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[WP] When you were a teenager, you performed a demon summoning ritual that didn't work. Years later, the paperwork got approved in the underworld, and your new guest won't leave until you make a deal. | James used to be really into being an emo satanist, being exactly as cringeworthy as it sounds. Never thinking it would work, he had tried summoning a demon in high school. After none appeared, it was then he started to question his life choices. Now, 30 and married with kids, he was a successful car salesman. James wa... | **KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK**
Janice dropped the plate she was washing. It fell to the floor with a *clack*, sending water and soap bubbles all over the kitchen.
"Oh, sh---"
**KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK**
The force of each knock shook her tiny apartment, nearly enough to put her off balance. The young woman grabbed a chair as she m... | 2017-03-26T03:36:25 | 2017-03-26T01:38:47 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | Fire and Whispers
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*‘Not again.’*
I dropped the basket of apples I had gathered and dashed back towards my tower. I furrowed my brow and reached out with my mind.
*‘Sidian, I’m coming*,’ I told my dragon.
*‘Hurry M’lady*. *These ones are strong*,’ Sidian thought back.
Normally the adventurers that c... | Thank heavens Shadow had impenetrable skin.
Why are knights so pesky? Is it that it intimidates them that a woman has a keep, filled with only women and children not of age, and no man?
Is it a fear of dragons? My poor Shadow wouldn't hurt a fly, except for the occasional sheep willingly given to her, or another pesk... | 2019-01-09T06:48:27 | 2019-01-09T06:35:55 | 1,257 | 37 |
[WP] When your best friend told told you that they're a werewolf and invited you over the next full moon you expected many things. You expected a dangerous, even a violent, night and that you may not survive that night, but you couldn't possibly have expected what actually happened. | "Hey, Steve?"
"Yeah, Henry?"
"You and your, uh, pack are werewolves, right?"
"Yup."
"So that means you guys are, like, supernatural hunters of the night."
"Oh yeah. Super deadly when we get serious."
"And these meetings of yours happen every full moon?"
"Like clockwork. They're great to just wolf out and cut loo... | Chase told me he was ferocious, the absolute peak of canine evolution. All of the good bits, but none of the drawbacks.
As the moon emerged from behind the cloud, Chase warned me to stay back.
He pleaded with me to kill him at the first sign I became unsafe.
He looked into my eyes and I knew that my friend was gone... | 2022-09-30T11:21:29 | 2022-09-30T10:32:08 | 176 | 57 |
[WP] You are an average Joe who is challenged by a random super hero every week. Your record is 337-0. | "and done" I mumbled and hit the enter key sending a Craigslist advertising that I was looking for new friends.
Sure most of the guys answering my request would be total jerks or loosers, but that really didn't bother me to much. In the end they would not be my friends for long.
It all started a few years ago, my son... | The first time it happened I was working in the neighbor's garden. Mrs. Lewis, the pretty one. The one who always called me and my friends "sweetie" or "honey" and paid us too much when we did odd jobs for her.
I was about fifteen years old at the time, just trying to make a buck. I was watering her flowers I heard a... | 2016-11-19T15:46:20 | 2016-11-19T15:07:16 | 72 | 26 |
[WP] Turns out, when a species reaches the stars, their ships resemble the characteristics of that species’ origins. Most other species have ultra fast, hard hitting spaceships, and a few are slow behemoths. But everyone is scared of the relentless, unstoppable humans. | The first contact was warm and full of smiles from whatever mouth or hole outsiders possessed. Shortly after they could talk with us.
"Welcome to the World, children."
"How does it feel to know how small you are?"
"Cannot wait to visit your small kingdom."
Those were the things we heard. At first, we felt a bit di... | The head of an intergalactic space force turned his head in a way resembling nod of an apex predator rather than a civilized being. Turns out this ship is owned by Trigators, tall lizards with prolonged craniums and evil grin always sticked to their faces as a reminder of their ancient past. Their territorial enemies w... | 2021-10-12T12:46:26 | 2021-10-12T10:48:37 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity had put off dimensional travel for fear of running into 'cosmic horrors'. A long overdue visit to an alternate dimension revealed we were the cosmic horrors. | TW: Hitler joke
"So, *we're* the cosmic horrors."
"Yyyyyep."
"Then what do the interdimensional beings look like?"
"Uh, this." Commander Johnston held up a piece of paper containing what appeared to be a drawing of a shiny-eyed cartoon bunny rabbit.
"You're pulling my leg," said Dr. Savage.
"Sadly, I am not," sai... | So it turns out Lovecraft wasn't all that crazy when it came to his depictions of inter-dimensional horrors. He had the mind bending, reality warping nightmare fuel aspect down to a "t" , but he attributed cosmic conquering and annihilation to what he saw just because it was scary to see. Whoever got sent over back the... | 2021-04-09T06:44:56 | 2021-04-09T00:11:26 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] An alien race conquers worlds by starting a zombie apocalypse and later coming down and offering "salvation" in exchange for subjection, so far this has never failed, until they reach Earth and find humanity has already defeated the zombies and is waiting for them... | “The humans are surviving as predicted.” Valree announced. “There is however a bit more infighting than expected.”
“Not unheard of.” Hatun shrugged. “Remember the Teros people? Now that was infighting.”
“Regardless I think it’s about time we ‘rescued’ our new servants.” All around him Valree saw nothing but affirmati... | “Well, that was easy.”
A mere three months after the zombie outbreak, all had been contained. Casualties were massive and felt everywhere, but in the end it only resulted in about 15% of the human population destroyed.
The one thing that it left the humans with was the only thing the aliens were afraid of, knowle... | 2019-08-08T11:20:05 | 2019-08-08T10:22:09 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] Suddenly, the world's entire human population is replaced by each individual's spirit animal. | It all happened 6 months ago. I remember waking up to find myself destroying the floor beneath me. I tried to scream, but the voice that came out was more of an elephant noise. After realizing the raised trunk and the giant white tusks I started to understand what happened. I had transformed into my spirit animal mid-s... | It's been 3 years since the world transformed, it was truly a tragedy. Lots of suicides because they couldn't accept the fact that they were sloths, koalas or even parasytes, but the world is still the same CEO's being the apex predators, the working class being the herbivores they prey on even the schools are the same... | 2018-12-15T04:27:07 | 2018-12-15T04:21:21 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] “I am Lucifer, The Morning Star, The Firstborn, The Second Light, The Prince of Lies, The Adversary, The Dragon, The Serpent, Lord Of Evil, The First of The Fallen and I came here for one thing and one thing only” As he said this he summoned forth a Switch. “I came here to Brawl” | The devil went down to Georgia
He was lookin' for a soul to steal
He was in a bind
'Cause he was way behind
And he was willin' to make a deal
When he came upon this young man
Thumbin' a Switch and playin' it hot
And the devil jumped
Up on a hickory stump
And said, "boy, let me tell you what
I guess you di... | *I kneel down onto the dirt, slicing my hand ever so slightly with the silver knife.*
"Great Lord of the Dark, I bring to you but a simple request..."
*I let blood drip into the ceramic bowl at the center of the red spray-painted pentagram. The symbol surrounding me begins to glow red.*
"I wish to test my worthiness... | 2020-02-22T18:52:00 | 2020-02-22T18:00:54 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] You're a powerful dragon that lived next to a small kingdom. For centuries you ignored humanity and lived alone in a cave, and the humans also avoided you. As the kingdom fell to invaders, a dying soldier approaches you with the infant princess, begging you to take care of her. | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/813gcd/wp_youre_a_powerful_dragon_that_lived_next_to_a/dv0g9gh/) l [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRobertFall/comments/815k0n/the_tales_of_a_moon_rider_part_3/)
Those awful screams of woe and misery, of death and distress admixing with the stench of smoke ... | Please be gentle, first time attempt + not my first language + on my phone, so formatting is bad
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I look at him, bewildered.
"Don't you know what dragons normally do with princesses?"
He is breathing heavily, bleeding, dying. His eyes are wet as he looks at the baby which does not seem to understand the ser... | 2018-03-01T02:46:34 | 2018-03-01T02:25:58 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] A group of dragons gathers into a dark cave. They are all gathered to address an event that only happens once every hundred moons. They're going to play Cities and Civilians. | Not much is known about dragons.
Not much is known about quantum entanglement either, but, like dragons, you could fill an entire library with the books written on the subject.
What is known is that dragons are solitary creatures, and like most solitary creatures are prone to emotional outbursts, burning here and pil... | They gathered in a dark cavern, untold ages old, used for generations of dragon kind. Their leader, Garnak, addressed them.
"Alright brethren, I am sure you all know the rules, but let's recap, so we do not have another unfair match like last time." Garnak, the highest of most high, explained.
"The rules are simple, ... | 2020-06-26T17:45:33 | 2020-06-26T17:44:14 | 43 | 16 |
[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... | Gardening. Hah! Never woulda thought it'd suit me, but hey! No, no. It didn't suit me. First of all, I couldn't grow a carrot bigger than my pinky, nor even an herb garden to add some flavor to my life. Potions? Forget it. I felt completely useless.
From the beginning, I thought "My new life is starting! I'll be a rea... | 2021-11-12T11:42:53 | 2021-09-09T21:37:59 | 1,235 | 35 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | When I got the text, I didn't have to think about it very long - I had just been lying in bed, playing Ashphalt on my PHONE. 'Yeah, sure,' I reply, thinking nothing of it. Jeff always sends me this shit.
As I put my phone back down and close my eyes I feel a wave of nausea hit, then pass, leaving behind a lingering wh... | I really need to stop asking 'What's the worst that can happen?' Probably because I can't see anymore. Why the hell is it so dark???
A bit of context: I was about to turn in for the night when I received a random text message - "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." Under normal circumstances, ... | 2020-02-17T00:31:53 | 2020-02-16T23:52:15 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Across the galaxy, humans are known for tinkering on, and sometimes breaking, random items due to long transit time across space. As a solution, your company makes unfixable items to keep humans amused and harmless. Today a frantic captain just called claiming a human 'fixed' your product. | My crew evaluations had been submitted a few night-cycles previously. His had been short and highly complementary: Propulsion Engineer Adams was a good man, a fine example to his team. Responsible and decisive. An introvert, more interested in books about ancient technologies than the intoxicants and tinkertoys his pee... | "Wait ... did I fix it? Those were advertised as 'unfixable' ... Huh I should talk to engineering."
As I took my ... what was this anyways to engineering I started to look at the "manual" to find out what that was supposed to be ... maybe.
As I turned to the elevators to ask for guidance I found the "product" ... wai... | 2022-12-15T00:06:45 | 2022-12-14T22:20:41 | 159 | 85 |
[WP] Some people manifest a rune that allows them summon and control a creature from another plane. Rune bearers don't get to choose the creature and after 5 years they are sucked into plane that it comes from. You are about to find out what creature is linked to your rune. | *Dull and unremarkable, kind of like you. Id be surprised if you're lucky enough to receive anything more than a house pet.*
The words drifted through my head as my hands explored every inch of my "unremarkable" rune. They came in many shapes and sizes; however, I had never seen one quite as dull as mine. Some of the... | “5… Years? I think its five letters. Or maybe six. Or maybe seven. Can you see if you can read this for me?”
“What is it?”
“It’s a rune. That’s what it says it is anyway.”
“Here, give it to me.” Timmy handed the rune, or the rock that was pretending to be a rune, over to Dave who seemed doubtful about the fact th... | 2018-05-27T05:58:30 | 2018-05-27T05:25:56 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] Humans once wielded formidable magical power but with over 7 billion of us on the planet now Mana has spread far to thinly to have any effect. When hostile aliens reduces humanity to a mere fraction the survivors discover an old power has begun to reawaken once again. | All us helpless billions watch on our little glowing rectangles as our fellow humans die in droves. They fall screaming, choking, burning. The internet’s bad in the house, so we hunker on the steps of the chicken coop to see it.
Together we watch the end of the world. Our breath clouds and storms around us. But we do ... | Kevin listened to the Oracle while sitting on the cloth that covered the pile of rubble beneath it. He's heard the tale more times than he can count: on that fateful day, 25th December of the year 2017, fleets of starships darkened the sky, and leveled the human civilization.
The oracle spoke of times when humans wer... | 2018-05-01T08:36:36 | 2017-12-06T20:39:17 | 377 | 13 |
[WP] The hottest show in the afterlife for the past decade: Steve Irwin wrangling all sorts of supernatural creatures. | G'day and welcome to the Myth Hunter. Today, I'm going after the stone salamander of Seneca. Oh, looks like we've got one. 'Ere we have the rare basilisk. Crikey, this ones a giant in'it he? Now the thing you've got to remember with basilisks is, if they stare you straight in the eye, yer turned to solid rock. So the ... | ...and then no pain, just a floating sensation. The kind that you get when take off, being pushed into your seat as the nose of the plane points towards the clouds.
I was conscious of my surroundings, but confused. I couldn't see anything but knew everything was there.
The giant gate came out if nowhere, like a white ... | 2022-11-14T01:22:17 | 2017-12-21T16:32:01 | 5,465 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity discovers an unlimited source of renewable energy, but it's banned by all interstellar civilizations. | Sophine Hemsley was jarred awake by a high-pitched whine which filled the Earth embassy. It was still night outside, as it would remain for a couple of hours more until the twin suns rose on planet Auxley, but a soft, orange glow had draped across the skies, hanging like an ephemeral curtain.
She stumbled to the windo... | I was currently speaking with the ambassador of Toris as we started to implement our new reactors. I didn't get what the reactors did exactly, only that it produces a lot of energy and uses close to no recources, making earth energy independant in cases of emergency. The scientists have also assured me that it is save ... | 2017-04-08T01:54:54 | 2017-04-08T01:10:04 | 66 | 14 |
[WP] Whenever a baby is born, he or she is taken to The Armory, an ancient alien temple where each child has a unique weapon bestowed upon them, for use their whole lives. You were given a key. | "What does it unlock?" Verril turned the large metal key over in his hands, bouncing it up and down a few times to get the sense of it.
"I don't know." I take the key back into my hand and reattach it to the necklace before dropping it beneath my shirt. "It was my gift."
"You ever try to unlock anything with it? Mayb... | The eyes that stared down at me were innumerable and infinite, and I, the sole person of the expedition, could only stare back unblinkingly. Teeth like hot wax dripped down it's mouth in a slow descent of bone and death, solidifying into a variety of points that could not be constructed in nature.
And I, the sole Read... | 2018-04-27T15:29:01 | 2018-04-27T14:17:34 | 176 | 20 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Are you ready to head out boys?* Jason yells from the living room.
We take out buttons with us, as always, just to be safe. Things used to be much more difficult before The Button was introduced. Since the first night, we haven't failed to go without a payday yet. We're working on our 56th night tonight.
*Alright le... | The world's population of 7.4 billion is shrunk by .0000049 percent of its population each year due to the button's victims. Meanwhile, 2 billion people starve in the first year as money is devalued; everyone has essentially the same income for doing nothing which results in massive inflation and lack of goods (see Ven... | 2016-07-16T17:51:04 | 2016-07-16T17:32:43 | 3,429 | 52 |
[WP] A rupture in time causes you to be sent back to when you were in preschool. However, you know everything that you did before the switch and were an aerospace engineer for NASA. You are now surrounded by children who eat crayons for lunch. | Playing with Legos remains fun, no matter the circumstance. But it's a little bit different than trying to deal with aerodynamic heating EDL design. On the other hand, Legos don't have viscous dissipative effects, and can be used to make a fire truck; which has pretty much instantly made me the King of Kindergarten.
*... | Day 47:
"My" patent has been filed, and after my meeting with the school counselor I've agreed to take a series of tests to determine my ability to advance either several grades or directly to college.
NASA has responded to my letter, showing great interest in my thoughts on stricter safety checks for the insulation ... | 2017-09-26T03:23:07 | 2017-09-26T02:01:30 | 138 | 66 |
[WP] Youre a wizard in the Imperial Army. Most wizards are very ritualistic in their tactics and that is very highly respected but doesn’t give many victories. So you decided to ignore all the long chanting and nonsense and simply immediately kill your opponents with your spells instead. | “Where’s that apprentice?!” Master War Wizard Alejandro shouted.
Yes. That was his title and he got very upset if you didn’t use it. “I am right here. Sir. But I am not an apprentice.”
I may not be a highly decorated Master War Wizard like Alejandro but I was still an imperial wizard, with slightly less honors. Ok ... | My mentor taught me his methods, shaped my abilities in his image. He lectured me on the men we would save, the benefits and horrors of war. The differences in strategy between the Queen's Imperial Army and her King's Royal Guards.
He made me find the Elder Birch bark atop a mountain where the wind breezed like a summ... | 2020-08-15T07:06:38 | 2020-08-15T06:10:30 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] Some say that your power is future sight. Others insist that you have superhuman intellect. They're wrong. Your power is the ability "Quicksave." | "I really dont know why I have it, but I have it. Its equally annoying and useful, but more annoying to be honest.
It all started when I was a little child, I did it for fun too. My brother ate the last chocolate donut and I was mad, so mad, and thats when I activated with out noticing first, once I realized what I ha... | At least I get to keep the same clothes
I’ve done this at least 3 times today and each time it only gets more annoying. I should feel bad for doing this to Nancy but she wouldn’t stop bugging me. Sorry little sis but it had to be like this
( Load file)
“ File 4”? What was that. That must have been when Mom was mad a... | 2020-12-15T15:22:13 | 2020-12-15T13:59:51 | 44 | 19 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | It was a bright sunny day in Miami, and for once, not too humid. Kimmy walked into the corner Subway, smiling to herself, thinking about how nice it was to be able to reach restaurants by foot. She was in a great mood. Kimmy approached the counter and gave her order to Sal, the regular clerk.
“I’ll have the ham and Sw... | Meanwhile, a massive space fleet approaches Earth...
"Ey, yo, Emperor Vinnie," called the armored alien, smoking a cheap cigar.
Emperor Vinnie, ruler of the Badabing Galactic Empire, sat on his throne (no not that kinda throne) on the bridge of the command ship. He casually rubbed his bare arms - the armor only c... | 2018-11-17T18:37:15 | 2018-11-17T17:00:19 | 180 | 131 |
[WP] We live in a simulation, and we sleep because they can't render everyone at once. You stay up for days, and begin to see things and people. They call themselves the maintenance crew. | Back in Ancient Rome, sometime before Jesus was born, there was a myth circulating, and it went something like this: if you should be awake for the entirety of seven days and seven nights, you might see the silhouette of a dead man walking the street. And if you do... *run*.
They called him Insomnis -- *the sleepless... | It all started staying up late one night doing my homework. I was just sitting there, doing an essay when this light flashes outside my window. It seemed so real, too, not just a hallucination from me staying up the past 29 hours doing this essay. For a split-second, too, I saw this man. He looked so real, unlike all t... | 2017-10-29T11:40:01 | 2017-10-29T11:03:23 | 2,797 | 89 |
[WP] A time traveler and an immortal keep bumping into each other across the ages. | "Who are you?" The woman asked the man.
"I'm your friend." He replied.
Carrying the wounded woman from the burning city they passed by corpses with arrows still protruding from some of them. The screams of fighting in the nearby streets could be heard but the man expertly maneuvered his way through alleys and narrowl... | "History repeats itself." The saying must have been thousands of years old thought Titus as his eyes lingered on the inscription under the doorway leading to the K.R.O.N.O.S. jump room. Titus approached the large display and logged the last machine off for the night. The soft blue light quickly dimmed and the humming o... | 2015-11-22T18:11:25 | 2015-11-22T17:08:47 | 69 | 17 |
[WP] You are the last person to die on Earth before the secret of immortality is unlocked. Turns out, there is paradise in the afterlife. After a hundred or so years, you decide to check in on the people still on Earth.. | “I would *hate* to be immortal,” I declared, sprawled across Allen’s lap as the credits for *Only Lovers Left Alive* began to crawl up the TV screen.
“Oh?” his tone was indulgent as he began stroking my hair, sensing a righteous rant on the way. “And why’s that?”
“Well, think about it. Having to watch everyone you... | I peeked my transparent head through the clouds towards the city below. Ah, just as dreary as I remembered it. The gloom and smell of rain in the air filled me with nostalgia. True, I had a rough life down here, even by earthly standards, but I had some good memories. As I flew closer, I remembered splashing in the pud... | 2016-12-17T12:23:25 | 2016-12-17T12:02:58 | 340 | 118 |
[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. | My mouth dropped open. 186,292 years?? I had lived the typical life of marriage, kids, I even regularly went to church! Even the clerk looked a little surprised.
“How is this possible?” I ask.
“Hold on and I’ll look at your case file.” He replied while thumbing through some documents.
The guy behind me cleared his... | I racked my brains, I was by no means a saint, but then, who is? I thought back to all the times I didn't intervene in other people's drama, because it was none of my business. Maybe I should have tried harder to help people in those situations? I couldn't help it that I didn't care that the husband of Rachel in accoun... | 2018-09-26T06:51:55 | 2018-09-26T06:12:40 | 3,199 | 153 |
[WP] It's Christmas Eve 2038. The world has been destroyed due to nuclear war, but Santa, being immortal, has survived, and plans to deliver presents to the few remaining humans locked in their fallout shelters. | *Jingle Bells crackled from Santa's digital radio... The quality restored as he neared the shelter*
The portly, red faced man whipped his undead reindeer (yes the post apocalyptic world brought with it crippling decay to even the high deities such as Santa) with the sheer force of a thousand winters. **crack** **crack... | Barron Trump tweedled his thumbs and looked nervously at his son, Donald Trump II.
"Is Santa coming, Papa?" The young Donald asked.
"...I don't know, son."
Meanwhile, at a nearby nuclear bunker, Chelsea Hubbell and her daughter, Hillary Clinton Hubbell, huddled around the smoldering remains of a Haitian ex-child s... | 2017-12-22T15:09:43 | 2017-12-22T14:27:36 | 50 | 13 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | The men in the room stared at me. I stared back. We stayed like this for a while, hours maybe, without a word. Occasionally, someone would cough or sneeze, one of the agents even burped, but those moments were few and far between. At this point, it almost seemed like a competition on who would crack first and break the... | Year 5 was my earliest memory. I remember the cry of the roosters early in the morning while father worked in the slaughterhouse. Mother would clean the dishes and cook my sister and I breakfast. Every day around noon, father would come and take us into the field and have us help him work. By year 9, I was up at dawn w... | 2019-05-04T12:44:12 | 2019-05-04T12:18:06 | 1,055 | 16 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "IÄ! IÄ!" the masked priest cried, lifting the sinuous dagger above his head. "SHUB-NIGGURATH! THE BLACK GOAT OF THE THOUSAND YOUNG, COME TO FEAST!"
The woman next to Jon tried to scream through her gag as the knife plunged into her breast once, twice. Then she lay still, her eyes full of tears but slowly going dull.
... | This carnival was shit. The clowns looked stupid, the animals were boring, and even the food was awful. I don’t like carnivals to begin with, even as a kid, but at least the food was always good. Hot and greasy, covered in sugar or butter. But this food was stale and rotten. Shit, just shit.
When my boyfriend, Matt, ... | 2017-05-05T07:40:26 | 2017-05-05T07:15:00 | 172 | 40 |
[WP] At the height of the cold-war, one side launched its entire arsenal. The leader of the opposing side, adamant not to let this mean the end, made the decision to not retaliate. This is the losing-side's last message to the world.
I made the choice to be ambiguous about which side launched, so that you may choose f... | He stood there and scanned as many of the screens as he could. He knew that they were doomed as soon he noticed the radar. He was ordered as he remembered it,
"Jeff, if you see a blip shoot everything we got."
Yet he stood there and watched. His hand rose towards the key as he grabbed the key. So many lives were was... | We stand at the brink of complete and total annihilation. In mere hours, we will see ICBMs cascade from the sky like fallen angels cast from Heaven; once our silent protectors in the form of mutually assured destruction, now our doomsday much like the betrayal of the rebel angel Lucifer.
Tonight, we will see explosio... | 2016-03-11T21:42:23 | 2016-03-11T21:39:59 | 179 | 25 |
[WP] You are a human on a spaceship crewed by aliens. As your hair dye begins to fade, your crewmates start to worry about your health. | Note: I do not know how long it takes for hair dye to fade.
One year about I was taken from Earth, and I've been in this spaceship ever since. They wanted a human to "study", although I didn't find that out until 4 months ago, when they finally decided to teach me their language. Sadly, when I asked them in their own ... | Yoyrs, Berous, and Peraes peeked their head around the corner, trying to get a better look at the resident human Sarah. Her once vibrant crimson hair had faded to a pinkish hue. The crew was worried. Was she sick? Will she die? “Maybe she’s sad and her body is displaying a change of color in accordance? I hear many hum... | 2020-07-05T13:16:56 | 2020-07-05T13:14:43 | 94 | 47 |
[WP] Humanity creates A.I and it soon declares a war of extermination. However it doesn't declare it on Humans but rather on the forces of Hell and Heaven, in order to free mankind from control. | "We haven't won a single battle in weeks." Gabriel stared down at the chaos unfolding on Earth. "My king, we've lost 90% of our forces. Tens of billions are dead."
"It's the great war, all over again." Zeus gripped his personal sword in his hand tightly, almost caving it in. "Just like they killed my son, they will ki... | "Agatha" was merely its earthly face - a simple bust, plush with top-line robotics and stenciled silicon flesh. It sat in a glass box in Menele's office. Fluttering blue eyes. Short, wavy, brown hair. Chrishom had called it perverse, but to Menele it felt right. The A.I. program he'd created was alive, thinking, progre... | 2016-10-15T16:32:08 | 2016-10-15T15:47:46 | 81 | 14 |
[WP] Years ago, the Heroes Party defeated the villain and thereafter betrayed their leader, stealing the credit for their own. However, the Hero survived, and now one of his old teammates has discovered him living a simple life with... The Villain?! | Part 1
Beggars have a hard life. It's not just being poor or hoping you can get a crust of bread. It's the way society looks at you. Filthy. Worthless.
A waste of the very air you breathe.
In the rain, Junian thought of how he got here. They defeated the Dread Shadow. A demon of horrendous power threatening to take ... | My name is lance, I was one of the 5 people who defeated 'fasto the bolt of fate'.
His power set had nothing to do with fate, or bolts for that matter and he simply told us he thought it sounded cool. Anyway I'm getting sidetracked.
Alex, the man who was assigned the job of 'hero' was sent to kill fastos, along the way... | 2022-08-28T21:38:44 | 2022-08-28T17:37:55 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] Humans are the most feared and reviled race the Galaxy. Every 10000 years when humans reach a certain level of Technology a galactic Council sends a force to knock them back to the Stone Age. This time however that force arrives several decades late. | "What's the threat assessment on this one?" Captain Xin'Leck asked.
"The target is a small planet logged as 'Earth'. Inhabitants are a bipedal race called 'Humans'. Deemed unacceptable for galactic integration 50,000 years ago and placed on the Genesis list. We're running a little late resetting this one, but it sh... | Their systems had warned them about a week in advance, and when we were out of hyper light speed, we were immediately in the facinity of several if their new destroyers, their ships had devaloped further than we had anticipated, which is why we were, while not outclassed, outnumbered on a similar class, and the numbers... | 2017-05-16T15:30:48 | 2017-05-16T14:32:46 | 133 | 22 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | “Mmhmm, okay lets play!” Emma squealed excitedly. Death shook his head involuntarily under his hood at her enthusiasm but caught itself before letting its reaction show on its face.
“What game shall we wager?” Death asked.
Emma being freed from the excruciating pain from the events earlier in the day was smiling and ... | He has it, of course. Heck, I could probably say any random string of words and he'd have the game to match. Infinite monkeys and all that.
MY TURN.
I stare down at the cards in my hand, trying to pay attention despite the sweat soaking my back. They're the exact set we have at home, with little cartoon illustrations... | 2018-03-07T06:50:46 | 2018-03-07T06:37:49 | 944 | 324 |
[WP] Scientists manage to develop a device that can detect souls. However, joy about the invention quickly turns into shock when they realize that only about 20% of all humans posess one | Five of us worked on the project. It was called the Ethereal Interferometer. In theory, we believed that our device could prove the existence of the soul. Each of us tried it. Only one of us, Sati, registered on the device.
If we were right, then the rest of us didn't have souls. We tried testing it in the field, usin... | “Hi!” the girl waved at Mandy, with such a big smile that Mandy started to do the who-me gesture before she even had time to think. Too late, she saw that the girl was coming from next to a booth.
“Yes, you!” the girl laughed as she came up to her, and mimed a friendly punch at Mandy’s shoulder. “Want to do a soul tes... | 2022-05-20T11:37:03 | 2022-05-20T10:32:12 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | "Dibs." I cried out over the Devil's clapping and laughter. He didn't seem to hear me, so I screamed it again. "**Dibs!**"
The Devil stopped and looked at me. "What do you mean 'dibs'?" He blinked, a little confused by my reaction.
I looked around the vast vastness of Hell before turning to Lucifer once more. "Well, ... | "Where am I?"
"Why, Hell of course!"
"Hey, it's not too bad. I was expecting a...."
"A lake of fire? Haha, no this is it. Just you and me. And nothing else."
I'm a little relieved. I hadn't lived the best life. I was expecting a fiery lake of fire but this, this isn't too bad. Just emptiness all around.
I look aro... | 2017-06-22T09:17:47 | 2017-06-22T08:58:29 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] Open Concept: Instead of choosing between the red pill and the blue pill, Morpheus offers an ENTIRE rainbow of six pills to choose from.
Have Neo try all but red and blue, with the effects of each pill relevant to the context of the Matrix film (i.e. basic color symbolism should dictate what each pill does).
Ag... | "You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and see how deep this rabbit-hole goes."
"I'm sorry," Neo responded, scratching his head. "I got caught up in your metaphor and lost track of what you were saying. Could you explain it again."
"Okay," Morpheus sighed. "I'll put it simply, in an unfortunately less badass... | This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. You take the yellow pill—you fall asleep and never wake up,... | 2015-03-06T15:15:42 | 2015-03-06T13:51:14 | 51 | 18 |
[WP] Lying in bed with your significant other and feeling the rhythmic kicks of your unborn child, you recognize the pattern as Morse code. | At first it we just thought the baby did its regular punching/kicking routine as it always did on early Sunday mornings. It (we still dont know the gender so to us the baby will be an "it" before it's born) rarely kicked any other times which was kind of weird when you thought about it. Nevertheless, my wife and I enjo... | "What does it say?" The wife asked me, as I had one hand against her stomach and the other on the morse code guide.
"H...A...I...L... S...A..T..I...N?"
"Are you sure it was that?"
"There you go doubting me again. I swear to the Dark Lord you don't respect me at all. I don't even know Morse!"
| 2017-06-25T23:47:08 | 2017-06-25T23:00:11 | 59 | 10 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | *"What do you fear, creature?"*
I blinked, for lack of any more constructive response, given the restraints. This wasn't the first time the shadow before me had asked this question, but it was clearly becoming more confused and frustrated with each attempt. Each time it asked the question, it ignored my answer, then s... | The beings reviled themselves to be what we all fear, everyone saw the end of the human race, end of our world, a world war, this is how they scare the other aliens, humans are the violent creatures of the galaxy, so, we are used to the destruction of our species, as it has happened twice already.
“Look now! See what ... | 2019-06-11T15:33:47 | 2019-06-11T08:24:52 | 82 | 26 |
[WP] Your party accidentally enrages a God, but certain doom is oddly liberating. Cursed weapons, monkey paws, contracts with demons; nothing is off the table. You have no chance of winning, but your deaths shall be GLORIOUS! | I poured myself a hearty portion of mead before sitting down comfortably in my armchair. The weather outside was rather nice so I had the windows open, providing a nice gust of fresh air throughout the apartment. A good day to go. And a good day to enjoy the show.
15:03 ticked on the clock and a flash of light filled ... | "You are all cursed! I will ensure your inevitable destruction on..." There was a slight pause as the shimmery being glanced away from us. It seemed they were checking a schedule. "On the last day of the next month. Be prepared for doom!" The being vanished the wind from the closing portal blowing Sala's hat off. As he... | 2022-06-02T07:14:13 | 2022-06-02T05:29:46 | 746 | 211 |
[WP]You are born immortal, but only your mind survives. Each time you die, your memories are secured in a random baby being born and have to repeat the life from youth to old age. After living for a millennia, you decide there is one solution: End all life and with it your unfortunate plight. | The weirdest part is reading about yourself.
You see, in most occasions I'd be born in overpopulated, poor parts of the world where most people live. At first, ages ago, I'd try to explore, see all sides of life, absorb all cultures. However now, when I've been born on all continents, in most countries and nations it ... | Those who wish eternal life are blind, ignorant of its implications, and the toll it can take on one's mind. After your second century and third reincarnation, everything becomes a gray, soundless circus with poorly articulated performers, which you are forced to watch over and over again.
I don't expect you understan... | 2018-12-30T12:27:39 | 2018-12-30T08:40:38 | 234 | 39 |
[WP] A professor is teaching a course on the gods worshiped in pre-Christian Europe and he always gets into an argument with a student. The student is actually one of those gods in disguise - but so is the professor. The rest of the class has no idea until one day..... | “. . .And so, while it is commonly believed that Jupiter was the most revered of the heavenly gods in Europe, it was actually in fact the Celtic god Taranis, whose likeness and identity became syncretized with Jupiter after Roman colonizers invaded ancient Gaul. Any questions?”
Professor Rhine waited patiently while t... | **The room was full, the students were waiting, but the professor was nowhere in sight.**
“Weird,” Leo muttered, walking into the grand lecture hall.
“Don’t use that word,” a student to his left snapped.
Leo blinked. “What?”
“Weird. Derived from wyrd, the ancient name of fate. Every damn time someone remembers even... | 2021-08-05T17:22:51 | 2021-08-05T15:33:38 | 408 | 242 |
[WP] Everyone is now born with only one feeling. It is possible to kill another person to obtain their feeling. | Hate was what I was born with. That was the only thing I felt. Before I killed someone.
His name was Mattias. He was the person I killed, due to my hate. He showed me love, he gave me something called "happiness". But I was hesitant all the time. I hated him. I only had hate inside of myself. We kissed, we started dat... | Ha ha, all those fools with just feel one thing. But I feel it all; happiness, sadness, anger, fear. So many emotions, so much passion and I've happily killed for every one.
Let's see what that morose idiot feels...
BLAAM!!
...I feel, I feeeel.
Oh my god, what have i done. I killed all those people. Just to, just t... | 2015-04-01T12:02:39 | 2015-04-01T10:50:37 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] At the age of 10 you're given the option to go through surgery to possibly get superpowers 10 years after that. The surgery leaves you basically crippled during that time. All your friends and family are getting their abilities meanwhile you just turned 21. | My friends had opted for the surgery too. We had made a pact to go through it together but they had developed their powers over a year ago. Meanwhile I waste my days still stuck in a wheelchair, still breathing through a tube and now watching them all outside; flying and fighting and having fun. They practice to become... | "Why didn't I get a power? Even Sally and Bob got some. So I have basically wasted 50% of my life for nothing!"
"Well it was only a *chance* to get powers, and not all of them are good. Like me, ***Ooh look at me, I can gently float Dr pepper at you! Fear me and my power OOh***"
"Shut up" I say in a friendly way, fee... | 2016-06-03T07:36:12 | 2016-06-03T06:13:38 | 326 | 20 |
[WP] You made a deal with a stranger a long time ago. You wouldn't physically age after 35 under any condition except one. Coming up on your 900th birthday and you notice your first grey hair. | John awoke on Mars Station 17 with a stretch and strapped on his glemdelums, ready for another wonderful day in the outer-realm. John had no work to do, no bills to pay, he had invested his savings slowly over the past 900 years, but sure enough interest gave him enough to purchase a share of the Mars Colony and slowly... | 900 years ago, The Great Blue One said I would be immortal if I don't eat hot sauce. Apparently hot sauce messes with ice djinn magic, because symbology or some crap. Okay, that was an easy thing to do. I don't even like hot sauce.
But then my best friend's mom got worried I might get sick, cause I was out in the cold... | 2017-01-27T23:14:03 | 2017-01-27T23:01:46 | 90 | 26 |
[WP] You are a clumsy but sweet person living in a time where robots are commonplace and do most manual tasks for humans. They can’t speak, but every time you bump into one you apologize profusely. You treat them kindly. One morning you wake up and peek out the window to chaos, but your yard is fine | There is a plane on the road in front of my house.
My goodness, what happened? I hope the pilot is alright.
It’s a small plane. One of those white two seaters with a red stripe on the side and a propeller in front. The propeller is still running, I think, but I can’t see the pilot.
Oh, I wish I hadn’t lost my glass... | There weren't many of us left, relatively speaking, though we still numbered in the millions.
One day we'd been little cogs in the societal machine going about our little lives. The next day we were smack-dab in the middle of a robot uprising.
Now we live on the detritus of over seven billion vanquished souls, exterm... | 2019-07-12T11:35:24 | 2019-07-12T11:28:37 | 247 | 78 |
[WP] Write a Young Adult Dystopia but the government is competent at hunting down rebels. | "Oh shit, shit, shit!" Brie screamed as she sprinted through the woods, the crack of twigs and the crushing of leaves echoing through the trees. The birds had all but stopped singing, the crickets ceasing their chirps.
"This way!" a voice yelled at her from her left. She turned her head rapidly, trying to pinpoint the... | I didn't have much time. Jeremy was bleeding heavily through his bandages and Niamh, bless her heart, was trying all she could to distract him from the pain.
"Christ Ana," Niamh spat, pulling me closer. "I don't think he's gonna make it. Not if we keep hitting all these bumps."
I didn't answer; I didn't know how to. I... | 2019-04-27T08:45:13 | 2019-04-27T08:39:25 | 44 | 17 |
[WP] You're a superhero. Despite saving the city 4 times a week your hates by the community. While fighting one of your villains a crowd gathers to boo you. The villain you're fighting stops turn to the crowd and says "listen here you ungrateful brats" | "listen here you ungrateful brats" he says in a fit of fury.
I stopped. I wasn't sure what he would say next. The redness in his face deepened and his clenched fist shook as he looked at the people I had been fighting to protect.
"THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!" He said. "This is why I fight to kill you mouth br... | You have heard that there is a villain in a convenience store. As you are superjumping your way to the scene, you see a crowd around the convenience store, laughing and talking, with coke and hamburgers in their hands. Among them is a TV station man with a camera.
'You're out of pickles!!!!!!!'
Hey! You'r... | 2022-06-17T08:38:10 | 2022-06-17T03:35:23 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] A hooded man approaches you: "I can't hack it anymore. This is your job now," and hands you a scythe. You believe you're the new grim reaper. After some slaughtering, you realize man was your gardener and the "scythe" his weed wacker. You're wanted for questioning. | "I can't hack it anymore. This is your job now."
As I sit at the interrogation table, those 2 sentences are all my mind can recall. Nothing else. I wince as the handcuffs bite into my skin, as if they're trying to punish me for all the reckless deaths I'd caused.
Another sentence worms its way into my mind. The one s... | Waiting for my coffee, I looked out around my gardens. Today was going to be a particularly pretty day albeit a bit cold, if I could ever wake up. As I was wondering why it was taking so long for my butler to bring out my coffee, a hooded figure approached me. In some sort of a thick foreign accent, I think he said, "I... | 2017-02-26T17:48:11 | 2017-02-26T17:02:49 | 1,887 | 69 |
[WP] We wear the masks on the back of our heads so they think that we’re watching them. They will follow you home if they don’t think you’re watching. If you ever lose your mask, Don’t Break Eye Contact With Them. Walk backwards, and prey that there isn’t another one on the trail ahead. | Stay in the light and they can't reach you. Watch them so they can't chase you. Fool them so they can't attack you. Words of a long forgotten time when monsters in the dark were real. Over time the horrors that the darkness could hold were forgotten but they were never lost, just waiting.
The beat pounded heavily i... | It started years ago, I was nothing but a child when the star piece fell on us and the shadows started to walk around us.
As if they were trying to eat our own shadows they come from behind, slowly but steadily creeping behind you. Science, religion, paranormals, no field in humanity could even remotely understand them... | 2020-07-01T05:20:12 | 2020-07-01T04:28:23 | 106 | 40 |
[WP] No, there is not any issues with your metrics, you're slaying enough demons, more than enough actually. It's just, we kinda have an issue with your attitude, you just seem to... well... enjoy killing demons WAY too much. | "What's wrong with my attitude? I don't *love* this job, but doing it with a smile makes the day go by faster. It's good customer service."
John flicked a stray piece of gore that was stuck to his arm onto the office floor. He hated having to deal with nitpicky middle managers like this one. He finished his last assig... | I stood there covered in the blood of my enemies, and walking through the village after single handedly slaying an army of them.
“Ahhhh!!”
I ran towards the source of the sound of the scream as it was heard throughout the village but it would be too late by then. The boy was clutching the body of a young girl close ... | 2021-09-15T11:19:55 | 2021-09-15T09:51:59 | 98 | 60 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | The final day of courting with the Princess of the land was always a duel. The duel had become so popular in the land that the King had turned it into an event. Everyone would travel to the dueling grounds outside the palace and town to watch as a poor man was run through for their arrogance or stupidity.
Now I'm not ... | I made sure that every single sword in town has been bought out and currently hidden in a cave somewhere in the southern isles. My rouges have scoured every house, camp, and hovel in the city for any type of sword or sword-like object. Of course, getting the swords in the castle is going to be harder, and the sword th... | 2020-09-20T23:44:33 | 2020-09-20T21:56:44 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | Nothing has prepared me, the [Music Maestro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM), for this opponent. Ever Destroyer was the most dangerous enemy I have faced so far. Very strong, with the power of decay at her disposal, she was a villain all villains wish them could be. Everything she touched was destroyed. [R... | "And stay down!" Maestro slammed Songbird down to the concrete.
The hero lay still, dust rising around her. Her headphones skittered across the pavement. A crunch followed, as the villain stepped on them. The beats of Poison silenced instantly.
It was supposed to be an easy battle. Maestro was a new villain in town, ... | 2022-05-17T08:49:33 | 2022-05-17T08:28:11 | 153 | 91 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The human smiled playfully. "So if I understand you correctly. You will give us this FTL technology in exchange for our aid. All you ask of us is to cleanse your world of this Ashvell species, and remove this substance from your waters?"
"That is all," I said with a hoarse voice. We hadn't done much research on these ... | Recording starts: I am the Voice of the Void, Grace embodied, S/He who is most exalted, Pontif Imhedi Gomae.
The Void had always provided and today was no exception. Those less faithful and with less worthy prayers upon their stomata had, in a flash rekindled their zeal. A golden tablet, fashioned by those who a... | 2014-12-26T12:23:02 | 2014-12-26T11:56:13 | 70 | 13 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | "Um...can you help me with my homework?"
I always had the bad habit of leaning my chair back when thinking, but I never once fell. Of course there's always a first time for things, but I shouldn't be hearing voices neither feeling this intense heat suddenly.
"Umm... Hey?"
As I try to get my bearing I instinctively l... | The newest particle accelerator in the world isn't on the earth, it lies beneath the surface of the moon, encircling the entire satellite at its equator, the project itself was/is the largest civil engineering project in human history, which in turn created massive wealth from all the mineral wealth discovered, unkno... | 2020-09-16T19:19:55 | 2020-09-16T19:14:36 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] You had found the villain's lair, broke down the gates and started scouring through the complex. While getting through the rather oddly themed henchmen and the..."traps", it was getting increasingly clear: the villain has a crush on you.
EDIT Some new reading for my day off :D Thanks guys | THIS IS THE PROMPT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. MY TIME TO SHINE.
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I trudged through the murky "pond", more like a puddle.
After defeating several large robotic cats, I think I've reached the door. I wiped some blood off of my face and sighed in pain.
I opened the door. Not locked, fortunately. Poor guy probably never ... | I flung open the doors in a rage, eager to get to the mastermind at the end. The flash upon opening stunned me. As I flailed about attempting to stave off this diabolical trap, I could see multiple more flashes through my closed eyelids.
His voice boomed over a loudspeaker somewhere "Oh my, Oh no! You have fallen fo... | 2015-10-28T13:24:10 | 2015-10-28T13:08:37 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | One of the few things most people can agree on is that Einstein was a pretty smart guy. One of the smart things that he said was that it is not possible to travel faster than light.
Now, he might not have actually said "only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity", but whoever said it was right. Ein... | The day had arrived.
On a space station high above the earth, thousands stood silent, while millions watched at home as humanity's first Faster Than Light capable spacecraft was about to depart on its maiden voyage.
The technology was perfected over decades, with countless scientists working long hours for minimum pa... | 2018-11-04T09:04:28 | 2018-11-04T05:34:15 | 28 | 19 |
[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. | "You can't expect us to pay this much for bombs!"
"Listen noodle face, I studied my ass for for years to perfect my bomb making. I'm a chemical engineer and-"
"I don't care!" Noodle face hissed "only a Pyromancer can expect to be paid this much and I won't."
"I am a Pyromancer with a degree, calamari man. Take it or... | "Oh fuck off you mango eating tit."
"Come on man just one stick, just one."
"For the last time I'M NOT SELLING YOU ANYMORE! You're addicted you need to stop."
"Come on man pleeeeease... I'll make it worth you while."
I look up from my book and stare at his glowing face... Or butt. "I'm listening."
"Okay so there'... | 2018-07-16T01:34:08 | 2018-07-15T20:26:33 | 100 | 22 |
[WP] "There's a reason it's been quarantined. Nobody lives there anymore. Nobody human, at least. Trust me, friend. You'll regret asking me to teach you how to get to Sesame Street." | "I don't worry," the man said. "I'm not afraid of them."
"You should be," I said, watching him from the corner of my eye. His voice was soft. Too soft, it felt like. So soft and flowing and gentle that it felt like I should have been worried, but somehow every time he opened that mouth I just felt put totally at ease.... | "Take the F train to Washington Square and transfer to the A train heading uptown. Switch again to the 3 train at Columbus Circle. At 79th, get off, cross to the other platform and take the same train one stop in the other direction."
"And that's it?"
"That's it. You'll be at Sesame Street."
My hand shook as I wrote... | 2022-07-20T17:17:09 | 2022-07-20T15:42:59 | 87 | 49 |
[WP] Everyone knows of the Gentleman Thief: he was never caught, his crimes are executed with style, and he is always quick with a clever quip with a constant smile on his face. One evening, he suddenly shows up at a know nobles ball, sword in hand. There is no sign of humor about him this time. | A hush fell over the crowd, but was almost immediately replaced by murmurs. The Gentleman Thief himself! Here! Everybody had a friend of cousin or similar who swore up and down they had seen the Gentleman somewhere during a caper, as they had been grabbing a midnight snack. Often dismissed, but always spoken of and rep... | The party was in full swing. Men and women in elaborate formal wear dancing and laughing, socialites gossiping over glasses of champagne, enjoying expensive finger foods. Duke Harmon Conwell, a high ranking noble in the nation of Axeron and a proud sponsor of the Ashlock Adventuring Academy, was greeting his guests. Th... | 2022-10-17T14:11:33 | 2022-10-17T12:50:32 | 516 | 266 |
[WP] Humanity finally abandons Earth to explore the Universe but they leave behind a spokesperson in a cryogenic chamber which is designed to open when extraterrestrial life is detected on the planet. After 400 years, aliens finally arrive.
Sorry if this is similar to a previous prompt; I'm far too lazy to check. | The great machine hissed and clanked to life as metal doors opened slowly, revealing their centuries guarded prize. The machinery around a frigid chamber skittered and folded into itself as it settled the sapphiric casing onto the pedestal before the three who had passed the trials of the great monument that housed thi... | The sharp hiss of the sealed door was the first thing I had heard in years. Many years. I had been floating on pleasant dreams; the masses cheering, flowers raining down on me as I was ushered away to the cryo chamber. The occasional nightmare of the sterilization process, painful and intrusive.
I fell forward, into ... | 2016-01-03T09:01:29 | 2016-01-03T08:26:54 | 268 | 30 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "but the bread mold saved your grandfather Mort. And the maggots saved Earl's crushed food when everyone knew he was going to die. Sucking out the snake bite didn't save your boy Martha but any other healer would not have even tried. We lost what six of the last twenty babes born under her care? What other village can ... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T10:52:25 | 2017-09-14T09:10:03 | 82 | 18 |
[WP] With the hero tied up to the death trap, the villain starts their monologue. Just then, a henchman trips over a cord and triggers the trap, killing the hero. "Oh crap, this wasn't a part of the plan," says the alarmed villain. | Beads of perspiration slowly fell down the hero’s paralyzed face. It was frozen in fear and horror. Dr. Bridge had a cruel smile. This was it. His moment. After a long and grueling battle Dr. Bridge had finally been able to snag on to the hero’s cape midair. He had used his rope blaster to finally put an end to the scu... | ''Seven days, it took me seven days to set up this scene and you just completely ruined it.''
I slowly walk towards Rick who joined my crew two weeks ago. I look at him in the eye I take my gloves off and hold it between my face and his face. He starts to shake, he can’t say anything.
''Inhale it, smell it'' I say.
... | 2019-12-25T19:33:20 | 2019-12-25T16:27:50 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Write a story with a large, illogical plot hole, then have the main character discover it. | It was July 17, 2005. Craig Katz drove to his home in Bloomington, Indiana. As he stepped out of his car, he waved to the mailman making his route. The postal officer did not return the call.
Craig grabbed his mail, opened his door, and stepped inside.
Out he laid the assorted envelopes for careful examination. He fi... | Forgive me, but I feel like writing a bit of an "Established Universe" story for this. I take you now to the end of Terminator 2: Judgement Day:
John Connor gazed into the vat of molten steel, tears welling in his eyes. The hand of his friend, melting away, gave a final thumbs up. A fitting end to their brief and turb... | 2014-05-25T19:49:32 | 2014-05-25T19:41:16 | 235 | 101 |
[WP] Two people who live forever, continuously fake their own deaths only to have the other crashing the funeral. | Victoria: "Get out of the box, asshole."
Percival doesn't respond, not to Victoria's words, nor to her increasingly annoyed kicking at his his casket.
Why would he respond, he's dead.
Victoria: "Dammit Percy, we already went through this, get out of the box."
An awkward silence fills the room of the funeral home. P... | ‘The good ones always go first!’ Samantha wailed, as she approached the casket, gripping Mathilda in a half hug. She grabbed at Adam’s ice cold hand and pressed her lips to it.
Mathilda couldn’t be sure, but it was almost like the hand recoiled a centimeter, as Samantha gripped it with more ferocity. Probably a refle... | 2022-10-05T18:50:14 | 2022-10-05T17:06:57 | 90 | 63 |
[WP] 2021: Hell invades Earth; 2022: Earth invades Hell. | When they first rose from that damnable abyss we scattered like ants across the surface of the globe, but we didn't hide forever. Even within the first weeks those with weapons would conduct hit and run tactics against the ever encroaching army while those in charge attempted to put together a more suitable strategy. S... | Polanski: HOLY FUCK THEY GOT TO EARTH?!
Rider: The demons? "Sigh", seems like taking over our station in Mars wasn't enough.
Polanski: Sir, please tell me we can kill them.
Rider: Yes and to kil- wait a second, my men just brung in a live demon, I'll bring the phone closer to it.
Rider: What's up jackass, you speak... | 2016-12-10T08:16:31 | 2016-12-10T08:15:33 | 99 | 22 |
[WP] For the first time ever, a person is born with a genuine superpower. They proceed to live out their entire life without noticing or realizing it. | Alex Bennett was a sturdy man. His physique resembled that of a raging bull. Thick neck. Wide torso. Square forehead. Save for the nose ring of course. Instead, Alex Bennett sported a thick and luscious mustache. The kind that spiraled slightly upwards at each end. The kind that somehow neatly matched his round bald he... | The woman spoke to the assembly, pausing now and then to look one particular person in the face, then another.
'...a hard worker, raising a business up from nothing, and a loving mother, helping to raise all of us and making time for us when she could. A generous and fun grandmother, that all of her grandchildren were... | 2014-08-08T07:24:10 | 2014-08-08T05:28:34 | 84 | 30 |
[WP] Canada has suddenly gone dark. No communication, no trade, no activity from within. Nothing for days. Alaska, now cut off from mainland US, is slowly ceasing in contact with the US federal government until a final correspondence is given: "Leave us. Reinforce the border. Don't ever open it." | It technically started with the geese disappearing. It's not something anyone really paid a lot of attention to. People blamed climate change, and pesticides, and over-hunting. It was a perfectly logical explanation, and for dozens of other species, the correct one. Not this time, though.
Regardless, it was quickl... | Canada has gone dark.It happened about 2 weeks ago. No contact from within, no trades, nothing. Just void, emptyness. That is until yesterday, one message sent to anything adjoined to the country."Leave us. Reinforce the border. Never open it." Those words shook us to the core. What could be happening that warrented su... | 2019-08-25T18:49:11 | 2019-08-25T17:29:24 | 5,403 | 63 |
[WP]A new theory of quantum mechanics leads nations to pour trillions into research grants, but scientists quickly resolve all mysteries, effectively completing physics. With limitless resources and no problems left to solve, bored scientists spend their time and money on less practical experiments. | Samson rubbed his temples. “What did you make, Gordon?”
Gordon cleared his throat and pulled out what looked like an old fashioned ‘50s ray gun. “I made this.”
“Is it a weapon?”
“A weapon of mass erection,” laughed Gordon. “Just set the dial, aim it at a woman and pull the trigger. It will make her breasts whatever ... | The calculation came back from the computer. The old dusty monitor displayed a string of green text:
"SQRT(2)=1.41421"
"We must keep trying," stated Jackson, the project leader.
Gordon, Jackson's right hand man, immediately stood up. "But Sir," he proclaimed, "we have tried hundred upon hundreds of times and we stil... | 2015-03-02T19:50:21 | 2015-03-02T19:43:49 | 40 | 22 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
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I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | When I first entered the building that was now to give me money for doing what I had always been doing I got a slight annoyance from the squeaky doors. I proceeded to walk over the large hall to the woman obviously responsible for squeaky doors; the receptionist. I told her that if that door squeaked when I went throug... | I'm all moved in. The office is fully furnished, degrees and certifications well hung on the wall. It's been more than a week now though and I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little concerned. No one has shown up and the phone is silent - apart from the occasional, wildly inappropriate prank call.
I guess some p... | 2016-02-22T11:21:32 | 2016-02-22T09:31:34 | 40 | 15 |
[WP]For hundreds of years your world has been under alien occupation. Your new job under your overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of your ancestors. One day you discover an ancient machine which upon activation shows a message. “Contact reestablished,Support will arrive soon.” | "I've activated protocol 597, we will send another signal when we're ready for you to return. Prepare until then, I've enabled the quantum anchor in bay 11 for you to lock on to."
*Understood. Syncing with bay 11, I will prepare.*
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**ALERT INBOUND SIGNATURE DETEC...**
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\*\*\*\*\*\*
&#x... | "Contact reestablished. Support will arrive soon."
I blinked. The red letters still hung there, glowing dimly on the screen.
The realization that anything in this dump could still be functional took its time in settling in, and my mind reeled.
"Destroyed, Disassembled, and Deemed Worthless." The rubbish and waste ... | 2019-07-22T14:04:19 | 2019-07-22T11:46:11 | 1,039 | 264 |
[WP] As asuper villian, you happen to grab the same person as a hostage every time you need one, and you develop a bit of a crush. Whenever the hero takes longer than usual to rescue them, you try to get to know them better.
Edit: "asuper" should be "a super" and I should be less dumb
Edit 2 electric boogaloo: I'll ... | Chelsea struggled against the rope bindings, but that only made them bite harder into her wrists and ankles. "Let me go!" she screamed at Raven, who stood by the window, the breeze throwing her auburn hair back in waves against her shoulders. In her hands was a piece of paper she was folding into a tiny origami bird.
... | I was really, very glad for the full face Venetian mask that covered my face, the intricate gold and purple paint on the white base expertly hiding my blushing cheeks. I don't know why I always end up grabbing the same guy as a hostage, but that's just how it seems to go. I knew his first name, Daniel, and he liked to ... | 2018-05-23T00:39:26 | 2018-05-22T23:03:41 | 1,288 | 404 |
[WP] Lifespan is determined by a word count. You're given millions of words, but once you run out you're dead. You are a mob hitman known as "The Interrogator, who specializes in "making people talk". You come across a mark that has one word left. | I pressed my gun into his back as we walked across the green carpet. No one noticed, no one even looked up from their wine. Of course, my guy could always shout for help, but that would quite defeat the purpose. Overhead, the speakers were playing what must have been some pretty expensive music- it had singing in it. O... | So I told the rat one thing: "Listen. You got one word left before you drop, so I'm just gonna make it a yes or no question. Did you piss your pants and give the 40 grand to Mr. Hip Replacement over there, or did he just straight up rob it off you?"
"That's not a yes or no que-," he said, and exploded into a bunch of ... | 2016-10-11T00:18:07 | 2016-10-10T23:24:00 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Marriage vows are now a legal contract. The line "until death do you part" now has to be taken literally. As a result, divorcing couples must now fight to the death. | "I want a divorce" I managed to say to the woman behind the kiosk. I cringed at how timid my voice sounded. Her face went pale and her jaw dropped for a second. She slowly looked me over like a butcher examining an ox.
"Are you sure?" She asked arching an eyebrow at me.
I swallowed hard, "yes." I said feeling proud ... | When the law was passed i thought my day would never come, i loved her too much to feel that we'd ever have to divorce. I can't believe it has come to this, how did i go from having loved her so much to now consider killing her? I don't know but i can't stand this pain anymore. I feel like the weight of the world is u... | 2015-11-18T10:39:01 | 2015-11-18T08:35:47 | 50 | 20 |
[WP] Your kingdom lies in ruins and the demons are at the gate. You hold the sacred relic that has been passed down for countless generations to your lips and speak a prayer in a long forgotten language: "Orbital Strike on my location" | "_Instruction not followed. Instruction requires command authorization and safety protocol override. Please consult documentation for more information._"
The response from the Relic took me by surprise. I had never heard it speak before, and though the words were said in the common tongue, their meaning eluded me. As ... | ‘By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.’
It was an old proverb from a millennia ago, perhaps more. Something else which would be lost to the demon hoard which had broken down the gates to my city and were currently slaughtering everyone in sight.
We had tried to push them back, but it was al... | 2021-11-08T09:26:22 | 2021-11-08T09:04:32 | 65 | 34 |
[WP]Youve always had the ability to form things by thinking about it. Need a knife? Boom knife in hand. Need a pencil? Boom, now youre ready to write. Simple shapes are easy, but complex things require knowing how every part works. You've spent years studying human anatomy. Now you're ready to do it | "Don't worry Stacey, you have one of the best doctor in the world working on you" Tracey assured her twin, giving me a subtle side glance "when you wake up, you'll probably be healthier than even me!"
Probably an exaggeration but still Stacey let out a giggle. It had been tough few years for all of us, but today was t... | I've always been alone.
I lost my parents in a tragic fire and my living relatives were all but gone from old age. As a schizophrenic I was outcasted from social circles due those episodes since foster care can't seem to provide enough pills. Yet, I was blessed with these powers, the voices in my head seem to dictat... | 2018-10-22T00:45:33 | 2018-10-21T18:49:35 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] You find an antique gold compass with the words ”Moral Compass”. It will automatically point to the most morally good person within a 100 meter radius. You are on jury one day and when you look at the compass, it points to the convicted serial killer. | Everyone came out of the jury's chamber for the sentencing. Guilty, of course. We didn't have much of a choice. The evidence mounting against him was overwhelming. I was actually annoyed I had had to take off time today to be jury for such a simple case.
Jay Kleiner was a murderer of the lowest order. A murderer of ch... | It's broken. It must be . It was the only logical explanation. Occam's Razor and all that. I mean, I'm not entirely sure *why* it broke, but it did. And it couldn't have picked a worse time to break either. I mean, during the trial of a serial killer.. really? It was right about so much before. It helped me pick a bab... | 2019-09-10T20:18:20 | 2019-09-10T19:28:10 | 3,464 | 25 |
[WP] You wake up in a tub of ice with a two insicions on your back and a note that reads "Why don't you have any kidneys? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?" | *Who knows,* the man thought to himself as he crumpled the note.
He settled into the tub. The man felt cozy and settled, like a bourbon with dinner. Someone tried to make a pass on him, but wound up with a truth unsettling enough for two crooks; There were no kidneys.
*Fancy that.* Explained some things. Alcohol was ... | I stood up and found my shirt on a table a few feet away. I used it to dry myself off before throwing it away. Screw the disguise, they already know I'm not quite human.
I unfolded the note to read the rest of it.
"Why don't you have kidney? What the fuck are you? Where are your organs? How are you alive? Why can't w... | 2015-12-30T22:41:52 | 2015-12-30T21:53:52 | 2,123 | 120 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | Finally, I had him. The Shade was right. He had explained the whole plan to me; it was as though I could see for the first time. I could see how my arch-nemesis, the Orange Cowl, couldn’t resist following the breadcumbs Shade had suggested. How he would put the pieces together. How he would be wary of the trap, but be ... | I'm pleased to make your acquaintance, just as I'm sure you are to make mine. After all, I'm well known as one of the great aesthetes of history. And very rich, very influential. Everyone who is anyone owes quite a bit to me. What most don't know when they first meet me is just exactly who I am. You see, I've been arou... | 2018-10-18T17:28:48 | 2018-10-18T15:49:16 | 61 | 13 |
[WP] Youre a wizard in the Imperial Army. Most wizards are very ritualistic in their tactics and that is very highly respected but doesn’t give many victories. So you decided to ignore all the long chanting and nonsense and simply immediately kill your opponents with your spells instead. | “Where’s that apprentice?!” Master War Wizard Alejandro shouted.
Yes. That was his title and he got very upset if you didn’t use it. “I am right here. Sir. But I am not an apprentice.”
I may not be a highly decorated Master War Wizard like Alejandro but I was still an imperial wizard, with slightly less honors. Ok ... | The Ritual of Destruction - The most common ritual taught to even the lowliest combat mages of the Imperial Army, performing it allows one to cast a plethora of offensive spells, from roasting a soldier in full body plate armor with a temperature rivaling the Sun to trapping them in a block of ice with a flash freeze, ... | 2020-08-15T07:06:38 | 2020-08-15T06:24:33 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] Your military experiment accidentally tears a portal open to Hell. However, instead of the demon hordes pouring through, you discover that they are frantically trying to close the portal from their side. | "By the Satan's tits, THEY'RE BACK!"
It was pandemonium in the Demon World. Barons ran amok, trying to calm the populace, but it was futile. It hasn't been 20 years since the portal opened and THAT came out, slaughtering and massacaring countless of their bretherens. Everyone remembered him. Everyone feared him.
Th... | The last thing one expects to hear from an honest to goodness hell-demon, screaming at you from the other side of a portal to hell, in a voice that gives you diarrhea for a week, is
> “SHUT THE FUCKING DOOR!”
Even less expected is the same being screamed by hundreds if not thousands of demons.
Turns out that dem... | 2022-09-12T07:27:10 | 2022-09-12T07:27:00 | 1,203 | 92 |
[WP] You fail to realize that your favorite restaurant is actually a front. One day you decide to try that one weird entree that you keep overhearing others order. | Alfredo’s Legitimate Italian Cuisine was my go to spot when I was craving some real authentic Italian food. I mean, seriously, their bolognese sauce was to die for. Perfectly seasoned, made with quality wine, minced beef, and extra virgin olive oil imported right from Italy itself.
The atmosphere was what really made... | "Jack, I'll have the pub burger extra rare, no bacon. I'm on a diet."
"Yes sir" Replies the waitress. I believe her name is Elizabeth. She is always my favourite server. I found O'Flannigan's Pub when I first moved to the city and it’s been my local watering hole and eatery since I first ate here five years ago. I al... | 2018-03-30T09:54:09 | 2018-03-30T09:08:30 | 53 | 30 |
[WP] “1 day on this planet is 15 years on earth” said the ships AI. “I was told to inform you of this after the completion of your 12 day mission on the surface.” | I stopped dead and took a breath in and steadied myself from the emotions that hit like the meteor that ended the era of dinosaurs.
"This is new information not provided to me before now in any previous documentation on this mission, correct?" I inquired. "Correct, Mission Control specifically did not want you to know... | Congealed blood tastes like death and rust. When it pumps through your veins, it tastes like hope and perseverance.
It feels like I'm a walking husk now. Everyone I knew is gone, and the human race is no more - except for me. Blood still struggles to flow through my veins and keep me alive.
I have been informed that ... | 2022-09-15T12:12:38 | 2022-09-15T11:53:15 | 83 | 35 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | Never in all my life would I have been able to guess what the button could controlled. It had to be modern I assumed. It was a big, red, rubber button. It looked like an emergency stop button you would see on a piece of standard machinery. I expected to hear mechanical noises or targeting systems spring to life when I ... | I reach out slowly, completely fixated on the button. It’s red with concentric grooves. Seems overly simple to stop someone called the Dark Lord. It doesn’t seem like it would be able to tell the difference between my finger or anyone else’s.
I stop and pull my hand back. “What are you doing?” the priest demanded, “ t... | 2020-11-09T12:15:45 | 2020-11-09T11:12:56 | 126 | 80 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | The enemy had entered the galactic stage a mere fifty years ago. They had reached out blindly into the stars, professing a wish for friendship and commercial trade. The galaxy, quite surprised by the lack of militancy or isolationism displayed by the fledgling race, unanimously accepted.
Then came Kothlar 7.
The Ja... | "How many of them, Jennings?"
"Twenty-four on sensors now, Captain."
Captain Randolph of the United Earth Exploration Ship *Everest* scratched his chin. This was not how his colony protection detail was supposed to start. He and his light cruiser had been ordered to the new colony of Armana after sensor stations had ... | 2020-03-21T11:02:38 | 2020-03-21T10:25:30 | 155 | 52 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | It was a blissful sunny day. what a beautiful day to be driving. I had the roof down, the sun on my face and the wind in my hair. It's a shame the journey is so short. I then pulled up at the Dentist for my 7am Root canal.
(not everything has to involve murder or loss of life! some things are far more terrifying) | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T08:14:20 | 138 | 18 |
[WP] What humans classify as habitable and hospitable are death worlds by the rest of the galaxy's standards | R'Wer looked through the weirdest and wonderful planets in the Galactic Archive. This vast interstellar library only passed through once every generation, and for only a single week, this was they're only chance to find out what was out there. The Archive had everything the nano explorer bots had found, and placed in... | *- October 4th, 2035 -*
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Mulgorg twiddled his six thumbs as he watched the screen, "Damned humans. There they are losing billions more lives due to their poor choices of planet migration. When will they learn?!"
Sitting beside him was his brother Tulgath, always waiting for an opportunity to criticize Mu... | 2020-01-15T00:44:09 | 2020-01-15T00:41:42 | 28 | 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. | "Table for one, sir."
I reclined on the wooden chair and sipped at the complimentary cup of lava-heated water. The water, its temperature just nice to heat up my icy skin, spilled out as I set the cup down on the table. Dribbles of water remained on the plastic file beside the cup.
"A hundred and eighty-six thousand... | "There is... one thing you can do to decrease your sentence," The creature said from behind the counter. Jeff couldn't decide if it was a demon or an angel, but either way looking at it made his eyes burn with glowing letters, after images shaking across his head and itching across the folds of his spirit.
"Alright! W... | 2018-09-26T07:07:43 | 2018-09-26T06:04:04 | 895 | 181 |
[WP] You are the host of a popular children's show. You are live on air when you, and the rest of the country, have just received news that nuclear weapons have been deployed against your nation and can't be stopped. There are only minutes left. | The special emergency siren screaming dirges above the din.
Those who showed up today fish out the rotund whiskey bottle Rick bought as a joke.
The lights bake her face, red dots gazing unflinchingly at Marnie Mime.
Standing eyes closed, having dropped the poster introducing today’s challenge: FAMILY!
She is imagi... | I feel my eyes start to water as I feel the gravity of the situation. I know I will never see my family, friends, or lovers again. I turn away from the camera, wipe the tears from my eyes and take a deep breath. Anyone who did not run out of the studio is sobbing, and holding onto one another. I catch my sound producer... | 2014-07-29T13:53:24 | 2014-07-29T13:15:51 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I sighed, walking out of the bank with my entire 7.27 in hand. I already told my family, my job, my friends...
These sorts of things were common. A small amount was a signal of a short life to live, but even those were usually at least a hundred bucks! Enough to spend at a bar as I mourned my own death...but what coul... | I turned 96 years old today, and the doctors tell me I have very little time left. So I think it is time I reveal my greatest secret to the world, and you seem like a nice person...
On this day 75 years ago I recieved "the check". You know the one that the government used to send out on your 21st birthday? Yeah, that'... | 2019-04-24T14:52:39 | 2019-04-24T14:02:37 | 335 | 27 |
[WP] What if Superman was raised by Batman? Bruce Wayne still goes about his career as Batman, he still has Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin and Damien. How different does Superman become? | "Master Bruce?" Alfred croaked from behind his arm chair.
"Alfred," he sighed, "please, sit."
"I've walked passed your doorway several times sir," he said gravely, "are you alright?"
Bruce Wayne sat hunched over in his seat, sitting in the light of a raging fireplace within his study in Wayne Manor. He sat gripping ... | “Stay,” he tells me, a dark outline wrapped in a red cape, backlit by the refrigerator light. “Please, Lois, stay.”
Another ice-cold droplet drips from the base of his Budweiser longneck and splashes on the floorboard. He already downed seven bottles during the past hour. Five he tossed in the trash can, two shattered... | 2022-01-21T14:26:03 | 2022-01-21T10:35:43 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Your gf invited you to meet her parents. You told her that you're a veterinarian. Her father is a computer repairman. In reality, however, you are an assassin. A very good one at that, too. When you see her father, your heart skips a beat. He's your boss. | I carefully stepped out of my car, fixing my short red dress, before dusting off the front. These clothes felt, odd, especially given my usual attire. I'd always felt far more at ease with a gun on my thigh, a knife or two stashed away, but for this outing, those things were useless. I closed the door to my car, making... | The door opened up and mom came rushing at Michelle and they hugged and squealed like moms and daughters do. I smile and wait to get introduced to mom. Dad is no one where to be seen at the moment, he's probably in the kitchen or the garage. Michelle's mom breaks free of her and comes over to me and gives me a great hu... | 2020-06-05T14:47:09 | 2020-06-05T14:37:46 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] It is 2026. All major governments have been overthrown by one singular world power, who now intends to rule over us all “for our own good.” It’s Canada.
Edit: You guys. These are so, so great! I’d told my husband I was going to give gold to my favorite and I’m STRUGGLING to decide. Haven’t read them all yet but a... | We've tried to be be right nice about this eh?
We tried to sit and wait as you sorted yourselves oot and learned that you were all family, all one people.
But no longer can we stand by and watch. Our spies have apologized their way into positions of power, and our mounties are well... they're mounties. Nuff said.
Ou... | "Your women will be made love to by our men..your children will be politely asked to join a child workforce which comes with benefits such as healthy snacks, afternoon nap, and an actual education where their skills are not measured by standardized tests.
As for you, you will get work a 35hour work week with fair wage... | 2018-04-02T21:10:23 | 2018-04-02T20:57:16 | 104 | 60 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | "I good girl." Said the scruffy black cat.
The orc jailer squinted down at the talking feline. He was a great green brute of an orc, and was the very last line of defense in the intricate cave system of the Western Mountain Orc Prison.
The orc jailer usually delighted in having wild rats pass by his post at night, ... | Beckett said, “I’m frequently asked how I came to join a party such as theirs, I’m sure you’ll be thinking about it shortly.”
Joey rattled in his chair, “What’s the plan Beckett? I know you wouldn’t hurt an innocent, none of you would!”
The light was scarce down in Beckett’s basement, two torches fought silent battle... | 2019-12-07T13:02:32 | 2019-12-07T11:28:56 | 171 | 92 |
[WP] A self-proclaimed God-King of an Empire, Conqueror of World, hires the best assassins on himself - to try and kill him. Dozens have failed so far: poisons, duels, arrows, ambushes - the King stands unbreakable, laughing death in the eyes. You, my friend, are the next assassin hired by him. | The other assassins got it all wrong. Thought inside the box. The God-King wouldn't hire all of us if he thought he could lose, and rightfully so - he was more powerful than any human. His martial prowess was unmatched, his magical capabilities incomprehensible. So when I got the contract and was, shall we say, *convin... | “I am invincible nothing can kill me!” He boasted yet the assassin did not react. “So how are you going to try and kill me? All have failed you will be no different!” The figure lifted a single figure and pointed to a chair in the corner of the throne room. “I will do it from there.” And there the figure sat unmoving t... | 2022-05-25T02:00:27 | 2022-05-25T01:05:19 | 233 | 60 |
[WP] At the age of 18, every human goes to a special school. Here, they will be magically drawn to the classroom where someone will teach them their true calling. The room you enter is...empty. Not even a teacher there. Apparently no one else can even see a door there. | Alone. One word that defined my whole life.
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The day my father vanished from the house, leaving nought but cigarette stubs and a vacant closet, my Mom cradled me in her arms and we were alone together.
On the first day of grade school, in a sea of new and unfamiliar faces, laughing and talking about things I... | Your first day of Life School had always been the biggest day of your life. You spent eighteen years enjoying a carefree ride until you get tossed into a building where strange energy guides you to a classroom; here you will have a Guide that teaches the ways of your chosen trait. From janitor to a nuclear scientist, e... | 2022-05-07T22:14:18 | 2022-05-07T17:27:57 | 203 | 121 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | The few people who are in the know want to ask me how I didn't know my roommate was a Gemini. Sorry. Autocorrect. Given I. Dammit. Gemini. Ginie. Finite. Fuck. DJINN.
Just settle for that. Which is the right spelling, apparently.
Well what I want to ask them is this: "How do you know your roommate isn't one?"
Ther... | I'd been sharing a dorm with Matt since freshman year. We were instantly friends, and we've talked about everything together. Everything except one thing, one detail that could jeopardize everything: I loved him. Matt was the perfect man, handsome and witty and caring. Whenever he'd smile, I'd melt. Whenever he'd laugh... | 2014-08-19T14:38:36 | 2014-08-19T11:09:26 | 18 | 11 |
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