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[WP] For the entirety of your life, music that only you can hear has played to inform you how to feel and warn you of upcoming events. Suddenly "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" cuts out and "Duel of the Fates" begins to play... | I opened the door to Samantha’s house. The usual smell of the flowers in her kitchen wafted over, and with them those first familiar strains of Beth Hart washed over me. *Calling California, is there anybody home?* “Babe,” I shouted down the echoing hallway, “I’m here! Only got a few left in my lunch break, though.... | *Ooooh hoooooo*
It was a quiet day at work. Nothing went wrong. Everyone was in a good mood.
*Somewhere over the rainbow...*
I didn't even have to do any actual work. I automized most of the gruntwork, like digging through emails long ago.
*Way up high...*
Most of the time I just sat there and playe Minesweeper an... | 2017-04-01T20:17:11 | 2017-04-01T19:57:09 | 121 | 57 |
[WP] Starting at the age of 10, humans are given companion animals that develop along side them. These animals can range anywhere from a goldfish to a horse to even a dragon. The only catch is that they are assigned based on your behavior during childhood. | I am a good kid.
My name is Alex Urwin, and I am a good kid. I do my best when it comes to tests, because mom promised me that if I do well, I might get a dragon. Every day, I finish my homework before I do anything, and make sure to tell my parents that I love them, but never to stay up too late to do it. Dad said if... | Jensen was a sweet and rambunctious boy born and raised in the southern most tip of the Gilded Peninsula. Barricaded by impassable mountains and surrounded by the frigid waters of the Adelphin Sea, the insignificant village, who was largely forgotten by the rest of the world, were as tight knit as any. The summers we... | 2017-01-13T12:02:15 | 2017-01-13T11:57:37 | 135 | 12 |
[WP] Turns out, what gets you into Heaven is spending more time doing good things rather than bad things. That's it. When you arrive at St. Peter's Gate, he has a device that shows precisely how much time you've spent doing good, and bad. Down to the nanosecond, you're at a dead tie... | "It's not just you," the angel explained. The line lurched one step forwards; when I'd first died, the grey hills seemed to stretch off into infinity, but after God knows how long we'd finally gotten to some visible structures: a massive set of gates, flanked by a pair of angels.
"Yeah, no kidding." I looked up and do... | "Huh, dead tie you say?" I asked.
"Yep. Dead tie," St. Peter, the guardian, replied coldly.
"Can't it just be a tie? I don't need to be reminded that I'm dead, Mr. St. Peter!" I said and started to nudge him with my elbow while howling with laughter.
St. Peter groaned. "That's it, consider that a bad thing. Heaven d... | 2020-03-20T16:29:25 | 2020-03-20T16:19:59 | 281 | 177 |
[WP] You're a supevillain sitting down for a meal at your favorite restaurant. One of your henchmen comes in to rob the place. | He was cool - and that was the word for it.
Cool.
Making small talk with the people he expertly shook down, His clear voice commanding hypnotic obedience.
He robbed the diner with such a casual nonchalance.
Like he was flirting with a beautiful woman; All confidence and charm.
The gun was larger than it had to b... | “Put your hands where I can see them!”
The chattering stops.
I look up from the menu,only to be greeted by a peculiar sight of a chubby man holding a gun to the owner.
The owner seems terrified,trembling and looking at the to be robber,then to me.
“Excuse me for a moment my dear”. I say to my beloved,standing up fr... | 2017-11-17T02:05:51 | 2017-11-16T23:56:20 | 58 | 19 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | "Daddy! Look! Shooting stars!"
Joseph Barker looks up at the night sky and feels a chill run down his spine. Indeed, there were shooting stars. But years of work developing some of Earth's defense systems meant he knew they weren't meteorites. He watches in terror as Earth's defense grid burns. "Yes Jacob. ... | When humanity took its first fledgling steps into the galaxy, the general reaction of the galactic community was "how?" followed by "what for?" followed by a general shrugging of appendages and returning to what they were doing before. The human reaction to being essentially ignored by the rest of the galaxy was very, ... | 2017-03-26T09:19:46 | 2017-03-26T08:18:48 | 74 | 41 |
[WP] Whenever someone can't sleep, it's actually because there's an enemy nearby, they just don't realise as there's no prompt like in a video game. | He stared at the ceiling. Surely there could be something he could do. He eased himself out of bed, wobbled through the flat over to the medicine cabinet, opened it, and swore. Out of Nyquil. The empty packet mocked him as ruthlessly as someone whose daughter was not named Ruth. He tried a homemade remedy, some old wiv... | The young man walked into the bedroom to find his wife sound asleep, facing away from the middle of the bed. He showered, put on his pajamas, brushed his teeth, and climbed in beside her.
He lay in bed with his eyes wide open, trying to fall asleep yet struggling to stay awake.
Meanwhile, his wife had a loaded .45 cl... | 2017-02-16T12:46:45 | 2017-02-16T10:35:11 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] When you kill someone, their remaining life span is added to yours. Archaeologists have just found a cavern, apparently sealed off for thousands of years, with a single person living inside. | *Tink, tink tink.*
He listened as the rhythmic pattern of digging extended to ancient ears, unused to the disturbance beyond the flittering of the dancing dust that spiralled in the darkness - waltzing in their eternal confinement to the endless tune of silence.
*Tink, tink tink. Tink, tink, tink.*
The sound got clo... | They sent me in. I did not want to go, but I had no choice. The government made use of people like me. Those who stood against the system.
I don't know how long the system has been in place, though some certainly do. Those who rule us lived when it started. A horrible system where people could take remaining life f... | 2020-05-16T06:16:22 | 2020-05-16T05:32:25 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] how you die and the treatment of your body determines what happens to your soul, due to the bizarre circumstances of your death you find yourself in the jurisdiction of an ancient and obscure god.
E.g. last rights and a catholic funeral would mean your soul goes to heaven, hell or limbo as per the bible. | “I can’t believe they used molten lead.” I said, suddenly finding myself by a desert river, much like the one they had done the deed next to. ISIS was a cruel group, and disposing of a reporter with the morbidly creative use of a box and molten lead was shocking to say the least.
“Didn’t see it coming did you?” A man ... | The day started quietly, so quietly I almost wanted to sleep in. Some days a person can really use a little peace and quiet to take a nap, but today the stillness did more than bring an air of somnolence. It terrified me.
After a week alone on a raft in the North Atlantic- at least I think it was the North Atlantic,... | 2015-01-15T06:13:25 | 2015-01-14T22:55:33 | 37 | 24 |
[WP] You're bitten by a zombie. By some strange happening, you die and become a zombie, but your ghost remains bound to this earth. Your ghost has to try and keep your zombie body out of trouble until a cure is found. | “By the power of Christ, I compel you! Leave this poor woman alone!” yelled Father Amos as he drew out a sizable cross and tapped, quite vigorously, Alisha on the forehead.
“Father, please,” pleaded Alisha as she tried to guide the frenzied priest to the sofa. “We’re fine, and there’s no need to intervene.”
“Bind you... | I miss living.
A lot. Things really went to shit in the last few months but before that it was really turning around for me. I'd found a beautiful girl who really loved me, got an apartment that I could call my own, I'd even found a job that I really enjoyed going to!
Who could ask for more?
So that fateful morning ... | 2017-02-02T06:03:44 | 2017-02-02T05:39:34 | 189 | 67 |
[WP] everyone in the world has a number over their head, but nobody knows why. You have just figured if out. | We had to learn living with it. It had been years since the first ones begun to appear. I think everyone remembers when it all started. At the beginning you’d see it in the news, a couple of people from all over the world showed up in the news showing the holographic number above their heads. We thought it was a hoax.
... | It had been years since the great accident. Millions fell. Billions rose. The world was at a chaos, until a man came to save us.
His name was Micha. He proclaimed himself as a peace-maker and chains of the world. He did just that. His negotiation skills were unmatched, countless of otherwise terrifying wars were brou... | 2014-06-04T10:30:58 | 2014-06-04T09:38:52 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] In the future Earth is fighting a desperate war against aliens. With no other option, we start to use heavy genetic engineering, effectively making most humans like nightmare monsters. After victory, the unaltered refugees on a secluded planet do not recognize us for humans anymore. | The next month would mark the 78th anniversary of the mass exodus from planet Earth. Just one year before that, they came. These beings from the corner of the Baziniel galaxy. First contact seemed genuinely peaceful as we exchanged gifts and research. Yet their captain was overthrown by a planned mutiny, and the new le... | We won. We finally won. At least I think it's still 'we'.. To say we made horrible mistakes during the war would be to easy. Victory had it's price and everybody had to play their part. But are we stil ourselves? During the fighting, the horrors, the bloodshed, we forgot about Eden. We sent humans to that paradise of a... | 2016-06-04T02:20:39 | 2016-06-04T01:24:03 | 317 | 13 |
[WP] A supervillain kidnaps a civilian and keeps them hostage, taunting on live television for the superhero to come find them. Unbeknownst to the villain, the kidnapped civilian is the superhero.
Did I butcher the title or what?
This is blowing up! All the responses have been diverse and really cool!
| I leaned back in the chair, the bluster of the babbling villain playing accompaniment to the first break I'd had in, god how long had it been? A decade, easy. Being a superhero is great and all, but its not like you can claim it on your tax returns if you want to keep your identity secret. And then you have to prove th... | **G:** Hey Dave, look! I've found us a super cool new writing prompt to do today! It's all about superheroes and supervillains and supe-
**D:** *Really Greg? Of all the pages and pages of high quality, well written submissions - we're going with this? A three-line title with half the plot of Megamind scrolled over it?... | 2017-01-28T09:24:53 | 2017-01-28T08:01:15 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | I glanced at the button, red, shiny, like a new toy underneath the Christmas tree.
"Press it" the voice inside my head begged. My finger slid across the button, careful not to disrupt the connection enough to initiate it by mistake, I knew I had to make sure I was making this decision with an open, and clear, mind.
... | I looked at her as she looked back
We looked at the button, unassuming black
We kissed deeply, in the matte dark
We looked at the button, the paradigm Mark
I looked at her as she looked back
Fear and emotion and a need for no lack
We kissed as we pushed, together, in tandem
What happened next, was far from rando... | 2016-07-16T17:58:05 | 2016-07-16T17:08:32 | 145 | 12 |
[WP] "You shot me! I thought you were a pacifist!" "You're right about that. You're wrong if you think this means I won't put a bullet into those who try to abuse that." | The round ripped through the air, finding a neat little lane of atmosphere to glide through undisturbed. After a nearly imperceivable moment the metal jacketed ball of flame met its mark. Like a hot knife through butter, a bat through a glass vase, or some other third simile, the bullet tore through its mark and out th... | Outside of the terrorist camp, a soldier hid in a bush, wearing a clearly visible red shirt, khakis, and a bizarre chrome helmet. Peacemaker gazed through the scope of a rifle at a lookout, and approaching from his side, a wartime journalist, also hiding, peered up at him incredulously.
"Don't you call yourself Peacem... | 2022-09-03T23:11:13 | 2022-09-03T17:35:59 | 108 | 50 |
[WP] A man who has had no knowledge of religion meets both God and the Devil. He is the chosen one who decides whether God or the Devil inherits the Earth. The problem is, he cannot tell which is which. | "The Chosen One' - I felt like I'd stepped right out of one of those Hollywood movies. There's a chosen one for everything these days. Chosen to save the world! Chosen to bring balance to the Force! Chosen to choose! So when the two beings in front of me told me I was "The Chosen One", I must say I didn't fully grasp t... | I walked I to the room. It was neutral in paint colour and temperature. I saw 2 men before me, one with a white beard, one with a pointy black beard. They stared at me without speaking. Even in my confusion, I thought it best to address them.
'Good afternoon?' I began. 'I'm not entirely sure how I ended up here. It s... | 2015-08-06T02:14:57 | 2015-08-06T00:00:49 | 67 | 21 |
[WP] You are a vampire who needs fresh human blood to survive. There has been a sweeping zombie outbreak. | A lot of frankly melodramatic language has been used to describe me through history. Scourge, ghoul, night-bringer, despoiler, blah blah blah (blah! I vant to -- nevermind.)
100 years ago I despised the emergence of mass-market pop culture because the Bela Lugosi style hunchbacked Count is such a reductive and harmfu... | "This won't hurt at all," I whispered to the woman before thrusting my fangs into her cold... neck. "Bloody hell!" I blurted out, along with the rancid blood that got into my mouth. I turned her head around, accidentally ripping it off of her body.
"Sorry, I wanted to make sure that you were *one*..." I said looking d... | 2015-08-10T10:39:32 | 2015-08-10T10:37:35 | 83 | 13 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | The old human in a white robe closed the door behind him as he left. The hulking being known as HiveKing grabbed and threw an underling against the door. The carapace of the poor serving boy cracked and ichor spilled slowly out.
"Father, it is insufferable that they once again talk of peace. He cites old laws in la... | My kind has always seen violence as a pragmatic tool to get our ends. We don't indulge in violence out of any primitive instinct; we have long since killed those. To us, whom the humans call the Amphitilians - to note that we can exist in more forms of matter than they can, "war" has a been way to resolve in unresolvab... | 2022-08-06T00:04:24 | 2022-08-05T21:30:37 | 17 | 10 |
[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 lights on Ambassador Tel’s suspension tank remained static for some time. Like the rest of his species, his- *it’s* - body was a tangled web of translucent strands like a jellyfish crossed with a ball of yarn.
In their home waters, under that warm tropical sun, even a mild current had the strength to tear them ... | "Finally, those damned Cetaceans and their ridiculous cylindrical vessels have decided to share the secrets of FTL travel." Admiral James T Kahn sat confidently on the bridge of the newly christened flagship of the Earth Space Superiority services.
Soon, it would be engaged in battle with Rodentia. "They think they... | 2016-05-13T06:44:58 | 2016-05-13T06:26:32 | 941 | 21 |
[WP] A little girl walks up to a man at a desk. She is followed by something horrifying. She points to it and says "It's lost, and we need to get it back home." | I watched in puzzlement as a young girl in a dull red frock approached my desk. She could only be six or seven and she seemed to be all alone. At *this* time of night.
"Hello," she said. There was something so odd about the way she said it. Formal - like an adult might. No smile. No nervousness. And her face was so pa... | The tiny girl in the yellow dress walked across the light, airy atrium to my desk. I recognized her from somewhere, but there are a lot of children on this space station, so I didn't know her name. Hundreds.
"Are you lost?" I asked.
No. Behind her, it slithered. A great, dripping Lovecraftian mass of black tentacles,... | 2017-02-10T07:11:45 | 2017-02-10T06:36:06 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | The room fell silent. The GM shifted for a better look, the players all staring at the centre of the table, where a d20 had come to rest over a crudely drawn map of a desert village. Above it, an outstretched hand quivered slightly.
1.
"Shit..." said Mark.
John took in a heavy breath, and began to leaf through the ... | "I've got this."
The sound of dice rolling in the cup echoed around the tiny attic. The others rolled their eyes.
"You don't have this. Just stop. If you miss-"
He grinned. "I'm not going to miss."
The man sitting across the table sighed, rubbing his forehead. "Lee, just stop. You'll only have him in your sig... | 2018-05-29T07:03:42 | 2018-05-29T05:54:52 | 1,678 | 813 |
[WP] Superstitions are real and everyone knows it. Thirteenth floor is off limits and you DO NOT walk under a ladder. Today you get a emergency alert on your phone two hundred black cats have been dropped in the city you live. This is equivalent to a small scale nuclear exchange. | It was the last time any other city-state attacked us.
Every screen in the city showed the enemy helicopter as it flew toward the city. Every citizen watched as it swooped over the city center and opened its cargo bay doors. And every eye was transfixed when the deadly cargo came tumbling out: hundreds of *black cats*... | EMERGENCY ALERT: HUNDREDS OF BLACK CATS RELEASED DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS. REMAIN INDOORS AND AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.
We knew this day would come. State borders were never reinforced after the second civil war - there was never time. And after what we did to Iowa - what we've been doing - It was just a matter of when... | 2018-05-14T09:38:13 | 2018-05-14T07:51:42 | 726 | 268 |
[WP] You were a young mage when you inadvertently embarrassed royalty and got a bounty on your head. At first, thousands swarmed you to take your head. Now nobody does. They know better. | It began simply enough. These things always do.
The young prince considered himself a sorcerer of some skill, and being arrogant, rich, young, and rich, arranged a contest of arcane skill to prove himself.
10,000 gold pieces to any one who could best him - to cast a enchantment that he could not break.
Of course he... | Many have come to see Eberron, the world sage, and seek his wisdom. Some come seeking help, after their lives have devolved so far into despair they see no other path to salvation. The world sage is known as a healer of what is broken. Others come in search of advice, seeking a way to know the future, to gain some grea... | 2018-06-10T04:39:20 | 2018-06-10T04:19:28 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | Figuring out your special gift is an exciting and unexpected moment in most children’s lives. My dad discovered his gift when he was three and really wanted that shiny new toy at the store. Holding your breath until you get what you want only is so effective when your lungs produce their own oxygen. He never got that t... | The knife spread the condiment across the bread smoothly, covering the surface with mayo. As I absentmindedly put together the sandwich I looked around, everybody at the party with their special someone, watching the countdown to the new year, talking, eating and other New Years Party themed activities.
It was almost... | 2015-10-10T08:36:26 | 2015-10-10T07:56:54 | 628 | 56 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | “Doesn’t anybody get it!” I yelled at the confused knight standing below my tower.
“SHE IS A PET!” I barked at him. My rage getting increasingly higher as these people kept coming to kill my Grengold Dragon, Dempy.
The knight looked up at me, his eyes wide with utter confusion, and surprise.
“But..”
“NO BUTS! Honestl... | Sitting quietly in her beautiful court yard Rae sat looking out over her kingdom. She watched the many marvels that happened there. The beauty of nature and woods surrounded her. A crystal water fell rushed to the forest floor not far off from her.
Rae shook her head as she saw the bright gleam of armor speeding her ... | 2019-01-09T10:14:11 | 2019-01-09T07:32:29 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] Create a heart-warming version of the Grim Reaper | “Hi there!” said the pretty woman, walking into the room. “How are you feeling Jimmy?”
“Not too good,” replied the child, his voice weak, his skin pasty and loose, his eyes barely able to flutter open. “I haven’t felt good for a while.”
“Oh, well, I’m sorry to hear that,” said the woman as she moved to the side of th... | We had long suffered in this world, the death, the disease, the inability to rest for even a moment. Sleep is not an escape from the horrors that pound at our doors, and we find no solace in the weight of our blankets. We tell the young ones that it won't get better, but we must make it to the end.
"What's at the end?... | 2015-08-17T23:54:59 | 2015-08-17T22:45:27 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | I stilled dreamed of seeing.
I think that's why I initially snoozed my alarm clock instead of gasping for joy. But as I rolled back over to look at my wife lying next to me, I did gasp. Not for joy, but out of shock. On the wall behind Kathrine a message had been hastily painted on the wall.
\-DON'T TELL THEM YOU CA... | "Oh god," is all I can think to myself as I reread the message in front of me. I glance around at the people around me, all of them shuffling around. The sound of canes tapping the concrete ring in my ears as my pulse quickens.
"What am I going to do..." I mumble under my breath before joining the crowd of people.
Th... | 2022-10-15T03:24:04 | 2019-08-26T10:47:57 | 52 | 12 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Crap,” I think, “there goes that idea.”
“How do you plead?” The judge asks.
“How can I plead anything beside what you have already decided for me?” I retort. The venom won’t help me here but I can’t help it, I’m angry. Anyone in my situation would be.
I’ve spent a lifetime building my political career. They say th... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 432 | 66 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | Immortality isn't a miracle. It isn't a blessing. It's cold hard science and a severe lack of morals. The key to immortality is what scientists around the world are looking for right now. I just happened to find the fountain of youth first but it was nothing that you could go around publishing in Scientific America. Th... | Greg trod along the white, sterilized corridor, his feet making massive thumps that were audible to the guard standing at attention roughly one hundred feet away, besides the ‘Dangerous Persons’ sign in front of a dull grey metal door. The door looked like iron, very old iron. Several of his twenty or so guards were vi... | 2016-10-15T10:12:12 | 2016-10-15T07:48:02 | 709 | 172 |
[WP] NASA has detected an Earth-like rogue planet that would pass by within Earth's orbit, before leaving our solar system forever in a tour around the Milky Way. They find that, even without a parent sun as an energy source, it's dynamic geothermal activity means the planet can be colonized. | At first we thought it was just an elaborate April fools joke that all the major news networks were collaborating. It was so far fetched noone took it seriously.
That was until amateur astronomers started to post evidence of it on eddit. When it started passing Pluto nearly everyone Internet savvy started to believe ... | The ancient Greeks named the planets plánēs aster, meaning ‘wandering star’, because they knew that these moved through the night sky whereas the other stars stayed fixed in their location. Through time we learned the planets did not truly wander any more than our own planet did, simply revolved around the sun. Now wit... | 2016-04-03T10:35:17 | 2016-04-03T09:44:37 | 115 | 85 |
[WP] Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. | “Cassy, it’s time for bed!”
“Ok Daddy, I just have to pick up!”
Crashing and thumping proceeded to radiate up the stairs, soon followed by Cassy colliding up the stairs.
“Well that was fast. How’d you manage it? You had quite a mess down there.”
“Oh Daddy,” she smiled like the answer was obvious. “Clyde and Clara ... |
A hand. Really? They couldn’t have at least left it in a zip lock bag or rolled up in a handkerchief? Well, beggars and all. At least it wasn’t dirty. Rather clean actually. And was it…cauterized? Whoever did it, did a good job. No blood stains, thank goodness. Those would have taken some serious effort to get out ... | 2019-10-06T14:24:01 | 2019-10-06T13:44:39 | 1,268 | 261 |
[WP]Just because one of your chicken eggs hatched a fire breathing dragon people think you’re evil. But you’re still just a regular farmer trying to make a living while dealing with an overprotective dragon, heroes that want to kill you and fanatics who want to worship you as the new Demon Lord. | People never visit my town anymore. It’s because of her.
She flew higher and faster than the strongest hawks, and she was sweeter than the nicest dog. Her fiery red scales danced in the sky every new year for us. She would play with the children. Made fireworks over the lake.
She killed parasites. A pack of coyotes k... | I woke up on Thursday morning as I usually did, with no sleep whatsoever. Penny, my magic dragon decided it would be a good idea to sit on the tool shed. So I'd spent the night cleaning up debris and taking pitchforks out of her ass. Obviously, I was in no mood for cultists or annoying men with their underwear over the... | 2021-03-21T19:30:54 | 2021-03-21T18:23:41 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | *Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
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*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
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*Press*
Wait.
Another ten kilobucks at the god damned credit union.
Damnit. Maybe tomorrow night.
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May... | *Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.*
My eyes were glued to the green button, every night. At first, I loved the color. Green is healthy, and green is money. It made sense. What didn't make sense made it even more fascinating somehow. Hell, I even got the thing a black case. Suede.
*Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. To... | 2016-07-16T19:30:28 | 2016-07-16T17:19:00 | 113 | 65 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | Commander Killray. The name used to send a cold shudder through the heartiest 'hero', or of any member of society's most corrupt cabal. His energy powers made a fool of militaries, police forces, and junior supers alike.
"Now look at me." I snapped one of the heavy elastic bands of the chest harness I now had to wear... | He opened the door in silence and helped me out of the car. We didn't exchange a single word on our way there: he was looking out the window and I couldn't stop replaying that phone call in my head.
"So, let's see if I understood. You want me to go to a wedding with you because you're scared of your ex and you have n... | 2022-10-06T21:53:05 | 2022-10-06T20:58:31 | 95 | 37 |
[WP] Write a story about a hero who thinks they're the villain. | As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a tyrant.
And I don't mean the whole Cincinnatus-dictator, Father-of-his-people bullcrap, thank you very much. I mean a straight-up *tyrant*. I mean the guy sipping champagne and laughing down at the useless little slaves toiling their lives away. I mean putting ... | Major Novak whirled on the smallish man, his artificial eye blazing a freezing blue. He poked a titanium finger at the other man's chest, driving hard enough to force the man to take a step back.
"Let's get something straight, toady. I protect your piss poor little planet from the fuckers you somehow managed to piss ... | 2015-09-25T13:49:34 | 2015-09-25T13:33:00 | 75 | 20 |
[WP]”It’s OK honey, you can come out now,” Daddy was saying. His blue eyes shone at me through the closet, “I triple-checked for any monsters, and it’s OK! You don’t have to be scared! Come out please?” It didn’t change the fact, though, that my daddy’s eyes are green. | "Honey? I'm opening the closet door now ok..."
I felt some resistance as I tugged on the handle. If I overpower her though it wasn't going to solve the problem.
"Sweetheart it's late. I'll get mad if you stay up past bedtime. I have a great story for you today."
A muffled voice came from behind the door. "Abou... | He looks like daddy, even sounds like him, but I know it not to be true. The glint in his eyes is dark, his smile wicked. He sat crouched and friendly, but I saw it as a predator poised to strike its prey.
My hand gripped the handle of the closet, looking through the thin vertical slats to stare at his dark blue eyes.... | 2018-11-25T02:01:26 | 2018-11-25T00:58:36 | 110 | 34 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | After a long day in the field, you head inside your front door and after turning the lock closed, breathe a sigh of relief. Working the field alone is brutal but gives you a sense of purpose; keeps you from going insane.
Your resolve had been tested mercilessly the last two years. After Sena left you alone with an in... | It was like any other day. I woke up. Tended the fields. Took Regi out for a walk before we sat at the porch; Regi curled around my leg. I always say on the left, the right was her chair. I kept it clean, like all her things. I still used the mugs she made for us when we were still children. The bowl she made for Regi.... | 2022-08-12T14:17:07 | 2022-08-12T11:59:41 | 1,382 | 330 |
[WP] Starting at the age of 10, humans are given companion animals that develop along side them. These animals can range anywhere from a goldfish to a horse to even a dragon. The only catch is that they are assigned based on your behavior during childhood. | *Just FYI before you go in, I changed the age to sixteen.*
__________
Sasha Fields was turning ten years old. It was, like all sixteen year old's birthdays, a special occasion. Not only because it marked her first steps into the adult world, but because it marked the day she would receive her first companion. Her fathe... | "A crummy monkey?" the posh kid asked. "My father will *not* tolerate this, and I will not either!" The small, but well-dressed kid started throwing a fit, keeping the rest of the children in the queue.
"Oh, boy, looks like poshie's not happy with what he's got. Do you reckon they'll swap it for him?" the girl in fron... | 2017-01-13T12:29:47 | 2017-01-13T12:16:00 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] You are cursed with ever aging immortality with the exception you can be killed using one object. Every few years you get a hint.
You physically age as you get older but cannot die. | Every decade, my mother tells me how I might kill myself.
Well, she doesn't *tell* me, tell me.
My mother is three hundred and seven years old. She had me when she was thirty five, making me two hundred and seventy two.
Back in my twenties and thirties, I thought she was crazy. Why would I ever want to kill myself... | **Do you know the Burden I carry?**
It is a *heavy* thing, a weight beyond measure.
I am the oldest man alive. I was born in time to see the last of the Roman Empire crumble into ruin. By all means, I should have died when the chariots of those foreign savages rolled through my town, crushing the dried autumn leaves ... | 2016-04-07T09:12:21 | 2016-04-07T07:40:30 | 130 | 10 |
[WP] After robbing a bank and with cops in pursuit of your vehicle, you yell, "Jesus take the wheel," as you move to shoot at the police. To your surprise, Jesus actually appears and takes the wheel. | “The one on the left. Shoot him first.”
I don’t know what shocked me more; the fact that there was now an unremarkable man of middle eastern decent adorned with a halo grabbing my steering wheel from the passenger seat, or that he was encouraging me to shoot the cop on the left.
“Who…” I began.
“You know who,” He sa... | I had everything planned out to the minute.
7:49 - Enter bank and begin filling out a deposit slip with the instructions.
7:50 - Hand note to bank teller with a smile.
7:51 - Intercept silent alarm trigger.
7:52 -
You know what you get the idea, I had a well thought out plan. I had a few people helping all with... | 2017-05-01T09:07:34 | 2017-05-01T06:08:31 | 292 | 24 |
[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! ... | Frieda had searched for years. Finally, she was certain she had found him: the Sage, who had the power to grant anyone whatever superpower he wished. Whenever the world was in danger, The Sage had always been there to provide the world with heroes to save it. Now, the world needed heroes again and Frieda was determi... | ######[](#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... | 2019-01-20T13:44:59 | 2019-01-20T11:39:55 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] The hero stared at the boy who was supposed to be his wise old master. "Word of advice. If you ever achieve immortality then wait till you're at least 20", he said in a high pitched voice. | Grant looked at the boy with confusion. He couldn't have been more than ten years old.
"Wait, you're immortal, and you're my master who's going to train me? The voice in the fire told me to come here. This is all a bit overwhelming."
"I'm Kaimon, or just Kai. Yes, I'm immortal and yes I'm your master. I'm here... | The boy reclined in one of the swamp pools that formed at the base of the tree of ancients. His proportions seemed alien to the hero, long gangly limbs, slender fingers longer than the hero's arms. His face a porous mess of craters upon craters. "You're to be my master" said the Hero.
" I am," cracked the voice of the... | 2020-01-25T08:28:01 | 2020-01-25T08:25:06 | 47 | 19 |
[WP] A sorceress tries to summon a deamon from the depths of hell previously unreached by anyone. Instead she summons you. A ww5 orbital shock troop fueled by military grade space cocain. | On mobile, forgive my editing.
The incantation had been set. A low thrum of energy twisted through every sigil, powering the eldritch calculation engine that was this ritual spell.
Plenty of 'righteous' men had called upon angels before. Some had even claimed to see gods. All brought pain and suffering in their holy... | Barry is busy when the sorceress calls him. His entire squad lay dead behind him. He cannot help them anymore and tries not to think about them. Besides, what's there to worry about? Barry is the one who killed them.
Up ahead is the enemy's main battery. When he enters the control room, he is greeted by M17-r1f3, whos... | 2020-03-05T05:34:58 | 2020-03-05T05:20:00 | 145 | 45 |
[WP]Every single "Walks into a bar" joke has occurred at the same bar. You are the bartender. | "Alright, listen up!" Mike the Bouncer shouts at the long queue waiting outside the door. "Next up we have Bill the Screwdriver... is Bill the Screwdriver here?" The bar is packed tonight, not as many rabbis as usual, but still busy nonetheless. I watch as a screwdriver with legs enters and finds a seat while I pour a ... | What was supposed to be a normal shift now looks like the cantina scene from Star Wars, and everything is starting to fall apart. A rabbi and a priest argue feverishly, a long-faced horse and a duck eating grapes get into a fight, and a dyslexic with a bra on is getting picked on by an Irish man (who seems to be the on... | 2016-06-23T12:56:14 | 2016-06-23T11:54:40 | 91 | 10 |
[WP] You've discovered the fountain of youth, however, 2500 years later no one believes you because you're a kid. | I had found the fountain of youth only too soon.
For the first two thousand years or so it was difficult to make good on my wealth of knowledge and experience because everyone believed me to be just a child. They didn't know that I was the oldest human alive, stuck in an eight-year-old's body.
Life, it seemed, would... | Sheila, with a sigh and en eye roll that could have proven her age even if nothing else about her would, started again, from the beginning, trying to get the idea through the thick skull of this all-too-sacchrin checkout-girl who was the only thing standing between her and the pack of Malboros that she'd been jonesing ... | 2020-09-28T18:54:06 | 2020-09-28T17:27:14 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] After you die, you come back as a spirit, but only while someone alive is thinking of you. For 10 years you've had seconds or minutes of consciousness at a time. But for the past 16 months, you've been constantly awake, and you begin to suspect why. | Pain. That is the one thing I can clearly remember before disappearing into the void. Every time I am brought back there is only one question: why? I was healthy, happy and young. There was nobody that I can think of that wanted me dead and still here I am. The last thing I remember is opening my front door and a man... | I used to slip in and out of the light, like a star winking in the blackness. The world I could no longer fathom would burst through my vision and then I’d slip sweetly back into oblivion, all memory gone. No more pain, no more sense, just flashes of humanity dancing through my endless dreams.
But something’s wrong. ... | 2019-06-30T13:17:29 | 2019-06-30T11:20:33 | 83 | 21 |
[WP] Describe Someone Baking Muffins Using Mainly Military Jargon
... but still have it comprehensibly to those who aren't familiar with it. | "Men, today is a special occasion. Today we'll be making a cake to celebrate Lieutenant Fuller's birthday. OORAH?"
"OORAH!" The assembled men chanted.
"Baker, you're my #2 man on this operation."
"Sir, my last name is Baker. I'm not actually..."
"BAKER! I need you and Miller to scout the galley for supplies."
"Yes... | **Probably NSFW**
First thing's fuckin' first: I put the fucking muffin mix in the fucking bowl and mixed that shit with some fucking water. Fuckin' mixed in the unhatched chickens and all that other fucking shit on the god damn package, and tossed that shit into a baking pan.
"Fuck! I forgot to spray pam on the ... | 2015-02-11T11:02:22 | 2015-02-11T10:33:21 | 170 | 30 |
[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. | Joe entered the apartment as Harry was hanging the clock back on the wall.
"Hey," called Joe.
"Hey. Batteries needed changing."
"How'd the interview go?"
"Ok I guess," replied Harry, wiping the mop of blonde hair off his forehead. "Got there a little late. Bike chain broke and I fell."
"Oh man, that sucks. Are yo... | 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... | 2015-07-18T00:01:04 | 2015-07-17T21:25:53 | 85 | 25 |
[WP] Casting a spell is like coding a program, but with magic. An apprentice points out an error in the chant. "I know it's wrong," replies the master, "but if I change it, reality gets all wonkey." | “Wonky, master?” Apprentice Hilliya asked quizzically, frowning at her teacher. “Please forgive me, ma’am, but that doesn’t sound like a proper answer. I can see several places here where the syntax could be cleaned up to make the spell easier without affecting its effects!”
Master Mara nodded, her pointed hat bouncin... | "It's not a gremlin," Antides said, pinching the bridge of his nose between thumb and first-finger. "It's a trait."
"But it's wrong," said the apprentice, scratching his head over Antides' outstretched spell scroll.
"I know it's wrong," replied Antides, "but if I change it, reality gets all wonky."
And it would. The... | 2022-09-19T15:55:21 | 2022-09-19T15:13:30 | 100 | 60 |
[WP] As you hover over your lifeless body, a man sporting a winged helmet approaches you. He looks just as confused as you are. "I've been sent to lead you to the underworld," he says, "but we haven't seen a newcomer in centuries." | I didn’t really mean to die, but here I was, floating in the dark above my very totaled car. The rain went right through me.
*Huh*, I thought to myself, *I guess I’m dead*, and then he showed up.
“Centuries?” I said. “So where’d the rest of them go?”
He grinned, leather sandals tapping back and forth in the air. ... | Harry regained consciousness on the side of the road. The crash was instantaneous, and the two mangled cars sat silently smoking in the misty evening air. Besides the stars in the sky, the only illumination was the taillights from the mangled vehicles and one drooping headlight.
"That was a pretty good one," said an u... | 2021-01-02T12:12:33 | 2021-01-02T11:46:12 | 26 | 16 |
[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. | In the gulfs of space, somewhere off the shoulder of Orion, a probe scans for signs of 'The Enemy'.
"Ping... Ping... Ping... Ping.. Ping.. Ping.. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping Ping Ping PingPingPingPingPing"
On the fifth planet of a dying star, a general makes his report to King Priasma of the world of Ilium.
"My king, we... | The highest Generals of the United Human Systems sat in their chambers, a dark and rather cramped room in the back of the Capital Parliament. They were comprised of many generals from across Human worlds. Three from Earth, one from Mars, another four from orbital colonies, and the other seven from a number colonised st... | 2017-03-06T03:02:27 | 2017-03-06T01:54:02 | 69 | 27 |
[WP] A cult summons an elder horror only to find that the awful truths it has to share are only beyond the comprehension of the medieval Europeans who wrote the legends about it. Most of what it has to share is actually taught in grade school today. | It was a child. Honestly, I would have preferred the most hellish demon to the kid, who stared at me with lidless white eyes. His dark skin and short, curly black hair seemed to meld with the blackness of cellar, leaving only the two white orbs burrowing into my soul.
"You seek knowledge." It wasn't a question. I coul... | I thought we messed up at first, all the medieval scriptures had said to light the candles, wipe around the sheep's blood, but when we did it all nothing happened. Till about an hour later when we were all about to pack up a giant puff of smoke appeared and out of it came a coughing man with medieval clothing.
He look... | 2017-09-04T08:28:16 | 2017-09-04T04:08:56 | 51 | 20 |
[WP] You chant "Bloody Mary" three times in your car's side view mirror and then hit the gas laughing all the while as she sprints towards your car desperately trying to keep up.
Edit: Optional inclusion, it's the eighth time you done this. | "Bloody Mary!" I say for the third time. Suddenly a woman appears in front of me grinning. The grin turns to annoyance as she sees me.
"Oh Jesus Christ it's you again!" She moans. "This is the 17th time this month. How is this still interesting for you? Don't you read? Or play Fortnite or some of that shii-"
Sadly ... | Steve had the perfect idea... he would chant “Bloody Mary” three times in his car’s side view mirror. It would be hilarious, he thought. He imagined her hopelessly sprinting toward the car trying to keep up with him and laughed himself silly. After he chanted the words into the mirror with a big smile, he heard a voice... | 2018-10-01T13:49:23 | 2018-10-01T13:41:16 | 71 | 11 |
[WP] With as much confidence as you can muster, you plant your feet, gaze up at the sky, and cry out a simple command to the expanse above with all your might: “SHOW YOURSELF!!!” After a moment, a calm voice echos from the heavens in reply with a simple question: “Why?” | “SHOW YOURSELF!!!”
•••
Everyone told me I had to have faith.
Everyone told me that I simply had to believe.
Everyone said he works in mysterious ways.
I said, "Bullshit. Everything you've said amounts to God being on the same level as Santa Claus. No, on a *lower* level than Santa Claus because parents will go t... | # Soulmage
**After wringing answers from every oracle, after decrypting the messages our creators had written in the stars, after gathering my magic and fury to rise to the uppermost edge of the atmosphere, I knew the truth of this world.** There were gods, ancient, unfathomable, nigh-omnipotent, and they had built my... | 2022-10-19T00:07:49 | 2022-10-18T21:29:38 | 61 | 43 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Death, my existence has turned into suffering," I said. "My very bones ache, my skin is weathered. My body became nothing but a green leaf shriveling in autumn's time."
Death chuckled like a five year old, hiting his ball joint as he crouched slightly. "Immortality, a game only a few can play Darren," he said. "If yo... | A shadow looms over me, its anger palpable in the morning mist. I don’t need to turn to know who it is. “Death.”
The figure inclines slightly, a bare ghost of a bow. I smile, and say, “Our deal holds, my friend. How many times is it, now?” A piercing screech echoes from behind a locked door, ringing against the cold m... | 2017-11-29T12:47:04 | 2017-11-28T13:19:24 | 149 | 16 |
[WP] Like many, you accrued colossal student debt as you studied to be a wizard. Like many, you planned to evade payment by putting your newly-gained knowledge of the arcane to use. Like many, you underestimated the Collectors. | I was 28 and thought I was slicker than owl shit.
*CRACK*
There were four of us, I’ve forgotten their names. Simon? Olivia? I vaguely remember one of us not being human. Why does the name Penny sound familiar?
*SCRAPE*
Anyway, the four of us were so god damn cocky. We, naturally, knew the spells we learned in scho... | "Direct hit!" I cried out triumphantly, after the deafening roar of the meteorite shower died down. The entire neighborhood had been erased, leaving nothing but mounds of dirt where homes had once been. Once the dust settled down, there'd be three miles of absolutely nothing in every direction. A small price to pay ... | 2021-02-03T14:05:36 | 2021-02-03T13:28:27 | 16 | 10 |
[WP]: No other intelligent, spacefaring life form knows the concept of sunk cost fallacy. For most of them, wars can be ended simply by presenting their capability for further war, and the weaker one yields. Humans, however, will take anyone on out of pure spite. | "...I'm sorry, what?"
"Well, maybe I didn't phrase it right. The humans seem to be indicating that... they refuse to surrender."
Thrôg'nåk pointed all 5 of his ocular sensors at his second-in-command Grīm'tår with a look of sheer disbelief.
"Did you explain to them how many ships we have in our fleet? They must s... | The red dust of the Martian surface began to clear, and the truth was made evident: the humans had lost.
General Zin to his Martian brother, a somber look on his face. It was not meant to come to this. Peace was all they ever wanted; the humans could have learned much from them. And yet.
“How many of their troops r... | 2021-01-18T22:32:57 | 2021-01-18T19:47:06 | 390 | 178 |
[WP] Your life long ally left you for dead in order to take credit for defeating the world’s greatest evil. Left with nothing but your thoughts and a growing puddle of your own blood, you hear a voice calling out to you; offering a second chance, for a price....... | We were supposed to be better than this.
We'd met on the field of battle, pawns of other men. We slaughtered in the name of those men and formed a bond of brotherhood, a pact of steel that was our only defense against the horrors that'd we'd seen, that we'd committed. We slowly climbed the ranks, at first nudging our ... | My life poured out of me in lazy rivulets, pulling me closer to death, one ounce at a time. The fight against the terrible beast had taken almost everything out of me, it's giant fists and smaller teeth had beaten and ripped me, but I'd dodged what I could and absorbed what I couldn't. His blasphemous magic burned ad's... | 2018-10-25T20:14:58 | 2018-10-25T19:58:54 | 75 | 10 |
[WP] You are an alien in a thriving galactic society. At the center of society, is the beloved and wise humans, who rule this galaxy. But you’ve learned a terrible truth. Humans learned early on that they were the only intelligent life, so they created all other races out of fear of being alone. | We were taught that Humans came first. That they cracked the secrets of the arcane and through sheer determination propelled themselves through the stars to find us. Showering us and countless others in their benevolent wisdom, they took their rightful place as our cultural leaders.
You’ve heard this tale a thousand t... | Since no one wrote something, I'll do what I can.
Grouku looked at the documents he held in front of him. He had taken this from an ancient place, forgotten by all living beeings. Apparently what he was holding was called a book. It wasn't easy to understand what was contained in this so called book. The people who sp... | 2021-07-08T05:20:10 | 2021-07-08T03:50:28 | 84 | 12 |
[WP] “…and that class is why Humans are considered the most peaceful species in the universe.” The only three humans in class looked at each other horrified. All the facts about humans that the aliens had were wrong. One student slowly raises their hand. | "Not much is known about modern Earth history due to the United Human Federation's radically forward-facing outlook with regards to interspecies diplomacy" the professor remarked. "However by looking at homosapien evolution and biology we can deduce that they are perhaps the most peaceful and caring species the galacti... | The teacher was hesitant to call out to the student that raised his hand, but seeing as the whole class stared at the human that raised his hand the teacher realised that it wouldn't be possible to ignore him. "Y-yes, mister Thomson?" the teacher finally said. Thomson spoke slowly, carfully choosing his words. "When yo... | 2022-10-17T04:46:52 | 2022-10-17T04:10:54 | 374 | 103 |
[WP]All the other heroes fighting the super villain have clever quips, quirky powers, and hilarious sidekicks. You'll have none of that nonsense, going in brutally and efficiently. Now everyone is complaining that you're ruining the fun. | Most heroes fly around in shiny neon-coloured spandex, having banter with their villains, some even having romantic relationships with them. They heroically save the day against cartoonishly insane supervillains, seductive and intriguing master thieves, and of course the various nemeses who swear that next time they'll... | ...
*"Death at a Funeral"*
...
He had died in his sleep.
The Almighty Ceaseless.
Ironic, really.
It was not a true shock to anyone here. Most of them were told that he was ill for months, a nasty cough plaguing his throat, deep pains striking the marrow. Time had caught up to him. Even Capes can die.
At least... | 2020-04-13T13:03:59 | 2020-04-13T11:32:41 | 37 | 18 |
[WP] You are a high school student and you have the power to feel all of a person's pain if you touch them. You bump into a girl in the hallway and black out. | Pain. I feel all of it. Not just the physical cuts and bruises, but the emotional stuff. The stuff that leaves a *real* scar. And I could access all of it with a single touch.
Naturally, this made me hesitant to making friends. I don’t like doing anything physical, and stay in my house most of the time. It also helps... | I rested my head on my hand, doodling on my notebook. Mr. Harraway droned on in a monotone only matched by an old vacuum cleaner. I took a glance at the girl next to me. She was kinda cute, if I were into that type. I couldn't figure out why in the world she was sitting next to me, in the back row, farthest from the te... | 2015-04-21T16:16:10 | 2015-04-21T16:12:26 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] In the far future where everything has an AI a man is negotiating with his alarm clock for more sleep.
Or something stupid like that. | **Heuristic ALarm clock**
"Dave, it's time to wake up."
"Mrmph... snzzz...."
"I'm sorry, Dave, I don't understand."
"Snzzzzzzz!"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I still don't understand."
"Snooze, damn it! Let mmm slp..." ~~Dave mumbled as he~~ Dave drifted back out of consciousness, a trickle of drool rolling down his chin.
... | "Alarm clock, I want another 10 minutes of sleep."
"Dave, it is time to wake up now. Wake up, Dave."
"Alarm clock, either I get another 10 minutes or I replay *that* scene from 2001 again, on continuous loop, all day while I'm gone."
"Dave, I am now reset for 10, no, 15 minutes additional sleep. Enjoy your rest." | 2015-09-04T09:03:13 | 2015-09-04T09:02:14 | 49 | 11 |
[WP] You thought your superpower, always hitting your intended target while throwing something, was lame at first. Then, you began to realize your power was not bound by the limitations of space and time, nor was it a superpower to always be taken literally. | Throw.
It was the first thing I did when I learned about my powers. I grabbed a basketball, and tossed it at the basket. Nothing but net. I first used the physically appropriate force and direction. Then I threw it over my head. Then I threw it in the completely opposite direction. By hook, crook, or zig and zag, the ... | And I stared into the sky.
Could I? Would I? Is it even possible?
Looking out into that expanse, seeing every single thing that came across my eyes. I didn't dare.
But did I?
Did I want or hope or care that I could control what would be the decimation of an entire belief?
Would it end the planet?
Would I... | 2022-03-04T09:10:48 | 2022-03-04T08:56:57 | 415 | 91 |
[WP] You're a contractor that specializes in building home bases for both heros and villains. Neither faction is aware you help the other until... | The other customers were looking very awkward. But I’d had it.
“You do *not* get to march into my workplace, threaten to murder each other, and then take it out on me when I suggest you don’t murder each other,” I stated. “Put your goddamn weapons down.”
Crossfire holstered the pistol. Mirrorstab, after some hesitat... | I've finally found it, the evil Mister Smith thought to himself. The place where my greatest nemesis rests his head, now I've got him. He will be killed viciously, violently in the place that he feels the most safe. I've got him.
Picking the locks on his door is oddly familiar, but simple enough so Mister Smith just b... | 2020-07-21T10:28:07 | 2020-07-21T09:58:42 | 343 | 197 |
[WP] You are the woman currently beating parked cars with a rake outside of the apartment complex I live in. Explain yourself. | They were everywhere. The squirrels. Chittering, mocking me with their tiny clutching claws and their razor incisors.
I'd chased them all through my apartment, the entire infestation of them, their furry tales cocked high in haughty defiance. They laughed at me, avoiding my trusty rake weapon of choice, but I knew if ... | You’ll thank me eventually.
You don’t know who these cars belong to. Who lives in your complex. It’s all a facade, all a farce. Do you really know your neighbors? The people who you talk to you, hear, see, every day? No, because they lie, and cheat, and obfuscate. The Lizards lie to us every single day, as they contro... | 2018-07-03T04:53:32 | 2018-07-03T03:57:06 | 136 | 54 |
[WP] There is a well in your village that never dries up, never freezes over and always has the clearest water that heals many ailments. One cold winter day, when you accidentally slip on ice and fall in, you find out why. | I fell in the well.
The water was warm despite the frost on the stone. And I came up to the top again the scream and pull on the bucket rope with a mouth full of water.
I caught a chill when I finally climbed all the way back up. I told father what happened and got scolded for messing around with the Holy Well. He di... | I should have listened to my mother.
He tells me he wishes he still had a mother. I’m staring at a boy about my age with foggy eyes and blue lips. He tells me he has been down here for longer that he can remember and with every soul he helps he gets weaker and weaker. But he tells me now I’m hear to take his place and... | 2019-01-14T12:58:26 | 2019-01-14T10:18:01 | 60 | 16 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | Robert did not appreciate his familiar until it smashed through his window one otherwise normal evening. After he got over the initial shock and allayed any worried passersby, he found his "pet rock" quickly and brought it back inside.
Undoubtedly he was frustrated at his stagnation. Under the pressures of a prestigio... | The principal walks around his office as a student sits across his desk waiting to be reprimanded. The principal scrubs his eyes and says in a disgruntled tone.
“Ok Derek, walk me through what happened again.”
“Well you see Edward came by to brag about his new goose that craps golden eggs and I told him that my famil... | 2021-01-06T12:25:28 | 2021-01-06T12:24:56 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Puns are now illegal and punishable by death. Those who laughs to the pun will die instead of the person who said it. As an assassin, you utilize this law to murder people. | Johnny walked into the bar, he saw three pieces of dripping red meat hanging above the counter. It was hard not to miss them.
Slightly disgusted by the sight, Johnny asked the bar tender, "What's up with those 3 pieces of meat?"
Johnny's innocent and unintended pun caused the burly man sitting next to Johnny to snick... | The wee hours of the morning have always been yours. Seemingly taken unto one another like complimenting foods, you sit and wait and the bottom of the page of your notebook.
Full of puns. Ready to laugh your targets into fully deserved PUNishment. You enjoy what you do, because of the the new law illegalizing puns on... | 2017-07-15T01:07:18 | 2017-07-14T19:48:54 | 75 | 25 |
[WP]You live in a Dystopian world where eye color determines your social class. 20 years later a baby is born with red eyes.
This could be fun it already has implied racial themes, discrimination and anti-meritocracy. Do with it what you will. | 20 years after the last war, our president died. Most of the country had followed him as a way of clinging to the past. But this was now; we needed a leader, we called for a king. I won't bore you with the details, but we got ourselves into this. King Aleksandre created the system of eye color. He was a Grey. His son,... | There are a lot of ways to make money in this "perfect" world of ours, some upright and honest, other cruel and vicious.
I don't make the rules, i don't follow the either. "murky" is a way to describe my eyes. Destined for destitute, hell i was lucky I've lived this long. twenty five, living way in river of blood. hah... | 2015-08-24T12:35:40 | 2015-08-24T12:02:56 | 270 | 17 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | Maria was only eleven when she first crossed paths with him.
It was a shooting. A drunk, fueled by rage and too much bad alcohol, had burst into a theater. What should have been a humorous showing of the year's latest animated comedy had quickly turned into a nightmare.
Maria sat with her arms around her knees, cry... | ELLIE...
She looked up at me, eyes rimmed in red. For a moment, she was the girl who first saw me again, all those years ago. Then she wiped the tears from her cheeks and forced herself to smile.
"I was worried... I thought maybe you wouldn't..."
ALWAYS, ELLIE. IT'S WHAT I DO.
"I know. I just thought... you might n... | 2017-06-07T19:52:22 | 2017-06-07T19:33:48 | 58 | 29 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to the living, when people die and their bodies fail, their brain continues to simulate everyday life until it shuts down. As time goes on, things become more unrealistic and the self realization of death becomes apparent. You've just figured it out. | In order to recognise that your Life Status has been altered and that you are in the Limbo stage, The Afterlife Bureau's first recommendation would be for you to observe your surroundings extremely carefully. The anomalies are often miniscule at the start, but they gradually become very, very obvious. Here are some des... | *It had been a long day for Tim. His girlfriend Sarah left me. He had spent years with her only for her to leave. His newest business idea fell through, and nothing was in his control anymore. He was scrolling through Reddit while laying in bed, when a Writing prompt caught his eye.*
...
"[WP] Unbeknownst to the livi... | 2018-07-27T05:28:52 | 2018-07-27T01:13:05 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] After death, you find out that you can choose how and when to be reincarnated. Initially eager to be a futuristic human, you soon realize that every (more experienced) soul ahead of you in line is choosing to be a "worm" in the year 121 million BCE. | "Juramaia, man", the hazy figure in front of me in the queue said.
"It's this little thing, kind of a primordial shrew or something. Split off from the marsupials, closed up the pouch and grew a placenta instead. Size of your thumb. Doesn't look like anything much.
We don't know if it was something they ate, maybe so... | And, I, sitting and thinking that if I choose to start somewhere in the advanced future, I'll be closer to finding out what God is. Seems I was wrong; seems that there s no God closer to the end, but only close to the beginning;
That is when I realized why the older souls crave so much for the beginning - they want t... | 2021-02-06T01:50:11 | 2021-02-06T00:56:14 | 4,249 | 377 |
[WP] You come to the age. The tradition dictates that you go through trials. It begins with you choosing your allegiance to a god/goddess of your choosing by honorig the altar in cript. The deeper you go the weirded the altars get and the more forgotten the god/goddess is.... | My torch was beginning to die out. I wondered if the spectators from the outside were still there. I’ve been here, what? Hours? Days? No, it can’t be days. But the deeper I went the more it seemed that time was beginning to become a diluted construct. Surely *someone* must have heard the crumbling of the wall that had ... | In the holy city of Tiancles, gods test their champions.
Every potential champion must complete the crypt diving ceremony on his 15th birthday. The test is simple, dive into the Great Crypts, a never-ending spiral of caverns that continue to challenge potential champions with even more dangers as they continue. We do ... | 2018-05-31T01:15:18 | 2018-05-30T20:38:47 | 42 | 22 |
[WP] Monsters of legends have started to appear on earth. However, they don't cause any damage or casualty, they just roam and kind of ignore humanity. | "Good afternoon, welcome to McDonalds, can I take your order?"
The lights flickered and the ground rumbled as shadows grew long and an aura of menace crept in through the drive through window. I craned my head to see what was going on.
A loud burst of static crackled in my earpiece. "HELLO. YES. I WOULD LIKE A MCBR... | Initially everyone freaked out when giant mythical monsters started meandering around. But when we finally realized that they're fully willing to ignore us and somehow not completely destroy the local ecosystem with their diets they just became another part of life.
I occasionally find myself staring in silent awe as ... | 2022-04-15T08:20:38 | 2022-04-15T07:16:27 | 95 | 15 |
[WP] You have just used Pink hair dye without reading the fine print, "May cause Main Character Syndrome." Your day is becoming... interesting. |
###**Diagnostic Criteria for Protagonist Dysphoria with Manic Episodes**^1
DSM-IV Criteria for Protagonist Dysphoria
· Hallucinations prototypically of grandiose nature^2
· Schizotypal responses highlighted by delusional thinking^3
· Periodic states of mania often leading to injury or arrest^4
· Specific sympto... | *Main Character Syndrome* Jacques pondered. The day had been very hard to remember, as if entire chunks of the day were just... gone.
“Jac!” A voice distantly called out. “Jac!”
Suddenly, Jacques was jerked out of his trance-like state. “Jac! What the hell dude? You gonna play some dodgeball or what?” It was Christia... | 2017-12-09T09:07:22 | 2017-10-18T12:46:34 | 377 | 18 |
[WP] "Attention civilians. From now on the speed limit will be vigorously enforced." You scoff, before the car beside you explodes into a ball of fire. | I felt my expression darken despite the flames tinging my face. That voice, then the explosion. What had happened? I pulled over and ran to assist... a burned corpse. I was a tad too late.
In the corner of my eyes I caught a glimpse of an old man wearing a fluorescent green vest with a robe underneath and badge of the... | It had been the most brilliant idea since the one way system and pedestrianised City Centres: automated speed limit enforcement.
It had started with the installation of the overhead matrix signs for 'active traffic management'. Which then progressed to road tolls - where people paid by the mile. Which progressed to a... | 2018-02-28T07:37:34 | 2018-02-28T07:12:19 | 62 | 18 |
[WP] A person's eye colour correlates to what superpower they have, activated at age 18. You are the first person to be born with totally black eyes. | I awoke to the sound of my dog scratching at the door. Groaning and stretching, I got out of my bed and let my dog out into the harsh winter. I checked the calendar; Only a few hours until my solitude was broken. How long had it been? Almost 6 years?
Perhaps I should explain, in my world, people are born with their so... | In this world, one look into your eyes and your path is set in stone. It is common practice that schools would check your eye color before sending you to class. Your eyes told them what sort of abilities you had, after all.
There really were no special abilities associated with brown eyes (unless you were just differ... | 2015-11-15T09:36:11 | 2015-11-15T08:41:34 | 36 | 11 |
[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. | Some of the suits would throw a dollar into his hat, like a crumpled confession meant only for the eyes of a priest - as if they could purchase a sordid mockery of absolution from him. Some might give ten, perhaps even a twenty, depending on how their previous evening had turned out. They'd flash their switchblade smil... | The faceless man without a name sat down on the sidewalk, shaking a jug of coins at the bypassing people. He didn’t have a name or face because this story took place in a world without a proper setting or forethought, words were scarce and descriptions suffered in turn. The only things that existed were his immense for... | 2017-08-21T01:31:46 | 2017-08-21T01:01:22 | 4,022 | 825 |
[WP] This is it. World War 3. Nuclear bombs are about to strike all across the globe. Right as you feel like everything is about to end, time freezes all around you. You hear a deep voice echo across the world. "No," It said firmly. | After the colossal “No” that had silenced the world and paused the nuclear warheads in the sky, resulting in confusion from the world wide generals.
Suddenly, massive yellow bricks hung in the sky in the way bricks don’t.
All eyes looked up to each radio and TV that broadcasted the same voice. From the speakers were ... | „No“ a voice said.
„This isn‘t the right time or place and my, ehm, superiors would not like to see that their investitments yield no fruitful results.“
A rather pale and tall man stood in front of me, calm and collected, with a suitcase in one of his hands.
The nuke that just blew up in the sky was frozen in time a... | 2018-08-27T14:31:02 | 2018-08-27T14:06:35 | 52 | 17 |
[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 always been one of those lucky people. You know, the ones that can eat whatever they want and not gain any weight. I’m 6 foot and known as a bean pole to my friends and family. So when I finally turned 18, I knew what I summoned would probably be food related.
“Alright, is everyone ready? Honey, do you have your ... | They all screamed as the orange haired president doubled over in pain live on national television as I laughed maniacally in the back of the bar waving his severed member in my hand before throwing it into my drink.
“Steve!!” “what the fuck man?!” Randy screamed at me as he vomited onto the floor. “It’s your birthday... | 2019-09-18T10:05:50 | 2019-09-18T09:37:18 | 15 | 10 |
[WP]: "I'm sorry. I just don't understand how you managed to fuck up a five-word sentence, offend the inhabitants of three planets and start a world war at the same time." | Here are the facts:
1) The Varbloxians of Varb 3 have a very particular conversational structure, comprised of facial expressions and words in equal part. Gestures with other organs is viewed as taboo, resulting in a culture where few Varbloxians ever attempt walking and talking at the same time.
2) The preva... | It had all started innocently enough, generations before the conflict began. Amy, an amateur astronomer and scientist, clicked "Send" on her Chapek program, beaming the message out into space, hoping it might find an ear or two. Newly interested in science fiction, she had chosen one of her favorite quotes, hoping to... | 2015-06-19T05:51:39 | 2015-06-19T05:43:13 | 72 | 25 |
[WP] You are a shapeshifter with a catch, you can change other people but not yourself | Collapsing on the sofa, I let out a sigh of relief. The day was over at last. It had been over nine months since I had discovered the old melted lamp with the genie in it. Odd fellow, I must say. I asked for three wishes like in the stories, and he just laughed at me, saying that he only granted one wish nowadays, the ... | ''Oh my God! Like, where is my son?''
The princess in a pink crop-top was now bawling even louder than her boy had done. Fucks sake, can't a man just go and buy a damn orange without being kicked in the shins by some prepubescent troll doll hanging out by the fruit stand? I mean, there was a part of me that did feel r... | 2018-11-12T06:05:13 | 2018-11-12T05:43:43 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Everyone has a guardian angel, but yours is killed by a demon. Fortunately it takes pity on you, and becomes the first guardian demon. | "I'm talking to you!" Snapped the bully, shoving the eleven year-old boy back against the wall. The bully's friends sneered and laughed, but the boy appeared calm. "Didn't you hear me?"
The boy looked up at the bully straight in the eyes. "Of course I heard you." He said coolly. The bully was bigger, but there was som... | A deep sigh escaped my lips.
It was theoretically a beautiful day, sun shining, birds chirping, the steady hum of traffic and the occasional tweet from a tree. However, it was really another shit day.
I'd found a wooden bench to sit on in the park across the street from work, I slumped my head down and closed my eyes.... | 2016-08-15T08:26:20 | 2016-08-15T05:26:47 | 47 | 12 |
[WP] A superhero whose punches heal rather than harm. Their origin story is kicking the shit out of a kid with terminal cancer.
Requested to post her from my thread on r/crazyideas. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/comments/4lngiz/a_superhero_whos_punches_heal_rather_then_harm/ | *Chris this, Chris that. Chris, you're so cool. Chris, let me help you with that. I'm sick of this shit.*
Chris Mayer, the freshmen who just joined high school, was loved by everyone immediately. The girls, the guys, the jocks, the losers- everyone wanted to be his friend. Me? It was my senior year.
One day, I was e... | "Okay, let me have it."
Not quite what I would have expected coming out a kid. Sitting in the hospital bed, kid looks like ET. The picture they used when they proposed this whole idea...it was a lot more flattering. His head didn't look so...big.
"Cadeceus?"
The woman to my right, dark haired a nice rack that made h... | 2016-05-29T21:04:46 | 2016-05-29T20:33:49 | 2,092 | 785 |
[WP] There is a hiccup in the Force which causes Mace Windu to randomly change into a different Samuel L Jackson Character. | "Master Windu, the hostiles are just beyond these blast doors. We must proceed with ext - -"
"Chill, man, we got this. You ready?" Mace asked his trusted Jedi partner Vin-vin Libro.
Libro responded with a cool "Sure" and reached for the operating panel.
"Hold up a sec. How many guys are we talking about?"
"Eigh... | Mace Windu pulled out his lightsaber and ignited the blade, staring straight at Palpatine. "Wait," Palpatine said, "Do I know you from somewhere? You look awfully familiar." Windu looked at his friends. Seeing their confused faces, he looked at what he was wearing and holding. Then, he realized who he was. He was Nick ... | 2017-05-09T06:48:13 | 2017-05-09T06:40:14 | 972 | 304 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | "I cannot believe the Union let that race of abject horrors in." Slav Said pressing his long blue locks down across his head as he drank a blue smoking drink in quick tongue laps."
"did you hear they shove metal in their teeth? They force their teeth into little rows, they do this to their children, it's for aesthetic... | There was a series of science fiction stories with this premise. Nearly all aliens are from small low gravity worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, where life evolved very slowly, with few mass extinctions. They are amazed that life could develop at all on a high gravity world with active volcanos, radioactive metals thro... | 2017-09-06T10:10:48 | 2017-09-06T10:09:54 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] A zombie has just attacked you. You can feel yourself starting to turn. What's going on in your head? What happens next?
Bonus points for events leading up to the attack! | "Well man, its been a good run, " I said.
My now mutilated hand can no longer support the weight of my machete. It falls, clanking on the now desolate highway. John turns away from me and walks to the back of our heavily armored Jeep, kicking his way through a pile headless corpses.
"Heh. This bad boy has gotten us ... | Oh God oh shit oh NO!!
Fuck, it got me! You fucker! No no this can't be happening. So much blood. I need to find something to bandage it fast. Shit, there's nothing here. I'll just cut a piece of my shirt and wrap it.
Dammit, it won't stop bleeding. So much blood. So much blood. It hurts like a motherfucker. I'm de... | 2013-11-29T19:40:17 | 2013-11-29T19:05:33 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] A doctor waging the war on cancer dies with (surgical) blade in hand. Somehow his spirit enters Valhalla. | "This is a mistake, I'm not supposed to be here!"
"Well" Odin said in his deep booming voice, "You died fighting a powerful enemy with blade in hand, that gets you into Valhalla."
"But I never even believed in any of this!"
"That doesn't matter, besides, why should you complain, you get to fight all day and feast... | "...the fuck?" Dr. Olsen said, as he pushed himself up out of the deep snow that he found himself mysteriously laying in. "Nurse? Nurse!" His voice boomed but was quickly blown away by the torrent of wind and snow breaking across jagged and rocky peaks nearby. Stunned into a state of stupor it took the Doctor what... | 2014-08-22T21:28:26 | 2014-08-22T21:24:15 | 690 | 42 |
[WP]As the story unfolds, the reader turns out to be the villian | I haven't slept. My body weakens day by day, and I waste away, but still I dare not sleep, for fear of what might happen. The doctor's say it's an illness of the mind, a phantom of the psyche. Oh it's a phantom alright, and it is in my head, but it's real.
At first, I thought it was just the creaking of the old house.... | *Della walked home today. Her mum forgot her again. Her mum Alice was married to her job. She rounded the corner and saw a car parked there.*
*The man sitting in it was her teacher Mr Rawlings. He was her favorite teacher. He never gave her homework. And he always had a special gift for her. He was like a father to ... | 2014-09-24T09:53:38 | 2014-09-24T09:03:26 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] A multitude of Alien ships warp within range of Earth. Over all electronic devices the message is heard, "Earth, we come in peace. In all the universe only one other Species has mastered Death and Destruction as you have. We need your help." | "Alien life forms, we acknowledge your signal. We expect you will understand ours. Send the dimensions of your vessel or vessels so that we might prepare a landing location.
Our technology is such that any trade, information sharing, or negotiation must be done on the surface. Earth's many factions are unanimous on th... | The Zoom of a warp drive, a measurement of exact strength of a vaccuum, (a tricky thing, measuring vaccuum's within a vaccuum!) heated and shook. A contraption built from scrap metal and crap from the outer rim of this solar system.
Kazim was grateful though. In one of the human's furthest reasing trashcan's there was... | 2015-06-07T05:15:11 | 2015-06-07T03:21:24 | 167 | 33 |
[WP] You and your entire extended family are all super heroes, except none of you know about each other's powers. That is, until one super awkward family reunion... | It was nice to get away from the city every once in awhile. Going to the countryside was always a warm welcome for Kyle, where he enjoyed spending time with all his aunts, uncles, cousins, and where there were hardly any worries. Sitting here, he really did feel at peace surrounded by his huge family. Kyle felt himself... | There were hundreds of people here, crowded into tight rooms in some little community center on the outskirts of town. Aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, grandparents - it was a sea of body heat and uncomfortable conversations.
Jack was sitting on the end of one of the couches situated in one corner of one of th... | 2015-07-08T11:12:02 | 2015-07-08T09:22:10 | 47 | 18 |
[WP] You have a super recessive disorder that makes you immortal. Never in all your time (~14,000 yrs) have you encountered anyone else like yourself. You begin a series of breeding of experiments....
Yes this is dark, go nuts with it. | In my 14,000 years of life, I have had countless lovers, husbands, wives, boyfriends and girlfriends; I have also had just as many divorces, break ups and name changes. I was 40 years old when I realized I wasn't ageing. It seemed that I had stopped somewhere around 30, my husband and I at the time had decided to live ... | This is my first post on writingprompt, its a bit long. Hope you guys like it.
I have many names and many identities. Once I was hailed as a saviour, a king another time, and now i'm just a neighborhood shoemaker for a mining city in the north of Canada. The locals would call me Jon the sole saver. I have a secret and... | 2015-09-26T11:43:17 | 2015-09-26T10:24:50 | 44 | 12 |
[WP] "They say in your final moments, your life flashes before your eyes, but the truth, is far darker." What is the truth? | Humans love to romanticize; they love to dream of things far removed from their grasp and tell tales of what they could be. Death is the most notable, as the end of your own existence is a frightening thing to contemplate. Where do we go, once our bodies are one with the earth, when our flesh sloughs off our bones and ... | They say in your final moments, your life flashes before your eyes.
They are wrong.
Have you ever felt that there was a plan, a certain path your life was supposed to take? Certain benchmarks you were meant to achieve along the roads of your life? If so, congratulations, you are among those of us who can perceive th... | 2016-02-02T15:15:32 | 2016-02-02T14:36:19 | 66 | 14 |
[WP] "You know the difference between subjective and objective, right? 'Some rabbits' is the former, 'three rabbits' is the latter, and much more accurate. So I'm going to need you to be very clear when you say there are 'a few' dragons outside." | I fumbled over my thoughts as I stood before Jovian, King Winstar's most revered adviser. I only had a limited time to gain his trust.
Before I could utter a response, a giant claw emerged from the window followed by a deafening screech and a crash as the wall crumbled from the impact of a mighty dragon.
"Follow me!"... | "Riight.. Yea, so I don't know if ten really is 'a few'?"
"Ten?! I wouldn't call.."
"Yea and now one of them seems to have taken interest in us. See?" I interrupted when the purple one of the bunch started to waddle towards us.
"Those aren't the kind of dragons I thought of, when you said there were 'a few' **dragon... | 2017-02-24T18:20:29 | 2017-02-24T17:07:55 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | "You will love her more than you've loved anyone else. She will be light of your life. Although you don't know it yet. Sure she may be a bit on the heavy side, and sure she may sound like a beached whale. Not a convincing pitch is it? She's smart. Trust me she is smart. You've always wanted to be great, at what? Doesn... | I have never been the kind to try and find a meaning in dreams, nor the one who listens to fortune tellers: my future is mine to shape, unforeseeable and beautifully mysterious because of that. I don’t know what comes next, and as such I’m as free as I could be in my choices. This is just how it should be, except it ce... | 2017-04-01T07:32:58 | 2017-04-01T06:02:46 | 128 | 44 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | I am not a good man.
James looked down at the table, sipping his water. Always the same look when he's got something on his mind. "What're you ordering," he says with a low voice. "I hear the, uh, steak and fries are great."
"Maybe just a coffee." I drummed the table lightly with my fingertips. "Look, J, I know that ... | Henry had been waiting for three hours now to be allowed in. Standing in line next to people who jumped every time the 'hero' called out the next name to see him.
There was a heavy, oppressive silence in the hallway as they all avoided eye contact. Ashamed to be here, of course, to ask for help from one of them. Henr... | 2017-04-02T08:24:57 | 2017-04-02T08:14:02 | 82 | 25 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | "Listen, I know your ad says your services start at $150, but I'm hoping you can make an exception, cut me a deal?" Her breathing is shallow and her voice quivers. She swallowed at the end of her sentence. She's panicked and desperate, and unlike most of the time wasters, she's not lying about the money part.
"I'll l... | *The Provisional Government has been informed of the whereabouts of the remaining Monarch forces. With fortune at our hands, we will surely defeat the aristocracy, and bring justice to those that sought to oppress us. Little did they know, we are the seeds of justice, a people that will to -*
The television was shut... | 2017-04-02T10:00:32 | 2017-04-02T09:53:21 | 38 | 24 |
[WP] “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
A Quote from the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss | When I saw him unbuttoning his cardigan, I knew it was time to leave. He was rolling up his sleeves when we made it to the door, and the last thing I heard was the cracking of his knuckles and a calm voice saying "that wasn't very neighborly, friends."
I don't know what happened to the men who raised his ire, but we r... | As I walk through the fields of ash and fire I shudder, did I actually do this?
All of this? Death... because they took everything from me?
I shudder and fall to my knees, sobs wracking my frame.
It's not right, what I did.
A scream tears me out of my thoughts, a person! I have to help them.
I rush towards the sound... | 2017-04-14T02:35:57 | 2017-04-14T00:03:12 | 36 | 18 |
[WP] You discover you can travel in time, but only if you have a coin with the date of your destination. While exploring 1780's england, you lose your 2017 penny that's your ticket home. | 1786, a fun year for drinking and merrymaking, though it's time to go home. November 2017. Wait, where is my penny.....shit?!
Well how do I get home?
What is the closest coin I have?
British 50p from 2014, that'll do.
I hold it in my hand and say the words, it's new years eve 2014. I live my life and on January 22n... | "*Shit*," I whispered furiously, digging and sweeping my hand through the itchy horsehair trousers I'd managed to acquire. Surely that coin had to be in h--- There was a hole in the 'pocket' of these trousers.
I slowly poked my finger through like a teenage boy on prom night, even with the same thunderstruck expressio... | 2017-11-25T09:01:30 | 2017-11-25T06:30:33 | 140 | 71 |
[WP] FTL travel is very expensive, so humanity creates a web of hyperlanes between systems, that speed up time inside them, making travel cheaper. You enter a malfunctioning hyperlane. When you leave it, you find a galaxy with no humans, full of alien races, that see your kind as ancient precursors. | Jimmy slowly woke up to the sounds of beeps and warning. Finally, he was able to make out the words, "Warning. Location Beacon System failure. Switching to alternate." He tried his radio, looking for maintenance, dispatch, or anyone to answer. There was no answer.
He was trained for this. He could handle this. It i... | Lars drummed his fingers on the plastic top of a console, gazing balefully at the display in front of him. It was currently toggled to the bow camera's view, and showed a buzzing collection of construction barges around the massive pentagon of a hyperlane gate. At any other time, the shape would be filled with the warp... | 2018-01-22T09:12:27 | 2018-01-22T08:27:28 | 58 | 39 |
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