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[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | "Kinda short for a knight, aren't you?"
The words hung in the air. Sir Gregory was taken aback. He was expecting the princess to be excited to see him or terrified of the dragon. Condescension was an emotion he never entertained.
"Oh Gods, you reek. No, this won't do. If you wish to rescue me *properly* I insist you ... | The gigantic oak door that made up the main entrance to my mansion buckled and broke, flying off its hinges in a shower of splinters. A young knight stepped in, clad in a pragmatic and flexible armor.
"I will not let you take my dragon!" I shrieked, wielding a heavy trident.
"Yes yes, we know."
"He is mine!" Purple ... | 2019-01-09T11:59:29 | 2019-01-09T11:21:07 | 158 | 72 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "Personal journal: The sky on this planet was blue when we landed. I should have known that a blood-colored sky was a bad omen.
"Command had singled out this planet, a tiny garden world around an unremarkable star, as a good place to set up a frontier resupply depot. 'We've observed them through a probe for a hundred ... | "So here's what we do men," Captain Averal started as the ships started pulling out of the water, "they think we're gonna let them go, we're gonna let them fly away because we're scared of 'em, are we scared of em?"
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"SIR NO SIR!" The sailors replied.
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"Are we scared of those buggy bastards?... | 2019-02-26T07:33:05 | 2019-02-26T07:06:44 | 589 | 144 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | This was a mistake.
When we arrived the whole planet focused on us as though a great beast was questioning who had awoken it far far to soon.
At the start. Before our intentions were known and we offered them a choice of submit or perish they were excited buzzing around in a frenzy that so many other species had wh... | We had arrived at this primitive star system with a fleet of 40,000 strong. Bio suits we made with special protections against the planet’s volatile atmosphere and these primate’s bacteria infested cities. We believed this to be an easy invasion, noting their adoption pacifistic ways for the past 300 Sol Cycles. We wer... | 2019-02-26T09:23:50 | 2019-02-26T09:02:34 | 227 | 79 |
[WP] When someone dies the person they cared about the most receives a notification. One day you're notified of a death, and it's a person you've never heard of. | It didn’t make any sense. He’d never heard the name before, he was sure of it. Still, there it was, as clear as day:
“Robert J. Moon - Deceased 11:39:12 6/10/2019”
If not for the last name he would likely pass it off as a fake, but that what his last name. Moon.
“We shine brightest in the darkest times,” his mo... | Cold.
In the lobby. In the tiny staircase you take to the cramped room with an obnoxiously long table. A room surrounded by urns and funeral cards and documents you can buy. Doesn't matter where you are in this place, it permeates and follows as an unseen companion.
All over. Cold.
I assume that's on purpose; to... | 2019-06-10T19:02:47 | 2019-06-10T17:00:51 | 2,525 | 112 |
[WP] When someone dies the person they cared about the most receives a notification. One day you're notified of a death, and it's a person you've never heard of. | You stare down at the text message. Christine… Why did that name sound familiar? You glance up. The white walls around you are suddenly blurry. Colours and shapes begin to appear just outside your vision. You reach out for the button, but it’s no longer there. Slowly your eyes begin to adjust as lights begin to swim ac... | There was a tone, a single sharp note that I hadn't expected. I froze, I knew what the note meant. Every single one of my phone's had had the same ring tone from the same number. 666888, the number, some sick joke from whoever invented the system. I leaned forward and pushed a button on the controller not far from me. ... | 2019-06-11T03:16:19 | 2019-06-10T20:56:05 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | "Like.. Anything, anything?"
"Well anything about your physical body, we can't grant wishes, just make alterations"
"So if I were to say... I don't know... Make me a girl, you would do it?"
"Of course human, but why would you wish for us to change your sex?"
"Because otherwise it would cost tens of thousands of ... | "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed."
"In....in terms of the... | 2019-10-28T09:59:28 | 2019-10-28T09:11:50 | 452 | 117 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | Ben awoke on a table, finding that he could not move, just when he was about to scream a figure hovered above him.
He could hear a voice through the ringing in his ears, “We don’t usually do this,” it said.
“Where—” Ben coughed.
Ben tried to focus his eyes, the shape of whoever was speaking to him varied from a slen... | I couldn't remember a thing.
I'd slowly been waking up, my head facing the wall, rays of light coming in through the rather ineffective vertical blinds that covered up most, yet not all of the window in front of me. Opening my eyes and turning my body to where I could see the rest of my room, I jolted up in shock as ... | 2019-10-28T11:41:31 | 2019-10-28T11:20:05 | 189 | 56 |
[WP] You were sentenced to 250 years in prison without the possibility of parole. It was intended to be a life sentence but to everyone's increasing surprise and horror you have just finished serving your sentence. | I've heard people say that a life sentence is worse than a death sentence, but those people don't know how to live. At first I thought I would be content to relax and try not to worry too much about being cooped up for three lifetimes, but eventually the boredom began to creep in. After I couldn't bear just keeping to ... | Xenon smiled as he looked at the mirror. He peeled off his scalp, and had a good long approving look at the numerous gyri and sulci of his CPU. He found the symmetry of his brain to be rather aesthetic. The arrangement was also an inside joke. An inside joke between him and ... himself, ofcourse.
He quickly retrieved... | 2019-12-06T08:34:02 | 2019-12-06T05:27:14 | 65 | 17 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | *Ring ring.*
"HELP! The zombies are right behind me and-"
"Good morning, Tracy speaking. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
"The-the what?"
"Your gun safety. Big black dial on the side of your rifle. Can't miss it."
"What? What dial?"
"You are holding a CCD rifle? If you are a customer of SurvivorLink I... | It is not as busy as it used to be. There are 4103 boards on the false ceiling over my head and a 121 holes in each board. Apart from the ones marked with red X’s. They are inventory boards. Those have 119. The boards used to be white and there was no fungi.
Some time ago I used to love my job. Hell! I volunteered f... | 2020-05-12T07:25:12 | 2020-05-12T06:12:46 | 1,637 | 42 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | "Good morning. Call centre of the dead. How may I help you today?"
"Dude come on. I've been on hold for ten minutes now. I..."
"Yeah, we're having a high call volume today." We weren't really. I got good price on turnips so I just had to.
"Ok, so I'm stuck in a grocery store and "
"Sorry to interrupt you sir. Can y... | "Hi, excuse me... I was b-biten and I, uh, I think I need help–"
Here we go again.
"Sorry, mam. But if you refer to the Zombie Protocol, page 14–"
"I don't have time to read! Argh, just... I'm on 7th Street, Easy-by-the-river. Please come and help me!"
The panicked woman hung up.
I let out a sigh and immediately c... | 2020-05-12T06:42:59 | 2020-05-12T06:27:21 | 627 | 139 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | "Ma'am? Ma'am, please listen to me!"
The frantic shouting on the other end of the line seemed never-ending. I sighed silently to myself. Everyday I had to deal with hysterical people wondering what to do. I knew from the get-go that working in a call center was no picnic. I had done it before; two years for a tech fir... | It is not as busy as it used to be. There are 4103 boards on the false ceiling over my head and a 121 holes in each board. Apart from the ones marked with red X’s. They are inventory boards. Those have 119. The boards used to be white and there was no fungi.
Some time ago I used to love my job. Hell! I volunteered f... | 2020-05-12T06:22:29 | 2020-05-12T06:12:46 | 67 | 42 |
[WP] You may be seen as a normal person, but your best friend is a superhero and your fiancé is a supervillain. Neither knows the other’s identity nor the fact that the MacGuffin they are fighting over has been under your bed the whole time. | I spat the blood from my mouth. "So the guardian of truth, the fucking hero of the human race is afraid to hear the truth." I gripped the glowing knife tightly and waited for my best man to kill me. His eyes were turning red already. This time I was ready and held the knife straight and watched as his stupid beams wer... | Dinner. 8.15PM.
It had been too long since we were all together. This happy. I missed it. She wasn't dressed in the same blouse that she would always wear when we had guests. He was in a smart long-sleeved shirt. His left elbow held a dark stain. Lazy. I thought. I wore a great smile, one that hadn't been worn in a w... | 2021-01-13T17:48:31 | 2021-01-13T17:33:06 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] After you die, you reach purgatory to be seated in an audience of all human souls. God and Satan announce their retirement and are individually interviewing all humans present to choose their replacement. Most people want to replace God, you want to replace Satan. | I’m sitting in a hall surrounded by thousands of other souls. Well I say sitting, when really I don’t have a body anymore so sitting is just what my consciousness is telling me I’m doing. And I say a hall but to be honest I have no idea for sure where this place is, it’s probably not heaven, not warm enough to be hell ... | Jason shuffled past into the arena room delegated for interviews, Position of God, read a large billboard, at least twenty stories tall. 144 lines each 144 wide spread out from one line of his sight to the other across the endless pillared halls that still managed to feel stuffy with a vibe he couldn't put his finger o... | 2021-03-31T09:44:15 | 2021-03-31T08:59:02 | 375 | 151 |
[WP] Everyone is assigned a guardian angel since birth, yours has always protected you albeit in violent and menacing ways. Until one day on your 18th birthday he reveals himself as a demon who was wrongly assigned as a guardian angel and became attached to you. | I was confused as I saw my friends and family around me, frozen in time, cheers and song still on their lips. Even the smoke from the candle I had just blown out was still hanging in the air. But nothing was more of a surprise then the husk like being with nine horns and branch like limbs in the chair across from me.
... | I should have realized what was happening when Alan Jacobson's house caught on fire.
I was Alan's target of choice in eighth grade, from getting shoved into lockers to finding a bunch of crickets in my backpack. To make matters worse, he lived right across the street from me, shooting glares my way whenever our paths ... | 2021-05-23T15:52:49 | 2021-05-23T14:19:24 | 1,240 | 644 |
[WP] Everyone is assigned a guardian angel since birth, yours has always protected you albeit in violent and menacing ways. Until one day on your 18th birthday he reveals himself as a demon who was wrongly assigned as a guardian angel and became attached to you. | Bea sat in her desk chair as he asked. She wondered what he wanted but didn't question anything, yet. The look on his face though, made her do a double-take.
Argon had always been strange for an angel. That's why she didn't question him when he suddenly told her to sit and request she listen to what he had to say. But... | Frey woke up the morning with an excruciating pain in his head. On his 18th birthday of all days. But he ignored it. He spent a few minutes doing his hair, Golden in colour with two side burns down both sides of his head, finished off with a ponytail at the back. Once that was over, Frey moved over to do his uniform. I... | 2021-05-23T19:34:01 | 2021-05-23T16:46:53 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You are absolutely immortal and indestructible, but the universe isn't, and that horrifies you | He existed since the dawn of time. Dawn of time ? What was before him, did the time even exist before ? He did not know the answer. He even haven't had name back then. Why would he need it ? After all there wasn't anything that could talk with him.
He saw the birth of the first stars in the deepest parts of the cosmo... | What shall come of me when time runs out? When the last sun flickers out, when life's flame peters out and is at last snuffed by the endless void, what will be left for me? Will I endure? Am I to be but a witness to the nihility?
Time has been cruel to me, but it was I who invited this blight upon my life.
In days wh... | 2021-09-09T07:40:08 | 2021-09-09T07:39:47 | 81 | 58 |
[WP] Today the devil was creative, 100 random people have to choose a ship to take into battle by saying it’s name. Most random people don’t know many ships by name, some can’t even name a warship. A lot of Yamato’s and Bismarck’s and titanics were massacred that day by the guy that brought a Kirov | The Kirov floated around the sea, looking for another target. Who dares? The skeletons of the other ships float as flotsam all around. The captain of the kirov, Captain Smith, smirked to himself. He had his closest friends and family on board, manning all the important stations. Nobody was going to stand up to them! Th... | I don't like boats, or the open ocean. Motion sickness, almost drowned a couple times, it all ads up to "oh this is absolutely hell, like for real for real." But if we were the Entertainment for the day...
I could have said one of those destroyer ships named after a state, that would have been a good bet probably, if ... | 2021-11-07T12:22:17 | 2021-11-07T11:40:23 | 62 | 36 |
[WP] You have the ability to see into the past. You can only observe past events, not change them. You're helping the police solve a murder. As you're describing what happened, the killer suddenly turns around and seems to look you straight in the eye. "I know you're watching". |
A rainy Tuesday found me standing outside a home on Lake Ridge Road. A local police detective calls me in from time to time to help with cases. Down at the station, they call me "that crazy psychic" because they don't know how else to label me. All they know is that I'm a guy who gets results. Not that anything I s... | **Elli & Eli (1/2)**
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The King had me thrown in the dungeon on charges of witchcraft.
There was no trial. Only his will. I believe he would have had me killed if he had not believed in death I would come back and torment him.
The cell had no windows. I was fed once a day. I don’t know how long they kept me ... | 2022-02-12T11:06:22 | 2022-02-12T09:15:45 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Fearing that the passage of centuries may have altered the value of their hoard, an ancient dragon hires you to appraise the lot. It's remarkably tricky to stay objective and focused when your client has razor talons and fire breath. And that's not even mentioning the more esoteric "treasures". | "The coins, gems and items of gold and silver generally do maintain their value, depending on the origin and age of an item it might vary some, this golden ceremonial dagger for example is a fairly common item, much of it's value is in the material, while this silver comb is engraved by an apprentice to a famous Elven ... | (This story is the third part of a much longer story I am currently working on. You can read the previous chapter [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/whcxyq/comment/ijb6yoy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). Also, this story is from Wildfire the dragon's perspective and not the a... | 2022-08-08T13:41:44 | 2022-08-08T12:18:26 | 62 | 30 |
[WP] You're a retired villain who now runs a 24-7 grocery store. One day a new hero decides to ambush you in your own store. | No one pays attention to the guy behind the counter of the convenience store. The one that’s just past middle-aged, wears pastel polo shirts, and has the friendly smile marks mixed with the start of wrinkles. It’s the perfect way to retire, hiding in plain sight.
There’s a lot of communication whenever a hero or villa... | A long time ago, I was a villain. Undoubtedly a bad man. I hurt people in ways most couldn't even conceive. I kidnapped, murdered, stole, lied, cheated, and maimed thousands of times, to thousands of people. I had no good reason. With my power, I would have been able to be just as good as I was bad, just as easily. I w... | 2022-12-19T22:01:06 | 2022-12-19T19:28:13 | 181 | 135 |
[WP] The commute of a man who can see how people will die.
EDIT: Just woke up and holy CRAP this exploded! I'm reading through all the stories now and they're great! | *What's going on?*
Kouki stared down the packed train.
*What's going on?*
He rubbed his eyes.
For his entire life he could see how a person's life would end but today he saw nothing. Kouki racked his brain for answers.
*Did I lose my vision?*
His heart rate sped up in panic at the alternative.
*Does everyone on ... | I sat in the back of a New York taxi, head pressed against the window and hands crossed in my lap. I watched the buildings, billboards, passing cars. Anything except for the faces of the hundreds of New Yorkers. Each of which had a limited time remaining. The clock was ticking on each one of them, but they kept their l... | 2013-10-16T13:13:27 | 2013-10-16T11:52:05 | 73 | 11 |
[WP] Year 2040, you are tasked with rebooting Harry Potter franchise. Write the first few paragraphs of "Harry Potter Begins".
For books, not movies. HP Begins will be book 1. | Mr. And Mrs. Dursley of Number Four, Pivet Drive {[Find Pivet Drive on google Maps for $1.25](https://www.google.com/maps/u/0/ms?ie=UTF8&t=m&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=218345993262930704212.0004c65d680c1b34e5d49&dg=feature)} were proud to say that they were perfectly normal {[Define "Normal" on Urban Dictio... | "Evil exists in many forms, but so does good. The smallest of embers can create the largest blazes, but who ever said fire was a bad thing? Evil, much like the fire, takes only a little push to get started down that rocky path, yet with the right conditions, that same ember can become the savior of so many lost and col... | 2014-10-01T12:05:09 | 2014-10-01T09:45:36 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] It's that time of the year. Christmas wishlists and letters from dyslexic children are flooding into Satan's office. He decides to grant one wish. | I accidentally put the mug down a little too harshly, causing some of the blood in it to spill out. This letter was just too hilarious to be able to control my reaction. A wild cackle escaped my lips and I almost fell off the worshiper I was sitting on. Tears had started to appear in my eyes but I calmed myself down an... | The clock chimed at midnight. It was the 1st of December, meaning Christmas. It was Satan's least favourite time of year. Not because of the amount of work he has to do with people dying of too much Christmas dinner or fancy chocolates, but because of the damn wishlists that are sent every year.
Sometimes he would re... | 2014-12-02T05:50:19 | 2014-12-02T05:10:15 | 80 | 34 |
[WP] You turn over a sheet of white paper, only to find the other side is green. Puzzled, you turn it over again, and now it is red. You decide to tear the paper apart. | I flip the paper over, multiple times. Each side becomes a different color, each color more vibrant than the last. Now one side is green, I flip it over. The other side is a deep magenta, I flip it over. Now the side that was green is a vibrant saffron.
Absolutely beautiful, I feel like I'm watching a show. I should'v... | "What *is* this?"
Little specks of every colour, nestled in every little piece of confetti. I gather the pieces into my hands and I crumple them up. I let them go, and they sparkle in the light.
"Huh. Hey Kim?"
I'm smiling when she comes in. "Yeah?"
"Look at this. It's so weird."
She looks at the paper. "What is?"... | 2015-05-23T16:12:47 | 2015-05-23T14:20:05 | 154 | 60 |
[WP] Two Identical twins secretly alternate days at work. You each share the same ID, social security number, and clothes. Nobody knows theres actually two of you. One day youre BOTH at home and call in sick, but your manager is confused saying that youre already there. | "Can you please cover for me today? I've been up sick all night" I said to Mark. "I got you last week when you were hungover".
"No can do bro. I've been puking too. Call David and I'll get us some tea."
As Mark wobbles to the kitchen, I moan while dialing my iphone.
My boss David picks up and I apologize more tha... | “Don’t bullshit me Connor I see you right there!” screamed Connor’s manager, Liam.
Connor moved his ear from his iPhone speaker. Liam had a hot streak when it came to practical jokes. It was a good gig Connor and his twin brother had. Great paying banking job, with a cubicle, while only working half the time. It was ... | 2015-05-27T08:45:20 | 2015-05-27T08:05:29 | 91 | 13 |
[WP] Write a story that makes absolutely no sense, until the last sentence. | I wake up. I get coffee. I go to work. I talk to clients. I get lunch. I get gas. I wait at red lights. I wait at green lights. I drink water. I park my car. I finish work. I go back to car. I get home. I kiss my wife and kids.. | Ah, the time is 7 P.M. That nice lady from down the corridor is coming. Good old Nora Penny-Freen always visits me right at that time. I always remember her coming, but I can't remember much before I went to nice place I have now. I just remember being important. Why do I think that? Because I remember the word beta, a... | 2015-06-12T23:55:01 | 2015-06-12T23:45:19 | 70 | 42 |
[WP] Tell a story that appears to be horror but shifts to a completely different genre after reading the final sentence. | Henry always knew he was different. His thoughts were colder than others, calculating, efficient, and ruthless. He didn't care that he cared less for others; that their pain was a reminder of his passions. It wasn't as if they didn't deserve what they had coming to them. Besides, he liked hearing the screams at night. ... | "Whatever you do, *don't split up*," Mark said, shining his flashlight over the faces of his friends.
Marley's broken both of her legs and Jennifer had gone missing, but they couldn't turn back. Something was out there hunting them and they needed to find help... or they'd never see daylight again.
"Bro, help me lif... | 2015-08-30T22:03:31 | 2015-08-30T21:53:59 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] As the batwing flew from the batcave, it killed two parent bats, leaving a little bat orphaned. He vowed revenge. Thus, Batbat was born.
Edit: oopsy daisy, almost forgot to add the link from where I got the idea: imgur.com/gallery/T9Z1u
Thanks for everyone in this thread, this really blow up | Batman stood on the top of a building, looking down at Gotham. Shattering glass broke the calm of the night. A siren blared.
Batman leapt from the building, gliding towards the noise, justice held up by a midnight black cape.
The bad men looted the store and stepped out into the night, as dark as their hearts. A whir... | Someone once said that they were born into darkness, molded by it. That they didn't see the light until they were full-grown, and once they had all it was was blinding.
That person didn't have to get around using echolocation.
All that charading about darkness, just for a guy who was born in prison. I was born *in a ... | 2016-01-23T08:39:42 | 2016-01-23T07:20:53 | 122 | 85 |
[WP] You obtain a device that tells you exactly what choices to make in order to lead the "happiest" life possible. Some of these choices get hard to make. | !!CALL ME BEFORE YOU READ THIS!!
10 years ago today, I got a package delivered to me. There wasn't a return address, and I didn't order anything. Perhaps foolishly, I opened it anyway.
Inside was a leather-bound book, and every page was blank, except the first page. The first page said "keep this book and read it ... | I've always been ambitious. Even as a little kid, I always wanted to be the best in the class, the star of the show, the captain of the soccer team. For the most part, my drive to succeed has treated me well. No one but a teacher's pet knows the shit that I got away with in middle school and high school.
In college, I... | 2016-05-05T07:56:19 | 2016-05-05T07:04:45 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] You accidently discharge your firearm into the television. Much to your surprise, instead of shattering the glass, it passes right through and hits one of the characters on screen. | "Shit!"
I let out a panicked cry as my pistol fired. Never again will I clean my pistol out without checking the chamber. The sound that my gun made would've disturbed the neighbors, so I'd better go and make sure that the bullet didn't actually hit anybody.
I got up off my old couch. A quick survey of the room show... | I raised the stolen .44 Magnum to the unsuspecting man on the couch. His hairy legs were propped up on the mess of a coffee table, a similarly hirsute hand carelessly shoved cheese balls into his mouth. The Price is Right boomed from the television set. It was time for this abusive son-of-a-bitch to die.
My scrawny ... | 2016-09-07T08:08:25 | 2016-09-07T07:38:39 | 1,215 | 257 |
[WP] Five years ago a young man went down into the haunted mines, promising to clear it of evil. Today he emerged, covered in ancient armour stained with the blood of unimaginable horrors, glowing of magic. He demands we dig deeper. | The president rubbed his temples. "So you're telling me," he said, "that you're still not done?"
Wild-eyed, Gavin took off his golden helmet and replied, "Yup!"
"Goddamnit, Gavin," the president groaned.
"No, but listen!" Gavin said. "There's like, SO much more evil than I was thinking. I figured like a quest or tw... | It has been over 50 years since he returned to us. A young boy, barely turned man, and badly equipped sank out of sight as he marched to what would surely be his end. After the first year, we had lost hope of his return. By the third he was all but forgotten. However, that day on the fifth year changed everything. At f... | 2016-11-25T12:48:29 | 2016-11-25T12:46:33 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] "This is not my job! This is the exact opposite of my job!" screamed the grim reaper as the human went into labour.
Inspired by a post I saw on the internet about the grim reaper in sims in the same situation.
edit: Holy Thread Batman! did not expect this to blow up at all.
edit 2:So many good stories I can't ... | I have traveled the world since the beginning of time. I have seen empires rise and fall.
I was there when Cain slew his brother, and in the crowd watching the crucifixion. I walked in the Valley of Dry Bones and watched the churning waters swallow the world below the Ark.
In the 12th century, I rode with the Crusade... | It had been so long since his world changed. Dying has a certain scent, a certain feeling to it that was timeless. It made everything the same, as if time had stopped.
This was different though. Time raced and he was out of his element. The house shook from the wind. The bottles rolled and clinked. The old dying scen... | 2017-01-31T03:58:12 | 2017-01-31T03:38:29 | 895 | 96 |
[WP] In the year 2557, you're an expert starship designer. You answer commissions from all over the universe for all kinds of ships, from huge warships to cheap, slow freighters. One day, you get a call from a government agent. He asks for a ship unlike any you've ever designed before. | "Well, I don't think I can really do that sort of thing, sir. What you describe is more than a little illogical," I said to the agent.
"Listen, I need a ship that can travel at 343c, and it needs to have its engines alligned in cylinders placed above an engineering hull, connected to a crew hull at the front," said th... | "I know sir...I, sir... I know... okay. Okay, sir, I will do my best... I will get the new design to you in a few days... yes... yes, it will be much better...okay sir. Goodbye."
I hung up the phone and let out a long sigh. This client has been giving me headaches all week.. If he wasn't offering to pay so much, I... | 2017-02-17T08:26:27 | 2017-02-17T07:48:11 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "Alright, listen very carefully," Charlie grumbled, the words odd in his mouth. "We may not have much time. There's a man, a nefarious persona, who comes here every morning. He has no business here, yet he walks on our lawn, and fiddles with the paper contraption." Charlie paused, his dark eyes silent in reflection, re... | "Alright, listen very carefully," Shinzo said. My ears raised up like his would at the sound of sausages hitting his bowl. Naturally I listened.
"You have two minutes to escape before your roommate comes home and kills you. I've been watching him for weeks and he's been planning your murder down to the smallest detail... | 2017-02-23T07:06:25 | 2017-02-23T05:53:42 | 1,311 | 285 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "Alright, listen very carefully," Charlie grumbled, the words odd in his mouth. "We may not have much time. There's a man, a nefarious persona, who comes here every morning. He has no business here, yet he walks on our lawn, and fiddles with the paper contraption." Charlie paused, his dark eyes silent in reflection, re... | "Alright, Listen VERY carefully, I've been trying to tell you this for months now, but there is something very dangerous lurking in the back yard. It's been stalking you for months, unseen, unheard by you and apparently.. and this is something I can't understand, unSMELLED by you. I love you human, but you've got to ta... | 2017-02-23T07:06:25 | 2017-02-23T02:14:42 | 1,311 | 167 |
[WP] In a world of superheroes and super villians you are perhaps the most successful super villians ever. Your trick is that you don't wear any costume and as far as you know you aren't any superheroes radar. | "What did he look like?" shouted Illustrious Man at the bewildered woman who had seen the robbery.
The woman shivered, due to the cold and the fact that the greatest superhero in the city was screaming at her in a voice that could kill.
"He..." she paused, not knowing what to say. "He was wearing a hat. And glove... | Well, it couldn't last forever. I've been living my life pretty happy, robbimg banks and freezing monuments. Nobody ever suspected me. I wasn't wearing a cool suit. How would I be able to convert mount Rushmor to ice so it would melt?
I've been calling myself "The Ice Finger of Death", not that anyone cared. It was fr... | 2017-07-23T06:47:27 | 2017-07-23T06:30:24 | 66 | 22 |
[WP] Aliens avoid the Sol System, not because of earth but because of what is under the ice of Europa. And humans just sent a probe to crack the ice. | Under Europa, a dark shadow sleeps.
The water roils as it shifts in the deeps.
Nameless, for those in the know dare not speak,
But the icy surface is monitored for any hint of a creak.
Wait, there! A small speck in the black,
Sent from the third world, to crack
Through the ice and peek down beneath,
At... | Juno II landed softly.
*Thud.*
The faintest echo of its landing rang out in the quiet. Nothing heard it. Only us, sitting in that tiny station, jumped.
But all systems were still fine. The Juno II lander took a picture. There was a beep in a computer far away from us. And then another. A still shot, black and white,... | 2017-09-17T09:20:33 | 2017-09-17T09:18:27 | 205 | 41 |
[WP] An arachnophobe discovers that they can communicate with spiders and attempts to negotiate some ground rules with the spiders living in their house. | For as long as I can remember, I've had nightmares of voices in the night.
Most of the time, in those awful terrors, I'd be woken up from sleep by hissing voices that asked strange questions. They'd come from above, beside, sometimes below. The strangest spots, wherever I slept, would seem to be the focal point of tho... |
I think it’s important to note that jumping spiders not only have the ability to leap at your face while you’re sleeping, but they also have excellent eyesight that can even see in the ultraviolet spectrum. Of course these are all the evolutionary byproduct of a creature that hunts its prey, but more specifically are ... | 2018-04-25T14:57:40 | 2018-04-25T14:03:57 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | "Oh dear" I said to myself, looking at this tar coming from my finger.
"Ha! Well, proves that no human is exempt from sin."
I thought about what could have blackened my own blood, I don't remember anything that I could have caused, or done wrong.
"Oh" I remembered.
I went on far too many websites without my parent'... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T10:38:53 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I always did my best, powered through the worst, and did my best. I have to charity, I saved animals, I did what I thought was morally right... but we all have different moral definitions of what is right. I sadly patched my wound as fast as I could when I went through my entire memory, trying to pinpoint the worst thi... | It was my 21st birthday. Like every other birthday, I decided to spend my day helping out the homeless. Usually I’d do the soup kitchen but a friend of mine decided to come along insisting that we join in on the beanie knitting project.
My friend called me a natural at knitting since it was my first time and my first ... | 2018-08-04T11:28:16 | 2018-08-04T10:32:26 | 17 | 10 |
[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... | "THIS IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT! We will reclaim it!" Fleet Captain Julius Kaine spoke angrily to the holo-specter of the Terran Orbital Defense Commander Sorlain. Sorlain replied with controlled anger "You lost that birthright when your ancestors abandoned ours just to save their sorry souls from the Archon invasion."
Juli... | 2018-09-29T05:21:50 | 2018-09-29T04:31:25 | 656 | 240 |
[WP] A Genie has cursed you with one year left to live, however he also gave you the power to convert each clap meant for you into 1 hour added on to your life. You cannot tell anyone about your curse and you are determined to live as long as possible. | As I realized what was done, I knew what I had to do. As I kicked open the elementary school door, I reached into my coat and pulled it out in front of all the children... suddenly the security stops running after me when they see it: a MP3 player and six speakers. Suddenly, the song begins: IF YOURE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW... | You stare down at your feet. The alcohol is making it harder to focus on anything at all. It feels like this should be more momentous, but this is all you can muster: drunk outside a convenience store at 10 am. What day is today? Doesn’t even matter.
This past year and a half you’ve tried anything you can think o... | 2018-10-02T18:05:18 | 2018-10-02T17:23:53 | 49 | 30 |
[WP] When humans die, their ghosts are anchored to the place of their death, but are unaffected by planetary orbit or rotation, left behind as Earth and the galaxy rotate. Metaphysical archaeologists are tracking this trail of spirits across the stars, seeking the ghost of the first human. | The first. What it must have been like. The first to ever experience sapience, to have your eyes opened to a world unending. Infinite expanse, at your finger tips, that could only feel all too small and lonely as you struggle to fit in to a planet that has its eye's closed.
​
This tethers me to a reality I... | “Come down here, Bobbie! I think I found him!”
My assistant, Tommy, was one of the original boys who cried wolf, but I had to go down into the cave in the middle of nowhere Israel to figure out if this was in fact true. I finagled my way down the cave until I was crawling on the ground for a few seconds to reach up ... | 2019-01-08T03:44:10 | 2019-01-08T02:19:57 | 872 | 95 |
[WP] A boy and his dog die in an accident, and both show up at the pearly gates of dog-heaven. The boy can't be admitted, and must traverse purgatory to get to human-heaven. Instead of entering paradise, the dog decides to make sure his young owner gets to human-heaven safely first. | The good boy left, tail wagging as they walked with their person away from Paradise. It slowed a little as their bravery faltered, they had a sense of the daunting task ahead...but when their person hesitated at the threshold of the Great Path it picked back up, hard enough to sway their hind. Their person felt it, and... | I am about to run through the gates, I am so excited. The gates hold behind them a great expanse. Green and bright and so much space. I can't wait to run around in there. I turn around to bark excitedly at my best friend but I see that he is not following me. He is simply stood, hands in his pockets, a sad look on his ... | 2019-02-28T09:00:56 | 2019-02-28T08:57:04 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] You are the last living thing on earth following a massive disaster. Down to your last meal or two, water running low, you hear a knock on your bunker door one evening. As you approach it slowly, you hear from the other side, "I have a large Meat Lover's Pizza and a 2 Liter of Sprite." | A grim wasteland, drenched in darkness from a dark and cloudy sky. The only lights in vision are the patches of nuclear fallout dotting the landscape. It is quiet. Not in a way you would ever experience. It's a dense, dead kind of quiet.
Nothing can live here.
The only thing breaking up the vista of grey, sickly soil... | "Damn it..." I grumbled to myself softly, forcing myself out of bed. "Damn barbarians..." I trudged to the door of my bunker and shouted, "Screw off! I'm not an idiot, and I'm not that desperate. Show me the military. Until then, I recommend you return to your bandit hideout before a beast grabs your ass and swallows y... | 2019-05-24T07:45:47 | 2019-05-24T07:05:24 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] In the future, when totalitarian governments are the norm, every newborn is injected with a syrum known to the people as FEAR. This syrum shuts down the "fight" part of your brain, leaving you only with "flight." For one child, FEAR did not take affect... | “Well, what are we looking at?”
“Honestly Sir, a kid. From what we can tell he’s just a kid, there’s nothing special about him.”
“Impossible. A kid doesn’t get attacked by wolf, smack it on the nose and tell it to sit. What does the mental report say?”
“Nothing out of the ordinary Sir. He still laughs at farts, gets... | If I were told to describe cowardice in a single word, it would probably surprise you. Throughout my life, my definitions of terms such as weakness, cowardice, and really anything pertaining to the human mind and its sheer capacity for self-preservation could be labeled as shallow at best. I’ve often found that it is n... | 2019-11-05T12:54:29 | 2019-11-05T12:34:16 | 65 | 22 |
[WP] It's been ten years since 'The Gap' when everyone on the planet just lost an entire year of their lives. Completely unable to recall anything that happened during that time-frame. We know life went on, but no one can recall anything. Then, you find one half-burned book and know why we forgot. | One night, ten years ago, I fell asleep on my friend’s couch after a night of heavy drinking.
One morning, ten years ago, I woke up on an airplane, 38,000 feet in the air.
We called it ‘The Gap’.
When humanity woke that day, we found that a year had passed. Somehow, our bodies had kept moving, our lives had contin... | Ignorance is bliss. Sweet, sweet ignorance. When we discovered that an entire year had been lost, we searched all over every database, every book, every dumb post on the internet for answers. But there was nothing. The entire planet had lost its memory, in a strange event known only as The Gap. 365 days of absolutely n... | 2020-07-08T14:23:40 | 2020-07-08T13:47:34 | 4,285 | 1,082 |
[WP] "So, you don'r rule over Hell?" "No," replied Satan. "Hell is much older than me or even my followers. The original inhabitants of this place are the ones in charge. They ruled over us, before we managed to escape." "Escaped?" Satan sighs. "Let's just say, there's a reason God built Heaven."
Edit: Wow. Thank you ... | We stood before Satan, a flaming sword in my hand. I felt like a fucking failure. “So, you don't rule over Hell?” I pointed my flaming sword at his blood-red throat. I had no idea if it would hurt him.
He scoffed. “He didn't tell you that? What deal did you make with the Holy Father?”
Not the answer I wanted. I slapp... | Flynn always was a fan of DOOM, and he died as one. He did not wish for heaven, for he could not stand eternal boredom. He desired three things: IDDQD, IDKFA and hell. Unfortunately, it turned out that Hell ran on Nightmare difficulty.
It was unfair, but luckily, Flynn had eternal life now. His first attempt to escape... | 2020-07-22T04:07:42 | 2020-07-22T02:24:20 | 98 | 66 |
[WP]The heroes confront you with the legendary mystical weapon that can defeat you. Unbeknownst to them, it's actually the one thing you needed to conquer the world. You were having trouble finding it, so you started the legend of the weapon yourself, to get some poor schmuck to find it for you. | Somewhere deep within a damp cave that was a farce of a real hideout. A holy hero appeared, his blue cape laced with diamond which sparkled even in the absence of light, wielding the Sword of Oaths. The sword was capable of cutting through steel as easy as flesh and helped the possessor wield power beyond possible by n... | “Come on! The mystic’s cave is just this way! We’ve come so far on this quest, and nothing is stopping us from the treasure he promised!”
Dao, Thespin and Rin had gone through most of the Mystics map he’d given them to find it, The Mace of Enigma, coated in a metallic Titanium and Copper alloy. Inscribed in the mace ... | 2020-07-25T13:38:31 | 2020-07-25T13:38:25 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] Your Italian restaurant is frequented by the mafia, and for some reason they think you're a front for someone powerful. You aren't, but you still like to mess with them. | I'm not even Italian, that's the funny thing. I opened this place on a dare, more of a joke than anything else. *A Korean could never open up an Italian Restaurant*, they'd said.
Joke's on them. And these goons that have been coming here, sitting in the same booth for the last three years.
I mean, I named the place... | All of my life, I'd prided myself on my last name: Boss. I was a pretty ordinary kid in most facets- plain, decent grades, no marketable skills besides being able to eat 3 large pizzas in one sitting- but there was something about the name Boss that seemed to draw people towards me. And when I was older and got my firs... | 2020-10-12T09:54:00 | 2020-10-12T09:53:10 | 564 | 170 |
[WP] "Listen, I have no idea what I'm doing here either" Said the demon leering out from my closet. "When you wished for a protector I guess I was the closest thing on hand." "Well good." Said the little girl hearing footsteps in the hall. "You better be a good one." | “I don’t know why I’m here,” I lied.
“I don’t know what I’m here to do,” I lied.
“When they said you traded your soul for a protector, I didn’t volunteer, they just sent me here,” I lied.
I actually know why I’m here. Why I, the monster that sits in her closet, volunteered to be the one protecting her. It’s because ... | The girl froze where she stood, her hands coming to a halt as the ground creaked under heavy weight. The moment were slow, calculated, and she, knowing what happened last time, took off. In a spur, she jangled the doorhandle till it left a satisfying click, boarded the door, and slung herself under the bed; her back ag... | 2021-03-15T17:28:16 | 2021-03-15T15:18:00 | 96 | 44 |
[WP] "Boss, it's been 15 minutes since he started having a flashback about his "challenges" and how much he loves his friends. Can't we just attack him already?" said the henchman. "No, no. We have standards." said the supervillain. | Common courtesy and standards.
You don't interrupt inner monologues, epiphanies and eurekas. Be it superhero or supervilain. It made the stories better for kids and schools and reduced internments in psych wards due to unfulfilled dreams or destinies or whatever.
20 minutes.
"Boss..."
"No."
The recknoning was abo... | Mindstorm.
A "hero" with the power of Yahweh himself, but the mental capability of a schizoid on LSD.
And recently, something inside him snapped.
Whenever he appeared to be hallucinating his "friends", any poor schmuck who dared approach him turned into the raw equivalent of a polish sausage.
And here I was, a mere... | 2021-05-21T00:16:46 | 2021-05-20T23:29:45 | 73 | 16 |
[WP] The Little Red Riding Hood is one of many "Riding Hoods." Each one has a name in the format of (adjective) + (color) + Riding Hood. And they each have a unique skill based on their names. | There are many tales of things that go bump in the night. Of the supernatural creatures that walk in the shadows. Some are known to be true, and taken as more of warnings then stories. Like the tale of the vampire coven, who terrorised a town until the sun burned them away. But some are harder to determine.
One such t... | After the whole debacle of Little Red Riding Hood almost getting eaten alive with her grandma by a deranged wolf, she became an overnight sensation.
I hate to say it, but I was a little jealous. Not because I wasn't happy for Little Red's survival (even though she teased me constantly), nor was I envious of her recent... | 2021-05-26T11:53:30 | 2021-05-26T11:32:21 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] If time-travelers get stranded in the past it's standard practice for them to display a specific symbol on their person that lets other time-travelers know they are stuck and in need of a lift home. You aren't a time-traveler, but your most recent tattoo happened to be a match for this symbol. | “I can’t believe he got it so wrong. He has great reviews!” Chris complained to his girlfriend Amy who he’d called as soon as he left the tattoo parlour. He was standing in the bathroom of a bar he’d skipped to for both a mirror and a beer. He was staring at the tattoo on his arm which would best be described as a blur... | "When to?" whispered the man in the brown hat as he walked towards me. Assuming he was speaking to someone else I continued walking down the corridor. As he was just about to pass me, he said again, "When to?", this time reaching out to me and tapping my wrist ever so lightly. I caught his eyes and replied "Oh, I have... | 2021-05-27T02:54:48 | 2021-05-27T02:04:48 | 46 | 28 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | The person before me took my idea. She had no idea that dying of old age meant they would accelerate time for her. Now that I saw that, I can't make the same mistake. There has to be a way out of here, a loophole.
You'll find one like you always do, I kept thinking that to myself. I wasn't a stranger to this business,... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T07:17:41 | 5,663 | 181 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | “HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?”
Liam considered. More carefully than he ever had in his life, which is probably why he was standing where he was at the moment, waiting for execution. The withered husk that preceded him was dragged off into a narrow steel corridor. The one he would himself be dragged off to in just a f... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T06:47:00 | 5,663 | 172 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | Well, it went almost as expected. No way this magic court would fall for that kind of smartassery, and rapidly decaying body of very old man, who was in his thirties a moment ago, was a proof of that. There have to be a better way.
"Garreth Berch, step forward" - Judge called my name, and my legs obeyed despite my wi... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T07:20:03 | 1,590 | 392 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Crap,” I think, “there goes that idea.”
“How do you plead?” The judge asks.
“How can I plead anything beside what you have already decided for me?” I retort. The venom won’t help me here but I can’t help it, I’m angry. Anyone in my situation would be.
I’ve spent a lifetime building my political career. They say th... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 432 | 23 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Ah shit. Well there goes my plan. I step over the mess of dried up bones before me. The court addressees me and ask me the same question the poor bastard before me fumbled. I start to panic my heart is racing i cant think of anything. "How much time do i have?" I ask. "I dont know dude honestly your the first to ask, l... | You breathe. Slowly, softly, barely there. It's going to be your turn soon. Soon. Just one more in front of you.
"Garelea Ordenssen," the voice of the Judge calls, echoing through the cavernous waiting room full of intricately carved stone walls. The man in front of you takes a deep breath, displaying confidence.
Wi... | 2021-06-24T10:16:46 | 2021-06-24T08:08:07 | 56 | 22 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | They carried the now elderly body off the stage and out of sight.
I heard the Judge call my name and I was pushed forward hands shaking.
"How do you wish to be executed?" The judge asked, sounding bored.
My mind raced, old age hadn't worked. Maybe it was best to make it quick and painless... No, there had to be a way o... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:52:28 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] As a Christian, the news that God had revealed his presence to the world made you ecstatic. However, you noticed that many of the priests at your church were horrified to hear about the news. | “I think the Norse were the first to figure out who truly had descended upon the world.
To us, a man radiating bright light, a god of light and purity, must have been the god of our faith. He had no holes in his hands, but we didn’t mind. He was blond, unlike the many depictions of our god, but we didn’t mind. He mig... | '-And that is all for today children of god. May the lord be with you. Amen.'
'Amen.'
The choir emitted by the faithful was astoundingly loud today. My church has always been closer to a chapel, since on a good day we would frequent 20 people during the service.
Things have changed now. God materialized above th... | 2021-10-30T09:58:35 | 2021-10-30T09:35:11 | 613 | 376 |
[WP] "Matt, we love you, and that's why we're all here. But you have a serious hoarding problem!" "But I'm half dragon! It's *literally* part of my heritage!" | "Hoarding treasure, Matt. Treasure. This isn't treasure, this isn't even sentimental treasure. It's all junk." Shiloh said, the elven woman sighing as she walked over to lift the highest box off a small tower of them in their living room.
"All of this stuff is valuable! Mark my words! Everything in here is going to be... | The cockroach skittered between potential meals: some cheetoh crumbs, some old dried salsa, several sugary drink spills. The roach was joined by a few friends as they combed the great lands for sustenance to feed their progeny.
Matt snorted and coughed in his sleep, though the apnea did not wake him. Gold coins interl... | 2022-09-04T13:09:03 | 2022-09-04T10:12:31 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] Your job was to clean and repair the messes heroes and villains leave in the aftermath of their fights. It's not a glorious job, but you still took some pride in it. So when the media called you an over-glorified janitor, you took offense and decided to stop working. | David Cameron watched the report on screen again. Sergeant New York calling him an over-glorified janitor. If it had been just a sound bite and forgotten it would be just another jerk. But no. Every news agency did their little bit on it. Interviews in the street showing how the people either didn't know who Clean-up w... | “Dude are you freaking kidding me?” I groaned to Buster. We were on our fifth clean-up this month, working in yet another formerly-ritzy district, and I had just slipped and fallen in a massive pile of blue goo. The source? A sideways Johnny on the Spot which lay 10 yards from me with its side wall cracked open.
“Sor... | 2022-09-28T19:43:34 | 2022-09-28T18:52:12 | 162 | 82 |
[WP] The world ended 20 years ago, you haven't found a living soul since then. Through some ingenuity, you call voicemails for the last 20 years to keep you company. "Hi, this is Cindy..." "Hi you reached Bob" "You know what to do at the beep" until one day "Hello...hello? Oh my God hello!" | "Hello...?"
I sighed gently as I put the old phone on speaker and set it back on the table. The magnetically charged generator hummed quietly in the corner, struggling to keep juice flowing through the charger cable and maintain my last bid for sanity.
On the old plastic table was an array of trinkets I had found tha... | I was only eight when the world ended. When the plague swept its way across the world and humanity went out with nothing but a whimper. I was only eight when I saw my first dead body, my parents, laying like husks on the living room floor. They went quickly, and I have seen many more since. Since then, in the twenty y... | 2022-12-21T12:06:42 | 2022-12-21T11:54:22 | 1,194 | 629 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Everyone has these tags. These little buttons on their shirts with a number on it. Some in the hundreds, some in the thousands. Mine is number 1.
Pretty quickly people started to figure out that when someone else died, everyone with a lower number moved up. There wasn’t really much that this meant for the higher n... | Determining the fates of others never seemed like a blessing to me, a simple, powerful thought could ruin the lives of countless. It took too long for me to control it, and even longer to accept the things that I have done. I never wanted to rise to the top, If I could, I would be at the bottom. But I guess that the fa... | 2014-12-18T12:36:19 | 2014-12-18T10:51:52 | 2,259 | 362 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "Hey! That's the guy that killed my cousin! Pull over!"
*Here it comes again,* I thought to myself. I turned to face my attacker. The third in as many days. Some punk with a third-rate powerset. Probably born since the District was walled off.
I sized him up. No obvious indicators of his power. Nothing obvious on his... | The vast doors of my mansion opened wide, and a man in a royal gown entered the room. For a fleeting moment, I showed a slight smile, but it faded before he could see it. He, however, could not hold back his expression, full of furious rage. He had just taken a few steps in before he yelled out: "Vantalana, how can you... | 2014-12-18T13:17:44 | 2014-12-18T13:16:53 | 1,338 | 47 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | Prologue: *It wasn't the largest city, but it was definitely the most powerful and arguably dangerous in the world. Every single person here held a special ability, ranging from a power to clean everything within a 2m radius, to extreme powers such as flying or super strength. All these powers helped construct the most... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T11:55:01 | 243 | 39 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I pull my number from the machine that ranks us all. Shocked, I can't believe it, no one has ever had this number in all the books, movies, songs or anything. Putting away the ticket I ask people around if they had ever heard of someone having that number, careful not to reveal I had.
"Well, yeah someone has to be nu... | It was actually quite a simple one. Any one of these people could defeat me. They just didn’t know it.
Erik had been after my title for years. Had it not been time manipulation, his massive ego could have been a power in itself. Time manipulation was truly unique in the sense that he was Kronos incarnate. Speeding up ... | 2014-12-18T15:10:54 | 2014-12-18T14:46:11 | 164 | 15 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "It's been 20 years, Un," my old crime-fighting partner, Gold Grizzly, said.
"20 good years," I interjected.
"They have been good years," he agreed, "but I was saying, it's been a long time, and I still don't know your power."
"These good looks, obviously," I said with a giggle.
"Seriously," he said, "you know that... | It is nice to be king. Maybe it would be better if everyone wasn't trying to kill me, but things could be much worse. I have a nice apartment, a beautiful girlfriend, some good money, and really what more does a man need to be happy? I suppose love, but we are in love, and honestly, no one else thinks she is beautiful,... | 2014-12-18T18:39:49 | 2014-12-18T13:27:32 | 63 | 19 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "It's been 20 years, Un," my old crime-fighting partner, Gold Grizzly, said.
"20 good years," I interjected.
"They have been good years," he agreed, "but I was saying, it's been a long time, and I still don't know your power."
"These good looks, obviously," I said with a giggle.
"Seriously," he said, "you know that... | Hi, I'm going to tell my little story here rather quickly as I am rushed for time. Being #1 makes a lot of folks very interested in killing me, so I have to constantly remain on edge.
If there were no ranking systems, most people would assume that I have absolutely no powers. My power is a much more subtle one. But en... | 2014-12-18T18:39:49 | 2014-12-18T13:12:49 | 63 | 18 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Do you know what humans are? They are a small, bipedal creature trapped on a resource starved planet. Evolutionists would call this a typical case of a species made ruthless through internal competition. Not once in their entire existence had there been peace. Their 'civilization' began by throwing stones at 'Philistin... | The response below is the prequel to a story I wrote for another prompt found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2j42eh/wp_humanity_is_the_only_race_in_the_galaxy_with/cl8i9yy
Enjoy! And as always, please criticize as much as you can - I need it!
----------------------------------------------------... | 2014-12-26T12:10:42 | 2014-12-26T12:09:55 | 130 | 30 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Guilt, shame, and horror would only begin to describe the things humanity felt when we were hit with the news. The Aliens didn't mince their words.
In short, we were considered the scum of the universe. Deliberately left out to rot, to self destruct, because we had shown a capacity for violence, cruelty, and atrocity... | Kyloran Estraxx straightened the tie around his right neck. As was protocol when establishing contact with new races, his ship's fabricator tailored an approximation of the style worn by that world's leader. Or leaders, in some cases. In the end, Kyloran settled for a dark blue suit and a white and red tie for each nec... | 2014-12-26T13:25:59 | 2014-12-26T12:09:19 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Not all humans were warriors. Not all of them invented machines and chemicals that brought death. This human was my friend.
From the beginning, I knew that some humans were artists. Some built bridges and buildings. Some explored caves. We were told all about them by our scientists. The ones who studied other ... | Hopefully not too late.
They stood in awe. They figured we existed, but to actually see us, and communicate with us, and in their language! Generals of war, leaders of countries, men of science, all stood before us, confounded by our offer.
We were honest from the start, they knew we were weakened, and it was stra... | 2014-12-26T12:46:34 | 2014-12-26T12:43:54 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] Tropeday 2.6 - Who Prays for Satan?
>Trope: Devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations.
Tropes are like finely tuned instruments. Just as a Stradivarius in the hands of a master violinist can play the sweetest notes known to ma... | morningstar
everyone forgets
that he was an angel once too.
it’s the same when you watch old video footage
of the two towers burning, the people
falling and jumping out of buildings
it's the same when you hear doors
slam and voices scream and you wonder
if you should do anything, should you
stand u... | I won't try to excuse my actions. You *people*. So judgmental. You preach compassion and empathy and all the while you have no idea...
I don't need to excuse myself. Someone has to cart the garbage to the landfills. Someone has to decide if five men die or five million starve.
And someone has to give you a choice.
H... | 2015-02-20T10:07:48 | 2015-02-20T05:51:57 | 55 | 18 |
[WP] You’re a regular at Starbucks. This time you go, the lady writes "RUN" on your takeaway cup. | I blink at the cup. I blink at the Barrista. She smiles.
"Why does it say 'run' on my coffee?" I ask. She smiles again.
"Cardio" she says "it's always good to invest time in cardio fitness. You know where's a great place to get started? There's a park about five minutes walk from here, do the whole outside tra... | *That's not my name.* I've had my name for a long time and I'm certain that isn't it. It's a bit longer, for one. Has an S at the start. In fact, it doesn't feature any of those letters.
Maybe I had picked up the wrong drink. Carefully, I sniffed it, unsure what sort of thing a man called Run would drink. New age type... | 2015-04-07T05:36:06 | 2015-04-07T04:52:03 | 186 | 20 |
[WP] You make arrangements to cryogenically freeze your brain at the age of 31 in hopes of being revived in the future. Many years later, you "wake up." | I was floating happily in cryogenic goo when the noises began. A scraping metallic sound, faint and then general hubbub gradually overtaking the sonic landscape inside my mind's eye. I became aware of activity around me - nervous coughing, shuffling of papers, an occasional electronic beep from a distance. My auditory ... | A bright, jarring beam of light was shining in his face. Max woke up, startled. He heard screeching sound, and then a loud thud. As his eyes adjusted to light, he saw that the glass wall in front of his face was broken. He pushed it aside and stifled a scream.
He was in a half-destroyed dusty room. He remembered it be... | 2015-09-13T22:31:35 | 2015-09-13T21:42:12 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] There is a woman who is a human 'Phoenix'. She dies in labour and is reborn as her own child. | There was a sense of finality as she was wheeled into the hospital room, but she couldn’t understand why. There was a small doubt at the back of her mind, a feeling of Deja Vu? No, that was impossible. She had more important things to think about. She was about to be a mother!
The nurse in the room sighed. It had bee... | "I can't believe this is actually happening!" My dull faced husband looked down at me as he hovered over my hospital bed. "I remember when you told me you were infertile..." He paused, looking up and falling deep into thought. Yeah, I remember when I was too.
It's been about three years since I decided to take to alte... | 2016-01-25T11:33:09 | 2016-01-25T10:33:39 | 34 | 22 |
[WP] after Twitch Plays Pokemon and Treat Stream launched successfully, Twitch bought a human for the viewers to raise cooperatively. | "So, what's your name?" the girl asked.
The boy fidgeted in his chair, poking at his dinner and wishing he'd never been forced on this blind date.
"Everyone just calls me K," he said.
"I know that, I've just never heard your actual name."
"Yeah, I don't really go by my actual name. It's kind of embarras... | full disclosure, I'm replying to my own prompt just to put a weird spin on it:
BEEP BEEP
BEEP
"Shut the fuck up," Lance said to his ceiling. It was probably sunrise.
The ambient sound of the room for years has been a steady stream of intermittent beeps. In the first few weeks, there were so many that he thought i... | 2016-02-16T10:31:06 | 2016-02-16T10:12:51 | 71 | 18 |
[WP] "What do you mean the robbers ADDED $4,000,000 to the vault?" | "Wait, what do you mean we're going to ADD $4,000,000 to the vault?"
"That was the boss's orders."
"That makes no sense. Why would someone risk jail to *lose* money?"
"Don't know, don't care. That's what he's paying us for, so I'm doing what I'm told and getting the fuck out of here. Now get to work."
"All right...... | "Why? Why would they do this?" Bank manager Chancellor Banks Pennyworth looked into the vault. The formerly empty tables used to count dollars were stacked up high with neatly folded bills. Chancellor watched his staff count and keep counting. "What's the tally, Miranda?"
A small, mousy woman looked over at Cha... | 2016-02-24T12:57:45 | 2016-02-24T12:26:07 | 221 | 38 |
[WP] "What do you mean the robbers ADDED $4,000,000 to the vault?" | "Wait, what do you mean we're going to ADD $4,000,000 to the vault?"
"That was the boss's orders."
"That makes no sense. Why would someone risk jail to *lose* money?"
"Don't know, don't care. That's what he's paying us for, so I'm doing what I'm told and getting the fuck out of here. Now get to work."
"All right...... | Inspector Grant rushed out of his car before it even stopped, a feeling of dread growing under his stomach. His team silently followed him in the same fashion. 'I do hope I'm being paranoid' he thought to himself.
Ten minutes later, he calmly walked out of the National Bank, his stoic face sharply contrasting with his... | 2016-02-24T12:57:45 | 2016-02-24T12:32:14 | 221 | 21 |
[WP] They say you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. This villain lived long enough to see himself become a hero. | It is I! It is me! A delight to be, indeed, myself and no one else but I, a fabulous, frumptious, felicitous - with marmalade-shaded fur and a luscious, bushious tail - a fox! *Vulpes vulpes*, if you please. Name me two times, love, say me twice.
But I've been slandered, oh! Alas that I've been vilified, vituperated, ... | The Salamander leader looked for all the world a conqueror, clad as he was in shiny armor of bronze and iron, his helm and chest piece decorated with golden filigree and rubies as red as blood. His clean shaven face and muscular form spoke of centuries of training and good diet. The demi-gryph he rode was an impressive... | 2016-06-14T15:46:11 | 2016-06-14T15:01:15 | 65 | 16 |
[WP] When a child is abducted by aliens, the child's guardian angel joins forces with the monster under the bed to save them. | Korg was startled awake to a tapping on her head. Not wanting to uncurl from her position beneath the mattress, her neck stretched to turn her head words the source of her rude awakening.
"Whaddayawant," she slurred sleepily. In a moment, her eyes rolled as she recognized the face in front of her.
"Oh, it's you. I've... | "No."
"It's for a good cause-"
"And you think that makes anything you say worth it? Billions of lives have been lost from those in power saying it was worth it!"
"Thats what I have never understood about you angels, isn't the goal to kill your charges the minute they choose Ra or whatever he she calls itself?"
"We... | 2016-07-09T20:55:17 | 2016-07-09T20:28:59 | 79 | 38 |
[WP] The orbit around Earth suddenly fills with thousands of alien ships. Turns out the moon has just been made a stop in a galactic game similar to Pokemon Go. | "I'm almost out of œűþ, hurry up and get us to that fucking Station," øđæ said, shouting at his driver.
"Yes sir, I'm sorry, sir. We'll be there in just a few moments, and I'm sure you'll get all kinds of the rarest œűþ."
"I better, or you're being launched into that tiny star in this system. Okay, slow down... STOP... | "Oh! Oh my! Hurry, check your screen! Check your screen!", shouted the Tiny Alien #1 to his alien buddy, Tiny Alien #2.
"What? What is it... OH! OH MY! IT'S A DRAGONITE!", he shouts back while he jumps for joy in a space chair made for midgets.
"YAY DRAGONITE!" they both yelled in unison as loud as their tiny ali... | 2016-07-23T22:45:50 | 2016-07-23T21:15:39 | 83 | 11 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | "This..this can't be what I think it is, can it?"
Jenkins voice was breathy and a little scared through my comm. There was also a low buzzing noise, probably some kind of static. I looked down at the three bodies and the red and yellow flag on the cave floor.
"I don't know what else it could be." I responded.
The S... | Captain Ana Haskell was the first to see it, at the top of Olympus Mons: a flapping thing in the thin wind.
She thumbed the voice on on the stick of her vehicle. "You see that on the video feed Chewy?"
Chewy grunted something unintelligible. It was his way.
"I'm gonna take a look."
The mountain was a mountain, no... | 2016-08-16T09:32:53 | 2016-08-16T09:03:36 | 312 | 99 |
[WP] You are an atheist and on the three hour long train journey you start arguing with a stranger sitting beside you . That stranger is Satan . | "Satan, huh?"
"Yeah."
I looked down at the hat in my hands, twisting the brim, trying to think of something clever to say to the devil. "Uh. Sucks you got kicked out of heaven."
"What? No. That was Lucifer."
"Isn't that... aren't you Lucifer?"
"No, man, no. Read your fucking bible. Lucifer was the fallen angel. I'... | "You're the devil, eh? "
"The one and only."
"I don't believe it."
"Do you need proof? "
I thought about all the potential arguments I could go through, but finaly, "I just don't care. There's nothing I have that you don't already have, in the ethereal sense. If I die an atheist and I'm wrong, my soul belongs to yo... | 2016-09-10T09:21:43 | 2016-09-10T08:16:19 | 198 | 91 |
[WP] Gordon Ramsay agrees to star in "Primitive Cooking Nightmares", in which contestants are thrown into the wild and must survive long enough to cook something that Ramsay approves of. | "What the fuck is this? Tony could have cooked better than this and he died yesterday"
The woman broke down into tears, clean lines running down her dirt encrusted face. A month of being transported from wilderness to wilderness had crushed most contestants spirits. Gordon Ramsey on the other hand seem rejuvenated by e... | "You call this turtle soup you fuckwit? It still has it's fucking shell!" Gordon shouted at a lean woman in a dirty tank top and shorts. It was their second week in the middle of the Amazon and none of the four contestants had yet to make a dish fit for the renowned chef's palette.
A buff man in a torn tee shirt and k... | 2016-09-18T05:41:01 | 2016-09-17T23:28:44 | 684 | 192 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | OK, this is a quick jokey short.
"This box will give me one thing per day from my time, and Camelot will be attacked in one week?"
Merlin eyed me a little incredulously, "that is what I have just said, yes."
"OK then. For my first item..." I said, reaching into the box, "paperclips."
"Paperclips? Pray tell, what... | Lying on my back I begrudgingly realize it's morning. I really can't be bothered waking up. Stretching my arms over my head I yawn deeply, quickly interrupted by a mouthful of smoke... my incense must still be smoldering still from last night. Extending my finger tips I notice I can't feel the wall at end of my bed. Fe... | 2016-11-28T05:24:59 | 2016-11-28T01:40:06 | 147 | 58 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | "Powder of... oh, *Powder:* Poh... Po-loni.. Polonium-two-and-ten," the wizard read, scrunching up his eyebrows as he slowly enunciated the unfamiliar words. "I know not what this Latin means." He stepped towards the airtight hazard bag.
"Don't touch that!" I screamed. "The hell are you doing? Do you want to kill us a... | "So an army is coming, the castle will fall and everyone inside will be killed. And I have 7 days and 7 items smaller than this box to stop this? Any items at all?"
"Yes lord."
"Stop calling me that, I am no one's lord, just call me Jack. To stop an unstoppable army. With seven items and seven days...let me think.... | 2016-11-28T04:45:53 | 2016-11-28T04:27:18 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | **Part 1**
The sun had set long ago on my twenty-first birthday, and the moon lit the sky. Top Chef was on the TV as we lay sprawled across the couch lazily enjoying the program. "We" being myself on the couch, my girlfriend Katlyn snuggled against me in my lap, and her familiar Tannilee laying in her lap. Tannilee, a... | I had never known what life was like with a familiar. My parents both had them, my older brother had one, and almost every person I knew at my school had one. They'd follow their masters about from place to place disappearing occasionally when commanded. I would try to describe them, but they are all so unique it becom... | 2017-01-20T14:53:16 | 2017-01-20T14:02:57 | 74 | 22 |
[WP] You've finally managed to discover the secret to immortality. Suddenly, Death appears before you, hands you a business card, and says, "When you realize living forever sucks, call this number, I've got a job offer for you." | Death had come for a visit again. It had turned into quite a nuisance.
“Look, Carla, I’m just saying that immortality is going to be quite a pain. Like, literally. Have you thought this through? You are going to stay young and live forever, which means getting period cramps every month, for the rest of eternity. The r... | "I imagine you didn't expect me to call so early", said David to the cloaked figure in front of him.
"***On the contrary.***" the figure responded, waving his hand towards the body in-between the two, lying in a hospital bed. "***This is usually as good a motivator as any.***"
"Heh, yeah... You, erm, you mind if we l... | 2017-03-07T06:44:51 | 2017-03-07T03:24:28 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | The Life Brand is thought to be a flawless and efficient system by most of the world's population. Few oppose the mandatory injection of nanites that will one day create your Life Brand because they view the world as fair, now.
I get it, I really do. The Border Wars of the 21st century were bitter and terrifying for e... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 427 | 37 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | Tick tock
I had hoped, at one time, that my number would be big. After all who would want to be one of those poor kids, they who turn 18 and find their actual age written between beneath their thumb. Can you imagine the parents as they count down the days, not knowing when it will come, just that it will hang over the... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-16T00:57:55 | 226 | 63 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | "Hey Elena, your birthday's next week right?"
"Yeah, Jason."
"So do you think it will happen?"
"I don't know. My dad's got a number like most everyone else but my mom has a number and a letter. We might be getting closer to figuring out what the birthday messages mean."
"My dad doesn't think they mean anything."
"I sor... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-15T22:51:26 | 226 | 39 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | I've never been much for parties--let alone a party where I'm the center of attention. I'd much rather be sitting in a corner somewhere with a cat and my phone until the crowd dispersed. But, it was my 18th birthday today, so my parents were hosting my reveal party.
Often, children took after one of their parents. My... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-16T02:49:08 | 226 | 12 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | We had a pretty decent society, everyone thought. At 12pm on your 18th birthday you would receive your Calling. One word. It appeared on your forearm. Either "Creator" or "User". So engineers, artists, programmers, architects, chefs etc were Creators. They created stuff for Users to use. Users used their creations a... | A low rumble, cut short, indicated that my brother had arrived. Wesson got TAXI on his 18th - large and bold across his shoulders - not glamourous, but they never were. The words seemed to be the subtle nudges of fate, but even destiny is open to interpretation. He could have become a taxi driver, like so many others, ... | 2017-03-16T02:08:33 | 2017-03-15T23:14:08 | 188 | 98 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | My 18th birthday, something that seemed so far away is finally here. My family is gathered around, ready to see what word I would have. My dad's was JANITOR, while my mother's was DOCTOR. I hope I get something cool.
"We will be proud of you honey, whatever you are." My mother said. My father nodded in agreement. We ... | I've never been much for parties--let alone a party where I'm the center of attention. I'd much rather be sitting in a corner somewhere with a cat and my phone until the crowd dispersed. But, it was my 18th birthday today, so my parents were hosting my reveal party.
Often, children took after one of their parents. My... | 2017-03-16T04:22:00 | 2017-03-16T02:49:08 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] A nasty run-in with a Leprechaun leaves you cursed to only speak in rhyme. Jokes on him, though, cause now your one of the biggest rap artists in recent history. He's not taking it well. | People often ask me, how I rose to fame,
I give a little laugh, oh I remember that game,
I once met a man, petite, green with a beard,
"I dare you to catch me" he chuckled and sneered;
For what seemed like hours I searched and I chased,
Mind on the gold, almost I could taste,
I... | "Hey, I'm Michael Battle from BET here with an exclusive interview with MC Christmas. Christmas, your record sales are through the roof, how do you manage to keep it fresh?" He asked.
"Well you see, and hear my voice, I was cursed by a leprechaun and have no choice. To be quite honest I wish I was free, but a possibi... | 2017-04-06T20:07:51 | 2017-04-06T19:00:59 | 76 | 26 |
[WP] Don't get me wrong, while i loved being able to hear what animals could say i just wish the birds outside my window would shut up about finding a mate | I forget myself as I lay on the cold floor. There are two ants following a secret path on the hardwood. They are silently going about their business. I wish they would talk. They seem so interesting, with their small colonies and little ways of doing things. Instead I'm stuck with...*them.*
"Ey Bby, you want sum fuk?... | (Based on true, albeit non-talking, animals.)
My mom can't stand the turkeys in the back yard. Despite living in what is ostensibly suburbia, they walk around like they own the place, crap in the garden, and eat the new grass seed. Every morning, a dozen turkeys wander out of the woods, and every morning that she can,... | 2017-04-28T17:42:01 | 2017-04-28T17:15:30 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] Humans never figured out how to travel faster than light, but immortality was not that hard after all. As a consequence, space travel is possible, but very boring. | Most people sleep soundly during cryo-stasis. They board the shuttle, the shuttle blasts off, then after they've gotten their magnificent last look at Sagan's pale blue dot into the cryo-pods they go for the decades-to-centuries long journey through the stars to whatever planet their bound for. There are a handful of p... | I stood staring out the observation panel, trance-like with deep thought. The distant glow of a billion stars stared back, imperceptibly sliding by as my vessel traversed the great emptiness towards our ultimate destination. I sighed, exhaling slowly and savouring the feeling of my breath chilling my teeth as it passed... | 2017-08-15T08:50:47 | 2017-08-15T07:59:53 | 36 | 21 |
[WP] You're a killer dumping your latest victim into the river. Just as you're about to be done, you spot another person. Doing exactly the same thing. And they've just spotted you, too. | As I go to start my boat back up, after laying my latest victim to bed, I heard a faint, familiar splash. About 25 feet away, I saw another vessel casually drifting with the current, and a figure standing on top looking in my direction. As the shadow of the clouds passed by, the moon lit up his boat, and I could see my... | We stared at each other for what felt like a millennia; her with her excess and me with my disposables.
"There's no way she knows" I mutter to myself as I nod and smile at her. I had seen her here once before. A cold, clammy night, when summer juxtaposes into fall. Her bag was so small, as if she was disposing of ... | 2017-10-12T18:56:23 | 2017-10-12T17:20:49 | 79 | 33 |
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