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[WP] In a different age, Aliens invaded and were defeated by Cavemen, as a result they prepared for a second battle thousands of years in the future, when they expected humanity to be the most fearsome beings in the universe, they return to find society as it is now
EDIT: August 8th, 2014 @ 2:35PM:
Wow, /r/WritingPro... | "Sir, we have just received and translated a transmission from Earth!"
"At a time like this?" replied General Alienator. "Play the message."
The transmission buzzed on.
"I'm so fancy, you already know, I'm in the fast lane, from LA to Tokyo. . . Who dat? Who dat? I, G, G, Y. . . . I'm bringing '88 back."
A silence... | "Commander, just receiving images through the portal now... By the Mighty Olgatha..."
"Look at the size of their huts! Covered in glass and metal! How could they have engineered such monstrosities? The resources and planning to create- AH! Death machines roll around the buildings on patrol. Thousands upon thousands of... | 2014-08-07T07:45:22 | 2014-08-07T07:19:15 | 650 | 44 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | When the empires of Europe marched to battle in 1914 CE, they expected to be home by Christmas. War was an unpleasant business, but a glorious adventure as well. A gentlemen’s sport, a game of chess between the great powers of the day and age.
Such is the view that the rest of the galaxy has regarding the nature of w... | We later learned the humans had a term for what they inflicted on us. Two words for a simple tactic, a characteristic of humankind, that none of us ever properly expected to deal with.
We just... didn't know.
It started simple enough. They were a young race, one quick to ally with us, and it was advantageous to leave... | 2018-12-15T00:01:31 | 2018-12-14T22:49:41 | 437 | 164 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | The bag crinkled as gravity smashed it into the cold stone floor of the examination hall. Although I could not see him, nor would I hear him shouting in warning until it was too late, the headmaster was already running towards me.
For a moment, nothing seemed to happen. Not until the first tendril of blue and white l... | [poem]
I drew the circle
Threw the crisps
Prawn cocktail,
Swigged a beer and yawned
Paused
I was teleported, blinked
looked around, took another swig and stepped
Forwards a couple paces, stopped
Ate a crisp and pondered thus
'Could I be the first who has
Commanded myself to obey?'
I tried, I said 'Work now, you... | 2019-04-05T16:05:49 | 2019-04-05T12:45:03 | 79 | 48 |
[WP] You can hear the sound of the Sun from Earth, it is loud but the planet has adapted. Suddenly the light goes out. 8 minutes after it died the last bit of light reaches Earth. It'll take 13 years before the roar of the Sun the moment it died reaches us.
Inspired by a comment on r/AskReddit
*edit: removed link to... | ### 13 Years of silence
We’d known for many years what would come - the sun would fade out in a manner of minutes. We prepared tirelessly. Millions invested into getting energy from the ground, to grow plants, filter water and to cling to life like a very stubborn weed that manages to thrive no matter how much the gras... | Day: 1 it’s gone, the light. It got bright, then nothing, scientists say it ran out of fuel, and were lucky it didn’t blow up. Riots are everywhere. I’m keeping a record, I’m currently in Nashville TN, the music city is filled with the cacophony of fights and brawls. I’m fleeing I’ll write when I get ready to leave.
D... | 2019-08-05T19:14:33 | 2019-08-05T17:50:31 | 87 | 61 |
[WP] An alien force prepares to invade Earth, write from the perspective of the invading forces commanding officer.
I've grown tired of reading my own stories. I'm looking forward to see how other people would write on this topic. | As I examined the files, I found myself concerned. The indigenous civilisation was very advanced compared to our most recent adversaries. A disturbing amount of time and resources had been placed into the development of fission weapons. It was clear that their development was guided by war, as these Homo Sapiens - the ... | "It is not who you were born, but who you choose to be that matters." Kal'Ethon, Imperitus Secondus of the Fourth Expeditionary Fleet spoke, projected into the view screen implanted in the retinas of forty thousand of the Homeworld's finest warriors. They did not need his words to be brave, they were the best. Hand cho... | 2013-12-10T14:14:29 | 2013-12-10T12:25:17 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] A curse runs into your bloodline: when your child turns 18 you die and all of your memories together with those of your ancestors are transferred to your child, and you can never warn him of what is to come. It’s your 18th birthday and you wake up to know that your father has died in his sleep. | Eyes open, mind clear, I sat up in bed and turned my eyes toward the door. The memories; lifetimes of memories settled like stirred dust against my consciousness– slowly, piece by piece, but as surely as gravity pulled. I swung my feet over the side of my bed and stood up with purpose.
Everything made sense suddenly.
... | I wish this one had a chance to live, but how many has it been now? To be clear with you all, I can separate out my thoughts into their separate personas. It's a crowded house now what with us passing ourselves down each time. A string of people going back through time. The personas themselves have aged further, de... | 2022-03-09T16:28:43 | 2022-03-09T15:38:42 | 311 | 12 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | I don't remember when I first started seeing them. I think it was after High School, but before college. They were kind of fuzzy at first, and I thought I just needed glasses.
One day I noticed that they were becoming clearer. There were words. Some were clearer than others. Then it happened.
I was walking down the s... | He worked alone, he always had. Not because he wanted to, but people just had a tendency to not notice him. It was depressing really. Every person he ever met instantly forgot him, or tried to ignore him, it was hard to tell sometimes. As for his work, well, he worked in travel, a mostly administrative position.
As ... | 2015-03-31T10:05:02 | 2015-03-31T09:57:05 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You live in an uber-religious society in 3543, and the biggest historical discovery has just been made. It is a video, and will be broadcast across the world. No one knows it's contents, and no one can stop the broadcast once it begins. "history of the entire world, i guess" by bill wurtz. | "He said that we lived on a rock floating in space" my close friend Derek breathed into the phone, aghast. "Yes, but he also said the sun used to be a deadly laser. Clearly it is fake, the work of evil. His Holiness would never turn the life giving sun into such an item". I heard my friend press the tape recorder again... | Unbelievable, that was my first thought. After the death of The High Priest, only hours earlier, this was sure to catch a panic. Would we know the cause of his death? Will we be able to only watch the broadcast in, certain, select periods in time? maybe this will finally explain why we evacuated Earth 1. but wait, If i... | 2018-10-08T02:25:28 | 2018-10-08T01:11:03 | 767 | 26 |
[WP] The rapture has come, the faithful are taken to heaven and the nonbelievers and sinners are left behind on Earth for their inevitable self-destruction. However, God's plan backfires and the world seems to be much better off as a result.
Obviously, a parody of the "Left Behind" series of awful evangelical Christia... | "Okay, just slow down for a second here," I said.
The man audibly sighed and sat up a little straighter, looking me in the eyes. Speaking much slower than before, he repeated himself.
"They're gone. All of the devout, the religious. They've been Raptured."
"Raptured?" I questioned. "You know that for certain?"
"Yes... | All across the globe, people began to rise into the air. Like so many bubbles fizzing to the top of a champagne glass, the faithful, the religious, the dedicated, the zealots, the chosen -all rose up as if carried by invisible wings and vanished into the clouds.
On the ground lay their guns and their bombs, their IEDs... | 2016-07-26T18:11:28 | 2016-07-26T15:55:28 | 41 | 11 |
[WP] Your parents have kept it secret long enough; they can no longer stand your misery. They decide to change your life's difficulty from "Expert" to "Novice". | "We decided it was time you knew." said my mother.
"Knew what?" I asked.
She and my father locked eyes for a moment, before looking back at me.
"We saw how hard you strugged this last few months sweetie."
I felt tears trying to escape my eyes.
"But we thought we did the right thing by not telling you." My fathe... | My life is a train wreck. I've whiffed on pretty much every aspect of daily existence from work and social life down to my inability to consistently floss.
After a particularly awful day, my mom threw me the lifeline of the century. With the flip of a switch, she changed my difficulty setting from expert to novice.
... | 2018-01-09T15:14:09 | 2018-01-09T14:33:26 | 48 | 16 |
[WP] You get Isekai'd into an RPG world. Unlike the inhabitants, you know a secret. Why go and put yourself into danger to level up when you can have an exercise routine to make yourself stronger? | "I'm telling you guys, the never ending horde of goblins who keep respawning outside the village and just hang out aren't worth the effort." I said frustrated because we are once again talking about the pointless grinding.
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"And what? You are going to suggest we lift that rock 100 times... or maybe this t... | Great... in the middle of an experiment something went wrong. The blast took out half of the building and damaged two other buildings. Arata of course was blissfully unaware of the damage he cause because, obviously he was dead. Dead as a mice and not a piece of him will be found in the rubble.
Arata awoke in a bright... | 2021-04-16T05:52:03 | 2021-04-16T03:48:06 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | ######[](#dropcap)
It was one of those surreal moments that you only get to experience once in life.
Linda was working on the script for the next show when her phone began to buzz. Slowly at first, just a couple messages. Work friends, she thought. Thursday was always their night out for drinks, but she had been too ... | I refused. It was hard, but I refused. Hundreds of notifications pouring in, telling me to look at the moon but I didn’t.
Something seemed weirdly off by the idea of hundreds telling me to look at a rock in the sky and I’ve never gotten this many notifications before so I simply refused to do what they said. Plus I’d ... | 2022-06-10T18:58:05 | 2018-04-06T22:11:18 | 308 | 12 |
[WP]You and your friends grew up in a small town far from any magic schools but managed to learn it eventually. You always pushed and challenged each other, unaware of how strong you were. Then one day a city mage happened to pass through town. | The first thing you have to understand about magic in our village is that it's not 'magic'. It simply *is*. It's interwoven into everything we do. We eat, breathe, and drink magic and, just as you regard the rice in your bowl, the air in your lungs or the water in your cup, we had never given thought to the magic in ou... | "Alright ready? Ready. Set. GO!" The surface of the boulder began to melt away as Ley focused on her image. She could hear Dek groaning nearby her as he shaped a sprout and Kiel cheering the two of them on. "C'mon Ley! Twelve to fourteen! You gonna let Dek widen the gap?" Ley gritted her teeth and tried to ignore Kiel'... | 2018-12-05T09:16:46 | 2018-12-05T08:03:26 | 80 | 40 |
[WP] Write a children's story with a terrible moral. | Ever been hurt & not known what to do,
When a bully at school would come up to you,
Steal your lunch & make you eat glue?
Well I'm Uncle Sam & you've got your rights!
Don't be a bitch, son, learn how to fight!
Nobody cares for you. No one in sight.
No one is coming to help with your plight.
No... | There once was a flower grown out of the soil among it's brother and sister flowers growing tall. But it had shallow roots so it couldn't grow as quickly or as tall as its flower friends. And eventually all of its flower family grew up so it no longer had sunlight and it began to whither. It called out to its family: '... | 2015-02-18T20:53:44 | 2015-02-18T19:25:25 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] You are a time traveler entering a medieval tournament in which the winner gains the right to wed the princess. You're the first match and the king announces that you may use any weapon. Quickly you draw you're glock and shout "parry this you fucking casual" | How hard can it be, taking a gun to a knife fight? I mean, they're swords, but swords are just really big knives, so the sentiment holds true. The princess, so fair under the spring sun, eagerly watched on. We shared a glance, a smile, before my theatrics began.
"I will show you all the power of my magic," I said, the... | The roar of the shot started to settle as the knight dropped his sword and fell into the mud. I turned to the king elevated in the stands with his beautiful daughter sat beside him.
"Well whens the wedding your majesty?"
Standing there with a grin I holster my weapon. The crowd is dead silent. The king stares me do... | 2019-03-22T21:30:03 | 2019-03-22T19:48:23 | 4,509 | 80 |
[WP] An astronaut comes out of deep sleep after only 15 minutes and no one can convince him that it hasn't been 100 years.
Edit: Wow, I did not expect this to blow up so much! I have so much reading to catch up on. | *Dear Katelyn!*
*I still miss you so much. But now you are gone. Finally I can close up this chapter of my past.*
*I first thought that distance would make my pain more bearable, that if only I moved far enough at some point, your face would not follow me into my dreams. I traveled the world, and I traveled beyond, i... | No one seems to understand. The genius I have brought to this time. Me. You see, if I hadn't fixed the capsules on Delta 7's Flight to Jupiter one hundred years ago, everyone would have died and this future I am in wouldn't have been. That was the key wasn't it, to allow us to see the breath of the universe without fee... | 2015-01-26T07:18:09 | 2015-01-26T06:19:41 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You woke up in an entirely fake world. It’s an endless doll-house plastic facsimile powered by miles of clockwork gears and levers that go straight down into darkness. You did not get here yourself, and you have no idea how to leave. | Alex finds his mother in the kitchen, complete with a large copper key sticking out the nape of her back. The key protrudes through a hole in her olive-green sweater; it looks like a rust-red butterfly and it's about the size of Alex's arms outstretched.
Why the hell is there a key in his mother's back?
His Mom's ben... | # Soulmage
**The nursery rhyme was nameless, as most such rhymes were.** It hovered on the edge of childhood memory and half-remembered dream, wavering as it sang through the glossy-sheened halls.
*Tick... tock... goes... the clock... and now, what shall we play?*
I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and sat up, back ach... | 2022-06-03T05:44:34 | 2022-06-03T03:16:27 | 576 | 47 |
[WP] You are a time traveler in 1918, and you just accidentally said "World War One" | "Son," Amos replied, "What did you just say?"
"I'm sorry sir..." He lied, "I meant World War. *The* World War, sir."
"You said 'One', boy." Amos's stoic eyes confirmed.
"I meant as in that we 'won'." Harrison plotted, "*One.*"
They glared at each other for a moment over the whisky he'd split between us. This is exa... | "World War One?" Christopher asked with a quizzical gaze. "Why are you calling this hell that we've been dropped into World War One? It's not like it's certain something like this is going to happen again, I'd be surprised if we saw any conflict again in our lifetime after the atrocities we've been witness to."
I didn... | 2017-12-10T11:22:04 | 2017-12-10T10:39:32 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] At 4,294,967,296 Kelvin the display flipped to 0 and the test reactor's plasma suddenly froze in place. The reactor containment system creaked as the pressure instantly dropped to zero. The scientist calmly spoke, "Absolute hot confirmed, 32-bit overflow confirmed, world simulation confirmed. | The scientist had followed the instructions his predecessors had laid out for him. With the new reading on the pressure system, his shoulders relaxed for the first time in ages.
“Absolute hot confirmed, 32-bit overflow confirmed, world simulation confirmed.”
The others nearby cast wary glances at each other. Surely... | I've always been interested in fringe science, ever since I made my first volcano for a science fair as a kid. It quickly turned to computer science during my teen years - I was programming everything from goofy pokemon clones to trying to hack my ISP. Sticklers.
Now? I work 72 hour weeks as a sheriff's deputy in West... | 2020-11-11T20:00:11 | 2020-11-11T19:40:34 | 547 | 60 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | I had just finished putting the finishing touches on my paladin's character sheet. Ah, classic Dungeons and Dragons 3.5, the best version available. Call my old fashioned, but there's just something so refreshing about playing a goody goody character with a strict moral code. And heck, playing D&D was a great di... | When I vanished from the middle of class, I didn't know where I was going. All I experienced was darkness and a rush of cool wind before I was deposited in a place that looked like the middle of a forest.
As my eyes adjusted to the level of sunlight, I saw a few humanoid creatures staring at me. They nudged one anothe... | 2017-05-12T10:50:04 | 2017-05-12T08:32:17 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] Write a murder mystery and leave it to the readers to figure out who the murderer is.
Recently had the idea of "What if the prompt allowed at least some degree of interaction between the people who respond to the prompt and those whom read those responses?", so here you go. | "Let's go over this one more time, Mr. Maxwell. From the top and stick to the facts."
"Well... when I got the call from my neighbor she was hysterical. Kept telling me there was blood everywhere. All over the tub. Said it was terrible and I needed to come over at once. I asked her if she was safe and if she already c... | **Jane's** body was found in the high school parking lot. She had been knocked on the head with a blunt object, stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen, and left to bleed out on the pavement. The stab-wounds were not deep. Police were unsure if this was because the assailant had been too weak to stab her deeply, had been sad... | 2017-01-07T21:03:31 | 2017-01-07T20:33:25 | 95 | 18 |
[WP] Since your earliest memories, everyone has had a 0 above their head, but when you told people, no one believed you. One cold winter day, you’re at a restaurant and your server has a 1 over their head. You can’t see your own number, but they tell you you have a 3.
Feel free to interpret the numbers however you wan... | She slid my coffee and waffles onto the vinyl table unceremoniously and hissed between her teeth,
‘Who were they?’
‘I... I’m sorry, I don’t understand’, I responded as I tore open the tiny saccharine packet and dumped it into the murky brown depths of what appeared to be the world’s strongest coffee. I started to pou... | You rush to the nearest restroom, realizing that the flashbacks will return. Slamming a stall door shut, you vomit into the toilet. Your body freezes as the flashbacks barge into your mind.
Your hand shaking, you reluctantly stab the boy on the right. You stab him hard, as your guardian directed you to do minutes earl... | 2019-12-29T02:31:06 | 2019-12-28T21:28:57 | 88 | 22 |
[WP] Your superpower is the ability to give other people a superpower of your choice. Your only restriction is that you can never give the same power twice. You've been at this a very long time, and you need to build a new superhero team to save the world once again.
Edit: This is my first WP, and it was so much fun! ... | "How about the power to create dinosaurs?" he said looking at me, a desperation in his voice. We had been going at this for like an hour by this point.
"Really! You thought your the first to ask to be a dinomancer. Kid someone asked for the power within the first year of me starting. Try again." I was used to people t... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Get it out of my face, you monster!" Kennan smacked at the enormous jell-o blob Eliza had shot at him.
"Well, maybe I would if I didn't constantly find *grasshoppers* in my bed!" Eliza shouted, lobbing another stream of jell-o at him, until he was covered in all different colors of the bouncy, vi... | 2019-01-20T11:40:57 | 2019-01-20T11:39:55 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Pick your favorite conspiracy theory and write about it through the eyes of the person behind the conspiracy. | President Obama opened the compartment in his desk in the Oval Office. Every president who used it had left something inside it at the end of their term: Queen Victoria left a silk handkerchief from when she gave it to Rutherford B. Hayes, FDR kept a pair of reading glasses, JFK left an unused syringe of Addison's Dise... | He'll take us all down. There's nothing else we can do. Our friends across the sea are behind us. The agency's behind us. Even the mob's behind us. They're all telling me that he has to go.
This can't be a hush hush operation. We need to make it big and public. Sometimes the best kept secrets are the ones that eve... | 2014-04-26T16:55:16 | 2014-04-26T16:54:46 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Jesus returns to discuss the kingdom of God but is struggling with this new concept called democracy. | Jesus adjusted his microphone and leaned forward on the podium. "It will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." The people assembled before him broke into cheers and cries of "Fuck the rich," and Jesus wondered if he was preaching to the choir here.
... | Jesus: I have arrived to discuss the Kingdom of God, but I see there is a new governing system I had not seen last time I was here. What is this "democracy"?
Jesus' right hand human, Jonathan: Its a system where people decide on what to do by breaking off into groups, and seeing which side has more numbers.
Jesus: So... | 2016-07-27T08:47:04 | 2016-07-27T08:36:37 | 103 | 11 |
[WP] You're a pizza delivery person who accidentally goes to the wrong house, only to realize you just showed up to Stephen Hawking's time travel party; he is now convinced you must be a time traveler. | “I’m not a time traveler, Mr. Hawking. I’m the pizza delivery guy.”
There was an extended period of silence, so long I almost wondered if he was asleep.
“Aha!” he suddenly said. “Then how’d you know my name if I didn’t order the pizza?”
“Because you’re famous, sir.”
Another long pause.
“And how’d you find my house... | “Hey did you order a pepperoni pie?”
“Yes. 2 years ago when I was still alive.”
“You look pretty alive and well to me guy, it’ll be $18 mr...?”
“Hawking”
“Oh cool related to Tony Hawk? He’s pretty dope”
“No relation, but would you like to come join our party? We were just discussing relativity and would love another... | 2019-02-13T17:18:32 | 2019-02-13T15:23:41 | 172 | 25 |
[WP] You are known by many as the worst exorcist in history. Every job you've ever taken has ended in you being possessed by whichever entity you came to banish. You've been doing this deliberately, though. You have plans - big plans. And today, you're putting those plans into action. | A young man with shaggy black hair leaned in and put his palm to my head. It felt cool and dry against my skin, my own strands of blonde sticking to my face. It was hard to breathe. It was harder to see. Not that there was much; I was staring at the floor and tightening my body as much as I could to avoid vomiting. The... | Father Richardson's cassock was drenched in blood, vomit, and something green and gelatin-like. I hoped that mess hadn't come out of me.
He was furiously wiping the filth from his face but his burning blue eyes stayed fixed on me.
"You insolent idiot!" He sneered, "When Father Esposito called me and begged me to ta... | 2019-02-06T21:42:25 | 2019-02-06T20:35:09 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] Each planet possesses a God, which created the planets. The reason aliens won't come and visit us is that our planet's God is the most dangerous one in existence. | I do not favour the names the self named humans had given me, Kronos, Osiris, Zeus, Odin, Jupiter, Allah, God, mother nature; even crazier so many claimed to be the only sons and daughters of me! They were all my children, and only mine.
Humans had something the other denizens of the universe did not, hope. Hope gave... | "This one, seems easy enough, weak."
"no, not earth" the Master proclaimed from behind His tendrils. Globs of dark sludge dribbled from His frontal membrane and fell with an audible wet smack.
"Only one species, fragile! weak! Many minerals, water!" the ape-serf interrupted brutishly as the cloudy mucus slithered away... | 2017-11-27T07:29:23 | 2017-11-27T06:54:09 | 201 | 30 |
[WP] The legendary hero that we summoned to save the realm was not what we expected. He was gruff, not handsome. He direct in his speech, not elegant. He also came with "Navy Seal Training," which we think is some sort of swordplay and a "Medal of Honor," which must be some sort of crown. | "The ritual was completed successfully, your majesty. The kingdom is saved!“
“You've done well, and bring honor to your House. Pray, when might I meet this man? This legendary warrior?"
"I regret to inform your majesty that he has... declined to present himself to you. Belligerence runs deep in him, it seems."
"I su... | We found him sleeping on the Dublin City streets. He was weak, scruffy and smelled like alcohol. We got him to the gym and got him a haircut. We helped him become the hero he was destined to be. Now his sword shines brighter than the stars. He cleaned up really well.. but now he was ready to fight the demon who brought... | 2020-11-10T19:13:31 | 2020-11-10T16:59:35 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] You are a master of incredibly minor curses. Things such as people's noses always being slightly stuffy, permanent hangnails, your pens always running out of ink, anything minor but noticeable. You're abilities are unknown to the rest of the world, and your pettiness is unrivaled. | Cutting me off in traffic. Sentence: Itchy brake foot.
Pushed in front of me in line for a coffee. Sentence: Their drink will always stain their shirt.
Sneezed in my direction and didn't cover their mouth. Sentence: Permanent runny nose.
I am a fair and even handed judge. I hand out those sentences that everyone wis... | So, you've heard of death by a thousand paper cuts, right? It's a common enough saying. It's not to be taken literally, obviously. You can't actually kill someone with a thousand paper cuts.
Anyway, the point is that enough minor inconveniences can do enough damage to take down anything, especially if you're crea... | 2019-08-05T08:27:10 | 2019-08-05T07:07:31 | 18 | 11 |
[WP]"Dad, I am cold" "Son, please, it's been 7 years already, why do you keep coming back?" | "Dad, I am cold."
"Son, please, it's been 7 years already, why do you keep coming back?"
"Say it."
"I don't want to say it."
"You have to say it. You murdered me. You murdered Mom. Look at me. Look at my neck. Look what you did to me."
"I don't have to look at anything. You're an apparition. Leave... | "Dad, I'm cold," I said, my teeth chattering from the chill in the air.
My father looked at me with a pained expression on his face. "Son, please, it's been seven years already. Why do you keep coming back?"
I didn't have an answer for him. I didn't understand why I kept returning to this place, either. A... | 2022-12-13T06:39:56 | 2022-12-13T03:26:14 | 221 | 57 |
[WP]You were born without magic in a prestigious family of witches and wizards. Every day is a challenge to keep people from being harmed from your over protective family when they think someone is bullying you because you don't have magic. | Being the only one without magic is something I kind of accepted growing up. It made me miss out on a lot of adventures with my siblings, but they never made me feel less than everyone else.
While the other young witches and wizards train, I study alone. Looking beyond the tall windows of the classroom is inspiring. ... | You'd think my parents would be a little less protective now that I'm in my late 20s? No. If anything it's gotten worse.
Constantly fussing over every little burn, bruise, or cut I get. It gets old. They have literally threatened kings over percieved insults to me. I just dont care. They can insult me all they want. I... | 2020-02-14T06:05:37 | 2020-02-14T05:02:16 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | *A Single Play in American Football as Interpreted by a Foreigner who has Never Seen a Game*
"Hut two, twenny-two, hut!" The first quarterback shouted, eyes gleaming with passion as he stared around at his team. They were all lined up in such a way as to form the basic shape of a ziggurat from above, thus reflecting t... | Storm chasing is a fascinating hobby. Storms are known to move quickly, so the chasers need to, well, chase the storms away from populated areas before they can cause damage. Often chasers will corner the storm into a field, lake, or other underpopulated area. If necessary, they will chase storms out into the ocean, bu... | 2016-02-02T00:31:42 | 2016-02-01T21:44:49 | 147 | 80 |
[WP] A rich man discovers that he only has two years left to live. With no relatives to inherit his fortune, he disguises himself as a beggar and resolves to give his wealth to the first person who helps him. | Today was the day.
He hadn’t showered in weeks. He smelled like a trash can.
Instead of shaving or bathing, he rubbed some soil that he purchased at a home and garden store to give him the truly rugged and unclean look.
Instead of brushing his teeth he took a long drag of a cigarette and drank some coffee. The con... | The worthy shall inherit the earth or in this case a ton of cash to influence it. I failed in life to do good with this wealth. I never even allowed myself to have a family. I'm on day 32 of begging on this street. I don't want to give up this wealth to just any person that gives me a penny. I want to do it for someone... | 2017-08-21T06:38:12 | 2017-08-21T06:33:09 | 99 | 24 |
[WP] Somebody buys winrar, finally | 20th October 2014, 21:39 GMT
"Master, it has been done!"
"Impossible, show me!"
"Here master, it says right here: 'User #23424374 has upgraded the free trial.' The bank account also shows movement, the payment has been completed. It really happened."
"Well then, send the data packages."
"Master, are you sure the h... | "If you are reading this, then I am dead." the lawyer read from the document.
The room was crowded with men and women in the black of mourning. None of their attitudes seemed to match their outfits, however.
"In my life I chased the almighty dollar, and never helped a man or woman who couldn't pay."
The front ro... | 2014-10-20T13:02:20 | 2014-10-20T11:39:26 | 385 | 75 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | I am the Unfettered Empress, and my empire covers the world. By my command, dark gods bow before me. By my word, thousands dies. If it is my will, the oceans freeze, from the fire shall rain down burning ice, and the sky shall be torn asunder. My disciplined, battle-hardened armies, clad in steel and armed with sabres ... | Row upon row of Deadly Ninja Fighter Robots lined up in front of the Lady Torture, armed with a variety of shiny new dangerous weapons.
Lady Torture herself a Raven haired beauty, clad in leather and lycra, cackled from her podium.
"Excellent! My new army of Ninjabots will lay waste to Atro city! Not even the Power He... | 2020-04-14T06:19:41 | 2020-04-14T05:49:42 | 712 | 193 |
[WP] You died at the gym as you were trying to take a selfie while bench pressing. Thus you find yourself in Swaghalla, the Halls of Brodin.
EDIT. "Swaghalla" was the best pun I could come up with for Valhalla. Use something else if you have ideas.
Note: Swolehalla seems to be the proper name, pardon my mistake
seco... | A giant golden fist pushed through the clouds and stopped abruptly right in front of my face.
"Pound it!" A thundering voice came from every direction, causing my bowels to empty on the spot. I fell to my knees. "Pound it Chad", the voice continued.
This was not the gym anymore. I remembered trying to take a selfie,... | "Woah."
The world around me is eerie and bright, like a morning hangover. I flip down my neon plastic shades. Much better.
How the fuck did I get here though? I was hulking out at the gym and--what's that sound?
*Clank. Clank. Clank.*
Wait, that's the gym. Someone's dropping plates. Scrub.
Hazy white mist swirls an... | 2015-11-02T06:36:33 | 2015-11-02T06:32:26 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] Your spouse is from a fantasy world. This is the first time they visit Earth, a place with no magic whatsoever. | “Aha!” Arkinius brandished his sword in the direction of a confused pigeon. “What manner of beast is this?”
I gently took his arm and lead him farther away from the park before any of the concerned parents could say anything to us.
“Some fledgling of sorts!” My husband looked over his shoulder as the... | "How do you soar, how do you fly
When the tethers of an Earth so tame
Constrain all into the crippling mundane?
 
"The hearty flourish of a wand,
The volcanic sparks of glamour,
Fill awed souls with its fairy rapture."
 
So proclaimed my wife, Afreda, one of the wee folk,
Flashing that i... | 2017-11-21T16:39:16 | 2017-11-21T08:30:38 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Write a light, happy story in which everyone dies. | “… and then I said, that’s no bulldog, THAT’S MY WIFE!”
The guests in the cramped living room erupted in laughter.
“Jesus, Frank…” Frank’s wife muttered.
“Oh it’s just a joke, honey.” Frank replied, “Oh I have one for you Charlie.”
The host cautiously entered the room carrying a tray of tea as the gracious guests e... | It was just Sara and I right now. Everyone else had gone home hours ago. Only the silent beeping of the heart machines interrupted the silence of the night. I'm used to those now. They don't keep me up anymore. Instead, I spent the last hour near Sara just reminiscing on all the memories we made. Oh what good ol' days!... | 2016-07-14T16:50:42 | 2016-07-14T16:33:28 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | For as long as she could remember, every person around Katie was covered in the pink spots that spoke of a disease which had overtaken the nation, and reportedly the world.
At precisely 7.30 every morning, she would wake up and take her morning pill, the bright yellow one. After five minutes she would have enough ene... | Doing things that you are not supposed to was one of my skills that always got me in trouble. My mother, being a lady of the Night Market, took medicines and herbs so that she could not be with child, but one unfortunate evening I was born nonetheless. I wan't meant to survive in this cruel city on my own after my mom ... | 2017-07-14T14:46:36 | 2017-07-14T10:49:00 | 54 | 32 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you. | I am sick of this chaos in my life.
All I wanted was to rule the world and kill off that pesky gnat of a super hero. However, everytime I try it only backfires.
Stupid software update making my murderous robots give her a nice pixie cut. Stupid poison failing to kill her while we had a pleasant dinner together.
T... | Superhuman pairs have advantages. The general norm is to find a mate who is your opposite. In a dangerous line of work which involves risking your life constantly, this ensures that the person who can kill you won't.
"My love for you is true". This is Mike "Mantle" Menzenta. He's a superhero. Not any superhero either... | 2017-05-30T15:45:53 | 2017-05-30T14:03:23 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] There is a hiccup in the Force which causes Mace Windu to randomly change into a different Samuel L Jackson Character. | "Yoda!"
Mace, looked out the window upon the approaching spaceship. It matched the description of the one used by General Grievous, last spotted by spies in the outer rim.
"What, I ask?"
*Every time*, Mace thought. The Jedi master was a great teacher, but he was constantly wanting answers and explanations.
"Where... | Palpatine lay against the sill of the shattered window, defeated. Windu stood over him, lightsaber in hand.
"You are under arrest, my lord."
Just then, Anakin came running into the room. Palpatine wheezed, "Anakin, I told you it would come to this! The Jedi plot to destroy us!"
Anakin started to speak, but Windu tur... | 2017-05-09T10:48:45 | 2017-05-09T10:08:48 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] A supervillain and a superhero are roommates, but they don't know. Every day, they go out and do battle, and then they come back and take care of each other while lying about how they got all beaten up. | It's been a long fucking day for this supervillain. I hobble into my flat on my one good leg, after spending seemingly hours trying to get my keys into the door with my one good arm. And the Continuum Transmogrifier is gone, shattered into a million pieces. Like I said, it's been a disappointing day.
I hobble into the... | Today is a day like any other. Isabel and Rachel are sitting on opposite sides of their college dorm room facing away from each other and typing away on their computers. Isabel is writing a five page essay for her creative writing class while Rachel is wasting her time on some silly website named Blueit. These two coll... | 2015-07-17T23:55:20 | 2015-07-17T21:25:53 | 115 | 25 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | "We're here," called Jon from the top of the hill. "I can see Dracos' castle!"
Fucking finally, I thought to myself. We'd been travelling through this gods forsaken wasteland for days with no food because that last asshole village refused to sell me any. One gold! I was short one fucking gold!
I was stirred from my b... | I never believed in God. Ironic, seeing that I am anointed the First of the Chosen even before I was born.
But if there is God, then why are there so many demons? And their leader is currently sweeping the floor of her chamber too.
Her actions was mundane, and weirdly reminded me that I have to do everything. Other ... | 2019-09-26T08:33:48 | 2019-09-26T08:06:06 | 48 | 36 |
[WP] Death always lets the doomed challenge him to any sport or game to save their lives. Death comes for a six-year-old boy. Death doesn't remember learning about Calvinball. | It was the most fun he'd had in years, and that was really saying something, given what he was. It was a game unlike any he'd permitted before, usually because the challenger had invented it on the spot in an attempt to beat Death at his own game. Calvinball was different, though. Calvinball (he'd been told) was a worl... | Decided to swing with a more comedic approach, borrowing the whiny, inept, Jamaican-flavored Grim Reaper from Maxwell Atom's "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy".
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"Now see here, boy! I told you dat I had time to kill before killing you, but dis char... | 2015-12-31T17:49:43 | 2015-12-31T16:24:13 | 52 | 22 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "For many years now, the Islamic State has been a thorn in the side of the Middle East," the President told Congress. "Carving out territory from Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Lebanon. Though many nations, including the United States, took *limited* action against this threat, no country was willing to finally commit to cle... | Reports come in today that North Korean president Kim Jong Un has launched a nuclear weapon in response to the sanctions imposed by the US and China. However, North Korean scientists miscalculated the trajectory of the missile leading it to land in Raqqa, Syria. An upcoming UN meeting of World Leaders will decide if No... | 2016-01-29T06:30:22 | 2016-01-29T06:09:39 | 481 | 277 |
[WP] You’re an immensely powerful immortal wizard who’s survived until modern day. When you get transported to another world of fantasy, you can’t help but get a little nostalgic. | For as long as I could remember, I had been a wizard, wielding immense power and living for countless centuries. I had seen civilizations rise and fall, and I had been a part of many of them. But no matter how much time passed, I remained ageless and unchanged, a being of pure magic.
As I wandered the world, I came ac... | I am an immensely powerful immortal wizard who has survived until modern day. I have seen countless civilizations rise and fall, and I have watched as the world has changed beyond recognition.
But despite my great power, I have always felt a little lost in this modern world. I long for the days of old, when magic was ... | 2022-12-06T21:28:39 | 2022-12-06T21:22:35 | 41 | 21 |
[WP]You die. Next thing that happens, is a man in a lab coat unplugs you from some sort of machine. "Your five minutes are up. Hope you had a nice time and welcome back anytime. NEXT!"
What are your thoughts, how did you find the experience of living a whole life in five minutes? Do you remember your real life before ... | It takes me a moment to get my bearings. I step out of the pod.
"Whoa, now, watch your step!" The aide at the side of the Transmuter helps me get my feet under me. Walking again. It is strange returning to the sensation of my real feet. I shift in place for a moment, and finally walk out of the room as the aide helps ... | I could have prevented the crash. I could have swerved out of the way. I looked around and saw smoke everywhere. Pieces of car scattered along the hard concrete. The smoke kept getting thicker, as if it was swallowing me, eat me. My vision failed, I wanted to move my arms but they weren't there. The thick gas got insid... | 2015-03-02T21:00:16 | 2015-03-02T20:01:26 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick of being ignored and insulted all the time, so they join the bad guys. They are a much more effective villain than anyone thought possible. |
It wasn't right, the goblins were organized. He was used to the ambushes being limited to several of them jumping out of a bush screaming, followed by his sword coming down, and more screaming. It was routine, it was expected, and it was normal. Now they were forming spear walls and he could have sworn that the... | *Healer*
The title made her sick to her stomach to hear. She didn't exist solely to cure the injury and disease of adventurers too careless or stupid to avoid the injury. She hadn't minded before the Rift between the team but they wouldn't stop fighting and hurting each other so she put a stop to it. Xantas was the f... | 2019-03-05T13:50:16 | 2019-03-05T12:50:59 | 48 | 27 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | "Raul," crooned Raul in a very suspicious French accent, as he took the lady's hand and graced his eager lips on it. "Let me guess," he continued, releasing his grip and pulling a chair out from the table. "Sit, please. Let me guess, you're a Mari- no, no, you're a Cassandra? I'm right, am I not?"
*Suave.* Yes, that ... | "I don't know... I just got out of a relationship and need to figure out myself first. I think I'm just looking to be friends right now."
That same line every time. What a pallid lie it was. I kept trying to imitate what I thought she liked and every time it felt like I had gotten closer, but it never stuck. We'd alwa... | 2022-08-24T03:20:20 | 2018-02-14T10:10:24 | 1,353 | 30 |
[WP] The mail room for a large government building receives an envelope of glitter. The staff recognizes it as a common prank and resumes work. Over the next week, they notice the glitter is not going away, and seems to be spreading. You are the first to recognize the worlds first nanobot attack. | Someone once said that the world wouldn’t end with a bang, but with a whimper. I bet they didn’t think it would end with *sparkle*.
It all started with an incompetent mail room worker named Mark. You see, Mark’s uncle was one of those middle management government types, and he pulled some strings as a favor to his fa... | My fist swing was as if powered by jet fuel, woosh, contact. I hit her square in the jaw. Instantly billions of Nano-Bots clouded the air and a high pitched screech filled my ear drums.
Three Days Earlier:
We were sitting all laughing about the glitter we got in mail the previous day. More assurance based comedy real... | 2015-03-05T09:58:41 | 2015-03-05T08:31:31 | 65 | 19 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | On principle alone, my monochromatic office isn't white. I like color. Much to the chagrin of the analysts, I had it painted lilac. I have to be in it for hours (when I'm lucky), so I won that small debate. Otherwise it's simple. Eight paces over lavender tile, and a featureless pocketed door. One small screen with my ... | I was born a simple man to a simple family. My Mother's gift was to always know the right thing to say, and dear old Dad could tell you just how good a deal really is. Nothing exceptional compared to my friends, or neighbors, who would always be on time to an event, or never get sick. For the longest time, we all thoug... | 2018-06-30T18:58:55 | 2018-06-30T18:43:18 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] You cannot tell a lie. Not because you're unable to, but because every time you do, a narrator's voice explains the lie in great detail! | This was Jake’s 4th date this month... and the 4th time he was walking back to his car without even getting through dinner. Shoulders slumped and head hung low, Jake mumbled to nobody in particular,
“This is just great.”
A somber, baritone voice very reminiscent of a certain famous African American man quite famous ... | People claim to value and appreciate honesty but the truth is that lies are far better. I...
Narrator: this is only partially correct. The social contract demands we be truthful in matters of business, equity, establishment of trust,etc. It requires also requires a kind of lie under the label of tact which overlook... | 2019-06-21T12:56:54 | 2019-06-21T07:01:30 | 55 | 38 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | 6.8 BILLION? What kind of bull was that? That left, what, a few hundred thousand? *Maybe?*
In my head, all my ideas dried up. No way in hell any of my prepared remarks haven’t been tried by someone else. I was a low-level construction worker. I didn’t have any special training or degrees.
“Thirty seconds have elaps... | 3:00
I read the sentence again. I count the digits. 6,813,096,257.
2:57
I feel a gag coming up my throat. My body shivers. I send my hands to the screen in front of me, latching onto it to not lose control. My eyes are locked to the ground. If only for a glimpse of a second, I see myself standing atop of the corpse... | 2022-05-22T13:26:34 | 2022-05-22T11:45:24 | 54 | 20 |
[WP] You are secretly a Superhero. One day you are making dinner and feel a tap on your back. There stands your roommate with a shocked look on his face and a bent knife in his hands. | "Did you just try and stab me in the back?" I think he just tried to kill me.
"Yes I did" John announced bluntly. He was frustrated, not angry. "You felt that did you?"
Does he know? Or is he insane. John tossed the bent knife at my stomach and I palmed it away. "What are you playing at you prick?" He laughed and ... | I look at him. He looks at me.
“What the hell is this?” He ask me.
“Uh…” I can’t think of any excuse.
“Dude, you bent this knife in front of me because you got destroyed in COD. How did you do that? You did that with two fingers!”
Well, this was certainly awkward, mainly because my roommate found out I am a superhe... | 2016-09-09T05:49:05 | 2016-09-09T04:20:49 | 156 | 65 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | I swear this happened exactly as I'm saying, but there's no way I'll put my name on it. They'd lock me in the looney bin forever.
I was just sitting on the sofa, watching TV, and then I was sitting in a room with no chair and fell on my butt. My back was against something - well, not something, more nothing, but not... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T12:27:31 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 36 | 10 |
[wp] Myths tell us where things come from (ex. echoes are from Echo, a person cursed to repeat what others said). Write a mythological origin story for a common modern object. | Deep within the bowels of the earth, there lies a secretive and fiendish entity. This is a being of decay and destruction: taking the bodies of plants and animals alike and crushing them in its hot, heavy hands until there is nothing left but a poisonous black liquid. This entity loathes all things on the surface: su... | Winter stalked the girl as she shook and shuddered, struggling to make her way out from the safety of her sanctuary; the tattered weariness in her protector's determination giving way to the snaps of cold and frozen fangs. ‘Please Scarf,’ she begged, ‘just one more journey, one more trial and we can be home. I can't do... | 2016-01-16T09:05:19 | 2016-01-16T06:29:52 | 103 | 20 |
[WP]You've had bad luck your whole life. One day, you see a free item in the window of a curio shop-a bad luck charm. You think, "What the hell? My luck can't get any worse!" And take it. You're right. Life hasn't programmed luck scores to go into negative. Your luck score rolls back from 0 to 9999. | “Honey, we’re out of milk!” Dan said. “I thought you'd picked up some last night?”
“I tried, honey,” Sandra said. “But the kids were being fussy, you know that-“
“They were both at sleepovers. You were playing mah-jong again, weren’t you?”
Sandra had nothing to say, and grabbed her keys.
“You need to think about wh... | I wondered, which shitty datatype life must be using to overflow at such a weird and rather low number. But whatever. Maybe it actually does get better for me once.
And so I went to the nearest kiosk and got myself a scratch-off ticket. I scratched and scratched and nothing... "Yeah, as if life would turn around so... | 2020-01-12T13:51:38 | 2020-01-12T12:59:26 | 3,157 | 43 |
[WP] There's a saying among the galactic community. "Never hire a human"... you just hired 200 of them. And you're about to find out why that saying exists. | Entry 1207.23 - 31.r.TAK2132
"Never hire a human"
The first words written with the new script that every Class C civilization and above, those with interstellar travel capabilities, should be able to read. It was the mantra of every organization and corporation in the inhabitated Galaxy.
After 7 Taks every written ... | There’s an old saying on home world that goes something like “Never hire a human” or some shit. Words that could have changed my perspective...had I listened. But be that as it may, those words were lost to me as I stared at a stack of resumes piling up in my database after a few weeks of neglect. Our staff had been cu... | 2018-04-27T12:22:17 | 2018-04-27T12:18:08 | 54 | 25 |
[WP] You are on a flight from Beijing to Seoul. Its should be a short two-hour flight, but five hours have passed and the plane has still not landed. There is nothing outside but dense cloud cover. There is no food left on the plane.The staff are confused. People are starting to panic. | Groggy, face pressed against the edge of the window, hair in my ears and mouth, I peer through the veil. Cherry red and gold stain the cream polyester of the seat in front. Acoustic whining is still bleeding through my ear buds. As definition returns to the modern patterns and laid\-back tempo, I brush aside my leave\-... | Awaking from a two hour nap on the flight to Seoul. Exhausted because his flight was delayed three hours. The residual effects from the scotch Albert Feinstein had at the airport bar. Made him hung over and eager to land. A diplomatic trip to Seoul to ease tensions between the US govt and partners in South Korea agains... | 2018-06-02T05:54:24 | 2018-06-02T04:47:18 | 120 | 25 |
[WP] you are kidnapped by henchmen because your boyfriend/girlfriend is a super hero, but the villains are your parents who just now recognized you as your BF/GF has arrived to save you and now you have to explain the situation to everyone while the henchmen watch barley stifling their laughter | Sadie sat in the quad of her university, silently flipping through a textbook as she attempted to focus on preparing for her stat exam that coming Friday. College, as mundane as it was, became a welcome respite for the girl who lived a life of chaos, unmatched by most anyone else. She checked her watch, calculating the... | Everything came and went.. my vision, my sense of time, and my conscience..
This clearly was done by the work of professionals..
That was the last thing I thought about before waking up, strapped to a chair, with a bag draped around my head.
I has awoken to similar situations before, as I had a tendency to poke my n... | 2021-07-18T14:24:30 | 2021-07-18T14:17:40 | 116 | 52 |
[WP] You are Death, come to collect a soul in a hospital. As you enter the room, your sister Life brushes past you, leaving it. She spins about to face you. "You always ruin everything," she yells, tears in her eyes. | "YOU ALWAYS RUIN EVERYTHING!" The tears make the golden flecks in my sister's eyes shine even brighter, her cheeks flushed with, anger? Frustration? I'm never sure with Life, emotions are kinda lost on me.
"How am I ruining everything? This is the way things are. Without me, there would be no room for you." The room h... | Death’s eyes locked with Life’s and a sigh escaped his lips.
The past few centuries had been tough between Death and his sister. It felt like time and time again they crossed paths, stepping on each other's toes. Life would sneer over Death's work, disgusted, her gentle sun-kissed features contorting into rage. Death... | 2019-10-18T15:24:43 | 2019-10-18T14:06:35 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] Mere moments from death, the character falls to their knees and begs for mercy. To the villain's surprise/confusion, instead of the usual reasons ("I have a family!") or bribes ("I have a lot of money!"), this person says.... | "If you kill me, you won't fulfill the prophecy!" The Demon Lord looked down at the hero. For 3 days and nights they fought and the Demon Lord finally had the upper hand. But this? It was a trick.
"Hero, I have slain many but this? Trickery doesn't become you."
"It's no trick, Master Vak-riz-zorich." Only one group o... | “I just became a sergeant in foxhole, we still need to push the center we just got heavy tanks”
Wait he he’s not going to talk about family or, wait… “What’s foxhole, what are you talking about?”
An pause latter “it’s an online war mmo, you like have a war o..” “Wait the thing that came to mind was a game you don’t h... | 2021-08-30T20:48:31 | 2021-08-30T20:38:07 | 220 | 28 |
[WP] a portal appears infront of you and a 7'4 380 pound version of you from another universe walks out covered in blood holding the heads of 4 other versions of you and screams "JOIN ME OR JOIN MY COLLECTION" | The portal ripples as what I can only describe as version of me on steroids steps through, a belt of heads at his waist... my heads.
He proceeds to speak
"JOIN ME OR JOIN MY COLLECTION" he says in a deep overtone. The energy from the portal rippling once more as a cold 'wind' streams from it.
I stare ahead as the m... | My mind raced with the implications of what this meant. I was overwhelmed by the terror that created an icy grip in my chest. Was this a warning from a parallel universe, or a threat from a doppelganger? I had to choose: accept whatever evil plan this giant creature had in store for me, or I would end up like the other... | 2022-12-04T14:09:30 | 2022-12-04T08:27:53 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | “Its sour.” I swished the round yellow treat between my cheeks, its taste strange, leaving a tingling on my tastebuds. “Did you attempt to poison me?” I stared down at the little girl who only shook her head, sitting by my shrine in a light blue dress.
“Its candy! Everyone likes candy. Are you a ghost?” She asked, ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Astrid)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**They remembered.**
Once, they had been mighty. Their name was known throughout the Six Isles, and every oath in their na... | 2021-09-02T08:57:43 | 2021-09-02T07:28:26 | 322 | 93 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "And who can tell me about the events of the first cycle?"
Professor Gooblevork watched his Galactic History class intently through triplicate eyestalks. None seemed particularly interested in his lecture.
"How about you, Shrdmrn?" He pointed at a particularly bored student in the first row. Or maybe he was just gass... | The captain stood before their company, his ferocity was inspiring.
"Its up to us!" he roared "The boys at the top are wanting to pull the funding for our little expedition, they say this has been a waste of men and money! This is our last chance to take back the colony from those bastards and drive them back to their... | 2017-03-05T22:47:46 | 2017-03-05T21:06:51 | 1,151 | 160 |
[WP] Instead of a dystopia that seems like a utopia on the surface, write a story about a utopia that seems like a dystopia on the surface. | A lot of people were unhappy when the world went to shit, but not James Henderson. For him, it had all been a dream come true.
It started with drugs. Growing, refining, smuggling: James did it all. But he always knew that he wouldn't be limited to just one market. When war broke out in the Middle East yet again, one ... | Amber pulled on her grey jumpsuit and looked around her drab grey room. Her simple bed with grey blankets sat in the corner of the room next to a small black metal desk. She sighed and left her room. It was a long walk down the concrete hallway to the reclamation chamber. She had been chosen to work in the reclama... | 2016-07-14T06:26:04 | 2016-07-14T05:42:08 | 2,263 | 145 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. |
I knew he was trouble when he walked in.
He came in, head held up high, posture like someone had shoved a metal rod up his ass. Young, cocky, asshole. It was slow day, only a couple of people were around. None of the regulars. A guy working on his laptop, and another girl watching the snow fall over Union Square out... | Some people are brought into this world to cure diseases, lead countries, build rockets, or fight for justice. I think I was brought into this world to serve coffee.
That’s what I tell myself every day when I unlock the door of my café. Even as a kid, I was obsessed with coffee - at first the smell, then when I was ol... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T23:47:58 | 1,330 | 31 |
[WP] As an average looking genius with a weak physique you often envied athletes. After thousands of years spent in a cryogenics pod you are woken to discover that evolution has weakened humanity while IQ improved. You're now the strongest most attractive person, but also the dumbest. | "...be starting to wake up soon..."
Leon groaned. Although no sound actually came out, which was a little surprising; it was more of a raspy breath to his ears.
He had just stepped into the cryogenic pod, relieved at the prospect of waking up cancer-free, possibly with a slight hangover. He didn't recall even the fa... | I was known as the one that brought peace. Remember that death ray Nikola Tesla claimed to have operational? Yeah he went over budget so never got to build a full size one. I did, I built an actual dead ray. And any country that had the money bought one from me. With those billions of dollars I gave one to every countr... | 2017-08-02T23:57:26 | 2017-08-02T22:53:46 | 96 | 45 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | "Look, I'm sorry Sarge, but it still doesn't make much sense."
"I told you before Private, it's about tourism. Have you seen the statistics? If we don't strike now, the entire world will be wearing blue jeans and listening to American pop music!"
"You have an Ariana Grande playlist!"
"That's...I have no idea what yo... | One month after our nation seemed to have gone mad, retooling our entire economy and declaring war on our closest ally, a package arrived at my door. Inside was a sword and armor in a style completely different from our regular military uniforms, yet accompanied by a note declaring me to be drafted.
I arrived wearing ... | 2019-03-10T12:43:25 | 2019-03-10T11:09:05 | 66 | 22 |
[WP]Every year on your birthday, you get a visit from the Grim Reaper who challenges you to a contest with the next year of your life on the line. | Ever since I can remember, I've always had a stranger at my birthdays. It started when a faceless hooded figure introduced himself as 'Gim' and asked to play Sonic and Knuckles with me on my 5th birthday in 1998.
Every year, it was the same thing. Gim would show up. We'd play tag, Halo, go bowling, laser tag, guitar h... | *Blip Bloop,* my phone chimed. I didn't need to check it to know that it was Sheila. She was the only person who sent me happy birthday texts before it was actually 12:00 am. The watch said 11:58.
I sat on my bed and waited. Dad was probably still at the bar and it would be a miracle if he came back before 2am. He wou... | 2015-01-26T14:59:51 | 2015-01-26T11:29:00 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] For every 10 lives you save, you get an extra life for yourself, shown as a number visible only to you on your wrist. Waking up with bad hangover after a particularly rowdy night, you look at your arm through blurry eyes to see the faintly glowing number: 700,000,000. | "Evening!"
"Evening Jim!" Then in a hushed tone, "Hey what are you up to now?"
"You know the Rules man." I glanced down at my wrist and check anyway. One. I'm down to one life. Ah well, shit happens.
I headed over to my locker and hung up my coat, swapping it out for the department jacket. Fighting fires wasn't as w... | In the beginning I relished in my new found chance at immortality. A good deed done here or there which added up to more time here on this earth that was so precious to me. I would find all the ways a man could to reach out and save lives, but never for them, always for me and to continue my own hollow and ambitious ex... | 2019-08-28T11:02:55 | 2019-08-28T09:50:20 | 90 | 61 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | Humans 1.01 Bugfix release.
Bugfix: Bacteroides removed from gut.
Bugfix: Clostridium removed from gut.
Bugfix: Faecalibacterium removed from gut.
Bugfix: Eubacterium removed from gut.
Bugfix: Ruminococcus removed from gut.
Bugfix: Peptococcus removed from gut.
Bugfix: Peptostreptococcus re... | Human v1.1
* Created basic cell membrane and stored in new GIT repository. Does nothing yet, but will provide a better basis to develop from than the old DNA sequence which jumps back and forth between coding sequences and is full of dead code. There was actually a *goto* command in there. Whatever crack-smoking mon... | 2015-08-25T07:25:41 | 2015-08-25T07:22:26 | 878 | 112 |
[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... | I felt the painful glare of the computer screen attacking my eyes as I stared at it for a second too long. Trying to not breathe a single whiff of Mr. Taggart-call-me-Tag's cheap musky cologne, while the sticky heat from his sweaty, stubby fingers made their way across my shoulder blades in what I'm sure was supposed t... | It was 5:30 AM. My 1969 Ferrari 512S Berlinetta raced down the highway. It was that time of the night, where the darkness was slowly fading to day, where the pitch black almost had a tinge of light to it. You couldn't see this in a city, which is why I was flying through the Tehachapi Pass. Well, that wasn't *the* reas... | 2019-03-04T09:27:11 | 2019-03-04T08:49:15 | 182 | 48 |
[WP] The End of Days came and swept across the globe in mere hours. And you managed to miss it because you slept in. | I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and looked again.
Yep still there.
My neighbour was outside his house looking at it too.
"Hey!" I yelled. "Hey Ollie!"
"Yeeeees?" he said, barely sparing a glance with his eyes mostly locked on the staircase.
I gesticulated wildly at the staircase.
"Yep, seems they got 'em all, s... | I got up and looked out side. With a start, I saw the apocalypse happening around me. Things on fire, people running and screaming, what you would expect to see. Weirdly, my house was relatively unscathed. Thats a good sign. I went down to my survival bunker in my back yard. I closed the hatch and looked around.
"Fuck... | 2017-05-25T08:21:04 | 2017-05-25T06:16:45 | 33 | 19 |
[WP] An adult who had died trying to survive against all odds and a kid who commits suicide meet in the afterlife.
Humanity is near extinction after "x" happens . One man, who fought to the very end to survive finally perishes. Immediately after, before reaching heaven or hell, his soul meets up with the soul of a y... | Even dead, Ellis walked with a limp. He didn't dare examine his left leg after the landmine: the smell of burnt sausage persuaded him against looking down. This was a good thing. Had Ellis looked down, he would have seen his leg as a bloody mess of frayed tendrils, scarred and discoloured from gangrene.
Ellis stopp... | "Where am I?" the young kid asked. He had dirty blond hair, a crooked nose, and vivid green eyes. The eyes shifted side to side. He took a step forward, though the place he was in had no floor, nor did it have anything around that his mind could put a schema on.
"Purgatory, I think," grumbled a rough voice. The kid lo... | 2014-06-27T06:36:28 | 2014-06-27T04:12:34 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped and your wealthy significant other was told to pay the hefty ransom. Instead, they sent a message back to your kidnappers. “Nice knowing you.” While the kidnappers discuss their next move, you look up through the tiny window, stare at the full moon overhead … and smile. | He always worked hard to keep the beast within.
'Why when I try to to be a gentleman, there's always someone chasing the beast?' he wondered as he looked at the full moon.
Although it didn't force the transformation, it made it easier. Well, it was never easy as his bones broke and reshaped, the fur itching under hi... | As I stretched into my true reptilian form, the humans were still busy talking about how best to go about torturing and killing me. Fools. I was the descendant of a proud race of reptilians, spanning galaxies. All of the human race was but a blink in our eyes. My scale stretched and popped as my body adjusted after fif... | 2021-03-19T01:52:30 | 2021-03-19T01:21:29 | 160 | 83 |
[WP] It is tradition that on your 18th birthday you are joined by a small magical creature, much like a familiar, to aid you in the rest of your life. When you wake on your 18th birthday and find yours sitting by you on the bed, you are.... disappointed, to say the least. | I was incredibly excited, so excited I could barely sleep that night but I managed to. When I woke up, instead of sleeping in I immediately snapped open my eyes and sat up, eyes trailing to the end of the bed where at first I saw nothing.
“Huh?” I squinted for a moment before I saw it, a small little bee flying around... | When they said "small magical creature" , I cleraly dodn't expected this. Bit now, all things considered, I could get something much, much worse. Also, I don't know how will this help me in my life, but now I have it.
Well, my little friend, from now on you will be Remi, Remi the Spider familiar. | 2018-07-24T00:28:32 | 2018-07-23T23:14:22 | 62 | 13 |
[WP] They tried to summon a demon. They got you. | Have you ever been summoned? Like, literally pulled through fucking space and time on someone else's whim?
WELL, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED THE OTHER DAY.
So, I'm chilling in the park, minding my own business and BOOM. I'm suddenly in this old warehouse, surrounded by -and I shit you not- fucking teenagers. Like ... | The sounds of Billy Joel was replaced as a foul smell filled my nose.
"Dammit, I need to fix- Oh."
I was surrounded by a ring of hooded occultists.
The disappointment in the air was thicker than a bowl of oatmeal.
I stood in the circle, calculator in one hand and pen in the other, as the hoodies started muttering ... | 2016-02-02T22:57:46 | 2016-02-02T18:16:53 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] When you sleep, instead of dreaming, you see a list of tips and tricks that will help you the next day. One night, you only see one tip, “Always aim for the head”. | Eyelashes crusted, his hand came up and brushed hard, then relaxed, as the tiny rough spheres rolled in fits down his face. Letters, then words, came seemingly out of nowhere, out of his subconscious to the forefront of his mind: "Always aim for the head". He knew words that came to him this way were always accurate, ... | Just another Saturday morning, sleeping in until nine o’clock then “Aim for the head”....
Now what in the world is this about, don’t own a gun, hell I don’t even own a bow or even a single arrow.
Well, next is taking the dog for her walk, about a one mile walk to start the day. Nothing unusual, the standard pee and pic... | 2018-11-20T18:00:02 | 2018-11-20T15:58:54 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You have a peculiar 6th sense. On exams you see the correct answers highlighted. During conversations you read the words you see floating in the air like a teleprompter. Every single decision you've made has been the "correct" one and life is good. One day you try choosing the other option. | I picked it out of confusion, I think. I knew which one was the best, of course - the gift far to the left, wrapped in cheerfully non-denominational holiday paper, book shaped. It glowed in the pile of white elephant office gifts against all the others. They each had phrases above them like "oh, thanks..", and "who on ... | I would be lying if I said that my ability to always make the right decision hasn’t been a big advantage to me in nearly every situation. I’ve never had to study for exams unlike my school mates, which is why I could spend my free time doing whatever I want. I’ve never had troubles with getting to know new people and m... | 2018-04-15T14:48:40 | 2018-04-15T13:23:40 | 133 | 51 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | ​
I've been standing here for hours, hand outstretched above my head, and nothing has come. Only Mother is still here. Everyone else has wondered off. Well, that's not entirely true. Gorm is banging away at a ploughshare in his smithy on the south side of the square. He gets a new grip on the tongs, pick... |
The last year of school and everything felt supercharged and a bit crazy, even to my laid back self. Not only were we finishing up our A-levels it was the year of the gift; the year when everyone got a clue as to the defining purpose of their life. Sometimes you could tell straight away what life had in store for yo... | 2019-09-18T10:34:19 | 2019-09-18T10:15:38 | 68 | 21 |
[WP] Its your favorite time of year; the annual weapons harvest. The grenades are ready to be picked off the vine, the AK's are almost ready to be dug up. Your neighbor is revealing the results of a grafting experiment at the annual feast. | "*Da*, my friend." Ivan said, with a huge shit-eating grin on his face. I didn't care - he's Russian, this is what he does, this is what he's good at, and he deserves to be proud for it.
No, the real concern is the secret project he's been working on. If it truly is as groundbreaking as he claimed, he'll get a Nobel ... | Every autumn some of my neighbors and I get together and celebrate the harvest with a big feast. Each farmer brings one of his or her best crops, and we all have our specialities.
Big Jim Thompson usually brings grenade launchers. The tubes are delicious, once you get the thick skin off, and they taste like giant hea... | 2017-11-11T16:54:25 | 2017-11-11T16:42:15 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] A stunned nation watches as images of the President's assassination flood the news. The killer has yet to be identified, but witnesses claim to have seen someone in a gray hoodie. You go home early, only to find your SO disassembling a high-power rifle in the kitchen... wearing a gray hoodie.
"....Do you trust me... | **Part One**
______________________________________________________________________________________________
I was supposed to prevent his death.
I had failed.
These past two months searching for the man who would assassinate the President of the United States, and all along I should've been looking for a woman.
A wo... | "So, honey, what did you do on your day off today?"
"I, uh, went down to the shooting range. Why?"
I should have stopped questioning my wife there, but the curiosity was too much. "It's just that, you know, with the President shot right in town. And you, with the gray hoodie, and the rifle."
She spun around, grab... | 2014-07-12T10:09:08 | 2014-07-12T10:01:24 | 453 | 36 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The human smiled playfully. "So if I understand you correctly. You will give us this FTL technology in exchange for our aid. All you ask of us is to cleanse your world of this Ashvell species, and remove this substance from your waters?"
"That is all," I said with a hoarse voice. We hadn't done much research on these ... | They had a moral code. A set of rules written in stone that they were bound to follow. Somehow though they were able to ignore it and not really care. They understood that they should live in a sustainable fashion. They even celebrated those among them who did. They just as a species didn't. They lived much like the vi... | 2014-12-26T12:23:02 | 2014-12-26T11:25:21 | 70 | 24 |
[WP] After too many ridiculous and lengthy lawsuits dominate the world's courts, the world leaders decided to pass a law to remove all warning labels. The Darwin Act has just been passed. | Sarah Miller, exhausted from a double shift, put her green blouse into the washing machine. She poured her Clorox Bleach in and washed the garment. 30 minutes later she mindlessly threw the blouse into the dryer and set it for 50 minutes. Sarah promptly fell asleep, looking forward to her job interview for the next ... | I stretch my back as I stand from my $29 discount deluxe computer chair. The backs tattered slightly from years of use, and the wheels have gotten bits of carpet caught in them. I yawn, walk away from my cubical and through the hallways. Xerox machines, photocopiers, printers, and water coolers litter the sides like a ... | 2017-03-23T22:37:31 | 2017-03-23T20:41:11 | 3,008 | 369 |
[WP] You die. There’s only darkness. After a few eternities alone, you jokingly say ”Let there be light”. And there was light. | After the light appeared, I decided it was much too bright.
"Let there be a dimmer switch!" I bellowed.
And so there was. It was a perfectly round dimmer switch. When I moved it to the right, the lights grew bright. When I moved it to the left, they grew dim. I was amused with the novelty of such a machination drif... | Edison was a putz, I thought, grimacing. Thomas took credit for *so* much of my work. I'd spent the equivalent of several lifetimes here alone in the dark, stewing in my rage.
He had died twelve years before me, that I knew all too well. The papers heralded his death, mine not so much. Sure, a brief eulogy was given b... | 2020-09-04T20:12:58 | 2020-09-04T19:24:35 | 152 | 94 |
[WP] The Fairy hesitated. She knew tradition demanded that she curse the new born princess for not being invited to the christening, but it wasn't her fault the messenger fell off his horse. She decided to get creative with the wording. | "Did you not get the evite?" The king stood agape, standing half in front of the queen, who held the babe in her arms. The knights of the realm brought their rifles to the shoulders, awaiting the king's orders.
"Yes, though it was in my spam folder. But the ancient rites are clear on the proper appearance of the invit... | There. The magic was done. Now to deal with the doddering old coot in the corner.
"What did you do!?" the old wizard spat. It was tradition, he'd said that twice before, with the current King and his younger sister. Not that he realised that she was the same as back then. "What curse did you lay on her, *faerie*?"
Ol... | 2021-11-08T10:22:03 | 2021-11-08T10:16:39 | 739 | 75 |
[WP] From the point of view of dogs, humans are like elves, benvolent beings with incredibly long lives enjoying pastimes too intricate and complex to understand. | Pale, tall, strangely hairless, with hard flashing eyes and sharp tongues... they are the elder race, privy to the arcane secrets and mysteries of the universe.
And they have accepted a chosen few of us into their pack.
When they arrived, most packs saw them as prey. They were soft, they lacked tooth and claw a... | When the world first came into view, her face was the first I saw. Not my mom's, not my brother's, but *hers*. Eyes filled with love and excitement and joy- oh, the *joy*. Raucous laughter and squeals of delight as I struggled to find the strength to lift myself.
I didn't have to.
She lifted me with ease, wrapping h... | 2021-06-25T13:54:14 | 2021-06-25T12:35:36 | 2,077 | 938 |
[WP] A barber recognizes his current customer to be a man who tortured him ten years earlier at a POW camp. The customer doesn't recognize him. | "What can I do for you, bud?" It was a calm day in the shop, the sun was shining in and the customers were just flowing.
The man smiled, "Just give me a buzz cut, nothing fancy."
I started to say something but my heart had jumped. That voice, I knew it, I recognized it. My arm shook and I rubbed my hand where it had... | The distinct *ding* of the bell above the door sounded as a man dressed immaculately in a suit walked confidently into my shop, phone to his ear.
"Good afternoon, just a trim and a shave." The man said, with a heavy accent. Then he resumed his call as he walked over to the chair. "(*Yes, yes, tell Ahmad that he needs ... | 2014-04-29T09:29:00 | 2014-04-29T08:58:34 | 319 | 16 |
[WP] You’re a dragon who kidnapped a prince/princess. All is going to plan but… it’s been a month and no one’s come to save them. | Dragons, by their very existence, were the kind of entities for whom awe and terror seemed intrinsically mixed. Wyverns were all well and good, but they were small, barely larger than a house. Wyrms? The flightless lizards could barely lift their heads to gaze upon the glory of a fully grown Drakon. The others were ani... | Ruldrim found himself restless in his sixth century of age. The surrounding forests provided all the prey he could eat, the nearby towns paid him tribute, and he had amassed a respectable hoard in his lair. What he didn't have was a challenge. So, in a long-standing tradition, he decided to kidnap a princess and battle... | 2022-11-24T15:04:35 | 2022-11-24T11:56:50 | 180 | 55 |
[WP] Lycanthropy is a real disease that perplexes everyone. One interesting fact about it is that it isn't restricted to wolf forms, but can extend to bear forms, bat forms, panther forms and a few others. The rarest of them all is dragon form, which you have been diagnosed with
Edit: Well this prompt exploded
Yay fo... | Dr. Montoya entered the room, clipboard in hand. "You're a were-dragon," he said bluntly.
I chuckled, "that's funny. You're funny, doc." He didn't laugh.
"No, it's actually quite serious," he said sternly, "I'd like to keep you for some tests." He was already sending word to his friends over email. "It may take a f... | (I'm new here. Haven't written much. Don't kill me.)
"What a waste of an existence" I muttered to myself, as I walked past the morning office goers in the Munich train station. People stuck in a rhythmic drag of work and home, with no direction in life but to survive. I pitied their mundane existence.
You see, I w... | 2017-05-20T08:25:02 | 2017-05-20T06:14:36 | 153 | 19 |
[WP] "The Young Anakin, Trained, he will be." Yoda said. Obi-Wan exclaims, "The council is in agreement then? I will train the Boy?" Yoda looks at Obi-Wan, "Mace Windu, his master will be." | "It's good to see you again, Anakin. I'm glad you could visit. Would you like to see the Senate Hall?" Chancellor Palpatine smiled.
Master Windu's first rule was Observe. The second rule was Reflect. He had given permission to Anakin to visit the Chancellor on the condition that he observe and reflect, to take in... | Obi-Wan raised an eyebrow and looked Yoda in his eyes before looking directly at Mace Windu. "Qui-Gon put the responsibility of training the boy on my shoulders, and I understand the boy best so I should train him, not you."
Mace sighed as he put his thumb up in the air. "Faulty reason number one to your logic is: You... | 2017-05-24T05:17:49 | 2017-05-24T04:52:50 | 161 | 114 |
[WP] You have died, and in the afterlife have learned that each ghost may interfere on Earth only once while in eternity. Today is the day you have decided it's time. | Death has taught me a lot about parenting. A lot that I wish I knew back when I was still alive raising Rebecca. I was always so careful! I always had one eye on her, making sure she didn't choke on anything, or run through the rain and catch a cold, or fall down and get scrapes. I realize now that I was one of those h... | She was on the bed. That bed my mother was far too thrilled to pick out for us just a few weeks before our wedding. That bed where we spent our wedding night, where each of our four children were conceived all those years ago. That bed where she found my cooling corpse in place of the loving husband she lay next to jus... | 2015-01-08T13:08:19 | 2015-01-08T12:57:30 | 349 | 10 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | I've seen a lot of criminals head to their deaths before my. My first celly was a serial killer, felt a bit brooding, but maybe that was because when I first got in, it was less than a week to his execution. Second celly was much more upbeat. Also a murderer, and a child cannibal to boot, but if you could stand his sen... | "All i would like, is a McDonald's ice cream"
The officers all began to laugh, until they noticed the beads of sweat forming on the forehead of an increasingly nervous warden.
"N-n-no problem stammered the warden, let me just make a few phonecalls"
He ran out of the room, and a moment later you could hear muffled... | 2022-07-17T18:36:24 | 2022-07-17T18:30:24 | 904 | 97 |
[WP] In a freak glitch in the system, all posts to /r/Showerthoughts are going to /r/writingprompts and vice versa. Shower Thoughts fans are furious, but Writing Prompts didn't seem to notice. | I logged into my account, seeing what others had posted on my thoughts on how a sandwich was just like my life.
WHOA! It seemed my post had blown up over night. It had been upvoted 3412 times and had more than two hundred responses. I opened the link and started reading on what people had to say.
Ummm.... Wow! That ... | "I will not rest until I find a cure for my insomnia!" Dr. Avery said slamming his fist on the table.
"But Dr. Avery that is pretty obvious," Amanda Becker, Dr. Avery's blonde lab assistant stated.
"Don't tell me the odds!" Dr. Avery said, hitting the table to again for punctuation.
"I didn't say anything about the ... | 2016-07-17T09:52:48 | 2016-07-17T09:43:34 | 97 | 24 |
[WP] The last time the aliens invaded our planet they fled after losing the war. They have reluctantly returned to wage war and are relieved to see that dinosaurs no longer inhabit Earth, but have been replaced by the smaller and less intimidating humans. | Dear Xander,
Glad greetings to you and yours, and eternal joy to your ancestors.
The invasion of the Earth has been called off. The Sauronoid aggressors that bested us so long ago have all but disappeared. In their place, a race of mammalian bipeds not so dissimilar from ourselves who are incredibly happy to see us ... | Operational Report 001
Galactic Sector ZZ-'ZA
Local name : Earth
Initial jump to system outside furthest planetary orbit revealed significant changes in Earth's biology and atmosphere. No signals or technology matching previous signatures detected.
Scan duration: 1/10 Sol orbit.
Secondary monitor established at ... | 2017-03-04T03:42:15 | 2017-03-03T20:08:50 | 664 | 47 |
[WP] You are the first person to be injected with nano-bots. At first its a dream come true. They heal long-term injuries and even slow your aging. However, soon they begin making 'improvements' to your body. | It was time to join the future. That was the excuse that I kept telling myself after I had the surgery. The nanobots were the newest in the line of biotic enhancements, and not only were they self-replicating, they could change themselves to respond to any conceivable threat. Disease, cancer, aging, all were worthless ... | Vegans say they feel lighter, or more ready, or more themselves when they stick to their clean diet. They feel fresh.
Same goes for a smoker, whos quit for month. They taste things for the first time. Their lungs are filled to the brim and they are renewed with every inhale. These people are able to cherish the ever f... | 2019-01-19T12:24:57 | 2019-01-19T12:04:14 | 85 | 30 |
[WP] ”Todd was replaced by an alien body snatcher YEARS ago! Everyone knows that by now.” “Then, why has no one done anything about it?” “Because we all like the body snatcher WAY more than the original Todd.” | "It's nice watching the boats pass by, isn't it?"
Todd sat besides Eleanor, his brows gently furrowed, and he took a sip from his glass of pickle juice while nodding his head. Eleanor hadn't complained when he tugged at her sleeve, asking if it was fine that he brought along the pickle jar for their walk. She was so s... | "You're not hearing me Jamie, it's not about whether you *like* him, I'm telling you they're taking over!"
"Yeah, *in twenty years*; we'll be old then, who cares? BS Todd is great! Check this out; hey BS Todd, what's cracking?"
'Todd' was still standing next to them, *almost* facing Jamie and Janet, but looking just ... | 2022-03-09T03:49:12 | 2022-03-09T00:39:25 | 439 | 320 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "That was..." Brawg began, staggering over the bodies of the fallen goblins, his boots squelching in the treacle-like blood.
"Far too..." said Vesperr, returning her bow to her back, and beginning to pluck out arrows from the deceased enemies.
"Oxyrin!" finished Oxyrin, his pointed hat falling over his eyes once aga... | Approaching the city gate, the adventurers stiffen as the guards halt their way. Of course, Mr. Nobility has to be the one to step forward and speak for the group. Marian lightly touches her bow, prepared to ready an arrow if her arrogant companion gets them into trouble again.
"Greetings, my good men. My name is Hect... | 2017-09-15T08:01:38 | 2017-09-15T06:04:09 | 975 | 193 |
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