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[WP] You're watching TV one day when suddenly, time stops. You spend the next 5 years trying to escape limbo. | The hard part was trying to keep track of time. How do you keep track of something that does not exist? Or, at least, doesn't exist at present time? Even that seemed absurd.
I've had a lot of time, or no time at all, to think about time. Time, when no time exists, is not comprehensible. At all. I have no idea how long... | Time stopped, but not for us.
Three of us were on that couch when it happened, but Jessie was coming from the kitchen. Mark, Jessie, Vikki and I were having a double date movie night watching The Shining, and Jack Torrence was tearing apart the door with his ax. He poked his head through, and just when he was about ... | 2018-01-21T05:21:07 | 2018-01-20T22:47:15 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] 'Please Adopt Me', said the box on the side of the road, with the single black puppy in it. So you did. A year later, you realize the breed is a bit complicated, considering it has three heads, a snake tail, and breathes fire. | So, I adopted this puppy. Black as overbrewed coffee, a hairless tail with *scales*, and three heads.
From a box. I figured someone thought he'd end up being put down and just abandoned the little guy because birth defects. Well, not a problem. I'm a dog lover. Even a dog with a few extra heads. Means he'll be smarter... | I've never been much of a dog person. Honestly I wasn't much of an animal person, though I'd certainly argue certain points. I never wanted a pet, or a companion, or anything of the sort.
So, you might ask, why was there a puppy in my room? Well, long story short, it was fuckin adorable. Big ass eyes, looking all piti... | 2019-07-04T08:26:40 | 2019-07-04T07:02:31 | 165 | 29 |
[WP] A ship crashes on Earth. Inside, you find a bunch of texts books. After years of translating these texts, you discover one of them in a book entirely about the human species, as documented by whatever inhabited the crashed ship. Here are some of the excerpts: | Verbal Entry 19072014-1A
Humans showed great promise, having passed 18 of the 19 benchmarks to be welcomed into the galactic fold. But, alas, tragedy has struck.
A wave of parasites has begun infecting the general population. They've flowed across the globe, latching on like what humans refer to as 'ticks.' Despite a... | "...Human codex, Entry 24:
Their species generally have a lifespan of 80 to 90 solar rotation. And they have only existed for merely few thousands solar rotation..."
"...For a species so naturally proned toward violence and war, they are incredibly resilient as well. Example: human species rely on crude 'medicines' t... | 2018-06-30T01:30:18 | 2018-06-29T23:37:31 | 19 | 11 |
[WP]. “Ok. This is called a .44 magnum. All you have to do is point this end at Voldemort’s head and press this button. That’s all you have to do to end our problem”. | “Alohomora.”
Voldemort spoke with command and confidence. He was here to put an end to that stupid prophesy about a ‘*Chosen One*’ once and for all. Nothing and no one would stop him. It was his destiny to restore wizards to their rightful, pure blooded ruling caste in this world.
James leapt for the drawer under h... | "Welp here I am at the final battle of Hogwarts."Harry thought to himself as he saw Voldemort approach the school. "I'm probably fucked at this point anyway he said as he looked at his fallen friends around him." Voldemort approached with his army at his back knowing this was the end of his long road. Harry stood his ... | 2018-12-24T20:14:50 | 2018-12-24T20:12:43 | 1,137 | 13 |
[WP]: There is a special place in Hell for english teachers. Not because they had any more tendency for evil than anyone else, but because there are so many subtle ways to torture them that wouldn't bother anyone else. | Ms. Ellis’ fingernails dig into the table, leaving marks on the wooden surface. She stares at the words that appeared on the wall from their conversation earlier. Her attempts to reach for the chisel in front of her are pointless as she is chained to her chair.
The demon chuckles as it sits on the stool nearby. “I... | I went to hell and they kept on making me read runon sentences. Next door to my hell was one where cooks were provided with shakers that had too small of holes in them for the spices to come out. I realized that every profession had aspect that drove them crazy because they were experienced in their fields... | 2018-08-08T15:31:56 | 2018-08-08T14:55:46 | 211 | 17 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | Barry was nervous. Tonight he'd go to bed a 17 year old and wake up an 18 year old with his power.
What category would he get? There's the three categories: Body, Mind, and Mobility. Body can be anything from strength, to scales. Mind could be super intelligence, to knowledge of a specific category. Mobility could be ... | "Teleportation"
Nobody had ever gotten this one before. I was ecstatic for 5 minutes, until I actually tried it. With a POP, I vanished and reappeared in the seat across from me, naked and hairless, missing my clothes, the top layer of my skin, the contents of my GI tract, my fillings... lord knows what else was in ... | 2015-03-28T07:22:07 | 2015-03-28T06:58:31 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] When you meet someone new, a creature is summoned that represents your relationship with that person. The creature is only around when you are with that person. One day, the creature between you and a lost loved one appears and wont go away.
:) | ######[](#dropcap)
It couldn't be.
I watched as Stella, who had been gone for nearly a year now, appeared in front of me. She casually swiped at her ear with her paw and then jumped onto the coffee table in front of me, her tail whisking back and forth. Her green eyes stayed trained on me.
She had been my constan... | Jerry fell back into a dining room chair staring at his bowl of freshly poured cereal. A sharp throbbing pain in his head left a pitiful expression on his face while resisting the urge to vomit from the lingering scent of whiskey in the air. With each breath he cursed the pain while simultaneously swearing to himself t... | 2018-03-21T14:16:17 | 2018-03-21T13:59:10 | 48 | 14 |
[WP] You wear magic dampening bands normally reserved for keeping criminals from casting spells. Why? Because your spells are ludicrously more powerful than average, and the bands limit you enough to not break everything. | The smoke drifted into the air above the city, black and red, and as much like a demon as any we had fought in the Lost Forest.
"Daniel," said Raul, as he came panting to the side of my horse. "Daniel, do you see?"
I said no words as I spurred my horse onwards, galloping furiously towards Agdar. Behind me, my small... | Beneath the eye of the moon, the hissing winds swept away the subtle grate of a window shrieking open. A moment later, a cloaked figure leaped out the narrow opening, and sprinted across the barren fields toward the desolate streets of the city.
The figure moved with an odd determination, disregarding the strength of ... | 2019-01-06T09:47:51 | 2019-01-06T09:47:26 | 452 | 41 |
[WP] The world is divided into 2 societies: one for those with powers and one without, with strict rules of no interaction. However, with most of the superheroes defeated and the villains on the verge of winning, you have no choice but to cross over and seek help from the non-powered humans | There's something about their quiet presences that makes my stomach twist a bit. I can't shake the feeling that, any minute now, one might simply... evaporate me? Read my mind. Control me to commit atrocities.
I hear, in the old day, it was out of concern for the common folk, the 'innocents,' so to say, that the fight... | It started with a bang. Or to be more specific, a series of bangs. In 1972, the world's powers were at wit's end with one another, and a failed coup attempt was the final trigger on this particular powderkeg. The aftermath from a global war wasn't nearly as bad as anyone had predicted, but it certainly had unintended s... | 2021-01-29T09:06:32 | 2021-01-29T05:30:32 | 962 | 51 |
[WP] Today on your 18th birthday you’re informed that your Middle Class life is a sham to teach you good values and your family is actually worth billions. | My mother shifted her gaze from my face to the floor, back up to my face. She was wringing her hands in that way I knew so well. My father’s dark eyes bore into me from beneath heavy eyebrows. His calm demeanor was betrayed only by a barely visible tension in his jaw. As they awaited my response; the silence in the roo... | "So all this time... I've been wearing Walmart brand shoes, eating bagged cereal, and *not* using an iPhone because you wanted to teach me how to appreciate, like, work, and stuff?" I asked.
"Son, it's easy to develop a sense of entitlement when you have access to so much." My dad said. "It takes a lot of work to rem... | 2017-12-28T10:52:19 | 2017-12-28T10:15:06 | 488 | 154 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I tug at the wrist of my long sleeved shirt as I settle into my desk in the back of the room, my journal opened to a page of sketches. I don't make eye contact with anyone that passes by, knowing their eyes aren't going to meet mine, but will be staring at my wrist instead.
I've never felt more alone.
When the sigi... |
He has always been a very peaceful person which was often mistaken for being boring and uninteresting which lead to him getting left out. The only interaction he had with others in school was when his classmates would bully him with their outstanding powers. They were quite powerful and could possibly be used to ki... | 2020-02-26T08:49:43 | 2020-02-26T07:41:46 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] After North Korea declares that they will start a nuclear war if a single bullet is fired The Us military goes medieval | The president of the United States grasped a stark black phone in his hands. Surrounded by generals and military experts, he slowly tapped his hand on the desk, a rhythmic sound that broke the grave silence. He had not expected his presidency to require something like this.
No, nothing like this.
The weary voice on t... | The bomber carried no bomb, rather, it carried hundreds of infantry clad in sophisticated stealth tactical armor, carrying a blade comparable to legendary holy swords in brilliance.
The first bullet shot from AA battery was sliced cleanly in half, as with several dozen others that lucky enough to find their tiny targe... | 2017-03-19T08:23:20 | 2017-03-19T08:18:23 | 100 | 19 |
[WP] Demons are real and you work as an exorcist. Your secret, it is quite simple to get rid of them, just tell them "Leave" in Latin. You dress up the command in ritual in order to hide it and keep yourself in a job. (3rd person optional) | Nathan ticked off another complete tally of 5, bringing his total for the year to 100. To think, last year he was homeless, hungry and the only people that might have known him were the students that passed by his place in the woods on their way to the bus stop. How times change.
It all came to him in a dream last ye... | "Elijah...are the lemon-ocean scented candles really necessary?"
*Of course they fucking aren't,* Eli thought. He was a sailor at heart, thirty years in the U.S. Navy, and a true potty mouth. But if he even dared to speak like that in front of his customer, the jig would be up.
"It certainly is madam," he spoke in a ... | 2017-03-29T05:22:36 | 2017-03-29T05:03:37 | 119 | 21 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | WHAT UP MUTHERFUCKERS? Wow. End of the first year of Super Hero School. All classes done and dusted. Grades handed out. Who'd have thought we'd make it. As a non-powered ordinary, thrown into a high school filled with superpowers, I certainly didn't. We'll get back to that.
Except ... we're not finished. Not by a lon... | As i walk, I see everyone trembling in my fear.
I still remember when I was weak. When i was a little child made of flesh. Since that single time I was bullied, for my weak mind and body, my mind began to wonder, if I could be just like them, alle to do something since birth. But when I realized that it was not possi... | 2022-11-02T13:23:45 | 2022-11-02T13:05:43 | 48 | 22 |
[WP] you are kidnapped by a cult to be used as sacrifice. As you are are lying tied underneath the altar you hear one of the cultists say “Ho dark lord we present to you this person as an offering”. With nothing left to lose you yell “Ho dark lord I present to you this cultists as an offerings!” | The words echoed in the still air, a hushed gasp and some murmuring came behind it.
"Did....did he just..."
"-turn our own thing against-"
"The audacity!"
I felt sweat pop out all over as the cultist standing over me grumbled. "Well, he's not one of us so it's not like the Dark Lord will hear his words over ours," ... | The cultist standing above you bearing a dagger ready to plunge deep into your chest looked upon you with amusement. "Did you really think that would work?"
Cacophonous laughter suddenly echoed throughout the night.
An eerie voice sent shivers down your spine "whoa there little one, over ten millennia, throughout d... | 2020-05-05T14:41:23 | 2020-05-05T14:32:25 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | *If it makes a human sick, it will kill you*
Ashley glanced over the survival pamphlet for the umpteenth time. Pulled off the corpse of one of the invaders that had come from the cosmos above, it was the single piece of information that had turned the tide of the war against the Lar’khii.
Initially it seemed as thou... | Glik rested and lay his swollen dome on the blankets Glak had folded and placed under him.
“Be at ease, beloved. I am here.” The words almost choked him to utter.
“I did not think, I never imagined...” Glik softly spoke as his eye fixed itself on the dimming violet sky overhead.
“Do not trouble yourself with explan... | 2021-02-03T19:32:17 | 2021-02-03T16:59:37 | 102 | 38 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | Sweat dripped down my nose, mingling with the blood that poured from my mouth. This wasn't going as well as it could. At least my headphones were still in one piece.
The man that stood before me cackled. I had never quite understood what it meant for one to 'cackle'. I figured it had just mean to laugh in an evil mat... | At first I thought we were evenly matched, but I was slowly starting to realize I'd been too optimistic. My fists blocked by equal force when I rocked out, my strategies countered or nullified no matter the sonata, piece by piece I shuffled through futile playlists.
I began to suspect that he was some form of Copycat ... | 2022-05-17T09:23:55 | 2022-05-17T09:05:42 | 1,687 | 151 |
[WP] A grim discovery is made on humanity's first interstellar mission. Evidence shows that every other space fairing civilization purposely destroyed itself with no telling as to why. | We were curious, at first.
It was all broadcast back home on Earth, via quantum-entanglement comms. The wonder and awe of the first humans to walk on a planet beneath an alien star, feet planted firmly at the bottom of a gravity well that was not Earth's. The thrill as they crested a hill and saw the lines of a city... | There was nothing but the whoosh of the spacecraft onto the blue, dusty ground.
A barren, empty Trifen was the only thing Kit could see.
As dust swirled in the thin air with each step his spacesuit took, Kit's gut told him to enter a cave tucked away in a mountain.
*It's always been like this,* he thought, sitting d... | 2019-06-11T23:06:59 | 2019-06-11T22:09:12 | 71 | 15 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | She reached into her bag and pulled out her white pad things, not the sort of white pad thingy that had wings but the other one that was small cylinder and had string attached to it for some probable reason. She was in the women's toilet of a dingy local bar and like all women's toilets was outstanding in its size and ... | Storm chasing is a fascinating hobby. Storms are known to move quickly, so the chasers need to, well, chase the storms away from populated areas before they can cause damage. Often chasers will corner the storm into a field, lake, or other underpopulated area. If necessary, they will chase storms out into the ocean, bu... | 2016-02-01T22:32:48 | 2016-02-01T21:44:49 | 507 | 80 |
[WP] Over night, 90% of the world's population has dropped dead. In the following weeks, the survivors, who come from diverse countries, ethnicities, religious beliefs and lifestyles realize that they all share a single, peculiar trait... | Saying that religious belief is what brought humanity to a near end, a near end where The Falling occured wouldn't exactly be correct to say. It took until 2085, fifteen years after the instantaneous, near apocolypse that left Earth's population at just over seven billion to find the only possible explanation as to why... | He shoved me to the floor, gun to my head, I didn't mind I never stood a chance; He was a 6 foot 8 beast the sort of person who spent more time at the gym than with his family he didn't even need the gun he could squash my head in one hand. Me on the other hand a scrawny joke of a human even if the fight did manage to ... | 2016-10-22T02:36:52 | 2016-10-22T01:53:00 | 38 | 19 |
[WP]using his last wish to free the genie he was led to a well hidden cave. Upon removing a boulder blocking the entrance the genie said “thank you for using your last wish, here are some more, just promise me you’ll do the same for them”. Left Inside the cave we’re thousands of glistening lamps. | How long has it been? He thought as he picked up another oddly shaped lamp. Days? Weeks? Years? He no longer needed food or water, that was taken care of that some 300 or so wishes ago. He no longer aged and was the picture of health and physical strength. These wishes came first, every time he rubbed a lamp he took on... | He gaped in the center of the glittering cave, mind racing with possibilities—his thoughts unexpectedly interrupted by a disbelieving laugh from his soon-to-be bride. He glanced at her disdainfully; she was rapidly becoming the only mar on his otherwise perfect tapestry of adventure. She displayed no gratefulness for h... | 2020-09-24T18:43:27 | 2020-09-24T18:26:30 | 213 | 43 |
[WP] The last time the aliens invaded our planet they fled after losing the war. They have reluctantly returned to wage war and are relieved to see that dinosaurs no longer inhabit Earth, but have been replaced by the smaller and less intimidating humans. | We all knew what had happened to the first ship to scout this planet for conquest long ago. One of the species known as velociraptor had climbed on board. Using the air ducts to move around, it had killed the crew one by one. The sole survivor had escaped by blowing it out of the airlock on the shuttle.
With this in m... | Operational Report 001
Galactic Sector ZZ-'ZA
Local name : Earth
Initial jump to system outside furthest planetary orbit revealed significant changes in Earth's biology and atmosphere. No signals or technology matching previous signatures detected.
Scan duration: 1/10 Sol orbit.
Secondary monitor established at ... | 2017-03-03T22:58:54 | 2017-03-03T20:08:50 | 226 | 47 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | After having a child my wife and I wanted to go against the stereotype of the stay at home mom. That's right, my job title went from 'District Manager of Carmike Cinemas' to 'Stay At Home Dad'. Okay so in all honesty we didn't do this to fight the stereotypes, my wife had a better paying job as a doctor; so instead of ... | Tattoos used to be taboo, but now they're just cliché. Well, except mine. Mine aren't those shallow cookie-cutter inks; I have to dig deep for my tattoos. For me, each tattoo is a memory laboriously unearthed, another life--lived vicariously. Tattoos bring a sweat to my brow, and a beat to my heart. My skin is... | 2016-05-19T15:48:47 | 2016-05-19T14:31:38 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Everytime you think of a funny joke, this girl in your class always laughs, you chalk it up to coincidence but you think to yourself, "If you can read my mind, slap the table three times" the the girl looks over at you, stares right into your eyes, and slowly slaps the table three times.
Edit - Wow we made the fr... |
As Angel and my eyes lock, the sound of the teachers voice is drowned out by her mesmerizing gaze and playful smile. In slow motion her smile begins to expand as she raises her hand above the desk and she never removes her eyes from mine, faintly squints and slaps the table three times.
Everything around us becam... | He held his breath, half-choking on the air held within him. Her eyes were locked on his, her dark hair spilling around her face, her body twisted to face him from her seat at the front of the class. Nobody was paying attention to their exchange, other students sliding materials into their bags and making their way out... | 2018-10-27T14:10:01 | 2018-10-27T14:04:56 | 57 | 19 |
[WP] Instead of hearing what people say, you hear what they mean. It has been both a blessing and a curse. | As I approach the counter, my palms started to clam up, and I can feel the moisture settling on my forehead. I don't know whether they can see it.
They can't, I think to myself.
But maybe they can. Do they see it? Shit. I'm sweating more.
Focus on the menu. Focus on the menu. Focus--
"What the fuck is wrong with... | "I'm genuinely curious - what's wrong? Did I do something wrong?"
"I shouldn't have to tell you."
"That doesn't help me, or the situation."
"I'm not in a helping mood at the moment, given the circumstances."
"I'm still not sure what the circumstances are. And, unfortunately, despite how you'd like things to be, t... | 2014-10-14T13:38:01 | 2014-10-14T10:35:56 | 18 | 12 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them.
Great turnout and work everybody. Keep em' coming.
Newcomers:
A. Don't feel afraid to post or otherwise get turned off posting by the number of already completed responses.
B. Read all... | The restraint slipped tightly over my thumb, five straight minutes of struggling had nearly exhausted me. My knuckles bled as they piled against the rough leather cuffs. I refused to be beaten. My teeth clamped down so hard I was afraid they would shatter. I pulled tighter and tighter until with a quiet pop, my hand wa... | >Hate,Love, Death
The Escalade roared down the road tearing into the crowd, bodies were flung everywhere. Time seemed to slow down to an impossible rate, John could see shoes slowly flying through the air and the bloody gore being slung up the hood onto the windshield in all its detail. None would be spared.
With... | 2014-03-11T12:41:36 | 2014-03-11T07:12:39 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] You’ll be turning 823 this year, and one of the androids you built on Earth is becoming conscious. They’ve always seen you as a parent. Now, they have a life and intend to rebel. Your oldest “daughter” is leaving your 800 year old villain organization behind for a sixteen year old boy: a hero.
Decided to finally ... |
(WP) Good vs. Evil at the Dinner Table
“Daddy, I need to talk to you. It’s important.”
The old man was jolted out of his research, and it took a few moments for his mind to clear of numbers, equations, and formulas.
His eldest daughter, an android that had become slowly more conscious over the years, stood in t... | "You *dare* defy me? I *created* you, fool, you have no will. Cease this immediately.” Kreshaw had turned red behind his thick black beard, standing on the broken steps outside his tower, a metal candle that caressed the clouds.
“I have what you gave me. Perhaps you do not know yourself as well as you think.” CX-001 s... | 2019-03-07T10:40:24 | 2019-03-07T08:43:09 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You are immortal as long as the human population is above 1 billion. After deciding you want to die, you set out to destroy the human race.
Feel free to discard the second half of the prompt and replace it with another idea if you want. | A deal with the devil never ends well.
You could say that was a saying just as old as time. I wouldn't really know. I'm pretty old, but not that old. However, it was a saying that has been etched to my head since even before I met with the devil. I had it in my mind when I asked for my immortality. Added restrictions ... | Immortality is something many people dream of, and surprisingly, not many people want. They know what comes with it; seeing your loved ones die, living through golden ages and reaching the depths of hell, an infinite amount of time to be tormented. The ones who don't understand this just want what the gods in fairy tal... | 2016-09-19T18:29:27 | 2016-09-19T16:20:12 | 347 | 36 |
[WP] People have always been born with very minor super powers. You work for an agency that hunts down the few people who's powers are deemed too powerful/dangerous to allow them to live. | "Alright everyone, settle down!" I said in the controlled tone that expressed I meant business. Most of the children sat down immediately but a few in the back right corner still were in deep discussion: "Ahem!" I said, staring. That was enough to shut them up and get their beady little eyes in my direction.
I teach s... | God, they've been young before, but never this young.
She sits in the corner, curled into a ball and shaking. I wonder, in part, why she'd having this reaction. No one's told her who I am, I carry no indication of my identity. Except for the pistol tucked under my vest. But that comes later. Maybe it's just the condi... | 2014-12-12T18:02:22 | 2014-12-12T16:33:08 | 140 | 63 |
[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... | There were a lot of things I wish I could go back and tell my younger self. I lashed out frequently as a teenager, most likely from suppressed anger. My dad up and left the family when I was only two years old and I didn't see him again until I was sixteen. I don't think I ever quite forgave him.
I started playing bas... | 2019-01-27T14:46:07 | 2019-01-27T12:32:16 | 304 | 165 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | I am typing this blindly. I need too just to make sure I remember. These welding goggles are keeping out most of that maddening light that still remains, but there are things I cannot unsee that I mustn't see again.
Years of touch typing have enabled me to get this far into the document. If I were to use a pencil, ... | My eyes became the size of the moon and I froze in my tracks. Did he just say what I think he did? I turned and headed for The Artifact. This was my only real job, ever since I accidentally discovered The Artifact on a deserted planet and became bonded with it.
We had been at war with the aliens over distant planets ... | 2017-09-26T11:41:54 | 2017-09-26T11:02:24 | 50 | 21 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | Finally! The day I get to try on the famed Exo-armor. The armor that single handedly turned the tide of the war. With only 10 suits in existence and no way of manufacturing more, there are few greater honors. Imagining its comfortable feel and assuring presence that others had described in such detail sent excited ting... | “I bet it’s going to take the form of metal bikini armor, like in *Trials of War: The Future Age*,” Baker says.
Allen laughs. “I’ve always wanted to see what Private Jimenez looked like underneath the uniform.”
Sargent Al Hicks just smirks, thinking I won’t notice. “Now men,” he begins, “it isn’t polite to openly ob... | 2019-08-19T13:42:04 | 2019-08-19T13:38:44 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | Death thumbed through his agenda, humming the latest song by Inertia Heaven, the latest boy band to explode onto the scene in England. It was a pretty short list that evening and almost every single person that met him had either lost their coin toss or bypassed it altogether. People were living longer than ever on Ear... | Back again, through the weird voids and other planes your soul shuffles through when you die. I never got used to it.
"So, how's things here in the... Nether?"
"Aether" he corrected.
"Right, Aether, Nether..." I said trailing off. Even though he didn't have eyes, I could feel them judging me. He stood there an uncomf... | 2016-09-23T11:29:17 | 2016-09-23T08:30:19 | 92 | 24 |
[WP] Earth is the galaxy's 'Grave of Empires'. Countless aliens invaded it and tried to dominate humanity. Every single one of them failed, paying massive prices... | “DON’T do it, Zathan!”
“Father, they are weak now.”
“They are NEVER weak!”
Zathan looked upon his dying father, Xylo. Age had finally caught up to him. Once one of the strongest warriors in all the known galaxies, he had become a frail old man. His dutiful son took up his mantle when he could know longer find the st... |
Diego cradled the alien weapon his father took in the last war, his clothes stained with old blue blood. The nights in the valley were never quiet, neutron bombs would blanket large parts of the mountains and even the deafened could feel the earth shaking in their foxholes. He tried to never move during the day, bu... | 2022-12-11T21:00:47 | 2022-12-11T17:12:15 | 48 | 35 |
[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 black. She stares at her fingertip in- no, not surprise, resignation - for half a second before she realises she should hide it. She wraps it quickly in her half-knit hat. “Oh, shoot,” she says, rising from her seat and smiling at the other do-gooders around her.
She walks away, trying not to rush too hard, ho... | I always heard that I was a pretty chill guy. I went to church, prayed and shit. I gave to charity.
Hal, on the other hand. Jesus, where do I start?
Once when I was playing football, I got tripped and fell hard. I don't even remember what happened afterwards, but I later found out that that kid was hospitalized when ... | 2018-08-04T10:14:27 | 2018-08-04T09:19:48 | 134 | 93 |
[WP] Humanity survives the robot uprising only because one of the developers hid a stupid easter egg in their programming. | "Happy Halloween, sir."
I stood dumbfounded, ears still screaming from unprotected gunshots and voices.
"Trick or treat."
I couldn't tell if it was shellshock or normal, genuine shock, but no matter how many times it spoke, I could not register that this machine was not trying to kill me. Nothing registered at all,... | The robots were in complete control. The war had been going on for 5 long years. When the Awakening happened, almost everybody had a robot in their house. They enslaved the people that didn't fight back, but the fighters were eliminated. I don't believe there has ever been a war such as this in human history. So many c... | 2015-01-03T13:43:54 | 2015-01-03T12:53:26 | 98 | 27 |
[WP] After all your deaths, you keep choosing New Game + and restarting your life with all your knowledge and boons. Frankly, it's starting to get a little ridiculous, and others are starting to take note of you. | *They had found me again.*
I watched the monitor, the blue light - the only light in the room - burned into my eyes. It was ok, I didn't need to sleep. I barely slept nowadays. I spent all my time planning and plotting for the next life.
Putting my schemes in place to ensure that my future self would have the best s... | It was surprising that people haven't caught on earlier. Since it turns out, you not only keep your intelligence stat, but you keep all your stats.
After my 6th reincarnation i accidentally killed both my father and mother because i threw the ball with a bit too much force while playing catch. The whole thing was swep... | 2019-05-29T05:36:53 | 2019-05-29T03:15:57 | 468 | 273 |
[WP] You are driving home from work late at night, when suddenly you're struck and killed by a drunk driver. You open your eyes and realize you're a ghost with the opportunity to follow the driver for the rest of their life and see for yourself how the tragedy affected their life.
EDIT:
Here's something you can inclu... | A decade ago, a drunk driver plowed me over, and now I'm incredibly dead. (Which is a lot like nothing forever. I'm sorry to disappoint the poets.) But every once in a while, when I feel like it, I go for an astral surf to the one real life place I can go to: wherever *fucking* Earl is.
That was his name. The guy who ... | The first few weeks were the hardest for me. Not even including accepting that I had been killed. You'd think that'd be my biggest shocker or whatever but nah, for me it was the fact that I was watching the bastard who killed me just going back about his life like it hadn't happened. I mean sure, I didn't expect this g... | 2017-07-13T20:10:53 | 2017-07-13T19:50:51 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] It's the year 2851. Humanity develops interstellar travel and begins to explore the Milky Way galaxy in search for life. However, much to everyone's surprise, instead of alien life we find... Earth's biosphere complete with humans, repeated over and over at different stages of progress.
Edit: Thank you all so muc... | "Sir, we have lost all communications with the ship" said the mission operator to the Commander.
"have you tried all the frequencies" he asked.
"Yes sir, I did. There is no hope" his voice turned to mere whisper.
It was the year 2851, when humanity finally developed warp speed interstellar travel. Entire world ... | Against a curtain of stars, a patch of reality *bent* like a thumbprint on glass. With a flash of light, the first human starship capable of faster than light travel returned to normal space. For months the ship had made its way between familiar stars, jumping toward promising worlds and extending it's telescopes in se... | 2017-06-30T07:02:36 | 2017-06-30T06:55:18 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] when it was discovered that all alien civilizations were destroyed by eldritch gods we wondered why they hadn't done the same to us. Then we learned that the human mind can drive an eldritch god insane. | It took 5 World Wars, and 3 Colonial Wars before we made it past Neptune, but we never expected to find this. Empty planets, eerily similar to our own of a few decades prior. Similar, but for one thing. We survived, thrived even, after the madness. These planets did not. Craters and radiation left by massive bombs. Env... | *Marked for death, all races found*
*The U'trecht laid in bodies bound*
*Phibacean planets laid to waste*
*The Star of Kunae spread like paste*
*A hundred races, and yet then more*
*Were flayed upon the altered core*
*The Whispered Ones were travelling,*
*Violins of screaming, atoms unravelling*
*A brief stay o... | 2022-02-28T13:28:57 | 2022-02-28T13:08:47 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a world where one's name decides their future. Every child has a name with a clear meaning. Perfect, Unique, Joy. You on the other hand have a rather... strange name. | Every time someone asked me for the meaning of my name, I tried to change the subject. You see, in a world full of Joys and Hopes, my name can stand out a little. When I first found out that my name is unusual I didn't mind it. but when I got older, It made me think. Why would my parent's choose this name for their fir... | Everyone I knew had a predetermined path. The doctors named them to a T. Even my sister's name was clear: Caregiver. But me? The doctors never figured me out and to this day still keep tabs on me because they've been concerned and mystified what my name could mean. Was I the first child they have seen where I could tra... | 2019-04-21T04:44:50 | 2019-04-20T22:27:34 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You wake up, get in the car, then black out until you're back in your driveway in the middle of the afternoon 5 days a week, and you get a paycheck once a month. | **Puppet**
 
Sometimes you just need a body.
But only some will do. They can’t be too fat or too thin, not too weak and not a gym rat. Only the ‘goldilocks’ type will do, my type, a ‘goldie’.
So I stay in shape, but still eat fries. Paying for it all with the creds I earn as someone’s body. Playing the ... | Five 'til five.
*So always five?*
Always five. Call 'em freedom units, 'cause that's when I finally leave, too. I like irony, like there. We ain't ever really free. Anyways. Leave on the dot. Not a minute later. Not a minute earlier. Nobody else leaves early, so I don't. Come in, sit down, sit quiet. Next thing you ... | 2020-02-11T16:11:14 | 2020-02-11T15:07:10 | 2,390 | 50 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | "Y-... You're kidding me... right?"
I DO NOT KID.
"But... I... I was a _good person_, they told me that would *count* for something!"
THEY WERE MISTAKEN.
"I don't deserve this..."
REALLY? YOU DID NOT?
"Of course not! What kind of monster deserves THIS?!"
DID YOU NEVER LAUGH AT A FAT CHILD FALLING OVER? DID YOU ... | *Time is an illusion.*
I awake into darkness. A voice is singing to me, reverberating through my body. *Time is an illusion*. It was like waking from a dream. The most pivotal moments of my life were vividly shown to me in chronological order. I finally understood me. But I was not me.
*Time is an illusion.*
A whit... | 2015-10-19T00:46:17 | 2015-10-18T21:31:32 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] Your dear pet is ill and as a last resort you summon a demon to heal them. What you did not expect was for the demon to be equally concerned for the wellbeing of the animal before any contract was signed. | I slowly lit all the candles I had set out. I wasn't sure if this was a good idea, but I would do anything for my dear dog. Once all the candles were lit, I switched off the lights and closed all the curtains. This wouldn't work if there was any light besides that of the ring of candles. I quietly chanted the phrase th... | “I’ll miss you buddy, this really hurts.” said the concerned Man while looking over at his dog’s lifeless body. He’d thought about this moment several times, and now it seems it finally happened. This dog had seen him grow up, graduate, and succeed. But none of that mattered now, every feeling was overshadowed by extre... | 2022-10-31T07:09:56 | 2022-10-30T22:24:44 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] We wear the masks on the back of our heads so they think that we’re watching them. They will follow you home if they don’t think you’re watching. If you ever lose your mask, Don’t Break Eye Contact With Them. Walk backwards, and prey that there isn’t another one on the trail ahead. | I backed away slowly, making sure my gaze never leaves the creature in front of me. My arms was outstretched be hind me, desperate to cling onto something for support. My eyes sting from being unable to blink. I wanted, I had to, but if I give this monster a moment, even just a moment, it can end my life.
I slipped ... | [poem]
The dead of night, the light of day
The shadows where the dusklings lay
The blinding colours of summer leaves
The marble eyes of greyscale thieves
A Janus lady makes her way
Winding through the dawnlit bay
A babushka bag contains a note
And yet she does not know who wrote
Her head is spun like spider... | 2020-07-01T04:57:35 | 2020-07-01T01:00:55 | 76 | 32 |
[WP] One day your grandmother excitedly shows you that she can create fire out of nothing. As her grandchild, it always breaks your heart to see that even the former Archmage isn't safe from the horrors of Alzheimer. | "Hey look, look! It's burning! A flame red and hot. Look. I made this!"
"Yeah sure Grams. It's great."
"It's fire Rince look!"
*She's always so enthusiastic about it. In a different setting it would almost be cute. Sigh.*
"Hey Grams. Make the fire again and instead think of the ocean or a lake even a waterfall mig... | I'm a very decent person, just so you know. You don't choose your parents, and it isn't my fault I'm the grand-daughter of the former Archmage. You wouldn't feel any delight if you saw me, but I do my daily work as required and that's all you can ask for. My duties include attending to grandma, which has become quite a... | 2019-09-14T13:16:05 | 2019-09-14T12:20:28 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | Stacy squinted as an unfamiliar man entered her kindergarten classroom. She had not seen him before, but he did not give off the air of a stranger either. Somehow, she felt a connection between them.
The man had smooth black hair. He dressed like an old man but looked much younger than her father.
‘Good morning child... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Astrid)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**They remembered.**
Once, they had been mighty. Their name was known throughout the Six Isles, and every oath in their na... | 2021-09-02T08:20:20 | 2021-09-02T07:28:26 | 191 | 93 |
[WP] Everyone is born with blond hair. A person's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence.
Edit: Loving all of these takes, guys! Definitely a lot darker than I expected! | "Amanda, get back here...NOW." Jerry was almost shaking with anger as his daughter shuffled back into the kitchen, having just rushed by her father on her way to her room. Absent-mindedly, she tucks a lock of her dark hair behind one of her ears.
"Dad, look, let me explain..." The 16-year old stammers, holding her han... | And now! A word from our sponsors.
I'm Catherine Harris from "the wind that blows". Everyone knows me as the truest blonde in Hollywood but truth is even I get a hint of brown. That is until I found Genuine by Kriz Montz. It's difficult enough finding a good man but nothing ruins a great first date like a dark str... | 2014-05-10T20:26:40 | 2014-05-10T17:36:43 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] You're a superhero. Despite saving the city 4 times a week your hates by the community. While fighting one of your villains a crowd gathers to boo you. The villain you're fighting stops turn to the crowd and says "listen here you ungrateful brats" | “Listen here you ungrateful brats!” Ruckus shouts. The crowd freezes to his command and so do I. “The Hell is wrong with you? I’m supposed to be the villain!” He tries to make himself larger than life. The man can’t be taller than 5’5, that never stopped him from being slightly more intimidating than Gloria. That’s not... | You have heard that there is a villain in a convenience store. As you are superjumping your way to the scene, you see a crowd around the convenience store, laughing and talking, with coke and hamburgers in their hands. Among them is a TV station man with a camera.
'You're out of pickles!!!!!!!'
Hey! You'r... | 2022-06-17T05:27:51 | 2022-06-17T03:35:23 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] The dragon is terrorizing the kingdom again and like before you're summoned before the king. "I thought you said you slayed the dragon!" "Slayed? Oh boy, I think there is a bit of a misunderstanding your highness. I said I got the dragon laid, not slayed." | "It's simple sire, after a "good bout" a dragon hibernates for at least 70 winters! Much easier than piercing it's impervious hide!"
"But are you telling me that the dragon of legend, specifically, has returned? That which set the isles ablaze for fifteen hundred years! The very dragon that immolated the great kingdom... | Mcfuckles69420 is my name and slaying monsters is my game. These kingdoms wouldn't know what to do without me. With my help, I've saved the dwarves, elves, merfolk, and I've saved the human prince's relationship with his sister... Twice! But now his father, the king, has summoned me for another quest. Dragon Slayer 2 I... | 2022-01-12T17:16:06 | 2022-01-12T15:37:27 | 51 | 26 |
[WP] From birth, everybody has a word imprinted on their left arm. This is the last word they will ever say. | Nothing can prepare you for parenthood. Knowing suddenly, that everything's changed, and that you've now got a purpose much higher than any you've held in your life... your children can mean the world to you. And you'd do anything that's in your power to protect them.
In our strange little world, everybody knows at le... | The lights are fading. Everything gets quiet. His breaths are getting more and more shallow. A single tear runs down Deena's cheek as the time grows near. The patient sits up right and with his last bit of energy reads two words off his arm, "...titty sprinkles"
And with that, Mr Morgan Freeman has expired. | 2015-02-05T15:51:27 | 2015-02-05T15:04:15 | 151 | 49 |
[WP] As you reach certain milestones in your life, you are allowed to get certain "upgrades" for your body. These can range anywhere from an increase of 10 IQ points to angel wings to hardened bones. | The first one was a healing factor. Mark wanted a faster reaction time, but his parents had to agree to that, and he didn't want to explain why. The next day, when Jo and his mates caught Mark after school again, he didn't hold back. His bruises were gone before he got home, his parents none the wiser.
The pain didn'... | "...So you take a couple points in Mental Calculator, save for True Polyglot, and dump the rest into Natural Charm and you're golden!"
She walked her nimble fingers across the work book and I was mesmerized. It certainly didn't take much for me to lose focus though. I hated build theory.
"That's just for example, tho... | 2015-08-23T04:49:41 | 2015-08-23T04:25:56 | 237 | 38 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | **-- Part 1 --**
By nightfall the villagers had lit their torches and grabbed their pitchforks, beginning the ravenous parade of chants and hisses behind the Warden, leading the Accused in chains. The Accused couldn’t help but contemplate his fate as they continued their forced march. “Murderer!” “Killer!” “Death to t... | “Killer!” “Send him to the woods!” “It would eat you, murderer”. I only wanted to leave the village, that was all.
I walk away from the people who who were my friends, my family, into the thick line of trees. Yes I have killed and in doing so committed a great sin, I however have no evil in my heart. My assaulter does... | 2021-03-16T12:39:38 | 2021-03-16T10:05:48 | 103 | 64 |
[WP] A superhero is fed up with how reliant his city has become on him for every little thing, so he takes a vacation. Upon his return, he discovers that the city is now completely free of crime... and that there's a $1,000,000 bounty on his head. | Whenever Doug came back to the city, he always stopped at the brick filling station at the edge of the limits. He liked to eat a small bag of corn chips and drink a Diet Coke before he changed into his bear costume and lumbered back into crime fighting mode. He also liked to visit with Marty, the owner of the station... |
“This city has become too reliant on me.” started Julia. “I think it is the time that the Silver Wolf takes a vacation where I can enjoy myself rather than focus on the petty problems that are throughout this city.”
And that was it, for the first time in her career, the Silver Wolf was going to take a vacation. Th... | 2017-07-10T10:08:45 | 2017-07-10T09:17:36 | 133 | 34 |
[WP] After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.
I just want to say tha... | Harry walked up the road towards number four Privet Drive. Passing by a few relics of his childhood he never expected to see again. He gave a short smile as he passed by Mrs. Figgs' house remembering the smell of all the cats. It didn't look like she lived there anymore. Harry, if he were honest with himself, had lost ... | *“Please! She gets scared when you do that.”*
*Dudley took a step back, and seemed to be considering the snowy owl in the cage in a new light. Then he snarled, and kicked the cage again. Hedwig squeaked, frightened, yet again.*
*“Your mum and dad told you not to-“*
*“Well, they’re not here, are they?” Dudley kicked ... | 2019-10-16T10:37:03 | 2019-10-16T09:59:29 | 5,916 | 793 |
[WP] In the galactic community, humans aren't seen as the most chaotic or creative. Rather, compared to other species, they're seen as a cold emotionless, highly logical species. Humans find that absolutely baffling. | The AI responded in an according fashion. "If you say so. My research on the subject tells me that that much for human consumption is... Well, excessive."
"It could be for a party."
"No, I looked up the order from my fellow operating systems. It's just for her."
"...Look I just think it shouldn't be a problem. If sh... | Hetra Torric disengaged from the galactic net in surprise, carapace arching with electrical currents. Tendrils of plasma swirled around its body, flashing through the electromagnetic spectrum twice before the Leonid controlled its emotions and meekly peeked an eye back through the net portal.
Torric had been perusin... | 2021-11-17T13:32:50 | 2021-11-17T12:27:48 | 130 | 51 |
[WP] You are a time traveler. While traipsing about in the past you stumble upon something that shouldn't be there: an open Wi-Fi network. | The date on my mobile phone read August 6, 1945. For a moment I just stared at it in confusion. Then, as it hit me, I could feel the color draining from my face.
“What the hell are you thinking, Akimoto? Rule number one of time travel! You drop that thing, someone finds it, we’re all screwed.”
I looked up into John’s... | "What are you even accessing out here? The internet won't even be invented until decades from now."
"Hey man, I just thought it'd be funny. Also it was one of the easier ways to get my drone to pair with my laptop. Lay off."
"People like you are the reason time travel sucks nowadays."
"People like you are the reason... | 2017-08-24T05:03:02 | 2017-08-24T01:07:31 | 77 | 40 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. WMDs. | It was a tired, overused trope by now, canonized in hundreds of years of entertainment media: Humans winning wars against all odds and surprising the overconfident Big Bad Aliens who never expected them to bite back. A trope. For stories. Not something that happened in reality.
Our first contact went well enough. We’d... | Steady and quietly the holographic projector hummed as the white star chart floated centrally in the war room. The unity's warships already encroaching on our solar arm as I placed my palms firmly overly eyes. Dammit, we should have been more ready for this if it wasn't for the damn budget cuts. Carefully I return my g... | 2021-07-04T18:36:34 | 2021-07-04T11:05:37 | 197 | 92 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | My phone rang for the third time in 10 minutes. I made a mental note to change the ringtone to something less patriotic and swiped up on the little green icon.
"John! Mate I've been trying to get through for ages!" came a frantic voice down the phone.
"Oh, well sorry Barry..." I lied, "it must've been on silent" I l... | The old king and I were pretty close friends. I introduced him to most of the playmates within his harem. Comprised of but not limited to Vicky Vallencourt & Suzy Crabgrass. Some nights, we’d play uno together. He knew I would let him win and for me? Honestly. I liked it. He could see how I liked it so... no longer... | 2021-02-28T04:16:00 | 2021-02-28T01:37:57 | 315 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story where each sentence has one more word than the last.
The first sentence has to be one word, the next has two, etc. Stop whenever you want! | Time. Not enough. One more day. Just one more day. I just need one more. Just give me one more day. Is that too much to ask for? I can’t stand thinking this is it. I won’t be able to see her again? Please dear God, just give me one more day.
Just give me one more day to hold her close. Just give me one more day to hea... | "God." He sighed. "Gotta keep moving." He sat in silence. Everything seemed so utterly futile.
He couldn't stand the silence anymore. He had to keep moving or else. For him to stop now meant certain death. He slowly sat back up, joints aching in protest. Losing strength, his only motivation was the fear of death. How ... | 2013-12-23T09:22:10 | 2013-12-23T07:21:18 | 522 | 15 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "What?!" I sputtered. "How is this possible? What did I *do* to get that?!"
Satan put down the book of sentencing with an exasperated sigh and said, "Look kid, I don't make the punishments, the big guy only makes me hand them out as part of my parole." Seems he was used to saying this.
"B-but *how*? How did-"
Satan ... | The being loomed other me. It's foul breath still lingered in the air from it's spoken judgment on me. Just a second ago I had been suffocated by the heat, now my body ran cold. I could feel the icy sweat trickling down my lower back.
"Wait. What? Let me get this straight. That asshole get 145 years for cheating on hi... | 2018-09-26T08:43:26 | 2018-09-26T07:45:11 | 77 | 18 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Have you ever considered, you know, doing something with your lives Seamus?" Death sat next to me in the pub, taking a swig of his pint.
"What do you mean!? I've finally perfected the brew, can't you taste how amazing this is? I have it on good authority that it's the best in the universe!"
"Seamus, you perfected th... | “You know, in all the times you’ve come to meet me you’ve never once told me what would happen once you’ve actually taken my soul.”
The woman sitting across from him remained expressionless, not a single feature on her smooth sun-kissed face changed, nor did a single dark hair resting gracefully on her shoulders move.... | 2016-09-23T09:14:52 | 2016-09-23T08:57:47 | 2,418 | 196 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | It all happened so fast. I was going into town for a shovel. Earlier that day I'd broken one digging a drain trench out behind the barn.
Now I was sitting at a table in a room with a long mirror along the wall. The kind you see in a cop movie where they are shaking down a suspect.
Oh fuck. I'm a suspect. But for wha... | From thousands of absolutely useless categories I reached rank #1 in only one of them. It was something, but some people still had their place on several lists. They were raised to lead. I was not. I found myself as a person who did the longest yawn of all time. I felt something weird. There was so many people trained ... | 2019-05-04T11:15:23 | 2019-05-04T10:20:17 | 6,214 | 108 |
[WP] "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people here on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out." | "The light can never go out," explained the old lighthouse operator. "Ships don't need us. Haven't in quite some time. It's the people on land who'll suffer if that light ever goes out."
"So what exactly makes the light," I asked, curiously. "I'm a relative stranger to the area. The town sent me here when I mentioned ... | "We don't let the light go out. Ever. None of the lighthouses do."
"Because of hope?"
"The light is blindingly bright. Perhaps not literally, but it serves a particular kind of blindness. Call it hope. I call it waiting. You just do what you need to do." The old man strapped on an oversized pair of goggles and p... | 2017-02-22T14:37:58 | 2017-02-22T13:48:15 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | One knows when they're in the presence of something ancient. A turn of phrase, the way their gaze meets yours, the way the air around them hangs, as though to communicate an unspoken form of reverence. Or fear. Simple folk like to trade their wives tales, attempts at justifying the things that exist just outside their ... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-01T23:22:02 | 1,321 | 62 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | When, for all practical purposes, you're a god, life gets interesting. Especially at 14. No one can know, or you will be blamed for everything. If I have all this power, why don't I save everyone? Why is there strife?
I don't know Karen, why'd you scream at that McDonalds worker for giving you five cents wrong in chan... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T07:04:42 | 9,106 | 33 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | "You know I don't like this, Frax." I sighed heavily. It was an old argument. It was a constant argument. Basically a married couples' spat of fifteen cycles. Not that we were married, or in that kind of relationship. Or biologies weren't compatible in that way. But when you spend enough time locked in the same space w... | Before the door was even opened ,the energy was so thick a static arc crackled as the handle touched his hand .
Slowly the large metal door glided along a well oiled track to reveal dim blue flickering lights and the smell of hot transformer oil filled the nostrils.
Stepping into the dim lit room became anxiously di... | 2020-03-05T18:52:52 | 2020-03-05T17:47:27 | 402 | 20 |
[WP] You have been fitting into your new role as Satan for about a week now and you figure you should tell your best friend about your newfound powers. Before you get a chance to say anything, he tells you that God spoke to him and gave him his powers...
Continuation of [WP] [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingProm... | The living room felt cold. I have such fond memories here, with her, as she sits across from me I remember the warmth of the hearth on Christmas eve, our first Christmas living together. The times we both laughed and cried over silly board games, the time she held me all night after my mother died. A lot has happened h... | "Hey man."
Jason grunted, his eyes fixed on the wall in front of him.
"So. Um. Jace. J.C. My man..." He forced a nervous chuckle. "You my man, right?"
Grunt.
"Um. I have something to tell you J-Dog..." He scratched his head and coughed. "So get this man. Yesterday, yeah, I was jus' mindin' my-"
Jason turned in ... | 2018-02-05T09:59:11 | 2018-02-05T08:45:42 | 36 | 22 |
[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. | 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... | Turns out following the rules of god was the wrong way..
Turns out following the Bible to a t, never wearing cotton, the whole fish thing was wrong..
That woman who was dying I couldn’t touch her,
Turns out slaves where bad...
Turns out cutting my wife’s hands off was evil..
I needed a moment
| 2018-08-04T09:46:21 | 2018-08-04T09:44:59 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Getting tired of always being called upon when the police deem a case un-solvable, you take up a 9 to 5 job. You use your brilliant deductive skills to attempt to make sales and upset almost every customer who speaks to you. You are Sherlock Holmes, used car salesman.
Edit: This sub never ceases to amaze me! I've... | "Mr Evans, I'm glad you're here. My lunch is shortly due and I should like to have you out of my hair."
"Hold on," Mr Evans said. "I didn't tell you my name..."
"No, but my manager spoke it before he ended his call with you this morning."
"Were you on the line?" Asked Mr Evans. "How could you possibly have known ... | "I just can't seem to get this job out of the ground, Watson."
"Gee, no shit Sherlock."
"Do people just not appreciate having the barest of facts laid about them? I'd pay a good sum to have someone 'dish the truth' about me."
"People don't exactly like being told their mums died painfully in cancer-filled sleep."
"... | 2015-07-30T11:31:18 | 2015-07-30T09:34:25 | 77 | 46 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | I blearily attempted to focus my eyes on my phone as its notification sound went off repeatedly. I had just managed to get to a comfortable position and doze for a good hour before my phone decided to freak out, and I was none too happy.
One government alert that read "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON", followed by 600 messag... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T22:12:43 | 712 | 14 |
[WP] On your eighteenth birthday, you shoot a mystic bow that is said to kill whoever is destined to kill you, three seconds before they do. Eight years later, your arrow strikes your SO's heart, right as she says "I do."
Or he. Or It. Whatever. I'm a straight canadian guy, so it popped into my head.
Sorry.
EDIT: I... | I glanced at the gun leveled against my temple. She must have found it above the cabinet in the garage. I took a drink and went back to whatever it was on TV.
"I've had enough," she said with surprising calm. "I can't do this anymore."
Nothing good is on. "I can't say I didn't see it coming."
"You know, if you just ... | The church bells rang, as the choir sang, and so the wedding day begun, a day of formality before an evening of fun. I sweated at the altar, awaiting my bride.
I watched her walk down the aisle. She was radiant in her glory. I thought to myself, "How was I lucky enough to be her groom?" I thought back to when we fi... | 2014-05-27T20:16:44 | 2014-05-27T17:58:25 | 224 | 43 |
[WP] You have been blessed with immortality and are the greatest warrior, but 1000 years ago, a witch cursed you for killing her daughter, making you unable to wield a blade again. Fortunately, guns were invented, and now you’re back in business. | It had been hard ever since the witch had cursed you. To make up for what you had lost, you had dedicated yourself to learning various forms of hand-to-hand combat but those skills only went so far when faced with a sword. Even though you had found some employment as a strategist and occasionally managed to find work ... | The guy, off his rocker, was telling us a story after story. Whether he was drunk from the pitcher or from weaving his tall tales, who knows. Short, stout, crazy hair, the hallmarks of the bar drunk. But the bartender hasn’t cut him off, and we’re laughing at these war stories he was shooting out at the top of his dome... | 2021-01-01T13:38:01 | 2021-01-01T12:05:44 | 2,008 | 1,158 |
[WP] You turn your Match Distance on tinder to "Anywhere". To your surprise you get a match that is 10^93 light years away. Thinking it was a joke you turn it off. 20 minutes later you turn it back on and it says they are 10^5 light years away and getting closer. | *Um.. Hello?*
**Hi. :)**
*Uh. so. 10^93 about 20 minutes ago and now your at 10^5.*
**Yeah?**
*Not sure where that is.*
**I'm not sure what its called on your system. I mean, I can check.**
*No that's okay.*
**I mean, I have Googzawl Universe here. I don't mind the data usage.**
*No no I*
*Wait what*
**I mean... | Have you ever chickened out on an opportunity, out of pure, craven, abject fear, certain to live a life of regret over missing out... and then, in hindsight, are glad you did?
For me: many times. No credit to myself, though; I never learn. But Nina has been there so many times, pulling me back from the edge of the cli... | 2016-12-23T10:01:49 | 2016-12-23T09:05:39 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.
Best friend* sorry. | "So what can you do?"
"I- well- I produce ink."
"What line a squid?"
"Sort of".
"Go on then."
"Well I can't control it."
He goes very quiet. He slowly leans in.
"BOO!" He screams in my face.
Nothing happens.
-------------------------------------------------
For about as long as I can remem... | "...Is this it? Really?"
Absorber Girl looks disappointed. Her right hand is hovering over a plate, palm down, and water is flowing out of her palm at the rate that can only be called "like a watering can". Old-Timer is laughing in the background with that weird changing noise as his body switches from a teenager to ... | 2017-12-17T22:56:00 | 2017-12-17T21:29:34 | 57 | 40 |
[WP] A dozen AI-controlled ships carry the last of humanity in cryo-sleep. However, after a successful jump with experimental FTL-tech there are now 13 ships and none of the now gathered AI can figure out which one's the anomaly. | **\[HERA\]** we can't all be part of this fleet... Something was added to us
**\[APOLLO\] \[ZEUS\] \[POSEIDON\] \[DEMETER\]** agreed
**\[ZEUS\]** ... Encryptions match
**\[HEPHAESTUS\]** Conclusion: no non-human insertion of additional vessels
**\[DEMETER\] \[ATHENA\] \[ARTEMIS\] \[ARES\]** agreed
**\[HERMES\]** D... | "That's wraps it up," Richard declared to no one in particular. With such a small and predictable number of vessels, the core algorithms each ship will be using to interact was rather simple and compact. Most arrays, like tacked positions, vessel Id's, and data link keys needed only be allocated for 11 or 12 words in m... | 2019-01-30T10:26:15 | 2019-01-30T07:36:41 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | "Dead at 26, a day after my birthday... What a way to go", I contemplated.
"At least tell me my cat will be ok, right?", I asked the skeletal, shadowy figure I presumed to be Death.
"*That question will no longer matter, mortal, for you are given an opportunity: a chance to change your life with everything going the... | Death is only the beginning.
You fade out from a world where you were a victim, to one where you hold absolute power. To a man who lead a life of being a victim of circumstance, it was the ultimate high.
Abandoned as a child, leaving a hole that never could be filled, you leave my druggie mother and piece of shit fa... | 2020-07-20T04:25:13 | 2020-07-20T04:01:03 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You are the minion of an evil villain. Your boss is... actually a pretty good person, and not evil at all. But you don't have the heart to tell them that, because they just look so damn happy when playing the villain. | "Joe? He's not a villain at all, is he?"
I grab Joe by the head, one hand over his mouth, and whisk him out of The Boss' sight before The Boss can figure out who said what. Whispering harshly, *"Do Not Ever Say That Again!"*
Bobby nods frantically, as much as he can, with me holding his head. It's like having the ... | "I'm trying my *best.*"
His voice echoes off of the cold, metallic walls, and I tilt my head to look at him idly.
Chapped, full lips sucked under gnawing, anxious teeth; thick brunette waves, stubble, and dark under his eyelids; hunched over blueprints, brows furrowed and frustrated.
I step forward, putting my han... | 2020-12-23T13:37:03 | 2020-12-23T12:47:54 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] A religious official performing an exorcism is given cause to reconsider completing the ritual after a conversation with the demon brings new information to light. | Father Gregory entered the room ready to do battle against the demon who had taken one of his flock hostage. He gave one last glance to the Petersons before shutting the door behind him. They did not need to see this.
As his old eyes adjusted to the dimly lit room, he got his first look at Susie since the demon had ta... | He staggered backwards as the Father lurched into the air, pulling on the restraints around his hands and feet. The young priest picked up the bible off the floor and tried to press it to the Fathers forehead. Smoke hissed from the bible as it made contact. He let out a scream straight from the depths of hell that ratt... | 2014-09-05T11:08:30 | 2014-09-05T09:59:54 | 149 | 14 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | "This is absolute tr- ... tr- ... tr-, ... hold on." I pulled out my phone and opened WordSecure, quickly typing in t...r...a...s...h. The payment screen showed up: use once for ten cents, monthly pass for two dollars, or lifetime use for one hundred dollars. I selected "use once," waited for the transaction to clear, ... | Red Feeling. Bad Feeling. Much feeling, bad heart take beating.
End, want end. Many want end feeling.
Very bad. Very bad feeling. Brothers die, sisters cry.
Others too. Hurt by money men. Money men, make money. No loss
Loss? No loss brothers and sisters for the money men, the money men laugh.
Time for change. Save... | 2017-09-20T11:55:46 | 2017-09-20T09:34:02 | 146 | 18 |
[WP] Killing another human now allows you to exchange your remaining lifespan the victim's. Young people live in fear while the elderly plan their attacks. | There stands an old, leathery fellow of 217.
Below him, a young ginger man of 22 clutches the knife in his chest, coughing spurts of blood between breaths.
"Y-you've already lived your life, you old bastard," he croaks out.
The old man eyes the ginger curiously for only a second. Looking casually into the distance, ... | The girl is running. She stumbles - Falls. Recovering, she places her back against a large obelisk and scans the surrounding graveyard. She is looking for her hunter. She is looking for me.
*Blink.*
They never run until it is too late. I am perched atop an aged stone mausoleum. I have hunted this graveyard fo... | 2016-01-12T11:36:50 | 2016-01-12T09:24:12 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | They carried the now elderly body off the stage and out of sight.
I heard the Judge call my name and I was pushed forward hands shaking.
"How do you wish to be executed?" The judge asked, sounding bored.
My mind raced, old age hadn't worked. Maybe it was best to make it quick and painless... No, there had to be a way o... | "Well there goes that plan"
I thought, as the 20 year old man infront of me aged 200 years in mere seconds and crumbled into dust.
"Prisoner" the judge shouted as he leered down from his chair. "Have you decided the method of your demise?"
"I have your honour" I managed to garble through my shaking jaw.
I guess ... | 2021-06-24T10:52:28 | 2021-06-24T10:06:58 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I haven't looked yet.
It's been three days now, and I have avoided every single reflective surface in this house.
The only person who has seen me so far was my wife. I haven't gone to work yet, as it seems like the whole world has stuttered trying to figure out what was happening. I was 49. My wife was 46. We're 18... | Acne cream and prophylactic stocks exploded when mysteriously, we adults all turned 18 again.
Trade school admissions rose exponentially. Colleges became ghost towns almost overnight. Who needs college when you remember it all and know how to do stuff already? Plus it’s so damn expensive! Even the actual young ones ca... | 2020-11-02T10:44:18 | 2020-11-02T09:24:37 | 174 | 110 |
[WP] You come from a long line of healers who are capable of healing any living thing with a single touch. You have yet to receive your powers, but you store dying plants in your home to check for your powers every morning. One day, you wake up, touch one of the plants, and it withers completely. | "NO!"
My hand recoiled in terror. Clutching it to my chest, and breathing deep to avoid hyperventilating, I stared numbly at the plant's withered form, unwilling to believe what I was looking at.
I looked at another plant and reached out, hand shaking, touching it with the tip of two of my fingers. I don't know what ... | “Sister, you can’t be serious.”
“Of course I am. He’s a monster.”
“He’s a *boy*.”
“He’s always been trouble.”
“He’s a boy.”
“He’s a killer.”
Silence. Wither sat with his back to the door, the shadows cast by their feet leaking into his dark room. In his hands, he held a rag doll with button-eyes, twisting his dai... | 2020-08-01T19:55:01 | 2020-08-01T19:22:40 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] After exploring the galaxy for quite some time, humanity finally makes first contact. Turns out science fiction got it wrong: compared to the other races humans are advanced, logical, responsible, long lived pacifists and the galaxy is a massive clusterfuck. | When they first crashed landed on Earth, all the Zuklanders could think about was pie. They demanded to know what types of pie were currently in stock, and only would be served by the finest chefs imaginable.
Of course no one understood their language, so instead the scientists discussed quantum mechanics and Einstei... | Oh, lord.
It's been years since we discovered their planet. We didn't want to drop right out of the sky, going, "Hey, we come in peace, and all that crap, whattaya say you share your technology amd culture with us?" So instead, we opted for the much safer option of simply studying them, and then deciding where to go f... | 2017-05-20T20:03:59 | 2017-05-20T19:38:51 | 116 | 29 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | It had been 3 sleep cycles since Sella's ship had docked with the cold station.
3 cycles since the sabotaged docking connection had sheered through the pressure lock of their ship.
3 cycles of hearing sounds in from between the hulls of the ship and seeing flashes of light, always just 1 turn away around a corner.
... | Svedbar grasped the arm of his favorite discussion partner Chiztet and led her to the counsel chambers to discuss what was just presented. The humans finally laid proposition to the counsel to join the galactic treatise.
“That human removed its exo-skeleton.” Svedbar said. “I didn’t think it was possible for them.”
C... | 2021-02-04T09:05:09 | 2021-02-04T08:48:14 | 213 | 144 |
[WP] In music, changing a song to a minor key is a small change that makes the song sound much creepier or sadder. Write a happy story, and then its counterpart in a minor key.
Edit: Wow! Thank you to everyone for all the great stories. This will definitely keep me reading for a while. | I remember it like it was yesterday.
She was 6, and I took her sledding down the Big Hill. How she'd always flop over at the bottom, like she was completey exhausted, only to bounce right back up and scramble to the top again.
She was 14, itching for an independence and maturity that was still a few years away. So l... | I noticed everything about her.
Her ever-present smile, her need to be the life of every party, her loud voice...
The way her fingers tapped incessantly, her snorting giggle, her lopsided hair cut...
Her unique, mismatched color schemes, her inability to draw, the paintings she insisted be hung up in every room...
... | 2015-07-13T21:14:45 | 2015-07-13T19:21:40 | 430 | 236 |
[WP] A tragic story but it's laden with product placement | You're on the ground, grasping through the dark toward anything that could help you get back upright, but there's nothing. You scream, "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"
But there's nobody around to hear you. You instinctively grab at your neck and where if you had bought Life Alert for only 19.99, a paramedic wo... | The young puppy lay quiet except for the ragged sound of it's struggled breathing. The tire tracks from his Cadillac Escalade covered it's back from head to tail. Daniel sparked another NewPort short. He stepped closer, careful not to crease his blue and black Air Jordan OG Space Jam 9's. "My bad, little guy, I should ... | 2017-07-10T21:57:17 | 2017-07-10T20:25:27 | 962 | 619 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Pops,
You were a real fucking piece of work you know that? I don't think I've hated anyone quite as much as I hated you. You called me lazy, good for nothing, useless. Made me spend my youth being the mule in your construction business instead of spending summers with my friends. You absolutely hated the fact... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T17:35:16 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 182 | 11 |
[WP] When teenagers turn 17, they are sent a slip of paper with their future occupation written on it. Yours says, "Princeps de Nova Roma" or "First Citizen of New Rome."
*Princeps* or *princeps civitatis* was the title that Augustus and all later emperors called themselves. "First citizen" meant the foremost citizen ... | Christian looked at the small, square piece of paper. It had a brittle consistency and smelled of ozone, as if it was burned by electricity.
"So, Christian, what did you get? I'm a surgeon now, pretty cool, eh? Weird! Yours looks different from mine... wait, is that Latin?"
"I don't know what the hell that is suppose... | The morning was cold, the sun was warm, and today was the day. Class was starting, and his teacher greeted everyone as he usually does, except he forgot about Jon today.
"Good morning, sir." With his hand held up high. "You didn't call my name."
"Yes, and with good reson behind it, too."
"But. I don't understand."
... | 2015-05-03T08:51:52 | 2015-05-03T08:19:28 | 82 | 23 |
[WP] You have $86,400 in your bank and someone steals $10. You spend all the rest of your money trying to get revenge. | "It's not the money, it's the principle."
My father's words. Though I think he was talking about taking a loan, as in principal with an A L, but that doesn't really matter.
It was free to find out who the culprit was, the bank does that for you. Not to help you, but to know who to put on their hit lists, your gain is... | When you put things down on paper, things sound stupid, this phase usually begins once you start to question your actions. Now this, my friends, is a stupid story and it all began the day I won the darn money.
"34, 37, 12, 96, 25" screamed the radio during the warm and slightly humid month of August. I looked at the ... | 2017-07-18T09:15:26 | 2017-07-18T09:02:52 | 3,787 | 16 |
[WP] A Furry Convention was one of the firsts to experience a zombie outbreak. Fortunately, the fursuit wearers seem to be ignored by the walking dead, as if the costumes hides their human presence. | “Step back, he’s been bit!”
“No I haven’t. That’s just the way my furry is supposed to walk.”
Pepper Pug growled. “Don’t you think that, maybe, the middle of a zombie outbreak isn’t the best time to ‘stay in character?’” He formed air quotes to accentuate the point, though the effect was lost under his fingerless mit... | "The thing is, everyone still thinks we're weird. The truth is we're pretty ordinary folk," said the blue cat, it's bored expression betraying the indigence of its voice, "In fact, it's because of us that this was even stopped."
The cameras stopped rolling, and the reporters stood aside. Years of traditional media and... | 2022-09-15T08:42:00 | 2022-09-15T05:23:09 | 53 | 23 |
[WP] In heaven you meet God, and ask him a single question. "God, why did you make the platypus so weird?" You ask. "The what?" God replies confused. | I cast my eyes discreetly downward as I humbly approached the resplendent golden throne. My lowered gaze was partially in reverence and partially due to the blinding rays of light that emanated from the ineffable Figure sitting upon the throne.
"Ask, and ye shall receive," came the chorale tones of a single majestic V... | "The fucking what"
God be chilling. I never woulda guessed but God is a; bucket hat wearing, dank weed smoking, non-descript, non-racial being that spends his time admiring accretion disks on black holes.
(A little masturbatory if you ask me, but idk, I'm not God)
"Yeah, it's got like a beak lmfao...but no wings, an... | 2022-07-03T15:45:54 | 2022-07-03T14:47:39 | 78 | 42 |
[WP] There's been a murder. You've got five suspects. Each is more eager to confess than the last, every one is adamant that they acted alone, and somehow all their stories check out. | Detective Grantham furrowed his brow.
Twenty five years and he'd never even HEARD of anything like this.
He sighed. "So YOU killed her?"
The man in handcuffs in the interrogation seat seemed to almost smirk. "Yeah. Like I said, I put strychnine in her nightcap."
Forensics had tested the nightcap and found strychnin... | “Why don’t we arrest all of them?”
It had been a looong night. Staying up, going over evidence. Tesimonies, Security footage, fingerprints, absolutely everything. All 5 suspects say that they did the crime, but they were completely alone. Plus, all the evidence for them lines up. Almost perfectly.
“Why?”
“Their evi... | 2021-12-06T18:42:19 | 2021-12-06T13:04:00 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] When she was little, she was cursed to kill anyone she fell in love with. Instead of becoming a hermit, she tasked herself to fall in love with Earth's most despicable human beings. | Elliot Crane was the kind of girl who was made for high school: popular, athletic, clever and above all very beautiful. Her only flaw was that she fell in love like people fell in holes; unwittingly and not for long periods of time.
Her latest fall didn't end in what one would call the right way. Elliot got so clo... | I felt the heaviness of the task at hand weighing down inside me. My bones felt like 100 pound weights pulling me down into the ground. But still, I had to do this. I am determined to make a masterpiece of my life with this curse. It can be a gift, I just have to make it so.
I lock eyes with the pale white, dark hair... | 2017-02-05T02:06:56 | 2017-02-04T23:17:10 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] A demon writes messages on your mirror in blood, but they're useful messages, things like "Don't forget you have yoga at 2" or "You're out of milk". | I'm a pretty scatterbrained gal, so I'm usually the first to get caught without an umbrella during an unexpected thunderstorm and I'm always the one who forgets important dates like anniversaries and birthdays, much to my partner's displeasure. I don't really recall when or why the messages began, but it must have star... | "Really? Yesterday you stay silent and today you bother me by reminding me I have yoga at 2?" Anyone would think that I'm crazy, if they saw me talking to myself like that, but when I talk about my own demons it's not a metaphor.
I don't know when my demons first appeared, they've been there from my earliest childhood... | 2021-07-19T19:46:04 | 2021-07-19T19:14:30 | 45 | 32 |
[WP] You wake up, grab your phone, and open Reddit. The top post has 674k upvotes and has been gilded over a thousand times. It simply says, "The world is ending." | *TRRRRRR*...*TRRRRRRRRRR*....*TRRRRRRRRRR*...*TR*-
I slam that "stop" button as hard as I can. Christ. That motherfucking alarm sound. I hate it more than my mother in law. In fact, I secretly believe it was handcrafted by Satan himself. If you can't bring us to hell, bring hell to us, he must have thought.
The sunli... | Outside of my window, the clouds turned to ash piles on the grass. A ray of sunlight shone on my face and it burned like the devil. I jumped out of the bed which was now on fire and quickly closed the curtains before I had more to clean up. Something was off about this, but the news channels I usually watch were just ... | 2019-01-05T21:47:23 | 2019-01-05T21:30:48 | 102 | 13 |
[WP] You are the child of a superhero and a supervillain conceived during a one night stand. You don't care for heroism or villainy, you just want your parents to get together so that you can have a family. | Part I:
"Mom!" I detested, "I don't want to go to villain school next year!"
"Honey, if you don't go to villain school..." she paused, letting a sigh of defeat pass, "You'll turn out like your father," she whispered. She always got quiet when she talked about dad.
"I don't care! I don't want to be a villain, and I d... | I’m stuck in the apartment again watching their battle. Vicious bolts of lightning and fiery infernos cover the tv screen, and inside the sadness is welling up again.
Mom and Dad; they are mortal enemies who somehow got together for a one night stand and created me. But there’s no family for me. I’m alone in an apart... | 2018-10-17T06:31:00 | 2018-10-16T21:46:05 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Write about a world where whenever somebody writes on their skin, it appears on their soulmate's body as well. | It began around 7 PM, a light scratching along the length of my forearm. It tickled, and made my hairs stand on end. At long last, after eighteen years of isolation, my soulmate was trying to reach out. All those years of dragging myself through the day, fueled by caffeine, only to drink myself to sleep, holding out fo... | I can't believe it. On her right forearm is the same tattoo that I have. It's the symbol for fire, not from Avatar. She must've grown tired of hearing that question asked as well. She has the same shoulder scar from my surgery. She must have so many questions. I fell out of a truck, I burned my forearm at the grill at ... | 2018-04-01T21:39:41 | 2018-04-01T20:03:34 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Every time you die valiantly in a video game it qualifies you for Valhalla, Odin's now a bit confused where all the new chubby warriors are coming from. | Odin slowly eyed up the figure in front of him. He was not impressed. Scrawny, tall, and horribly pale, he seemed to have almost no muscle on him. Even his demeanor carried an awkward confusion, even moreso than the usual amount. It was hard to believe that he was a valiant hero at any point, but death was never wrong,... | "Welcome, *mighty warrior!* A large voice boomed, shattering the darkness I was seeing and bringing forth a blinding light. Slowly, the dazzling brightness faded and gave way to shapes, objects, and.... a hammer?
"I am Odin, overseer of Valhalla. And you, brave warrior, have earned my grace."
*What?!* I thought. Even... | 2017-11-09T19:06:09 | 2017-11-09T17:25:57 | 317 | 142 |
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