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[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 11:59 and while the whole family gathered around, my mother was no where to be seen. I expected that she would have joined us. After all, she'd been there for my older sister's reveal, and my brother's reveal. But instead she was watering the garden while it rained steadily.
C'mon, mom, I know I'm not your fa... | *11:59 PM*
My family gathered around me, silently waiting. We were all eagerly anticipating the Choosing, a lame name for a cool time.
*12:00 PM*
My mother smiled at me. She grabbed my arm and looked as the word as it appeared.
"What is it?" a chorus of family members asked.
She frowned. I took my arm back and too... | 2017-03-16T03:19:48 | 2017-03-16T02:03:50 | 129 | 71 |
[WP] She's funny, she's beautiful, and she's into you. She'd be perfect except for one tiny detail: The snakes in her hair despise you. | Her smile was so perfect to me. Her eyes froze me in place like stone. Her skin faintly shone under the moon like twilight. This was our fourth week seeing one another, and every time I saw her I felt at peace. Last night, Maddy (She loved my nickname for her) sent me a text saying she’s never had feelings for someone ... | It wasn’t long before Jane moved in with me. It was a match made in heaven, she had the perfect smile, she laughed at all my jokes and she made me feel like I wasn’t alone in this world. However what drew me towards her the most was her thick lustrous hair. I had never seen such a beautiful head of hair on anyone befor... | 2022-09-18T11:23:31 | 2022-09-18T10:57:17 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer. | "I'm afraid I'm going to need a great deal more detail in order to give this case the most informed, considered, and lawful judgement of which I am capable at this time," said the enormous blond man behind the desk.
The vampire hissed at him- but did not attempt to cross the wooden barrier. It... radiated, in a way he... | The benefit of age is the opportunity of exploration, expericing new situations, and a wealth of personal anecdotes to amuse friends. Lawyer across species often quarrel with one another about the intricasies of case law, or squabble over generational rivalries, but the universal law when dealing with cross-species cas... | 2022-07-11T21:15:02 | 2022-07-11T19:00:25 | 83 | 52 |
[WP] When two people get married, on the day of the wedding they are both given the ability to alter the appearance of their spouse to anything they wish. How do they change each other? How do they respond to what has been done to them? | It was a chilled autumn evening when Jaina’s cold ring finger was suddenly surrounded by a warmth that ran up to her knuckle.
“Will you marry me?” said Jonathan.
To him, she was the most beautiful woman in the world. And in that brief moment, perhaps just long enough to say “yes,” Jonathan became the happiest man i... | “Bigger”
I said sternly looking at my husbands little man down there, Bigger.
“Bigger?”
He asked confused looking down at the thing as-well “Its like seven inches long, Any bigger would eve a hindrances to my daily life!” He tried to rebutt it but I was determined! DETERMINED to make it AtLeast 12 inches.
“MORE, BIG... | 2022-12-08T00:57:21 | 2022-12-07T20:59:42 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Treg'Luf'Arwa couldn't believe his eyes. He doubted that his Father, Luf'Arwa'Yos, or his father's father, Arwa'Yos'Hul, would've believe their eyes either, had they come to see this day.
Fire had been raining on his planet for days now. The home planet of his species being the latest conquest for the Gaouls, a f... | “Your Grace,” Eddie said, bowing. The King gestured for him to rise in one quick, almost bored, motion. Eddie rose, meeting the King’s eyes. His normally serene face had _twisted_ the past few weeks. The man kept his gray-tinged beard even, but it had grown wildly. Uneven and unlike His Imperial Majesty.
“What news d... | 2017-03-05T23:52:37 | 2017-03-05T22:41:12 | 503 | 60 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | Contrary to popular belief, I found out that waiting until the last second does not, in fact, summon a cooler object than if you blow your load at the stroke of midnight on your eighteenth. My acquaintances and friends had all received cool shit - steering wheels that turn into vehicles on a whim; swords and other weap... | I was 17 back then tomorrow wouldve been my 18th birthday the summoning day but i had other worries, the over-populated world caused massive capitalisation of life and made the climate change become a serious problem,I had to do something even when it meant comitting genocide.
Heroes where born with intergalactic weap... | 2019-09-18T08:09:25 | 2019-09-18T07:13:42 | 751 | 67 |
[WP] The supervillain sighs in frustration as he looks at the group of superheroes. "Alright raise your hands if you are adults?" he said. None of them did it. "This battle is canceled and tell your mayor we need to talk! today!" he said angrily.
Whoa, I came back after chores, mobile games, and anime to see so many s... | As the last word slipped from his anger-filled lips a disturbing realization hit the Archdemon, bludgeoning his brain with such force that it pulled him straight out of his all-consuming rage.
Of course these were only children. Their parents were dead. He had killed them all.
The void within began to recede with the... | "You can get to the Mayor when you get past us!" one of the children in brown furry overalls yelled as he sailed over to Green Death who barely avoided the punch.
"You realize if you touch me you die, right? That's my power." He yelled, the children heroes laughing as the goggled boy chased green death around the stag... | 2021-04-01T10:11:36 | 2021-04-01T09:58:16 | 203 | 103 |
[WP] "Mom, Dad... I'm adopted." | I said it trying really hard not to cry.
"Mom and dad...I...I know I'm adopted,"
Mom let out a undulating telepathic sob as she fell to her lower tentacles and sort of crumpled on the kitchen floor.
Dad didn't say much. Not in words. Mostly because he also doesn't have vocal chords that can vibrate atmosphere. His ... | Two pairs of concerned eyes looked at me from across the table.
"What did you say David?" my mother said.
"You didn't give birth to me Sarah." I said. "You didn't even conceive me. Neither of you."
"This is a little late, David" said my father, no Conner, "Aprils Fools was yesterday, I know you're birthday is coming... | 2016-11-13T12:29:59 | 2016-11-13T11:53:45 | 157 | 44 |
[WP] XKCD inspired. Life in the universe is hard to find because of a possible predator. As fish sometimes blend into their sand surroundings we too, and others, blend into the universe as a natural deterrent. As we call out into the stars, we get a response. A warning...
Inspired by this [comic](http://imgs.xkcd.com/... | The hunger is with me always. It's not my fault, my own nature compels me. Life, life in all of its forms cries out to me across the universe. It cries out to be silenced. Oh creators, the hunger pains me, but it will never kill me.
The oldest ones created me near the dawn. My creators knew that the universe had a ca... | For decades we thought it was just galactic background noise. The static on the radio, the fuzz on the TV, the distortion in a satellite signal.
We called him crazy when he gave us that "filter", but it didn't seem to be dangerous, so we ran it on a section of noise.
Do*-.-ome.lo-ki--.....--er-.--.*othing.goo*..... | 2014-07-09T08:12:41 | 2014-07-09T07:29:31 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] You have the ability to see the lifespan of everybody in color. Green is a long life, orange is about 50 years, and red is under an hour. You're in class, your teacher walks in late, everybody suddenly has a red glow.
Teacher has an orange glow... | My first thought was that this was the first 'glitch' in my ability that I'd had for sixteen years on the planet. The colors had never changed before, I had no reason to believe the transition meant anything. I realize now that had I ever witnessed someone cross the road and unexpectedly get terminated by a speeding ca... | A red glow? A red glow for everyone. I wonder if I have one too? That's stupid to wonder, really. What makes me so special? Besides being able to see the colors, of course. But no one knows that, I hope.
But still. Why all the red? Teacher's looking disheveled. Rough hair, already worn suit and tie, sweat stains aroun... | 2015-02-19T16:10:35 | 2015-02-19T14:16:05 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Turns out Humans are tiny compared to any other species of aliens, allowing them to live off in the nooks and crannies of alien spaceships. Colonies can live on ships for generations unseen and unknown, or have a mutually beneficial relationship with a crew. | Humanity was at a standstill. Over-population began to become a obvious problem as the world began to crumble from the use of all of its resources. The sky was a permanent grey and the oceans were rising as the ice-caps melted. Leading scientist were already studying and attempting to work with the biggest corporations... | James couldn't help but keep noticing Esmeralda's flowing black, silken hair. It most definitely was not all he noticed about her. Hardly. To James, she was nearly perfect. Her body. Her mind. Everything about her. He'd had feelings for her for a long time, but was never able to verbalise them to her. So, he watched he... | 2018-05-30T14:28:00 | 2018-05-30T13:53:33 | 43 | 28 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | It's been like this longer than anyone can remember. When you turn the age of power, or 16 years into your life, you gain your individual power. Everyone is different, some get rudimentary boring powers that aid office work and some get drafted to become soldiers due to their powers.. more destructive capabilities.
... | Tonight was my night; my 16th birthday. Finally, after what felt like a lifetime of waiting, it was my time to shine. I had waited almost a year for this day, ever since my best friend Andrew discovered in January that he could fly. I had envied him at first, being the first in the tenth grade with a power. As time pas... | 2015-01-21T22:56:40 | 2015-01-21T21:42:59 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Pops,
You were a real fucking piece of work you know that? I don't think I've hated anyone quite as much as I hated you. You called me lazy, good for nothing, useless. Made me spend my youth being the mule in your construction business instead of spending summers with my friends. You absolutely hated the fact... | wow, i want to do this so i will, but i have a few letters i need to address. just for sanity and subtle sake of ones demons.
Dear Jennifer. my beautiful sister.
i'm sorry for staying at yours the month after your wedding and having no money and regrettably overstaying my welcome and being a pain in the ass.
i'm sorry... | 2015-12-05T17:35:16 | 2015-12-05T13:10:10 | 182 | 58 |
[WP] Everyone in the world has superpowers. Superpower-enchanced fighting is rampant. You, however, are the only person in the world who has never lost a match. Your secret? You realized that everyone shouts the name of their attacks before they use them. | I might be the only sane person in the world. In front of me, three people lay dead on the gray sidewalk because they couldn't figure out that someone screaming "TELEKINESIS" *probably* means that somebody was using telekinesis in the vicinity. I'm numb to their deaths, but not their idiocy.
I don't understand these p... | Shouts and screams from everywhere.
"Let's go Thunderfalkon! You've got this!"
"Lightningbolt! Lightbolt!"
"Hey! Booooo That wasn't fair!"
The crowds really going off, no wonder it's the last fight of the season and it's the most epic one anyone has ever seen. It's a duel between *Thunderfalkon*, 186 cm, 130 kg raw... | 2020-03-19T23:05:07 | 2020-03-19T20:39:13 | 459 | 25 |
[WP] The emperor laughed and boasted to the human leader. "That was a fun war! Let me know when your soldiers come back alive." "...Are you saying your people do not die? Forever?" "Wait, what?" | # Foreword to the Poet's War, by John Burnett
The Terani send their poets to war. I know because I’ve fought them, and because I’ve read the collections of the men I thought I'd killed.
When I was young, a boy of eighteen, I went to the trenches of Tau Ceti. I brought along a million of my best friends, and shou... | The thing I remember most clearly about that day was the smell of the coffee from Stuart's desk as I walked into the office. I don't even know what kind it was - it smelled of vanilla and something like cinnamon, but not cinnamon. I can still smell it. I can still taste it.
Every morning he’d grind coffee at home a... | 2022-12-09T06:27:20 | 2021-07-13T13:25:11 | 1,513 | 17 |
[WP] Every time a person steals something illegally, money is automatically taken from them and put into the account of the owner of the item equal to the minimum amount the person would have sold it for. You wake up with $27 billion in your account | The rich just take what they want.
It's always been like that, but now there's no way to say no. It started off before the War in a place called China with something called a "social credit system." Soon after tracking all 1.3 Billion of their citizens behavioral patterns, they realized they couldn't do anything to st... | BEEP BEEP BEEP
Instantly I rose, fumbling for the phone to hit snooze.
"Five more minutes," I said to no one in particular, considering I was alone.
As I lay back down, preparing myself with a desperately false hope for the beautiful dreams that would most definitely await me over the next five minutes, I noticed s... | 2018-09-22T23:13:15 | 2018-09-22T15:45:19 | 21 | 10 |
[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. | The sight was always a peculiar anomaly, after multiple eye screenings and CAT scans you eventually realised its function. The letters that appear above people’s heads spell out the demise that awaits them, why it only appears above those you know is a mystery, perhaps a certain degree of social interaction is required... | Tim wakes up with a scream. He knows something is wrong, but can't figure it out what. His body just wants to go back to sleep. He's never fully understood what the words above people's heads were, but after the first visit to the doctor he's never spoken about it again.
After last night's explosion, he's finally... | 2015-03-31T09:07:33 | 2015-03-31T08:43:31 | 55 | 36 |
[WP] Why do villains get hordes of henchmen while heroes get a single sidekick? A costumed crusader hires help.
[deleted] | "So we are like.. a Justice League?" The kid in the grey hoody asked
Trey mentally yawned as he looked around the circle of potential candidates.
He tried to explain again "No. That would imply you're all Fully qualified Heroes. You're my **sidekicks** "
A girl opposite to him raised her hand.
"Yes uh... SuperVirg... | "Next!" Captain Phenom rolled his eyes and shooed the tattooed ex-con out of the office. He was quickly losing patience. This was the forty-sixth interviewee he'd had today, and so far only two had not served a prison sentence. Those two were aged 12 and 14.
How did the ThunderLord do it with such ease? The Captain h... | 2015-10-06T06:18:06 | 2015-10-06T06:16:56 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] You’re dead. Your final judgement has come. Heaven, or hell? Turns out, your pet has the final say. | "Huh. That's my body."
I hunched over it, kicking it slightly with my foot, which passed harmlessly into my rib cage.
**YES**. **IT APPEARS AS THOUGH YOU HAD A HEART ATTACK**. The Grim Reaper, scythe in hand, stood by my side, looking on with what I judged to be professional sympathy, though it was a bit hard to te... | The bloodied gunman had finally been defeated. Riddled with bullet holes, he was hard to recognize even by anyone who knew him. He entered the hall of judgment, a grim look in his eye. He knew that he had killed hundreds, if not thousands, or people. He did it for revenge, something he wasn't sure the Almighty would un... | 2019-02-26T07:22:03 | 2019-02-26T05:45:29 | 128 | 64 |
[WP] Superman is mentally handicapped. That's why he thinks nobody can pick up the Clark Kent=Superman thing, and everyone plays along in an effort to keep him from throwing a tantrum. The comics are his idea of what is going on. What does a day in Metropolis actually look like? | "So anymore business left to discuss? Or shall we call this meeting to an end"
Blank faces returned the relief of no reply. Time for our bald headed businessman to get up and leave. To escape to the tennis courts after another morning of bad news. To his left he saw his private secretary shift in her chair. "Just one... | *"We HAVE to give him the Reporter of the Year Award, Harold!"*
*"Again? How many times are we going to do this? Look, I am grateful to Superman. He is the savior of the city and protector of humanity, but Clark Kent is a fucking hack reporter. I don't owe that guy a thing."*
*"Let me make this clear to you. We're n... | 2016-03-04T10:08:01 | 2016-03-04T08:43:31 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | At first Emma thought he was an old tramp. She glanced at him, smelling the cheap whisky on his breath. Her instinct was to give him some food or a few dollars. It took a moment for the image of the father that sat in her mind to reconcile with this person that stood before her.
Twenty years changes a person. All thes... | "Rioting continues over water shortages as what's left of the government scrambles to--"
There was a knock on the door. I shut off the tv and headed over to see who it was.
"Dad?!?"
There he was, looking more haggard and old than he did when he left me and my mom over twenty years ago, carrying a beat-up burlap sack... | 2016-07-20T06:00:41 | 2016-07-20T03:52:58 | 114 | 19 |
[WP] Your paintings come to life. People beg you to depict departed family members, exotic treasures, even tiny universes. A penniless, beaming monk requests you paint something that makes YOU happy. Having rendered every lover, ambition, and utopia, you're at a complete loss for where to begin.
Edit: Thanks so much, ... | "What is happiness, you ask?", the old monk contemplated, smiling at the man sitting opposite him.
"Why, you can have anything...*anything* in the world, Joseph. Anything you can possibly want, with a few strokes of a pencil, it will be there in front of you", the monk said. "The more accurate question, my good man, i... | Everything was strange, almost magical in the way it looked. The crying faces of strangers asking “I miss uncle Gregg and want to see him again” or some other similar form of work, a life sentenced to eternally drawing everyone else’s desires.
It all stayed the same, day in day out painting and drawing everything anyb... | 2021-07-29T18:12:28 | 2021-07-29T17:59:37 | 126 | 85 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | The Barista sat at the end of a counter in an empty coffee shop, flipping through the pages of a disguarded magazine. The after-bar crowd had just cleared out and it was time for a well deserved break. Turning the page, The Barista's nose was met with a strong smell of sulfur and something sour that sent chills down th... | “The usual?” I ask the shapeless… blob, I suppose is one way to describe it. It still hasn’t given me its name, so I call it Tim. Looks like a Tim.
“Yesss” the cursed sound comes out, like nails on a blackboard. The first time I heard Tim speak, I swear, my ears bled, it’s so awful. I wonder if it’d be inexcusably rud... | 2022-10-30T14:09:43 | 2022-10-30T13:51:26 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You gain a magic coin that can grant wishes, but only if you flip it. If it lands on heads, your wish is granted, but if it lands on tails, the opposite of your wish happens. | I had only used the coin twice before. The coin... blessed and cursed in equal measures, just like I am. The day my Grandfather passed it down to me--the day he had died--he had warned me to only use it under the most serious of circumstances. But I've always been a fool and whilst people might think I listen, my hands... | My guide to life is a 2 euro coin.
I know, it's really weird, but the coin is my genie.
If I flip it heads when I ask for something, I get that. If I flip tails, I get the opposite.
Having already failed several times, I keep testing my luck. I've been robbed of my entire house, fortune, and knowledge in a night. ... | 2016-08-26T07:54:06 | 2016-08-26T07:21:22 | 194 | 10 |
[WP] As an act of desperation, you applied to every college on the list. Sifting through the apologetic rejections, a pure black envelope catches your eye. The letters on it glow crimson red, charcoal-colored smoke wafts from the pages... | \[PART 1/3\]
*As the Dark Lord of the Darklands, it is with great pleasure to congratulate you on being noticed by us. We only recognize the worst and the darkest for our menacing academy. Hence, we cordially invite Reynauld Stormhammer, son of Alfric Stormhammer and Relya Quickquiver, to Calamity University.*
*If ac... | Sigh. Another rejection. I understand if I don't get into somewhere like MIT, but I couldn't even get into community college? I mean sure, I made lots of explosions while inventing... and those explosions might have recklessly killed people, but honestly it wasn't directly my fault. I constantly tell them to stay back,... | 2021-02-03T10:53:25 | 2021-02-03T08:34:22 | 316 | 51 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | *The police officers close the door as they leave, and a heavy tension descends upon the two of us. We watch each other warily.*
“Did you kill her?” he asks.
“Did you?”
There is a long silence. “Yes.”
I say; “how could you?”
“She loved you more than me.” His eyes flash with anger.
“I was her husb... | The moment I left, or the only moment left:
-“Stay close.” Your eyes: hope.
-“No, I have to go away.”
-“Don't leave me alone.” Now fear.
-Love, it makes everything... Better go now.
-"Stay. Close your eyes, Hope."
-"No!"
-"I have to."
-"Go away! Don't! Leave me alone now!" ... | 2015-09-23T16:48:26 | 2015-09-23T10:05:10 | 35 | 18 |
[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 took the cases nobody wanted. And I don't mean the greedy ones, or the violent ones, or even the silly ones. No, I took the cases that no one wanted. The hardest kinds of cases: the ones involving kids. No, not the happy ones either. I took the cases that involved sick kids, dying from incurable diseases. The kids th... | The sounds of grunts and footsteps penetrated your dreams.
"The wife must be having a nightmare" you thought as you drifted between the waking and dream worlds. As you slowly started deafen yourself to the noise and head back to dreamland a startling revelation throws you back into the waking world with a start.
... | 2018-07-18T17:02:59 | 2018-07-18T11:05:03 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] From a bug's perspective, humans are ageless eldritch beings who would kill them without a second thought. You are a fly among many, infesting one of their basements, but one of your kind made the mistake of irritating the human. Now the human is out for blood. | Beware the Elder Gods, little larvae. Only fools draw Their attention, but damned are those who draw Their ire, and damned also those who are cursed to live in such times.
They commanded and transformed the stones and earth below and They felled the Trees of Life to become the ur-material of this realm, and joined t... | The looming drifter strode through morning fog. Mouth agape and moaning, rubbing tired eyes with hands bigger than dead birds. Fletcher, a young house fly, watched from below. This strange, pink skinned giant wandered through their lands from time to time. Coming from the sky world above, into the concrete world belo... | 2020-08-13T15:52:43 | 2020-08-13T15:20:44 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] Outside of your hometown you are known as an untouchable monster, someone who will never let any superheroes or villains come near his territory. The whole world fears you, but the smiles and support of the townsfolk as they thank you for keeping peace makes it all worth it. | As i sit at a bar, slowly sipping away at my drink i can't help but smile and think back. I take a look around at the bar, and realize I've been here almost an hour now. almost everyone else has gone home, but i'm here. I make eye contact with a fellow patron, as he raises his glass to me. i raise mine back, as we both... | The outside world is a scarier place, but I’m scarier.
Almost a century ago, the radiation started to kick in. As soon as it was discovered that this would in fact not kill us, the world rejoiced and realized that it was changing people. At first we were all scared. That is, until heroes started popping up. Suddenl... | 2020-10-01T08:05:15 | 2020-10-01T07:52:15 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Villains are actually paid by the government to make sure heroes don't become bored with their job. Explain what happens when a villain finally comes clean to his enemy.
Edit: thanks for all the replies to this.! I loved reading every one of them | "No no no... listen Steve..."
I looked down at him. Captain Incredible. Lying in a puddle of his own blood and shit. He started coughing. I waited but had to look away. The blood he was coughing out beeing a little disgusting even for me. I walked a few steps and played with my gun.
"Even after all these things you ... | The bombs had been disarmed at last, but their timers still quietly ticked in the background. He approached the bloodied figure that lay laughing. "There's one thing I don't get...What do you get out of this?" The figure straightened his collar out as a sick smile began to form on his face.
 
"You really ... | 2015-05-23T22:47:54 | 2015-05-23T20:54:30 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] There is an average of 9,728 planes carrying 1,270,406 passengers in the sky at any given time. As these flights touch down at their airports they find them empty. In fact everywhere seems too be empty. The only people left were those in the air from commercial jetliner to single engine prop. | 11:00 PM, Tuesday March 25th. As Commercial Liner 774 touched down in LaGuardia Airport in New York City, and her passengers disembarked, they weren’t met with ground crew to properly dock with. Air Control had been dead for some time now. Mordecai, a lanky 20-something year old, was one of the first to ride down 774’s... | [POEM]
The million are we
Who were up in the air
when the earth did decree
she would be the dread slayer
Those on the ground
Burned, swallowed, drowned
While we flew above
No awareness thereof
Our vessels set down
Our captains confused
Our fears did compound
Acceptance, refused
Humanity c... | 2021-08-14T03:15:24 | 2021-08-13T22:39:58 | 184 | 62 |
[WP] you sold your soul to a devil, but after a while the devil demands a refund. | “You want a... what?”
The Devil and I are having our usual Tuesday bender. I squint over the bottle of whiskey between us, very certain I’ve misheard him.
“A refund. Re-fund. I want to give you your soul back.”
My squint morphs into an open-mouthed stare.
“After a thousand years? Can you even do that?”
“Listen, y... | A soul was promised and a soul was being required now, I lived the life I wanted, lived in sin and enjoyed every second of it, time to pay for it.
This is what Gregory thought as he approached the devil, he had a weird smile on his face when he stopped to look at him, suddenly his smile breaked with a hint of disgust ... | 2019-09-30T15:13:39 | 2019-09-30T14:18:27 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] Write a mysterious short story in which a HUGE plot twist is hidden in the first two sentences. | "Yah, hello, this is Dave speaking."
"Listen," someone said on the other end, "don't pick up the phone."
"A little late for that, don't you think?... oh." The mysterious caller had hung up.
That was weird. He placed the phone back on its base. He would have expected this kind of pseudo-cryptic prank call at home, bu... | "This relationship is too hard. We can't go on like this" He held her hand before looking up at nothing in particular and closed his eyes.
He needed time alone ironically. Thinking back to the logic of his decision he felt uncomfortable in his own skin. Their baby sleeping soundly at the end of the bed.
She had no ... | 2014-09-01T16:24:25 | 2014-09-01T12:09:26 | 42 | 11 |
[WP] A woman prophesied to give birth to the Chosen One gives birth to triplets instead. | Widely whispered these days is a thousand- year-old prophecy. None dare speak it out loud but just about everyone is thinking about it. The Orolian Oracle promised in a thousand years time the Endless War will finally cease and peace will be restored to the Galaxy for the first time in ten thousand years. The multitude... | ”AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH!” the woman in front of me exclaimed. She was in deep pain. She was giving birth to triplets. Strangely, they all came out together. The woman was in agony. She was bleeding horribly.
She died in a few hours.
*18 years later*
My name is Michelle Kazara. I have three children; they’re not min... | 2022-02-17T01:09:14 | 2022-02-16T23:40:39 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | The planet didn't look like much, still not even a Kardashev 1. But, it harbored one of the single greatest advancements in galactic medicine - humans.
The instructor purred into the loudspeaker, "we call it EARTH, a clever acronym made up by the boys in the lab that stands for Everything and Anything Relating to Thre... | Glik rested and lay his swollen dome on the blankets Glak had folded and placed under him.
“Be at ease, beloved. I am here.” The words almost choked him to utter.
“I did not think, I never imagined...” Glik softly spoke as his eye fixed itself on the dimming violet sky overhead.
“Do not trouble yourself with explan... | 2021-02-03T18:49:59 | 2021-02-03T16:59:37 | 197 | 38 |
[WP] After raising a cat for 15 years he finally reveals to you that he can talk. He threatens to tell everyone your darkest secrets unless you meet his demands | "You really should have thought that through more." I bellowed as I chased my precious little kitty under the couch.
"15 years of me feeding you, bathing you, petting you and loving you and you decide to blackmail me? You may be a clever little cat but no paws can open these doors. I mean for Christ sake Skittles they... | "Good uck with that." "What you don't fear me." "you have no aposable thumbs, so you cant type, all the doors and windows are locked so you can't escape, not to mention all I have to make is one call and you are the worlds most intresting cat being probed for the rest of your life. Checkmate." | 2014-11-03T21:58:52 | 2014-11-03T18:31:35 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] There's a law when you divorce, the children from the undone marriage get killed
So only children from lasting marriages remain. | "Officer Edmund, reporting in. I've got the two children in my car, and the divorcees are on their way in the van". I glanced in my rear-view mirror to see two wide-eyed kids, not much older than my own son, staring blankly back at me. I hated this part of the job, this wasn't what I signed up for in Police Academy.... | My name is David, David Halligan. You might know me from H&H Attorney at law. We typically run late night infomercials on sleezy networks that convince people to get a divorce. I'm the good-looking, charming guy that smiles into the camera and give a little wink, yea...
I'm a divorce chaser. What that means is I c... | 2014-06-15T04:00:46 | 2014-06-15T03:57:43 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You chant "Bloody Mary" three times in your car's side view mirror and then hit the gas laughing all the while as she sprints towards your car desperately trying to keep up.
Edit: Optional inclusion, it's the eighth time you done this. | "What is she doing?" I asked myself in the mirror. I had sped away about four times, giggling as she trotted behind me, totally unable to keep up. Every time she looked a little more tired. Now Bloody Mary was in a fetal position on the side of the deserted highway. I felt a pang of guilt. I grabbed my emergency k... | The Bloody Mary Games are, well, controversial.
They’re kinda like the Olympics, but everyone outruns Bloody Mary in a different way. Me? Well, I was a race car driver, so when these competitions popped up, I was *in.* This year’s games are two weeks away, so I’m training. No fancy racetrack though, no crew making su... | 2018-10-01T12:01:02 | 2018-10-01T10:32:10 | 5,296 | 531 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | Her eyes were like rubies ablaze.
"Stop insulting the Dark Lord," she said from beneath a black hood, "or I'll make sure you'll never speak again."
Spunky. He liked it.
"Oh yeah?" the Dark Lord teased. "How are you gonna do that? I bet you've never even met the guy."
The girl brought her hood down, revealing h... | I had read the poetry from the fair islands, learned from the philosophers who gathered at the center of the world, and studied the opinions of the great desert jurists. I enrolled in every school of the arcane that would take me, and traded ideas with every ascetic of every mountain cave.
And I loved it. I loved know... | 2022-01-14T15:36:02 | 2022-01-14T13:44:48 | 713 | 234 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | Miraculous, is what they always called it. It was true; she was a miracle, our darling, our baby girl. She was going to be the starting point of a new chapter of our lives: parenthood.
But would you call a murderer a miracle? Everyone saw it, that dark hideous mark on her face. Nobody explicitely pointed it out, but w... | I remember when the doctors gave her to me, they were wide-eyed and speechless. The baby girl was perfectly healthy, as beautiful as a child could be, but then I saw the mark curling up her face. God, no, why this? I thought. Why couldn't she be marked to help humanity like so many others? Physicians, priests, architec... | 2014-05-10T23:37:12 | 2014-05-10T23:14:54 | 466 | 187 |
[WP] One day a time portal opens in your backyard and a time traveler comes through. You quickly realize he just came back from making some change to the past and that, to him, our world is the terrifying alternative time line resulting from that change. | "Alright, let's start again..." Philip said, his hand covering his eyes. "What is the year?"
James set down the cup of tea in front of the mysterious, confused man. "2015."
"And what happened at 0? Or 1? Whatever."
"Um..." James considered, "Think it was supposed to be around the birth of Christ."
"Alright, that ... | I looked up from my temporary serenity of spreading almond butter on a slice of multi-grain, with the Grateful Dead guiding my thoughts. I brushed the lone dreadlock off of my forehead.
It didn't immediately catch my attention through the visual plethora of artistic stained-glass wind chimes and rusty yard sculptures... | 2015-11-13T15:49:03 | 2015-11-13T12:37:44 | 174 | 94 |
[WP] You are on a flight from Beijing to Seoul. Its should be a short two-hour flight, but five hours have passed and the plane has still not landed. There is nothing outside but dense cloud cover. There is no food left on the plane.The staff are confused. People are starting to panic. | Groggy, face pressed against the edge of the window, hair in my ears and mouth, I peer through the veil. Cherry red and gold stain the cream polyester of the seat in front. Acoustic whining is still bleeding through my ear buds. As definition returns to the modern patterns and laid\-back tempo, I brush aside my leave\-... | I'm scared, but more confused. I woke up in a daze, people murmuring questions around me not in a panic but discontent. The flight attendants all huddled towards the front, but I don't understand a thing they say. I'm on a business trip, flying from Beijing to Seoul; a flight that would normally last a matter of two ho... | 2018-06-02T05:54:24 | 2018-06-02T05:32:28 | 120 | 13 |
[WP] Every time someone masturbates to you, you receive a notification on your phone letting you know who did it.
[Inspired by this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3gzuq0/nsfw_how_would_it_be_to_live_in_a_universe_where/)
Edit: THE ONE TIME I DONT POST ON MY MAIN, THIS SHIT HITS THE PAGE 1. FOR FUCK... | "... And that's when I finally decided to tell Amber how I feel about her, but she just stared at me as if she had seen a ghost. I didn't even know that was, like, an actual face humans could make."
The only way to properly express the embarrassment I felt as I told Rick of my failure to conquer The Amber Rose was to ... | I browsed the app store, looking for something interesting or fun to do in my free time, Temple Run just gets boring after a few weeks. Scrolling past the Baby Goes To The Dentist and Barbie Gives Birth, I found a weird app, It was called FapApp and since the power of boners are stronger than the human mind, I clicked ... | 2015-08-14T16:46:04 | 2015-08-14T16:42:52 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] After been missing for 12 years, the duke's daughter (now 16) is sent to the royal accademy and immediately targeted by bullies. What the bullies don't know is that the lady spent those 12 years with a clan of orks
If you get why orks is spelled like that... good.
If you don't, it doesn't matter | Stella's hands were wet, and they were warm. She flexed them, and felt something filmy that encrusted the knuckle joints peel and break.
She felt dizzy.
A faint recollection washed through her head. Someone had been speaking to her. Loudly. Unpleasantly. Hostile. Her father had taught her that word.
"Your choice of ... | ''As orkish rule states,'' She said, taking out a large knife from her backpack, ''you have insulted me. As such you have violated the rules of this establishment, that means I am entitled to either a blood price or a monetary price of the same value.''
''Blood price? What's that supposed to be?'' The bully foolishly... | 2022-07-16T02:33:28 | 2022-07-16T02:32:48 | 48 | 25 |
[WP]Well, that's a pretty fucked up way to find out you are immortal. | I was immortal.
Yes, you heard me right, I’m immortal. As in, don’t age, don’t die, look the same as I did two hundred years ago, basically, like _Edward Cullen_ from the horrible franchise that was _Twilight_.
Except I’m no disco ball, nor a vampire. Really, the only thing I have in common with him apart from the im... | It does not matter how many times it whispers to you, you are still afraid. Its hands are tucked into the stark white and egg cream of folded wings, as if this might alleviate some tension. It is impossible to perceive in whole, only in pieces. Shimmering gold tips and endless, brilliant, unblinking eyes, bordered by t... | 2022-05-05T10:14:45 | 2022-05-05T08:52:56 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | The main problem with our situation was plane ticket prices.
See, like most wannabe indie girls, I had always wanted to travel after college. Live in summertime for a couple years, write a poem in every continent, cheesy stuff like that. I wanted to meet all kinds of different people. I wanted to visit cat cafes, whi... | A young man stands in front of a crowded board room his presentation is impeccable. He's worked his way up from intern to junior exec, and it's taken years of late nights to get him to this point. His smart blue suit only slightly lighter than the others in the room, his tie a perfect accent piece to his pocket square... | 2017-03-22T16:13:24 | 2017-03-22T15:05:15 | 51 | 19 |
[WP] You’re suddenly transported to another world where magic is cast by perfectly pronouncing an ancient language. This language happens to be your native tongue | The finals were beginning. The greatest magicans upon the world gathered to determine the most power of them all.
First, Grield, Lord of Flame. He incrinerated the Demon Kings army with mearly a paragraph. Thw power he wielded was unmatched in his homeland.
Next, Yauss, Master of Summoning. He brought forth Dragons, ... | \[Poem\]
In a world of immortals and sleek flying cars
Which dances on clouds and weeps among stars
In this world of successful experimentation
There’s quite an odd subject of deep fascination.
​
In a museum it sits, deprived of our touch
On the wall with the prophecy spoken so much.
“The ancient one... | 2022-11-19T12:27:25 | 2022-11-19T11:58:05 | 48 | 34 |
[WP] A lone Spanish soldier lost in the deep jungles of South America stumbles upon the fountain of youth, but it's very different than anyone ever imagined. | You seem elated at what you have found, young soldier. You are to be commended for surviving the thick perils of the jungle which have taken the lives of millions before you. Perhaps you've been looking for this fountain your whole life, and now you have found it. Maybe you're wondering if there is some sort of catch t... | I can't believe my luck, such a beautiful fountain. Here where I'd least expect it. I step in. Just to cool off from the heat. To clean up. I feel so wonderful! It's indescribable! My years have fallen aside and I'm young again. Really? Could this actually be happening? Wow! It's incredible! Amazing! I may just be abl... | 2014-09-06T21:10:40 | 2014-09-06T21:02:45 | 149 | 58 |
[WP] The phrase "Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it" is true. Everyone who fails history class is sent back to a random era in history as punishment. You are one of them. | *Alexander Anderson*. I printed my name at the top and opened the booklet. I circled C. For all the multiple choice questions. ‘Which idea/s developed from Marxism?’ I filled out the line underneath as *Capitalism*. ‘When did World War II begin?” *2017*. I answered the rest of the questions in a similar fashion. I flip... | "15. What were Julius Caesar's famous last words, and why did he say them?"
I sighed, sparing a glance to the clock. 60 questions on a test for 60 minutes? This was ridiculous, and I'm not just saying that because I was paying no attention to the class whatsoever for the entire year. For a long time I just stared d... | 2018-06-14T21:05:37 | 2018-06-14T18:33:35 | 55 | 16 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | I suppose turning supers into celebrities was inevitable. Society loves flashy, interesting, and dramatic. It didn't help that when the first few supers revealed themselves, they did so with a camera crew behind them. Instant celebrity status within an hour. A decade later and you *had* to be flashy to be a hero. Or a ... | I watched my opponent carefully. There were lines around him, possible moves, all converging into one. Right on time, I ducked, jumped forward and turned, landing at his side. I punched him, then stepped backwards to avoid his kick.
My opponent grunted and twisted, preparing to use his power. When I saw that, I moved... | 2020-12-02T07:54:05 | 2020-12-02T07:12:59 | 214 | 62 |
[WP] The warrior princess is worried that her battle scars would make her unfit for marriage. The prince of the kingdom she was attacking, however, vehemently disagrees. | “Septimius, who *is* that woman?”
I sit atop a gilded palanquin, carried on the backs of a hundred servants, and for the first time in my life I feel poor. The battlefield in front of me is a whirling mass of dust and screams where wounded men claw their way across the dying, and its center is a nearly impossible to u... | FADE IN
INT -- A ROYAL BEDROOM -- SUNNY
*An armoured warrior sits, removing her helmet to reveal matted hair stuck to her scarred face. This is YENN. She sweeps them away, exhaling quickly. One particularly long scar streches across her nose and left cheek, with several other smaller ones on her face. Her armour is b... | 2021-04-19T09:09:56 | 2021-04-19T08:49:15 | 631 | 243 |
[WP] You have the ability to see a few seconds into the future when you are in danger. You joined the army and became a captain. You are out on patrol when you notice one of your men getting a transmission you don’t receive. You then see your men shooting you in the back a few seconds later. | Six years in. Six to go.
Twelve was a long while to spend on the front lines, and the footies got the worst of it. Rumor was that the survivor rate had dropped to 13% on the last census. Not much room for optimism when you were in the slop, but that was how wars were supposed to work, weren't they?
Us or them. With a... | After dropping Clarke and Naranjo at the town to search the houses for any survivors I drove Mackavoy and West toward the top of the hill. West was our sniper, best shot in the whole squad and Mackavoy’s job was to watch West’s back. Make sure that no aliens sneak up on West while he’s watching over Clarke and Naranjo... | 2019-06-07T19:54:26 | 2019-06-07T19:43:19 | 93 | 69 |
[WP] Your professor’s mistake in a time-travel experiment sent you 1.5B years into the future. Humanity is long gone, and the species that replaced them has some odd ideas about the artifacts and fossils left behind. | Funny enough, during undergrad work in Anthropology a very similar situation is posited. In Archaeology classes you are often encouraged to look at how things could be potentially used, and not just say "religious reasons" and put it aside. As an exercise, the professors would often pick a random object common in house... | The nebulous orb I’m supposed to call Frank attempts to pass along the Hitachi Magic Wand before the crowd erupts again. They’ve called to order the council of their brightest minds to meet and decide my fate since I so rudely interrupted their…whatever the hell they were doing when my time portal opened into their…liv... | 2022-04-11T17:00:29 | 2022-04-11T13:26:26 | 108 | 28 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | Over on Earth's sister planet, Htrae, the Htraians had managed to construct an antimatter-fusion power source, but failed miserably at controlling it. Since God is more of a facilitator than an active interventionist these days, he decided they had to live (or not) with their mistake, and so the Htraians were, to a man... | He turned the sphere on its slightly tilted axis, examining more closely the drier, barren regions. Once, they had been lush and full of life - full of strife, to be sure, but this was an inherent cost of free will. What struck Him the most was the great disparity clearly apparent in resources, wealth, and status whic... | 2015-12-27T09:52:46 | 2015-12-27T09:13:39 | 399 | 196 |
[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." | Sweat decorated my face, my hands twitched, my personal signs of panic. I gripped my phone on one hand and on the other my bed sheets. A deafening silence filled my bed room.
"What the fuck?" I murmured to myself. I rose up to a sitting position, used the now dirty bed sheet to clean my face. "Sarah?" I called out to... | The explosions had been rumbling off in the distance for hours as a young boy tried to drift off to sleep. The war might be raging, but the Allied Forces had deemed his village far enough away that an evacuation was only advised, not mandatory. With his mother the way that she was, the brunette knew that he would be sl... | 2022-09-27T16:50:27 | 2018-04-06T18:58:31 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] "What did you just say?" Asked the confused alien admiral. "The humans put miniature FTL-drives inside their AMMUNITION!" | Back before the Maxwell drive, you always got stories of how warp travel would change the world for the better. Star Trek and Star Wars and all that: even back then, FTL was seen, by and large, as a peaceful technology, a way to get around that would make life better.
The truth is, the Maxwell drive is terrifying. It... | "First of all, HOW DID THEY MANUFACTURE SUCH SMALL DRIVES!?" Screamed the admiral, a little spitle flying across the room and landing on a screen, the poor lieutenant who was currently the focus of the rather angry admirals attention let out a small whimpering sound.
"W....we don't know sir! we've never been a... | 2018-02-18T13:13:13 | 2018-02-18T10:29:51 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "What, so that's it? Just push this button and bam, world saved?" I asked incredulously, slightly disappointed. Me, of all people, picked as the Chosen One of legend, and it's been hit by beuracracy?
"That's it." the priest answered with a wry smile
"Why am I even needed then? It's a button, anyone can push it! Even ... | My eyes darted to the button. Fixated on it. I took a deep breath as I slowly pushed my hand out towards the button.
All it takes in life to make the most difficult decisions is 20 seconds of faith...right?
As the button pushed in, my eyes slowly shut.
I opened my eyes to feel gears winding, cogs spinning, air blow... | 2020-11-09T12:09:10 | 2020-11-09T10:15:58 | 161 | 118 |
[WP] A literary nerd wakes up in the middle of a poorly written story | The main problem was the food. Badly described food tastes like cardboard. I used to really enjoy good meals, not that I'd ever really pay attention to them - I was usually reading at the same time - but it's strange what you miss when it's not there. Now I just pour cereal out, balance the bowl on my knees and devour ... | My mouths dry. Christ, how long have I been asleep? There's that pounding in my head that tells you your nap went on overtime. I finally open my eyes and see that piece of shit plastic fan whirling unevenly. Follow the blades, round and round and round. Okay I'm up.
Turns out it's noon, or at least that's what the bl... | 2014-02-22T08:08:28 | 2014-02-22T07:43:15 | 136 | 12 |
[WP]You have been immortal,sent back in time 3000 years to America in that time, and now have a mega-empire covering the entire nation. One day British ships show up on shore | I am immortal. I am a time traveler. I have a great singing voice. Triple threat!
Immortality came first. Or it was already there, I suppose. I was born. I lived. I never died. And on and on this went, through many years and many centuries. At times I was a marvel! At times I was completely inconspicuous. I was legend... | The Amaranthine regarded the topknots of the approaching sails. Great hulking three-masts, larger even than their nation's war canoes, tossed through the Atlantic towards the very cliff he stood upon. Their cargo, he knew, threatened to crumble the foundation of Everything.
The Great Sun was yet young in the sky, mak... | 2017-07-06T07:15:11 | 2017-07-06T06:59:27 | 492 | 116 |
[WP] One morning, you wake up in a parallel universe. Nearly everything is exactly the same, and you go on with your life, unaware, for quite a while until you start noticing the horrifying differences. | "Oh my god," I said, clutching the dusty, plastic-wrapped book in both hands. "This is -" I looked over to Kirsten. "I must be in a parallel universe! This can't be right. The Berenstain Bears-?"
"Oh fuck off," Kirsten said instantly.
"No, I'm serious," I said, staring at the unfamiliar book cover. "I'm sure I would... | "What do you mean Harambe is dead!?" I screamed, tears streaming down my face as I angrily shouted at the man in front of me.
"Not this again..." he muttered, as he pushed me out of the enclosure. "Look, we've had it with you and you memers always coming up to this zoo and making a joke out of this, can you just leave... | 2016-09-03T07:37:58 | 2016-09-03T06:55:58 | 141 | 59 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear E,
I love you. Not the cheesy love I felt in high school, and not the way I love the woman I think I'm going to marry, but you hold a place in my heart that no one else can.
We were destructive. We weren't good for each other. You were emotionally abusive, and I was amazed a pretty girl would give me the time o... | Dear Violet
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you how I felt about you. I was always nervous when it came to girls, you of all people should remember that.
I'm sorry I didn't hang out with you more. I always thought I would have time later, but I never made time for it.
I'm sorry I didn't dance with you at prom. I... | 2015-12-05T16:37:50 | 2015-12-05T15:49:55 | 94 | 11 |
[WP] Finishes with "May I start over?" | "I don't think you understand, this is not a joke!"
"No? Because it sounds like a fucking joke! You're talking like a schizophrenic psycho or something!"
"Aaargh will you just listen for once in your fucking life! God damn no wonder Julia broke up with you."
"..What the fuck are you talking about!? Julia and I are m... | 'May I start over' the words reverberated through him, no now, her. The newborn baby let out a small inaudible sigh. The man saw his memories drift away like dew on morning roses, his love, crimes, treason, hate, schooling, knowledge, ability to talk, crawling, all gone. The baby girl smiled feebly at her mother knowin... | 2013-09-01T08:23:34 | 2013-09-01T06:51:01 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] The villain is asked by their child to deal with the monster in the closet. | I smiled at my wife, embracing her tightly, though with as much care not to crush her with my armour still on.
"Take it off," She whispered. "I want to *feel* the real you underneath."
"Very well," I replied equally as quietly. With my telepathic abilities, the armour removed itself slowly, landing on the empty table... | Small background: The villain took a young girl as his successor. She had a bad family and he knew she’d be safer with him. Evee doesn’t agree.
Evee looked up at Henry with big, pleading eyes. She held Mr Sharky to her chest for safety, making herself look small. “Papa, can you sleep with me tonight?” She asked quie... | 2022-10-24T12:14:27 | 2022-10-24T09:20:36 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] In this world, the truly dedicated can develop a mundane skill to the point of becoming a reality-breaking superpower. You have mastered procrastination to this level.
Quick note (trying to be helpful for anyone who doesn't know):
Procrastination is putting things off until later. | George sat down at the computer with a cold ham and cheese sandwich and a flagon of wine.
It was finally time. He stroked his beard complacently and took a swig from the silver flagon engraved with spiraling dragons. It had been a gift from a fan.
For the first time in six years, he touched the keyboard and began to... | It was the perfect opportunity to break the spell, begin writing, let the demons loose.
The topic ideal.
He promised he'd come back to it later.. edit this line, write the story of his broken life and the future where he hoped he'd have put back the pieces. | 2017-09-27T06:40:05 | 2017-09-27T06:19:51 | 519 | 39 |
[WP] You obtain a device that tells you exactly what choices to make in order to lead the "happiest" life possible. Some of these choices get hard to make. | The App's tagline was: "**We'll get you where you where you want to go.**"
It had offered Consolidation, Confidence, Closure, Peace.
He entered his choice.
"*No.*"
and The App went to work. A single tap and it had accessed his life.
His accounts,his cloud storage and accounts, his social media presence. The en... | The artifact the old man gave me seemed more like a rock than anything mystical at the time, that was until I touched it.
On contact I was filled with knowledge, maybe even premonitions that never came.
The first thing I learned was that I should put down the artifact and leave it, but that was something I couldn't ... | 2016-05-05T08:20:03 | 2016-05-05T04:51:37 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] "Invade your planet?!" The alien asks a general of Earth with confusion before bursting into laughter. "Why the heck would we do that when their are SEVEN other empty planets in this star system ripe for terraforming and colonization? We just stopped by to say Hi while we pick one of 'em out." | The General's face remained unchanged. Unflinching. Resolute.
But at the back of his mind, something about what had just been said did not sit right with him.
"So you mean to say that this 'first contact' of yours is a warning?" questioned the Admiral from the other side of the conference table.
"A warning? Of cours... | The 4th degree Honorable Interlocutor of the Zafran Federation Bliqwa re-shielded its ocular pits briefly while the pink aliens screeched hot oxygen and hooted. It breathed in a gust of methane from its side-port while pressing a 4th manipulator knuckle to the stress relief pressure point on the upper part of their gol... | 2020-12-07T07:25:46 | 2020-12-07T06:43:15 | 46 | 20 |
[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… | At the age of 14, all children are lined up and sent into the "Eternity Chamber" built by one of the founders and pioneers of the Power Attainment Information of the Nation (or P.A.I.N) for short. They have built this chamber to assess and safely test all powers plausible and insert the perfect job for said powers to ... | They say curiosity killed the cat. Well I'm curious about the restriction placed on me. I look in the mirror and don't even recognize my own face. My health is fading and I don't know why.
Saw a rainbow yesterday, which was nice. Life's been 10 shades of gray since I got the warning for my power. I just want pray the ... | 2022-05-08T09:53:03 | 2022-05-08T08:50:28 | 197 | 63 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | The hourglass had rolled to its side, its content perfectly balanced on both sides, a potential eternity in the shape of a few still grains of sand.
Death rolled it between his fingers, the dry, bleached bones clicking against dusty, bubbly glass. The sand inside was a dark, coarse thing, tinged with the black of volc... | "Oh my", Said Death. Underneath the very large dark desk he found a life.
He picked up the dusty vessel and turned it around in his bony hands. One of the downsides of not having skin, he decided, was that it was a bother getting dust off placards.
This was not good. Well, not that it was bad per say but most certa... | 2018-10-03T06:28:38 | 2018-10-03T06:25:35 | 1,464 | 110 |
[WP] Most wannabe dark lords conquer tribes of monsters to control them. You, however, conquered them so that you could form a union and hire them out to other dark lords via contractual work. | "Alright, alright, you can have your... maternity leave." Archking Wyst frowned at the Frankenstein's monster. "Seriously? Maternity leave? You guys get pregnant? How the hell does that work?"
"With great difficulty," the Frankenstein's monster rumbled. "Thank you for your consideration."
"Eh, whatever. Send the next... | “All right, roll call!” I yelled into the intercom. If these brutes were going to unionize, then someone needed to teach them how to properly organize. Morning roll call was the first step on a long road to discipline for these once-chaotic monsters.
“Green Eyeball, I need you to stand up taller. And you, Big Blue, pl... | 2020-03-29T21:59:17 | 2020-03-29T21:44:13 | 123 | 65 |
[WP] Your a failing college student who needs to pass your foreign language class or fail. You've almost outright mocked superstions but make a wish on a shooting star at 11:11pm. To understand and speak all languages. Your cat wakes you up, but instead of meows. It's "wake up idiot and feed me". | "MOOOM MOOOM MOOOM. WAKE UP MOOOOM"
I shoot bolt upright in bed and feel the hefty lump that is my cat fly off me and onto the floor."OWWWWW! Why would you do that?! That was mean!" I hear from an indignant voice below me. Shaking, I peer over the edge of the bed and meet a pair of unblinking green eyes. Her little wh... | Notsed slumped in his chair, shoulders sagging under the weight of his worries as he read the note his friend sent just minutes ago.
*Notsed, I just overheard Professor Mumbles talking about you to one of the TAs. He said "They're a failing college student who needs to pass my foreign language class or I **will** fa... | 2019-01-16T17:01:44 | 2019-01-16T15:45:44 | 93 | 11 |
[WP] Five years ago, the world fell to a fascist regime. You are arrested by the Secret Police and taken directly before the Supreme Leader. Upon entering his office, however, you are greeted by your childhood best friend, who insists that he can explain. | "Hello Thomas."
The familiar looking man stood behind the largest desk I'd ever seen, palms flat on its surface as he leaned over it, studying me. Behind him a painting of his own euphoric face loomed to elephantine size. It's electric eyes stared at me with maniacal intensity.
The two faces, his true one pensive a... | The blindfold came off, and before he could get a look, water was splashed in his face, waking him up from the drug-addled daze the Police had put him in. When he finally recovered and coughed everything up, a face he hadn’t seen in fifteen years was in front of him…
“W-what?”
“I know…don’t say anything. Just let me ... | 2019-02-17T05:19:19 | 2019-02-17T02:50:09 | 1,322 | 248 |
[WP] You notice one day that you are compelled to keep every promise you ever made. The news shows the world in a panic as is everyone else is forced do to the same. It seems that that people with too many conflicting promises go comatose, including many elected officials. | "You ready?" I asked. Sarah nodded and opened her mouth as wide as she could. I took her toothbrush and started very carefully to brush her teeth. It was really awkward since I couldn't hold her with my other hand, and some foam leaked over her lower lip, but I couldn't wipe it since my mind would recognize this as a s... | I learned a long time ago to only make promises I was sure I could keep. The world recently learned that same lesson.
The government stopped functioning just over 6 months ago; corporations fell shortly thereafter. The supply chain has dried up and we eat what we are able to scrounge together. We live in a small wareh... | 2022-06-15T21:15:26 | 2022-06-15T20:23:09 | 1,124 | 181 |
[WP] You were once the most powerful villain. You retired early and are engaged to a minor super hero who isn't aware of your past. They are about to be killed right before your eyes..but you step in. | I used to be the guy who did this... go around killing minor heroes for the fun of it, made me feel real big and powerful. I guess that’s the same with this guy, big muscular guy wearing spandex of all things. As far as he was aware he and my fiancée were all alone, how very wrong he was. I was in the shadows of the ra... | “Monologuing. Always with the monologuing. Not that I wasn’t guilty of it myself, but when you have conquered the world three times over, you learn pretty fast not to monologue. It almost always gives your target time to break out of their confines, call for backup, or a myriad of other responses heroes tend to be able... | 2018-03-09T07:02:35 | 2018-03-09T03:26:26 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You have the ability to see the lifespan of everybody in color. Green is a long life, orange is about 50 years, and red is under an hour. You're in class, your teacher walks in late, everybody suddenly has a red glow.
Teacher has an orange glow... | I am not a bad kid. Sure, I've lied (I'm pretty good at that), and yes I've even had a few beers at Tommy's house, but fundamentally, I think of myself as a good person. I didn't deserve... *the Gift*.
More like *the Curse*.
My mom always told me that bad things happen to good people. She also told me that I'd see be... | An anxious feeling weaves through my body as red fills my vision the moment Mrs.Akita enters the classroom. Every student is now glowing red, including me, from our typical green and orange.
"Hello class," Mrs.Akita says," I hope you're prepared for the lesson today," she smiles, "I am."
She straightens her black pen... | 2015-02-19T16:13:51 | 2015-02-19T15:05:54 | 404 | 111 |
[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 :) | __Suicide: A permanent solution to a temporary problem.__
This stupid fucking phrase rings through my mind almost hourly as I try to make it through the day. The reason it’s in my head right now? It’s pouring and a car just sped through a puddle, leaving me a wet mess. What’s more, I dropped my phone when I got splash... | 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... | 2017-05-05T07:14:27 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 451 | 21 |
[WP] The end of times has come. Heaven, hell, and earth are thrown in a three-way war. It's a little unfair how advanced Earth is, though. | Now padre... you figure demonic fire and brimstone as well as holy light and the radiance of god would be effective armament for any good soldier. Its funny how little those biblical ideals hold up to a Hellfire missile or 5.56mm NATO rounds spitting out of a barrel at 750 rounds a minute and 2800 feet per second.
At ... | As the world was quickly learning, the book of Revelations was on to something. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place … Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mo... | 2015-09-24T08:43:45 | 2015-09-24T07:02:34 | 731 | 54 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | The chatter was loud and incessant, like a fly that wouldn’t stop buzzing in your ear.
Or several flies. Hell, a whole cloud.
Anyways, Aunt Sandy turned “33” for the fifth time and my mom wanted to throw the party at our house because she wanted to flambé (torch the living shit) out of her “famous” Baked Alaska pie... | My mother was always a weird one. I loved her, don’t get me wrong - but she was weird. I stared at her wide-eyed, confused, when her kills came up.
One.
How could she have killed anyone? Yes, she was kooky, but she could never lay hands on someone with malice. She just liked to talk to her lemon tree, watering it car... | 2019-07-01T23:13:12 | 2019-07-01T20:14:16 | 146 | 89 |
[WP] You arrive in the year 1000, and all you have are the clothes on your back, a laptop with the entire Wikipedia library, and a solar charger. | Being considered a demi-god is never as fun as you would think. No, it's not because assassins are after you half the time. Nor is it because the king who you have decided to "help" is too stupid to understand simple economics. No, it's because you can barely find cocaine in this damned place.
And my king was too che... | I should have prepared more. I didn't though it will work on the first run. And the return mechanism is not ready yet - and never will be now. I do have most of the required knowledge and a good memory of my own plans but even with all that knowledge I'll never be able manufacture, or in that manner, create the machine... | 2016-12-27T14:32:53 | 2016-12-27T12:31:19 | 85 | 21 |
[WP] "If we survive this, we'll be heroes!" "And if we don't survive?" "Then we'll be legends." | “If we survive this, we’ll be heroes!” Their pilot said, excited, looking back from his seat at the other crewmates of the *DS Genesis.* This was, after all, the first ever manned FTL flight that the species known formerly only to themselves would make. The engineer of the ship, a bulky woman originating from some plac... | A bomb went off nearby, killing however many more poor souls who were dragged into this pointless war. From inside a broken building, just out of range of the blast, a pair sat with their backs to the wall. One smoked a cigarette, the red fumes floating off into nothingness.
"It would appear we are fucked." the smoker... | 2022-02-27T17:43:26 | 2022-02-27T17:30:35 | 126 | 42 |
[WP] Nobody has a freaking clue how they've done it, but astronauts have smuggled an 800lb grand piano onto the ISS. Nobody at Nasa can figure out how angry or impressed they should be | “Soooo, your not mad are you?” he said from the screen. Well actually from orbit.
 
I wasn’t sure if I was or not. Behind him floating because it had not been secured yet was an eight hundred pound baby grand piano. One of the other astronauts was floating with it and guiding it so it would not slam int... | "God f***ing damnit, stop playing around!" Was the cry of the man running the NASA control centre. Steve was a week from retirement and he did NOT need this. Somehow, someway, the astronauts had smuggled an 800lb grand piano on the ISS. How?! Why?!
The astronauts did not answer. One of them was extremely talented, pla... | 2017-10-12T06:03:09 | 2017-10-12T04:49:00 | 90 | 17 |
[WP] Due to a severe lack of gold, a dark wizard is forced to convert his kingdom of monsters into a family-friendly zoo to raise funds for his upcoming invasion | Lets face it, conquering the known world and cementing my place in history as 'Agamemnon the Powerful, Ruler of the Black Sands, Destroyer of the Northern Kingdoms, General of the Undead Armies of Ulgoroth' was never going to happen when my bottom line was swimming in a sea of red.
I'll admit I may have been a lit... | “How do they expect me to make it “Family friendly?” I barely have enough gold to get myself a bowl of soup! Not that it matters… I guess i can *try* and make a forcefield, but *ohhhhh* those are bubbles, and this cave is quite small. And ever-”
“Sire! Calm down, try and concentrate, they need safety so give it to th... | 2015-11-30T10:51:13 | 2015-11-30T10:16:31 | 99 | 18 |
[wp] You work at an office in Hell. You don't live in Hell, nor are you trapped their for eternity. Lucifer just thinks you're excellent at Excel. | It's always on these first dates when I have to explain that I'm not talking about my job in hyperbole.
"Oh my god, yes," the blonde across the table from me sighed, rolling her eyes. "My job totally feels like hell, too."
"Not feels like hell," I corrected. "Is in Hell."
She blinked at me. Pretty blue eyes, alth... | "Bye sweetie!" I give my wife a deep kiss and get in my car for work. I am just a normal 30 year old accountant who works in a normal, not too big not too small firm, making spreadsheets, checking them and re checking them for 5 hours a day, with a few breaks in between.
Except, I am not a normal employee.
I reach a ... | 2018-02-27T14:03:15 | 2018-02-27T09:43:33 | 460 | 106 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. |
Screams filled Supreme Commander Zoltork’s mind as he tapped into the Fourth Landing Team’s comm net. From his vantage point on the bridge of the Pharex, he was able to monitor the data coming in from his soldiers on the ground.
With a flick of one of his 6 arms, he activated a hologram. Something wasn’t right. T... | We got the data. We got the intel. We knew of their past and how violent the the humans were. After continuing to watch the humans for the past 300 Earth years they become peaceful after their third global conflict. The casualties reached to 4 billion by the time it ended. The country in the western hemisphere known as... | 2019-02-26T07:46:55 | 2019-02-26T07:32:54 | 278 | 70 |
[WP] You have been told all your life that you have a rare medical condition. It means you need regular special meals that your family has lovingly prepared. You now find out that your "condition" actually requires fresh human flesh and your family have become serial killers to keep you alive. | “Is that… daddy?”
Mummy was quiet, her eyes fixed on the screen.
I asked again, louder this time. Maybe mummy didn’t hear me. “Mummy, is that daddy on the TV?”
Mummy was still quiet. She looked scared. He eyes and mouth were wide open. She slowly sunk to the chair, but her eyes did not leave the screen.
“No, no, n... | Hungry. Why am I always *so* hungry? It’s like I was born with a black hole in my gut, sucking whatever food I shove in there before the nutrients are absorbed by my body. I’ve heard the word ‘full’ before, but have no idea what it means, not truly. For me it's nothing more than a wish.
I hear stories from my family ... | 2019-03-13T07:21:01 | 2019-03-13T07:17:05 | 251 | 132 |
[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 :) | Wow. Great.
I'm standing in the middle of the woods, with just my pijamas on.
I have no idea how I got here. It's cold, I'm tired, and I just want to go to bed. The only problem is, that I live in the middle of a large city, in a place, where even the nights are warm and the air is soft.
Here it's so cold, that my ... | His numbered seconds flitted by,
He sat facing the screen.
He used to be a normal guy,
Back when he was a teen.
But when the dread came creeping in,
And drained his life and soul,
His feelings slipped out of his skin,
And left a gaping hole.
When outside, he adorned a mask,
That bore a practis... | 2017-05-05T07:30:17 | 2017-05-05T06:57:56 | 118 | 31 |
[WP] You were recently granted immortality by God. For years, you have seen immortal characters in media say that it is a curse, not a blessing. You just think those guys have been using it the wrong way. | There is nothing, nothing left...
I sit at the edge of the Brooklyn Bridge, eyes closed, feeling the gentle breeze hitting my face over the east river, thinking about the last time I had a conversation with God. It was full of excitement and hope. I was told that I could not die, no matter how hard I try, I am now, th... | I spent my first few centuries in seclusion, sure being worshipped as a god was fun for a while but those petty mortals have no idea what it's like to live forever. I've had atleast ten generations come and go, while I keep living. The torture of getting married and watching your partner wither and grow old while you... | 2018-08-29T05:01:37 | 2018-08-29T04:09:20 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit | Malakai traced the lines of the brick in the walls of the phone room, humming softly to himself as the chaos outside barely reached him.
“Please! Mr. Weathers, we need Cosmodem! They’re wreaking havoc!”
“and... why would I come back, exactly? You were the one who insisted I come here, Charlie.” He gave a cold chuckl... | Ashley sighed, crossing her arms. "Duke, for the love of God, stop this and come out."
Duke stared at her, his face stoic as usual. "Alright."
Ashley tried not to get her hopes up. "Really? I'll go tell the warden to-"
"I'm completely heterosexual." Duke's grin spread from ear to ear as Ashley's face turned red from... | 2021-03-18T15:56:21 | 2021-03-18T13:24:33 | 47 | 32 |
[WP] Grandma accidentally summoned a demon and mistakes him for her gothic-phase teenage grandson. | "Look at you! You're filthy! I can't believe your parents let you walk around dressed like that. A little discipline, that's all you ever needed."
Sephiroth was confused, until he saw the burning trash can in the backyard. Rat bones, chicken bones, several stalks of various vegetation and, there it was, down at the bo... | "Hey. You summoned me?"
The old woman pushed her rounded glasses further up her nose, squinting at the man who had somehow appeared in her living room. He had black, greasy hair that framed his pointy chin and angular cheekbones in a Gerad way. He wore thick black eye liner, black eye shadow and black mascara. His clot... | 2018-04-09T11:48:46 | 2018-04-09T11:12:14 | 87 | 19 |
[WP] Write erotica of hilariously bad quality.
An example of what I'm looking for would be something like this:
She flopped onto the breakfast table like a wet sock, her eyes bulging with desire. Her body was covered in nudity. "I bet I can eat more pancakes than you," she coughed, lustily.
Have fun!
EDIT: I did a ... | Constance Gluggletine relaxed into her seat, the twin battleships of her buttocks unclenching just enough for the fine hessian weave to slide up and gently abrade her anus. She breathed out a lusty sigh, luxuriating in the feeling of Clive's hands kneading the hoary juts of her shoulders.
"Ohhhh Clive", she moaned, ar... | The sexual passion between them was as a pressurised as the pressure under the depths of the deep ocean, which was also as deep as their emotions for each other.
They stared into each other's orbs and the normally stiff Stacy (who is normally as dry as the Sahara in the summer during a drought) melted like the north ... | 2015-02-16T10:15:29 | 2015-02-16T10:08:13 | 131 | 16 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | I didn't intend to kill Hitler. I'm not the average time-traveler, you see, I just wanted to have a quiet life in the country side of the Old Europe. I found my lifestyle. I found a beautiful girl named Annabelle and worked my way up in French society at the time. I married Annabelle. I found and bought a quaint little... | The temporal particles faded from sight with a roar of burning spacetime. The silence left behind seeming to sing with a high pure note, tinged with the birdsong of 1940. There in front of me, about 50 yards down the hill was my target. Hitler. The Fuhrer. Head of the nazi party and leader of the German government. He ... | 2016-02-20T08:59:12 | 2016-02-20T08:55:11 | 204 | 49 |
[WP] In a world when anyone blessed with superpowers is expected to join law enforcement and other service occupations you are at a therapy meeting for 'superheroes'. The group is full of teens who are horrified by their powers and refuse to use them. | You need to run. Take the bottom left stairwell, the passcode is five, three, five, seven. I repeat: I've failed to achieve results. You need to run. Take the bottom left stairwell, the passcode is five, three, five, seven.
"Tell me again, Jonas. Why won't you use your powers?" I asked aloud. "The Conclave has request... | The first one the grab the stick is the girl with shimmering skin.
She holds it delicately between her thumb and pointer finger, arm out to keep it away from her body. Her lips are pressed in a thin line, eyebrows furrowed. The therapist gives her an encouraging nod.
“Hello, my name is Deirdre,” she mumbles, eyes fli... | 2020-03-26T20:46:49 | 2020-03-26T20:39:48 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | "They described our landing as an inconvenience and forgot about us after a few days," Admiral D'jellho reported to the Emperor over the secure hologram transit system.
"Have you sent out the diplomats?" the Emperor asked and Admiral D'jellho shook his head.
"We have determined that the planet has already been clai... | I sat watching the news, petting my cat, Harry.
"A civil war has broken out in South Sudan once again, with estimated deaths in the 100 thousands. Around 500,000 child soldiers- Breaking news: a massive object has entered the atmosphere. Scientists cannot recognize any part of it. The government-"
I perked up my head,... | 2019-06-11T06:40:55 | 2019-06-11T05:53:12 | 512 | 99 |
[WP] as the firstborn of the royal family, you’ve inherited the King's power and spoils, while your siblings have been left to fend for themselves. To this day they resent you, no matter what you do to make it up to them. | With the business of the court done for the day, I made my way to the lower parts of the castle. It had been a busy day. But then, most days were busy recently. There seemed to be no end to hungry mouths to feed, foreign diplomats to charm, minutia of trade deals to negotiate with the guilds...
And it was made no eas... | I called my servant to me and said, "Servant! How are my siblings?"
He looked at his scroll. "Well, sire, where do I begin? Let's see. Your older sister, Alexandria-"
"I don't care about the boring ones" I interrupted. "Just skip to the interesting ones."
"Well, there have been reports that several of your younger b... | 2021-06-09T13:06:33 | 2021-06-09T12:41:43 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | I'm used to it by now. Any human out here gets used to it or they go home. And honestly it's not wrong, not some injustice or bigotry. The suit is a necessity,
The procedure just sucks.
Hoses like everywhere, you feel me? Everywhere. Gasket checks. Pressure checks. Solvents. Primary and secondary pumps. And the adhes... | Daily log, 18:54:92 GOODS-North time, Somewhere in the vicinity of Ursa Major
Steve and I stopped at a refuel station on our way to meet our connect. Supposedly, there is good work where we are heading and you know we need it. Problem is the only convincing disguise we had for him got torn up on Lido Persona. I would ... | 2020-03-05T22:25:23 | 2020-03-05T19:06:47 | 139 | 55 |
[WP] in a future universe super powers are available for purchase. However it costs $250,000 and you cannot pick your power, it's decided based on personality and physical attributes. You have finally saved up enough money ... | When you're little the idea of being a "super hero" was something that just made sense. The only part that didn't, was how to be "super". So naturally you spend your childhood trying every which way to somehow become this person that you dream of every night... Only to realize that eating broccoli and saying please and... | The second I stepped out of the limo, an explosion of cheers and applause assailed me. I brushed my golden cape back and struck a pose, chest thrust out so that the silver star upon it caught the light of the sun. The photographers went berserk, and journalists began blabbering furiously into hovering camera-drones.
A... | 2016-06-16T01:39:05 | 2016-06-16T00:47:44 | 63 | 45 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | I stilled dreamed of seeing.
I think that's why I initially snoozed my alarm clock instead of gasping for joy. But as I rolled back over to look at my wife lying next to me, I did gasp. Not for joy, but out of shock. On the wall behind Kathrine a message had been hastily painted on the wall.
\-DON'T TELL THEM YOU CA... | I see walls covered with writings.
I see floors painted with blood.
I see surfaces, chairs, refrigerators and any available surface to draw on plastered with the same damn message.
*"Whatever you do, Don't tell them you can see."*
Whispers of instruction fill my head.
"Hush. Do not speak of your sight."
I follow ... | 2022-10-15T03:24:04 | 2019-08-26T09:05:53 | 52 | 39 |
[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. | I'm not a hero, I'm a man with a job. have a specific set of skills. When a DM wants to get rid of a character but declines to use the plethora of tools at their disposal, they message me. Generally, I like more than one session to handle these kinds of issues, but I took this job as a personal favor.
The party of fou... | "I'm afraid I must object," said Timonus the Upright.
Everyone at the table reacted, some throwing up their hands and some muttering unpleasantries under their breath. The five gamers sat around a map of terrain speckled with gaming pieces. At the head of the table a thin, tired looking young man sat behind a large,... | 2019-01-21T19:02:54 | 2019-01-21T18:32:36 | 3,332 | 500 |
[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 wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | I wake up to the sound of a familiar jingle coming from my phone. Groaning I turn over and turn it on. But then something grabs my interest, an official text, like the amber alerts you get sometimes, saying DO. NOT. LOOK.AT. THE. MOON. My screen then suddenly bursts up with hundreds of text messages saying the same thi... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2022-06-27T10:58:59 | 712 | 103 |
[WP] Your superpower: The ability to successfully do the job...with the wrong tool. (Optional - Your weakness: The inability to do so with the right tool for the job.) | “Excuse me, sir? We appreciate you pulling over to help us, so I really don't mean to be rude, but are you *sure* you know what you’re doing?” the young woman who had been driving asked me.
“Oh yeah, dont you worry, I’ll have your engine back in working order in no time,” I replied
In fairness, her concern was comple... | “It’s not about the results, son,” my father said. “It’s about doing things the right way.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s hard to explain…but even if you get the result you want sometimes, that might not happen again the next time. You might not get as lucky. If you do it the right way every time, you’ll be rewarded the ... | 2019-05-27T23:13:51 | 2019-05-27T22:44:20 | 2,129 | 379 |
[WP] “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” This quote has been worrying you a lot recently, because you're beginning to suspect you might be immortal. | "One mustard sandwich please."
The girl behind the register nodded at me with a smile and went to pick out the freshly made ham, cheese and mustard sandwich from the tray. It was my favourite.
"That will be three pounds fifty."
"Here's a fiver, and you can keep the change."
She looked at me with surprise, gave a ... | As the silt settled around my calves, the last rays of the August sunshine dimly filtered though the water around me. I sat there on the lake bottom for a few moments, contemplating. I took a deep breath and… nothing. No rush of pain, no suffocating pressure, no drowning. This was life changing, world shattering. I sh... | 2020-07-16T13:03:53 | 2020-07-16T12:03:53 | 61 | 29 |
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