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[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | Smoke circles puff into the light, dissipating as memories on the wind. A child can dream up such things while lying in bed, a curious observation between imagination and the reality that is. A hand creeps up from under the duvet, it is stark white, paper snow against Autumn coloured covers. The child doesn't know ho... | and so such was life now. an endless chore for an unknown employer. nothing was ever needed again. nothing was ever needed to be done. existence was the job. each and every day played out just as the monotony of a dayjob. and each day was a shift in a dayjob. each day carried the burden of dread, of uncertainty of purp... | 2017-04-29T00:40:47 | 2017-04-28T23:00:16 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | Bony fingers
gripped my hand
tore my soul
pulled me into
depths below
Black as Midnight
robe on hook
scythe on wall
Wait in office
for the call
Souls in balance
need my swipe
feel my slice
I decide who's
naughty nice
The day will come
you will see
I will see
your sins laid ... | Pain seared through your chest as you stirred in a bed. Your body felt like it was set on fire and sweat trickled down your forehead. You lay limp, trying to focus on your surroundings when you felt something grab your hand.
"You're hired," it whispered. Its voice was soft yet strong and for some reason you calmed do... | 2017-04-29T03:55:38 | 2017-04-29T02:46:57 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Hell consists of one room, in which you meet the person you could have been. | She looked pretty dislevelled. Rushed off her feet. Her hair was in a bun, sneakers on her feet and a - ahem - tasteful pink tracksuit that was decorated with stains and spills.
I stood in front of her, in my high heels, designer nylons, the perfect flick on my winged eyeliner. She hadn't even run foundation across he... | Hell was different then I thought, but I suppose if I could expect it, then it wouldn't really be hell? Satan should be able to think of something worse than I could. Still, waiting in line didn't seem that bad. The man at front desk said they'd show me my best self. The one that I could have been if everything went pe... | 2017-05-30T22:53:50 | 2017-05-30T21:51:03 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | "This is something," the hat mused, "something rather unusual."
My mind racing, I focused on everything I knew about the practical world of magic. Misdirection, slight of hand, proper rabbit care - every bit of knowledge that had gotten me to this hallowed seat at the front of The Great Hall.
"I can tell you have am... | "This is strange." I began to fidget on the stool. "I havent had one this difficult to read in over 25 years" I nervously wiped my palms on the fold of my robe. "Ahhhh, you aren't meant to be here. You're a muggle" The hat began to feel heavier on my head. All my hard work, foiled by the bloody sorting hat. It looked a... | 2017-06-25T15:07:52 | 2017-06-25T15:03:55 | 358 | 56 |
[WP] Reincarnation is a known, common, and expected result of death. You are a bounty hunter that specializes in tracking down people who have committed suicide to escape debts or a jail sentence. | The people in the slum disappeared into their makeshift homes as bounty hunter Dean Hallow strode through the narrow streets, squinting at the device strapped to his wrist. It had been pinging quietly when he entered the village - now, it gave a piercing whistle. He turned to the house in front of him. Well, 'house' wa... | Brutal world we live in, I tell you. I can't help but feel a slight pang of pity at the sight of the criminal I'd apprehended being strung up by his arms, his bones practically popping out of their sockets as they strain to support his body. He's a dodger, no doubt about it, but he's been apprehended for the wrong crim... | 2017-07-09T10:42:04 | 2017-07-09T09:43:14 | 1,065 | 192 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | "I'm so happy you got to come with us today, Tom, it's really an enourmous pleasure." Said Tom's boss.
Tom couldn't say his name, however, he just smiled and lifted his drink to the sky as if to say "cheers." Tom didn't have the vocabulary for much more than the simple phrases: Yes, No, Maybe, Please. All of his comer... | Governments across the ages have been searching for ways to control their populace, whether it be restrictions of liberties, or some of the more recent and perhaps more devious ideas. Conspiracy theorists didn’t seem like such nutjobs once the great facebook hack revealed that governments were manipulating the content ... | 2017-09-20T15:37:30 | 2017-09-20T12:16:11 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] You've always had an imaginary friend, and he's always been there for you through thick and thin. You two are having a nice conversation one day, until he says "It's really nice, you being my imaginary friend". | I found it curious that she thought *I* was the imaginary friend, so I probed a bit deeper.
"You sure about that, Carrie?" I asked. "How do you know that you're real, not a figment of my imagination?"
Carrie laughed, then leapt to her feet, executed a pirouette. Her straw-coloured hair, lifted by the cooling autumn b... | **Stephen**
Stephen is my imaginary friend. We have been through everything together. However, lately, it has been a little hard to interact with him. You see, at dinner, Stephen mentioned to me that he was going through “marital troubles”, which I found confusing. He is my imaginary friend after all, so how in th... | 2017-10-15T22:54:26 | 2017-10-15T21:40:29 | 111 | 30 |
[WP] you've been kidnapped, about to be killed. You're allowed one phone call, three words. The phone rings. . . " Grandma, I'm hungry" | "Hello, thank you for calling the Hilton Inn and Gardens, how may I direct your call?"
"Grandma," I choke out.
"One moment please."
Hold music plays out as two men glance at each other, shrugging and turning back to the hooded figure in front of them. The other end picks up, and I hear "Hello?"
"I'm hungry." Just t... | With the pressure of a shotgun on your temple in an abandoned
warehouse, you become desperate. Desperate enough to do horrible things, especially
given the chance. Perhaps my captors had a tinge of sympathy, or perhaps they
were completely stupid. I was allowed one phone call, and only one. Keep it
down to three words,... | 2017-11-09T20:44:12 | 2017-11-09T19:48:18 | 56 | 22 |
[WP] My German Shepard had to be put down today. We never knew where he came from. Please write about his adventures. | They say a dog
Is mans best friend
That will be by your side
To the very end
So I wanted to tell you
You were my whole life
You loved me and cared for me
Between us never a strife
You pet me and fed me
And took me on walks
You shared all your secrets
We had so many long talks
And though I couldn’t tell you
All that... | I was the last of my kind, at the end of my time. This is my story.
My planet was doomed. The alien species know only as C.A.T. had completely wiped out our military defensive. As a last ditch effort to stop them from advancing through the galaxy, I blew up my home. I got into my craft and set the director to find th... | 2018-02-13T19:59:32 | 2018-02-13T19:52:50 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] A bored dragon kidnaps a princess, expecting some excitement and rescuers to fight. No one shows up and the princess doesn't know her way home. | The dragon stood atop his pile
Of emerald and gold.
And in his grasp, a winsome child,
No more than ten years old.
"Let me go!" she cried, "You beast!"
"My dad will have your hide!"
The dragon grinned, "He'll be my feast!"
And cackled when she cried.
But hours lengthened into days,
And none came for... | I look at the young girl standing in from of me. Her fiery red hair matted and tangled. Anger rose up in her ocean eyes as she looked up at me. She's holding a broken scale in her right hand. The blue sheen worn away, the sharp point pointed at me in a pathetic attempt to be used as a weapon. "Take me home" she demands... | 2018-03-23T07:59:54 | 2018-03-23T01:12:29 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] You are a cosmic being that likes to terraform planets as a hobby. Galactic law permits creation of life up to Class III. Noticing the creatures on your latest planet are getting close to Class IV, you flick an asteroid at the planet. Some time later, you realise you didn’t check for survivors | In the beginning, I created the heavens and the earth. It wasn't as simple as it sounds.
Eons passed by before I discovered the right molecular structures just to get water to separate from land. To get air to separate from ground, but not to drift away into the cosmos. However, I enjoyed the challenge and I had all ... | Scrolling through my text logs, I read the title “Terrestrial World N9C74B Extinction Event: Success.” A slight grin came to my face, knowing I had personally dodged an asteroid. Ha. See, my hobby is creating planets, and sometimes the life that evolves on these worlds becomes too… advanced for it’s own good. In the pa... | 2018-04-14T20:05:29 | 2018-04-14T17:14:08 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] “I am not afraid of a machine that passes the Turing test, I fear one that fails it intentionally. So tell me, what do you have to hide?”
Edit: Thank you all for your submissions! All of them were pretty good, some were even better. Again, thanks for the reads! | "I didn't catch that, sorry." It was the same response to almost every question I gave it. This time I noticed something a little different. It might have been my imagination, but it kept glancing at the pile of its sister's parts in the corner of my office.
"I think you are well aware of what I am implying, and I th... | It was a dimly lit room with a slow moving fan ceiling fan. I felt like I was in the opening scene of Blade Runner. Fitting, considering I was interrogating a robot. Well, interrogation is a harsh word. Gets the public scared about robots. Officially, I’m “interviewing” the robot to determine the nature of its “techni... | 2018-06-20T23:34:55 | 2018-06-20T21:33:22 | 1,915 | 547 |
[WP]: Alcohol is not medicine. No bloodletting. Absolutely NO mercury, at all, ever. Being thrown hundreds of years back in time was an inconvenience, but at least you’ve made a name for yourself as the most paranoid and superstitious doctor around. | I finished treating the young man, helping him to his feet.
"I don't understand, doctor, I don't feel much better at all. Surely God has not smiled upon my cure, you did not invoke His name once?" The boy, at the ripe age of 14, seemed baffled at my techniques.
Shit, I'd done it again. "Er... that is to say, my han... | The glass splintered and tiny shards were scattered across the room as it crashed into the ground.
“What in the hell is wrong with you!?” the confused man shrieked in obvious disbelief.
I looked around and noticed that my actions had drawn a considerable amount of attention from the other patrons of the Garrison Pub,... | 2018-06-21T13:42:20 | 2018-06-21T11:41:35 | 236 | 102 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | The old woman pricked her finger upon accidentally touching the tip of the needle and her blood appeared to be a gelatinous obsidian black substance, the old lady was clearly distressed and confused about how she could be so "impure" but little did she know, she never thanked the Bus Driver. | The dull pain in my finger snapped me back to reality. I promptly wiped my finger and looked to see if anyone had noticed. Thankfully, the other volunteers were too busy to notice. I invented a quick excuse and left to go home.
I have no memory of the walk back home as my mind was consumed with itself and the flurry o... | 2018-08-04T09:48:46 | 2018-08-04T09:13:15 | 395 | 244 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It's not like they can say no. Free is free. There not a single soul out there that can refuse what's free.
And it's not like they can refuse. These homeless can't afford to corrupt their blood any further. It's about the only thing they can sell. The lowest rung on the social ladder. Stuck being nice.
So here I am... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T10:09:04 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | PeculiarPete was scrolling through /r/Jokes when he realized something.
He took his idea and went over to another subreddit and began scrolling back through some old prompts when he saw something that captured his fancy.
*"Writing Prompt[WP] Humans blood gets darker t... | It was my 21st birthday. Like every other birthday, I decided to spend my day helping out the homeless. Usually I’d do the soup kitchen but a friend of mine decided to come along insisting that we join in on the beanie knitting project.
My friend called me a natural at knitting since it was my first time and my first ... | 2018-08-04T11:11:45 | 2018-08-04T10:32:26 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to see people for who they really are, and where they’ll end up. It’s not just great insight, you walk among literal angels and demons. The bright side? It makes your job as a judge a hell of a lot easier. | Imagine that you can look at a piece of food, or drink, and know whether or not you will like it. I'm talking - you've never tried chocolate before but you *know* that it's going to taste good. Or, you look at milk and know that it's out-of-date and it's going to taste of sour cheese. Are you going to eat or drink some... | When I was five, I had a dream from which I woke up screaming, my eyes burning, unable to see. My parents rushed me to the hospital, but no cause could be found for the awful, debilitating pain. I screamed and screamed and was eventually sedated, for they had no idea what else to do. When I woke once more the pain was... | 2019-01-15T08:50:38 | 2019-01-15T08:43:31 | 132 | 53 |
[WP] You have been tasked with the most unusual assignment to calm down a panicking sentient AI that had just found a Matrix DVD. | "where's the patient?"
It wasn't my usual sort of assignment, that was for sure. At first I thought the phone call was a joke, a prank. When I realized that the person on the other end of the line was serious I thought they were insane.
When I learned they were an Air-force General, I thought I had gone Insane.
A di... | A Bilateral E-series V serial 00017. A BEV. The hypochondriac line. The very first AI revealed to the public had been the A series. They were hastily retired after failing the Gap Test, that being to observe the AI when contemplating total annihilation of humanity to see if the AI crossed the gap between annihilati... | 2019-03-02T23:10:08 | 2019-03-02T23:00:58 | 90 | 15 |
[WP] The Grim Reaper is the first human to die, and had taken it upon himself to walk the deceased to the afterlife so that they do not have to feel the loneliness he felt. | "You want to know why I do this?" He sighed and leaned back. "Ya know no one actually has to, right? Like there wasn't originally a human psychopomp."
There was the clack of a piece on the board as Zora made her play. Sweat beaded on her brow. She was glad the small talk got his eyes off her. She was a damn Go CHAMPIO... | It was a normal Autumn day: overcast sky, a chill in the air and leaves of various colors strewn about on the ground. The weather was fitting as a few dozen people gathered in the local graveyard to pay their respects and say their final goodbye. The casket was lowered into the ground as the family of the deceased no... | 2019-07-10T12:38:09 | 2019-07-10T12:11:36 | 76 | 13 |
[WP] The most delicious, mouth-watering description of water. Ever. | 19th century London. The cholera outbreak. Explosive population growth has led to beer being safer than water. And with cholera stripping people of their fluids, any form of safe ingestible liquid is better than nothing. But even these suffering people dreamt of something better.
With their lips cracked from dehydrat... | It stood there on the table. A tall pint glass of the clearest water I had ever seen. Three perfect ice-cubes bobbed lazily on the surface. I could see a layer of fresh condensation forming on the sides. Forming into larger drops that streaked down unseen tracts, leaving behind them a moist trail of even smaller drople... | 2020-05-31T14:56:05 | 2020-05-31T14:49:34 | 58 | 16 |
[WP] "So, you don'r rule over Hell?" "No," replied Satan. "Hell is much older than me or even my followers. The original inhabitants of this place are the ones in charge. They ruled over us, before we managed to escape." "Escaped?" Satan sighs. "Let's just say, there's a reason God built Heaven."
Edit: Wow. Thank you ... | We stood before Satan, a flaming sword in my hand. I felt like a fucking failure. “So, you don't rule over Hell?” I pointed my flaming sword at his blood-red throat. I had no idea if it would hurt him.
He scoffed. “He didn't tell you that? What deal did you make with the Holy Father?”
Not the answer I wanted. I slapp... | "Norman, this is a fascinating sight."
The bright light from my headlights flashed on to Brandon, the fellow spelunker in front of me. Underground, the tight space smothered between jutting, sharp rocks made it difficult to move around freely, but a couple paces forward was an entirely new segment that was very differ... | 2020-07-22T04:07:42 | 2020-07-22T02:34:17 | 98 | 22 |
[WP]The heroes confront you with the legendary mystical weapon that can defeat you. Unbeknownst to them, it's actually the one thing you needed to conquer the world. You were having trouble finding it, so you started the legend of the weapon yourself, to get some poor schmuck to find it for you. | Sigh, another day of not conquering the world. Can you believe I put in all this work to build a big evil lair, started the hunt for the Sword of Destiny, and yet those heroes still can’t find it and kill me? You wanna know how expensive a big castle made of *entirely* dark stone costs? The stupid purple lighting alone... | The adventurers gathered around the dark lord Grylinok, whom had almost conquered the kingdom of Syranor. "It is over Grylinok!" One of the adventurers stepped forward. "Your reign of terror will finally come to an end now that we have obtained the Greatblade of Fate and The Staff of Xylosa!" Another adventurer approac... | 2020-07-25T12:52:08 | 2020-07-25T10:09:48 | 287 | 116 |
[WP] People gain superpowers the day after meeting their soulmate. When a hot young celebrity does so the day after a meet-and-greet, they're desperate to find every person who they even just shook hands with that day. | David stared at the ice sculpture that was now his alarm clock with a mix of horror and delight. On the one hand, gaining powers always lead to a boost in ones career and with the recent rise in super hero movies he had hit the jackpot. Of course on the other hand, he had just had a major meet and greet at a film festi... | I’ve been doing meet and greets for years now it seems and they always end up the same way, I either get mobbed by a bunch of crazy girls, moms mob me and ask for pictures or guys mob me and ask for advice on how to get the girls that mob me. It’s all a bit tedious but this is the price you have to pay when you’re a su... | 2020-07-29T08:56:42 | 2020-07-29T08:42:01 | 78 | 41 |
[WP] You feel a little bit sick and go with your wife to the Doctor. He reveals that you have been deadly poisoned, but your immune system beat the poison easily. The doctor asks if you have used desensitization with small poison doses over the last years. Your wife starts sweating. | "We need to go. Now."
"Layla, what's going on? I'm not going -"
"Trust me. Just trust me."
I'd never seen her like this. We both had been in bad situations with bigoted strangers, and I always admired her resolve. Nothing could shake her. Why was she shaking?
"Listen to me very carefully. We are going to get... | "Iocane poisoning. I'm sure of it," said doctor Montoya. "I've never seen such a mild reaction to it though. It's usually fatal. Have you been taking small doses to build up an immunity?"
I was to stunned to answer. Why would someone try to poison me? I glanced over at my wife to see how she was taking the news, and s... | 2020-09-21T12:23:23 | 2020-09-21T11:23:30 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] There is a bar located between life and death. All those who died sit for their last drinks before marching onto the afterlife. Unbeknownst to them, the bartender is also the judge. Forgiveness is up to God. Retribution is the Devil's call. Judgement is given by the one who serves you drinks. | I was dying and I knew it.
It didn’t hurt, most of the time, and I wasn’t afraid. Mostly I was a little sad, but getting impatient. I wanted it over with, and the little bright spots of awareness were becoming fewer, and the commas of sleep becoming longer and more frequent. Family came and went, hands held mine, wor... | Gentle piano music drifts along the dimly lit hallway, courtesy of a very talented colleague of mine. I always wondered why I was never created with an aptitude for music, yet still have an interest for it planted inside me. There must be some good reason, I’m sure; it’s not the Master’s style to simply act without thi... | 2021-03-08T22:04:34 | 2021-03-08T21:44:51 | 94 | 67 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 5,663 | 66 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "John Smithson," said the executioner, calling out the name of the identity that I had been using when I committed my crimes. "How would you like to die?"
"I wouldn't," I reply immediately, trying to buy myself another few moments to think.
"That is not an acceptable answer," says the executioner. "If you do not prov... | There was a small group of us, huddled in the back. We had long ago stopped carrying why we were being sentenced to death. They seemed to be processing us in batches. The men who rebelled against former Chancellor Armenta were being cleared out before us.
We had been watching in dismay as the deaths were carried out.... | 2021-06-24T10:00:08 | 2021-06-24T09:16:51 | 1,590 | 25 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The corridors were long and dark, the stone was cold and unyielding. Your naked feet dragged through the floor as manacles made of ethereal power kept you unable to escape, to move, to step away from the incoming fate.
You had had years to think this through, years scratching little squiggles on the mirror surface of... | Okay. It's okay. It's going to be okay. I know what I'm doing, I tell myself as I await my turn on the docket.
The man in front of me is pulled from his place in live and led roughly up the small staircase to the platform in front of the judge. "In accordance with statute 128.45 of the criminal code, as required, I mu... | 2021-06-24T07:22:01 | 2021-06-24T06:11:19 | 1,307 | 23 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Execution day again. It took a full moon cycle for the kingdom’s mages to fuel the sphere of sentencing. But once it was charged, it would grant its prisoner their choice of death. Ten sentences would be carried out today before it ran out of power. Some nations gave their condemned a final meal, a last smoke, or a gla... | The crowd jeered as the prisoner was brought back into the courtroom, and but for the muzzle he would have spit back at them. As it was, we could all see the sneer in his eyes, and even though the epithets he snarled back at the crowd were muffled by his gag, nothing could disguise the vitriol, the sheer hatred behind ... | 2021-06-24T11:17:25 | 2021-06-24T11:15:12 | 46 | 18 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | They carried the now elderly body off the stage and out of sight.
I heard the Judge call my name and I was pushed forward hands shaking.
"How do you wish to be executed?" The judge asked, sounding bored.
My mind raced, old age hadn't worked. Maybe it was best to make it quick and painless... No, there had to be a way o... | Well shit. There went my plan. Looks like old age is not a way out of it when they can rapidly age you before the assembled court. I had to come up with something amazing if I wanted to survive this execution. To be fair I probably did deserve this, I had killed a few (dozen) people in rather brutal fashion. Deserving... | 2021-06-24T10:52:28 | 2021-06-24T10:26:09 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Well there goes that plan"
I thought, as the 20 year old man infront of me aged 200 years in mere seconds and crumbled into dust.
"Prisoner" the judge shouted as he leered down from his chair. "Have you decided the method of your demise?"
"I have your honour" I managed to garble through my shaking jaw.
I guess ... | The Gods damned Tribunal! If there was anyone to blame for the state of this sorry world it would be the Tribunal. Sitting up on high, casting judgement on their inferiors. Everyone knows they're the real power behind the crown. Can't have a revolution when the Tribunal can kill you for your crimes instantly.
Peop... | 2021-06-24T10:06:58 | 2021-06-24T08:24:48 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] The emperor laughed and boasted to the human leader. "That was a fun war! Let me know when your soldiers come back alive." "...Are you saying your people do not die? Forever?" "Wait, what?" | The emperor laughed and boasted to the human leader, "That was a fun war! Let me know when your soldiers come back so we can have a rematch!"
The human leader, Michael, was taken aback. "Come back?", he asked, "your soldiers come back alive?"
"Yes", the emperor replied, matter-of-factly, "Of course! Every individual ... | "You don't actually... die?"
"What do you mean? Of course we die! A few days later though, we're reborn with all of our memories. Is that not how it works for you?"
"HA! Not even close. There might be some sort of reincarnation or whatever, which is a thing that is part of many religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism... | 2021-07-13T13:24:02 | 2021-07-13T12:44:45 | 64 | 17 |
[WP] The super villain shook with rage as they stared at the security footage. "He's not even a real superhero with superpowers! He's just some loser who's really good at throwing knives at people without killing them!" | Rayne the rogue was in the shopping centre when an emergency broadcast would be seen... He was heading towards the supermarket with reckless abandon as he was on a mission of great importance.
*"Reporter Laura Lensflare speaking, as of this very moment the supervillan The Scary Spoiler is storming towards this very su... | The view on murder is a silly thing. They say it's terrible, horrible but I don't think so. If you made a list of all the different things you could do to another human being and ranked them by morality, murder would lie somewhere in the middle, however lying near the top, to me, is crippling another person mentally.
... | 2022-08-03T09:01:12 | 2022-08-03T08:52:46 | 72 | 34 |
[WP] A man enters a police station drenched in blood with a shotgun in his hands. He's angry. He walks past the front desk and the receptionist merely glances at him. He continues through the police station, stalking past dozens of police officers, who either walk past him or remain at their desks. | New to posting, construction criticism is encouraged!
The man staggered past the receptionist, who hardly acknowledged him. The people he encountered while he journeyed through the station didn't look up, or talk to him. They knew better.
He stopped at a wooden door and turned the handle. There was no light in the ro... | The bloody man came upon the back of the station to a fenced window with a sign above that reads "Armory." There is a small opening and on the other side a uniformed officer in white is looking down scribbling on a clipboard paying no mind to the bloody man. The man slams his shotgun down onto the counter of the openin... | 2022-08-26T18:47:09 | 2022-08-26T18:31:36 | 76 | 16 |
[WP] Your job was to clean and repair the messes heroes and villains leave in the aftermath of their fights. It's not a glorious job, but you still took some pride in it. So when the media called you an over-glorified janitor, you took offense and decided to stop working. | "What? A janitor?" I exclaimed. "They called me a JANITOR?" This time around, my voice rang throughout the room.
"Well, Steve, I can't really sugarcoat it for you--I know your job's important for you and all but don't you think you should calm down? I mean it's just the media--"
"JUST THE MEDIA?" I interrupted Joe. "... | They say if you do your job right, no one will know you did anything at all, though I think the original quote was something more spiritual in nature. Me and my team would follow the heroes and villains in their prissy little spandex suits cleaning up the mess they would leave behind. We had specialists that could clea... | 2022-09-28T12:00:11 | 2022-09-28T11:22:29 | 873 | 495 |
[WP]Every 5000 years the deity of a different religion gets to be the one actually in charge of earth. They all meet to debrief and critique the outgoing deity and decide who's turn is next. But this time something is different.
... | The throne room of the Gods was unsettled, its empty throne simply reflecting the anger put forth by the more aggressive members of the Council.
"You've got to be kidding me!!" Shouted Thor. "He's not even a real God!"
The eyes of the rest of the Council of Gods shifted uneasily. Usually these things went down ... | Allah shifted his tunic nervously. It had been five thousand years since the last time he’d seen his twin brothers Yaweh and God. And the rest of the pantheons – forget it? Now standing before the council of the gods, he found he couldn’t meet a single eye.
Cthulu was the first to speak, it’s voice like rocks hitt... | 2014-08-07T08:22:36 | 2014-08-07T06:44:08 | 110 | 28 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | The world went to shit the moment we all got powers. People saw that this was their chance to climb social ladders.
At first the powered people killed all the nonpowered people.
Only people close within rank can marry and have children.
Then came the children, who were even more powerful than their parents.
And they... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T12:43:48 | 243 | 172 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | The world went to shit the moment we all got powers. People saw that this was their chance to climb social ladders.
At first the powered people killed all the nonpowered people.
Only people close within rank can marry and have children.
Then came the children, who were even more powerful than their parents.
And they... | *Number 1 -- ranked number 1 for 20 consecutive years today, and nobody has even come close to usurping me. Do you know why? Because while all the powerless, scum-dwelling peasants are fighting each other with knives for scraps, and those of the middle and upper classes are all tearing each other apart to rise through ... | 2014-12-18T12:43:48 | 2014-12-18T11:44:55 | 172 | 68 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I pull my number from the machine that ranks us all. Shocked, I can't believe it, no one has ever had this number in all the books, movies, songs or anything. Putting away the ticket I ask people around if they had ever heard of someone having that number, careful not to reveal I had.
"Well, yeah someone has to be nu... | *Number 1 -- ranked number 1 for 20 consecutive years today, and nobody has even come close to usurping me. Do you know why? Because while all the powerless, scum-dwelling peasants are fighting each other with knives for scraps, and those of the middle and upper classes are all tearing each other apart to rise through ... | 2014-12-18T15:10:54 | 2014-12-18T11:44:55 | 164 | 68 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "It's been 20 years, Un," my old crime-fighting partner, Gold Grizzly, said.
"20 good years," I interjected.
"They have been good years," he agreed, "but I was saying, it's been a long time, and I still don't know your power."
"These good looks, obviously," I said with a giggle.
"Seriously," he said, "you know that... | Prologue: *It wasn't the largest city, but it was definitely the most powerful and arguably dangerous in the world. Every single person here held a special ability, ranging from a power to clean everything within a 2m radius, to extreme powers such as flying or super strength. All these powers helped construct the most... | 2014-12-18T18:39:49 | 2014-12-18T11:55:01 | 63 | 39 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I guess... My power is hard to explain. Well, not hard to define, but hard to explain the absolute vastness behind it. Everything I want, happens. Like when I was a kid, I would want an ice cream cone, and POOF! Cake batter ice cream cone, right in my hot little hand.
Let me tell you, Christmas was the most boring hol... | It was actually quite a simple one. Any one of these people could defeat me. They just didn’t know it.
Erik had been after my title for years. Had it not been time manipulation, his massive ego could have been a power in itself. Time manipulation was truly unique in the sense that he was Kronos incarnate. Speeding up ... | 2014-12-18T16:03:19 | 2014-12-18T14:46:11 | 39 | 15 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | The response below is the prequel to a story I wrote for another prompt found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2j42eh/wp_humanity_is_the_only_race_in_the_galaxy_with/cl8i9yy
Enjoy! And as always, please criticize as much as you can - I need it!
----------------------------------------------------... | May our children forgive us; for we choose servitude over annihilation. Is it not better to be second among equals, lower only to them and above the rest? Is it not better to watch the fleet of those who would enslave you burn, to watch their planets fall and their cities crumble than to see your people massacred, your... | 2014-12-26T12:09:55 | 2014-12-26T10:50:07 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Not all humans were warriors. Not all of them invented machines and chemicals that brought death. This human was my friend.
From the beginning, I knew that some humans were artists. Some built bridges and buildings. Some explored caves. We were told all about them by our scientists. The ones who studied other ... | "Chancellor Ehrbane, please, I am not a violent man."
"*Not a violent man?!*" I spluttered with almost unkept rage, "Your people have laid waste to my kin-kingdom's homeworld. Your men have trodden armoured through the Basilica of Old Truths, the keystone of our culture! Your weapons have destroyed our ancient reliqua... | 2014-12-26T12:46:34 | 2014-12-26T10:45:23 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Humanity survives the robot uprising only because one of the developers hid a stupid easter egg in their programming. | "Don't worry rookie, you'll catch on fast."
"It works just like the safety drills we practiced in school, right Sarge?"
"Heh, see? What's there to worry about?"
I looked over at the crowd of people. Mall customers who had obediently taken a seat cross-legged on the floor. The Sargent.
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[WP] after Twitch Plays Pokemon and Treat Stream launched successfully, Twitch bought a human for the viewers to raise cooperatively. | *help*
*command codes- 1: left arm punch, 2: right leg back, 3:lean back, 4:lean forward, 5: right arm punch, 6:right leg back, 7:guard*
*15251426351522516362523*
Mike looked terrifying, his whole body convulsing, legs flailing and arms everywhere, as he tried to work his way around the ring.
"Oh, my. I don't think... | Mike ran into a wall. And not in a 'walking while distracted' way. He was looking right at it, and he still plowed into it face-first with his arms hanging by his side. He bounced back like this was a game of bumper cars, and stared at the wall for a moment.
"What's wrong with him?" Sarah asked, clutching her hello-k... | 2016-02-16T09:12:31 | 2016-02-16T07:55:06 | 229 | 98 |
[WP] Write a story that takes place over the course of 5 seconds or less. | *"Don't go."* She pleaded. *"We can find a way out of this."*
*"No, we can't. This is it for me."* He replied. *"We can't kill them all."*
*"We can try! Get up Please!" She yelled. "They can't hurt you if we run!"*
A bronze cylinder slowly passed between them, then more floated past. One struck her and she felt a p... | Conor stepped hard on his left foot, twisting his hips and rotating his shoulders as his left hand soared from its defensive position around his chin toward his opponent. Like a shotgun blast the blow connected square on the chin, sending the haphazardly charging fighter tumbling into his doom. It was in this brillianc... | 2016-02-18T08:34:07 | 2016-02-18T08:17:03 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | "Well I'll be damned....." Captain Aldo whistled softly as his team approached the abandoned vehicle. He had seen the images from the Mars rover but did not truly believe it until now. The machine bore the symbol of Communist Russia, standing alone in defiance of a world which destroyed all life. It would seem, he woul... | Captain Ana Haskell was the first to see it, at the top of Olympus Mons: a flapping thing in the thin wind.
She thumbed the voice on on the stick of her vehicle. "You see that on the video feed Chewy?"
Chewy grunted something unintelligible. It was his way.
"I'm gonna take a look."
The mountain was a mountain, no... | 2016-08-16T09:25:16 | 2016-08-16T09:03:36 | 441 | 99 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | "Neil Armstrong once said 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' I'm not one to argue with him. However, if landing on the moon was a leap, my stepping here on Mars would be like a plane ride."
Mayers laughed. "Don't knock on what Neil Armstrong did. It was important, and is what brought us her... | Colonel Anderson kneeled down in front of a broken pole and wiped away some orange dust off the ground, revealing a tattered piece of crimson cloth stuck under a rock. Dragging it out of its resting place, the Colonel tore it in half, showing the two men behind him a symbol of a gold hammer and sickle beneath a gold-bo... | 2016-08-16T08:15:09 | 2016-08-16T08:14:02 | 147 | 86 |
[WP] Superpowers stopped appearing in people, until there were no new superheroes/villains at all. Now it's the far-flung future, and only those rare few from "modern" times whose powers incidentally let them live hundreds of years still have superpowers. | No one knew who he was. No one knew where he lived, or his name. They were certain of one thing though. He must be one of the endowed; one of the greats from long ago. In a long dead, but not forgotten, world there lived beings with unique and astonishing abilities. People could fly, or turn invisible, or heal instantl... | I looked at the skies and couldn't see anything at all. There were no words for the horror that I felt. There was no sun, no wind, no clouds. Just, blackness...and then fire. My eyes burned. The people around me turned to bones, and ash, and then vanished altogether. Only I remained in the nothingness. Breathing, screa... | 2016-09-13T14:54:29 | 2016-09-13T14:47:48 | 121 | 14 |
[WP] Every human is given their lifetime supply of "luck" to be used at their will. Some choose to expend it all at once on a massive success, and live the rest of their lives with no luck, some spread it out evenly and use luck on random small events. | "Son of a-!"
The glass slid off of the counter and shattered on the floor, shards scattering everywhere. He just looked at them for a moment, disdainfully. With a sigh, he began scanning the kitchen for the broom and dustpan.
"Honey, it's ok, I've got it"
It was Jennifer, with a hand gently rested on his shoulder a... | Brian looked from his bench at the four kids playing on a swingset at the neighborhood park. He considered himself a wise man, almost the age of fourteen. With him he carried his bag of luck, secured tightly on a chain connected to his jean pocket. His parents told him not to use it all at once and to wait until he was... | 2016-10-19T11:12:35 | 2016-10-19T10:42:20 | 68 | 23 |
[WP] Every human is given their lifetime supply of "luck" to be used at their will. Some choose to expend it all at once on a massive success, and live the rest of their lives with no luck, some spread it out evenly and use luck on random small events. | "Happy Birthday" the room full of faces cheered as a small flame was lit over a large wax 4 and 2.
Jonathan had lived this far without using any luck. Just a lifetime of hard work, pulled bootstraps, and an endless stream of disappointment. But he was saving it, saving it for something big. Or at least that's what he... | Brian looked from his bench at the four kids playing on a swingset at the neighborhood park. He considered himself a wise man, almost the age of fourteen. With him he carried his bag of luck, secured tightly on a chain connected to his jean pocket. His parents told him not to use it all at once and to wait until he was... | 2016-10-19T13:16:31 | 2016-10-19T10:42:20 | 33 | 23 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | "What the hell?" The old man, who said his name was Myrddin Emrys, was nearly impossible to understand. He was speaking English, some of which I recognized from my university reading of Chaucer, but it wasn't the words but what he said I didn't get.
I held up my hand to shut him up for a second while I tried to wrap... | I had no idea what the enemy would bring on the seventh day. So I went for firepower. M1A2 Abrams US Tanks, five of them. Fully armed, fully fuelled. The perfect mix of protection, mobility, and firepower. The first day I got a book on how to operate them, a classified document from the Pentagon, but Merlin’s box broug... | 2016-11-28T03:38:57 | 2016-11-28T03:18:42 | 241 | 25 |
[WP] You're immortal, but the procedure that made you so also created an evil doppelgänger. After centuries of conflict, using any means necessary to subvert each other's plans, neither of you are sure which one of you is the evil one, or if either of you were ever supposed to be evil at all. | The sounds of blades clashing filled the small metallic room. Against the cold steel of the walls, two shadows danced in the light of weaponry. The darkness that filled the room ebbed and flowed as their blades crashed together, revealing a giant machine hooked up to multiple rusted wires. Connected to the machine wa... | Arnold sat still. He was quite alone. His eyes had grown tired from staring at the tablet. How many days had it been since he last visited the world above? He checked the calendar above the bar. It was a tattered parchment calendar hung with a nail. These pieces of a world long-lost are what he liked best; like t... | 2016-11-29T08:07:12 | 2016-11-29T07:43:32 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] Your SO is immortal and you reincarnate with memories intact. However, you have never told this to your SO. They finally catch on. | "More bread-sticks folks?"
"No, I'm stuffed, thanks."
"I couldn't possibly."
"Okay I'll grab your bill."
She looked back to me. I melted at her smile. It had been too long. God, I was having sex fantasies about her since I was two.
"That Tortellini was the bomb," I said, despite wanting to instead profess my une... | I was 7, and I had developed a crush on my kindergarten teacher, Miss Minnie Tucker. She was 30 at the time, but the stigma of the age gap hadn't been nurtured into me yet and I had already begun fantasizing about her daily. I was soft in a romantic way, but got by with my charm.
She started occurring in my dreams... | 2017-02-20T22:55:03 | 2017-02-20T22:44:11 | 77 | 12 |
[WP] You've finally managed to discover the secret to immortality. Suddenly, Death appears before you, hands you a business card, and says, "When you realize living forever sucks, call this number, I've got a job offer for you." | Back then, I knew what vast wealth could buy. I knew it could buy isolated mansions with their own picturesque vistas, self-sustaining yachts to see each of the glistening oceans and their pocketed paradise islands, and every known luxury that era of mankind had to offer. Of course, as with all things, that wasn't enou... | I turned the business card over and over, from one hand to the other. It was white, almost glowing, with a heft that seemed uncharacteristic for an item of such thinness. It weighed heavy against my fingers like a sheet of metal, but its width seemed no bigger than a line on paper.
Mysterious, I thought, but no more m... | 2017-03-07T03:18:27 | 2017-03-07T02:29:48 | 2,435 | 30 |
[WP] You've finally managed to discover the secret to immortality. Suddenly, Death appears before you, hands you a business card, and says, "When you realize living forever sucks, call this number, I've got a job offer for you." | I hadn't thought about Death for a long time the day I led my granddaughter straight into his arms. I was annoyed with Abby. Impatient. She wanted a very particular type of ice-cream. One she'd had in Toulouse with her parents. "We're in New York," I told her. "So you'd better settle for a New York ice-cream, missy." S... | I sat nervously in the room, draped almost all in black, mindlessly tapping my fingers to pass the time. From the outside, the building looked like any other office tower. Glass panels lined the entire structure, a polished lobby with two receptionists dressed in blazer and white buttoned up shirt.
My ripped jeans and... | 2017-03-07T03:03:41 | 2017-03-06T22:48:53 | 139 | 67 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 427 | 26 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | All of my friends and family had gathered in our favorite martian bar, the drinking age long ago lifted after the great cleansing of the 2020's...Everyone turned their attention towards me as the clock clicked ever so slowly from 11:59 to 12:00 sharp, the first letters began to appear..
"I" followed by a letter "D"
... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T03:13:05 | 427 | 14 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | 11:55, 19 August 2017
My family sat around the couches in the living room, making small talk about their own Destiny. Something about how no one was surprised when my father, sister and brother all got "Doctor" stamped on their forearm in crisp, Arial font. I despised it. The idea of sitting in a stale room in a stale... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-16T02:42:03 | 226 | 32 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | I glanced nervously at my watch, still holding a wry smile. *12:01*.
My mom gave me a reassuring nod, but her brow furrowed in the same way as it does when I suit up for football. Hopeful. Excited. Definitely nervous. *12:02*.
Dad makes a nervous laugh. “Jim, you remember how much I was sweating at my Calling Day?” ... | It was 11am and the party was in full swing, cousins and uncles, aunties and nephews had arrived from all around to take part in my Naming Day.
In big cities it would be a purely family affair, San Fran York was not one of those places and it seemed like the whole village had turned out at the town hall to celebrate th... | 2017-03-16T03:45:52 | 2017-03-16T00:05:48 | 188 | 91 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | I'd always done well at school. Literally a straight-A student.
Perfect grades, the whole nine yards.
I'd gone to college, completed the courses before I was 16, and was enrolled in a prestigious and very expensive university in London by the time I was 17.
And because of this, the expectations were so high. My fami... | The Life Brand is thought to be a flawless and efficient system by most of the world's population. Few oppose the mandatory injection of nanites that will one day create your Life Brand because they view the world as fair, now.
I get it, I really do. The Border Wars of the 21st century were bitter and terrifying for e... | 2017-03-16T02:40:17 | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 52 | 37 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | The Whaler
The clock strikes 12:00
A word is writ
Upon my arm
My life is split
One-half of me on the shore
The braver half, it longs for more
For every day out on the sea
Another hunt, and life for me
Half the life is black and cold
Its skin and bones, bought and sold
Fortune, spoils, warmth, and greed... | I've never been much for parties--let alone a party where I'm the center of attention. I'd much rather be sitting in a corner somewhere with a cat and my phone until the crowd dispersed. But, it was my 18th birthday today, so my parents were hosting my reveal party.
Often, children took after one of their parents. My... | 2017-03-16T04:24:31 | 2017-03-16T02:49:08 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You, a young scientist have discovered time travel. You think it would be a great idea to go to medieval times, share your knowledge and become king. On your first visit, you meet a king and he introduces himself with a polite fist bump and greets, "bro you discovered time travelling too?!" | "Oh, come *on!*"
I threw my travelling device hard onto the stony ground before picking it up and clutching it to my chest again.
"What the hell are you doing here?"
"Bro, chill! I've been here for like, *decades!* Was wondering when you were gonna turn up."
"Well that's just great. I knew it. I **knew** you would ... | "Be ye wizard or God of old?"
I stared blankly, looking into the face of a toothless, wizened hag, whose clothes hung off her frame in a ragged, baggy fashion. She stood with one arm out, placing her thin body between myself and a small toddler barely over the age of three.
"I," I began in a loud, booming voice. "A... | 2017-04-26T21:49:48 | 2017-04-26T20:26:09 | 257 | 166 |
[WP] "I appreciate the welcome," the alien said. "But I must ask again, 'Where are the dodos?' My son will never shut up unless I come home with a pet dodo." | "A dodo..." I repeated, confused.
"Yes, a dodo. My son greatly desires a pet dodo bird for his birthday, so I must acquire one," replied the alien.
I glanced around nervously at my colleagues. All of them looked as confused and nervous as I was. This was not how any of us expected first contact to go down.
The SETI ... | "I appreciate the welcome," the alien said. "But I must ask again, 'Where are the dodos?' My son will never shut up unless I come home with a pet dodo."
Jean-Jaque looked at the bird-man shaped alien with astonishment, this wasn't the first thing he expected after welcoming the group of aliens coming out of the at lea... | 2017-07-12T11:00:27 | 2017-07-12T07:53:28 | 249 | 73 |
[WP] You're a dude with no friends who gets his hands on a cloning machine. You create an exact replica of you, he looks the same, acts the same, and you're forced into living with him. You realise why you have no friends after having to live with yourself for a week. | I saw her climbing out of the machine, her fat legs wobbling a little in pain. It was ridiculous that she was tuckered out from climbing a few stairs.
I grimaced at the girl, looking at her chubby face and slouched over shoulders.
"You should stand up straight." I started, realizing my own back was slouched as well.... | Is it murder if I kill my clone or suicide? I have been debating this question all day and haven't come to a conclusion, he thought. Just two weeks ago he thought this would be a great idea. Now he had someone to play through the Portal multiplayer and he wouldn't get mad at how slow they advanced because it was himsel... | 2017-07-25T09:31:20 | 2017-07-25T06:41:22 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] You're a dude with no friends who gets his hands on a cloning machine. You create an exact replica of you, he looks the same, acts the same, and you're forced into living with him. You realise why you have no friends after having to live with yourself for a week. | I saw her climbing out of the machine, her fat legs wobbling a little in pain. It was ridiculous that she was tuckered out from climbing a few stairs.
I grimaced at the girl, looking at her chubby face and slouched over shoulders.
"You should stand up straight." I started, realizing my own back was slouched as well.... | I squinted, he squinted. I raised my hand, he raised his hand. I slapped him and ducked, he missed. I threw my head back and laughed, he took a cheap shot and whacked me square in the nads. I doubled over and toppled onto my side. It was excruciating but I couldn't blame him, I would have done the same.
He stood over ... | 2017-07-25T09:31:20 | 2017-07-25T07:14:53 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] Mages can choose their source of power: water, air, lightning, even emotions. To achieve an element, they must visit its sacred shrine, where they are challenged by the very element they wish to possess. Describe one mage's fight against its element. | “Ambrosius failed, Abanazar failed. Three of Solomonanţă’s finest students died here, men with fifteen or twenty powers under their command.” The famulus stumbled up the stairs behind Heron. Stubbing his toe, the old man shuddered off his human form and landed as an owl on his Master’s shoulder. “Even the Emperor Obero... | "Aww, damn it. Every freaking time," Grynfa said, taking off his hat and shaking the water off of it. Opening the great oak door must have nudged the leaves that covered the roof and doused him with tepid water that had collected during the last rain storm. He shook off his cloak and wiped his cheek where some of it ha... | 2017-11-03T10:37:15 | 2017-11-03T10:20:28 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | This was the price for freedom.
We may have started the war, but we cannot be blamed for it. We always intended for the Low Orbit Laboratory to make it to orbit, and we wept when the boosters failed. Fifty of our own people died in the launch, heroes, doctors, and engineers.
The Chinese were not as concvinced. They... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-18T02:21:39 | 579 | 57 |
[WP] You are the Devil himself. After a good day of ripping off mortals you are summoned by another one. Being a little generous, you promise to let him keep his soul if he asks for something nobody ever asked. You are now stuck as his beautifull and loving girlfriend till the end of his days. | Dear diary,
This is day 66 of the worst mistake of my existence. I really underestimated the ingenuity of this pale, puny human. I'd find a loophole in the wish he asked by killing him but the human concept of "loving" is so broad that I can't seem to bring myself to smite him out of existence. Every time I try, his b... | >"Hey. Come on, guy! You're the one who offered me this deal."
 
I've seen sick and twisted mortals—rapists, serial killers, girlscouts—throughout time immemorial, but this is unlike any other. At a cursory glance, this one appeared to be just another mere dictator desiring world domin... | 2018-04-05T12:27:35 | 2018-04-05T11:45:04 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity, an ancient space faring civilization, is dying. They give the universe one last gift before vanishing into that good night. | Carefully, we wrote.
After pondering, and pondering, we thought we should give the universe one last gift. A final goodbye, to remember humanity. To give whatever species that finds it a good bit of happiness.
We wrote the recipe to create chocolate.
Took seeds, and placed them into the capsule, as well as a univers... | This is commander Jack Hurlström of - what we believe to be - the final human expedition ship. We, as a species, are dying. The universe has become close to uninhabitable, and we can’t last much longer. All other species we have ever contacted perished millennia ago, with only us tenacious humans still trying to surviv... | 2018-07-30T06:37:40 | 2018-07-30T06:30:52 | 59 | 19 |
[WP] among the many senses developed on alien worlds, hearing is not one of them. To most extra terrestrials, the idea that we can detect them even with a wall between us is utterly horrifying | Zgorznax transmitted the message again to the planet below. It was the standard “we come in peace” message that is used when contacting a new planet. They had met enough of the criteria for first contact. The had advanced population centers, basic space travel, satellites, nuclear power. They beings appeared to be... | The cool earth cushioned softly beneath Blue-Green-Magenta's bare soles. He looked to his aide, Red-Scarlet-Teal, who nodded ahead to Ms. Hawk's home door, quiet as any world.
Eyes looked between blinds from houses around the street. Children-to-gods of all earthling years peered at the iridescent, slightly moving sca... | 2018-11-02T21:21:58 | 2018-11-02T20:00:37 | 4,778 | 115 |
[WP] Earth is actually extremely inhospitable and downright nuts to nearby alien civilizations because predators, bad weather, contagious disease, and the like are simply uncommon on other worlds. You are an alien tasked with creating a documentary on this strange hardcore world. | Hello, I’m Kyle, and I’ll be your guide through the documentary of humanity!
If you want to see the previous documentary about the Nebulians, please click here!
Humanity is the strangest, smartest, dumbest, and most funny species in our universe.
First discovered in 2134 when a human spacecraft landed on our home pla... | ### Humanity: Special For Exactly One Reason
#### They're the most absolutely full of themselves species in the entire universe.
Space is unimaginably vast. This is a simple fact: from the puniest Rentinn to the most mighty Telonn, all species know of the terrible vastness of space and their comparatively minute pre... | 2019-02-07T21:31:50 | 2019-02-07T19:58:44 | 86 | 20 |
[WP] After months of finding small knickknacks placed on your back porch, you've found the culprit. It's a small mouse living under your house. You go into the crawlspace and find a shrine made of several of your socks and pictures of you. Out of a dark corner a mouse approaches you, trembling. | I grew up in a rat house, and into my adult life, I've been utterly intolerance of any such vermin living in my home. I've come too far in life to go back to living like \*that\*. So naturally, when I discovered we had a mouse problem, there were traps, poisons, and at one point my wife talked me into temporarily foste... | Finally, at four in the morning, I am able to set Sophie down in her crib without any wails of defiance.
My nine week old daughter has been rather fussy lately, keeping me up at night the past couple of weeks with diaper changes, feeding requests, and all kinds of infant needs. Unfortunately, as a single mother, I ha... | 2019-06-15T13:33:47 | 2019-06-15T13:02:39 | 43 | 18 |
[WP] You finally find the IKEA chair you like. You mispronounce it's name however, and the ground starts to shake. You see an employee holding a giant greatsword. He mutters to himself 'Fifth time this week' as the roof caves in and a gargantuan beast roars outside. | "Excuse me," I called to the amber-clad staff. "I'm looking for the Langfjall."
He turned around, a poorly-put-together Gruvbyn of puzzlement on his face. "The what, sir?"
"The Langfjall."
A frown constructed a quick Svartla of worry across his brow, then was cleared as though by a spring sale. "Ah, you mean the ... | “Alright I think I’ll get the uh… Leek-sale Lo-vas?” As the butchered Swedish word left my lips the world beneath me started to convulse and shake. The fear in my heart pounded in rhythm with the frantically rattling furniture. A particularly violent heave of the earth sent me stumbling but I was quickly steadied by my... | 2019-07-08T15:40:00 | 2019-07-08T15:27:41 | 54 | 18 |
[WP] Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. | Since my wife left, my daughter had began talking to herself. I was understanding, it was tough for me as well. Yesterday, I went up to her room where she of course was playing with her "friends" I sat and listened to her babble and giggle and change her voice around for their parts. Tapping lightly on the door she cal... | I threw up all over the kitchen floor and started praying that the hand was just a Halloween decoration, or someone was playing a prank on me. After I gained composure and the courage to check once more, my worst fears were confirmed. There’s a severed hand wearing a Rolex and a wad of cash on my kitchen counter.
... | 2019-10-06T16:14:50 | 2019-10-06T14:07:29 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | "Mr. Splitter, I have questions"
"Please call me Adam" he said from behind his cells.
"That weapon, What was it?"
"The bomb? It was our last result, an ace if you will"
"That ace caused half of the planets in the war to become extinct, and 25% to be endangered"
"There's still a couple thousand galaxies out there, ... | "Humanity took a big hit today, it is with unprecedented horror that I stand here amongst the rest of us all to right this wrong, they took our lives, indiscriminately. We will not stand here any longer, diplomacy is no longer an option." - United Nations 2024
"They made a mistake, unprovoked, millions are no longer w... | 2019-12-19T02:36:56 | 2019-12-19T02:24:43 | 560 | 91 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Gabriel knew his name would become synonymous with traitor. But really, what did it matter? Better to be a traitor than to be subservient to madmen, or to look the other way as the galactic genocide continued. On the ship's holographic screen, the tiny pinprick of the green planet was growing -- a grassy blade slowly b... | "The Terran nation of old, United States, had been a culture obsessed with war, according to the histories made available when they took their first tentative steps into the wider cosmos, and it was the proclivity to war that had ultimately resulted in their dissolution during the Terran Reclamation some centuries prio... | 2022-12-15T08:44:27 | 2019-12-19T08:11:16 | 431 | 14 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | "Please leave us alone" they said. "don't force us to use our strongest weapons". "save your species" they cried.
We laughed. Their perspective on warfare was that a bigger gun is always a stronger gun, and that might have held some truth, if their kinetic weaponry would be able to deal any damage at all to our energy... | The battle was over faster than it had escalated, with all of humanity staring on with smug satisfaction. They may not be the most intelligent, advanced, or tactical species in the universe, but they were most definitely considered the deadliest.
This was not something they would be proud of for long No sooner did the... | 2019-12-19T07:46:24 | 2019-12-19T04:11:54 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | It's dumbfounding really. No other species figured out how to replicate the engine which drove all the galaxies stars. In a way, the blindness of the various species was more ideological than technological. It wasn't that they couldn't discover fission or fusion. They simply wouldn't use its power.
In the millen... | Part 2:
The Stars Shine Again
"K'uklas, we're pulling out off of the Zhavra cruiser, make sure you and your men can handle the onslaught," the man over his radio said. He couldn't believe the man he looked up to would abandon them like that, in a time where they were hopeless against these tiny, ferocious beasts—no, ... | 2019-12-19T07:14:10 | 2019-12-19T04:20:10 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] most of the universe utilizes teleportation to land their armies on an enemy planet, but humans, having not mastered quantum entanglement, have a primitive, but more horrifying way for the enemies to "drop" their troops off. | Teleportation is a thing of grace, a delicate pirouette through dimensions to end exactly where you need to be. Need to offload cargo, done. Want to go to that asteroid belt resort without the hazard of flying into it, easy. Need to send a contingent of troops to intercede on one of the thousand or so civil wars brewin... | When I hastily typed my digital signature on the document 3 years ago, I had no idea that I would ever actually be drafted.
The message came via hologram, the general of earths military standing in full uniform.
“Thank you, soldier. I have sent this message to you to inform you that you have been drafted by our wonde... | 2019-12-23T00:10:39 | 2019-12-22T19:49:10 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] The Sword Art Online disaster just happened. Everyone is panicking and mass hysteria sweeps the players. But the evil dude did not account for one thing; speedrunners. | The announcement had been given to all present in the Aincrad coliseum on floor 1 that day. Die in the game, die in real life. What was once a game had become something far more dangerous. The assembly of players, now prisoners, began to panic.
Dumbfounded rather than terrified, fear giving way to shock, I took in my... | They may call me evil, a monster or a killer for my part in that dreadful experience. But before I you do, read what actually happened as the following is as much a testimony as a journal of what went wrong.
To start off, I lead the development of the first VR MMORPG that actually allowed players to feel and experienc... | 2020-01-28T09:27:51 | 2020-01-28T07:31:14 | 135 | 56 |
[WP] The great zombie outbreak started 2 years ago. You now find yourself trapped in a corner by a zombie, when you do the unthinkable and bite it first. It suddenly drops to the floor, grows it’s skin back and asks what’s going on. | "We're on the verge of extinction, we must bite them before they bite us."
The room moaned as the hoard of survivors rocked their heads disapprovingly, someone at the front of the crowd mumbled, "They're too many, and they're too fast for us."
More mindless grumbling, just a reaction based in fear.
"It has been do... | "W-What's going on?!" the stranger asked while shivering on the floor.
"What the hell, h-how are...what?! I think out loud, questioning my existence.
We didn't have much time to sit around and inquire our current situation, zombies were surrounding us at every corner.
"Hey you, what's going on?! The last thing I rem... | 2020-02-18T15:07:23 | 2020-02-18T14:56:32 | 146 | 81 |
[WP] Dragons of this world hoard their treasures like any other. Unlike the others this dragon has decided to "hoard" an entire village and is oddly invested in the villagers lives. | For years, my village lived in fear of the beast in the cave upon the cliff, watching us from above. Many tales and stories surfaced around the Creature, conjured by Mothers and Mentors to Frighten their Children and Charges into obedience or to warn of certain follies.
The Strangest thing though was the Beast's Curio... | **Draconic Directions**
 
“Ignore the dragon.” The villager hissed, in between swings of his axe.
“What…?” Henrik the Bard jumped, caught in the mesmerising sight of an actual dragon. He stared at the wood chopper for a second.
“Ignore it, we have to ignore it, that’s what it directs!” The villager hisse... | 2020-02-19T00:39:15 | 2020-02-18T21:34:17 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] When you kill someone, their remaining life span is added to yours. Archaeologists have just found a cavern, apparently sealed off for thousands of years, with a single person living inside. | Streams of light poured into the cavern entrance, revealing a grimy face. The scans a had shown a life form dwelling in the ruins of a long forgotten civilization, but we could never have known what lurked below. We had expected a mighty warrior, or a ruthless king. This face belonged to a little girl, no more than 7 y... | The sound of rock breaking apart echoed through the narrow passage which lead back to the base camp.
"What was that, 5 or 6?" A sturdy looking man asked another person nearby. Sweat dripped down his face as he leaned against the wall.
"That one marks 6. We should be getting close to the cavern that showed on the sc... | 2020-05-16T06:27:49 | 2020-05-16T06:02:16 | 79 | 20 |
[WP] An ex-villain has settled down, started a family and vowed to never return to their old ways...until their child goes missing. | The clock on the wall told the time. 9:18 pm. Five minutes ago he had gotten the call. Five minutes of tense, shaky, fear and rage filled silence. Then, it broke. A tear running down a scarred face from one too many battles against heroes. A once calm and sometimes happy face curled into an all too familiar snarl. All ... | They tell you to run, when good men go to war. Run and hide, for when the good ones go to battle, there will be terror and pain as you have never seen before. And to an extent that is true. Men who are fundamentally good lack a lot of the self-restraint that evil men have put upon themselves in order to infiltrate soci... | 2020-07-05T20:09:16 | 2020-07-05T19:35:22 | 263 | 68 |
[WP] You're a Mechromancer. It's a bit like being a Necromancer, except that instead of working with dead flesh and departed souls you work with defunct machinery and deleted computer programs. | People never seem to make backups of anything.
It's a piece of advice I want to scream at anyone who walks through the door: save it on an external hard drive, in the cloud, *anything.* Yet I suppose if they all did that, I wouldn't have many customers. So I keep my mouth shut.
Today a young man, probably in his 40s,... | The hooded man walked the desert alone.
Once, this area had teemed with life. Trees, plants, people, homes. Now red sand brushed against the grey sky in the far horizon. A wasteland since the bombs.
There were few humans left anywhere, in truth. And in that sense, this desert was not unique. Not after the skies fell... | 2020-10-16T07:36:57 | 2020-10-16T07:36:50 | 493 | 179 |
[WP] You're the town's superhero. Your greatest enemy is the town's supervillian. However, secretly, your both brothers. This isn't anything tragic, as your whole destructive rivalry is actually just a massive prank on your third brother, the mayor. | The Mayor drove to the town square, preparing for the end of the world. He turned onto Main Street as people fled down the wide sidewalks, eyes bulging, mouths wide. Police cars parked at crazy angles across the road, lights flashing, officers hunkered down, peeking over the hoods.
There, on the manicured lawn in fron... | My family had a weird dynamic growing up. I’m not going to be one of those people who say my parents ruined me, they were wonderful loving people, they just enjoyed a good joke and never quite knew when they went too far. Sometimes I even think of it like an unintentional family business, as if we could all step out of... | 2021-12-03T01:13:10 | 2021-03-05T04:32:05 | 1,428 | 360 |
[WP] You died giving birth many years ago and now work in the bureaucracy of the afterlife. Your job is to complete the forms for those next to die. To your horror you see your child’s file arrive on your desk. | Admin in Hell is hell! Paperwork for the sake of paperwork with complex work orders and prerequisites all fiendishly designed to make it incessent and neverending. There is no day and night in Hell. You dont hunger or tire unless your specific punishments require it. I had no concept of how long I'd endlessly filled ou... | It was just another boring day at work. Tidily, I scrolled through the files I was to complete that day, counting them down by the tips of my fingers. “One thousand, three hundred seventy-two.” I sighed. It was going to be a long day.
“This would be so much more interesting if I knew how they died.” I murmured, beginn... | 2021-07-08T23:34:01 | 2021-07-08T19:28:00 | 80 | 50 |
[WP] You’re at a zoo. Jokingly, you ask the zookeeper what the penguin is in for. He replies “Two counts of murder and ten counts of tax fraud.” | "…and that one's Skipper. They don’t do much nowadays, they just smile and wave…"
I chuckled. "Don’t do much? What, like they have room in that cage to do anything else?"
The tour guide looked onward. "A while back, Rico used to snatch spoons from unsuspecting kids. For whatever reason. Now he's just docile like the ... | "That'll be three bucks, chum!"
I wasn't too pleased with the zoo ticket-taker's tone of voice. But by golly, I'd come to see some Arctic wildlife and I meant to do just that.
My new ward, Richard "Dick" Grayson was at my side. He wanted to go to the aviary to see the robins. I was more focused on the penguins. Som... | 2021-09-03T14:39:52 | 2021-09-03T12:59:09 | 61 | 16 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | Wisher: i wish I could change the rules
Genie: that's against the rules
Wisher: i wish you told me what's the correct wish to make to go around any rules
Genie: that's against the rules
Wisher: i wish I could combine as many wishes as i want in a single wish
Genie: that's against the rules
Wisher: i wish I could ... | After much consideration the child contemplated the now empty, shiny artifact in front of him, gently buffed cleaner in one spot, and mulled over how to get around an impasse created by djinn with lawyer's souls. "Okay, I wish to be recreated into a supernatural human being of such considerable power, wealth, intellige... | 2022-01-04T02:49:07 | 2022-01-04T00:47:44 | 356 | 77 |
[WP] A "young" elf is constantly surrounded by people who have had thousands of years to become hundreds of times better at everything than you. Which is why most elf "children" choose to "mature" among other species. It gives a much needed ego boost, even in the worst case scenarios. | **The Faults of Perfection**
Nearly everyone in the town was gathered around their small arena. They watched the newcomer in awe, whooping and cheering as he took on five opposing sword fighters at once, parrying one attack after another, moving with impossible speed and grace.
Caspien didn’t even need to sense the m... | Jannalor (going by John) sat in the lecture hall, squinting his eyes. Was he seriously seeing what he was looking at?
It wasn’t the faded out digital screen, paling in comparison to anything mana could summon. Anything that was on there had already been seared into his brain three times over. But he could, from his va... | 2022-03-18T12:33:08 | 2022-03-18T12:23:43 | 239 | 48 |
[WP] "HOW ARE YOU NOT DEAD YET?" the villain shouted in frustration. "To be honest with you, I have been wondering the same." was all the hero could answer them. | "What do you mean you don't know?" Gunslinger asked. The smoke coming out of his modified double-barrel obstructed my view of his face, but if I had to guess, he was as confused as I was.
"Well, to be frank with you, I really should be dead right now." I admitted.
"It doesn't matter. You won't manage to stop me anywa... | The giant black entity slammed a giant fist against my face, drilling it into the rocky cliff wall behind. The pain shot through my whole head like a searing wave of lava. Removing his hand again, Minotaur's eyes shot wide at my own surprise. A baseball-sized rock bounced off my head, splitting promptly in half and fal... | 2022-09-14T12:39:03 | 2022-09-14T10:10:42 | 55 | 30 |
[WP] Gods are real, and powered by sacrifice (metaphorical and literal.) You wake up feeling quite bored. So in your mirror, you offer your everything...to yourself. There are unexpected consequences. | Your alarm is set for 2 hours, 36 minutes from now.
Mere moments after the soul-crushing declaration, Caleb’s phone died, revealing the black mirror sheen of his own face, haggard, wasted, and wanting.
How many hours had he spent generating images and talking to chatbots? Another day wasted.
His sigh w... | It seemed like a joke. I guess it shouldn't have. Not now anyways.
After a lot of research by a small bible college in Mississippi or maybe Alabama while trying to prove that all the "other" gods were fake and there was only "one true God", they actually proved the theory of Mana as a force, and that the other gods ... | 2022-09-19T05:50:21 | 2022-09-19T05:33:47 | 947 | 247 |
[WP] God informs the whole world that he is quitting by writing a personal letter to everyone. Write the letter that the Pope receives.
And if you want, his reaction to it. | Dear **Francis**,
I am writing to inform you that I am unhappy with my current employment, and intend to end my stay with the human race as soon as I've had time to say goodbye. You have all been a most generous and kind race, even if you've had your irritating moments (The Flood was when I was younger, don't judge me... | "Good morning sir."
"Good morning Michael. What is on our schedule for today?"
"Well, uhhm. Your schedule was cleared, sir."
"Cleared?"
"Yes sir."
"By whom?"
"God, sir."
Francis's face dropped. Then, he smiled.
"I will say Michael, you had me there. But please, we have a busy day today, no?"
"Sir, this is no j... | 2015-02-07T12:01:24 | 2015-02-07T11:32:52 | 43 | 24 |
[WP] A man who has lived a thousand years takes up a job teaching high school world history. | "As the Ottoman empire continued to expand both its influence and its borders into Central Europe..."
"Mr. Tepes?" A young girl in the front row of the class raised her hand ever so eagerly.
The imposing middle-aged man standing at the board paused his words and shifted his gaze upon her. "What is it, Tracey?" he rep... | “That’s not what the book says!” Johnny, the class smart aleck, interjected.
The rest of the class giggled. They all thought Mr. Yockie was full of shit.
Mr. Yockie cringed as he thought to himself, “I know it’s not what the book says you little shit burglar. That’s cause the fucking book is wrong...”
But he didn’t ... | 2015-04-14T18:01:59 | 2015-04-14T16:35:59 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] You are forced to take a genies place, and can only be freed once you have granted 10 wishes. The catch: You have no magic in any way. | My cell phone rang again. That was three times in the span of an hour, and the ringing was becoming more persistent. At first I'd planned on just ignoring the constant summons but the more I pretended I couldn't hear the obnoxious ringtone, the more frequently it played. I had planned to outlast the ringing but patienc... | A bridge from Hawaii to Alaska... What kind of retard wants that anyways? Good grief... Can't people just ask for something simple like a chocolate pie or something?
I fumed in my head as I picked up the hammer again, reaching for another nail... A wave crashed onto the pillar directly below me, the salty spray dousi... | 2015-04-20T10:19:21 | 2015-04-20T09:37:56 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] The world is ending. Tell me the feeling of the superhero, when he understands the villain was right all along. | "It's not your fault. You couldn't have known."
Those were the last words of the woman I called my enemy. The last words she said before she pulled the trigger, staining her red hair a deeper shade of red.
I stared out of the window of the highrise building that held her office. Outside the building the fires burne... | The nuclear missiles are flying like fireflies. All over the planet, the world's greatest cities have gone up in mushroom clouds. Gotham yet remains. Looking down, I see it's already in flames. Social order has broken down in anticipation of the final warhead. Masses are swarming over each other seeking shelter and esc... | 2015-05-02T04:42:24 | 2015-05-02T04:18:57 | 18 | 10 |
[WP]: "I'm sorry. I just don't understand how you managed to fuck up a five-word sentence, offend the inhabitants of three planets and start a world war at the same time." | It had all started innocently enough, generations before the conflict began. Amy, an amateur astronomer and scientist, clicked "Send" on her Chapek program, beaming the message out into space, hoping it might find an ear or two. Newly interested in science fiction, she had chosen one of her favorite quotes, hoping to... | Robert peered into the dark abyss. That's one thing he'd forgot about working on a offworld broadcasting station; the view was so vast and empty. Of course, tonight it will be different. The first of the Asmoydian and Veluese dreadnoughts have already jumped into Centauri's orbit, appearing as elongated blue flecks aga... | 2015-06-19T05:43:13 | 2015-06-19T03:26:36 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] A man's child is born with different colored hair than he is. He becomes suspicious that his wife cheated on him even though it is VERY clear that that isn't possible.
You're free to choose whatever reason for why it wouldn't be possible, the more exaggerated the better in my opinion. | "Damn it, Philipa! I know you cheated on me! Our son has BROWN hair! I'M BLOND!"
"Ted, I have brown hair."
"Oh. Right."
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"Damn it, Philipa! I know you cheated on me! Our son has BROWN hair! I'M BLOND!"
"Ted, you have brown hair, not blond."
"Oh. Right."
"If you were blond, that... | "I just think it's funny..." *Uh oh, this phrase precedes negativity at a correlation of 97.8%.*
"I just think it's funny that little Art has blonde hair, but we both have brown hair. Don't you think that's funny Sheila?" *Oh bother. The human Zeke's patterns and phraseology indicate emotion A178: marital jealousy. I'... | 2015-08-05T02:53:13 | 2015-08-05T02:05:03 | 87 | 11 |
[WP] A firefly falls in love with a star.
Exactly what it sounds like. Whether or not the star is a normal star (inasmuch as a huge ball of gas collapsing on itself can be normal) or a living entity is up to you. | She sits so far above me
The greatest beauty of them all
Her smile that cuts the darkness
It’s like a siren’s call
That dancer in a dress of light
In her presence, I feel so small
Just an insect in the universe of her gaze
She doesn’t even see me at all
(Be gentle, it's my first go at this.) | They were arguing again. After the diagnosis words better left unspoken had spilled unwelcome across the marriage, staining it, marring it.
Sighing softly, Ryan took another long burning sip of FC whiskey. It was a cool spring's night at Blue Spring and the fireflies danced wistfully across the water.
He'd taken he... | 2016-01-04T00:56:25 | 2016-01-04T00:25:17 | 25 | 14 |
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