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[WP] You are walking down the street on your way to work when suddenly you burp, hiccup, and sneeze at the same time. A HUD menu opens in front of you with “Resume, Options, and Quit” as selectable options. | "Ow"
Mike said as he stopped to wiped the snot-spit from his beard. That was when he saw the screen. It was mostly black, however transparent, with a solid red border. Within the border were 3 boxes. Bright white text filled each box "Resume", "Options", and "Quit".
Mike looked around the street. He noticed he could ... | "HHEEhhUPBRUUUH"
The world around me became dull and colorless. Everything became still and silent.
There in front of me was three words that would change my life forever:
Resume
Options
Quit
"Well, shit."
My life is a simulation? This was not good for my paranoia. Then again, was it really paran... | 2018-05-05T06:14:11 | 2018-05-05T06:06:38 | 69 | 39 |
[WP] "Thank you, chap," you say cheerfully, "I'm glad to be out of there, the room service was rubbish." The prison guard who just released you from the 120 year sentence dropped the door keys on the cement in shock. | The guard stares at me in confusion. He finally realized he no longer had his keys, and dove down to pick them up.
"I say, a bit of a butterfingers are you?" I chuckled. "No worries, it's just another thing to add to my letter."
"Letter?" The guard had finally found his voice. "What letter?"
"To the newsies, boy. I ... | They never believed me, I told them that I didn't do the killings. I mean how could I when I wasn't even on this primitive planet yet. Yet they kept saying it was me, they had video of me killing those people at the nuclear power plant.
Of course it wasn't me, it was the fugitive I was assigned to collect. Sneaky litt... | 2019-07-04T20:53:01 | 2019-07-04T20:40:12 | 137 | 59 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | They called it a 'decompression chamber' for a reason. Not just because it fit well with the other fun aquatic idioms like 'coming up' and 'riding the wave', but also because it was literally a chamber in which to decompress. The liquor flowed almost as fast as the profanity here, and if it wasn't for the colossal arra... | "Damn it! I was doing it all wrong."
Immediately everything was clear again. I remember it all. Fighting the urges for my whole life. Fighting against my better instincts, just because they said it was wrong.
"It fucking matters now doesn't it?" I mumble.
Those voices in my head, telling me to do those *things*. I s... | 2015-11-25T00:35:57 | 2015-11-25T00:10:22 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Well, this is just perfect, isn't it?
The only hotel in the area, and it isn't on TripAdvisor. Damn it. I guess it'll have to do. Probably some cheap motel, or something like that.
Hey, this is actually really nice. A big Gothic mansion, with some ancient dead trees out in front. Those black flowers look.. meh, but i... | Once again I awaken. It has been a long time since I have last walked the land but I must always slumber or there will be no land to walk.
The ground is frail, as always. The crust was not made to hold a weight like mine. I stand from the green light-feeding life that has grown to entomb me . I tear the forest appart ... | 2017-05-05T05:53:53 | 2017-05-05T05:28:24 | 392 | 14 |
[WP] Being a human in human studies class, you’re often asked to confirm information.
. | “Is it true that the floss is a mating ritual?” a squid-like creature asked me.
“Of course it is! Why wouldn’t it be?” The professor, a stereotypical looking alien, interrupted like usual. But I was planning to just break habit and say it, even if I face suspension.
“No, it’s not. None of what you’ve been saying has ... | " humans as recreation sometimes use poison's as halloucegenics can you confirm this human Steve?" Human Steve looked around shiftily his eyes blood shot. "you can't pin shit on me freedoooooooom." he yelled at the top of his lungs before jumping out of the window. a few seconds later they heard him cackle "You'll neve... | 2021-11-14T12:12:15 | 2021-11-14T10:59:30 | 90 | 29 |
[WP] You have just been sworn in as President, and are being told the truth about alien life... but it's incredibly far from what anyone had ever imagined. | "In my first term I have to be seen as trimming the fat on our budget. If word gets around that I'm wasting money on... I don't know... searching for aliens, then I'm going to ge-"
"Funny you should mention aliens, sir, we still need to brief you on that."
"Seriously? You guys are hiding aliens somewhere?"
"Well, ... | "So you see, Madam President, that's why the bees are becoming extinct. After the last Ice Age, the planet was repopulated by colonists from every other life bearing planet, each species here is from a far off rock of their own. It was supposed to be like a lifeboat, or perhaps a bio dome."
"Expound on that, plea... | 2015-04-18T22:35:51 | 2015-04-18T20:28:02 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] Aliens have just made contact with Earth. Strangely enough, it seems that human technology is superior. | It didn't go as planned. The information was wrong, it was all so very wrong.
20 years ago, according to how humans measure time, they had received a strange message. The message came abruptly, and passed just the same. MIR. LENIN. SSR. It took them time to figure out what those were, what they meant, and where they ... | The farmer walked around his underground bio-dome, inspecting the progress of his plants and crops. He carried a clipboard, which wasn't really necessary but it helped him feel useful. Harvest time was soon. He'd actually need to put in more than an hour's work when that came around. Farming was easy and secure, but no... | 2016-12-06T08:10:57 | 2016-12-06T08:02:59 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You work a self-sufficient desk job in an office. Every single day, the co-workers in your neighboring cubicles are completely different people. Even though you never recognize them, they always recognize you. After years you've just accepted this, but lately the strangers are getting weirder. | I love my job. I love the hours. The pay is good. It is not a long commute. I can take the light rail and it drops me off outside my tower. I work on the sixteenth floor. I like to take the stairs up. It is good exercise. Taking the stairwell is sort of a ritual for me. It let’s me prepare for work. It’s not the job th... | When did I drift off to sleep?
I don't know. Couldn't tell. Only knew when I finally awoke, stifling a damning yawn that would have sold me out to my neighbours. Everything looked the exact same--the white walls, turned slightly off-grey by the fluorescent light, for example. The sputtering computer on my desk, slow a... | 2021-02-23T07:32:05 | 2021-02-23T07:21:03 | 94 | 56 |
[WP]An ancient dragon sleeps in its cave expecting to only be woken by thieves or would be heroes, what it doesn’t expect is a child pleading for help | Eza was told stories by her mother about the dark cave in the mountains, about the adventures who dared steal the from the dragons horde, only to have there bones and armor become apart of it.
Her village lived in dread of that damned cave, but Eza was always fascinated by it. Many a villager caught her staring at the... | “Ughhhhhh! A child?!?”
Grumbled the dragon, rousing himself from a thousand year slumber.
“At least a thief would have been a little bit exciting... what with the burning and the screaming...” the dragon thought to himself.
“What do you want? And how did you even get in here for starters?!? I sealed this cave up mig... | 2021-11-06T03:22:53 | 2021-11-06T02:32:37 | 208 | 67 |
[WP] You've recently become president of the United States- unfortunately, life isn't nearly as fun as you'd hoped. You begin doing crazy things to get out of office, but every thing you do seems to be the right thing at the right time. | I didn't want to be President anymore. I couldn't deal with the stress.
Sure, I'd thought it would be funny to run for office. I thought it was really hilarious to announce my candidacy, create my own party on some website (the "Government Sux" party- yes, with an x at the end of "sux"), and jokingly run for office. ... | You'd think that being the most powerful man in the world would be a blast, I mean who doesn't dream of controlling a nation? It's more like the nation is controlling me. Like, what the hell? This isn't what I signed up for. I had to wake up early and attened meetings, I had to have emmotionless guys in back suits ... | 2015-09-12T20:27:59 | 2015-09-12T19:14:11 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Humans have stopped using sharp objects and bullets to kill. Describe what happens in a war. | Neutron Instability Cascade, or NICs as we called them in the service were a new weapon of war. It replaced damn near everything overnight. Not really sure how it worked, but it somehow popped the neutrons off an atom, which in turn made the whole thing unstable. Not in a nuclear bomb sort of way, but turning folks int... | General Horatio Phillips signaled the readied 12th Fluff cannon group and ordered the 3rd Kings Own Hugable Rifles to prepare for battle. On the other side of the field lay the dreaded Snuggle Bunny division known to tickle prisoners of war. Was there no sanity in this dreaded war of the pillows? General Phillips rode ... | 2014-11-10T12:21:16 | 2014-11-10T12:20:47 | 52 | 14 |
[WP] Norse Gods have faded into legend. Thor, with his trust-worthy Mjolnir, decides to rebuild his fame,by becoming the best damn construction worker known to man. | It used to be that anyone could get famous—just kill a few sheep, scream about having some god as a father, fuck someone famous, and you had your fame\(and some other issues, but never mind that\).
But Thor knew, nowadays, even without any counsel from Kvasir, that things were not like that anymore. Many of the god... | Thor had grown tired of living a boring, hidden life. Being one of the last Norse gods meant he had little connections to continue laying low. So, he decided to bask in eternal fame and glory, becoming renound around the world. In what way would he do it? Simple: using his hammer.
Word quickly spread about this magic... | 2018-05-27T21:13:51 | 2018-05-27T20:11:08 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] A magical mirror shows your reflection and your future soulmate. You only see your reflection. | I fucked up. I kicked the mirror over-- a mirror I paid $500 to see. It showed no one. Just me.
Before I could even turn, security grabbed me by the arms and shoulders. "Fuck off!" My thin arms struggled against their firm grip. "There was no one! You hire people to advertise this shit scam?" I almost elbow the white... | "Holy shit he's sexy!" I said, unable to contain my excitement. I'd spent my whole day worrying over this moment, worrying over this stupid magic mirror. But now I was happy. So happy I'd come.
I gazed back into the mirror, just to reassure myself I hadn't been mistaken. Nope, just my gloriously divine body and rugged... | 2014-05-30T22:05:21 | 2014-05-30T20:14:18 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | The young man shook in fear, succumbing to reality at an extensive rate.
"Who's there?! Who said that?!" he yelled at the top of his lungs whilst parading out of his bed. He tripped over his slippers as he walked towards the light-switch and felt a bump to the chin, he lifted himself up and urged himself to complete h... | I don't let go after during the shake and I ripe what is attached to my hand up on the bed. It's a leprechaun. If it can shake a persons hand say they're hired and the person excepts, then they switch lives. But if the leprechaun is caught while trying to make this deal, he has to grant one wish. I wish for the one thi... | 2017-04-29T04:54:06 | 2017-04-28T23:36:59 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | "I must say, Master, I am a little curious what you're doing at home. Did you miss the fires, the screams? Seems like your kind of show. I expect a heartfelt welcome home." The Silk Prince helped himself to the tea as he spoke. He stilled slurped, maybe even louder now.
"Merely finishing the last of the sketches," Nee... | My heros. I dont know what happened, if i let them be. They wouldve probably turned into villains. Good, that i was there.
I lead them to great success, i was the one who made them famous, i was the one, that let the people believe in them. My plan was perfect, until this certain guy showed up. 'Nightscream'. An arrog... | 2021-05-20T07:51:13 | 2021-05-20T07:28:17 | 93 | 51 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
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https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | It had been like that for years. A shining number one had found its way onto my floor. It was like clockwork. I chalked it up to the sun and shadows being a thing until she showed up. It was a challenge trying to get her convinced that such a thing occurred within my home, let alone trying to convince her that I wasn’t... | I‘m already sitting! He shouted from the toilet.
No, come out here and take a seat, I think we have to talk about some things.
Babe, i feel like i‘m giving birth here. Can‘t that wait a few more minutes?
Ohh i swear to god you have no fucking clue what that means.
Yeah you think so? Do you want to come in and take... | 2020-09-03T00:53:25 | 2020-09-03T00:49:34 | 644 | 69 |
[WP] The Satanic ritual you performed to summon your soulmate worked! Only thing is, the person you summoned isn’t your recently deceased spouse. In fact, you don’t even have the slightest clue who they are. | It's been a year to the day since you died. We were 22, and we'd been together for 6 years, 3 months, and 25 days. We may have been a bit young to get married, but it felt right, and with a baby on the way, what choice did we have? Not like it mattered to that son of a bitch who thought he could drive drunk until the m... | I knew it was a dumb idea. Offering my soul to the devil in exchange for bringing my wife back to life. My uneasiness didn't subside, not even as someone really appeared before my eyes.
But... it wasn't my beloved Stella. It was as guy. Handsome. But also emitting a strangely uncomfortable aura.
"W-Who are you?!"
... | 2020-05-31T05:29:11 | 2020-05-31T01:18:52 | 20 | 11 |
[WP]You are a guard in a video game. The main character thinks that they are always able to successfully sneak past you. They don't, you notice every time but would prefer not to have you and your friends be mercilessly slaughtered. | "Hey Rick? Did you see that guy go by outside?"
"I don't see anybody Earl. Don't worry about it. It's probably nothing."
"No seriously. Some guy just hopped the wall to the mansion about 25 feet *that* way. See him there? He's creeping around the back right now."
"...No. Nope. I don't see anybody over there right no... | "This side up", the box read, as all the others did. Only the big black arrow was pointing down, and the box hadn't been there a minute ago. I sighed, rolling my eyes, and thought back to simpler times, when we were untargetable, patrolling the prisons from the ramparts with sniper rifles. When protagonists could only ... | 2017-05-28T23:28:18 | 2017-05-28T22:04:57 | 447 | 85 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | "Honey. Are you still angry at me?"
Vix, Empress of Medium Earth, Lady of Darkness, Queen of the Shadows let out a sigh, looking up from my throne to face her husband Andrew. He looked back at her, guilt and remorse spread across his face.
"I'm not angry at you," she muttered reluctantly. "I'm angry at the situation.... | The shadows in the castle lengthened with her mere presence, even the guards, trained to handle almost any situation without fear, only barely resisted the urge to shiver as an unnatural cold filled the air. The queen made her way down into the dungeon, moving with unearthly elegance and radiating an aura of control an... | 2020-04-14T06:39:01 | 2020-04-14T05:41:49 | 439 | 237 |
[WP] Prison sentences have been replaced with math problems. Small offenses are questions like "What is 200 times 135?" while life in prison are math problems that has yet to be solved. | When Jonathan was passed over for tenure, again, he went for the next best thing and shot all the members of the tenure committee in the head.
Then, he put his life’s savings into hiring the best attorney he could afford. Not to help him walk free, obviously. The whole point was to spend the rest of his life devote... | I'm in way over my head this time. I knew I shouldn't have listened to Ronnie he's always leaving me in trouble.
I look around at the dingy, hopeless room falling apart around me. Once white walls were now caked with dirt and slowly peeling paint chips. Ever since the government changed the death penalty to solving... | 2016-10-24T13:34:45 | 2016-10-24T13:22:46 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] You are an immortal that was caught by the mafia after you betrayed them. They deal with you the same way as traitors, chained to a cement bloc and trown in a lac. After 300 years you are finally discovered by divers. | Three hundred years. For most people, it is a extremely long amount of time, unfathomable for them. Not for me though. Time is somewhat dependent upon ones own perspective, it seemingly goes by faster the older you are because it accounts for a smaller portion of your overall life. If you take a a 5 year old child, ano... | How tedious. I had become one with my new environment, studying the bottom of the murky lake and it’s inhabitants. The cool depths wrinkled my skin and flooded my respiratory systems; not that it mattered. After 297 years (my count may have been off, the water and the depths make telling time of day more difficult than... | 2018-11-24T11:05:53 | 2018-11-24T10:22:59 | 148 | 79 |
[WP] You send your DNA off to discover your ancestry. One day you see several suspicious looking cars pull up outside your house. Military officers begin to surround your home and a woman gets out of one of the cars and walk straight to your front door. They have your DNA results. | Her footsteps followed a precise rhythm, her heels never missing a beat on the cracked pavement. He tight, brunette bun coupled with a tailor-fitted suit told Aaron she was of high importance. The four armed guards surrounding her gave off that impression, too. She carried a black briefcase with a silver double helix e... | They Hand it over, and in it written is the long list of ancestors you had up to the long lost king of the Medafega, a lost and fallen kingdom in the pacific ocean, that due to inner conflicts and wars was left abandoned and lost in the time.
The Government had been looking for the latest descendant of the king of Med... | 2019-08-05T18:13:14 | 2019-08-05T16:31:10 | 33 | 18 |
[WP] You’re at school and currently in Physics class. The professor is talking about gravity, and as a demonstration of it she drops a pen, but the pen doesn’t fall. It stays floating. | The professor holds the pen up to show the class. "Gravity, one of the four fundamental forces of the universe." With that statement, the professor drops the pen, but it doesnt fall. The professor pauses before seeing what happened. The class starts to murmur, before a student raises their hand. "Yes Jacob?" The profes... | "Well shit" the professor, leaving the pen floating in the air. "Umm, just let me go deal with this..." the professor says, walking towards the door. As he slowly opens the door, he looks back and smiles at the class before walking out the door into the abyss.
"Why today.." I Mutter under my breath, hurrying out of th... | 2017-10-21T02:16:10 | 2017-10-21T01:53:41 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] When you were 10 years old a dragon saved your life. No one believed you, until he came to your house today asking for a favor. | I get it. Most people sat on their lawn for a relaxing time, you know? A makeshift picnic with their family, perhaps. A nice walkabout to smell the flowers and take in their vibrant colours. Digging a small hole in a secluded spot to hide your failures. All round fun stuff, right?
So I understand. I understand when my... | I had no idea the concept of favours existed in the realm of fantasy as well. Seeing the current state of the world, I'd long given up hope on the existence of pure, selfless good, relegating that to characters within storybooks and myths. Can you blame me? Everybody I've met, everybody I've read about always have some... | 2020-11-21T07:39:52 | 2020-11-21T03:47:51 | 1,105 | 194 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Not all humans were warriors. Not all of them invented machines and chemicals that brought death. This human was my friend.
From the beginning, I knew that some humans were artists. Some built bridges and buildings. Some explored caves. We were told all about them by our scientists. The ones who studied other ... | Recording starts: I am the Voice of the Void, Grace embodied, S/He who is most exalted, Pontif Imhedi Gomae.
The Void had always provided and today was no exception. Those less faithful and with less worthy prayers upon their stomata had, in a flash rekindled their zeal. A golden tablet, fashioned by those who a... | 2014-12-26T12:46:34 | 2014-12-26T11:56:13 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Being a superhero has become a lucrative profession, and it so happens that you are getting paid the most. Every superhero is out to kill you to even out the playing field. To save yourself, you enlist the help of your arch-nemesis. | Eric Abel, who goes by the alias 'Magic Man', was sitting in a massive concrete shelter built around a decommissioned reactor in the heart of an abandoned nuclear power plant. He was waiting to be bum rushed by the world's most powerful people, his colleagues.
He is considered by most to be the worlds most powerful h... | “Hades,” I said into the telephone. “I need your help.”
“My help?” the voice on the other end yelled. “I got my guys scouring the city for you. You put me in jail. You put my wife in jail. You took down my business. I would never help you, Mahmoud.”
I shifted about. “Look, what you were doing with Cerberus was some sha... | 2019-06-20T20:35:32 | 2019-06-20T20:02:15 | 131 | 12 |
[WP] An alien doctor is having trouble figuring out why the humans on their ship got so excited after they showed one of the human females an ultrasound confirming that some kind of parasite that had attached itself to her uterus | "so, wait, that is your young?!" The Prothul, a race kinda close to humans said in surprise. Save the yellow skinned males, purple skinned females, four eyes and split tongues, they were pretty much identical to humanity.
Almost.
"Yes, Krath, that is a human embryo." I explained to the extra terrestrial doctor.
"But... | Xasion had encountered these parasites before and thus, had a grim understanding of the physical and emotional torment which would soon overtake Clara. “Perhaps, it is a common coping mechanism among humans to feign excitement in the face of such vicissitudes.”, thought Xasion.
Because of their experience with thes... | 2022-08-30T06:28:21 | 2022-08-30T04:39:47 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over.". | I walked in the room with Cynthia. It was dark and cold and I could feel the death and pain that has happened in the very room I was standing in. I opened my palms and they were engulfed in flame. I looked around. I gasped loud when I saw it.
The throne. It was a dark wood. Most likely from the trees from the Black F... | “Well, this has been delightful, but I’m afraid the fun is now over.”
“Rover? You can talk?” My one-time master’s last words faded into silence. I shook his throat back in forth in my teeth, then let go, satisfied.
I barked, signaling my human attendants to come and dispose of the body. Then I trotted over to my comf... | 2018-01-23T18:51:13 | 2018-01-23T17:21:17 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | *Alex* had always been a tomboy, hair a dusty brown.
Wore *her* hair in a messy, spikey crown.
Alex liked their pants baggy,
Sometimes Alex stuffed it with a sock,
Her face was screaming cheerleader,
When what she wanted was jock.
She grew up feeling awkward,
As if she would never have her way,
Her town was... | I wasn't a dad, I bought one ironically. The day the mugs changed, a tiny black hole opened up where my mug used to sit next to my coffee maker. My Keurig and no one in a fifteen mile radius noticed, as they were instantly ripped into the basic building blocks of life, which were then ripped into their smallest compone... | 2022-11-12T17:52:35 | 2017-06-11T10:07:25 | 69 | 23 |
[WP] "Marines dont die, they just go to hell and regroup", they've regrouped and now they're ready to take over hell. | "Get the fuck up, Devil!"
Lance Corporal Silva never really appreciated the pronoun. Ever since the first time we was called Devil at School of Infantry, he resented it. His mother was a devout Catholic. Being the only one there to influence his 19 years of life, he would never have wanted her to hear him called that.... | Hell wasn't what everyone said it would be, at least not anymore. If there ever was a structure to this place, it's long gone. There are no wardens, there are no neatly laid out circles of hell. Instead, I woke up in a desolate wasteland filled with broken people tortured by their own memories and actions. My name is B... | 2017-09-13T12:13:09 | 2017-09-13T11:58:02 | 73 | 21 |
[WP] You live in a world of shapeshifters. People are born with the ability to transform into ONE random animal for the rest of their lives. There's no record of your animal in any history books. | As was the royal prerogative of school teachers everywhere in the universe, the students had to be made uncomfortable to truly absorb the wondrous Education the local equivalent of a high school provided. To accomplish the feat, the Mandatory First Class Introduction was spawned onto this sinful world.
Lara dreaded th... | “Will it be painful, papa?” My father looked me in the eyes without speaking, tears climbing over his eyelids. He shook his head, but I knew he wasn’t answering my question. It was my seventh birthday, Revelation Day. It was also the day my father left, transformed rather, but gone nonetheless.
My father is a wolf, bo... | 2018-06-03T16:35:48 | 2018-06-03T15:49:36 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Waking from cryostasis is now possible. The government develops an experiment where somebody is to be placed into a large chamber in the middle of the city and awoken every 50 years for just one week. Your name is chosen. | “December 11, 4614. My name is Edmund Schulman, 2600 years ago was my last birthday. I am the oldest living terrestrial mammal on earth.”
I’ve done this exactly 52 times now. I remember reciting the same exact phrase the way the first batch of scientists instructed. The digital camcorder remarkably the same and in per... | Time travel was fun at first. I was a celebrity and I took advantage at every turn. Each week I awoke from my slumber into a ripe world ready to be picked. My time felt too little in each age as I was having fun. Perhaps too much fun.
Around the fifteenth time I woke up my brain felt an itch. I felt as if a vacation... | 2014-12-19T07:53:55 | 2014-12-19T07:44:58 | 118 | 13 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | It all started when I give a 'hand' a handshake. Next thing I heard was a voice whispering "You're hired".
That is it. Nothing else. For the longest of time I thought it was a really weird dream. A very weird lucid dream. Or so I thought.
Then I live life as normal till the day I die. Or so I thought.
Apparent... | Smoke circles puff into the light, dissipating as memories on the wind. A child can dream up such things while lying in bed, a curious observation between imagination and the reality that is. A hand creeps up from under the duvet, it is stark white, paper snow against Autumn coloured covers. The child doesn't know ho... | 2017-04-29T01:14:15 | 2017-04-29T00:40:47 | 57 | 32 |
[WP] John can see 10 seconds in to the future. Barry can go back in time 10 seconds. They fight. | It took nearly 13000 tries, thirty-six hours without sleep, reliving the same moment again and again, but Barry had his revenge.
It was nothing.
Nothing like reliving the 10 seconds from the moment he found his wife bleeding to death on the ground. Nothing like the desperation he felt as he tried, again and again, t... | "Seriously?" Barry asked.
"Fuck you!" John screamed. He saw the future clearly. Barry turned and ran then disappeared. John's rage carried him forward along his inevitable path. What good was seeing the future when you couldn't change it. I mean it is the future not some vision of what might be if you choose the same ... | 2015-06-05T08:36:25 | 2015-06-05T08:16:23 | 316 | 62 |
[WP] You are a SpaceX astronaut on Mars. The earth as you knew it was lost to a nuclear war between NATO and China/Russia. Luckily your mission was to construct the colony and you have enough supplies to survive indefinitely. It’s been 25 years since loss of contact. You hear a knock on the door.
Edit: Wow thanks for ... | "Hello, neighbour; I can't help but notice that you've built a colony on our planet." The thing was nine feet tall but so spindly it looked like it could fold up into a suitcase. "It's just, this is our planet already and you haven't got a permit."
"A permit?" I said, too bemused to express my shock.
"Of course a per... | The hab was shaking beyond belief. Bob woke up, trying to figure out what it was that was happening. His first thought was that it was some kind of a Mars Quake. He runs to the nearest console, and sees that nothing unusual happened at the weather stations 50 km away. In fact, only the station at the old landing site s... | 2018-03-05T07:14:27 | 2018-03-05T05:43:27 | 73 | 41 |
[WP] When two people get married, on the day of the wedding they are both given the ability to alter the appearance of their spouse to anything they wish. How do they change each other? How do they respond to what has been done to them? | Weddings are a special occasion, ment for joining two in love forever. It's funny how quick the concept twisted when money got involved.
You could always go into some back alley church to get a quick change but usually that came with strings. If you were lucky those strings didn't take your life.
It's why I run a... | I love my soon to be wife. I look forward to our marriage. Imagine my surprise when we stumbled upon a Djin who saw our live as "pure " enough that; she would allow us to alter each other's appearance. My sweet beautiful faincee quickly declined the offer saying that though "she appreciated the offer ." I was perfect ... | 2022-12-08T02:28:12 | 2022-12-08T01:07:52 | 37 | 23 |
[WP] You are the only child of a dictator in a dystopian future. Secretly, you intend to reform society and bring an end to your family's rule upon taking power. Unfortunately, you are kidnapped by rebels before you can put any of this into action - and needless to say, the rebels don't like you. | "They're all the same", my father used to say.
I admired him. As his successor, I did my best to become a good fit for the role. I believed in his cause, his vision, to shape the country into the paradise our people deserved. But the day he showed me what he does to his own people "for their own good", is the day I s... | There was once a small country between the mountains and the sea. Over centuries, its peasants had saved what little they could to build churches on mountaintops. When the heavy stones had all been carried and carved, and the walls were standing strong, they elected priests from among themselves to sit in the towering ... | 2019-01-26T12:07:29 | 2019-01-26T10:26:45 | 230 | 27 |
[WP] A mad scientist has released a plague to turn the planet's animals into a race of subservient super soldiers, all in a bid to take over earth. He failed however, to take into account the the pets of the world, and the love they have for their masters. | Still new to writing, feedback is hoped for.
Another dog pads over to me, a cat riding along his back. "You new here? The name's Rex. This here," he says while gesturing to the cat, "is Oscar." Oscar hops down off of Rex's back right as Rex sits down. "You lose your Master, too?", Oscar asks suddenly.
My face droops... | Amy walked gingerly over to Mrs. Landingham's, two doors down. Even walking down the street to get a cup of sugar was a dicey proposition these days. It was a clear day, not a cloud in the sky. It contrasted sharply with the roiling in Amy's gut.
She didn't want to knock on the door, and she didn't want to ring the do... | 2018-02-17T09:15:26 | 2018-02-17T08:02:46 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When The Blinding first occurred, I thought I was the only individual affected. I was sitting at my desk working on a school paper and in an instant, everything went black.
I had cried out to my parents in fear and confusion, but their response was like an echo of my own. They, too, couldn't see. And we soon learned ... | We called it humanity's worst disaster. History named it The Great Blinding. What that doesn't entail is that it was our own damn fault. The world was wrought into chaos after several months of warnings and we simply elected to ignore them, feigning assurance - "Oh that'll go away once we start on it."
"That's no pro... | 2022-10-09T01:59:27 | 2019-08-26T09:28:09 | 4,287 | 285 |
[WP] In 1,000 years, fantasy stories will be set in this era. Write a fantasy story set in the 21st century from the viewpoint of someone living 1,000 years from now.
Based on a post on r/showerthoughts | After the usual Day of the Tree celebrations and the offerings to Santa Claus had been made, the children gathered around Great-Grandad Don for the traditional tales.
"Alright, kids. Which story shall I tell this year?"
A few cries of " The Revolution!" were heard, but most of the younger kids wanted the usual story... | Aaliyah hitched her shorts, purse tucked beneath her arm, carefully making her way over the rough gravel roads. A beautiful raced past, with a gaping sunroof and windows glinting in the sunlight. A magnificent beast stood arched on the hood. Aaliyah sighed; sometimes she dreamed of that. She was but a simple girl, atte... | 2018-12-25T04:43:33 | 2018-12-25T03:19:47 | 84 | 43 |
[WP] Your classmates were gifted with boosted stats, cool abilities and titles like Hero, Limit Break, or Divine Healing. You got two abilities- Fission LVL 1: Break things apart, and Fusion LVL 1: Combine things together. Deemed useless for combat, the Viceroy gave you an allowance and sent you off | Useless, they called me. Worthless, they said. And these were of my own classmates, once my friends. Even the friendliest of them still pitied me.
They are all fools.
Certainly, I was not graced with a title like Hero, and the dozens of skills it came with. Nor was I graced with an ability like Divine Healing or Limi... | I watched as the group of Saviours stood atop the newly raised cliff face. Below them, a ravenous horde of void-beings clawed their way up. Their numbers were uncountable, constantly being birthed from pools of broken space.
I knew what their task was. They would have to fight through the horde, and repair what was de... | 2022-04-30T13:31:12 | 2022-04-30T11:03:16 | 342 | 55 |
[WP] You find a mysterious website where you can anonymously request an item once a day and it's delivered to you the next day.
You don't know how this website works and you don't enter any personal details, including your address. The item you request must actually exist. To clarify, it's a gift, you don't pay anyth... | As a web designer, I often try to find inspiration by the depths of the internet. That's when I found the site. It was so minimal, just a text label that said "Your free gift:" with a blank entry field. No buttons, no images, no page links, just these two elements. "Gift huh?" I said to myself, then looked around m... | It was 3 in the morning, and i was just finishing up a research paper for my Quantum theory course. I had just submitted the paper online and was in the process of closing out my glorious collection of tabs that I had amounted over the past couple of hours. I was about to close out of a reference article about time-ind... | 2015-03-25T09:23:50 | 2015-03-25T06:55:25 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] An old, forgotten god is living their days peacefully in the suburbs. One day they randomly receives a prayer. And they are going to do everything in their power to answer it. | The hills rolled away in the distance around the old forgotten monument.
"This is stone henge. It was built over a period of thousands of - please keep an eye on your kids while we're near the stones."
A 3 year old ran under the ropes and made a break for the stones. The parents didn't even realise, nose deep in the... | I'll tell you something. This is actually a true story. I live near the coast of California. Something you sometimes find on the beach here is a strange little nut. When I grew up, I found out that they were palm nuts. They have a really wonderful, warm smell, exotic and sweet. Palm trees seeded themselves on islands b... | 2018-05-30T00:59:15 | 2018-05-29T22:16:16 | 111 | 48 |
[WP] Kaiju routinely attack the city. You cannot get anyone to listen to your sensible, practical plan to stop them because they all want to build giant robots. | "Remember the old joke, how do you stop a rhino from charging?" I looked around at the council. "You take aways its credit card. Its the same principal with these kaiju. We alter their planner, we change their routine, they won't come back"
I looked at the sea of faces. All of then blank.
"Nah say," started Bruce. "I... | 放射線から
彼ら聞くない
怪獣だ
===
Hi! I have to write some extra words or the sub’s bot removes my haiku. I am still a novice in Japanese, so I’m sorry if my haiku isn’t very good. Or even really good Japanese. I was just using this time as a learning opportunity. That should do it for word-count. Ta! | 2016-01-11T11:31:47 | 2016-01-11T11:26:30 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] A rebel leader is captured and thrown into the dungeons. But instead of torturing or executing them, the king asks why they're revolting. | Dark. Dank. Grime clings to the walls and forms a squelching sheet across the floor. I’m tucked up as best I can in the small alcove of the doorway; the metal door is cold against my back, but it is relatively free from the sludge.
Footsteps are coming from underneath me – from behind me – and they’re loudening. Silen... | King James looked out from his castle, his kingdom extended as far as the eye could see. A powerful kingdom with an even more powerful people. Or so he thought.
As hes looking out he hears a knock
"Bring him in"
A guard brings in a man in his late 20s, long blond hair and crystal blue eyes. Wearing what seemed to... | 2020-07-16T00:05:41 | 2020-07-15T23:06:55 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] When you die the afterlife is an arena where you face every insect and animal you killed in your life. If you win you go to heaven, lose you go to hell. Your job was an exterminator on earth. | The pits beneath the arena were dimly lit by a handful of torches. What little light that slipped through the cracks of the boards overhead helped illuminate the area. It was very similar in nature to the Roman Arenas of antiquity, or so those that had prior knowledge of Ancient Rome thought. The strange thing about... | I store up at the giant wave of fur and chitin, wondering if hell was /really/ that bad. I mean, it can't be worse than fighting a literal metric ton of angry spiders without a weapon...Then I realized I was still wearing the item I died in. My hand reached down to my utility belt. And at that moment, I thanked God I h... | 2017-04-23T21:45:16 | 2017-04-23T17:19:20 | 553 | 81 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | The human lay on the floor with it's eyes shut tightly, stagnant water dripping from it, a single reed sticking out of its mouth.
After a few moments it opened its eyes to see why the pond water had suddenly vanished, eventually focusing in on the officials surrounding it.
"Hmm. It seems to be in good enough shape, b... | Oh god. I have no internet so let’s try writing this from my phone. Sorry in advance for typos and punctuation. Already hard enough on the phone but I also got fat thumbs! Best I can get with a quick and dirty write up on the bus!
“Are the contestants ready?”
“Of course Game Master Zerg. Right on time. We have a line ... | 2020-09-13T20:20:37 | 2020-09-13T18:50:43 | 39 | 23 |
[WP] Ten year ago your mentor told you "Kid, here's a dirty little secret about magic. You can just make shit up and it'll usually work. Makes the guys who take it seriously really mad." Today you're one of the least respected (and most powerful) mages on the continent. | "FLOBULDYGLABGULDA!"
The other mages cried out in sheer panic as an explosion on par with Dwarven mining dynamite rocked the town, sending bodies and body parts flying as I smirked. When in doubt, blow shit up, my mentor always used to say.
"You know you guys are fucked, right?!" I yelled. "I can do this all day!"
"... | Under the moonlight, the crimson body looks a lot like a broken doll.
It lays there limply, ragged, bruised. So still it’s as if time had frozen itself. And my hands, so used to warmth, lay there, cold and shaking. Somewhere deep inside of me, I wonder how I got here. How I’ve become what I’ve become. If maybe the wo... | 2021-08-26T19:21:49 | 2021-08-26T18:15:43 | 110 | 69 |
[WP] A watch is invented where it says exactly how long until you meet your soulmate. You decide to get one for you and one for your wife. Your wife’s watch says ’negative 6 years, 9 months, 14 days, 3 hours and 9 minutes’, the day you two met. Yours says ’12 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes’. | I stared at the damned thing for 10 minutes now. I am in disbelief. This didn't even make sense- how can 2 people not be eah others soul mates? My heart raced. Powerfully. It even began hurting!
But if I were telling the truth, I'm relieved. I have never felt this woman loved me. Well, at least the way I've wanted to ... | “What do you mean I’m not your soulmate!” cried Stephanie, obviously hurt.
“I don’t know sweetie,” I held out my arms but she stormed past me into her room.
Fuck.
Most people have children to fix their marital problems. Steph and I got a dog.
It took us twelve days to fill out the forms, but soon enough we were being ... | 2018-01-06T22:59:33 | 2018-01-06T22:26:51 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] You don't remember it, but before you were born, you went through an RPG-esque character creation and determined your attributes, virtues, traits, natural skills etc. You have died and realized all the wrong choices you made from the very beginning. | I was a tank. That was the idea, anyway. I remember it all so clearly, now; I had studied intently what would have been my first twenty years of life, and tank seemed the way to go. I loaded up on charisma, strength, and constitution, and I gave a pittance to intelligence and wisdom—just enough to navigate my early hur... | "Hmm... Int and Agility are fairly high, extremely high Wisdom. Strength is low, but not too bad overall. I don't know where all of these points came from because my endurance is impeccable too.
Oh...
I see...
'Name: atwork, Charles
Attributes:
STR - 5
**CHR - 1**
INT - 8
AGI - 10
WIS - 10
END - 7'
That's wh... | 2015-01-09T10:45:40 | 2015-01-09T10:24:35 | 99 | 35 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | I did it.
I want to scream, “I did it!” but there’s another camper hanging around and if I scream about completing that awful curry dex, he’ll question what I mean.
I’m the champ, you know. Gotta keep up the image.
I smile to myself and let my sweet little Pokémon (not—they’re IV trained, Gigantamax beasts; if you... | When I got the text, I didn't have to think about it very long - I had just been lying in bed, playing Ashphalt on my PHONE. 'Yeah, sure,' I reply, thinking nothing of it. Jeff always sends me this shit.
As I put my phone back down and close my eyes I feel a wave of nausea hit, then pass, leaving behind a lingering wh... | 2020-02-17T00:45:30 | 2020-02-17T00:31:53 | 31 | 21 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Empty. Lena checked it every single day, and has been checking it for the last ten years. Her sigil was still empty. She was sixteen now and it should've been filled once she was six. It never happened, and everyday she hoped it would. And every day, she wakes up disappointed.
She fixated it longer today as she sat on... | Another day and the same fucking asshole and his group of friends who pick on me. Using their powers to shock me or set my homework on fire was only the beginning. I've had to lie to my mother why I was coming home with burn marks on my arms. I hate lying to mother. They claim they'll stop harassing me if I show them m... | 2020-02-26T10:40:58 | 2020-02-26T10:00:37 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] You're working your normal shift at a daycare, when suddenly a rift opens. cthulu steps out, holding a small mass of tentacles. "Care for him today, and I shall grant you knowledge that predates the oldest stars." | "Aw!" Melanie cried, bending over the child. "Look at *you,* sweetheart!"
The toddler resembled the creature looming over her, a tall, thick-limbed humanoid with a cephalopod head and small, membranous wings on its back, but had the proportions of a baby, small and chubby with a relatively large head and eyes.
Melani... | Today had been a bit stressful getting to work. A thunderstorm had blown in last night, making driving to work a pain as the wind and rain battered my windshield. I still had difficulty seeing the road even though I had my windshield wipers at top speed. I still had to come to work though, I was the branch manager afte... | 2022-04-18T15:42:54 | 2022-04-18T12:48:06 | 392 | 62 |
[WP] A demon that writes messages on your mirror with blood but they’re useful messages. Like “remember you have yoga at 6 tonight”
stolen from Meladoodle on Tumblr. | I started seeing them when I was six years old. Everyone has an imaginary friend or two at that age. I did too, but my imaginary friend had coal black skin, blood red eyes, and spoke with a voice that sounded like the dying scream of a tortured soul. I called him Fred. Soon after I met Fred, I started seeing other thin... | *July 1^st 2016*
-it happened again.
This time it said "Remember about your date with Tony tonight at 8."
I did forget about it, so in kind of glad. I still am none the less terrified.
*July 2^nd*
-I seen it happen.
I was brushing my teeth and I looked up, I seem a dark face in the mirror. It was hard to tell ... | 2016-08-07T16:46:17 | 2016-08-07T15:49:46 | 80 | 31 |
[WP] Some blamed humanity. Others said it was nature running its course. A few said it was aliens. Everyone had reason for the ever soaring temperatures of our planet. Everyone was wrong. In 2083, as the world was about to go through its death throes, the incubation period ended, and magic was born. | Elenor was just a small child when the world started to worry.
At first it was nothing more than the whispers of a small minority, those who talked for days on end about how the planet was being destroyed by our own hands. There were the hippies who sung about love for our Earth. The scientists who studied the growin... | It was so hot. So hot, all the damn time. But I remembered when it wasn’t. I remembered... when the newscasters’ voices still rang from big, boxy television sets. I remember when their faces were earnest on flatscreens, emphatically trying to convince all who would listen that global warming was real, that global warmi... | 2020-02-22T22:02:10 | 2020-02-22T21:32:29 | 52 | 32 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | Read the top response and this is like that but with slight differences, and omnipotence.
"I wish to understand every language!" And then the pain came in, it flooded my mind as every single language, spoken by man during the times of Jesus to now, from man to animal, from Earth to every language that simply existed b... | "...so... The universe is running on-"
"Windows, yes."
"...So is this like the Matrix or something?"
"What?"
"You know, we're all living in some kind of virtual reality world and now I have to bust everyone out?"
"What, are you high?? No!! Everything around you is real, we just have it hooked up to a computer so it'l... | 2018-10-18T14:32:33 | 2018-10-18T12:12:32 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] At a party, a round of truth or dare starts, and you’re dared by someone to ‘go home.’ Not one to back down, you comply leave, though you’re pretty bummed. That is, until the next day you find out everyone at that party died mysteriously. Everyone except the person who dared you to go home.
comply, and leave*
sm... | We sat in the living room, drunkenly debating who was going to start the round of truth or dare. Everyone settles on the prettier of the only two girls here. She let out a giggle and asked one of us who'd had way too much to drink to choose one. The game progresses as usual, until they got to the other girl. In their d... | As soon as I heard the news, I was shocked but also relieved I didn't, well, die. I thought it was a weird coincidence that she didn't die. I was glad that she saved me, even though she didn't really mean to.
I knew her. We were actually becoming friends actually. Her name was Emily, we have classes together, we have... | 2019-11-23T18:24:32 | 2019-11-23T17:41:08 | 118 | 51 |
[WP] As a Grim Reaper, you have the ability to see numbers floating above every individual's head, counting down the days they have left to live. However, you one day come across a young girl whose number is actually in the negative. | The days become monotonous after a while. Crying, screaming, even quiet resignation...the spectrum of human emotion when they face their ends is vast and varied, but only so few ever have anything interesting to say about it.
The numbers run through my head, I've memorized the calendar and now the numbers run. I can t... | It wasn't unusual. It was as artifical yet as normal as seeing humans coat their lives in the death of trees and the ancient remains of life. The Reaper watched the child's chest rise and fall. The beeps and monitors keeping her alive. Her brain was vacant, soul trapped inside. It appeared uncomfortable, if her body wa... | 2018-05-23T09:41:27 | 2018-05-23T05:51:54 | 83 | 45 |
[WP] Pinocchio is able to create infinite wood by lying constantly. He sacrifices his lifetime by telling falsehoods nonstop in order to feed the hungry and reduce scarcity. The Pinocchio tree has been growing for 500 years, some people question what is really underground. | It was easy at first. "I'm a potato". "The Moon belongs to Spain". "There's no such thing as a horse". An endless stream of petty falsehoods, easy to churn out as often as you want. The tree grew eternally, and with it grew a new age. Infinite energy, if you just kept burning the wood- with each new lie, the tree grew ... | They say that if you press your ears to the ground and hold your breath, you will hear a faint murmur. So soft and muffled is this sound that most will dismiss it as a shifting of the earth, a strange amalgamation of the clicking of beetle legs and the footsteps of soldier ants. The brain tricking itself into hearing w... | 2021-12-05T11:38:18 | 2021-12-05T06:31:34 | 634 | 416 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | I felt the painful glare of the computer screen attacking my eyes as I stared at it for a second too long. Trying to not breathe a single whiff of Mr. Taggart-call-me-Tag's cheap musky cologne, while the sticky heat from his sweaty, stubby fingers made their way across my shoulder blades in what I'm sure was supposed t... | “You’re fired.”
The words burned my ears as they turned red with embarrassment. Of course I didn’t need this job, but it really hits you right in the pride to be fired from a stupid office position. And for something as trivial as “taking too much time for lunch”, which I only did because some asshole caused a pile up... | 2019-03-04T09:27:11 | 2019-03-04T09:05:16 | 182 | 133 |
[WP] Humanity is on the verge of extrasolar colonization when an alien race reveals to us that we are “carriers” of an incurable virus that could wipe out life in the universe if it ever spread beyond our solar system. | It had taken us millions of years to evolve to the point that the cosmos could be considered, and several thousand after that before we could explore.
Then, we stagnated.
It has always been the curse of man that each strives in his own way to achieve greatness, even at the cost of his brethren. Conquest was our birt... | "Wait."
"What?"
Verenex turns to look at me. In a human it would be inquisitive. The Moljuk are humanoid in appearance, but their facial features and multiple jointed arms confuse the issue.
"What is it, Elisha?"
The Moljuk is within his containment apparatus, which while more skintight than it's earth counterpart... | 2016-05-02T08:06:31 | 2016-05-02T07:02:48 | 63 | 21 |
[WP] A boy asks a girl out. It's high school. It's awkward. Narrate it from the point of view of a nature documentary. | Now, here we see a school of adolescent humans gathering inside a sort of mega-structure, built to house several hundred of this particular species. From what we can gather based on recent studies we believe this is a type of breeding ground. Typically they live in smaller, more cramped domiciles with their parents and... | And here we see the first of several stages of mating rituals in the humans.
The first is often the most unsuccesful in creating long term relations, yet mostly serves as practice for future, more significant rituals. Perhaps ironically, this first mating ritual is more complicated than any of the others, often occur... | 2017-04-04T06:32:25 | 2017-04-04T06:32:12 | 373 | 15 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | After much consideration the child contemplated the now empty, shiny artifact in front of him, gently buffed cleaner in one spot, and mulled over how to get around an impasse created by djinn with lawyer's souls. "Okay, I wish to be recreated into a supernatural human being of such considerable power, wealth, intellige... | Human Errors in Question [Poem]
——————————————
*said the genie but I replied*
But what about the book and the rules?
What about freeing you?
If there are so many rules. What’s the point of being a genie? In the first place and why would any of it matter? Who even made the rules in the first place, you or some other ... | 2022-01-04T00:47:44 | 2022-01-03T23:28:03 | 77 | 13 |
[WP] You've been sentenced to 400 years for multiple murders. It's been 399 years and your jailers are starting to get nervous. | The door creaked ajar slowly, the bearded man sneaking his head around the frame and peeking inside to see me. Upon making eye contact he quickly looked away, his lip arched and his face scrunched as he made his way inside with a platter of food in hand. I studied him from between the bars of my cell. I’d never seen th... | There wasn't anything special for his last day served. It was the same ole routine. Same as it had ever been, for all previous 145,999 days. No breaks in between.
All of the prisoners were out underneath the harsh sun, hammering away at a railroad.
"Hey, nimrod, line it up, yeah?" a fellow prisoner said.
Nimrod lo... | 2022-05-19T18:45:23 | 2022-05-19T18:42:42 | 1,136 | 205 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | The cabin was about a half mile outside of town. It had been abandoned, no river or fields nearby to make it worthwhile. It had been an old trapper’s cabin but the game had gone from this area a long time ago. Josef quietly shuffled towards the front door, a small parcel hugged close to his chest.
The door opened b... | Yes, Madison came from our village. Well, not originally, she just wandered in one day in the strangest clothes. I was a boy then, and I didn't like playing with the others very much; I liked to poke around at the edges of town, search for elves and the like. It was just good luck I saw her first; Sun knows what Elder ... | 2017-09-14T11:14:03 | 2017-09-14T09:12:27 | 114 | 11 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | ^Moo.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
Can you not see.
that I live?
.
in the country.
.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
.
The hills are high.
The grass is green.
.
I am headed to be a fat holstein.
.
^Moo.
I am a cow.
.
I chew my cud.
I eat my hay.
.
It is the same.
Old.
Damned.
Thing.
Every.
Day.
.
Farmer... | Mooooooooooooo, moo. Moooo! Eat grass. Chew, chew. Other cows all around. Grass to chew. Fart. Moooo. Hello cow friend. Hello baby cow. Moo! Take a few steps. More moo. More grass. Chew and eat. Fly on my butt. Tail swat. Fart. Moooooo! Mooooo! Hot sun in the sky. Drink of water. Lay under a tree. Moo. Hot sun going do... | 2017-10-02T06:49:36 | 2017-10-02T06:04:28 | 162 | 17 |
[WP] Satan has a special place in hell for the greatest sinners. To him, the greatest sinners are those who commit acts of petty inconvenience, such as placing the toilet roll the other way round, or playing music through headphones loudly. Today, the greatest sinner of all time is sent Satan's way. | Hell is full of sinners. It’s halls are filled with the souls of murderers, rapists, and pedophiles. Every day, new sinners are welcomed to the fiery pits where they will be tortured through eternity as punishment for their actions.
Satan, the King of Hell, has overseen the arrival of souls to Hell ever since his bani... | And now he was exploding with agony. Turns out life had been a dream and this was reality. Every pleasure and pain he'd ever experienced in life had been hazy and fleeting compared to what he felt now.
He was in a void. He couldn't move or scream. The pain was the entirety of his sensorium.
Then there was a voice. It... | 2016-10-05T12:42:35 | 2016-10-05T11:26:38 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] They laugh as your shot goes wide; Ridiculously so. But you didn't miss. You. NEVER. Miss. You predicted they would dodge any direct strike, so you aimed where they would be a week from now- When they'll never expect it. And though you may lose this battle, the war is already won. | "...Steve, you shot the fucking cow."
The pained cries of the bovine were drowned out by the howling laughter from the Sheriff and his deputies. It was quite impressive that he had managed to round up so many volunteers to face me, but I had killed a lot of men. I probably had dozens and dozens of orphaned children, ... | A real hunter doesn’t shoot where his target is but where it is going to be. Primitive mortals understand the concept through their limited understanding of space. They predict their prey’s moving pattern, firing at a fixed point in three-dimensional space. Even with their shallow intelligence, this limited apprehensio... | 2022-06-11T14:16:47 | 2022-06-11T12:11:55 | 38 | 24 |
[WP] Write a lighthearted story for children, which changes it's meaning when read by an adult. | The brave young girl walked through the forest, gripping her lantern tight as she diligently looked around; she knew very well what she had to do and even though the forest was dark, she was not afraid. Suddenly, she came upon a small clearing, filled with the moon's light, and saw many children playing!
"Hello!" the ... | [Poem]
**The Boggel-de-Rump Song**
–
Two days into the Ooggelly Wood
The Snaphazad leered,
And greered, and feared,
At boggel-de-rumps (who were good).
–
The boggel-de-rumps (who went "Boggel-de-ray!"
At snaphazad's lop-sided grump)
Vamoosed through the woods screaming "Help! Run away!
It's the beast with th... | 2022-12-18T12:46:43 | 2022-12-18T12:02:17 | 524 | 79 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | Mr Ochsenpflug looked at the paper Lilly had handed in and she could already tell something wasn't right. Seriousness had crept into his eyes and had started to darken his expression in a way she hadn't been seeing until now.
"Is this your assignment, Ms. Friday?", he asked without looking up.
"Yes it is", she answer... | The assignment parameters? "Create a unique spell." A spell only ever seen by its creator. Everyone knows about this assignment. Everyone. The lower grades dream of being in the class, those who have completed the class sigh in memory. Creating your own spells, without being a registered Spell Creator, was illegal. The... | 2021-04-02T03:57:25 | 2021-04-02T03:43:20 | 74 | 52 |
[WP] all "walks into a bar" jokes happen in the same bar. you're the bartender. | "Hey, buddy! Our sign clearly says, 'No Horses Allowed,' And don't give me that long face, mister!"
Jacob scowled at the Clydesdale as it cantered out, neighing indignantly. He sighed heavily, turning to the sole remaining patron of his bar. "I don't get it, Sam. Why do these jokers keep turning up here?"
The grizzle... | So you really want to buy Chuckles, huh kid? Well I suppose it's only fair to warn you, this place is a bit... funny. What's that? Strange or ha-ha? You have *no* idea...
Okay, a few quick things you gotta know. First of all, group discounts. Use 'em, liberally and often. You'll get all sorts in this place, in a... | 2016-09-18T19:15:12 | 2016-09-18T17:21:50 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You're the clichéd high-school super hero who has to balance heroics and school life. One day, you rescue your love interest while on super hero duty, when suddenly she starts talking about your alter-ego. You decide to stay and talk with her as a to see what she thinks of you at school. | "What did you say?" I focused on the damsel in distress I had just saved. Did she just utter the name of my alter ego. My actual name?
Maron James took a seat on the roof building I had just swung her to. "He's a guy at my school."
I sat beside her. "What's his name again?"
"Perry Park."
I wasn't imagining it. "W... | "Let me get this straight, I just saved you from burning alive in the building over there, and you want to friend zone me?!" Exclaimed the rocket strapped hero.
"Well, you see there is this guy at school... He is really cute in the sort of nerdy way, but I think we would just you know, click better?" She said trying t... | 2017-06-20T11:08:12 | 2017-06-20T10:47:43 | 76 | 27 |
[WP] You're a supervillain whose latest evil scheme threatens to throw the city into chaos unless your nemesis goes on a date with you. To your surprise, they agree with enthusiasm before you can even explain what the consequences of refusing are. | "You don't have to do this! Think about the consequences!"
I tried shouting above sound of the whirling rotary blades. The Miragemancer, or one of her illusion clones, shouted from the side door of the Channel Four News chopper.
"I don't give a damn about the consequences, my dear. In just a few moments, my illusion ... | **Dr Doctor's Big Day**
"Is everything in place?" Dr Doctor looked nervous for perhaps the first time in his life.
"Yes, sir," his assistant, Lucy, replied. She was one of the high-ranking officers in the area, but Dr Doctor paid a lot of them off to do his own business.
"Armed escorts to take us around the city in ... | 2022-08-16T07:30:27 | 2022-08-16T06:57:56 | 286 | 144 |
[WP] Dave is the first human convict to arrive in the intergalactic prison. | What surprised him the most, was how clean the facility was. Dave was no expert on prisons. The only time he had ever spent in one was a night in the drunk tank the summer after graduating high school.
"Dave, human of earth, for the crime of sexually harassing the princess of Omega 13 you are sentenced to 3 days." Th... | "Three years?" The guard's pair of mouths sung in unison, "When the third sun sets, your sentence will be over." Without another word he whirled toward the hall on his tail, lowered the gate, and left me in my cell.
Shaking myself back into reality, I took a hesitant breathe. The air was crisp, humidity around 40... | 2016-08-23T09:46:40 | 2016-08-23T08:51:09 | 82 | 45 |
[WP] Every time you die, you get to choose what you'll be reincarnated as. You've chosen ant 4 billion times. | The angel stands before me, a sad frown on his face. I get the feeling we’ve had this conversation before, or some version of it at least. There’s a bunch of us together, standing before the gates and making our choices. In theory, we can choose anything we want. In practice, there’s a cost. Being an ant is far down on... | "WHAT THE FUCK MAN? How do you even live your life; even an ant takes a surprising amount of effort to be rid of," God said.
 
"Hey, I'm sorry man, every single time I respawn some stupid human has to step on me-"
 
"Don't you fucking call it 'respawn'! I already told you it's called reincarnation... | 2016-12-30T05:02:27 | 2016-12-30T03:17:05 | 304 | 122 |
[WP] You buy a special camera at the pawn shop. Every photo you take, it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago. You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy. Everything is all fun and games, until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night. | I pointed the camera through my open door. It was 3:13am, I'd spent all day taking photos.
*Click*
The mechanical cogs spun up whirring and fizzing. Out popped a Polaroid sized photo of my room - 10 years in the past.
I brought it into the light, but it was all black. I gave it a little shake, blew on it a little, ... | I took the picture, smiling inwardly. I wonder how it'll look? I'd only been living there for a few months - I wonder what it had been like 10 years ago? What pictures would be up on the walls? Was the building even 10 years old?
I went to the darkroom, dipping the photo into the chemicals. I'd always enjoyed the proc... | 2016-12-22T05:06:09 | 2016-12-22T03:14:16 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] Dear diary, I’ve been feeding this creature that fell from the sky for a few days. It strangely likes to drink water, the liquid we use to fuel cars. I noticed a patch on its suit today that read “NASA”. I’ll ask it tomorrow what that means. If that’s it’s name. | Dear Diary,
I finally gathered the courage to ask the creature what the symbols "NASA" was. While it was drinking the daily water (I still can't get over it... water! Who drinks water?!), I pointed to its suit.
I asked, "what does that say?"
It didn't understand me at first, not until I used three of my hands to spe... | She was a frail creature, much smaller than Levi was, but she had a sense of familiarity that lingered over their time together. Like they had known each other far longer than a few days -- when he found her, after she hurtled from the sky and landed miles from his home.
For the first few days all she did was sleep, c... | 2020-10-11T08:49:16 | 2020-10-11T07:32:54 | 960 | 313 |
[WP] Your 14-year-old sister finally wakes up from a coma of 6 years. She panics when she realizes how much she's grown. | Her blue eye opened first. Daisy was one of a kind in every single aspect of life, right down to her multicolored eyes. One blue and one brown. She had been out of my life for six years, and sadly she would leave me again a few days after waking from her coma. Only this time it would be forever.
Daisy and I were twin... | White used to be her favorite color.
Vanilla ice cream and
Clouds and
Cotton now
Sheets and
Gloves and
Doctors.
There was strange inconsistency
In how her eyes still were the same
Even though all the rest had changed.
She was still my little sister.
Even with eyes trembling
Hands shaking, grasping, sear... | 2017-08-02T06:46:21 | 2017-08-02T06:45:19 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] A cult summons an elder horror only to find that the awful truths it has to share are only beyond the comprehension of the medieval Europeans who wrote the legends about it. Most of what it has to share is actually taught in grade school today. | "...So if you take the limit of x to a in (f(x)-f(a))/(x-a), you get the derivative of the function. The derivative can then be used to calculate the slope of the line tangent to the original equation at f(a). Now, a shortcut you can use to find the derivative is..." The gargantuan, tentacled beast in comically tiny sp... | I thought we messed up at first, all the medieval scriptures had said to light the candles, wipe around the sheep's blood, but when we did it all nothing happened. Till about an hour later when we were all about to pack up a giant puff of smoke appeared and out of it came a coughing man with medieval clothing.
He look... | 2017-09-04T09:58:23 | 2017-09-04T04:08:56 | 280 | 20 |
[WP] Everyone has the date that they will die writen in their forehead, and everyone but themselves can see it. One day, you notice that people around you can’t help but gawk at your forehead. One of them points and says “Wasn’t that yesterday?” | Yesterday, I died.
Well, that’s what the nurse had told me, anyway, when she was coaxing me out of a drug-induced stupor, asking me to piss in one of those stupid cups so they could test the amount of medication in my system. Or out of my system.
Whatever.
I hadn’t cared, really. Hah, I died. I could tell that to al... | “Huh? What was yesterday?” I asked Parker, who I barely knew well enough to converse.
“Your, uh, expiration date? We all have it, but none of us can see it ourselves.”
“What are you talking about? I’m only 32! My date can’t be...” I paused. Did he say yesterday?
“What are you all staring at?” I said. I was getting pis... | 2020-01-19T12:54:20 | 2020-01-19T12:49:19 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] You, a newly-turned vampire, are thrilled to discover that you CAN eat garlic, walk in sunlight, and see yourself in mirrors, all while being immortal. You are much less thrilled to discover the one major drawback that none of the legends ever got right. | I soar through the night sky, blind to the world as it was to me.
I told myself it wasn’t so bad. Honestly, I tried. Immortality, hypnotic powers, hyper speed – you know, the usual vampire toolbox – it was pretty damn sweet. And let me tell you, you have not lived till you’ve tried AB negative blood. I’ve had full co... | To be honest, I really didn't expect to wake up as a gods-damned vampire after a foggy Friday night of partying my nose off.
Waking up in the sunlight, I immediately noticed that the sun streaming through my bedroom window was only as irritating as it would have been after a regular hangover.
*Hmm.*
The next few mon... | 2020-10-06T06:58:56 | 2020-10-06T06:33:12 | 5,852 | 768 |
[WP] A man is banished to the wilderness for 20 years. Write his diary entries for his first and last days of exile. | This is a forbidding planet, full of hostile wildlife, a scorching climate, and uncertain vegetation. I have already scanned through my gifted supplies, boons from my family and friends to aid in my survival through my trial. Though meager, as is customary, I believe they will be enough to get me started here. Hunting ... | Day 1:
I’m staring into a fire. Surprisingly. When the escort first dropped me off, ditching me along a cracked, overgrown highway, it was probably noon. They didn’t leave me with much, but I managed to get some flint and magnesium smuggled into my cell last night. It took me a while to find a place that didn’t seem r... | 2015-05-16T15:55:51 | 2015-05-16T15:49:03 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] As punishment for his sins, a human is sentenced to battle endlessly against hordes of demons with nothing but a knife. Satan's court laughs at him for a few thousand years... until he starts winning the battles. Then they start screaming in terror. | "You killed a child."
"I killed a monster!"
"You killed a child."
"She was a monster. She was killing animals, people's pets, cutting things, people.... she was no child!"
"You cut her open and watched the life pour from her body."
"She attacked me! I had to-"
"DO NOT LIE IN THE PRESENSE OF YOUR JUDGMENT!...We kn... | When I was put here, I was just being killed again and again and again. Really, I never put up a fight during the first few years. The demons I was fighting against were… concerned by my lack of resistance. Apparently they only get paid if I put up a fight. It was then that I received some form of actual training, desp... | 2021-10-29T06:36:58 | 2021-10-29T04:26:11 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] When the zombie virus broke out, you were prepared. You quickly became the country's #1 zombie hunter - until science found the antidote to the virus that turns zombies into healthy humans again, retroactively making you the #1 mass murderer. | The trial was kinda a joke. I mean, I get that they had to do it, but considering the plague at its height infected almost half of humanity, you'd figure most everyone killed or contributed to the killing of \*somebody\*. I'm probably not even the guy with the biggest kill count overall, that goes to the pilot who loos... | I really thought I was doing the right thing...
I really did.
I still do. I know they don't agree with me, I know they all think I'm crazy, I know they all think I was wrong, I know they pat themselves on the back and look at me in horror, telling themselves that they would never have done what I did. I know they loo... | 2022-01-17T12:55:01 | 2022-01-17T12:19:15 | 945 | 212 |
[WP] The year is 2022. A virus has wiped out everyone over the age of 60, decimating world governments and and the mighty 1%. Generation X is too relieved from the constant badgering of their parents to rebuild society. It's up to the Millennials to put the world back together. | The world shook when all of our elders fell ill.
Then it froze when none of them recovered. It turns out there there were more citizens 60 and up then there were in the younger generation.
I know it shouldn’t seem like it’s all that surprising, but personally, I had never really thought about it. Families were deva... | It seems the 1% had a pretty significant role to play. No-one really understood macro economics, but it turns out the entire global economy was lubricated by the 1%'s cashflow and assets, and that it's really, really hard to rebuild society from the ground up.
The first few weeks and months after the virus were total ... | 2019-07-26T06:05:02 | 2019-07-26T05:05:06 | 370 | 41 |
[WP] internet goes down. An emergency public broadcast on the television plays "STAY INDOORS AND DO NOT LOOK OUTSIDE." The radio simultaneously broadcasts the message "EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY, GET TO HIGH GROUND." | “But we have no food here! No running water!”
“Dad the internet’s down.”
“When will we know what’s going on?!”
I lifted my flashlight up over the man’s shoulder, the pale faces of his family squinted and cowered from the glare. I saw the familiar yellow glow reflecting on the walls of the hallway, emitted from the f... | Norman was asleep and purring loudly on Norman's lap. Norman himself was a bit drowsy as he watched the labor day weekend NCIS marathon. His eyes were drooping and his thoughts were wavering uncertainly between giving in and drifting off or staying awake for just one more episode.
Suddenly, Gibs was interrupted mid-s... | 2017-01-27T04:28:55 | 2017-01-27T01:07:58 | 89 | 47 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | They called themselves the Taxmen. Apparently some form of tithing on their world that featured in a prominent expression. A few thousand stong. Nothing before the might of the Belathon Empire. We spanned a thousand Galaxies. We, who took planets for sport, and to offer our mates as dowry. What had we to fear the last ... | we thought of them as saviors when they first came they expected immediate surrender on our part. They thought after slaughtering millions of lives we would surrender. they were wrong. We were faced with what could have been our destruction our annihilation but we would not so easily bend into their fold. Nay we rose a... | 2019-12-17T22:09:03 | 2019-12-17T11:20:18 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] Describe an average day as aggressively and violently as possible | Steve explodes out of bed in the morning, fist slamming on the bomb-siren, death-to-heathens, Jihad-scream of his alarm. He tears into the bathroom, projects a stream of piss like poison, and drops a turd like a nuclear bomb. Then, a shower. Water bullets down his back, splattering shampoo foam like shrapnel. He doesn’... | Wake up to the sounds of screams, at least it sounds like it. I punch the off button on my alarm clock. Stomp out of bed. Bust through the bathroom door, time to intensely scrub my Fuckin chompers. After that I slowly microwave pig intestines wrapped in a pancake slowly suffocating. Was that a scream or just air escapi... | 2016-10-17T18:14:55 | 2016-10-17T12:26:20 | 64 | 37 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | She leaned forward as they cuffed her, allowing her hair to shield her face. And her feelings.
Sam wasn't here, wasn't standing in front of her to give one of his long-winded speeches: her favourite part of their games.
He was always so pleased for a chance to babble about the power of justice and morality to trium... | 2017-10-18T18:23:28 | 2017-09-16T23:45:58 | 5,127 | 471 |
[WP] By the time the knight arrives, the villain's lair is a smoldering ruin, demolished in the battle between the princess and villain. | Save the princess, they said. She needs you, they said. Only you can beat the Demon King, they cheered. And so I rode off towards the sunset, beyond the enchanted forest, in a mad quest to reclaim the princess.
I was the strongest knight in the kingdom, but I've heard of the fearsome stories of how the Demon King cou... | He sat by the fallen pillar of the gate, chewing on a strip of dried meat.
The hanging bridge across the moat to the castle was slashed to bits as was the facade of the castle walls. A fallen tower lay in the murky moat, crushing an enormous wyvern several times larger than a man.
Occasionally, flashes of white lig... | 2017-02-02T01:49:34 | 2017-02-02T01:36:15 | 83 | 17 |
[WP] Your whole life you've had the ability to freeze time while freely moving around. You've kept it a secret, using this power mostly for petty theft and personal gain. One day, while rummaging through strangers' purses and wallets in darkened theater, the doors open and someone else walks in. | The cup dropped shattering the silence in the theater. One of the first sounds of the movie. I activated my talent, freezing my fellow movie going, patrons. People mid scare always looked funny to me, eyes wide, mouth in some visage of a silent fear, hair was strewn wildly, it gives me a smile every time.
I put on so... | "Good evening, Jack."
The three whispered words broke the silence with the thunderous intensity of artillery fire. The same alien silence which took Jack months to get used to. Even the quietest of nights had the comforting lulls of wind and distant cars, the soft murmurs of crashing waves or spattering rain. Jack gre... | 2018-04-16T09:01:46 | 2018-04-16T08:53:46 | 1,915 | 98 |
[WP] "So, you don'r rule over Hell?" "No," replied Satan. "Hell is much older than me or even my followers. The original inhabitants of this place are the ones in charge. They ruled over us, before we managed to escape." "Escaped?" Satan sighs. "Let's just say, there's a reason God built Heaven."
Edit: Wow. Thank you ... | We stood before Satan, a flaming sword in my hand. I felt like a fucking failure. “So, you don't rule over Hell?” I pointed my flaming sword at his blood-red throat. I had no idea if it would hurt him.
He scoffed. “He didn't tell you that? What deal did you make with the Holy Father?”
Not the answer I wanted. I slapp... | I scrunched up my nose and watched Satan with intent. Unlike how everything had described him, he seemed like an .....attractive?....demon?
"What might the reason be.?" My tongue betrayed me and the question just rolled off my tongue, how did it even matter? I was dead, standing infront of Satan himself, this in itse... | 2020-07-22T04:07:42 | 2020-07-22T02:20:01 | 98 | 10 |
[WP] In Monsters Inc., A monster goes in one door to scare a child, only to find that the child had made a demonic sacrifice in his bedroom. The child thinks that the monster is a gift from Satan. | I reviewed the file as I approached the door. Age 12 years? That must be a mistake; we never go after them older than 8.
"Jerry, you sure this is the right kid? He's almost a teenager."
Jerry shrugged four of his shoulders. "I double checked it. Technically his screams will work too. They must be getting desperate f... | The door slid into place. I took a deep breath and gripped the doorknob. I needed to prove myself. I'd barely graduated from Monster University. As this was my first scare it was important to impress my supervisors.
I pushed open the door and roared, hands up above my head. My fangs glinted in the moonlight. My claws ... | 2015-03-07T13:15:13 | 2015-03-07T12:58:48 | 116 | 29 |
[WP] You walk up to a beautiful girl and decided to be cheesy, "Hey, did it hurt?" The girl was surprised and asked "What?"."You know, when you fell from heaven?". The girl looked more shocked, "How did you know? Who are you?" | I sipped on my iced coffee and watched him from afar. He was clearly troubled, sweat was accumulating on his brow and he shook his hands nervously. I scowled as a few grainy bits of coffee grounds slid across my tongue. That’s what I get for buying coffee at a Starbucks inside a Target. I looked down to see my coffee n... | She’s probably joking, has to be. “You’re a real an-“ she covers my mouth. “Don’t say it out loud!” She drags me to an alley before letting me speak “you’re an actual angel? I’m having a hard time believing that.* as if on cue a halo would appear above her head, it was dim and cracked but still a halo. “Now you believe... | 2021-09-17T14:24:04 | 2021-09-17T14:04:29 | 86 | 27 |
[WP] One day, Thousands of escape pods containing Alien eggs landed all around the earth. We raised them as our own, accepting them into our society. When the mothership returned to finish the job, she never expected her own brood to stand against her. | When a 180 rifleman-strong company from the 1st Marines out of Pendleton arrived on the scene, they were unaware that the human response to the 'invasion' had been already been decided. And by 13-year old Carmina Martinez. The unit of disciplined, yet terrified, marines crested to crater to find the young girl feeding ... | Fifteen years ago, came the Fall. The literal fall of the Antiochs, but the metaphorical fall of human civilization.
Humans were on the path to wonton war and corporatocracy. The 12 Corporations were again fighting for the meager resources of earth and the surrounding celestial bodies, each corporations Shareholders... | 2020-11-23T19:10:23 | 2020-11-23T16:13:31 | 297 | 82 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | I am writing this with tears in my eyes and 15 years of wishing i did this sooner.
Dear Dude who molested me when I was a child,
You ruined my life. It has been a long time since you molested me and those 3 other kids, and I hope you are rotting in that cell.
Ever since what you have done, I have battled severe... | Dear dad,
I fucking miss you. You died too quickly and I never got to hear your last words. I know though, I know you'd tell me you're proud of me and that you love me. I know this, but goddammit, i wish I could have heard you say it. I'll be the man you always knew I could be. I promise you that, and i will continue... | 2015-12-05T15:55:07 | 2015-12-05T15:43:07 | 61 | 45 |
[WP]You are a guard in a video game. The main character thinks that they are always able to successfully sneak past you. They don't, you notice every time but would prefer not to have you and your friends be mercilessly slaughtered. | I breath hot air into my cupped hands in a vain attempt to warm them, shifting underneath my thick fur cloak. The snow is, somehow, falling heavier than it was last winter when it coated everything in the cold of winter like a frost giant's breath.
"One minute," I mutter to myself.
One more minute and then I could ... | “Shh,” he sounded, “do you hear that?” The screams of Rory and Monty echoed through the chambers in unison like a choir conducted by death himself.
I stopped in my tracks, like a dear in headlights,
and looked up at him, forcing a slow, but forceful nod in his direction. He made a careful, but swift motion towards th... | 2017-05-29T03:17:38 | 2017-05-29T01:00:55 | 69 | 17 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | I went into archeology for the money, not for humanitarian reasons. Sure, I'd like to be the one to save the human race, I'd just like a beach house/ski resort on a designer world even more. The market value of digging in the dirt only goes up as the search for a working wormhole drive becomes more frantic. We've found... | We would try and kill them. We've run scenarios on how to kill them. We've seen them kill each other. But to try eliminate them all. It borders complete impossibility.
They're just way too good at sex. It's not even that their really skilled at it. That title belongs to the Zendians. They just have copious amounts of ... | 2014-07-16T13:34:49 | 2014-07-16T12:20:35 | 88 | 10 |
[WP] After bitting a Fae, the Vampire claims that she must serve him, for his bite converted her into his thrall. The Fae claims that the Vampire must serve her, for the vampire ate fae food without her permission. As none of them is willing to give up, they bring the case to you, a lawyer. | I shuffled some papers around on my desk for what had to have been the third time in under five minutes. The room was incredibly tense, but that didn't phase me. It's not like my job was all sunshine and rainbows so the thinly veiled anger that my clients felt towards each other was no more of a problem to me than if o... | God of Laws
I rubbed my forehead. I am used to adjudicating conflicts between gods of wars over who is victorious in their wars. Demons over who held praxis over whom. And I even had the misfortune of helping a mortal dick over a genie. (That one was pro bono because that genie was a legal nightmare). But all of that ... | 2022-07-11T20:01:31 | 2022-07-11T19:45:32 | 854 | 192 |
[WP] A mother tries to reason with Death, who has come to claim her terminally ill child | The tears had dried. Her breathing was slow, deep. And there was silence now for the first time since he had arrived. No more angry wailing or frantic begging. No hyperventilating and falling on the floor, retching violently until her stomach ached with cramps. Now she was sitting upright at her kitchen table, dazed, h... | Elanor pressed a wet rag against her son's head and witheld tears as her eyes scanned the tiny frail body wrapped in blankets. She released a long, miserable sigh and went back to her vigil next to him, in the rocking chair. She knitted by the warm candlelight softly illuminating the brown hues of wood around her.
The... | 2013-11-19T16:41:50 | 2013-11-19T16:07:23 | 57 | 25 |
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