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[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "28 today," you say to yourself looking in the mirror. Of course you know today is your birthday today, but it also helps that while looking at the mirror you noticed the number above your head changed from the [27] you saw yesterday.
You leave to go to the liquor store to pick up some booze and celebrate. While in li... | I check their I.D.'s for fun now, noticing nose jobs and cheek implants and the occasional sex change. It doesn't matter though... there are always some who try to get past me. A strikingly beautiful blonde with a shining "19" above her head brazenly looking me straight in the eye, not a flicker of hesitation as sh... | 2017-09-01T22:57:39 | 2017-09-01T21:03:45 | 247 | 122 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | My eyes flitted over the crowd of people lining up. 26, 30, 14 - gonna have to turn her away - 22, 8988, 21, 43. I slowly looked back towards the big number. That's an 8, followed by a 9 and two more eights. I took a few steps to the left. It's all one number. That... shouldn't be right. It couldn't be right. But i was... | **July 12, 1994**
Um what the fuck?! That man couldn't have been 1056 years old, there's just no way; the i.d. couldn't have been a fake and he looked exactly like his photo. Man... maybe all this drinking is catching up to me.. drowning out what brains I do got, I definitely should try to lay off the liquor for a wh... | 2017-09-01T23:50:27 | 2017-09-01T20:21:47 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | Four digits? FOUR? In all my years as a bouncer, never four.
I looked into his calm, green eyes.
"Jesus," I said.
Of course I let him in. Even The Man needs to kick back and grab a beer sometimes, yeah?
But, given that he's back... I wouldn't make any long-term plans if I were you. And stock up on some prepper mate... | I've got about 20/200 vision; however of the blur in the string of crowd to my left, each digit in the jumble of numbers still has clear edges, like a bad photoshop. I don't even bother to make them out until they step closer though, so that the smoldering numbers are silhouetted by the darkened buildings eventually be... | 2017-09-01T23:43:36 | 2017-09-01T23:35:54 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | The call had been placed for eons. Cthulhu, his strong influence touching the minds of men, had been trying to summon those who would wake him. Alas, his influence had been hindered by the watchful eye of the worlds governments. Until now.
Faced with the gravest of threats, an alien race who thought letting humanity l... | The fighting had raged for mere hours before everything came crashing down. Their forces were immeasurable, their weapons far beyond humanity's. It was hardly a valiant effort, anything any military tried met with catastrophic failure in minutes.
General Dillian stood on the bow of the ship, he couldn't find the ... | 2017-09-26T11:22:23 | 2017-09-26T11:13:03 | 92 | 16 |
[WP] You're possessed by a demon. You quickly realize he's never done this before. | *Is that your dick?*
"I told you to get the fuck out of my head!" I shouted. To myself. In the shower. I was losing my mind. I was absolutely, completely, without a doubt losing my goddamn fucking mind. I was talking to myself. No, it was worse than that. I was talking to a voice inside my head that for some reason wa... | My Saturdays were usually pretty boring. Just me, alone in my bed, binge watching TV and eating crap by the armful. It was great. No stress, no work, no angry bosses -- just me and the hypnotizing glare of the screen.
It was one such Saturday when I felt a sudden punch in my stomach and pain in my chest. I pounded o... | 2017-10-07T14:03:11 | 2017-10-07T13:29:05 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "A mistake was made," said the U.N. Secretary General. Last night depth probes had rained from the Vermont sky. They had been dropped in the hole six months and one day ago, exactly. Now they were back. And we all knew what would follow.
15,000 nuclear weapons had been dropped into the hole one month ago. Humanity had... | Alex sat at her desk, trying to focus on the work at hand - expense reports had been piling up for weeks now, but there was seemingly not enough time in the work day to keep up with the increased number of reports that had been submitted lately. It was year end, after all, and the company had done extremely well this y... | 2018-01-13T08:53:16 | 2018-01-13T07:48:15 | 537 | 12 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | “Ok, so, Deep goes back a while. Everyone thought it was a new thing when it was found in unprocessed satellite photos, which is funny because the feds had contingents for all of that, but they never expected a high school class to actually get a camera into orbit for that long… Anyway, ok so, the picture got out, have... | Alex sat at her desk, trying to focus on the work at hand - expense reports had been piling up for weeks now, but there was seemingly not enough time in the work day to keep up with the increased number of reports that had been submitted lately. It was year end, after all, and the company had done extremely well this y... | 2018-01-13T09:45:07 | 2018-01-13T07:48:15 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] Domino's pizza has offered free pizza for life to anyone who tattoos their logo on their body. Now other food chains are following that idea, but with increasingly absurd requirements, and the poor have turned themselves into walking advertisements just so they can eat with each passing day. | The bigger the tattoo the more grams of food a day they give you. A whole arm? 200 grams a day. Two arms? 400 grams. Your face? 800 grams.
If you calculated it right you could tattoo most of your body and never have to worry about food for the rest of your live. Sure its gets a little boring to eat the same 8 meals i... | When I first saw the news, I was surprised. Would Domino's really do this kind of service?
I looked on their website and sure enough, there was a banner that confirmed my suspicions.
I immediately closed my laptop screen and drove to the local tattoo parlor. Even though I was dirt poor, I was just lucky enough to aff... | 2018-09-08T13:55:48 | 2018-09-08T13:48:12 | 89 | 35 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | By the time I was 12, I'd had enough of the system; being born to two junkies and bounced around between foster homes will do that to a girl. The last house was the worst, though. I was small for my age, and an easy target for the abuse of the other misfits taken in by a mean old bastard, using kids to collect a govern... | Some people never learn. When one of my old highschool classmates wandered up to my cafe's doors' , I was willing to give him the same gretting everyone got. My cafe over the past year has definetely gotten a different niche then most other coffee shops around me. I'm not talking about one of them catgirl cafes or what... | 2018-10-20T21:39:31 | 2018-10-20T21:35:46 | 62 | 27 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | The city was mad, but there were a few places that held on.
Fontanella's was a place like that. Arthur usually came around there after shifts to get a bite and talk the the inhumanly kind owner, whose name he never got to know, but who insisted on being called "Nonna". She had a knack for serving the general misfits o... | Simple fact, if you catch more vampires with blood than stakes.
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Washington DC, other than being a hotbed for politics, is a playground for lobbyists of all types. Creates a lot of problems. The simple word on the street is, though, if the problem is weird, people pay a lot of money to have it solved, no... | 2018-10-20T23:47:46 | 2018-10-20T22:39:44 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] 99.9% of the universe is filled with magic. Sentient races believe that life cannot be started or sustained without magic, and it just so happens that Earth lies in a giant void of magic. One day, you accidentally use magic, suddenly attracting the attention of the rest of the universe. | "...Did you add Magic to Earth lately?" the acountant asked. He was reading over reports from Earth's progress and something... wasn't quite adding up.
"No. Why?" The writer didn't even look up from their papers. Until the silence dragged on. "Why?" he pressed.
The accountant was biting his thumbnail, re-reading a pa... | "Dude, you done yet? Come on I'm freezing my balls off here!"
I look up from the wires and gears to Danny with a big smile.
"Five minutes bro! Then we'll have this hot tub all ready and working. You not gonna put on a swimming trunk bro?"
He hits me with his classic cheesy smile. "Nah dude. Dan the man is all ... | 2018-12-10T08:48:20 | 2018-12-10T06:49:07 | 99 | 28 |
[WP] You’re an archeologist. On one of your digs you find a note book identical to yours, contents with matching handwriting and all. Except this notebook is extremely ancient and has an entry in it that yours doesn’t. | It had taken me a lifetime, but I finally had enough solid evidence to prove my grandmother's theory of the universe. Approximately every twelve thousand years, existence would reset and play out exactly the same each time with only slight variations. I just didn't expect that I would be the key to this theory.
My gra... | Hi, first time poster, english isn't my first language, hope I didn't make too many mistake.
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The thing that surprised him the most was the fact that only one entry was added to his journal and he started reading it with a fire in his eyes.
“I just found something so weird, but if it is true I need to tell you,... | 2019-10-17T16:06:44 | 2019-10-17T13:09:25 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] The ritual calls for 100 sacrifices, but reading carefully you realize it never specified they had to be human. Deciding to be a smartass, you got a petri dish full of bacteria and sacrificed that instead. | Everything was in place. Candles were lit. Pentagram drawn. Demon's true name engraved in my mind. All that was left was the sacrifices. 100 big ones. At first I freaked out, where was I going to get 100 people to sacrifice without getting caught?
Then I noticed something. The scriptures never said the sacrifices had... | Goat Blood. Check
Iron Dagger with Ebony handle. Check
Granite Bowl. Check
100 sacrifices. Check
Dirt from the grave of a virgin. Check.
Black candles. Check. Check. And check. It seems everything was ready for the ritual tonight. I needed everything to be completely perfect. I can only perform this ritual once... | 2019-11-02T15:51:48 | 2019-11-02T15:24:41 | 109 | 40 |
[WP] You are short, skinny and well below average intelligence. Yet, you've been hired by a group of elite soldiers to help with some of their most dangerous missions. Your superpower: sheer dumb luck. No matter how close to death you come, reality always follows the path to your ultimate survival. | Operation Code Red Tango Tango Bravo, despite its long winded name, was simple. Americans were being held hostage in the Tehran Embassy and the US government would very much like it if we got them out.
Colonel McAdams stood before the team assigned to the mission. He always avoided eye contact with me at these things.... | “Get in there Charlie!” My lieutenant commanded.
I pulled all 5”2 of me into a standing crouch and dashed awkwardly across the warehouse floor. From this new vantage point behind a shelf of boxes I could better see and hear our targets. I could also see the scared small faces of the kids I was there to save.
As alway... | 2020-04-18T07:08:13 | 2020-04-18T05:55:59 | 450 | 149 |
[WP] The main character's superpower is the ability to speak to the narrator. Unfortunately, the traditionalist narrator is not willing to put up with such a radical plot and will do anything in his power to tell a "normal" story. | "Listen, we've been through this before." She twists her arm 360 degrees and returns it to its normal position. A nervous tick...
"...that you gave me. I can hear you. What were you thinking? I'm to suffer for the entertainment of others. Isn't that cruel?" She grabs the glass off the table and pours a full tumbler of... | *\[warning, violence\]*
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"I swear to the heavens, if this is another swamp I will camp here and not move for a week."
"Talking to yourself again?"
"No, I'm talking to the *narrator* as I've told you--"
His friend ignored him, peering out into the swamp with a look of fear. "Say, it looks like something big... | 2020-05-09T21:54:32 | 2020-05-09T21:39:42 | 40 | 30 |
[WP] It turns out that every sapient alien race has a sense in common that humans lack. Without input from it, most species are terrified, or even crippled. For reasons unknown, this sense has stopped functioning - and now, humans are the only species capable of getting by in the new "darkness." | The High Priest's frown grew as he continued to inspect the datapads. How could there be a race unable to perceive the Aether? This matter made up the majority of the universe and yet on that saphire blue planet a race unable to perceive this commodity has evolved and developed sentience.
Aether sensitivity is the mos... | Most sapient light have the ability to intake light and other stimuli and translate it in context to their respective surroundings. Most sapient life have the ability to -consciously or sub-consciously- regulate their breathing and heartbeats, or equivalents. Most sapient life even have the ability to command their mem... | 2020-07-15T14:58:30 | 2020-07-15T14:02:24 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | If I were to punch a person, the other party would feel pain.
Not a foreign cause and effect, by any means. If you were blessed with super strength, like Maximus, the end result would be the same. Run at the speed of sound like Sonic the Human, and plenty of pain will be tacked along with that punch.
I didn't quite h... | Turnabout watched closely, as Copycat slunk and leaped across the windowsills of the First National Bank. The result of an accident involving a simple delivery woman, the Xerox copy machine she had been delivering, a stray tabby cat, and some very poorly timed toxic waste from an overturned truck, Copycat moved with th... | 2020-12-02T09:23:54 | 2020-12-02T08:13:55 | 78 | 55 |
[WP] At 18, your father finally gave you his antique Swiss watch. "The watch will stop working when you're seconds away from death. Live a good life", your father always told you. Now at 26, you're celebrating your 1st wedding anniversary. As your wife pours you a glass of wine, the watch stopped. | They say when you’re breathing your last breath time goes slower. They say time stops, and you have an infinite moment to reflect on the life you lived one last time.
When I saw the hand on that damn watch pause I didn’t reflect on the good twenty six years I had lived up until this point. I didn’t remember how lovel... | You know, today has been a weird day. I woke up early to get a surprise ready for our anniversary, a surprise I had been planning for a month at this point, only to find my wife in the kitchen, saying that she would rather stay home today. Well, its a shame that I had to cancel all of those reservations, but it's bett... | 2020-12-10T12:28:45 | 2020-12-10T11:39:08 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | Cash poked the thing, which stared back at him with doleful eyes that jiggled suspiciously when he moved it.
"That's the googly eye upgrade to the standard pet rock model," Old Merlin informed him. "It costs three coppers more. There's also a glitter upgrade, a stripes upgrade, or a polishing upgrade, though the polis... | I stood there, looking between my parents and the man holding out the “pet rock” to me. They couldn’t seriously believe that this thing had any sort of ability to protect me, could they?
“Well, go on then Bernerd, take it!” my mother said, nodding her head at his outstretched hand. I glanced at my father and he too wa... | 2021-01-06T08:39:22 | 2021-01-06T07:18:17 | 3,119 | 378 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | We weren't a rich family. Hell, I don't even know if we even qualified as poor, might not have had enough for that. Father was a coal miner until black lung got him, and mother emptied chamber pots to keep food on the table. Still, somehow we were happy, at least until the day we discovered I had magic.
Magic of ... | I cried the day I saw my familiar the way a person might cry when their dog has died suddenly and unexpectedly. I'd spent ten years dreaming of my best friend arriving and my better life beginning. A wolf or a phoenix or a fairy. Not just something loyal or fantastical, but a companion.
To me, my dog had been killed b... | 2021-01-06T08:26:28 | 2021-01-06T07:56:48 | 676 | 306 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | We weren't a rich family. Hell, I don't even know if we even qualified as poor, might not have had enough for that. Father was a coal miner until black lung got him, and mother emptied chamber pots to keep food on the table. Still, somehow we were happy, at least until the day we discovered I had magic.
Magic of ... | It had been 2,372 days since Cedric the apprentice had been trapped in the rock. He counted them by the sun through the nearby window, as it heated and cooled his hard skin throughout the day. He had never regretted anything more than the morning he’d walked into the magician’s shop and asked for that job.
On that day... | 2021-01-06T08:26:28 | 2021-01-06T07:48:42 | 676 | 238 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | "I'm sorry, but we can't approve you for a home loan, ma'am."
"Why?"
"Due to the implications of your...name, our insurance won't cover you should you...you know."
"If I ended the world from the house I wanna buy with this loan, your insurance wouldn't really matter, would it?"
"No, but...think of it as preventativ... | The oracle sat upon his marble throne and waited.
Immortal and infallible, everliving and all seeing, the divine amongst the living.
The Guards and Guardians scoured the temple, several of their kin lay dead, blood staining the white stone edifice.
Yet the oracle was calm, he did not heed the urges to move and to... | 2021-06-19T23:03:38 | 2021-06-19T22:36:55 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] You've just defeated the dark lord, as you were prophesized to. But as you walk back into camp, everyone looks at you, shocked. "There was no prophecy," they explain. "We just told you that to give you confidence. How on earth did you kill an unkillable sorcerer?" | *“Well, as it turns out,”* i spoke jovially, masking the rage building in me as i stepped out through the stone portal to the lord’s throne room, with my sword in one hand and his crown in the other *“I wasn’t the only one you fooled! The lord believed it, too. Turns out magic is only as powerful as you believe it is!”... | I strode back into the camp with a smirk on my face. The surprise on everyone's faces, naturally, they'd expected me to be dead, hadn't they?
The spellcasters, the farmers, the fliers. The dragons, the other creatures. They'd all set up camp outside the twisted fortress, and expected me to go inside alone.
But I'd... | 2021-08-20T12:25:05 | 2021-08-20T11:58:26 | 40 | 23 |
[WP] You just transferred to a new high school. It's ludicrously obvious that your chem lab partner is the secret identity of a superhero, but no one else seems to notice anything. | "You're 'Black Canary' , or something right?"
I said as I put my bag down next to the unassuming girl sitting alone at the lab table.
Her eyes widened, and she grew unsettled, clearly she was caught off guard. I continued talking to cease the awkward silence and said
"Yep, you're definitely her, I really admire you... | So, I walk into the library and I'm dumbfounded by the presence of my lab partner. We'd been assigned a group project in Biochemistry 1: research the history of an antiparasitic drug. It was first week and our professor assigned this. The syllabus said first week was supposed to be getting us up to speed, not throwi... | 2021-10-22T05:52:22 | 2021-10-22T05:30:31 | 63 | 28 |
[WP] At a young age you made a deal with a fey in which you promised them your firstborn. Now you’re a 35 year old virgin, and the fey, sick of waiting, comes to help you around the dating scene. | So I have never tried something like this before, but I hope this turns out well enough:
The first thing I noticed was the headache. „*Never gonna go to a bar with Tommy again*“, I thought while rising my left hand to my eyes, trying to block out the bright sunlight comming through my window. My memories were…hazy to... | In'faly is listening in utter frustration to single word echoing through room "No, no, no, no, no, no" "just say yes!" "I want my future wife to be star of my life" collar of his red polo shirt is almost ripped away as she lift him from chair "it is of no importance if you fancy that girl or not all you have to do is p... | 2021-11-01T08:12:24 | 2021-11-01T06:14:44 | 46 | 11 |
[WP] The alien invaders were confident. Their personal shield tech had withstood all enemies and types of energy weapons. Then they landed on Earth and found the shield's fatal flaw: Solid Projectiles. | Nearly all species follow a similar trajectory in their evolution of warfare: first, you hit something. Then you find a more efficient way of hitting it. Eventually you realize the most efficient way to hit something is by removing the mass from that equation and using pure energy. This was what the Twii had planned fo... | "They throw rocks"
The single transmission, looped on repeat, came from the 3rd planet from the local star, a planet the locals called "dirt". Kadeen Egritz, Command General Supreme, Mater of the 5th Space Fleet, demanded investigation.
Her 1st Consort arranged a team of his best guards, hand picked from the elite t... | 2022-07-23T07:31:27 | 2022-07-23T06:53:38 | 600 | 326 |
[WP] You are the 'Grandmother', a witch that lives alone deep in a dangerous forest. One day you find a child in a red cloak at your door carrying a basket of tribute. You are surprised to hear that they are one of a number of children sent to find you and the only one to survive the journey. | She lived alone in a house overgrown in brambles, deep in the heart of the woods. In private they called her a witch, but when around the children they just called her "Grandmother" and every few years an innocent child was sent to her as tribute to stave off her curse. None of the children ever returned.
So it had be... | The Grandmother heard a slight rustling outside her door. She stopped her rocking chair, leather-clad feet scraping against the floor. Surely not. No, no one was coming. No one ever came. She began rocking again.
The faint noise grew louder and was more definite. The Grandmother stopped rocking again, and her ea... | 2022-09-12T13:12:44 | 2022-09-12T12:59:13 | 172 | 45 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose civilian identity is a teacher. One student asked if you could tutor them after school, and you agreed. After it was over, you escorted them to the front of the school for their parent to pick them up... and you see your nemesis waiting by the car. | As Adrunaline i'm able to process faster than most, i mean my whole thing is being fast.
But no amount of decelerated time can help me process that the Cold Queen had a kid. And such a sweet kid too.
"Mommy" said young tim as he ran to his mom.
"Hey baby! How was school?" She said just not acknowledging me existence... | Nox was an English teacher at Inanoi Middle School and was currently tutoring one of their favorite kids. She was always well-behaved in class, always getting student of the month. Her name is Nay. Pointing out something was wrong with her essay, "You forgot your period again." It was a simple mistake, but she quickly ... | 2022-11-29T12:08:21 | 2022-11-29T10:46:25 | 528 | 59 |
[WP] NSA is the first agency with enough data to see common patterns behind seemingly innocent facts and behaviors worldwide. Those patterns lead to an enormous and sinister conspiracy. Conspiracy so weird and unexpected no reasonable person would have ever believed in it. | Atoms become molecules become cells become tissues, organs, bodies, animals....
Or humans.
Why are we here? It's a question that has been asked by every human to ever walk this earth. It is innate; a part of our race. Problem is, we all have a different idea and everybody thinks they are right. Some even think everyb... | Deep under the underground levels of Archive Prime, in a room shielded by a meter thick wall of solid steel, the latest findings of the Machine Intelligence Program were to be revealed in a meeting so clasified even the two participants would not be allowed to remember it, and would need to imbibe some secretitive form... | 2014-01-02T09:48:14 | 2014-01-02T09:35:19 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] You have died, and in the afterlife are given the opportunity to see the worst decision you ever made, and the best decision you ever made.
| "What do you mean?"
"Exactly what I said."
"So this is like an instant replay?"
"Only of the most important parts."
My life was pretty much entirely non-remarkable. I had a short stint of stardom as high-school Quarterback, but that was the height of excitement in my life. "Important. That's a joke."
The angel I'm... | "I hate her, I hate her, I hate her", I repeat to myself, watching the lights fade and the screen come alive in front of me.
Already I know what's going to happen, and I'm pretty sure what's coming. There's no doubt in my mind as to what I'm about to
watch.
Light fills the screen; the image of a cigarette being pul... | 2015-01-13T23:19:48 | 2015-01-13T23:01:17 | 119 | 51 |
[WP] After a night of heavy drinking, you wake up on the kill table of a serial killer. A few hours later, you need to explain to the police what you said to him that made him let you go. | *(Somewhere in a small room surrounded by gray walls and flourescent lighting)*
**Detective:** I'm sure you want to find this guy just as much as we do, so let's cut to the chase. Why you?
**Protagonist:** ...I critiqued him.
*(The detective looked over at his partner with a surprised look on his face)*
**Detective... | Everybody's on a list. Some for pirating, some for littering. Some more serious like human trafficking or prostitution. But everyone is suspected of something. I got put on the "Serial killer list". I am not a psychopath, I am not dangerous to society. I am a victim, and I lay nursing bandage under my neck.
A few hour... | 2015-03-31T13:01:40 | 2015-03-31T12:55:14 | 58 | 19 |
[WP] You are about to make a speech on national television. As you step up to the podium and gaze over at the teleprompter, you see only one word: "Stall." | "My fellow Americans," I begin. I'm exuding my usual calm, cool demeanor on the outside. Inside, I'm panicking. Stall? How? For how long? Finally, I settle on a strategy.
"How's it going?" That one caught them off guard. Not entirely unexpected, I do have a bit of a reputation as a wild card. It's why they elected m... | "Stall."
I break out in a cold sweat. This wasn't supposed to happen. I mean, it was the *plan* - but it wasn't supposed to happen. I had done everything that I was supposed to do, and this speech was supposed to be a vaguely inspiring fluff piece, and the assembled demonstrators were never supposed to have even the s... | 2015-05-16T17:07:37 | 2015-05-16T16:57:01 | 1,518 | 74 |
[WP] Instead of the oceans covering the earth, forests are in its place, making it possible to walk from continent to continent. Like oceans, it gets deeper and darker and creatures get more aggressive and rarer to see. You are tasked to document a trek through one of the oceans of your choice. | "Congratulations Thomas! You have completed the Atlantic forest trek!"
"Thank you."
"Did you know you are the very first to accomplish such a feat?"
"Yes."
"Do you know how many before you have tried?"
"56."
"I....I don't think that's correct Thomas, our fact checkers at the station said there were only 36 ... | The sponginess of millions of years of dead leaves under my feet make every step seem uncertain. The crunch of the fresh top layer of the orangish/brown mess would mask the sound of any unwanted companions. Adding to the tension was the fact that I haven't seen another member of the animal kingdom in at least three day... | 2015-10-25T11:22:11 | 2015-10-25T10:07:00 | 817 | 32 |
[WP] The world's first AI, for security purposes, is kept disconnected from the outside world, it's only method of communication being a keyboard and monitor in an empty room in a faraday cage. Your job is to talk to it.
This is inspired by r/ControlProblem, a subreddit dedicated to discussing the issues and solutions... | They say people aren't religious anymore. The truth is that people want something to believe in, want to be told what to believe, what to think. You just have to frame it correctly. Nobody buys the Old Man In The Sky shtick anymore, they've wised up to the concept of the Holy Book.
But tell them that an artificial su... | To the best of Tim's understanding, and it was vague because the information was relayed to him while he was tripping on some sort of government issue tranquilizer and also had a bag on his head that smelled like dirty underwear, was that he was too incompetent to purposefully help the AI take over the world, and not n... | 2015-10-30T16:36:42 | 2015-10-30T16:25:34 | 338 | 28 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | Dear Natalie.
So here I am. Funny how things work, right? Never thought I'd end up penning this letter, but I guess something prompted me to do it.
I know. I've known ever since it happened what your real motivations were, and you never had me fooled for a second. After you apologized, and said that you were just mes... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T14:43:55 | 356 | 26 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Matthew.
I don't hate you any longer. I have found it in my heart to let go and let everything be the way it is. I have accepted it. Maybe it's more for my own sense of sanity, but I have. None the less, I will never forget, or excuse you from your actions.
Ella is growing up fast, and Nick has already started... | wow, i want to do this so i will, but i have a few letters i need to address. just for sanity and subtle sake of ones demons.
Dear Jennifer. my beautiful sister.
i'm sorry for staying at yours the month after your wedding and having no money and regrettably overstaying my welcome and being a pain in the ass.
i'm sorry... | 2015-12-05T13:52:07 | 2015-12-05T13:10:10 | 181 | 58 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Dear Natalie.
So here I am. Funny how things work, right? Never thought I'd end up penning this letter, but I guess something prompted me to do it.
I know. I've known ever since it happened what your real motivations were, and you never had me fooled for a second. After you apologized, and said that you were just mes... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T14:43:55 | 158 | 26 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I'm pretty sure you think Mom is my hero. She stayed at home with us until high school, attended all the sports practices, school performances, made all the lunches...and of course I love her, for all that and more, but I'd like to tell you that you have always been my hero.
Some might say that it's just b... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T15:05:05 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 59 | 11 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear dad,
I fucking miss you. You died too quickly and I never got to hear your last words. I know though, I know you'd tell me you're proud of me and that you love me. I know this, but goddammit, i wish I could have heard you say it. I'll be the man you always knew I could be. I promise you that, and i will continue... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T15:43:07 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Natalie.
So here I am. Funny how things work, right? Never thought I'd end up penning this letter, but I guess something prompted me to do it.
I know. I've known ever since it happened what your real motivations were, and you never had me fooled for a second. After you apologized, and said that you were just mes... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T14:43:55 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Jesus - Your birthday is coming up. YAY! 2015 has been great to me. I finally realized this year that you're not real. Who am I actually addressing this letter to then? Oh well. Thanks for taking up all of my teens and 20s with indoctrinated lies that kept me from many experiences that in retrospect I would have p... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T14:47:35 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Frankie,
Once, you told me that one of the moments that sticks out in your mind is driving in the car with me. I remember that, too; just the two of us, somewhere on Route 64, headed back from Taos. I can still close my eyes and be right there in the passenger seat; I can see our intertwined fingers and the white para... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T15:04:15 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | I could hear the muffled voice of Williams coming down the corridor. As he passed cell doors, I heard him saying to his companion the name of the inmate, the reason he was on “The Last Mile” and how long he’d been there. It was something I’d heard happening many times, a ritual or a routine whenever Williams had a visi... | More people these days ask me how I managed to get out of a life sentence in prison rather than why I haven't aged a single day in the last... I don't know how many years, I stopped keeping track, close to fifteen-hundred i'd say, probably more. How long isn't what's important, the point of this story is how my immorta... | 2016-10-15T10:46:42 | 2016-10-15T10:15:30 | 51 | 10 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | ”Okay, here we go,” June said, spinning the wheels on her mechanical glove, which sent her on a dizzying ride through space and time.
She landed in a pub buzzing with activity, colorful bottles lined the wall behind the bar and yellow light radiated through heaps of stacked cups. Women in long dresses and updos danced... | "Do you remember when we first met?" she asked, pouring the last of the last bottle.
I smiled. "I was eighteen. Physics class on the Ohio State campus."
"Yes? Tell me what you first thought." Her dark eyes seemed to swallow all of my peripheral vision like an entire night full of stars on the Mediterranea... | 2022-05-07T07:51:43 | 2016-11-10T11:48:32 | 2,588 | 1,871 |
[WP] You are a Historian sent back in time to record historical events. You are given a camera, and told to hide SD cards at sites of historical value, hidden in capsules which will survive through time. However when you return to the future, you find there's a hefty prison sentence for opening them | "We're sorry to bring you in like this, Agent Losdon."
The Director and the Agent were seated in a Langley holding cell. Agent Daui Losdon was uncuffed and clutched a glass of Pepsi, his eyes fixed manically on CIA Direcgor Abram Stone. The director wore a three piece suit with no cuff links, and the stiff agent wore ... | He could feel the air come to a start again, an audible *whoosh* and a pop in his ears, and suddenly the dark turned inward and out. Light peered in, like a pinhole, growing like a white blaze conquering trees of black. Then came his favorite part -- colors rose along the edges, the white becoming a myriad of hues and... | 2017-09-10T11:33:40 | 2017-09-10T10:39:00 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] Your parents choose your attributes, you end up as a tank, 6.4 foot tall, and most of your attributes placed into strength, endurance and intelligence. However, you've always wanted to become an assassin, and now at 18, you strive to meet your goal. | It was time to choose my guild. I was lined up with my classmates during the ceremony. My turn to Choose. Everyone was looking at me, though I was used to *that*. Even now, I towered above my classmates, as thick in one leg as they were in their waist.
Everyone expected me to protect, to serve, to take the hits for my... | He unlocked the front door of his mansion and walked in, the lights automatically turning on as he entered each room towards the staircase which led up to his bedroom. He was feeling a bit tired--he had just brokered a deal between his company and a merc-corp based in Africa, guaranteeing armed and armored protection ... | 2017-09-27T06:50:32 | 2017-09-27T05:26:25 | 103 | 30 |
[WP] You're a ferocious demon king. You're surprised one day to find that a young woman has been left at your door. Only to later find out her father, the king, is using you as bait to find a knight worthy of marrying his daughter. | "Another one of your boys came by today," I said, setting the dish on the table. "Red hair, good with an axe. He might've been a good match."
Alara sighed, but let out a slight laugh. "How much longer until you think the old man gets the hint that this isn't working?" She set the plates and silverware down in our usua... | *Can continue this if people like it.*
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"I want him! And him! And him! And him!" Pearl said.
She stood in the centre of the dining room table, no higher than 4 feet, with a small bouquet of flowers in her hand and wearing a wedding dress with the veil. Whoever had given the seven-year-old the dress would soon l... | 2017-10-06T08:21:17 | 2017-10-06T07:10:01 | 199 | 139 |
[WP] You're a ferocious demon king. You're surprised one day to find that a young woman has been left at your door. Only to later find out her father, the king, is using you as bait to find a knight worthy of marrying his daughter. | "How did you even get in here?" I bellowed from my throne. The young human cowered, weeping. I suppressed a sigh and counted to ten.
The woman sat in a heap of her own gown, face burried in her hands as sobs racked her. She took her time crying herself out and eventually raised her head. She seemed surprised I was sti... | She was pretty, he supposed. For a mortal.
“Veralla,” the princess introduced herself with a bow. She was pale, thin, and her knees trembled something awful. Yet, despite all the fear she felt, there was a spark in her eye. The demon lord liked that.
“Throw her in the pits,” he growled after a moment. “If you want ... | 2017-10-06T15:07:05 | 2017-10-06T13:51:51 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil and now he wants payment, but in the worst typo in history he's come to collect "your sole".
If you can think of any other words that work go ahead. | Elisabeth watched, unfazed, as the devil materialized amongst billowing smoke and sizzling flame in her dining room. Up until this point, she'd been dining alone, as usual, though she wondered if the spectacle would bring the attention of her staff, or if - perhaps - this grandiosity was an illusion for her senses only... | The collections department sent an email with the next job. As soon as I saw the name, I knew who it was. I didn't even bother using Google Underworld to map a route. One snap of the fingers and the red walls of the underworld went streaming past.
I summoned the seven fire-breathing demons of hell, the undead, my ... | 2017-10-16T03:39:39 | 2017-10-16T03:22:17 | 924 | 10 |
[WP] There's a knock at the door at three in the morning. It's an intergalactic bounty-hunter, and they're after an escaped criminal they've tracked to your home. They show you a photo of the fugitive: It's your pet. | I look at the bounty hunter as he is telling me that a fugitive was in my house. He was wearing a mask that was completely black and covered his entire head, his jacket, pants, and shoes, were completely white. He held up a photo of my dog, and I couldn’t help but let out a gasp.
A soft whine came from behind me, and... | I was sound asleep. I was having a pleasant dream about me and my pet Goldfish swimming together in the ocean.
But it all went away when a knock on my door ripped me out of my dream. I meandered over to the door, Flashing lights were shining through the windows at the front of the house. I didn't even compute that the... | 2017-11-15T23:49:24 | 2017-11-15T23:34:51 | 51 | 13 |
[WP] Earth is about to update to version 2.0.18! Write a change log for this new version. | Cheers from the U.S! Things might get a little political, but it's all in good humor and mainly about net neutrality because about 98% of Reddit is pro net neutrality
-Nerfed bitcoin to $13,000. It seemed as though bitcoin was $298.17 to powerful (the difference between its old value and the new one), and that those ... | Donald Trump farted softly in his sleep. Melania sat bolt upright in bed, lifting an eyebrow and scowling sharply. She threw away her covers and slid off the silk bedsheets. She sashayed towards the Presidential Bathroom, iPhone in hand. She clicked the door closed and pressed the lock button.
As your noble omniscie... | 2017-12-22T22:21:44 | 2017-12-22T21:53:05 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] How could humans be dangerous? This one's been crying in the corner since we captured it. | “What’s it doing?”, aerg asked.
“Oh, that’s an instinctive reaction. It’s called crying, according to encyclopedia. It’s a form of frustrated submission. The display of wetness on its face is a call for mercy.” miurg fanned its sensor antennae to observe again the excretions of the prisoner.
“Why does it not just ... | “Look, all I’m saying is-“ “HOW can it be dangerous? It’s been crying in that corner for like 25 minutes!”
I looked over at the sobbing human. He did look rather sad, and I guess we should expect that. We did just steal him. “Why is he crying so much? It’s so IRRITATING!” Jaruta was getting really mad.
“Maybe he’s ... | 2018-02-17T21:27:28 | 2018-02-17T13:54:02 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You don't sleep. Instead you die every day and 8 hours later you wake up in the body of a person who has 16 hours left to live. | They say people lose a third of their lifetime to sleep. I live an entire lifetime in less than a day.
"Doc, what should I do?"
I paced around the room as I waited for an answer.
Doctor Cain adjusted his glasses slowly before fixing me with a contemplative stare. "I'm sorry but before I can answer any of your que... | The first thing I do every morning is to stretch. You can tell a lot about a body with a long stretch. Then, I tend to look for a mirror. For curiosity’s sake.
“And who might you be?” I muttered as I checked my new face in the mirror. A man, in his early thirties, with dark circles around his eyes and in a desperate n... | 2018-06-20T08:07:39 | 2018-06-20T07:26:34 | 665 | 125 |
[WP] As it turns out, humans are not the generic, good guy, center of the galaxy type species. Humans are a specialist species, and the rest of the galaxy only cares about one thing when it comes to humanity. Our explosives. | There were over 100 Alien species in the grand council of zerekas, the largest weaponry and technology showcase in the known universe, the Imperium of Pretoria had just received a standing ovation from the members, after showing that their newest creation of indestructible living sculptures had successfully eliminated ... | Anari Fortress is cramped and claustrophobic. It is a swarming marketplace, filled with both the deepest tenements of the criminal underworld, as well as the faintly disguised extraterrestrials that had contacted us so many times through history. It is here at Anari where humans and our foreign "friends" met face to fa... | 2018-07-16T04:52:58 | 2018-07-15T22:26:30 | 161 | 104 |
[WP] You come home to your new apartment from a long day at work to find an eldritch horror sitting on your couch, eating your favorite snack and watching a football game. When it notices you, it gurgles, "Didn't read the lease, eh? This place wasn't cheap because of the bugs, pal." | I don't know what Lovecraft's deal is. The initial shock was bad certainly, and seeing your own mind spill into the void is less then pleasant, but when all's said and done it's not so bad.
I stand up off the floor and look at the beast. "Could you pass the chips?"
"Sorry we're out, been out for a while," the thing s... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Chip?" he proffered, sticking out the bag towards Kasen as he stuck another into his mouth. It made a--one--crunching sound, then disappeared down his fish-scale covered gullet.
"Um, no thanks," the boy said reflexively. He dropped his keys on the counter and slid off his shoes. Then, just as he... | 2018-08-10T12:07:43 | 2018-08-10T08:22:58 | 18 | 10 |
[WP]At 18 everyone is assigned a job perfect for them. No one ever complains. Upon reading their job assignment card, a teen has found that, for the first time in 100 years, they’ve been assigned “serial killer”. | I lazily grabbed the card from the machine, politely thanked the attendant, and walked away dreading what sort of mundane life I looked forward to. Ever since cognitive analytics became a field, machines had been created to scan and determine ideal careers for people.
As part of legislation, it was mandated that machi... | I can barely believe we live in a time where cognitive regocnition technology can identify what roles we play at an individual level in our society.
My mom and das thinks it is scarey but embrace the idea anyways. "It works... it just does. I guess" they say. Am i living in the shift or evolution of the modern man? ... | 2018-08-13T19:22:34 | 2018-08-13T18:58:59 | 542 | 62 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "186,292".
The number kept ringing in my ears as I was huddled onto the elevator to Hell. I had led the most unremarkable and conflict-free life ever, an average joe. Easy-going, I almost always acquiesced to what the group wanted, not wanting to raise an issue. A voyeur of life, almost.
Chapters from life flashed ... | “186,290 years?” I exclaimed, shock written all over my face. “You have to be mistaken!” I continued staring slack-jawed at the bored looking HSA officer across the counter. “186,292 years” he corrected me in a bored tone as he stamped my papers and pushed them back toward me. “Straight ahead, follow this hallway to t... | 2018-09-26T08:17:41 | 2018-09-26T07:53:45 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "186 thousand years?! W-what did I do?" I asked the demon before me. He sighed, rolled his eyes and started tapping away on his demonic keyboard, delving deeper into my file.
"Says here you would frequently eat the fats on your meat?"
"I did? I guess. What does that have to do with anything?"
The demon shrugged. "Au... | I had been in line for some time now and was grateful to hear the man in front of me called forward, he was the sort that must have skipped showers here and there. Then again, we were dead and so suddenly I expected that none of us smelled like roses. I had my armpit to my nose when he turned back and with a brief nod ... | 2018-09-26T09:04:03 | 2018-09-26T08:46:32 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "186,292 years!?!"
"Yup." St. Peter looked bored, maybe even a little annoyed. I suppose I wasn't his first today to be taken back by their sentence -- by this _rejection_ -- and I suspect I won't be the last.
But then my gaze moved over St. Peter's left shoulder to... Majesty? Brilliance? This glowing man... being.... | One could've heard a pin drop, provided the pin wouldn't immediately liquidate and disappear into the suffocating humidity of this divine DMV. I blinked a couple times at the number on the dated 80's era Linux machine and back to the impatient elderly demon peering over her ironic horn-rimmed glasses across my face. ... | 2018-09-26T08:25:34 | 2018-09-26T07:48:10 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You're a paramedic. In fact, an immortal paramedic. Since you first treated a wounded soldier on the fields of the 30-years War, you didn't age and followed the development of "Emergency Medical Service". Your coworkers are astonished by your knowledge, but sometimes, you slip into old habits.. | From within the ambulance shed came yelling which was muffled but loud enough to bring nurses from the hospital adjacent. Several EMTs and a paramedic stood outside the building shaking their heads at the terrible noises coming from within. The nurses walked up with concerned looks on their faces.
“What’s happening,” ... | With every assault men in brown uniforms would fall to the Swedes, like sand being washed from a beach by the tide of blue coated soldiers. Each shot of the cannons releasing flashes of blue and red as they smashed against the wall as if cracking open the delusions of Tomas and letting in reality. The man he treated ha... | 2019-01-05T15:35:45 | 2019-01-05T15:34:26 | 71 | 18 |
[WP] Jerry was erased from existence by Thanos’ snap. The grieving Tom decided to revenge for his fallen friend. | “How is this possible?!” Thanos shouts as he stumbled backward from the sheer shock of what he had just witnessed.
The red gem on Thanos gauntlet glows, altering bits and pieces of everything around him.
Expect for this being in front of him.
The creature marches towards Thanos with no fear, rolling up the fur on hi... |
There is a reason why we have lived this long because of the incident of one day in May 1943 we were both chasing each other this time we made a complete mess of things almost destroyed the house i was using fire poker to murder Jerry for drinking my milk again and by accident through no fault of my own the fire pok... | 2019-04-01T07:25:11 | 2019-04-01T07:00:25 | 111 | 11 |
[WP] In contemp, gods made you the god of the forgotten. For millenia your power was merely enough to keep you alive. Jokes on them, those same gods that chained you before, have been forgotten. You are the only thing between them and nothingness. "Well, well, well..." | *The Gods are quiet.*
*The chamber is in ruin, dilapidated and crumbling as reality itself threatens to collapse this place to metaphorical atoms, symbolic dust. Midnight dark rivers streak down once ivory-pale pillars like crying black tears.*
*I watch the Gods in my own silence. Great Heavenly Fathers, majestic Wa... | “Well, well, well, look who finally came CRAWLING BACK, did your pets out in the universe finally grow up?”
Before me stand the gods, hundreds, Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Ra, and countless more, patrons of civilizations all across the universe, here, before me.
“It’s all my old friends, Yahweh, who stabbed me in the back... | 2019-07-13T00:22:51 | 2019-07-12T21:25:06 | 316 | 214 |
[WP] You are a magical girl, but instead of the usual Sailor Moon esque transformation, you turn into your favorite gritty D&D character. This surprises and terrifies the main villain, who was expecting a frilly dress and some sparkles. Instead they got greasy plate armor, and a bloody battleaxe. | "You won't be able to stop me, evil Mr. Clownface," cried Jessica as she stumbled backward, the super vanilla cream pie splattered all over her face.
"But, hahaha, you are wrong little girl, for I ClownFace, the Jester of Evil, have come to this city to steal," began the Clown.
"Super Girly Transform," cried Jessica ... | I never knew having a D&D obsession could save my life. Yet, it happened. Sometimes it seems as though fate has a sense of humor.
Let me start from the beginning. I was on my school bus (headed to school, of course), drowning out the sound of fellow adolescents with the voice of Matthew Mercer. It was a peaceful ... | 2019-08-08T17:56:32 | 2019-08-08T17:55:32 | 1,948 | 71 |
[WP] You are a magical girl, but instead of the usual Sailor Moon esque transformation, you turn into your favorite gritty D&D character. This surprises and terrifies the main villain, who was expecting a frilly dress and some sparkles. Instead they got greasy plate armor, and a bloody battleaxe. | I am the only male magical girl to have ever existed.
At six one and with a gnarled bushy beard, I look nothing so much as a zitless stereotype of the basement dweller gamer. And yet somehow I am the chosen one and all that such.
When Mana herself gave me my wand, she told me to imagine myself at my strongest, even i... | The dust is blowing into my eyes. Why does dust always blow into your eyes, why can't it ever blow the other way? I suppose an introduction is in order. My name is Sarah Silvertree, well actually that's actually my character from my friend John's campaign, but well.. Too much detail!!
Let's try this again, remember br... | 2019-08-08T18:00:37 | 2019-08-08T16:28:47 | 125 | 88 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | The alliance had recently made first contact with a new and emerging species. They were a frail group, no way to read other species brains having to result in either trust or gunboat diplomacy. They were bipedal and had a pretty large planet, neither of those are a good sign.
Soon I would confirm my suspicions. I peer... | "Aaaaaauuugh!" Rang out Fuerbors' agonized scream, "Gwaaah! Urrrrrgha! Hooooooow!" He raved on. Harold Barlett the first human Ambassador to the human race was on his knees next to Fuerbor the Ambassador to the polflongs' a race of blue/green squid-esque people.
"Ambassador Fuerbor? What's wrong?! Someone get him med... | 2019-09-29T18:12:55 | 2019-09-29T18:06:35 | 207 | 119 |
[WP] Fear not the necromancer; His is the tireless arm that defends our land. There is no greater service one can offer the realm than use of that which you no longer need - your body after death. The duty of the living is to live. The duty of the dead is to serve as tireless protectors. | Grandpa once told me about the time before the emperor. When men had to toil endlessly to plough the soil, when most people were little more than serfs unable to do anything except the same job as their parents.
The teachers at school say things are better now. Now that the dead work the fields in our place. Now that... | I nod, with the words our noble spiritual leader spouts. Is it vanity, to admire your own words, even if they come from another's mouth?
When I took what was mine, the Throne which I deserved, I had no army. My elder brother had the charm, the looks, the purse from which the Generals dipped into with alarming regulari... | 2019-11-06T02:16:56 | 2019-11-06T01:50:18 | 661 | 139 |
[WP] You've increased your stealth stat by so much that even death itself can't find you. | “Please dude, I’ve had a rough day and I wanna go to sleep.”
I heard Death plead as I watched him from a distance, hiding behind a classmate’s backpack. Sleep my ass. Death worked all over the world. He doesn’t sleep.
I travel and stealthily draw a hush of wind over him, making him shudder underneath his cloak.
“D... | Galician Hotsfort couldn’t die.
It was the morning, practicing his steps through the garden he tended and sneaked through to keep himself sane was when he decided. He wasn’t feeling joy anymore from his hobbies: pruning his bushes and avoiding the loud crunch of the sticks that were left had an off tinge to it, like ... | 2019-12-16T03:29:27 | 2019-12-16T01:59:15 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] A person who looks exactly like you appears out of thin air in front of you. He starts explaining how he is you from a hellish other universe. As he starts to describe it, you realize its better than yours. | "No, you don't get it; the AMAZON RAINFOREST almost caught fire! It's the lungs of the earth! It would've been a disaster!"
"...almost?"
"Yeah, it was a real close call."
"...what about California?"
"...what do you mean?"
"Is California on fire?"
"...no."
"...Can you tell me who Jeffery Epstein is?"
"You mean t... | ‘What’s going on with your HAIR!’
‘It has a fringe’
She laughs. ‘Anyway, asides the dodgy hair, I thought I’d better tell you that I’m from a hellish universe where I get to live your worst nightmare. Although seeing your fringe I thought that was impossible’
After catching her breath she looks me up and down.
S... | 2019-12-18T03:36:27 | 2019-12-17T22:11:15 | 587 | 176 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to see the number of lives a person has taken. Even legendary soldiers and serial killers rarely make it to triple digits. The person you just met has a lot more than three digits above their head, though. | Working at Starbucks, you meet all kinds of people. When you are me, that is doubly true.
Since I have memory, every time I look at someone I have seen a number form besides them. Growing up I did not know what it meant, since most people had a zero. It wasn't until I entered high school that I began to meet people wi... | Sweat beaded down your neck, dampening the collar of your shirt. Your heart thudded awfully in your chest, the fear that had been put into by loved ones and family alike since a young age striking through you with horrific clarity. You had known this very meeting would be the last you ever had, but that was a cold comf... | 2020-01-11T20:26:40 | 2020-01-11T19:18:43 | 256 | 96 |
[WP] In your desperation to save your company, you've decided to make a deal with the Devil. When you perform the ritual, you realize that you've actually summoned Ares, the God of War. | "So you're not Lucifer," I said.
The hulking, armored God before me shook his head. "Never even heard the name," he answered in broken English. "But I am here just the same."
Well, shit.
All I'd wanted was Lucifer--easy enough, in theory. But if everything was as easy as it seemed, I'd never have found myself in thi... | Shivering, I clicked the lighter and set fire to the pile of unpaid bills, letting the ash settle in the bowl on the warehouse floor. The electricity had been turned off days ago, which meant no heat despite the coldest blast of winter yet. I sent the boys home for the week for a mandatory vacation, but they knew as we... | 2020-02-25T08:01:39 | 2020-02-25T08:01:37 | 62 | 25 |
[WP] If somebody tries to harm you, their attempt to do so is reflected back at them and they get hurt instead. You don't seem to be able to turn off this skill, but one day someone tried to murder you resulting in their death. Now you've been accused of witchcraft and are on your third execution. | They stood in the field. Alone.
"You think you're so special? Offering vegetables?"
Abel snarled.
Cain shrugged. "He liked your bleeding murdered animals better anyway. Why are you so mad about this?"
Abel took a step towards him. "Because you disgust me, that's why. You waltz around acting like you're better than t... | content warning: I spend a lot of time on the executions themselves.
I don't know why I'm the way I am and that's not for lack of trying. Over the years, I've consulted apothecary's and traveling mages in secret. Each one gave me an answer for the origin of my condition and left convinced they were right. All of them ... | 2020-03-10T17:34:28 | 2020-03-10T13:17:29 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] Your 'friends' just slammed the door on you, leaving you in the room with the crazed axe murderer. "Damn, that's a dick move. Want to get revenge?" The murderer offers you their hand. | "W-What?" I asked, "You're not going to kill me?". "Hey, I know how that feels. They're not real friends if they did that." The murderer said. "T-That doesn't mean I want revenge!" I said. "I'm giving you a choice here lady! You can join me to help get your revenge, or sit here and have your head chopped off. Which one... | The palms of my hands start to ache and bleed as I clenched my fist tighter, my dirty broken nails digging into my skin. I quickly scanned the room, finding any point of exit that was big enough to aid with my escape. Nothing. Freedom was right in front of me, blocked by something inhuman.
*If I could just distract h... | 2020-11-10T07:09:23 | 2020-11-10T04:47:35 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Your superpower isn't the flashiest in the academy, but it does come in handy. The more you learn about a different subject the more you gain control over it. Studying physics? Gain control of subatomic particles. History essay? Change events in the timeline. Your next test? Math. | And then I divided by zero.
I know nobody is supposed to te able to and "That's not how math works" but I did and here I am. And with I, I mean both me, us, them, all.
Singularity.
After I finished dividing by zero, I had made the conditions for it to be able to happen. Apparently Math is only internally consiste... | I may not be the flashiest person at the Westchester Academy for the supernaturally gifted but I'll be damned if I'm not one of the strongest. I always had a love for studying, I could study for hours upon hours each day and it didn't matter what I studied I loved it all. By the time I hit middle school was when I disc... | 2021-01-12T11:51:28 | 2021-01-12T11:48:18 | 582 | 178 |
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?”
"*That*."
He cocked his head.
"Dude just fucking *fist pumped*."
The boy turned and stared. A chill breeze wandered across the field. The boy stared. Leaves -- part-turne... | I looked at the child dumbfounded, but mostly concerned that he was within danger close of the battle zone. I looked at Destructo, the simultaneously dumbest and most physically powerful villain. He had a weird gleam in his eye.
“Did you pay him to say this?”
“I D K, Shield-brah,” he literally spelled out *I D K.* “W... | 2021-04-18T06:36:57 | 2021-04-18T06:21:51 | 151 | 81 |
[WP] You and your rival are ancient enemies. You've fought each other on the battlefield in every major war. Trojan War, Punic Wars, Hundred Years' War, World War 1, World War 2. The only reason for the long period of peace we have now is that your rival is missing. You miss him. | Gilgamesh_tha_god: you ever lose touch with someone you care about?
Gilgamesh_tha_god: not a friend or a loved one, but, like, that kid in all your classes you'd see everyday? and maybe you're rivals and maybe you're buddies, but they were always THERE, through everything
Gilgamesh_tha_god: anyway I wonder what happe... | Long ago, when the time was new, there lived a race called the Protectorates. The oldest and mightiest race in the universe. Not many had ever seen them, though the legends throughout every star system and galaxy had heard rumours, some had even wrote songs and poems of these beings.
“Do you see them in their flowing ... | 2021-05-04T08:06:07 | 2021-05-04T06:29:48 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | "Hello Jackson."
Those words, in that tone, by that voice. The same voice that had the "Ruler of Ten Worlds begging on his knees. I wish I could be even a bit frightened, but after twenty times, it gets old. The same words, every time.
"No and go."
Genesis raised an eyebrow, but other than that, didn't respond. I sl... | "Whoa, guys, now wait just a sec", I said while raising my hands in a warding gesture towards the two supes trying to threaten me with their powers.
"No more waiting, Carl", said Josh the Jellyfish. Yes, he picked that name. "Your time's up", added Rocky Rhayle. "Either you spill your secrets now or we spill your guts... | 2021-08-16T16:57:27 | 2021-08-16T14:51:45 | 679 | 80 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | "So, that's it, then." Pan massages his temples and stares at me from across the table. He looks different without the equipment. Athletic wear, corporate logos, speaker systems. I wouldn't believe this slight, curly haired kid could break a parking garage with his voice, but he did. Pretty recently, too. Had to sign w... | “Why me?”
I thought as I’m walking while two heroes are stalking me. I can’t possibly be the only person with powers that just minds their own business, so why are they targeting me? I guess it could be that I have multiple are pretty strong powers, I can use both fire and ice, as well as lift stuff with my mind, incl... | 2021-08-16T17:15:46 | 2021-08-16T13:29:39 | 215 | 145 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | “Please, around the roses.” I called out, trying to salvage my garden. It was impossible to be a gardener class in an age of warriors and mages. No one cared about the little gardener boy who was just trying to maintain a healthy system of flora. No, if my plants couldn’t fire lightning bolts or wield a sword, they wan... | Everything was Just the way it should be. The chamomiles were blooming. The snakeroots, freshly planted. And in front of her stood the Maidenhair, so tall that she could only just see the top. The leaves were just starting to change from their bright green to the brightest gold that would rival the gold the richest of ... | 2021-11-12T11:42:53 | 2021-09-09T21:37:31 | 1,235 | 172 |
[WP] An advanced AI is asked to draw God. This event is being live-streamed across the entire world. As soon as the AI is done everyone turns towards you and you look up and see the drawing, It’s you. | It's somewhere in Nebraska. Me and my pals are sitting in a bar, watching the life feed on an old TV tube that somehow managed to still work after all these decades. The picture was bad as you might imagine, but surprisingly good considering it's limitations.
Today was the day when the first seemingly sentient AI, cr... | I'd never really cared much about the growth of AI. It either would become self-sufficient, or it wouldn't. Either way, I still had to get my morning coffee and croissant on my own, then walk to my office. Whether AI became intelligent or not, I'd still have to work my shitty 9-5, paper-pushing office job.
So I'd not... | 2021-11-13T23:01:04 | 2021-11-13T22:33:37 | 83 | 44 |
[WP] "No! Go away! I can't let you go near me when I turn into a werewolf!" "Don't worry, I will love you always, even if you become a monster." "No, I'm just stupid as all hell when I turn. I'll not hurt you, but I am sure as hell not ready to show you me barking at a lamppost for the whole night!" | "Alright, I'll be honest, this is *not* how I imagined this going down." I said in between having my face thoroughly loved by a wide, lupine tongue.
I was for all intents and purposes pinned to the floor, completely immobile, by the sizeable wolf on top of me. It wasn't uncomfortable per se, but it also wasn't a posit... | It is a lie that we are whole.
We are legion- all of us. A thousand impulses, a million might-have-beens, all inhabiting a single body.
We're pretty good at ignoring it. Pretending that there's one, and only one, who holds the controls and steers the ship. In the moment, we can feel this way.
It's easier to notic... | 2022-05-14T17:38:40 | 2022-05-14T13:12:57 | 176 | 127 |
[WP] You are a necromancer for hire. No you don't raise undead armies to take over the world. You are usually contracted out by police to help solve murders. Or yo raise those who have passed to settle lawsuits surrounding their will. It's not much but it's honest work. | My gig that morning was to secure a half-a-million-dollar inheritance for an orange tabby named Peppermint, and it was the gig I was least looking forward to that day.
I sipped from my flask while seated in a circle drawn in liquid chalk in the middle of Saul Meyer's law office conference room floor in Williamsburg, r... | “3rd and Clay, 3rd and Clay. Where is Clay?” I mutter to myself. I’m driving down 3rd Street in my white Prius. I bought it a month ago with the compensation I received after providing my post-post-mortem support during the recent Sunset Hill Killer trial. Man have times changed since I first became a necromancer. I ne... | 2022-06-10T14:47:49 | 2022-06-10T14:45:26 | 304 | 108 |
[WP] How strongly can you make someone hate a character? | It wasn't enough to get a hundred. Any fool could get a hundred. The commander had set the bar too low so that the nobodies could crawl over it. Jiro was going to do better. He was going to make his ancestors proud. He was going to get every possible kind of Nanjing scum there was. He was going to behead each one with ... | The commander leant back in his chair, while the light played along the ceiling. He traced patterns with his eyes, counted the rows of bookshelves and made strokes with a pen upon the paper on his desk.
The phone on his desk rang. He let it ring. No-one was interrupting this afternoon. As the ringing left his ears he ... | 2013-09-15T04:47:37 | 2013-09-15T02:44:43 | 113 | 12 |
[WP] Instead of hearing what people say, you hear what they mean. It has been both a blessing and a curse. | So here's the thing,
Growing up I always thought people were brutally honest. Even my own parents would tell me exactly what they meant. Sometimes it was harsh, other times it was the best thing ever. But as time passed and I matured I realized I had a curse wrapped in a blessing. Notice I chose my words with intent... | "I'm sorry."
God I'm sick of hearing that. Nobody ever really seems to MEAN it. Usually they mean "go away" or "you're so annoying". People also don't usually mean "I love you". Usually it's "I feel very close to you" or "I want to seem overly happy and keep up this impression so therefore I state that I LOVE everythin... | 2014-10-14T10:28:37 | 2014-10-14T10:08:28 | 71 | 31 |
[WP] Make a story so awkward even the narrator start's getting uncomfortable.
. _ .
Starts*
Auto correct is my mortal enemy. | "Eva!" I shouted, spotting her familiar face across the food court. Her normally long brown hair was tied in a knot at the top of her head, but her familiar red jacket made me recognize her right away. She turned, trying to find the source of her name-caller through the crowd. I waved.
Eva looked confused to see me, a... | “I can’t wait to finally meet your parents.” Brians tells Chelsea on the drive over to her family’s house. Chelsea has been hesitant to bring me over to meet her family. I don’t know why. She talks about them a lot. They’re both rather successful. Unfortunately, Chelsea knew something about her parents she didn’t want ... | 2014-12-23T10:15:27 | 2014-12-23T08:43:21 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] On their first birthday, everyone on Earth is given a wristband that will glow brighter depending on how far away they are from their soulmate. But, yours has never even turned on. | For years I wondered why my wristband didn't glow.
When I was young, I didn't really understand it. Some kids thought it was cool, different you know.
When I got older, I understood what it meant.
"Maybe you haven't got a soul mate?"
That was a depressing idea. Can't be that at all, can it? I traveled the world ... | They always say that it isn't my fault.
For as long as I can remember, I've been an outsider. It's not that my personality is all that objectionable, nor that I'm somehow incapable of connecting with the people around me. No, the source of my isolation stems from the thin band of black metal locked around my right wri... | 2015-03-22T12:00:39 | 2015-03-22T11:19:52 | 184 | 25 |
[WP] You are the founder of a tiny 1990s tech startup operating from your garage. All of a sudden, a bunch of people who are obviously badly disguised time travelers start trying to buy stock in your company. | I catch myself re-reading the same sentence for the third time and look up from my desk. It's gotten dark outside, no wonder I've been having trouble deciphering my badly scribbled notes. I turn on the lights and after closing the blinds and locking down the front door, I decide to make some coffee. It doesn't look lik... | There was a time when money rained from heaven and I wanted a piece of it. I had dropped out of Cal Poly in 1991, after my second year. I had the big idea. At first we were wide-eyed and optimistic. We could have changed the world or at least the way people did things. We actually worked in a garage. Do you believe tha... | 2015-10-04T12:11:58 | 2015-10-04T10:48:19 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] Instead of your life flashing before your eyes as you die, your life flashes before your killer's eyes. You're an assassin who has killed time and time again, but something stops you as you are about to finish off your next target. | Ah, the flashes- the reason I became an assassin. There's something I just *love* about seeing someone's life flash before my eyes as I strip them of those fond memories and happy thoughts. I've been doing this since I was a child, mind you. Like most other assassins, I was abandoned by my parents and left to die. I ha... | He swayed from side to side, standing above me with a hatchet in his left hand. His eyes were too wide, his movements too fast. The famous Blade of the Black Council was full freakin' looneytunes.
I hadn't seen his face around Edinburgh before. An Asian man, short and built like a rhino, if rhinos partook in steroid... | 2016-02-09T22:50:22 | 2016-02-09T20:33:17 | 71 | 15 |
[WP] Santa clause is actually someone who's been sentenced to an eternity of delivering presents to children as a punishment | I was once a king. A great king, mind you. A builder of monuments that last to this day, in fact. And I loved being King. I visited with my people every day, learning of their ills and devoting my day to correcting those problems. And for that, I was loved. But rumors came from the town of Bethlehem that another king h... | The sleigh slipped and skidded as it landed, the reindeer both tired from their long night and unbalanced now that the heavy load was gone. Nick pulled up carefully, correcting the slip and then pulling back slowly to bring them to a trot and then finally to a complete halt.
He was as tired as the deer, but as he did... | 2016-02-29T06:36:50 | 2016-02-29T05:54:11 | 154 | 14 |
[WP] - in hell one battles giant demons until you die... then you rise again. Again and again you strive against impossible odds to barely scratch the terrible creatures. The first Dark Souls player has just arrived to this hell, and soon nothing will be the same again.
Dark Souls being a vision of hell. | [A continuation of this story.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3yqdzz/wp_a_gamer_dies_and_was_sent_to_hell_a_demon/cyfypqn)
Brian scooped up some infernal pollen from the ground and shoved it into the loading chamber of his custom-made flamethrower. A rather nondescript young adult, his untimely deat... | I awoke to the familiar sound of a bonfire. Eyes closed, I straightened out on the cold floor of my apartment and popped my back. Sleeping on the floor always sucked, but after playing Dark Souls III for a week straight I'd barely been able to see. Since I stopped to sleep it was probably a good time to get some food, ... | 2016-03-30T12:00:40 | 2016-03-30T11:01:50 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] After Lucifer was kicked out of Heaven, he decided to make his own paradise. Both compete to have the best afterlife, sadly you lived a sin-free life and got sent to Heaven. God is throwing a very boring, sin-free party. You spend your time trying to get kicked out so you can go to Hell. | *Dear God, spare me from more Adele. I have got to get out of here. They are always having the best parties in hell...If only I could get myself sent down there.*
"Cheese on a stick sir? Mocktail perhaps?"
"Why a cheese on a pointed stick would be delightful."
"OWCH! Sir...you do realise you just stabbed me with a ... | I looked down, eyeing what seemed like a black cloud with strobe lights shooting off of it, as well as the loud cheery noises of the men and women on there. As I turned around, glancing at the Milk Fountain, I could imagine the party they were having... Women, beer, all sorts of crazy, sinful activities... While I was ... | 2016-06-01T22:06:11 | 2016-06-01T21:08:40 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple of weeks, the same customer comes in, always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks. | The little bell above the door jingles, and I glance up. A man who seems ten feet tall and almost as wide ducks to enter, his silhouette blocking the entrance. He strides toward me across the dimly lit room, stopping right in front of me and glaring down. When he speaks, the floor vibrates and my teeth chatter, his dar... | Chris opened the door, rang the bell as he passed the check-in desk, and took a seat.
"Same as usual," he grunted. I don't have a lot of repeat customers at McDowell Tattoos, but this guy must have some kind of record.
I sighed and gave a little chuckle. "You really do make my job easy, you know that, Chris? People c... | 2016-07-09T09:02:41 | 2016-07-09T08:57:58 | 368 | 45 |
[WP]: Write a story that sounds idiotic and poorly written all the way until the last sentence | lol there were twenty edgelords fighting a massive battle against a monster
but they used their nukes and fukin rekt the monster with their fukn pocket nukes
then they went to taco bell and dated some hot babes
"Due to this message containing profanity, you have been banned from Xbox Live for a period of seven (7) d... | Pain. Spasms. Light.
Pain. Spasms. Light. Blood.
Pain. Spasms. Light. Blood. Bedroom.
Pain. Spasms. Light. Blood. Bedroom. Woman.
Pain. Spasms. Light. Blood. Bedroom. Woman. Knife.
Pain. Spasms. Light. Blood. Bedroom. Woman. Knife. Scream.
Pain. Spasms. Light. Blood. Bedroom. Woman. Knife. Scream. Silence.
Pain.... | 2016-07-19T14:29:24 | 2016-07-19T14:26:53 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Back again." Death said to the little brown tabby in his doorway.
"This is what happens when one dies. That was seven?" Niu said.
"One hundred twenty nine."
"I cannot count that high. It is seven. Seven lives."
Niu began to groom herself. Death sighed and produced a coin from somewhere within his robe.
Niu con... | The solid gold coin flew through the air, slowly arcing as I watched it tentatively. It collided with the ground, making a solid thunk. Slowly, I walked over to it and looked down to see which face was looking back at me. It was heads. The skulls eyes stared back into mine, I could almost feel hatred radiating from it.... | 2016-09-23T07:46:57 | 2016-09-23T06:57:22 | 3,526 | 132 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | Both Death and Daniel watched as the coin pirouetted through the air. The light of the moon danced off one surface and then the other. Heads then tails. Heads then tails.
"No!" screamed Daniel as for the 256th time, the coin landed heads up.
"No!" screamed Death, painfully aware that Daniel had slipped through his fi... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T08:35:02 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 476 | 13 |
[WP] You are notified when you visit somewhere for the last time. Today, the notification appears everywhere you go.
[deleted] | The little light on my watch turned red mostly when I was on vacation, which made sense. The red sometimes made me a little sad, when I was at home somewhere. But on the whole, I tried not to think about it too much. "A must-have feature, here, George!" the salesman told me. Whatever. It was a cute gimmick. It couldn't... | Chicago was buzzing, the omnipresent hum of traffic crushing the streets vibrated the city with a frenzied din. It had been six hours since the first final notification faded into view on my Integrated Information Glasses. Standing in line at D'amato's bakery I had gotten a little information burst and then notificatio... | 2016-11-03T10:41:31 | 2016-11-03T09:19:12 | 33 | 12 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | *4..3..2..1.. Just breathe, Ginger. Five seconds at a time. You can take five more seconds of this moron.*
Steven Gelster, the bane of my existence. As a human, anyway. A reminder to all you bosses out there: you may be ranked higher than your employees, but never underestimate us. Especially when we happen to be an o... | Another day, another hectic day at work. How do these earthlings even tolerate this? Ah, If only I could.....no, I vowed not to.*Sigh* Damn. It wouldn't be this bad if it weren't for that no good boss of mine. Oh, here he comes again. That son of a gun better mind his own business.
Dave(My boss): "Fuck are you thinkin... | 2017-02-19T09:58:18 | 2017-02-19T09:32:23 | 211 | 44 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | (This'll be a short one, but i liked my idea enough to jot it here.)--
"Joshua, pick up your feet! You're going to make me late!" Frank said, strutting down the busy DC street. Life, everywhere, hundreds of thousands of bits individuality walking and biking and driving and living around us as we walk, and i love... | "Sherry? Ummmm.....what...are you doing?" My boss, ladies and gentleman. In case you can't see what's going on, I'm shredding documents. Pounds of them. I had been drifting in the lull of the sound of the motors and relaxing to the sight of the receptacle filling up with hundreds of pages of reports, memos, adverts, re... | 2017-02-19T11:07:22 | 2017-02-19T09:52:39 | 43 | 21 |
[WP] Science has allowed people to know their precise time of death for decades now. Your Death Party (half birthday, half funeral) has gotten awkward because your time has come, yet you're still alive. | I prepared for death as the countdown began.
"Three, two, one, zero!"
Huh. I don't think I'm still supposed to be alive.
Everybody else noticed too.
"You- you- you're still alive!" Somebody yelled out.
"It would appear so, yeah. No clue why." I responded.
"Oh, wait, sorry guys, I forgot to switch back from... | Your time comes up, you die. As simple as that. Anything natural at all and the Life-alyser would pick it up. I knew the rule, my brother knew the rule and even my great aunt Nancy knew the rule.
My time is up. I have three minutes and I’m nervous, shaky even. My wife, my child I so desperately wanted them to have her... | 2017-05-10T14:00:56 | 2017-05-10T08:00:33 | 49 | 19 |
[WP] You've been teleported into an unexpected deathbattle. Your special ability...is your username.
EDIT: You guys are awesome. Alot of funny and interesting ones so far! I might want to start this prompt every year or something (if that's allowed). | Here I was, minding my own my own business going through writing prompts, when the next thing I know I am in an arena with thousands of spectators.
**"Welcome to the Deathbattle arena, where your only weapon is your reddit username. In the the left corner we have u/diamondweapons and in the right corner we have u/BAG_... | It was the middle of the night.
As I was preparing to sleep, a bright light flashes outside the window. I had no time to react, and was instantly teleported to some sort of jail cell.
Through the bars, I could see that there was some sort of arena outside. "nah." I say to myself and lay on the floor to sleep. Just be... | 2017-07-17T21:39:44 | 2017-07-17T20:12:27 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] "Shark Tank" but instead of an entrepreneur pitching inventions, it's villains pitching diabolical plots. | Baron Zerenstank walked into the dimly lit room.
Beside him, a poster-board display was already set-up for him, illustrating his latest ingenious plan. Beneath him, at least a dozen sharks swirled expectantly, aware of his presence. Before him, four silhouettes sat in massive chairs, starring at him intently. One of t... | “And for that reason, I’m out as well.”
“Ok, well, thank you for your time, Sharks. I really appreciate… the…” An assistant starts to shuffle him towards the exit. “Oh, um, the opportunity.” He finishes flatly, already pushed halfway out the door.
“Ugh, God, how many more of these train wrecks do we have to get thro... | 2017-11-14T20:07:39 | 2017-11-14T19:41:40 | 196 | 61 |
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