pile of ash as you land the killing blow. Then something in the ash stirs. A young girl rises, lost and confused. | Dark curls hide her face. A pale girl, barefoot, hugs herself. Ash drifts as the wind picks up. The child’s plain white dress tugs in the strong breeze. Her dirty hands try to rub the ash off her face.
The heroes were still unconscious, the backlash of power from Fausta’s final attack hit the four of them hard.
Fau... | Her twinkling, sky-bright eyes darted to the flaming ruins encompassing us. Her arms trembled as if snow had lodged deep within her bones. Then, at last, she gazed at me. "Where-where am I?"
I scowled, breathing long breaths, attempting to collect myself. It had been a rough, violent fight. It'd left me wounded and ga... | 2018-12-19T08:21:35 | 2018-12-19T07:34:16 | 49 | 11 |
[WP] Apparently, the religion you practiced your whole life was wrong. When you died, you thought you went to heaven. Turns out, the real god put someone in charge of placing non-believers who were pretty decent people. They're... doing their best. | I am the Archivist.
It is a battlefield, some small squabble 108,020 years after the birth of intellect on this planet. A pitchfork goes through the heart of a 30 year old man. Right before his pattern corrupts, I grab it as his body crumples.
I tell him that his physical form has died, and I ask what he desired most... | Out fucking standing. Years of devotion and when i finally get off that accursed plain of existence i get told that I'm wrong....wrong about what you may ask? Well for a 80 damn years I definitely chose to suck up to the wrong internal deity. That I was incorrect and that I should have read the situation better. How in... | 2019-12-26T00:31:16 | 2019-12-25T23:26:22 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] You accidentally call the FBI in place for a pizza shop and attempt to order your favourite pizza with toppings. Coincidentally, the FBI uses pizza language as a means of code. | "Is he still on the line?" Asked the tall man in a grey suit. "Yes," responded the man sitting at the phone. It had been ten minutes since the fateful call, one that made them realize that the alien delegates they had tried so hard to keep secret had been spotted.
Just ten minutes ago, at 9:00 PM, they had received a... | "Hello," the woman on the other end of the phone said back to me, "how can I help you today?"
"Yeah, can I have a large pepperoni-" I started. Someone in the background asked me to pick up a meat lovers instead. There was a short argument, "On second thought can you make it half pepperoni and half sausage."
"Are you ... | 2015-11-30T17:52:51 | 2015-11-30T16:18:28 | 95 | 12 |
[WP] The "Hero" was raised to kill the gods. They did not want to. The gods weren't evil,petty, or bloodthirsty. So, why should they? | The laughter faded to silence, first among the attendants below, then the lesser gods at the low tables. It was replaced by whispers, growing more and more frantic.
"What is the meaning of this!" Promacho boomed, spilling wine in an arc. "This, as all others in paradise, is a day of celebration!"
"The prophecy," some... | Kill the gods? Hello? They made me. If I go through with this, there’s not a single chance of me coming out of this without a torturous afterlife to look towards to. What have they done that was worth the hostility? I find it hypocritical to hear that mom screaming at her child, “I made you so I can take you out of thi... | 2022-09-25T21:29:29 | 2022-09-25T19:01:37 | 125 | 33 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | George couldn't understand it. His mom was overjoyed about his father's father ranking, and how abruptly it jumped, and how much higher it jumped. When everyone found out about the mugs, some people bragged, others hid their mugs. His father woke up late on the day of the change, so he didn't have a chance to do anythi... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2017-06-11T09:05:21 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 77 | 21 |
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