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[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | Gilda smoothed down the folds of her shirt and ran her hands over empty pockets. Her equally empty stomach chirruped. Maybe that was her magic, she thought. There was one unfortunate boy who did food magic. She certainly felt something. She thought for a moment - maybe she did vomit magic? While most people did one of ... | The fearsome Dee Twen-Tee sat on the clift, facing his deadly rival: Rymus, the Poet. None dared to speak, for a wrong word may bring them to their ultimate demise - It was just time until any of them made the first action.
At high noon, Dee finally spoke: "You fiend, the gods stand by my side. I call upon you a strik... | 2018-10-15T21:30:14 | 2018-10-15T21:15:36 | 1,601 | 92 |
[WP] We found "god" but it wasn't what we thought. It is a giant ball of organic water in space that shoots ice comets filled with proto cells to dead worlds. We are now building submarines to dive inside it. | Since the dawn of human civilization, humanity has long wondered how life on their world came to be. Some believed that life on Earth came about entirely by accident while others believed that there was some divine being out there that had carefully created each species and placed them onto the planet. As it turned out... | We found it, at last. The origin of life. Not an intelligent creator, not a random chance, not some cosmic scale. A ball of water. It was... almost insultingly simple. Just a cosmic ball of water filled with cells that would sometimes shoot out comets filled with the basest organic matter. I mean all of our wildest the... | 2022-10-05T09:26:34 | 2022-10-05T09:06:17 | 753 | 211 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | Tallek sniffed, closing his lower eyes in frustration.
Of course it'd be humans. They may be new to the galaxy, but they were already making a name for themselves. They'd been living among the galactic community for seventy years, but had been painfully slow in adapting to the ways of the galaxy. Was it stupidity, or... | My little strike team and I tried not to laugh at how absolutely ridiculous the alien battleship in front of us looked as it slowly floated closer towards Earth’s orbit.
“So, this is the warship that destroyed those human colonies on Mars...” I thought out loud as I stared at this ridiculous hunk of bright yellow met... | 2020-03-21T13:22:48 | 2020-03-21T09:57:35 | 105 | 18 |
[WP] Alone on an alien starship, the only human envoy is asked to attend a therapy session with their ships counselor. The aliens do not have much in common with humans, psychologically.
As inspired by many sci-fi novels/shows/etc that have aliens behaving in human ways. | Celia rolled over on the metal floor, shivering. Even in her always-on suit with aerogel insulation and really elaborate heat-management systems, she was still cold. She figured she'd get used to it in another few weeks, but for now, she had to deal with the Ihu starship's environment. Ihu themselves had a biology base... | *"Hello"*, the nandite counselor exclaims softly from his bowl shaped seat.
"Hi", Tim replies, before sitting uncomfortably in a simlar chair.
*"So why don't I start off by telling you why you were asked here today."*, the counselor says, pausing until Tim nods before continuing, *"We've recieved several anonymous re... | 2014-06-18T01:07:27 | 2014-06-17T22:48:33 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is able to choose exactly one superpower. The catch: the more people select a certain power, the weaker it becomes.
Example: if many people choose telekinesis, they'll only be able to move small, light objects. If many people choose time travel, they'll only be able to go back a few seconds. | Creativity. Creativity is key.
The bank robbers were very well armed and clearly well trained. They held their guns confidently and quickly subdued the crowd, backing us against the wall, our faces to the ground. On one side of me, a man was muttering something, angry words, working himself up. On the other side, a wo... | She was special.
Her golden little curls bounced around as she jumped back and forth playing with her superhero doll with one of the boys in her class. 'Bang bang! -No John, you're dead now. You've got to play dead.' She informed the boy. He laid his hero to rest on the table and wandered off. She smiled to herself. ... | 2015-05-05T10:19:33 | 2015-05-05T09:46:53 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | The rain outside is tapping on the window. You're sitting on the couch watching a movie on the TV. It's an action movie about an arms dealer in the Middle East. Its depiction of the war was fairly accurate but the main characters are unconvincing.
The movie reminds you of the war you've fought five years ago--has it... | There I was, sitting in my designated chair at home, making memes and singing along to this old game I used to play which tells you how good you were at singing the song it gives you.
"OH DAMN! THIS IS MY JAM!!" I exclaimed having heard the first few chords of my favourite song. As I began singing along I noticed a sm... | 2017-05-15T09:06:47 | 2017-05-15T08:57:56 | 143 | 37 |
[WP] It was a weapon so powerful that not even the most barbaric warmongering civilisation could stomach it. Just by building one, we struck terror in the hearts of many species. We weren't even planning on using it... | "As of today, Earth is considered a Galactic Threat Level 1."
"Level 1? That doesn't sound too bad."
"It's pretty fucking bad, actually."
I was thrown into a van in the middle of the night and brought before the World Congress to receive this information. I'm not sure why a 21-year-old engineering student needs to b... | The "Sun Eater", that's how the Tarcyds called it when they offered unconditional surrender when we established first contact.
"Are you sure the translator is working correctly Dr. Lopez?" My first officer asked our SETI NCO, protocol dictated tha we had to bring one if we expected sentient life on the other sid... | 2022-10-31T21:11:07 | 2022-10-31T20:47:20 | 777 | 190 |
[WP] The town council died in a freak plane accident. An audit by the interim council revealed 20% of the town’s power is siphoned off to a structure with priority over even hospitals. The send you to investigate the building in the middle of nowhere. | The sound of rushing air penetrates through my headset as we begin the operation. I look over to the other squads, then check my parachute. So far, so good. A voice fills the headset.
“Cutting off power in 10 seconds.”
A few seconds later, we hear a distant explosion. Below us, there is faint shimmer of light, bare... | “Electricity. The fundamental force in our every day lives from our smart phones, to our blood sugar devices. Created though pushing hot steam into a turbine and spinning the magnet inside copper foils within a generator to create electricity. The Carbonville Carbon Company has always been and will be the best provider... | 2020-09-26T05:39:00 | 2020-09-26T04:08:27 | 223 | 39 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Late to the party as usual, but here goes.
In the human history there is man named Alexander whom they call 'the Great.' Alexander lead a vast army, which worshipped him, with which he conquered hundreds of kingdoms. He spread his noble culture to the far reaches of the world in an unbelievably short amount of time. ... | So the orion cocaine did a number on the human delegates. They were quite bitter we didn't have holodecks or green slave ladies. Figured a night in the tank would give them time to sober up.
They clogged the forcefield emitters with their clothing and excrement to weaken the shield, and just accepted the casualties a... | 2017-03-06T00:34:43 | 2017-03-05T21:44:24 | 171 | 124 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | At first Emma thought he was an old tramp. She glanced at him, smelling the cheap whisky on his breath. Her instinct was to give him some food or a few dollars. It took a moment for the image of the father that sat in her mind to reconcile with this person that stood before her.
Twenty years changes a person. All thes... | "You abandoned me is what happened!" the son quipped.
"What? I'd never! Just hear me out! I may be a little cloudy on the details, though..."
The father, easing into a recliner, sighed. "20 years ago, I left to get cigarettes, milk, and bread. You remember!"
The son nods curiously.
"On the way, I was assaulted by a... | 2016-07-20T06:00:41 | 2016-07-20T03:34:45 | 114 | 18 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "but the bread mold saved your grandfather Mort. And the maggots saved Earl's crushed food when everyone knew he was going to die. Sucking out the snake bite didn't save your boy Martha but any other healer would not have even tried. We lost what six of the last twenty babes born under her care? What other village can ... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T10:52:25 | 2017-09-14T07:28:47 | 82 | 16 |
[WP] Write a story where the narrator becomes increasingly fed up with the holes in the plot. | It’s a gift given to those worthy on the day of reckoning. A power so great and terrifying that it drives most insane. Those left in full control of their mental faculties often find themselves as hermits or monks, lost in introspective reversion. And for one Marabelle Sue, today was the day.
She looked in the mirror... | The sun bore down on Samford's exposed back as he moved through the field. The cornrows were but teenagers, reaching his belt buckle and swaying listlessly in the mild summer breeze. Samford's cleft chin pointed to the sky, allowing his tan face to absorb the warm embrace.
Brent, the proprietor to the plot that Samfor... | 2019-02-16T07:23:21 | 2019-02-16T04:41:51 | 183 | 37 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | It has been quite some time since the awakening, and tattoos were just the tip of the iceberg. Being inked was just the first thing that changed because tattoos are obvious, right there on the skin. People think that being marked openly in a way that had a price paid in pain is why the tattoos worked immediately. It w... | Crime rates exploded when the ink activated in our bodies. Those who didn’t have tattoos before tried getting one so they could have a power of their own, but it didn’t work; so they took to belittling us, making us all out to be criminals. And what did I do? I did what any sane person would do, I hid. But even years a... | 2019-05-07T08:18:21 | 2019-05-07T07:52:07 | 260 | 43 |
[WP] Write a story that has spoiler tags all over the place. The story has two different meanings: One when reading without looking at the spoiler tags, and one when the spoilers tags are moused over.
Not sure if this is too confusing, so I'll post an example sentence.
The man loves [the severed head of](/s) his wif... | Delicious. I could scruff this in one go but I wanted to make it last. So I chew one solitary pea at a time and smile. [Spoiler] (#s "I was solitary not too long ago myself here in Attica.") My buds were 6 o'clock from me but they seemed busy with their own lunch. [Spoiler] (#s "Sometimes we get caught up watching o... | So, here was John, [Spoiler](#s "Trying to decide how to murder Jack") with his hot girlfriend, Cindy. Jack [Spoiler](#s "only at day") was a nice guy, but the couple [Spoiler](#s "was trying to save the world by killing a guy who would destroy the earth, but Jack made the whole world turn on them and think they're the... | 2015-06-07T20:38:16 | 2015-06-07T15:12:48 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] A genie comes out of the wallet you just found, and hands you a 20 sided die. "Thank you for finding my lost wallet. I grant you a roll on the random reward table." You roll a 1. | "Well, fret not my unlucky friend! Your roll only lasts 1 day! However this is a luck roll, and if you look at dnd you'll see the type of idea I'm going for. Absolute utter failure at everything you do. And often the opposite occurs."
"So what your saying is I fail at everythig? Purdon me, wait, even at talking?..."
... | "Oh You're in quite the unlucky one today", The genie leaned back and coiled his fingers together. But don't fret there is still a prize for such a soul. The genie ruffles in the folds of his wallet and pulls a blank card. "I give you this punch card. With this you have 5 punches to bend the odds ever in your favor whe... | 2021-07-30T11:25:52 | 2021-07-30T09:12:39 | 65 | 15 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | The idea was simple. A complete world isolation, every country for themselves. Basically a "time off" for the world's politics. 50 years. Time enough for a new generation to take place, one that wouldn't be seduced by the desire to put themselves above others.
It was a grey day when the ceremony took place. America pr... | Lying underneath the broken husks of countries, some semblance of government had remained. And together, in their wisdom, the greats had decided that - to avoid any further conflicts, which could prove even more disastrous - each country should isolate itself from its neighbours. That way, even if some internal crisis ... | 2016-10-18T16:17:24 | 2016-10-18T14:31:05 | 742 | 158 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | Captain's Log Number 62. 0600, Day 25 after commencement of Operation Swordfall.
This is a message from Knight Captain Zerraxi Rascirson of the recon relay ship "HMS Percifus" to all ships of the Empire. Anyone who picks up this message is to forward it immediately to the Ozirian Imperial high command and his Majesty.... | Intel was coming in about an interesting population on the planet. It was called the USA, a place we would have to take out before they could react, as an admiral of their own pity squabbles once put it, 'you cannot invade mainland america, there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass' if this was the case, ameri... | 2017-08-08T06:41:23 | 2017-08-08T03:18:52 | 889 | 116 |
[WP] Humanity split into subspecies: Alters, who alter their genes, Augmented, who augment flesh with machines, and Ascended, who uploaded their consciousness. After centuries of coexistence, the tenuous peace between the ideologies is threatened.
I swear I corrected that before commit. Sorry.
The Altered, The Augmen... | I was born altered, a decision my parents made for me and has benefited me up until now. In the past decade there has been huge stratification between the classes. Altered was on top, since altering genetics had been refined to a point that any member of the ultra wealthy could make their kid into truly remarkable bein... | *A man in a suit appears on the TV screen. He looks for all appearances, human. His face is pale and dark circles hang under his eyes. His eyes have lines of red running through the whites. Only a deep look into the irises of the man reveal his true nature. They are not natural, but lens. This “man” is the representati... | 2018-07-01T10:01:08 | 2018-07-01T08:41:45 | 340 | 32 |
[WP] "I'm retired. RETIRED. I saved the world once. I'm not doing it again. I'll kill the next messenger you send." | There was a hesitant knock at the door. Snatching up my sword, I snarled. I'd told them I'd kill the next messenger, and killing people always put me in a bad mood. Throwing the door open, I brought the sword around in a forceful swing.
"Ah—" It was a sharp high-pitched scream, that cut off in the middle. Roaring, ... | "But the Grand Imposer!"
"Imposer-Shmozer!" I waved my hand at the poor boy, walking back towards my garden. "Send The Silver Sword Knight!"
"Sliced by The Golden Sword Samuri."
"Miss Morning-Star!"
"Crushed by Night Moon."
"Erm... The Cannibal Kid?"
"Ate by--"
"Stop right there. I get it."
He perked up, "So yo... | 2022-08-25T16:44:06 | 2022-08-25T15:32:46 | 162 | 54 |
[WP] There is a girl in school that you lately have a huge crush for. The way she dresses, talks and acts seems to be like your ideal type. One day you steal and hack her phone hoping to find some info you can use to win her over. The phone is full of pictures, videos and recordings of you. | #Ashley
EDIT: [I've decided to get back into writing/voice acting](https://youtu.be/h_kDbFn-X10?t=93) Feedback is appreciated!
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Ashley stands up, hand resting on a shoulder a little too long as I gaze up into her piecing green eyes. A hint of red in her lips? A flush in her cheeks? Probably just my imagination.
... | BECKY AURORA.
If only she knew this late blooming, zit infested- gamer stud is infatuated with her to the point that I have imaginary conversations to myself to what I would say to her.
"SOooo....Bex and effects. ALL I WANNA DO IS IN A ZOOM-ZOOM ZOOM and a BOOM BOOM!" While I shake my rump to Teddy Riely's voice in m... | 2021-09-23T00:54:05 | 2021-09-22T19:07:00 | 74 | 20 |
[WP] Necromancy is punishable by death, and you, a proud necromancer, have been caught and are about to be executed. Time to see if you can raise your own corpse. | Jack chuckled to himself as he stood atop the platform with the executioner casually approaching. He'd be condemned to death for the crime of being a Necromancer and ironically, that very crime would allow him to survive this ordeal, hopefully with no side effects. Or at least, Jack *thought* it'd allow him to survive.... | # Unfinished Quests
Brenner’s Cross, an unassuming town, on an unimportant crossroads. The rising sun had barely tickled the first-floor windows. On the dusty streets, a few particularly dedicated traders began to hawk their wares, and the usual queue snaked its way from the front of the Adventurer’s guild.
In the to... | 2020-07-25T23:49:20 | 2020-07-25T23:22:49 | 147 | 26 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | I leaned back in my office chair and stretched my arms high over my head. With a sigh of relief, I finally turned away from Earth-2294. In 250 A.D., the humans living there had managed to rediscover the Garden of Eden, and they had waged a siege on an epic proportion that had lasted almost two thousand years. It had ta... | "Yo lil j", God exclaimed when he glanced at the small planet of earth. "What can you tell me about this "earth"?" Jesus looked up from his candy crush game to reclaim his memories of his time there. "Aw pops, those are some weirdos man. I told I'm I was your son and they fuckin put me on a cross and crucified my ass."... | 2015-12-27T10:49:08 | 2015-12-27T08:16:37 | 791 | 578 |
[WP]"Dad, I am cold" "Son, please, it's been 7 years already, why do you keep coming back?" | "Dad, I am cold."
"Son, please, it's been 7 years already, why do you keep coming back?"
"Say it."
"I don't want to say it."
"You have to say it. You murdered me. You murdered Mom. Look at me. Look at my neck. Look what you did to me."
"I don't have to look at anything. You're an apparition. Leave... | “So...cold.”
“Son. It’s been six—wait. No. *Seven* years. Why do you keep coming back?”
“P...pa-pa. I’m so...so cold. I. I can’t get warm, pa-pa. So very—hey-hey! Don’t close that door. It’s snowing out here.”
“Look. You’re twenty-five, I don’t mind you visiting — lord knows I love seeing you, kid — but I can’t have... | 2022-12-13T06:39:56 | 2022-12-13T03:25:40 | 221 | 110 |
[WP] A world where eating a person lowers your age by 20 years. The poor are offered up to the rich who have been around for hundreds of years. | My brother and I sat at mother's bedside, teary-eyed and with broken hearts. She didn't have cancer, or some kind of heart defect- "her body is just old" they told us. She's only 45, but there's nothing to fix, and nothing to cure; she aged quickly, for some reason. Just the imminence of death intruding on our lives.
... | It was discovered on 7th of April, 1997, that eating people lowered your age for 20 years.
At first, people were horrified - how the bloody heck had they *discovered* this!?
Then, they realised - what counted as a 'Person'? What if they declared ants people? This, of course, proved fruitless, only things with a high... | 2016-02-21T21:34:12 | 2016-02-21T21:06:05 | 69 | 48 |
[WP] A senile, old superhero still goes out to fight crime. None of the younger heros respect him anymore but all the villains have a soft spot for him.
Maybe he's found himself in the middle of a hero/villain war, or he's just trying to stop a bank robbery.
Edit: wow this uhh... kinda blew up didn't it?
Oh man I'm... | **ANOTHER TYPICAL DAY IN CENTRAL CITY - THE CITIZENS GO ABOUT THEIR DAILY BUSINESS, THE BIRDS SING - AND A BANK IS ROBBED!**
BOOM!
*"Right, let's get out of there, Technofiend!"*
"I OBEY, HELLVIXEN."
*"You don't always have to talk like that, Tech."*
"Soz."
"MU-HA-HA-HA! Our evil plan reaches fruition! So... | It was a brisk October morning. The park was full of people milling about and enjoying their Saturday morning, some were out on dates hoping to find true love, others were simply enjoying their time. Towards a wide river, many tables were set up so people could have a view of the mega city, enjoy a bite to eat, or play... | 2017-04-13T06:02:27 | 2017-04-13T05:53:36 | 73 | 41 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | First time doing one of these, Just seemed fun. Kind of all over the place, hopefully it reads alright.
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The humans had fought fiercely during first contact hundreds of years ago. When Xenadites made the mistake of viewing them as just another destructive species ... | (You know what? I'll bite. I plan on deleting this line later, but I may forget.)
"Such is the duty of lords and princes, envoy. Release the pl-"
*"Release?* That's a pompous way of saying 'annex', diplomat'"
"We only ask what is our birthright, from the great Mandate Of Our Wisdom - our law is fair, our rule is ju-... | 2018-12-15T00:30:27 | 2018-12-15T00:16:21 | 102 | 30 |
[WP] Once people reach a certain age, it is tradition to visit the Oracle and be told by it the way they'll die, and all of it's predictions have been 100% correct. As you finally face it yourself, the Oracle proclaims something completely unheard of before: "I have nothing to tell you." | You approach the oracle on her dais. "What do you mean?"
She smiles simply saying, "I have nothing to tell you. It is quite plain in it's meaning."
This has never happened before. Every living person who stood before was given a glimpse into their death. It was seen as a rite of passage and maturity. And here you wer... | The man in front of me looked up hopefully to the desk. the Oracle seemed to ponder something before his eyes landed back on the man before him.
"Freight train, three hours." he announced, met with despair. Weeping, the man stumbled out of sight.
The Oracle turned back to the podium where I stood giddily
"So..." he ... | 2020-02-20T10:17:32 | 2020-02-20T07:32:03 | 56 | 10 |
[WP] On a trip out to wilderness of Norway, you found a weird hammer looking thing in the woods that feels tingly to touch. You decide to pick it up bring it to a local university but upon handing it to the chief of the archeology department he gets yanked to the floor and can't lift it back up. | “I found this in the forest, professor.” I held the hammer flat with both hands. It was larger than any hammer I’d ever used before, its body shimmering in the sunlight streaming in through the large windows of the office. On one side were engravings in a forgotten language. And I swore every time I shifted the hammer,... | At this time I suggest for the sake of the tale, all the legend and lore of Odin have a basis in fact
Since you were able to pick it up you assumed it to be a representation of Thor’s Hammer and a
archeological artifact possibly of significant importance. Not until you handed it to another
did you begin to suspect an... | 2019-01-09T14:30:52 | 2019-01-09T09:18:22 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] All Humans have a Sword they are born with, Every year on your birthday, your sword gets more detailed and powerful. You, are born with a Gun. | "What am I supposed to do with *that?*"
"We've been to every dojo in the city. You have to be able to teach him *something.*"
The old man looked at me skeptically, nervously standing behind my mom and holding a pistol with both hands. "Miss, there's not much I can do for you. This isn't a gun range. We don't hav... | The country is controlled by the archaic method as it always has been. The new king kills the last one in a duel. it is often little more than the older man wins unless he gets to be to old to even lift the thing. As such, our kingdom is very rarely led by someone intelligent and it is usually the oldest meathead in ch... | 2020-10-22T09:33:58 | 2020-10-22T09:26:16 | 280 | 160 |
[WP]You summon a demon in order to complete a ritual in exchange you offered all your remaining lifespan. "17 billion years...I'm can't handle that amount" it answered with a mix of shock and horror. | It happened in an instant, the demon shifted to a less ominous and intimidating form to something that I guess you could call "demon business casual".
"I cant process this amount, but let me refer you to someone who can let me just . . . " their arm phasing into the nether of Hell. "Here, this incantation can put you ... | Backstory: I’m 17 years old, I come from a family of witches, my grandmother asked me to perform a ritual that would help me grow in power, but I, a skeptical girl, didn’t think this was real. Until I heard a demonic voice respond back, that I have a 17 billion year lifespan.
Now:
The candles in the room go out.
I q... | 2021-04-11T00:21:12 | 2021-04-10T20:30:38 | 83 | 17 |
[WP] You are bored and you pray for true love to a forgotten god on a whim. To your utter shock, a portal opens up above your head and a solemn void says, "This compass will show you the way to your soulmate." The thing is, the compass would just point to the stars no matter where you go. | (note: It's my first time writing stuff other than fanfics and essays so I used 'he' for everyone because I have no concept of character design whatsoever)
"So my soulmate's an astronaut ?"
The void flickered for a moment but chose to guide the human again. "I believe the space station is above another country as of... | "This fucking compass is broken." Shawn muttered annoyed as he stared at the open sky.
Why on Earth did he pray to a God that had been gone longer than humanity has existed. And why for the love of God did he ask for true love?! He could have asked for money, or a career or money, or a new car or money and did he men... | 2022-01-24T07:53:53 | 2022-01-24T07:40:04 | 451 | 111 |
[WP] the apocalypse has come and gone, and civilization has started to rebuild itself. you are an archeologist investigating a local legend in a land once called Florida. down at a sacred cape, legend has it that mankind rode dragons into the sky to live in. the stars and promised to return one day | Of course, they didn't know then the dragons were *real*.
Dr. Luke Kensington sat staring dismally into the campfire, listening to the old stories. He wasn't drunk enough for this shit. It was another hot night under the stars, listening to the ocean tug at the sand. Listening to his colleague regale all those bright-... | "So why'd you drag us down to this backwater swamp?" Colette asked, with a slight eye roll. Though, I couldn't blame her for being apprehensive. After all, we were ankles deep in a swamp with nothing but soggy greens and murky water around for miles.
"We're here to do what we always do, uncover the past and see what ... | 2020-03-11T08:58:09 | 2020-03-11T07:47:50 | 692 | 96 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | I blinked in surprise, turning from the TV in surprise as it rang.
The Red Phone.
They don't bother me lightly. I've made it clear that I value my privacy too much to get involved in every little scuffle between nations. After it leaked that the Heroes Society was trying to recruit me and Doctor Nefarious came after... | I am tired of all the things I have seen.
The "Problem Solver" is my nickname, and as for much I hate it, I must say it is catchy and appropiate.
They only call me when there is a problem that the other heros cannot handle, like a last choice, a last hope, a last light before someone closes the curtain.
My powers ... | 2022-03-29T10:06:36 | 2022-03-29T07:09:54 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | In the far away land of Sala-McSnerd
Lived a middle aged woozle named Nudist Jay Bird
Each day by the river he'd hunt for wild snuthings
Each night he'd return with two bags full of nothings
"We're hungry!" said his wife. "Get back on the job!"
So he'd head back out, his hand still on the door knob
And even his childr... | I am sad
Sad I am
Have i gone mad
I might just have
I would not could not anymore
my life is just one great big chore
I try to dream but cant escape
This life that i have learned to hate
Ive rustled and bustled
and truffled about
With bad thoughts and worse thoughts
I can't drown them out
So think me a cowa... | 2015-01-17T07:16:40 | 2015-01-17T04:21:47 | 46 | 15 |
[WP] Your father died when you were a child. Before he passed, he wrote you letters, one for each birthday, until your eighteen. Over the years they’ve become more and more eerily specific - addressing things he couldn’t have known would occur. | I don't know how he died, but it never really seemed to matter to me until recently. I just turned eighteen today, and like every year before, I received another envelope from my mother. Inside was a letter, supposedly written by my father. The thing is, he can't have written this one. No one could write this unless th... | \*Happy Eleventh Birthday, son! I hope you are enjoying your new PlayStation that we got you!\*
I read those first words, centered at the top of the white card\-stock letter, with a shudder. I am eighteen now, and I've been getting these cards in the mail every birthday since I was five, the year that my father died.... | 2018-05-26T10:26:12 | 2018-05-26T10:15:33 | 203 | 18 |
[WP] At the age of twelve you started randomly seeing a green line and a red line appear on the ground. You always followed the green line and have lived a successful and happy life. Ten years later you are on top of the world, but bored. Time to see where the red line leads. | Green for go, red for stop. The rules applied as always, and as a normal, non-colour blind individual, I followed the soothing colour of nature as it led me to prosperity. The green line directed me away from the train station when there was an anarchist bombing. The green line led me to the office where I would eventu... | "Honey." It's my wife speaking. Her hand is on my arm. Her fingers dig into my coat like they do to the skin on my back when we're making love. She wants me *with* her, *in* her - to stay.
But the feeling is different. For some reason. It's...it's all wrong.
I want to leave. Why won't she let me? Usually I don't min... | 2017-08-23T06:49:01 | 2017-08-23T05:44:04 | 175 | 30 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Humans are a species of civilized monsters.
There was silence in the vaulted halls of the home of the Council, as the human delegation passed. For each member species, the station housing the center of the Milky Way's government had its own name. Officially, human governments called it Canis Prime. Most of us, however... | "I don't have much time, the humans are closing in on this location. For the Dosh Empire, our end marches inevitably closer. And the worst part about it is that we were the architects of our own downfall.
We thought the humans would be a simple conquest. It was the way of the galaxy, the strong controlled, or killed t... | 2019-04-18T16:41:31 | 2019-04-18T15:48:20 | 533 | 238 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "Dad?"
"Dad are you ok?"
I stood there speechless for what felt like forever. Up until this moment my life had been what most would call perfect. A loving, caring wife. An adoring son. The irony that the gift from his last Father's Day that brought joy to my heart is now the source of this terrible anguish.
My wif... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2017-06-11T10:22:32 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] The villain succeeds - and though utterly amoral, his plans result in a genuinely happier, better world.
And please, no "Reality TV stars executed". I know we all want it but that's too easy a way out. | From her office window she could see the street corner. The was a repurp standing there. There always was. Sometimes another arrived to take its place. Sometimes a tourist would give it wide berth, looking disgusted and disturbed. Often a passerby would walk up to ask for directions or report something. She knew -- she... | You either die a villain, or love lig enough to see yourself become the hero.
It's not the way the saying is supposed to go, but nothing ever goes the way it should, does it?
The world wanted a hero. The mob mentality of the people decided that a simple man with extraordinary talents and with big ideas for the worl... | 2013-12-14T17:18:23 | 2013-12-14T14:59:57 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] I thought it was a weapon. But it was actually a shield. | I returned home that day to find Sarah waiting for me. Taking a look around the room I saw that she'd taken everything that was hers. She had two bags at her feet, and her make up was smudged from where she had been crying.
"I'm sorry Jason. I really am." she whispered, holding back tears. "I tried to make it work, I ... | I ended up breaking a bone in my foot the first time I used my demon. His name is Frisky (I named him) and he lives in the pocket of whatever I'm wearing that has a pocket. Capturing demons is tricky work, but I had seen my dad do it a few times. He taught me everything by doing, which is why I thought you could use de... | 2017-03-15T12:23:21 | 2017-03-15T11:25:28 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | Rolling my chair closer to the desk, fingers jittering slightly as I slid the slide onto the stand and centered it, I brought my face close to the microscope. I'd spent years perfecting it, and today was the first real trial of it with something other than micro-sized images printed off.
I had put a few cheek cells sp... | *It actually started ringing. The number wasn't a fake, then again how could it be a fake. To be able to leave a phone number on a cell.*
It kept ringing a few times, each sound sending a new shiver through my body.
*Why was I so nervous, then again all this was so surreal, how could I not be?*
Then a crackling nois... | 2018-08-14T08:39:35 | 2018-08-14T06:45:36 | 201 | 148 |
[WP] On your deathbed you confide to your nurse the fact that you were a serial killer who got away with your crimes. "Me too," She replies wryly. | I try to pick up my spoon, determined to feed myself. It shakes in my hand, no matter how I tighten my grip, but I will not concede defeat, and manage to get a small dose of soup into my mouth. It is bland, tasteless. How far I have fallen.
After so many years of faithful service, the Lady Death now turns her black e... | She was young, of pristine skin and pale complexion, a smile that shone with the luster of the sun and hair like threads of golden. An angel disguised as a nurse. My only companion through my last heartbeats.
I'd lived a life of sin, snatching lives I didn't own for ignoble reasons, for greed and lack of compassion. I... | 2018-02-27T06:48:32 | 2018-02-27T05:09:29 | 2,540 | 188 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | You grew up with bruises on your knees and scabs aplenty, just like any other kid. What your parents never knew was that not all of them were your own.
You're ten; baby Sarah from next door is bawling because she's just fallen and skinned her knee. You take the pain away from her. As the wound fades from her knee you... | For I was but a mirror. I reflected the humanity I spoke with every day, the bright and casual faces that greeted me each morning, that I whispered my secrets to each night. I lived, and loved, and internalized the very real love that human beings share for one another, when allowed to speak freely, and without shame. ... | 2017-06-12T07:49:37 | 2017-06-12T06:38:02 | 1,670 | 34 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | First time writing - this one just inspired me!
I open my eyes. There are no lights on, and the sky outside is midnight blue. I check my watch - it's fancy, nicer than my last one - but it seems to be broken. I listen out for my wife, Amy, but I can't hear anything. She must be out. The apartment is almost sepulchral ... | I'm tired and I want to go home, but I can't. Not until she is dead, I've come this far I have to see it through. There is a sound at the door and I hasten to shut and lock it. Now is not a time for interruptions, there is work to be done. I pull open the bottom drawer, it's full of tools of the trade. I slip on a pair... | 2017-08-30T05:52:15 | 2017-08-30T05:08:01 | 617 | 169 |
[WP] Every day at your job you learn a secret that shatters your reality, you have seen horrors beyond the ability for words to describe and things that mankind was never meant to witness. You are a janitor, and you wish those top-secret experiments could be less messy. | Ichor, man, it's the worst. It just...it's not only that it gets everywhere, I mean it does, but mostly you just don't know exactly how it's going to behave. See, the problem with the holes? The real problem? They're not consistent. One of the eggheads tried to explain it to me once, told me the universe, sorry multive... | "Mind your business, pal," my conscience yells silently through the dark, musty hall at the crowd of gelatinous stains perched on the tiled white of the walls. They are looking at me in solemn judgement, a jury staring its defendant down as his guilt unfolds in a symphony composed by a masterfully merciless prosecution... | 2019-08-04T08:15:33 | 2019-08-04T08:05:20 | 82 | 13 |
[WP] Having failed in every attempt to kill Batman, the villains of Gotham had given up. With nothing to do, they started a D & D group and had been meeting for several weeks in the back room of a local Tavern. Things take a turn when the owner, Mr. Bruce Wayne, asks if he may join their game | It had been a few weeks before the Commissioner decided to send me in. After the GCPD got word that a bunch of the big name villains had started meeting regularly, Gordon decided to get someone on the inside making sure that they really were just "playing that D&D game" and not planning their next big attack on Got... | "I seduce the mimic chest."
"Harley, darling, you can't deduce every obstacle we come across." The Joker, in a surprisingly endearingly way, was losing patience with Quinn's stratagem.
"Don't be jelly mon frere; we all wanna see what Riddler comes up with next. I bet it bites her...in *two*." Dent's a smooth talker w... | 2017-05-14T02:54:37 | 2017-05-14T01:05:42 | 132 | 29 |
[WP] You receive a letter in the mail: "a product recall has been issued for models number A1005 to A1055. Please be at this address by Sunday."You go to find, to your surprise, fifty some people who look just like you. | I looked at the letter. "It must be talking about my car." I thought. I had bought this car about 3 months ago and just my luck, it was getting recalled. I guess something about the positronic inhibitor was faulty. I figured that I should show up.
My roommate walked in. "Hey." I said "Hey." he said. I moved in with h... | Swinging my feet to the side of the bed, I felt that familiar twinge in my back as the concept of age once again filled my conscious. I was getting older every day and maintenance was getting a bit more difficult with each passing year.
The toothpaste tasted a bit weird this morning. I found another gray hair and I a... | 2015-07-05T18:55:05 | 2015-07-05T17:11:50 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] Humans died a long time ago. But our AI live on as caretakers for the planet; becoming spirit-like constructs integrated into the planet; today, alien colonizers arrived to what they thought was a garden world. The Fey Machines are having none of that. | ######[](#dropcap)
Feyah’s eyestalks pressed up against the glass, darting back and forth as she looked down at the planet below. “It’s so…*colorful*,” she breathed. “Is all that blue really water?”
“It really is,” Orhan answered. He stood behind his daughter, gazing through the small viewport toward what he hoped wo... | An enormous factory towers above an electric city of the distant future. Flat-screen billboards line prism-shaped buildings, hovering mechanical devices whirl and float throughout the streets-- meaningless, aimless. There is no flesh in sight, only advanced electrical and mechanical objects.
This factory is stagnant, ... | 2020-05-22T17:07:30 | 2020-05-22T16:40:34 | 434 | 47 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | A young lady at a loud coffee shop just can't seem get comfortable in her cushy leather seat. Every position doesn't quite work right.
~ Am I gassy? It must be the coffee. I think I've had a bit too much coffee.
She looks down at the nearly full cup of coffee.
~ Or not.
The bell at the door draws her attention. A... | I don't remember when I first started seeing them. I think it was after High School, but before college. They were kind of fuzzy at first, and I thought I just needed glasses.
One day I noticed that they were becoming clearer. There were words. Some were clearer than others. Then it happened.
I was walking down the s... | 2015-03-31T10:33:36 | 2015-03-31T10:05:02 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] You're psychic like the rest of your family but you didn't end up working as a detective/psychic/govt agent, instead...
Find the most trivial use ever of your awesome psychic powers, or a non-cliche lifestyle, etc/interaction with the rest of your typical psychic family. | They were already seated when I got to the funeral home, and for a moment it seemed as if no time had passed at all. Uncle Hemly was the first to see me enter, and he tipped his head slightly in acknowledgement.
*Jonathan! We were hoping you would come*, he said to me, projecting the words directly into my head. All ... | The poor guy was incredulous, but soldiered on.
"Just open your mind to the idea and bear with me. Jesus came to Amer--"
Niamh grabbed his hand and, in complete monotone, interrupted him.
"How do you reconcile your disbelief in God with all this proselytizing?"
The man withdrew his hand like he'd touched a burning ... | 2017-03-30T06:40:13 | 2017-03-30T06:38:51 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You're abducted by aliens & soon realize it's more of an adoption than an abduction. You're now a pet for a loving alien family. They can't understand you but they seem to understand your body language & have basic knowledge of what humans need to live and entertain themselves when they're busy | "No! Get off of me! I'm not going!" I screamed, trying to remove the leash.
"👍︎□︎❍︎♏︎ □︎■︎📪︎ ⍓︎□︎◆︎ ■︎♏︎♏︎♎︎ ⧫︎□︎ ♌︎♏︎ ⬥︎♋︎●︎🙵♏︎♎︎ ♏︎❖︎♏︎❒︎⍓︎ ♎︎♋︎⍓︎."
"I'm not going on another fucking walk!"
As I was pulling myself away from the alien, it lost it's grip on the leash.
"☟︎♏︎⍓︎ ♑︎♏︎⧫︎ ♌︎♋︎♍︎🙵 ♒︎♏︎❒︎♏︎!"
I quickl... | "Look, uh, Mary-Kate-"
"Emily-Kate"
"Emily-Kate! Can I call you Emily?"
"Kate" she said tersely.
"Ok, Katie-"
"Kat, if you must." She was cold. All business. But I can't say I can blame her, I mean after all she just accused me of having her abducted by aliens.
"Um, Emily-Kate, I'm truly sorry, as being here mys... | 2019-05-09T17:00:54 | 2019-05-09T17:00:34 | 53 | 35 |
[WP] Make a story so awkward even the narrator start's getting uncomfortable.
. _ .
Starts*
Auto correct is my mortal enemy. | Once upon a time, in a land far, far away called Uttoxeter there lived a man called Terrance.
Now Terrance wasn't really a significant sort; a bit of a loner and a hardly mention-able in any of the town's proud and long annals of history. In fact, when asking most of the populace about Terrence there would be a stati... | “I can’t wait to finally meet your parents.” Brians tells Chelsea on the drive over to her family’s house. Chelsea has been hesitant to bring me over to meet her family. I don’t know why. She talks about them a lot. They’re both rather successful. Unfortunately, Chelsea knew something about her parents she didn’t want ... | 2014-12-23T09:23:38 | 2014-12-23T08:43:21 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Magic is a fickle thing.
It appears differently for everyone. Some see roots like a tree, burrowing through the world. Others see motes of light, floating through the air like stars in the sky. Some even see magic as tiny, microscopic organisms present throughout the world's bloodstream.
Personally, I see magic as r... | The Dark Lord stood in silence as he watched the young, covered in torn clothes, barely being able to stand up human started rising up. Hemble, the last member of the party of the Ghand let out a screeching cracking sound as his skin started to glow and flame up.
"Leaving me as the last one was a..." A grand crack int... | 2020-07-11T04:57:11 | 2020-07-11T04:20:41 | 34 | 10 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "but the bread mold saved your grandfather Mort. And the maggots saved Earl's crushed food when everyone knew he was going to die. Sucking out the snake bite didn't save your boy Martha but any other healer would not have even tried. We lost what six of the last twenty babes born under her care? What other village can ... | "Dear, don't listen to her!"
I stood square and looked mom in the eye. "I will. She explained more of it and it all hangs together. She said we could *die*. I think we should at least… check it."
Mom took a deep breath and came around the table. "I had hoped she'd be able to hold her tongue around the kids. What a th... | 2017-09-14T15:04:14 | 2017-09-14T07:28:47 | 85 | 16 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The human female Margaret Waller across from him sat quietly, puzzling over what had just been revealed to her.
"A war? Today is our first real confirmation that we're not alone in the universe, and the first thing we have to do is fight a war..." Her voice trailed off and her eyes became unfocused. "I suppose tha... | As *THEY* came we all stopped what we were doing. We left our homes, our workplaces, religious temples and stared. We stared in disbelief.
How long did it take? Mere weeks. It was a strange preposition.
Councilman Avurr stood on the podium and spoke to us:
"Fellow Dalurians. We have to make a difficult choice. Death ... | 2016-05-13T08:43:48 | 2016-05-13T06:49:00 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] The Devil and Jesus meet each other disguised as hobos. They don't realise, who the other really is (at first) and start having a conversation. | "This your corner?"
The man with blue eyes looks up, sun directly behind the stranger in front of him. Stubbled, disheveled, with a torn leather jacket and a grungy terrier in his arms. Green eyes. The stranger nods at the corner of Sunset and Fairfax. Blue Eyes shakes his head, surfer-blonde hair bobbing slightly.
"... | The two old men in rags sat on the corner of a busy sidewalk in downtown Manhattan. In front of each of them lay a cup and a sign reading “Out of luck, spare a buck.” One of the old men took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes, put one between his lips and offered the other man one.
“No thanks, I don’t smoke,” repli... | 2014-07-29T08:57:42 | 2014-07-29T07:49:28 | 254 | 20 |
[WP] Every person is born with a timer on their wrist that counts down to when the person meets their soulmate | Tom had a habit of beating the snooze button every single morning. It was a wonder that his poor alarm clock made it through all these years.
But today was a special day. Today, Tom didn't snooze. As far as he could recall, this never happened. But this day was way too important to stay in bed.
For the first time in ... | 10 James sat slumped in that greasy arm chair for the third night in a row. The bottles at his feet were comfortable now, confident they would no longer be disturbed. As daylight began to struggle through his curtains, he felt that he too was comfortable. Not where sat, but in the decision he had made.
9 James felt hi... | 2013-11-16T22:33:03 | 2013-11-16T21:47:17 | 52 | 28 |
[WP] You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | It had all come down to this. I stand upon this roof top silently contemplating my life. I had always been the compassionate type. Each day I made as many selfless acts as possible. I don't like to see anyone or anything struggle. I am the type of person that always gave away my spare change, helped elderly women acros... | I heard the killer's steps echo across the basement. I tried to think of some last line to make sense of it all, to die with a semblance of honour. Instead, I just whimpered; the days of relentless torture had left me a shell of a man.
He strode toward me, relishing in the moment. He took great pleasure in watching m... | 2017-08-27T22:49:17 | 2017-08-27T21:49:27 | 392 | 197 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | _So, we've been informed that you were the janitor on shift when it happened. Care to share what you saw?_
Well, it all happened so fast. I mean, I've thought about it and I think I know what happened. I've put some pieces of conversation and orders together and have a general idea.
_Well, please continue_
They were... | The year is 2564. I am the last man on earth. The world was slowly ending and we knew it. What remains of humankind is settled on Mars, minus the Germans. World War XVI had taken its toll, but what we had never expected was how the war ended. Out of nowhere, with no warnings, Mauna Loa erupted for the first time since ... | 2017-08-18T02:27:56 | 2017-08-18T00:11:45 | 2,100 | 44 |
[WP]At last the Dovahkiin dies. Now all the Daedra princes he has served over his life fight for his soul. | It's not often that a dead person has the chance to grin. But here I stood, my pearly whites shining as I looked at the gathered Daedric Princes. Oh, there was a lone Jill as well, apparently tasked to serve a representative of Akatosh, but she was outnumbered by the many entities who thought they had claims on my soul... | The Day the Daedra feared has come. Dovahkiin has died! But not only that, for a great strife has formed. The Dark Daedric princes who did have the Dragonborn serving them, are now fighting for his greatest item. Not a necklace or a sword. For it is not a mundane item. They want the soul of the Dragonborn.
As they al... | 2018-06-15T09:16:04 | 2018-06-15T08:08:41 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] You are wizard or witch summoning your first familiar. Your friends are summoning dragons and Chimeras you summon a white raven. Your friends laugh but the teachers look horrified. | Alice got a dragon, Libby got a manticore, and Carly got a freaking chimera! I got stuck with a white raven.
Of course my friends were surprised, but supportive, the kind of annoying supportive where you can tell they feel bad but don’t want you to know. My teacher came over as soon as the stupid bird showed up with ... | Zargossa swallowed her cough, and jumped in her chair. Her eyes glanced left and right. *Nobody saw that, good.*
"You're really excited aren't you?" James said from behind Zargossa, loud enough for the class to hear.
She swallowed, and turned around in her chair to meet his sly smile. *Why is this boy so obsessed wit... | 2021-07-06T16:42:52 | 2021-07-06T12:59:33 | 120 | 16 |
[WP] You're a regular office worker born with the ability to "see" how dangerous a person is with a number scale of 1-10 above their heads. A toddler would be a 1, while a skilled soldier with a firearm may score a 7. Today, you notice the reserved new guy at the office measures a 10. | "And you see, Miss Spencer, that's why I no longer eat corn."
Robert finished his story with a large breath from his oxygen deprived lungs and sat back in his chair. He looked quite satisfied with having ruined my lunch hour due to his stomach churning medical tale.
I pushed my salad away and politely smiled.. "Tha... | "Brittany!" Amanda hissed. "Look, look!"
And there he was: a short, nerdy-looking guy. Disheveled hair, glasses, a wrinkled shirt. "Looks like he could use a shower," I said, apathetically, turning back to the computer.
"Oh, come on. We all could use a shower."
"Well, if government hours weren't so bad, maybe we'd h... | 2017-12-08T13:03:32 | 2017-12-08T11:53:32 | 126 | 18 |
[WP] A man who has been dating a girl since elementary school goes to her father for her hand in marriage. The father says no. Tell us why and break our hearts. | Jake’s heart was hammering in his chest. He could feel his pulse in this throat and his mouth was dry. He had never been this nervous and excited at the same time. This was a huge step. His life would be changing drastically in the next few minutes.
He knocked on the door and her mother answered. She has her mother’s ... | "Mister Jameson?" I peeked my head around the corner of the kitchen. Karen's dad was fiddling with another *dohickey* at the table.
"Matthew!" He pulled his glasses from his face and let them dangle on their chain. "Come in, my boy. How are you?"
I sat on the seat he had pulled out for me. My palms sweated. "I'm... I... | 2014-01-19T15:01:42 | 2014-01-19T14:13:55 | 84 | 11 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | Captain's Log Number 62. 0600, Day 25 after commencement of Operation Swordfall.
This is a message from Knight Captain Zerraxi Rascirson of the recon relay ship "HMS Percifus" to all ships of the Empire. Anyone who picks up this message is to forward it immediately to the Ozirian Imperial high command and his Majesty.... | The metal walls shuddered around our squad as we hunkered in the dark, gripping the weapons we had so confidently prepared just hours before.
"Is that them?"
"Do you want to check?"
The walls shook again, and we cowered further into the corners. Where had this gone so wrong?
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There was an exaggerated snort a... | 2017-08-08T06:41:23 | 2017-08-08T05:59:13 | 889 | 67 |
[WP] You find a magic lamp. The genie isn't malicious but neither does it have knowledge of our modern times and inventions. E.g you wish for a helicopter and have to describe it, the genie delivers a weird giant bird with three wings on it's back. | The genie could have been Plato out of that Rafael painting. He had a long, white beard, and wore a blue toga draped over his arm. His head was almost bald, and beneath his arm he carried scrolls tied with ox leather strips.
He scratched his head. The smell that rose from the street in front of my house was incredib... | I heard that you can make my wishes be.
I thought you could give me some guarantee.
Whatever I wish, there will be just three
To make my dreams come true, Oh, dear Genie!
Yes sir, I like to make you guys happy,
But you must contain your wishes in three -
No recursion, no tricky treachery,
And if I do mes... | 2016-08-11T08:53:21 | 2016-08-11T08:25:08 | 270 | 11 |
[WP] Aliens are afraid to invade Earth. Not because of humans but because our solar system is a nest for 8 Guardians/Leviathans. | "Believe it or not, there are still some that remembered the age before the Leviathans. Troubling times when men had no common enemy, turning at each other for pitiful personal gain. Then The Outsiders came. Some had expected them and eagerly decoded their messages while others prepared for the only real outcome. Howev... | Eight planets?! What is wrong with these creatures? Don't they know what Pluto is? How can they show such disrespect?
Well, sir, I don't think they know what any of them are.
They don't? How could they not know? They've only been the Nanny for the last several billion years.
The bi-peds have only been there for a co... | 2018-02-05T20:21:52 | 2018-02-05T16:33:05 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] Some say that your power is future sight. Others insist that you have superhuman intellect. They're wrong. Your power is the ability "Quicksave." | Loading state 2521632-C...
“-will be finished! now you die!”
Dodge left, duck, dodge right, retaliate punch, kick, backflip onto platform.
“Impossible! How could you have predicted my attacks so well? I took every liberty to make sure you couldn’t!”
“Well I’ve already seen this fight hundreds of times, and I must s... | “The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth”
I grew up in the eighties, a time of chronic blue screen of death for PCs and Macs alike. A freak accident landed me in the hospital. Doctors didn’t think I’d survive. Two months in a coma, and I woke up right as rain.
Better in fact: I now had what some describe as a superpower. I ... | 2020-12-15T13:22:34 | 2020-12-15T13:10:16 | 2,756 | 135 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | "Alright, listen carefully. This is very important. I am on my way, but it's going to take me about 6 hours to get from New York to South Dakota. There are some things I will need you to do. First, shut your mouth. No talking, no matter what. Second, find yourself some benadryl. Over the counter. If you don't have it, ... | "We've been over this Karen. There is no way to wish for more wishes. You get one wish. One," I sighed.
Out of all my clients, she was the slowest to understand. Most people went for healing sick family members or flight. After all even genies got sick of calculating the richest person in the world to add a tiny... | 2018-07-18T16:02:05 | 2018-07-18T13:56:06 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | "Idiot fuk human design shit-tier spaceship get all Brogga friend kill't. End all. Stoopt fuk. E'ryon kno warp spacetime. E'ryon kno break litspeeding. E'ryon kno crate warm hole. E'ryon kno cut mass half. E'yron cept idiot fuk humans. Y d'sign dumb shit-tier drive can't fi'ure out nuttin'. Cant warp spacetime. Cant br... | The First Ambassador to Humanity swirled idly in its container and moved to the next item on its list.
"Your FTL technology", it asked the panel of assembled human leaders, "How does it work?"
The humans exchanged surprised looks. The one at the end of the panel eventually speaking.
"You mean the Confounder?"
"If ... | 2017-03-31T12:19:53 | 2017-03-31T06:39:01 | 37 | 25 |
[WP] The healer was treated horribly by the knights he was assigned. Belittled and humiliated at every turn. Until one day a monster killed his squad and spared him. And the monster looked at him and she said something he didn't think was possible to even say. "Would you please heal me?". | "Would you please heal me?"
I stared at it, shaken, and confused.
"Wha.. what did you say?" I muttered weakly.
"Uh.. I asked would you please heal me. You didn't lose your hearing did you?" The monster said, rather bluntly, but at the same time offering a smile to conceal the seriousness of the question. "Please?"
... | The cleric gazed awestruck at the creature before him, his own knights had never treated him with such respect. "Heal you?" he asked, still unsure of what he had heard. His squad lay dead around him the smell of blood and carnage strong in the air. "I..."
A moment's hesitation was all it took for the decision to be ... | 2020-02-23T14:40:38 | 2020-02-23T13:07:21 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You and 5 other people awaken stranded on an Island, after some time you realise one of your companions may not be human. | "I don't think Borsia is human."
The tanned remnants of Hudson turned from his fishing pole to look at me. As conversation goes, I gave him a hell of an icebreaker.
"What kind of stupidity is that?"
I was never good with people.
"No, listen," I pleaded. "When was the last time you saw him drink water?"
He s... | It's our 76th day on the island.
The island, if you can call it that, has made us friends.
"Hey, Tony," I say. "Today is Pi Day."
"We should celebrate," Tony says. "Let's have pizza."
This is unusual. Tony usually suggests that we eat Frosties. But I'm not complaining. A break from overly sugary cereal is always we... | 2016-03-07T07:57:01 | 2016-03-07T07:39:58 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "LETHAL INJECTION ADMINISTERED," came the automated voice from just underneath the button.
I blinked. Was that it?
"Wait, hold on," I paused and turned towards the priest, "You meant I just spent the last 18 years of my life training for the ultimate showdown just so the greatest evil in the universe could be killed ... | I reach out slowly, completely fixated on the button. It’s red with concentric grooves. Seems overly simple to stop someone called the Dark Lord. It doesn’t seem like it would be able to tell the difference between my finger or anyone else’s.
I stop and pull my hand back. “What are you doing?” the priest demanded, “ t... | 2020-11-09T12:50:41 | 2020-11-09T11:12:56 | 949 | 80 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | I danced along the stars while the space in between sang its tune.
April 21st 2031. 1:00 AM PT. By the witching hour, when the last thoughts bled into the night and the last lamp was turned off, my high pitched scream tore through the air-filled space station. My father told me that it seemed as though my cry reached... | "So let me get this straight, you have space powers?" He blinks in surprise, "And I thought being born between a nuclear power plant and a company that makes things 'disappear' was weird."
"Sort of? I mean it's vague, but I think I can control gravity to the point I can make black holes and stuff." She says waving he... | 2017-04-14T18:58:11 | 2017-04-14T18:29:05 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Your bedroom became detached from reality and nothing is outside your door, but whenever you load a video game that world appears. Your game library is not conducive to a long and happy life, but the mini fridge is empty so you have no choice. You load up the safest game and gather supplies. | It wasn’t the best of games. Certainly wasn’t the worst, looking at you Bloodborne. But I was pretty sure I had a chance.
Sure, there was no toilet paper but It wasn’t the first time I didn’t have any. (Looking at you 2020). There were gonna be monsters and demons and dragons. Bandits and giant spiders. Ogres along ... | "Damn... If I go into Minecraft, I may be taking by a zombie. Pokemon won't work, nor Gacha Club. I'm sure as hell I'm not going into Cube Escape. Flappy Dragon won't do me much... That just leaves me with Obey Me.. Not the best option, but between zombies, creepers, and gaint ass spiders, I'm willing to take the risk ... | 2022-06-07T20:15:19 | 2022-06-07T19:11:01 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] Group of space Marines travels via a stargate like portal to an "virgin" world. However due to passing a black hole, each Marine arrives 100 years after the Marine in front of them, instead of 1-5 seconds.
Due to the portal queuing up the dozen or so Marines for 1200 years, travel to point of origin is not an opt... | "Mommy, mommy tell me again the story about the twelve gods"
Sigh "ok sweetie but then its time for bed ok"
"Ok, so long ago there were twelve gods, and while they all knew each other they did not live at the same time, legends said that they just sprang into existence one day, the first god named Randy was saddened ... | The first one would see a new world. The 2nd would see a flag marking a path to a place to take shelter.in the shelter there would be a Journal of the marine life. On the new world. 3rd see a sign showing him the way to the shelter. In the shelter there would be a starter kit. The help the new marine out . Something 2... | 2014-09-02T14:24:23 | 2014-09-02T08:01:32 | 44 | 11 |
[WP] You are the ghost of a long deceased king, cursed to haunt the museum where your body resides. Which is especially annoying for you since the museum guides get all the facts about your reign completely wrong. | The Young King of Abedonne was the largest exhibit of the History Museum of Solace. Once a dedication to the man who united three countries under his banners during the Great Plague five hundred years ago. However, said King, who died after only twenty years on the throne, was unable to move on and insisted on watching... | I was to be the first true immortal. I was to convey the reality of my realm’s destruction through the generations. But despite the very best efforts of the best shamans in existence, it failed. I failed.
I have been wandering the world as something less tangible than a shadow for several thousand years now. Forever t... | 2022-03-04T07:51:45 | 2022-03-04T05:55:27 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] A knight rescues a princess, expecting a kiss, a marriage, and a hefty inheritance. Problem is, the princess is eight years old. | The knight had been expecting a beautiful maiden. He was hoping for marriage along with a monetary reward. His hopes for that were squashed when he saw the princess.
The eight year old girl in the tower room did not seem perturbed by the knight bursting through the door spattered with blood. His sword, held at the rea... | The King glanced up and down the knight, taking in his worn cloak and rusting mail.
"How old are you, knight?" he asked.
"I will be of twenty-six years of age come this summer," the warrior did reply. The King banged his palm on the armrest of his throne, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Very well! You shall be betr... | 2016-05-23T19:20:11 | 2016-05-23T17:01:12 | 30 | 15 |
[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 | As I walk home from school, I can hear the voices that bother me the most at the park. "Mine is four crosses that all meet with one corner. It kinda makes a star shape!"
"Oooh, can I see? Sounds cool. What does it do?"
"It's on my back. It lets me bend light and make illusions!" The new peers of this nemesis of mine ... | It was time for combat training, sounds harsher than it truly is. It just gives us a chance to use our sigils in a controlled environment. Personally, I always tried to come up with a reason not to participate, because unlike everyone else with their flame, skulls, bones, etc. My sigil was a plain circle, boring, unima... | 2020-02-26T08:45:39 | 2020-02-26T08:28:41 | 68 | 42 |
[WP] You have come to possess an incredibly large and very useless object.
What do you do with it? | We have no word in our language for the creature. He responds to our calls and that is enough. How he became our servant we do not know. The creature came with the house! This is the way it has always been, for thousands of years. His race serving ours.
Brother and I have discussed at length to what use we can put the... | "I'm sorry sir, my job is just to deliver it"
Before I could respond, the delivery guy was already hopping his way back up into the cab of his truck.
I scratched my head, as I dug in my jacket pocket for my smokes.
Inhaling the first puff of procrastinating smoke, I leaned back against the wall and looked again at m... | 2013-11-08T08:35:10 | 2013-11-08T08:23:00 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] You're tripping on a new drug dubbed "Memory lane." It allows you to relive anything that has ever happened in your life with 100% clarity. The only catch is that the memory is random.
Good or bad trip. Your choice.
Thanks for the responses guys, I of course had to take a crack at it as well (be gentle it's my fi... | The glass vial rolled around the porcelain basin.
*tink *tink *tink
3…. That familiar burn began.
2…. I grab the edge of the sink as all my muscles tense up.
1…. I feel it course through me as my eyes roll shut.
……….lift off.
Where would I be this time?
I could feel the rain covering me. The amber light il... | I plug in. Better be worth it.
...
Damn, it's hot outside. Shoulda worn lighter clothes.
I'm waiting. Waiting.
Maybe she's taking a long time to finish her test. Who knows, Mrs. T is insane.
Finally, I hear another wave of kids leaving the school building and I recognize the voices. Henry. Marsh. Kelly. Jenny.
I'v... | 2014-09-04T14:26:59 | 2014-09-04T13:31:44 | 592 | 192 |
[WP] Humans can only stay awake for 1 hour before going into their 23 hour sleep everyday. How does their world function? | "Ug," I said to the others awakening near me, by which I meant "quick, we need to get food and potable water before we sleep". "Ug", they agreed. We rushed out of our caves, clubbed the nearest rabbit, ate its meat raw, and went back to sleep. Society, in those days, progressed slowly. | Robots. What about robots? I'm not really sure... What was the question?
Oh, right, who does all the work around here? It's the robots. They claim people used to run the world, but I don't know how we could have. I haven't even left my house this year, let alone gone all the way to another place. How would I ge... | 2015-02-06T05:26:30 | 2015-02-06T05:09:43 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] As humanity sends its first manned expedition beyond the orbit of earth, it discovers that humans are actually immortal, but "Mother Earth" is actually a living organism that has been consuming their life force to survive. | They knew. The bastards knew this whole time and they never told us. And if they didn't know, they had to at least have suspected.
In the 46 years since man first walked on the moon, how many people have died? How many never even needed to, just so they "could be sure"? 46 years since they sent a group of men with var... | "They must know..." she collapsed onto her knees.
Rachel turned toward me on the NOVAK56, our interstellar spaceship, the 56th of its kind. The 55 that came before us were manned missions exploring our own galaxy. This time our mission was special. Travel to a planet core left after a violent supernova, in the outer ... | 2015-06-29T23:52:29 | 2015-06-29T20:26:16 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] Our universe was created by a kid for a school project. He got a C. Describe a universe that got an A.
Or describe why the kid got a C.
Edit: wow. I didn't expect this many responses. Thanks guys! | Everything was perfect
Everything was grand
Every rule was followed
Every part was bland
*
The creatures all were happy
All creatures were the same
The creatures needed nothing
The creatures had no aim
*
The scenery was pretty
The weather was just right
There really was no difference
Between the day and ni... | Jehovah had no clue as to why his project did not hold par to Adalade's, it was just as proficient and rudimentary, just as mathematical. He supposed it was the progressive model of evolution he implemented. Molecular decay, mitochondrial swapping and cell division, it could only be fully analyzed over time perhaps, Je... | 2015-07-30T20:57:14 | 2015-07-30T20:36:39 | 356 | 129 |
[WP] One day, you find a note in your breakfast; one of the guards knows you're innocent and is going to try to help you escape. You aren't innocent. | The cell's bar made a dark shadow on the wall. Ironic that sunlight seemed to make the room even darker. Inside the cell a young man considered the scrap of paper in his hand. The last line read:
*'Hang tight Aki. I'll come tonight to save you. '*
Save him. Aki, the Butcher of Bratva. Why did they think he was innoce... | The hatch in the wooden door opened squeakily. The ray of light coming out of the opening threw long shadows on the cold brick wall in the back of the room. The man who sat on the worn mattress squeezed his eyes shut, as he had accustomed to the darkness of his cell. The brightness hurt him physically, and mentally. Fo... | 2015-12-13T10:35:46 | 2015-12-13T08:55:24 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] You suddenly find your doors and windows won't open. You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old "Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?"
Update!
**Cawos has kindly offered to turn the top submission into a short film!**
Please subscribe ... | I thought it odd enough that the most upvoted thread on redddit decribed my exact predicament, but when they took the unprecedented move to kill all other threads and make it the only thread only reddit, dedicating the community to solving this singular problem, I knew, then, that this was no hoax. I tried searching th... | Sam cried. The thread would barely load at this point. 8 hours after he first tried his door and windows his sense of place in the world was shaken to its core.
He hadn't tried breaking his windows yet. u/TheBaddestDongbeast69 reported her husband broke their slider and tried to leave the house but he got stuck halfwa... | 2016-01-31T09:21:55 | 2016-01-31T08:26:35 | 520 | 334 |
[WP] Your father left 20 years ago the night before your birthday to get Cigarettes, Milk, and Bread. Today he comes home with long bedraggled hair, weather beaten skin, and a sword on his hip. The first thing he says to you is "You're never going to believe what happened." | "You're never going to believe what happened." He rushed in through the open door and swept everything off the countertop to make space for his groceries. Key Food.
The last Key Food had closed 5 years ago. The Key Food near our house, 10. Who was this straggler who barged into my house? How far and how long had he be... | It had been three years since I set foot in my old home. By then, my mother was long since committed to Restoration Point Psychiatric Hospital. Once my father left us some 20 years ago, she was never the same person. My uncle, her brother, moved in to help take care of us and was putting up the old home for sale shortl... | 2016-07-20T09:54:19 | 2016-07-20T09:25:20 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | "Listen, I know your ad says your services start at $150, but I'm hoping you can make an exception, cut me a deal?" Her breathing is shallow and her voice quivers. She swallowed at the end of her sentence. She's panicked and desperate, and unlike most of the time wasters, she's not lying about the money part.
"I'll l... | There was a time when good deeds ment the people adored you, they praised you as a savior. Those days are long gone. When Rodrick Friese proposed our step back into civilian life it wasn't met with warm responses, that is until he backed us into a corner, a situation we couldn't save, people we couldn't help.
Everyo... | 2017-04-02T10:00:32 | 2017-04-02T08:51:08 | 38 | 27 |
[WP] A bank robber takes off his ski mask and hails a cab, stowing his pistol in his back pocket. Suddenly, lights begin to flash around him. "Welcome to the Cash Cab!..." | The fanfare stunned Jeffery, making him immediately grabbed his gun. Ben announced the rules of the game, unaware of the weapon.
"Are you ready to play Cash Cab?"
Jeffery quickly realized that he was on camera, and holstered his gun once more.
"Sure, whatever, please just start the car!" he replied urgently.
"So ... | Charlie reaches for his back pocket, but the cab driver keeps talking.
"I'm Ben Bailey, and you're in the cash cab. I'll ask you questions. Every time you get one right, we'll give you $100. If you get three wrong, you're done."
"What, okay, just take me to 2343 Washington Ave."
"Okay, that's 56 blocks. Plenty of... | 2017-06-01T17:04:44 | 2017-06-01T16:46:38 | 92 | 64 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | Keenan Avery woke up from another drunken slumber. He rolled out of bed uneasily, his stomach flipping end over end as the twenty-five year old made a beeline for the bathroom. After he had finished emptying the contents from the previous night into the toilet, Keenan made his way to the sink to rinse his mouth. He ... | FADE IN:
INT. AN OFFICE BUILDING - DAY
*The sounds of clacking keyboards and muted conversation drift through the air. Men and women in business-casual attire mill around, either pretending to look busy or rushing from one meeting to the next. This atmosphere of tense ennui is suddenly broken by the arrival of a youn... | 2017-08-03T14:37:59 | 2017-08-03T14:08:02 | 154 | 37 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | Everyone has at least one tattoo they absolutely love.
Jenny from upstairs has this peacock on her back- something she says is for her mother. Which is. Just. Absolute bullshit. She has it because she's a vain bitch.
But god is that tattoo beautiful. Curving lines inlayed with golds and greens and shocking blues. I... | France was rife with optimism, peace and prosperity during the late stages of the 19th century. It comes to no surprise that the period is known more commonly today as "La Belle Époque".
From the end of the Franco-Prussian war right up until WWI, the country witnessed a boom in the arts and the economy. Things were p... | 2017-08-03T15:53:09 | 2017-08-03T14:24:46 | 69 | 13 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | It's genetic, they think, but only mad men try to pick apart the threads of this phenomenon. But some of it is genetic, because some families get them more than others. Or maybe those families are similarly emotional.
There's surely more important things for the minds of our generation to worry about.
My mother was h... | France was rife with optimism, peace and prosperity during the late stages of the 19th century. It comes to no surprise that the period is known more commonly today as "La Belle Époque".
From the end of the Franco-Prussian war right up until WWI, the country witnessed a boom in the arts and the economy. Things were p... | 2017-08-03T16:01:34 | 2017-08-03T14:24:46 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] One day, completely out of the blue, you start hearing a voice in your head that isn't yours. You realize the voice belongs to an actual person on the other side of the world, and he can hear you too. | "Hi!"
'Hi.'
"Hi!"
'Hi.'
That was how we first met, two toddlers saying hi to each other for hours at a time. Neither of our moms noticed until we were old enough to understand that when a person isn't there, doesn't mean they're gone.
"What are you doing, Sandra?" I would ask when I was nine.
'Homework.'
"Oh nic... | “You take the left on Wilcox and go down two more lights. You’re almost there.” My mind was racing. Steven was almost here. I had been anticipating this for over a year, ever since we started dating. To say it was a long distance relationship was an understatement. I had an episode several years ago when I first heard ... | 2017-10-01T11:45:40 | 2017-10-01T11:16:43 | 47 | 17 |
[WP] Humans once wielded formidable magical power but with over 7 billion of us on the planet now Mana has spread far to thinly to have any effect. When hostile aliens reduces humanity to a mere fraction the survivors discover an old power has begun to reawaken once again. | I awoke in the night, the distant sounds of screams altogether too familiar. It didn't sound isolated - they must have found a safe-haven. Hundreds would be massacred. It was just like I said; don't bunch together. Don't rely on each other for support. Survival is all about laying low, keeping quiet and hoping that luc... | I don't know how to start here. None of this makes any sense.
I grew up watching the old Superman movies on tape. I grew up wanting to be like the man himself; I always thought I'd do what he did if I ended up with his powers. I remember fantasizing about it maybe a week before first contact; it was a thought I had of... | 2018-02-27T05:33:50 | 2017-12-06T22:42:40 | 341 | 13 |
[WP] As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over.". | As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over."
The hero turned to his companion with a glare and disappointment only a 5 year old crown prince with a wood sword can produce.
“But d... | "No, you can't be..."
He laughed. Not the rich hearty laugh that she'd come to love. This one was cold. Empty. Devoid of any emotion.
Scratch that. It was full of one. Malice. "Oh, but I can, and I am." he laughed again, drawing his sword and pointing it at her throat. "And now, you are all alone."
"But... this doesn... | 2018-01-23T16:58:15 | 2018-01-23T14:54:45 | 502 | 27 |
[WP] You can rewind time at will, but only a couple minutes at a time. Everyone around you believes you are an expert at everything, in reality you use your power to correct every mistake. | You bet I am the sweetest girl you have ever met. I wouldn't hurt a fly! I will always get you the right present, say the right thing, and do the right thing. That time you thought you got away with sleeping with my best friend. That time you thought you got away by winking at that waitress, and that time when I smile... | It can be hard to imagine, because of human design, that by a small margin you can control the time.
I would love, my dear reader, to teach you to control, but only the creator knows the special word. Even if I wrote it, I would have to write again, even if I told it, I would have to tell again. So behold! my dear rea... | 2018-03-30T22:12:26 | 2018-03-30T21:13:08 | 219 | 35 |
[WP] One day you are in a pool and dive under. When you come back up, you are in an ocean in a different part of the world. Every time you dive under water and come back up, you are in a different body of water, anywhere in the world. | “Alright son, you’ve got one more chance. Explain slowly, and start from the beginning.”
I knew this was going to be an awkward conversation. Explaining to the officer what had happened was going to be completely out of the question. Same as it was with his partner an hour ago. That’s my super power? Really? He’d neve... | “Wow....” Jeremy had said. Shocked he looked around and saw giant green trees all around him lined with vines and animals. “Wha-“ but before he had time to think he was already on the move, his body floating towards the end of a waterfall. Terrified he started to thrash his arms in every direction possible but to no av... | 2018-10-03T21:14:00 | 2018-10-03T21:06:48 | 63 | 32 |
[WP] You can see video game-like titles for the people you meet. Usually they are just "The Shopkeeper", or "The Mayor", but today you saw an old homeless man with the title "The Forgotten King". | Everyone has a title. I’ve always been able to see them, but it didn’t take long to figure out nobody else could. Mom heard me sounding out the text shortly after I learned to read, and asked me what I was doing. When I told her, she laughed and said something about how kids had such vivid imaginations. She didn’t laug... | Autumn. Leaves are falling down the trees, and if I don't concentrate my eyes, it looks like pieces of amber fall from the sky. I love autumn. Most people say that spring is the most beautiful season of all, but I disagree. To me, walking in the park at autumn is as close to paradise as it can get.
Today is no excepti... | 2019-01-08T11:03:34 | 2019-01-08T10:16:15 | 583 | 12 |
[WP] "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king." Untrue, as it turns out. When a mysterious energy wave swept the world and took away vision for humans, you were the only one left with an eye, the wealthy and powerful are hunting you down for your working eyeball. | “Come here, Babs!” I called to my dog. She trotted over to me, and bowed her head, allowing me to attach her to her leash. Babs licked my hand, and led me to my door. Gripping the doorknob, I walked outside.
It was truly a miserable sight. The sky was grey and thick with smog as smoke filled the air. Cars covered the ... | Note: apologies for any spelling or grammar as I was writing this on my phone because I had to capture the idea that came to mind.
"I've got it." The sudden noise wakes you from your afternoon nap among the waste. "I've got the seeing eye."
You turn your head slightly, human waste tumbling off your neck. You've gr... | 2019-04-19T19:57:36 | 2019-04-19T19:39:38 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] Your village holds a special ceremony for every child's 13th birthday. Under the midday Sun, the child's shadow would be viewed by the elders to determine what the child would grow up as. However on the day of your ceremony, you did not cast any kind of shadow. | "Child", the Grand Elder growled low, towering over me with his elaborate robes and ornate cane. His bushy brows, scruffled beard and frumpy dreads flaying which way and throw made good work to hide his expression.
"An explanation is necessary", Even his voice, while booming, did not immediately invoke either empathy ... | ​
The eye of God is ever watchful as it dances across the sky. It goes to the ends of the world, rolling across the distant waves of salted waters where no dare to go, but it never leaves us out of it’s sight. It never leaves anything out of its sight. And so grateful are we for that, for though inward all ... | 2019-10-24T13:33:51 | 2019-10-24T12:46:54 | 63 | 10 |
[WP] In your world, friendship is literally magic. However, your bond must be true. Magic is bluer the more friends you have, and it's also stronger. Your cousin is the second strongest sorcerer alive. The strongest? You, with red magic and an absolute hatred for everyone you've ever met. | I've often thought, that Ambition, must be fuelled by contempt. After all, desires don't rise from nothing. You start off young, and carefree, and the more you are wronged by people - the more people take advantage of you - the more you strive to be better than them.
And it's a self-perpetuating loop. The more contemp... | Red wisps of light engulfed the scene as the air grew thick with the weight of magic. Two figures stood in the clearing, duelling. The first was the strongest sorcerer alive: Axel. Billowing black cloak blowing behind him, he raised his hand as daggers of crimson rained from the increasingly darker sky. In an effort to... | 2020-10-03T17:00:22 | 2020-10-03T16:33:24 | 2,430 | 166 |
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