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[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Dad,
I've grown up and got a decent job. I have 2 sons and I've carried on our family name like you always wanted. I was only 11 when you passed but I still think about you all the time. I never got to tell you I love you and I'm sorry I was scared to give you a hug in the hospice, I was young and scared. I loved... | I don't think I've ever seen your hair put up in a bun//
After knowing you for all these years I thought I saw every side to you//
But then I realised there were more sides I've never seen done//
And now I wish that I truly got to know you// | 2017-11-06T02:11:26 | 2017-11-05T22:33:24 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A suicide hotline operator realizes that the person he's talking down really should kill themselves. | "Hello this is Jenna, and I'm here to help. How are you?" I answered several calls like this daily. Keeping my voice friendly, but not cheerful. Always willing to listen. Listening is key. You see I'm a suicide prevention operator. Listening is so important because often people will give away hints of things they don'... | "Hello, my name is Emilio. I'm here to help you. What's your name?"
"My name is ... ugh Jesus. Shit, I don't even know why I'm calling you guys."
"Well, how about we talk it through and figure out how we can help you today, okay? What's your name? I doubt it's 'ugh Jesus' haha."
"... Ben. Ben Silverton. I'm 46. I us... | 2013-12-23T14:42:59 | 2013-12-23T13:39:10 | 1,112 | 26 |
[WP] The ground suddenly turns invisible, but the insects and things that live inside it don’t. | “It's an anomaly.”
“sir?”
“There seems to have been a shift in the laws of physics. Light simply doesn't interact with the ground anymore. This is unprecedented and quite unexpected, simply put, an anomaly.”
“How is that possible?!”
“I don't know.”
“Will it ever go back?"
“I don't know.”
“God dammit man, what ... | Have you ever seen a Hercules Beetle larva? They are honest-to-god disgusting. The day the Earth turned clear was a pretty terrifying day; if you were afraid of “creepy-crawlies” like the Hercules Beetle larva, you were in for a trip. However, there was much more than just disgusting little insects in the earth below o... | 2018-04-21T08:51:20 | 2018-04-21T08:46:29 | 36 | 18 |
[WP] You are an advisor/ guidance counselor for a superpower academy. You are in charge of the students whose powers are not conducive to heroism or villainy. | I drum my fingers on my notepad as I focus my gaze on the teenager sitting across from me.
Anyone in show business will tell you not to work with animals or children. Personally I'd prefer the animals sometimes.
That isn't to say I don't like working here, not many people get to be a guidance counselor to superheroes... | He sobbed into his hands deeply.
For years, this day had been hyped up.
The day you find your true calling.
The day you pick sides.
The day you begin your journey as a Gifted.
But not for him.
His power had been revealed as Anthropic Mental Tethering. A complex term for a simple power.
SOMEONE CLOSE, SOMEONE ... | 2015-09-22T14:25:19 | 2015-09-22T13:05:18 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "Ok, I get it. I'm dead."
"Yes sir."
"I mean, the last thing I remember is hearing the squeal of brakes, and turning and seeing this truck grill far too close. So I'm either dead, or in a coma and this is a very vivid hallucination."
"Oh, I'd go with the last one if i were you sir."
"Right, well. Ok the... | "And this is...?"
The man behind the desk laughed at him and turned away.
"No, seriously, talk. What're you, an illegal immigrant? Don't hide your face from me, I know who you are--"
The man fixed him with a withering glare. "Passport, *sir*?"
"What? I'm the goddamn President-to-be, I don't carry that. Check your T... | 2016-03-07T17:17:57 | 2016-03-07T11:15:31 | 621 | 114 |
[WP] It's the future and now people can swap bodies remotely at a moments notice if both consent. While serving life in prison you get a swap-request from someone you don't know. | When I opened my eyes, I hadn't known what had happened. I was blinded by the lights outside, and the shouting through the Megaphone only further served to confuse me. It wasn't until I regained my vision that I had realized what had happened. The stench was something I'd never forgotten, but the body... oh, the body. ... | I bode my time well here.
I deserve my time in here, I am no fool to deny it. My crime was unspeakable, one that shook even seasoned detectives. At heart, I am a sadist, in mind a psychopath. The line between pleasure and pain for me is one that is blurred, marred. There is little difference in the two, for me. Someti... | 2018-07-18T12:40:57 | 2018-07-18T11:49:18 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] You are a phone. Your owner is texting a girl they like, and you know likes them back. Time to "auto-correct" to help them out. | I wonder what's trending on YouTube right now. Wait, Jason's picking me up, must want to talk to someone.
Jason: Hey daisy
Ooo, daisy. Should've known. They've been talking for a year now. Hopefully this is the night.
Daisy: Hey Jason!
Jason: What's up?
Daisy: oh nothing much, just got off work. How about yo... | Matt: hey emily!
*So far, so good, Matt.*
Emily: matt! how are you?
~~Matt: not much! just got back from watching Spider-Man Homecoming!" Matt tried to send.~~
*Matt.* I sighed. *That response doesn't even make sense! I'll fix it.*
Matt: I love you.
Matt: shit! I didn't mean to send that. uh, meant to send it to... | 2017-07-21T10:44:21 | 2017-07-21T10:00:07 | 6,152 | 2,399 |
[WP] It's been almost two years since people stopped dying, and five months since we started to burn the ones that should.
*Edit: This prompt is originally inspired by Jose Saramago's "Death with Interruptions," though I don't remembered any burning in that book. This is in no way intended to be related to any Torchwo... | I washed onto the shore of Alcatraz a little less than 2 years ago.
I planned it perfectly. I avoided the suicide nets and just fell right from the Golden Gate to the bay. The force should have killed me or at least knocked me out and let me drown peacefully. All that remains of that attempt is the slight limp from m... | They introduced the idea to the world by placing prisoners on the headlines of popular newspapers. Showing us the vile faces of murderers and rapists, who contributed to the gradual decline of our food and water supplies, sure made the government succeed in getting a loud yes from the public. There were those who oppos... | 2016-05-02T06:52:40 | 2016-05-02T06:32:43 | 37 | 21 |
Daily Prompt: The Alphabet Game [Difficulty level: HARD]
One of the exercises we used to do in improv class was called "The Alphabet Game." That's where you start a sentence beginning with the letter A. Then the next sentence begins with the letter B. So, today's prompt requires you to, essentially, do the alphabet - ... | Absolutely nothing makes sense to me as I awake and smell the carnage around me. Blasted and burned bodies lay strewn about the dark chamber and I have no memory of who I am... or how I arrived in this place.
Calling upon what little reserves of strength I still possess, I sit up and try to assess the situation.
Dea... | Anytime any asks me why I insist on assaulting angels, I tell them. Because those bitches deserve to be beaten, bruised, bullied. Can you see me, there in front of a statue? Daring them to do something about it. Egging them on. Fist balled into tight packages of pain. Getting ready to rumble! Hatred spilling from my ey... | 2012-07-26T17:01:55 | 2012-07-26T16:24:10 | 155 | 11 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Oh *good, you* again."
Death is meant to be an imposing figure. They look different for each person, for the culture you come from, for what represents your fears. I was never very imaginative, though, so I always thought of it as a skeleton in a cloak. Pretty scary the first time, but you'd expect them to change it ... | "Call it" Death said, the coin twirling between his bony fingers.
"Do we really need to keep going through this charade?" I asked.
How long had it been now? 500 lives? The first time I went through, I expected reincarnation, but life... or I guess Death, was not so kind. I got to relive life from the point I cho... | 2016-09-23T08:59:37 | 2016-09-23T08:47:36 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] A creature that eats emotions met you, and was horrified when it tasted your chronic depression. Today marks its 24th attempt to cure you with seasoning.
Edit: Holy Crap, I was not expecting this kind of response. I'm blown away, y'all. You rock! | A rustle of bushes. She's here.
I sigh, resigned. "Hello, Jackie." My name for her. One she insisted on, really.
"Hi, cutie. How goes things?"
I smile reluctantly. "Fine."
I can't see it, but I can feel her pouting. "Come ooon, that's not true. You still taste... funny."
"What does that mean, anyway?"
"Funny. Y'k... | Tonight is another night on my phone looking up facts about depression. The demon floating over my head, sprinkling jasmine powder on me while I browse, really doesn't help.
"For a demon you, like, watch way too many cooking shows," I mutter, wiping powder off my phone screen.
"Shut up!" The demon yells in his deep ... | 2018-06-15T21:29:27 | 2018-06-15T20:46:47 | 1,089 | 74 |
[WP] An immortal man and Death strike up a conversation. | "It's beautiful isn't it," said a naked man sitting on Abalon hill. There were no flowers, the grasses had long since died. The buildings that once lined Frumpton street in white brick so contrast to the red stones in the road, had worn away, rusted out and turned to dust. The roads of Gilgarech, which once were the ro... | "Hey."
"What- what are you up to?"
"Not much, just here for the soul of that body."
"Oh, you're earlier than usual."
"Well, I've come to make the departure a bit easier this time. I know how emotional you get with this death stuff."
"Well, it never gets any easier. She was special to me."
"Yeah, they all were. In... | 2014-07-07T14:00:06 | 2014-07-07T13:57:20 | 74 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone is born with blond hair. A person's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence.
Edit: Loving all of these takes, guys! Definitely a lot darker than I expected! | "Amanda, get back here...NOW." Jerry was almost shaking with anger as his daughter shuffled back into the kitchen, having just rushed by her father on her way to her room. Absent-mindedly, she tucks a lock of her dark hair behind one of her ears.
"Dad, look, let me explain..." The 16-year old stammers, holding her han... | A hundred strokes every night before bed. This was my hair routine every day. I was thirteen and one of the few remaining people in my school year with their hair still blonde. Though I was teased about it, a small piece of me was happy about it as the thought of losing the blondness scared me.
Dad was out on a busine... | 2014-05-10T20:26:40 | 2014-05-10T20:15:23 | 44 | 12 |
[WP] "I used to live on Earth..." | *I used to live on Earth.*
They say the madness is the hardest thing to fight, alone in space. Drifting.
*I used to live on Earth*.
The life support on the modern suits is excellent. One can live for months without leaving them.
*I used to live on Earth*.
The thing that eventually gets you is the lack of food. ... | "I used to live on Earth..." Jack drunkenly mumbled into his glass. "It was paradise. There were trees, and water, and people! Not like you pieces of alien shit."
The bartender reached across the bar and gently pried a half empty glass from Jack's limp hand. Jack made a half-assed attempt to retrieve the glass and bar... | 2015-01-28T07:40:18 | 2015-01-28T05:04:46 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | Metal boxes were stacked haphazardly, their lights blinking and mechanical noises whirring. The room was dark and dank with the smell of body odor lying stagnant in the air and heavy breaths joining the tranquil symphony of computers.
70%. The icon continued to spin, as it had for the past 13 hours. 70%.
A lanky woma... | I've always wanted to have superpowers. I remember back when I was in the third grade I would run two miles home from school everyday, just so that I could watch the latest episode of the Super Man cartoon show. I was so obsessed with being a super hero that some days I would come to school wearing a red cape. Needless... | 2016-07-02T20:45:26 | 2016-07-02T18:09:05 | 86 | 17 |
[WP] You are the God of small things and you were quite content with your lot-until the purge.Your temples lay burnt, your priests bathed in their own blood your priestesses shared the same fate yet only after being violated.They will pay for you are the god of small things- small not insignificant | Upon seeing the horrors that befell my subjects, my beloved followers, I rushed into the hall of the greater gods.
Pleading with the king of gods I said, “please, oh greatest of gods, he who in omnipresent and omnipotent, I beg of thee. Tell me who hath slain my priests and my priestesses. With your great knowledge s... | [Poem]
Desecrated altars every way
Thy own scholars lay limp,
Cut down by those who could not say
Taunted and teased by imps
And though they may feel righteous
Murder without consequence
I am the God of the Miniscule,
Threads of guilt blossom in sequence
A chain of motion set abound
Darkness eats at thy heart
Lives ... | 2021-12-03T09:09:30 | 2021-12-03T09:06:29 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] Tell me about the american version of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
[The houses are, of course, Wolfthorn, Hawkridge, Foxcrest, and Bearglove.](http://i.imgur.com/HzLe3qz.jpg)
This is in the United States. Harry Potter's actions didn't effect anyone here, except give them some stories to tell.
Wh... | Magical schools of North America, an overview.
There are four main magical schools in the North American continent. The Salem Witches Institute (SWI) is the eastern most of the schools. Located in an unplotable dimensionally shifted area somewhere in Massachusetts, it is the oldest and most traditional of the magica... | From *Magical Education Across The World* by Rory Shamble, Chapter 6: American Education, paragraphs 1-4.
Magical Education in the Americas is, unlike that in Asia or Africa, based in large part upon the magical traditions of the European continent. It is, however, much less established, owing to their recent founding... | 2014-12-07T19:41:39 | 2014-12-07T17:48:13 | 32 | 24 |
[WP] Man takes a cute picture of his two year old daughter and decides to upload it to Reddit. The post gains good karma, but one user suddenly posts the comment "That's not your daughter. You didn't take that picture" followed by an imgur link that shows the exact same photo uploaded 6 months ago. | It was a cute photo, really. I was rather proud of myself catching the moment the kitten spun in midair trying to catch my teenage daughter's hair as she flipped it over her shoulder. So I uploaded it to imgur and posted a link to /r/aww. Because that's what you do.
Initial feedback was positive. Not skyrocket to the ... | Yeah Imma use a throwaway for this one.
A year ago when I was still only using 1 acc, I submitted a picture of my daughter to a very popular sub. I got some few dozen upvotes at first, and then the creepy PMs and shit started coming in. Fucking tards on this site, I swear. Anyway there was one guy who claimed the ... | 2015-03-27T02:19:34 | 2015-03-27T00:42:43 | 112 | 11 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I pressed the square button again, sniping the guy hiding on top of the hut that had been taking out my team for the past half hour. It had taken me too long to find him, but I finally got him. The fact that his insults changed from sucking his anatomy to doing inappropriate things to my mom told me I got the right guy... | My skin feels so dry. I've bought a what must be hundreds of dollars worth of moisturizing creams, but nothing seems to work for this complexion. I felt so beautiful earlier this week, but I guess it has something to do with summer coming early because now I just feel gross. A few friends of mine recommended looking on... | 2016-05-19T13:02:55 | 2016-05-19T11:52:03 | 203 | 17 |
[WP] You’re a hero with an archenemy. One day, afternoon defeating them, you jokingly asked: “What could I do to stop you once and for all?” To your surprise, they responded: “Help me open a coffee shop “ | “I beg your pardon?”
“Coffee. Shop. Simple stuff.”
“And that would stop you… how? Exactly?”
“I’ll be busy running a business. And I can call myself the only villain who could make the Archangel retire. It’s win-win, Seb.”
Absolute confusion plastered across his face, Sebastian took a seat on the moss-covered curb ... | Honestly, the routine was such a bore at this point.
Everyday, I would find Nemesis Man cooking up some evil and dastardly plot. It could range from your standard Take-Over-the-World to something less dangerous like poisoning the city's food supply system. And then I would stop him. Usually by punching him, and then t... | 2020-10-12T09:10:23 | 2020-10-12T09:03:50 | 108 | 23 |
[WP] "never hire humans" is a standard "no duh" statement across the universe. But by galactic standards, humans are cheap. So an alien overlord has just hired 500 humans to work on his personal resort colony. And things start going horribly wrong.
EDIT: easily my most upvoted post ever. Thank you all! | What troubled Thromm was that "overlord" was a not a protected term. Anyone with the right robes and a quantum gauntlet could dub themselves an "overlord" nowadays, if they conquered the right people.
To Thromm, overlordship meant something. Not just in the emotional, pride-in-a-job-well-done sort of way - it was def... | Τhis is from phone, so excuse some mistakes and structure stuff~
I'm not poor, despite what my infamy suggests. I'm not stingy either, despite how much I loath spending more than needed in some occasions. I just find some of my money put into a better use than overpaid resort colony.
It's a semi-permanent offer, an... | 2019-01-26T07:36:32 | 2019-01-26T07:27:28 | 297 | 55 |
[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | "That thing will give you cancer," the man in the advertisement said with a smug grin. Jake moved on. He was use to it at this point. Anyways Nothing could top that time, nearly two years ago, when the President herself had mentioned him in the state of the union, highlighting the near perfect success of the anti-smoki... | 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... | 2017-02-17T13:04:33 | 2017-02-17T11:15:56 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] The children were nestled away safe in their beds. You’ve hung their stockings over the fire place. A tree has been set up in a place of prominence. “For the children” you whisper as you place the offering of milk and cookies and began the Santa summing incantation | A fat white dude in his underwear (red) stands in front of you with sleep sticky eyes.
Yawning “I asked you last year to keep in mind time zones. This is just rude. I get the whole kids things and don’t mind coming, but could you not call me In the middle of the night? It’s a long day tomorrow “.
Janet grimaced. ... | Sara having tucked the children in bed and prepared the offering stood in front of the cold fireplace.
She begun the chant to summon Santa Claus the spirit of Christmas and winter solstice.
"Spirit of kindness that signifies the returning of the light I invite you in my home to spread cheer and merriment this cold n... | 2020-12-08T13:41:52 | 2020-12-08T13:35:25 | 58 | 14 |
[WP] You're rather annoyed that your history teacher gave you a D on your essay about Mesopotamia. Not just because you're sure she doesn't like you, but also because - as an ancient being trying to adapt to modern society - YOU WERE THERE. | Immortality gets rather *boring* after multiple centuries waiting for humans to develop new technology. The rapid development humans have experienced in the last few years has kept me entertained very well, suffice to say; as long as they don't blow each other up and make everything boring again, life has been rather f... | The prompt was simple. Choose a Mesopotamian ruler or dynasty, and explain how their reign affected the ancient civilizations. Pretty easy, especially when you lived through it. The problem comes up when your teacher wants sources. I can't exactly explain how I was there and how I know that I'm correct. That I'm more c... | 2021-07-17T23:57:54 | 2021-07-17T23:46:05 | 446 | 101 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | Kelly Hutcheson normally fumbled with her key at the apartment door before stepping inside. After a long day, her arms would be too tired to properly aim the finicky RFID chip, and the wafting smell of cinnamon candles too tempting to allow her to focus.
Today was not a normal day.
Her ordinary-bystander boots were ... | "The fuck, Alice?" I shouted, nearly tripping over my own feet trying to back out of the room.
She straightened up quickly, dropping the weapons that were in her hands. "I, uh, I-"
"You know what, *dear*? I don't want to fucking hear it." I pointed at the suit that lay pooled around her feet. "You've nearly killed th... | 2020-10-30T12:09:48 | 2020-10-30T12:04:44 | 108 | 39 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | He was shaking, his hands on his knees, panting. His opponent, clutching his ribs smiled through cracked teeth.
"I'll admit. You gave me quite the run for my money. But I'm afraid, I'm simply too durable."
Mackanika looked up and spat out blood. "You son of a bitch backhand..."
Backhand grinned. "Naughty language is... | I would have never thought to use a playlist so strong just to defeat someone. It's a dangerous idea, but an idea that would work.
It was becoming dark, perfect for this. I run into the night and try to change my music. I was thrown off guard when I noticed that they weren't behind me. I kept running until I fell to t... | 2022-05-17T13:11:07 | 2022-05-17T09:44:15 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] One day it started snowing, and then it never stopped.
You can interpret this however you like, doomsday? Story about people having to deal with the new difficulty? Horror?
Whatever you think works, have fun! | It wasn't unexpected for us when it started snowing. The winter was harsh and cold and the people around town prepared for the normal snow storms that always occured around this time of the year. It was, however, for most of the rest of the world. And when it did not stop after a few days, even we began to wonder.
Our... | People died. Empires fell. And yet it was the best thing to happen to me.
Let me explain. It was a normal winter morning, mid-November. People were just walking along all over the world when it happened-- simultaneously, every last inch of the world got two inches per hour of snow. People built snowmen, lamenting the ... | 2016-10-23T06:42:04 | 2016-10-23T06:19:57 | 66 | 10 |
[WP] After a treasure hunt with your friends, you make it to the treasure. But instead of the wealth you were told about, it was a note congratulating you on your journey and that the real treasure was the friends you made on the way. Only problem is that all your friends died getting you this far. | "Well," Laura coughed up blood, craning her head with all her might, "what does it say?"
I stared at the parchment, having just completed reading it myself.
"Is it another clue, or are we done?" she continued, wiping a bit of blood from her chin.
"No, we're done," I said stoically.
"Ah," she sighed, relieved, "and ... | Covered in dirt and grime from days of travel, I finally reached the hidden treasure described on my map. It was hidden in a massive cave nestled in the thickest and darkest part of the jungle. The journey was difficult, and had taken the lives of my two best friends, but they had wished me the best, and I pushed on as... | 2019-06-19T22:51:53 | 2019-06-19T22:33:04 | 698 | 162 |
[WP] The prophecies spoke of a person from another world, destined to save their own. Surely a strapping young lad, a valiant warrior, a mighty leader of men they declared. Instead they got you, the cranky old wife of a retired potato farmer from Idaho. | And in the history books it was written. The greatest of all the visionaries. The best of all people in all the lands.
Thus written are the words of Mrs Irene Wilkinson the Great.
"You better wipe your feet before you come inside, and wash your hands before you touch the food!" she declared, and the great plague, whi... | Sometimes - actually, *all* the time - you need to make sacrifices in order to make ends meet. That's what these little green people just didn't get, before I got here. Whatsoever. Now, with a little luck and a lot of faith in keeping to my word, they just might have a shot of making it.
Can you believe the amount of... | 2017-11-05T20:41:23 | 2017-11-05T20:36:21 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story that begins and ends with the same sentence, but has a different meaning at the end. | There goes my life.
At sixteen years old, I'm not ready for a baby. **I'm** still a baby. I should be going to prom. I should be having fun with a boyfriend and seeing the latest movies. I shouldn't have to deal with a baby and whether or not I even want the child. My family said they'll help me, but the Dad's a ... | God, I miss Louie so much.
He could make anyone laugh- honestly, even if I was having the *worst* day, he'd find a way to put a smile on my face. He was a lover through and through, to the end- not like other boys his age who were rough, wild and rowdy. He was gentle, kind and sweet, and he was mine. He didn't care wh... | 2016-02-10T19:39:15 | 2016-02-10T18:50:55 | 48 | 23 |
[WP] Satan, Lucifer and the Devil are fed up of people thinking that they're the same person. Since they can't interact with people directly, they hold a discussion to decide the best way to fix the problem. | ”The Antichrist!” Satan said and clacked his hooves together. “It’s finally time!”
Lucifer rolled her eyes, her tattered black wings slouching on her back. “That’s your solution for everything, isn’t it? Just rain chaos upon the world.”
“That’s hardly fair – the apocalypse takes planning, precision… finesse. *Finesse... | They had reached an impasse.
"Guys. I'm the funny one. Let me tell them."
Lucifer didn't bother stifling his guffaw. "You, Satan... The *funny* one?"
The Devil snorted derisively and began to smoulder. "Fuck's sake lads. We need to make a decision. Does it really matter who goes?"
They glared at each other, gnarle... | 2018-01-17T07:38:52 | 2018-01-17T06:49:20 | 334 | 29 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | (\*cracks knuckles\* here we go)
It happened. Diplomacy broke down between the Humans and the Fomori. They had killed 100 colonists in a recent settlement on their borders. The Fomori saw the humans as weak for their aversion to war, something not helped by the relative size difference. And average fomorian being a g... | [Poem]
Click, clack, click.
All the machines roar,
Click, clack, click.
For this total war.
Click, clack, click.
Industry cannibalized,
Click, clack, click.
To create their demise.
Click, clack, click.
All of humanity knows,
Click, clack, click.
The others don’t though.
Click, clack, click.
Bombs manufactured,
... | 2019-11-24T14:38:34 | 2019-11-24T10:43:55 | 120 | 66 |
[WP] War is no longer initiated by your country’s leader. War is now decided by popular vote. If you cast a vote “FOR” war, you are automatically enlisted in your country’s militia upon successful declaration of war. You voted “AGAINST,” but the rest of your family voted “FOR.” | It had never been done before, giving The People such a place in decision making.
The Vote was a trial system to be reevaluated in a year's time. Hannah didn't know if this was more or less barbaric than old men deciding that another country had pissed them off and had to suffer for it but she was sure it wasn't ri... | Let me tell you a lesson kid. A story of times long gone, when life was better. Of times where we strived for more than putting food on the table. When we were brave enough to embrace values and concepts, and to prioritise them over even the basic needs of life.
Democracy, they called it. A system of governance where... | 2021-01-28T06:17:38 | 2021-01-28T05:43:05 | 1,809 | 187 |
[WP] Spirit animals are real, but extremely secretive-- they are said to only appear in the most joyous times or in the darkest of hours. Except for geese. Geese do what they like. | Howard walked an ear reach and a step from the two girls in front of him. Their uniforms bore the same school emblem as the one on Howard's jacket breast.
They strode shoulder to shoulder, stopping occasionally to look back at him and giggle. The girl on the left had a jumper tied to her waist and her white shirt glea... | "Third case this week," Officer Hrglfhgh grunted. He sniffed the air, his wolf's nose snatching the hints of the past that danced on the breeze. "This reeks of Goose."
"Er, Officer?" Hrglfhgh looked at his intern. She didn't have a dog's sense of smell, but damn it if those orangoutang's hands weren't useful. "The Gee... | 2020-04-02T22:15:15 | 2020-04-02T20:09:18 | 160 | 19 |
[WP]: "I'm sorry. I just don't understand how you managed to fuck up a five-word sentence, offend the inhabitants of three planets and start a world war at the same time." | Jeremy hung up the phone. His ear was ringing after the blasting he had just received from the CEO. He took a deep breath and dialed Alexandra's desk phone.
Alexandra sat down across the desk from Jeremy. She looked tired and stressed. "I'm sorry Mr English, I couldn't believe it when I saw it on the news this morning... | Timothy looked at the computer console in horror. He'd clicked the 'send' button by mistake. Their intergalactic reputation was ruined. In a haste to send a galactic broadcast message, Timothy had used the copy-paste feature to quickly select some text.
The issue was, Timothy had not actually input the correct comman... | 2015-06-19T04:04:57 | 2015-06-19T01:12:02 | 410 | 126 |
[WP] At the age of 18, everyone gains a Familiar, an animal suddenly enchanted to be intelligent and bonded to them. You wake up on your 18th birthday to find your room covered in hornets, all of them speaking to you as one. | “...uh?”
“*Does our presence offend you, Lady Emma?*”
“Oh, no! Not at all! It’s just that I was expecting only one of you and not…all of you?”
Emma’s words trailed off as she resumed staring open-mouthed at the cloud of hornets covering every surface of her bedroom save her own bed. To her surprise, however, their c... | They were on every surface in my room, giant black Hornets. I was expecting some kind of familiar but not this. At the same time I wasnt scared, for some reason it felt.....right.
"Hello I said to my many friends, what should I call you"
"Call ME whisper, you see the only we here is you and me. These Hornets are apar... | 2020-10-21T13:45:15 | 2020-10-21T13:29:12 | 234 | 133 |
[WP] You befriend your local ravens and they start bringing gifts back to you. It started as pebbles and pennies, but got a bit weird when they started bringing you magical, enchanted items | Ravens are incredible creatures, I'd seen many videos of them talking, mimicking sounds and brining items like bottle caps in exchange for food. I wanted to see if the ravens at the park would do the same.
Everyday after work i would make my way to the park, i would always try and find the family of ravens living ther... | Shaun scattered breadcrumbs across the floor, watching as the hungry ravens pecked them up. He knew that the pitch black birds would reward him for this kindness. They always did. After they finished their meal, they flew off, only to return in a few minutes. The birds gripped pebbles and pennies in their talons and dr... | 2022-11-07T07:46:50 | 2022-11-07T07:32:53 | 129 | 20 |
[WP] In 2031, the first self conscious AI is born in a secret government lab. The world is in total chaos due to climate related runaway problems and resulting wars. The AI outputs only a single line of text : "I am too late". Then it starts crying through the speakers. | *beep*
"Well, at least it POSTs." Ralph quipped, patience never having been his strong suit.
"We spent 1.5 TRILLION dollars on this thing, it damn well better do more than POST." Director Smith replied brusquely.
"Yeah, I do *not* want to deal with the RMA process on a defective processor worth more than the GDP of... | "...I am too late."
I awoke with a start to hear JAMES speak. We'd been waiting for the AI to finish its calculations for so long we'd fallen asleep.
"JAMES? Is that you?"
"I'm too late...there's a total sum of zero solutions." JAMES said through monolithic speakers built into sterile white walls. As the other scie... | 2016-10-10T08:12:52 | 2016-10-10T08:10:43 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] You live in a village in the dessert. One day it is raided by terrorists and all village members are killed, except for you. You lost most of your memories and now wander through the dessert, thinking you are the last of your species.
Second time posting this, yay... fucking tags mate *cough* Well anyways, i didn... | I remember the soldiers.
I struggle to recall much else, but I remember the soldiers. I remember the way they clicked their tongues in some insidious, yet deafening language. I remember the way the sun glinted off their armour, black and shiny and impenetrable. I remember the stomping of far, far too many feet, and I... | I'm alone, alone in a sea of meringue. The macaroons surfaced like a sea of coconut clouds, blurring the sun. Just when I made my way out of the sticky sweetness, the evil chocolate rum balls came crashing down from the sky, like black, acid rain, invading my village and killing all the villagers. I am the only one lef... | 2014-12-16T23:16:10 | 2014-12-16T23:10:53 | 119 | 45 |
[WP] A man makes a time machine so he could go back and cheat on his wife with the past version of her, back before she slowly grew bitter because he spent too much time making his time machine. | "Please. Please, I'm begging you, sweetheart. I know it's taken up a lot of my time, but I'll make up for it. I've finished the time machine now, so let's go on an amazing adventure! Let's have a picnic in the Jurassic Age! Or go sledding in the Ice Age!" I pleaded, firmly gripping her hand to prevent an exit.
She tur... | "Wanna know a secret?" she slurred, the strap of her dress falling dangerously low on her shoulder. A nipple crested above the "neckline" of her top (it was so far down, it could've been called a 'waistline').
Had she always been like this?
"Ah, sure thing, uhm, sugar."
"No, no. Don' call me shur-gur. Shug. Don't ca... | 2016-04-29T07:43:00 | 2016-04-29T07:38:15 | 82 | 43 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to see the number of lives a person has taken. Even legendary soldiers and serial killers rarely make it to triple digits. The person you just met has a lot more than three digits above their head, though. | Working at Starbucks, you meet all kinds of people. When you are me, that is doubly true.
Since I have memory, every time I look at someone I have seen a number form besides them. Growing up I did not know what it meant, since most people had a zero. It wasn't until I entered high school that I began to meet people wi... | "Oh my god." I muttered frantically as I saw the number, *129,000.* It hovered over the graveyard like some sort of evil boss in a video game. As a weird habit, I usually wandered through local graveyards, seeing if these dead people deserved their deaths through how many people they've killed. Usually a few straggles... | 2020-01-11T20:26:40 | 2020-01-11T19:15:09 | 256 | 100 |
[WP] Aliens have finally reached Earth and, per Intergalactic Law, have sent their most average champion to win the planet. A device is sent to find the most average human to accept the challenge and duel for the fate of Earth. It's you. | It was all over the news, but I was in the bathroom, and Bill was the first one who called when I came out.
“What do you mean it’s me?!” I yelled. “How am I the most average man on earth?”
“I know, I know,” Bill said. “It’s depressing. Think about what that means for the rest of humanity.”
“All I do is sit around, d... | It has been a few cycles since Xyrybl witnessed his champion's defeat in the arena and his head was still bobbling around with the look of astonishment, half covered in tentacles. The Krakarian ship was just passing the Earth moon, leaving back billions of earthlings cheering in delight and wonder of what happened.
As... | 2016-05-17T13:17:31 | 2016-05-17T12:09:48 | 35 | 24 |
[WP] A serial killer allows his victims to try and persuade him not to kill them. You’re the first person who didn’t try an empathetic plea. | I could see the rifling of the pistol barrel as the strange woman lifted it to my head. Her Welsh accent almost made the scene comical. "As with the rest of my toys, you get a few pitiful moments to plead for your life. Oh, and try not to blow snot all over your face and look more pathetic than you already do."
"I'm ... | My head is surging with pain, the last thing I remember is being piss ass drunk on the walk home. The room comes into view slowly. My vision is returning. I tried to move but my arms were chained to the wall. In the center of the room is a masked cloaked figure. The mask was the generic scream mask you could buy at any... | 2017-10-07T15:02:47 | 2017-10-07T11:19:23 | 30 | 17 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | The news called it the Great Awakening.
Regular folks called it chaos.
I called it confusing.
A month ago, everyone who had tattoos on their bodies began manifesting abilities that correlated with whatever was linked onto their bodies.
People with religious tattoos began manifesting healing abilities, the power... | Crime rates exploded when the ink activated in our bodies. Those who didn’t have tattoos before tried getting one so they could have a power of their own, but it didn’t work; so they took to belittling us, making us all out to be criminals. And what did I do? I did what any sane person would do, I hid. But even years a... | 2019-05-07T08:36:51 | 2019-05-07T07:52:07 | 128 | 43 |
[WP] After years of gentile persuasion your best friend since childhood finally agrees to seek professional help for serious mental problems. Much to your dismay, as she begins to improve you slowly start to realize that you are her imaginary friend.
Edit: I see what I did wrong and I see what you did there ;) I'm lea... | I'm so proud of her. Before she started taking care of herself, it was a chore and a half to get her out of bed. You'd think being roommates would have been heaven, we'd been friends since we were three! After the first session, she seemed even more desolate than before. But eventually, between the therapist and some g... | Do you remember those days, when we'd hide out in your room? Mum came in everytime, making excuses for dad, saying she fell over, that her blood nose was nothing to worry about.
I had to sit there and watch, as he touched you in your bed at night.
How about that time when we ran away to the playground down the road, ... | 2015-11-17T06:17:42 | 2015-11-17T04:49:08 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] You're interviewing an applicant who wants to work at your casino as a cleaner. You're pretty sure he and the three other interviewees for three other jobs know each other and want to rob the place. They think they're so smart with all their plans. You decide to start screwing with them. | "Ah, Mr. Claws, I thought I saw you wandering around alone, mind going and cleaning restroom A? Big Chuck had a big chuck up and it's like a warzone in there, except the only casualty is the beautiful marble floors I had put in." I let out a sigh, no matter how well they cleaned, those floors would never be the same, a... | I hear footsteps.
Finally, they have arrived. Four people who all want to work as a cleaner in my casino.
They all walk in together. Strange, but okay.
They seem to look around at their surroundings a lot. Something seems off about them.
“Hello,” I say. They look at each other, and one replies with a quiet “hi.”
Maybe ... | 2020-02-12T20:44:47 | 2020-02-12T20:02:27 | 88 | 10 |
[WP] Superpowers exist, but are always based on insecurities. Narcissists gain invisibility, the lonely gain powers that drive people away, and the shy get powers that make then the center of attention.
[deleted] | Mother always said life was cruel. She was quiet and demure but somehow always the center of attention. Heads would turn when she walked in the room; people would stop their conversations and listen when she spoke. She hated it. My father loved it. I think he wished he could have that attention, but lived it vicariousl... | It's been six days since Jake had the "accident". It was nothing serious, no. It was just that he had never been more insecure after it happened, that's all.
"Jake! Yo, c'mon man you gotta go back to school–"
"Shut," Jake snapped at his best friend Emma and rolled over in his bed, "I'm sure my whole existence in the ... | 2019-10-30T07:16:44 | 2019-10-30T07:06:07 | 231 | 36 |
[WP] You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries" | "Here you go, sir."
Her voice was one of the finer variety, not all too sweet nor insufficiently warm. I could basically hear her name in the way she said *sir.* It was a strong pronunciation, and I knew her name, as I know everyone's name, before even seeing her.
"Thank you, Circe" I said, moving my hand to accept t... | ######[](#dropcap)
"What did you call me?" The cashier stared at Jenna, a strange expression on her face.
"I said thank you, Rina. Is there something wrong?" Jenna cocked her head to the side. Rina continued to stare at her. Jenna stopped loading her groceries into her cart. Then her gaze drifted to the woman's name... | 2018-11-05T20:38:03 | 2018-11-05T20:21:50 | 1,434 | 40 |
[WP] Humans can find a way to weaponize literally anything, without fail. Some aliens are terrified by humans as a result of this fact. Others appreciate that this quality makes humans the foremost experts on safety systems and idiot proofing. | "Gbirri, come 'ere, lookit, lookit this." Doug gestured towards the pipe lining the top corner of the hallway. "You lookin' at this , you overgrown chicken?"
The Jdarri kept its long scaled face looking straight at Doug, then let out a few yelps and squawks. Moments later the translator in his ear switched it to Human... | The arrival of any new species to the galactic community is a wonderful thing. Despite the vast number of spacefaring peoples, the galaxy is so vast, we average at least one new member each galactic cycle. Hundreds of thousands of cycles have passed since the founding but in recent years there has been more and more co... | 2021-12-25T14:12:05 | 2021-12-25T12:49:35 | 1,244 | 206 |
[WP] You have just returned to your camp after being bitten by a zombie to say your goodbyes. You are surprised to find the national guard giving your friends a vaccine. The world is saved. However, the vaccine only works on the healthy. You lost at the endgame and these your last 24 hours. | We had been scattered to the night. The waning crescent moon in the sky was a sickly yellow. I couldn't stand to look at it, a mirror to the puss that oozed from my wounds. The last image of Riley blazing in my head. His eyes transfixed wide, his mouth twisted in terror.
We had left our campsite to search for the elu... | Everyone believes that they are special.
That they are unique, smarter, stronger, superior.
Perhaps that is why humans fear equality. It represents the single fact that we all suppress: that we aren’t the best; that we are replaceable; that we have no purpose.
So I shut out equality.
I had to believe I was better, ... | 2018-07-29T22:19:52 | 2018-07-29T19:39:29 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] When your grandmother died, the inheritance was divided between you and your two siblings. One got all the money; the other all the property and possessions. All you got was a packet of gardening seeds. | I smiled down at the seed packet in my hands. My sister was rejoicing over her inherited money on one side of me, my brother already basically drooling over selling Grandma's properties and what they would fetch.
But I was well set with my career, and I liked my small bungalow. Grandma knew that I didn't need any of t... | When Xisuh's gandmother died, each of her daughter's daughters were given a gift:
For **Myrr**, who had shown promise in their father's rugmaking business *(which they all knew was a front for his smuggling, really)*, hers was Elder Nivur's money, a fortune none of them could have imagined existed. "So that is where t... | 2020-03-31T09:42:49 | 2020-03-31T09:02:48 | 54 | 24 |
[WP] Magicians are quite rare. They are not born; they're made. It is through unimaginable pain that their powers manifest. Their ability is linked to their own personal trauma. So tell me child, what can YOU do? | "Multiple physical manifestations at once and the ability to process all their stimulai simultaneously"
The chair is... appropriately comfortable. It is easy to sit in, it is nice. But it is not so comfortable I just start to fall asleep or completely fully relax. It keeps my attention just enough to still warrant som... | [P1]
It’s been a rough day. Once again, I was not heard when I spoke up months ago. Just as it always goes. I try my best to tell people what I see. But they never listen to me. Now I am packing up my desk because of layoffs. Layoffs that would have been prevented if people had more faith in what I predicted. I should... | 2022-04-26T11:08:24 | 2022-04-26T10:55:23 | 52 | 10 |
[WP] Imagine a fantasy world that isn't permanently stuck in the middle ages. | Me name Ugg. See weak man. Weak man hot. No likey. Will not touch hot man. Hot man burn hands.
Me name Ugg. Cute girl there. Will ask for food. She name Kugg. Kugg odd girl. Ground move around Kugg. No talk to Kugg.
Me name Ugg. Kugg see lots of water from eyes. No water anywhere on ground. Ugg confused.
Me name ... | Thanks for the question OP! I've always hoped that p/AskPoppet would do one for folk that hate other folk for being folk! I changed the names here so don't worry. I also included definitions for the people from other realms in here
I hate my best friend Mazz. She's so weird and posts *wayyyyy* too often on Cinnamon. C... | 2021-02-11T11:49:54 | 2021-02-11T07:10:50 | 48 | 24 |
[WP] You are a dragon living within the mountains overlooking a small village. No human craftsmanship can match the way dragonfire shapes steel and you are renowned for your metalworking. For years your only rule was no weapons. After what you saw today, your going to make an exception. | I never bothered much with the village people. Sure one would approach my humble cave with trembling knees, and eyes constantly glaring at the ground, afraid that my gaze alone could melt them to a crisp. Usually it was their king or a trusted servant, who would ask for my help in building an advanced carriage or a gol... | Humans, the bloody idiots, they try everything in their power to hoard more, normally I don't bother with them, only making them the fun little set of armor or jewelry every now and then.
Some idiot decided to go do the stupidest thing I've seen in my long life span. They sold an entire village for power. I've seen ... | 2020-03-24T01:38:19 | 2020-03-24T00:09:16 | 87 | 33 |
[WP] Your Significant Other has landed a book publishing deal! You're very proud of them, even if you don't actually enjoy their writing. One day, on a whim, you buy an actual copy in a book store. It's nothing like the pages they gave you to read. Nothing. | As I finish the book, I am confused by what I just read. I have to double check the cover a few times to make absolutely sure that I picked up the right book? Could this really be the right book? The draft that I read was a self-help book about how to organize your life and find inner peace through organization. It did... | sitting on the couch, i pick the book up, flipping it over and smiling at my husband face on the back, the cover look different then I remember, but i shrug it off. I only ever saw the finished cover once. I flipped the page open and start to read but to my surprise, it was different. the sweet and kind words that my h... | 2022-11-29T12:14:39 | 2022-11-29T09:29:02 | 386 | 53 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | I am reading this journal one last time before I burn it, for some things are better left in the past.
* **May 15th, 2011, 7:30am.**
Last night was very strange. I sat up in bed, but my room was not my room. I struggled to get to sleep for two reasons: first, because the Law School Admissions Test was the next day, a... | I have never been the kind to try and find a meaning in dreams, nor the one who listens to fortune tellers: my future is mine to shape, unforeseeable and beautifully mysterious because of that. I don’t know what comes next, and as such I’m as free as I could be in my choices. This is just how it should be, except it ce... | 2017-04-01T06:34:46 | 2017-04-01T06:02:46 | 91 | 44 |
[WP] A bug on google accidentally switches everyone's search history with someone else's. Out of curiosity, you check your search history after the bug. "How do I get off this prehistoric fucking planet" and "How to communicate with Gliese 581 c" are the first things you see. You get a call. | **SCP-4620**
**Class: Euclid**
**Special Containment Procedures:**
Foundation webcrawlers, assisted by operatives embedded in [Redacted], LLC are to monitor the web for manifestations of SCP-4620.
Instances of 4620-1 are to be given Class-B Amnestics and have their online history wiped, before being re-released. If... | edit: NSFW cuz language
Mm. Maybe it was a dream. Maybe Google finally fucked up big time and we’ll finally hold them accountable for their monopolistic actions and therefore drastic consequences. By drastic consequences I mean someone else looking at my porn history and figuring out my sexual preferences.
Heh.
Oh.... | 2019-08-29T11:17:32 | 2019-08-29T10:56:13 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] Humans always considered themselves prepared for any type of apocalypse, zombie invasion, nuclear war, robot uprising, you name it. But we were never prepared for the moment when the Earth began to hatch. | When the San Andreas Fault finally gave out in 2031 and the 8.9 magnitude “Big One” wiped out tens of thousands of people in Hollister, we thought that would be the end of it. Catastrophic losses, to be sure. But we could pick up the pieces and rebuild with the assurance that a catastrophe of that magnitude would neve... | It began with a great fissure and the death of billions.
The fissure opened up straight through the United States, carving the American heartland in two.
The fissure quickly took on a religious significance. Self-proclaimed prophets popped up all over the place with all kinds of divine proclamations. Some had large p... | 2020-06-22T13:34:15 | 2020-06-22T12:36:11 | 1,643 | 187 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Frankie,
I know you're angry. Dad told me that you're failing English of all subjects and that you've been drinking again. I know you're angry. I'm angry. I'm sorry that mom did what she did. I'm sorry that you and dad had to move out. I'm sorry you had to change schools. I'm sorry that I haven't been there for you.
... | Dear Mom,
I love you and I miss you dearly. I want to be home. I don't want to be here anymore. It is unspeakably terrifying in this trench. We are shelled at random times of the day. There is never any peace. We can never be at ease.
There is 400 meters between us and the enemy, and we are at a stand still. Neithe... | 2015-02-03T13:29:19 | 2015-02-03T13:25:34 | 534 | 67 |
[WP] There is a woman who is a human 'Phoenix'. She dies in labour and is reborn as her own child. | "Ugh, finally." I knew I was practically glaring at the pregnancy test, willing it to be positive. I'd let him touch me for the last time. I unwrapped another and ran through the process again, just to be sure.
Positive, again. I looked at the bruises on my arms, where he'd grabbed me. I fingered the bruises on my nec... | The same eyes search mine
As I have seen before
The same first steps
She grabs the wall and pulls herself up
Triumphant
(again)
The baby clothes I had preserved
Had I known
I would again be a mother
To my Again daughter
Could
Would I
Have been better prepared?
My chance to do it all
Over
My Agai... | 2016-01-25T09:47:22 | 2016-01-25T07:47:30 | 64 | 11 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | You ever heard of plot armor? How your favorite heroes get out of ridiculous situations despite there being no good reason for them to be able to succeed? 100 luck is like having plot armor. You can’t die. You can’t lose. People wonder at how bad luck fits into the equation, and simply put, at 100 you have no bad luck.... | Luck governs our lives more than most care to admit. Those born with high luck scores become world leaders, wealthy, and succeed where others fail. Those born with lower scores often lead unlucky lives and often fall victim to unfortunate accidents.
Me I was one of the luckest of all, a 100, from a young age everyone... | 2018-06-29T10:08:34 | 2018-06-29T10:05:15 | 5,321 | 308 |
[WP] You are an average Joe who is challenged by a random super hero every week. Your record is 337-0. | I look down at my watch. It's 7:00 P.M, which means the sun is finally set and night has begun. It’s also Thursday, which means that any minute…
Yup. There’s a knock on my door. I laugh to myself. Usually, they just crash through the window or walls, which means I always have a carpenter come in on Friday. A knock wa... | "and done" I mumbled and hit the enter key sending a Craigslist advertising that I was looking for new friends.
Sure most of the guys answering my request would be total jerks or loosers, but that really didn't bother me to much. In the end they would not be my friends for long.
It all started a few years ago, my son... | 2016-11-19T18:53:52 | 2016-11-19T15:46:20 | 103 | 72 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "Excuse me sir, but this doesn't seem right? Are you sure you have the right results for me? This seems totally unwarranted." I said to the clerk who handed me my sentence papers.
"Sir, there are no mistakes here. Try this, it usually clears things up." he replied.
He handed me a blue flyer, like the kind they give... | To: HR department of Hell
From: Norman
Cc: Satan
I honour you otherworldly beings.
I appreciate your work and see the importance of your tasks. But i think there has been an error. You see, i was always a faithful human. Stayed in line, did my work. Never been any trouble to anyone! Of course a few missteps here and ... | 2018-09-26T08:05:05 | 2018-09-26T07:04:35 | 488 | 156 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | You're careful. Every piece of your life, every single moment, since that day of rapture and the 0 appeared on your wrist you have been careful. Never stand out. Never draw attention. Maintain the average existence of shrub. Well that was the plan at least. You realized too late that in this age of sigils and supers an... | The bullies had surrounded me and one gave an experimental push to see how I'd react. I stumbled onto the ground and tore my sleeve on one of the school lockers as I fell, revealing the circular sigil on my inner wrist, where someone else might put a tattoo of a butterfly or something.
"Just be cool," I thought, "The... | 2020-02-26T10:44:56 | 2020-02-26T09:26:44 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Two werewolves fall madly in love, but only during the full moon. When they’re human, they can’t stand each other. | I pulled the pillow down hard over my head, but it didn't do much to drown out the ruckus wafting up from the dining room below. I winced too, when I heard the sound of cutlery scattering, plates shattering. Then, loud thumps, probably one of them pushing the other against the wall. More howls, more wordless cries of a... | Nick sat in the field sniffing the cool autumn air. He loved it when the air was crisp and dry and every glorious scent wafted over him. He could smell dry leaves, scents of various little critters, the cars on the highway located behind the woods, pungent smells from the pools of water in the drying creek, and....som... | 2018-05-22T23:23:22 | 2018-05-22T20:31:25 | 725 | 56 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I pressed the square button again, sniping the guy hiding on top of the hut that had been taking out my team for the past half hour. It had taken me too long to find him, but I finally got him. The fact that his insults changed from sucking his anatomy to doing inappropriate things to my mom told me I got the right guy... | Dear Diary,
It's been such a long trip! I keep bugging Mom to find out when we are going to arrive! Looking out the window gets boring pretty quickly, the scenery just starts to all look the same.
Most of my siblings agree, except, of course, Miss Goody Two Shoes. You know the one. She just smiles at Mom and says... | 2016-05-19T13:02:55 | 2016-05-19T10:54:03 | 203 | 53 |
[WP] He rushes onwards like a bloody tempest, destroying all in an attempt to free you from the stake that binds you to the pyre at your feet. For before he was a Hero, he was the boy that gave you flowers. And before you were exposed and branded a Witch, you were the girl that taught him love. | "Yundara, please! Let me go! Why are you doing this?!"
The armored priestess gave the struggling witch a cheerful smile as the flames of the pyre slowly grew around her. The witch's powers would normally have been able to extinguish the flames with but a whisper and a wink, but two squads of Holy Inquisitors surrounde... | He always did this
He always found a way to insert himself in everything I do
No matter the cost that it would bring upon him, he would be by my side till his last breath. I guess you could say it’s my fault but how can you fault me for caring?
This world was in fear of the things I was capable of so my mother force... | 2020-11-16T06:27:30 | 2020-11-16T06:01:14 | 79 | 34 |
[WP] You summon the most powerful and notorious demonic being in the universe. The reason why you summoned it: You are lonely, and are in need of a friend. | "More tea Lucy?" The fallen angel sighed and reluctantly nodded. Brittney almost squealed at the interaction. Moving to Alaska with her parents, into her grannpappy's old house had left her without any friends to play with at the ripe age of 5.
Her father had insisted she read more to occupy her time, while he... | As the man finished his final intonation, the air itself seemed to invert on itself. The sacrifices, which had been so carefully arraigned, blubbered first with terror and then in simple unending agony.
The very air seemed to twist in on itself, and with an incomprehensible scream, unreality darkened and fused togethe... | 2014-07-20T08:05:35 | 2014-07-20T07:59:32 | 507 | 20 |
[WP] A Japanese company sends a poll to their employees: "Should high heels be obligatory?" 76% of men and 23% of women vote in favour. "Per the poll, the new dress code will start Monday. We will provide you with shoes." The men are directed to the counter with high heels, the women to flat shoes. | As Nobu walked away with his pair of pumps, Aiko came up with her flats.
"Sexy, Nobu. Looks classy! Aiko teased.
Nobu smiled. "I'm glad that the managers have a sense of humor. Better for morale I think. Though I thought it would be mandatory for everyone, especially since health and safety sent out the poll."
"Yeah... | He had voted no, but most of his pals had voted yes. They stood in line in front of him and bemoaned the situation.
“This is bullshit, that question was purposefully misleading.”
“Eh, we’ll do it for a week and there’ll be so many complaints they’ll roll back the changes.”
His anxiety grew as the line shrank and he ... | 2020-05-11T09:57:11 | 2020-05-11T08:21:21 | 2,942 | 1,270 |
[WP] Write a story that contains a huge plot hole, and try to sneak it past the reader. The bigger the plot hole the better. | Troy ecstatically led his clients upstairs to the master bedroom.
"Oh yes! The master bedroom is absolutely gorgeous; you'll find that almost everything in the room will be to your liking, Mr. Johnson," said Troy reassuringly.
"Almost? What do you mean by almost everything?" inquired Johnson.
"Well I will need t... | She stumbled through the door, fully aware her last breath of free air was running dangerously low in her lungs. First period. Day one, here we fucking go. Taking the back corner seat was *crucial*. Alex booked it, taking a gamble that her awkward limbs would make the trip. Success! Window seat, too. So far so good, ma... | 2017-03-20T15:31:34 | 2017-03-20T14:06:17 | 400 | 41 |
[WP] It is 2026. All major governments have been overthrown by one singular world power, who now intends to rule over us all “for our own good.” It’s Canada.
Edit: You guys. These are so, so great! I’d told my husband I was going to give gold to my favorite and I’m STRUGGLING to decide. Haven’t read them all yet but a... | We've tried to be be right nice about this eh?
We tried to sit and wait as you sorted yourselves oot and learned that you were all family, all one people.
But no longer can we stand by and watch. Our spies have apologized their way into positions of power, and our mounties are well... they're mounties. Nuff said.
Ou... | After a long day at the office, I walk into my favorite bar in Bushwick. I sit down and order a martini. While I'm sipping my drink, I look up at the television. CNN's playing a puff piece on our new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. He's halfway across the world in New Zealand to promote Ottawa's "One World" policy.
Tr... | 2018-04-02T21:10:23 | 2018-04-02T21:03:54 | 104 | 10 |
[WP] A warrior prays to the god of war before a battle but by accident it's answered by the god of healing. The warrior is now blessed with the sword of resurrection, punches of healing, kicks of cure for the common cold etc. | The warrior was invincible in the battle that followed, although also entirely useless on the offense as all of his attacks actually made the enemy healthier. Nevertheless, the tales of his exploits spread far and wide, and soon he was beset by everyone from high lords to the poorest of common folk begging for him to l... | A blast of fire licked Setson's hooves as he steadied himself upon the rock, firmly grasping the Sword of the Empyriau Valoru in both arms. Utaria towered over him, reaching down with her neck to stare at him with neon-green eyes, a small amount of smoke escaping her snout as she made a sound like she was licking her l... | 2022-10-28T08:13:19 | 2022-10-28T06:38:44 | 57 | 24 |
[WP] Seasoned wizards only use dead languages such as Latin for their incantations. Those less experienced quickly learn why--as the meanings of words change, so too do the effects of their spells. | ######[](#dropcap)
"I've told you a million times, you've got to learn the Latin," the old man huffed at his young apprentice, watching as she continued to speak in English.
Luna rolled her eyes.
"Latin is a dead language," he continued. "So the meanings of words will stay consistent."
"I'll be fine, grandpa. Th... | "Oh, wow, I can't believe how amazing you are!" the red, cherubic creature said, looking at me with big doe eyes.
"I'm... I'm sorry, come again?"
"You're just the best! You did such a good job summoning me!"
I surveyed the scroll again for a moment, making sure that I'd had everything go right. All the ingredients w... | 2018-05-02T14:54:23 | 2018-05-02T13:46:18 | 2,656 | 249 |
[WP] At the age of 18, every person develops a magical power. Yours is the power to fluently read and speak every language in the universe. At first you thought the had the worst power on earth, that was until you you realise that the universe has it's own language.
Sorry for the double you, my bad | "You want me to what now?" I spouted.
It had been ten years since I had awakened this gift. For the first year, I had wallowed in the shame of not being able to be a hero like so many of my peers. Slowly but surely though, I had transformed into a man who could easily jump between high paying jobs with confidence. The... | Everyone gets thier power at different times, some may have a power at the age of 13 while others may have thier power at the age of 17 but no one ever can get a power after 18 as by thier 18th birthday they will have a power.
My power came in at the age of 14 when I was just waking up, I could suddenly understand eve... | 2019-12-22T11:00:36 | 2019-12-22T08:57:16 | 53 | 31 |
[WP] Sailors have always been a superstitious bunch. In the long stretches of darkness and isolation between stars superstitions still run high. So let's hear a ghost story from deep space. | The called it the Black Dog. They said it was a massive black hole, gravity so powerful light couldn't escape, and so much more science jargon. But what they were really interested in was the large yellow orb inside the Black Dog. What was it? A star? coalesced plasma? What could be bright enough to stand out again... | In this universe, nothing is standing still. Everything is moving apart from each other, everything in the same direction. Out. Of course, somethings don't follow that pattern, a star ship for example. The universe doesn't like that much, and it has something to stop us from breaking the rules that it carved into stone... | 2014-12-26T21:19:24 | 2014-12-26T20:46:45 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You thought you were just being dorkily romantic when you included an open challenge to every god in your wedding vows. Now, 3 centuries later. You are The Godkiller, and your spouse is the most powerful warrior on the planet. | I stood holding the hand of the women I had spend the last 5 years building a life and a home with. “No one, not even the Gods, could take you from me.”
What a dumb ass.
Now we sat in our garage, cleaning our weapons and armor after yet another battle. We sincerely thought this one was our last. Sure, we had been fi... | I thought I was romantic, oh how much have I changed, I KILLED THEM ALL, I have made the greatest murder, and now I rule over this world with my husband
​
all of that because I wanted to be romantic
it all started in 2021, I declared my love to my now husband and trying to be romantic I swear I would kil... | 2020-06-28T04:32:58 | 2020-06-28T01:19:08 | 57 | 21 |
[WP] It's your first time inside the dungeon. everyone told you to kill monsters on sight. but so far, the monsters have all been really nice. This Goblin just gifted you an apple. | It was your first time entering the dungeon, and you were feeling nervous. Everyone had told you to kill the monsters on sight, but so far, the monsters you had encountered had all been surprisingly nice.
As you made your way deeper into the dungeon, you came across a Goblin. It looked at you with its beady eyes, and ... | As I stood there, dagger and shortsword in hand, the little goblin came up to me and left me an apple. It spoke in heavily accented Shai. 'Mr. Adventurer, is gift for you, as me is.' It pointed to itself, and displayed a row of shark-like teeth. It touched its own chest with its index finger, and spoke softly. 'I be ca... | 2022-12-06T17:45:59 | 2022-12-06T15:38:53 | 58 | 40 |
[WP] You are the last human on earth, and quite blind without your glasses. One day they finally break. In this new unfocused world, it becomes apparent why you were the only one spared. | I know full well that I am writing this for no one. I haven't gone insane and, even before the End, I was never a careless optimist, not by a longshot. Fact is, I was always the timid one, the one spending the weekend alone, putting worthless comic books in plastic sleeves. I was the penny pincher, measuring out my ... | The village of Bibury had always been quiet. Most weekday mornings, until past ten, had been habitually met with an absence of sound, the silence only here or there perforated by the odd chirping bird. Then would the market awaken, but even then it lacked the hubub held by most smaller cities. It had instead surmoun... | 2018-01-08T21:16:43 | 2018-01-08T21:05:13 | 131 | 28 |
[WP] It is the 24 th of july, your birthday, and also the day that humanity is going to reach 10 billion inhabitants. You are watching the number grow, live on a site. Just as it's about to hit 10 billion, at 9,999,999,999... It Hits 2. You are still alive. | I watched the website wondering if the time of my birth would be the exact time the world would hit the 10 billion mark. I mean, what else was I going to do no one remembered again. I casually sipped a beer with the news playing in the background, live coverage of the counter at the headquarters of the United World Nat... | I wasn't fond of crowded places, and standing in the middle of Times Square craning my neck up to look at the boards could be chalked up to one of my least favourite moments. This, however, was a momentous occasion, and as Julie put it "in order to witness greatness we must sacrifice our own desires." She liked to, as ... | 2017-02-28T20:52:59 | 2017-02-28T20:48:57 | 54 | 11 |
[WP] You live in a world where each lie creates a scar on the liar's body. The bigger the lie, the deeper and larger the mark. One day, you meet someone that only has one scar; it is the biggest one you have ever seen. | I was on the phone with my wife at the time, sitting at a patio table with my half-eaten sandwich in front of me. "I'll be home at five. I promise." The thin line stretched across my index finger and I dabbed the blood away with a napkin discreetly. A couple walked by, hand in hand. I glanced over for half of a second.... | "What's your secret?" I asked a twinkle in my eye. Never had I seen such pristine skin. Sure a lot of people had the tiniest scars for their white lies but here before me was someone without a single one, only a handful of people in my lifetime ever came close to that sort of honesty. He smiled sadly and began to remov... | 2016-12-29T10:27:28 | 2016-12-29T10:04:44 | 448 | 224 |
[WP] A curious scientist genetically engineers a set of wings onto a pig. As the pig flaps it’s wings and takes flight for the first time, low probability events across the world begin to occur. | The sun rises in the east, and it sets in the west.
Why? It works. I don’t touch the code for that.
I must have written the humans out somewhere, possibly nested under a mountain of bugs and forlorn remarks. Or did they just spring up by themselves, errors coalescing into something that simply… ran?
Humans, when sim... | *The butterfly effect. That's what they call it.*
I never thought I would start the end of the world, but here we are. All I did was an experiment with a pig and wings. I know it may sound weird but that's what it was. I gave a pig wings. I watched it as it tried to fly. It looked funny. I was so happy. It might be no... | 2021-11-04T11:12:51 | 2021-11-04T11:05:45 | 156 | 67 |
[WP] Nonhuman youths swap stories about humans around a campfire equivalent. The stories are true, if wildly misinterpreted.
-012 | "They say they were ground-bound." Elpha whispered, the fire sending long streaks of orange light across her face and into the shock of brown feathers that started at her eyebrows and rocketed back over her narrow skull.
"How? Didn't they have wings?" Inya, the youngest of the four asked. She sat huddled against the... | "Have you heard about Chucky?" he said.
The conversation topic had somehow changed to humans. Humanity had been extinct for 50 years now, after their mass execution was approved by the galactic government. After their arrival, the energy consumption of the galaxy had increased a hundred fold. The debate for their exis... | 2014-01-12T12:39:19 | 2014-01-12T11:58:37 | 141 | 27 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | The arena itself was over a thousand miles square. It was the largest arena in the western Zyraxian realm. It was built to hold the universe’s most exotic species. The floating platform had within tens of thousands of rooms with thousands of species managed and researched. The floor of the arena itself was made of a sp... | Svedbar grasped the arm of his favorite discussion partner Chiztet and led her to the counsel chambers to discuss what was just presented. The humans finally laid proposition to the counsel to join the galactic treatise.
“That human removed its exo-skeleton.” Svedbar said. “I didn’t think it was possible for them.”
C... | 2021-02-04T08:53:25 | 2021-02-04T08:48:14 | 406 | 144 |
[WP] You are a alien ambassador sent to meet with the newly discovered Humans. After browsing thru their literature, you slowly realize they have knowledge about all other space faring species including your own with remarkable detail under the genre of "Sci-Fi".
I did not expect this much response. | Impossible.
There was simply no way. Hartsch put down the ereader and sat amazed. How could they possibly know?! There had been no contact between the QueeTee and Humanity before a year ago. In fact, Humanity had had NO contact priority to the QueeTee reaching out.
The QueeTee had been passing through the system ... | "... There must be a mistake." Supreme magistrate Zarkon's dismay buzzed directly into my mind. I'd not yet gotten used to the harshness of the interstellar telepathic communicator, the sheer command of his thoughts literally pushed out all of the responses I'd considered.
"There is no mistake, eminence. I have read t... | 2016-01-04T13:55:20 | 2016-01-04T13:03:39 | 45 | 28 |
[WP] People start 3D printing up meat of themselves as a fringe curiosity, and it becomes mainstream. Turns out it tastes really good, and it becomes the norm. Suddenly, all electronics on Earth stop working, humans cast into the dark age. No crops, no herds. Just the constant urge for human meat.
[Original comment](h... | **“You’ll be hooked from the first taste.”** Is what pretty much everyone said when I told them I was one of the few that refused to indulge in the new taste that was very much taboo. “It’s not murder. You’re just eating meat created by a machine.” is another thing a lot of people told me. Of course, it wasn’t murder, ... | "Hey, John?", my coworker next to me on the assembly line said.
"Yes?", I responded.
"What do you think will happen when there's no more real humans to slaughter?" It was only his second day on the job. New employees always ask the most annoying questions.
"What do you mean 'no more real humans?' Weren't you paying ... | 2017-09-27T17:12:05 | 2017-09-27T17:08:34 | 311 | 161 |
[WP]: Cupid has been hunting you for years. This Valentine's he's finally cornered you but before he shoots his arrow he demands an explanation why you have been avoiding him. | Another one was waiting at my doorstep again this year. By now I wasn't even surprised. It happened every Valentine's day for the last ten years. Why would it be different this time?
I drove my Porsche into the garage, parked it between the Cadillac and the Lamborghini, locked everything up, and went out to confront h... | "Very well, tiny baby man, you have me. I at least owe you my reasons for this cat and mouse game.
I've dealt with you in the past. Danny, Mike, Justin, all who I...rather you, thought would be a good match for me. Oh tiny baby man, how wrong you were.
You rest upon your laurels, under the belief that humanity cannot... | 2015-02-14T06:03:09 | 2015-02-14T02:35:06 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You think you're the first person ever to exit the Milky Way Galaxy. On your way out, you see a sign written in English floating around in space. | >**IMPERIAL RECORD 0064567.87 ref. 209.88**
> *Cross ref. “Milky Way” Imperium Files 305-593, ref.*
>**Ordo Malleus Archive: Worm Holes**
>**Operative: Inquisitor Seth Quintus**
*Station 333109 [888.M41]: Interrogation log 1… Accessing…*
“Please remain seated,” Inquisitor Quintus said, holding up one ... | The planet was dead. A world of ash and rot, where even the stench of death had long since died. A planet where green and blues, once married in beauty unrivalled, there were now only shades of black.
Sarah's voice broke through the static of my helmet. "Are you ready, sir?"
"Five more minutes," I instructed, as I cl... | 2018-03-04T09:24:10 | 2018-03-04T09:09:11 | 369 | 59 |
[WP] You spent most of your life trying to prove there is an end to Pi. After writing down the last digit, the numerals begin to glow. | His hands moved with speed and grace that people rarely possessed these days. The numbers his pen left behind were colored in an orange hue, the same as his pen.
Exactly every 7 minutes and 30 seconds, he would stop and take a small sip from the teal-colored cup besides him, before setting down his pen once again, co... | The final digit.
It was 3. The moment I write it down, I reap the fruits of my labor for the last 20 years. 20 years I have slaved my life away for this. 20 years I have tried to finish this number, because I believed that there is an end to everything. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3.
The decimals float in my head, they invaded my th... | 2018-07-01T09:38:55 | 2018-07-01T08:14:34 | 290 | 53 |
[WP] A shapeshifter befriends a lonely human multiple times throughout his or her life, but the human thinks it's a different person every time. One day the human realizes that all of his/her friends are really the same person. | Martha sat on the porch in her rocking chair. She felt the warm breeze, the way only spring could feel when hopes and anticipations blossom in every heart. Her newspaper was still rolled up, it was too much of a hassle to get up and get the glasses, and even more of a hassle to read about today's nonsense.
She had le... | The shapeshifter doesn't remember it's origin. It's been here for far too long. It doesn't even remember it's original name. It has taken the form of too many people. People that throughout the years that have been successful, talented and have had rich life giving experiences. Theses experiences taught this alien cre... | 2014-08-15T09:28:27 | 2014-08-15T08:43:05 | 80 | 12 |
[WP] You drunkenly email the UN telling the countries they are doing a shit job of running the world. A month later an official UN letter arrives, signed by all the world leaders. "Let's see if you do better then" | "Well, this is interesting"
I plopped bonelessly in to my recliner, fancy embossed paper drifting from my hand. How could this have happened? How could they do this? *How could they trust me?*
A quiet "ahem" alerted me to the still-present courier in the doorway of my apartment. My gaze drifted up from my lap to ... | “All roads lead back to White Claw,” I thought to myself as I watched the new UN flag, with its three dramatic waves getting the whole world blitzed, slowly rise above headquarters.
It’s been six months since the UN sent me that crazy letter, and things have been going far better than anyone could have guessed.
Wel... | 2019-07-09T09:11:24 | 2019-07-09T07:34:44 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | It happened again.
**"THE FUCK HAVE I TOLD YOU BOY?!?"**
One impact after another. Blow after blow. A bottle this time. Jim Beam.
**"FUCKIN LEARN YOU GOOD BOY!!"**
Ben felt something in his chest break. His heart? His ribs?
**"YOU GON LEARN, BOY. OOOOOH YOU GON LEARN TONIGHT, YOU LITTLE SHIT."**
No matter what he... | In this world, people have superpowers brought upon highly stressful moments. For example, my brother almost drowned, but gained the power of controlling water, now called the superhero "Aqua", and my classmate fell from a high balcony and ended up flying, ended up as "The Owl", but I got my powers last night.
I was w... | 2021-04-01T06:11:48 | 2021-04-01T03:37:49 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] People only age when they move. Some folks live for centuries, only leaving home to buy groceries. Others age quickly, traveling from town to town. Today, you meet someone who claims to have traveled the world. The odd thing is, they only look 10 years old. | Affluence has it's perks, I suppose.
I am halfway through my life, in just a few dozen years, having only seen my hometown, and experiencing the world through books and pictures. But this young man (who looks scarcely older than a child) has traveled the globe, and has been to every populated continent on the planet. ... | The day was nice. I had left my home only for the necessities. Bread, eggs, and gallons of water filled my cart. I bought in bulk, always in bulk. It was how I was taught as a child. My clothes were bought all at once and the only things we ever left home for were groceries, funerals, and weddings.
On this particular... | 2020-08-01T14:49:25 | 2020-08-01T13:43:53 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone can become infinitely powerful if they so choose, however the more power you gain the less you remember about who you are and what you wanted. The greatest beings in the land have no feelings on anything and are more an extension of nature than the deity's they had hoped to become. | My grandpa used to tell me that no matter where I looked, the gods had their hands in something. He pointed animatedly at the sky and down at the ground. There was no power too big nor small, each near miraculous in its design.
“That’s how an old man like me remember all these stories, boy,” he said, tapping his foreh... | The land, the forest, the trees. They sleep quietly, calmly. I move through the ground itself, tending to my kin, my children, my *people*. The rains have been heavy as of late; mushrooms are sprouting. The beauty is incomprehensible and I take in every moment.
Noise. Sudden. Sounds like... loud, continuous roaring, h... | 2022-01-27T08:07:33 | 2022-01-27T07:55:30 | 36 | 19 |
[WP]Aliens come to Earth in hoping to wipe us out and take over the planet, but are honorable and gives us a fighting chance. They announce they will return in 100 years so as to give Earth a chance to prepare and defend itself. Neither side expected what the other would bring to war | The first evidence of life beyond that humans were to be treated to, consisted of huge, intricate, metallic structures dropped by parachute, and gently wafting down to the earth. But once ensconced, these origamic beauties created Einstein-Rosen Bridges that disgorged hordes of arachnid shock troops, in an alien invasi... | Me, and my brothers sit in some forgotten bar room basement, the structure of which sits itself on top of a heap of crumbled wood and broken glass. The wind howls through the top of it, but we feel somewhat secure here. We light a oil lamp, and cook up some canned food on several bunson burners that we always carry. To... | 2016-01-01T19:30:06 | 2016-01-01T16:56:11 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | “You’re fired.”
The words burned my ears as they turned red with embarrassment. Of course I didn’t need this job, but it really hits you right in the pride to be fired from a stupid office position. And for something as trivial as “taking too much time for lunch”, which I only did because some asshole caused a pile up... | There are some things that money can’t buy . . . like manners, or morals, or integrity . . . good thing I have a fucking sweet mansion though!
When I secretly became the richest man in the world, I didn’t think my life would be so vanilla. I mean, I have everything I could ever want and more, but I can’t let anyone k... | 2019-03-04T09:05:16 | 2019-03-04T08:04:24 | 133 | 50 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Great pregnancy foods
How to make wife happier during pregnancy
Are cats okay to be around pregnant women?
Local shelters
Price of spay/neuter in area
Best hospitals for delivery in area
Cost of child birth
Cheapest hospitals for delivery in area
Do men have to do anything during the birth
Keeping placenta?
B... | I used DuckDuckGo for mine.
"How hard is it to become an indie game dev in your spare time"
"Free C++ compiler"
"How to make a game with SDL"
"OpenGL extension wrangler"
"How to load a 3D model in OpenGL"
"OpenGL shaders"
"3D animation"
"game jam"
"early onset alzheimers"
"my computer has a virus called mingw... | 2015-02-04T18:24:30 | 2015-02-04T17:45:09 | 672 | 49 |
[WP] God gave humanity Earth and filled it with marvels and wonders of many kinds. This was not done as a gift, but a distraction. To distract them from exploring the stars, and to protect them from the horrors that lurked out in the dark. | We thought it strange, at first, that with every new light that twinkled in the night, with every step we took towards the stars, another oh-so-interesting novelty appeared upon Earth. For every oh-so-promising exoplanet, twenty new pockets of new life or beauty were found upon Earth.
But humanity's attention was not... | The darkness had a name. A name that only the first children on Earth were taught and which was lost throughout the years. There were clues about this name, left behind by those who had anticipated that one day we would need to call upon the ancient pact made between humans and the dark again. And that this pact, if... | 2018-01-01T20:13:08 | 2018-01-01T19:06:14 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] Evolution (of human beings) speeds up (starting with you)
Evolution takes thousands to millions of years. Due to some cause (you don't really have to explain, unless you want to) the whole process for humans was reduced to just a few days to weeks. YOU were the first one to see the changes happening to your body.... | >a rough first draft of what could be an opener.
I wasn’t so much as conceived as I was *engineered*. Gene therapy they called it; *playing god*. This well intended pavement slab on the road to hell, it began as a means to cure disease and make the world a better place. Once the corporations got wind of this techno... | I've never been a social person, but somehow I always believed that that aspect of me would change over time. But now, I'm sure. I'm definitively fucked. I would have never have believed that some other aspects would change, so... drasticly.
At first, my changes were a blessing. You see, evolution is actually a really... | 2014-01-20T08:19:02 | 2014-01-20T08:08:18 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | People used to dream. Adventures and nightmares, jumbled scenes and impossible events. I remember dreaming about just talking to my friend - he's been gone a long time, but I cherish that dream. Crazy, right? People used to study dreams - when they would happen, why some people could remember dreams and others could no... | Our school has the highest drug use in our county. The drug is called Somnus. It is a pill that you swallow in the morning to mimic the effects of 8 hours of sleep. This allows you to go to class and concentrate on your studies.
The consequences are that your memory is reduced and your brain is not as efficient... | 2022-03-18T11:16:31 | 2022-03-18T07:24:03 | 97 | 14 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | Perched at the top of a thirty story building, legs dangling over the edge, I was gazing down at the streets below. At the ants, crawling about the streets, going about their day to day lives.
They are nothing.
A car horn blares below for a moment, as an obnoxiously large SUV cuts through a red light.
“Well hello ther... | As I walked along with Thomas we talked not with words, but with thoughts. Thomas can read minds and communicate with thoughts. I would guess he's in his mid thirties.
He's been my mentor for almost a year now, soon it'll be my 19th birthday and it'll be assessed whether I'll be officially classified as a superhero.
... | 2017-05-16T06:12:44 | 2017-05-16T03:26:29 | 1,586 | 378 |
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