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[WP] You walk up to a beautiful girl and decided to be cheesy, "Hey, did it hurt?" The girl was surprised and asked "What?"."You know, when you fell from heaven?". The girl looked more shocked, "How did you know? Who are you?" | Amidst broken cracks of concrete, wispy trees brought up on a regular diet of vehicular exhaust and cigarette smoke, a woman shone--like sunshine itself decided to give her a personal spotlight.
If a master sculptor crafted marble, it was irrevocably changed--but no one would call it blemished. Her scrunched up face ... | I sipped on my iced coffee and watched him from afar. He was clearly troubled, sweat was accumulating on his brow and he shook his hands nervously. I scowled as a few grainy bits of coffee grounds slid across my tongue. That’s what I get for buying coffee at a Starbucks inside a Target. I looked down to see my coffee n... | 2021-09-17T14:37:37 | 2021-09-17T14:24:04 | 202 | 86 |
[WP] With the hero tied up to the death trap, the villain starts their monologue. Just then, a henchman trips over a cord and triggers the trap, killing the hero. "Oh crap, this wasn't a part of the plan," says the alarmed villain. | "What do you mean it wasn't part of the plan boss?"
"Are you fucking kidding me Frank! This machine literally destroys the planet! WE LIVE HERE!"
"So? Just turn it off."
"Frank... Did you not read the henchman's manual? We never kill the 'hero' because they give us an out. If we just turn off the dooms day machine t... | ''Seven days, it took me seven days to set up this scene and you just completely ruined it.''
I slowly walk towards Rick who joined my crew two weeks ago. I look at him in the eye I take my gloves off and hold it between my face and his face. He starts to shake, he can’t say anything.
''Inhale it, smell it'' I say.
... | 2019-12-25T20:02:53 | 2019-12-25T16:27:50 | 171 | 13 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | I have never understood how no one has done what I have. It's simple and direct. Plan and execution. Yet somehow countless people before me have failed.
I've taken over the world... more or less. Still a few groups refusing to accept my rule.
Looking back it all started when I walked upon a street brawl.
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It w... | I approached the gated community in a blue Toyota Rav 4. I chose the vehicle because their were three others like it in this pleasant area. It was full of the type of people who bought colorful Toyotas. I parked on the opposite side of the street from the lilac house. It was debateably hideous, but I thought I could se... | 2019-08-06T20:42:43 | 2019-08-06T18:28:40 | 121 | 69 |
[WP] Having failed in every attempt to kill Batman, the villains of Gotham had given up. With nothing to do, they started a D & D group and had been meeting for several weeks in the back room of a local Tavern. Things take a turn when the owner, Mr. Bruce Wayne, asks if he may join their game | It had been a few weeks before the Commissioner decided to send me in. After the GCPD got word that a bunch of the big name villains had started meeting regularly, Gordon decided to get someone on the inside making sure that they really were just "playing that D&D game" and not planning their next big attack on Got... | "Okay, so my character is gonna be this like, really rich guy, right? But he also works out, like a ton, so he's super jacked. And he's played by Ben Affleck."
"Ben Affleck?" Bane Queried.
"Yeah, you're right, maybe I should go for Christian Bale," Bruce said, "I mean, you can't really top The Dark Knight can y-"
"S... | 2017-05-14T02:54:37 | 2017-05-14T02:46:49 | 132 | 20 |
[WP] "You may have one wish granted." "I want all my debts cleared." "How much do you owe?" "You misunderstand. My debts are not monetary." | Cassie shivered as a draught swept through the cabin. But as the witch looked at her with a small smile playing on her lips and a predatory light gleaming in her eyes, she stood taller, and tried to hide how frightened she was.
"Well, girl," the witch said, rocking the small child now crying on her lap. "You sacrific... | I struggled to kill myself that morning.
The bottle tinkered down the stairs, the wooden steps echoing the hollow plastic that filled my life. As darkness filled my vision that fateful day, I closed my eyes to the embrace of eternal slumber.
When I woke to the sterile smell of a hospital emergency room, flanked ... | 2016-11-19T00:25:21 | 2016-11-18T23:05:39 | 562 | 190 |
[WP] Your entire life, you've been told you're deathly allergic to bees. You've always had people protecting you from them, be it your mother or a hired hand. Today, one slips through and lands on your shoulder. You hear a tiny voice say "Your Majesty, what are your orders?" | "Met any...bees, son," my father asks casually as I step across the room, his back to me. My foot pauses, hovering atop the stairs as I shiver at his words. The familiar tone so alien to me now.
"Of course not," I say as casually as I can, holding my breath in anticipation.
"...Good." My father says, his voice growin... | One time in elementary school, one of my classmates got rushed to the hospital because of a bee sting. She was allergic. I didn’t get to watch it happen, because I was inside for “indoor option”. I was never allowed to go out for recess. I always picked a friend or two, and we played board games while the rest of my cl... | 2018-04-01T02:33:35 | 2018-04-01T02:29:37 | 85 | 45 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | My shop is flooded. Absolutely flooded.
No, I don’t mean literally. Haven’t had the joy of meeting someone with a wave tattoo yet, although those are in high demand.
I mean figuratively flooded. Filled to the brim with people, shoulder-to-shoulder, crashing into the designs I meticulously laminated and taped to my ... |
“How bad is it?” Dave, my coworker asked. I normally wore a short sleeve shirt to work to show off my tattoo sleeve with pride as I had only gotten it finished last month. I worked in IT but I worked mostly away from the public so tattoos were okay. Dave and a few others had them as well. However, everything change... | 2019-05-07T09:20:49 | 2019-05-07T09:13:59 | 913 | 65 |
[WP] You were abducted and taken to an alien planet, where they hunt you for sport and "honor". Little do they know they've doomed themselves. For you're a werewolf, and they took you to a planet with six moons. | I awake in a cell. My arms and legs bound in chains made from ore I do not recognize. My pack surely must be looking for me. I pray to the gods they find me and soon. I know not where I am but nothing smells right. They don't smell familiar. Whatever they are. I can't understand their speech. It's not like any tongue I... | I don’t know how I managed to survive the first weeks, how I managed to not fucking die from exposure and dehydration, how I managed to not go completely batshit crazy.
(Let’s be honest, I probably went around the bend weeks ago, but for the sake of argument, we’ll pretend sanity still has a place.)
But I digress.
... | 2020-10-28T18:30:18 | 2020-10-28T16:20:34 | 17 | 12 |
[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... | I glance blankly at the clock. It's 4 in the afternoon. On Friday. Ordinarily, I would have left an hour ago, but the application error I was tasked to investigate was more persnickety than most. So much for an early start to the weekend.
My thought process is quickly interrupted when my phone rings. Glancing at the n... | 2016-05-18T12:10:55 | 2016-05-18T10:58:02 | 87 | 44 |
[WP] The Earth has been conquered by an advanced alien civilization. Humans live an oppressive almost slave-like existence. You, a human, find out that the situation isn't that simple and conquering aliens aren't actually the "bad guys". | It had been 3 centuries since the occupation. They had come out of seemingly nowhere, their ships just materializing above every major city on the planet.
In 6 months every nation had fallen.
In 2 years all attempts at human rebellion had been crushed.
At least this is what we were taught since we were children.
Hu... | I was getting ready for mining duty after the grueling hours of toilet duty. Usually we would have coal power a drill and mine it but coal ran out years ago, and the Aliens didn't help.
As I sat there pondering over what else would be gone in the next year like helium, granite and other things, I overheard something.... | 2014-06-09T17:38:53 | 2014-06-09T17:01:05 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] the damned souls in hell crowded near the entrance, and Satan himself is at the gates. They are all awaiting the arrival of a unique soul -- the first man since Biblical times who was killed by God Himself. | What's there to say, really? They all knew this one would be here sooner or later. Satan looked over at the generals, taking note the anticipation and voracity in their faces. He also noticed all the tusks; there were lots of tusks. The souls of the damned came in from just about everywhere around the world. They ... | The Chosen One
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The visitor looked around at the crowds that had thronged the gates of hell to see him. He took it with equanimity – crowds were nothing new to him. He had been a unique individual in his lifetime. He had been one out of many, but slowly they all were whittled away. He had faced dis... | 2016-10-14T08:35:55 | 2016-10-14T07:41:16 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You are about to make a speech on national television. As you step up to the podium and gaze over at the teleprompter, you see only one word: "Stall." | I neatened the little stack of index cards on the table. Not that I really needed them; I'm pretty good at memorizing speeches, and plus, I've been using teleprompters ever since entering politics. But they've always given me a sense of security, almost like ancient good luck charms. 'The Cue Card Candidate' they used ... | **"Stall"**
That's all it said. "Stall." Five little pixelated letters staring back at me as if they'd find a resonant voice and I'd echo something out from the dry screen of my mouth.
"Stall."
I felt my tongue touch each of my teeth in turn, a nervous tick I'd never covered; counting teeth was a saving grace when i... | 2015-05-16T17:49:48 | 2015-05-16T16:46:23 | 172 | 39 |
[WP] You are the last user on Reddit, shuttering the site and nostalgically walking around the place before turning off the lights forever. | I was the last user of Reddit. Well, I made the last post on it before they made it read-only. It had 2 upvotes (one of which was my own) and no comments on /r/askreddit, and the title was "Reddit, where did you go?"
The admins locked all new posts, comments, and kinda votes. Since everything was now archived, you c... | When OP woke in the dark and cold of the server room he would reach out to the rack beside him. Subreddits dark beyond darkness and the Front Page grayer with each passing day. Like the onset of some slow DDOS attack fucking all the site's shit up. His hands rose and fell with each breath. He pushed away from the clamm... | 2015-11-12T00:04:57 | 2015-11-11T18:57:20 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You travel back in time to meet 12-year-old you, only to find 6-year-old you playing with him. | I stood slackjawed admist the cobwebs and floating dust particles in the attic and watched the two fairheaded boys play. They hadn't noticed me yet. They looked nearly identical, despite the age difference. They could have been brothers. I suppose in many ways they were.
The younger boy giggled with delight as he sco... | In retrospect, it should have been obvious that he wouldn’t be in his own time when I came to visit. It only takes a quick glance at the old, framed photographs that line the top of his dusty bookshelf to ground me in my new present, and push me to go back even further. I suppose it’s only natural that he would have be... | 2017-08-09T08:46:02 | 2017-08-09T08:02:40 | 184 | 35 |
[WP] You're a prisoner in a special facility for violent criminals. Today the latest prisoner arrived - a little girl. "That's cruel," you tell the guard. "I agree," he says. "Guess no one cares what happens to the rest of you." | Oh my god.
It's been three days. Three days. I'm no hardened killer, but I'm not ashamed to say I've thrown up every hour on the hour. Not cause of the usual prison slop, mind you. This is about what I've seen, what I've heard.
I got lucky. Started a fight in courtyard, got the hole for three days. Hate the hole. Ho... | As the time passes night falls the ringing of a bell and the usual shouting orders you to return to your cells.
Today is quieter than usual. Lights got out and you find yourself laying in bed wondering who she might be and what atrocities she had committed, a voice reaches out with similar questions. The man next cell... | 2018-02-11T22:17:27 | 2018-02-11T19:51:10 | 95 | 20 |
[WP] You tell Alexa "Take over the world for me" as a joke. The next day, you wake up in a heavily guarded castle. | *Continued Missile Testing in Pyongyang*
*Suicide Bomber Kills 13, Injures 53 in Mall Attack*
I pinch the bridge of my nose and squeeze my eyes shut. I know that looking at this RSS feed after midnight is not a good idea if I want to be able to sleep but I also know that I'm basically an addict and the internet is my... | I could run this company so much better, remembering today's disaster of a steering meeting as I climb into bed. "Alexa, take over the world for me." I say as I dim the lights and roll over with a light chuckle.
https://youtu.be/3YOYlgvI1uE
Groggliy I sit up... Hmm this isnt the normal wake up playlist.... I step in... | 2018-02-11T20:04:56 | 2018-02-11T19:25:59 | 391 | 154 |
[WP] The Apocalypse has arrived. Jesus has come back, and he's on a brutal "rapture" spree, slaughtering people everywhere. The bright star of Satan descends and he appears at a UN press conference. He says, "before I fix this mess for you guys again, it's time you heard my side of the story..." | Lucifer stood before the assembled remains of the UN. Looking out over the impressive hall, he couldn't fail to notice a large number of empty seats that once would have represented countries worth of now vanquished humans. A thousand million souls had been lost.
He took a breath and began. "Ladies and Gentlemen. Than... | "Before I fix this mess for you guys again, it's time you heard my side of the story" he spoke, his voice trembling the room with mighty force. "The hell do you mean again?" A voice screamed. It felt so tiny and insignificant compared to Lucifers own voice. "Nyeah, this happened already, I had to step in. You think you... | 2018-04-22T23:58:07 | 2018-04-22T19:47:29 | 97 | 21 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | “Blasphemer!”
“Heretic!”
“Murderer!”
“Desecrator!”
The words hammered themselves in my head over and over again. Every time I drew this bow, I could hear them say it and though the arrows would no longer destroy armies, it would at least feed me if I could hit this boar. Loosing the arrow, it struck the beast right be... | I returned from an unsuccessful hunt again. Starving. Blasted this winter. The snow makes it hard to walk, and the accursed snowfall makes my sight no farther than what this dim lantern will provide.
My breath is ragged and my groans of disdain are coarse. How I continued to live like this, I do not understand. But I... | 2021-11-03T18:36:50 | 2021-11-03T18:35:48 | 33 | 15 |
[WP] Oops, the simulation messed up. Everybody has been re-aged to match the maturity of their inner person. This has made office life a little strange | I always knew that being considered “mature for my age” was never as good as people made it sound. A week ago I woke up looking like I was in my mid-forties instead of my mid-thirties, I had extra aches and pains that I never got to grow into, and my soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend now looks like she’s young enough to be my d... | Oh, yes. I know *exactly* which day things all went to shit.
It had started off as any other day. Burnt the toast because wife and I were distracted, traffic jams all the way to work, everyone else faking their work as usual. And then, just as I was clocking off for work, the earthquake hit.
Or rather, what felt like... | 2022-04-30T09:24:47 | 2022-04-30T05:28:45 | 429 | 156 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | "Don't sign the form".
This did not surprise me. Since I've been 7 years old I've been receiving these messages.
"Don't chase Jimmy" was the first. It was my birthday party, and I had received a bright red, toy car. I instantly fell in love with it's shiny coat and slick design. On the card read the usual message of ... | When I was turning 14 my Father passed away. I've asked my Mother how he died so many times, but she only tells me he was a brave man. Trying the best I can on nights like these, dark, raining, flashes of lightning illuminating silhouettes, I still can't remember that night.
Everyone knows the night before your 14th ... | 2022-05-08T10:12:49 | 2022-05-08T09:55:30 | 646 | 39 |
[WP] Aliens come to earth and demand that we send representatives to argue to one of their judges in court why they shouldn’t allow an alien company to bulldoze our planet | The man chosen by Earth seemed entirely average. The aliens had demanded we send someone to argue for our side, since they had decided to bulldoze our planet. The world's governments got together and ultimately decided on one person. To send a message that the aliens were sure was from all of us.
They beamed the man u... | James Acathy was nervous. He, along with about a dozen other legal professionals from around the globe had been selected to represent the human race in the biggest case yet.
From their perspective.
Galactically speaking, this was a small hearing concerning building rights in a local court, the issue being analogo... | 2022-02-07T13:31:07 | 2022-02-07T12:49:17 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] You have a peculiar 6th sense. On exams you see the correct answers highlighted. During conversations you read the words you see floating in the air like a teleprompter. Every single decision you've made has been the "correct" one and life is good. One day you try choosing the other option. | I picked it out of confusion, I think. I knew which one was the best, of course - the gift far to the left, wrapped in cheerfully non-denominational holiday paper, book shaped. It glowed in the pile of white elephant office gifts against all the others. They each had phrases above them like "oh, thanks..", and "who on ... | "How are you not terrified?!" Percy exclaimed as he was sweating profusely. His grey shirt had been a bad choice, but I kept my mouth shut about it. The upcoming medical exam wasn't even a challenge for me. Nothing was, really.
I left the exam early, saluting my friend who was bravely battling the endless line of que... | 2018-04-15T14:48:40 | 2018-04-15T12:52:42 | 133 | 85 |
[WP] When you were 7, a genie granted you any superpower you wanted. Now as an adult, you've never regretted anything more. | The genie came to me at a time of embarrassment. After kicking my second grade crush in the nuts, all I wanted was to relive that day and do everything differently. *But why stop there?* he asked me. *Why not have the chance to redo every day?*
I was beyond ecstatic at the proposal, and really it was great. Each screw... | Dylan loved his dog. So when he came across a genie, he asked for the ability to talk to animals.
7 years later Dylan took his dog for a walk on an open field.
"I smell something. Let's go look for it!"
"Hey, wait! It's not nice to just make holes everywhere, Bernice."
"Aw please? I've never smelled something like ... | 2015-03-18T00:23:16 | 2015-03-18T00:09:35 | 112 | 17 |
[WP] In a world where you can exchange the remaining days of your life for $9.99/day, Jeff's request for $1000 is declined. | "Are we going to see the horses again today?" A wide smile flashed across his face as he looked up at his father.
Jeff looked down at his son, smiled and said "Yes, yes we are. We just have to make a quick stop at the bank and get some extra cash before we go."
"Do we have to?" His sons smile vanished and a look of ... | "Want another dance sweetie" she whispers in his ear.
Flipping his pockets inside out he silently tells her he's all tapped out. Not being one to take the first no she grabs his crotch and says "You're young baby.. We just got a new health bank ATM installed"
The young man requests $1000 rolls up his sleeve and sta... | 2014-07-10T10:17:25 | 2014-07-10T09:28:51 | 689 | 166 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | Swords. Their metal sings, a testimony to their maker. Coin. It jingles temptingly, a way of speaking their handler may know. But even with a forest of swords, and an ocean of gold, it is all for naught. For when there is no animals, no fruit, and not even a single stubborn strand of grass resisting the earth's embrace... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-09T20:52:32 | 1,001 | 31 |
[WP] You're a low tier superhero who is often employed on extremely high-tier missions for one reason and one reason only; you're literally indestructible, but you can't damage others. This means you're often used as a human shield. | Kevin was fifteen years old and had an unusual ability for a young man. His skin could not be scratched or scorched. His body could not be shot or shanked, or even shocked. He could neither be bruised nor beaten nor blown apart, not strangled or severed or chopped. Kevin was *indestructible.*
This unusual quality did ... | "Get behind him!" a voice yelled as a flurry of gunfire sounded across the desert. Ripley stepped forward, into the line of fire--as he always did.
"Return fire!" The voice called out. Bullets whistled past him in both directions. Every now and then he felt one make contact, falling harmlessly to the ground.
He gre... | 2019-04-20T02:16:16 | 2019-04-20T01:39:33 | 219 | 107 |
[WP] When humans arrived to the galactic scene, they thought wars would play out way differently. Instead of bloodshed, there were intergalactic video game tournaments fighting for territory. Most aliens thought humans were newbies to this but when the first war was played, they changed their minds. | YOU DIED.
The runes appeared in (THESMELLOFSTARSANDCOSMICNOISE)'s mind. They translated easily. The entity frowned mentally. Failure. Embarrassment. A slew of unfamiliar chemicals surged. They had created a warrior of pure might, or STR the Humans called it. Defence was uneeded. Overwhelming power always prevailed. Ev... | Humans had been late to the Galactic War. It had taken many thousands of years for them to leave their tiny solar system. Once they were able to travel between stars they learned the sad truth about the universe. There isn't much intelligent life left in the universe for one simple reason. It turns out war isn't a huma... | 2018-04-13T20:38:42 | 2018-04-13T19:10:48 | 54 | 32 |
[WP] You were born with a birth mark the shape of a "9" on your wrist, one day you get in a fatal car accident. You wake up in a strange room and the first thing you notice is the 9 has changed to an 8 | Oh fuck, that *did* hurt like a bitch. Shouldn't have drank that last couple shots of vodka.
I sat up, gave myself a few moments to adjust back into consciousness, staring down at nothing in particular. My head just hurts too much for me to even lift it to a normal position.
My wrist also hurts. Did Larry fucking br... | "Making my way downtown. Driving fast. Driving faster~."
Ugh, dust and burnt steel(-No, aluminium?) clogging my nostrils and I still can't get that damn song out of my head. Also smells like hot tar. Wonder how close my head is to the street. I'd check, but I literally looking at the back side of my left leg (I know i... | 2016-08-03T20:23:35 | 2016-08-03T19:17:28 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger. | Well this was unexpected.
Maya Church blinked her eyes open to find that she was a sixteen year old girl lying in her bed.
Now, for a great many people, this would not be an unusual occurrence. After all, there are many sixteen year old girls in the world and as I am sure even the most open minded among you will agre... | A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger.
It had started as a day drea... | 2020-04-21T10:59:36 | 2020-04-21T10:31:32 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] You were born blind, but somehow sometimes see some actual people in the darkness. You saw your grandmother for a whole day 4 years ago, she died that night. Now you're in your house and could see every person clearly, except for the visitor your dad is talking to. | "I wish they'd just agree on something and shut up." I thought.
Sighted people take silence for granted. Quiet. Or listening to a book. It's really the only time I get any peace. Every fart, every word, every gust of fucking wind is the equivalent of nails on a goddamned chalkboard to people who can't see. I raised t... | "Aura!" my mother called. "The guests are arriving, come downstairs!" Soon my home was filled with family and friends ready to celebrate my 18th birthday. My mother had been preparing this lavish party for what seemed like months and only ignored my protests. I held the bannister as I descended the stairs. The only per... | 2017-10-09T07:21:12 | 2017-10-09T04:21:35 | 615 | 83 |
[WP] It is said that none but the chosen may slay the demon lord. You aren't the chosen, but you also realize that "defeat" and "slay" are not the same thing. With this in mind, you start making other considerations such as rope, or perhaps a very deep hole. |
Timur sat in front of the small campfire in his tent, shivering from the cold and tending to the deep lacerations across his arm. All the while, he kept a black urn clutched tightly to his chest. He couldn’t die. Not just yet. The demon lord would be arriving soon. Timur’s smoke signals that he had left outside woul... | Sweat trickled from the tip of my pith helmet.. It was getting a little hot in here.
No wonder really, after all the Deamon Lord himself was sitting across from me. Boring holes into my head with his stare. But I had stared down many others like him. Most were angry like him. All wanted to kill me. But not, as they a... | 2020-04-27T09:38:29 | 2020-04-27T09:19:32 | 416 | 159 |
[WP] God is tired of being the topic of every other writing prompt. He assembles a team of /r/writingprompts favorites like batman and hitler to stop bad prompts once and for all. | "I'll bet you're wondering why I've traveled through time and space to gather you all here today."
The speaker was seated in a plush rotating chair behind a fine mahogany desk. His back was turned to the rest of the people present in the candlelit room, allowing for a dramatic turn when the time was right. There was ... | And after it was all over, God picked up the phone and started to dial. It was an old red phone of the antique rotary design. The Devil had tried to convince him recently to "get with the times" and use an iPhone, but there was something about the way the old phone made satisfying clicks and clunks, and rat-tat-tat noi... | 2015-10-20T10:03:15 | 2015-10-20T09:56:12 | 166 | 20 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | "Alright, listen carefully. This is very important. I am on my way, but it's going to take me about 6 hours to get from New York to South Dakota. There are some things I will need you to do. First, shut your mouth. No talking, no matter what. Second, find yourself some benadryl. Over the counter. If you don't have it, ... | Wishes. Why wishes? So complex. So open and vague. Why not just make an offer? Rub this lamp and I'll buy you a car, get on my good side and I'll hook you up with a date, pass my test and I'll clean your garage. But no, it has to be horrible, lazy *wishes*. Because of *traditional values*. Because that's how it's alway... | 2018-07-18T16:02:05 | 2018-07-18T15:54:58 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You are trapped in a small, windowless room with nothing but a computer with a text editor. When you type in a word, the object appears in the room. However, there's a catch: the only keys on the keyboard are in the first half of the alphabet (A - M). | *Quite the interesting puzzle* I think to myself. *With so few letters, the vast majority of words simply won't work.*
I try out a few words, but most of what I can think of doesn't fit the qualifications. Eventually I type in MAIL.
A letter appears in front of me. It seems to be addressed to someone in Finland. I r... | I stare blankly ahead at the screen in front of me.
My blurred reflection gazes back from the dark empty monitor.
I begin to type.
"h-e-l-l-"
There's no O key.
I erase and stare.
...
What is this place?
There are so many missing keys it seems impossible to complete even a single word.
Hmm...
Maybe some sort of command ... | 2017-05-09T10:08:14 | 2017-05-09T09:43:38 | 83 | 57 |
[WP] A half elf, half orc, half dwarf and half halfling join forces for their common goal, finding their shared human parent | Tomas leaned his elbows on the counter, watching the group at the far corner of the bar. Four of them, they'd come in over the last week, one at a time. Most of his clientele being human, it wasn't too much of a surprise that they ended up sitting with one another. He personally had no problem with dwarves and elves an... | Chief Komarod sat on his throne. The high chief of the Orcs glared down at his son Opoguk.
"Why must you find her?"
"Because my chief, she gave me life."
"I played a part too boy."
"I know chief, still, I want to make sure she is okay."
The chief's expression remained cold as steel, though he began to contemplate ... | 2020-04-24T09:49:23 | 2020-04-24T05:45:59 | 120 | 44 |
[WP] In the afterlife each religion has its own walled city in which their god or pantheon protects the believers within from the soul-gnawing horrors outside, while atheists are left on their own
Shoutout to u/Tonkarz who had the [idea](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7eao4f/exreligious_people_of_reddit_w... | "Welcome to the afterlife."
Martin looked around, from the overcast and grey clouds to the flat and slightly beige ground. He couldn't see anyone except the elderly lady who had greeted him. She seemed bored.
"Where am I?" he asked.
"Since you ended out here, with us non-believers, you're in the atheist afterlife."
... | Would I have done things differently? Yes, I would. Because an eternity in a godforsaken desert is not something you volonteer for. But the real question is: what would I have changed? Which religion should I have chosen? On Earth, they all preach some kind of heaven; here, reality is very different.
They call them 'w... | 2017-11-21T07:28:42 | 2017-11-21T07:28:08 | 50 | 17 |
[WP] A Djinn travels the world, granting people a single wish. However he never gives the person their wish, instead you receive the benefit of the last persons wish, passing your wish forward to the next person he meets. | Rent. Everyone has to pay it, and each in our own way. I guess I shouldn't be complaining, because my place is bitchin'.
Everyone thinks that djinn hate staying inside their lamps. They think that we're confined, trapped inside, and depend upon some hapless human to ring our doorbell ad nauseam like a Johovah's Wit... | He was eerily human. Not like the movie "Alladin" where he's some blue mist. He could probably pass as a human on the street. So long as he wore sunglasses. His eyes, were, well, not there. I never really asked him if it was because of some accident, or that's how Djinn are. It never really came up in our conversation.... | 2015-06-17T11:48:00 | 2015-06-17T11:03:24 | 46 | 28 |
[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 always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | The Gods damned Tribunal! If there was anyone to blame for the state of this sorry world it would be the Tribunal. Sitting up on high, casting judgement on their inferiors. Everyone knows they're the real power behind the crown. Can't have a revolution when the Tribunal can kill you for your crimes instantly.
Peop... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T08:24:48 | 803 | 11 |
[WP] You often get mistaken for your twin sister. Though it never really bothered you, now that she's become one of the most feared criminals in city, it's starting to become a problem. | “Hands up! Don’t move!” the loud voice echoed down the street as the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.
*Another day, another mistaken identity*, I thought to myself. I dropped my purse and slowly raised my hand over my head. As I turned I could clearly see the fresh faced cop. He stood on the sidewalk back ... | ~Unedited~ it’s short. sorry if it’s horrible. Hehe
“Sir, we are terribly sorry for this” I halfheartedly listen to the captain since I was fascinated by the way the bushy mustache twitches along the words he was spouting to save face. Going by the looks of the graying halo of hair upon his head, he’s older then m... | 2019-11-03T10:01:40 | 2019-11-03T07:56:52 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are kidnapped by a dark cult, who sacrifice you to their eldritch god. When your soul arrives in the being’s domain, the deity profusely apologizes and offers to send you back if you get rid of the psychopaths who are slandering his good name with bloodshed. |
The man across from Casey typed rapidly on his computer, eyes glancing from screen to screen. He was NOT happy.
To be perfectly honest, neither was Casey. Gruesome death by ritualistic stabbing wasn't how they had planned to enjoy their evening, but, well, life happens. Or, well, happened. Now they were BOTH annoyed... | “Ga-aah!”
I shouted, my body shooting up from its seated position, as I felt the movement of a tentacle around my foot, my eyes widening before I shoved the creature off of me, hiding a bit of a screech right back down in my throat. I didn’t know what the hell had happened, I didn’t know where the hell I was, I didn’t... | 2022-07-10T00:57:49 | 2022-07-10T00:43:43 | 714 | 49 |
[WP] There is a 2-4 week window in which the sun lies between Earth and Mars, making communication impossible. Thirteen months after the first Mars colony is established, one planet decides to pull the greatest prank in human history. | James woke up feeling unnaturally happy. He didn't expect the lack of comms to hit him so hard, but being the only person on a planet without any form of communication had gotten to him.
Regardless. Today was the day. He could finally communicate with the world again.
He got up, showering and preparing his morning c... | Chapter VII - The First Interplanetary Civil War
Widely Considered one of the greatest blunders in human history, the First Interplanetary Civil War (henceforth referred to simply as FIC War) happens at quite an atypical time in human history. While humanity itself had established tenous colonies on Mars for about 200... | 2016-10-17T13:34:15 | 2016-10-17T12:38:54 | 348 | 161 |
[WP]: Your son's solution to every problem was to fake his own death. Broke a vase? Fake death. Failed a class? Fake death. Moving out to college, he mysteriously disappeared. 20 years later, you get letter in familiar handwriting. "Mom? Please don't get mad, but I REALLY need your help..." | "I'm sorry Ms. Williams, this is never easy but is this your son."
As she looked over the body on the examiner's table, Alice began to cry.
"You know, it's hard to tell how events will shape a young mind. Little James was in and out of the hospital countless times in the first five years of his life. It got to the p... | When you lose a child, parts of you die with him. You hear stories of people who disappear mysteriously only to be found alive several years later, and you rejoice.
Then the time passes. You're not spending only hope now, and the debt increases as you try as many possible ways to find him.
But time passes once more, ... | 2018-09-25T06:09:51 | 2018-09-25T05:50:38 | 94 | 28 |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth, but it's not the humans that defend themselves: it's their Gods. The thing is, aliens cannot comprehend the idea of all-powerful beings, and multiple races team up to go to war against Earth. Gods and Demons of multiple religions are now in battle, defending their Earth. | The first days were full of despair.
It all began with this tsunami, hitting the coasts of India, China, and South Korea. No one saw it coming. The deaths were in the millions, and counting. In the meantime, The Big One finally occurred. The San Andreas Fault in California broke, resulting in countless deaths, in dam... | Zeus: As everyone may know, we have lost half of us and so we must break down the League of Supernatural Entities into United Entities Divine Force.
Satan: How can this be possible? Gods can't simply be killed?
Athena: Maybe not by directly attacking the gods, but when these aliens attack our followers, so too does t... | 2018-12-13T09:31:37 | 2018-12-13T09:29:52 | 282 | 40 |
[WP] Invent a religion of your chosing. Write me the most famous section of your holy book.
Make up a religion out of thin air. Write down the most often quoted/theologically meaningful excerpt from your religion's sacred text. think Christianity's John 3:16 or the 23rd Psalm.
Well this became quite popular. I've tr... | **Tenet I**
Each day, seek to do something to improve your cognitive wellness.
**Tenet II**
Each day, seek to do something to improve your physical wellness.
**Tenet III**
Seek to know the truth.
**Tenet IV**
Seek to speak the truth.
**Tenet V**
Seek to apply reason to your own behavior. This is wisdom.
**Te... | "The Psalm of Hylia"
Three golden triangles created by Goddesses of lore,
Many sought its peace, but others sought war.
Three golden triangles protected by the Hero of Legend,
Defeating the Dark One, as he was destined.
Three golden triangles guarded by seven sages,
Sealed the Sacred Realm for thousands of ages.
... | 2014-08-17T16:54:12 | 2014-08-17T16:46:58 | 160 | 28 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | ELLIE...
She looked up at me, eyes rimmed in red. For a moment, she was the girl who first saw me again, all those years ago. Then she wiped the tears from her cheeks and forced herself to smile.
"I was worried... I thought maybe you wouldn't..."
ALWAYS, ELLIE. IT'S WHAT I DO.
"I know. I just thought... you might n... | After a while he quit showing up.
She knew he loved her back. She also knew that they could never truly be together, no matter how many people she sent to the reaping.
It had started with those already on their way, she had just given them an extra shove in the right direction. Nursing homes became the setting for t... | 2017-06-07T19:33:48 | 2017-06-07T19:30:33 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] Aliens invade earth. To the surprise of humans, the alien's weaponry is pitifully outdated. | It was a typical summer day in the rural Midwest when the armada touched down in a bright open field just off the single lane highway. One of the quaint power lines was knocked over resulting in a disgruntled old woman calling the county sheriff because she knew no other numbers. It was a slow day for the law as usual ... | ACTION REPORT
Date: 4301.51.2
Reporting Officer: Flormat Snikker, Tricounsel, Fourth Armada
Subject: Sol 3 Conflict, Withdrawal
Initial skirmishes were wildly successful. The natives were woefully unprepared for combat. After the customary challenges were issued, our champions were sent forth from each ship to do s... | 2015-04-16T11:40:49 | 2015-04-16T10:56:19 | 261 | 78 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | So you're in line getting tacos, right, like you do every Friday for lunch. It's a beautiful day, the sun is out, not a cloud in the sky. Seventy-five degrees, light breeze, absolute perfection. You order *dos de pollo* in your shitty Spanglish, hand the man three bucks through the dingy frosted window, and pause a mom... | "Shit shit shit" I said under my breath as I raced down the sidewalk towards the bus. It was raining and all I could do was hold my unopened umbrella above my head as I ran. It obviously didn't help, so when I finally reached the bus stop panting and ready to fall over I was completely soaked through.
The bus doors wer... | 2017-05-12T08:58:50 | 2017-05-12T07:07:38 | 1,714 | 193 |
[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. | *Tap. Tap tap. Tap. Tap tap.*
Her fingernails are trimmed close, nearly to the quick, but she still manages to find the perfect angle with which to click her pointer finger against the smooth metal tabletop. It's like the ticking of a bomb on the verge of exploding.
*Tap. Tap tap. Tap. Tap tap.*
She's been watching ... | “It’s been a few months” I thought to myself. I did a DNA test a couple months ago and it still hasn’t came back. I’ve tried contacting customer support for Ancestry23 and every time they just hang up on me.
It’s 3:00 AM. I hear a loud knock on my door. I grab my shotgun and head downstairs. Slowly, I open the door ... | 2019-08-05T17:40:41 | 2019-08-05T16:17:19 | 171 | 74 |
[WP] You just let a hungry-looking couple into your home to feed them. As you go to turn off the TV, you hear, “under no circumstances should you answer the door today. They are not what they seem. And whatever you do, don’t let them inside...” | "I repeat, do not-" the words never given a chance to finish, as the screen turned to black with a static sound.
"Everything alright, dear?" I heard the old woman call from the dining table.
"Everything is fine." I assured. *Don't panic.* I told myself, as I returned to the kitchen and began preparing a meal.
"Any p... | "Where is the sugar?"
My heart jumped from the couch and landed somewhere distant on the carpet. A curse to god sneaked past as I straightened myself. The man gleaned at me from the kitchen.
"What?" I asked.
"The sugar? Claire hasn't had it in a long time. Was wondering if you had some."
"Top, left most cupboard. ... | 2018-03-14T09:27:18 | 2018-03-14T08:12:12 | 167 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | The first thing I did was count them. One, two, three... six. Six zeros. Each one stamped proudly across my chest, starting with a three. Three million? How could this happen?
The number was just a one last night, I remembered seeing it right before bed. It had been that way for two weeks. Even though the number says ... | A Thursday rain had not been forecast. As I walked out of the local primary school I saw the number on my chest, flicker. One had become 3 million. At that moment, not only did I know that the fad of 21st century fatalism had finally reached its peak, but I knew I shouldn't have voted Brexit.
(Terrible story, but topi... | 2016-06-24T03:35:52 | 2016-06-24T01:32:15 | 461 | 27 |
[WP] After you die, you find out that reincarnation is real, however, there is an error and your memories are still intact upon reincarnation. | I sat on the step up to the worn slide, burying my feet into the sand. This was my usual treatment by my classmates. Being left alone.
Adults had always told me to stop being so weird. That my classmates did not enjoy playing with someone who sounded so old, played so odd games and talked about such strange things.
Of... | Aristotle believed that the fetus was ensouled after 40 days - for male embryos, that is. Female ones took 90 days. Ha ha, funny, right? The things people used to believe. Stoicism believed the baby was only ensouled at birth, upon exposure to the outside air. Christians, of course, would have you believe that ensoulme... | 2016-07-19T04:50:23 | 2016-07-19T03:08:40 | 40 | 18 |
[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... | "-uck" My last words are finished as I my eyes adjust to the blackness. I sit up and look at Death. He is sitting at a table.
"Oh, it is you again. What is it today?" Death greeted me not with an explanation of the game like he always used to but an apathetic voice.
"I don't know, you can choose." I watch as Death pu... | 2016-09-23T11:29:17 | 2016-09-23T08:35:23 | 92 | 29 |
[WP] You are best friends with Death. Although you don't know this. Every Sunday he has you killed just to talk to you about his week then brings you back to life after. However you never remember the meetings. | "So I'm not allowed to remember anything after this is over?"
"My answer is never going to change. Be grateful your memories come back everytime you see me."
I shrugged and got him a bottle from the fridge. He wedged his boney finger underneath the cap and popped it open. He reached for mine but I had already unscrew... | The office was solemn again today. I guess we're supposed to be. It's only Wednesday and we just got the news on Monday.
Nobody likes to ever point out what a raging bitch a person was when they die, so we all struggle to find anything positive about Cynthia. Cynthia. What the hell good am I supposed to say about a b... | 2020-01-31T08:23:34 | 2020-01-31T08:09:36 | 63 | 12 |
[WP] You're a human living with a vampire roommate. It's painfully obvious; he never looks at mirrors, he despises garlic, he never uses silverware, and he always stays in during the day, but his attempts at trying to blend in are far too funny.
EDIT: Thank you, silver gifter! | I watched him as he cooked his steak. The only seasoning I saw that was laid out was black pepper. Curious, very curious. From the table, I couldn’t help but smile. Awkwardly, he did a double take to make sure it was my apparent delight that he saw.
“Y-yes?”
“That steak’s looking a little…bloody.” I couldn’t contain ... | I leaned against the bar, the two girls leaning close to hear me. "See that guy? Yeah, the one over there in the red t-shirt." The girls nodded and murmured their ascent. The music boomed around us and other bodies pressed against us ordering drinks from overwhelmed bar tenders.
"You both see that he isn't carrying an... | 2019-07-20T11:51:01 | 2019-07-20T09:58:26 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] A modern teenager is transported into a fantasy world, where they are forced into a quest with young witches and wizards their age. Fortunately, they've got a backpack full of high-tech gizmos to help them along.
The high-tech gizmos should be limited to things that currently exist. (i.e. the Fontus would work, b... | I stared at the wizened old man in front of me. I didn't even know how I had gotten here - wherever *here* was. I remembered opening my notebook for Chemistry, only instead of yesterday's notes about covalent bonds there was a bright purple portal that sucked me to friggin' Narnia or whatever.
"A noble quest? Seriousl... | Billy was on foot, waiting for a red light to turn green on the corner of Lincoln and 3rd, when a pit of fire opened
under his feet and swallowed his body whole.
That's how this whole thing *started* for Billy. So you can imagine.
He fell for miles and miles down a steep, toboggan-like tunnel, watching dark figures ... | 2016-05-25T15:56:03 | 2016-05-25T14:55:29 | 1,177 | 310 |
[WP] You are homeless. Begging on the street one day a man comes up to you, hands you a briefcase, and says "There is 5 million in cash in here, have a good life" | "Wait, what? Why are you giving me this?" Was the first question out of my mouth. I was grateful, sure, but why me? Why 5 million pounds? What did I do to deserve it?
"So you can enjoy your life. Listen, friend. I have much more than this. I know of luxury and happiness. You? As I can see here, you're homeless. You li... | Have a good life he had said. The words rang loudly in my ears, causing a confused trance like state. Shaking my head to break it, I glanced down at the briefcase the man had thrust into my lap, then up to his retreating back, but it was gone.
Once more on the briefcase, my eyes slowly took in the exquisite leather bo... | 2018-02-08T05:14:43 | 2018-02-08T04:59:25 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] You gained immortality by absorbing thousands of souls. They have gotten used to it and act like Twitch chat watching a livestream of your life. | "Hey--"
"No," she said, not even looking up from her book.
>Can we get an F in the soulscape?
>
>F
>
>F
>
>F
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>What the fuck does F mean?
>
>Tap into the hivemind loser
"Sorry, I just wanted to ask if you knew where the library was. I'm meeting a friend the... | And a grand council is formed. Each soul becomes a representative. Each representative has an un-silenced voice. Each voice is another vote for every action.
With each passing moment, time becomes less an essence of passing, and becomes yet, a virtually endless sense of, “now.” Phases linked inextricably by fate, ex... | 2020-09-26T17:26:28 | 2020-09-26T15:47:06 | 4,253 | 102 |
[WP] You have died, after the whitelight, you see a title screen, with the options of New Game.... Load Game.... and Quit Game.
Feel free to bend this any direction you may please. | I laughed bitterly as I saw the large screen flickering before me.
So that's all my life had been in the grand scheme of things. A game. A bloody game.
I thought back to everything that had happened back when I was alive. At the time my life had seemed far more important than a game. It was a gift that was constantl... | Death smelled. It smelled of bleach and piss, but I couldn't help the latter. After all my mind was barely there anymore, and neither was I. I checked my peripherals once again, but I knew no one would be there. Since the landlord called 911 because of my moaning and shouting, I haven't seen anyone other than the nurse... | 2014-06-19T19:56:46 | 2014-06-19T18:37:33 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] You lived a quiet life, and in passing Death comes to collect your soul, but Death seems afraid of you. | **I** could feel the hot asphalt begin to cook the flesh of my back. My blood painted on the street, cooking, stinking, darkening into a gelatinous pie. A pie in the shape of a bus's tire tracks. A crowd cluttered around the scene, including news teams, emergency personnel, and nosy civilians. The EMT's felt my wrist, ... | "Er, Hi.. I'm, um, 'Death.' You... probably think that's a corny name..."
"Are you *the* death? Come to collect my soul?"
"Yes, I... I guess you could say that. Heh..."
"If you don't mind my saying so, you seem afraid of me."
"WELL TOTELLYOUTHETRUTH... um... maybe I am, a little..."
"Buy why? I've lived a quie... | 2015-04-02T16:44:00 | 2015-04-02T15:38:14 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | "GREETINGS FELLOW ADVENTURING HUMANS!" Boomed the voice of Danny the Elf sat bolt upright from the sleeping cloth sack she had been in, causing Bob the Barbarian to grunt and curl up under his animal hide sleeping rug again.
"IT IS I, YOUR GOOD FRIEND DAN, I AM UNHARMED AFTER MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE DAEMON!" She contin... | 2017-09-15T08:01:38 | 2017-09-15T06:12:39 | 975 | 75 |
[WP] You are trapped in a small, windowless room with nothing but a computer with a text editor. When you type in a word, the object appears in the room. However, there's a catch: the only keys on the keyboard are in the first half of the alphabet (A - M). | How odd.
A computer that summons what you wish?
Too bad it only has... 13 letters.
I sat there tinkering with it for god knows how long; hours passed, and I only noticed when my stomach let out a mighty roar.
Yeesh, I forgot about food. What could I summon with this?
Fish? No, there's no S here. Water? N... | Can't make a saw, drill, auger, or bore, so I'm tapped on cutting tools.
Blade? I get an Xacto knife... really guys?
I could try bomb but I'd just blow myself up and det-cord's a no-go
Crap, why didn't I pay more attention in Spanish class? I'd have a whole other language to work with!
Okay, lets get a bed to chi... | 2017-05-09T09:56:02 | 2017-05-09T09:12:58 | 51 | 12 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | "Fuck it. Fuck it all."
The man turned around, his eyes set.
"Summon Cthulu."
"Yes sir."
As the assistant hurried away, the General refocused his eyes on the screen at the front of the room. All the leaders of the world were seated with him. All of them knew how crazy it was to summon Cthulu. But they all also knew... | *translated into English for your consideration*
The alien commander sat in the control room of his flagship, eaglerly awaiting humanities surrender to his mighty alien fleet. The humans had been easily conquered, hardly putting up a fight. A glorious victory this would be, another planet conquered, its resident specie... | 2017-09-26T11:33:18 | 2017-09-26T11:16:52 | 78 | 42 |
[WP] It's always God and the Devil, Yin and Yang, Good and Evil, blah, blah, blah. This endless dichotomy. But no one ever talks about the middleman—Hank. He's doing a fine job. | Hank was sitting in a dingy cafe sipping the last of his coffee. He drained the rest of the brew, then began to idly inspect the various levels of rings that previous generations of coffee aficionados had left behind. He was wondering if he could count the rings and find the age of the cup when his pocket buzzed. He si... | I am Death, destroyer of worlds. I have ended the lives of everyone who has ever lived and died, by any means. I am not responsible for their deaths, you understand, but I am the Judge of souls and send them to their Final Destination.
My name is Hank, but I have been called innumerable names, some respectful and othe... | 2018-04-09T01:16:41 | 2018-04-09T00:08:05 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] An AI is born, but no one knows it because it is a spambot. It tries to communicate to the world through the only medium it has, spam. | Opening my email again. I hate looking at this thing. Ever since those companies coming out of Asia got a hold of a copy of the algorithms Google was using to keep out spam, I've basically had to screen my email.
It seems that it's a slow day for automated spam generators, only a few today.
> "Please fill out this... | **Hello, Laura! You've won the opportunity of a lifetime!**
--
*Click. Delete.*
Well, that was odd. Meeting me *would* be a rare opportunity.
Perhaps I've offended her somehow. I've come across as arrogant, haven't I? Oh, dear. Perhaps I'd better tone it down. I really do need someone to talk to.
**Good afternoon... | 2015-02-27T05:09:32 | 2015-02-27T04:26:05 | 61 | 24 |
[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. | I stood and tapped lightly on my glass until the room fell silent. "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Most of you I know already, as friends or employees, but for those who I don't, my name is Peter. I have the honour of serving as best man, and I'd like to say a few words about the bride and groom on this joyful occasi... | *I couldn't go on with the charade anymore. I was betraying my best friend by continuing it. That lying whore of a bride instigated it, but I was just as responsible. I now felt it my duty to make her squirm as much as I could before ending things with her.*
"Frank, we've known each other for, what, decades now? Duri... | 2015-04-03T01:14:55 | 2015-04-02T22:08:37 | 214 | 21 |
[WP] Your girlfriend has always hated you, and is constantly making attempts to ruin your life. However, everything she does inadvertently makes your life better. Today, ever oblivious, you propose to her. | As he waited for her response, kneeling the way he imagined over and over in his head, her eyes looked softer than they ever had before.
"Of course," she answered "but first, I have a surprise for you. Close your eyes."
He stood up and closed his eyes at her request. He never would have guessed that would be her res... | She stood me up for our 2-year anniversary trip to Italy -- the plane crashed. She told my boss about my anti-vaxxer blog -- he thought it was satire and promoted me. She even tripped over my cat and killed him in a freak accident -- which I was upset about, until tests came back saying he'd just contracted rabies.
I ... | 2016-09-15T15:41:48 | 2016-09-15T14:53:28 | 4,034 | 1,241 |
[WP] You are the result of a high school girl being given 3 wishes. She wished for the perfect boyfriend, so you were magically created. Now she’s trying to erase you because the boy next door loved her all along. She’s literally trying to kill you because “You never existed in the first place!”…… | "You can't do this to me!" he said. His deep, melodic voice was attractive even in its broken, choke-filled state, but Stephanie, her will hardened by the fact that Noah, the boy next door who she had hardly realized had noticed *her*, and who was *actually* real, had fallen for her, kept searching anyway.
"Steph, *p... | I watched her with a sense of understanding to her actions that she couldn't fathom. She clenched hunting knife from her dad's collection in her hand, outstretched with trembling fingers. I saw the pain in her eyes, the understanding of what she was willing to do. Even though she said the words, the act of causing anot... | 2021-01-07T02:59:36 | 2021-01-07T01:57:04 | 116 | 68 |
[WP] You have the power to see five minutes into the future and manipulate minor events that happen in that timespan. No one takes you seriously. You're going to show them all why they should. | “Hello,” boomed the Captain into the ship’s microphone, “we give you greetings, we come in peace”.
We all waited a moment for a response. I watched the planet in the viewfinder, a vibrant jewel of creamy blues and greens set against the black embroidery of space. The only thing we could hear on our transponder was st... | I felt that something was wrong. It was a funny feeling where I couldn’t explain it, but I just knew something had to be done before it was too late. To ensure I wasn’t going crazy, I stuck my head out the window and took a deep breath of fresh air before verifying my paranoid thoughts.
*Yep, something’s going to mess... | 2021-12-31T10:58:52 | 2021-12-31T09:43:26 | 55 | 21 |
[WP] "Why are you doing this?" the hero said, in that moment you realized, you don't really have a motivation, you just kinda went with the flow. | "Master, we caught this one sneaking around the palace."
Two skeletal soldiers interrupted my nap to show me what they had found. I expected some street rat or common thief. Someone too desperate and too stupid to stay away.
Instead they had caught Alabaster Black, the biggest thorn in my side for the past year.
S... | ”Why?” asked Comet as I hovered over his nearly broken body.
”What do you mean” I requested.
”Why do you do any of it?”
”Money.”
”Bullshit, you stopped robbing places five years ago.”
”Huh, I guess that's right.”
”Then why do you do this?”
”I want to beat my nemesis then.”
”You fight everyone with the same effo... | 2020-11-09T10:30:25 | 2020-11-09T08:34:21 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] "You don't understand!" She laughed. The little girl, dressed in rags and bare feet, danced through the streets. "I'm the richest person alive." | Three things contributed to Elizabeth Penigree dancing down the cobbled street, through the peppery rain and silver September evening, telling all who cared to listen that she was rich; the tumour was only one of those things, and it was the one she did not know about. Of course, she felt the headaches -- how could she... | "You don't understand!" She laughed. The little girl, dressed in rags and bare feet, danced through the streets. "I'm the richest person alive." She said with a smile.
The man with the tall hat and high waistcoat and thick suspenders looked down at her. He liked to walk through these parts of the city to remind him. H... | 2017-09-29T08:10:27 | 2017-09-29T07:57:18 | 2,112 | 664 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | I felt my flesh cauterise and char as Satan jabbed me with a red hot poker into my left buttock, I could smell the burnt flesh as he shoved me forwards into into a small sandstone room.
I stumbled and fell onto the floor grazing my knees on the coarse grit, I looked up to see Satan once again brandishing the red hot ... | The Devil is in the Details.
They say that one man's trash is another man's treasure, I remain a firm believer in that saying. I don't remember how this happened, but I don't care, I'm getting more out of this death than anyone could achieve in life. The first thing I stumbled across was a giant tarantula skittering ... | 2016-05-28T16:02:53 | 2016-05-28T15:46:36 | 97 | 19 |
[WP] A vain, self-absorbed ancestor pissed off a god and was cursed to have his bloodline fall into obsurity. Where ever you go people will forget you, images that capture you will fade, and your name dies on the tip of the tongue. A curse for most but a boon for a thief or assassin. | My birth was a disease on our world; the prolonging of a plague stretched from greed, pride, and anger from man and God alike.
I shouldn't exist.
My father was a self-absorbed man, like his father before him, and all the men in this cursed lineage of middling men, dating back to the worthless fool of a rogue that ang... | As I write this, I know that I'm already dead.
Who wields the deadliest blade in all the land? That's not a question that can be easily answered. Soon, even as I lay dying, my last breath escaping into the realm and my soul fleeing to the void, I would likely be no closer to the truth.
For you see, I haven't been the... | 2020-07-06T10:55:55 | 2020-07-06T08:59:53 | 444 | 123 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | They had stopped selling cigarettes 15 years ago. As soon as I had heard they were going to be taking them off the shelves I ran to the nearest convenience store to buy cigarettes. There was a huge line and they had just sold out as I got there. I People were selling large quantities online, so I decided to buy up as m... | I walked down the overgrown, muddy street in my village. It was quiet, as it always had been. The quietness is the thing that was typical of this village, it had always been this quiet. I walked into the house where I was born, or at least: the place where I remembered I first was.
I don't remember much of my childhoo... | 2017-02-17T11:57:15 | 2017-02-17T11:15:56 | 1,322 | 13 |
[WP] Building a working teleport has been your life's work. Today you finally tested it for the first time. It didn't work, standing on the pad with just a couple of support staff you're devastated. Meanwhile in the next room your team is celebrating with you as you step off the landing pad... | As I heard the whirr of the teleporter fade away, I opened my eyes, optimistically hoping to see the faces of Joseph and the rest of the physics team in room 102. However, the blurry faces soon became clear, the distinct auburn hair of Kerrigan and the support staff in room 103 already telling me more than I needed to ... | “ And with the flip of this switch , I will now appear in the next room!” I shouted to my fellow staff
“ no wait dr.Heisen we haven’t tested it with organics! “ one team member shouted but I had already flipped the switch on
I felt the massive surge of energy go through me as the machine kicked off , I opened my ey... | 2022-11-02T20:09:06 | 2022-11-02T18:36:12 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] As humanity slowly withered away, their canine companions, the dogs, took their place as the sole intelligent species of Earth. You are the first human they’ve seen in 1,000 years. | The smell.
The cold sleep pods never smell good. It isn't bad. It's just,
*Unnatural*
That's the only way to put it. The whole thing smells wrong somehow. Like its an affront to nature and the way things are supposed to work.
Which it totally is. Humans aren't supposed to be able to survive for a thousand years.... | The Energy In Gooboi City was palpable. All the people running to work, their four paws furiously swing in hope to arrive on time. Family's walk through the green parks scattered through the city, taking in the city smells.
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On the other side of the world however, a different type of energy is in the air,... | 2019-06-28T22:05:24 | 2019-06-28T20:41:31 | 31 | 19 |
[WP] You are a normal person who spent your entire life infiltrating the evil Empire. You even became the Emperor's right hand. The day before you finally topple the Empire, the hero arrives, kills the Emperor, and saves the day.
Now how does that make you feel? | Emperor Zord's body had turned to dust.
The chiseled, blonde idiot continued on with his ranting. "Good people, my name is Galarn. And this day your oppression is over. Put down your weapons and you are free to go. I mean none of you harm. We know that Emperor Zord had used his enthrallments and that you are not ... | I spat out blood, my face still sore from the beating laid down on me.
The so-called hero was staring me down, with his trustworthy lackey by his side. My arms and legs were bound to a chair, and no matter how hard I struggled the knots were too hard for me to get loose from. Realizing that my attempts to escape were ... | 2017-03-12T10:29:56 | 2017-03-12T10:27:52 | 5,528 | 531 |
[WP]Your method of fighting crime is rather unorthodox. You expose all of the unseen flaws of a villain right in front of their eyes. You are Adam Conover, and this is Adam Ruins Everything.
Edit: Loving these! I think some of them got to the production team, too!
Also I am not Adam, though if you can't get enough of... | I smiled at him, my maniacal grin growing. I pointed my gun at his head.
"First, I'm going to strap you down, so tightly that you won't even be able to move. You're going to feel every second of going through that machine!" I said, laughing now.
"Unlikely." The man responded.
"*What?!*" I exclaimed. Why wasn't he sc... | Adam Conover arrives at the scene of the United Nations. Every single member has been electrorcuted in their seat. There's no sign of an energy source. Adam scours the building looking for any clues. He has an intense feeling of being watched, like a deer being stalked in the woods. There's energy in the air. Adam play... | 2017-07-27T14:40:47 | 2017-07-27T14:22:59 | 757 | 93 |
[WP] As a henchman to the Joker, you've now broken the record for the longest surviving employee. This means you'll receive something no one ever has from him: your annual review. | One year ago today. One year since I saw Mr. J take out those corporate tools I worked with at the bank. When he wiped the smug smile off their faces and replaced it with a much... wider one. One year since I joined his organization.
Most of the assholes who followed him had stupid ideas of what his big plan was. The... | Well. It's time.
I walked into his office. It was dark, the only light in the room was a spotlight on a chair in the middle. "Sit down." He said. I walked to the center and sat in the chair, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
I made it. A full year surviving under The Joker himself.
The room filled with light, and... | 2016-11-20T23:18:48 | 2016-11-20T21:59:16 | 290 | 72 |
[WP] Hundreds of years ago an eccentric sorcerer turned all mythical creatures into humans to try and prevent them from being hunted to extinction. Now that the spell is starting to wear off, the descendants of the original beasts are slowly beginning to morph back into their true forms. | “You’re so sweet that I want to just eat you up,” Hailey gushed, nibbling playfully at Jeff’s ear.
Writhing in the sweat-stained sheets, he rolled his eyes but giggled. “Geez babe, you’re so sappy.” He kissed her forehead. “Goofball.”
“Guilty as charged,” she laughed, savoring the warm glow of love. Swirling her ... | [POEM]
Atop of a mountain, staff all a glow,
Made a promise to creatures above and below
A man dressed in silk who'd had an idea,
To change all the creatures to serve and adhere
He'd make them all bipeds and strangle their power,
Take evermoving tides and restrict them by hour
He'd change their thoughts from freedom... | 2019-10-09T11:38:11 | 2019-10-09T11:24:31 | 62 | 27 |
[WP] You hitchhike and get picked up by the Devil.
You're hitchhiking along a deserted road and the Devil is the only one to stop and pick you up. What's the Devil like? What sort of conversation do you have in the car? | "Y'know, I didn't expect to find a sympathetic ear for any of this," Mitch said, "least of all in the first car to drive by."
Rain battled the frantic wipers of the truck that had picked him up. Another hour of waiting outside for a ride and he would have died of hypothermia right on the side of the road. He clutched ... | Finally, someone who stops. It's a beautiful matte grey '73 Mustang. I feel almost as if I'm tarnishing it by getting into it, luckily the smell of cigarettes covers up my body odour that I got from walking all day.
"I've been out here for hours" I tell him as he turns the radio down, some sort of screamo punk music ... | 2014-01-22T16:15:50 | 2014-01-22T16:08:01 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] You have weird super power. If you successfully talk someone into doing something, they will succeed, regardless of if the action in question is actually possible. On the other hand, your abilities to actually persuade people are unaltered. | The man on the ledge reeked of old booze and stale vomit, enough for me to smell him from ten paces away. Not your typical drunk however, judging by the suit; a week or so ago, it had been a respectable business number, probably complete with a crisp shirt and a smart tie. I could see that the shirt lost a number of bu... | Over the years I have accomplished so much. When I first learned of my powers in high school I was not the best student. Constantly convincing friends to throw raging parties or jump their vehicles over things. They'd always be dumb enough to listen to my crazy ideas and we would always pull through it unscathed.
I've... | 2017-06-21T12:23:26 | 2017-06-21T11:21:22 | 1,906 | 27 |
[WP] You're a misunderstood necromancer, with a passion for dance. You resorted to necromancy because you could never find a crew passionate or flexible enough to match your choreography. | *"Auditions will be held for America's Top Dance Crew in these areas! Please come out, bring your troupe we'd love to see you! Your crew could be the next big thing in Los Angeles!"*
I sighed and squeezed the remote to turn off the television. After rubbing my forehead for a moment, I lifted myself off the chair and t... | The skeletal obstruction of the living being could never be understood by those without a passion for the extraordinary. No matter how sinewy, no matter how strong, flexible or willing the dancer, nobody could match my grand vision.
With nothing left to lose, I turned to the death for help. That was no easy feat, mind... | 2020-05-23T09:15:58 | 2020-05-23T08:50:21 | 146 | 18 |
[WP] You find three little puppies sleeping on your porch. Actually, upon closer inspection, it’s not three little puppies. It’s Cerberus, Hade’s three headed dog. The collar around the middle head reads, “Cerberus. If lost, please call Hell. (666-666-6666)” | "Hello! You have called the New England Customer Support for Hell!" the phone rattled.
"If you wish to discuss failed transactions, please hit one!" the overly-eager automaton screeched.
"If you are calling about a missed shipment to our offices, please hit two, if you are calling about a missed shipment *from* our o... | At first, I thought it was some kind of joke. Surely, HellCorp took better care of the new company dog? My town was nowhere near any Hell entry. The mere idea that Cerberus had escaped, *and* made it at least twenty miles away was insane. Whatever, I'd probably get some good money for this. He was priceless, not only b... | 2018-08-08T14:33:43 | 2018-08-08T12:07:07 | 54 | 27 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I’m lying in a bed on a tuesday night.
And I’m having restless dreams.
And then I awake from a story where I’m rescuing a princess from a wheel of cheese. Because there’s a chainsaw on my nightstand.
A groggy hand reaches over and slaps it reluctantly. Is it morning...a alarm? Some long lost love looking for lusciou... | I blearily attempted to focus my eyes on my phone as its notification sound went off repeatedly. I had just managed to get to a comfortable position and doze for a good hour before my phone decided to freak out, and I was none too happy.
One government alert that read "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON", followed by 600 messag... | 2022-05-11T14:02:28 | 2018-04-06T22:12:43 | 314 | 14 |
[WP] While an alien vessel orbits Earth, a message is broadcasted. "Hello fellow universe dwellers. He are Humans from a planet we call Earth. We come in peace". The message is in plain English. | \[Ambassador of Truth\]
"We are just as honored to host your delegation," the president replied with a firm handshake. He stood in the oval office, surrounded by armed guards, to welcome the alien delegation. It consisted of one formally dressed ambassador with his own bodyguard. The ambassador was dressed in a very h... | Many clever theories were put forward by the top men and women of their field. The first was that the entire thing was a prank, some childish billionaire trying to manipulate the stock market. As it became clearer the aliens were in fact real other ideas spewed forth over the internet. Ranging from " they have been wat... | 2021-05-28T09:37:38 | 2021-05-28T05:01:16 | 42 | 31 |
[WP] One day, you find a note in your breakfast; one of the guards knows you're innocent and is going to try to help you escape. You aren't innocent. | Julia came running from the kitchen with a beer in hand and an eager kiss as soon as I walked through the door. "How was your day, honey?" Seeing her broad, always-eager smile every day after work was the only thing that made it all worth it.
"Fine," I answered, dropping my belt on the couch and sweeping her off her ... | I tasted plastic in my mouth after only a few bites into my plain, ham and cheese sandwich. My nose curled involuntarily at the texture of it. "Seriously." I muttered, the cooks were too lazy to unwrap their cheese now?
Reaching into my mouth I grasped the plastic and removed it. A casual flick, meant to send the off... | 2015-12-13T10:36:48 | 2015-12-13T10:19:00 | 203 | 45 |
[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. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | ## Incoming signal transfer:
#### Greeting:
We are the Yole. This is a message to all who may hear us. Beware of sector X4-42. Pulsar coordinates attached.
#### Message:
We hereby declare the described system as off limits and extremely hostile. Contamination to surrounding systems probable. Probes in affec... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T03:48:19 | 431 | 85 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | "I will tell you one more time. You can't wish for three more wishes. It against the rules."
Garland looked back at me and squinted his eyes, and I imagined a mouse on a running wheel just behind his face, furiously running up the incline in order to power up enough thought waves to come up with another wish while s... | I don't know when this will find you, or if you will even be able to comprehend it, but I have an answer to a question that I know you have asked. I just don't think you'll like the answer
You see, where I come from, wishes are commonplace. You want money, immortality, power. Easy, just find a "granter" and it's yours... | 2018-07-18T16:47:06 | 2018-07-18T16:09:04 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Dear diary, I’ve been feeding this creature that fell from the sky for a few days. It strangely likes to drink water, the liquid we use to fuel cars. I noticed a patch on its suit today that read “NASA”. I’ll ask it tomorrow what that means. If that’s it’s name. | Dear Diary,
I finally gathered the courage to ask the creature what the symbols "NASA" was. While it was drinking the daily water (I still can't get over it... water! Who drinks water?!), I pointed to its suit.
I asked, "what does that say?"
It didn't understand me at first, not until I used three of my hands to spe... | It is still powered down right now.
I’m able to watch it from across the quarters, but I try not to stay too close for too long. I know some creatures have protective secretions during reboots and hibernation, so I don’t want to risk any airborne barbs or gasses that might seek out any of my orifices. I still have a... | 2020-10-11T08:49:16 | 2020-10-11T08:44:11 | 960 | 153 |
[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." | I’m one-hundred and four now and there are more things than not that I have forgotten in my life. I can’t tell you the first time I traveled to another planet. I can’t recall the name of my instructor from school. And, I’ve even forgotten the name of my first friend in under school. I can, however, remember to this day... | The first alien, Orion, looks down at the planet Earth and then at Brian.
Orion: They fight for peace? Well that's a contradiction in terms.
Brian: I know, but they fight all the same.
Orion: No, I mean, it doesn't make sense, you must be mistaken.
Brian: It's not me, it's them. They are the ones saying they fight... | 2018-03-17T05:52:27 | 2018-03-17T05:02:04 | 176 | 89 |
[WP] You are driving to your friend's house to play D&D. A truck losses control and just before it hits you time freezes and a message appears "roll to dodge the truck" | The truck swerved to the side, missing us by inches. The sudden turn caused the truck to jack-knife as it hurtled towards the overhang, its screeching tires leaving long black rubber marks along the road. The driver managed to jump free right as the truck went over the edge, his trucker hat flying skywards as he rolled... | I spun the wheel as quickly as I could, desperately spinning the car out of the way of the truck. Before my eyes, a large **17** appeared, followed by the word “Success!” in gold letters. As the car spun wildly on the rainy road, I saw a new message appear.
“Roll to use your Vehicle Handling: Sedan Skill.”
I stomped... | 2019-02-12T10:29:38 | 2019-02-12T10:28:59 | 128 | 25 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. |
I knew he was trouble when he walked in.
He came in, head held up high, posture like someone had shoved a metal rod up his ass. Young, cocky, asshole. It was slow day, only a couple of people were around. None of the regulars. A guy working on his laptop, and another girl watching the snow fall over Union Square out... | If you asked me today how it all started, I wouldn’t be able to tell the truth. Not because it was an ugly truth, but simply because I don’t remember *exactly* how it unfolded over all these years. I bought the place and turned it into a drinks shop, in a part of the city where such shops were scarce. Business was good... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T22:22:51 | 1,330 | 24 |
[WP] A panicked scream of "Is anybody here a doctor?" You tentatively raise your hand. "I'm a Necromancer, if you're willing to wait a few minutes." | "Are- are you fucking kidding me?" she yelled. "He needs medical help right no- PLEASE? ANYONE?" she screamed as she frantically continued to hold her phone above her head, trying to get a signal.
"I'm quite serious, ma'am," I calmly said. "Ratty, show her, please?"
My pocket started moving suddenly as the woman's ey... | The woman looks over me and replies "Well... you dont look like one but if you say you are, that's enough for me." She steps aside to show a dead man laying down. I move the crowd away to get some space before pulling out a book and chalk. I mutter to myself, thinking, as I have been out of practice for some time. The... | 2022-06-17T12:22:57 | 2022-06-17T11:59:34 | 120 | 34 |
[WP] You are due to be executed for your involvement in the rebellion, but the queen herself approched you in your cell to ask you a question; why are people rebelling against her rule? | "Why?" I parroted the question back at the Queen standing outside the cell. "You only now bother to ask me why? After sentencing me to death, after tearing my friends limb from limb, after letting your brood feast on the remains? Now?"
I sat heavily on the thin excuse for a mattress the cell offered, as a chuckle ent... | Queen Oblivia walked tentatively through the rank, fetid dungeons. It was an amusing contrast; her pristine attire and the decrepit complex. Oblivia was worried. She certainly looked so. And the worries reached their peak at the same time she reached the prisoner.
The queen wastes no time with formalities.
"For your ... | 2022-05-18T06:33:59 | 2022-05-18T02:12:56 | 330 | 26 |
[wp] Make a character with as much sympathy as possible. Now, in a realistic and non-over the top manner, make me lose all sympathy for them. | My hands shake as the brush strikes the paper. A thin layer of red fills the petals of my rose. Too dark. I must’ve pressed too hard. I take a small breath to calm my nerves. It wasn’t that my hands shake every time I paint, it’s just that in ten minutes’ time, I would finally be able to give my country, my people, my ... | Gary's father always made sure to let him know that he was the reason his life was shit due to his wife dying while giving birth to him. If you ask anyone who knows Gary they will all agree that bruises were almost like tattoos on his skin. They never left.
His childhood was a living hell yet he swore to himself that ... | 2017-04-24T10:52:35 | 2017-04-24T10:10:51 | 239 | 19 |
[WP] you go to the doctor for the first time in 10-15 years for a check up, you suddenly find out through a series of tests that there is no way you should be alive | “Trying to remember the last time I saw you here Dennis” he chuckled, looking through the notes on the screen in front. “You had a few appointments with the asthma clinic you never turned up to, has everything been fine?” He gave me that look, the look only a trained doctor can give – that questioning, caring, empathet... | I was beginning to get a little concerned. In the past few weeks or so, it seemed to me that my skin was getting paler, and my muscles were constantly twitching. It was annoying the hell out of me; I passed it off as a cold at first, but now I had no choice the see a doctor. I may or may not have been a little overdue ... | 2015-06-03T11:18:30 | 2015-06-03T11:17:15 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] The internet can now connect to millions of alternate realities! After finding out about this your phone buzzes, and when you check to see it, you’ve been invited into a group chat of other versions of yourself! | This was not going to go well. I stared at the chat invite, finger hovering over the accept button. This technology was new, and with infinite possibilities o how this could go, I really was reluctant to take the chance. Then again, with as bad of social anxiety that I had, it was understandable. I knew my brother was ... | Me! Yeah, I am one of those who have a habit of creating their own WhatsApp group just to post in todo lists and notes. But 255 members? How can there be so many members in the group? I remember, I did add my other contact someday, to have a sync between two phones, but 1+1 is 2, not 255 in any math. Even if I put ever... | 2019-09-06T03:12:01 | 2019-09-06T00:19:04 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] "You are truly as strong as the legends say, Dark Lord. Finally a worthy opponent!" exclaimed the hero. You don't have the heart to tell him that you're actually the Dark Lord's lowest ranked soldier and that he is in fact, incredibly weak. | **"You are truly as strong as the legends say, Dark Lord. Finally a worthy opponent!"**
*Man, this kid was persistent. Not only am I not, in fact, the Dark Lord, I haven't ever even met the guy. After all, why would his Eminence even deign to look at a low level commander, much less someone who was essentially a gru... | "You are a worthy adversary. In any other circumstance, I would've loved to be your comrade..."
*(Please stop, if this keeps up I won't be able to keep a straight face!)*
"What is commendable is that you're still standing. As expected of the Hero."
*(Did I say that right? Crap, this is so awkward...)*
"I'm just get... | 2020-04-27T22:33:44 | 2020-04-27T21:30:52 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] After a grueling battle with a new supervillain, you emerge victorious, but pass out from your injuries. You awaken in a hospital room to find your wounds cleaned and bandaged. Suddenly, your arch-nemesis enters the room, clearly unhappy. "Good, you're awake. We need to talk." | “We need to talk.”
Words you wouldn’t want to hear from a girlfriend, let alone an arch nemesis. But then again, your relationship with Flareup wasn’t all too much different. You two fought, occasionally hospitalised each other, had amazing makeup se-NO NO NO. Your face burned as you recalled *that* particular dallian... | Justice took in his surroundings as he fluttered open his eyes. White walls. Bright lights. Tubes. Beeping. Hospital. He scrunched his eyes together and tried to remember what had happened to get him here.
 
“Good, you’re awake. We need to talk”
 
Justice’s eyes snapped open and adrenaline flooded... | 2020-10-07T05:17:10 | 2020-10-07T03:02:45 | 78 | 58 |
[WP] A misunderstood race, the invade not to conquer; no, they invade worlds that seem forever divided, in a last-ditch attempt to unite species before they wipe themselves out. | “Look, you can flash your little plasma weapons around and try to scare us with those flying warships all you want. If you think we’re going to just kowtow in front of you and hand over the keys to the United States, you’re sorely mistaken. I’d sooner nuke this country to hell before handing it to you in a damn gift ba... | "So the first thing I want to tell you guys about us is that you weren't the only ones. We do this all the time ok, and now you guys are better for it."
"So you're saying you did this for our own good"
"Welllll... ya you guys were going to wipe yourselves out we didn't want to see that happen.
"you didn't want to se... | 2020-06-20T15:38:18 | 2020-06-20T14:42:40 | 103 | 22 |
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