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[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | The first ten or twenty minutes are the hardest. I've been through it four...no five times and I don't get used to it. Stop looking at me like that! I know you think I'm a sick old man and the meds are making me delusional. Whether you believe me or not we're going to be parting soon. You'll go on and I'll reset. So...... | PART 1
A click echoed in my mind. A light flashed. A tower of alphabet blocks was laid before me. I was sitting on a shaggy decades-old carpet. I had a small bowl of apple slices next to me. I stared at the two adults before me. "Augh, not this shit again, I thought I fixed this!" I exclaimed in a British accent, much... | 2017-05-25T13:17:28 | 2017-05-25T12:15:26 | 1,273 | 275 |
[WP]"Is is true that you can only see three basic colors?", the alien being asked "It is." "So, how do you communicate with the Ghoosha?" "With whom?", I responded confused. "The other major race on your planet." | The first rule of xenodiplomacy is that emotions cause problems. Don't show any. Better still, don't *have* any. Never be angry. Never be greedy. Never be pleased.
Never be surprised.
So of course I'm not surprised when, once again, I accidentally discover that we're not alone. We've never been alone. We wer... | I stared blankly for a second....
"The Dungeon Dimension creatures?"
"Yes, the *Things.* They are the colour octarine but if you can't see that...*"*
"Ah. Yes, modern theory suggests they can only be seen by those with the *talent,* and we have no such humans left. In any case, the few records of those creatures we ... | 2018-12-04T11:15:26 | 2018-12-04T11:02:30 | 448 | 82 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | "Oh shit shit shit. This can't be happening! This CAN'T BE HAPPENING. WHY the HELL I am so clumsy? Shit, shit, shit," I screamed as I ran past the tall trees towards the mansion. I had been on a mission else where and had just returned back to the school. My recruitment happened so vaguely. One moment I was on Earth, a... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T04:22:10 | 9,106 | 179 |
[WP] You're a side character in a story. By chance you become aware of this fact and you try everything to be more relevant to the story, even going as far as to intefere in the protagonist's life. | When you take a DNA test, you expect to learn about your ancestry, maybe that you got some crappy genes and could get Alzheimer's or glaucoma. You don't expect to learn you're a work of fiction. But that's what happened to me.
There it was, after the line that said Fact or Fiction: Fiction. That was bad enough. The ne... | “Ah, hello there, detective - or should I call you an author now?”
“Hah! Good morning. Thank you for agreeing to see me.”
“Oh no, not at all. I looked through the manuscript. It’s excellent stuff, I must say. I think it’s going to go well with our readers.”
“Well, it’s all based on facts; they’re jolly well going to... | 2019-01-06T09:23:29 | 2019-01-06T09:02:40 | 2,020 | 173 |
[WP] Superman is mentally handicapped. That's why he thinks nobody can pick up the Clark Kent=Superman thing, and everyone plays along in an effort to keep him from throwing a tantrum. The comics are his idea of what is going on. What does a day in Metropolis actually look like? | Superman looked eagerly at her. "Go on Lois. Ain’t you gonna give me no more hell?"
"No" said Lois.
"Well, I can go away," said Superman. "I'll go right off in the hills an' find a cave if you don' want me."
Lois shook herself again. "No," she said. "I want you to stay with me here."
Superman said craftily --- "Tel... | It's 6AM at the Metropolis. The city is starting to wake up as the sun rises over the streets and exposes the well preserved bricks on it's historic buildings. A shop owner is hosing down the side-walk as passersby wave him good morning. Above the shop, a window leads into the bedroom of Clark Kent, a well liked 23 yea... | 2016-03-04T09:50:27 | 2016-03-04T09:23:45 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | “Don’t do it.”
For years I had been receiving visions. Visions of a brighter future. A future where the worries of today; famine, war, poverty, were nightmares relegated to obscurity. A world where every man, woman and child could live out their lives in peace and harmony, free from the uncertainty that plagued them, ... | This is the first time I've seen myself like this. Desperate and lonely looking like I have had nothing to eat and no sleep. The soot on my face and dirt in my fingernails makes it look like I've been busy, but definitely not with any luxury that I'm used to.
There's a sad desperation in this future self as he asks me... | 2017-04-01T06:47:09 | 2017-04-01T01:47:46 | 317 | 109 |
[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 | I always hated highschool. It seems like there is always the same few people there: the nerds, the jocks, the artists, the rebels, and people like me who just want it to be over.
I was daydreaming on my way to class. Eyes glazed over as I thought about the world beyond the school's hallways and how much better-
"HEY ... | The bullies had surrounded me and one gave an experimental push to see how I'd react. I stumbled onto the ground and tore my sleeve on one of the school lockers as I fell, revealing the circular sigil on my inner wrist, where someone else might put a tattoo of a butterfly or something.
"Just be cool," I thought, "The... | 2020-02-26T09:59:40 | 2020-02-26T09:26:44 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You study magic at the top school in the world. Your village saved every penny to send you, but you suck. You find the spells hard to pronounce and memorize. They always feel odd, till one day you discover something called a "dictionary" and you see everyone is pronouncing them incorrectly. | *You think you are large now, but you are nothing more than a frog stuck in a well, a fish among minnows in a muddy puddle.*
Grandfather had been right all along, Jin realized. Back in Musul, he'd been special. The first in generations to be able to produce more than simple sparks from his fingertips, seemingly blesse... | Sweat poured down her face as she scrambled over top the fallen pillar and slowly shimmied down the other side until she felt solid earth below her. "There better be something worth bringing back for show and tell down here. I knew the ancient ruins were gonna be hard, but no one told me they were *this* ruined.", she ... | 2020-03-29T14:09:39 | 2020-03-29T11:58:03 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] "Mummy, mummy, look!" Your daughter cries, waking you from a deep sleep early on Christmas morning. "Santa got me the pet rock I asked for!" You slowly open your eyes to see your daughter holding hands with one very confused--but still smiling--Dwayne Johnson. | "Aaaaaaaaaaargh,"
screamed Sharon, jumping backwards over the side of the bed.
"What the *hell* is going on?"
"Calm down, Mummy! This is my new friend, Mr. Johnson," said Sara.
The tall and muscular figure who looked eerily similar to *The Rock* took a breath, and started talking.
"Sorry to intrude here, Mrs. B... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 0, Part ?: Clara Olsen v.s. Santa Claus)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**"Hi, you've reached North Pole Customer Service."** I scowled at my cellphone as Janice squealed and lau... | 2022-05-10T22:01:24 | 2022-05-10T21:15:05 | 704 | 185 |
[WP] Long ago our ancestors learned not to accept anything from a fey/faerie/elf, because this would set up a magical debt that could be called in for anything. Unbeknownst to us, modern fey have been giving out food samples at stores, and they are about to call in all their debts. | *A simple man is awoken in his sleep by a bright light and the sound of wind in his bedroom*
"Muh...awohhuh! What is this!?"
"You have chosen to be the messenger for your people, John Ludwight, Child of Man. You have one week to remind your brothers of their debts to us, to be repaid in full."
"Wait wait wait, what?... | Costcos on Sundays is supposed to be mundane. Commonplace. Without fanfare or much of any excitement. That's what I expected, at least, on my bi-weekly Costco run. But that's not what happened.
What happened was inexplicable.
All I ever wanted was a sample of the smoked salmon tartare that they have on exhibit, tak... | 2019-05-22T11:21:27 | 2019-05-22T10:56:38 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] You’re a bodiless benign entity with the ability to possess people. You use this ability to travel and experience physicality. Spotting a suitable host, you leap into it. A second later it says “Get Out!” and you find yourself forcibly ejected out of the body. This has never happened before. | "Get out!"
The words ring in my ears like someone just smacked me either side of my head with a pair of cymbals, and before I even have time to think, I am forcibly ejected from the body. Spat out on the dusty floor to lie, curled in a ball, and in excruciating pain.
OK, so in all my time since the experiment, this... | Get the fuck out.
What? What do you mean ”this has never happened before”? Have you never been told “no”?
As I told you, get out. Why do you keep coming back?
Are you not familiar with the concept of consent? Well, it’s really quite interesting. When you’re gonna do something, first they—
W- Huh? No, I’m being sarc... | 2022-04-17T00:01:33 | 2022-04-16T23:13:04 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] A girl finds out that she can restart her entire life by committing suicide, she develops OCD while tirelessly trying to fix every little error, constantly restarting. This goes on for a while until God intervenes. | "Maggie," said God.
"Yes, sir?" Maggie stood very straight and very still, chin up, hands clasped neatly in front of her. God had never seen anyone else manage to make Heaven's robes look quite so... prim.
"You're here again."
"Yes, sir." Maggie was surreptitiously using her foot to flatten out the tufts of cloud s... | Sarah liked to get things right.
The first reset was amazing. She knew to stay away from Tony and Mark was such a wonderful husband. She spent more quality time with her Mum and helped prolong her life - convincing her early to stop smoking.
In her eighties Sarah was content with her life. That was until her younge... | 2015-04-29T18:44:01 | 2015-04-29T18:27:27 | 194 | 119 |
[WP] You are Subtle Tea, a super hero who alters major world events by a most appropriately timed cup of tea. | Usually when my superiors gave me missions, it meant that all their other plans had failed. That morning when I walked into my "office" the manila folder told me that my "special skills" were once again needed.
I had my own ways of handling problems, and I had a tendency to use as little effort as I possibly could. So... | All I can remember as I ran down the cobblestone road was the fear I felt. The bone-shaking feeling that frightened me to my very core as my hands and feet felt all but deprived of any sense of warmth. I hadn't the energy of a morning cup of Earl Grey nor the overpowering strength of Darjeeling inside of me.
My vision... | 2016-07-11T23:14:17 | 2016-07-11T21:49:06 | 166 | 27 |
[WP] Your 11 year old nephew just ate 2 of your LSD gummy bears 45 minutes ago and you have to make sure he makes it through sane | It started with the giggling. The unstoppable, contagious giggling. Giggling like that from an eleven year old boy usually meant he was making a mess, or lighting something on fire.
Setting down the lunch dish I had been washing I rushed up the stairs and into David's room.
It was much worse than anything I could... | *On the phone*
Uncle Sam: "Ay Dave... You remember those Looney Toons Gummies you gave me? You know, the California Sunshine... Ol' Juan Cristobal here decided he wanted to trip with Lucy in the sky with diamonds and ate them."
*Laughter*
Dave: "Well, I hope he likes Mexico."
Uncle Sam: "Fuck! What do I do?"
D... | 2017-01-09T07:17:41 | 2017-01-09T06:34:20 | 77 | 13 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Tabitha rested briefly after harvesting sixty carrots in the humid, virtual sun. The beads of sweat that accumulated on her forehead felt real as day, and they felt even more real when she wiped them away with the back of her hand. Her red pigtails fell to her shoulders, which was covered by a pink floral shirt and so... | Gardening. Hah! Never woulda thought it'd suit me, but hey! No, no. It didn't suit me. First of all, I couldn't grow a carrot bigger than my pinky, nor even an herb garden to add some flavor to my life. Potions? Forget it. I felt completely useless.
From the beginning, I thought "My new life is starting! I'll be a rea... | 2021-09-27T12:31:06 | 2021-09-09T21:37:59 | 315 | 35 |
[WP]"Is is true that you can only see three basic colors?", the alien being asked "It is." "So, how do you communicate with the Ghoosha?" "With whom?", I responded confused. "The other major race on your planet." | "Goosha?" I said, tilting my head a bit. "Who are they?"
The alien looked at me strangely. I had difficulty reading his expression. He was almost entirely human in appearance, with angular features and an air of delicacy and grace. The only thing that would separate him visually from a human were his ears; they were l... | The first rule of xenodiplomacy is that emotions cause problems. Don't show any. Better still, don't *have* any. Never be angry. Never be greedy. Never be pleased.
Never be surprised.
So of course I'm not surprised when, once again, I accidentally discover that we're not alone. We've never been alone. We wer... | 2018-12-04T11:27:13 | 2018-12-04T11:15:26 | 3,287 | 448 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I'm pretty sure you think Mom is my hero. She stayed at home with us until high school, attended all the sports practices, school performances, made all the lunches...and of course I love her, for all that and more, but I'd like to tell you that you have always been my hero.
Some might say that it's just b... | Dear Teacher,
This is letter that will try to explain my frustration. My constant frustration. You are an unkind human being of ~~average~~ below average intelligence. You are also sexist. I am not going to overstate my intelligence, but it exists. I am scared of you destroying my future because you can not comprehend... | 2015-12-05T15:05:05 | 2015-12-05T13:38:34 | 59 | 24 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | The cashier in front of me froze, his eyes narrowing. I'd read books where the author described someones eyes as being calculating, but I thought I could actually see him doing math. Weighing variables, probabilities and even analyzing a threat.
"Care to repeat that?" He asked, though it was more of a command. His pr... | Flames whirl in a red and purple maelstrom. A middle aged woman falls backwards out of her seat. Her four children finally stop their roughhousing, entranced by the fire. Two teenagers with fake eyelashes, fake nails, and fake fur coats replace their fake smiles with very real screams. A would be hero gets up and toss... | 2022-11-14T01:20:47 | 2018-06-24T21:21:58 | 163 | 79 |
[WP] John Wick is contracted to take out what seemed like a usual mark. Billionaire, heir, playboy, general layabout, Bruce Wayne. | “Master Wayne”
Alfred walked into the Wayne Manor’s study, barely passing the threshold of the lavish office.
“Yes, Alfred.”
Bruce looked up from the shiny fragment he had stolen during the Justice Leagues battle with braniac. Normally he would take care of this in the Batcave, but bringing the tech near the Earth’... | "Bruce Wayne murdered at dinner"
It's with a heavy heart we at the Gotham news report this story. Bruce Wayne was a beloved philanthropist, innovater and job creator here in Gotham. We regret to inform you that at 8:26 this evening Bruce Wayne was struck by 7 plot armour piercing bullets. The assailant is at large and... | 2018-03-13T22:55:30 | 2018-03-13T22:46:59 | 1,190 | 21 |
[WP] You've discovered that nothing can kill the hero until they beat the dark one. You and the hero are now working together to cure all previously incurable fatal diseases by infecting the hero with them, and waiting to see how the universe conspires to cure them of it. | As a former spy for the dark lord Ner'Kal I had tried, and failed, numerous times to kill the young heroine prophecized to slay him. I once dropped a boulder from atop the castle walls onto her only for a snake to spook her horse which conveniently leapt out of harms way.
I launched a poisoned arrow at her from the sh... | Destiny, Alma learned, was a very strange thing.
The cleric thought that she was the one keeping the daring Cathal alive through valiant effort, whether it was the simplest of salves or the expensive cost of calling divine magic. Battling the Dark Lord was not an easy task, not for the hero nor his personal doctor.
B... | 2021-12-29T13:17:20 | 2021-12-29T12:59:59 | 165 | 67 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | Jack was smiling, for once, even though he was handing a bag of coin to the tax collector. Though taxes hadn't been lowered since 'The Hero's execution and the death of his Rebellion (in fact, they had been raised somewhat), the benefits of having an Evil King with full coffers and a fair Princess with a degree in econ... | I've been haunting this castle for a while now. A year, to be exact. I spent the first week mourning the loss of my princessly wardrobe and Prince Carl, who’d been killed trying to rescue me, when I realized two things. Number one, I didn’t know Carl at all (and since he died after taste-testing the clearly labeled poi... | 2016-07-10T18:13:31 | 2016-07-10T17:19:36 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | Part 1
I didn’t realize anything was weird about me until I was eight. That’s when a new family moved onto my block, with a son named Matias who was about my age. In their backyard, they had a giant trampoline and an above ground pool. I knew instantly that this meant Matias and I had to be friends.
After several day... | My best friend once called me and told me how jealous he was of my talents. What talents? I could never really put my finger on it if they existed, and I spent years trying to see what he saw. Maybe he meant the time I used to play in a band. We called ourselves, “We Ate the Fish”. Looking back that was a stupid band n... | 2018-10-24T08:11:56 | 2018-10-24T07:46:45 | 426 | 11 |
[WP]As you die,you wake up in a fiery place.You quickly realize you’re in Hell.You ask the next demon why you are there,as you lived a very good life.”You’re not being punished”,he says “You are the punishment.” | "W-wait, what?" I said, confused as I looked around before the demon, then sighed, rubbing his red forehead and went over, slapping my lower back and walking be forward. "Y'see kid," the demon said with a thick Boston accent. "You've been a good guy. You've done all the things you needed to do, worked at a couple of so... | I had imagined I'd go to heaven. I was a great person, wasn't I!? In life I did nothing but save animals and open people's eyes to animal abuse. But I was the punishment. Why? I'm nice, and always have been! I stare into the demon's eyes confusedly. The awful thing had grotesque spikes growing out at random places, loo... | 2022-11-17T09:57:57 | 2022-11-17T08:03:36 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] You check yourself out in the full length mirror before going to bed. You bend down to untie your shoes. As you are nearly finished, you see with your peripheral vision your reflection stand up seconds before you do. | I'm getting old. There are more lines on my face than there ever were before, folding out from around my eyes like a fan of creases. I smooth at them desperately, pinning my skin back against my face like some demented plastic surgeon. My mouth pulls into a grimace, teeth bared.
"Come to bed, Lise." George calls fr... | I had a strange urge to check myself out in the mirror as I was preparing for bed. Did my hair look okay? Anything ugly about my clothes? I suddenly wanted to find out. I looked into the mirror. I looked fine, same as I always did. Same brown hair, same green eyes, everything was okay. I breathed a sigh of relief. I th... | 2014-03-22T09:36:01 | 2014-03-22T09:18:18 | 179 | 13 |
[WP] You can’t kill a god, but you can erase it. Bound in enchanted chains weighed down by cold iron anchors, followers slaughtered and your temples burned, for all intents and purposes you don’t exist. You’re cast into the ocean, hopefully never to be heard from again. You are the drowned god. | My existence is pain. Around me is naught but darkness. My skin crawls with the unseen things that live in the oceans depths. They feast on my flesh and blood, an extravagant banquet for ever hungering maws. But even as fast as they devour me, I regenerate my wounds. My lungs shriek out for the air they had long since ... | In my domain, none may challenge me. All look upon me and rejoice, for I am merciful and full of strength. The land brings forth a bountiful harvest, the seas and rivers offer up their fish freely, and all live in peace and joy. I watch them, my subjects, and know that I am good.
But the dreams always end. I have watc... | 2022-07-09T13:03:34 | 2022-07-09T12:24:13 | 54 | 17 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | “What is this?” a feline-looking creature asked, reaching its paw toward a switch on the outside of the craft.
“Don’t,” I said, swatting it away with an exasperated sigh. “Unless you’re trying to blow us all to pieces here.” The cat man had an endearing manner of speaking—it drew out it’s last word in a breathy, high-... | The Ship called the Jethroll Tow sat adrift in the inky blackness of interstellar space , and in it sat Chris Kirkland wearing a old peterbuilt trucker cap and a shirt calling back to a 70’s slogan Earth first we’ll strip mine the other planets later.
Well here we are.
He chuckled” it’s later.” Chris jammed his finger... | 2019-01-18T08:59:32 | 2019-01-18T06:19:16 | 480 | 139 |
[WP] Your dad is wanted in twenty countries, your mom is a serial kille, your little brother is a genius hacker, and your little sister has just joined the Illuminati. None of them would ever want to anger you, though. | Do you know what it is like to be the only normal human in a family of crazy people? Not low level crazy either. high level crazy. Pops? International criminal, famous for stealing prized works of art, music, and people. Mom? Wet work extraordinaire, though now she mostly consults with the Russians. I swear I've saw he... | There's not much I could tell you about my family you wouldn't already know. I mean, the media makes it pretty easy to learn everything about them these days, so why bother even explaining much to you?
Michael's eveloped quite the Twitter cult following and it's starting to frustrate Mom a lot.
Bad news.
I mean, Mi... | 2017-06-04T10:21:38 | 2017-06-04T07:33:56 | 519 | 171 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | As the body of the last ISIS warrior fell to the sand, I turned to the guy next to me and smiled. At a different time, on a different continent, in a different hood we would have been mortal enemies. But not now, not here. Back home he wore red and I wore blue, but out here in a foreign battlescape we all quickly... | It was one day after setting sail. The charted Carnival Freedom was 300 nautical miles off the east coast of the United States. With over 5000 nautical miles to go until our heroes reach the shore of the Syrian port town of Latakia, terror began to unfold.
“Boss! We’ve run out of our entire supply of coconut shrimp” p... | 2015-12-07T10:18:33 | 2015-12-07T08:46:53 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | So there I was, driving all of my friends to this cabin that one of them owns… Gavin, I think it was. He said we're all gonna have a fun time catching fish or some shit like that, I don't give a fuck. The only reason they even invited me was because I'm the only one with a goddamned car. My friends are pretty much all ... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T07:01:19 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 4,093 | 21 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | Here’s the little story that spawned this prompt!
It’s 1692 - the height of the witch hunts. They never really bothered me, living way out on this farm, miles from the village. I just tended my sheep, looked after Candice (my cow), and relaxed with Sam (best friend a man could ask in a dog)
It was a normal day like ... | The car won’t start.
It shouldn’t still piss me off, but GODDAMNIT!
I don’t feel like telling you how I wasted hours in traffic. Or how hard it was to get one goddamn Home Depot employee to help me find the hoses. I don’t even want to get into how much effort I put into making sure that I had sealed up every las... | 2018-01-05T13:45:13 | 2018-01-05T13:14:26 | 78 | 26 |
[WP] When the captain saw that you were human, he accepted you immediately as a member of his crew. Unfortunately, the captain's understanding of humans quickly turns out to be distinctly...off.
EDIT - Wow, didn't think this would be anywhere near as popular as it turned out. Thanks for the responses, all! | (part 1)
"He had two of each but one?" A weird-looking creature sized his comrade up with shock.
"Show me!" Without wasting a moment both of them hovered towards a certain location...
When they entered a massive hangar filled with numerous creatures, the one in the front immediately pointed forward as he said: "Thi... | "I'm not an animal. Do you know how I knew I was going to be with you? Because you wanted a human. Because those words came out of you", Coco said.
"You wanted someone with a gift. A gift of knowledge, a gift of grace", she said holding back the tears.
Coco held her hands up. "And the gift of love, too. So I asked yo... | 2019-10-11T11:50:30 | 2019-10-11T10:32:14 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] As you sip your morning coffee, you open up your Sims Universe 3 game on your quantum computer. As you zoom in on a planet you've been watching and tormenting, you notice the governments of the world building a strange device. A flash. A man appears before you. "Are you god?" He asks. | "Yep.", I said with arrogant confidence. I'd prepared for this day a thousand times in my head. I knew they would one day advance themselves to the point of stepping out of their world and into mine.
"Good."
He had clearly been preparing just as long to say that as he reached into his pocket, soon after brandishing ... | God? This digital character asked me if I’m god? That’s so strange. I didn’t know they could do that.
I look at the screen and decide to answer. “Yes”.
I give a chuckle and press enter.
He stares at me for a few seconds. “Why must you torment us?”
I was surprised again, but I still answered. “Cuz I’m bored”
The di... | 2021-06-29T12:50:36 | 2021-06-29T10:16:05 | 35 | 20 |
[WP] In a world dominated by the use of magic, you were born an 'unremarkable', unable to use magic but also completely immune to its effects. Today you have discovered that society has a very unique use for people like you. | I broke down the door, my two partners entering behind me. "DROP YOUR WAND AND PUT YOUR FUCKING HANDS UP!" I yelled.
The wizard, towering over a strange mystical creature wasn't going for this. "DIE!" he responded, red lightning striking from its wand. Like a beam of light on a mirror, it ricocheted of my head, blowin... | You had only heard rumours of the Circle of Keepers but it was always talked about as some kind of conspiracy theory. Stealing away unremarkables and using their brains to store secrets. Hiding them away in secret bunkers with knowledge stored in the only place truly safe from telepathic spies.
Before you could react,... | 2022-05-07T07:46:30 | 2022-05-07T07:34:28 | 445 | 17 |
[WP] Rather than discovering magic like every other alien race in the galaxy, Humanity has created artificial magic that even machines can wield. This has angered some of the more spiritualistic alien races to the point of war. | "Magic was not meant for the likes of machines!"
Ambassador Prog slammed his staff on the stony floor, cracking the polished surface in his anger. All around him, the meeting room went silent. Eyes were downturned, nails were polished, but none even rose to meet his gaze. None, except for one.
"I disagree."
Quiet... | Fatr’Kll opened his eyes, looking towards his still closed door. Everything looked exactly like it always did. The green and grey carpets extending from his desk to the door. His pedestals, placed in two rows next to the carpet, carrying the crystallised heads of some of the churches grandest enemies. Tropk the Cancell... | 2018-01-25T12:57:39 | 2018-01-25T11:53:44 | 66 | 29 |
[WP] Death comes to collect someone and ends up falling in love with them. | Night had closed on London. The wind tugged at the sycamore trees and sent their leaves drifting sleepily through the orange shells of street light and into their beds on the wet ground. One landed on on a ragged bundle huddled on a bench in a forgotten corner of Hyde Park. It was here that death stepped through like a... | A blossom but by early frost be held;
In feeble, withered form it lies askew.
From Hell, foul Frost! How quick this flower felled,
And turned to bitter black from sanguine hue.
The same for her, my tender love, is true:
That pallid color plainly paints her tale.
So plain with ill, her skin grows ever pale.
~
He... | 2014-01-05T07:55:10 | 2014-01-05T07:41:05 | 54 | 18 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Magic is a fickle thing.
It appears differently for everyone. Some see roots like a tree, burrowing through the world. Others see motes of light, floating through the air like stars in the sky. Some even see magic as tiny, microscopic organisms present throughout the world's bloodstream.
Personally, I see magic as r... | Sir Bringham always shined as a light to guide his party in dark times, but he was not the hero. Dandy, the Barbarian, was a stubborn soul who made the hearts of his companions sing, but was not the hero. Griffin, held that honor as he was our hero of legend, True Paladin of Old, bound from another world, and laid dea... | 2020-07-11T04:57:11 | 2020-07-11T04:33:58 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] At the age of 18, everyone picks an unlikely life event. They will be reborn at 18 every time they die until that event happens. After that, death is permanent.
Example - Winning a lottery jackpot. Statistically, they would die in 22 plane crashes in a row before winning the Mega Millions jackpot. | If they had just done it on a different day, that would have been fine. If I didn't end up getting belligerently drunk the morning of my Choosing, that probably would have worked for the best. No, that would be too easy. I had been preparing for that question my entire, pre-adult life. I took courses, did research on l... | Preface: I'm drunk and trying to do this in as few words as possible.
I have died 1000 deaths. Beaten, stabbed, drawn-and quartered. But finally, it happened, on my 18th birthday.
"I love you" she whispered.
"I know" I reply as I kiss her for the last time and drift off to sleep, the heart monitor giving that godd... | 2014-11-11T23:02:23 | 2014-11-11T21:04:29 | 39 | 20 |
[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 Jesus - Your birthday is coming up. YAY! 2015 has been great to me. I finally realized this year that you're not real. Who am I actually addressing this letter to then? Oh well. Thanks for taking up all of my teens and 20s with indoctrinated lies that kept me from many experiences that in retrospect I would have p... | 2015-12-05T15:55:07 | 2015-12-05T14:47:35 | 61 | 22 |
[WP] You live in a world of heroes and villains, your job is to contact heroes for hospital visits to sick children, this last request is a challenge, the kid wants to meet their favourite villain...
Inspired by a tumblr post I saw, go nuts! | This is supposed to be the fun part of the job, talking the talent into appearing at a hospital, no compensation whatsoever, to bring cheer and happiness to some poor, dying soul. Today, however...
"I apologize for the security measures, my dear. I do hope you weren't hurt."
I brushed some ash off my shoulder and tri... | The newspapers had several names for the individual perched on the bed sheets of little Thomas Gray; The Deceiver, Spirit Stealer, Doctor Death. I would come to know him as just Bill, the old withdrawn white haired man who hobbled around hospitals and hospices on a crooked wooden staff. He had made me uncomfortable, of... | 2017-01-31T14:24:39 | 2017-01-31T12:00:28 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] When you die, you see a screen reading "New Game+" and "Exit to Reality" Which do you chose and what happens next? | *Phil hits a button reading, 'Exit to Reality.' He suddenly realizes that he's been starting at his phone for a fairly long time now inside a fashionable coffee shop.*
P: Wait, what? Where...
*He looks up from his phone to see a somewhat familiar face seeming all too pleased at Phil's confusion.*
J: So? What did yo... | Darkness, silence, nothing but the sound of my sobbing.
I wasn't expecting the pieces of text, to be honest I wasn't really sure what to expect. Thirty years of teaching religion hadn't really prepared me for the after life, according to what I had taught there should be nothing here, suicide was not a good way to go.... | 2015-03-13T14:14:05 | 2015-03-13T12:15:46 | 252 | 185 |
[WP](NSFW) The world has moved on from nature documentaries, leaving many narrators out of a job. These men and women turn to a new field; narrating pornography.
Nature documentarists narrating porn. | FADE IN
INT - A BEDROOM
*A YOUNG MAN is seated on a bed, reading through a generic sports-themed magazine. He is tall and muscular, and seems to be hiding an expectant smirk. He is shirtless, and otherwise clad in a pair of tight-fitting jeans.*
**NARRATOR:** Within homes across the planet, a time-honored ritual is ... |
Now, here's what I believe to be one of the most fascinating examples of recorded sexual behaviour amongst the human species. Look... do you see anything out of the ordinary? If you said no, you're absolutely right: the humans once used this structure as a kind of manufacturing centre, where perhaps nothing of a sexua... | 2015-04-08T11:43:32 | 2015-04-08T11:27:38 | 29 | 15 |
[WP]No on can lie, and society has developed differently because of this. People phrase their questions vaguely and always talk in a round about way, but now word is spreading that one person has started to ask straight forward questions that allow no room for periphrasis.
edit: "no ONE can lie"
also, just to be clear... | I wake up screaming for the third time this week. Catching my breath, I fumble for my shirt on my dresser and put it on, revealing the alarm clock underneath. It’s 3:13am. I turn my alarm off so it doesn’t go off later and head downstairs. I turn on the TV and flip through the channels until I find something that isn’t... | The very concept of politics was usually dismissed without a second thought. Without lying, the country had stayed in a fractured mess of loyalties and nationalisms... That was until *he* showed up. A particularly normal looking man he was, but he had some air about him. Anyone who heard him speak was instantly swayed ... | 2017-05-04T10:40:50 | 2017-05-04T07:33:19 | 63 | 12 |
[WP] Pranksters from various subreddits hack into President Obama's teleprompter during the State of the Union Address. This, being Obama's last year in office, just decides to go with it. | Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:
There is no doubt that our country has faced, and still faces, many challenges. Our enemies abroad threaten us with cowardly acts of terror. Our citizens fight to earn a decent wage. Our nice guys are still being friend-zoned by the stupid w... | "Alright mutha fuckas stop, collaborate and listen, Obama is back BEEEAAATTTCHES!" *Pulls out a joint and lights that shit* *Inhaling* "I know yall think I'm punk ass," *Passes that shit to his left* Looking at Michelle, "But you know...YOU KNOW! I be tearing dat ass UP!"
"You know I have been thinking, yeah I ha... | 2015-04-30T08:03:03 | 2015-04-30T05:34:16 | 233 | 16 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | There she was again, fat face, full of cake, laughing as she told me another anecdote of her worthless kid, spraying food all over my desk. I hate Karen, hated her since I first started working at this paper company. This pathetic job, with is grey walls, stale coffee, worn carpet and depressing looking people. It was ... | "Happy Birthday dear Shaurya, happy birthday to you!",
as his friends and family sang the monotonous ritual of a song at his 18th, He looked more lost than usual.
His eyes were moving rapidly,as if he was reading a book floating in front of him. As the song stopped so did his eyes. An unusual look of anger decorated h... | 2017-03-31T11:38:45 | 2017-03-31T09:38:51 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Every morning you wake up with small wounds; just little scrapes and bruises you attribute to flailing in your sleep. This morning, you woke up with a huge cut across your hip, a glowing golden dagger plunged into the wall, and what looks an awful lot like a dead angel on your floor. | ######***Dreaming Eden***
Before the Sin of Eden, man and beast roamed the plains as one. The plants provided sustenance for all of God's creatures. No wars, violence, deception, corruption—just peace and harmony.
Then *he* came. He called himself Adam the Dreamer and swore up and down that he came from a place too d... | It all started three weeks ago; I woke up with a single long scratch on my leg. I didn’t pay any attention to it; I had to get to work. The next morning I had a small cut on my arm. Every day I woke up to more and more. I thought maybe I was hitting my metal bedframe in my drunken sleep, but the cuts kept coming even w... | 2017-12-23T22:47:47 | 2017-12-23T22:13:59 | 888 | 68 |
[WP] If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon." - George Aiken
My first prompt had (what I felt was) good stories.
Time for another one, about my selected quote: Write a story in the world Aiken hypothesizes. Wha... | I walk over to them, dressed in my everyday work uniform, a white apron with the sleeves cut to just after the elbow.
I quickly glance at my folder, reminding myself of their names. "Mr. and Mrs. Banks," I say. "He's a typo. I'm so sorry."
There's nothing more to say. I return to the infant, checking his vitals and e... | "Excuse me, sir, do you have a moment to answer a few questions for our poll?"
"I suppose, yeah."
"Excellent! First question: Where do you stand on Proposition 6008-R?"
"I...do I have to answer that question?"
"You don't, sir, but this is just a poll to help our government better understand where the constituents s... | 2014-02-26T23:00:37 | 2014-02-26T21:58:22 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You are immortal, but no one knows. You are given a life sentence in prison, and you laugh thinking about the confusion to come at the end of your sentence. | Give a man enough time and he can build anything.
I wasn't sure how to start this story. It was between this and 'give a man enough time and he'll go bananas and do
really weird stuff'. Not much of a ring to that second one, so I went with the first.
Anyway, the first thousand years weren't that bad. I pretty soon ... | Part 1 | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6chsmn/life_sentence_part_2/)
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The oldest man in the world sat behind bars, his wrists cuffed together and feet chained to the floor. Officially, he was 140 years old, though that was because his doctored birth certificate had him born May 28th, 1870. Un... | 2017-05-20T16:10:36 | 2017-05-20T16:03:51 | 1,854 | 980 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Humans, no one really got humans. Always sticking to themselves, bizarre peaks and valleys in their technology, almost no one in their species older than 150, despite them having immortality technology for at least 300 years and a disturbingly adamant insistence on near total pacifism. They saw nothing wrong with stick... | First time doing one of these, Just seemed fun. Kind of all over the place, hopefully it reads alright.
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The humans had fought fiercely during first contact hundreds of years ago. When Xenadites made the mistake of viewing them as just another destructive species ... | 2018-12-15T00:58:53 | 2018-12-15T00:30:27 | 184 | 102 |
[WP] The production of meat for human consumption has been fully automated for decades. The largest factory has suddenly stopped producing. You are the technician assigned to troubleshoot, and are the first person to enter the plant in over 20 years. | Humanity had long abandoned the agricultural practices of old, as they'd buckled under the weight of an ever exploding population. The cows were gone. The hogs were gone. Turkeys, chickens? Gone and gone. The relatively few of us blessed enough to eat on a routine basis stopped questioning the source of our sustananc... | First I think I should give you a quick rundown of how meat production works, for the uninitiated. There’s loads of chemicals, and these get mixed together. This mixture includes cells from whatever meat you’re making, as well as other chemicals that promote meat growth. This is then put into huge thin trays, about 6 i... | 2014-11-14T04:22:43 | 2014-11-14T04:17:40 | 58 | 22 |
[WP] Mankind explored the galaxy. Nothing. Only us. Disheartened, we colonized and thrived. One day, an experiment exposed the truth: our reality is a second out out of phase with the rest of existence, which is populated by aliens. The brief glimpses seen of us? We are their Eldritch Terrors. | The eldritch abomination had stepped through the portal and was now stomping through our village. Old tales told of portals rifting between the realities and these things stepping through. The visage contained two huge white orbs, each the size of a villager, and beneath it an incomprehensible jutting of flesh. Wors... | Stand on a barren world, lost of all life, and catch glimpses of city spires reaching towards the sky beyond the horizon.
Frolick in gentle fields, and shirk in the echo of phantom warforms blazing through the night.
Hold close your children, as the world tears itself apart over and over and over again.
Gaze into th... | 2022-12-14T07:58:54 | 2022-12-14T07:29:37 | 42 | 29 |
[WP] A man wants to sell his soul to a demon but the thing he wants in return is so dubious the demon is thrown for a loop. | "Four lemons," Greg responded.
"It's done," said the demon. The response was so quick that the smoke from its appearance hadn't yet left the room.
"...and some sugar," Greg said. He stared blankly at the demon and blinked once.
The demon also blinked. A subtle mark of shock passed over its ashy face.
"Um, it's done... | "Woah there cowgirl. Slow it down.".
Ja'rel shook her head in disbelief.
" I'm just a crossroads demon. Sure we can make deals a little bigger than those spirit board idiots, but I think even I need to run that kind of request...downstairs.".
The demon gave the small mortal in front of her another once over. Her... | 2014-05-15T21:16:19 | 2014-05-15T20:05:56 | 252 | 52 |
[WP] “Remember this above all else when you leave the Cave. It is much better to run across a demon than angel. A demon can be bargained with. An angel, on the other hand, will kill you on sight.” | Once
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upon a time, there lived a world with 10 suns. Each of them desired the Earth and its inhabitants, but were content to share with their brothers and sisters.
Each morning, a new sun would rise into the sky and replace their sibling. Each evening, a new sun would bear witness to the sins of the world. It was ... | With a nod and looked at cave's opening. The minute I stepped beyond it I would no longer belong. It would be just me and my mission.
I felt my father and my brothers behind me but didn't look back and walked forward.
The trip down the mountain to the city was a short one and under the cover of night I passed uns... | 2018-09-01T12:20:46 | 2018-09-01T11:35:39 | 63 | 32 |
[WP] You rush into a church to stop the love of your life from marrying the wrong person. Not paying attention, you shout "I OBJECT" only to realize it's a funeral. The deceased immediatelly rises in perfect health. All eyes turn to you.
Thank you everyone for all the stories, they're wonderfu, i really enjoyed every ... | I was rushing, out of breath... my twin sister had taken my place, and my future wife was going to marry the wrong woman, she just didn't know. I threw open the doors to the chuch, "I Object!"
The problem was, it was the wrong church.
Eyes turned to me, the bereaveds' eyes were streaming. It was a funeral.
Then came... | "Relive services, this is Annette speaking." The unbelievably perky lady answered as she was picking up the phone. "Yes, perfect health, that's right." Vic could hear an excited shriek on the other end as Annette turned the volume down a bit. "I do have to say that since we got our resurrection license in Europe, the a... | 2022-08-29T12:04:32 | 2022-08-29T10:34:09 | 101 | 21 |
[WP] Every 50 years, the McDonald's corporation makes a single burger according to an ancient recipe. It is then hidden somewhere in the world, and the person who eats it will be filled with unimaginable power. The quest for the legendary McGuffin begins. | The sky was a dull mix of gray and blue. It was early morning, hints of the sun were just starting to show. The freeway was more or less empty aside from the occasional eighteen wheeler and night shift worker traveling back home. Jamie Kroc wasn’t a trucker nor did he work the night shift. Jamie was looking for somethi... | [Part 1 of 2]
“This is stupid. Are you sure you aren’t going senile, granddad?” Chuck watched as his eighty-year-old grandfather wrestled with a strange clown statue, knocking it to the floor before he spat in its face.
“Where are you hiding it? I know you have it. If you don’t tell me where it is, I’ll get my gra... | 2022-04-09T08:14:30 | 2022-04-09T08:03:33 | 123 | 30 |
[WP] You lay dying of heart failure, and God enters your mind. He informs you that you will be reincarnated upon death, losing all memory, but before that happens you are allowed to ask any one question. The answer to your question surprises you so much that your heart restarts and you survive. | The thing about God is the infinite patience. I felt I had all the time in the world to select the one question that framed exactly my heart's desire.
Both worlds were hovering between shadow and light and I felt I might easily fall into either one without regret or effort. Time passed, the Everything waited and my m... | "So you're god, huh?"
YES.
"And you say I get to ask one question of you before I die?"
THAT IS CORRECT.
"Well hot dang! I wonder what I should ask?"
I WOULDN'T KNOW.
At that moment, there was a whirl of panic in my hospital room, with nurses and doctors running every which way. In a delerium I had not experien... | 2014-08-03T07:26:40 | 2014-08-03T04:13:16 | 111 | 36 |
[WP] The demon stands amid your destroyed kitchen screaming, “How? How were you able to summon me?!” You’re standing in the corner flipping through your grandma’s cookbook as fast as you can, screaming back, “I don’t know!! You were supposed to be chicken soup!” | "Oregen-Thanto?"
"Do you fucking mean oregano?" The large reddish beast was standing across from me with his arms tightly folded and chin butting out. "Are you listening to me you mororn? The jackass who can't read to save his life. What the hell have you done?"
I think he was mad. I, on the other hand, was confuse... | Everything goes pitch black for a second and the dog-eared cookbook drops out of my hands. When I open my eyes, I almost scream. The pristine marble kitchen island has been demolished, and carrot slices are scattered across the floor.
My mouth drops but the demon interrupts me.
“Is this a joke? How were you able to... | 2020-04-16T23:27:57 | 2020-04-16T19:19:37 | 993 | 298 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | Snorri, Fjol and Hurg sat around their meager fire, the cold wind cutting through their fur and leathers. "Have you heard about all this nonsense with Dragons?" Fjol asked, adjusting herself and spitting into the fire.
"It's no more ridiculous than the war with the imperials," Snorri replied, running a whetstone acro... | I had been mutilated.
As I struggled to stand the lack of fingers and toes was more apparent then ever.
My hands and feet had been reduced to mere stumps.
But I knew I had to move forward.
To seek the ultimate truth.
A single message resonated in my mind.
"How do you tame a horse in Minecraft ?"
| 2015-05-08T04:17:06 | 2015-05-08T01:40:47 | 87 | 54 |
[WP] The first and greatest superhero and villain of all time respectively were said to have killed each other in combat. Decades later the current greatest supervillain is instantly annihilated upon threatening an elderly couple outside their remote cottage, and the truth becomes known | “Honey, do you want Earl Grey or English Breakfast with your Scones?”
“Earl Grey please James.”
“With honey, not sugar” they both said at the same time.
“Jinx!” interjected an excited Jenevieve.
“Damnit!” exclaimed James. “Not when I’m bringing the tea! And don’t start without me!”
“Sorry,” chuckled Jenevieve “And... | "Waddup gang! Greatest supervillain Cerberus coming at you from mount Everest, you are on the human extermination live stream in earth dimension. First thing on our program, let's go find some primates!"
Having said that, the three headed wolf firmly bites into the camera it was talking to. It is now recording the ins... | 2020-09-02T09:17:07 | 2020-09-02T09:03:57 | 112 | 54 |
[WP] There are multi-Gods for the multi-verse, and it turns out ours is kind of like the 'cool mom who lets you drink at her house,' though other Gods look at our free will and generally silent deity as bad Godding on His part. | Sam sighed as he looked upon the whole of his creation. "I just don't want them to hate me," he said. "They never even knew their mother. I'm all they've got."
The woman seated next to him nodded sagely. "I know it can be hard, raising them alone. But this hands-off approach you've been using for the past few millenni... | "God C137 how can you let your beings be that free? See what they do to their planet???"
"Calm down Id 10 d. They are working on a solution. And hey I already started a world war a few moments ago. Right after that they should get their stuff together"
"Are you INSANE? LET ME SEE.... Well ok atleast you gave him a ... | 2017-05-07T09:14:56 | 2017-05-07T05:14:11 | 524 | 290 |
[WP] At the age of 18 you are permitted to redistribute your twenty skill points around into whatever skills you want permanently. You decided to put everything into LUCK and leave the rest at 0 points. | I don't quite understand the process. They said something about redistribution of genetic factors.
Frankly, I don't care. I'm going to be lucky as fuck.
The old woman's eyes, skin crinkled from old age, drawn tightly by the small, loving smile that all of the elderly seem to adopt upon greeting kids, rest upon my car... | Pajser woke up on his 20th birthday pretty hungover. Strong light almost totally prevented his eyes from opening. It was unusual light, the one you usually see in games when one important revelation comes up.
"You have 20 skill points to spend, choose wisely," Siri said.
Pajser took his phone and put all on luck beca... | 2016-03-20T18:56:28 | 2016-03-20T18:09:26 | 127 | 21 |
[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... | "Oh, you again? Could you at least pick something that lasts more than a few days this time?"
This wasn't Jared's first stop in heaven; or his second, or his third. As it turns out, Jared had been reincarnated almost 4 *billion* times, choosing to be an ant on many of those occasions. He had been everything at least ... | 2016-12-30T05:02:27 | 2016-12-30T04:10:29 | 304 | 19 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | "Ah Stacy, have you got the projections from Pensworth Logistics?" I call out to my secretary looking stunning as always in her uniform. She's been with me from the beginning since I transferred over to my new office, 10 months ago, and has been one of the more friendly employees here.
"Mr Miles, I must insist that yo... | My skin feels so dry. I've bought a what must be hundreds of dollars worth of moisturizing creams, but nothing seems to work for this complexion. I felt so beautiful earlier this week, but I guess it has something to do with summer coming early because now I just feel gross. A few friends of mine recommended looking on... | 2016-05-19T13:17:24 | 2016-05-19T11:52:03 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] You wake up in a tub of ice with a two insicions on your back and a note that reads "Why don't you have any kidneys? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?" | *Who knows,* the man thought to himself as he crumpled the note.
He settled into the tub. The man felt cozy and settled, like a bourbon with dinner. Someone tried to make a pass on him, but wound up with a truth unsettling enough for two crooks; There were no kidneys.
*Fancy that.* Explained some things. Alcohol was ... | "Shit." That's all she can say for now. She knows they aren't going to call anyone. Who the fuck would believe them but, she still rather be safe then sorry. Of all the ways to get figured out, this shit happens.
She doesn't know who or what she is. She was left at a church and the nuns raised her. She never got sick... | 2015-12-30T22:41:52 | 2015-12-30T22:36:20 | 2,123 | 33 |
[WP] You're finally meeting your SO's parents. They are definitely demigods, and your SO is really trying to hide it, but the parents are so adorably awkward and out of touch that they keep slipping up. | "Welcome!" Alena's mother chirped. The woman was much like her daughter: relatively tall, with long, silky black hair looked to be made of satin. Her skin was just as perfectly unblemished as her daughter's, and her teeth were as white as marble. "You must be my cupcake's boyfriend. It is so nice to meet you!"
"It is... | "No, really. You should go ahead to the next class." She said, bearing a forced smile.
"Eh, it's fine. Your parents know we're dating right? And besides I'm curious about what your dad likes."
"No, I mean you should go now and reserve our favorite seats. Today's lecturer gonna be-"
"And? What are you youngsters talk... | 2019-06-20T12:38:37 | 2019-06-20T09:48:19 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] “Shh, it’s alright,” the villain said. “You’re doing beautifully and I’m so proud of you. But that’s enough now. It was cruel of them to make you fight me. It’s not your fault.” He spoke with a gentle tone but he was pissed, not at the hero, but at the gods who send kids and teens to fight him. | The man's eyes were a gentle blue as he looked at the six or so children arrayed before him. They were all decked out in the finest armor, all matching pieces, breastplates gleaming from a mixture of the setting sun and the enchantments and blessings stacked upon them. Even as they watched, he seemed to look past them,... | I gathered the child-hero to me. Yet another snuffed life, another crushed body to lay at my door. Whispering my spell, I teleported us both away from the field of battle.
Warmth greeted us with the rising scent of loam. It was time for planting. The bundle in my arms lay still, so, so still; the golden halo of hair m... | 2019-07-26T07:50:12 | 2019-07-26T07:22:55 | 40 | 23 |
[WP] Convicted criminals can choose to shorten their sentence. The only catch is the more it is shortened, the worse the conditions are where they are held. Describe a one night stay.
Thanks guys, I'm reading all of them. Keep it coming! | So. Another smartass has asked for the "express lane" treatment, shortening a 25-year life sentence down to a single day. Goddamn it, I hate doing this to another person.
I pause, and shake my head. No, "person" isn't the right term for a monster like this. I leaf through his record, wincing at the goriest of the det... | The small fires peppering the main hall of block 99-J lit up the dark, cavernous halls like a symphony. They kept the power off because they kept having to evetually send maintenance men, and after what happened to the last four, they stopped coming.
Someone's wet, muffled screams just stopped, and are now replaced w... | 2015-10-27T07:21:11 | 2015-10-27T06:51:29 | 1,596 | 16 |
[WP] You live in a world where your soulmate is unable to hurt you, intentionally or otherwise. You are fighting in a war, when one of the enemy's knives harmlessly glances off you. | *They had me dead to rights.*
Caught with an empty magazine, surrounded, someone came up behind me and stabbed. I felt the knife point touch skin. I closed my eyes. I waited to die.
The knife point trembled.
I had yet to turn around, though.
“I will not be taken prisoner by the likes of you, Loyalist. I would ... | I take a sip from my canteen.
It's been quite uneventful, sitting out here staring at a desert through a scope. There's no enemy blindly walking into the bleak sands here today, so all I've been doing is just taking a sip from this canteen right here like I am now-- *It's empty.*
I set up my spotter drone to cover fo... | 2017-04-22T07:04:13 | 2017-04-22T05:54:25 | 113 | 35 |
[WP] Humanity is the only race in the galaxy with such a massive lack of common sense that we're the only species that requires laws to form societies. Other races just form naturally and are shocked when confronted with humanities laws and regulations. | Sub Commander T'plat ambled down the landing ramp of this small scout ship, casually inspecting his clipboard. Today he was meeting species 64 Alpha 998, a bipedal species that galaxy mapping droids had spotted some time ago
Looking up he was startled to see a mass of the large pink creatures had gathered at the base... | "What do you mean 'laws?'"
"Well, they're the written, codified, and agreed upon, rules by which we organise ourselves within a state. They're both descriptive and prescriptive norms which use in cases of conflict or contest" replied Andrew.
He had spent several days sharing knowledge with the newfound alien species... | 2014-10-13T09:46:56 | 2014-10-13T09:43:55 | 86 | 53 |
[WP] "Captain, the warpdrives are failing and there's little we can actually do. We're stuck," said the first mate. "Fine," the captain said. "Awake the human. Just don't forget to bring it a 'koh-fi' drink to placate it." | Humans. Every ship should have one... hell, every ship probably would if there were enough of them to go around... and they weren't such a damn nuisance. Ours was particularly troublesome because somewhere along it's lifetime it had acquired a fairly hefty caffeine addiction, and emphatically - sometimes violently - re... | Captain Pakiha looked up from the display in front of him when first engineer Kihaki swam in. Kihaki did not look happy.
“Warp drive is a no go,” she creaked instead of a greeting.
Pakiha whistled annoyed. He felt like sending Kihaki a warning click, but thought better of it. The engineer had just spend the last five... | 2020-11-08T14:48:04 | 2020-11-08T14:04:08 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] When you were a child, you saw your parent(s) get killed by a delusional man who claimed he was a time traveler. You thought he was just crazy, but as years pass and you grow older, your best friend starts to look eerily similar to your parent(s) killer. | "Every night I have the same dream. A nightmare, really. A part of my past that I have tried so desperately to forget.
"I am 7 years old and I am in bed. My mom has just tucked me into my transformers duvet and I am falling asleep. Suddenly there is chaos. I hear the shattering of glass - every window in the house has... | I'd suspected it was Irene for some time. At least, someone who looked exactly like Irene. That was why I'd befriended her all those years ago. Not out of some crazy prescience but out of some strange pull that told me she would be important in solving the case of my parents' murders.
It was because of the birthmark,... | 2016-06-13T06:04:16 | 2016-06-13T05:55:44 | 56 | 23 |
[WP]Every intelligent, skilled or rich human has been evacuated from the Earth to avoid the alien invasion. This leaves the dregs, criminals and the poor behind on Earth to fend for themselves. Centuries later, the other return to "liberate" Earth only to find that they have won and prospered. | 'Well, it wasn't water that did it, but good, old fashioned lead. Turns out when you come from a planet without the necessary components for gunpowder, thus forcing you to create electrical weapons which coincidentally don't work quite as well in wetter Earth conditions, you don't develop defenses against bullets. Weir... | Without you, we were free to do what we wanted to.
Without you, there was no competition, anything we wanted we could pursue.
Without you, every house beautiful was available and ours to choose.
Without you, money didn’t matter anymore only sharing food.
Without you, there was no one who cared to rule.
W... | 2018-09-29T05:21:50 | 2018-09-29T03:44:30 | 656 | 28 |
[WP] You ate your last apple almost a full day ago. The second hand on the clock creeps closer and closer to the 24-hour mark. Holed up in a cabin you ready your shotgun. You can feel them out there, waiting, watching. The Doctors. | Only 5 minutes left. It was only a superstition, right? But... if that was true, why was I so scared? Even now, I could hear shuffling around outside, and a strange, low humming sound.
I shook my head and cocked the shotgun in my hands. 2 shots, no more. The survivalist instincts began to kick in when the first, muff... | Tick, tick, tick. Every second passing on my watch seemed deafening. I knew it was a mistake to rely on apples. I was bound to forget one day but I hated needles.
The door creaked. Bang. I scrambled to reload, no time to check if it hit. Bang. The door was split in two, someone outside screamed. Bang. The screaming st... | 2019-09-28T17:13:46 | 2019-09-28T15:36:25 | 50 | 14 |
[WP] A man wants to sell his soul to a demon but the thing he wants in return is so dubious the demon is thrown for a loop. | “So,” said the demon, “You’re offering me your soul plus the souls of anyone else who signs here?”
The demon’s thick-knuckled finger points to a crudely sketched document adorned with syrup and coffee stains. It was at this moment he realizes the contract was hastily drawn on the back of a Denny’s placemat.
“Yes!” ex... | "Woah there cowgirl. Slow it down.".
Ja'rel shook her head in disbelief.
" I'm just a crossroads demon. Sure we can make deals a little bigger than those spirit board idiots, but I think even I need to run that kind of request...downstairs.".
The demon gave the small mortal in front of her another once over. Her... | 2014-05-15T20:53:13 | 2014-05-15T20:05:56 | 104 | 52 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | I am, and always have been, a simple creature with a taste for the simple things. The smell of fresh bread. The tastes of ale and wine. The pleasure of catching an annoying little mouse.
I inherited my current life when someone abducted me. Normally, I’d have ripped the stranger them apart without remorse, but I’d jus... | Tavern keeper: "Mr. Handy. After all these years you were a mimic in disguise?"
Mimic being translated by a mage: "I am, you took me from a dungeon decades ago. I have stayed here ever since"
Tarvern Keeper: "Why did you change just now?"
Mimic: "I had to, we were in danger"
Tavern Keeper: "We?"
Mimic: "Yes, we. T... | 2021-09-22T08:12:37 | 2021-09-22T07:10:53 | 27 | 19 |
[WP] In a world with no such thing as "The good die young," where you can only get physical ailments from your crimes, your perfectly healthy best friend just got terminal cancer. | Jasper grew up in Pensacola with me. He was always a nice enough boy, never mean, never hurt anybody. He loved animals, and once I saw him cry at the sight of road kill on the side of Route 22.
Jasper was never sick. Never. I had the same low level viruses and infections that every kid our age ended up with, the karmi... | "I--think I might cancer." Chad said. His tone was unremarkable to the point where I almost dismissed his words as nothing more than a joke. It was only when I processed them that I had realized what he had said.
"Come again?" I responded. "Is this a joke?"
"What??????????? No," Chad laughed. He paused, collecting hi... | 2018-06-24T12:37:09 | 2018-06-24T12:02:36 | 86 | 13 |
[WP] "There are 2 things you need to know, men: Never underestimate the intelligence of a human, and never underestimate the sheer stupidity of a human. | "Sir! They've taken the eastern bridge!" As bullets flew and shells bombarded, the 706th was getting ready to pull out. But their time was limited.
"Order Alpha and Charlie to stage by the southern bridge! Everybody goes across."
"Sir? We're surrendering the island?"
The captain looked his sergeant in the eye. "Unle... | Humans, an enigmatic race that survived countless disasters caused by their own kind, from their own planet burning, to a disease spreading (and not listening to medical professionals), and even through entering the "furnace", or as they call them stars
I silently watched the human, his hands working masterfully to cr... | 2021-04-23T16:54:51 | 2021-04-23T16:50:56 | 36 | 27 |
[WP] You were born blind. You undergo a new surgery that should cure your blindness. They undo the wraps and you open them. You think what you see is normal, but after the doctors ask a slew of questions, they discover there is something very strange about your newly acquired sight. | “There were some… complications,” the doctor told me. My head spun for a moment, and as my vision blurred with worry, the doctor’s white lab coat disappeared against the white walls of the hospital. I shook my head to bring my vision back.
“With… with the surgery?” I asked. I turned and looked through the glass at ... | "So, Mr. Crowley, how are you feeling?"
"I feel like... look, I know, I have a whole new planet to explore in front of me. I just don't know... if I can get used to this chaotic atmosphere. Don't get me wrong, I am more than grateful. I cannot thank you enough, Dr. Crowe, it's just extremely unusual... and distracting... | 2018-10-29T07:44:48 | 2018-10-29T07:27:26 | 362 | 63 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | "...happy birthday to you!" I blew out the candles on my birthday cake and wished for my talent to shine through this year. All of my friends were blessed with special talents-superhuman strength, blazing speed, inconceivable intelligence- but I seemed average in all aspects.
Now on my 30th birthday, I was reaching t... | In the beginning when I was a child stray cats would follow me home almost everyday. My mother would scold me and chase them away with a broom or whip her apron at them. But regardless of her efforts the cats would park their furry tails outside our home and meow endlessly into the night.
The meowing drove our nei... | 2016-12-30T09:33:18 | 2016-12-30T08:26:44 | 250 | 150 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | Ganth stared at Blith for a moment, pondering what he just heard. "The humans, a war species, fight for peace?" Ganth's headspines twitched with confusion, the blue planet slowly spinning peacefully just outside of the ship's window. "Baffling, isn't it? The Leogarn's fight because that's what they've evolved to do. Th... | Humanity.
A weird species.
Instead of opting for an optimal utopian government made of people who have passed standard intelligent tests, they decided to let the people vote despite how bad the choice is.
Now, about war. Humans are supposed to be a subspecies of a warring race that we planted on this planet years ag... | 2018-03-17T04:49:59 | 2018-03-17T04:45:25 | 229 | 65 |
[WP] Humanity as a species has one feature that makes them unique (read terrifying) to the other species in the interstellar council. Whats considered as natural toxin for others is just a spice or a added flavour for humans.
Inspired by this comment,
Coffee: [Produces caffeine as a poison with which to protect itsel... | Capt. Fleex say at his desk, readying the troop listings for the invasion. These humans would be so useful. They were not particularly physically powerful, but they could be clever and had some of the most dexterous digits in this quadrant of the Galaxy. They would make excellent detail or repair workers. And when they... | "Even colloidal Cesium would fail to cause harm?"
Boss Glek stroked his gills for a long, quiet moment. "Somehow, I doubt it," he finally intoned. "But good luck getting your hands on it. And good luck with your task." Boss Glek bulged his eyes politely, and sank into the blue water, leaving Nelgel alone in the visit... | 2021-05-22T08:43:56 | 2021-05-22T08:36:46 | 79 | 31 |
[WP] Some nut job from a joint Japanese-American defense technology company thought that replacing traditional tanks with 80ft tall bipedal robots is a good idea. This pisses you off so much that you're determined to create a tank that can counter them in every way imaginable at 1/10th of the cost. | "Bravo 5, return to your position! He could be anywhere! Formation Phalanx Bravo!"
The remains of the 07th MS squad formed a rough circle, facing outwards in all directions. Peering above the trees of the sparse forest as the light of the day waned, they surveyed the terrain. It should have been a simple exercise: tak... | General Graves was chewing on his half smoked domestic cigar in anger as he stared at the monitor. The United Japanese Coalition had come up with an abomination to replace the backbone of the Military artillery forces. The M1 tank. The designation BM-452 which was a dubbed the “Samurai Marine” was an 80 ft mech. It was... | 2021-08-12T15:08:28 | 2021-08-12T12:15:29 | 45 | 22 |
[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" | *Peter Lowe has joined respawn lobby chat #854393845*
*Server: Earth (pre-Cataclysm)*
*Players in server respawn lobby chat: 38*
Jack Howard: lMAO
Ellie Johnson: wtf dude
Harley Smith: whyyyyyy did u do this
Peter Lowe: WTF is this
Joseph Gabriel: I think it's his first game guys, easy
Peter Lowe: what's goi... | It felt strange, really. To feel the AC blast into my eyes once more, after what seemed like decades of "living". My head was swarming with old memories, found deep inside my brain as the new ones i made clashed and toiled.
This damn thing was clearly an addictive...drug, if you will. hastily checking the time, i saw... | 2015-11-25T00:31:04 | 2015-11-24T23:03:11 | 1,235 | 737 |
[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" | Hellfire and death fluttered down from the sky. Ashy snowflakes, falling burning. Through the rapidly-heating window of his office building, Federation Commander Korthu watched the foreign spaceships drop fire on the capital city. Below him, people ran, their many-tentacled bodies writhing, as smolding debris crushed t... | 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... | 2019-12-17T12:03:04 | 2019-12-17T11:20:18 | 421 | 21 |
[WP] You are an alien on your way to the SuperMax prison known as Earth, where you will spend the rest of your life as someone's pet. | I smirked as I faced my guard. "Do you seriously think I believe that nonsense about Earth?" I said. "I am by far the most feared creature in this section of the galaxy. There's no way you'll put me in the hands of some backwards hicks who don't even know who I am."
It was my third try at baiting him, but once again h... | Zurg stretched and yawned while laying on the couch. Sure, he wished he hadn't gotten caught smuggling narcotics from Alpha Centauri, but this could definitely be worse.
"Hey, kitties! Who's ready for some din-din?"
He could swear that the native Earth cats understood him on some level. He shared a mutual rolling of ... | 2016-01-10T13:43:44 | 2016-01-10T09:27:58 | 107 | 24 |
[WP] Two swords of godly origin lay stuck in stone. One is said to be evil the other heroic it is said whoever pulls one of these blades will be the ultimate force of good or evil. As a joke you pull on both however you and everyone around are in shock when both blades come free in your grasp. | A silence fell across the townsfolk as I stood there, the silver sword in my left hand and the gold in my right. I made eye-contact with Jack, who was standing as wide-eyed as everyone else in the crowd.
'This joke was not worth the 2 silver pieces he gave me,' I thought to myself and grimaced. How was I supposed to e... | At first I could not even comprehend what had happened. I was drunk and just pulled on them as a joke and did not even notice that I pulled them out. When I saw the faces of my friends, however, it started to become clear what I had done.
I quickly threw the swords on the ground and ran away. I have not seen my friend... | 2020-07-27T03:24:19 | 2020-07-27T02:42:32 | 96 | 27 |
[WP] Last night, you made a wish to turn into your crush's ideal mate. This is NOT what you expected. | There she was again. God, I knew she would never even look in my direction being the scrawny nerd I was. She was always beaming up into the face of some muscle-headed idiot.
 
Once, last summer, I managed to make eye contact for an eternity of a split second. Her eyes were limpid pools of raw sexuality and m... | She was a mysterious girl, that's for sure. I hadn't known her very well, but we had gone through several years of school before I was at a mature age. She was polite, nice, but I'd never seen her talk. One night while thinking of her, I threw away the tissues and laid back in bed.
"I wish I was her perfect mate"
-
... | 2015-12-18T12:50:28 | 2015-12-18T11:52:26 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] Getting tired of always being called upon when the police deem a case un-solvable, you take up a 9 to 5 job. You use your brilliant deductive skills to attempt to make sales and upset almost every customer who speaks to you. You are Sherlock Holmes, used car salesman.
Edit: This sub never ceases to amaze me! I've... | "You're here for a sports car. A convertible, I'm sure. Something with enough horsepower to blow that toupee straight off your head."
The man fidgeted with his fake hair uncomfortably and tried to brush a few strands over his sunburnt forehead. "Err, who are you?"
"Sherlock Holmes." The man stuck his pudgy hand out f... | "I just can't seem to get this job out of the ground, Watson."
"Gee, no shit Sherlock."
"Do people just not appreciate having the barest of facts laid about them? I'd pay a good sum to have someone 'dish the truth' about me."
"People don't exactly like being told their mums died painfully in cancer-filled sleep."
"... | 2015-07-30T10:49:03 | 2015-07-30T09:34:25 | 470 | 46 |
[WP] It was saddening enough to kill the villain. Reveal that the "villain" wasn't even a villain in the first place and was actually trying to help the heroes. | It wasn't the heat. It was the humidity. A vicious mid-July sun baked the courtyard around me while the sticky, wet air soaked my pores and melded my uniform and skin into a syrupy mess. I felt like a literal fish out of water, and probably looked even worse.
I hated private security. It wasn't the mediocre pay, lackl... | ***"And now our hero bows his head***
***To beg God's pardon and request his grace***
***The quarrel now most justly ended***
***When our hero caved in this villain's face"***
"Most excellent, Bard Elyan. Do continue to celebrate this most momentous occasion." Lanval the Resolute stuck out his chest and held his ch... | 2016-04-17T13:34:42 | 2016-04-17T10:45:05 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Your older brother has been missing for years. You hear a knock on the door, and you open it to reveal a man that looks like your brother would be at this point. "I'm back man! I'm so sorry!" He hugs you immediately. Just then, you get a text from your brother's old number. "That isn't me." | Nobody took his disappearance seriously. "He's an adult. He can leave if he wants to." It wouldn't have been the first time Danny had run away.
The first time was when he was ten and Cara was eight. Nothing serious had provoked him. He was just sick of the same house, the same neighborhood, the same boring realit... | "What?!...wait..." I turn the phone to show David, but stop seeing the doorway empty - now framing only the front lawn where he was stood only moments ago.
"D...David..." I croak stepping tentatively onto the front porch, a hand held tight to the door frame. Gone.
Turning back inside, pressing the door closed tight b... | 2020-07-23T13:00:47 | 2020-07-23T11:56:21 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] A group of plucky rebels attempts to overthrow a dystopian government. Wait... *checks notes* Sorry, utopian, a utopian government. | Jimmy ‘Neverclean’ Dean was the type of man even the laziest, fluffy kitten would scratch. His braided dreadlocks swung like whips as he headbanged to heavy-metal music. He banged away at his drum set at odd hours of the night—filling the neighborhood with a sweet symphony of bangs and thuds —from his open garage.
He... | A surplus of crops meant nobody starved. Breakthroughs in medical technology meant no one got sick. Being isolated in a fertile valley surrounded by treacherous lands meant no enemies, no war. Our society was perfect, flawless.
And that scared me.
I was young when I first felt it. The… softness of it all, like th... | 2019-05-14T06:17:09 | 2019-05-14T06:09:23 | 66 | 25 |
[WP]Sometimes children get born with weird diseases like vampirism or lycantrophy. The effects of these uncurable illnesses only get detectable when the kid is around 8 years old. Many parents then abandon their child. You run an orphanage for these children. | "Dammit, Jimmy!" I snapped my head around in several directions, making sure no one had heard. I was alone: a rare event.
I turned back to the mess I had just discovered. There, in a pile still steaming, were the unmistakable remnants of this evening's dinner, eaten with a fork and spoon by an affable 10 year-old bou ... | "What's your name, sweetheart?" Matron Silver asked. The officer that dropped off the scrawny, pink-haired 8 year old girl left in a hurry. The older woman closed the door and leaned against the edge of her desk to address her new arrival. The girl looked up to meet the woman's brown eyes.
"Justice," she said. The wom... | 2019-01-17T08:37:44 | 2019-01-17T08:04:49 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | It really sounds good on paper. Everyone gets a superpower. Oh, there are people with awesome powers. Eki Magnusson, the current president of the great and bountiful human empire has the gift of luck; whatever choice he makes will turn out for the best. Since he was eighteen, his ambition to find challenges pushed huma... | A friend of mine got the power of flight on his 18th birthday. A girl I used to date could suddenly control bugs of every type - centipedes and ants, mostly. I went to sleep just before midnight on the eve of my 18th birthday, excited to wake up and find out what my power was going to be. Staying awake didn't do the tr... | 2015-03-28T06:27:10 | 2015-03-28T06:07:34 | 70 | 10 |
[WP] You are hunted by a pale and faceless man that only you can see. The man moves in slow motion. When you sleep at night, you do not dream. Instead you see through his perspective. | Every night, sleeping soundly, I saw me in my sleep. Through the gap in my window drapes, laying on my bed, as if watching from the hedges. Or through the creaking-open door of my bedroom, gazing with stoic patience. Or sometimes, I saw me from directly above myself, as if hovering, secured from the ceiling by rock-cli... | Slowly I crept, dragging my legs as if they were strapped with heavy chains. My surrounding suddenly strike me with familiarity. It was my living room, my own house. I looked down at my arms....no, no, this was not me. My arms were long and pale, with sharp dirty claws as hands. This creature I was occupying was mindle... | 2020-12-26T03:30:45 | 2020-12-26T02:59:21 | 188 | 29 |
[WP] World's worst sausage salesman. Always ends up Sexualizing the sasuage and losing the sale. | Hernandez walks up to the stand. 'Gregory's Sausages' it said in big letters for everyone to see. Just under that it had the price. One dollar fifty. Cheap. Hernandez loves cheap.
"Uh, hey?" Hernandez says as he tries to get the attention of the man he assumed was Gregory.
Gregory pulls down his newspaper and stares ... | This was it, the final house on the block. Alfred rung the doorbell: if he didn't make this sale, he was out of a job. He couldn't afford to make a mistake this time. No mentioning the length and girth of the sausage. No talking about how snugly it fit in between a pair of buns. No winking.
"Hi, can I help you?" A gir... | 2016-06-28T05:47:00 | 2016-06-27T21:52:18 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] You've accidentally killed the Devil. God makes you the new Devil to replace the one you killed. | "Put on the suit."
"You're kidding me, right?" I said as I looked at the business card God had just handed me. His face hadn't changed from the moment I told him I had killed the Devil to the moment he had walked me through every layer of Hell there was. He remained stoic, cold, and almost, happy. "This is exactly lik... | Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I didn't actually *kill* the Devil. He killed himself. Was I involved? Marginally. There was a wager, of course - the Devil is nothing if not a gambler - involving a guitar and my soul, which turned entirely on the fact that the Devil mistakenly believed Jimmy Page to be dead. J... | 2016-12-09T09:01:17 | 2016-12-09T08:22:15 | 397 | 56 |
[WP] You meet a genie that grants one wish. You wish to go back in time and change your biggest mistake. You get taken back to the time right before you made your wish. | My Biggest Mistake
I once did have a lamp,
which my Grand Pappy gave to me.
He said it granted wishes,
And that I should'na ask for kisses.
I took it from the shelf,
and rubbed it to a shine.
Thinking it was a tall tale.
That my Grand Pappy did design.
No sooner than I set it down,
Smoke rose from the end.
Slowly f... | I knew what he meant after the third time I was sent back, knew that my biggest mistake would be this wish.
But I pretended not to.
I asked over and over. The same minute-long exchange etched into my mind until I could recite it without a pause, without a second thought. For hundreds, maybe thousands of times this we... | 2016-09-25T08:48:42 | 2016-09-25T08:07:11 | 57 | 23 |
[WP]When you became the first human to go to an alien college, you decided to enroll in "human studies 101". Talk about your first day.
Here is a continuation of the prompt:
[WP] While at the alien college, you decide to introduce some friends you made in Human Studies 101 to human music.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wr... | "*Just talk about your day so far*." The voice was faint and probably originated from behind the camera that was still finding it's focus.
"My day?" The young woman sitting in front of them, dressed in some sort of retro fashion, responded. The words came through very clear, a testament of the boom mic that was still ... | Good day class. This might be a little awkward, seeing as we have one of our subject matter here today, but I've been instructed to just continue as normal. Before I start - let me offer my condolences.
Humans are, quite undoubtedly, the galaxy's biggest fuckups. No amount of time can adequately explain just how much... | 2016-09-27T16:40:47 | 2016-09-27T14:14:46 | 412 | 134 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | As i emerge from a sort of sleep, I’m standing in my school hall, and there is a bunch of people standing in front of me.
“Umm, what happened”, i ask my self, as one of the people staring at me asks, “you are back, is everything’s alright?”
I start to feel anxious, it’s too much attention, i utter under my nose “what... | I began to fall from the building, I didn't remember climbing it though.
That didn't matter. As I felt myself begin to topple and become truly weightless in the plunge a jolt ran though my body, and it jolted me awake.
The fall had been a dream, but the adrenaline was real.
As I sat up in bed breathing rapidly my ph... | 2021-04-01T03:47:34 | 2021-03-31T23:16:32 | 58 | 23 |
[WP] A sharp blade at your neck, you look up at the hero. “So I’ve finally been defeated. Go ahead, finish it.” The hero paused, shuffling on their feet. “Actually, I wanted to ask you something.” You laughed, coughing. “What?” The hero bit their lip. “Do you wanna go on a date sometime?” | My blade crashed against my masked opponent's, the impact sending tingles up my arm. We'd been locked in combat for nearly an hour, and my strength was beginning to wain.
Then, I tripped. To think I would be defeated by such a simple mistake.
Before I could catch myself my opponent slammed me against the nearby wall... | “I…I would actually really love to go on a date with you sometime. Wait, you do mean with you, right? A date with you?”
Your arch-nemesis stares back at you, arm frozen mid-strike with his laZer sword an inch from your throat, and you feel as if he is staring straight through your mirrored lenses and in to your soul. ... | 2020-10-11T22:51:20 | 2020-10-11T20:04:04 | 42 | 22 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | “Alright, Splish Sploosh: run the results by me again.”
“Yes, High Sploosh. We have run protocol Margh Slup, as requested by your very own Splooshiness. We send Slupteen ships to create an invasion scenario. We send out our most terrifying fighters and began to roam the surface. However, as you have heard before, the... | The beings reviled themselves to be what we all fear, everyone saw the end of the human race, end of our world, a world war, this is how they scare the other aliens, humans are the violent creatures of the galaxy, so, we are used to the destruction of our species, as it has happened twice already.
“Look now! See what ... | 2019-06-11T10:18:08 | 2019-06-11T08:24:52 | 97 | 26 |
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