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[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | yet another kid stopped me today. he actually wanted to spar. i just wanted to take a shower. \_he\_ was very draining today. i slung the weapon on my back and trudged into the ready room and this candy-coloured fool stopped me to ask if i wanted a sparring partner. said he'd watched me sitting in the Danger Room an... | I am death. Some whisper about a monster, which suddenly appears on a battlefield, and destroys everything. In fact, thats exactly what im doing. The only difference to such myths: im not a monster. Once, a hero bonded me, death, to a physical body. I dont know what he did, but after decades, im still here.
"We need t... | 2021-05-26T03:48:48 | 2021-05-26T02:35:16 | 153 | 98 |
[WP] some people can fly. Others can kill with a touch. Still others can bend time and space to their will. You.... can crack your knuckles to get your hands to light up like glowsticks.
EDIT: this idea was already done by u/-C4-, so take your upvotes to [his post](https://www.reddit.com/r/shittysuperpowers/comments/9... | "Do you know who I am?" I asked stepping toward the thugs who were holding a pretty brunette at gun point.
They wore their dark hoodies up, and both of them had the Dragon's gang symbol emblazoned on the front and back.
"Nah, you look familar though," answered the thug with a gold chain hanging on his neck and hoodi... | I didn’t realize it at first, but when I was thirteen it happened, I broke my arm, and from every shattered piece of bone there was light. We searched for it, me, my family, the Doctor, what power did I have? Was it super healing, invincibility, control over light?
It was none of the above, and here I was, ten years l... | 2018-12-05T20:41:14 | 2018-12-05T19:09:17 | 476 | 238 |
[WP] The house you just rented is beyond compensation - staircases and extra floors coming and going, rooms rotating and changing places. You just ignore it. On the fourth day, the eldritch horror informs you that you are the first to stay inside it for more than 72 hours without going insane. | Steve was getting kinda used to the new house he had, sure the sink had eaten his lunch one time and the stairs started forming 4d non euclidean structures, but as a theoretical mathematician Steve didn't mind them, plus nothing is perfect.
"HOW DARE YOU RETAIN YOUR SANITY FROM THIS DOMAIN MORTAL!"
Steve stood still ... | 'Yeah well, it's all I can afford so you just gotta make do, y'know? The walls shift and the dishwasher screamed st me when I opened it but, there's no mould and none of my housemates seem capable of speech or prolonged eye contact so I'm thinking this could work out long term.'
'You reside in the realm of madness to s... | 2022-05-29T11:45:54 | 2022-05-29T10:32:28 | 59 | 22 |
[WP] We come in contact with extraterrestrials and soon discover they are unable to conceive the concept of "fiction". They think every kind of fictional work we have ever made is based on real events. | The Army did not save the Earth,
Despite the claims of weaker men,
Who suck the teats of empty news,
And claim we always win.
There are children who have never heard,
Of the war where no one died.
The day the Aliens came to earth,
And left before they tried.
Some say Russia made a fist,
That America f... | "We have found no evidence of this Enterprise"
"What"
"The Enterprise, NCC-1701, We have also not found the skywalker, and ... your planet does not appear to have been destroyed. We do not understand"
"Um, I don't understand either, what are you talking about?"
This was not how I was expecting first contact to... | 2016-09-16T09:28:53 | 2016-09-16T08:31:45 | 84 | 27 |
[WP] You're a down on your luck necromancer operating a small cleaning service with a few low level skeletons. You have dreams of something greater however; a grand dungeon of your own with treasure, monsters and traps aplenty. | "Good morning Erika," I beamed as I checked in the for the day. She was the hospital worker that I had gotten to know over my time working there. It wasn't great work, a lot of the other employees avoided me, but I had my uses.
You see, I'm a Necromancer. I bring things back from the dead to do my bidding. Sure I wasn... | "You're both wooorthless," Maltheus slurred to his two skeleton peasants as he took an endless swig of his Dead Man's Jack. He glared over at Ralph, one of his two minions, mindlessly wiping the counter to the front desk. "Why don't you do anything other than wipe that **damn** counter," he exclaimed, following with an... | 2015-12-01T08:23:15 | 2015-12-01T08:18:24 | 46 | 24 |
[WP] A person's eye colour correlates to what superpower they have, activated at age 18. You are the first person to be born with totally black eyes. | Long ago, humanity developed a defense against their natural predators. At the time, we called it 'vision" and the name hasn't changed much now. Everyone is born with white eyes, and when you turn 18, there's a reaction that occurs in your brain that shifts your eyes to a new color. We have the reds, capable of ferocio... | Everyone in my world had different eye colours.Each representing a different element.I was one of them.However,i was one of the unusual ones.
Ever since i was born,i had completely black eyes.My parents were shocked.The doctors couldn't explain anything,not even The Institute of Magic could.No one ever had complete... | 2015-11-15T08:25:59 | 2015-11-15T07:24:41 | 63 | 22 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | The names were always generic. That's how the craze started to give kids weird names. It was a lot easier to find an Appel or Zucchini or Brickhaus. The names on me were Jangela and Jongela. It was nice when the name was the same. It meant that you could choose your death. That the final act was not one of vengeance or... | I'd met Joann when I was a boy
I knew who she might be,
before we were too young to sin,
she bopped me on the knee.
I met Kristine at just passed 10
and knew she was a mother hen,
because she brought me food and pens,
and told me to follow my dreams.
It was not long before 16
when sudden golden birthday sprees... | 2018-03-11T07:36:53 | 2018-03-11T07:34:02 | 118 | 22 |
[WP] You hire a witch doctor to curse someone. However, the only curses you can afford are extremely petty. | He took everything from me.
Fiddling the money, pulling funds into separate off shore accounts in only his name, in hindsight, I was a fool to trust him.
We'd been partners fresh from uni; him the rugby player with the business degree, me the computer science undergrad with ideas, we'd been like a two sides of a co... | "A friend of a friend told me you could help me," I said, nervously.
"Well, have a seat, what can I do for you?" the man replied.
"Um... I caught my wife cheating on me. I want her... dealt with."
"Can you be more specific, sir?"
"Dead. I've got five thousand dollars."
The man leaned back in his chair, "you clearl... | 2014-12-13T12:44:58 | 2014-12-13T12:41:57 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You dress up as a conspiracy nutter for a costume party. The second you put the tinfoil hat on, something obstructive is lifted from your mind as if you suddenly woke up from a long sleep. Of course, nobody believes you... | [original post from /r/conspiracy, 10/31/2014]
PLEASE HELP.
I'm writing this from my friends bathroom. I am freaking out.
I used to troll this group using another account. I thought you guys were all crazy. Sandy hook, 9/11.. god, I even found you all downright offensive. But something just happened to me and I need... | I’m not supposed to be writing this.
Everyone thinks I’m crazy, but I’ve never seen more clearly now than I have in my entire 27 years of life, or at least, my most recent 27 years of life. I don’t know how or why it worked, but the cap I made has amplified all the signals in the air. I can hear them now - all the v... | 2017-04-10T08:07:57 | 2017-04-10T07:45:54 | 72 | 23 |
[WP] You are the world’s most elite assassin. Although you usually only kill when paid, you finally decide to take matters into your own hands and kill the person who keeps leaking your past contracts onto Reddit disguised as writing prompts. | As long as there have been men, there have been killers. Often, the killing is disorganized and chaotic. Naturally, a solution to the wanton bloodshed was created: the Society. Trained in the arts of stealth and combat, assassins within the Society served as the most efficient one stop shop for knock offs. Membership w... | Many wrote about my feats without knowing they were writing about me. I didn't care about them. They were simply victims of a coincidence. However, in every one of those prompts, there was always a constant: the author.
I investigated him. He's a master of disguise, with a knowledge that surpasses mine when it comes t... | 2018-04-24T12:02:27 | 2018-04-24T11:37:30 | 96 | 26 |
[WP]After the funeral for you best friend, you went to his house to delete his browser, following his wishes. In his computer, you see these last accessed pages: one about occultism, one about how to create new IDs and one about faking one's death. A minute later, get an email saying "Get out". | The funeral was a good funeral. Instead of mourning and grieving people told stories about the good times they had with Frank. A live band played some of his favourite music and we were celebrating his life. This was the way that he would wanted it to be. He had lived a fun and happy life and that was a thing that most... | "James you mother f-"
An explosion rattled my skull as the wall to my left blew in violently. Splinters flew threw the air as annoying non-lethal shrapnel. I flew through the air, not from the explosion but by my own volition as streaks of light poured through in uneven lines.
Curses flew between clenched teeth as I ... | 2019-07-08T05:20:54 | 2019-07-08T04:11:45 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] You’re in a time loop but it’s not permanent. You repeat a day 3 times then time moves onto the next day. Rinse, repeat...Deja Vu was never more applicable. | [Obligatory thank you message to the kind stranger who granted me my first award]
It’s been this way since I was born. When I was a kid, people around me thought I was just playing a dumb game. Then, as I got older, I caught on to the fact that I was the only one noticing the days repeating.
It was fun for a few year... | 1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3. A rather simple count, isn't it? Even a three-year-old could do it.
It gets harder to keep track of over 72 hours, however. 24. Sorry. 24. Or was it 72?
One day was three days. Or is it three days becoming one day?
It doesn't really matter, I guess. It's hard to keep track of time. What's the date... | 2020-10-09T07:54:23 | 2020-10-09T06:18:50 | 59 | 19 |
[WP] You child is playing with their toy phone when they hand it to you saying "It's for you." Humoring them, you put it up it to your ear and say "Hello", Someone replies on the other end. | "Hi!" I say into the toy phone, humoring the cute 4 year old standing at my feet. Her face is lit up with excitement. She loves when we play pretend.
"Hello," comes the reply. I nearly drop the phone in shock. *What the hell?* I think to myself.
"Who is it, Daddy?" asks little Lily as she swirls and dances around th... | "The Child!"
*I inhaled rapidly and practically dropped the toy*
"Hello-" He didn't let me finish my sentence.
"The Child. Now." he said in a rough voice.
"..." I paused. I say to my wife "Take her out of the room." My wife then takes our daughter, Jocelyn, out of the living room and into ours.
"Who the hell are ... | 2015-04-18T23:08:18 | 2015-04-18T21:05:19 | 331 | 11 |
[WP] A Dishevelled Little Girl Walks Up To You On The Street, And Hands You A Box, Saying "Don't let anything happen to this." Then she sprints away.
What do you do? | A small hand tugged on my coat, a quiet voice spoke to me,
"Hi! Could you hold onto this for me?"
I turned around to look at where the voice came from. A small blonde girl in a blue dress stood behind me, hand on the end of my coat arm. Her hair was ruffled, strands sticking out, entire clumps bulging outwards from ... | I was confused, I mean who wasn't? I was on my way from work, when this girl ran up and handed me this box. I didn't know what to do at first...but I did take it home. After a while of though, I decided I would follow the request.
I held the box dear to me. I didn't even look inside, I didn't need to. There was a sub... | 2014-03-26T17:57:41 | 2014-03-26T17:18:59 | 34 | 19 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | Being invisible isn't fun, but it's convenient, sometimes.
I mean, I'm only invisible to most people. There are plenty of exceptions, though -- plenty of people see an obese, ugly woman and make a point to pay attention to her. Never positive attention, obviously: sometimes it's jeering contempt, sometimes it's people... | I committed suicide at age 43, alone in a dingy flat in a dodgy area; overdue two months of rent, water long since cut off, and loan sharks knocking at my door at all hours of the night.
I will freely admit that I knew I wasn't a model citizen, but I certainly didn't think I was Hell-worthy. I thought of myself as a l... | 2015-01-02T11:32:08 | 2015-01-02T11:09:56 | 67 | 22 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | "We've finally done it comrades! Welcome to the birth of the Sixteenth Reich, this time, the German Empire will last for a thousand years!" shouted the Emperor.
The men and women all raised their glasses in unison, celebrating their long awaited victory against the Allies. It had taken them several hundred years and s... | The year is 2198. The entire world has seen 15 world wars. All of which Germany has participated... and... err... lost. Y-yeah... they lost 15 times. This the 16th war, and everyone expects Germany to lose. People aren't taking Germany seriously anymore. Many keep joking about Germany.
But it looks like things will cha... | 2017-08-18T05:26:15 | 2017-08-18T02:09:31 | 76 | 15 |
[WP] A new device promises to search infinite universes and send you to the one where you will be truly happy. You step into the device and after hours of life montages pass before your eyes, a pleasant voice says "I'm sorry, there is no optimal solution. Please choose your own destination." | I trudged off the device and stepped back into the main area of the lab where Reginald, the scientist, stood with an eyebrow cocked up.
"Hey man, I want my money back," I said.
He eyed me curiously over his glasses. "I'm afraid there are no refunds. Sorry about that. Did you not like your results?"
I sighed and shru... | "I'm sorry there is no optimal solution. Please choose your destination."
Hours. Hours spent reviewing my entire life, and nowhere in the infinite universes is there one in which I will be happy. Now I have to pick my destination.
I don't even know if there is anything I want to do! I've tried so many things. Tra... | 2020-04-13T14:20:22 | 2020-04-13T13:38:42 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] Your immortal, you married the love of your life but you leave her after 20 years because you don’t want to see her get old. Around 300 years later you see her on the street. | “ELIZABETH?!” It’s half a shout and half a prayer. The sort of emotion that you can feel even if you don’t speak the same language. But the voice is unfamiliar. Still, I look up just because when someone speaks in that tone, people listen.
​
The face in front of me is possibly the most beautiful I’ve ever ... | People say they want eternal life without ever stopping to think of what weight that would come with. Seclusion, to prevent heartbreak by death after death of those around you. I can't even own a pet, because they die even quicker than people. I blink, and the puppy is gone. Blink again, and my wife is dead. Or, at lea... | 2019-03-09T09:11:20 | 2019-03-09T08:53:22 | 36 | 18 |
[WP]You are a SWAT team member with one big problem: you are a vampire. Your life depends on asking permission before you get through the door, and somehow you pull it off every time. | “Every. Fuckin’. Time. Why do they even keep ‘im on the goddamn team?”
“You know why. He’s the best we have.”
“He’s a goddamn nuisance is what he is.”
Baker, a gruff landmass of a man with at least six inches on the rest of the squad, spit on the floor and shuffled his weight from foot to foot; his impatience grew w... | I've always loved what I've done for a living, the thrill and exhilaration of saving the day. It was almost as if the SWAT was made for me. Even with my problem I've always found a way to make it work, one time I even had to scream out to a hostage if I could come into the house. The SWAT used that as a distraction and... | 2016-10-11T14:04:34 | 2016-10-11T13:32:52 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] You spend your days sneaking past mutants and raiders in a post apocalypse world. No one knows who you are, and you doubt anyone would care to know. You have spent your whole life roaming the wastes of the Fallout universe filling empty Nuka Cola vending machines with Nuka Cola. | *As you're walking through the wastes, you nearly trip on something. You figure it must be a rock of some sort, and turn to angrily kick it, when you find that it's actually a journal instead. Curious, you pick it up and open it.*
"Despite the fact that the world ended, everyone still worked. Well, for the most part, ... | Grab the first key, turn it, open the slots, refill the slots, close the slots, grab the second key, turn it, open the change box, collect change, close the change box, turn the key, grab the second key, close the slots, turn the key, grab the first key and check the machine off the list.
I know these steps by heart, ... | 2018-09-19T09:14:48 | 2018-09-19T08:39:00 | 65 | 28 |
[WP] Time machine has finally been built, and you've been selected to be the first person to travel back in time. Your official mission is to bring medicine and technology designs to advance humanity sooner. However minutes before your departure, you are given the real orders... | The machine has started to produce slow, slight sounds of screeching, which meant it was getting ready to perform a Controlled Time and Position Movement. It was also the moment everyone had to leave the gigantic, gray chamber it was placed in, as in a minute or two it would no longer be safe to stay there.
As the roo... | I stepped in front of the time machine. It looked almost like a door into a different dimension, a portal of sorts, humming and glowing with swirling energy that pulled at my clothes, my hair, trying to suck me into its depths.
"I wouldn't stand so close if I were you, Agent Lucas," said Dr. Carter from behind me. "Th... | 2017-03-04T10:51:39 | 2017-03-04T10:21:03 | 59 | 15 |
[WP] Due to an address mix-up, an elementary school class sends their Pen Pal letters to an elite unit of Space Marines. Today, the Space Marines are sending a response. | Dear Timothy,
Gene-seed of Mighty Bill,
and destined heir to the Smith household sofa.
After reading your heroic retelling, with its crude yet superior illustration an inquisitor's scribe would praise, Great respects are to be given for your doomed yet ultimately victorious attempt to stem the tide of Chaos by confro... | Dear Suzy,
You asked me about what I dream about at night? Well I dream about the alien bastards ripping out the throats of my friends. The red mist as they brutally rip them apart. The stench of iron in the air. The horror of realizing that the squelch beneath my boot used to be my best friend. Oh god... Bill... That... | 2015-01-26T15:40:38 | 2015-01-26T13:41:01 | 33 | 16 |
[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? | Gasping awake, he's surrounded by a dark haze. He doesn't remember when he arrived or how he did so, but he has a burning ache to go home. He hears a sound, a voice? He isn't too sure as he whips around in a panic.
"Hello?" He calls out. The anxiety, trembling from his voice, "I think I'm lost," he is met with silence... | I look at the game’s Death has surrounding the room.
There’s the ornate antique marble chess board, polished to a gleam with ivory and ebony pieces.
In stark contrast, right next to that there’s a well loved and worn checkerboard. It has obviously faded areas where players over the years slid their pieces over the b... | 2018-03-07T08:38:23 | 2018-03-07T07:49:56 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are known in the galaxy for being a bit dim, but also for being the very best mechanics around, and inexplicably able to fix machines beyond their comprehension. You have broken down on Earth, and having the apes work on your craft is both fascinating and terrifying. | Zarp's pleasant cruise of the Milky Way was interrupted by his ship's robotic voice.
*85 seconds of flight time remaining, land immediately and commence repairs.*
"WHY?!" Zarp screamed helplessly at his ship. He had no idea what was wrong, and that really irked him. As a people, the Roflings pride themselves on int... | It took a few seconds for the speaker of the auto-translate to sputter to life.
"Just hit it a few times."
I asked the translator to repeat what the human had said.
"Just hit it a few times. Synonyms for 'hit' are strike, batter, impact."
Was the meat bag really asking me to physically injure the spacecraft in an ... | 2016-05-23T19:20:30 | 2016-05-23T14:13:43 | 107 | 78 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul, everyone knows that. It’s usually a bad idea, but you’ve got a crazy idea. Earlier, you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a paper that stated you now owned his soul. You’re about to find out if demons consider this a valid co | Will never thought the intersection between Cedar and Saint's Roads was particularly memorable. It was just the meeting point between two small residential streets in the little town of New Harmony, Indiana: four unremarkable rows of houses checkered with unremarkable picket fences. It wasn't exactly a desolate badland... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -2, Part 3: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ v.s. Tom)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**I liked wearing skirts.** It didn't matter if I was a boy, or if Tom "I'll Peak In High School" Arven liked ... | 2022-05-24T14:19:20 | 2022-05-24T11:49:47 | 304 | 94 |
[WP] When people die, a trial is held to decide if they go to heaven or hell. People are allowed to choose their attorney, regardless of if they know them personally or not. You're the first person to choose Satan as your attorney.
If it matters in the context of your story, you can choose the individuals that make up... | It was the Lord who has ordained the Archangel Michael as grand Arbiter for the fate of the human race. Michael was a gentle man, one who expressed immense jubilation at every soul that ascended to Heaven and grievously mourned every doomed being sent to his brother in Hell. It is his love for the human race, his care ... | An angel sitting in the judge's chair asked the man (the soul was not so much a human to be named anymore) who he would like to have as an attorney. The replied that he would like to have the Devil represent him. The man seemed quite proud of himself. His quivering round face finally looked triumphant. The angel did no... | 2016-10-13T00:57:14 | 2016-10-13T00:40:48 | 55 | 30 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | It's always the high-numbered ones that think they have a shot. Some up and coming punk that thinks that this is their once in a lifetime chance to take down #1... as if they can just skip all of the other ranks and become a superstar. They never really consider how I GOT to be number one. I've fought fire powers, ice ... | It was actually quite a simple one. Any one of these people could defeat me. They just didn’t know it.
Erik had been after my title for years. Had it not been time manipulation, his massive ego could have been a power in itself. Time manipulation was truly unique in the sense that he was Kronos incarnate. Speeding up ... | 2014-12-18T18:29:42 | 2014-12-18T14:46:11 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] When you fall asleep you wake up in another life, same age, same face, but a completely different place in a completely different area, and the line between dream and real life begins to blur and you soon question which is which.
[deleted] | After a long day of working behind the register of my local supermarket, I was more than ready to wake up in my dream life where I am a spell-slinging adventurer currently three days from the dragon's lair where my party is ready to try our hand at slaying the beast. However, I was apparently a little too eager as I dr... | ''Do you want my honest opinion? Fire him.''
''You mean her.''
''Whatever, just do it. I don’t want to deal with that.''
As he leaves my office and I lay back and I start to think about how I got here. Then I realise I’m just distracting myself from making a tough decision.
I have been running this department for t... | 2020-09-07T16:02:38 | 2020-09-07T15:12:25 | 53 | 20 |
[WP] Every person sees a number above each other’s heads - a compatibility rating, from 1-100. It is custom to marry an individual in the 80+ range to ensure a happy marriage. A few years into your 92% compatibility marriage, however, you suddenly meet a stranger. Above their head is the number 100. | With my hand in my pocket I smoothed my finger along the edge of the napkin that held the phone number- the source of constricting weight in my lungs. I was silent in my introspection as I stared out the window of the car. Her nervous smile stained my every thought as I remembered the roughness of her palms when she’d ... | Please give me critiques, I want to learn to write better!
You know it's strange, we can see how well our relationships will be, by a number that floats above each other's heads.
Most of my friends are somewhere between 50 and 70. I’ve never worked with anyone below 30, they just always get on my nerves. Some commun... | 2020-06-11T12:18:45 | 2020-06-11T09:42:38 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Your sister is getting married but she’s pressured you to find a date. Not knowing anyone that could help, caused by having severe social anxiety, you summon a demon. Or try to at least, using all the right instructions, you summon Lucifer instead. Turns out he also needs a date to a wedding. | "Is it cool if she's a Mormon?" I ask with trepidation.
"DON'T STRESS." He answers with a thundering, gutteral growl. I'm pretty sure that's his inside voice. "GOD NEEDS SOMETHING TO KEEP HIM ON HIS TOES ANYWAY."
He stands as a 7.5 feet tall, red skinned giant. His horns are scratching the ceiling of my basement. The... | “Well, this is a first!” I laughed as the demon stared into my soul.
“What first?” The demon questioned as I continued laughing.
“My first date is with the King of the Underworld!” I answered.
“That’s odd,” The demon replied. “It’s my first date too!”
“Really?” I asked, in disbelief. “ King Lucifer never dated anyone b... | 2019-08-30T21:31:19 | 2019-08-30T15:16:47 | 75 | 34 |
[WP] Everyone is born with three wishes. Most of these wishes are squandered when babies wish for air, food, or rest after a few days of being born. You turn 10 today and as you wake up, your room is crowded with mythical creatures bartering for your wishes.
I want to be clear that I did not steal this WP. I sincerely... | When I woke up, I thought I heard my parents. Every year, right when the clock’s turning December 2nd, they come into my room bringing cake, while singing Happy Birthday and throwing confetti all over the place. They’re really loud and extroverted. They always end up making a mess, but because I love my mom’s strawberr... | Judah's first wish had been to live among the hidden clans of genies.
Humans who were experienced with genies knew that their wishes needed to be ironclad. Some even had lawyers draft the wording. Barterers—crossroads genies who made deals—often tried to find ways to trick humans. They really couldn't help themselves;... | 2018-12-02T12:24:41 | 2018-12-02T12:23:55 | 271 | 103 |
[WP] It's the year 2100. All humans are raised by machines from birth, and have never met their families. When a person turns 18, they must pick a country to live in. There is one catch: You must pass the tests put forth by that country. | MA makes a soft whirring noise beside me. I don't have to look at the message scrolling across its screen to know what it's communicating to me.
"I can't run any faster than this, and I don't care what your fitness calculations say, because they're wrong," I complain, panting as I slow down to compensate for the breat... | *(First-time participant, still pretty new to the sub overall, and I only just started writing again after a long hiatus. Be gentle. <3)*
"You could always just go with Yankee. They never test on anything except loyalty," Shannon said, bowing slightly over the top of Alexa's head.
She was always a tall kid, but sh... | 2018-06-19T22:48:55 | 2018-06-19T16:39:41 | 70 | 12 |
[WP] You were abandoned by your parents as a baby. An eldritch being sees you and adopts you. You are taught about higher dimensions and arcane magic. But things change when your eldritch parent insists you go to a human school to experience a normal life. | I kept telling Troy not to bully me.
I was the smallest kid in 7th grade, and he was the second smallest. He started the very first day of school; I think he was thrilled when he realized there was actually another boy smaller than him in school that year.
I was an empathetic kid. I knew that his bullying was a sign ... | *i won’t*
**You must. It is time for you to rejoin your own kind.**
*won’t*
**must**
*I know who and what I am. I am with my own kind. No one needs to tell me what I am. I will not go. I am myself, and no being may tell me what I am.*
And so, I didn’t.
Apparently, my refusal was the correct answer to this test. ... | 2022-04-08T08:35:24 | 2022-04-08T07:18:25 | 231 | 78 |
[WP] Thirty years after the apocalypse, a book is discovered. It tells the people of old gods, the strongest, the smartest, the tallest. Places of splendor and objects renowned for rarity. They immediately created a religion, following the Gods shown by the Guinness Book of World Records. | Maj would never shut up. Not when we were children play-fighting with moss covered sticks in the woods. Not when our parents would sit down for dinner and ask about my day. Not in the classroom when I was the one called on by Teacher Latke. He would always jump in with a glistening smile and a resounding speech. My pre... | High in the timber-shrouded hights of the Guinness Crags a light snow fell. A crescent moon shone through the clouds like the Great Lightstick of old. All was silent; all was dark; all was deathly cold.
In a quaint stick hut nestled in a dell upon the mountain-side song and laughter hid from the cold in the light of a... | 2019-01-23T17:56:22 | 2019-01-23T17:44:27 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | Kathren nervously smoothed the fine wrinkles from her gown. She admired the deep emerald green of the dress designed to match her eyes. The satin felt smooth against her skin, and yet the motion did nothing to calm the thoughts running rampant in her mind. She then tried to focus her attention on her elaborately styled... | Felicity never cared about what names would show up on her wrist on her sixteenth birthday. Everyone else was always excited for the Revelation. Would their crush be on their right wrist? Would that witch Sally from English class be on their left? The possibilities were endless!
But Felicity grew up watching what a so... | 2020-01-19T00:01:56 | 2020-01-18T23:12:39 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You die and go to heaven. Upon arrival you get selected to trial a "new life +" system where you restart your life with the skills you had already acquired. |
*Stephen Hawking was once asked, “If you could go back in time and ask Sir Isaac Newton one question, what would it be?”. His reply surprised (and perhaps disappointed) many in the audience.*
*”What happens when a star dies,” he said. Of course, we already had the answer to that question. But what seemed like a wast... | The sound called to me.
A sound as deep and resonanting as my own heartbeat, or maybe even moreso. The gentle twangs, the melodies, the notes I could so clearly envision yet had no baseline knowledge of. My soul sang a song that my body, quite simply, couldn't understand.
Once, on the subway, we passed a stranger. A ... | 2019-01-27T14:46:07 | 2019-01-27T14:06:37 | 304 | 95 |
[WP] Everyone is born with 1-100 tally marks tattooed on their arm. The higher your number, the more valuable you are and the more successful you will be. You bully a kid because he is obviously hiding a low score. One day, he rolls up his sleeve to show an infinity symbol. | He was infuriating. So quiet and judgmental, always looking off in the distance whenever I was talking to him. A 99 was never supposed to be ignored.
I was born gifted, I was born to become president of the free world or lead the UN, to do anything I set my mind to. Everyone followed me, everyone tripped over their ow... | "I'm Darryl Du-montague Richmond. Of the British Du-Montague clan, yes. And I am not insane."
I spoke quietly and confidently to the man in front of me. A police detective of middling years and a 60 odd mark. He had not arrested me. To touch someone over 80 was a crime to someine like him. Let alone one of the 99th. ... | 2018-12-27T20:21:40 | 2018-12-27T20:06:56 | 2,098 | 27 |
[WP] Everyone can do magic. Everyone except you, that is. Your aunt and uncle have always made fun of you for not being able to do magic, until one day you received a letter inviting you to a school of "science", and you discovered a secret society of people who make great things without magic. | Everyone knows how fresh rainwater, combined with baby's breath (the flower, not the gas) serves as a magical amplifier. Everyone knows that the water needs to be fresh--anything longer than a day or two reduces the potency of the brew. Everyone knows that freshly-picked flowers are best, even though you might get away... | Magic is natural to this world, as easily as one breathes the air around us. Thanks to this, mankind has created incredible Wonders and performed Miracles daily. The floating city of Ratota, the disappearing Library of Arabia , the Teleportation gates, flying brooms, and much more. The Tournament of Magic that's held ... | 2021-05-27T21:37:45 | 2021-05-27T20:17:06 | 1,771 | 198 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | My husband... Is an an interesting man. Not that bright, but truly kind, caring, and compassionate.
I am not.
They called me the Rose when I was a girl. Too beautiful for words, too graceful for a poem, too lovely for a song. I caught the eye of a King. He married me within weeks. He was dead within months.
I am amb... | My presence envokes the very essence of men. Fear. And for good reasons for I have commanded armies to raze villages, massacred people, men, women and children. By a single flick of my hand blood would be shed. I am that which mothers use to scare their children into obedience except I scare the mothers too.
I am hor... | 2020-04-14T08:29:24 | 2020-04-14T06:55:45 | 146 | 86 |
[WP] An powerful ancient being has been held captive by an interstellar civilisation. After eons of being held captive, it has accidentally freed by humans, who've not been to the "galactic stage" for long... | The being was ancient in esoteric ways.
The First Member Species of the Universal United Conglomeration Of Unity imprisoned it after the total destruction of 90 galaxies, and 91 meetings regarding the being.
The Prison was complicatedly simple. A single room with one locked door, with another room built around it w... | “Oh hey man, welcome to the team! How’s the first day going?”
“Hey, hi. Yeah, thanks. Honestly, pretty terrible. Everyone’s been great but I think I just messed up pretty badly.”
“OK, hang on, don’t panic, give me the details. I’m sure we can figure it out and seriously whatever it was isn’t your fault. You’ve bee... | 2022-08-23T14:18:47 | 2022-08-23T13:11:32 | 61 | 28 |
[WP] You were filled with horror when you were told that you got sent to hell after you died, the horror faded somewhat when you were then immediately handed a shotgun and noticed the broken bodies of demons everywhere | just a diary style piece. enjoy!
Day 1: I was surprised that when the poison killed me, I woke up much warmer than before. There’s no mistaking it, it’s hell, I’m in hell, i can see others down here wandering and lost, they’re all too thin.
Day3: I’m hungry. So hungry. There’s small demons running around. I’m going t... | The first thing Steve had noticed when he awoke was a neat little sign with the words "Hell" written in red lettering. He grimaced as the stench of rotten eggs assaulted his nostrils, along with a curious undertone of three-day old sock smell.
Resisting the urge to throw up, Steve noticed that he was in a small room,... | 2019-09-29T09:08:45 | 2019-09-29T07:26:13 | 1,714 | 493 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | I was walking through a dense forest. At first glance, it looked normal, but closer up I could tell something was off. The leaves were too green, too bright, in odd shapes. The wood was too dark, and for some reason slightly blue. The grass was... soft. It was almost fuzzy.
This place clearly wasn't Earth. It was a pl... | Lee closed the hunting book and snorted. No beast could end him and his hunting party of twenty. Nothing that humans had encountered during their spaceward expansion had ever been able to challenge his mercenaries, and the monsters had varied wildly. So did the heads on his spaceship's wall. He did have a few close cal... | 2021-01-25T08:43:08 | 2021-01-25T07:24:36 | 75 | 55 |
[WP] Thousands of years ago the earth experienced a cataclysmic event. In an effort to maintain the human race the world leaders and citizen elite tried to survive by creating an underwater colony. It is now 2016 and you are tasked with scouting the surface for the first time in Atlantean history. | I emerged from the stasis pod at chronopoint 11.200.5.10.2.2104. At first, the sunlight was almost too much for me to handle. The lumispheres and diurnalamps of my youth were nothing compared to the brilliance of the heavenly orb. I remember stories of the Sun and how it used to nourish and provide for my ancestors. Th... | The submarine's cramped interior was thick with the smell of musk and oil, the air filled with the sound of metal warping and life support whirring, as it slowly crawled up from the dark depths of the ocean.
"Weird how close we are now." The voice came from the muggy darkness next to Anu, only slightly louder than the... | 2016-10-29T22:57:51 | 2016-10-29T22:15:00 | 1,078 | 91 |
[WP] As the last survivor of the apocalypse, in a fit of boredom, you start commenting "last" on every video on YouTube. One day, you receive a notification that your comment has been liked.
Wow, I did *not* expect such a huge turnout for my first ever prompt. The prompt itself arose from a friend and I doing some ran... | Nothingness.
A video labeled Nothingness. It was 10 hours long. It had a black screen. Nothing played. Nothing happened. Nothing changed. No music. No movement. Nothing at all. It seemed eerily similar to the dark of the night that had engulfed my home.
There were no cars zipping by on the street below. There were no... | “Is this what rock bottom looks like?” Lane asked himself, his fingers danced lazily over the keyboard as he exercised futility to its breaking point, he submitted another comment, “Last!”
He should be grateful, he supposed, the amount of content on YouTube far exceeds what remains of his dreary life, the site’s algo... | 2020-02-07T12:57:54 | 2020-01-07T10:29:14 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] Turns out being an adventurer wasn't such a good idea. In fact there may be some survivorship bias here. You only really hear about the tiny fraction of adventurers that achieve glory. In reality most of them die violent deaths, become slaves, or worse. Now you run a scared straight program. | People often ask me why I started this program. The answer is not some noble cause well, it is, but rather a noble cause, as in related to the nobility, not high and mighty. Because who do you think actually has this program taught to them? Nobles. Peasants don’t have programs that come to their schools because they do... | It was the fifth year since I started the program, three years of younglings had since come of age and it was time to assess the effectiveness of what I had been teaching. Head arithmancer Stebbins was leading the presentation in front of the Round Council.
"So how has the program effected the number of graduating adv... | 2022-04-04T00:06:33 | 2022-04-03T23:12:12 | 125 | 32 |
[WP] It's 3600, and society is falling apart. One day, an ancient 21st-Century library is uncovered. With no other options, the government decides to implement ideas from successful societies in the books. There's only one problem: they don't know which are real and which are fiction. | "Desperate times called for desperate measures"
This age-old saying had become the mantra of the 37th century. Food was scarce, our technology was failing us, and society was beginning to crumble. This wasn't a sudden downfall, it was a slow-burn. Humanity was an interesting thing. After we had stopped making technolo... | "Well now." one of the agents exclaims as he finishes reading a book titled "the legend of drizzt"
"This fellow here must have been a great hero! but....what do you suppose happened to the drow? did they go extinct? could they be beneath the surface still?"
a canine humanoid, called a Ferem, the race that evolved from ... | 2015-05-26T10:50:33 | 2015-05-26T10:41:10 | 204 | 47 |
[WP] Two parents announce to their kids that they are getting a divorce. You are a serial killer listening in from the closet and it's making you sad. | The blade trembled in my hand as I heard the front door unlock. It swung wildly open and crashed into the door stopper.
"That's it Marcie! It's over between us."
A stocky dark skinned man stormed in through the open doorway. He threw his blazer at the rocking chair already covered in jackets and other outwear. He s... | It’s been at least half an hour since I’ve been hiding in this closet. I didn’t expect them to come here so early, I thought I had at least a few minutes to map the house so my mission tonight would be easier. But no, storming from the door a hurricane of blonde hair stormed to the room next to me, shouting and apparen... | 2017-08-26T12:28:44 | 2017-08-26T10:13:25 | 60 | 21 |
[WP] You are the final boss. You have been waiting for the final epic battle against the hero. And waiting. And waiting. Finally, your minions report back. The news? The hero abandoned the main quest to do side quests. | "So... this is accurate? This "Hero" they've summoned simply takes on any request given, at any time, and completes it come hell or high water before doing anything else?"
"This seems to be the case, sir. Our honeypot attempted to understand the reason he refuses to abandon a task, but the response wasn't very clear. ... | Lord Viktor Kozlov sulked the dark hallways, contemplating all things evil. His soldiers were well-equipped, his bed was warmed with women and cooled with wine, and the mares braying in his stables were of the finest breed and lineage. Kozlov was surely the greatest vampire in the four kingdoms.
And yet—as he walked... | 2019-06-26T12:46:02 | 2019-06-26T10:56:26 | 80 | 13 |
[WP]A retired super villain is in the bank with his 6 year old daughter when a new crew of super villains comes in to rob the place. | Wolfgang shifted his weight, trying to ease the discomfort in his hip, as he stood in line with his granddaughter, Emma, at the Citysburgh Metropolitan Bank. Emma, clutching her favorite stuffed dog, gazed about at the ostentatious pseudo-Classical columns and gold leaf décor. The bank tried to make itself look like a ... | “You’ve been a really good girl, Lily,” I said. “This is the last errand, and then we’ll go get some ice cream.”
Lily squirmed, hanging off my arm and sighing with all the drama of a Shakespearian actor. But she stayed quiet and pulled at the ruffles on her skirt. I ruffled her hair with my uncaptured hand and she gig... | 2015-02-06T22:15:19 | 2015-02-06T21:54:51 | 565 | 269 |
[WP] It's a known fact that you are incapable of telling a lie. This has landed you several opportunities, including your current job as Head of Security at one of the largest banks in the world. Except you got bored and decided to rob it all. This is the story of how you got away with it. | "Excuse me, detective? Are you suggesting I robbed my own bank?"
"So you now claim to own the bank, not merely work there? Your colleagues are under the impression you're unable to lie, Ms... Hansome? Am I pronouncing that correctly?"
"Yes, you are. And of course they're under that impression, I have a condition. Mad... | Seven minutes to close, and I had been sitting staring at the clock for at least twice that time.
Mr. Anferno startled me out of my daze with a half-heard question; "---this evening?".
I snapped my gaze toward him stumbling over my response sluggishly and a bit guiltily as well. "Sorry?" I asked for clarification. ... | 2018-05-03T07:18:24 | 2018-05-03T06:48:53 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] Your tech-illiterate grandmother somehow broke into a top-secret government database while trying to get "the Google".
Or any other mundane/misconstrued task related to computers. Have fun with this one. | Grandma Marigold adjusted her glasses daintily with both fingers, her lips peeled back at she squinted through the coke bottle frames.
"I can't read these credentials at all I'm afraid young man, let me call my Grandson. Can I offer you some lemonade?"
I was already speeding in from kitchen where I could see the sale... | Grandma was a nice woman, but she is so stupid when it comes to tech. I mean she calls Google "the Google" for fucks sake. One day she calls me over to her house, trying to get on "the Google". I get in her house, she serves me chocolate chip cookies(thankfully it didn't have rat turds this time), and we go to her upst... | 2016-04-30T10:52:04 | 2016-04-30T07:59:47 | 80 | 14 |
[WP] You're a bomb defuser. Ranked number one, saving thousands of lives. Your trade secret? You have no idea what you're doing. | 'I am the first of my kind'. I say that a lot you see. In my line of work they're always surprised then there is another option available at the last second. I am the worlds First, consulting bomb diffuser.
It was rather a surprise the first time, I was just passing time on Reddit when an unusual user interface popped... | The ticking sound was irritating. It always is, every time.
"Hurry up Micah, there's only a minute left before this place blows!" My police escort informed me quite horrified. They always send in a police escort, like they're supposed to do something. The bomb squad was here first, and couldn't defuse it. They couldn'... | 2017-01-08T22:49:35 | 2017-01-08T18:18:07 | 63 | 32 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | Night had settled like most of the residents of the humble household. The girl was curled up in her usual semi-fetal position on the bed and the cat had assumed a seemingly loving position that curled around the girl as she slept. *It doesn’t mean anything,* he thought bitterly while looking at the cat, *she’s doing th... | There i was, 12:00 on a Sunday, watching a nature documentary on my shitty T.V and holding a bottle of vodka, half of it lost on the way to the couch, most over the dogs food bowl.
And as i wasted my life away, a day at a time, my Bulldog Ace decided to join me, now having finished the rest of his new meal.
On the T.... | 2016-08-02T20:30:44 | 2016-08-02T19:48:51 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] The instant the Dark Lord hears the prophecy about one destined to defeat him, he scoffs and notes "Standard self-fulfilling hero prophecy." before ordering his minions to go to the hero's hometown and build a bunch of public works projects, the most important of which is a school. | “Seer Griselda, please repeat that.”
Moran Ossenius, the necromancer of Yorm Urtush, tapped his fingers against his desk. The wizened old woman leaned back in her chair with her eyes closed in a trance.
“It is as I said, my Lord,” she droned. “The Hero of Light has been born. She will one day bring about your death. ... | Dark Lord's Prophecy Fulfilled
The town prospered with the inclusion of the public works projects the Dark Lord had implemented. And thus when the Dark Lord arrived to survey his works and found the people of the town grateful and genuinely happy to see him he was put off at the beginning, as accustomed as he was to ... | 2021-01-14T21:08:56 | 2021-01-14T19:15:05 | 420 | 157 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was these sort of women that he hated the most. The ones that would cling to their tainted children with screams and fits of rage. Didn't they understand? Didn't they realize that the world had to be clean?
It'd been many years since he'd realized the truth about the Blackness. One day, The Doctor has pricked himse... | Between his teeth, he drew his breath in sharply; a wordless exclamation of the pain. Putting aside the knitting, he rose from the chair to find something to dress the small wound.
It was between the living room and the kitchen he came to the realisation that blood which should have come from the small prick, had not... | 2018-08-04T10:46:53 | 2018-08-04T09:46:21 | 3,279 | 24 |
[WP] You are notified when you visit somewhere for the last time. Today, the notification appears everywhere you go.
[deleted] | Ma, bless her soul, was a great lady, but she was also a sucker for the con-men that sold stuff on the streets in New York City. Every year I would take her there for her “New York Minute” as she liked to call her little vacation. We would stay somewhere in one of the boroughs for 2 or 3 days and go see the sights an... | The app is a green square with a white cow face, cartoonish and grinning. It's called "Mooving On". It was downloaded over three million times within twenty four hours.
Patty tapped her screen with a fingernail. Seven months later and the only notification she got was for a friend of a friend somewhere on the East Coa... | 2016-11-03T07:10:33 | 2016-11-03T05:37:17 | 2,014 | 319 |
[WP] A man who has had no knowledge of religion meets both God and the Devil. He is the chosen one who decides whether God or the Devil inherits the Earth. The problem is, he cannot tell which is which. | I walked I to the room. It was neutral in paint colour and temperature. I saw 2 men before me, one with a white beard, one with a pointy black beard. They stared at me without speaking. Even in my confusion, I thought it best to address them.
'Good afternoon?' I began. 'I'm not entirely sure how I ended up here. It s... | I was running late again. This was the third time in a row. I didn't want people at the office to think I was making a habit of it, but I have been having a terrible time trying to sleep the past few days. Having dreams, or nightmares, that I can't remember. Waking up in cold sweats in my bed. I should probably look on... | 2015-08-06T00:00:49 | 2015-08-05T19:03:21 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] As the sole janitor on the space-station, people often ask why you're there as robots do most of the cleaning. You're not allowed to tell them that you're the only person preventing a robotic uprising event from occurring. | You know, people think that janitors still have the same role as they always did: to clean, to make sure everything is spotless, and to get rid of any unwanted mess. With the rise of cleaning robots, people have begun to question why janitors still exist, not understanding that we do something different now.
Robots a... | [poem]
They scrub the space-shitters and help us snap our social media pictures. They print our papers and slave, while we make eight figures. But if they ever rose up, no era would fade quicker.
These are the automations. Providing leisure through subjugation. Mass-produced upon the nation. Many lobbyists engage in... | 2021-01-30T09:57:35 | 2021-01-30T09:22:40 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | It was a day they would never forget.
According to the Humans, the date was March 27th of the year 2122 when it happend. It might have been wartime, but it was like any other regular day at the Galactic Alliance headquarter. But it happend during the regular strategy meeting the leaders of the Alliance would.
Since t... | I’m pretty sure at least someone fainted when I gave the
news. Just the thought of a large group of humans could strike fear into the
hearts of the bravest. And now, we found they’re much larger than a group. Our
estimates of only thousands are now at least billions. They all swarm, scheme
in one place. A place they’ve... | 2017-11-08T20:03:55 | 2017-11-08T19:08:38 | 207 | 77 |
[WP] "I do not know, Star-Gazer, how the humans succeeded. I only know that while we fled to the refugee worlds that they prepared for us, they gathered to pray to their gods of war and sung their battle hymns as they set forth to meet the enemy. Their sacrifice is why we still exist today." | “But why would Hum Ans do it?” Star Gazer asked. “Why would they even care? Teachers tell us that self interest is driving force in every species. What they did was exact opposite.” Sarssa smiled. It was a question that every new generation of students asked. Why did Hum Ans save them. “Hum Ans are creatures of many c... | I do not know, Star-Gazer, how the humans succeeded.
Did you ever meet one, Star-Gazer? Did you ever speak with one of their kind, face-to-face? Do you recall, from deepest memory, the names of those that helped your family live; can you hear the words they said to your mother to comfort her? I was old then, yet I rem... | 2019-11-26T01:12:41 | 2019-11-25T23:41:28 | 49 | 17 |
[WP] Your world is in the brink of collapse, and as an oracle, you tried making contact with your god to beg for help. However, you didn't expect your god to be a teenager in a week-old sweater and heavy eye bags. What's even weirder is that they referred to you and your people as their "Sims". | "Well, this is awkward."
For years now, life as they knew it was threatening to topple over. Mysterious deaths, extreme tortures, and disappearing people. They tried to handle it as best as they could, but now they had no other option other than to beg to the Gods for forgiveness.
She didn't expect her God to be a 16... | "You can *see* me?" She asked, seemingly surprised by both your previous statement, and your awareness of her presence.
You responded rather quickly, hoping that you'd be able to appease your god. "Yes, my Lady. But I must say, I never expected someone with such... specific tastes."
"I'm going to pretend I didn't h... | 2020-05-02T10:50:18 | 2020-05-02T10:05:12 | 156 | 48 |
[WP] Humans have just entered the galactic community, using our patented versatility to make ourselves noticed. One thing, however, stands out about our culture: almost all of our scariest monsters are based off of ourselves, and a lot of aliens are getting worried about our species’ mental health. | "Human Thomas, what are you drawing?"
"A Wendigo. It's a terrible, man-eating creature from our oldest mythologies. Why, do you like it?" Tom asked smiling as he held up the paper. The Zynraki took a pace back, holding its limp, moist appendages up to guard its face.
"No! It's horrid, you should leave it alone," hi... | A1: Uhhh, so, why are most of your monsters vaguely human?
H1: Because of the uncanny valley.
A2: The what now?
H1: There is a measurement of what imagery is disturbing or endearing based on how similar it is to us, the bottom of the endearment hill is stick man figures, further up is the simpsons, then old school D... | 2022-03-02T18:32:36 | 2022-03-02T18:07:30 | 259 | 134 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | Nobody could tell if the news reports were real or if it was "the onion" taking over all mass media outlets. "Gang Members Backed by Walt Disney World take on ISIS" one headline read. Below a picture of the megacruise Disney's Majestic was shown crowed with shirts of Red White and Blue.
It all started with a press co... | Waves lap at the shore a young Syrian child picks up a stone to throw at the water her eyes are flooded war has ravaged the city and the future is un-certain a hermet crab catches her eye but a loud thud causes the creature to re-enter its shell, the child runs fearing another bombing raid but her gaze is fixated on th... | 2015-12-07T09:53:24 | 2015-12-07T09:25:02 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] The galaxy is actually full of life and advanced civilizations. Everyone just leaves Earth alone because that's where The Great Old Ones are imprisoned, and nobody wants to wake them up. | Taking human form was simple enough, but one of the jackal-shaped aliens worried if he could keep it up during a fight. The three walked towards a pyramid in Egypt, hoping to gain enlightenment from the prisoners kept in the oldest living planet. The humans did not yet know it, but they were the proto-species of the un... | Admiral Arthexi stood on the command bridge. A planet was glooming in front of him. The sun did not shine on this side of the planet, but it was easy to make a distinction between the land and the sea. The land area was dotted with lights.
''You must end this.'' a voice spoke behind him. ''You have seen what it is cap... | 2019-03-09T06:24:05 | 2019-03-09T04:35:56 | 322 | 43 |
[WP] You deliver meals to elderly shut-ins. One of your clients is convinced you are Death, and you play along, letting them "outsmart" you every day. Today, however, they're dressed in their Sunday finest, saying, "I'm ready." | "I'm ready."
Two words, so simple. And in saying them, Abe was about to realize something dreadful: I wasn't Death. I can, considering he supposedly had some mild dementia, sort of see why he might think that. I wore a lot of black, for starters. It wasn't for any thematic reason. It was just that food stains happened... | I wave goodbye to Carol as I open the door to my car. She always follows me halfway to the end of her lawn telling me different news items and tidbits about her children and grandchildren. She’s a sweet lady and I really wish I could stay just ten or twenty minutes longer and give her some more company but I have so ... | 2017-08-31T17:24:26 | 2017-08-31T17:01:13 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] You walk up to a beautiful girl and decided to be cheesy, "Hey, did it hurt?" The girl was surprised and asked "What?"."You know, when you fell from heaven?". The girl looked more shocked, "How did you know? Who are you?" | She sat on a bench outside the Seven Stars pub, looking like an old-school Goth, dressed in black leather and lace and heavy motorcycle boots. Her hair was black and her face so pale I guessed she hadn't seen the sun since, well, ever.
I don't know what possessed me to say what I did. Ordinarily I would never use such... | The problem with living in a close-knit community is the inevitable issue of dating your cousin. You go on a nice picnic date, the sun's beaming, the bluejays have taken opera lessons from Maria Callas. Insects exited stage-left faster than your beating heart when she plops down beside you, her brown hair caressing you... | 2021-09-17T18:25:55 | 2021-09-17T14:50:33 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You're a U.S. Senator and are running out of things to say in your Filibuster. In a last ditch attempt, you start a D&D campaign. | CNBC reporting from Capital Hill. Parliamentary Deadlock, day 15.
It was over two weeks ago now when what started as a hearing over the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, spiraled into a partisan filibuster lead by Senator Chuck Schumer (D, NY) after a character sheets for the popular role playing game Dungeons and Dr... | I never really thought that we would get this far. It's all Jeremy's fault anyways. You see, I met Jeremy at PAX West a while back, and Jeremy's thing was American History. So I joined his guild, the Bull Mooses, and we all became great friends. And it was years later, after a drink or seven that this ragtag group of P... | 2017-01-21T23:01:56 | 2017-01-21T22:23:32 | 399 | 64 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | Hi! I'm new to Writing Prompts and I'd appreciate any feedback you're willing to give!
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Katrina pulled her clothes tightly across her shoulders and looked down. All she wanted to do was pay for her groceries. But no; They had to ask. Everytime. Every. Single. Time.
“You got any clue what it means y... | France was rife with optimism, peace and prosperity during the late stages of the 19th century. It comes to no surprise that the period is known more commonly today as "La Belle Époque".
From the end of the Franco-Prussian war right up until WWI, the country witnessed a boom in the arts and the economy. Things were p... | 2017-08-03T14:37:12 | 2017-08-03T14:24:46 | 342 | 13 |
[WP] [NSFW] All your sex toys come alive and confront you about your treatment of them. | I held the long, rigid shaft in my right hand, the left one grasping at the bedsheets as I brought myself closer and closer to the point of no return. Panting, I kept my pace steady as I awaited the inevitable peak of the mountain.
*What the fuck do you think you're doing?!"*
I shrieked as I jerked the dildo away f... | Rounding the doorway to my bedroom I see it - the 'big boy', as my wife calls it - 11 thick inches of rigid plastic, swaying angrily from side to side on its suction-cup base.
"The fu-" I start, but am quickly cut off as it begins to speak.
"Dedorian?" it asks, its voice a deep, if hollow, inflection, "We need to t... | 2015-08-02T07:49:38 | 2015-08-02T07:47:37 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] You lose a dare at an airport and are forced to ask an employee for a ticket to the farthest destination. To your surprise, they quietly nod and give you a single ticket with letters you don't recognize.
EDIT: Holy *crap* this blew up. I want to thank everyone for their stories and input, and also would like to s... | He shoved the ticket into his pocket and walked down the hallway toward the Plane. He checked his watch: 12:04 PM. Losing the dare was an annoyance, but one that he hoped would not eat up too much of his day. With enough luck, he would be Transported to the strange destination printed on his ticket, fulfill the usual r... | You look up at the map behind the atendants head. Lota of obvious counties with well known abbreviations. CA, Canada. AUS, been there once actually, that's Australia. There are others you could guess at. Sweden would maybe be like....SWD. Italy maybe an ITL. So you start to narrow it down.
Nigeria....nope. Couldn't be.... | 2019-03-04T22:57:51 | 2019-03-04T21:58:08 | 126 | 45 |
[WP] You can see into the future, but you also have a severe lack of impulse control when it comes to telling people about their future. You are The Spoiler Alert, and it's up to you to decide if you will use your power for good or for evil. | Ok, so here’s the thing: I’m kind of a dick.
When I was 17 I began to get visions of the future, short glimpses of people or snippets of conversation. Then it grew, and soon I could take in hours of detailed information. But I used it… not wisely.
I’m a film junkie. Love ‘em. I remember seeing Star Wars for the first... | The last subway car rumbled away down the tracks. The crowd fidgeted, most of them worrying about being late again, along with the next train. I could have made it, and I'd certainly be late to my day job, but they'd understand. I figured I'd give it a minute. No need to rush the pacing, ruin the dramatic tension.
... | 2016-02-22T14:50:11 | 2016-02-22T13:18:16 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] you run a cafe/bar for local supers, hero and villain alike, the patrons have all agreed not fight in or near the establishment. One day a new hero and villain break something during a brawl, and stepping out from behind the counter you show both the rookies why no one breaks that rule. | "No-mans land is a fine establishment. One of the best in fact, if I do say so myself. Of course, I'm kind of tooting my own horn a bit there, but hey, my patrons would probably agree."
I spoke to the eager reporter, whilst I polished one of my tankards. A scarred man leaned over, brandishing a half finished pint of b... | "Hey!"
That single word rang out across the bar. Eyes turned to look at the speaker. A young cape, probably just coming in for the first time to celebrate his first collar. Carl had seen his type dozens of times, and would see them dozens more.
The rookie was standing, glaring daggers at another rookie. This one was... | 2020-08-31T16:52:48 | 2020-08-31T15:29:20 | 36 | 26 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | I always knew, since I was a baby. If I’ll be a good boy, then my blood will be white.
I was always scared of having black blood.
I must be a good boy.
Around this simple principle, I built my life. And it felt good helping others. I was happy!
I studied medicine because I thought no greater good exists but saving ... | One day James was sitting with his wife, he was cooking dinner for school children while she was knitting beanies for the homeless, when she cut herself, James sprang to his feet, "let me help you with that" he said. But upon reaching her, his eyes widened, her blood was pure black, he immediately begun to yell, "what ... | 2018-08-04T10:34:28 | 2018-08-04T10:33:21 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | I stuck my hand out in a reaching motion in front of the council. Today was the day of my eighteenth birthday. The council was the nine elders who decided what your object meant and recorded it into the official records. If no object arrived within sixty seconds you were labeled as a null and sent to the labor camps wh... | &#x200B;
The air was cold, and noticeably more dense. Another odd occurrence is that my summon didn't come yet, My birthday was months ago, but I didn't think too much of it, because I knew that it would come, they always do. But what kept me on edge was the atmosphere, I didn't like it. It felt too unnatural.
I ... | 2019-09-18T10:23:04 | 2019-09-18T10:17:28 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] While FTL-Travel is possible, FTL-Communication is not. This means that interstellar communication has to run through couriers, but also that the job of courier is as dangerous as it is profitable. Your latest contract has the biggest bonus you have ever seen, while looking comparatively easy. | We received an order for a delivery. This may not seem remarkable in and of itself, but what was unusual about this particular request was its relatively short distance--about three light years--but paying at a rate for a delivery over hundreds of light-years. It made one wonder if there was another drawback to the job... | "Hey Kazzaak, what do you think of this?"
I began to look over the contract that Jerry, our teams weapons and repair expert, handed me. It had the telltale markings of the federation, it's white and orange insignia shining on the page.
"Why don't you ask Cap?" I clicked. "Or Mannon, that walking cloud of microbots is... | 2022-09-25T12:59:51 | 2022-09-25T12:53:41 | 192 | 49 |
[WP] A princess learns her parents arranged to have her cursed as a way to attract potential suitors for her. | In retrospect, the king and queen regretted cursing their only child. They regretted it quite spectacularly in fact, and if they could do things over, they would. But that’s all very far away right now, because this story begins once upon a time…
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Even as a baby Alexandra was pretty. Her cheeks shone crimson and ch... | “I’m still your daughter. Mom… dad, please look at me.”
I hated how I couldn’t wash that memory from my mind, even with the powerful magic I inherited from that day. What’s the point of being powerful if you still suffer from the same mental anguish as the rest of the mortals do? I rotated the skull of a deceased a... | 2021-07-27T08:30:49 | 2021-07-27T07:18:27 | 146 | 31 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | My vision was blurry but I was starting to get my consciousness back.
"Way to go kid, that rankings not bad for your first try!"
The man had an oddly familiar figure.
"What is this place?" I asked
"Take a look around and see for yourself!" He said as he picked me up from the ground. There was an endless number of p... | "Woah dude you were one of the thousands killed by the meltdown, wicked way to die!" - said player 6,713,490
"How did you die?" - I said
"I got shanked by a neanderthal" - he replied
"I died from what the current player call black death" - player 9,321,780,561 said.
"How did you guys learn how to speak modern e... | 2015-11-25T00:40:01 | 2015-11-25T00:10:08 | 73 | 10 |
[WP] You had an imaginary friend as a child. One day, you found yourself sleeping beside her. She turned out to be real and apparently you two are dating, or so she claims. You have no idea what's going on. | Will woke up with a groan, the hangover from last night hitting him like a sledgehammer to the head.
God, he had to stop drinking like he was still 22. And there was that weird-tasting drink he'd tried for the first time last night, too. Hadn't he tossed it back like a moron after some sketchy guy handed it to him? He... | Dave awoke in his normal reluctant fashion, clinging to every shred of sleep he could get. No strident alarm today; Saturday's were under the rule of Morpheus. But try as he might, Dave could not return to sleep's embrace. Was he too hot or cold? No, it was a lovely temperature, perfect for a morning snooze. Did he ha... | 2016-08-06T13:43:58 | 2016-08-06T13:40:43 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Years ago, the 10 mile long creature fell from the sky. It never moved and was proclaimed dead. It never rots and regenerates when damaged. We found that people who eat its flesh... change. You place the pale cube of meat in your mouth. You are ready to leave your humanity behind. | When I talked to the doctors, they just smiled emptily and told me to get a note from a therapist first. When I talked to the therapists, they made piteous faces and sent me to a psychiatrist. And when I tried to flee, the psychiatrists said "it's for your own good" and placed me in a hospital and strapped electrodes t... | As my consciousness faded, I realized what had happened. Exactly what I had just done. But, all thoughts were cut short because everything went black. When I woke up, I wasn't quite sure if I was dreaming. It felt so vivid, but so... fantastical. The beast was moving. Many around it were dancing, and laughing. I felt a... | 2021-03-19T18:30:28 | 2021-03-19T17:36:44 | 216 | 51 |
[WP]: An extinction of a species is a grand event, even for Death. When you are the last of your kind and it is your time to go, Death tends to grant you a final request. | The last of its kind waited within its cage, the boat rocking side to side causing it to lose balance and taking nervous steps left and right. There had been others with it in that very cage, but now it was the last one. Not just the last within its cage, but the last of them all. The bird never faced predators before,... | "I'm really the last?" Said the man, with tears in his eyes. " That can't be true. I always thought ..."
Losing his voice, he just closed his eyes and started to cry.
Death looked at him. She had observed him for many years. Since she remembers, he was always alone, his people subjugated and eliminated long before sh... | 2018-09-27T07:33:55 | 2018-09-27T07:20:53 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] You are a psychologist. You've been evaluating two new schizophrenic patients recently and you slowly begin to realize that the voice inside their head is the same one. | My consciousness reaches its sleepiness attention at the banality of my clients. I've always tried to keep the sessions of the two patients with similar conditions distant so as to not let the monotony of it pierce through my attention for them both. But it could not be helped today. The two schizophrenic patients, the... | They both said the same thing session after session. I had thought it a prank at first. Maybe two friends deciding to pull my leg for some unfathomable reason. The private eye, I hired, told me there was no connection between the two. They had arrived at different times to the station and worked in different department... | 2017-03-22T21:14:18 | 2017-03-22T20:09:09 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] The story of an Immortal who doesn't want to die | An electric arm picked up a teddy bear and placed it neatly on the corner of a bed. The arm slowly retracted itself back into the wall with the screech of several servo motors. Above the arm a screen lit up and a face appeared.
"Hi friend, I'm Lunor," said the face. "How are you?"
The teddy bear sat there quietly.
... | I've been here so long. How many steps was I given on the earth's face and how many of them were stolen? I walk the barren waste lands of this planet, dark canyons to dying mountains, and there's nothing left of it but gray sky. It's reached the end. The sun is shrinking by the day, and soon it will swallow this planet... | 2014-01-23T10:48:46 | 2014-01-23T10:41:33 | 118 | 36 |
[WP] You are walking down the street on your way to work when suddenly you burp, hiccup, and sneeze at the same time. A HUD menu opens in front of you with “Resume, Options, and Quit” as selectable options. | "Ow"
Mike said as he stopped to wiped the snot-spit from his beard. That was when he saw the screen. It was mostly black, however transparent, with a solid red border. Within the border were 3 boxes. Bright white text filled each box "Resume", "Options", and "Quit".
Mike looked around the street. He noticed he could ... | I looked at the menu in a state of total confusion. What did this even mean? How did this even happen?! I looked frantically around but everyone around me seemed to be completely stopped in time, like they were waiting for me to make my decision before they did anything else.
I turned away from them to consider the me... | 2018-05-05T06:14:11 | 2018-05-05T01:50:36 | 69 | 24 |
[WP] You are transported into your favourite video game, and due to you playing through every storyline multiple times, you know every line, every twist and every death for the characters in it, much to their confusion. | I woke up in a small cramped space. I blink a few times to wake myself up. After a moment I realized, I was in the command pod of a spaceship. Of course this was no luxurious future spaceship. It's the mk 1 command pod, which means there's barely room to move around and the walls are full of switches and buttons and di... | “Puny mortal,” the King of Bones placed his hands on his hips and barked disdainful laughter towards the challenger. “Your skin shall become my new coat. Your soul is now forfeit-“
“I know, I know,” the challenger waved a dismissive hand at the King. Striding across the length of the cave, he didn’t even care to glanc... | 2017-10-21T06:19:15 | 2017-10-21T05:37:13 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] The Zombie apocalypse has finally happened. The dead rose from their graves all over the world. They do not however, crave flesh, eat brains or hunt humans. Honestly they don't do much of anything except shuffle around. The Zombie hordes are more of an inconvenience than the end of the world. | Gareth sighed in frustration as his car ground to a halt behind a long stream of traffic. Yet again his journey into work was to be delayed. He would have had another hour in bed if he’d known it was going to happen again.
A week ago, when the zombie “apocalypse” first started, people the world over began panicking as... | “Oi!” John announced as the rotting corpse shuffled in front of his shopping cart. “We didn’t have this kind of shite in Glasgow.”
A worried stockboy jogged up to the zombie and helped it across the aisle. “I’m very sorry, sir, that shouldn’t happen, I’m sorry.”
John grumbled forgiveness as the employee walked off, d... | 2017-11-23T14:38:54 | 2017-11-23T11:51:49 | 256 | 28 |
[WP] Go for a walk IRL and make up a story to go with something you see while on it. | Another sunset. I'm staring out into the distance while being drawn to the sight of the sun leaving this side of the Earth yet again. There are rays of light cascading down through the clouds that seem to accompany that great glowing mass of light. The sheer brilliance of the moment seems to be too surreal, almost as i... | I do this all the time but sadly my writing skills aren't great as you guys'. There's also the language barrier, which is not actually *that* much of a problem but when I see some stories here I feel like a hairless ape with severe mental disorders.
Edit: I shared my first piece! | 2015-05-25T10:26:08 | 2015-05-25T10:07:22 | 52 | 12 |
[WP] You're on Trial for Murder. The only evidence is a horribly photoshopped picture of you shooting a gun from Halo at the victim. Unfortunately, you seem to be the only person who realizes this. | I didn't understand what was happening. Did I run through my neighborhood with a gun from Halo and kill all the neighborhood cats? Yes, of course, I did. Was that a picture of ME doing it? No...
It didn't even look like me. The crudely thrown together photoshop job not only featured what looked like an octogenarian i... | "Ladies and gentlemen of the court, I would like to present the evidence against Michael Evans." The state's defense attorney said as he pressed a button on the remote in his hand, triggering a rather large projector screen to descend from the ceiling. Anxious to see what they could possibly have against me, it was nea... | 2018-05-03T16:40:52 | 2018-05-03T16:28:18 | 156 | 14 |
[WP] A girl finally is able to buy the robotic boyfriend of her dreams. One day, she casually compares him to human boyfriends. Guided by his programming, he follows the conversation with very frightening but accurate comments about humanity in general. | She had done it. The trend was fast becoming the next logical step after getting your own place and getting your first "real" job. Robotic boyfriends. Alicia smiled to herself, looking across the table to Zack. He was an Eros. One of the first "next gen" models. Fully customizable, and her ideal companion. It was the b... | I got an empty bank account and a full bed. He lies beside me, chest moving up and down, his eyes closed. He's neither breathing nor sleeping.
"Hey," I murmur and he stirs instantly. Voice activated.
"Hey you," he rolls over and strokes my face. His hands are very slightly calloused against my cheek and it's that... | 2015-05-23T10:11:37 | 2015-05-23T09:27:52 | 1,259 | 595 |
[WP] You’ve spent a lifetime doing research. Combing through records spanning over a billion years. Now you’re ready to present your findings. All of the 124 know sentient species can trace their origins to a single common ancestor. An extinct race know as humans from a dead world know as earth.
I posted this prompt a... | “Humans?” one twelve-foot-tall mantid asked.
“Humans,” I replied, looking up at him. “Homo sapiens, if you wanna dig up Latin and do that shit.”
“And this is important why?” asked a limbless ball of flesh.
“Oh, so many reasons,” I answered. “For one, they’re the ones that gave us Latin. They invented it, along with ... | "... it is not all of these ' humans' to which we owe our existence. By their year 2200, the majority of their population had begun to decline. All of their needs, all of their desires, had been satisfied, and with those desires also ended all of their drives. Their questions have been answered. Their reason to exist, ... | 2019-11-22T15:36:45 | 2019-11-22T15:29:33 | 51 | 10 |
[WP] The whole universe is gone, and only two kids were left in the void. "Let's play again," said one of the kids to his only companion, "but this time I'll be God, and you will be the Devil." | In the beginning, and again at the end, there was nothing but the void, and the brothers.
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Each looked at the other, both wondered why the game had ended yet again. There was no anger or frustration, only the acceptance that this was the way of things. When a sandcastle is built, the tide will always ta... | "You?"
The erstwhile "God" was looking at me in horror.
"Yeah me! You've only been God the last few thousand games, and Devil is getting kinda boring."
George, my best friend and playmate, crossed his arms.
"Why'd I want to be the boring Devil then, huh?"
I shrugged. I didn't usually argue with George when he go... | 2018-10-28T20:05:06 | 2018-10-28T19:59:33 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] King Midas has finally fallen in love with someone who is immune to his curse: Medusa. And he is immune to hers. However, things aren't going as planned at the royal wedding. | Midas sank onto his golden throne with a sigh, his mind whirling as his bride to be paced the length of the throne room. He hadn't expected it would be so difficult to choose a dress for the bridesmaids.
"How am I supposed to show the seamstress what I want if she can't even be in the same room as me?!" Medusa demanded... | In a normal wedding, the groom turns to stone, not everyone else. Also the food was decent, except after Midas lost his spoon in the sauce and everyone who hadn't seen Medusa yet began choking. All was going ok until medusa found that all the golden statues had huge boobs and a hand impressed in inappropriate places. T... | 2017-08-14T08:30:16 | 2017-08-14T07:45:50 | 64 | 17 |
[WP] You are a Narrator, a very bad one. Describe a great historical event in the most mundane way possible. | Bonny was a tiny bloke. Didn't stop him from *reaching up* for something grand.
He hated the posh bastards, living it up their fancy castles, eating their fancy white cakes, drinking the bubbly paid for courtesy of the plebs. When the whole country started wondering, 'why do we even let this thing go on since forever?... | The world wars, they first one was a bad war, a war so bad that it was amazing.
Everyone knows that bad things become amazing because it is so bad, just like ww2.
Ww2 was even worse than ww1 because it was badder than the first one.
It started because everyone simultaneously agreed we should have another, big bad wa... | 2020-08-19T04:49:21 | 2020-08-19T04:22:02 | 44 | 18 |
[WP] You are notified that in 24 hours, every human will try to kill you for 1 hour. Your preparation starts now. | I stared down at my phone, heart pounding in my throat. Unbelievable.
*Congratulations. You have been selected as this years Target. 24 hours after the time of this notification, the Hunt will begin. Your preparation starts now. Good luck.*
I blinked. Closed the texting app on my phone, darkened the screen, and count... | The notice I’d waited for my whole life finally arrived, and I felt nothing but excitement.
*Rayne Boyd, you have been selected. Starting at midnight tonight, your only goal will be survival. You’ve waited for this, one of the select few who asked for this, now is your time to prove yourself. If you live, you join ou... | 2015-06-14T17:11:47 | 2015-06-14T16:42:28 | 24 | 10 |
[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" | The hero, having remained ever vigilant as the final moments dwindled before the final confrontation, recounted his life's milestones.
His first time remembering what rain was like, first day at home school, the last time he'd seen his father at 7 years of age, the first time he's tried to escape the facility he was... | 'I have done it. I have pressed the button and defeated the Dark Lord!'
The dimly lit room was illuminated just enough to show the glum faces of the three boys lounging out across whatever comfy pieces of cushioned real estate they could find.
“This film is terrible. Turn over.”
The remote clacked and the channel c... | 2020-11-09T12:25:18 | 2020-11-09T12:10:32 | 133 | 81 |
[FF] "Gray is a beautiful thing to someone who lives in a black world."
200 to 600 words, must include the title sentence or even a variation thereof, for example, "To someone who lives in a black world, gray is beautiful." | I knew my brother had followed without me having to look over my shoulder. Like a lost puppy he tends to wander until he finds a warm scent to latch onto and tonight that was me. I stopped suddenly and turned, catching a glimpse of him jump behind a rock. I decided to keep facing this way, make him wait it out a bit... | "Did you see it?"
"*Again?* ... Mel, we've been over this."
"Up! Up above and far off!"
"I have to be honest Mel, I'm starting to become genuinely concerned. This was cute the *first time* you mentioned "direction". A once-off quirk, I'll even admit I was amused-"
"There it is again! You'd have seen... | 2013-11-24T09:12:21 | 2013-11-24T09:08:49 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] You are immortal, but no one knows. You are given a life sentence in prison, and you laugh thinking about the confusion to come at the end of your sentence. | It took them twenty years to notice I wasn't aging and report it to some relevant authority. Twenty years, three wardens, four cell blocks, forty-one sessions in solitary.
"Why is he so tan?" the lead physician said to the transfer agents.
"He came in that way," one them replied. "Twenty years ago."
The physician's ... | Part 1 | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6chsmn/life_sentence_part_2/)
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The oldest man in the world sat behind bars, his wrists cuffed together and feet chained to the floor. Officially, he was 140 years old, though that was because his doctored birth certificate had him born May 28th, 1870. Un... | 2017-05-20T16:55:19 | 2017-05-20T16:03:51 | 5,741 | 980 |
[WP] You were born with special eyes, the sea was as clear as glass to you, by the time you got old enough to join a ship's crew, you were smart enough to not tell them about everything you saw below the waves | "Get moving, lad, or ye'll be doin' worse than swabbin' the poop deck!"
"Yes, Cap'n."
You nearly trip over your mop in your haste to get out of the Captain's way. You'd thought Captain "Hawkeye" Jones would be grateful to have a boy with eyes that could see through the depths of the ocean as a part of his crew. And ... | ##Under the Surface
The ship's crew bustles and jams into each other as we leave. Families wave goodbye to their loved ones on board. I don't have anyone waving at me on land, but I hope to find someone at sea.
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It had rained all day, but the night was clear. Puddles had collected further up the beach than normal... | 2021-11-06T11:59:55 | 2021-11-06T10:19:42 | 113 | 45 |
[WP] A man sues God because his insurance company won't pay for the damages done to his house in a storm. To his complete surprise and Horror, God actually shows up.
I don't know whether to make this a WP or EU tag since this is based on a movie starring Billy Connolly.
In the movie, BC's character loses his boat in ... | **FOR PUBLICATION**
**UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT**
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Joe Bronson, *Plaintiff-Appellant*
v.
God, *Defendant-Appellee*
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Before: Steven P. Hansen, James Horton Wong, and Elizabeth Francis, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Hansen
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**OPINION**
HANSEN... | "Your honor, Heimy 'Azrael' Goldberg, from the firm of Guildenstern & Rozencrantz, representing the Almighty. Your honor, we do *not* stipulate to complete diversity jurisdiction, though Mr. Johnson is clearly a resident of New York State, the amount in controversy is over $75,000, and the Almighty is currently a r... | 2014-11-30T10:07:28 | 2014-11-30T09:36:32 | 90 | 32 |
[WP] You see the Grim Reaper and ask if it's your time. Death checks a clipboard and says "Nope. Looks like you're not due for another... three thousand, one hundred and forty-one years? That's weird. Also, how can you see me?" | One day, on my 18th birthday, on my way to school, I saw an old lady sitting on a park bench, watching her grandchildren playing in the park. I felt happy, knowing that no matter how much darkness is in the world, there is always something good to brighten up your day. But then I saw something behind her. At first, it ... | Matt looked up from doing CPR. He saw the familiar visage of the Grim Reaper. They had talked before. Matt and fought the reaper more than once and even won a round or two unexpectedly.
Here, on the side of the road, in the glare of flashing emergency lights and other lights used to light the scene; doing CPR next t... | 2020-01-24T16:18:18 | 2020-01-24T14:05:54 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone only gets to lie three times in their life, so they only do so when it's an absolute must. This is the story of how someone lied three times in one day. | John walked up to the front of the room and took a seat.
He held up a red pen "This pen is green.".
Those gathered in front of him gasped.
He took up a green pen "This pen is red."
The crowd drew in a collective breath, every eye wide with surprise.
"My name is not John"
The room was silent but for the shuffli... | -Are you cheating on me?
-No, of course not.
-Are you cheating on me?
*Sam could see where this was going but what can you do.*
-No, don't you trust me?
-Are you cheating on me?
-No!
-Are you cheating on me?
-Damn it!... ok, yes. I guess I'll be leaving then?
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[**Note(hover to read):**](/s "At... | 2014-11-15T07:59:56 | 2014-11-15T07:12:54 | 1,128 | 30 |
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