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[WP] A sorcerous villain has prepared for a long time and has finally managed to freeze the movement of all living things inside the kingdom's capital. Now they're about to begin their offensive but one person seems to be unaffected by the spell and is moving about as if everything was normal... | Clarence was done and he had only just opened his eyes for the day. With a deep breath, he slid out of bed and got ready for work as a messenger. He had his bag, a slice of bread, and some good reading material for a break. Out the door with minutes to spare!
It was oddly quiet on his way to work. Just the way Claren... | Anya had been planning this attack for five years already. Everything was perfect, all the nobles reunited inside the city and the spell ready to be unleashed. It would take a lot of energy but in the end it was worth it.
As she finished pronouncing the last incantation an eerie stillness wrapped around the city, as ... | 2022-10-22T00:32:06 | 2022-10-21T22:52:22 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] An Eldritch Moon suddenly appears in the sky, and you and billions others scream as you turn into horribly corrupted mounds of flesh... But your eyesight is better? And your back pains are gone? And apparently you’re immortal now so... Maybe things aren’t that bad... | The Flesh Moon arrived with no announcement, no warning. One moment the sky was clear; seconds later, it was there. A writhing mass of flesh, tentacles and sinew the size of the old Moon staring down at us. And its gaze led to change.
Our bodies would twist and contort in manners we'd describe as grotesque; flesh melt... | # Soulmage
**The moonlight here was deadly, but we'd come prepared.** As we stepped out of the safety of the dark and ancient cave, the five of us unfurled umbrellas as black as midnight to enhance our layers of heavy, lightproof clothing.
Something that had once been grass squelched and splashed under my thick boot... | 2022-10-23T14:35:22 | 2022-10-23T11:59:30 | 1,134 | 40 |
[WP] a prompt for bad people
Step one. Find a serious piece of work, for my example, I found a story about a lonely man who finds solace in taking long walks, and thinking about the geese that he sees. It was deep, and poetic, heartfelt, and really angsty.
Step two. Take the first sentence or two, and leave them as i... | This was written for my friend who wanted me to do Ghetto-Shakespeare:
Shall I compare dat ass to a Summer’s day?
Thou art mo’ fine and mo’ bootylicious:
Rough winds do shake the lovely hips that sway,
And dem pants make yo’ thing look delicious:
Sometimes too flat the butts of ladies sit,
And oft is their boun... | I found this on the web, no author attached;_
Up speaks Poe's cat.
The End of the Raven
by Poe's cat
On a night quite unenchanting,
when the rain was downward slanting,
I awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for.
Tipsy and a bit unshaven, in a tone I found quite craven,
Poe was talking to a Raven perche... | 2013-04-27T14:32:45 | 2013-04-26T20:12:23 | 101 | 39 |
[WP] Life today if slavery wasn't abolished.
write from any point of view. | June, 2014. Rushing, I glanced into the head of each aisle at the WalMart as I passed. Chips, no, coke, no, aha! Frozen food. I quickly scanned the prices of shrimp rings, grabbed a couple of the cheapest and put them in my cart. Now what about that cocktail sauce...
Thousands of miles away, in Thailand, the captain o... | No more slavery for me. In the next few minutes I will become a free man. I always considered myself unlucky for the speciality I got stuck with. But, there was always the one upside. Slaves with my skillset get freedom far sooner than any other slave. Now, my freedom is coming, and I couldn't be happier with what I go... | 2014-06-18T02:18:02 | 2014-06-18T01:47:36 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] St. Peter opens the pearly gates and lays out the majesty of heaven before you. You respectfully decline. | Peter sighed and shook his head when he saw who had arrived. There were so many that were so young. The boy couldn't have been more than seven. He wore khaki shorts that were scuffed with grass stains, and his Iron Man t-shirt was torn at the shoulder down to his opposite waist. The boy looked like he had been crying.
... | It's always a bit awkward when a soul winds up in the wrong place. It doesn't happen often mind you, but with so many souls moving around it's bound to happen to someone.
It wasn't really the system's fault either. I mean, I was in the cathedral praying, and I had just completed a pilgrimage, and I been baptized at so... | 2014-11-11T10:29:32 | 2014-11-11T09:53:10 | 56 | 10 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | I used DuckDuckGo for mine.
"How hard is it to become an indie game dev in your spare time"
"Free C++ compiler"
"How to make a game with SDL"
"OpenGL extension wrangler"
"How to load a 3D model in OpenGL"
"OpenGL shaders"
"3D animation"
"game jam"
"early onset alzheimers"
"my computer has a virus called mingw... | Google search 1: *Dating sites*
Google search 2(one month later): *How to not be awkward on first dates*
Google search 3(one year later): *creative ideas for anniversaries*
Google search 4(another year later): *engagement rings*
Google search 5: *Flower delivery*
Google search 6: *Reservations for two at Papillon... | 2015-02-04T17:45:09 | 2015-02-04T16:28:08 | 49 | 10 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Facebook
Tumbler
Spanish Inquisition
Google Translate
Jobs in Appleton, WI
*Clear History*
Calc chat
Facebook
Best way to hide bruises
*Clear History*
Cheap Bus tickets
Cheap apartments Appleton WI
Emancipated Minor?
*Clear History*
Gmail
Tumblr
Counseling confidentiality rules for minors
Free Counseli... | Google search 1: *Dating sites*
Google search 2(one month later): *How to not be awkward on first dates*
Google search 3(one year later): *creative ideas for anniversaries*
Google search 4(another year later): *engagement rings*
Google search 5: *Flower delivery*
Google search 6: *Reservations for two at Papillon... | 2015-02-04T16:52:51 | 2015-02-04T16:28:08 | 46 | 10 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Half-Life 3 2008 release date
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Half-Life 3 2009 release date
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Half-Life 3 2010 release date
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Half-Life 3 2011 release date
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Half-Life 3 2012 release date
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Half-Life 3 2013 release date
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Half-Life 3 2014 release date
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The Fappening.
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Half-Life 3 2015 release date...
- | Google search 1: *Dating sites*
Google search 2(one month later): *How to not be awkward on first dates*
Google search 3(one year later): *creative ideas for anniversaries*
Google search 4(another year later): *engagement rings*
Google search 5: *Flower delivery*
Google search 6: *Reservations for two at Papillon... | 2015-02-04T22:40:22 | 2015-02-04T16:28:08 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | The problem with all previous attempts that we tried was that we tried to communicate linguistically with them. Dogs as a whole are not linguistic creatures, there is no “dog language.” Instead we moved away from a linguistic format and used a sensory format instead using the dog’s senses to communicate by directly rea... | Lucas walked into the intensive care unit of the hospital. It was late and the lights were dimmed, giving the entire wing a air of dread. Gurneys with men and women were strewn about everywhere. The rooms were filled long ago by the sudden influx of patients. Not a single person moved, the room was absolutely still and... | 2015-05-18T16:48:49 | 2015-05-18T13:29:22 | 41 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story about how two strangers become best friends, without ever saying a word to each other.
A pretty simple prompt: no Hitler, Batman, Satan, or time travel required. Just a story about friendship. | The first time I had coffee for free was on May, 30th, 1962. I was seventeen years old at the Green Frog Café, and
my boyfriend at the time was eighteen years old and wore a beret.
"You shouldn't clutter your pretty little head with these things", he said, taking the paperback edition of Albert Camus' The Stranger fr... | It’s funny how quickly everything can be taken away from your life. One minute, everything's going your way. You could blink, and suddenly you’re ripped away to a different reality. One that seems to have nothing in common with your old life. For me, that day was October 18th, 2003. It started off as well as any d... | 2015-05-30T15:03:27 | 2015-05-30T14:54:18 | 75 | 10 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | I leaned back in my office chair and stretched my arms high over my head. With a sigh of relief, I finally turned away from Earth-2294. In 250 A.D., the humans living there had managed to rediscover the Garden of Eden, and they had waged a siege on an epic proportion that had lasted almost two thousand years. It had ta... | The final age had come for Urth.
Through careful nudging and ever-distant signs (with a few unexplained *miracles* in the mix), El had successfully nurtured the inhabitants of the galaxy he'd numbered NGC 6744 into a self-sustaining, peaceful, ever-progressing utopia. The residents of the Nougat Galaxy were set from n... | 2015-12-27T10:49:08 | 2015-12-27T09:53:57 | 791 | 40 |
[WP] Write a story where the good guy is actually the bad guy, but it's only revealed on the last line. | "All I wanted to do was save us..."
He spoke the words quietly to himself, not that it mattered, he could have screamed them, when you're the last man standing words tend to loose all meaning and everything said is lost in the whisper to a cold wind in an empty room.
"I was to be humanities savior...I would have sto... | John got out of the old buick and walked over to open the door for his wife, which once again
was stuck. She was getting really frail.
He pulled the door open, "You're still a gentleman, Johnny". He made a straightening motion on
both sides of his plaid collar in a fluid motion, like Connery; "You're damn right I am... | 2016-08-20T10:52:38 | 2016-08-20T09:11:06 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] Since you were young you had the ability to pause time. However as a teenager you use the ability to procrastinate. At first it was little stuff: an extra hour for homework or a nap in the morning, a break in between classes, etc. Well it built up and now you're pushing thirty in your 3rd year. | Officer Darren shrugs against the phone.
"I know it's weird. I know it's weird. But listen, Mrs. Lopez--"
He shifts his weight, looks out of the window for a second. Looks down.
"He looks... Mature."
Shifts weight.
"I know."
Shifts weight.
"I know--"
Shifts weight.
"I know, but--"
Shifts finally into being ru... | Oh god, another relief teacher. Getting tired of this at this point.
"James?"
"Here," a student replies.
"Kate?"
"Here," another replies.
"Stu?"
"Here," and another.
"Paul?"
"Here," and another.
"Casey?"
"Here," and another, alright here we go again.
"Jack?"
"Here." My deep-ass voice fills the room. The rel... | 2016-09-13T06:11:36 | 2016-09-13T05:59:20 | 51 | 17 |
[WP] A single dad of two girls is a nighttime superhero. Sometimes though, he forgets to take out the braids in his hair, or wash off the nail polish, and some of the supervillains are getting suspicious...
| "Stop Villain! In the name of Justice, stop!" The superhero shot across the sky, closely pursuing his larcenous foe.
"Oh shut up, Mr Justice! That schtick is getting old!" Villain, his foe, panted as he twisted and turned, vainly attempting to shake his pursuer.
"Never! I will balance the Scales of Jus...eh? Where ... | The babysitter costs are ridiculous for a superhero. I barely sleep as it is, but someone has to protect the city. When the city needs a hero, I answer the call, after I tuck my girls into bed and kiss them goodnight. Sure, there are remnants of them all over me, but I don't think my enemies notice.
I've done a good ... | 2016-10-30T10:14:02 | 2016-10-30T09:54:35 | 328 | 28 |
[WP] You tell your wife how glad you are to be a human and not a robot. She looks at you confusingly says, "What are you talking about? We're all robots. Humans have been dead for years."
Finally! Number one on the front page! Fuck yeah! Gonna sell this account for cocaine now. | I stare back "But...but I'm human" I protest.
"Keith, stop joking around" My wife is beginning to look pissed now.
"Honey, what are you talking about, I'm human. You can have my bloodwork checked if you don't believe me"
She stars at me some more and then belief seems to dawn in her eyes. "Keith you...Oh my god! ... | "What are you talking about Sarah? I am most definitely not a robot. Don't you think I would have noticed when they fixed my firmware or something?"
"Humans slowly died out over the past couple centries Jared. This is common knowledge taught in school. Firmware updates happened AT school. That's why there were so many... | 2017-01-29T04:02:14 | 2017-01-29T01:19:53 | 52 | 27 |
[WP] People earn karma points while alive. When they die, they can spend them either to enter a better afterlife, or to improve the life of some random stranger born on the day of their death. You donate all your points, and wake up the next day as the baby who would have gotten your points.
The living have no idea of... | I awaken, confused and disoriented. I gather myself and take a look around. Im in a prison, but the bars are... baby blue? And the ground is soft... no... I'm in no prison. I struggle to roll over... this doesn't feel right... I try to choke out the word "help" but nothing comes out. I try to stand up, using the bars f... | Confused...I guess that how I felt. I woke up in a white room. You know, they ones you find in your typical psychiatric wards. Except this room was made from a sleek marble-like material. To be truthful, I expected to wake up in hell. That's what my parents told me would happen to people to commit suicide. That's the l... | 2017-04-08T10:16:32 | 2017-04-08T09:40:28 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You have always heard two voices in your head, one telling you to do good, and one telling you to do evil. Today, however, you awaken to them both screaming the same thing at you... | My entire life I’ve been different. So different that I’m having difficulty just writing this out. See, when I was young, I was diagnosed as a schizophrenic. Every second of my life there is someone saying something. Sometimes they tell me I should do something. Sometimes they tell me I should say something. Most of th... | 'The book says 'forgive the one's who wronged you'. I solemnly believe that officer but...'
'All i need is a confession Tom'
'You listen to me and listen good officer, i am not confessing to anything, it was not me... I could never do this...'
Tom suffered a great loss an year ago and was slowly recovering, losing a... | 2017-05-18T08:38:09 | 2017-05-18T06:31:43 | 213 | 13 |
[WP] In this world, the truly dedicated can develop a mundane skill to the point of becoming a reality-breaking superpower. You have mastered procrastination to this level.
Quick note (trying to be helpful for anyone who doesn't know):
Procrastination is putting things off until later. | George sat down at the computer with a cold ham and cheese sandwich and a flagon of wine.
It was finally time. He stroked his beard complacently and took a swig from the silver flagon engraved with spiraling dragons. It had been a gift from a fan.
For the first time in six years, he touched the keyboard and began to... | The faces around me were tense. Suits and pencil skirts, people lifting their glasses to wipe the sweat. Some suppressed their frustration; others clenched their fists and bared their teeth.
I sighed and closed my eyes.
I could still remember the first time. It had been back in middle school – my first science proje... | 2017-09-27T06:40:05 | 2017-09-27T05:07:44 | 519 | 287 |
[WP] The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did. | To all citizens of earth,
In retrospect we regret both promoting and providing the drugs for the multinational cocaine fueled orgy. After a short debate we have decided to cover the costs of any abortions and treatment for STDs that may arise from the event.
Murders and pillaging at the time will be forgiven provide... | The, to be fair rather recently elected President of the 6 Continents (may the people of Europe rest in peace) has spoken in public today:
"Things have changed, for the better and for the worse. We are one free people, unbound by the shackles of what cruel fate had struck us before, yet bound by the need for choice. A... | 2017-11-29T07:19:46 | 2017-11-29T04:06:09 | 305 | 14 |
[WP] The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did. | Little Bethany Mariah Smith clung on to Father's legs. She hated going to meeting -- all the big scary grownups with their blanket clothes seemed to be just waiting for her to mess up, and Mother always spent ages talking to Sister Ruthie and Sister Tamar.
She was pretty sure -- really sure, actually -- that they had... | The end of the world is one of them things that most people have trouble dealing with. It is...what's the word...inevitable, I've always felt. At some point in time in someone's life, the planet Earth will no longer exist. That is an undeniable and inescapable fact. It could happen one hundred years from now when some ... | 2017-11-29T09:55:43 | 2017-11-29T09:21:30 | 41 | 14 |
[WP] Every time you look in the mirror, you notice something subtly different about your appearance. The differences are adding up but no one seems bothered by it. | They told me I had aged gracefully. They said I looked good, but where once the compliment had been genuine, now it rang hollow, qualified by an unspoken "for someone of your age."
Every day I studied myself. Sometimes changes were so slow, you'd hardly notice them happening. Skin that didn't snap back quite as quick... | I had made fun of people for misusing the word "kafkaesque" so many times that I'd started to forget what it really meant, but as I stared at my reflection in the mirror that morning, it was the only word I could call to mind.
It had started so gradually that I don't think I even noticed it until my nose had shifted a... | 2018-01-05T08:00:24 | 2018-01-05T07:24:52 | 108 | 58 |
[WP] Humanity finally figures out faster than light travel and discover that they are completely average by galactic standard, except for one thing, our innate ability to bullshit our way out of any situation. | The ambassador for earth, Harlan Navek, paced his chambers. A grand word for the tiny office he inhabited he often thought, but as annoying as the ambassador found feeling cramped, the size of the office was more concerning to him for what it reminded him of. The minute space, and necessity of its design, reminded him ... | It had been a hotly contested debate for thousands of years. The Voluntary Coalition of the Federated States of Independent Transcendent Species had identified the potential of the Human Species on Planet Earth to achieve faster than light travel long before the technology was adopted by the Species as a whole. A rogue... | 2018-01-30T07:28:30 | 2018-01-30T07:14:05 | 78 | 37 |
[WP] You just let a hungry-looking couple into your home to feed them. As you go to turn off the TV, you hear, “under no circumstances should you answer the door today. They are not what they seem. And whatever you do, don’t let them inside...” | "And whatever you do, don’t let them inside..."
Those words are still ringing through my brain as I look up from the couch. Our host, so gracious just a few minutes ago, turns to face us. Neither of us have to imagine the look of dawning horror on our faces, as it is clearly being reflected right back. My wife and I b... | "I can explain--" - the young man said from behind me, in his hand the half-eaten slice of bread.
Instinctively, I reached for the closest thing I could, a plastic bowl.
"Look," - he said, his hands up in the air - "We don't want any trouble, we will leave as soon as we finish our meal."
But they could be bandits, ... | 2018-03-14T10:29:22 | 2018-03-14T10:18:23 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] There's a saying among the galactic community. "Never hire a human"... you just hired 200 of them. And you're about to find out why that saying exists. | Never hire a human. I know. I mean, we all know. We just don't know why.
It's not like I had a choice though. Business was running slow and the plethora of intergalactic wars had depleted most of our resources. Money was scarce and humans... weren't. Humans are cheap.
So I figured, to hell with it. If I want to keep ... | Entry 1207.23 - 31.r.TAK2132
"Never hire a human"
The first words written with the new script that every Class C civilization and above, those with interstellar travel capabilities, should be able to read. It was the mantra of every organization and corporation in the inhabitated Galaxy.
After 7 Taks every written ... | 2018-04-27T13:39:05 | 2018-04-27T12:22:17 | 535 | 54 |
[WP] A young gay dragon has to explain to his parents why he is only kidnapping princes | #THE GAY DRAGON
ON roaring wings of bows of rain
Soars a mighty dragon, never slain
For the knights that come to claim its head
Find themselves hoarded off instead
A ferocious wyrm they sought to kill
Chains gallantry to dignity,
and friskily, timidly, his treasures to bed.
Thus they find themselves cla... | Ryonar trembled at the sight of his parents landing at his castle. They were the apotheosis of might. Black scales, tremendous size, and unmatched bloodthirst.
"Son," Barlon--his father-- said, locking his fire imbued eyes on his, "it has come to our attention that you aren't kidnapping princesses but princes."
Aleth... | 2018-05-03T12:52:16 | 2018-05-03T12:47:55 | 414 | 243 |
[WP] You decide to prank your newborn kid by having him read Harry Potter series and convincing him it's real and that he is a wizard as well. You fake a Hogwarts letter, drive him to King's Cross station and wait for the moment he crashes into the pillar. He goes straight through. | I ducked under the flying book with practiced ease and it slammed into the wall behind me.
“Abarakadabum!!”
My mother was fond of screaming made up spell names during her nightly drinking sessions.
She laughed and subsequently lost her balance, rolling off the couch and falling bodily onto the floor.
I took th... | A Rebuttal to Nickofnight's:
"Mr. Philips?" the voice asked.
"Yes," I said, pausing as I looked up from the bar.
It had been months now since the divorce and I was already a social pariah. There had been a Black Mirror episode about how the public turned against people they considered to be child murderers in shock... | 2018-05-21T03:18:23 | 2018-05-21T02:02:22 | 1,611 | 507 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Earth's representative took the podium at a convention of all galactic leaders. Everyone expected unconditional surrender and from the looks of the old man in a white coat with a defeated expression that is what they were about to get.
"I want everyone to know that I am deeply saddened by what I am about to say.
Whe... | The selected representative of the United Earth, Amy Sliskin, stood before the Council Of Space Faring Species, reading from a prepared speech. “I am here today representing the United Earth to notify this council that that Ratilkin Empire is preparing for war against us.”
An envoy from the Empire stood across from Am... | 2018-12-14T21:32:21 | 2018-12-14T17:52:57 | 681 | 488 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | There was once upon a time in my life where I saw hope
We’d try to send messages to each other, writing love notes on the mirror and hoping she sees it each time you stand in front of it.
I’ll never forget the time I finally caught a glimpse of her mirror love note back.
Her perfectly beach blonde hair wrapped ar... | For 24 years, I’ve seen out of Kate’s eyes once a month. It happens, and I’m used to it. I’ve used my earnings over the years to vacation, see the most beautiful sights the world has to offer. Today, I fear her. I sat on the edge of the canyon, looking down, when it flashed before my eyes. My old roommate, Kyle, the gu... | 2019-02-13T16:07:52 | 2019-02-13T15:32:40 | 390 | 110 |
[WP] Your ability to see what level of pain a person is experiencing has always helped you in your profession as a nurse. From the hovering "0.6" over the guy with the hangnail to the "42" over the crash victim. Today on the bus ride to work there is an "800" over a guy, calmly reading his paper... | *800*, I whispered to myself. That's quite a number to deal with. But he continues reading his paper without any care in the world... -
Except, when I glance over to his side, I can see his glassy eyes; biting his trembling lips trying his best to disguise the whirlwind of emotions inside his chest.
The schoolgirl si... | You look inquisitively at the man before deciding to sit next to him.
“Mind if I take this seat?” He seems happy to have company. Both of you don’t say a word for several minutes despite all the questions running through your head. You finically veal the silence.
“So, what are ya reading?” You croak, your voice a bi... | 2019-04-14T01:45:56 | 2019-04-14T01:38:46 | 121 | 17 |
[WP] You are a medical wonder due to the fact that you can regrow your organs. You became a donor and everyone thinks that you are a good person. What they do not know is that you can control every reciever whenever you like. | “Morals are not at issue,” you say, sitting in an overly lush office, the world’s second richest man across a desk of redwood. “The issue is one of control.”
“No, this is attempted blackmail. You are corrupt and foolish, and nothing else. I owe you nothing,” William responds.
Standing, you step behind the chai... | The first thing you should probably know is that it hurts.
Donating your organs is a hassle, and regrowing them hurts like hell, and itches all the way. It’s not something I really recommend to people- but I guess I don’t need to since most of you can’t do what I do.
They call me a medical wonder; a modern marve... | 2019-06-13T06:55:18 | 2019-06-13T05:07:17 | 716 | 278 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | Her eyes settled on her blood-covered teammate. He walked along with the others up front, boasting about how he single-handedly won this for them, and they should all be buying his drinks.
She could feel her head pounding, and her anger slowly building. What would a rogue know about carrying a team? What would he kno... | “Hrrr-aghh!”
The paladin cleaved through the captain, who coughed up blood as he stumbled backwards and fell. Flicking the blood from his blade, he deftly sheathed itbefore turning back to the rest of his party.
“Way to show off,” the rogue called, readjusting her hood over her head. “Very professional. I especially ... | 2020-01-05T10:33:13 | 2020-01-05T09:29:04 | 1,546 | 155 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | "I just need more time" the healer said. "If you would take a few minutes to plan and let me do my work instead of rushing into danger, we wouldn't have to keep doing this" As he spoke his hands ran across the Paladins chest, a warm glow spilling across the slowly closing wounds.
"Evil waits for no one", the paladin ... | **I probably could’ve cared less if they had merely disrespected** ***me***.
“I would now like to direct your honor’s attention to exhibit 4, an extensive draft on arcane arts penned by Dremony herself.”
>… Despite the simplicity of casting or invoking, even basic healing spells contain some of the most complex ma... | 2020-01-05T12:01:26 | 2020-01-05T11:54:04 | 317 | 24 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | "Why are you doing this?"
We were all thinking it but our paladin spoke first.
She smiled, eyes cold as ice.
"When it goes wrong I get all of the blame. When it goes right, I get none of the credit. Less of the spoils. Constant jabs that I'm useless, or that you dont even know what I do in the party. Tank's constan... | "Today is the day I'm going to... " the old man glances into the sky.
"Today is the day I'm going to tell you about the group I was with when I lost my leg," he takes a stone cold look at the metal beam sticking out of the stump where his leg used to be before he continues: " and what can happen if you don't treat the ... | 2020-01-05T14:25:08 | 2020-01-05T11:20:43 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You die and go to hell. Instead of finding everyone suffering in the eternal pits of fire, you are shocked to find a highly developed, Democratic, and modernized world. You pick up a newspaper and see the headline: “up to 1 Million more refugees expected to arrive from Heaven in coming weeks.” | “Is this real?”
“That’s sort of a hard question to answer.”
“But how can this be real?”
“It’s complicated.”
“But... Refugees from Heaven?”
“Not really that hard to believe is it? It’s a dogmatic, uptight, theocracy. Also the weather sucks this time of year.”
“Why is it so much better here?”
“Free will mostly.”
... | "This can't be right," I muttered.
The newspaper vendor looked at me, eyebrows raised, a slightly curious visage.
"You new here, kiddo?" he asked.
"I am," I leaned in a bit closer, somehow afraid of what I was going to say next. Like it would matter, like it would prevent me from going to Heaven. "Can you please tel... | 2020-01-28T02:39:25 | 2020-01-28T01:26:04 | 468 | 79 |
[WP] You die and go to hell. Instead of finding everyone suffering in the eternal pits of fire, you are shocked to find a highly developed, Democratic, and modernized world. You pick up a newspaper and see the headline: “up to 1 Million more refugees expected to arrive from Heaven in coming weeks.” | Ah yes the story of refugees to Hell.
You see god had played a little game with us, he had come to earth multiple times as different gods just to see which one people liked the most which would have been fine but he made some mistakes. You want to know why hell is on its 11th world even though each world has a capacit... | When I died, I finally realized the truth, or as much of it as my once human mind could fathom. The collective says that once my mind adjust, I will finally understand. It's with mixed emotions I anticipate that moment. It is hard to understand them, their language can only be fully understood when you're part of them.... | 2020-01-28T02:31:18 | 2020-01-28T01:00:38 | 71 | 40 |
[WP] Every time someone’s heart breaks, so does a piece of our world; this creates fissures, valleys, and even cracks in the pavement. Tell me the story behind the Grand Canyon. | I closed the door to the room, never intending to open it again, a tear rolling down my face.
"Ready to go?" Keller asked quietly, so as not to disturb my thoughts. I shook my head but followed him along anyway. I walked to the front door and put on a pair of shoes, trying desperately to not see the other shoes in th... | I breathe in the cool night air, one hand in hers and the other in my pocket, feeling the ring nervously. I look up again, at her beautiful, perfectly shaped face, flowing hair, big, curious eyes and that ass. Damn that was a good ass. I looked forward. We’re nearly there. The place where I finally propose.
We have be... | 2020-02-20T22:32:44 | 2020-02-20T22:25:52 | 110 | 13 |
[WP] You’re an assassin for Powerball, an agency designed to discover and eliminate incredibly lucky people. Each encounter is a battle of their ridiculous luck versus your extreme skill. |
I’m halfway through my never-fail story about saving baby turtles in Costa Rica when the redhead knocks her glass off the bar.
“Oh no, baby!” They’re all ‘baby’ to me. “I’ll buy you another one. Was that a Sidecar?”
“Sazerac,” she corrects me, but she’s frowning more than I’m used to.
I raise my finger at the ba... | (Warning: gun fight, blood, one person dies.)
It had taken days of tailing my target to find the best possible intersection of circumstance and terrain in which to strike. The elevator had been broken, so the man took the stairs. Stairwells are good. Confined. Far lower odds of outside influences.
I watched on the s... | 2020-08-04T13:53:51 | 2020-08-04T13:19:44 | 224 | 15 |
[WP] A dragon egg has been found. On the day of the hatching over a dozen scientists each from different countries come hoping it picks them as a parent. The dragon's overwhelmed and chooses the one person not in it's face. The guard.
[removed] | "Look, I honestly don't know why we are all so surprised by this."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?!?!? The first dragon to be discovered by science bonds to some random guard and you don't see why we're all shocked?"
"Not some random guard, that's what everyone seems to conveniently forget- that was ... | The funny thing was that nobody in that room *knew* it was a dragon egg. Oh —quite a few of them were sure it was, but there was almost as many who thought it was some kind of dinosaur.
I had a bit of an unfair advantage in the matter, because even I had thought it was just a colorful ostrich egg until Wyvern informed... | 2020-12-12T05:26:21 | 2020-12-12T04:13:15 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] someone is breaking into your house. You grab an ancient axe you've just bought at an auction and brain the burglar. All of the sudden all life-skills and knowledge of all that have been felled by that axe come flooding into your consciousness. | The haft of the axe was slick in my sweaty palms as I crept through the house toward the sound of someone rummaging through my kitchen. I knew I should have moved out of this neighborhood a few years ago, but the home rates kept going down and I wanted to try and time the market so I could maximize my return on investm... | Professor Alex Ezeh plops down on his couch and sighs. He methodically rubs his sore feet, wondering again if this job was right for him. He loves teaching and his students (most of them, anyways) and there was no greater enjoyment in his life than that rush when he sees his love of chemistry reflected in the voices an... | 2021-06-20T08:39:46 | 2021-06-20T08:31:59 | 131 | 71 |
[WP] “Most men who enter here reek of fear, but in you I sense hope....what kind of man crawls into his own grave in search of hope....” | "One who has lived as long as I have," I replied to the disembodied voice. "I'm so tired, perhaps I'll finally be able to rest."
"You can't be more than forty-five," it said in confusion, the last word echoing around the small room that was the crypt.
"I'm older than I look, this is not my first body, nor my... | My eyes were dry as the desert, though they should be flowing waterfalls, as only a crazy man would welcome death. Well then, I was crazy.
"One that has no fear," I replied to Death, "I've seen too much, I've realized there is no happy ending. I've come to terms with my fate."
Death's expression was unreadable, thoug... | 2021-11-01T14:11:14 | 2021-11-01T13:15:59 | 56 | 11 |
[WP] The hero disappears overnight, and the only one who looks is the villain. Not their "friends", not their family, not the news reporters or any of the people who claim to love them. Just the villain. | The figure in darkness glared at his computer monitor, honestly ready to smash it like he has the first few dozen. But he knew it wouldn’t change what he was seeing, and that infuriated him. “Damn so called heroes…” Shade spat.
Upon the monitor he wanted to smash was another news report, one about a recent bombing. N... | “To the citizens of Glaireum city. I am holding all of you hostage for one gazillion dollars. If I don’t get this money by the end of the year this entire city is going to be obliterated. I also trapped you in a giant dome. And of course only I have a way in or out. Do not worry as long as you aren’t leaving town regul... | 2021-12-28T22:07:34 | 2021-12-28T20:35:34 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] The hero disappears overnight, and the only one who looks is the villain. Not their "friends", not their family, not the news reporters or any of the people who claim to love them. Just the villain. | How many days has it been by now? Oh 711 days, 700 and 11 days of boredom, stress, worry, and genuine panic. Every back alley, every underground syndicate, every hero and villain, I checked everywhere and with everyone. Noone has heard or seen "her" since. She vanished as if just overnight. Earths most prominent, most ... | “To the citizens of Glaireum city. I am holding all of you hostage for one gazillion dollars. If I don’t get this money by the end of the year this entire city is going to be obliterated. I also trapped you in a giant dome. And of course only I have a way in or out. Do not worry as long as you aren’t leaving town regul... | 2021-12-28T21:41:34 | 2021-12-28T20:35:34 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | “Oh! Oh my! How unexpected.” Truly unexpected, nigh unto shocking. As all the best opportunities seem to be.
“When was the last time we spoke?” He asked, already knowing the answer, “Was it that diamond transport thing or was it the casino boat? I have trouble with my memory after the concussion you gave me.”
... | "You want me to do... *what*?!"
Incredulously, I stared at the waif-like redhead, currently floating there on the gust of wind that always had that weird opaque sea-like quality, as she'd been blessed by some sort of power or some-such. I never had been able to discern whether it was something out of some fantasy nove... | 2022-10-07T00:31:51 | 2022-10-07T00:19:41 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] A civilization has picked up a transmission from another world many light years away. They slowly realize that the other civilization is now gone. | Dec 31st 2014 11:59PM - First Contact
What was originally thought to be a meteorite burns bright over the skies of London, crashing down in the river a few hundred yards from London Bridge, damaging it severely, the impact leads to hundreds killed and thousands injured. The world holds it's breath as a silver looking... | [CC] ( Critiques welcome) The SETI installations first picked up radio from them in 2020, and the
world rejoiced.
We had finally found another
civilization! We immediately pinpointed the origin to a solar system 60 light years away, and knew that by now they would
have received radio from us as well. We ... | 2014-09-24T17:28:10 | 2014-09-24T16:50:01 | 27 | 20 |
[WP] A college slacker submits a half assed political science paper titled "Why can't we all just get along". One thing leads to another when finally every conflict on earth gets resolved overnight in a grand domino effect of world peace.
EDIT: What the hell is up with college students and cocaine??? Is this really a ... | At four-twenty-eight p.m. on a Thursday in mid-December, AMiniMongrel woke up screaming his balls off.
"Shit!" he shouted. "Motherfucker! Dog dick! Giant hairy asshole!"
He was screaming because his big poli sci paper was due in an hour and a half and he was so hopped up on Klonopin and paint thinner that he could ba... | Waking up at 2 in the afternoon was routine. William found himself slacking in more ways than you would imagine your average college student would. Slumping off of his elevated dorm bed, his feet greeted by one of the many piles of dirty clothing littering his side of the dorm, he would presume to get ready for the day... | 2014-11-01T08:04:41 | 2014-11-01T03:28:34 | 139 | 28 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Eduardo and Sarah had come to visit me at the old office. I hadn’t got a chance to see them since he got his big promotion and moved out to the East Coast office. “Stroke” and “Stomach Cancer” still spelled out in wisps over their heads. This time they brought the new addition to the family, Devon, who himself had an e... | The hustle of city life can drag on a man. The whirring sights confuse me with visual noise and the sounds remind me of an orchestra with every instrument replaced by a monkey banging pots and pans, a car screeching to a stop, or a baby crying. The people are claustrophobic in their own way, separated by canyons in oth... | 2015-03-31T12:59:24 | 2015-03-31T11:44:41 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | these words engraved on my wrist, These last word to me could've been in any context. I could've left her, done something to save her life or taking it. I mean what could be happening when the last word are "No, Don't." The illusion of me being hero or a murderer came to a sad depressing end when i found out the contex... | *32* A seemingly insignificant number.
*32*, The temperature that signified the roads would be icy as she tripped back home for winter. The number of years she had gone through the insufferable monotony of people consumed by the goal of finding their soul mate. The number of people she had unfriended on social media ... | 2015-08-08T12:53:58 | 2015-08-08T10:26:02 | 93 | 21 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | She stirred, wincing slightly, in the metal bed. I poured her a small cup of water from the plastic pitcher on the bedside table, just in case she needed it. Next to it lay a pack of grapes- I'd kept bringing them for her long after she stopped being able to eat them, I don't know why. She shook her head slightly at th... | I pant, my lungs on the verge of collapsing. Looking round the corner, I saw no one. Perhaps, I've lost her.
Lee. These three alphabets remain a daily reminder of an inescapable fate. Carved onto my forehead since birth, I bear the burden of having to spend eternity with a certain Ms Lee out there.
The 'foreheads' ... | 2015-08-08T12:20:09 | 2015-08-08T10:27:35 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a society where justice is truly blind. The judge and jurors are not allowed to know the name, gender, race, religion, or appearance of the defendant. | Judge Brown was pushing sixty. He had been doing this for many years now, but had never truly ever gotten used to it. Things were different back in the day when he started out. He still remembered the day he received his papers.
Judges were respected and were forces to be feared. He looked forward to a career full of ... | The tall man sits down on a giant throne. The throne of justice. The tall man waits in the empty, white room on his throne of justice. A screen appears before the tall man's eyes.
"Finally. Let's begin judgement," the tall man says.
Words appear on the screen.
*HUMAN committed a crime.*
"Okay? The crime, what was i... | 2015-09-06T04:55:47 | 2015-09-06T01:33:43 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Write a story based on your favourite song. Other people have to guess which song it is.
Can be inspired by lyrics, backstory, or anything else you love about the song | A 43 year old Jamaican-American man appeared in court today, in an attempt to overturn a divorce ruling, despite his partner submitting photographic evidence of his infidelity.
The pictures show the defendant, butt naked, banging on the bathroom floor. The ex wife also claims she saw the pair kissing on the sofa, b... | This was amazing. All my life I had dreamed of seeing the stars, and here I am, travelling through space and time with a mysterious stranger in an equally mysterious time machine. He had met me as I was going to the grocery store for some ingredients for a curry I was planning on making. His vehicle materialised in fro... | 2015-09-13T07:25:48 | 2015-09-13T04:18:38 | 67 | 17 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | My vision was blurry but I was starting to get my consciousness back.
"Way to go kid, that rankings not bad for your first try!"
The man had an oddly familiar figure.
"What is this place?" I asked
"Take a look around and see for yourself!" He said as he picked me up from the ground. There was an endless number of p... | I took deep breathes but they provided no relief. White specks danced around the corners of my vision and a slow darkness creeped inwards at an alarming rate from the edges until there was a single tunnel ahead of me.
Moments ago I felt nothing but panic and desperation. Now I felt serenity and calm.
I knew I was d... | 2015-11-25T00:40:01 | 2015-11-24T23:52:59 | 73 | 26 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | My vision was blurry but I was starting to get my consciousness back.
"Way to go kid, that rankings not bad for your first try!"
The man had an oddly familiar figure.
"What is this place?" I asked
"Take a look around and see for yourself!" He said as he picked me up from the ground. There was an endless number of p... | They called it a 'decompression chamber' for a reason. Not just because it fit well with the other fun aquatic idioms like 'coming up' and 'riding the wave', but also because it was literally a chamber in which to decompress. The liquor flowed almost as fast as the profanity here, and if it wasn't for the colossal arra... | 2015-11-25T00:40:01 | 2015-11-25T00:35:57 | 73 | 20 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | A whirring sound gradually filled my ears as the 'GAME OVER' marquee scrolled across the top of my HUD. "*Statistics*", I muttered, reaching blindly around for my beverage. Words flitted across my screen filling all of the empty space. "*Next-Round*", all of the text from before vanished as the respawn timer filled the... | I took deep breathes but they provided no relief. White specks danced around the corners of my vision and a slow darkness creeped inwards at an alarming rate from the edges until there was a single tunnel ahead of me.
Moments ago I felt nothing but panic and desperation. Now I felt serenity and calm.
I knew I was d... | 2015-11-25T01:06:36 | 2015-11-24T23:52:59 | 46 | 26 |
[WP] Aliens have finally reached Earth and, per Intergalactic Law, have sent their most average champion to win the planet. A device is sent to find the most average human to accept the challenge and duel for the fate of Earth. It's you. | It has been a few cycles since Xyrybl witnessed his champion's defeat in the arena and his head was still bobbling around with the look of astonishment, half covered in tentacles. The Krakarian ship was just passing the Earth moon, leaving back billions of earthlings cheering in delight and wonder of what happened.
As... | Growing up I had heard the adage "The tallest blade of grass is the first cut." I had graduated without honors. My professors never noticed me as I pulled a solid "C" but when the Swarm arrived at the United Nations in New York it was then the entire planet looked to me as their first and last hope.
"Humans it is wit... | 2016-05-17T12:09:48 | 2016-05-17T09:34:20 | 24 | 12 |
[WP]Aliens attack earth.They have weapon superiority, a vehicle advantage, and a technological lead. Unknowingly humanity is the only race in the universe which self-sabotages any technical advancements with computer viruses.The aliens are moments away from hooking up to earth’s internet network… | "We are almost connected, sir!" The technician said, triumphantly. The captain of the massive fleet of ships smiled as he looked over the blue planet.
"Good. Soon we will know everything about this world." The captain said, foreseeing his victory. He looked to his General on Deck. "Prepare the DMC for firing. As soo... | "ILOVEYOU?"
Xerxzl Junior, the third, turned around. "Zhavbit, why do you say such a thing? Even if... I loved you back, such a thing would be forbidden."
Zhavbit blinked. "No, commander. My apologies for the intrusion. I have simply received an email in MailBox v0.2.3 with the subject line of 'ILOVEYOU'."
Silence h... | 2016-10-28T14:42:50 | 2016-10-28T14:35:41 | 70 | 47 |
[WP] You were born with Heterochronoia - one eye can see 5 seconds into the future and the other sees 5 seconds into the past. | Oh, the excitement of living in the future.
Oh, the resentment of living in the past.
Once bid away my money while gambling.
Once had no money for rent.
Caught the heartache of my days on a fateful night.
Caught the girl of my dreams on a patch of ice.
When you see a bullet pierce the wife of your future.
When y... | The white cane that sits by the front door has become a staple in my life. Through the years, I've learned to do most things without sight, and have even gone so far as to adopt a wonderful service dog. She's obedient, as they are to be, and comforting, and certainly not stupid. However, she's remained loyal, and I'm h... | 2016-12-19T11:26:09 | 2016-12-19T11:00:26 | 100 | 47 |
[WP] A supervillain kidnaps a civilian and keeps them hostage, taunting on live television for the superhero to come find them. Unbeknownst to the villain, the kidnapped civilian is the superhero.
Did I butcher the title or what?
This is blowing up! All the responses have been diverse and really cool!
| I still remember career day at school, fifteen years ago, when I made my decision to be a superhero. I remember debating about becoming a doctor, the high salary catching my eye, or an engineer, which would always ensure that there was bread on the table. But a superhero- well, superheros could make *billions*, plus th... | A gloved hand brushed aside the curtain, Malicious Mortimer peeked out of the window and snickered.
Numerous television crews had gathered outside the abandoned mansion to report on Mortimer's latest devious scheme.
"And what a scheme it is," he cackled, "Best one yet, should I say so myself."
"Who are you talk... | 2017-01-28T08:08:09 | 2017-01-28T07:56:31 | 158 | 42 |
[WP] Everyone is born with the ability to "see" beyond themselves, and the longer you remain still, the further you can see. After decades of remaining still, you can see the furthest of anyone in the world. One day, you see something that makes you stand and start walking. | The surrounding woods transformed into the hustle and bustle of a marketplace. Regardless, the man sat silent, ever presently watching the cosmos grow. Twenty-five years since he first sat. Twenty-five years of pure stillness, a self-inflicted vegetation to understand the universe. Sustained through nature and will, th... | here i sit, solid as a mountain. here i have sat for years, decades, maybe even centuries. my awareness expanded lowly at first. first i could feel my heartbeat, hear the air rushing into my lungs. then i started to become aware of the rest of my body, the limbs, the organs, eventually even the most intimate detail of ... | 2017-03-03T08:28:54 | 2017-03-03T08:17:08 | 213 | 53 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | I stood in the line, awaiting the elder to call me in, I had turned 21 today, first thing I thought of was the title I would receive and what that title would be. Glenda, our elder, was the current elder in a long line proceeding her.
Normally, Glenda was usually very kind and warm to the other villages but when it ca... | "Ah yes, you shall be known as John, Traveler of Forty Shoe Stores."
The line was thinning out now. I peeked ahead to where John was breathing a sigh of relief. 'Shoe stores' was harmless. You could still get a job with that on your resume.
The next student walked forward, Becky I think. She was wearing a long sleeve... | 2017-04-27T18:09:07 | 2017-04-27T17:02:59 | 2,949 | 232 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | "Ah yes, you shall be known as John, Traveler of Forty Shoe Stores."
The line was thinning out now. I peeked ahead to where John was breathing a sigh of relief. 'Shoe stores' was harmless. You could still get a job with that on your resume.
The next student walked forward, Becky I think. She was wearing a long sleeve... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T17:02:59 | 349 | 232 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | Woo! First time doing one of these! This is a story, a poem, I call Paradox.
I just turned 21, which means I get to be named,
I'm just glad I'm not "the boy who was maimed".
The elder sits on her nugget throne, casting down names and playing on her phone. She gives many names and sends many texts, and unfortunately... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T20:13:20 | 349 | 32 |
[WP] Every 5 years, one person is selected to enter an unknown gate that appeared randomly in the past. No one has ever returned from the gate. You, unfortunately, have been voted by the majority of the population~ | *Tick tock.*
*Tick tock.*
The unstoppable motion of time pushed the seconds' pointer north, towards the unfathomable fate which befell on the strike of 12. Five years of ticking meant that someone, somewhere, was about to be sent forward, with no hopes of ever turning back.
*Tick tock.*
The live images, displayed a... | The crowd bustled together, each one pushing anxiously against each other.
Each one wondering whether the next name heard wouldn't be theirs.
The gate had appeared again, the large looming, obsidian black gate. As always, it appeared when no one was looking. One moment it was air, the next, a gate. Only one word was... | 2017-07-19T14:32:03 | 2017-07-19T13:29:55 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" is true in your universe. You're a bounty hunter specializing in old superheroes. | "No one moves, no one gets hurt!" The man holding the gun was wizened in face only. His muscles were still straining against the fabric of the shirt he was wearing. The people around him were cowering in terror as the nearest bank teller began shoving bills into a duffel bag.
A bullet flew by the teller's head, buryin... | It always happens, no matter how much we don’t want to believe it, it always happens. There’s an old saying, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely” and it’s true. Gods and Goddesses live among me. They walk the Earth, they’re in my town, they’re on my street. Men lift cars over their heads with ease. Women dart around th... | 2017-09-04T17:55:47 | 2017-09-04T17:52:19 | 56 | 12 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | Erica pulled the trigger. I stopped the shot before it fired.
“You’re an asshole,” Erica said. She opened her eyes and stared straight at me. She should not be able to see me.
I blinked and moved back.
“Don’t give me that,” she whispered. She shuffled onto her feet and dropped her shotgun at her side. “I know ... | A shadow hung over Hope as she wandered through the rubble and ruins of what remained of human civilization. With every step she made, Death followed closely, watching her with his never-blinking twin pits of darkness.
Hope shivered, and for a moment, the cold breeze that had slipped down her neck felt... *alive.*
D... | 2018-05-04T12:08:57 | 2018-05-04T11:26:45 | 393 | 44 |
[WP] The genie snaps his fingers, and you instantly know your wish is granted. Omnipotence. That's what you had asked for, and now you have it. You know everything, and are infinitely powerful. You instantly notice something unexpected. There is another God, and he is terrified. | The man, once only a mere mortal, felt his mind expand beyond even the dimensional boundaries it had once been contained in. He was still small, not because he had to be, but because it was the only thing he knew. But, as he sank to his knees, and turned his eye skyward, he started to cry.
*"Help."*
He could see it. ... | The genie snapped his fingers and bowed deeply.
"Goodbye master!" He intones and disappears in puff of smoke into his lamp.
"Funny?" I muse to myself outloud.
"I dont feel omnipotent?"
I wiggle my fingers and feel something different in their movement..
"Is that wind? No.. it is something else"
I wiggle them aga... | 2018-10-15T21:22:48 | 2018-10-15T21:16:36 | 77 | 50 |
[WP] At least 1% of the population is classified as 'Supered', individuals gifted with abilities beyond our understanding. You have managed to evade government registration, but only barely, and only because of your gift: knowledge through instantaneous osmosis triggered by physical touch. | # Tap.
One tap. One handshake. One brush of a cheek. That's all it ever took for me to gain everything. Every nook and cranny of the deepest, darkest corners of a mind. Every word inside of every book. Every single thing an item has gone through up until the moment I touched it.
Knowledge flowed through my fingertips... | Touch me. When you do I'll have everything in your mind. It unfolds like a multi-colored Japanese fan in my mind.
I heard it on television. People were being registered. What they didn't say was something I knew through osmosis.
*People are disappearing*.
They go away in the night, like a puff of smoke in the wind.... | 2018-12-22T15:15:06 | 2018-12-22T14:05:56 | 303 | 113 |
[WP] You are a true immortal. You stay sane by hanging out with the descendants of friends that are long dead. Today, one said a very familiar phrase you haven't heard in a long time. | I have never begged a day in my life, and I will not do so today. You tempt me with little snippets and praise. You wish for me to do tricks and to follow your command. Just because you are King of this house, does not make you king of me.
You want me to beg for your love? You should be begging for mine, you fool. I h... | The doorbell rang to my delight. Juniper was here to visit, like she always did every Friday.
"Come in Juni, the door's unlocked." I sing-songed over the fizzle of stir-fried dumplings.
Juniper shuffled to the kitchen island table, slouching onto a stool with an audible sigh. I looked over my shoulder to catch her re... | 2019-03-08T05:08:19 | 2019-03-08T04:47:00 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You have a friend who's an expert in lucid dreaming. One day, they come to you and says they can't tell apart dreams from reality anymore. You tell them that "if this were a dream, you'd be able to fly right in front of me". And that's exactly what they do. | The nature of reality largely varies in its definition by its perception through an individual observer.
Perhaps a man lives in a world that was created by a god, a world full of magic and miracles caught between an everlasting war between deific entities.
Maybe to a woman reality is what was created through years o... | “Chris its 2 motherfucking AM what do you want?” I asked in irritation.
He proceeded to sock me across the face. It wasn’t the first time he’s done it, he had done it twice this week.
“ Damn it man are you sleepwalking again?”
“I can’t tell if this is a dream or reality, you reacted to the pain and I felt it but normal... | 2019-05-12T22:16:30 | 2019-05-12T22:06:00 | 49 | 23 |
[WP] Anthropologists have been trying for years to figure out why humans are so wary of things in the 'uncanny valley'. You are an archeologist exploring some bizarre new petroglyphs with your team. After the third day of digging, you notice some of your fellow researchers don't look quite right.
I had an idea for a c... | Everyone knows that nuclear waste will still be dangerous tens of thousands of years after its been stored.
But for humans that far in the future, what kind of symbol could you use to unambiguously warn them?
​
A recent earthquake in Africa had revealed the entrance to a peculiar site.
All across the w... | Ancient Egyptians always painted humans sideways. Some archaeologists have postulated that a figure depicted facing forward could steal a soul as it passed into the afterlife, and claim a life of its own. Without fail, every single depiction of a human-like creature, be it human or god, would always only show half of i... | 2019-05-19T19:18:23 | 2019-05-19T18:04:27 | 145 | 100 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | The show didn't last very long. 4 contestants, in fact. It never aired, and you could only find it on certain sites. It seemed like it would be really popular. Lots of people were so sure they could do it.
First was Karen, who was the very definition of her name. She joked about the "vacation" she was going on. She c... | A gap year in life. Some would look at that as a waste, for me, it was more than just an opportunity.
The first few months were tough, but they took care of themselves. Even if time moves slow, it does move. Within a couple of weeks, I felt like Bart Simpson, endlessly writing "Time still moves forward" thousands of t... | 2019-07-03T00:17:30 | 2019-07-02T23:40:43 | 475 | 45 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | The clock continued to move. One hour passed and then another. Eventually the clock showed that 12 hours had passed. I wondered to myself are they waiting for primetime to let me out? It dawned on me that they wanted the largest possible audience to see me exit from my year long isolation. When one day passed and then ... | A gap year in life. Some would look at that as a waste, for me, it was more than just an opportunity.
The first few months were tough, but they took care of themselves. Even if time moves slow, it does move. Within a couple of weeks, I felt like Bart Simpson, endlessly writing "Time still moves forward" thousands of t... | 2019-07-03T04:40:53 | 2019-07-02T23:40:43 | 102 | 45 |
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch. | "You know," I said to myself "I am really starting to think my mom didn't think this through." Of course, I have said the same thing to my self every time I have to return to Hell for the summer break.
Why couldn't the summers have been spent at the Cabin? Hmm?
No, instead I get to spend every summer HERE, in Hell, w... | [If you want background on Snuggles, part I of this story is here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/cdl9p3/wp_youre_throwing_a_ball_around_with_your_dog_and/etvdl0t/)
While the pitbull Snuggles battled outside, Sue was inside talking with her parents. "So...our dog is a warrior who's battling the demo... | 2019-07-18T09:54:59 | 2019-07-18T09:04:26 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | She woke up and adjusted her glasses to see the damp rock fresh with morning moss. It had only been a few months, but already the dragon's den began to feel like home. She had sown a make shift bed, stuffed with feathers from the quails the dragon brought home. Lighting her beeswax candle, she ran a comb fashioned from... | A voice slithered through the darkness.“Rothschild, the great merciful King”
“You ought to remember how you became the master of these lands, dont you? or should I say... Alfrin.
Poor peasant boy, abandoned and alone. Smart you were, tacking yourself to the bottom of a sheep I carried away for dinner. I remember how ... | 2019-11-11T18:22:01 | 2019-11-11T17:49:03 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] The year is 2019. An unidentified radar contact appears over the English Channel, bound for an RAF base. It ignores all calls from Air Traffic Control. RAF fighters are vectored to intercept. The contact: a WWII B-24. Part of its wing is missing, and along its fuselage: long, jagged claw marks. | The Euro-fighters soared past the B-24, tail number 41-24301.
It had a hand painted name on the starboard side: "Lady Be Good". It's number 3 engine was spinning in the wind. Its number 1 engine was leaking a plume of black smoke as it burned slowly through the night sky.
"This is Wyvern one, run a check on a B-24, ... | The phone rings at RAF Heyford tower control. “It’s a civilian air traffic controller sir.” The room is quiet with curiosity. “What is their issue?” Asks the commanding officer with an irritated tone. “Unidentified air craft not responding to radio contact.” Replied the airman with a slight concern on his face. “Locate... | 2019-12-01T11:42:29 | 2019-12-01T08:37:01 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] When your grandmother died, the inheritance was divided between you and your two siblings. One got all the money; the other all the property and possessions. All you got was a packet of gardening seeds. | When Xisuh's gandmother died, each of her daughter's daughters were given a gift:
For **Myrr**, who had shown promise in their father's rugmaking business *(which they all knew was a front for his smuggling, really)*, hers was Elder Nivur's money, a fortune none of them could have imagined existed. "So that is where t... | I have a memory of my grandmother sitting there with butter cup in her hand, dangling it in front of the chin of a small child - probably my cousin. I guess I’m sure she did the same thing with me, although I don’t have a direct memory of it.
“do you like butter?”
I remember the child laughing and grabbing a butte... | 2020-03-31T09:02:48 | 2020-03-31T09:01:37 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] The villain thought that the first queer youth hero who came to him for advice was odd but he didn't think much of it. After the 13th one, though, he'd begun to suspect that the their coming to him was more than just coincidence | SkyGuy gave a tiny wave and fell backwards out the open window, soaring away like the 18-year-old prat he was. *Teenagers*. He’d been seeing a lot more of them than he’d liked these days. In his LAIR, no less. How he’d become the city’s top informal therapist for newly-minted queer supers, he had no idea. Why, just las... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 0, Part ?: Tupperman v.s. The LGBTQ Community)
**"Even my nemesis thinks I'm gay,"** Tupperman groused. "I guess it's always been that way."
"Maybe it's 'cause of the way that you walk?" I tried, poking him in the ribs. He gave me a confused look.
"What? Clara, I walk on floating piec... | 2022-07-08T11:27:21 | 2022-07-08T06:47:04 | 292 | 197 |
[WP] The villain thought that the first queer youth hero who came to him for advice was odd but he didn't think much of it. After the 13th one, though, he'd begun to suspect that the their coming to him was more than just coincidence | SkyGuy gave a tiny wave and fell backwards out the open window, soaring away like the 18-year-old prat he was. *Teenagers*. He’d been seeing a lot more of them than he’d liked these days. In his LAIR, no less. How he’d become the city’s top informal therapist for newly-minted queer supers, he had no idea. Why, just las... | “I really don’t get it,” the Curved Rainbow said, his gloomy face in direct contrast to his prideful, multicoloured outfit. “Do these youths think I’m gay?”
“Uh,” the Crimson Carmine hemmed. “Perhaps. It is nice to see something of themselves in their… heroes.”
It was a rare visit to the Hideout for Crimson Carmine, ... | 2022-07-08T11:27:21 | 2022-07-08T10:05:40 | 292 | 138 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | "Dave. Let's talk."
"I already told you, I'm not interested."
He was persistent. "You are incapable of dying, Dave. You literally have no risk."
"No. No. That is not true. I am incapable of dying, Rami. I am not incapable of hurting. My coffee was too hot. It burned my tongue. Right here. It hurt. It hurt right here... | “Yowza! Look at those muscles! Wam, bam, *wapow!*"
Tim turned around. The man behind him was at least twice Tim's age and balding. “Can I help you?” Tim asked.
“I'm just taken aback is all. I thought I was in line for a coffee,” the man raised an eyebrow and struck a pose, flexing biceps that were imperceptible in an... | 2022-07-31T12:20:45 | 2022-07-31T11:50:27 | 212 | 142 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | Tim landed in a chair in the conference room, the breath leaving him in a sigh. "We're being audited." He said, pulling a hand across his face. He met my eyes and I saw the pain there. I knew what it meant, and I felt my stomach turn to ice.
I swallowed, taking a moment to digest this before answering. "The shop is fi... | "Come on, Ryan, you can do anything you want but you have a desk job? Why not come with us? I can double your salary!," Mr. White says on the other side of the door for the second time today. I groan, pushing my back against the door in an attempt to ignore him.
"Fuck off, Mr. White. I would rather die than join your h... | 2022-07-31T19:45:06 | 2022-07-31T17:55:32 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | As I head out to the truck, I check the work order one more time. Silver Porche, keys locked inside. Parking lot at 5th and Maple. Something about this feels...wrong, but it's the job.
As I pull into the parking lot, I see the Porche. Not that it's hard to spot. It's the only car in the lot, which makes sense, conside... | The background droning of the air conditioning haphazardly shoved into the office window seemed to act like a white noise for me as I continued my daily tasks. The soft music of my indie playlist coming through my desktop speakers helped the hours fly by- until I got the call.
That stupid, stupid call. I knew the num... | 2022-07-31T16:21:13 | 2022-07-31T16:20:17 | 24 | 13 |
[WP]A mimic decided that life as an inanimate object is boring. So it disguised itself as a suit of armor and went on a quest. Now the mimic travels the world with a party of adventurers, slaying countless foes, looting dungeons and other adventurer things. People are waiting for a face reveal tho. | "You can't keep going like this." Reynold said. He frowned at Galtar.
"Like what?" Galtar replied. He knew what Reynold was hinting at. Not even Reynold knew what was hiding under Galtar's helmet.
Reynold slapped the table. "Don't play stupid with me, Galtar. We knew from the start that people would start to ask ques... | # Soulmage
**"So, hot stuff, what's underneath the helmet?"** Kriya slurred, one drunken hand scrabbling at Meloai's head.
"A gorget, mostly," Meloai calmly replied, "with some padding and chain mail."
Despite the din of the tavern, Meloai's words were crisp and clear. Kriya frowned, making a frustrated gesture. "No... | 2022-10-25T12:41:48 | 2022-10-25T11:45:44 | 438 | 298 |
[WP] A man who has been dating a girl since elementary school goes to her father for her hand in marriage. The father says no. Tell us why and break our hearts. | "No." Never had I expected this very word to shatter my world. A year ago I was fresh out of high school. Once I graduated, I was nearly sure I would be cut off from everyone. I did, except one person. My girlfriend who I've been dating since we were little kids in elementary school. Her loyalty to me, and mine to her ... | "No."
I blinked once. Something had to be wrong. That couldn't have been what had just been said. Some jumbled neurological process had to be occurring in the muddled zest that I called my brain. Yeah that was it. I was so happy that the answer I knew that I should be hearing came across as the one, deep down, that I ... | 2022-06-12T00:18:33 | 2014-01-19T14:42:00 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] Humans are more terrifying than the most advanced aliens in the galaxy. | They breed at a rate unlike any sentient race we've seen.
They can withstand injuries that will put any other creature native to their savage world into full-fledged shock.
Their technological growth has veritably exploded in recent decades. They have long reached toward the stars. Soon they will be within their gras... | 26th April, 10:39 2056 AD - Earth Standard Time
Nothing could have prepared us for what we witnessed that day. The aliens came down in their sky ships, burning through our atmosphere like giant birds with wings of fire and sharpened claws. Even though we had witnessed unthinkable leaps of technology in our most recen... | 2014-04-22T14:05:44 | 2014-04-22T12:48:02 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You live in an alternative universe, where only one major thing is different form ours. One morning, you stumble through the barrier between our worlds, and enter our realm. | Ideally, no one would ever know. It's not as if they'd believe me anyway. I mean, we'd split the atom, manipulated genomes, and tolerated Nancy Grace, but this might be too much.
-Beep. Beep. Beep.-
This was my third try. Two attempts already and each time was the same. Perfection. Pure perfection.
My hand shook as ... | My eyes burst open and I gasped for air as I jerked forward. I had just struck the ground from rapid free-fall to find myself safely tucked under my sweat-dampened covers. I wiped my brow and shifted my body away from the area of my mattress that was now uncomfortably soaked. I rubbed my eyes and struggled through the ... | 2014-06-08T08:10:19 | 2014-06-08T07:39:06 | 86 | 53 |
[WP] Describe a typical day in the White House. As seen through the greatest fears of a conspiracy theorist. | Cabinet meeting, White house, November 27th 2014
Joe Biden: Mullah Barak Hussein Obamalama Marijuana is finishing up prayer, he'll be with us shortly.
Baron Rothschild 3000: Bleeding America dry requires getting to meetings on time, that idiot prays five times a day.
Space Reptilian Queen Elizabeth: He's Muslim you... | Having just woken up, the Leader slithers from his lair. His wife, who is already up and about whilst peeling her skin off, speaks to him:
‘Darling, the meal worms and locusts are ready and wiggling on the table for you’.
After a ravenous breakfast, the Leader is ready for the day and starts to shift suddenly. His ey... | 2014-11-27T06:39:48 | 2014-11-27T06:12:59 | 270 | 59 |
[WP] how you die and the treatment of your body determines what happens to your soul, due to the bizarre circumstances of your death you find yourself in the jurisdiction of an ancient and obscure god.
E.g. last rights and a catholic funeral would mean your soul goes to heaven, hell or limbo as per the bible. | "What in the hell is this?" Mort ran his hands through the lush grass as the ocean spray crashed against the shores. He had never in his life seen a place so green.
"HELLO MY SON, A WARRIOR MEETS THESE SHORES ONCE AGAIN"
Mort jumped and sprawled onto his feet to face a man that must have been at least fifteen feet ta... | *Profanity Warning*
It was rather strange, waking up in a place that I'd never seen. I was in a colossal room fashioned entirely of vibrant red marble. There were no windows; however, there were black velvet curtains hung about, seemingly in no order. *At least it's temperate in here* I thought to myself, as I attempt... | 2015-01-15T06:22:48 | 2015-01-15T06:13:23 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | Consciousness came slowly. My sight returned and I surveyed endless pools of fire and brimstone.
a man shaped being approaches, black wings, white skin. he wears shiney armor.
He stands in front of me, and demands the answers to three questions:
Who I am, what I did, and how I died.
My name was Quinn. I was an arti... | Fred closed his eyes, the morphine finally kicking in. The car had come out of nowhere.
When he opened them, he screamed. The hot, searing pain of broiling flesh as his feet touched the brimstone beneath was just the beginning. It went on forever, a never ending wasteland with gouts of flame bursting forth from crack... | 2015-04-09T09:17:52 | 2015-04-09T07:56:32 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] Pranksters from various subreddits hack into President Obama's teleprompter during the State of the Union Address. This, being Obama's last year in office, just decides to go with it. | WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation remains in shock one day after a baffling State of the Union speech delivered by President Barack Obama that many political experts say will live "in infamy."
For days, it was speculated that President Obama would touch on the recent economic upswing, the country's warmed relations with C... | Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:
There is no doubt that our country has faced, and still faces, many challenges. Our enemies abroad threaten us with cowardly acts of terror. Our citizens fight to earn a decent wage. Our nice guys are still being friend-zoned by the stupid w... | 2015-04-30T08:20:30 | 2015-04-30T08:03:03 | 503 | 233 |
[WP] A centuries-old vampire, turned as a child, takes advantage of being perpetually stuck as a little girl to prey upon those who would harm and abuse children. | There's a rope skipping the children sing, down on Marigold lane, down in the dirty part of town, where you can have anything you want for a price.
*Sweet Mary Marvin, looks just six*
*Don't you fall for one of her tricks.*
*Sweet Mary Marvin, a hundred years old*
*Cheeks of red and hair of gold*
*Sweet Mary M... | What appeared to be a six year old girl walked dark alleys late at night. No parents were anywhere in sight, and she skipped through bad areas while holding a bright pink balloon. It bobbed with every movement. Her modest skirt barely moved and her blonde pigtails trailed behind her.
Sally could already hear the ... | 2015-04-30T12:51:10 | 2015-04-30T12:00:41 | 53 | 21 |
[WP] On your 17th birthday, instead of the usual boring presents from your parents, they say that your grandfather left you 10 millon dollars and a small island on the opposite side of the world, asking you to "finish what he started". | I slashed through the undergrowth with a fierce resolve, my machete cutting vines like butter before me. I had survived monstrous insects, hidden quicksand, spike pits left by hunters of a lost age, malicious wildlife, and not least of all a freak hurricane that halted my progress for days and drained my supplies. I'd ... | "I don't understand", James said. His thick brown eyebrows were frowned.
"Look", his dad started. "We've told you about him a few times. Me and him...we weren't that close. We were in touch, sporadically, usually whenever he decided to take on a different project. He'd tell me where he would go and what he'd do..."
"... | 2016-01-02T11:39:04 | 2016-01-02T09:41:08 | 625 | 290 |
[WP] The powerball winner contacts you and offers you $50m to collect his winnings so he stays anonymous, but you have to be the face of 1.3 billion.
Post was taken down. Whoops posted to r/writingprompt by accident! | "Dude you know you can have a lawyer collect that for you right? And they're not going to charge $50 million for it. No seriously, that way you can keep your name off the news and nobody has to get harassed by thieves and sob stories. You don't know any good lawyers? Hold on, I'll find one for you..."
I set my phone d... | It sounded like an easy job. Fifty million dollars for walking to a place with a ticket and handing a guy a check.
I figured the guy was just crazy. I mean, I don't really follow much these days, so when I got approached out of nowhere, handed fifty thousand dollars -- in cash -- and told that I'd get a thousand times... | 2016-01-10T19:23:40 | 2016-01-10T18:39:57 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] The powerball winner contacts you and offers you $50m to collect his winnings so he stays anonymous, but you have to be the face of 1.3 billion.
Post was taken down. Whoops posted to r/writingprompt by accident! | I'm sitting at home, watching TV. My phone rings. I pause the TV, answer the phone and say "Hello."
"Hi there. I just won the Powerball Lottery, but I can't let anyone know that it's me. Security and all that. I'll pay you $50 million to collect the money for me." The mysterious caller says. He got right to the point.... | It sounded like an easy job. Fifty million dollars for walking to a place with a ticket and handing a guy a check.
I figured the guy was just crazy. I mean, I don't really follow much these days, so when I got approached out of nowhere, handed fifty thousand dollars -- in cash -- and told that I'd get a thousand times... | 2016-01-10T20:04:43 | 2016-01-10T18:39:57 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | *Where is my human?*
St. Peter idly walks with a gentle giant giant of a Rottweiler. There's a light breeze in the air, rustling the leaves to life.
"Max, he's in a bad place right now"
Max cocks his head to the side, ears opened, *He's in a bad place because I'm not with him*
St. Peter slowly walks up to Max, "It'... | Alexander came into the 3rd floor apartment with a stutter, his glasses and awkward unshaven appearance left him unappealing. When my roommate, Casey, had told me he was bringing his friend over and that he was a little strange, he wasn't exaggerating. Casey had forgotten to mention a very important detail to Alex. The... | 2016-03-24T13:23:57 | 2016-03-24T12:50:08 | 155 | 11 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | "Okay," God said while he shuffled some papers, "We've just heard from the five dogs you cared for throughout your life. And frankly, I'm touched, that was great testimony. Now let's see what the next group of witnesses have to say. Could the Angeliff please call in the 500,000 chickens that Mr. Abigail's life had a... | *Wake up in a fiery courtroom*
**Main:** Wow! what the.....
**Judge:** Welcome to Hell, you are brought here today to determine if you will go to heaven or if you will spend eternity being punished here in hell.
**Main:** What, who's deciding that?
**Judge:** It is up to the animals you have interacted with thro... | 2016-03-24T14:53:06 | 2016-03-24T11:03:54 | 96 | 16 |
[WP] You are a realtor who sells lairs to supervillains. There's one property You've been trying to unload for years, and you think your new client just might bite... | "This lair comes fully equipped for all of your dastardly plans." I say as I open the door, a modest little house on the outside, but not every supervillain wants a volcano lair... or so I thought when I first got it. "Don't obsess over the suburban cover, this lair actually encompasses the entire neighborhood, just lo... | "... and here are where the jail cells are. As you can see, the walls are made of steel, a difficult barrier for any hostages or prisoners you wish to keep captive. The keys and codes can be easily changed, of course," I said. I was really hoping to make this sale. We'd had it in our possession since ProtoT had been va... | 2016-09-17T18:36:52 | 2016-09-17T16:29:54 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] There are multi-Gods for the multi-verse, and it turns out ours is kind of like the 'cool mom who lets you drink at her house,' though other Gods look at our free will and generally silent deity as bad Godding on His part. | Sam sighed as he looked upon the whole of his creation. "I just don't want them to hate me," he said. "They never even knew their mother. I'm all they've got."
The woman seated next to him nodded sagely. "I know it can be hard, raising them alone. But this hands-off approach you've been using for the past few millenni... | "Personally, I think you just need to smite them every once in a while. That way they're more behaved overall, and work harder in their lives than if I let them just, run wild." Janice's eyes grew big as she motioned towards The Universe Tribune, then took another sip of tea.
Her group sitting in the restaurant at the... | 2017-05-07T09:14:56 | 2017-05-07T09:00:20 | 524 | 188 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 828 | 17 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | The Pope knelt inside the cool, grey dark of the nave. He was a man with a simple, strong faith and he felt both troubled and blessed this morning. God had come, and He had both measured and spoken.
A genuinely supernatural event.
But the act had felt both capricious and strange. God had used the medium of #1 Dad m... | I sat in the kitchen seat, knowing that i was getting a mug this father's day. My kids seemed so excited after the phenomenon started. I felt honored as i was being given my official ranking. Although they were already 4 and 5 respectively, i knew i hadn't been a dad long and figured i wouldn't place high.
The kids sw... | 2022-02-18T23:24:10 | 2017-06-11T10:02:30 | 78 | 36 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 70 | 17 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "Dad?"
"Dad are you ok?"
I stood there speechless for what felt like forever. Up until this moment my life had been what most would call perfect. A loving, caring wife. An adoring son. The irony that the gift from his last Father's Day that brought joy to my heart is now the source of this terrible anguish.
My wif... | The mug was in the back yard shed with most of my dads things. I had gotten them when he passed away. It stood there with a big number one on it. I decided to bring it inside, since i had known to me he had been my number one dad.
When i touched it the number changed. I hadn't been with a girl in about a year. I hadn... | 2017-06-11T10:22:32 | 2017-06-11T09:05:00 | 30 | 21 |
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