prompt stringlengths 20 5.8k | chosen_story stringlengths 226 10k | rejected_story stringlengths 227 9.43k | chosen_timestamp timestamp[ns]date 2012-07-26 17:01:55 2022-12-31 14:34:19 | rejected_timestamp timestamp[ns]date 2012-07-26 14:23:36 2022-12-31 12:20:41 | chosen_upvotes int64 14 23.1k | rejected_upvotes int64 10 4.26k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
[WP]One day, while cleaning out the attic of your deceased mom's home, you stumble upon an old oil lamp. In clichéd fashion you begin to clean the lamp and a genie appears. "Ah yes,"he thinks. "Another poor sap." Too bad for him, you're a contract lawyer. Quite a good one, at that. Monkey's Paw who? | "Three wishes."
The genie stared at me, a smile on his face. Seconds ticked by. Then minutes.
"Well?"
"I'm thinking."
"Thinking?" His long, unnaturally slender fingers rapped across the wood. "Come on. Surely you want *something...*"
"Oh, I do. I'm just thinking how I want to phrase it." I rubbed at a spot of grea... | "Oh fuck... this thing." I mutter as I grab my Mother's favorite tchotchke. "It will be all yours when you are ready for it" I remember her telling me as a child.
"The stories she used to tell me about this lamp as a child were... a foreshadowing of her ultimate mental decline." I become quiet and my husband put a co... | 2020-10-19T20:51:35 | 2020-10-19T19:29:07 | 515 | 207 |
[WP] An eldritch horror considers you their best friend. By virtue of you being able to perceive their true form and not going insane. One day they ask how you became so jaded, that not even indescribable cosmic horror phases you. | There was a monster on the front step.
Rachel blinked, but it remained, hunched over on the porch, still there in all it’s disturbing glory. It had one eye - no, it had many eyes, all blinking and shifting and looking here and there, but not visible all at the same time. They were laced above a mouth that stretched ou... | The Horror That Splinters The Mind and I were having tea one day. Well, I was having tea, they were sipping on a metal cup of molten copper. Every sip they took made them smiley wide and content, their first row of teeth peeking out under their black lips. We had been doing this since the first lock down. The new guide... | 2020-10-27T07:45:01 | 2020-10-27T06:32:52 | 4,670 | 270 |
[WP] Every samurai has an "asura" that grants their blade unique powers at a cost. Your asura allows you to triple the weight of any metal you strike. The trade off is that your blade passes through all but metallic materials. You ponder your asura's purpose, then you go west and encounter "knights" | My master once said that the asura of each samurai is the manifestation of their spiritual strength. Through relentless training does a samurai becomes accustomed to their blade, it is then that one may step the path of honing their skills to be truly a master of the katana, and finally the efforts may bear fruit as a ... | "for Kinng and Glory"!!! I shouted as I struck another revolting peasant.
"Mi lord!" John, a newly knighted lord shouted as points at the hill top.
A horn blast was sounded seconds after, and like clockwork everyone of us, the king's guard stopped.
The downhill wind sent chills towards everyone.
Looking at each o... | 2020-12-24T04:39:07 | 2020-12-24T03:14:04 | 367 | 149 |
[WP] Pizza. That's it. Just pizza. You're sitting down to a hot, fresh pizza. And you're going to enjoy it, regardless of everybody around you trying to stop you. | “Drop the pineapple Chris.”
Chris’ hand lingered mid-air, a slice of perfectly cooked pineapple pizza dangling downwards. He was far to infatuated with the food’s sheer beauty to pay much attention to Robert, who at this moment was ranting about something to do with toppings - his queries becoming increasingly tireso... | "What is this?" Came the voice of a woman from the counter behind me.
"An Italiano dish, a-miss," a thickly accented voice replied to her.
I turned slightly to watch the conversation. I had just sat down with a miniature round of this, 'pizza', myself, to enjoy the herby oregano-and-tomato fragrance of the dish. I w... | 2021-06-27T15:20:02 | 2021-06-27T14:04:38 | 67 | 11 |
[WP]Not every hero is a rich idiot with no day job, nor every villain a mad scientist, but most still need supplies. Thus, Super-Mart; a place for the budget-conscious heroes and villains, left alone thanks to a necessary truce. And You just started a summer job there. | My store has two oddities: it's a discount store that caters to superheroes and our items are non-refundable.
My first customer of the day knew the store's first quirk. He was unaware of the second.
"But it doesn't work!" he whined through his mask which was shaped like a computer monitor made from the early-1990s.... | Not everybody knew about the Super-Mart, but everybody who knew it would definitely not recommend it to anybody else—because friend or foe, inexpensive super supplies are in short supply.
For a stranger passing by, attracted by the always present banner that read “CLOSING SALE,”, one would walk in through the door, no... | 2021-10-03T12:42:53 | 2021-10-03T11:42:55 | 280 | 112 |
[WP] You've been in this time loop for centuries. You know how to break the loop already, you just want to make sure you've done all you wanted and learned everything you need while you're still here, before returning to a "normal" life. | At first I visited my friends. During the pandemic, I had been a hermit, mostly avoiding people, so as soon as time started repeating, I visited all the people I cared about. At first it was my close and local friends. Then I drove---sometimes hundreds of miles to see my more distant friends. I got reacquainted aga... | The loop was started for scientific reasons, to see if we could learn from different “timelines” in the infinity chambers.
Every person is unique; each person could give different outcomes to any moment in time and change a thousand different things. So imagine if we used AI to learn from those thousand different ou... | 2022-01-25T00:30:48 | 2022-01-24T23:08:12 | 80 | 12 |
[WP] It was supposed to be a routine software upgrade, but now roombas are tracing pentagrams and summoning minor demons all across the country. You work in tech support. | My call center job can be stressful at times, but there is free coffee, so I can't complain. Complaining is what customers do. They yell at me for anything that the robots do: tangled USB cables, scared pets, and knocked down vases. None of it if my fault, but I always find a way to have them look on the bright side of... | It started off as any other regular Monday. David brewed his coffee, poured out Mochi's daily kibble, and ate a bowl of steel-cut oats. He was feeling a little frisky that morning, so he added in two generous dashes of cinnamon.
At 9:00 sharp, he trotted into his home office, closing the door. Logging into his compute... | 2022-01-30T07:41:22 | 2022-01-30T07:19:15 | 154 | 86 |
[WP] Write me something that sounds happy at first, but is actually sad when you think about it.
It can be about anything. | "What is your wish?" The Genie asked me.
"I wish Mary Jane to fall in love with me."
I bumped into Mary Jane sometime after. I could tell from the way she looked at me. Her posture was reserved, but her eyes were inviting, it was those eyes that makes me fall in love. Then I gathered my courage to ask her out, my hea... | Marla hugged the puppy tight, squealing.
"Another puppy!" she said excited. Craig smiled.
"Yeah! Now what do we do?" He said.
"Always feed him, always walk him." she said, petting the dogs head. The puppy jumped up, licking her forehead. His tail wagged quickly from side to side.
"What what do we *not* do?" He aske... | 2014-07-25T15:00:50 | 2014-07-25T13:11:59 | 43 | 31 |
[WP] You're a supergenius-level robotics expert. Your neighbor is a godlike magician. You use your abilities solely to prank each other. | Alright, I've had it up to here with him. Our families have never been on best terms, but once the prank war began, the hostile words between our fathers settled down before they both passed. At least, we carry on their old tradition.
Just recently though, the dangers of our pranks became real. He almost used his pho... | “Damn you, Great Magico,” I screamed. I shook my fist at him from the kitchen window.
Great Magico laughed at me from his driveway. He twirled his mustache and flourished his cape. “Technology will never overcome magic.”
I pointed at Great Magico. “Get him, AnnoyBots,” I screamed.
Great Magico stood there. He clear... | 2015-02-18T20:52:55 | 2015-02-18T20:07:00 | 59 | 38 |
[WP] You're a supergenius-level robotics expert. Your neighbor is a godlike magician. You use your abilities solely to prank each other. | Alright, I've had it up to here with him. Our families have never been on best terms, but once the prank war began, the hostile words between our fathers settled down before they both passed. At least, we carry on their old tradition.
Just recently though, the dangers of our pranks became real. He almost used his pho... | I slapped my hands together and looked at my latest creation. A plume of white dust erupted from my gloves, and was promptly followed by a fit of heavy coughing, but my newest robot remained untouched.
I stood upon my pedestal and looked down at the trench I had just dug. Not that I did physical work, seeing as my sum... | 2015-02-18T20:52:55 | 2015-02-18T19:59:49 | 59 | 31 |
[WP] As someone is time travelling and changing the past, you have to live in a constantly changing present.
Someone is time travelling and changing past events. You, a completely normal person living in the present, have to deal with constant alterations of your life. | The drink in my cup keeps flickering: coffee, tea, post-war ration water.
Sometimes, when I take a sip, it will change into the sweetest tasting orange juice, just before flickering back into irradiated piss-water.
God damn Butterfly effect.
Even my kitchen is flickering. Sometimes the lights don't work. Sometimes, ... | "Janette, will you marry me?"
She looks at me and her eyes shine with tears. "Oh, Hal. Yes. Yes! Of course!"
I stand and force my face into a smile I know will make my cheeks ache. We reach for each other, my arms outstretched to pull her in and kiss her.
And suddenly I'm not in a fancy restaurant eating dinner. I... | 2016-05-18T06:20:33 | 2016-05-18T04:54:23 | 107 | 64 |
[WP] One second your in your house, the next you're standing in a living room surrounded by three demons. They drop their Ouija board and scream as they run to their bathroom and lock the door. "I told you we shouldn't have touched it!" | "I told you, Urglesh!" yelled the Scourge of Ten Worlds, "I told you they were real!" His back was pinned against a baroque, iron door.
"Yeah well, I thought you were joking, humans are a myth! Everyone knows that, even little demonettes and imps. Shut up and grab that chair and block the door." The Scourge scrambled ... | “*I* didn’t want to do it. But you were all like, nah, you’re just being a wimp, humans don’t really exist!”
“Shhh! It’s right outside. Lurking around…it makes me feel dirty to be in the same house as one. What do you think it smells like?”
“I don’t know, why don’t you go ask it?”
“Shut up, Kevin! You do it!”
The b... | 2016-08-08T13:13:55 | 2016-08-08T11:02:35 | 351 | 171 |
[WP] You see numbers above people, telling how many people they will kill given they keep on the same track. Last month you met a seemingly ordinary person with the number 7,431,323,210, or the total population of the Earth.
Edit: Well this blew up.
First of all, I'd like to thank all the talented writers for taking ... | 0…
0…
4.. “Hmm, should I?”. He was about to open the door to a minivan, it was early afternoon and I assumed he was about to go pick up his kids from school. I began walking towards him, sometimes just delaying them by a few minutes would reduce the number to 0.
“Excuse me!” Someone tapped me on the shoulder. I... | Serena Lane sat in silence. It wasn't uncommon for her to sit in this contemplative state at 3:23pm every day. She waited for the doorknob for her office to turn at exactly 3:24pm - no sooner, no later.
"And how are you today, Cliff?" Serena smiled politely at her next patient. Something was wrong. It had been a mont... | 2017-01-07T20:19:50 | 2017-01-07T20:14:37 | 961 | 148 |
[WP] You are a demon in disguise, faking a cold near a church so a pastor will 'bless you'. | D: Ah-choo!
P: Oh, Gesundheit!
D: ...Oh.
P: Yes, is something wrong?
D: Well, you said gesundheit. I guess I assumed that you would say "God bless you."
P: Oh no, I prefer not to do that. You see, the history of that tradition began during the Black Plague, when Pope Gregory I decreed that any instance of sneezi... | I would say I did a pretty fine shiver myself. It wasn't that hard. Nothing to do with the 'imagine you're cold' psychological bullshit - just a chattering of teeth and a trembling body and you're good to go. I wouldn't be certain as to the success rate, but if a pastor, one supposed to be in touch with the gods could ... | 2017-07-04T08:45:38 | 2017-07-04T07:57:32 | 82 | 41 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | I was surprised I noticed.
After all, I *should* be dead.
The infection was said to have completely saturated the entire species. We had been living this way for years. The medicine had its side effects, of course. Everyone was a little skittish and unable to focus. Our internal temperature went up by a full degr... | Doing things that you are not supposed to was one of my skills that always got me in trouble. My mother, being a lady of the Night Market, took medicines and herbs so that she could not be with child, but one unfortunate evening I was born nonetheless. I wan't meant to survive in this cruel city on my own after my mom ... | 2017-07-14T11:37:22 | 2017-07-14T10:49:00 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T08:01:38 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 975 | 13 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | I added a little twist but I think it's still good, non the less. Here.
"AAHHH! Tavian! I need your help!"
"What can I do?"
"Ray of Frost!? Something! ANYTHING! JUST GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
A small harmless slug had fallen onto Yeralia's shoulder, while the party was traveling out of the Forest of Traggleroot. Tavi... | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 2017-09-15T04:39:41 | 788 | 13 |
[WP] You're a special genie. You allow whoever finds you to re-experience three events that happened in their life for the first time again. Some people choose to re-experience a great movie as if watching it for the first time, some re-live their first kiss. Your latest request sounds quite odd. | "How specific do I have to be?" Noah asked. His light brown eyes were ablaze with a curious light. The geenie had a feeling that this person was not like the others.
"If you can't think of a time, as long as you can specify the event relative to yourself. For example if you want to say I want to remember the time I me... | First it was the noise. People talking softly, as to not wake me up. Somebody's kid was crying afar, and some of the machines went beep-beep beep-beep.
I decided to open my eyes. Even before the light hit my corneas, the smell of a hospital bedroom entered my nostrils with nauseating speed. What was this? What is going... | 2017-09-16T17:23:28 | 2017-09-16T15:17:56 | 142 | 32 |
[WP] After years of having what you thought to be a slow computer, you suddenly get a popup:'installation complete'. | Anthony clicked on the button labeled 'launch program' anticipation flooding him to his very core. What could it be? Something experimental perhaps? Whatever it was, he realised his life may never be the same.
After five minutes of excitement, coupled with a tinge of fear, the program opened up.
"Welcome to Interne... | There's nothing worse in life than missing a deadline, but it is possible to pile on aggravating circumstances to make it even more frustrating.
12:00:43 AM.
Late. My final paper was *late*. Might as well chop a full letter off my course grade, stab my GPA in the back - all because this useless hulk of silicon is ap... | 2017-10-14T08:34:37 | 2017-10-14T05:19:10 | 354 | 130 |
[WP] There is an old folklore about a man in a forest. If you meet him, and speak with him, he will grant you your greatest wish. In return, he will also take away your most cherished possession. You, someone with nothing left to lose, go to meet him. | It's cold, but it doesn't bother me. Nothing really does.
A few days ago, I was doing the same thing as always- cleaning the dorm, sitting in lecture, going back. What changed was my roommate, Dave, told me of an old folklore.
"Hey"
"Yeah?"
"Have you heard about the man in the forest?" I nod my head no.
"Well, th... | I woke up to the birds chirping in the morning. The rays of sun reached my feet, as I lay on the park bench. I coughed a little as I stretched, awaking, and dreamed of a yesterday, where I would wake up warm and cozy in the comfort of blankets and arms.
But today I was going to try something I had never had the nerve... | 2017-11-25T09:37:16 | 2017-11-25T09:17:08 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] Write a story we’re it’s not clear who’s the villain and who’s the good guy up until the final sentence we’re it becomes incredible black and white. | “Here’s to 20 happy years together,” Michael said sarcastically, raising his champagne flute into the air. He was sat by a picnic table in his garden.
“They were the best,” laughed Sheila, raising her glass in response. “Where did it all go wrong?”
Michael’s grin gradually exchanged itself for a look of pensive sadne... | The dimly lit chamber echoed with their voices.
"You always were like this. Always belittling me with your snarky comments!" said his royal highness, now not so high.
"What about you, never once a thank you for a lifetime of service, for unwavering loyalty." said the battered knight.
*R:* "Unwavering loyalty my ro... | 2018-11-26T23:13:13 | 2018-11-26T22:12:30 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] Humans are new on the galactic stage. The reigning champion in an MMA style fighting ring uses telepathy to predict his opponents movements,but humans have something never seen or heard of before. Muscle memory. | **(This is my first ever comment to this sub in an effort to improve my writing. Please provide feedback to help me improve.)**
Jamba looked his new opponent up and down. This is the newcomer everyone has been talking about? He couldn't help but let a smirk creep across his face. The human looked weak before the titan... | “The following contest will be fought to the death,” a booming voice states to the nothingness.
A single white light illuminates a slender figure. Large, dark, disc-like eyes stare ahead into the darkness. Its arms and legs are shackled as it stands calm and motionless.
“Introducing first, from the depths of the Oc... | 2019-06-01T03:03:23 | 2019-06-01T02:28:02 | 329 | 27 |
[WP] You have a voce in your head that automatically gives you advice. One night when you start heading out you hear it say "you may want to put on your best runners." You turn away and it adds, "it would be unfavorable to turn back."
"Voice." Dumb typo :/ | **\[WP\] You have a voice in your head that automatically gives you advice. One night when you start heading out you hear it say "you may want to put on your best runners." You turn away and it adds, "it would be unfavourable to turn back."**
I don't really doubt the voice. Why would I? I've gotten out of too much d... | You know the concept of a wingman, right? Your friend that helps you in social settings? Well, I don't have a wingman. I have a wingmind. My entire life I have had this voice in my head that gives me advice right before an event that would dramatically change my life. First time I heard it was when I was 6, sitting in ... | 2019-06-04T08:11:31 | 2019-06-04T07:36:37 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] there is a reason America is super militaristic, its citizens are armed to the teeth, and they want no one inside of the country. its because they are trying desperately to contain something with its boarders, and they are failing. one day a massive roar is heard around the world as it escapes. | All of America is armed to the teeth. Everyone in the world knows this, jokes about this, never really takes it seriously until everything else is. They talk about it for a few minutes, and then get on with their every day activities and chores. Even Americans joke about it, not really paying that much attention to why... | "What's your name?"
Crystal stared into the single eye, larger than she was. It was red and nothing else. It burned at first to look at, but she had gotten used to it. She always did.
Her smile never faltered as it shifted causing the ground beneath her to shake and groan. It was a genuine grin that became a truthf... | 2019-07-25T18:45:26 | 2019-07-25T17:35:57 | 1,923 | 45 |
[WP] A phenomena begins to occur where newborn babies are found amidst the aftermath of natural disasters. Tsunamis, avalanches, wild fires, destructive lightning storms, etc. These 'Storm-Born' humans grow up with powers based on the disasters that birthed them. | They called us Stormborn.
Found in the ashes, the debris, the aftermath. Rescuers found us not by our cries but by our gifts, they tell us that we didn't cry. We lay silent, wreathed in flames or snow, playing at tidal waves in pools, lightning dancing from our fingertips. It became commonplace for the world, the hope... | We had to take them away. That was the worst of it, and the beginning of the end. Not the end of everything, but the end of what we knew, the scourging of an entire world. It's still here, but what we built is gone. Gods.
I think they believed they were doing us a favor. The gods, I mean. Because they're behind this, ... | 2019-08-06T06:09:43 | 2019-08-06T04:58:18 | 421 | 150 |
[WP] A phenomena begins to occur where newborn babies are found amidst the aftermath of natural disasters. Tsunamis, avalanches, wild fires, destructive lightning storms, etc. These 'Storm-Born' humans grow up with powers based on the disasters that birthed them. | The storm born were chosen, powerful beings each blessed with powers found from their origin. A newborn, found in the midsts of a horrifying eruption wielded the power of fire. A baby found floating on the wreckage of a cruise liner developed the power to generate whirlpools.
And so began the craze of stormborn chase... | The bell rang, the children awoke, the teachers prepared their classrooms and The Matron watched through her many surveillance cameras.
Her attention was focused, today, on three children. Their files lay open beside her.
Ignis Premogen, twelve, found nestled amongst the ashes of the Great Fire, a wildfire that ravage... | 2019-08-06T07:16:58 | 2019-08-06T07:03:49 | 64 | 24 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up and find yourself strapped to a chair. Wires and tubes have been attached to your body and numerous shadowy figures walk up to you. “That was life sentence 24,” one of them says, “Only 356 sentences left.” | Henry was in an excruciating amount of pain. The accident had shattered one leg, and mostly severed the other foot. His arms hadn't faired much better and it took him everything to drag himself free of the burning wreckage.
He felt cold. Which was odd considering how much clothing he wore, what with it being late Dece... | I awake to the darkness. At least, that is what it would appear to be to mortal eyes. My people, my true people, know that the darkness does not truly exist. It is simply an absence of light. And we do not need light to see.
A shadowy figure appears. She does not appear before me, or behind me, or above, or below, no... | 2019-08-21T13:17:42 | 2019-08-21T12:31:33 | 395 | 103 |
[WP] The hero stared at the boy who was supposed to be his wise old master. "Word of advice. If you ever achieve immortality then wait till you're at least 20", he said in a high pitched voice. | John stared hard at this young boy who stood in front of him.
‘’Wha... where’s the master? I journeyed hard to reach here, to seek knowledge and power, and this is what I’m greeted by?’’
John tried to get past the boy, to continue his search for the almighty one, but was stopped.
‘’I am the master, the one with the... | 'Frederik, are you sure he is the one?'
'However outrageous it may sound, he is the one we are searching for princess.'
Princess Caroline was in shamble, the one standing in front of her was a child, 9 or 10 from the look of it, and even smaller than her little brother. And yet, he give off a weird aura that she can'... | 2020-01-25T07:33:23 | 2020-01-25T07:31:31 | 149 | 58 |
[WP] A 16-year-old schoolgirl is taken to a magical world. She slays a dragon, becomes queen, gets married, has kids, and dies 90 years later...only to wake up back at school, young and in her school uniform again, like nothing happened. She notices that her wedding ring is still on her finger. | "Don't go, g'g'gramma!" The seven-year-old flung himself onto the bedclothes, hugging Bellajoan tightly. "Want you to read stories!"
She smiled tiredly as she patted him on the head. Everything tired her now. She couldn't get out of bed without help, and even raising her voice left her out of breath. "There, there, Al... | "Your Majesty," a man cladded in an opulent golden armour bowed his head and continued, "Count Lorraine is here as you have requested!"
I couldn't really see the young knight's face, but I still had enough memory to know that it was Captain Horatio. He had been a very loyal guard, one that my late husband had put to a... | 2020-04-21T08:24:20 | 2020-04-21T07:33:37 | 502 | 93 |
[WP] Everybody talks about Odin the All-Father, and how he collects the souls that perished in battle to Valhalla to serve as warriors. Nobody talks about his brother, Nido, and how he collects the souls of those that triumphs in battle and live until they die of old age.
Just something that occurred to me while playi... | The void was warmer than Skjall had expected.
He had been comfortable in his final days, taking his last breath surrounded by somber children and playful grandchildren. Their innocence was refreshing to the old viking; they had never experienced a raid, and their bright smiles filled his ebbing heart with pride. He ha... | Tareff gazed up at his grandfather, who lay on a small hospital bed, weak, white-haired, and wheezy, his large, dark eyes widened in concern, while his mother held his hand in her own, shaking with sobs. Tareff, however, was not crying.
He understood the situation full well, and yet, young though he was, he understoo... | 2020-05-10T12:13:37 | 2020-05-10T12:10:37 | 1,822 | 323 |
[WP] A catholic, an atheist, and a christian meet god. the atheist goes to heaven, but god has some words for the other two. | I opened my eyes. I felt an overwhelming urge to keep facing straight ahead, though I was curious about what was around me. In an instant, a kind-looking man walked into my field of vision. He seemed like the nicest person I could ever meet. I wanted to say hi right away.
Suddenly, he spoke, with a deep and soothing v... | A catholic, an atheist, and a Christian find themselves at the pearly gates. The Christian and the Catholic push their way past the atheist who was meandering toward the gates in utter disbelief. They greet saint peter with a smile, knowing that they had been saved and baptized According to Gods word and had been devou... | 2020-08-14T14:16:28 | 2020-08-14T09:50:54 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
[deleted] | >**GENERATIONAL BLESSING, OR GENERATIONAL CURSE?**
I could taste the iron- the blood that was rising up the back of my throat. I could taste the *fear*.
*'You've reached 911...This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.'*
I tossed my phone aside. It was only dead weig... | I woke up in cold sweat, searching the room around me. Part of me hoped that the last three days were nothing but a nightmare. But when I looked at the calendar I had on my bedroom’s door, the only thing the red marker spelled out for tomorrow was doom.
I heard the tip taps of something coming to my room from the hall... | 2020-09-12T11:44:42 | 2020-09-12T10:25:45 | 77 | 29 |
[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | I just sat there with my jaw sagging, because my Latin lesson usually did not include a visitation by the Morning Star etc. I must have mispronounced.
Lucifer tilted his aristocratic nose upward somewhat as he glanced around my lodgings. I couldn't blame him. As a student I hardly lived a luxurious life.
"Forgive ... | The gentleman looked sideways across the cracked barroom counter, staring dryly at the eccentric man who had decided to join him. It was late in the small town, hosting nothing but a local museum, fire station, short office buildings, and a scatter of dimly lit bars and overly loud clubs.
“I mean, you would expect to ... | 2020-12-13T09:23:43 | 2020-12-13T09:03:54 | 109 | 45 |
[WP] You are the newest recruit in a group that does the fundamental opposite of assassination - contracted, covert resurrection. And yes, it's just as illegal. | It seemed most akin to a lemon, the thing expanding in my upper chest: big enough to make me catch my breath, flooding my throat with the bitterness of fear. I ignored it and watched $200,000 sit up in front of me, naked as a baby, the fluorescent bulbs from the hallway throwing a stripe of cold light across his muscle... | Gary’s phone dinged to life. A message.
*Abraham O’Connell 1843-1890. Spring Grove Cemetery.*
Gary deleted the message and broke the SIM card, replacing it with a new one. He made it to his car and stopped. Shit, he thought. He pulled his cellphone back out and sent a message to his handler.
*Who was the target agai... | 2021-04-05T15:39:45 | 2021-04-05T14:44:16 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] You are the newest recruit in a group that does the fundamental opposite of assassination - contracted, covert resurrection. And yes, it's just as illegal. | It seemed most akin to a lemon, the thing expanding in my upper chest: big enough to make me catch my breath, flooding my throat with the bitterness of fear. I ignored it and watched $200,000 sit up in front of me, naked as a baby, the fluorescent bulbs from the hallway throwing a stripe of cold light across his muscle... | # The Caduceus Corp
First and foremost in my line of work I have to be careful about the jobs I take, both for my skin and the world’s. Or at least, that’s what the old timers told me.
“You’ve got to watch out Nessa,” Mox had said the first and last time I’d seen him, in between shots and the raucous pounding of the ... | 2021-04-05T15:39:45 | 2021-04-05T14:48:02 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] You're a superhero with the ability to control sand. Unfortunately, you've recently been called to battle in an area without easy access to said material. That's when you remember what one of the main ingredients in glass and concrete are. | I knew at once why I'd never seen it before: The sand was so deep down, so much further in then anything I had ever tried. It was like looking into a cave of complete darkness and sensing rather than seeing that far, far inside, there was light.
I looked around, fighting to control my focus, push away panic. We were l... | "I had it all mapped out from the start - one of my finest plans to date" Worm laughed from the pit of his stomach. "Poor Sandy Cheeks, you're useless up here, not a grain at your disposal. You're fucked." He laughed again, spreading his arms and slowly rotating to take in what he thought was a full-proof plan.
I look... | 2021-07-15T12:00:58 | 2021-07-15T11:50:55 | 87 | 58 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | "What are you hooligans doing?" I cried. "This is an old and respected establishment."
"Oy, Cap!" one of the ruffians cried. "Look at this. The chair can talk."
The captain of the ruffians strode up and loomed over me. He was tall and swarthy, with a bushy black beard. He wore a faded blue tunic, and held a steel dag... | They were so tasty, the dwarven party that had entered the treasure chamber. I was so satiated that I could not have eaten anything else. That is one of the most blissful feelings one can have. I didn't have visitors in my cave often, so I figured I would have a solid month to digest my meal when I heard the sound o... | 2022-10-09T18:25:20 | 2021-09-22T01:06:35 | 1,468 | 77 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | "What are you hooligans doing?" I cried. "This is an old and respected establishment."
"Oy, Cap!" one of the ruffians cried. "Look at this. The chair can talk."
The captain of the ruffians strode up and loomed over me. He was tall and swarthy, with a bushy black beard. He wore a faded blue tunic, and held a steel dag... | I sat in the dark cold room in wait for a pesky group of adventurers to make their way in here. It had been quite some time since I've seen anyone other than the goblins that inhabitated this cave and I was growing hungry. The occasion goblin here and there helped tide over my appetite but in my experience adventurers ... | 2022-10-09T18:25:20 | 2021-09-22T03:22:02 | 1,468 | 34 |
[WP] The courageous hero foretold to defeat the dark queen instead falls in love and marries her, settles down and has a kid, you. Years later, you're awkward parents send you off to university, and the "new" dark lord attacks the city and kidnaps you without realizing who your parents are. | Dad would have been proud of how fast I slipped out of the ropes binding my hands behind my back. He'd be furious that I got captured in the first place but they captured the auditorium quickly from multiple points and my seat was dead center of the crowd. Any move I made would end up with massive casualties.
It reall... | I hadn't even finished getting through my first month at Uni, when I woke up with a severe headache. That's odd, I don't remember drinking at all. Then I look around to see a stereotypical dark lord base and myself tied up. Plus there's a fuckton of faceless mooks around. I sigh, as it was probably another up and comin... | 2021-11-20T04:37:01 | 2021-11-20T00:07:09 | 95 | 19 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | As the professor's words hung in the air, Andy looked around the class room. A group of Rovallian Crodurs, a species famed for eating their young during times of celebration, sat hunched together in the back. Slumped in a desk across from him sat an enormous Bullmali male, his giant horns nearly touching the ceiling - ... | "Yes?" the professor asked.
"What about *them*?"
The professor looked at me, puzzled. "You seem to be gesturing to the rest of the class."
"I mean, I am. Gesturing to the rest of the class. They look just like me. If we had sex -- I mean, if they hadn't been given the treatment -- we could have children."
A brief m... | 2021-11-27T17:28:47 | 2021-11-27T11:23:52 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] You were hated even by the Teachers in the Magic School. One day you were given the Assignment to go through the Dark Forest, which was infested with Monsters and Eldritch Horrors. You accepted your death and went into the forest, but after hearing your story the Eldritch Horrors take you in. | We watched the interlopers from beneath two mighty pines, their concealing shadows worsened by both the wraith beside me and my own magic. There were two of them dressed as soldiers, well equipped ones but still soldiers, not adventurers or even monster slayers. Perhaps they had just gotten out of the king's army and... | "Oh man, I've had my fair run-ins with terrible dungeon masters as well. I feel you dude."
The tentacled abomination slurped itself in what I supposed to be a sympathetic gesture. Which was quite appreciated. The Generic Dark Forest was a terrifying place, and my Generic Teachers at my Generic Magic School had sent me... | 2022-01-29T10:12:14 | 2022-01-29T08:26:28 | 40 | 23 |
[WP] "But...this place is my home!" He stopped pacing around and stared at me in annoyance, "You've died 349 times in this place...and yet still you call this place 'home'?"
Edit: How did this get famous? Lmao | “Home is where the heart is after all,” I said.
“That doesn’t change the fact that you’ve died in this house 349 times so far,” said Jim.
This wasn’t the first time a time traveler had come to me to try and get me out of my time loop. At first, I had created a loop field around my living space so that I could relive ... | # Soulmage
**"I'm sorry, I've done** ***what*** **three hundred and forty-nine times?"** I asked, blanching.
Sansen grimaced. "Sorry. The oracular trance... I've seen you die here, three hundred and forty-nine times. In three hundred and forty-eight futures that never were."
"Wait." I set down my cup of slurry. "How... | 2022-06-09T08:39:10 | 2022-06-09T05:00:58 | 94 | 66 |
[WP] In the far future, a gladiator stadium finds its gladiators by time traveling the greatest warriors of all time into a single arena. You cannot believe you were chosen. | "This really doesn't seem fair." I called towards the luxurious box overlooking the arena, where the aliens dressed in ancient Roman garb presided over the grisly festivities. I don't know why I bothered.
If you were going to kidnap people -- ostensibly great warriors, which made me puzzled as to why *I* had been inc... | Alright... Where to begin?
Let's just keep things simple, lest I go in shock again. I'm sure you'll understand what is happening here in a moment, but I'm fully aware the *how* will remain a mystery both to you and me.
Let's just say that time travel is real. At least, it is in the future. Which also makes it real in... | 2022-07-04T09:20:14 | 2022-07-04T07:35:40 | 137 | 93 |
[WP] Most super heroes' powers are powered by good emotions like hope, love or joy. Yours are powered by pure, unbridled hatred. | By nature, I'm not a hateful person. I like seeing the good in people, and they like to see the good in me.
I don't know what takes over when he shows up.
You hear about the other masked vigilantes that pop up around the city, they're powered by their need to do right in this world. They want to protect the innocent,... | "We have to, he's too powerful," said the Spandex avenger, her power granted by her hope. Most people considered that hope to be that the spandex would hold together while fighting with people who could shoot lasers out of their eyes, but to each her own.
"No, he will taint the name of the Super Forever Buddies forev... | 2022-09-05T20:29:36 | 2022-09-05T18:48:37 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] you're far from the first king to receive the prophecy that your new born child would cause your death. Where your story diverges is when instead of tossing the kid to the wolves, you are driven to be a kind & nurturing father. | **I would do anything for my family.**
I was a noble king of my lands. I treated my citizens with respect, and they respected me in kind. I had a thriving kingdom and a wife who has been the love of my life for the past 30 years. What I did not have, however, was an heir. How we tried, time and time again, but my ... | My first child died in the arms of the midwife who delivered him, and my wife died shortly thereafter. At the time I was young, impetuous, and brash. I allowed my emotions to cloud reason, and rather than grieve as I should have, I blamed the midwife. I sentenced her to death for simply doing her duty to the best of he... | 2022-12-01T15:39:36 | 2022-12-01T13:33:58 | 206 | 68 |
[WP] Humanity is visited by a cosmic horror the likes of which has only been seen in Lovecraftian horror. In desperation, Earth throws everything we have at it, and, miraculously, the human race has killed a God. Somewhere in a realm beyond our understanding, the other gods speak of the event. | **They have died.**
*Meddled with a black hole again?*
**Tried to embrace an organic species.**
*And when did They die?*
**The species killed They.**
*...you are mistaken, We.*
**The waves have been clear enough. They have died at the hands of a small, organic species.**
*That is impossible. How could-*
"I keep... | *Just a short story on the coffee break I had:*
​
“Umladr'gnel, I don’t have for your jokes today,” Imloggdah said.
“I have several realms to visit today, so much work...” Imloggdah sighed.
“I am not joking. Ogandis is dead,” Umladr'gnel said with his thunderous voice.
“We can’t even die,” Imloggdah sa... | 2022-12-12T08:58:57 | 2022-12-12T07:38:13 | 2,312 | 157 |
[WP] Many years ago, an alien invasion nearly wiped out Humanity. Now, the galactic government is desperately trying to reason with a vengeful Humanity by saying that it was a rogue mining company that attacked without their approval or knowledge. | ***“This landmass”*** the eyeball beckoned, bubbles in its chamber. ***“Look at it”***
Xerena tilted her head to the hologram. “Yes?”
It blinked. Flushing the liquid in its giant, pillar of a beaker very slightly. It was blue, and transparent, complementing the sleek and oppressively small color pallets of the rest o... | “All rise. The Intergalactic Federal court is now in session. High Judicial Archon Irk’nCzrwyon presiding. Please be seated and come to order.” A being of nebula, serves as the bailiff, towering in its enormity vibrates sounds and light as they were being translated to the floating balcony’s desk, where seven humans ar... | 2022-12-17T17:54:36 | 2022-12-17T17:34:16 | 181 | 34 |
[WP] A little boy becomes a man, from the perspective of his assigned NSA agent
Could either be over a long period of time, or a single pivotal event... | January 11th, 1997, 17:56 - *Search*: "How to tell if a girl likes you"
January 11th, 2008, 14:35 - *Search*: Ideas for a first date
January 11th, 2016, 12:25 - *Search*: How to choose an engagement ring
January 11th, 2020, 10:43 - *Search*: Divorce lawyers
January 11th, 2025, 13:46 - *Search*: Headache, pain in gr... | "Mrs. Johnson? I'm Agent Ngai and this is Agent Powers. We're from the National Security Agency. Can we come in?"
The screen door creaked open and Beth Johnson showed the agents to the kitchen. Her offer of coffee was refused so she sat.
"What's this all about? Is it Bobby? Has he done something?"
"No Mam, your hu... | 2014-06-10T06:43:29 | 2014-06-10T06:06:29 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] There's a law when you divorce, the children from the undone marriage get killed
So only children from lasting marriages remain. | We sat to talk business, the old man and I.
"You're a young man." he began. "I remember what that was like."
He nudged a glass towards me and smiled.
"I remember when I married my first wife. She was so beautiful. So sweet and innocent. Like an angel. And then the daughter was our first born child. And then an... | "Hey Joe, baby, come down stairs."
Oh shit, I know exactly what's going to happen. They've been arguing for months now. It's so obvious that they're not in love anymore. Normally, in other countries, I could survive. Being the only child between this odd couple. I could just be claimed by either one of them, and the o... | 2014-06-15T05:31:17 | 2014-06-15T03:42:59 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Airport authorities don’t recognize your passport because the country that issued it doesn’t exist. You are confused. You’re thinking: “What? I was born there! I’ve lived there all my life!”
Edit after 4 hours: I'd like to add that this writing prompt was inspired from this: http://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMyst... | I realise I've drifted off into daydreaming and look up. The customs official peers at me suspiciously over his desk, clearly awaiting an answer. 'Sorry?'
'I asked the purpose of your trip. Just standard procedure.'
'Business. I'm a visiting lecturer from Oxford University.'
He frowns, but says nothing, and accep... | Mary looked up from her shiny new Sinclair zPhone and sighed. “We’ve got another 1775er in today. Showed up at Idlewild Airport yesterday. Same story as the other terrorists we’ve got to handle. The usual: fake passport, same ‘alternate history’ backstory.”
“So, that’ll be eleven ‘Americans’ we’ll be looking after now... | 2014-11-23T12:44:33 | 2014-11-23T11:54:47 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "So I decided that I would only ever go into one Starbucks. That way, I know who it is," I finished. My best mate Mike nodded dubiously.
"That makes sense, I guess. It's a good thing you usually avoid the place. So how did you pick this one?"
"Random chance. I got a listing of local stores, closed my eyes and picked ... | "Gather 'round! Mail's here!"
The postman only visited once a month in the remote ger camp of Bayanzorn, a small island of life in the midst of the Sea of Death - known to outsiders as the Gobi Desert. Ghaz had waited anxiously for this day, having begun his 18th season only a few short weeks ago.
The postman reached... | 2014-12-18T00:15:29 | 2014-12-17T23:46:50 | 141 | 42 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "So I decided that I would only ever go into one Starbucks. That way, I know who it is," I finished. My best mate Mike nodded dubiously.
"That makes sense, I guess. It's a good thing you usually avoid the place. So how did you pick this one?"
"Random chance. I got a listing of local stores, closed my eyes and picked ... | The one moment of the day that made it all worth it was just hearing her voice in the morning. Always starting with those same 8 words. Stiff and corporate sounding, but he thought he detected a new hint of warmth behind them the last couple of weeks.
They'd had their share of jokes and small talk at the counter the... | 2014-12-18T00:15:29 | 2014-12-17T22:16:22 | 141 | 24 |
[WP] Your whole life you had an ability that seemed normal to you. Now you realized you're the only one with this ability. | *Carol's eyes drifted off the laptop screen as she lost herself in thought. She crossed her arms, sighing through her nostrils. In front of her, the white text box gaped empty. In the upper left corner, the black line flashed like a ticking clock.*
"A special ability...", she mused.
*She had her hands firmly placed ... | Ray Ellis’s secret wasn’t anything special until one day in class when his power stood out to his friend. Ray sat in his desk listening to the teacher, playing with things in his right hand like coins and pencils. He was always pretty talented at doing stuff that involved eye-hand coordination, not including doing stuf... | 2015-01-08T13:28:38 | 2015-01-08T12:29:03 | 887 | 28 |
[WP] Your whole life you had an ability that seemed normal to you. Now you realized you're the only one with this ability. | The human lie detector. That's what they call me. I've always skirted around what I do in interviews as frankly I didn't understand. Micro-expressions, nervous tics, word usage. These are the things I used to distract. I never realized the truth, not until my 100th case at the precinct. Number one crime solver, i... | Ray Ellis’s secret wasn’t anything special until one day in class when his power stood out to his friend. Ray sat in his desk listening to the teacher, playing with things in his right hand like coins and pencils. He was always pretty talented at doing stuff that involved eye-hand coordination, not including doing stuf... | 2015-01-08T14:41:51 | 2015-01-08T12:29:03 | 80 | 28 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | "Good Lord this game is complicated", Daniel thought to himself. "It's so realistic... I mean you could go to a bar and play bar games, or you can walk around and do nothing. Who would enjoy this? Why not just live a normal *real* life? Welp, whatever. I have better things to do."
Daniel powered off his son's PlaySta... | *Where the hell am I?* That was my first thought waking up. It reminds me of the cabin that the family and I would escape to once a year for our break from technology and city life. It's so peaceful here. I don't even remember going to sleep. Maybe I died. I had a bum lung from years of inhaling diesel smoke, but I nev... | 2015-05-08T06:02:17 | 2015-05-08T02:48:23 | 61 | 21 |
[WP] You are death row's last meal chef. Today's condemned prisoner killed your daughter. | Five years had passed since the great Cow Uprising had bucked the yoke of the oppressive humans. Most of the farmers and slaughterhouse owners had been rounded up and put to death ages ago, but Frank had managed to slip into the underworld- the system of tiny tunnels that ran under the human cities, too small for the ... | This is my first entry so go easy on me guys.
-----
I continued spreading peanut butter and jelly onto the bread.
This was his last meal. His last meal, and he asked for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a cup of orange juice.
I was choking up again.
He killed her. That bastard killed my only family I had lef... | 2015-07-04T09:48:47 | 2015-07-04T08:43:08 | 131 | 90 |
[WP]You live in a Dystopian world where eye color determines your social class. 20 years later a baby is born with red eyes.
This could be fun it already has implied racial themes, discrimination and anti-meritocracy. Do with it what you will. | "Mutant." A boy to my left spat. I turned and shot a blood red glance, sneering at his smug green pools. He was nothing special himself, just a mid-oculite.
"Get out of here!" Another, this time a gray, shouts, "Leave this place blood eyes!" Shaking my head I reach to my side, sliding the blade out of its scabbard an... | There are a lot of ways to make money in this "perfect" world of ours, some upright and honest, other cruel and vicious.
I don't make the rules, i don't follow the either. "murky" is a way to describe my eyes. Destined for destitute, hell i was lucky I've lived this long. twenty five, living way in river of blood. hah... | 2015-08-24T12:55:55 | 2015-08-24T12:02:56 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] You just accidentally downloaded the Kindle version of the Necronomicon. | So I'm not sure whether the 5 star reviews of 'the great big book of dogs' is people just reviewing it without reading or if I got the wrong product somehow, assuming it's the later I'm giving it one star.
Cons:
Was not the great big book of dogs'
Was not even in English
Gave me an extremely large headache
I'm pr... | ######[](#dropcap)
The book is in an ad at the bottom of the Kindle app. *'Reduced to 99c from $999,999.99'*. It had no reviews. I swipe to the next deal, and miss.
*"Book downloading."*
Bugger. What kind of a book has no title or cover? Sounds like some self-published crap.
I try to go back to the third (and defin... | 2016-02-10T10:53:48 | 2016-02-10T09:12:54 | 75 | 44 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | Humans are a galactic anomaly.
In the typical course of evolution, there are two possibilities; either carnivores become dominant, and are forced to evolve intelligence as they fight with one another over dwindling resources, or Herbivores manage to evolve rapidly enough to defend themselves from those carnivores. In ... | Humans had always been respected in the intergalactic society. Not for our scientific breakthroughs, we were actually the last of space capable species to achieve intergalactic travel. We're not respected for our love of things that are beautiful, or creative. No, we're respected for our resolve. Over the last several ... | 2016-03-13T21:24:24 | 2016-03-13T17:44:09 | 71 | 20 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | "Well Fifth , we have a hard time figuring these guys out ."
Fifth swivels its primary sensory orifices to face Thirty Second "What is so difficult about them that I had to be brought out of stasis?".
"Well they are a primitive species , and we can tell by their transmissions that they seem to want a peaceful meeting... | "Fucking humans are at it again." Said Prok as he dipped his proboscis into the fetus slaw before him.
"I see that." Replied Ghyd, his half wife. She shifted her earlobe and toenail salad listlessly. One of the earlobes still had a diamond earring in it. "Waiter! Someone in your kitchen isn't properly dejewelrying the... | 2016-03-13T19:37:26 | 2016-03-13T16:09:35 | 59 | 21 |
[WP] One morning, you wake up and suddenly find yourself three years in the past, as if the last three years had never happened. It happened to the entire world and everyone remembers. | I woke up next to the wrong woman this morning. It didn't even register I was in the wrong place as I was too busy screaming in horror. My mind was racing with the reasons why she was laying there and slowly waking up herself. You see, she's dead. Or, she was until I woke up. If she was alive, then where was our son?
... | I wake up to my Ipod alarm the annoying nuclear sub warning one that I woke up to every morning. Except...no that's not right I swapped out my Ipod and got that LG...what is the date? June 11th...2013!?!?!? Holy shit..it is my old house. My red room with the hole in the wall. My old bed...fuck I gotta go to school for ... | 2016-06-11T14:37:29 | 2016-06-11T13:14:51 | 22 | 10 |
[Wp] The zombie epidemic came and went in the developed world, most people survived, the military easily defeated the undead horde, and cures for the virus were created. However, zombies remain major issue in the developing and under developed world not getting nearly enough attention on the news.
Wow I didn't think t... | "It'll be $50 grand" said a tiny African man in worn out business suit.
"Excuse me? $50 Grand for what?
"That's for the standard Hunting licenses and fees." said the man, still blankly staring at his computer screen.
"Wait, I'm trying to help your country here. I'm trying to Helllll... P!"
"Yes yes... So are the... | "Ginny?" A voice whispered in the darkness.
"Yeah, ma?" Ginny replied, snuggling in closer to her mother. *Why is it so cold*, she thought to herself. They were wrapped in old linens, hiding in the burnt out body of an old van.
"Remember when you said you wanted to go to Barbados for your 18th birthday, baby?" Her mo... | 2016-10-30T15:52:15 | 2016-10-30T12:34:45 | 198 | 63 |
[WP]The wrinkled fingertips are just the beginning of the transformation. We just always leave the water too early. | I was too young to remember everything in detail. I just knew my mother was panicked, and frightened. The earth shook beneath our feet, trees fell, people screamed. My mother held my hand with an iron grip. It made me safe. I knew that while she held my hand it would be ok, she would never let anything hurt me. We had ... | Something about the chemistry of life broke when we were created. So said the Elders, and so said their Book, and so therefore it must have been the truth. There was no other way for such a strange life form to exist, a thing with mammalian features in aquatic conditions, eyebrows and skin hair where gills mated with o... | 2016-12-05T10:07:46 | 2016-12-05T06:39:18 | 45 | 32 |
[WP] "Genetic Designer Babies" are commonplace, but parents only have so many "stat points" to allocate between your different physical and mental abilities. Your parents dumped all your stat points into one thing. | Surprisingly, it had never been done before. I'm talking of course about my stat distribution:
Speed-0
Strength-0
Sight-0
Longevity-0
Intelligence-0
Nicolas Cage Impersonation Skills-100
They call me Nicolas for a reason. When I was born I was plump and good looking if I should say so myself. Fortunately, Nicolas Cag... | The strange man is sitting across the table, looking at me. I was always told to be a good boy and look people in the eye. So that's what I do. Until something better comes along.
I'm sitting here in this big empty room, just waiting. They watch me, I watch them.
I'm starting to get bored.
My dad would often get mad. ... | 2016-12-13T14:40:13 | 2016-12-13T14:05:56 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] Scientists find a planet that is absolutely identical to Earth (same size, distance to the star, atmosphere, etc), but then they discover that there is absolutely no life on the planet despite the same conditions. | Commander Thad Johnsteel reentered the bridge of the Endeavor, humankind's first real starship. After the discovery of Identical, a planet with remarkable similarities to Earth, during an exploratory flyby it had become the target of the first interstellar mission. The wormhole generator drive had proven a success an... | Five years after The James Webb telescope was launched and started scanning the skies , a technician at NASA discovered something very strange while processing data originating from a particular area in the constellation Cetus.
Word quickly spread inside NASA and for the next few months , James Webb was instructed to... | 2017-02-23T07:45:19 | 2017-02-23T05:39:42 | 102 | 27 |
[WP] Jesus actually had 14 disciples but their behavior was deemed inappropriate by biblical scholars, so they were removed from the final versions of the Gospels. They are Brad and Chad, the Bro-ciples, and these are their stories.
Apostles... Dang it, I meant Apostles. | Brad 25 : 17
The path of the Bro is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of non-bros . Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the alley of darkness, for he is truly his bro's keeper and the finder of lost Bros . And I will strike down upon thee... | "Dude, I totally swear to God, my home boy Jesus fed 5,000 men with *nothing more* than seven loaves of bread and seven fish!", Brad explained, waving his arms around wildly as if it illustrate the extent of Jesus' feat.
"It was a total miracle! I swear to God!" Chad added, rumpling his goatee, and swirling his starr... | 2017-02-25T10:27:38 | 2017-02-25T10:01:06 | 528 | 322 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "What was that?" asked Jen. Just as I opened my mouth the ask what it sounded like I saw a figure slowly turn away from the window behind her. "I think there's someone outside" I replied. Visually shaken, she asked me if we should call the police. I responded with, "well they could just be passing by let's see what ha... | "Another day another dollar," Bob Saget whispers to himself after a long night of shooting his latest motion picture: Horror Directly Following Late Night Movie Shoots.
"You be safe now! Don't want any sort of horror scenario happening to you on the way home!" chuckles the director.
"What the fuck did I tell you ab... | 2017-05-05T07:38:18 | 2017-05-05T07:10:06 | 280 | 21 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Wow. Great.
I'm standing in the middle of the woods, with just my pijamas on.
I have no idea how I got here. It's cold, I'm tired, and I just want to go to bed. The only problem is, that I live in the middle of a large city, in a place, where even the nights are warm and the air is soft.
Here it's so cold, that my ... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T07:30:17 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 118 | 21 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | This carnival was shit. The clowns looked stupid, the animals were boring, and even the food was awful. I don’t like carnivals to begin with, even as a kid, but at least the food was always good. Hot and greasy, covered in sugar or butter. But this food was stale and rotten. Shit, just shit.
When my boyfriend, Matt, ... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T07:15:00 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] They reworked the justice system. Now, in each cell there is a piano, and convicts are released after performing a song perfectly. Lesser criminals are assigned simple melodies, while the worst get full concertos. You've been a concert pianist your whole life. | At first I robbed a grocery store and played my "Three Blind Mice"
And when I egged a blind man's house I made that Bach sound nice.
They started getting suspicious when I made my big score
I robbed a bank and breezed right through Sonata 24.
I stole, I lied, I fought, I killed, I lived a madman's dream.
By Can... | I had gotten drunk after the Beethoven piano sonata concert. I had had a miserable week. Anne had left me, one of my parents died. The cat ran off. I was broken. That’s what happens sometimes. I took a swing at cop. At least that’s what they told me and that’s what the video showed. I didn’t remember it.
I’ve ... | 2017-05-17T23:42:52 | 2017-05-17T23:40:36 | 2,153 | 52 |
[WP] You have a guardian-demon. Unlike his angelic counterparts, his methods are more straightforward and brutal, but infinitely more effective. He really wants to see you succeed | It was at its worst when I was little.
It would start with small things. Coincidences. Things you couldn't possibly blame on a kid. I didn't get invited to the cool kid's birthday party, and his party was cancelled when his entire family got the stomach flu. The mean girl in class laughed at the dorky haircut my mom... | The tailor stepped a foot back from me an eyed his work, looking for any imperfections. A ritual at best - there were no imperfections when it came to him, and that's why *I* came to him. I turned to look in the mirror to give my own appraisal.
The suit was fitted, streamlined to emphasize the shape of my body. Any mu... | 2017-06-02T13:16:55 | 2017-06-02T12:37:23 | 96 | 22 |
[WP]You are the RPG Hero. Your constant farming for money destroyed the economy before the Demon King had a chance to destroy the world. | "Krep!" He roared. The goblin came scurrying, bowing and scraping before the Demon King.
"Oh, yes, sir. What can I do for your Evilness today?"
"I need a status update. Where are our armies? What news of the kingdom?" The king purred, one hand resting easily on the axe across his knees. The goblin, already n... | "Inflation rates are higher than ever, our currency is the weakest it's been since its inception, and our national debt has escalated to the point where it'd just be better to start defaulting on all of our loans and declare war on.... well, let's see who we've actually borrowed from: The Thurians, Nerlawn, Farlow, Tri... | 2017-07-11T10:55:41 | 2017-07-11T10:36:47 | 104 | 20 |
[WP] You're the only actual normal student in a school full of anime protagonists/supernatural beings. Everyone else is firmly convinced that you're hiding something. | "Yasha?"
"Present!"
"Sotoro?"
"Here!"
"John?"
Everyone turned to the empty chair... John's never been absent. He never cut class, never cheated on exams, ignored all of the conflicts surrounding the school... but there he wasn't.
"John can turn invisible!" Ren yelled. "Pay up Yash."
As Yasha reached through his ... | I squeezed through the ridiculous wrought iron gates of Imadine Academy, trying to avoid the crush of girls waiting for Sidhara. A white and blue mecha touched down heavily in the courtyard in front of me, a new gash in the chasis. Reinhart popped the hatch and lept to the ground, looking around to see if anyone saw hi... | 2017-09-21T07:17:35 | 2017-09-21T06:00:37 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You're on a hiking trip alone in the woods, when you find a glass bottle. In the bottle, a note. "I'm trapped 3000 years in the past! There is a time machine located in the rock to your left. Help!" | *3000 years* I mused to myself. *Did they even have toilets back then?*
I knew that some ancient cultures had developed plumbing and knew the basics of irrigation and sewage management, but we were living in the Golden Age of toilet comfort goddammit and it was not something I was willing to give up on so easily.
Se... | I felt a chill as I read the note. It was my own goddamn handwriting! And sure enough I could see a large boulder to my left, peeking through the trees.
I scratched my head and started walking. "Curiosity killed the cat..." I thought to myself, as I made my way towards the boulder. Suddenly I felt dizzy. I swear I cou... | 2017-10-08T02:05:06 | 2017-10-08T01:47:25 | 54 | 31 |
[WP] You were born into a society where permanent augmented reality contact lenses are fused onto every newborn's eyes. You're unaware of this until one day, a lens falls into your left hand. | I had sneezed with my eyes open. I heard the stories, of people losing their eyeballs or having their brains pop out through their eye sockets. I knew it was all bull crap though. But now I look down as half of my right eyeball came off and landed in my tissue. I was stunned in horror. Finally my thinking caught up wit... | Disclaimer: this isn't exactly my style of writing, this is more thoughts spewed in to my notes in an informal manner, but it's a script idea I wrote about a year ago that oddly matches this idea. I'll rework the writing if people want when I have some time.
Everyone is required to wear specialized contacts and heari... | 2017-12-17T19:21:27 | 2017-12-17T18:38:42 | 751 | 83 |
[WP] Overnight, 99.9% of humans are rendered unable to tell lies. You, being part of the .1%, have avoided the ruthless persecution that liars faced in the wake of this event... so far. | I'm an unlikely hero.
It hasn't been explained. It probably never will be. One day, no one could lie anymore - well, almost nobody.
You'd think, with all the truth coming out, things would have gotten messy, right? Cheaters getting kicked to the curb by their spouses, thieving employees getting fired. Some of this hap... | Most of us didn't last long.
A close friend of mine was killed, for cheating on his wife, simply because he was able to lie.
I, however, have done pretty well. My entire identity was based on a lie before the night that truth became a necessity for most.
It was funny for me actually, the woman I was talking to stoppe... | 2018-02-16T09:24:03 | 2018-02-16T09:16:43 | 120 | 19 |
[WP] Your entire life, you've been told you're deathly allergic to bees. You've always had people protecting you from them, be it your mother or a hired hand. Today, one slips through and lands on your shoulder. You hear a tiny voice say "Your Majesty, what are your orders?" | As the voice echoes in my ears, I think of the possibilities. My life, finally free to live outside. My friends amazed as I command a dancing cloud. My bullies, writhing in pain on the ground.
Then a new thought occurs to me. I command the world's pollinators. Dim visions of nations bowing before me, begging me to all... | One time in elementary school, one of my classmates got rushed to the hospital because of a bee sting. She was allergic. I didn’t get to watch it happen, because I was inside for “indoor option”. I was never allowed to go out for recess. I always picked a friend or two, and we played board games while the rest of my cl... | 2018-04-01T03:57:58 | 2018-04-01T02:29:37 | 372 | 45 |
[WP] You notice a pattern, anytime your child is recorded they inevitably look directly at the camera and say one word seemingly random word. You begin to listen to the videos from first to last, as you finish the last one your child walks in and makes eye contact. "today." | Sarah played the videos writing down each word. It made no sense to her. She watched the last video first and worked back to the oldest.
Scream, she scribbled down and switched to the next video.
I.
Chocolate, Sarah wrote it down.
King.
Pho, she was getting closer now and was hungry for some pho.
Mother.
... | It really started to freak me out when little Ella started the habit, at first, I told myself it was just the odd babbling of a baby. That was until I recorded her walking and caught several of the words in separate videos.
I strung them together to get, “on black wings.”
I sit here now trying to string them toge... | 2018-04-15T10:25:52 | 2018-04-15T08:15:07 | 208 | 104 |
[WP] An astronaut lands on the moon and decides out of curiousity to check if his phone has an internet connection. It does. And he has a lot of new likes on Tinder. All within 5 miles. | Cameron stepped onto the dusty surface and gazed through his helmet across the rocky landscape towards the rim of a crater.
"It's more beautiful than I ever imagined," he said into the com.
"Can't wait to see it," Shui's voice crackled in their helmets, "On my way down now."
"All I see from up here are your clownsh... | Ok then. Here we go. I tilt the "joystick" accordingly to match the calculated trajectory by mission control. I'm tense. I've never done anything like this before. It didn't help that I was the only one aboard the moon lander. Mission Captain Jacobs and Martin were taking rock samples while I was launched from Earth to... | 2018-05-13T09:23:59 | 2018-05-13T09:01:39 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] Demons have ditched traditional paper soul contracts in favor of touchscreens. Today a demon tapped the wrong button, irrevocably selling its soul to you. | "Oh no"
I looked up at the Demon, the tablet held delicately between wickedly curved talons. With one of these, he tapped on the screen, carefully at first before getting more frantic. He breathed out deeply, a flicker of blue flame.
"What's oh no?" I glanced down at myself. I didn't feel any different. "Contract no... | "There has been a *terrible* mistake here..." The demon twiddled his thumbs, his ears pointed back as his face flushed a brilliant purple against his red skin. His spaded tail swished nervously behind him. "You see... Ms..?"
"Just call me Emma." The young girl, no more than six or seven, held her doll by its arm while... | 2018-07-18T06:09:53 | 2018-07-18T03:56:34 | 344 | 131 |
[WP] After getting a girlfriend, a man discovers that he now has a very powerful superpower: everything he says, no matter how factual and true, is wrong. | The group of friends were sat around a fire under a sky full of stars. One man, stepping quietly away from the party, found a place where he could be alone. He looked up at the Milky Way.
"When you consider how vast and great the universe is, I'm just worthless, aren't I?" he sighed.
His friend, who had known him fo... | "Hey doll, I’m trying to make myself a sandwich like you asked. Can you hand me the bread?”
“It’s michetta, not *bread*.” She snapped.
“Jeez, sorry. Can you hand me the michetta then?”
“Get it yourself,” she snapped again. “I’m making dinner for the funeral tonight.”
I scoffed at her. “My parents are coming by – it... | 2018-09-06T09:28:27 | 2018-09-06T08:53:19 | 265 | 75 |
[WP] A clang came from the engine room, followed by a string of curses. Most of the crewmembers stood far from the doors, fearfully looking in. It was their first trip out to deepspace since they had taken on a human mechanic, and they were all pretty sure that those were not good noises. | A loud bang echoed through the metal hall, shortly followed by the sound of flesh on metal and an agonised and infuriated scream.
The captain and first mate glanced at each other. "Is this... Is this normal for Terrans?" The first mate asked sheepishly.
Another bang echoed down the halls, this time with the smell of ... | It's been 50 years since we, as a race, perfected space travel. Of course, I say race so as to gloss over the fact that entire groups of people had not only developed the math required to make the jump to hyperspace, but according to myth and lore, a few groups had managed it also, a full 150 years ago. That's a full 1... | 2019-05-31T06:22:59 | 2019-05-31T02:52:26 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] In 9,000 BC you led a crusade to kill all magic practitioners. Your soldiers all died, as did your foes. You were cursed with being an undying soldier- doomed to wage war for one side or another for all of time. The year is 1940…the Führer wishes to use your expertise. | Narcissists. All the same.
This one had an angry red armband and an angry red face, gesticulating and raving in front of me from behind his desk. He was good, but rhetoric is rhetoric - and his wasn't the best I'd ever seen. That honour went a Khwarazmian street-hawker that took me for my gold and my wits.
Clever c... | There is no end, the story just continues. A snake biting its own tail, coiled around and swirling into infinity. Where does it stop? It does not. Where did it begin?
Long ago.
Do you have the time? I feel the need to unburden myself. To explain why I am what I am. Why I do the things I do. Indulge me, the journey ha... | 2019-08-03T23:53:34 | 2019-08-03T23:37:03 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] You're 1 year into the zombie apocalypse. You're group has established a small enclosed community that grows its own food and produce. You're all living happily and safely. One day you hear someone asking to be let it. It's a starved Gordon Ramsay, with some thoughts on the food on offer.
Edit: your group not you... | "Step aside." I order the guards, who scramble aside at the voice of the leader, peppering me with a chorus of 'Yes ma'am'. I step up to the small window in the gates, peering through intently. I had heard his voice, drifting across the gardens in the quiet of the morning- but still, the shock of seeing him standing be... | "This tastes like it was stewed in a pot of piss!"
The newest addition to our small community threw the bowl back in my face. I'd seen this man on television before the event. Gordon Ramsay. World renowned chef and TV personality arrived at our gate no more than an hour ago, a shell of his former self.
When we let h... | 2019-08-07T08:47:21 | 2019-08-07T06:45:22 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] You’re an intern for the Greek gods. You follow them around and ask them many questions about the world, life, and many of the universe’s greatest secrets. However, one day you decide to ask them how to become a god. Most of them stay silent, but Hades decides to give you the answer | I felt excited, and a little scared. A bit of caution was mixed in there somewhere. But it was mostly excitement. After all the other gods were too scared to give a second thought to my question, Hades was the only one to give me a straight answer.
"The secret" Hades began, "has nothing to do with the pitiful ideas of... | I shouldn’t have asked. It’s how I got into this whole mess to begin with.
I should probably back up and explain my nonsense rambling. Thing is, I have no idea what’s going on. I never have.
It all started when I became an intern for the Greek gods. I was excited. I wanted to see what happened behind the scenes. I go... | 2019-09-29T19:35:01 | 2019-09-29T19:14:37 | 65 | 23 |
[WP] You are a former secret agent, now retired; today, you just found the beautiful and dangerous femme fatale that always tried to kill you at a pizza parlor, dressed in a nerdy hoodie and eating an extra-large pizza. | I'd been retired for about a week when I decided to go out to eat for the first time in years. I was one of the best, which means I had a target on my back. By now though I'm sure most major players in the business have heard I'm out of the game. When I got to the parlor, I ordered a small meat lovers and looked for... | " ’Don't you think that's a little bit too much for you, Larone? ’ I said and took a seat right in front of her. She checked me for a milisecond, and kept chewing her bite. "
"Woah, that's so cool!" the kids cheered.
"What she did was even cooler. She said 'Never too much for a cover, Sarge.' while her mouth was ful... | 2019-10-05T10:58:54 | 2019-10-05T09:22:09 | 207 | 22 |
[WP] A sudden worldwide catastrophe has decimated the mainland. A lone scientist stationed in Antarctica and an astronaut from ISS is trying to communicate with each other and work out what truly happened to the rest of the humans. | “Station...ling ground con...any survi...”
I’d been out here for a few weeks already. I was mostly just keeping an eye on stuff that people smarter than I had set up. Just babysitting, really.
“...Strophic damage...”
They needed someone to man the station until this blizzard passed. Normally there’d have been a lot ... | What can you see from up there?
The words blinked on the screen, the failsafe protocol of the space station permitted very little in the way of communication. In fact Lianne had only ever seen this failsafe mode once before in her training which now felt oh so long ago.
Focus she told her self, you're in shock that w... | 2020-02-11T07:08:32 | 2020-02-11T06:48:34 | 66 | 22 |
[WP] When you gain a superpower it is a reflection of your inner self, good people tend to get typical 'good' powers such as flight while bad people get 'bad' powers such as mind control. Oddly enough the top superhero and supervillain each have powers that seemingly do not suit them at all | \[Poem\]
Healer Harry Healed the sick,
the injured and the cursed
What Healer Harry asked in return
made Healer Harry the worst.
A family, rich in all but health
Healer Harry would find.
He'd heal the heir and make him strong
and walk away, owning their mine.
An ambulance would race across the town,
Healer H... | I've always admired heroes.
The title carries with it a certain image. A tall, broad-shouldered figure wrapped in a flowing cape, standing tall against the evils of the world, his mere presence a sign that things will be alright. He moves faster than the speed of sound. He hurls cars like frisbees. He can move objects... | 2020-06-15T11:56:52 | 2020-06-15T11:51:06 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] when we got to space we were surprised to find that all the aliens we come across are terrified of us, when we assure them that we aren’t there to hurt them they explained why they were so scared. Earth isn’t a planet, it’s a long since dead machine and humanity? Humanity is its combat AI. | "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit..." The alien was flipping across screens of a manual, shifting its weight from forelegs to hindlegs in a surprisingly human display of agitation and fear.
Well, at least our translators were working.
I was leading the very first diplomatic mission to meet our neighbours near Sirius. We'... | First Contact. Metreidies Prime. To Ro Christian, looking over the precipice as if over the sweep of historical record, it was such an obvious honey pot.
“Temper your chrono-exceptionalism,” she whispered to herself. There were many other apt descriptors for her teacher, Andro Frafare--”flatulent”, “inebriated”, “... | 2020-07-09T06:28:17 | 2020-07-09T04:40:02 | 387 | 30 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | "Yes, these will do real nice." Vesson peered at the handful of crystals through the jeweler's loupe. "Good color, nice points. Yes, these are exactly what I need."
"Good, good. I'm glad you like them." Stormgod said coolly to the man dressed in what appeared to be a flat black suit and turtleneck.
"And I am glad y... | I looked up from my dissection to the sound of someone knocking on my door, which was... highly unusual. My thralls didn't have the intelligence to seek me out if they required attention for some reason, and even if they did, they certainly didn't have the sense to knock. More likely they'd have fallen into one of the ... | 2020-07-12T10:27:01 | 2020-07-12T10:26:39 | 532 | 101 |
[WP] You are an ordinary human going about your day when you suddenly find yourself in hell. Looking down you see yourself standing on some crudely drawn symbols. A nearby demon child holds up some paper and says "Um...can you help me with my homework?" | "Where am I?" I asked, feeling my heart race as the room around sounded with distant cries of pain. My eyes had trouble adjusting to the darkness around me, but I was able to focus on the red, glowing eyes ahead of me.
The small child looked up at me, tears in his eyes and asked again, "Can you help me with my homewor... |
"What does this even *mean*?" I stared at the incomprehensible language at the top of the paper. Surely this was something in some demonic language, not meant for mortal tongues. I had been summoned, somehow, to hell - by the mischief of a small demon child, or perhaps by that third tequila. Either way, here I was... | 2020-09-16T17:55:15 | 2020-09-16T17:14:35 | 184 | 108 |
[WP] you are a super hero/heroine. You've been captured by your nemesis so often that now you tend small talk while trying to escape or waiting for a rescue. Today's topic: the creepy fan mail you've BOTH been getting. | "Good, good," the menacing undertone piercing my groggy mind. "You are finally awake."
"Ugh," I murmured, still a little shell-shocked. I instinctively raised my right hand to rub at the sore, aching spot at the top of my head, only to run into the ever-so-familiar feeling of a restraint binding my wrists.
"That's...... | The chain dropped another foot as the sharks cut vicious circles below.
My arms were trapped in a straightjacket, my feet bound together, weights swinging in loose arcs from my ankles. I rotated clockwise, then anticlockwise, as the chain stuttered towards the roiling water.
Honestly, I was a bit disappointed. It w... | 2020-10-28T04:53:11 | 2020-10-28T04:39:12 | 99 | 66 |
[WP] After adopting a human on the intergalactic black market you're shocked to discover it's actually sapient. | "Yes ma'am. Those are technically illegal. No, under the Charter, any species not specified in the list is automatically illegal. By the throne, ma'am, I don't know! I'm not a zoologist! Look, you can't just let it loose because your child got hurt. No you can't put it down either. Yes ma'am, that would just be uneth... | "I... sorry, remind me again, what is a... walking taco?"
My new exotic pet scratched the back of its neck. It smelled faintly of ennui and emotional disconnect.
"Yeah, so it's like... ok so you take a bag of fritos and then you get your other ingredients, right? and you put the beef and lettuce and cheese and stuff... | 2022-03-01T20:35:06 | 2022-03-01T17:47:51 | 135 | 40 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | We went from 17-hour days to full 24-hour days. We laughed, we cried, we worked. Living life to the fullest - more than we ever knew.
We went from 17-our days to 24-hor days. We misremember things sometimes, maybe make a few mistakes once in a while, we were humans after all. They said it’s a side effect.
We went fro... | Our school has the highest drug use in our county. The drug is called Somnus. It is a pill that you swallow in the morning to mimic the effects of 8 hours of sleep. This allows you to go to class and concentrate on your studies.
The consequences are that your memory is reduced and your brain is not as efficient... | 2022-03-18T10:41:58 | 2022-03-18T07:24:03 | 31 | 14 |
[WP] You decide to try out your new time machine. After arriving in the past you ask a nearby peasant what the year is, to which they respond "It's 450 BC". Good, you're in the right yea-... wait a minute... You glance back and the peasant's made a beeline for your time machine. | "Its 450 BC" Said the peasently laborer with a distinguished accent too familiar to ignore.
A peek at the universal translator revealed the language as... Earth Standard?
"That cant be right...Excuse me sir-" the words cut off as the peasant ran past
"Where are you going?" I asked baffled at the outburst
"Im gettin... | The lights swarmed me with their unnatural luster, overwhelming my dry eyes. Everywhere. Every direction. They dance with colors unknown to me, I’m out of rhythm, out of time.
And the noises flood me, drown me. They’re so loud to me, louder than me. Though I screamed in fear, and no one could hear me. I think they sta... | 2022-04-24T18:32:12 | 2022-04-24T16:25:25 | 211 | 15 |
[WP] A thousand years after humanity was accepted into the galactic federation at large, other aliens realized one terrifying fact about them, humans are adaptive creatures. Unlike other races, humans have no qualms about learning alien techniques or integrating new alien technologies to their own. | **\*Clink\***
The chip fell on the alien's desk with a loud noise, having been thrown by the human right from the door. The alien raised her head and gave the visitor an inquisitive look before taking the chip in her appendage and slotting it into her terminal.
"Boom!" the human yelled boisterously. The alien sighed.... | Start...
I’ve read about the human race in my school. They are known to be violent beyond comprehension. A savage race which attacks every other species as well as each other. I remember my teacher, “Higher thought is inaccessible for such species. It’s best to avoid them.”
We’ve been at war with them for the last h... | 2022-06-14T02:17:59 | 2022-06-13T23:34:05 | 980 | 171 |
[WP] You are a "con-man superhero". You draw the attention of villains, pretend to have powers and keep them occupied until a real hero with real powers arrives on the scene. You are so good at your job, that no-one is entirely sure whether you are truly powerless or not. | Some call me the Invisible Vigilante. Some call me the Hidden Hero. I call myself...the Audio Engineer.
Everytime there's the latest crazy attack on the city, a ton of paperwork has to be filled out before anything can be done. Lawsuits against accidental damages are a very real problem for our heroes here at Watchcor... | Bob went to take another bite of his sandwhich, his gorgeous, gorgeous sandwhich.
It was delicious. If there was one moment in all of time that Bob would have chosen to experience forever, it would have been this moment, he thought as he savored each distinct flavor while slowly grinding his teeth. Then he took a ... | 2022-08-11T08:27:39 | 2022-08-11T05:27:26 | 340 | 212 |
[WP] You're a supervillain whose latest evil scheme threatens to throw the city into chaos unless your nemesis goes on a date with you. To your surprise, they agree with enthusiasm before you can even explain what the consequences of refusing are. | And just like that, Giantess fell into my trap. She tried to enlarge to the size of a skyscraper, but before getting taller than 6 feet, metal bars locked into place around her. She tried using her above average strength to break them, but at this point I knew which titanium alloy would keep her at bay. Finally, she “g... | Getting tipsy at the club with my friends. We're shaking butts in time with the hottest song of the summer. Sometimes we villains are cannibals - I took down this jerk who was trying to dim my sunshine so to speak - muscling into my action with dark money politics. I ruined his reputation by making some photos of him i... | 2022-08-16T14:56:08 | 2022-08-16T09:25:08 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] You are the sole normal, unpowered student at a School for the Supernaturally Gifted. You were bullied once. Once. | Graduation day. I finally made it. I was hard being the only powerless “freak” in the school, but at least the bullying stopped pretty quickly. I think there was only a single time I was actually attacked by someone else which is an absurd stroke of luck. I guess he got expelled as I never saw Charles again. The fact t... | St. Agatha's School for the Monstrous was, despite its outward appearance, more an elite institution of learning than the dumping ground for the abnormal it pretended to be. The reason was simple. Vampires have obscene amounts of money, long memories, and children who require very particular accommodations. My mother ... | 2022-11-02T09:59:50 | 2022-11-02T07:37:40 | 502 | 162 |
[WP] In Hell, everyone is assigned a partner. Satan picks them specifically to be the one person you could never, ever get along with. If the partners can become friends, both ascend to heaven. | “Look,” I say, for what feels like the millionth time. “It is really quite simple. All we have to do go over to that demon over there, and tell them we are friends. And then we go to heaven.”
The demon in question looked over at us through the hellfire and nodded his agreement.
“Hmmmm….” Says my companion. “Yes. Y... | ''*So, hi K.*'' I say to him. ''*Fuck me, is my punishment you?*''. I nod at K. ''*This is going to be really annoying, AO.*''. He sighs and looks upon the demon in charge and raises his hand. The demon beckons to him, curious to know what the little human wants. ''*So the only way to get rid of him it to become his fr... | 2015-01-09T18:34:02 | 2015-01-09T15:30:59 | 37 | 19 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.