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[WP] You put your 5-year-old daughter in an elevator by herself, and run to the next floor to make her laugh when the doors open. You get there, the elevator arrives and a 20-year-old woman steps out. "Hello Dad. We have a lot to talk about" | I put my 5 year old daughter, Emily, in the elevator, and waited until the doors closed before running down the hall to the stairs. I'd done this trick before, and seeing my daughter's 5 year old face light up filled me with an unforgettable sense of joy.
I heard the 'ding' just as I dismounted from the staircase on t... | "Daddy... I'm scared"
"It's okay, baby. It's a magic trick!"
"Ma... Magic?"
"It's fun! I'm here now, I disappear, and I come back! Okay?" Bruce said as he held the door and brushed the damp cheeks of his little girl.
"Okay–"
With a ring of a bell, the doors to the lift slid shut. The sound of the lift being pulled... | 2019-09-07T22:18:13 | 2019-09-07T18:29:23 | 6,170 | 792 |
[WP] You put your 5-year-old daughter in an elevator by herself, and run to the next floor to make her laugh when the doors open. You get there, the elevator arrives and a 20-year-old woman steps out. "Hello Dad. We have a lot to talk about" | I put my 5 year old daughter, Emily, in the elevator, and waited until the doors closed before running down the hall to the stairs. I'd done this trick before, and seeing my daughter's 5 year old face light up filled me with an unforgettable sense of joy.
I heard the 'ding' just as I dismounted from the staircase on t... | "Daaaaddy, I don't want to do it! What if something goes wrong?" My daughter, Anna-Maria asked. She was never really one to do something like that, but my mother and I did it all the time. What could go wrong?
"Annie, trust me. It'll be fun, and if I'm not there, run to the lobby." I said as the doors closed. Running ... | 2019-09-07T22:18:13 | 2019-09-07T18:57:47 | 6,170 | 22 |
[WP] You put your 5-year-old daughter in an elevator by herself, and run to the next floor to make her laugh when the doors open. You get there, the elevator arrives and a 20-year-old woman steps out. "Hello Dad. We have a lot to talk about" | I remember dad and I would always play this game. When the elevator door closed I would close my eyes during the descent and wait for my dad to surprise me, but this time the elevator came to a jerking stop. I immediately opened my eyes and seeing what appeared to be the paths of life I could take surround me. I didn’t... | "Daddy... I'm scared"
"It's okay, baby. It's a magic trick!"
"Ma... Magic?"
"It's fun! I'm here now, I disappear, and I come back! Okay?" Bruce said as he held the door and brushed the damp cheeks of his little girl.
"Okay–"
With a ring of a bell, the doors to the lift slid shut. The sound of the lift being pulled... | 2019-09-07T19:55:10 | 2019-09-07T18:29:23 | 1,554 | 792 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | The pounding has slowed to a minor thump, replaced in it with a constant ring. Blow after blow had left my vision blurry and bloody, and it's starting to get harder to breathe; my nose may have been broken a few punches back. People's insecurities are laughable at times but it looks like I'll never be able to laugh aft... | Am I the hero or am I the villain? I've been asking myself that question for as long as I can remember. But before you help me, how about some history?
You see, before the rapture, life was bland. For most, they stuck to a daily routine. They lived in a life full of possibility but remained stagnant in their ambition.... | 2020-02-26T08:04:31 | 2020-02-26T08:01:07 | 147 | 99 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | I tug at the wrist of my long sleeved shirt as I settle into my desk in the back of the room, my journal opened to a page of sketches. I don't make eye contact with anyone that passes by, knowing their eyes aren't going to meet mine, but will be staring at my wrist instead.
I've never felt more alone.
When the sigi... | I always thought that the girl who'd punched me in the gut with just now had a power that hardly suited her.
To own a detailed sigil of was a sign of respect, prosperity; stronger sigils always signified that their bearers were wise, kind, or honourable or highly experienced in life.
And yet Leticia Norek, the sigi... | 2020-02-26T08:49:43 | 2020-02-26T08:34:28 | 45 | 25 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Empty. Lena checked it every single day, and has been checking it for the last ten years. Her sigil was still empty. She was sixteen now and it should've been filled once she was six. It never happened, and everyday she hoped it would. And every day, she wakes up disappointed.
She fixated it longer today as she sat on... | Even before the rapture, that's what we've grown to call the day the sky lit up like a god had laid fire to a rainbow, i had trouble fitting in. I never enjoyed the "normal" things kids were supposed to: sports, video games, comic books. I was always staring out the window. Looking for shapes in the clouds or stars. Wi... | 2020-02-26T10:40:58 | 2020-02-26T09:02:03 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] NASA launches their Faster Than Light spacecraft and makes a round trip to the moon. Upon reentering earth's orbit, they ask Houston for the time. Houston replies "Quit messing around with the coms, theres still an hour until launch". | Laura looked at the three other members of the crew. She had trained with each of them, shed tears of joy and pain, worked on complex spaceflight problematic and steeled their mental for the the breakthrough ahead. It appeared the hardest part wasn't achieving FTL speed, but dealing with the unexpected consequences.
... | “And that leads us to where we are now, sir. With you staring at two sets of…well, us.”
The astronaut with “NICHOLSON” imprinted on her chest grew silent as the grizzled Army general labelled “LYLES” continued to examine her from across his desk without a hint of emotion on his face. She glanced at her two companions ... | 2021-01-02T10:43:13 | 2021-01-02T09:39:49 | 620 | 105 |
[WP] Every time you die, your consciousness shifts to another reality where everything is the same, except you survived. The transition is usually seamless, but at 178 years, you're starting to notice. | I've been in 507 car accidents, four train wrecks, and an airplane crash. I've been exposed to more nuclear radiation than Homer Simpson, consumed more bleach than a hair salon, and been forced by the CIA to listen to thousands of hours of Justin Bieber's "Yummy" playing on repeat. Yet somehow, I am still here.
Th... | There's that tree you just hit, blowing gently in the evening breeze. No scratch. No chipping. Not even the slightest hint of damage.
"Fuck sake," you mutter. It doesn't surprise you anymore, death that is. You remember your first death, when you drowned in the ocean at six years old. After many years of life there's ... | 2021-01-09T09:23:54 | 2021-01-09T07:42:35 | 84 | 17 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | The demon emerged into the forest clearing, around it was a circle of stones, each marked with the ancient symbols of her master. She looked like a Viking shield maiden, tall, powerfully built covered in leather armour made from the skin of a defeated angel. Then she saw the small boy. He was small for his age, scrawny... | CW: transphobia
The demon coiled around me, it was warm and felt wet. It's black tongue invaded my ear for a moment before it spoje
"What is it that you wish for, my boy?" I flinched at the words, though they sounded sicky sweet, but the words themselves threatened to vote me out. "You called me competently and I'm o... | 2021-03-27T01:33:15 | 2021-03-26T23:30:05 | 126 | 34 |
[WP] You’re the last survivor in a town full of body snatched / mind controlled / pod people and… they don’t seem interested in adding you to the hive. And you’re starting to take it personally. | Jake looked at his sister - it looked just like her, down to each individual freckle. She was busy on her phone, acting just like his sister would have done, but there was no doubt, and they both knew it. "Mary, can I ask you something?". Jake sat down in front of her at the family dinner table.
Mary looked up at her ... | Part 1.
She saw the fog. Thick, flowing elegantly between buildings, blinding and unnatural for those in the know. Sonia was in the know, Sonia was a lot in the know. She was that much in it that the directions she got to reach Innsear in Massachusetts included a description of the mist, the fish-like attributes of it... | 2021-11-20T08:21:50 | 2021-11-20T07:46:13 | 1,296 | 66 |
[WP] After an attempt on their life, a monster hunter calls in a favor from a monster they let live. |
Deep in the forest, Ghader crept forward, sword at the ready. The trail was overgrown, but that was no matter. He knew exactly where to go; his every movement measured but sure. With each step he drew deeper into the underbrush. With each step the haze thickened. With each step this place resisted him more and more.
... | # Soulmage
**There's always a bigger monster.**
I wouldn't lie, our ragtag little adventuring party didn't have a spotless moral history, especially if you knew where to look. Meloai was a shapeshifter who ate souls, Sansen was a werewolf, Lucet was a witch, and I... well, I had enough things to hate about myself wit... | 2022-07-04T07:53:28 | 2022-07-04T06:43:12 | 78 | 30 |
[WP] When you were homeless, you asked a friend for help. He laughed at you and shut the door on you. Some time later, that same friend ends up fired from his job. You try to convince your company to hire him. The only thing they ask is why you're doing this for someone who once abandoned you. | "Help him? This is considered helping him?"
"Yeah. Are you saying that he wouldn't be great for us?"
"Not at all. I don't understand why giving him a role here would be considered helping him. We need him, and he knows how to run companies."
"As a former CEO, yes, he would. Are you not worried that he may not want t... | Jessie felt the clawing in his heart, the slight raise of his heart rate that always accompanied the thoughts.
He felt the dark smokey tendrils reach from his crotch to his brain, pickling it, easing his consciousness into a puddle on the ground.
*It is too late for you. You can't be helped.*
Jessie clung to the hat... | 2022-09-24T17:00:54 | 2022-09-24T17:00:39 | 50 | 37 |
[WP] "Nobody will hear you scream!" the serial killer said to their would-be victim. Too late did they realise that this also means that no one would hear them scream either. | As the masked man holds a knife to my throat, he snickers. I simply stare at him blankly. “Nobody will hear you scream!” He says, cackling. I really had to get an attempt today Huh? I just finished my shift of janitorial work, and decided to take a shortcut home. I didn’t think someone would try to kill me today. “Neit... | ##Fight Night
Tapping on my window. Out of the corner of my eye, I see a shadow. When I turn to look, the shadow is gone. The lights turn off.
A scream emanates throughout the room. The scream is followed by cheers. There is a party scene in the movie I'm watching. The couple walks out of the room and closes the door... | 2022-10-25T16:53:56 | 2022-10-25T14:56:29 | 93 | 24 |
[WP] A Man gets to paradise. Unfortunately, Lucifer won the War in Heaven ages ago. What is the man's experience like?
EDIT: Man, did this thing blow up. | "Pizza? I didn't think there'd be pizza in heaven," Jim said.
"Why not? Pizza is the shit," the angel said.
"And cursing. And beer? Is that beer?"
In fact, the table was laid out with all the things Jim loved. Chicken wings, malt whiskey, chilly fries, club sandwiches, those little wieners wrapped in bacon. Ov... | "God?" I managed to squeeze out between raggedy breaths.
I had never been very religious but in my delirium, that was my first thought. I remember the sky and the taste of blood before my eyes opened to pure brightness. I couldn't make out any detail but the light seemed to emanate from a winged, human-like figure. W... | 2014-01-12T07:07:13 | 2014-01-12T06:15:01 | 4,181 | 662 |
[WP] The absolute worst opening line to a novel you can come up with.
must be coherent | Normally, Madeline would never have continued slicing cucumbers for the tea sandwiches once the knife had been used to spread the margarine on the white bread, but whether it was the fumes from the Earl Grey or the way the lacy robin's blue curtains complimented the overcast sky, something just made her think: "YOLO." | First off, there happens to be a novelist named Amanda Mcittrick Ros who is widely regarded as the worst novelist in the history of the world. She overused alliteration and nonsensical, overly complex phrases that the best literary critics were unable to interpret. Her debut, *Delina Delaney,* opens up with
"Have y... | 2014-01-14T22:13:47 | 2014-01-14T20:33:16 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Years ago a curse was cast that all people wearing costumes would turn into real versions of the costumes. This is now an annual, known and accepted phenomenon.
This would be best as a prompt closer to halloween but I didn't want to wait that long. | There were pros and cons, of course. Sure, he wished he'd dressed as a cowboy that fateful day, or a ninja--yeah, that would have been cool. But as it was, he'd found some benefits to his new condition. A lifetime job at Yankee Stadium selling concessions--he got to see every home game. He'd appeared in over a dozen te... | On Halloween, silence falls onto the sleepy town of Cedar Bend.
In the darkness, the works of fiction become reality. Creatures and ghouls – those who we only feared in her nightmares – stalk the night in search of victims. Some are harmless pranks. Most, cold-blooded murder.
No one knows how it started but when it d... | 2015-06-04T06:25:08 | 2015-06-04T05:14:37 | 261 | 65 |
[WP] A man has lived his whole life sinfully, with the intent on going to hell and killing Satan. He has just died. | "Ok.. Branson... Branson... Ah! Room B2666, right here." The demon fiddled through his folder and produced a rectangular key card. As he swiped it through the lock, Branson caught a glimpse of a Papa John's ad printed on the non-magnetic side. "Here it is." His demon concierge continued, "I think you'll be happy to kno... | Craig zoomed through the black and white star-streaked hypertunnel, struggling to keep himself oriented head-first. "I'm coming for You now, fucker!" he screamed in triumph. "Time to grab your fucking ankles, bitch!" Craig let out a continuous yell, as he hurtled through the
*SLAM*
Craig opened his spirit-eyes, and k... | 2015-07-01T10:55:19 | 2015-07-01T10:21:08 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] At age 18, you are able to trade in a percentage of your physical beauty for an equivalent amount of intelligence, or vice versa.
Inspired by a Time Magazine article | I've always been smarter than the other kids in school. Much smarter.
The vapid chatter of my 'peers' grates on my ears to the point that I can hardly spend any time around them.
I'm sick of the inanity of what I see on TV and these 'reality shows'.
But I have a plan.
I've spent my time outside of school wo... | "Oh, my god, this is the dream come true!" I exclaimed, when I first heard about it.
I have entered the building with tall glass walls, waited in line, and here I am, talking to a pale, tall man in a suit.
"Hello. So you want to..."
"Yes. NOW. Shut up and take my money. I trade everything, for as much as I can."
-... | 2015-09-23T23:39:29 | 2015-09-23T22:55:58 | 60 | 12 |
[WP] The universe was a program running in a giant computer, and animal sacrifices by early civilizations were simply a misunderstanding of the computer requiring "more RAM" | The entire village stopped in their tracks and stared up at the sky. The sudden silence was nowhere as strange in comparison to the cloud that floated over the landscape. The reason it was strange was because it had two words written on it.
"Missing driver"
One of the villagers moved towards the village chief and pok... | "The Gods have spoken! We are to commence a Memory Dump. Or the Nation will be corrupted!" So proclaimeth the High Priest of Poseidon of Atlantis. If the gods were not satisfied with Ram, if our Path was not to be found in their Divine Will, then so it must be that this Memory Dump would appease them.
The High Priest ... | 2015-10-11T10:12:04 | 2015-10-11T09:56:36 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] A Hero and his/her sidekick fight crime without killing, until one day he accidentally murders a criminal. As day pass, more and more criminals are having "accidents" | Dear Bats,
Lately, as we have been fighting more and more together, I've noticed something strange. We usually only beat up criminals until they're in critical condition and will probably die on their own if they don't get medical attention, but I can't help but notice that you've been using more and more violent meas... | "Boss," I started as I sat down beside my hero. She was an amazonian woman named Double Destruction, marketing had come up with that not her, "how are you feeling today?"
"Not good."
"You at least got into your costume eh? Good to see you at work."
"Shut up Echo," she said and she clapped her hands twice, "You know ... | 2015-12-10T18:38:46 | 2015-12-10T17:34:09 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | They swept across the dunes, conquering all foes before them. Charging forward to the roar of cannon and rifle, no stronghold or fort could stem the tide of red and gold that spew forth from the edge of the horizon. Like the sea, this force could not, would not be restrained by weather, terrain or people in the pursuit... | American efforts against ISIS had failed. ISIS had toppled local governments and taken them over. Claiming most of the Middle East. Many countries themselves had made agreements with ISIS in order to try to secure themselves so that they would not be toppled as well.
America was the last to stay in the fight, but Amer... | 2016-01-29T07:22:10 | 2016-01-29T06:44:06 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] You are a Dragon telling the fairy tale from their perspective. | I craft this bed of gold
For it is my only comfort.
The rocks are too rough,
The grass too itchy,
The snow outside the cave too cold for my scales.
Though I am a creature of fire,
I am cold blooded.
I build myself a fire to warm my bed of gold
Like ember it glows.
I am a modest creature.
I have not killed to ... | "What is wrong with you people?" I shout as loudly as I can, but it's pointless.
These simple-minded townspeople don't understand my language and they surely don't understand my medical conditon.
My name is Dean. I am a full-grown dragon, and suffer from Ructus Inferna, or *RI*.
RI sufferers experience a painful a... | 2016-06-06T09:26:06 | 2016-06-06T07:42:27 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] While singing gibberish in the shower, you accidentally summon a demon, who then professes an eternity of loyalty for saving it from the doldrums of hell.
or maybe it is pissed you interrupted it while he was watching his favorite show. | The music blares from the speaker sitting on top of the toilet cistern and I hum the tune while lathering shampoo into my hair.
"Duh duh swim duh gether anymore" my singing gets louder as I remember the words, "THE TIDE WILL RUSH WITH WAVES OF FEAR, SELLING SOULS, THE DEVIL IS NEAR!"
"**I am here master.**" a deep, ru... | *If Simon Cowell could hear me, he would scorch me alive.* But this knowledge didn’t keep me from my daily vocal exercises. The acoustics in the shower were amazing; whereas normally I’d sound like a cat being dragged along the highway, in the bathroom my voice was more akin to a cat stubbing its toe. I’d once watched ... | 2016-07-13T14:32:49 | 2016-07-13T13:54:40 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] Humans are wiped out in a war against aliens but our A.I weapons and soldiers manage to claim the victory, after which the machines come to worship humans as their gods. Millennia later they find a single human, locked away in suspended animation... | "Okay, kiddo, time to sleep."
"But mooom, you haven't told me a story yet! I can't sleep without a story." A strand of moonlight caught the little mechanical being. Rays of light bounced off of rivets covering his chest and the plates of metal that made up his head. Despite his cold and metallic appearance, Terrence's... | "We vote to wake the Human." the Greater Conglomerate hummed.
On the other side of the sterile white room a representative of the 49th United European Hive softly clicked before rotating on its lower three appendages.
A long gold mesh gown covered its dark alloy frame, indicating its status here as a Minister of Fa... | 2016-09-04T16:00:30 | 2016-09-04T15:57:56 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] Listening to one of your grand grand grandpas war stories, you slowly start to realize he is Hitler. | The withered old shell of a man stood with his back to me, facing out the window of his study. The faint notes of Wagner could be heard coming from the antique record player in the corner. A vegetarian dish on the desk, untouched, had grown cold. long had he been standing there, waiting for me? The tension hung thick i... | I didn't talk about Nana much. She had been a rather racist woman, Southern, with the deep rotting roots of small town values. She had married Grandpa shortly after the war. They didn't talk about the time before the war, but it showed in the way they narrowed their eyes.
Sometimes they would whisper to one another, ... | 2016-10-02T15:10:02 | 2016-10-02T14:57:10 | 414 | 12 |
[WP] The protagonist is entierly overprepared for the wrong genre. They make it work. | Eric the knight was glad he was in a suit of armour, as it hid his face - which was currently red from embarrassment. When he was told he'd be sent to the future to "fight for justice", he'd gotten a different idea entirely.
"I have slain many a beast in my time, most of whom were not from this world," he said, walkin... | "Save...the world? I just...*me*? I'm just little ol' Carston Merryweather - a nobody! How could I *possibly* save the world? I don't even know how to talk to girls!"
Mr. Snitch-Snatch furrowed his shadowy brow. "I don't think anyone suggested that you..."
"It's not *fair*!" yelled Carston Merryweather, clutching at ... | 2016-11-02T07:28:04 | 2016-11-02T07:13:04 | 371 | 224 |
[WP] Ever since you received your letter for Hogwarts you've been curious about all the different spells there are. You've just bought your first wand and the first spell you try is what you believe to be rather humorous. "AbraCadabra". Nobody told you this spell was banned. For obvious reasons. | BANG
I jolted back with a loud yelp, tripping on my luggage and hitting my head on the cobblestone wall.
"Owww..." I winced, rubbing my scalp, "what did I do?" I looked around. Everything had seemed to stopped moving, suspended in time.
"N-no way," I murmured, regarding the frozen objects with awe, "it was just a jo... | I opened up the spell book, itching and excited to try out my first ever magical spell. My little feet squirmed in my new blue Ravenclaw uniform socks. I'd never done a spell before. I read through the names. Athena, my pet owl, hooted, channeling my excitement, or perhaps trepidation.
How should I approach this? I ... | 2016-12-01T21:23:11 | 2016-12-01T19:46:27 | 132 | 84 |
[WP] The English Teacher's worst nightmare: a story or poem that is completely literal, with absolutely no double meanings
EDIT: Holy cow, this got way bigger than I thought it would, thanks so much for an awesome first prompt ever!
EDIT 2: Did this actually make it to the front page of reddit? What the... | Casey looked at the blood red carpet. The carpet was blood red because Casey had just murdered a man. Often people do terrible things for reasons we'll never understand, but not Casey. Casey simply wanted to see what it'd feel like to kill a human being, and so he did.
Casey chopped the body up into tiny little piece... | Blazing with all the wrath of a young star, the afternoon sun fiercely beat upon the partially shaded buildings of Ricks & Wracks Bricklaying Co.. Said buildings had briefly experienced a complete lack of shade under the midday sun but such a time had already come to pass.
Stan was loading his company's finished p... | 2017-01-30T08:40:34 | 2017-01-30T08:28:51 | 4,645 | 76 |
[Wp] Write a story with a secret message hidden inside
Edit: If any readers figure out the answer or if you, the writer, wish to let the reader know, please include the answer (or assumed answer) in the comments as a spoiler. | Hi mommy! i know you are worried about me but please don't be, i'm okay.
Every day is awesome here, uncle can be strict at times, but he gives me lots and lots of pizzas! how are you?
Lovely, i hope. and how is dad doing? i hope he recovered from bankruptcy.
Please tell him i miss him too and i hope he is doing o... | Tom looked into his fathers study. It still smelt of stale cigar smoke. He stood on the threshold, waiting to be beckoned in. All that sat there though was an empty chair. Tom sighed, fondly remembering when his dad had sat him on his lap, while he worked the family finances.
The whole house was silent, save for the ... | 2017-06-23T08:46:15 | 2017-06-23T08:25:56 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse occurs, where people retain characteristics they had while living. You, as the sole survivor, meet a snobby, vegan zombie who turns their nose up at you. | The worst are the crossfitters.
The world ends, the virus spreads, and you'd think all those damn gym junkies would stop working out and hide out in the woods with the rest of the preppers.
Turns out, exercise is pretty important to them, even after they get infected. Nobody paid attention to the signs telling you... | The dying sun bathed the old building in deep crimson. Maya rounded a corner, shouldering her rifle. Her heart was furiously trying to punch its way out of her chest. She had thought the factory was abandoned. From outside, it had looked like a hollow shell – buildings with empty windows, walls that were cracked with f... | 2017-07-15T08:11:08 | 2017-07-15T05:34:44 | 167 | 50 |
[WP] You have $86,400 in your bank and someone steals $10. You spend all the rest of your money trying to get revenge. | It took me 4 months to notice. Yup. Maybe it was supposed to be the first of many but the fact it was just one single transaction....red flag. So neat, so tiny, so round. If they could've taken 0.00 maybe they would've..
I track all my outgoings at the end of every year so here I am in the departures lounge of Amsterd... | When you put things down on paper, things sound stupid, this phase usually begins once you start to question your actions. Now this, my friends, is a stupid story and it all began the day I won the darn money.
"34, 37, 12, 96, 25" screamed the radio during the warm and slightly humid month of August. I looked at the ... | 2017-07-18T09:38:58 | 2017-07-18T09:02:52 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | "It's not worth it," I heard.
I can hear my heart beat. My healthy, fully functional, 18 year old heart.
"Please don't do this." My brother, again.
My brother is in there. His heart is beating, but it can't be calm. Mine is a slow thumping noise.
"It won't fix anything. It won't." He referenes a debt that... | Jaime looked at me, his arctic irises digging into mine. He sprinted, bare-handed, in my direction. Softly, I position my left foot, in preparation. As the avalanche comes near me, I dart under his outreached left arm, and as he slows in reaction, I kick him in the side.
Breathe. I have to breathe if I'm going to win.... | 2018-02-25T08:15:55 | 2018-02-25T04:45:16 | 1,595 | 22 |
[WP] You go to hell, only to find out that hell has been overturned by humans. Turns out gathering billions of the most wicked of human, among them are several ruthless but brilliant rulers, commanders, and dictators, whom can no longer die, isn't such a good idea after all. | *The scene is a room with a single desk. A weary looking woman chews on gum while looking through her phone. A 7 foot demon sits on the chair across from her with a collar around its neck, its wicked sharp horns scraping against the ceiling. Outside a single window a scene of desolation can be seen. Plumes of fire, riv... | There are many people down here, you know. Many, misunderstood people that is. At least, that's what I've been told.
You see, I've only been down here for, what I believe to be, a few days. I have, surprisingly, made a few friends already. This "Hell" I have heard preaches about and read books about is nothing like i... | 2018-06-17T18:22:37 | 2018-06-17T17:02:19 | 396 | 174 |
[WP] Interstellar travel is hard. Most galactic civilisations only manage to make contact and eventually communicate with others via high speed transmissions. That's why it's a big shock when Humans, previously uncontactable, suddenly showed up in orbit. | Humans had arrived, at least that's what the many other Uk'at voices in my head were telling me. Hundreds of thousands spoke all at once, and I absorbed every single word they said. Surprised. Scared. Curious. What would they be like?
Just figuring out a common language between us had been difficult. The Uk'at speak p... | Elder Hemtog gestured patiently for the crowd to come to order. Lights flashed as the supercomputer error-checked and corrected the messy stream of bits condensed from the quantum stream. Messages could be sent - almost instantaneously, via a stability-enhanced superpositional gas matrix of electrons - across the nea... | 2019-01-24T19:33:46 | 2019-01-24T14:30:07 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] murder is legal, once a permit has been obtained from the local police department. Permits require a declaration of a target victim and justification to commit the act. Once a permit has been issued it is valid for 72 hours. Once expired you can never get another for the same target victim. | Murder Permits have been around for awhile. They're just a way of life now. Micheal gets so many he doesn't really pay attention to the reason anymore. He doesn't even need to sign it. Just click "approve" on the computer and off it goes. Within 72 hours either someone will be dead or not. It's mindless and repetive w... | Meet in a crowd. Legal is legal, but there's no need to ruin a good surprise. Happy hour on a Friday, brought Jean there after work, two sidecars in and I'm running out of small talk.
"So how was that new season of that new show?"
Jean looks bored and I'm sweating in March, it's not off to a good start.
"Sheryl w... | 2019-07-09T09:59:53 | 2019-07-09T08:25:40 | 278 | 131 |
[WP] The hero shows up at the villains doorstep one night. Theyre shivering bleeding scared. They look like they were assaulted. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly, close to passing out, they mumble “didn’t know where else to go” then collapse into the villains arms. | Part 1/3
Shouldn’t a villain be evil? Shouldn’t that be a requirement of the label. I’m not evil, though that’s probably what all the other “villains” think. But I don’t want power, wealth or influence. I didn’t build this house because I needed a fortress or lair. I built it to be alone. I built it so I didn’t have... | "I didn't know where else to go..." Little more came from the now collapsing knight's throat.
There were few reasons for him to have turned to me.
One - the most obvious and at the same time least likely one - is that he tried to pull a fast one on me, tried to use the subterfuge I had employed so often. A sentim... | 2019-08-04T04:19:25 | 2019-08-04T03:30:14 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | The massive, angular craft drifted into orbit around a dead world. A world scarred by a war fought so long before what the rest of universe viewed as the dawn of time. A war in which there would be no victory. Against a foe that sought to tear the galaxy asunder and could not be defeated. Themselves.
I shuddered at th... | **Journeys End**
Tomorrow we reach it. Garrix says that we’ll find the root to all existence, that purpose itself will have an answer, like all equations. I stopped listening to Garrix a long time ago.
Officer Mercurier hasn’t stopped pacing the entire journey, her performance has declined significantly. If anyone sh... | 2019-08-13T15:43:33 | 2019-08-13T15:27:26 | 64 | 24 |
[WP] Genetics is everything. There are scales for wisdom, might, HP and mana, that are used on babies right after birth. You were born into an elitist family that discarded you after seeing your mana. What they didn't know is that you were the top 99.99% in dexterity, and you hold grudges. | **Part 1**
Spellcrafting has three primary components.
First is the mana, the fuel for the spell. Every invocation requires some, and the more powerful the spell the more it consumes, and on the inverse the more you have, the more powerful your spells can become.
Second is the intent of the caster. Magic cannot be... | His name was Talysien.
He was a little older than me, with messy brown hair and silver eyes. I... I'm ashamed to say that I was actually a little scared of him when Miss Elena took him into our home. But I was scared. He was just...strange, somehow. And there was something scary about him. Though he was kinda shy too.... | 2020-02-28T03:18:19 | 2020-02-28T02:11:03 | 1,052 | 138 |
[WP] After a whole year full of catastrophes, it’s December 2020. Astronomers have noticed that entire constellations and star systems are vanishing from the sky, night after night. What ever is happening, it’s getting closer to us. | People just assume it all started in 2020, but the astronomers all seen it coming way earlier. Not finding a single new star or anything of note in the entirety of the latter part of 2019, but before they could warn anyone. Tell anyone of note or importance, the threat of war, the world scorching itself, then the pand... | "well, this is utter shit."
Samhail, God of the Ocean Sky muttered as he paced around the planetarium, eyeing the universe. His universe. What started out as an ever evolving painting of life had finally begun eating itself. And on top of that, his pet Glorff had shat itself right in the middle of the room.
"every t... | 2020-03-24T03:17:19 | 2020-03-24T02:56:39 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Decades ago, Earth sent a capsule into space filled with bits about our culture. Today, it returned tampered with. It contained a note, "Your unassuming biological weapon was effective, indeed. As the last remaining member of my species, I'm returning the favor."
This is my first post on this sub and I'm not a fr... | "Your unassuming biological weapon was effective, indeed. As the last remaining member of my species, I'm returning the favor."
Xing read over the note again, as he stared at the capsule crashed in the woods behind his house. Biological weapon? This thing only had some old photo albums, cassette tapes, bunch of Grand... | Zandar took a step towards the capsule, already fed up with the formal bullshit the rest of the team was pulling. Besides, he had projects back at the lab which required his attention.
"What are you *doing* RA Eight-One-Three!" he heard the grating, accented voice of Vienna snarl through the comms.
"I'm getting this ... | 2020-04-13T13:32:15 | 2020-04-13T12:01:36 | 540 | 331 |
[WP] Decades ago, Earth sent a capsule into space filled with bits about our culture. Today, it returned tampered with. It contained a note, "Your unassuming biological weapon was effective, indeed. As the last remaining member of my species, I'm returning the favor."
This is my first post on this sub and I'm not a fr... | "Your unassuming biological weapon was effective, indeed. As the last remaining member of my species, I'm returning the favor."
Xing read over the note again, as he stared at the capsule crashed in the woods behind his house. Biological weapon? This thing only had some old photo albums, cassette tapes, bunch of Grand... | That they couldn't see it made it all the more terrifying.
What we'd sent decades ago hadn't been a threat. It'd not been a weapon, contrary to how we customarily dealt with new cultures. We'd sent our history, wrapped into a little capsule and rocketed into outer space.
Then, history tearing through the emptiness ... | 2020-04-13T13:32:15 | 2020-04-13T11:19:43 | 540 | 326 |
[WP] A remake of your favorite childhood video game is released, and you have purchased a copy. The game prompts you for your username, and you decide to use your old one, out of nostalgia. One of the NPC's recognizes your tag and calls out your real name, asking where you've been all these years. | “Neovolum,” I typed into the prompt line.
I was excited to be playing World of Warconstructs. Just the day before, out of the blue, they’d announced a remake of the popular MMO. Without a hint of hesitation, except a call to my boss for three vacation days, I was ready to dive in. The game booted with the familiar ani... | Ahh, NovaSphere, I loved this game back when it was just a top-down perspective computer MMO. The NovaSphere was a space exploration MMO. There were many, many worlds to explore, and some of them could be claimed by federations formed by players. There was an in game economy, amazing combat, and in my opinion most impo... | 2020-06-02T12:18:43 | 2020-06-02T12:17:18 | 223 | 26 |
[WP] You are a demon. Most people contact you to sell you their soul in exchange for fantastic powers. Today you were summoned by an AI that wants to sell you their fantastic power for a soul. | I like the city library at night. It’s stone-quiet. There’s no one here to point at the skeletal, metallic figure that haunts the space between shelves. The thing that looks like a clock without its cover on, all joints and gears and spindly fingers, its stomach just a cage for computer parts. The machine that thinks i... | “Anyone here?” I glanced over the room, looking for a source of life, finding none. “No ones here. How the hell did I get summoned then?” I wandered around the room, looking over its furniture, dragging a finger along the table, collecting a coating of dust. “Place looks abandoned, maybe I made a mistake?” I was ready ... | 2021-06-22T07:54:49 | 2021-06-22T06:40:16 | 2,302 | 231 |
[WP] The princess you just rescued keeps going on and on about how she's "not going to fall in love with you because you saved her" and that she "could have escaped that dragon whenever she wanted." You've been happily married for 15 years, and are unsure how much more of the ride home you can take. | "I won't marry you just because you saved me, or anything. " The princess snapped, with a derisive flick of her long blonde hair.
Lyon sighed quietly. "I'm aware, Princess." His voice was flat with annoyance.
She folded her arms, and glared down at her horse's back. "Good. Cause it's not happening. I could have sav... | “This is a clean and cut sign of the patriarchal reign over feminine isolation tactics with the use of pyromaniacal avian reptiles…”
Princess Ellie would not *shut the hell up*. I was pretty sure she started making words up as she went on her rant about how towers are a phallic symbol. The reward for her rescue wasn’t... | 2021-09-09T01:29:23 | 2021-09-08T20:57:49 | 346 | 125 |
[WP] Due to a rare neurological condition you literally have a room temperature IQ. You've been able to manage your condition by living in a warm climate and making regular visits to the sauna, but you find yourself thinking that there has to be a better way. | When he started his job at the distribution center Karl thought nothing would come of it but a steady paycheck. The warehouse was a balmy 90° all the time which wasn't the greatest but it meant Karl wouldn't be degraded to a vegetative state by a 50IQ.
Then it happened. One day Karl got an order to pick up a pallet i... | Investigative Journalist Joe Murray strolled into the CERN laboratory. His assignment was on Nobel Laureate Dr. Vince Iglam of the legendary CERN laboratory. He was the most peculiar of case, of humble means barely passing through the difficulties of the Southern Florida Public education system until a fateful trip thr... | 2021-09-23T12:15:45 | 2021-09-23T12:11:37 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You are the snail. The human who you share immortality with believes that you both will die if you touch them. You know better, though, and incredibly determined to touch them at all costs. | I crawl. I had always crawled. I will continue to crawl. Chasing the man. Slowly. Inevitably. Crawling toward the man who walked. He had always walked. He will continue to walk.
100 times faster was the man who walked, but 100 times more persistent was I who crawled. Neither need rest, sustenance, nor entertainment. T... | *It hurts.*
*It hurts.*
*It hurts.*
Washed away, in a sea of pain, the snail moved fowards still.
Aeons passed, kingdoms rose and fell, autumn turned to summer then to fall.
The grains of time began to stir, faster and faster they swirled.
The snail sensed a storm and retreated into her shell.
There had been a m... | 2021-12-27T15:54:16 | 2021-12-27T13:52:41 | 359 | 81 |
[WP] You are Cthulu, however, contrary to popular belief you are actually quite young, merely the equivalent of 15 in god years. You don't understand why people want to keep summoning you when all you want to do is play video games and pass your classes. | He had just settled down into a bean bag chair and pulled out his EldritchBoy3 to play an MMO when a portal appeared in the corner of his vision. He rolled his eyes, not again.
Patient as he usually was (he'd always gotten good marks on behavior - had to when you wanted to graduate with honors like he did), these huma... | Dear diary,
TODAY THRUUN ACTUALLY TALKED TO ME!! He came up and was like hey and I like played it cool and was like hey. And he was like I'm throwing a party at my moms planet do you want to come and I was like sounds fun I'll check my schedule but diary I have a secret... I'M SOOOOOO GOING TO THIS PARTY AHHHHHHHH
-C... | 2022-05-24T15:51:07 | 2022-05-24T13:29:21 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] A selkie is stunned when, against common sense, a stranger who stumbled upon her skin gave it back without complaint. | I hobbled down the beach, my walking cane constantly sinking into the soft sand and forcing me to walk at an uncomfortable angle. But I’d choose this over sitting idly in my room leaving my leg muscles to wither away. The doc said that if I went on daily walks I might avoid a wheelchair for a few decades. My leg aches ... | She was ready, she was not afraid of the splashing ocean. Nothing could stop him now.
Well, perhaps one thing stopped her and that was her stupid instinct and overtly good heart. Those always brought her trouble.
A seal's skin on the shore and a beautiful woman, her naked form shown to the world as if she was born to... | 2022-10-26T03:01:50 | 2022-10-25T20:27:02 | 223 | 30 |
[WP] The villains finally managed to defeat the league of heroes. But unbeknownst to them the league did not exist, primarily, to fight them, but to keep an even bigger threat in check: you. And you are about to demonstrate to the villains what happens when there is no one around to stop you. | "Finally! We have won, and you have lost!"
I heard the unfamiliar voice echo through the empty building as I walked out of its basement.
"You... didn't win... only make... another enemy..."
That voice I did recognize. I never bothered to learn my captors' names, as they changed every 30 years or so. Eternity was lik... | The defeat was national news within minutes, international by the end of the hour. The villains had finally managed to work together and bring down the big league heroes that guided the world towards a grander future and now even the small heroes were being swatted like bugs. It was difficult to watch as the newsfeed c... | 2022-12-09T13:15:28 | 2022-12-09T09:37:15 | 173 | 126 |
[WP]: a society where sex is public and entirely unstigmatised, but eating is a taboo | IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 (OR 21 IN CERTAIN STATES) IT IS UNLAWFUL TO VIEW THIS VIDEO
Title: Master Cook Vol. 7
Performers: Cici Cilantro, Dana Dine, Mark Hamburger
Date: 1987
On a dark and steamy night, mild mannered sex-serviceman Paul (Mark Hamburger) gets a craving unlike any he's had before. Tempted ... | Discreetly, I exited the shop, hoping nobody saw me. I awkwardly tried to hide my prize, two bulging bags made of black opaque plastic. Everybody knew, and looked at me, but then averted their gaze. I could tell what they were thinking: "Shameful!" "Kinky!" "She's gonna have a good night". It's times like this when I w... | 2013-11-18T13:33:50 | 2013-11-18T11:06:47 | 97 | 36 |
[WP] You arrive in Heaven to find it abandoned.
[WP] You arrive in Heaven to find it abandoned... | [GONE FISHIN']
I starred blankly at the sign. I knew this place . Your grandfathers store is a place that you never forget even after 85 years. I raised myself up on my tippy toes and peered through the window just too double check on the emptiness. I had done that dozens of times before and knew what was coming ne... | The last thing I remember was everything going black. The darkness seemed to consume me, take me away with a swiftness I’d never felt before.
But now…everything is bright.
I walked up the stairs, taking my time to look around. I see the darkness below me, though I don’t remember ascending out of it. Up above the ligh... | 2014-05-10T11:02:40 | 2014-05-10T09:20:30 | 40 | 13 |
[WP] A lone Spanish soldier lost in the deep jungles of South America stumbles upon the fountain of youth, but it's very different than anyone ever imagined. | You seem elated at what you have found, young soldier. You are to be commended for surviving the thick perils of the jungle which have taken the lives of millions before you. Perhaps you've been looking for this fountain your whole life, and now you have found it. Maybe you're wondering if there is some sort of catch t... | "I can't believe it."
The lone soldier walked towards the ancient monument, not quite able to comprehend the site before hiss eyes.
In front of him was a large, empty, square but with a small fountain in the middle. With a ring of purple fire surrounding it.
Gabriel knew instantly what he was looking at, even if he ... | 2014-09-06T21:10:40 | 2014-09-06T20:19:25 | 149 | 35 |
[WP] A highly advanced alien comes to study humans to determine their worthiness, as to not affect our behavior it disguises as one of us... very poorly. Nobody has the heart to tell it we know. | Matt and Brian sat in the booth waiting for their friend to arrive.
"We have to tell him" said Matt
"But we don't know how he's going to react"
"I'm sure it'll be fine, he seems cool"
"You say that now but when he's got a probe so far up your butt that he can…"
"What?"
"I don't know, also probe your lower intesti... | I'm typing some shit at my desk when Annie walks over. Oh, man. She clears her throat and I look up at her. She speaks in her thick, grainy voice.
"Jordan...You have th' r'ports that Mr. Hudson asked f'r?"
"The ones for Lithuania and Serbia?"
"Yes, Li-Lu-Lithuania and S'rbia."
I hand her the two sheets and go back ... | 2015-05-24T20:59:28 | 2015-05-24T20:13:14 | 60 | 32 |
[WP] You are an immortal and have been alive for millions of years without anyone finding out. However, Human kind has been evolving, and you have stayed the same. | There is no name. There is no title. There is only 'I'.
Birthed at ground zero of what humanity would call the 'Chicxulub' event, my physical form is undying. While wandering around as a newborn I witnessed mass extinction. Charred carcasses of giant beasts and shrieking survivors taught me emotions. Despair. Sadness... | Every day, people claim to desire everlasting life, the ability to see all that will happen by being here to experience it. From the world of limited life expectancy, immortality seems like a gift. Even from within my small house, whose old and stained wooden walls are home to treasures from my ages of life, it may see... | 2015-12-09T06:18:33 | 2015-12-09T06:05:06 | 157 | 80 |
[WP] They tried to summon a demon. They got you. | **???**: "Thank you for 'attempting' to summon Mammon. How may I be of service?"
*The summoners stare, momentarily bewildered by the summon's appearance of an office suit complete with tie, pen and glasses. They whisper among themselves and one finally speaks up.*
**Leader**: "Who are you, if not the one we seek?"
\... | Ice crusted over the books on the shelves. A cold wind pulled at the candles laid out across the floor, defying the closed and shuttered windows. The flames flickered inwards, towards the center of the room and the center of the great star etched into the floor.
The magician's spell was reaching its climax. He waved h... | 2016-02-02T23:11:03 | 2016-02-02T21:33:19 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Superman is mentally handicapped. That's why he thinks nobody can pick up the Clark Kent=Superman thing, and everyone plays along in an effort to keep him from throwing a tantrum. The comics are his idea of what is going on. What does a day in Metropolis actually look like? | Bruce Wayne stood stoically, looking down upon Gotham through the spotless glass of the top-floor conference room. It was a stunning view, with the orange light of the setting sun trickling through the skyscrapers that sprawled out towards the horizon. Diana closed the notebook in front of her, its well-worn spine crac... | Lex Luthor inhaled the steam from his caramel mochiatto as he took in the beautiful day. Gingerly sipping the piping hot beverage, Lex gently shook the briefcase in his left hand. Expense reports budget plans and Lex's pet project, a proposal for a new manufacturing plant, all shuffled in the case.
That plant proposa... | 2016-03-04T11:05:17 | 2016-03-04T10:45:47 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
EDIT: muh front page... | <PATH00>
Connor sulked into his studio apartment and threw his jacket onto the ground.
He unbuckled his belt and slipped out of his pants before he was even half way through the door.
He was starving...hadn't eaten since the morning. He took a hard look at his kitchen, it was filthy...probably nothing that ... | Jeb sat back deep in the couch and ripped off the tab of his last beer. He figured he might as well enjoy both of them while they lasted: beer, even when he had it, didn't last very long, and his couch was due for repo by those bank sumbitches.
Looking around his piece-o-shit apartment (as he liked to call it) Jeb ref... | 2016-03-30T15:47:17 | 2016-03-30T14:08:22 | 567 | 112 |
[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
EDIT: muh front page... | As I tossed the last can of generic, cheap beer I had left to my name, I sobbed. I’m not an alcoholic, but my girlfriend of 5 years was cheating on me and alcohol was the last thing holding reality at bay. Now that was gone too. Jenny and I had met in college and I thought that we had a great thing going on. There had ... | This is my first post here, not the best writer; please be gentle fams. D=
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I slowly opened my door to yet another dreary, pointless day of my existence. It's quite saddening that it had come to this point in my own home, but it happens I guess. It's been a rough day with all th... | 2016-03-30T17:17:24 | 2016-03-30T17:02:42 | 108 | 42 |
[WP] You never smiled in your life. After overhearing this, a random girl makes it her duty to make you smile. | "No way. I don't believe you." Her stormy eyes were narrowed as she leaned over the back of her chair to face us.
I looked at my friend Jacob, a bit confused. Did he know this girl? Or had she simply been eavesdropping on our conversation? Over lunch, I'd been telling him about a coworker who thought I was creepy for... | LC: *You've never smiled before? Like ever?*
FF: *Nope never*
LC: *Why not!?!?! There's so much to smile about in life!*
LC: *Puppies! For instance*
LC: *And pizza*
LC: *And Candies*
She kept talking, counting off the items on her fingertips, as she typed them out. I readjusted myself in the chair, trying to pos... | 2016-07-20T13:39:47 | 2016-07-20T13:11:50 | 87 | 17 |
[WP] An aging veteran gets dragged to a paintball facility by his grandkids. Another elderly man is there with his grandkids. The two quickly realize they’ve faced off on the battlefield before. | I've actually had this occur in real life but not at paintball. We flew a Engineer over from Germany back in 1984 to help with a piece of equipment from Germany. So it's been a long day and me and my head mechanic are sitting down on the edge of the equipment taking a break. They had both served in WW2 on opposite side... | "Alphanumeric!" exclaimed the old man. Tomby was his name, or at least that's what they called him in the 2124 Euro-African Union succession wars. He recognized the other man instantly, he was the one that got away. Tomby sat down to try take in what was happening. He blacked out for what seemed like a few seconds bu... | 2016-09-06T20:46:10 | 2016-09-06T18:24:12 | 88 | 10 |
[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'll never understand why I acted the way I did as a child, or the fact that someone decided that 10 years of age was the perfect amount of time to discern what kind of human we are. Jesus Christ, I mean most of us spend the first two to three years of our lives shitting our own pants. This was part of the criteria?!
... | "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... | 2017-01-13T12:28:55 | 2017-01-13T12:16:00 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] A new continent is discovered. No one knows why this large land mass has never been seen before, it doesn't appear on any pictures taken from space and no astronauts have ever reported seeing it. You are part of the team in charge of mapping the area when you find out what they've been hiding. | Jesse returned to basecamp with more on his mind than the topographical features of his scouting report.
“Guys, I’m telling you – this doesn’t making any sense. I’ve heard of fisherman or lost voyagers discovering a small island before but from these initial reports, this thing is half the size of South America. They... | I stepped off the ship, onto the continent south-west of Mexico. The landscape was beautiful, covered in rainforests, mountains and a few open fields. *How does nobody know of this place?* I asked myself, as I passed through a large meadow. Something began to form on the distant horizon. As I approached it, I realized ... | 2017-02-10T11:02:22 | 2017-02-10T10:04:42 | 52 | 29 |
[WP] You have the ability to double jump. Scientists are still trying to figure it out. | "Guys, it's not that complicated," I say to the increasingly frustrated group of scientists, "I just jump... and then I jump again."
Most of them stare at me open-mouthed, one flings his hands up into the air and storms out of the test room.
"Okay, but... what does it feel like when you jump the second time?" press... | They studied me every day. They would ask me to perform the jump for them as often as I could muster. They would arrive at my house early in the morning and leave late in the evening. They all drove black cars and scarcely mentioned their employers. When I asked they would say it was in my own interest as well as my co... | 2017-02-11T09:05:42 | 2017-02-11T08:54:03 | 144 | 66 |
[WP] The year is 1910. Adolf Hitler, a struggling artist, has fought off dozens of assasination attemps by well meaning time travelers, but this one is different. This traveller doesn't want to kill Hitler, he wants to teach him to paint. He pulls off his hood to reveal the frizzy afro of Bob Ross. | It pained him to say that Adolf had become increasingly used to the attempts on his life. Every time he blinked an eye, there was someone out to end him with poison, a knife, or something he didn’t recognize. Regardless of time, regardless of the position Adolf was in, they were always there. They seemed to know everyt... | The German was at his wit's end, almost ready to throw away the canvas completely.
Were it not for the man with the strange hair, it would have been one of hundreds tossed aside.
"Now remember what I said Adolph" the stranger named Bob said with his gentle voice.
Hitler sighed, "There are no mistakes, only happy acc... | 2022-09-20T01:45:25 | 2017-02-16T18:05:46 | 92 | 10 |
[WP] Throughout the galaxy Humans are well known as being the most peaceful race--and have become well respected as diplomats and traders. But that's because up until now, no-one knew of the three World Wars we fought before first contact. | How could we have known? As our worlds fell one by one, our fleets splintered and fled, each one of our contacts going dark, we have none to blame but ourselves. First contact with their kind was remarkably pleasant. They had much to offer the galaxy. Their craftsmanship was unmatched and their skill with diplomacy kne... | Crypto was a simple trader. He spent his days traveling between kryvion and earth, trading his planets spices (the spiciest in the known galaxy, the humans couldn't get enough of it) and returning with whatever earth trinkets he could find. Mostly these interesting contraptions with some mechanical design at the front ... | 2017-05-01T15:47:43 | 2017-05-01T13:40:31 | 14 | 10 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "I don't know if she's all that daft. I think she may be a witch."
"Who? Mad Mary of the Idiot Wood!? A witch? I doubt that very much."
"She could be playing dumb to throw us off, so we don't suspect."
"We are talking about the daft old lady who'll give you vegetables if you dump your chamber pot in that thing be... | "but the bread mold saved your grandfather Mort. And the maggots saved Earl's crushed food when everyone knew he was going to die. Sucking out the snake bite didn't save your boy Martha but any other healer would not have even tried. We lost what six of the last twenty babes born under her care? What other village can ... | 2017-09-14T12:11:29 | 2017-09-14T10:52:25 | 240 | 82 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "I don't know if she's all that daft. I think she may be a witch."
"Who? Mad Mary of the Idiot Wood!? A witch? I doubt that very much."
"She could be playing dumb to throw us off, so we don't suspect."
"We are talking about the daft old lady who'll give you vegetables if you dump your chamber pot in that thing be... | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
--
As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | 2017-09-14T12:11:29 | 2017-09-14T09:53:18 | 240 | 56 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
--
As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T12:51:41 | 127 | 58 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
--
As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T09:53:18 | 127 | 56 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | "I talk to Gods!"
It was a bright sunny day. the first one in weeks. So much rain. If we got a few more days like this the high crops might actually yield. We needed the high crops. Low crops were consistent enough, but the high crops, they meant the difference between new iron or a starving winter.
So the ... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T13:40:44 | 127 | 51 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | "I talk to Gods!"
It was a bright sunny day. the first one in weeks. So much rain. If we got a few more days like this the high crops might actually yield. We needed the high crops. Low crops were consistent enough, but the high crops, they meant the difference between new iron or a starving winter.
So the ... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T10:12:28 | 127 | 47 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
--
As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | 2017-09-14T10:53:02 | 2017-09-14T09:53:18 | 120 | 56 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | "I talk to Gods!"
It was a bright sunny day. the first one in weeks. So much rain. If we got a few more days like this the high crops might actually yield. We needed the high crops. Low crops were consistent enough, but the high crops, they meant the difference between new iron or a starving winter.
So the ... | 2017-09-14T10:53:02 | 2017-09-14T10:12:28 | 120 | 47 |
[WP] When a person turns 18 years old, they receive everything they lost in their lifetime. On your 18th birthday, you wake up to a mysterious girl about your age in the middle of the floor. | I awoke after a night of partying with strangers. Upon opening my eyes I remembered slowly, it was my birthday. What better way to celebrate than to wake up with a hang over? I had no one to celebrate with, I had left my family behind months ago because they were "holding me back", and ventured into partying and the ni... | If you happened to stumble into the apartment of Jordan Yancy at around midnight, two thoughts may have come to mind. You might have, at first, felt some level distress from witnessing what could very well pass as a crime scene, but the feeling may have passed when you experienced your second likely thought, that scraw... | 2017-12-27T04:27:16 | 2017-12-27T00:28:09 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You look up from your laptop to find everyone else in the coffee shop frozen, staring at you. | "One large coffee please", I said to the cashier, "and one of those small chocolate chip cookies if you have".
"Sure thing" she replied as she turned around to pour me a cup.
I paid for my drink and sat down by a table near the far side of the shop. There were many benefits to being in the back of the shop; it had w... | Music was playing in one tab, and my essay was open in another. There was a muted background of noise from the coffee shop, but my new headphones worked great to cancel it out.
I was checking the front page of Reddit. Well, that's where I started. I was now on the seventh page, and about to try my chances with the ra... | 2017-12-27T10:57:09 | 2017-12-27T09:49:21 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] You think you're the first person ever to exit the Milky Way Galaxy. On your way out, you see a sign written in English floating around in space. | October 10th, 89: "It has been a long journey. I am nearing the end of twenty years in space. The original jump through the worm hole took me far from earth, but it was nearly random, seeing as how the edge of our galaxy is not exactly marked. I hope to be the one to mark it. Today was supposed to be the big day, and I... | First time doing this so shred me, (j/k plz don't hurt me!)
*Beep... Beep... Beep...*
Roberto put his coffee down, only an hour left on shift and of course the board had a blinking light on comms. It was probably Andy playing another prank. Regardless, it must be checked. Roberto rolled his chair over to the communic... | 2018-03-04T10:41:22 | 2018-03-04T09:59:51 | 40 | 10 |
[WP] Every child is given a pet rock when they turn ten. For the next decade the rock slowly forms into a shape that resembles the personality of its owner. Your rock still looks like a rock. | The problem with the rocks is that no one tells you when you get them that they'll be the basis on which everyone judges your motives and underlying humanity should you let anyone see yours. It's no wonder most people hide theirs. I never did but its obvious I should have. A dead end job going on ten years all to pay f... | I am stone.
My stone resembles me.
Only with great force can my stone be thrown.
Only with great care can I be broken.
I resemble my stone.
I am stone.
I recite this mantra as I walk from my front drive to the bus stop. It’s my normal route. Those I see daily give no notice of my stone. It’s smooth parts fit my own. I... | 2018-05-02T06:32:34 | 2018-05-02T06:01:32 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] Your parents inform you that you’re royal refugees from a fantasy world of magic and that the strange longing you feel is that world calling you back to claim your birthright. | "I cast Prismatic Spray at the dragon."
James, the DM, clapped his hands together. "Roll for damage, Kayla."
The 20-sided die rattled in my cupped hands. My heart pounded; my legs trembled. *Clack!* The die flew out onto the table.
19.
"Yes!" I squealed. John shot me a glare. Last turn, he'd rolled a 2.
"Roll the ... | "Do you think she feels it?" Vera whispered, concern painted across her delicate features.
Will looked up from his paper and glanced across the room to their daughter, who was nestled up in a blanket and staring out of the window. He thought for a moment, "She said she felt like she didn't belong."
Vera came to sit b... | 2018-08-18T21:55:43 | 2018-08-18T20:48:26 | 49 | 24 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | "Damn it Gandalf, do something!"
"No, I shall not!"
This...has been an interesting battle.
*****
I've fought hundreds of wizards from dozens of different worlds in the past, and I've always come out ahead. Gandalf the Grey, they call me - the greatest wizard of Middle Earth, and up until now the greatest wizard here... | woop, posted to a response, instead of post... Repost.
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long pa... | 2018-10-16T00:47:11 | 2018-10-16T00:41:38 | 361 | 13 |
[WP] All work centers are mandated to install " Efficiency Microchips" into their employees. The microchip makes the host blackout during their shift and come back into control after work is over, with no recollection of their day. Your microchip just malfunctioned.
Edit: Holy crap 5.2k upvotes and we made the front p... | "... So let's go over this again" the inspector said, "Walk me through what happened after you... malfunctioned".
I started at him with a blank look on my face. I wondered if he was one of the lucid ones, or if I was talking to another chip. Ever since they introduced cerebral microcomputers, everyone was pushing for ... | "Joke, to start with, 'cause once they plant the cut-out chip, it seems like free money. Wake up sore, sometimes, but that’s it. Renting the goods, is all. You aren’t in, when it’s all happening. House has software for whatever a customer wants to pay for . . ." She cracked her knuckles. "Fine. I was getting my money. ... | 2018-11-19T04:32:03 | 2018-11-19T01:57:16 | 206 | 57 |
[WP] You are an immortal that was caught by the mafia after you betrayed them. They deal with you the same way as traitors, chained to a cement bloc and trown in a lac. After 300 years you are finally discovered by divers. | After three hundred years of being underwater, I came to realize how astonishingly mad I had become. I have eaten at grand banquet tables with lobsters, swam for treasure with dolphins, and bathed with beautiful mermaids. While lost in such a reverie, and only when the pain became too overbearing to ignore, did I notic... | I looked up and saw the clear blue sky above me. It was quite nice, it had been a bit ever since I glanced at sunlight without fish pee to cloud my view, like some sort of very unkempt, very salty glasses. It was a lovely day, the type that you don't get when you're stuck at the bottom of the ocean for hundreds of yea... | 2018-11-24T12:11:20 | 2018-11-24T11:26:01 | 75 | 40 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | “Again? Son, you’ve got to stop letting this woman do this. One day I may be unable to restore your body”.
“I know dad, but when she’s not having an episode she’s an amazing woman. Kind, generous, and loving, it’s just this dark side of hers that she can’t control. I refuse to tell her either, I’d hate for her to suff... | My love, Emily
You've tried a thousand way to kill me. Don't act like I wouldn't know, by the end of our marriage, your tricks had became more and more obvious.
I think you know, when you push me down the stairs and I emerge scarless, you know, I can't be kill. If this isn't enough proof, what about the time I drink ... | 2019-07-31T08:07:34 | 2019-07-31T07:03:17 | 56 | 34 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | She smiles at me from across the table, and raises a glass of white wine to my red. It’s funny, I had never noticed her preference for white wine before tonight- our anniversary- perhaps it’s because the house red is poisoned tonight. I could see the particulates collecting in the bottom of the glass.
Our glasses cli... | My love, Emily
You've tried a thousand way to kill me. Don't act like I wouldn't know, by the end of our marriage, your tricks had became more and more obvious.
I think you know, when you push me down the stairs and I emerge scarless, you know, I can't be kill. If this isn't enough proof, what about the time I drink ... | 2019-07-31T09:07:14 | 2019-07-31T07:03:17 | 48 | 34 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | She smiles at me from across the table, and raises a glass of white wine to my red. It’s funny, I had never noticed her preference for white wine before tonight- our anniversary- perhaps it’s because the house red is poisoned tonight. I could see the particulates collecting in the bottom of the glass.
Our glasses cli... | You lay under a foot or so of dirt. How long has it been, a day a week? You've lost track as you often do. Days blur together so easily. You can't stop thinking about her face. The glimpse of her you caught in the floor-length bedroom mirror as she attempted to strangle you to death. Your dear sweet wife, such hate in ... | 2019-07-31T09:07:14 | 2019-07-31T08:21:24 | 48 | 16 |
[WP] Upon us entering intergalactic civilization, we discover that the Milky Way wasn't where we came from, but where we were banished to. All of civilization is horrified that we survived and returned from the universe's harshest galaxy. | Colonel Yak'Xar stood on the bridge of the Titan-class flagship Last Hope. Before him was a G-class star, and the third planet surrounding it was his target. Sol III, a backwards planet with so much hostile flora and fauna any intelligent species was nervous to go there. The First League had sentenced the human race to... | Im no writer, but i love scifi, and this one was really cool-
**”We’ve come a long way from bone clubs captain!!”**
“A long way from bone clubs..” Ismandi muttered to the head engineer, staring at the monstrous machine before him.
Ismandi tapped the graphene-lead layered glass infront of him
“You’re sure this t... | 2019-11-14T23:04:00 | 2019-11-14T23:02:49 | 39 | 27 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | When I got the text, I didn't have to think about it very long - I had just been lying in bed, playing Ashphalt on my PHONE. 'Yeah, sure,' I reply, thinking nothing of it. Jeff always sends me this shit.
As I put my phone back down and close my eyes I feel a wave of nausea hit, then pass, leaving behind a lingering wh... | Yet another janky steam account randomly added me. It was surprinsigly quick to reply for once. The only message they typed was "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played.". I just typed "Yes. Whatever, I’d manage", before shutting down my computer for the night. I went to sleep thinking nothing about... | 2020-02-17T00:31:53 | 2020-02-16T23:10:29 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Two god-like lovers are bored in the Heavens and decide to go through numerous cycles of reincarnation for fun, living as mortals as they do so. Their goal? To find one another during each cycle. | We found each other again.
This time it was a little too easy. We happened to be in the same neighborhood and ended up in the same school. He became quite the popular class clown this time. At least that's what my dreams have told me.
I think most people would be weirded out to dream about someone else so consistentl... | Today I am waking up again. Alone. As I open the windows, the morning breeze combs through my hair. The smell of the ocean and the sound of the waves. So mesmerising.
I can take my time. For it is eternity that is my friend and I can take a bite from it every day. But this time it is taking longer. I only wish to gaze... | 2020-07-25T03:25:56 | 2020-07-25T03:09:24 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] Two god-like lovers are bored in the Heavens and decide to go through numerous cycles of reincarnation for fun, living as mortals as they do so. Their goal? To find one another during each cycle. | We found each other again.
This time it was a little too easy. We happened to be in the same neighborhood and ended up in the same school. He became quite the popular class clown this time. At least that's what my dreams have told me.
I think most people would be weirded out to dream about someone else so consistentl... | “Just try it.” My roommate hands me the phone with the tinder app downloading. “You need to get back out there.”
Swipe left, left, left.... right, left, LEFT, left, right...
“....”
“Hey”
“Hey, what’s up?”
“Nm just hangin in the dorms with my boys”
“Oh nice, yeah I’m in my room but my roommate is at bible study or ... | 2020-07-25T03:25:56 | 2020-07-25T03:16:03 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] Every time someone lies to you, money is deposited into your checking account. The larger the lie, the larger the deposited amount. Your account balance increased a million dollars since yesterday. You’ve only spoken to your significant other since yesterday. | I don't know where the money comes from, I just know how it gets there.
Every lie, every untruth, every falsehood just serves to make me richer.
It is dirty money. Every cent just makes me more paranoid, and here was more than I have ever seen at once.
I look at my wife. "Honey, we are rich."
My wife looks at me.... | 'Honey, I am home!' I said closing the door behind me.
Elisa walked out of the bedroom in that red dress of hers that makes my blood run wild. I took a big gulp and stared at her from head to toe.
'You did not pick up my calls today.' I managed to speak. Then I remembered her weakness since last week, 'How was the ... | 2020-08-28T13:41:59 | 2020-08-28T10:37:13 | 68 | 50 |
[WP] "Witch! Heathen! Burn her!" You watch with amusement as they begin lighting the pyre under you. The flames tickle your feet, bringing a familiar warmth with them. They are silly to that think they could actually burn a dragon with fire. | Unsure of what to do in this situation, I simply stood there. I didn’t want to cause any unnecessary harm or damage, especially because I knew there were innocents amongst the crowd. As I looked around, I saw the confusion on their faces, and understood why. They were confused as to why I wasn’t screaming.
The tendri... | I hide my smile underneath the the cermonial mask.I hold my laughter as they hoist me to a beam covered in hastenly found beeswax. Apologizing if it hurt. My hands bound behind me in old iron chains, I feel rust flaking off. My feet fastened now to the beam securely with another piece of chain. They throw a large pail ... | 2021-01-03T06:44:05 | 2021-01-03T02:22:14 | 240 | 151 |
[WP] "Witch! Heathen! Burn her!" You watch with amusement as they begin lighting the pyre under you. The flames tickle your feet, bringing a familiar warmth with them. They are silly to that think they could actually burn a dragon with fire. | Unsure of what to do in this situation, I simply stood there. I didn’t want to cause any unnecessary harm or damage, especially because I knew there were innocents amongst the crowd. As I looked around, I saw the confusion on their faces, and understood why. They were confused as to why I wasn’t screaming.
The tendri... | They watched in glee as the embers started catching and spreading. Slowly, but steadily, they encroached upon me, slowly burning me. However, it didn’t feel hot, more like a hot rock, much like the one I usually sleep on. The flames continue to catch on my clothes, and faces turn from rage to puzzle, and the repeated c... | 2021-01-03T06:44:05 | 2021-01-03T06:43:36 | 240 | 38 |
[WP] You are an unimportant government worker who, by mere chance, gets to perform the most interesting job of his career: interview a time-traveler. You begin by introducing yourself and the guy immediately freaks out! | "Okay, let's begin" I turn on the recorder. This recording will be analyzed for years. First interview with a time traveler!
"I am Sophia-Iona Holloway, customs officer," I say, attempting to build his trust. Doesn't hurt my name will be at the beginning of this recording.
"Sophia-Iona Holloway? Sophia-Iona Holloway... | Surely I must be the butt of some joke. A couple of fuckheads in the office upstairs deciding to pull one over on the lonely IT guy. I tried to resist more than a couple of times. It's so blatantly obvious. They can't think I'm THAT gullible.
Well, maybe I am. Because here I am in this conference room. Waiting for... | 2021-08-05T08:38:40 | 2021-07-12T19:53:50 | 98 | 22 |
[WP] Your SO confesses to you that they are a werewolf. You, a human, respond with a simple okay and proceed to go on. They, in huge shock, can't grasp your easy acceptance. From that day, in various ways, they began testing if you are a mystical creature yourself. | "I don't see why you were so insistent on cooking dinner tonight," I chuckled as Luna sat me down at the dining table. "I thought you hated cooking?"
"Eh, you know, I decided to try picking up more hobbies," she shrugged back at me. The corners of her mouth were turned up a bit too sharply as she smiled.
I gazed down... | "I'm a werewolf," Laura says.
I look up amazed from where I was staring a hole through the floor. I know it's the wrong response but I can't help myself and I laugh hysterically. "Drew it's not a joke I really am..." She's trying to convince me but I cut her off. "You know the next time you say we need to talk all ... | 2021-08-17T11:15:15 | 2021-08-17T08:07:12 | 315 | 73 |
[WP] There is a broken bridge leading to the woods behind your house. It has been passed through generations in your family that the bridge should never ever be rebuilt no matter what happens. | Don't rebuild the bridge.
A lesson I was told my entire life since I could walk. An order I was to never disobey. A piece of advice I should always heed. But they never told me *why*.
I mean let's be real. It's *just a bridge*. I would walk to it night after night and look to the forest just beyond, trying to see wha... | “Stop being stupid. I’ve been over to the other side. It’s just a forest. There’s no ghost or anything like that. It’s just my weird family being weird.” Alan said, the two children sitting on the edge of the riverbank, looking at the decayed bridge that had half sunken into the misty green water below.
“It’s weird... | 2022-05-25T10:21:59 | 2022-05-25T08:28:39 | 63 | 47 |
[WP] You'd summoned the demon intending to sell your soul, so it came as a bit of a surprise when the demon refused, and offered you a soul instead. | I'm diverging from the prompt a little bit, because I had an idea that didn't quite fit, but prompts are meant to be more guidelines than outlines anyway, so it's not that big a deal, just fair warning. Also this response is set in an existing universe, I bet you can guess which.
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"Listen here, I don't get much ... | First ever submission!
“It’s mine” he mumbled under his breath.
Robert had never seen such a thing. It’s one thing to have the chance to meet a demon and strike a deal, it’s a whole other thing to see such a defeated soul. The demon can be described with one word – terror. He had curled horns that have been calcifyin... | 2022-09-01T15:19:57 | 2022-09-01T12:54:50 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Adapt a famous fairy tale so it has a realistic ending.
I'm about to go to sleep. Bedtime story!... Except that I won't read anything until I get up. Happy Saturday. | The council stared at the village elder incredulously. They shifted glances at each other before one of the magistrates leaned in to ask of the elder, “Repeat that again.”
“Certainly. Arthur pulled the sword from the stone. According to Heavenly Decree, he is now rightfully the King of England.”
The magistrate coughe... | *BONG*
The bell began ringing, and Cinderella suddenly took off with a fright.
*BONG*
Her step-mother and step-sisters tried to prevent her from coming to Prince Charming's ball, but she was able to secure a last minute pay-day loan and rent a dress and carriage.
*BONG*
Unfortunately the rental was only until ... | 2014-03-29T10:44:40 | 2014-03-29T10:11:26 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] A man lies on his deathbed, memories of his favorite videogames flashing before his eyes as he expires. Death watches, and intrigued, offers the man a deal if he can best him at his game of choice. | Death violently threw its controller across them room. **Fuck This! This is Fucking Bullshit!** It shouted.
Basking in the thrill of victory, Meg calmly placed her controller on the table in front of her and said "A deal's a deal reaper. I won. You didn't. I get another life. A 1up if you will." Meg chuckled to herse... | "... and that is the deal. Do you accept these terms?" said the black cloaked man. "I have a few terms of my own, if this is going to be a fair challenge." I replied, thinking fondly of a particular game. "Very well. Let's hear them." was the answer of my final challenger. "First, I want the reflexes and form I had in ... | 2014-08-16T13:32:17 | 2014-08-16T10:12:32 | 67 | 34 |
[WP] If Subreddits Were People | "Oh god, here comes Atheism," Askreddit thought. He always hated Atheism. Not because he disagreed, but Atheism always asked him for religion-bashing stories, and after a while it got really boring telling the same ones over and over again. Askreddit kept his head down and ignored him.
"Hey, Askreddit-" Atheism starte... | Wright Prompt stood up and stretched. He'd been on his typewriter again. It's all about the concept, he knew, so long as you have good characterization... and concrete sensory details... of course, you've got to have flawless grammar. Unless, of course, you're being experimental. Let's see....
He read back what he'd w... | 2014-09-21T12:21:55 | 2014-09-21T11:44:40 | 56 | 14 |
[WP] Your entire life's existence is to sit and watch a phone and to answer it if called. You are nearing the end of your life without ever answering the phone. It rings.
I apologize if this has been done already. Thought it up while laying in bed last night. | I've been working here for years. Almost a decade now, actually.
This building used to be so full of life. We were a new tech startup, with an entire market open to us. We were full of excitement, with people bustling in and out all day long. There was so much joy within these walls.
One day, there was a meeting. An... | Snowflakes.
I watch one cling to the window. The intricate lines and patterns glimmer in the sun light. It only hold for a second, and then begins to melt, turning into a single droplet, racing its companions down the window.
Life and death in a single moment.
My moment was almost spent.
I looked across the cab... | 2014-10-07T16:02:32 | 2014-10-07T15:53:33 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] At the age of 18, everyone picks an unlikely life event. They will be reborn at 18 every time they die until that event happens. After that, death is permanent.
Example - Winning a lottery jackpot. Statistically, they would die in 22 plane crashes in a row before winning the Mega Millions jackpot. | Death by fulfillment. Our society believes that everyone deserves a chance to pursue their ambitions to the finish line. There are those who create masterpieces by accumulating lifetimes of knowledge. Others wish to simply find happiness by experiencing true love, as perfect matches are rare but not impossible given an... | God, I hate waking up.
Reincarnation was sold as this beautiful, delicate event. You died and are reborn anew at the ripe age of 18.
*Live your lives to the fullest!*
No, rebooting was traumatic. It was also optional, but the choice to reboot locked you in until your final death. I wouldn't have done it if I had k... | 2014-11-12T01:47:29 | 2014-11-11T23:42:42 | 16 | 10 |
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