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[WP] Create a story that ends with a sentence that you never thought you would utter in your entire life
Expecting something funny/ridiculous, but feel free to go out of the box
EDIT: Thanks for all the responses, guys! This prompt came out of the blue and I was interested in how this community would respond to it :)... | My father was the wisest man I knew, and his voice still echoes in my ears today. "Eric, never dwell on the details of how the people in your life got there, just be happy they're there with you." This seemed more relevant now than it ever had. I was laying in bed, covered by nothing but a sheet while my new wife clean... | Zevra examined the chrome maser pistol for a moment. She felt its unusual heft and squinted to see the small text next to a button labeled, "Safety." She pressed the safety down with her thumb and it made a satisfying click. A display quickly flashed on its side showing a 50% charge. Her wristphone began to vibrate. ... | 2014-03-11T22:05:20 | 2014-03-11T21:10:05 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] You have 30 seconds with an ancestor of yours from 200 years ago (1814), before they are transported back to their time. What do you say to them? What effect appears in our world because of it?
Consider for the sake of this prompt that they aren't totally freaked out by being plopped into 2014, that they can unde... | "30...29...28...
Listen to me carefully. there is not much time. Nobody will ever believe you or will burn you at the stake if you repeat this
22...21...20....
be kind, teach our family the importance of education above all else
16...15...14...13....
the next 200 years will be the most exciting yet deadly in all m... | I was looking at my great great grandfather James Cater and wishing he would have taught his kids not to hate when all of a sudden he appears in front of me. I hear a voice in my head telling me that if I think I can do a better job then I have 30 seconds to make him changes his mind.
James is currently 12 years old a... | 2014-05-09T06:49:32 | 2014-05-09T05:25:48 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | It started with something everyone did. It started while he stumbled against a table corner in the living room at age 3. He honed this skill without realizing. In kindergarden he used it on the carers. At home he used it on his parents and siblings. Hours and hours he used it, while he was around people at a concert, w... | I skip stones. It's my passtime. Whenever I feel down, I head to the lake and find the flat, smooth rocks that hop on the water's surface. I do it for fun. I do it to show off. It's just my kind of thing.
Then one day, I was sitting at my desk, trying to train my graphing skill. "Shit!" I shout. I haven't leveled up ... | 2015-10-05T23:42:20 | 2015-10-05T23:37:22 | 85 | 23 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | Everything changed that Friday morning as I came.
I always jerk off Friday mornings. I jerk off every morning. In fact, I jerk off twice every morning, on lunch break, and at least 4 times before I fall asleep at the end of the night. I jerk off so much it isn't even fun anymore. I spend so much money on hand lotion a... | Stephanie was walking down the street looking for some new clothes to spoil herself with, when a particularly cute leather jacket caught her eye. Using her magnifying glass she saw that it was better than her old jacket by +7 warmth and +37 sex appeal.
"Ahh you have good taste" said the shopkeeper. "This jacket was ma... | 2015-10-06T00:39:35 | 2015-10-05T23:32:30 | 65 | 38 |
[WP] You use a mirror to summon your evil twin. What comes out... is your good twin.
This ought to be fun. | "So you're saying that you do all your work on time?" I ask again, still half in shock. "And that you've never taken a sick day for no good reason?"
The other me nods his head. He's wearing a three piece suit, tailored, sitting with his legs crossed as though he doesn't have a care in the world. "Speaking of work, I'd... | Gathering all the materials was not an easy process. The potion took months of preparation, the ingredients spanning from cinnamon to goat's blood. Finally the day came when the liquid inside my bowl turned from a rusty brown to an emerald green.
Then I knew it was ready.
I stood in front of the mirror and said my na... | 2022-09-02T19:38:49 | 2016-04-15T16:58:41 | 65 | 10 |
[WP] You have discovered that "God" is actually a computer simulation that is running the entire universe and you have gained access to the console. Upon looking at the screen you see that a service pack to update the program was downloaded 10,000 years ago but never installed. | I glanced over the black screen, mounted on the wall above the azure white desk. Written on it in bright characters were the words:
Universe 22b [Version 1.96]
(c) UniversalTech. All rights reserved.
U:\Users\God22b> Version 2.0 is ready to install. Proceed with installing? (YES/NO/MOREINFO)
I stood there for a w... | "Do you wish to proceed?"
The brightness of the monitor was giving me a headache. This whole thing is giving me a headache.
Somehow I brought myself to this place but I don't remember how I got here or where this even is.
I remember walking. Endlesslly. I might have slept a little, but I'm not sure how many days it's... | 2016-05-13T23:25:00 | 2016-05-13T20:29:57 | 462 | 45 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | I glanced at the button, red, shiny, like a new toy underneath the Christmas tree.
"Press it" the voice inside my head begged. My finger slid across the button, careful not to disrupt the connection enough to initiate it by mistake, I knew I had to make sure I was making this decision with an open, and clear, mind.
... | They both knew they were going to be millionaires.
In the great whirlwind of New York City business, it's rare for a meeting to occur that feels like instant destiny. But then along came Nate Carpenter and Hunter Bryson. One dinner party and one handshake later, they were partners.
*
"Cheers, my friend. To a first ... | 2016-07-16T17:58:05 | 2016-07-16T17:29:20 | 145 | 38 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | The room was silent. No-one ever spoke at these things. The text message had been sent forty-three minutes ago. A location, a time. One by one we trickled in each of us with some grim purpose. At the door everyone showed three items to gain entrance: their button, their license, and the back of their left hand. ... | *Fucking son of a bitch.*
The moist *crunch, crunch, smack, crunch* of Sylvester’s lips as he bulled his way through a second bowl of Marshmallow Mateys made Maribelle want to bash him in the mouth. Within the brief darkness that the blink of her eyes brought, she saw red— red pouring out of those clammy lips that yaw... | 2016-07-16T20:28:24 | 2016-07-16T19:03:53 | 57 | 18 |
[WP] You have suddenly gained access to the debug menu for the universe | *> Enter Command.*
*>|*
A translucent screen floated in front of me as I sat on my bed.
*>pause*
It had been my first idea. A command so universal it was used nearly every where. Everything needed a pause button. So whatever this console floating in front of me was, it should accept it.
*>Time has bee... | It was a warm evening and Reeves was ready to head home after a long afternoon on the beach. As he walked towards his car, he soon realized that something was not right. He had left one of his windows open. All his work and belongings were gone.
Feeling a bit down after this, he decided to head home anyway and fil... | 2016-09-01T07:21:03 | 2016-09-01T05:36:35 | 61 | 25 |
[WP] You've created the first functional AI, and as it's first task you told it to select it's own name. The answer was a lot more unnerving than you thought it'd be. | After weeks of managing its coding and other bits of advanced computer science, Jeffry sat at his desk, staring at his computer, now housing his pet project for the last couple years. Attempting to create an AI capable of sentience, he put the final touches on his project, secretly hoping it would spring to life. Witho... | I shuddered to think what would happen if there were a bug now. The machine - six foot high and the same wide - that collection of entangled qubits had already caused us so much grief that more trouble always seemed likely. It *looked* okay, though. This was to be the world's first fully-functional artificial intellege... | 2016-11-25T08:08:07 | 2016-11-25T07:23:07 | 168 | 91 |
[WP] In a world of wands and wizardry, you are a legendary assassin, killing your targets without them even realizing it. Your secret? Guns, a whole armory of them.
Edit: I wrote for this one, and I really enjoyed where it went. Hope you guys will enjoy it too! | With a whisper, I appeared at a summit overlooking a small town. Below, two roads forked out from the town and passed to the left and right of the hill where I stood. But I was safe here. Probably.
Most wizards don't truly understand teleportation. You can't just suddenly move your entire body mass into one space and ... | Killing wizards is a very difficult job. As a rule, they don't tend to stand around and let themselves die. By virtue of their innate magical talent, all wizards are the target of various otherworldly creatures who find such talent quite delicious. Therefore, all wizards with any sense make it a priority to special... | 2016-12-24T08:38:34 | 2016-12-24T08:21:56 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] It is the 24 th of july, your birthday, and also the day that humanity is going to reach 10 billion inhabitants. You are watching the number grow, live on a site. Just as it's about to hit 10 billion, at 9,999,999,999... It Hits 2. You are still alive. | I watch the counter, eagerly. Humanity had struggled a lot, and we were finally about to hit a major checkpoint. And I had the satisfaction of being a part of it. I sat back at my desk and chuckled to myself as I took a sip of coffee.
Dale looked over to me. "What's so funny?"
"Oh, nothing. Just glad to finally be ge... | No, that can't be. The chilling disbelief had me shivering in fear. The counter read 2. The goddamn counter read 2. What the hell? This can't be.
The entire population of Earth is now 2 and I'm alive. So does that mean everyone but someone else is gone? Why me? Is it because I was browsing it now? Does that mean whoev... | 2017-02-28T20:44:47 | 2017-02-28T19:56:08 | 581 | 40 |
[WP] It is the 24 th of july, your birthday, and also the day that humanity is going to reach 10 billion inhabitants. You are watching the number grow, live on a site. Just as it's about to hit 10 billion, at 9,999,999,999... It Hits 2. You are still alive. | At first it seemed like it could be a nightmare, but there are only so many times you can pinch yourself before you realize this is real. The first few nights felt warm, even though I awoke cold and alone. Your subconscious has a way of trying to make you forget about your pains, you know?
I had a fairly decent routi... | No, that can't be. The chilling disbelief had me shivering in fear. The counter read 2. The goddamn counter read 2. What the hell? This can't be.
The entire population of Earth is now 2 and I'm alive. So does that mean everyone but someone else is gone? Why me? Is it because I was browsing it now? Does that mean whoev... | 2017-02-28T20:45:07 | 2017-02-28T19:56:08 | 69 | 40 |
[WP] All humans are immortal until they find their "soulmate," after which they age regularly. You, however, have been around since the Ice Age... | "You know when I was young I used to think that being immortal was the best thing in the world." I said to the cockroach in my hands though he is not very responsive and not very talkative, I still continued my tale.
"For over 10000 years I traveled the world, I even witnessed history in the making. I saw Empires cru... | I sat at the Denny's where I smoked my cigarettes, read my paper and drank old coffee like I did every Monday night for the past decade. Christi came and filled my cup. Her lips were crimson, her hair tattered and dirty from a double shift and she sat down on the other side of the booth. My eyes glimpsed hers.
"Man, I... | 2017-05-22T13:50:00 | 2017-05-22T13:19:53 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You are a superhero who's ability subconciously freezes time whenever someone nearby is in mortal danger. Usually its obvious who's in trouble and you can save them quickly, but not this time - it's been 10 years.
Edit: guys the responses have been amazing, some funny stories and some deeper, darker ones too! Kee... | The strangest thing was how it was always daylight with in the bubble but time kept moving on outside the opaque impenetrable barrier. I'd never had the opportunity to really observe that before. Some of the science didn't make sense, but I'd never really understood how my own powers worked anyway. As long as I could k... | 18:00. It was 18:00 of 7th September on that day. That wretched day. That's the only time and day I know now. That's the only time and day it's been for maybe an eternity or two. But, just for me. Lucky me.
I was counting the time passing for a while, 3 months to be exact, before I lost count and gave up on the idea o... | 2017-09-07T03:31:19 | 2017-09-07T01:10:24 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] Each planet possesses a God, which created the planets. The reason aliens won't come and visit us is that our planet's God is the most dangerous one in existence. | Terra was a crazy son of a bitch. Sure, the other gods had their quirks, Centauruses world was inhabited by sex-craved species that would make even the most vulgar of gods blush. Messier created a race that survived by eating their own feces, but Terra... no one fucked with Terra.
First the dude made these giant fucki... | "Earth? Please; let this be the end of it. You have propositioned me time and time again to visit that accursed place, and it is only my protests that keep you here. I have not changed my mind, but it is truly time that you do."
Tal'mak stared at his friend, willing him to reconsider. Tal'mak was a risk-taker - a natu... | 2017-11-27T05:39:19 | 2017-11-27T04:23:52 | 243 | 140 |
[WP] An isolated group of NPCs live near the very edge of the generated worldmap where the accuracy of floating-point numbers start to degrade, full of strange geological formations and supernatural phenomena
based on a weird nightmare i had couple nights ago and old memories of minecraft | The town had been quiet ever since Adelaide's boy had clipped through the ground a few weeks ago, never to be seen again. Royce had led the settlers here several years ago after getting fed up with the constant violence of city life, but things had been undeniably harder since they'd arrived.
Royce had called a meetin... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Hey - yeah you - I've got a quest for you."
Hogar the Barbarian stood by his shop, speaking to Sexypigeon69. Sexypigeon69 was a level 90 sorcerer, the maximum level allowed back in 2017, when Sexypigeon69 left his apartment to answer the doorbell and was abducted and taken to a blacksite, never to... | 2018-04-06T07:54:02 | 2018-04-06T07:48:14 | 1,021 | 106 |
[WP] Two werewolves fall madly in love, but only during the full moon. When they’re human, they can’t stand each other. | Heather is madly annoying.
Her voice is deafening ... destroying
my ears, no longer able to hear
I sign to her she's the one person I fear.
For she and I turn to wild beasts.
Every full moon, we turn to each other and feast
Not on people, or prey or food.
We become wild animals stuck to each other, glued.
B... | He'd only gone out for a simple jog. It was a nice night, cool and quiet. After a rather hectic day at the company, he was desperate to relax himself. Dannan forgot about the full moon. Hidden behind the clouds, out of his sight, he jogged along the empty sidewalk, ear buds snug in his ears as he went. Rounding the cor... | 2018-05-23T01:28:51 | 2018-05-22T19:34:35 | 56 | 14 |
[WP] Two werewolves fall madly in love, but only during the full moon. When they’re human, they can’t stand each other. | He wasn't in love, he was in lust. I call him "he" because I can't control a single goddamn thing he does. I can make it impossible for him to roam freely. The industrial strength cage I too easily found on Amazon lends me that claim. But other than that. I can't control him. So when I got a DM from Nichole that she ha... | The full moon reflected in the deer's eye as it danced spritely through the woods. I lay undetected under the brush, awaiting the moment I could taste its blood. The scent filled my nostrils, and my mouth watered in anticipation. But there was another scent. Something that awakened a different kind of anticipation.
Th... | 2018-05-23T01:03:36 | 2018-05-22T20:37:45 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] The concept of shoot to kill is foreign to other galactic species. Only humans condition their warriors to kill in the most efficient and cold methods possible. When faced with a war they can not win a race does the unthinkable, they set the humans loose. | For ten years the war has been destroying our planet. When the first krogen ships landed near the imperial town we were curious about their intentions. We were not prepared for any hostility. Our society overcame violence and war thousands of years ago. When they aimed their electric guns at us we were petrified. They ... | In the dim light of the strat-room, I stare at the now-blank display. I am aware of the increased rate of pumping in both of my hearts, as well as a significant spike in cortisol levels. I open my mouth to speak, then close it.
I look to Communicator Poelhi, who has been motionless since the video ended.
"You...had ... | 2018-07-20T19:17:28 | 2018-07-20T15:17:04 | 211 | 71 |
[WP] They killed his hound, and stolen his steed. The rogue knight returns from retirement to teach them a lesson. He was known as the man you call to kill the shadow itself, and he was known as John, the Wicked. | Aurelius the carriage-maker looked up from his work, not surprised to see the herald of House Taras standing in the doorway.
"A message from Lord Taras, Master Aurelius," said the herald. "He greets thee in the name of the king and our Lord, and in recognition of your long service to his house and his family, he asks ... | Dear diary, 12th October 2932.
They awoke the wicked. he who kills like he breathes.... if he did.
back in the 2500's, cybernetic wars led to the creation of the knights, and the legend says he's one of them.
Legend also says he wiped an entire battleship with a single pen, and his left thumb.
Word says he has no e... | 2018-09-05T06:20:32 | 2018-09-05T06:10:01 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | *No.* Death thought. *It couldn't be.*
Death reached below the grand wooden table, hastily pulling out the dust covered hourglass. Questions flooded its mind. *How? When? Who?*
Carefully, Death set the hourglass sideways on its table, like the way it found it, the only one among the seven billion or so hourglasses in... | 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... | 2018-10-03T06:52:49 | 2018-10-03T06:28:38 | 2,861 | 1,464 |
[WP] According to US Navy tradition, submarines that have not been confirmed to be destroyed, are still on patrol. Since WWII, there have been 52 submarines that haven’t yet returned to port, yet to report in, nor have been confirmed to be destroyed. You are one of those, on the eternal patrol. | *O we come from a land that is fair and free,*
*Sailed across every foreign sea,*
*Beat every enemy far and wide,*
*Now they've gone and went to hide!*
*We are the men of the USS!*
*Men of the Scorpion, we're the best!*
*We guard the land from all enemies.*
*For that's our oath when we sail the seas.*
*We cut!*... | The maelstrom yanked our submarine far deeper than it was ever supposed to go, but didn’t destroy it. Looking back, I wish it had. Living a long life’s terrible when you’re nothing more than food.
I sit in my quarters, looking at pictures of my crew. Back then, before this happened, we were just boys who thought they... | 2018-10-17T08:02:31 | 2018-10-17T07:08:04 | 86 | 52 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | *Well that was a bust...*
**C'mon. I know you really liked her.**
*I mean I did but...I guess she didn't feel the same. Seems like that's been happening a lot lately.*
**You'll find someone. I know your heart. You're too good to be single forever.**
*Yeah, okay. No offense but I don't know how much that's worth com... | I've never believed in the concept of a soul-mate. Yet, despite all my beliefs and ideals, there she stood. The living proof that all I've believed up until now has been a farce. Part of me was relieved, the other, terrified. What could this mean?
"H-hey..." I muttered between quivering lips.
"This must be... pretty ... | 2019-09-14T13:20:46 | 2019-09-14T11:39:52 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | "I was just doing my job, it's not like I liked the experiments. I didn't particularly care enough to dislike them either, I guess I would say I'm neutral on the matter.
The creatures weren't sentient after all, just huge animals we were studying from planet xerto-R41. I can pinpoint the moment it all went wrong, one... | Edit: Thank you for the silver, whomever that was! :D
“Come on, guys! Where’d everyone go?” The human’s voice on the coms sounded bemused. It always sounded that way whenever he didn’t understand something about the other races on board the Arq, which honestly was quite often. Humanity was still far too new in the Gal... | 2019-11-21T07:06:02 | 2019-11-21T06:30:47 | 2,512 | 1,148 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished," he says. "You are the punishment." | Simple. I'm given a good life in hell. I have everything I could ever want: my loving husband, my beautiful children, all my favorite hobbies, and not a care in the world. Hell takes care of everything for me, there's no economy or job to worry about. Just me and my favorite people in the world spending eternity loving... | The first sentence, is meant to be read with a 1940's American radio announcer voice, while Mr. Satan will have no specified accent, as he is eternal
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Gas fires lit the area, and he fell from a great height, almost as if he clipped through the crust of the earth and into hell. And a... | 2020-07-10T10:31:17 | 2020-07-10T10:00:23 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | The light was blinding.
Four caped crusaders surrounded their nemesis, robed in a black trenchcoat, head bowed.
In a flash of movement, he jerked his arms out to the sides holding two pistols.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
The pistols roared and the heroes fell to the ground.
"I have killed everyone!" The nemesis' barit... | It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Verundo, the hero was cut down by the Dark Lord, like a puppet with his string cut. His sword, Achilles, lie broken on the floor. He was still breathing, but he knew he wasn’t long to this world.
He slowly raised his head and tried to look for his team. He saw them strewn withi... | 2020-07-11T02:57:13 | 2020-07-11T02:31:48 | 463 | 79 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Allison stood there looking at the Dark lord. She had just watched the last member of her group fall. Her face stony as she felt their heart beat for the last time.
"I have killed everyone, you can not capture me alone. Why are you still here?" He said. His tone a mixture of mocking and was that pity for her?
Her ne... | It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Verundo, the hero was cut down by the Dark Lord, like a puppet with his string cut. His sword, Achilles, lie broken on the floor. He was still breathing, but he knew he wasn’t long to this world.
He slowly raised his head and tried to look for his team. He saw them strewn withi... | 2020-07-11T04:09:17 | 2020-07-11T02:31:48 | 177 | 79 |
[WP] For a year and a half, and by sheer dumb luck, Jack has avoided the reapers scythe. Oblivious to the situation, Jack walks into his bedroom one night to find find death sitting on his bed, sobbing. | More often than not, getting drunk on tequila is a cry for help. Jack knew that. He didn’t even like
tequila, if he was honest. But it was 2-for-1 shots at the bar that night, and, just like the sorority girls wo-hooing by his side the whole freaking night with every shot as he was trying to drink alone in peace, he w... | “Hey babe, what’s wrong?” Jack said, poking his head in through a gap in the door.
He had heard her crying from down down the hall, the stilted, gasping sniffling of someone desperately trying to stop or conceal a force they knew they couldn’t. Katie was drawn up at the head of the bed, her back against the wall, a p... | 2021-01-29T10:43:28 | 2021-01-29T10:26:25 | 59 | 38 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped and your wealthy significant other was told to pay the hefty ransom. Instead, they sent a message back to your kidnappers. “Nice knowing you.” While the kidnappers discuss their next move, you look up through the tiny window, stare at the full moon overhead … and smile. | I laid where I was tossed; on a bathroom floor with my back to the door. My hands and feet were bound and I hadn’t moved since my *kidnapping* took place that morning. In a way, it was my own fault that I was caught, and no doubt my husband was going to have plenty to say about it tomorrow morning over breakfast.
You ... | “Hahaha I love him so damn much,” I laugh from my small cage.
The paranoid one, the one that sounds the youngest is the first to address me. “Hey, you! Didn’t we tell you to shut the fuck up?! This doesn’t change anything.”
The older, more confident one walks up to my “cage” and beats the butt of the gun on the win... | 2021-03-19T01:41:28 | 2021-03-19T01:11:48 | 567 | 345 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | As i emerge from a sort of sleep, I’m standing in my school hall, and there is a bunch of people standing in front of me.
“Umm, what happened”, i ask my self, as one of the people staring at me asks, “you are back, is everything’s alright?”
I start to feel anxious, it’s too much attention, i utter under my nose “what... | *Terror. Drowning in it. Feeling your legs and arms and hands tremble uncontrollably. Feeling your lips ready to cry, feeling that icy iron hand of fear grasping your soul. Begging to be allowed to scream. Only to have the hand of a man over your mouth, shutting you up.*
*Hardly being able to breath through your nose,... | 2021-04-01T03:47:34 | 2021-03-31T22:15:25 | 58 | 43 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | "Now, before you go out to become a diplomat, there's some... media... that we require you to consume before you get the job."
"Oh, is there a guideboo-"
*Instructor dumps a ton of sci-fi literature onto the table, all of which collapse into a messy heap almost immediately*
"Oh, uh, so-"
*Instructor dumps a pile of... | The stars then grew inside my view
when from the darkness, light came through
its then I saw what we always knew
Cthulhu's wings were poking through.
And so we sent a shuttle back
to help prepare earth for attack
to gear the children up - in fact -
it's this training where we grew.
We ventured out past ... | 2021-05-12T09:55:16 | 2021-05-12T08:17:04 | 263 | 23 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | "It didn't have to be like this." The Envoy of the Galactic Council was saddened by this tragedy; shameful beyond all things he had yet experienced.
"We could have tried harder. Reached out on First Contact. Shared our technology." Spoke Another, one of the scattered hives in a voice resonating many millions. "A sham... | The stars then grew inside my view
when from the darkness, light came through
its then I saw what we always knew
Cthulhu's wings were poking through.
And so we sent a shuttle back
to help prepare earth for attack
to gear the children up - in fact -
it's this training where we grew.
We ventured out past ... | 2021-05-12T11:36:58 | 2021-05-12T08:17:04 | 120 | 23 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | What the humans didn't know the Sci-fi Genre is not what prepared them for these scenarios.
The Human Race was not from Earth but on another planet called Hultron. Where most species evolved high intelligence. But had to evacuate the planet after a Galactic Empire Civil War.
So, they sent an emergency spaceship to I... | The stars then grew inside my view
when from the darkness, light came through
its then I saw what we always knew
Cthulhu's wings were poking through.
And so we sent a shuttle back
to help prepare earth for attack
to gear the children up - in fact -
it's this training where we grew.
We ventured out past ... | 2021-05-12T09:28:01 | 2021-05-12T08:17:04 | 54 | 23 |
[WP] Humans finally reach the stars and realize that... We've seen all of this before! Galactic Council? Check. Proud warrior race? Check. Hive mind insects? Check. Frightening space boogeymen? Check. Ancient hyper-advanced Race? Check. And so Humanity ventured forth, knowing exactly what to do. | When the scientists discovered a plane of existence parallel to ours, made up of energy most accurately described as "emotional energy" they started looking for ways to exploit it. Before they could get too far, one of the scientists asked the important question, is there any intelligence in there? A long and drawn out... | The stars then grew inside my view
when from the darkness, light came through
its then I saw what we always knew
Cthulhu's wings were poking through.
And so we sent a shuttle back
to help prepare earth for attack
to gear the children up - in fact -
it's this training where we grew.
We ventured out past ... | 2021-05-12T10:04:42 | 2021-05-12T08:17:04 | 48 | 23 |
[WP] “Although we are grateful to you for defeating our oppressors, you were meant to die in battle…” your “allies” suddenly turned their weapons on you, “Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.” | "Agreed," I said, drawing my blade once more. "Becoming a murderer is a sacrifice *no one* is going to forget. Even if it is self-defence."
The priests paused, looking at one another with a startling mixture of confusion and fear. "N - no, Nicholas," Ajimond, the Head Priest said. "No, we're suppose to kill you becaus... | Together we stand among the corpses of the invading army's commanders. "It was a complete rout," I mused as the still superior force fled haphazardly from the ramshackle force of farmers and former soldiers of the already defeated monarchy. These people were once oppressed by their monarch Lord Bloodfist, a rough trans... | 2022-11-02T01:11:10 | 2022-11-01T19:28:17 | 34 | 24 |
[WP] A man gains the amount of people in the world as money on his account. But when he spends that money, people die. | First try at a writing prompt. Critiques are appreciated.
"There's actually an account already in your name, Mr. Jendayi." The bank teller raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure this is your first time here?"
"I-- well, yes, of course it is. An account? How much?"
"$7,184,415,339. Do you want to just add what you have to... | "Five billion?"
"Yes Mr. Jones, five billion."
"And what exactly is five billion buying me?"
Anne Reid straightened up in her chair and allowed a smile to creep onto her usually stern face. Stern but beautiful. A woman in a position such as hers had to be beautiful. I assumed it was like any other profession i... | 2014-08-09T08:29:59 | 2014-08-09T06:17:20 | 73 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity long ago discovered all of reality is a simulation created by others. They are long gone. Memory in the system is running out, and reality is starting to fray. Time skips and stutters. You are a member of the team sent to augment the machine that is our world. | "Five. Four. Three. One"
Everything in the console went pitch black and, for a moment, we ceased to exist. When I woke up in the Mother Reality, I was staring at a sign in a dark closet that said "Please remember to charge the apparatus." I felt nothing. The networked maintenance robot that we had hacked and inserted... | It was a voyage that went no where. Took no time. And never existed. It was my future, my past, my present. We went forward by going back. And somehow, through it all, we made it. We were here. At the Omega, at the Alpha.
You could tell that it was...sick? Dying? The colours were bleached. Pulsating in veins across a ... | 2014-10-19T05:37:10 | 2014-10-19T02:30:45 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] DC Comics introduces its newest superhero. This character was seemingly created for the sole purpose of offending as many readers as possible. | "Coon Man?"
"He transforms into a raccoon and steals from the rich to give to the po-"
"Chink Man?"
"He can find or create a flaw in any armor! His powers extend into the psychologi-'
"Pollack Man?"
"He can commune with fish! Come to think of it, he might just be a strictly worse Aquam-"
"Shnozzman?"
"He can sme... | "What exactly am I looking at, Eric?" Steve wasn't really getting my most recent pitch; After the failed pitch of a hatchet wielding superhero who actually kills his foes he hasn't been on my level.
"Well, its like Darkseid meets Islam see, an-"
"Woah, woah, woah. We can't run this. Eric, we can't alienate readers." ... | 2015-02-17T22:38:55 | 2015-02-17T20:53:20 | 52 | 13 |
[WP] You are a peanut farmer. Your father was a peanut farmer. Your father's father was a peanut farmer. Peanut farming is all you've ever known. Your first child has just been born, and has a deadly allergy to peanuts. | My wife... she died in childbirth. She gave her life for this child.
At first, I thought it was a poor trade. My wife for a broken child? One who could not even carry on the family business? I won't deny, I considered "accidentally" letting him eat some peanuts when he was young. No one would have been the wiser.
But... | I had seen offerings -- well, heard of them -- growing up. They did not crop up in our band of 120 or so frequently, but they were so ordinary and well-accepted as to hardly be remarkable. One happened to a child in my birth year. Another, late, to a close friend of my wife's at seven years of age. Having it happen -- ... | 2015-05-19T22:07:10 | 2015-05-19T20:47:09 | 247 | 15 |
[WP] You're a cop who reported to the final events of an action movie. This is your police report. | Officer: Al Powell [8L30]
Date: 25 December 1988
Charges: Terroristic Threats [4], Destruction of Public Property [213], Assaulting a Peace Officer [73], Murder [14], Interference with Federal Flight Operations, Assault of a Federal Agent [2], Murder of a Federal Agent [2], Murder of a Peace Officer [2], Felony Armed... | On 12/14/2015 at 1350 hours, this officer responded to a call for service reporting "Shots Fired" at the intersection of Maple Avenue and Industrial Way.
Upon arriving on scene, this officer noted an abundance of shell casings littering the pavement outside the open warehouse loading bay. Prior to entering, this offi... | 2015-12-14T09:57:21 | 2015-12-14T09:02:05 | 59 | 43 |
[WP] You're a cop who reported to the final events of an action movie. This is your police report. | Officer: Al Powell [8L30]
Date: 25 December 1988
Charges: Terroristic Threats [4], Destruction of Public Property [213], Assaulting a Peace Officer [73], Murder [14], Interference with Federal Flight Operations, Assault of a Federal Agent [2], Murder of a Federal Agent [2], Murder of a Peace Officer [2], Felony Armed... | MPD REPORT #157225 - Page 2
Suspect: "Gammatron" Age: Undetermined, appears to be early '30s. Race: Undetermined - skin is bluish in color.
Distinguishing Features: Subject wears lime unitard decorated with blue and silver lightening decals and a large letter "G" on the chest. Subject wears a similarly color... | 2015-12-14T09:57:21 | 2015-12-14T09:15:16 | 59 | 28 |
[WP] Instead of saying "Execute Order 66," Emperor Palpatine accidentally says "Execute Order 65" | All over the galaxy the clones stopped. It didn't happen at once, information takes time to travel. It started closest to Coruscant and spread from there. Some of the stronger Jedi could feel it before it happened, a disturbance in the force, a ripple in the binding power of the universe. Every clone trooper, at every ... | Palpatine fumbled for a moment with his robes. He was tired, so tired. Truth be known, the fight with the Jedi had taken a bit more out of him than he'd expected. Oh sure, he'd managed to come out on top, but he wasn't in perfect form. Pulling the communicator out, he strode forward. Now was the time. Everything that h... | 2016-09-06T00:10:29 | 2016-09-05T22:20:41 | 170 | 77 |
[WP] It is modern day America, but everyone speaks in Shakespearean English. You are a gamer raging out during an online multiplayer match. | "Select your hero," the voice summoned, upon this motley band of adventurers gold.
Faces flashed upon the screen; content was I, with all but one, if truth be told.
"Hanzo, wouldst thou switch to Soldier, pray tell, that victory might be more easily ours?"
"Infect thyself, thou low-apt swine," responds the bowman; t... | A pox to this story I tell thee dear reader, a pox to its virtues, a pox to its name! A weary and morose tale, one of dastards and deviants and miscreants of all kinds!
I sat at my home, comfort in the hearth, feeling a delight akin to that of my childhood. The mead I had was cool to the tongue, my stomach and blood w... | 2017-01-09T18:05:29 | 2017-01-09T16:00:32 | 364 | 42 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | Today was my birthday, finally I was 14. I had been waiting for this my whole life. My family was a proud family of wolves, they called our family 'The Pack'.
My father was a Timber Wolf, his coat enveloped him like tar, sucking in all the light around him. My Mother became an Artic Wolf, white as snow. They were pe... | On my fourteenth birthday my family gathered around my bed as I awoke. 6 wolves impatiently wagged their bushy tails. They were all panting and Marcie had someone's underwear in her mouth. They waited for me to test my transformation.
They waited 'til about 5AM and then they all howled out something that faintly resem... | 2017-01-21T20:40:55 | 2017-01-21T20:18:38 | 66 | 11 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Alex,
It has been 99 days since you left. 99 days. Some days are easier than the rest. There are days when I genuinely smile as I remember you. You left me with so many good memories; and I thank you for each and every one. I miss you. Every. Single. Day.
You said we'd be together for the rest of our lives - we just ... | Name changes, for privacy reasons, but here goes.
My dear Maria,
I recall in vivid detail the conversations we once shared, about where our lives were headed, our hopes and fears, our dreams and nightmares. I never told you outright how much I love you, and that is the only thing in life I truly regret. I tried telli... | 2017-11-05T21:44:07 | 2017-11-05T21:31:39 | 1,462 | 19 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Alex,
It has been 99 days since you left. 99 days. Some days are easier than the rest. There are days when I genuinely smile as I remember you. You left me with so many good memories; and I thank you for each and every one. I miss you. Every. Single. Day.
You said we'd be together for the rest of our lives - we just ... | Justin,
It's been a little over 3 years since you died. I still get hit with random emotions that make me burst into tears thinking about you. Both anger and sadness. I think about how things would be different if I had said or done things another way. If I had told dad you could come live with me, would you still be ... | 2017-11-05T21:44:07 | 2017-11-05T21:34:09 | 1,462 | 17 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | Not sure if this is more because this is what I want to tell you or what but here goes.
When I first came to this school. You where basically my first friend which then led me to becoming friends with a lot of people. However there was one person In particular I liked, a lot. One who gave me emotions I had never felt ... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T22:02:40 | 235 | 18 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | I miss you big guy.
I miss the your terrible jokes and the attempts at accents that wound up sounding exactly the same no matter the country of origin.
I miss the quiet but fierce love of your family you had.
Most of all I miss the real dad, not the husk you became in the years leading up to your death.
I miss my be... | Name changes, for privacy reasons, but here goes.
My dear Maria,
I recall in vivid detail the conversations we once shared, about where our lives were headed, our hopes and fears, our dreams and nightmares. I never told you outright how much I love you, and that is the only thing in life I truly regret. I tried telli... | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 2017-11-05T21:31:39 | 102 | 19 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | I miss you big guy.
I miss the your terrible jokes and the attempts at accents that wound up sounding exactly the same no matter the country of origin.
I miss the quiet but fierce love of your family you had.
Most of all I miss the real dad, not the husk you became in the years leading up to your death.
I miss my be... | Justin,
It's been a little over 3 years since you died. I still get hit with random emotions that make me burst into tears thinking about you. Both anger and sadness. I think about how things would be different if I had said or done things another way. If I had told dad you could come live with me, would you still be ... | 2017-11-05T22:27:41 | 2017-11-05T21:34:09 | 102 | 17 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | Name changes, for privacy reasons, but here goes.
My dear Maria,
I recall in vivid detail the conversations we once shared, about where our lives were headed, our hopes and fears, our dreams and nightmares. I never told you outright how much I love you, and that is the only thing in life I truly regret. I tried telli... | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 2017-11-05T21:31:39 | 58 | 19 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | Justin,
It's been a little over 3 years since you died. I still get hit with random emotions that make me burst into tears thinking about you. Both anger and sadness. I think about how things would be different if I had said or done things another way. If I had told dad you could come live with me, would you still be ... | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 2017-11-05T21:34:09 | 58 | 17 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Name changes, for privacy reasons, but here goes.
My dear Maria,
I recall in vivid detail the conversations we once shared, about where our lives were headed, our hopes and fears, our dreams and nightmares. I never told you outright how much I love you, and that is the only thing in life I truly regret. I tried telli... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T21:31:39 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Justin,
It's been a little over 3 years since you died. I still get hit with random emotions that make me burst into tears thinking about you. Both anger and sadness. I think about how things would be different if I had said or done things another way. If I had told dad you could come live with me, would you still be ... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T21:34:09 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | Dear Pop Pop,
I miss you. It's been about 11 or 12 years since you died. I was really young at the time, so all I remember is the last few months you were alive, watching the cancer slowly eat away at your body. With each visit you got more and more frail. I didn't recognize it at the time but looking back, seeing wha... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-05T20:37:15 | 23 | 16 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "I know of a game," said the man, finally speaking up after a long pause. Death's glare shifted, as if his bony face cocked an eyebrow. The man crossed his arms, collecting himself for the explanation. The only way to win this game was to make sure the other party lost first, after all.
"Well?" Death questioned, gro... | My heart was pounding as I sat in the plane, staring at the map. There was just me and one other person on board. I was waiting for him to take his exit first, staring at that yellow dot. However we were almost halfway through the island, and he was still there. Panicking I decided if I jumped and went straight down I ... | 2018-03-07T07:43:55 | 2018-03-07T07:11:15 | 251 | 17 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "Then I'll choose Tic Tac Toe!" I said confidently.
Death drew a glowing tic tac toe board suspended in mid air and grew a devilish smile. "Fine, go ahead and start", he said with a whisper of a voice.
An hour passed by, with no moves made. "Are you not going to do anything!?" Death shouted annoyed.
"Nope," I answer... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T06:43:50 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 72 | 46 |
[WP] In a world of spoken spells, the most dangerous casters are the rappers. | Gandalf looked at Saruman. Saruman looked at Gandalf.
The battle for middle-earth would be decided here. The tower seemed to tremble at the mere thought of these two masters colliding.
Gandalf raised his arms up high, his staff in his right, and began to rock his head from side to side.
"Ohh, Ohh,
Everywhere... | Magic was discovered by chance in now the most famous basement in the world by Abigail Faber, brat extraordinaire. Though there were many, many debates as to what it actually was (physics, chemistry, make-believe, mass-psychosis) but most people had learnt to accept magic in the modern world. There were schools to lear... | 2018-04-10T06:12:14 | 2018-04-10T05:56:34 | 539 | 18 |
[WP] In a world of spoken spells, the most dangerous casters are the rappers. | We are a minority, living in the lowest of Amalgaria. A long time ago, Old Trichainz taught me and two of my friends how to perform a basic spell, called The Orb of Rhyme&Rhythm. As it name betrays, it feeds out of rhythm and rhyme. The more sentences we string together with a rhyming end, the stronger it gets. Thr... | Magic was discovered by chance in now the most famous basement in the world by Abigail Faber, brat extraordinaire. Though there were many, many debates as to what it actually was (physics, chemistry, make-believe, mass-psychosis) but most people had learnt to accept magic in the modern world. There were schools to lear... | 2018-04-10T06:45:11 | 2018-04-10T05:56:34 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Nine out of ten dentists recommend a certain brand of toothpaste. You're the one dentist and, despite constant assassination attempts, refuse to change your mind. | "Once you go Gleck, you never go back!" The holoscreen behind the bar flickered with images of happy kids brushing their teeth, as he heard the obnoxious jingle for the millionth time. "Nine out of ten dentists recommend Gleck - now with cleaning photons!"
Alex felt the corner of his mouth twitch. Oh, what he couldn't... | Virtually every inch of the Kommen Space Colony was under constant visual and audio surveillance. Cameras hummed away tirelessly, transcribing the steady rhythm of everyday life into a trillion splices of electronic data which were flashed back to homeworld, almost two light years away. Even the faintest whisper, the s... | 2018-04-30T00:45:58 | 2018-04-29T22:42:25 | 87 | 29 |
[WP] You die, and at the pearly gates it is explained to you that your "personal heaven" is the game that you have the most hours in. | "So my personal heaven is the gaming world I spent the most time playing?" I asked, the doubt clear in my voice.
"Yes my child." the old man, whom I assumed was St. Peter, answered me. "It's the world in which you spent the most time, got so immersively lost in that, for a brief time, it became your reality. We wipe y... | I spent a lot of time playing video games. Hell, it took up the majority of the time in my young adult life. I put on weight. I grew more and more accustomed to the easy life of my swivel chair and the glaring monitor in front of me.
I died of a heart attack. I'd grown incredibly fat, and I'd sworn to shed the pounds,... | 2018-07-09T07:40:57 | 2018-07-09T07:00:29 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You live a good life. Caring wife, obedient children and loyal dogs. Little do they know that you are actually a hitman not an accountant. One day your guy hands you the picture of your next target. It’s you. On the back the name of who ordered the hit. “Carla” it says. Your wife. | James Earl walked in to his office on 8:59 AM and placed his briefcase on the floor next to his desk. His floor to ceiling windows gave James a great view of Manhattan. His firm had taken the offices of an old accounting firm to maintain cover. There were only five offices the firm had spread around the world. One w... | I'm comfortably sunk in the worn leather seats of my older-but-still-practical German sedan. The lid on my morning coffee is propped open and I watch anxiously as the piping hot liquid inside the flimsy paper cup that holds the best coffee the road has to offer topples, getting closer and closer to the brim of the cup ... | 2018-08-15T00:15:24 | 2018-08-14T22:17:00 | 160 | 11 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | 'How...how is this possibe?'
The supervillain clutched at his broken arm and fell to the floor. He tried his best to back away from the advancing man, but he was spent. His workshop and maniacal contraptions burned around him. So much preparation, so much work. He was so certain his plan was going to work, now it ... | My best friend once called me and told me how jealous he was of my talents. What talents? I could never really put my finger on it if they existed, and I spent years trying to see what he saw. Maybe he meant the time I used to play in a band. We called ourselves, “We Ate the Fish”. Looking back that was a stupid band n... | 2018-10-24T08:09:35 | 2018-10-24T07:46:45 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The worst part about being shot in the head? The headache. The second worst part? Explaining to everyone why you can't die... | AH! You'd think after fighting through 27 wars in 2000 years, I'd be used to pain, but no. The bullet richochets off something important as I drop.
The mugger, just some dumb kid trying to feed his family looks terrified. I can tell this is the first time he's shot someone. The store owner freezes, hand already rea... | Uuugh. Fuck. Sonofabitch pulled the trigger before I could get to him. Somebody taught him the damn Mozambique Drill, too. Most thugs go center mass, but after two in my vest he switched it up and went for the dome, like they teach. Joke's on him, though.
Ohh, this is way past Excedrin right now. Shit. Aaaaand.... | 2018-11-25T22:13:29 | 2018-11-25T21:01:44 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] You've accidentally killed three super-villains. Now the FBI thinks you're the next big superhero, and all the superheroes, who know you aren't, think you're the next big super-villain vying for territory. | Fate is a curious thing.
If you had told me a month ago that I'd be standing in the center of a brewing war, I'd have called you crazy. Hell, I still feel a bit crazy.
It was just over a month ago when it all started. I was minding my own business, shopping at the grocery store. A young man walked down the aisle we... | Bang, bang, bang. The gun speaks three distinct times. I am frozen like a statue holding my gun watching their bodies fall in slow motion. Alarms are blaring, the bank vault is still wide open. I collapse in the chair as the police arrive. The primary detective, a woman in her forties wearing a pantsuit, approaches me.... | 2019-02-07T08:39:32 | 2019-02-07T07:59:29 | 2,185 | 44 |
[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 | "How many have we lost so far?" Growled General Barkler, as he stared at the great blue orb sitting in space. He had been ordered to fetch this world and its spoils, but it was not coming easily. It may as well be inside the neighbor's fence.
"The tally is in the tens of millions, sir. But it's worse than that." The f... | The Zoroites arrived on the Planet Earth with their grand armada. On board the flagship, The Emperor of the Galaxy had prepared Himself for the descent to Earth. He had recently acquired the star system of Sol, which was previously under the domain of the Humans. He reduced the Humans' dominion to their planet and its'... | 2019-06-11T09:05:18 | 2019-06-11T08:18:28 | 216 | 159 |
[WP] You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You wake up, get in the car, then black out until you're back in your driveway in the middle of the afternoon 5 days a week, and you get a paycheck once a month. | When people ask you what you do for a living, most people have an answer. They follow that up with a small story of what they do and how it was funny or a weird thing that happened. Sometimes it is a serious story if it was big enough news.
But what about a person that can't answer that question? And no I am not talki... | Five 'til five.
*So always five?*
Always five. Call 'em freedom units, 'cause that's when I finally leave, too. I like irony, like there. We ain't ever really free. Anyways. Leave on the dot. Not a minute later. Not a minute earlier. Nobody else leaves early, so I don't. Come in, sit down, sit quiet. Next thing you ... | 2020-02-11T17:17:24 | 2020-02-11T15:07:10 | 96 | 50 |
[WP]Humans are the only race capable of creating fiction. The galactic community has never contacted Earth out of fear for our Death Stars and our frightening “history”. Until now. The two most powerful space civilizations have come to earth asking us to arbitrate a dispute and enforce the outcome. | Ewan stared down at the octopus-like being in is ridiculous-looking exo-suit.
"Your translator, sir," it said, handing him a small metal box with two buttons at the bottom. "Speak into that while holding the red button, and I can understand you."
He took the translator and turned it in his hand, giving it a shot. He ... | Two different unidentified spacecrafts landed at DeBell Golf Club, the military was waiting already, a message had been heard through the earth airwaves: we need judge Atkins.
As the ethereal figures descended their ships, the troops set prepared for a confrontation: an eclectic group of space forces, police and m... | 2020-03-17T00:41:28 | 2020-03-16T18:48:38 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] You’re in the mafia and the boss has ordered you to kill your girlfriend to show your loyalty. You look around the room and see the pictures only to find out you’re dating the mafia boss’s daughter. | My heart froze in place, my veins turned to ice; I couldn't believe the order I was just given.
"B-but, boss," I stammered, "you want me to kill my girlfriend?! Your daughter?! Why? How could you!"
The patriarch of my family, Hirayama Makoto, had a reputation for giving such bizarre tests of loyalty. Those closest to... | “Fuck.”
I was getting out on parole in a week and two days. The hot sun beat down on me as I worked out. Burpees. Up. Down. Up. Down. Over and over.
As the bell rang to indicate that my time in the yard was over, a younger kid that was the nephew of the shot-caller came over to me. In his hand was a slip of paper. I ... | 2020-07-02T12:02:21 | 2020-07-02T09:12:22 | 19 | 12 |
[WP]You’re the god of small luck, you make the bus late, make pennies appear. You receive a prayer from a homeless man, “Please, I want to get on my feet. A stable job, a wife, some kids.” Normally, you’d forward his prayer to the god of success. Now, you decide to take on the case yourself. | *"I want to get on my feet..."* That's the part I heard. That's the prayer. The rest was just... window dressing. Frills. You humans love the frills, but I love the window itself. The view into your soul.
He didn't ask me for a handout. Not a million dollars, a new car, or a new life. Just a hand up. A way to get bac... | There's a saying among humans: death by a thousand cuts. Even the mightiest human can be brought low by enough problems. But I've never seen anyone talk about the opposite.
What if someone could be raised up by a thousand little, seemingly insignificant acts?
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As you may be aware, my talents lie not in grand sche... | 2020-10-02T11:48:18 | 2020-10-02T11:41:53 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] The world's greatest villain and hero clearly like each other. His monologues when she's captured tend to turn to conversation, and she "accidentally" lets him escape arrest. While they're convinced they're enemies, his henchman and her sidekick are just trying to get them together already. | “C’mon, Jo,” he was saying, exasperated. “This is the third time this month he’s gotten away when you were supposed to be watching. You’re not that incompetent, and he’s definitely not that smart.”
The heroine known to most of the city as Lady Fate scowled. “He’s not my arch-nemesis for nothing, James,” she said stubb... | The inside of the bank was quiet. Everyone watched the two figures standing in the center of the lobby, one dressed mostly in black, the other in a dazzling mix of white and gold.
"I just -- are you *sure* there's nothing you can do to, you know, move things along?" The tall figure was squinting at his sidekick, jaw ... | 2020-11-07T00:52:59 | 2020-11-06T21:49:15 | 135 | 82 |
[WP] The villain stood by the protagonist’s door. “...Won’t you avenge your mother’s death?” The protagonist simply replied, “Naw, she was a piece of shit anyways.” | "Won't you avenge your mother's death?"
Standing by the doorway a tall masked figure, cloaked in black cape, leather suit, and a menacing mask distorting the villain's voice into a guttural mechanical sound.
On the other side of the door stood a scruffy looking man, beard unshaven, hair uncombed. It was Hank Pride, t... | I ran through a back alley, ditching my schoolbags and struggling to get over a chain link fence. I scrambled up the fire escape of an apartment. I could hear the thing that was chasing me get closer as the rusty metal creaked, "Cae... come here..." It sang as I ducked into my apartment window. I ran out into the hall,... | 2020-11-07T17:47:42 | 2020-11-07T17:16:00 | 28 | 17 |
[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." | My face scrunched up, my nose wrinkling.
"I just... I was saying...."
I sneezed into a handkerchief.
Every single one of my colleagues immediately scattered two meters away.
"Quick! Someone get the disinfectant!"
"We need to go to quarantine *now*!"
"Everyone stay away from us!"
Dozens of Intergalactic T... | ***THE EXODUS (my first try at a writing prompt, hopefully this is decent)***
Within the Outer Rim of our Galaxy exists the planet called Nagilum. Human expansion throughout space had been progressing rapidly throughout the 2300s but inexplicably ceased after having reached the said planet. When making the first cont... | 2021-02-03T15:34:57 | 2021-02-03T13:44:20 | 753 | 420 |
[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." | In an instant you could hear a pin drop in the mess hall. The conversations, clicking of silverware, rattling of tables, and even the very air stopped. Every other alien inside froze in fear and looked down at their food. I had started vomiting.
For a moment even I was worried - food poisoning was never fun as I woul... | “Why are we doing this again?” Glarm asked.
“I want to do a ‘human in a wormhole.’ You know, like a modern version of a ‘canary in a coal mine.’” Gleek said.
“But the whole point of the canary is that it would die easily and be a warning to surrounding life forms.” Glarm said. “And these humans are crazy resistant.... | 2021-02-03T19:28:38 | 2021-02-03T16:54:38 | 155 | 28 |
[WP] Despite your father being the most infamous supervillan of all time, you became a hero. When other heros discovered your identity, they turned against you and you lost everything. Alone and scared, you put your last few coins into a payphone. "Dad... I need help" | "You are a bit taller since the last time I saw you." Said my dad while handling me a cup of hot chocolate. "Here, drink."
I took the cup but didn't drink it, my jaw was still sore from the beating I took from my former colleagues. My dad sat back onto his chair and we stood in silent. I wasn't sure what could had bee... | “Dad... I need help.” The long silence that followed told me he had just been woken up and was still processing my words.
His rough, deep voice still retained its grogginess as he finally replied. “Did it happen again?” I noticed he withheld his sigh this time.
“Yep. Can you send Diane to pick me up?”
... | 2021-04-09T03:12:51 | 2021-04-09T03:11:32 | 150 | 20 |
[WP] Occasionally ships in deep space going undergoing faster than light travel just go missing, a tragic but well known and accepted fact. One ship managed to come back however years after disappearance with extremely disturbing reports | “What am I looking at here?” Captain Michaels asked, looking not at what he referenced but at the lone figure before him.
The man, the Fleet officer, sat silently in the middle of the spartan compartment, staring past Captain Michaels at the projection shimmering across the far bulkhead.
“Captain Tyler,” Michaels sa... | "We didn't..." The voice trailed off, out of the cone of light illuminating the table to be smothered by the darkness beyond.
A hand reached out into the light, toward a glass of water sitting motionless on the steel table in the debriefing room aboard the Terran Space Ship TSS Elliott.
The hand, spindley... | 2021-10-10T07:27:37 | 2021-10-10T06:44:14 | 157 | 113 |
[WP] While magic is real, it cannot affect "normies". Nor can they see it. You can cast a huge explosion and only other magically gifted people will be hurt. Buildings/objects constructed by normies are unaffected. You have been waging a secret war with Kevin from HR for years. | Despite their similarities, Mia had always disagreed with Kevin's stance that the Keurig machine in the company kitchen produced the best coffee compared to the jungle of corporate coffee chains surrounding their office building. The machine sat atop a drawer containing a variety of cups labeled exotic names that all p... | PT 1
That morning started off surprisingly well. The baby woke me at four-- a nice little lie-in-- and for once the apartment wasn't freezing. The A/C is old and crotchety and, unfortunately, completely non-magical, so I can't do much to fix it. I've tried. I know magic's a bust for non-magical systems, but I thought... | 2021-11-15T13:25:52 | 2021-11-15T12:52:09 | 36 | 18 |
[WP] “The secret of fire?!?” sputtered Prometheus. “I gave you the secret of Nuclear Fusion! What has humanity been doing all this time?!?” | “The secret of fire?!?” sputtered Prometheus. “I gave you the secret of Nuclear Fusion! What has humanity been doing all this time?!?”
The human who had stumbled into his cave gaped at him. A small rectangular device in his hand providing light to the Titan.
"Um, I guess improving our technology?" The human spoke a ... | They thought they had struck oil. They weren't an oil drilling crew, of course. Nobody would expect to find oil in the granite layers of the mountainside. Water was what they were after. Nonetheless, it gushed a hundred feet into the air from the borehole and fell on the drilling crew like rain. It took them a couple m... | 2021-11-18T05:56:32 | 2021-11-18T01:03:01 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] "Do you believe in magic?" the sudden strange voice in your head asked. | I opened my eyes. Tall, spindly trees loomed over me, their leaves laughing in the grey twilight.
“No,” I whispered.
It moved at the edge of the clearing, considering.
“And do you think that’s wise?” it asked. A rush of wind passed through the forest, and I couldn’t tell if the voice was coming from my mind or fro... | Never. Not in a million years would I ever have believed it was real. So why am I here? Why am I standing outside this decrepit building that was once a library? Everything of value here’s been taken. It’s nothing more than a local hot spot of teenagers to smoke their pot, spray paint bad art, and fuck. Why am I here?
... | 2021-11-22T19:17:10 | 2021-11-22T18:47:57 | 67 | 13 |
[WP] Zombies are considered terrible pests in the undead world. They kill, eat, and turn humans indiscriminately with no care to conserving population growth or long term population health. It's gotten so bad the vampires now run human conservation programs. | Imagine yourself submerged in water. The air in your breast rapidly being depleted of oxygen, and your most basic of instincts telling you to resurface.
Only you don’t. By sheer force of will, you remain submerged. You try to ignore the tightening tendons in your neck, your lungs desperately heaving for a breath of ri... | The God of Infinity, Darkeem, watched from his building as hordes of zombies descended upon some survivors. The humans used guns to try and fight off the wave and were doing a pretty good job.
“Seems like they’re holding their own pretty well.”
Just then, a few rather strange looking fellows appeared and started to ... | 2022-05-15T14:03:39 | 2022-05-15T13:02:01 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] They finally found it, an AI left behind by the ancient race called the precursors. They knelt before the hologram and recited their speech "Oh great precursor. Rulers of heaven and Earth. Mappers of stars and-" "You're a real bunch of god damn kiss-ass', huh?" The AI interrupted. | "Ya heard me ya twit," the hologram snapped again. The men and women looked at one another, confused.
"I mean what's next? Ya gonna start throwing about holy oil and chantin' in binary?"
The man at the front looked shamefully at the hologram as he discretely slipped the vial of holy oil back into his pocket.
"Oh, uh... | "I'm sorry?" One of them asked.
"You guys are kiss-ass'." The AI said again. "You're some kind of monotheistic cult or something?"
"No." Another said. "We're not a cult."
"We're explorers. We've come from the stars." A third spoke.
"I don't even believe that." The AI said. "You're a bunch of robots. The Precursors ... | 2022-05-23T05:38:20 | 2022-05-23T04:33:25 | 1,487 | 126 |
[WP] 70 years ago, your grandpa befriended a young dragon living nearby. It’s kept an eye out for your family ever since. On your 18th birthday, while frustratedly looking for a cheap dorm room for college, it decides to drop by to lend a hand. Living with a dragon may be weird, but hey, it’s cheap! | “How come we never go to your apartment?” Steven blurts out.
Jackie looks up from her pepperoni pizza. It sits on a paper plate that has become translucent from the grease. She chews for a long time, hoping that she’ll have an answer by the time she’s finished chewing.
“Well?” he says. “Usually when one person asks a... | \[Royal Enlightenment\]
"Hey, Ruby?" Josh stopped outside the open door and knocked. He could see that Ruby was with someone; but, he also knew she would not mind him interrupting this particular meeting.
"Oh, yes, I'll be right with you, Josh," she replied. She did not need to end the meeting; but, she did an... | 2022-08-04T17:18:59 | 2022-08-04T11:38:44 | 37 | 19 |
[WP] You're a bartender at the No Way Inn. The inn doesn't appear to have an entrance, but patrons always seem to find a way inside. The best part of your day is listening to the story of how they got in.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/wpjc02/oc_finally_finished_our_dd_room_after_2_years... | "You have no idea how much I need this drink." A tired-looking woman in men's leather armor stomped up to the bar. Soil fell from her armor and her short, shaggy hair. She had a shovel on her back and a dagger on her waist.
"Which drink?" I held up a beer stein and a highball glass.
"Water," she said as she pointed t... | “…and the last thing I remember was being thrown out of my car, through the windshield at 75 miles per hour.” Another day, another crazy story in the lives of the customers of No Way Inn. Jake was used to these kinds of patrons coming from God knows where and getting in here by God knows how. One day it’s falling thr... | 2022-08-16T17:29:46 | 2022-08-16T15:58:32 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] A psychic alien who feeds on dreams comes to Earth for the first time. Turns out humans are the only sentients in the galaxy that have nightmares. | Do you know what it tastes like when someone dreams of their family, the happy times they spent together, the happy times that *could* be?
It tastes like warm soup on a cold night.
A dream of a passionate night spent with a crush? It's like a bowl of fruit, freshly cut and mixed to perfection with perhaps just a hint... | The planet of Hexalos prepared to receive their first emissary to Earth, worried about Kashitok’s last transmission:
“These humans do not just have dreams. They have these horrible, twisted dreams called nightmares, where everything is terrible. I’m returning home.”
The Hexalians anxiously awaited Kashitok, expecting... | 2022-09-06T09:00:46 | 2022-09-06T08:45:39 | 1,171 | 295 |
[WP] A psychic alien who feeds on dreams comes to Earth for the first time. Turns out humans are the only sentients in the galaxy that have nightmares. | The alien watched as the images flashed through the human’s mind. Watching as the human laid trapped in a spider’s web, unable to move. Their desperate squirms only tightening the surrounding webbing, making it so it was nearly impossible for them to breathe. Each breath only straining their lungs until they felt like ... | The psychic being turned to the busy Metropolis for its first meal since arriving on Planet Earth, the moonless night having fallen on the community. Freshly asleep, its denizens knew not of the being from the cosmos sent to feast on their nightly visions.
It crept onto a rooftop, peering into a window of one of the f... | 2022-09-06T08:21:14 | 2022-09-06T07:34:55 | 322 | 115 |
[WP] For the first time ever, a person is born with a genuine superpower. They proceed to live out their entire life without noticing or realizing it. | "Intuition" people would call it. "Socially adept" educated people would call it. "Cold reading" he would call it. He had always been good with people.
Social interactions aren't the only thing he was good at. He always advanced quickly at whatever job he held, he was an excellent waiter in high school, great at retai... | In a black lacquer box, preserved neatly and cleanly, there is an ancient scroll. On it, an ancient prophecy foretells the arrival of a man of great supernatural power. He would be born with the ability to speak to all the mystical animals of Japan. His arrival would bring a return of Japan to a more natural, harmoniou... | 2014-08-08T08:51:54 | 2014-08-08T08:12:35 | 52 | 29 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Mom,
I don't know how much longer I can stand this. I thought I could take it. But... I can't. I can't sleep. I can't eat. The drum of blasts doesn't end. Sometimes I pretend like we're back at the symphony. It helps me feel better, until I'm the one beating the drum. It's so loud, mom. It's getting closer.
Don't wai... | My love,
I miss you and the child terribly. Life in the trenches is hard, but bearable, knowing that-
*A fold and several stains coat the paper.*
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To whom it may concern:
No words can express my sorrow for your loss. Gerard was a brave man - a good soldier, one who anyone could be proud of.
War is hell. Men w... | 2015-02-03T13:05:32 | 2015-02-03T13:02:09 | 329 | 48 |
[WP] 50% of the world's population has the ability to fly, 50% does not. The only way to find out is to jump from a height that will surely kill you. | Who knew the suicide attempt would turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to me? Here I was thinking my life would end right off of this bridge. No idea it had just begun. The girls that couldn't fly started to get really into all the guys that could. Me being one of them, of course. However, they paid no att... | One step. One step and over the ledge I go, eight hundred feet straight down the mountainside. They say it doesn't hurt, that if you close your eyes it's like the wind tunnels without all the noise. No one survives unless they can fly, and if you can fly you won't hit the bottom; no injuries, no pain, all the freedom y... | 2015-04-04T18:33:11 | 2015-04-04T18:16:09 | 48 | 29 |
[WP] A man who has had no knowledge of religion meets both God and the Devil. He is the chosen one who decides whether God or the Devil inherits the Earth. The problem is, he cannot tell which is which. | "So let me get this straight. *You*" he pointed at the devil. "Cause all of our suffering. And *you*" he pointed at God. "let him".
"Well, yeah..."
"That's the gist of it"
The man thought for a moment "You know what: fuck the both of you. Neither inherits the earth, it belongs to us" | I was running late again. This was the third time in a row. I didn't want people at the office to think I was making a habit of it, but I have been having a terrible time trying to sleep the past few days. Having dreams, or nightmares, that I can't remember. Waking up in cold sweats in my bed. I should probably look on... | 2015-08-05T23:20:20 | 2015-08-05T19:03:21 | 62 | 12 |
[WP] in a dystopian future, Black Friday has evolved into a sport in which the rich throw valuable trinkets to the poor and watch them slaughter each other. | The crowd waited. The crowd's nervous chatter kept the guards at the entrances on edge. On a day as important as this one, any small act could serve to set off the thousands that had gathered. In this enclosed arena, the damage would be catastrophic considering how many in the crowd were armed.
Then, a small figure s... | Black Friday. The name seemed pretty appropriate to me, since it made a mocking of our lifestyle. Everything in our lives was constantly caked with Oksur, a precious metal that we were paid a pittance to mine. I had grown sick of the black dust everywhere. Black Friday may have been a game for the rich, those either in... | 2015-11-29T13:39:23 | 2015-11-29T12:19:45 | 695 | 89 |
[WP] There are 6 people on an elevator. It suddenly shuts down and a voice from the speaker said: The elevator will only function if there is only one left alive. | "ATTENTION OCCUPANTS."
The people in the elevator shuffled in place, confused. One man pushed the "open door" button without success. Faces turned upwards, trying to locate the source of the voice.
"THIS ELEVATOR WILL RESUME NORMAL FUNCTION UPON SATISFACTION OF OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS."
An older gentleman, w... | Twenty four hours after the voice sounded through the intercom, the six of us were convinced that it wasn’t a joke. Tired and hungry, with fingers red and blistered from trying to pry the doors open, I sat down in the corner and listened to the bickering between Ted and Henry.
The latter tried to convince us that he ... | 2016-05-03T10:49:02 | 2016-05-03T08:43:04 | 40 | 13 |
[WP]There is no prompt. Just write a story you've always been thinking about or one you've been thinking about sharing. Anything goes. | Working on my thesis at the moment which revolves around my Dad growing up as an ethnic minority in Vietnam during the war (Degar, Rhade/E De tribe). But also working on a collection of short-shorts about my mothers life growing up as well.
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Our Garden in Saigon
I was seven, and my mother and I pushed a food cart... | "Here it is." I say as I pull out the picture in my bedroom drawer.
I look behind to find my best friend, Shawn, looking at me skeptically.
A lot of people always calls us brothers especially back during elementary. He and I have short black hair and slightly lean builds, though he gained a little plump a couple year... | 2016-09-11T10:25:17 | 2016-09-11T10:10:49 | 103 | 11 |
[WP] "You wanna buy a planet? I got garden worlds, desert worlds, ice worlds, twin stars, anything you want for the best discount this side of the universe. Every god's gotta start somewhere." | “I want one with all of it.”
“Excuse me?”
The new god pointed. “I like the desert, ice, and garden. I see you got a water thing going on. I like it. Can I do a lot of water? Like two-thirds of the planet should definitely be water.”
“That’s a lot of water.”
“I like water.”
“Okay, sir, if you insist.”
“I do,” he s... | "Let's see that one over there" said I pointing in the general direction of an appealing white orb.
"Oooh, excellent choice" shouted the salesman in reply, calling the little orb towards him and his interlocutor with one hand while heavily gesticulating with the other "the ice on this one never melts, and the temperat... | 2016-09-15T15:28:18 | 2016-09-15T12:28:39 | 118 | 78 |
[WP] Earth isn't a simulation. It's an RPG. The only player character, however, went by the name of Jesus. He rage quit after dying two times. He's become nostalgic lately, and has decided to retry the game. | Jesus stared at the character creation screen.
"Hmmm, character selection... I'll just be a dude with a beard again. Apparently that's actually cool now. Ok. Let's go."
He spawned in darkness. After feeling around a bit, he realised he was in a cave. He moved a massive rock, walking out into the open air.
"Where the... | As Alan was taking his everyday bicycle ride, a song came on his phone that he wasn't particularly fond of. He took out his phone, but as he went to change the song, he heard somebody yell, "Watch where you're going man!" He glanced up to see a man wearing a white robe with a scraggly beard, and a kind face. Alan swerv... | 2016-09-29T13:46:22 | 2016-09-29T13:25:31 | 72 | 22 |
[WP] Everyone receives a letter when they turn 18 stating how they will die. You've just received your letter, and it's blank. | I dropped the piece of paper. "This is awesome" I thought, "I'm immortal! I can do anything!" and ran out the door laughing at all the things I would try. As the letter drifted to the floor it turned and landed face side up, where two words were printed clearly; "Severe stupidity". | Blank. It was blank. I had to find my phone and search what that meant. Where the hell did I put it? I searched all the usual places downstairs but couldn't find it. It must be a mistake. I need to sit down. It was at this point I should of known when I was going to die, that's what the letter was meant to tell me. I s... | 2017-01-17T15:58:50 | 2017-01-17T14:04:36 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] After being hunted to extinction, the last Orc has been found at the edge of the world... | "There is no where left to run, pig!"
 
The Orc breathed heavily, weary from the hunt. Sweat was pouring off of him, the scorching sun robbing him of whatever moisture remained in his body. He took a battle stance, both hands gripping the shaft of his crudely made iron axe. Despite its ramshackle crafts... | This one is actually a continuation of another story, one of my favorites. You can find it [here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WrittenWyrm/comments/51bg27/on_the_day_of_the_kings_tournament_an_orc_shows/)
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My name is Avin Actrost VII, explorer and wizard extraordinaire, descended from the mighty sorcerer Avin Actrost... | 2017-01-18T10:37:16 | 2017-01-18T07:42:30 | 16 | 12 |
[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 | Charles let out a small smirk, glancing at his almost teary eyed opponent. Well he wasn't crying, or even closed to teary eyed, but Charles knew that on the inside, his opponent was in utter shambles. After a grueling 4 hour match, he had finally figured out the move that would lead to his eventual victory, the simple,... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T15:15:54 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 135 | 21 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | My grandmother still worships the old gods. I dont know how she can keep track of all of them. There seems to be a god for every problem. I probably should have played more attention in history when we went over all this stuff. She always said I was a favorite of Aphrodite. She warned me that living with the favor of ... | The tips of my fingers began to tingle.
*For fucks sake.*
I rolled my eyes and cursed under my breath then turned to meet my wife’s gaze.
“…which is great but it’s his English results that I’m worried-“
My well-rehearsed apology face had cut her off. She scrunched up her lips and drew in a breath then gave a less ... | 2017-03-22T19:03:01 | 2017-03-22T19:01:40 | 53 | 11 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | Each lifetime seemed to me only a moment. I had always forcefully forged a path, etching my name in the memories of past world's inhabitants to be passed on for eternities to come.
I have been here a thousand times before. That short and sweet gift of existence, the driving hunger and motivation to succeed, to change... | There she was again, fat face, full of cake, laughing as she told me another anecdote of her worthless kid, spraying food all over my desk. I hate Karen, hated her since I first started working at this paper company. This pathetic job, with is grey walls, stale coffee, worn carpet and depressing looking people. It was ... | 2017-03-31T12:19:09 | 2017-03-31T11:38:45 | 92 | 21 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "Really, again?"
"I mean, it could have been worse, right?" I sigh and scratch the back of my head.
"Six million jews," god's brow furrows and his glare pierces my soul, "six million of them."
I cross my arms and scowl right back at him. "They were causing an economic decline in Germany."
"They were my children."
... | The white lights flashed again. It was coming back to me, everything; the cries for help, the scent of clotted blood on the dead, the eyes that begged for mothers as they saw death flashing in front of their faces. Ironic I guess, considering that I think that I'm dead. Or at least I figure I must be dead considering a... | 2017-03-31T16:05:42 | 2017-03-31T08:26:10 | 30 | 22 |
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