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[WP] You always greet your mum with a code phrase that she would complete because you used to be afraid that someone would replace her when you were little. One day you say the phrase to her and she responds with, "Hmm? What are you talking about?" | John rang his mother’s doorbell and eagerly waited. He’s had a hectic past few months, and hardly got to speak to his family, but he’ll be damned if he misses Christmas dinner. His mother opened the door, greeting her son with her warm smile. The two embraced.
“John! It’s so good to see you again!” She exclaimed... | Bracing myself, I stared straight into the eyes of my nemesis as he charged towards me on his hoverbike, weapon in hand. Timing my actions, I leapt...
... back into my seat in the bus, the truck outside the window missing my head by inches.
"Another happy landing!" Turning around, I notice my friend Jake giving a so... | 2019-09-30T12:14:39 | 2019-09-30T06:53:54 | 104 | 24 |
[WP] a flash of light covers the earth & 1% of the population gets super powers. You are not one of them. Years later a task force is made to register everyone with powers. Theres a knock on your door & its a member of this task force who says he actually impressed with how well you kept your secret | "Kept my secret? I really don't know what you are talking about," I said. I didn't. A few minutes ago an agent from the SPTA (Super Power Task Alliance) force had knocked on my door and proclaimed in a loud voice how impressed he was with my ability to keep my secret.
I invited him in. As we having a birthday par... | I felt my way to the door, using the insistent knocking as my waypoint. The flash 10 years ago had blinded me. At first my family had visited, telling me stories of those with powers. The ones that could fly, or control water . . . even though they were targeted, they were the lucky ones.
There it was. I opened it, an... | 2019-11-02T14:00:32 | 2019-11-02T11:36:41 | 74 | 16 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | “Ah, the Antichrist.” He said.
The antichrist, indeed. I put on the same smirk and greeted my old friend warmly, “Hello, Jesus. Saul was right.” It always irked him when I used his followers’ birth names. I don’t know how I knew this but it was like I wasn’t fully in control of myself again. “It’s gotten so bad here I... | James checked the time on his Rolex after walking out of the conference room.
"Perfect" he thought to himself. "Still have 20 minutes to spare". The meeting had gone off without a hitch. Hands were shaken, contracts were signed, and everyone had walked out of the room in the hazy mist of joy/adrenaline/arousal that ca... | 2020-02-02T17:11:21 | 2020-02-02T17:06:07 | 84 | 44 |
[WP] As you arrive in Heaven, you are confident you have lived your best life. You proudly exclaim you are ready to have your soul judged. An angel walks by with diced carrots and chicken stock under his arm and says, “Did you say ‘soul’? Please don’t tell me Earth still has the copy with typos...” | "What typo?" James stared blankly at the winged creature before him
"We aren't judging your soul..." The angel sighed and placed a basket of ingredients in front of James on what appeared to be a stainless steel table. The normal grey was replaced with a clean but slightly dulled white, "We are here to judge your soup... | The old man had a stunned expression on his face as he set down his soup. In front of him was a thirty year old televangelist, nervously sweating and fidgeting in anticipation of what the angel was about to say. "Young man...," the old man, finally managing to find his voice. "This is, without a doubt, ... one of the w... | 2020-11-24T17:11:23 | 2020-11-24T17:09:44 | 1,352 | 610 |
[WP]One day you wake up to find something is gravely, gravely wrong. There are numbers over everyone’s head (including yours), terrible beasts like werewolves and vampires walk the earth, and all sorts of magical mishaps and twisted storytropes roam rampant. Oh god, you’re stuck in r/WritingPrompts! | At first, I was content to lurk.
Who wouldn't? It was overwhelming, honestly. Seeing all those fantastical creations popping out by the second, like Athena out of Zeus. Humans, most of the time, kings and queens and knights and princesses, but also the common citizen down the street. But turn the corner, and you'll ru... | I woke up to find a counter over my head. 10k, it said. Right in front of me was a case full of arcane trophies. Some familiar, like gold or silver, but others - a bear crossing its arms, a hand with a thumbs up boosted by a rocket - were out of this world. There also was, I discovered, a heap of coins in the corner. T... | 2020-12-08T08:44:52 | 2020-12-08T07:46:37 | 108 | 25 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Travel was always a danger for us.
To brave the high seas, to trek the rocky mountains-- these were the things for the bravest of souls, the greatest adventurers. Homing talonsongs could only be so reliable, after all. An unexpected storm here, a foul gust there, and a call for help on your trek would be a pitiless s... | Melk'tha literally exploded.
Hor'borrkl swiveled its eye stalks from the smoldering remains of its podling and toward the Human soldier standing over one hundred leaf lengths away. A tendril of smoke arose from the strange device the Human held, wisping away into the air, disappearing like the enormous thunderclap tha... | 2021-01-21T18:13:20 | 2021-01-21T17:46:02 | 299 | 151 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | “We have failed, sire. It is over,” Zarnath said to Larx, the high commander, as he walked to the battle cruiser.
“Nonsense,” Larx said with a confident laugh, his vermilion cape was blowing in the wind as he stepped down the ramp of the ship. "Yannix’s division will bring the human's resistance under control.”
Zarna... | They came from the galaxy’s edge on worldships whose engines fanned out behind them like the ends of a scarf caught on the breeze, and their troop transports were no lesser works of art. The former Ethan found out from the news broadcasts that had flooded every terrestrial communication device for the last week as the ... | 2021-01-21T18:22:16 | 2021-01-21T14:21:41 | 93 | 53 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | Dot dash dot (rest) dot dot dash (rest) dash dot.
The rhythm was gentle and persistent, rain pattering against the tin roof.
Dot dash dot (rest) dot dot dash (rest) dash dot.
The hair stirred faintly at the back of my neck.
Dot dash dot (rest) dot dot dash (rest) dash dot.
R.
U.
N.
I pressed my fists into my ... | “Run, Run, Run, Run. That’s the message the rain is sending to everyone.” I made my point to the empty lounge chair beside me, staring out at the rain, watching it splash against my window, coating it in various little droplets of water. “I don’t get it, it can’t be a coincidence. It’s happening at regular intervals. I... | 2021-09-28T08:52:44 | 2021-09-28T08:46:07 | 343 | 81 |
[WP] You've never felt the same after learning Morse Code. The rain keeps telling you to run. | *Drip splash drip, drip drip splash, splash drip.*
Whenever it rains, I love to stand outside for a second, just to feel the drops on my skin. Only a short amount of time, mind you. Like most people, I'm not a fan of getting drenched, but it feels nice for a moment — the first few drops landing on my skin. Cool and re... | Davie was fascinated with the power of the Morse Code. It can help you in such a situation, that you can pass a note using your fingers or any objects on your hand and tap it as it had a letter meaning, Davie thought 'Why not learn it? I have nothing else to do.' Davie began to research Morse Code, the dot and dash mea... | 2021-09-28T09:18:25 | 2021-09-28T08:56:15 | 57 | 16 |
[WP] You are a princess whose father has just remarried. You’re ecstatic— a wicked stepmother means the start of your own fairy tale, and a guaranteed happy ending. Problem is, your stepmother is… nice. And it seems to be genuine. | "No, no, no, no, no! Get out of my room!", Princess Cassandra yelled.
Queen Helena was heartbroken. She had with her a silver tray of sweet treats and tea. She had thought it would be nice for her and the princess to bond, but the princess clearly had a different idea as she threw a tantrum.
"Cassandra, please. I kno... | Princess Esmeralda’s day had begun with a wedding and a stepmother, progressed on to demons and bargaining, and had only gotten more frustrating from there.
In the center of her expansive bedroom perched on her favorite chair, his feet up on of the small, gilded footstool she’d purchased in Bezier the previous year, a... | 2021-10-10T23:37:55 | 2021-10-10T22:03:38 | 314 | 206 |
[WP] You're a superhero. Despite saving the city 4 times a week your hates by the community. While fighting one of your villains a crowd gathers to boo you. The villain you're fighting stops turn to the crowd and says "listen here you ungrateful brats" | "Listen here, you ungrateful brats!"
The sentence brought about an almost eerie silence, during which the electricity coming off of Edgar was the only sound to be heard. Despite being on a rampage mere moments before, Dr. Redde instead glared at the group of hecklers who had decided to gather.
"Do you realize just h... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 0, Part ?: Clara Olsen v.s. Public Opinion)
**Tupperman leapt out of Dani's Second-Hand Jewelry, skidding on the street, and sprinted towards his beat-up old getaway car.** I sighed. Poor kid couldn't even afford a proper getaway driver. I didn't even particularly *want* to arrest him.
... | 2022-06-17T01:39:39 | 2022-06-16T21:56:50 | 487 | 285 |
[WP] You're a superhero. Despite saving the city 4 times a week your hates by the community. While fighting one of your villains a crowd gathers to boo you. The villain you're fighting stops turn to the crowd and says "listen here you ungrateful brats" | "Listen here, you ungrateful brats!"
The words echo through a maze of concrete, asphalt and metal and glass. Purple Poltergeist is angrier than I've ever seen him.
"We work hard!" He shouts. "Four times a week, I build death rays, come up with ingenious schemes that have one critical flaw, and kidnap helpless innocen... | You have heard that there is a villain in a convenience store. As you are superjumping your way to the scene, you see a crowd around the convenience store, laughing and talking, with coke and hamburgers in their hands. Among them is a TV station man with a camera.
'You're out of pickles!!!!!!!'
Hey! You'r... | 2022-06-17T04:18:51 | 2022-06-17T03:35:23 | 47 | 11 |
[WP] You're a superhero. Despite saving the city 4 times a week your hates by the community. While fighting one of your villains a crowd gathers to boo you. The villain you're fighting stops turn to the crowd and says "listen here you ungrateful brats" | (quick sidenote, this is one of the best things that i have ever been given)
He was on the verge of death. Even in his many decades of saving the town. The people around him were booing him. “listen here, you ungrateful brats” the demonic voice that carried that message echoed throughout the street. Everyone stopped. ... | You have heard that there is a villain in a convenience store. As you are superjumping your way to the scene, you see a crowd around the convenience store, laughing and talking, with coke and hamburgers in their hands. Among them is a TV station man with a camera.
'You're out of pickles!!!!!!!'
Hey! You'r... | 2022-06-17T05:56:23 | 2022-06-17T03:35:23 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] "I'd like to sell my soul". The Devil grinned; "In exchange for what? Women, money, power?". "Salvation". | "This isn't going to work out the way you think," the Devil said, eyes narrowed at the man standing before him. He was unassuming, even for a human - plain clothes, a scruffy face you'd forget in a heartbeat, and only a handful of scars allowed him to stand out.
"Others have tried this wording, you know?" the Devil co... | # Soulmage
**"I'm very sorry,"** the Demon of Empathy mused, "but that's not the bargaining chip you think it is. Aim higher."
I blinked. "Selling you my *soul* isn't enough of a bargaining chip?"
The Demon of Empathy tilted their head. "Your soul will fall into my domain eventually. Hastening that eventuality by a ... | 2022-06-30T11:09:44 | 2022-06-30T09:17:10 | 1,175 | 467 |
[WP] People don't seem to realise that figures of mythos evolve too. The Grim Reaper, for example, no longer wields his scythe, opting to harvest souls with a combine harvester. Cupid traded his bow for a sniper rifle decades ago. You're the dealer that supplies the mythical world with technology. | My job didn't just involve upgrading gods with better equipment. I was saving them from irrelevance, and therefore from dying. Not many saw it that way, though. Most just got defensive and refused to adapt, thinking that I was trying to change them.
Athena stared at the screen with a stoic expression. "And people use ... | “Why have you brought me to Poseidon's domain, boy?” Zeus was standing in the middle of a battleship somewhere off the coast of Niue in the southern Pacific. He was sweating and did not look comfortable in a US Navy uniform.
Seb stood in his engineer's uniform, black beard with a streak of grey, and generally looking... | 2022-07-19T09:19:00 | 2022-07-19T09:07:03 | 1,407 | 431 |
[WP] Write a Story that has the plot of pre-schooler’s educational program, but the tone of a gritty film noir. | Every day was the same. They all blurred together into a malaise each one indistinguishable from the last. Another day, another mystery, another missing number found. Truth be told, I can’t remember any of them- the people I help. A hundred faces, a hundred names that disappear into the murkiness of routine.
It’s a... | I take another sip of my Elmer’s glue. A valentine sits on my desk reading,
I hart u,
Ur secret crush.
Immediately, my heart beats faster from reading the note. I take another sip of gloppy Elmer’s to take the edge off. I examine the card for more clues on that temptress aiming to give me a heart attack. It’s before... | 2022-09-10T18:35:10 | 2022-09-10T17:12:21 | 74 | 24 |
[WP] When two people get married, on the day of the wedding they are both given the ability to alter the appearance of their spouse to anything they wish. How do they change each other? How do they respond to what has been done to them? | The night of their honeymoon she felt a hot, electric, tingle zip through her body and it wasn't from the sex. It stung as it traveled up her spine and down her limbs. She bit her lip and clenched the cotton sheets around her trying not to wake him. Her pain killers were in her suitcase somewhere but she knew she didn'... | Emily had met Mark when they were 13 and just starting high school, Back then nothing mattered and in their heads they were already adults and they figured they'd never have to change who they were.
Mark had only just hit puberty and was riddled with pimples that never went away and his body was just barely growing in... | 2022-12-08T05:38:26 | 2022-12-08T02:30:30 | 32 | 15 |
[WP]: A child encounters a mythical creature only to discover they're nothing like in the stories. | Monsters in my storybooks are big and scary.
They have sharp teeth and long claws, and when the hero fights them the hero is always brave and strong with shiny armor and a sword.
My monster is small. And when I fight it I'm weak and tired and sick and lose my hair.
My mom says I'm fighting like a brave knight, but t... | The massive horned horse breathed heavily as it opened the door to its one room apartment and squished its bloated frame moved away from the door. On the television, re-runs of Battlestar Galactica played quietly. It rubbed its hoof against its ass to scratch it and a tiny rainbow cloud popped out as it farted.
Ricky ... | 2013-11-12T15:25:27 | 2013-11-12T11:12:57 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] A religion is proven true but not the one you expect how do people react? | And we'll be back with more news on the finding of flight 370 right after this short commercial break. Wait what's that?
Ladies and gentlemen we have some breaking news here that is nothing short of extraordinary. Nicolas Cage has just revealed that he actually is god.
Eyewitness reports state that Cage was raising m... | The reporter’s nervous smile, coupled with his rapid blinking was skittish and comical next to the massive, bronzed body of the Grecian demi-god beside him. “I’m sorry, you’ll have to tell me that one more time.”
“I’m Hurcules,” spoke the perfectly chiseled specimen of humanity as he swung his looming thick hand back ... | 2014-03-19T11:14:23 | 2014-03-19T09:47:45 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You're on a first date and its going very well until you make a huge mistake. You somehow get a sign from future you telling you that this person is "the one". Don't screw it up. | "...I mean, I tried to stop the bleeding but it just kept coming, and that was the last time I played football."
She's laughing. It's nervous laughter, at best she's pitying me but it's still laughter. Maybe the football story wasn't a good idea. Blood isn't cute, I need cute. Maybe it worked but she's into the smooth... | "Hey, listen up. Don't screw up tonight."
That's what my phone said, as my bowels began another torrent upon that poor, poor porcelain throne.
"Who is this?"
I was pretty pissed right then. I mean, I know friends like to joke around, but come on. A shit-storm was brewing under my butt, and I didn't feel li... | 2014-05-30T12:46:17 | 2014-05-30T12:37:31 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You have a soundtrack that plays music appropriate to whatever situation you are currently in. You can consistently hear the music which is why you're terrified when you awake to the sound of screeching violins at 4am. | I waken to the sound of screeching violins. It's been so long since I last heard them. I check my phone, the light blinding me. *4:05*. There are footsteps echoing throughout the house. I know I have nowhere to go, living in the attic of the house, with a single square window. The footsteps got louder. I heard my fathe... | The screeching broke through the silence and darkness that came with sleep. I groaned as I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and let out a tiny yawn. I glanced at my bedside alarm clock groggily and took note of the time.
*4:11 AM*
After a moment, the violins playing in the background broke through my initial mental haze... | 2015-11-24T20:39:20 | 2015-11-24T20:12:40 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] You are known as the greatest Villain known to history. The nations you have toppled are many, heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move. However, you are unaware that you were a villain at all.
I did not expect this much Response. | All my life, I have only ever sought to do what was right. I have made mistakes, I will not deny that. I was ... clumsy. Inept. I was cast apart from my own people for my errors. I would have died out there, alone, apart.
But when my life was saved by a complete stranger, I realized that I could devote myself to some... | Water...I needed water. A sip of water, a drop of water, anything to resuscitate my dying mouth. The sun hissed at me as I trudged down the sidewalk, pressuring me to get out of its sight. I made a silent promise to never stay outside for so long again, if only it would spare me this once and allow me to quench my thir... | 2016-06-25T04:13:48 | 2016-06-25T01:42:27 | 2,572 | 30 |
[WP] You open your eyes to a hospital room full of people you don't recognize. You've just been informed that you're 10 years old and you've been in a coma. The life you lived was a dream. All 20 years of it.
Doesn't have to be 20 years. Could be 10, could be 50. Have fun with it. | The moment he woke up I could tell something was wrong. There was a sort of dull recognition which blossomed into joy. The transition was beautiful, if not entirely understood. What followed after was what I can only describe as horror. It was over in a heartbeat, a synaptic flash's worth of time where each of us in th... | One day I woke up, and everything I'd ever known was a haze- a blur of twisting memories nipping at my brain, fading into nothingness. It felt like I was dying, slowly losing hold of everything I'd ever been and known. I'd be sitting on the couch with my girlfriend, and she'd bring me a plate of delicious, fresh kebabs... | 2016-06-28T08:35:33 | 2016-06-28T03:58:18 | 51 | 33 |
[WP] After you die, you find out that reincarnation is real, however, there is an error and your memories are still intact upon reincarnation. | I sat on the step up to the worn slide, burying my feet into the sand. This was my usual treatment by my classmates. Being left alone.
Adults had always told me to stop being so weird. That my classmates did not enjoy playing with someone who sounded so old, played so odd games and talked about such strange things.
Of... | Being picked up for the first time, they'd squeezed him just a little too hard. He wriggled like the rest of them, and to his ever-lasting embarrassment even emitted a tiny squeak. Could barely open his eyes. Just felt a whole lot of confusion, a scratch here, a warm body next to him. Christ, he was cold. Was this the ... | 2016-07-19T04:50:23 | 2016-07-19T04:12:21 | 40 | 27 |
[WP]You've just died and gone to bureaucratic hell. Escape is possible, but really, really tedious. You and some other lost souls have decided to try. | I put my feet up on the table.
"Don't do that!" the imp squawked. "That's against Regulation 46(d)(3)!"
"What's the penalty for violating Regulation 46(d)(3)?" I asked nonchalantly. "Is it summary dismissal of my case? Aren't you going to do that anyway? That's the game around here, isn't it? We can apply to escape H... | I looked at the pile of paperwork. It was going down. Slowly, imperceptibly, but down.
Across the desk from me, Tobias St. Marc muttered swear words under his breath as his pen raced across the page, checking boxes and adding numbers.
"Make sure you get those sums correct this time," I said. "We don't want Them to se... | 2016-07-29T08:34:26 | 2016-07-29T07:50:36 | 76 | 24 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile only to learn that no one else actually went into isolation. | Everyone in the U.S. tuned in to watch one of the three major nationally syndicated TV news programs. Fifty years ago, the WWIII Isolation Armistice required all international travel and trade to cease, the internet to be walled, and all long distance communication to be deactivated.
The only broadcast communications... | "And China?" I asked.
"Gone as well," Bobby said on the other end of the Skype call.
It was the first time in fifty years that we were talking. But damn had things changed since we were twenty. He had a head full of grey now and bags under his eyes that drooped like dressing room gowns.
The world had changed just... | 2016-10-18T18:32:40 | 2016-10-18T14:51:17 | 252 | 171 |
[WP] In a world where people can only see in black and white, you are a drug dealer that sells drugs that allow people to see color. | The man had a scraggly, unkempt beard. He wore a dirty t-shirt and ripped jeans. A typical poor kid, looking to escape his dreary, painful reality. And the only way to do that was to come to me.
"Hey, man," he stammered, his eyes nervously darting back and forth. "Can you hook me up with- you know- those pills?"
"Don... | Psst, hey, you. Hey! Come over here and take a seat. *Come on*, don't be shy, I've got something to show you. Drugs? Mere *drugs*? You offend me! To call these wondrous drops of truth *drugs*, well, that's like calling the Mona Lisa a *scribble*!
What do they do? Why, only something **fantastical** - they open your e... | 2016-11-22T07:29:33 | 2016-11-22T06:35:25 | 212 | 43 |
[WP] In a world where people can only see in black and white, you are a drug dealer that sells drugs that allow people to see color. | Psst, hey, you. Hey! Come over here and take a seat. *Come on*, don't be shy, I've got something to show you. Drugs? Mere *drugs*? You offend me! To call these wondrous drops of truth *drugs*, well, that's like calling the Mona Lisa a *scribble*!
What do they do? Why, only something **fantastical** - they open your e... | A million stars perforated the pure black night sky as the shining white full moon stood in the middle of heavens likes an impatient actor demanding an audience’s attention. Grayscale buildings of brick and stone curved along the black pavement of the roads, creating a maze that we call our city. Standing in a secluded... | 2016-11-22T06:35:25 | 2016-11-22T05:44:30 | 43 | 21 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | I am the oldest man alive.
That in itself is a record that cannot be topped.
For every year that i live i remain the oldest man alive.
Records are made and broken. And i remain.
I have lived so long my name has been forgotten. Old recordings of my past long turned to dust.
Now i go by one name. A name that is con... | I never planned on being an immortal, but once you get the taste you just don't want to let it go. Immortality, the holy grail, the fame and rewards that go along with it. They're seductive.
There were a bunch of us immortals around but slowly over time old friends have come and gone. They were stupid, choosing a worl... | 2016-12-14T10:34:13 | 2016-12-14T06:13:23 | 85 | 18 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "The Surgeon General would like to remind you that smoking causes lung cancer and other serious health effects"
Will squinted at the bright neon billboard, its screen casting an unnatural white glow over an otherwise dimly lit street. Taking in the message before briefly sighing and continuing his walk, he gradually ... | I walked down the overgrown, muddy street in my village. It was quiet, as it always had been. The quietness is the thing that was typical of this village, it had always been this quiet. I walked into the house where I was born, or at least: the place where I remembered I first was.
I don't remember much of my childhoo... | 2017-02-17T12:12:31 | 2017-02-17T11:15:56 | 47 | 13 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we have just been informed about sightings in England, France, Italy and China," the lieutenant reported after his brief phone call, but the general had already guessed. "Quarantine measures are in effect, but it seems unlikely that they will be successful."
"Has Madagascar been hit?" the general asked, a grim s... | "Sir, we just got triple Aurhorization for a Level 0 Incursion. Call this number form this phone, and pray that his demands aren't too high."
Axel Gundersson III was handed the authorization codes, signed by the current President Winfrey and three of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as the head of NASA. He frowned... | 2017-03-21T05:27:38 | 2017-03-21T02:18:07 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] Genetically altered 'designer babies' become a reality, but to keep things equitable parents are allocated only so many improvement 'points' to confer on their child. | David had gone through his entire life struggling, his soul craved greatness, but physically he was unimpressive, and mentally, well he was just clever enough to know how average he was.
He searched for years to find his talent, he tried writing, he tried science, he tried music, he settled on becoming an English tea... | "It's unnatural!" Screamed a beautiful blonde at the top of her lungs while holding a sign that read, "GOD HATES DESIGNER!"
It was hypocritical, of course. She, and the many other angry beautiful people surrounding her, would likely be walking into a clinic, just like the very one she was protesting against, to get a ... | 2017-05-17T06:16:56 | 2017-05-17T05:59:17 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] In the poor society you live in, all those who turn 30 have to choose to either go through a very thin, walking only, seemingly endless bridge to an allegedly wealthy land, or continue to live a poor, hopeless life. No man has ever returned from the bridge. Today is your 30th birthday. | The bridge stretched in both directions, disappearing into the fog. There was nothing in sight but the endless grey void. The only sound he’d heard besides his own breath and footsteps was the distant lapping of water. He wasn’t sure how long he’d been walking. It seemed like days, but the light hadn’t changed since he... | At the age of 8 my mother and father left me. Confusion filled me as they tried to explain why they were abandoning me. Apparently they loved me, but obviously they didn't love me enough.
I moved in with my uncle and aunt, but it took me a while to actually accept that my parents weren't coming back. My aunt was the ... | 2017-09-28T11:18:28 | 2017-09-28T11:18:03 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] you are yourself, on Christmas Day, reading this on reddit, you are told that you are loved and accepted for who you are, and to have a happy holiday season, and a great new year!
EDIT: oh my god, this post accounts for 50% of my karma, it’s also the first reddit gold I’ve ever gotten, thank you so much reddit, t... | The night was stupidly warm, as all Christmas nights are in Australia. Though, the storm that accidentally visited my door and blundered through the shrubs was a welcome change, causing me to swap from a roaring fan to an open window. However, this brought in another problem: mosquitoes. As one zipped by, my arm reflex... | "Is it Christmas?", I asked myself. The sludge-like snow on the ground obscures my sense of time, or even season. The last 20 or 90 months have been covered in ice, it seems. And a blizzard has been forming in my head for years. I've salted the streets in preparation for my upcoming travels into the unknown depths of m... | 2017-12-25T02:07:12 | 2017-12-24T23:09:32 | 44 | 19 |
[WP] You are an NPC. One day, you see the player character do some weird steps and duplicate his items. You decide to try it for yourself.
Have fun!
Edit: Huh. I guess I just discovered a karma duplication glitch. | This is it.
I had finally found my ticket to the big leagues. I had more than quadrupled my stockpile of potions, rare gems, and rusty daggers following the steps I had seen players doing for their own gain. I'd be able to get out of here with the kind of money this would make me. My kids could go to school. I could b... | "Where am I? What is this" Chosen-one McQuest shouted up.
I leaned over the wall's edge "You are at the gates of Forrest-Backwater, my good sir, but I'm afraid we no longer accept visitors"
"What dark magic is this?" McQuest shouted. "Is this some kind of trap! I've been to rural backwater before and I think I would re... | 2018-01-03T10:25:50 | 2018-01-03T09:14:19 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Your mother told you your pet left home to go on adventures. You assumed they died. You come home from work one day to see your old pet at your front door, carrying a scrapbook of all their adventures to share with you. | There he was, just like he had never left. My mouth dropped open at the sight of his golden fur that faded to grey around his nose. He was lazily laying on the porch just like he would 10 years ago. Damn, it's like he never really left. When he saw me, he sat up, tail wagging like he always did. This time, however... | "Shellbert?" I dropped my briefcase, mouth ajar. It couldn't be. He died ten years ago. But the markings were unmistakable. So was the battle scar across his shell from when we were playing Talladega Nights on my old Flyer wagon.
It was really him.
The old tortoise turned slowly around to regard me, his mouth slowly... | 2018-04-28T19:17:57 | 2018-04-28T17:38:08 | 1,102 | 126 |
[WP] It's a known fact that you are incapable of telling a lie. This has landed you several opportunities, including your current job as Head of Security at one of the largest banks in the world. Except you got bored and decided to rob it all. This is the story of how you got away with it. | "There's going to be a robbery."
Mr. Khun raised one perfectly manicured eyebrow. "Is that so, Chelsea?" he said in a measured tone. "And how do you know this?"
I met his gaze evenly, without so much as hesitating. "Just doing my job, sir," I said. "I got wind of the fact that there's going to be a robbery, and so I ... | The door to the interrogation room opened. The person inside looked up from her table to see the detective walk in.
"Good evening Miss Johnson, I hope you haven't been treated too badly by the boys?" he asked.
"As badly as they would someone who allowed over a hundred million dollars to vanish in the blink of an eye,... | 2018-05-03T05:19:52 | 2018-05-03T04:58:40 | 1,328 | 135 |
[WP] Everyone is given a personal "therapy droid", attuned to your needs, able to provide medical or emotional aid at exactly the right moment. Except you. You've had 10 droids and they've all self-destructed after the initial scan. | "If you'll just sign here ..." the nurse said.
"Like hell I will," I growled. Want me to sign for a goddamn robot, my left ass cheek.
"You have to," she chided.
I glared at her from underneath my eyebrows. It was a pretty good glare, because my eyebrows have gotten pretty damn bushy and white in my old age. Ha... | The therapist gave me a pained look. "Ok, look. I know the other, er, attempts weren't successful, but... it's a government-mandated procedure. We don't pay for it, you don't pay for it, but you have to have it. It's like a driver's license, or a social security number - you just have to have one, ok?"
I ran my hand t... | 2018-05-09T14:17:28 | 2018-05-09T13:21:59 | 50 | 35 |
[WP] You are a powerful sorcerer, who requires the blood of your servants to cast your spells. You've recently discovered they have been using theater tricks to avoid injury and have substituted your ingredients with common household items... but your spells have been stronger than ever. | Being a powerful modern\-day sorcerer in the country has its benefits. Having unlimited resources at my disposal, provided for by the government, and being able to provide work and shelter for the unemployed as my servants. They both prepare my meals, clean up my mansion, and of course, become the source of my power. N... | Day 47
I have begun the exaction of the Tetronic plates upon the Melate Fault. By applying Enara's vitum to the scale model my next ritual site has been marked. I shall take Jareth and Bondir with me for his performance. The scripts advise that virile blood creates the best boundaries for what we are attempting. Tomor... | 2018-05-13T11:08:36 | 2018-05-13T10:43:02 | 55 | 36 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | The vWall in my apartment flickered to life, a flash immediately appearing to signal an emergency bulletin.
I stopped gumming my sandwich long enough to hit the mute button before that fucking baby President Burris started talking. They all looked like babies to me. It'd been long enough that I couldn't remember being... | It wasn't that we suddenly realized all at once. Bunch of us older folks noticed something was... off about them. We tried to say something, but each time we were doubted. And honestly, we couldn't help but doubt ourselves: our wisdom and ability to self reflect blinded us. Because of this, it took a lot longer than... | 2018-06-04T21:03:55 | 2018-06-04T20:31:31 | 1,108 | 218 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | As I sit here, scrolling through the unending feed, I can't help but wonder if what's going on around us is the same thing. Anti-aging this, prolonged life that. It seems like it's continuous.
When I was a kid, I could never understand why reading and watching the news was so important. Now, as I approach my 86th year... | Every single year, on the same date, my brother comes to pay me a visit at the retirement home. That date was two days ago, and he didn't come.
At first, I comply assumed that he was a busy man. He worked long hours in the office and over the course of the last 59 years, he's had many promotions and many raises. ... | 2018-06-04T22:20:25 | 2018-06-04T22:08:47 | 63 | 36 |
[WP] When you’re 28, science discovers a drug that stops all effects of aging, creating immortality. Your government decides to give the drug to all citizens under 26, but you and the rest of the “Lost Generations” are deemed too high-risk. When you’re 85, the side effects are finally discovered. | Every single year, on the same date, my brother comes to pay me a visit at the retirement home. That date was two days ago, and he didn't come.
At first, I comply assumed that he was a busy man. He worked long hours in the office and over the course of the last 59 years, he's had many promotions and many raises. ... | *"I wish I knew what I know now, when i was younger." - Rod Stewart*
Civilization is strange. Always tinkering with things. Hell, some jackass had to give himself small-pox just to cure small pox. This was long ago of course, but it stands to reason, people just can't leave well enough alone.
So, when Harold found h... | 2018-06-04T22:08:47 | 2018-06-04T21:07:17 | 36 | 25 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | “Nobody’s spoken that language in thousands of years.”
I was confused, because this power usually made communication easier, but this girl looks like she’s starting to get really annoyed.
The immigrant cashier from a small village in Italy was really starting to get annoyed with me as I tried to order my lunch.
“D... | "Hey thanks, I hope you have a good afternoon"
The swirling void took me by surprise, really. The crimson red eyes of the cashier, not so much. I'd seen it before, I thought. Glimpses and glances, really; bad punctuation as a coda to the overbearing sentence of ordering a Whopper.
"We don't sssserve Whoppers," she ... | 2022-11-14T01:20:39 | 2018-06-24T21:01:01 | 45 | 20 |
[WP] Every time you eat meat, you view the entire life story of the animal it came from up until it's death. It used to bother you, but eventually you become numb to it. One day your wife serves you dinner, and you see the life of the woman you cheated with 3 years ago flash before your eyes. | It was a Wednesday, and as usual, I came home late.
​
As soon as I arrived, I felt the smell of dinner being made, I went into the kitchen and gave a kiss to Samatha.
​
She looked different, her eyes were shining like diamonds, in a way that i had never seen before.
​
I waited f... | I started young, the visions they came to me
animals lives, poorly lived, in cramped cages
they all were different and almost none were free
everything life wants, unmet in its last stages
​
some were quiet, usually the couldn't see
but still I relived the sounds of death incoming
it felt like an earl... | 2018-10-16T17:39:31 | 2018-10-16T11:14:50 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] "Death is a gentle thing if you welcome it, like a soft breeze or a bashful kiss." - "Then what's the scythe for?" - "The people who resist." | When the great double doors grated open, and approaching clatters echoed in the chamber, the old king didn't have to ask for his new guest to announce himself. He knew very well what sound bones made when they struck stone.
"Fate, Death, End," the king said, his voice papery and brittle. He straightened on his iron th... | "I dream of the sunset." She said, her face an empty shadow.
"The sunset dreams of you." I smiled and brought her shapeless face to mine; my lips seeking hers.
*Sunset dreams of you.*
Rick's eyes snapped open, the dream shattering around him. What the hell?
He was in a room. The faintest traces of sunlight showed o... | 2018-10-25T06:53:00 | 2018-10-25T06:51:34 | 646 | 131 |
[WP] "Death is a gentle thing if you welcome it, like a soft breeze or a bashful kiss." - "Then what's the scythe for?" - "The people who resist." | And at this, I stopped.
"So... we *can* resist."
And though the toothy grin remained, it's smile was gone. "**Ah. Cunning. But clever wheat is still just wheat...**"
But as it swung the glittering edge at me, I heard, as if through deep water- "Charging to 200 Joules. Clear!"
And I was back, surrounded by the whit... | The jaws of the shark snap down on my chest sending shockwaves through my skull. I gasp in pain, allowing a mouthful of the streaming red water to race down my throat. I close my eyes as the shark twists and releases me from its maw. For a moment I float down towards the shifting sands of the ocean floor. The familiar ... | 2018-10-25T09:22:40 | 2018-10-25T08:05:30 | 71 | 39 |
[WP]You and your friends grew up in a small town far from any magic schools but managed to learn it eventually. You always pushed and challenged each other, unaware of how strong you were. Then one day a city mage happened to pass through town. | A ball of water floated in Joan’s hand that she had conjured only moments ago. “Watch me, Andrew!” She exclaimed as she threw it.
Andrew watched as Joan made quick hand gestures which in turn caused the water to dance through the air. “Amazing!” He replied.
It swirled, dipped, and then launched into the air as quic... | "Alright ready? Ready. Set. GO!" The surface of the boulder began to melt away as Ley focused on her image. She could hear Dek groaning nearby her as he shaped a sprout and Kiel cheering the two of them on. "C'mon Ley! Twelve to fourteen! You gonna let Dek widen the gap?" Ley gritted her teeth and tried to ignore Kiel'... | 2018-12-05T08:03:38 | 2018-12-05T08:03:26 | 54 | 40 |
[WP] Shaking, you say "They believe its part of their nature". You discover Humanity and find them to be carriers of the universes most feared disease, thought long eradicated... Sleep | All eyes were on the human figure on the other side of the glass. The girl reached up, shivering as she stretched. The noise she let out echoed through room, carried by the ship’s intercom. Kiral heard one of the technicians retching. The noise was jarring. She’d read about this in *Quartal’s Compendium of Dead and Gon... | He's glass. It sat there. Cold.
Empty.
So did the captain, he to sat there , cold, and empty
He watched earth turn, gliding his lanky green finger across his golden, cylinder, cup.
He turned his head towards his fingers, he became fixated unto it, watching them turn circles around his holder of fluids, the captain jus... | 2019-05-31T22:05:13 | 2019-05-31T21:55:01 | 115 | 13 |
[WP]Time travel is possible, but requires an "anchor" item created in the target era. You've gone to the year 900 using a Viking sword and the year 300 using a Roman Coin. You've just started the process using a small statue of unknown origin and it proves to be vastly older than human history. | The thing about time jumping is that it gets easier every time you do it. Before my first trip, I rolled the silver Roman denarius between my thumb and index finger, closed my eyes, and held my breath. Dalia said it would be easy. She’d made the trip dozens of times. And when had she ever lied to me?
The jump hit me l... | I wandered along the shelves of my anchorage, letting the memories of times and places wash over me. Each shelve housed a series of objects from a particular time period, arranged by their place of origin. A viking sword from circa 900 A.D. sat alongside a clay pot from the Tang Dynasty, also from the same period. I ha... | 2020-04-17T10:44:46 | 2020-04-17T10:40:43 | 250 | 116 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. | I remember the first night I stumbled upon the Bullet Train. I was 16, soaked, blasted out of my mind, and completely unaware of what I was getting myself into. All I knew was that I needed to skip this bumfuck town. My boyfriend at the time had kicked me out because his wife (yes, wife.) had found out about our little... | The only thing I remember is a kiss. Soft lips brushing my temple, warm breath on my skin, and the words _Until death do we suffer_.
I can't tell you how long it's been since I've been on this track. I was a child when I found myself here, and yesterday I discovered the first strands of gray growing out of that temple... | 2020-07-17T13:25:39 | 2020-07-17T13:21:25 | 132 | 15 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. | Paul looked at his phone to check the time. It was 4:27 p.m. on October the 27th, 2040. Letting out a long breath he looked to the floor, head in his hands.
"Paul?"
Looking up from the floor, Paul turned to see who was calling him.
"Steve? W-what are you doing here?"
"I'm on my way to the city to grab drinks wit... | The only thing I remember is a kiss. Soft lips brushing my temple, warm breath on my skin, and the words _Until death do we suffer_.
I can't tell you how long it's been since I've been on this track. I was a child when I found myself here, and yesterday I discovered the first strands of gray growing out of that temple... | 2020-07-17T13:42:33 | 2020-07-17T13:21:25 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] You have the ability to freeze time. When you do, everyone else freezes too. One day, you freeze time and are astounded to see a girl continuing her walk down the street. However as soon as she sees you, she stands perfectly still and pretends to be frozen. | Doug knocked the plastic coffee mug off the edge of his laminated desk.
He wasn't awake yet, but he reactively flexed a weird assortment of muscles in his flabby abdomen. The cup hovered about halfway down the trajectory to the floor. Some of the precious, black liquid having already spilled over the sacred chalice's... | "Did you think you'll just stop existing?" I cried out loud.
I started to make my way to her, my heartbeat noticeably getting faster. There she was. A person who could move through frozen time. She could be the answer to al my questions.
The girl straightened up, an annoyed grimace on her face. Without saying another... | 2020-08-20T10:55:31 | 2020-08-20T10:48:59 | 601 | 396 |
[WP] A cult intends to sacrifice you to awaken their goddess. What they don't know is that you ARE their goddess. | They chose me because I was beautiful.
The Goddess was the most vicious of our deities. Immortal power of sullied blood, of plague, of death. We knew she had to be behind the disease, the worst sickness in living memory. Half the village had succumbed. Fevers, delusions, bloody sweats and then - slowly, agonizingly - ... | Everything is going perfectly. I am finally going to die.
You really know why they perish so easily when you inhabit a mortal's body. Fragile vessels. I am so weak I can't even stand, just because of a few days without consuming flesh and liquid. The air is unbearably hot; it smothers me against the rough clods of dir... | 2021-05-27T18:18:29 | 2021-05-27T17:52:58 | 105 | 53 |
[WP] You are a villain who kidnapped the smart guy on your nemesis team, they tell you that nobody will come for them and that the hero doesn't care. You didn't believe them at first but it been a month and nobody shows up and after once again hearing them cry at night you had enough | People have reasons for what they do. You eat when your hungry, you laugh at things that are funny and you fight those that challenge you. I wanted the city, as was my birth right. The problem was the heroic team that always stopped me.
Everytime, I would be so close and then they would find a way to stop me. In an ac... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Part 5: Zeus v.s. Abandonment)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Being the quirky animal sidekick to the budding superhero team hadn't quite worked out the way Zeus wanted it ... | 2021-08-04T12:56:20 | 2021-08-04T12:36:21 | 292 | 138 |
[WP] You're an exorcist that deals with cases usually most priests can't. Every demon you've met was successfully exorcised until today. Standing in front of the possessed body, neither you or the demon inside the body can understand why the one being exorcised is the human's soul every time you try | "Who am I speaking with?" you say holding your Bible in one hand and a crucifix in the other. "Identify yourself!"
The woman strapped to the kitchen chair stops convulsing and turns her eyes to you, glowing with an unnatural light. A loud sigh, reminiscent of a poorly tuned diesel engine escapes her lips. "It's still ... | "I don't chant or pray. What you've seen before hasn't prepared you for what I do. I take a hands on approach. Do you understand?"
The boy's mother nodded assent, but I doubt she would ever really understand what I was about to do. Hell, I didn't even understand everything about it. Reaching into people and grasp... | 2022-02-14T13:03:16 | 2022-02-14T12:49:36 | 132 | 96 |
[WP] You own the world's only time machine and, instead of messing with history or changing the timeline, you are content to work in the present day but live in 1980. However, keeping track of your 2 separate lives is becoming harder and your friends and family are beginning to get suspicious. | "Happy birthday dear John! Happy birthday to you!" Everyone finished singing.
It was my 35th birthday and my coworkers had decided to throw a party to celebrate. It was nothing big, there were about eight of us in the break room. But when you work in a cubicle, you learn to appreciate the little moments.
"Hey John, y... | #####**The Present**
___
What exactly is the "present day" anyway when you have a time machine? When you can experience any moment in time, past or future, any moment you choose is the "present."
I suppose you could use your birth as a reference and say the "present" is the time it would be if you did *not* have a tim... | 2022-09-11T20:18:43 | 2022-09-11T17:34:06 | 100 | 35 |
[WP] - You watch as the last rocket from Earth before the apocalypse takes off. Only the rich could afford to leave. After the apocalypse party of everyone left behind, the apocalypse never arrives. Years pass and the Earth heals without the escapists, but they’re back now — and want Earth again. | They said the world was about to end, they said the Earth was dying, that our motherworld could no longer support her children, they insisted on leaving.
They took as much as they could aboard the arks, artifacts, technology, medicines, plants, knowledge, all they needed to survive on the promised land, Mars.
But w... | The bombings began shortly after The Return, as the ones who known as The Chosen choose to call their invasion of our peaceful home. We know they are of our species, though they've never behaved like it.
The smell of open pits full of bodies permeates the air in most cities. Assimilation is not an attractive option wh... | 2022-12-03T15:22:46 | 2022-12-03T13:37:48 | 429 | 175 |
[WP] I know why I'm in Hell. I know what I've done. What I don't know is why my dog is there, waiting for me when I arrive. | I deserved to be here. I deserved the fire, the dark, the screams, the pain, and the fear. I deserved it all and more. I expected this. I left behind nothing but regret and emptiness. Stepping from humanity through the gates of the pit was an instant in time that lasted as long as my own eternity. But when it was done,... | It's three hours before I get to the front of the receiving line. The line snakes through two corridors and down a flight of stairs. There's nothing on the walls except a series of signs that say "No leaning." The signs come about every 15 feet, so at first it's something to look at, and then it's infuriating, and then... | 2014-07-07T21:38:12 | 2014-07-07T19:18:49 | 432 | 238 |
[WP] You are the host of a popular children's show. You are live on air when you, and the rest of the country, have just received news that nuclear weapons have been deployed against your nation and can't be stopped. There are only minutes left. | "You know what that alarm means, kids?"
"RUSSIA'S ATTACKING!"
"That's right! We've just been informed that 3 major cities have ceased to exist and our radar is picking up *more* ICBMs!"
I shuffle aside prop furniture and dig out the big orange shoebox. Ripping the lid off, I remove the envelope and official letter o... | I want my last moments to reflect my life. More than that I want them to represent the best of what humanity had to offer. Despite all the pain we cause each other, and despite the fact that no matter how hard some of us tried we couldn't stop the doomsday clock.
Looking at the screen I smile. I'm at peace. Whatever ... | 2014-07-29T16:23:42 | 2014-07-29T16:12:17 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Your parents insist you are their biological child, but you suspect otherwise. You send samples from yourself, your parents, and siblings to a lab be tested. The lab replies that it is not equipped to test non-human DNA... | The truth.
No more of your lies.
The truth!
What am I?!? I've always felt different. I thought something was wrong with me! It's time of you to fess up and tell me. What am I???
"You're our son and we love you no matter what. We made you. You are absolutely ours. But, we are scientists first and fore... | I panic at the words in bold. **Non-human DNA**. "What did that mean?" I mutter to myself. Suddenly, a wind came from behind. I turn to see a man in business suit standing where no one was before.
"Aw, about time you found out." The man said as he pocketed a small watch into his coat. "I swear, you guys get stupider e... | 2015-01-06T08:58:04 | 2015-01-06T08:44:25 | 157 | 16 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | How to impress a woman if you don't have money
Average penis size
Natural ways to increase penis length
Penis pumps do they work?
Painful swelling of penis how to heal?
Fast ways to lengthen your penis -pump
Average cost of male enlargement pills
Discount penis enlargement pills for sale cheap
Credit ca... | Google search 1: *Dating sites*
Google search 2(one month later): *How to not be awkward on first dates*
Google search 3(one year later): *creative ideas for anniversaries*
Google search 4(another year later): *engagement rings*
Google search 5: *Flower delivery*
Google search 6: *Reservations for two at Papillon... | 2015-02-04T16:58:26 | 2015-02-04T16:28:08 | 555 | 10 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | How to ask a girl on a date.
How to ask a girl on a cheap date.
How to ask a girl to coffee.
How to ask girl on date after rejection.
How to get girl to like me.
How to disengage home alarm.
How to disengage home alarm without knowing code.
Are garages alarmed?
How to enter house through garage.
How to enter h... | Google search 1: *Dating sites*
Google search 2(one month later): *How to not be awkward on first dates*
Google search 3(one year later): *creative ideas for anniversaries*
Google search 4(another year later): *engagement rings*
Google search 5: *Flower delivery*
Google search 6: *Reservations for two at Papillon... | 2015-02-04T20:18:04 | 2015-02-04T16:28:08 | 50 | 10 |
[WP] The year is 2055, and mankind has invented the technology to communicate with "Mans best friend". The horror we felt at discovering what they were staring at, when looking at "nothing", is humanities greatest regret...
Looking for horror/scary, but by all means, have fun with it. :) | "Big Stander! Big Stander go on Walkie Time?"
"No...no walkie time right now, Bubs, I want you to tell me about the corner."
He whinged and fidgeted. The brow over his big, round eyes dipping down and then slightly up over the bridge of his snout.
"Bad Dog?"
"No, no, Bubs. You're a good dog. I just want to know w... | "Um... excuse me? Can you hear me?" the tall scientist tapped on the microphone as he peered through the glass separating him from a massive machine. In the machine, sat a dog. Strapped down but noticeably calm, the canine had electrodes protruding from his head.
"Yes"
came the reply from the speakers in the room. "T... | 2015-05-18T14:37:16 | 2015-05-18T12:25:48 | 504 | 269 |
[WP] Aliens abducted Vikings. The Vikings killed the aliens, stole their ship, and conquered mars.
From: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2k316s/what_would_be_the_most_controversial_object_to/clhl7bs?context=10000 | The news came as a shock to the world.
Aliens, (and not the dishwasher variety) were real, and had made contact with Earth.
For whatever reason, the aliens landed in Mankato, Minnesota, one midday in August.
The Aliens flew ships that resembled large garbage trucks, and flew using large propulsion engines located... | Log 22, day 64: *I don't know how they managed it... Our lasers did nothing. Could this be the year of reckoning as our ancestors saw it? But no... That's just silly superstition... Yet here they are, demons clad in steel with the roars of the nether, impervious to any attack we have. Why? How? There was never evidence... | 2015-07-29T09:28:02 | 2015-07-29T09:26:15 | 34 | 18 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, while your girlfriend is a hero. She doesn't know your secret identity but you know hers. After years of fighting each other you decide it's going to pull a heel face turn and join the heroes. | I let out a sigh. Christ I should have never worked with these blood thirsty idiots. What part of no bloodshed did they not understand?
I surveyed the warehouse that had been converted into a makeshift base and the crop of morons that I had signed up with. More imortantly I looked again at the love of my life in her ... | *Of course it was milk*. It had to be milk. Lactose intolerance is common among the many humans that roam the earth, but she never thought that my lair would be in the basement of a dairy factory, helping to serve the local community and provide job placement!
My lair was in the basement level, but my day to day job ... | 2015-11-08T12:52:38 | 2015-11-08T12:24:47 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] God is a game dev and he just released a patch for his game "Earth". Write the changelog describing patches, balances, tweaks, etc. | *Earth Patch 2016.3*
* Tomatoes now grow 30% larger under ideal conditions
* Water slightly rescaled to allow for a more balanced pH
* Media sources slightly reworked to allow less biased material
* Jesus rebalanced, removed walk on water, added can now cure deaf (can still cure blindness).
* Pancakes can now be m... | Ver 0.0.001.636.403
**The big things:**
Added tools to combat 'Global Warming' Players can now research and craft tools to combat destructive weather. I really enjoyed the idea of having increasingly hazardous weather, but it seems players are focused to heavily on it. I've added tools to effectively combat it, howeve... | 2016-03-08T10:26:32 | 2016-03-08T10:24:46 | 40 | 23 |
[WP] Since you were young you had the ability to pause time. However as a teenager you use the ability to procrastinate. At first it was little stuff: an extra hour for homework or a nap in the morning, a break in between classes, etc. Well it built up and now you're pushing thirty in your 3rd year. | Officer Darren shrugs against the phone.
"I know it's weird. I know it's weird. But listen, Mrs. Lopez--"
He shifts his weight, looks out of the window for a second. Looks down.
"He looks... Mature."
Shifts weight.
"I know."
Shifts weight.
"I know--"
Shifts weight.
"I know, but--"
Shifts finally into being ru... | I discovered my power when I was a child, at 6 or 7 maybe, when my mother was in the hospital. She was terminally ill and she told me straight that we wouldn’t see each other for a long time. While I was silently crying on her bed, I realized that time would have stopped, allowing me spend more time with her even thoug... | 2016-09-13T06:11:36 | 2016-09-13T06:07:00 | 51 | 16 |
[WP] Every month or so, the same man walks into a barbershop for a haircut, not knowing that it is just a front for the mob. He arrives every time just as all the real barbers are on break and the mob boss must cut his hair. | "Sometimes it's just unbelievable, you know," he said, "I give simple instructions and no one seems to be able to follow them. I worked hard to get here and when I was in their shoes, I knew how to get the job done the way my boss wanted it."
A larger man, somewhere in his early 50s, swirled a comb through some Barbas... | The bell above the door jingled as a pudgy man in jeans and a vintage rock tee shirt stepped onto the yellowed linoleum. The floor was empty, but that's usually how it was when he came in for a haircut. It was hard to coordinate his haircuts between his work schedule and only having the one car to cart his wife to wo... | 2017-07-03T08:59:33 | 2017-07-03T08:34:05 | 1,094 | 110 |
[WP] Every month or so, the same man walks into a barbershop for a haircut, not knowing that it is just a front for the mob. He arrives every time just as all the real barbers are on break and the mob boss must cut his hair. | “Um, excuse me, sir,” the young boy with the rolled-up sleeves and the Brooklyn accent half-stands, addressing Antonio Merola as he hobbles through the door of Tomcats Barber Shop. “You can’t be in here right now.”
Antonio fixes the boy with a puzzled look, and is about to respond, when he’s cut off.
“It’s okay, cu... | "Well gosh darn it"
A rather mousy looking man with glasses and a tan jacket furrows his brow while looking up at a sign next to his parked sedan.
"So, no parking every second and fourth Wednesday between 1 and 4 am."
He looks around cautiously and, after seeing other cars parked on the street, several black SUV's... | 2017-07-03T16:21:13 | 2017-07-03T15:36:57 | 84 | 18 |
[WP] A man draws a gun in a dark alley and asks for your wallet. You begrudgingly obey. He throws it on the ground, shoots it till it screeches, and turns to you; "you're safe now". | He threw my wallet on the ground, and shot it until his magazine was empty, every shot made my head jerk back. He then threw the gun on the ground near my wallet, my eyes were narrowed, I was furious.
"Why the hell did you do that? Now I have to request a new ID and credit card."
The man looked up, the hood of his co... | For all intents and purposes it seemed to be a normal robbery. I fearfully agreed to give up my week's savings for my life. But as it fell onto the ground, he shot at it for all he was worth until it uttered a sound. A *screech*. Then it went silent.
"What the fuck?" was all that left my mouth as it gaped open. The st... | 2017-07-13T00:49:55 | 2017-07-13T00:44:00 | 223 | 17 |
[WP] You have the ability to absorb any power from any book that you read. The US government captures and imprisons you until one day the warden walks in and asks for your help. He hands you a single book... | I was jarred awake by a sound I hadn't heard in... well, who's to say - months or years. It was impossible to tell, pardon the cliche. I really did lose track of time immediately. They'd forgotten to leave room for a window in the eight feet thick, poured concrete shoebox I'd been locked in since that day the black spe... | Jay opened his eyes to find the bars of his cage inches from his face. He cursed as he realized that he had, once again, rolled off his bed. He hated when this happened. Multiples times, he had asked for a larger bed and yet here he was, still sleeping on the same miniscule bed that he was given at the beginning of his... | 2017-07-25T20:00:58 | 2017-07-25T19:58:39 | 90 | 20 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | Arganax flicked his antenna in irritation as he glanced around the conference room. The air was heavy as each multifaceted eyes twitched away from his stare.
"So," he clicked. "The decision to retreat was universal."
A brief buzzing filled the room as the augmented battle armor they all wore activated under the twitc... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T08:54:15 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 316 | 25 |
[WP] The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did. | “I’m sorry” he said softly, as if saying it too loudly would add to his guilt. “I’m sorry.”
He continued to look out the window, at the world around carrying on as if nothing had happened. The world that most certainly had not ended when they were told it would. The world that didn’t even seem to care about just h... | The, to be fair rather recently elected President of the 6 Continents (may the people of Europe rest in peace) has spoken in public today:
"Things have changed, for the better and for the worse. We are one free people, unbound by the shackles of what cruel fate had struck us before, yet bound by the need for choice. A... | 2017-11-29T06:57:27 | 2017-11-29T04:06:09 | 207 | 14 |
[WP] Humanity finally figures out faster than light travel and discover that they are completely average by galactic standard, except for one thing, our innate ability to bullshit our way out of any situation. | "Human space vessel: do not attempt to cross into the preserve. Space vessels are strictly prohibited in that area. You are not allowed to enter the preserve. Trespassing is forbidden."
Tak snorted to himself. *Typical bureaucracy*, he thought to himself. *They find out that humans have a bad habit of twisting words, ... | [WP] Humanity finally figures out faster than light travel and discover that they are completely average by galactic standard, except for one thing, our innate ability to bullshit our way out of any situation.
“I am the captain of the UN cargo hauler *Infinity*. James Robert the third is the name and hauling trade goo... | 2018-01-30T07:45:10 | 2018-01-30T07:38:49 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Even creatures of the supernatural world can get sick. After you unknowingly helped a faerie back to health, word spread like a wildfire of a private practice that was open to things that go bump in the night. | One morning my sweet old grandmother lost her glasses, mistook a faerie for a butterfly, and then—long story short—she became the resident physicker for all manner of magical creatures.
It was a faerie, truly, and she saved its life with a bit of sugar water and lemon juice. The poor thing had c... | Closing time, or rather, closing time for regular physician's assistants. I was the last one in the office, and, as usual, as I flipped the sign around that said "open" and our hours of operation \(for normal, considerate humans\) I heard the tell\-tale sounds of some of them coming. Hard to explain really, somewhat li... | 2018-05-21T15:30:58 | 2018-05-21T15:30:00 | 107 | 20 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | (On mobile, sorry if formatting is wonky)
Total War. Rakleth pondered this new term. Was not war always in totality? To crush the enemy's military underfoot and seize their civilian population and worlds for your own use? The humans, negotiators and pacifists, had such strange terms. Rakleth scratched his carapace... | We, the Taithians, bore witness to the greatest power shift in galactic history. For thousands of years we've been at war with the Vinari, a war like species that believes they are the superior race in the galaxy. They eradicate all other sentient beings, regardless of their technological level. The Vinari are fearless... | 2018-12-14T22:13:23 | 2018-12-14T21:31:30 | 820 | 337 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | When Man made its first steps on its home planet’s moon, it had no knowledge of the multitude of civilisations and peoples that ruled over various parts of the Galaxy. They have come far since those early days of the World Wars and the Space Race, and they have learnt much since then.
Man was admitted into the Galaxi... | (You know what? I'll bite. I plan on deleting this line later, but I may forget.)
"Such is the duty of lords and princes, envoy. Release the pl-"
*"Release?* That's a pompous way of saying 'annex', diplomat'"
"We only ask what is our birthright, from the great Mandate Of Our Wisdom - our law is fair, our rule is ju-... | 2018-12-15T01:30:53 | 2018-12-15T00:16:21 | 41 | 30 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | The bag crinkled as gravity smashed it into the cold stone floor of the examination hall. Although I could not see him, nor would I hear him shouting in warning until it was too late, the headmaster was already running towards me.
For a moment, nothing seemed to happen. Not until the first tendril of blue and white l... | “No! I can’t do this stupid spell!” I screamed and flailed my arms. I felt I had hit something on accident and turned to the large wobbly circle on the floor.
It was a bag of chips, half empty (or half full...), limited time flavour of dragon tail.
I was too lazy to pick it up, so I chanted the spell used... | 2019-04-05T16:05:49 | 2019-04-05T15:46:22 | 79 | 12 |
[WP] Your ability to see what level of pain a person is experiencing has always helped you in your profession as a nurse. From the hovering "0.6" over the guy with the hangnail to the "42" over the crash victim. Today on the bus ride to work there is an "800" over a guy, calmly reading his paper... | "Pardon me, but would you mind awfully if I sat next to you?"
His soft, green eyes wearily move away from the newspaper and onto me. I see them widen in surprise as he forgets to breathe. I smile at him knowingly; this happens to me all too often. After all, a sound mind requires an equally robust vessel to carry it,... | "I wasn't the only one who was like this. Though the chances of finding others exactly like myself were slim to none, there were people who could view the 'stats' of the people or things they met and/or saw based on their profession they chose. I, myself, decided to be a nurse. This meant I could see a pain rating for ... | 2019-04-14T00:56:24 | 2019-04-14T00:15:56 | 1,004 | 51 |
[WP] "Oh shit, you survived it?" your best friend says to you, minutes after the global disappearance of the human race and the emergence of the Others. "What?" you ask, terrified and confused. "Normally, I have to fix it all by myself every cycle", he responds. | " So you mean to tell me that you're some sort of immortal being that resets all life on the planet and rebuilds society from scratch every 1,000 millenia. "
" Sounds about right "
"Huh"
"Yeah, pretty cool right"
"Kinda, the tiny blue things are a bit annoying though. You said you normally have to deal with this yo... | “Wha-what do you mean you mean every cycle? What is going ON!”
“Mike calm down first of all, second of all do me a favor and duck.”
As Mike dropped to the ground Jay swung his arm around, brandishing a comically large handgun. With the most deafening sounds he has ever heard Mike stumbled back and fell over. Exten... | 2019-06-10T07:18:52 | 2019-06-10T05:25:21 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] It is 2009. You are the one time traveler to show up to Stephen Hawking’s unannounced time traveler party. You are from 200 years in his future. You have to explain to him why he can never tell anyone you showed up. | Hello sir. Professor.
Yes, I'm here for the party.
Why yes, I am still human, we've ... had to make improvements. As a species. It's ...
May I sit down?
I can't stay long, it was a precondition of my being here ...
... oh yes, I would like one, thank you. I believe they're called 'sausage rolls', am I right? Good... | In the video documentary, a man with a deep base voice will narrate most of it for me. The video will make the event seem magical, but in reality, it's me waiting in a room with many cameras on me in all corners, strange lighting, and the film crew's muffled conversations to one another.
I tried talking to the guy hol... | 2020-10-17T02:31:51 | 2020-10-17T02:23:37 | 2,384 | 26 |
[WP] A dragon egg has been found. On the day of the hatching over a dozen scientists each from different countries come hoping it picks them as a parent. The dragon's overwhelmed and chooses the one person not in it's face. The guard.
[removed] | “And how has the subject progressed since our last meeting?”
“Bob.”
“Pardon me?”
“His name is Bob. Well Robert actually. He got baptized Robert Grayson the third.”
“I... see.”
Robert Grayson the second, former security guard, was sitting on a plastic chair in his backyard, across from one of a dozen science type... | The funny thing was that nobody in that room *knew* it was a dragon egg. Oh —quite a few of them were sure it was, but there was almost as many who thought it was some kind of dinosaur.
I had a bit of an unfair advantage in the matter, because even I had thought it was just a colorful ostrich egg until Wyvern informed... | 2020-12-12T05:52:58 | 2020-12-12T04:13:15 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] Humans are born with a tattoo of a heart on their chest that glows when their soulmate is near. You're home alone, and yours suddenly lights too bright to look at. | "Come on Josh. You know you really should."
Josh grimaced after muttering that. He really should get back on the routine, and brush his teeth. It was hard lately. The lockdown, his mom passing away. One of his best friends was just sentenced to federal prison. If sucked trying to take care of himself when he just didn... | I dresseded up that day. I did take my pretty tiara too. While putting it on my head, I felt a weird presence in my tiny flat.
I felt really bad that day. I was abandoned by few of my friends I had left. I was being arrogant. I was being mean. I was not a good person. I was....I couldn't imagine any other way to cheer... | 2021-01-16T08:33:15 | 2021-01-16T06:09:37 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone jokes that you'll be haunted by spirits for building your tea shop on sacred ground. But at night you actually serve the undead spirits and calm the restless. | I shut the door, lock it. Flip the Open sign to Closed.
“They gone?” One of them asks from the back wall.
“They’re gone,” I say, watching my last customer walk down the path and into the night.
I walk back across the tea shop. They are coming in now, through the back, with their slow, patient strides across my tiled... | “Ms. Allison?” I heard one someone call from the tables. My shop wasn’t all that large but was all solid wood, had enough plugins, fast enough internet, and good enough tea that the students from the university would make the ten-minute trek. Some would take the bus and a couple would drive but most of my customers wer... | 2021-03-10T18:00:27 | 2021-03-10T16:17:06 | 1,778 | 194 |
[WP] A rich man wants you to keep others out of his bunker as the bombs fall. In exchange, he's offered you a separate tiny nearby personal shelter with enough room for a single person that you can hop into at the last minute. | The trick to a good bunker is it's remote, but not TOO remote. Put it in the city and all you have is a lead shielded closet. Put it in the country and there's no way you'll get there in time. This was a good compromise, essentially a two story home underground, just past the suburbs and near the McMansions gated off f... | There have been two very important things that have been taught to me that are always running through my mind at every turn. One is that you should always show someone the respect they give you. Strangers are a moot point. There's never a need to treat them with respect unless you or they do something for you. And seco... | 2021-08-10T02:53:29 | 2021-08-09T22:48:43 | 101 | 36 |
[WP] “No man can kill me!” The demon taunted, taking in the carnage it'd caused. “But I am no man!” You proclaim, ripping off your helmet to reveal your feminine features. You strike, but your blade bounces harmlessly off the demon’s hide. “Did you-did you really think that’s what I meant? You fool" | The warmaiden held her sword poised to stike at the demon. The demon in turn, casually leaning against his throne. The warmaiden struck, the steel glancing off the demon's thick leathery hide. Doing nothing.
"So, who sent you here anyway?"
"That is not your business!"
"No, but it might be fun to think about. I mean,... | "Well, let's talk about it for a second, shall we?"
The demon observed the human, as she pulled back, lowering her sword. He could end her with his mere touch, he could cause her sould to scream in agony before sending her to an eternity of torment. But he had to admit... he was amused. "GO ON", he said, his voice rip... | 2022-05-31T12:48:51 | 2022-05-31T11:38:14 | 646 | 153 |
[WP] “No man can kill me!” The demon taunted, taking in the carnage it'd caused. “But I am no man!” You proclaim, ripping off your helmet to reveal your feminine features. You strike, but your blade bounces harmlessly off the demon’s hide. “Did you-did you really think that’s what I meant? You fool" | “Fuck you!” I tried again, scowling in frustration as the sword bounced off again. This was not how it should go. Centuries of careful work from my forebears! “long-lived, youthful features beyond normal aging standards, silent tread, high-level genetic drift from Homo sapiens due to the early Asian continental people ... | The Demon laughed heartily at the miscommunication.
"FOOL! You think semantics are any match for me, Lord Acsurgarothe??"
I stood defiant, despite the flecks of brimstone and spit hitting my face as he laughed.
He continued his villainous chuckle.
"You-- you silly little human! HA HA You stand before Lord Acsurgaro... | 2022-05-31T18:20:43 | 2022-05-31T14:28:29 | 65 | 45 |
[WP]They laughed at your power... until they noticed the "no cooldown, no energy cost" description, and realized the implications | Every power has a cost. All of the cooler powers take a lot of energy to use, like creation of fire out of thin air and telekinesis. Once powers like those are used for long enough, there is a natural cooldown before they can be used again. For the cooler powers, this is typically a few hours or so.
Typically, powers ... | Stephen and Darius laughed, faces twisted into near caricatures of themselves. They were barely amateur wizards, and yet they took every opportunity and expense to laugh at me. Nothing like punching down on your inferiors, no matter the grand scheme of things.
“This guy’s a terrible wizard!” Stephen sneered.
Previous... | 2022-06-03T12:50:28 | 2022-06-03T12:04:48 | 181 | 107 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | There was a sense of triumph that came from having your nemesis kneeling before you, his chestnut curls in full display as he knelt, head down, begging for assistance. This wasn’t the way I had always imagined this taking place, I had expected more blood and rubble decorating the event. Instead, I bore witness to this ... | Part of me believed this to be a trap, but I quickly buried the idea because Valerie was the epiphany of what a stereotypical hero should be.
"So... Let me get this straight. You, the famous hero who saved the world 3 times, want me, your nemesis, to go with you to a wedding just to piss off your ex?" I asked.
"Yes ... | 2022-10-06T20:58:16 | 2022-10-06T20:34:41 | 73 | 45 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | I come into work, probably clean shaven for the first time in a while, it’s a bit of a haze. But the past few missions are ripe in my mind
Allya’s death was something i will surely never forget, id promised her id never resort to these methods again but now was the time. After this i’ll likely retire from here, she wa... | It's a dark and somber night at the Heros Headquarters, all the lights are out except for one, a small light come from one of the rooms on the top floor, in there is a man slumped over a desk, surrounded but liquors, drugs and ash from old cigarettes, writting on a journal:
"April 26, 3:42 A.M. :
We were all there... | 2022-12-28T09:43:48 | 2022-12-28T09:04:31 | 35 | 18 |
[WP] On your eighteenth birthday, you shoot a mystic bow that is said to kill whoever is destined to kill you, three seconds before they do. Eight years later, your arrow strikes your SO's heart, right as she says "I do."
Or he. Or It. Whatever. I'm a straight canadian guy, so it popped into my head.
Sorry.
EDIT: I... | I glanced in amusement at the revolver Wanda was pointing at me. She had ten other guns aimed at her back, maybe twelve, but obviously she didn't care. All that mattered was that I would die. If she gave her life in the process, well, she'd still count that as a win.
"My my my, so the rebels did manage to sneak a... | It's summer, one of those days that feels like walking through someone's warm, wet breath. A gross day. Jess is wandering around the fairgrounds with Barry Binninger, who's the son of his mom's friend Linda and who whines almost constantly.
They're walking along the row of games. Jess only has a dollar, so he has to ... | 2014-05-27T19:13:10 | 2014-05-27T19:03:00 | 577 | 49 |
[WP] In a world where superpowers can be given, you are given the superpower pertaining to your worst fear
Example, if you're scared of hights you can fly, if you're scared of animals you can communicate with them, if you're scared of the dark you can drain all dark from a certain area. I suggest using your own worst ... | I can make millions. I can walk into a bank and take what I want, when I want it. No one would be able to catch me. The event that gave this world its superpowers must have had a brilliant sense of irony. Maybe the universe was trying to help. People once afraid of burning alive could control fire, those afraid of heig... | Suddenly she could sit when I say, “Sit.” If I wanted her to roll over, she would. If I wanted her to beg, she would. If I wanted her to stay, she would.
We had a fight the previous night. Words littered the room and stayed as echoes when she slammed the door. Fists kissed faces, making them chapped and pink. Even the... | 2014-12-15T16:51:02 | 2014-12-15T16:09:51 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] A person dies in the first sentence. Build a character we mourn for in the story, but make me hate them with the last sentence. | The blood slipped through my fingers as readily as life slipped from my body. HE was standing over there, clutching my Anna to his side while she sobbed. It seemed like such a short while ago that I had held her the same way. Far, far, away from the world the two of us lived together as lovers, where nobody could look ... | She finally fell, colliding with asphalt and crunching sickeningly.
Twenty years earlier, she had been one of the brightest girls in her school. Intuitive, quiet, always the last to speak. Because of that patience, even at such a young age, people held her with a certain level of respect.
Of course, that quietness k... | 2015-01-29T14:57:53 | 2015-01-29T13:03:42 | 76 | 36 |
[WP] A person dies in the first sentence. Build a character we mourn for in the story, but make me hate them with the last sentence. | The blood slipped through my fingers as readily as life slipped from my body. HE was standing over there, clutching my Anna to his side while she sobbed. It seemed like such a short while ago that I had held her the same way. Far, far, away from the world the two of us lived together as lovers, where nobody could look ... | I made my final peace with the world, and I couldn't help but smile as I pressed the trigger.
I don’t know how I came to this, probably inevitable. I hadn’t known my parents. My mother, from what I was told, a common street whore. My father, well I suppose it could be any number of a thousand different men who had the... | 2015-01-29T14:57:53 | 2015-01-29T13:01:52 | 76 | 17 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | It always freaked me out. Over the years I had learnt to deal with it. I always hesitated to sit with a person who was doomed to die to a contagious disease. My parents were destined to die of old age, and seeing they were in their 40's, it didn't bother me that much. I had a brother when I was 6. There was a complicat... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T09:00:24 | 241 | 180 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | Ever remember that scene from "The Sixth Sense", where the little kid says "I see dead people?". That was pretty much exactly how I first tried to tell people about my power. I was only six, and my parents laughed it off. My father is going to die in a car accident. My mother, a heart attack.
You see, I can see how pe... | Nobody sees the world in the same way. Some people see it as an adventure, others as a game. Me? I've never had the liberty of enjoying it.
Imagine knowing how something would play out before it happened. Imagine the surprise of life being taken out. Imagine the joy of living being sucked away because all you can ever... | 2015-03-31T11:10:46 | 2015-03-31T09:32:55 | 241 | 12 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | It was a natural fit, ending up as an obstetrician. There was a satisfaction in seeing the beginning of someone's life, and then knowing the end. That was, until about 10 years ago. It was infrequent at first. METEOR, the first one said. Now almost all of them do.
The telescope in my living room was bought once... | Over the years I've come to interpret the colors I see around people. I once tried to describe it to someone and they told me it,was their "Aura," but every description of an aura has multiple colors. I only see one, and each color is a different kind of death.
There's your common red, something to do with the heart m... | 2015-03-31T10:42:03 | 2015-03-31T09:00:41 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | "Heart Attack," "Stroke," "Diabetes," "Car Accident," "Alzheimer's."
Boooring. You never see anything new these days. Wasn't like the war back in my day where you'd see all sorts of stuff. Gas attacks, carpet bombings, suicide bombings... those kept you on your toes. You knew who NOT to associate with back then. You s... | He worked alone, he always had. Not because he wanted to, but people just had a tendency to not notice him. It was depressing really. Every person he ever met instantly forgot him, or tried to ignore him, it was hard to tell sometimes. As for his work, well, he worked in travel, a mostly administrative position.
As ... | 2015-03-31T10:39:31 | 2015-03-31T09:57:05 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] A Djinn travels the world, granting people a single wish. However he never gives the person their wish, instead you receive the benefit of the last persons wish, passing your wish forward to the next person he meets. | "It's a pony," the Djinn explained to Mr. Foster.
"Yes," Mr. Foster said. "I can see that's a pony. We just don't have any place to keep a pony. Hell, we don't even have children."
The Djinn shrugged. "What's *your* wish, then, Mr. Foster?"
"Can I ask a question first, though?"
"One," the Djinn said.
"Why ... | He was eerily human. Not like the movie "Alladin" where he's some blue mist. He could probably pass as a human on the street. So long as he wore sunglasses. His eyes, were, well, not there. I never really asked him if it was because of some accident, or that's how Djinn are. It never really came up in our conversation.... | 2015-06-17T11:46:38 | 2015-06-17T11:03:24 | 74 | 28 |
[WP] Imagine a world where dating and job hunting are switched. Dating now involves sending emails and resumes, while people seeking employment frequent the hottest clubs. | #VICTOR HARRINGTON
*Male, Caucasian, 29*
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**OBJECTIVE**
To meet an intelligent, attractive young woman who loves conversation, debate, and creative projects.
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**EXPERIENCE**
*Dated Annabelle, March 2011 - June 2014*
\- Offered financial support for upwards of six months.
\- Served as an em... | “There, chick by the bar in the sandals.” My wingman pointed out the blonde out to me.
“They’re all wearing sandals.” I start to say but he cuts off me.
“That mother does salsa bro. I’ll bribe the DJ to put on some salsa, you go get her on the dance floor before somebody else pounces on her.”
“But that’s not why I’m... | 2015-06-18T12:59:39 | 2015-06-18T12:21:29 | 164 | 35 |
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