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[WP] In the future, to pass college you no longer must pass written finals. Instead, you are simply dropped into a real life scenario related to your major, and left to fend for yourself with your new found knowledge.
*My first post on WP, sorry if it's a repeat and/or against any rule(s)*
Edit: wow, sincerely thank ... | I clambered into the cramped pod, being as careful as I could not to snag the hose to the CO2 scrubber. The lights and displays meant nothing, I was just grateful that I didn't have to sit in the dark.
"Can you hear me, Grant?"
I nearly lost the content of my bladder as the radio link boomed through my helmet.
"Y... | Not sure that this will appeal to everyone but hopefully some people enjoy it
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Helen was in the examination room with three patients in front of her: three people she was expected to save lest she forfeit her degree. Each was sleeping, deeply under the influenc... | 2017-08-10T05:10:15 | 2017-08-10T05:08:15 | 193 | 110 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | "Some tea, dear?" the little old lady asked to the dark and mysterious figure sitting at her kitchen table. She squinted at him having forgotten her glasses upstairs.
"Yes, earthling," the mysterious figure boomed and whispered all at once, careful not to burst her delicate eardrums with his natural voice as he had w... | "He's adorable!" the large, green abomination said, its hands ruffling the jet black hair of the household pet. The pet growled, showing well polished, white teeth. The alien chuckled, imitating the growl to the best of its ability. "You're so freaking cute when you do that!" it said, its eyes filled with affection and... | 2017-08-20T08:54:01 | 2017-08-20T08:02:57 | 1,619 | 235 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | Gorestaff the Annihilator snuck carefully through the unfamiliar base. The holographics had shown him what to expect, but the smaller structures were like some sort of nestlings play area to the 8 meter tall Zaxarian, who's hardened carapace was festooned with the gilt of conquered worlds.
But finally he had arrived ... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T08:37:27 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 96 | 25 |
[WP] Two serial killers end up on a blind date together and both keep trying to find an oppurtunity to kill the other. | The candles were lit, the table was set for two, and the night had that late summer evening chill, which was perfect for murder. Christine smiled and pulled out the chair for her date – a strawberry blonde little thing named Laura.
“Perfect night tonight,” Laura commented and sat down. “Thank you.”
‘Perfect’ was an ... | ((Sorry for spelling and grammar errors, I wrote this from my iPad))
Abigail wrapped her arms around the bicep of her new tinder date, resting her head on his shoulder as they walked the waterfront. The sun creep behind the horizon, letting way to moonlight gently reflecting off the subtle waves of the sound. "I had s... | 2017-10-27T07:41:54 | 2017-10-27T06:36:25 | 129 | 25 |
[WP] The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did. | To all citizens of earth,
In retrospect we regret both promoting and providing the drugs for the multinational cocaine fueled orgy. After a short debate we have decided to cover the costs of any abortions and treatment for STDs that may arise from the event.
Murders and pillaging at the time will be forgiven provide... | "The crisis is averted. I repeat, the crisis is averted. The asteroid is no longer on a collision course towards Earth. Stay tuned for an interview with the NASA scientists who rerouted it."
I stare at the TV and hug my kids. Tears flow from my eyes as I feel their tiny hands wrapped around me. Thank God. I kiss their... | 2017-11-29T07:19:46 | 2017-11-29T06:47:31 | 305 | 54 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | And just like that, the lights were off. Off! For the first time in Mother B'ln KNEW how long, blessed darkness coated the land in her cool soothing embrace.
Our shaman's eyes rolled back in his head and his body convulsed as words poured from his mouth: communications with the other tribes across the land. A concentr... | For years it was always bright. We slept with lights on, never darkness. We cooked, cleaned, showered, did everything in brightness. This was how it was because the government told us the "monsters" would get us. Nobody had ever seen them in person. We didn't know what they looked like, what they could do, or how they ... | 2018-02-02T05:18:06 | 2018-02-02T04:29:56 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You just let a hungry-looking couple into your home to feed them. As you go to turn off the TV, you hear, “under no circumstances should you answer the door today. They are not what they seem. And whatever you do, don’t let them inside...” | "And whatever you do, don’t let them inside..."
Those words are still ringing through my brain as I look up from the couch. Our host, so gracious just a few minutes ago, turns to face us. Neither of us have to imagine the look of dawning horror on our faces, as it is clearly being reflected right back. My wife and I b... | "Where is the sugar?"
My heart jumped from the couch and landed somewhere distant on the carpet. A curse to god sneaked past as I straightened myself. The man gleaned at me from the kitchen.
"What?" I asked.
"The sugar? Claire hasn't had it in a long time. Was wondering if you had some."
"Top, left most cupboard. ... | 2018-03-14T10:29:22 | 2018-03-14T08:12:12 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] The witches cackled with delight upon finding a child wandering alone in the woods. They never considered that they were the ones in danger.
Credit to u/captainmavro and u/EveGiggle for giving me the idea | The child ambled through the forest, excited, delighted.
She heard laughter echo across the trees, and she turned to see three witches hunched over a cauldron, eyeing her with hunger.
"What have we here?" one witch said, her left eye swiveling on its own accord. "A lost little child, no parents in sight?"
"I don't ... | Lester Garrett is an odd boy. Eight year olds typically avoid being alone, yet he enjoys regularly challenging the night by himself. Tonight he decided to take a stroll through the thick woods behind the park a few blocks away.
He enjoys hearing the cracking and crunching of the leaves and twigs beneath his feet. The... | 2018-04-17T18:18:17 | 2018-04-17T18:12:02 | 686 | 323 |
[WP] A young gay dragon has to explain to his parents why he is only kidnapping princes | #THE GAY DRAGON
ON roaring wings of bows of rain
Soars a mighty dragon, never slain
For the knights that come to claim its head
Find themselves hoarded off instead
A ferocious wyrm they sought to kill
Chains gallantry to dignity,
and friskily, timidly, his treasures to bed.
Thus they find themselves cla... | The Elveron family; one of the most prestigious lines of
dragon in the world. Their terror has been known for over a millennium, toppling
countless villages and striking fear into the hearts of whoever they cross paths with. Their
work has picked up in recent years. With all the new kingdoms popping up, the
need for p... | 2018-05-03T12:52:16 | 2018-05-03T12:12:55 | 414 | 159 |
[WP] The genie granted your wish: to be able to understand and speak every language. Your mind is flooded with thousands upon thousands of dead and living languages, human and alien alike. But, most surprisingly, you also now understand the operating system running the universe. | "Java. The entire universe runs on an outdated version of Java? Are you kidding me?"
The Genie chuckled. "What did you expect?"
"Not fucking *Java*, that's for sure," I replied. "Come on, we're going back home. I need some time to process this."
"Your wish is my command," the Genie said with a sly grin.
"That wasn'... | *It was beautiful.*
I could understand and speak every language. They say the brain's capacity has never been reached. This is both true *and* false. I could speak english, german, all languages of the world, java, C#, C++, all languages running computers, but most importantly, I could speak the *universal* langua... | 2018-10-18T13:42:48 | 2018-10-18T12:55:05 | 508 | 175 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Earth's representative took the podium at a convention of all galactic leaders. Everyone expected unconditional surrender and from the looks of the old man in a white coat with a defeated expression that is what they were about to get.
"I want everyone to know that I am deeply saddened by what I am about to say.
Whe... | "The Federation does not recognize the authority of the Alliance." A cold voice replied.
For over three thousand years, the humans had been the negotiators, traders, engineers, eager to learn and eager to give. They had integrated into the rest of the galaxy with little trouble, and their sleek, elegant ships, pai... | 2018-12-14T21:32:21 | 2018-12-14T19:06:09 | 681 | 162 |
[WP] While renovating your bathroom you stumble across a strange machine labeled "Humanity" in the walls. On it various emotional traits are next to levers: Greed - 75%, Empathy - 40%, Lust - 80%, etc. At the very bottom, you find an unmarked lever that warns, "DO NOT TOUCH." It's set to 1%. | This had to be a Joke, right?
You stand there, perplexed, unsure what to do.
There couldn't be a machine that controls the entire human race, it just didn't add up. But what grabs your Curiousity the most is the lever that reads "DO NOT TOUCH" set to only 1%. There other ones were all labeled and set to a certain l... | I run my hands across the curious contraption and its glossy metallic surface. The levers are made from a polished metal glowing with greenish lustre. I scan through the various words next to the levers once more; Greed - 75%, Empathy - 40% and Lust - 80%. The final lever is made of a red, metal unlike anything I've ev... | 2019-04-05T00:33:39 | 2019-04-05T00:11:57 | 256 | 117 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased with your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell and we're the demons. You have just been summoned... | I fall to the stone floor in an ungraceful heap. One moment I am dozing in my recliner after getting it in that magical position where my back doesn’t hurt and then there is this dazzling light and splat. Right on the floor.
Pain. I am way too old to flop onto a stone floor. I don’t bounce like I used to. I blink... | "Who the hell are you?" I asked.
"Where in hell are you from?", the neckbeard responded.
I took a look at him: scrawny, pasty, frail. I bet in one punch I could blast this ole buzzard into next Tuesday, but something told me I wouldn't make it past the 10 thick friends, and the regal looking bro in the back right cor... | 2019-04-25T19:13:50 | 2019-04-25T16:47:11 | 32 | 13 |
[WP]For hundreds of years your world has been under alien occupation. Your new job under your overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of your ancestors. One day you discover an ancient machine which upon activation shows a message. “Contact reestablished,Support will arrive soon.” | The smoldering wreckage stretched for miles in every direction. The ruins of countless battles lay strewn across the barren landscape. The scene was lifeless save for the scattered figures searching the wreckage.
Urun was searching for anything to give to his masters. He had quotas to meet. It had been this way his wh... | **Eternal Support**
Characters:
*James*
*Support*
**Open**
*(Scene opens to black. The sound of a pickaxe working can be heard)*
**James:** For hundreds of years my world has been under alien occupation. Our new job under our overlords is to scavenge ancient wreckage of our ancestors. I've been digging these hole... | 2019-07-22T12:59:42 | 2019-07-22T11:47:36 | 104 | 16 |
[WP]Everyone on earth gets the same message on their phone telling them to go to a specific address. People everywhere are talking about and wondering if they should go. However after talking to some people about it, you realize that the address you were given is different than everyone else's. | At first, it was called, 'The Miracle of the Modern Age'. Some talk show host must have decided that was too long, so it was changed to, 'The Modern Miracle'. That was too long as well, (and probably too on-the-nose) so it was changed to 'The Sign'. Or 'The Message.' That was probably more appropriate. Grandmaster Flas... | It was 5:32am when my phone went off. With the ceiling sufficiently stared at for the night, I rolled over and grabbed the old flip job. The little screen on the front had an oversized TXT on it. Not one to usually receive texts, let alone one at that hour, I flipped open, expecting some spam junk.
“5001 Crag Road, La... | 2019-09-09T12:30:38 | 2019-09-09T11:31:05 | 1,909 | 271 |
[WP] You have accidentally died. No, no, no, you didn’t die in an accident, you’ve accidentally died, as in, the Grim Reaper has no idea what you’re doing in the underworld. | He didn't look any different from the thousands of souls around him.
But when he reached the Bookkeeper, the line, which was deathly slow, stopped moving.
We watched in bemusement as the Bookkeeper put down his pen and started flipping pages. Index, appendix, it made no difference.
Dusty tomes from the archives wer... | "I-I've never had to deal with something like this b-before, they told me this couldn't happen!"
Though the twinge of panic was ever so prominent in my chest, tightening my throat and making every breath uncomfortable, I can admit that seeing such a devastating figure as an eerie skeleton in black robes wielding a lar... | 2019-12-05T18:51:26 | 2019-12-05T18:05:38 | 50 | 17 |
[WP] Your sister disappeared on her way to school, but no one noticed. When you asked your parents they told you you didn’t have a sister. All the family pictures in your house only show you and your parents. You spend the next 7 years investigating until you receive a knock on your door. | My life changed forever when I was 13 years old. One moment, I was just sitting on the sofa watching TV; the next, everything, including the TV, became deathly quiet. I tried speaking, but no words came out of my throat. It was like the whole world had gone on mute. And then I felt everything *shift*. It was the most s... | A knock broke my concentration from the light that hypnotized me outside my window.
"Hello? Who is it?" I approached the door with my hands floating at my sides like I was a spy trying to mute my steps.
"It's me, Cameron," a familiar female voice said, muffled by the door. "It's your sister."
My heart sank, my head ... | 2020-05-03T10:37:31 | 2020-05-03T10:04:57 | 654 | 113 |
[WP] A trenchcoated stranger has depositied a stack of hundreds on the table in front of you. He tells you that you know what to do, and vanishes into the crowd. You have absolutely no idea of what to do. | "You know what to do."
I stared as the man's black trenchcoat swooshed through the air and he turned to walk away. He was tall, with a black hat which made him look even taller, and sunglasses that only added to the weirdness of wearing a trenchcoat in the middle of the California summer.
"What the hell?"
At 20, I ... | I've always hated weddings. It’s all about the fanfare, the ego boost, the money. Every onlooker bathes the lovely couple with thinly veiled jealousy. All the while, every guest prissys up, just so they don’t look quite as pathetic as they usually do. They compare themselves to the newly-weds as the basis of evaluatio... | 2020-09-06T05:58:40 | 2020-09-06T01:57:34 | 50 | 30 |
[WP] "I heard those humans were really adaptable." "Yeah, no shit they are. Did you ever hear the story of the lost human child that went feral and became part of a pack of the most vicious predators on Keth'rack?" | "Really? Which ones?" There was a dramatic pause as the speaker felt all eyes turn to him.
"The Veth'ag." The bar erupted in clicking and hissing. "I know, I know, It's crazy, right? But I met him." He held up a leather cord wound around a serrated claw. The room quieted as the trinket was passed from hand to tentacle... | “No? Do tell Legionnaire. And, for future reference, remember your audience.”
The Commander smiled a congenial smile towards me, but I knew I fucked up. In my defense, I had never gotten this far in a conversation with him. It must have been my nerves getting the best of me. Shrugging it off, I continued with our disc... | 2020-09-11T23:04:10 | 2020-09-11T22:20:33 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] It is 2009. You are the one time traveler to show up to Stephen Hawking’s unannounced time traveler party. You are from 200 years in his future. You have to explain to him why he can never tell anyone you showed up. | Time was of the essence. But wasn't it always.
Standing in front of the closed wooden door, I take a deep breath, readying myself for what I now realize was and will be the most important day of my life. I enter the room. Four equally grey walls, a bed and a wheelchair. The space is bare but I like it this way.
Insid... | In the video documentary, a man with a deep base voice will narrate most of it for me. The video will make the event seem magical, but in reality, it's me waiting in a room with many cameras on me in all corners, strange lighting, and the film crew's muffled conversations to one another.
I tried talking to the guy hol... | 2020-10-17T02:38:55 | 2020-10-17T02:23:37 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] Aliens arrive on Earth and are nervous and scared when they see pictures of humans. When asked, their first question is: "Why are all you humans so heavily armored with these... clothes?" | "Wait... Wait... Your star does what?!" The alien creature looked disgusted, baffled, and quite frankly freaked out. It looked at the peeling skin of the man that was brought in with a minor sunburn.
When humans first encounter aliens the confusion of explaining clothes was a long process. First we started with the s... | >It has been 50 years since I have been running a research company on earth. It's about time I buy a rocket and fulfill my curiosity by visiting different planets. I have been working on this plan from 10 years and 5 different suites have been developed by our company which can withstand extreme gravitational and pl... | 2021-10-27T07:16:17 | 2021-10-27T06:01:10 | 96 | 22 |
[WP] As punishment for his sins, a human is sentenced to battle endlessly against hordes of demons with nothing but a knife. Satan's court laughs at him for a few thousand years... until he starts winning the battles. Then they start screaming in terror. | I was a murderer. I didn't enjoy doing it, but it was how I survived. Picking a target, waiting til conditions were favorable, and choosing or leading them to a place where I had the upper hand. I never fought fairly, and rarely ever at a disadvantage beyond my own malnurished body. Considering all of this, my
Punishme... | ((Trigger content for violence, just in case.))
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"Again," I breathed. Blood streamed down my arms, but my wounds were already healing. I'd punctured a lung in that last beating, before the monster had lifted me up by the throat, jamming his spear through me to the rhythm of the jeers.
It wasn't enoug... | 2021-10-29T00:23:18 | 2021-10-29T00:13:42 | 273 | 94 |
[WP] You've always dreamt of being isekai'd into a fantasy world and become a great and beloved hero. Then it really happens! But as you blink away the smoke you find yourself surrounded by monstrous creatures, as well as the Dark Lord himself. He smiles at you. "Welcome, Dark Champion." | I immediately kneel down before him. This is where it started. "Your wish is my command."
Months later, I let the tip of my blade rest on the dark stony surface before my feet as I kneel down in honour of my Dark Lord. Right now I wish I had not gone this way, but it was too late now. The Dark Lord granted power, and ... | Hi. My name is Derek Ams, and I guess you could say I'm your average American high schooler, or at least I was up until yesterday.
I have two best friends, Stevie and Jax, who I've known for years, we share everything with each other, even our manga comics! There's also this girl in my class, Lisa, who I've bee... | 2021-11-03T06:23:06 | 2021-11-03T05:07:33 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] In order to understand his people better the King decides to go incognito and travel into town. To his annoyance every commoner he tries to speak to turns out to be disguised member of his royal court. | King Bowen had done it. He drew his hastily procured black cloak over himself, and suppressed the chills of anticipation that ran up and down his body. He was outside—not just outside his room, in the hallway, or outside in the courtyard.
No, he was outside outside, where gold-lined statues were non-existent and dead ... | "How could you all deceive me like this?" the King said, fuming.
They were in the royal meeting room now, called into attendance by his Majesty the King. They hadn't even had time to fully shed their disguises.
"Valeria," he said, pointing at his Minister for Magick. "How could you?"
The witch stubbornly refused to ... | 2022-03-09T10:34:15 | 2022-03-09T09:47:55 | 725 | 133 |
[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. | “Absolutely incredible”, Alida said, mouth half full.
Setventedian shield technology was impenetrable, but the humans cut through it like butter.
They watched the events on repeat, scaling in on a different Earth vessel each time. Only three arrived to fight the Setventedian armada but that proved to be enough.
Ali... | Counsel Thella looked over footage of the invading Crown Empire fleet. A hundred ships dedicated to nothing but war and destruction. The Andorian wept at the sight. This their final moments before the Crown would wipe his people to nothing but a footnote in history.
Then a warp rift opened briefly near the pole. The w... | 2022-03-31T06:20:25 | 2022-03-31T06:01:40 | 277 | 64 |
[WP] "But the real treasure was the friends we made along the way", your retired adventurer grandfather always finished his tall tales by that sentence; but the thing is; you never met any of his so-called companions. | On the day of his grandfather’s funeral, Scott sat alone.
Scott didn’t know why he had bothered to plan a ceremony. Despite his grandfather’s claims, the old man hadn’t actually been an adventurer or had any friends. He had never sailed across the sea or climbed the tallest mountain in the world. He had never been in ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 6, Interlude 1: The Real Treasure)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**"Grandpa?"** Tyson asked.
"Call me Archcommander," Archcommander Varney gently rebuked.
Tyson nodded dutiful... | 2022-05-12T17:54:35 | 2022-05-12T16:44:48 | 68 | 25 |
[WP] You created the A.I. that brought unparalleled good into the world. Global hunger was eradicated, climate change has vastly improved, geopolitical strife is now stabilizing. You are haunted by your creation and your conscience is laden with guilt as only you know the truth. | Humans are statistically predictable…. except when they aren’t.
Planned economies and social systems always failed because they just could not handle those people in the wrong places and the wrong time doing that very human thing.
Leaving it unplanned however was obviously just letting the world coast into a d... | It wasn't that hard in the end. See, we already knew how to create neural networks that would work most of the time, and perform outstandingly well in most any given field. Many still remember the early days of A.I., the constant marketing of neural networks in every gadget, the massive deployment of facial recognitio... | 2022-08-05T01:54:37 | 2022-08-04T23:57:21 | 81 | 46 |
[WP] The Galactic Council recognises the "Symbol of Life" as a design all intelligent species eventually begin drawing at some point in history. How each species culturally treats this symbol determines how they will act on the galactic stage. Humans call it the "Cool S". | The President of the Galactic council, Xethany, stared me down with judgmental eyes. Her mostly dark pupils were intimidating enough, which didn’t help when combined with the large ruff she wore which extended to the ceiling with psychedelic patterns. A few other high ranking chairmen, with ruffs nearly as large, began... | *”Name, Species and Location?”*
“Oh, me?” *”Yes, you.”*
Funny story, I was drunk as shit last night, whole fucking party. Not hungover, at least that’s a positive, huge negative that contradicts this, though, I’m in some backrooms looking shithole with a… snake?
*”Do you understand me? Name, Species and Location.”*
... | 2022-09-09T03:49:45 | 2022-09-08T19:58:06 | 270 | 103 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | The day I decided to remain under the influence was lost to my scattered mind, but I do remember parts of it. The screaming, the yelling, the destroyed buildings. The bodies.
They like you to believe that heroes are all-good, that they don't make mistakes, that they would never do anything to hurt anyone even the v... | "Um, Izzy? You doing all right?" I ignored the question; knowing it came from a place of concern didn't make it any easier to answer. The darkness of my room pressed in around me, feeling like a comforting blanket, hiding me from the world; hiding me from the reality of Laia's death.
"Only, you've been in there for fi... | 2022-12-28T07:48:21 | 2022-12-28T07:43:52 | 834 | 463 |
[WP] As the most powerful superhero on the team, no one believed you when you said you could quit the drugs, alcohol, and tobacco whenever you wanted. When the only friend you have on the team died on a mission, you sobered up for the first time in years. Now people will learn why you stay drunk. | "I can quit whenever I want."
"So why don't you?"
"Because I *don't*."
That should've been the end of that. But let's face it, when you spend half your time stoned out of your mind and the other half so damn hammered that they could get drunk off your blood, it was understandably hard to let the topic rest. Even a b... | It's a dark and somber night at the Heros Headquarters, all the lights are out except for one, a small light come from one of the rooms on the top floor, in there is a man slumped over a desk, surrounded but liquors, drugs and ash from old cigarettes, writting on a journal:
"April 26, 3:42 A.M. :
We were all there... | 2022-12-28T10:15:44 | 2022-12-28T09:04:31 | 35 | 18 |
[WP] You have the lamest super power. But somehow, it's going to save the day. | I come from a very long, renowned line of shapeshifters.
My family has documented our gift far, far back into the reaches of mankind, and it appears that in almost every generation we've had at least a few truly great and influential people. It isn't surprising. Having an ability like this - a super power as the world... | "Aw man! Not again!" My mother sighed. I flinched instinctively, like a puppy waiting to get hit on the nose with a newspaper.
"I'm sorry! You know I can't help it!"
"Well could you at least try to do your business somewhere that's not in this damn house! I'm running low on anti-freeze!"
Ever since I discovered th... | 2014-03-24T08:25:24 | 2014-03-24T08:14:46 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone gets a clock at birth with the countdown untill their deaths, one man's clock only says ERROR | I hear the laughter tinged with jealousy as memories of my friends' words echo throughout my mind. "Look at Mr. Immortal!" they said, while slapping me on the back after some stupid dare I did. My life was a constant high, never having to worry about death. And yet, here I lay now, in a puddle of my own blood.
My cl... | !.ERROR.!
The word had always perplexed Theodore. What was it supposed to mean? Why was he the only one that seemed to not have a predetermined fate? Through the years he had learned to mostly ignore these questions, but they still haunted him when his head hit the pillow every night. It had been hard for Theodore to ... | 2014-09-30T10:29:39 | 2014-09-30T10:22:14 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] Earth is contacted by an intergalactic federation. Planets are welcomed to the federation if they have something to contribute. The rest of the galaxy is interested in what they see as our greatest talent; they want our music... | More a limerick than a poem, I hope that's okay.
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The Federation wanted our music.
Said they wanted the best.
We thought it was a joke on Youtube.
So we gave them Kanye West.
They said it was terrible.
One even died of a fe... | From the Desk of David Lee Roth
December 22, 2014
Intergalactic Federation Council
Arts & Weapons subsection
Sector 0xA, California
Dear aliens,
After holding a vote that truly allowed our world speak to as one, we recently concluded 'American Idol - World Edition'. The entire world was given a toll fre... | 2014-12-22T12:59:47 | 2014-12-22T12:44:14 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone gains an animal that represents their soul when they're 16. Those who have done bad things become monsters or demons. You struggle to figure out why you're a Wendigo.
This is my first WP. I finally decided to share this idea and see what you guys come up with. If you don't know what a Wendigo is, it's ba... | I looked around the gym, watching all the cliques chatter and bitch as we waited our turn in nervous excitement. The door to the Nurse’s Office opened and out stepped pretty Becky Ross. A few girls turned to look at her, angling their heads to see what creature her daemon would be.
“Erm, Helen? Helen Russet? You’re n... | Kahbe sat on the furs that covered the floor of his wigwam, facing a young woman, still mostly a child, whose rosy cheeks were fresh with silent streaks of tears. Between them burned a small, sweet-smelling fire. A wide buffalo-leather strip lay next to the pit; upon it was the charred, unmistakable form of a Wendigo. ... | 2015-03-03T13:50:51 | 2015-03-03T12:04:33 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] Zombie apocalypse has happened. The survivours have survived and are thriving, so much that people can go their entire lives with out seeing a zombie. You see one today. | Michael shuffled in the door, arms laden with bags of food, looking haggard.
"What's wrong, honey?" his wife asked, helping him remove his torn jacket. Michael didn't respond at first. "What happened?" Michael shook his head slowly.
"I saw one of...them, Donna." She screamed and dropped his coat, fumbling to pick it ... | Everyday we had forgotten a little bit more what the world had been like after the zombies. The savagery of killing your fellow man for resources, the brutality of losing whole families to reanimated corpses. It was days like today people missed their jobs in offices and restaurants in favor of working the fields. But ... | 2015-03-14T09:22:31 | 2015-03-14T07:18:53 | 120 | 51 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | I always go running in the park after work. And before work actually. Because that's what you do when you have "Heart Attack" hovering over your head in big green letters. I know that's how I'll die, I just need to make sure that day is as far away as possible. Maybe if I run fast enough, I can outrun death.
I many wa... | The first time Dean noticed the words hanging over someone's head, it was during a hospital stay. There had been black ice on the roadway, that was what the police said. He hadn't been driving for all that long, and no one really blamed him for the accident. It was just one of those things that... happened. Natural... | 2015-03-31T09:41:54 | 2015-03-31T09:27:39 | 76 | 42 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
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Some people keep their Last Words private. I've seen some that weren't intended to be seen, and I've known some religious people who keep them covered up with black CoverTape. They think that God writes your last words, and only your spouse should see them.
I never bothered. Written in a lovely script, it probably w... | Theres a rule on this rock. A rule that seems almost divine i would say if i wasnt an atheist but this rule is neutral to both sides it can be a curse or it can be a blessing. The rule is that when a child is born a cosmic link is formed between the enfant and another. A link that is so simple yet so cimplex to its pri... | 2015-08-08T13:53:15 | 2015-08-08T11:31:06 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Our wedding day was the most amazing day of my life. He was, I believed then, perfect in every way. Truly my soul mate. Tall and handsome, I had first caught his eye in high school during a football game; he the dashing quarterback and me the hot cheerleader. You may think this was cliché but it wasn't like that at... | Theres a rule on this rock. A rule that seems almost divine i would say if i wasnt an atheist but this rule is neutral to both sides it can be a curse or it can be a blessing. The rule is that when a child is born a cosmic link is formed between the enfant and another. A link that is so simple yet so cimplex to its pri... | 2015-08-08T12:02:09 | 2015-08-08T11:31:06 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a society where justice is truly blind. The judge and jurors are not allowed to know the name, gender, race, religion, or appearance of the defendant. | The still of the night was suddenly marred by the thumping of the battering ram on the front door. On the second smack, the door opened with a crash. The neighbor's dog barked. Police swarmed into the house, guns at the ready.
In just a few efficient minutes, two cops dragged a handcuffed young man out of the battered... | Twelve angry people sit in a room.
"The knife isn't that rare." Says Juror 8.
"I don't think that witness could see the scene clearly." Says Juror 4.
"That public defender didn't really care." Says Juror 8.
"No, he didn't." Says Juror 4.
"Let's vote. Just to see where we stand." Says Juror 1. Everyone murmurs ... | 2015-09-06T01:27:55 | 2015-09-05T17:13:21 | 156 | 73 |
[WP] People can buy and sell souls on a stock market. Your soul just became the highest valued soul and you don't know why. | I stood before Wall St., picket sign in my hands and ready to argue with anyone in my way. My sign read 'souls aren't yours to sell'. No one else had come to protest with me even though this whole thing is so fundamentally messed up. Ever since souls became part of the stock market, there's been no serious regulation- ... | I'm not the praying type, but you're Goddamn right I dropped to my knees and started begging the man upstairs for help on this one. How the fuck did this happen? I'm nobody. Nothing. An insignificant speck in the masses. Why anybody would want my soul at all is beyond me. Why it is now the most expensive soul in hist... | 2016-02-05T19:37:53 | 2016-02-05T17:25:19 | 98 | 28 |
[WP] You are The Memory Broker. You copy other people's memories and sell them to people who want to remember things they never did. Your latest client is a ten year-old girl who slides you her piggy bank and begs you to help her grandmother remember her. | She smashes her piggy bank to bits and pieces on the table in front of me. The total is twenty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents.
"Girl, that's only enough for six seconds of memory, no audio, no commentary, only visual. 480p. You sure you want this?"
The grandmother sits on the couch with a blank look on her face, ... | "Please, its all I have".
"It's not enough. Get out."
The man collected his money and exited, and Ben was left alone.
Ben saw being the only person in the world who can copy other peoples memories as a blessing and a curse. He could bring happiness to thousands of people, but it took a toll on his own mind. Other pe... | 2016-03-09T05:59:22 | 2016-03-09T05:45:36 | 143 | 17 |
[WP] Every birthday you get a skill point you can unlock points with or upgrade skills.
The world is yours to make. You unlock skills or upgrade skills using these skill points. | I’ve never been a smart man. Zero points in intelligence will do that to a person. But I’ve always been careful with my points, stingy even. Call it a passive ability. Growing up every year my mother would ask me what I wanted to invest in. And every year I told her I’d wait. I wish she could see me now. Fifty years, ... | Ben's shoulders sagged. "I knew it."
"Don't worry, this, uh... this looks like an honest mistake."
His lower lip quivered. "I'm such a failure."
"Hey," Claire said quietly. "I know people who've been through this before."
That big face of his looked up at his coworker. "Who then?"
"Uhhhh... Well, there's... | 2016-05-02T14:37:55 | 2016-05-02T14:36:13 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] A flat, cliche heroine in a badly written YA dystopian novel slowly comes to realize that she is a flat, cliche heroine in a badly written YA dystopian novel. | The soft murmurs of surprise ripple through the crowd as Miranda Scipio, the Tyrant of Celestae, stands up from her emerald throne. I can see the jewels interwoven in her white hair. They sparkle in the lights as she walks down the stage.
Funny, the gems don’t seem so beautiful now I know that they are as fake as she... | I could only remember the soft skin of John as I stared up at the pulsating ceiling, lost in a sea of thoughts.
Between the memory of our bodies meeting under the endless stars and the crashing thud of Deletioners as they broke down every door of the apartment complex, there wasn't much to think about.
I had lived t... | 2016-08-13T02:26:56 | 2016-08-12T23:29:09 | 30 | 20 |
[WP]You run an RPG pawn shop. You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they've acquired.
Inspired by *The Merchant Adventurer*, by Patrick E. McLean.
EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone that contributed! The awesome Patrick E. McLean (/u/patrickemclean) stopped by, gave a snippet from his book in a comment, and even g... | Jolder grimaced into his cup of tea when he heard the chime of the bell. *Another bleeding customer. Ah, well, the tea is cold anyway. When was the last time I had a hot mug of tea?* He drained the cup in one gulp, shuddering at the temperature, and made his way to the front of the store.
He rounded the corner, an un... | Today, on All-Rings Considered, we hear from a local shop-keep who shares his unique experiences in buying and selling weapons, potions, and everything else imaginable to adventurers. Meet Holdgard McFreedy, a level 60 Gnoll:
It's a tough gig working in retail, much less catering to every lousy adventurer, evil-sorcer... | 2016-10-16T09:13:08 | 2016-10-16T08:46:58 | 91 | 61 |
[WP]You run an RPG pawn shop. You haggle with adventurers who try to sell loot they've acquired.
Inspired by *The Merchant Adventurer*, by Patrick E. McLean.
EDIT: Wow, thanks everyone that contributed! The awesome Patrick E. McLean (/u/patrickemclean) stopped by, gave a snippet from his book in a comment, and even g... | "VRUDASH BACK!!!!"
"Oh for f.... Hello Vrudash. Good to see you aga.. *WIPE YOUR GODS DAMNED BOOTS OFF BEFORE YOU COME IN AT LEAST PLEASE???*"
"WAAT? OH. Oh. Vrudash sorry. Goblin Blood and guts kind of stick to Vrudash boots."
"I know. I know it does. Every damn time you go dungeon raiding with your friends you end... | "Hey Charlie, I've got some new gear for you."
GearHead447 is this junk trader. He's usually bringing pits and pans, cups, spoons, and the occasional block of cheese. He scrapes me dry of any extra coin I might have and leaves me with His trash. Sure, he'll sometimes bring in the occasional piece of nice jewelry but ... | 2016-10-16T11:54:48 | 2016-10-16T11:44:59 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] You win $5000 a week for life off of a scratch off. The lottery commision sends an assassin after you because it's a cheaper payout. | Strange things have been happening to me all day. First, I found a scratch off on the ground. I had won 5000 dollars a week for life. Huh. Figuring it was already cashed, I walked into the store and actually managed to claim it. But that's not even the strangest thing that happened.
Later that afternoon, figuring I'd... | **Don't kill me!**
Quiet, you. Come here, lemme slit your throat.
**Why? Why are you trying to slit my throat, you ski-masked scoundrel?**
Because your lottery payouts need to stop, or sayeth the lottery company.
**You mean the government?**
Yeah.
**So the government sent you to kill me?**
Correct. Why do you so... | 2017-01-12T23:46:31 | 2017-01-12T20:44:32 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You've been kidnapped by a cult, and locked in the basement of their compound for a week. Finally, they drag you out and onto a stage in front of a crowd of screaming fans. Apparently, you're their messiah. | "Okay, this can't be good."
"It's alright, Carl. Maybe 'The Virgin Ritual' consists of you finally getting laid."
"You know, a lot of people would respect my decision to practice abstinence."
"Haha. 'decision'. That's hilarious."
"Shhh.. Do you hear that? Are we close to a river?"
"Oh god, it smells like an underg... | You're probably wondering how I ended up in this position. Well, let's venture back, about three weeks ago.
I always got strange looks from numerous people, because of how my body was shaped. I'm not like most other guys you see - I had transitioned from a woman, but the doctors said that they couldn't do anything to ... | 2017-05-27T11:29:27 | 2017-05-27T10:51:32 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Jesus *FUCK*!" If I could gag, I would. A dead body, torn and ribboned like a frayed cloth doll dipped in scarlet lay discarded in a cheap motel room.
A woman steps out of a shower, her hair up in a towel and no other apparent form of modesty, save for the steam that rises from her skin. I, out of a shame that she di... | For /u/ttough, who requested a more passive, surgical approach. My first prompt!
"You have an artist's hands."
Mira didn't jump in surprise, not anymore. Instead she wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, accidentally smudging a little blood from her glove.
"Perhaps that's what I should have been," she rep... | 2017-09-28T15:20:16 | 2017-06-07T22:37:36 | 153 | 110 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | For /u/ttough, who requested a more passive, surgical approach. My first prompt!
"You have an artist's hands."
Mira didn't jump in surprise, not anymore. Instead she wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, accidentally smudging a little blood from her glove.
"Perhaps that's what I should have been," she rep... | *Cold. So cold.*
She zipped up her hoodie and tucked her hands into her pockets. Her wet sneakers squeaked against the sterile tile as she walked the familiar trek to her mothers room, the biting scent of the hospital filling her nose. She passed the threshold of her mothers room holding her breath, then exhaled as sh... | 2017-06-07T22:37:36 | 2017-06-07T20:59:08 | 110 | 14 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Please stop," Death said exasperatedly, facepalming himself with his skeletal hand as he stood over the thirteenth body this month. "Seriously Patricia, you're making my job harder, not easier, and believe it or not it's actually pretty creepy."
The knife she had used clattered to the floor as she jumped up and down... | The dead white walls seemed to hum with excitement along with her. Tonight is the night. She trekked from room to room, waiting on nightfall. It wasn't required, but it just seemed fitting. The cart she pushed from room to room squeaked quietly along in front her. She seemed not to notice the front right wheels resista... | 2017-06-07T19:02:04 | 2017-06-07T17:27:32 | 95 | 48 |
[WP] In the future, romantic attraction is literal: each person is fitted with an electromagnetic bracelet which, they claim, will pull you to your soulmate. It's the day they turn the magnets on, and you're waiting. | My anxiety was climbing through Cupid’s roof, and I was hoping his arrow wouldn’t shoot me down. At the time, I didn’t know what would happen. For all I knew, I’d be attracted to someone across the globe, and our slowly colliding bracelets would never quite pull us together, hindered by, you know, a massive fucking oce... | The bracelets would be on in 20 minutes, and I was sitting in my kichin with my little sister.
"You know this is fucked up, right?" She said, looking around to find something to punch. She had taken that bracelet off immediately after they given it to her and bried somewhere in the woods.
"Why?" I asked. "You always ... | 2017-07-25T09:28:08 | 2017-07-25T08:51:42 | 48 | 17 |
[WP] You read a comment on reddit so stupid your IQ drops to negative leading to an integer error. Congratulations, now you have 2,147,483,647 IQ. | "has anyone really ever been so far as....."
Hmm.. no, that's not right. A flash of light, a shining moment of brilliance as I perfectly understand the universe. We are a simulation, I see it now, and I know the computer will soon discover the error in my simulated brain and correct the error. I have mere seconds to c... | #*Heureka!*
This was easier than I thought!
I understand. I understand it all. The meaning of life was never that big of a mystery, but I guess every problem looks way easier when solved. This is amazing! Not even a second has passed, and I can still process so much more information hidden inside my brian than I ever... | 2017-07-31T05:54:11 | 2017-07-31T05:29:08 | 63 | 12 |
[WP] You read a comment on reddit so stupid your IQ drops to negative leading to an integer error. Congratulations, now you have 2,147,483,647 IQ. | I didn't really notice, but other people started realizing that my critical thinking skills had drastically increased. I received praise when completing tasks, and people regarded me as one smart cookie.
As I aged, the compliments became fewer, and the lack of recognition started to get to me. I started to seriously d... | #*Heureka!*
This was easier than I thought!
I understand. I understand it all. The meaning of life was never that big of a mystery, but I guess every problem looks way easier when solved. This is amazing! Not even a second has passed, and I can still process so much more information hidden inside my brian than I ever... | 2017-07-31T05:32:23 | 2017-07-31T05:29:08 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] A literal genie – one who cruelly twists someone's wish, based on their exact words – must explain why they granted a child's wish without repercussions, to their superiors. The genie tries to spin the reasoning behind their benevolent actions into a malevolent light.
Edit: All these stories are amazing! | "Thank you for coming in. I know it can be a hassle to travel into headquarters, but we've heard some rumors about a recent job you finished and we need to get to the bottom of this.
Now, before we proceed, I need to disclose a few things. Organizational policy mandates that in any disciplinary action, the employee i... | Jerry knew he should not have granted the wish in the way he did. He could have thrown in a twist afterwards to hide the truth but he wish was already granted and it was too late. Jerry’s power was depleted as well and he would have to return to his realm to grant another. Jerry knew what he did was against the laws se... | 2017-08-17T10:19:56 | 2017-08-17T08:13:49 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The Thief sat in a bar. It wasn’t a nice bar; it wasn’t a *clean* bar; it was dank and shadowy and grim. Just like the Immortal Thief himself.
So long ago, the Thief had stolen immortality and as a curse, Death let him have it. Well, that backfired spectacularly. The Thief enjoyed himself, enormously. He had stol... | "-so in the end, all life is really just the inevitable manifestation of the universe's irrepressible desire to kill itself" the immortal explained, still fiddling under their desk. "Life is not rare, not a miracle; We are entropy, we exist to consume more energy than we give back, and then we die. It's actually very s... | 2017-12-01T11:49:56 | 2017-11-30T10:48:02 | 2,040 | 46 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The room gets colder, and my papers flutter to the floor. I know he is behind me without turning around. "Hey, Death!" I say, pasting a huge smile on my face, "Has it really been 5,000 years already?"
The faceless demon nods slowly as I continue. "Man, what is this, the 10th time you've visited me? Don't worry, I didn... | "I'm as surprised as you are."
Death looked up at me with those beady little eyes, not so different from the stuffed animal she held in her arms. The cup of hemlock wavered in her grasp as she realized she was going back empty handed. Again.
I felt a little sad for her, but she'd really brought it on herself. I didn'... | 2017-11-29T19:01:23 | 2017-11-28T14:34:33 | 539 | 17 |
[WP] In your meth class, while your teacher is busy explaining the correct way to shoot up, your buddy leans over with a calculator and asks you, "hey, man. Do you wanna try some math?" | "Shhh, keep your voice down!" I whispered, as the girl beside me shot us a dirty look while she slapped her forearm, trying to locate a vein. My buddy leaned his head in closer.
"What? My brother and his friends were doing it the other night and they let me try a little. Man, it was so invigorating!"
"That shit's fo... | Meth class is so boring! I understand the class is supposed to be the introduction into meth, to learn about the effects of Meth and all that, but this is insane. The teacher has a visual diagram of the needle naming the parts and the safe dosage against the dangerous dosage. My dad does meth 4 times a day, 3 of them o... | 2017-12-14T13:29:30 | 2017-12-14T13:19:46 | 391 | 97 |
[WP] You fail to realize that your favorite restaurant is actually a front. One day you decide to try that one weird entree that you keep overhearing others order. | I'd always thought the curious clientele of this curious pub were a very peculiar bunch. The sort of people who dressed funny, talked funny and surely held no corporate jobs. They were probably artists, I told myself, circus performers, independent bookstore owners, maybe librarians. The sort of people with fantastical... | "Jack, I'll have the pub burger extra rare, no bacon. I'm on a diet."
"Yes sir" Replies the waitress. I believe her name is Elizabeth. She is always my favourite server. I found O'Flannigan's Pub when I first moved to the city and it’s been my local watering hole and eatery since I first ate here five years ago. I al... | 2018-03-30T09:51:19 | 2018-03-30T09:08:30 | 129 | 30 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | It was not often that I looked upon the mortal realm. Living souls on my world were growing ever-abundant, and for each new life, the promise of new death came as well. It was a steady stream of power that I took for granted, certainly enough to keep me satisfied. My power grew each century as the human population stag... | A shadow hung over Hope as she wandered through the rubble and ruins of what remained of human civilization. With every step she made, Death followed closely, watching her with his never-blinking twin pits of darkness.
Hope shivered, and for a moment, the cold breeze that had slipped down her neck felt... *alive.*
D... | 2018-05-04T12:46:53 | 2018-05-04T11:26:45 | 140 | 44 |
[WP] They had only power enough to lock the great horror for 2000 years, so that we could find a way to destroy it. Instead we forgot about it. 2000 years are now over. | Soren watched rock shear open as the earthquake shook the ground underneath him. The pale brown stone tore open, booming as the fragments rolled down the mountain side. The clatter of rocks continued for several moments after the quake itself stilled, and when he looked up a cave now peered out from the mountain.
Curi... | To our credit, how could we have destroyed something that was locked away? Attacking it would merely give it strength to escape. We had no way of testing its capabilities.
It was much easier to defeat the great horror back then, as the ancient scrolls depicted. It took physical form. The form of a dark warlord, a conq... | 2018-08-03T10:55:57 | 2018-08-03T07:15:25 | 61 | 10 |
[WP] You are the watcher of the sun, you take care of it. But one day you decide to end it, to kill the sun. You are met by the god of the light, who tries to stop you. "Kevin, Kevin, watch the light dude, watch the light." | Kevin: "God?"
The echoing voice becomes sharper as if approaching closer.
Voice: "Nah just me, Phil. I'm here for the next shift."
Kevin: "Ah well thank God anyway, I was about to just up and leave. These planets just keep spinning and revolving with no action at all. Every now and then the third one seems to spit u... | I've seen it for eons and I will see it for eons. This extremely hot orb that simply moves on and on, I've seen civilizations rise to challenge it and harness it and I've seen them fail. I've seen stray planet sized asteroids crash into it only to be eaten. I've seen galaxies mix and I've seen neighbors suns collapse b... | 2019-01-28T16:54:10 | 2019-01-28T15:44:37 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] You are the watcher of the sun, you take care of it. But one day you decide to end it, to kill the sun. You are met by the god of the light, who tries to stop you. "Kevin, Kevin, watch the light dude, watch the light." | Kevin: "God?"
The echoing voice becomes sharper as if approaching closer.
Voice: "Nah just me, Phil. I'm here for the next shift."
Kevin: "Ah well thank God anyway, I was about to just up and leave. These planets just keep spinning and revolving with no action at all. Every now and then the third one seems to spit u... | Sunwatcher was weary. For twenty three moons he’d watch the sun rise and set. He’d awake just moments before it tore through night’s remnants, and he’d rest his head moments just before it plunged into darkness. He knew his assignment was important. His duty was ensure the sun’s continued existence, and proudly he perf... | 2019-01-28T16:54:10 | 2019-01-28T16:27:13 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] You are a contestant in a million dollar challenge, 1 year in a room with no human contact. After a year you watch as the timer mounted to the wall flips from 000:00:00:00 to -000:00:00:01 and keep counting down but no one shows up to let you out and receive your prize. | The clock continued to move. One hour passed and then another. Eventually the clock showed that 12 hours had passed. I wondered to myself are they waiting for primetime to let me out? It dawned on me that they wanted the largest possible audience to see me exit from my year long isolation. When one day passed and then ... | A new show, full of promise and intrigue in these hard times. Stay alone for a full year, win a million dollars! There was this space they had prepared for the contestants in which there was canned food inside and enough water to last you an entire year. That space was huge, let alone the actual space you had to live i... | 2019-07-03T04:40:53 | 2019-07-03T02:46:19 | 102 | 29 |
[WP] Hundreds of years ago an eccentric sorcerer turned all mythical creatures into humans to try and prevent them from being hunted to extinction. Now that the spell is starting to wear off, the descendants of the original beasts are slowly beginning to morph back into their true forms. | We all laughed at the first wave of news about it, as it was front page of the National Inquirer. Of course bat boy was ridiculous fake news.
Until it wasn't.
On live television, a press reporter literally lost his head. After a moment of stunned silence, he picked it back up and put it back on his shoulders, as stu... | It took me five days to track this beautiful beast down, and there it stands, square in my sights. The last rhino was supposedly dead years ago but here stands one, beautiful though scarred on its back as if wings had formerly sprouted from there. Or was it marked? Tattooed? It’s smaller than a normal rhino, almost ... | 2019-10-09T12:19:40 | 2019-10-09T11:48:05 | 57 | 19 |
[WP] When your grandmother died, the inheritance was divided between you and your two siblings. One got all the money; the other all the property and possessions. All you got was a packet of gardening seeds. | I have two siblings. Haven't seen them in a long time. We don't get along. Not since we where little, not since our grandmother died. All those years ago. I loved her, as did they. She was kind, sweet, had a wonderful garden, baked the best cookies, and most of all was always there for us.
She died suddenly in her sle... | *A true story narrated by Wesley Bingham Gerhardt*
Gran was one of those old mysterious types and would probably have been condemned a witch in the early eighteenth century. She owned a large estate in some German wald where she spent the remainder of her days. I shouldn't say this, but I suppose I was her favorite gr... | 2020-03-31T07:47:51 | 2020-03-31T07:19:24 | 143 | 29 |
[WP] You just gave birth, your son has a colored hair like none before, the doctor declares that your son has been infected with a syndrome called the "Protagonist". Your lifespan has now been reduced to mere days. | After the din of the previous four hours, my wife laboring in agony with the birth of our firstborn, the silence of the doctor as he cleaned and wrapped our child was unnerving, but not as unnerving as the sickly green hair sprouting out of the boy's, *my boy's*, sickly green head.
"Is..." I struggled for words, "Is e... | My fingertips were as blue as my son's face as he emerged from behind my wife's gown. I had long lost the feeling in all of my hand and was in a trance of anticipation and anxiety. Seeing his bloodied little face wailing into the void was surreal. The moment had finally come. I had been through 10 months of planning,... | 2020-04-28T05:56:54 | 2020-04-28T05:36:29 | 423 | 110 |
[WP] You are the god of Nothing. Mercy on the fools who underestimate the title. |
#Think Nothing of the Fool
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You've probably never heard of me, but I am the God of Nothing. Of the the ones who come across me, the common ask what the title means, the wise respect the title... But the fools? Let me tell a story, a warning of times gone by before you decide act. The story of having nothing.
&am... | In between all things, there is nothing.
Nothing surrounds. It encompasses. It suffocates.
I suppose I admire my brethren in their efforts to fashion something from nothing. The effort does not upset me. I enjoy seeing them fritter about. Squabbling from their very inception, finding their meaning only in the battl... | 2020-12-24T12:36:19 | 2020-12-24T12:29:05 | 135 | 93 |
[WP] Your power slows time the more you're stressed. Great for deadlines, or saving someone in danger. But you think you're having a heart attack... | Imagine dying in a room full of people where nobody can hear you scream. Rate of time dilation was a factor of stress for Jake Curran, that much had always been true, but never quite like this. He had knocked 25% off the clock when writing his dissertation, 33% when fighting his greatest rival, and 50% when he’d propos... | I feel my heart inside my chest, screaming out its actions as they happen.
"Thump. Thump. Thump." I can hear in its voice that it wants to be louder.
It's desperate to be faster, stronger, heard. But it doesn't control my power.
I feel my pulse running through my veins. It chases a path into my arm, and the sen... | 2021-01-21T07:37:35 | 2021-01-21T07:26:45 | 935 | 72 |
[WP] “Your supply routes are blockaded, your transports are destroyed. You will surrender, human, or you will starve.” “Bold words from someone who tastes good with ketchup.” | [Poem]
In my home village
Which I wouldn't dare leave
There wasn't much food left
And all were bereaved
The guards killed most of us
And then trapped the rest
I try to retain my religion
This is a hidden blessing or a test
I had no where to go
Nothing I was willing to give
I'll have one more adrenaline ru... | "Your supply routes are blockaded, your transports are destroyed. You will surrender, human, or you will starve.” “Bold words from someone who tastes good with ketchup.”
Joe could see Ken was giving up. He couldn't even close his hands around the grips of the Camprey rifle. If they didn't get to Raphael he was g... | 2021-03-25T13:20:49 | 2021-03-25T12:11:30 | 51 | 35 |
[WP] "When entering the academy students often bring their pets. Most being the typical miniature dragon, gryphon, sabertooth, even the occasional golem. However you decided to bring this...this thing. I'm afraid the headmaster will need to hear of this." | "Are you kidding me!? Leonard's not a 'thing', he's my puppy!" Rusty shouted, holding the tiny corgi puppy up to the Deputy Headmistress's face. Deputy Headmistress Stroude let out an uncharacteristic shriek and jumped back.
"GET THAT FILTHY LITTLE DEMON AWAY FROM ME!" she screeched.
"How dare you say something like ... | "W-w-w-what's that?!"
The professor in charge of taking care of the students housing asked me.
"My pet."
I said, with a "duuh" tone, while patting little Bru-Bru, the ball of darkness.
"The....The Headmaster will need to decide about this, please head towards his office, I already notified him, through the comm... | 2021-08-02T09:56:00 | 2021-08-02T06:39:11 | 706 | 243 |
[WP]"You're right, we are peaceful." He said, slowly standing up and lifting an axe that dwarfed him in size. "For you're only 'peaceful' if you're capable of great violence. Otherwise, the word is 'Harmless'." | # Soulmage
**"I say the elves are the most peaceful species,"** Meloai grated out as she clambered down the mountain. Our ragtag little adventuring party wasn't at its best right now, but we could still pass the time through banter.
Lucet scoffed, hammering a rope into a cliff face and casting it down with ease. "An ... | The oceans were still. There was no wind to carry them, no currents to guide them.
“Nana. I’m scared,” the child said. “Where are we going?”
They were on a relatively small boat, overcrowded with other refugees. The grandmother held the child close to her, she’d been scared herself. So scared that she couldn’t even ... | 2022-06-11T17:18:15 | 2022-06-11T17:17:52 | 367 | 149 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | “Sir, look, you’re a rockstar,” the recruiter started. “No, I’m The Technician,” I interrupted. This guy had been calling me for months now, and this was the second time this week. It’s only Monday.
“Your skills are unique, even amongst all of the superpowers out there, yours are unique. Tenor Nullifio can’t disable y... | "Dave. Let's talk."
"I already told you, I'm not interested."
He was persistent. "You are incapable of dying, Dave. You literally have no risk."
"No. No. That is not true. I am incapable of dying, Rami. I am not incapable of hurting. My coffee was too hot. It burned my tongue. Right here. It hurt. It hurt right here... | 2022-07-31T14:08:55 | 2022-07-31T12:20:45 | 576 | 212 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | Tim landed in a chair in the conference room, the breath leaving him in a sigh. "We're being audited." He said, pulling a hand across his face. He met my eyes and I saw the pain there. I knew what it meant, and I felt my stomach turn to ice.
I swallowed, taking a moment to digest this before answering. "The shop is fi... | As I head out to the truck, I check the work order one more time. Silver Porche, keys locked inside. Parking lot at 5th and Maple. Something about this feels...wrong, but it's the job.
As I pull into the parking lot, I see the Porche. Not that it's hard to spot. It's the only car in the lot, which makes sense, conside... | 2022-07-31T19:45:06 | 2022-07-31T16:21:13 | 34 | 24 |
[WP] Super powers are common, but super heroes are rare. It turns out most people don't actually want to face death or dismemberment on a daily basis, including you. You enjoy the 9-5 and having a 401k, but my god that government recruiter won't take no for an answer. | My job pays me like no other. And God I'm not going to give it up. Especially not to become some sort of superhero. I'm all ready making 200k as a senior programmer, and the 401k is just the cherry on top. I'm even due for a raise of 20k by the end of the year. And yet, the recruiters are the biggest pain in my fucking... | "Come on, Ryan, you can do anything you want but you have a desk job? Why not come with us? I can double your salary!," Mr. White says on the other side of the door for the second time today. I groan, pushing my back against the door in an attempt to ignore him.
"Fuck off, Mr. White. I would rather die than join your h... | 2022-07-31T22:10:28 | 2022-07-31T17:55:32 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Aliens aren't surprised when most of humanity is considered a 'level 1 threat', the lowest possible. although they are shocked when they scan a singular human and find that they are a 'level 10 threat', the highest there is. | For a moment the scan of this planet, Terra seemed normal, boring even. Sever billions of level one threats, a decent number of twos, a rare three here and there and a few pockets containing some higher level threats. Nothing beyond a seven though. However, while checking the last of these pockets a shocking result app... | “Why the artifice around the creature’s expiration? Don’t they expire on a regular basis?”
“Sir, it’s quite common on their planet, they call it, ‘Faking your own death.’ And we…well, this specimen is rather unusual…”
The High Admiral exuded irritation. “Explain.”
The functionary—actually he was an Administrator b... | 2022-08-28T02:11:28 | 2022-08-28T02:05:46 | 114 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity spread into the stars. They're generally quite kind and helpful and treat all worlds as important. But occasionally they'll ignore uniquely made human ships. When asked about it, most humans just say "The powerful abandoned Earth after nearly killing us. Now we're returning the favor" | The beeping of the radar made me spin around in the hoverchair, the familiar sound informing our crew of the presence of another spaceship in our system, and importantly, one which was in distress. As I was on duty, I began to scan through the system-wide array of scanners and detectors to find a visual footprint of th... | My mandibles clicked together in audible irritation as I raised my lower 2 hands to my head. "Lights off." I click in the guttural tongue of English.
When the humans had first made the space trip, they were unhelpful, skittish, glancing over their shoulders with every noise. A jittery and jumbled explanation led to a ... | 2022-11-16T01:22:28 | 2022-11-16T00:55:57 | 112 | 37 |
[WP] Write a story from the perspective of a hero, but make the reader hate them in the end, or vice-versa.
This prompt has been done before, but I thought with the new influx of people on the subreddit it might be fun to do it again.
So just write a story, either with a hero who is revealed to be a villain or a vill... | I still remember the time when we first opened the lab. Back when we had hope, when success was still possible. You should have seen it. A bunch of young, nerdy and enthusiastic scientists in a room filled with the latest and greatest equipment; we were about as happy as a kid in a sweet store.
That was forty years ag... | "I wanted to thank you all for your messages of love and compassion. Your thoughtful cards, and the flowers you see before you. I know Mark would have been touched by how many of you are here for him today, and for that I am truly moved.
There were so many things that I wanted to say to Mark before he left. I know no... | 2013-08-17T14:36:53 | 2013-08-17T13:50:07 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Dr Frankenstein enters a body building competition, but when he arrives he realizes that he strongly misunderstood the objective | Victor flexed. He rippled. Under the hard spotlights the contours of his oiled body gleamed. He was tanned, cut, a hardbody, sculpted perfection and he hadn't picked up a syringe or a scalpel even once.
He struck a pose, isolating another muscle group, and there was an outburst from the front row as a respected pat... | It was perfect. All the nights spent digging up graves, all the frantic escapes from the biting torches and pointed pitchforks of the mob... They all paid off tonight.
Leading the grotesque figure by a chain fastened around his neck, the Doctor made his way to Town Square, a slight skip in his step as he anticipated t... | 2014-07-01T08:35:34 | 2014-07-01T07:50:14 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] Hit me with every cliche you got
...but make it interesting. I especially welcome every tired cliche, and just things that are false but widely used (such as using 10 % of your brain)
They say you need to do bad writing to do good. So, let me help you get out the bad.
Edit: Wow, these are all so beautifully terr... | Moving to a new city is HARD! Making new friends is even HARDER! My name is Sally, just a regular old girl with nothing special about her, nothing what so ever.. at first. I moved with my hard, workaholic yet caring mother and annoying little brother to a new town for my mom's new job. I never knew my dad though. My mo... | New York City was nothing like Anniston, Alabama in all the worst ways. My high school sweetheart-turned-husband Dakota and I took a home baked cherry pie to the family in the apartment next door to ours, only to be shocked by the sheer shamelessness of the woman who lived there. She answered the door in a bustier and ... | 2014-07-09T22:20:40 | 2014-07-09T20:45:20 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Lek'tar strong Kholan warrior. Strongest of Lekh clan. Conquer twelve planets in nebula of birth with horns, teeth, and blade. Have one hundred seventy families with twenty species, three hundred children, all strong warriors. But Lek'tar strongest.
Lek'tar forty-fifth family on Tsina say Lek'tar must prove strongest ... | It's been 1720 days since they arrived. I don't think they were expecting the resistance they would encounter when they first dropped out of the sky that otherwise normal May morning, but they are a resourceful bunch. Too resourceful. All they have on us is numbers, and sometimes, that's all the resources you need.
W... | 2014-10-17T11:04:27 | 2014-10-17T10:04:02 | 46 | 29 |
[WP] tell me a story where the first line and last line are the same but have entirely different meanings.
I LOVE the creativity this sub shows
Edit: I'd just like to say that the replies I have gotten so far remind me of why I love this sub. I'm a lurker and rarely post prompts, but I loved this idea, and seeing the... | The silence created by the need to repeat his question to me caused my partner to question the entire ceremony, but when I finally regained control of myself and thought about the past... my answer hadn’t changed in the slightest.
“I do.”
The rest of the wedding went on how everyone had expected it to. My new wife an... | It was the first day of our lives together. We met when we were in high school and Stacey was the most beautiful girl in the world. I was a bit nervous, but we quickly became friends. Weeks passed and she began seeing me as more of a friend than a prospective boyfriend. I was devastated, but what could I do? She would ... | 2015-04-28T10:37:38 | 2015-04-28T10:03:35 | 68 | 30 |
[WP] Pranksters from various subreddits hack into President Obama's teleprompter during the State of the Union Address. This, being Obama's last year in office, just decides to go with it. | "Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:
We are fifteen years into this new century. Fifteen years that dawned with terror touching our shores; that unfolded with a new generation fighting two long and costly wars; that saw a vicious recession spread across our nation and the world. ... | "Alright mutha fuckas stop, collaborate and listen, Obama is back BEEEAAATTTCHES!" *Pulls out a joint and lights that shit* *Inhaling* "I know yall think I'm punk ass," *Passes that shit to his left* Looking at Michelle, "But you know...YOU KNOW! I be tearing dat ass UP!"
"You know I have been thinking, yeah I ha... | 2015-04-30T07:43:09 | 2015-04-30T05:34:16 | 77 | 16 |
[WP] Two friends press random buttons in an elevator before they leave as a joke, upon pressing 20 numbers the doors shut and they hear "Code accepted." | Both boys froze in terror. A red light from the panel began to flash, and a soft siren began to bellow.
"Holy shit!" cried Derrick, slowly stepping back into the rear of the elevator. "What...holy shit!"
Jahlil was taking deep breaths, eyes focused on the panel. If this was prompted by pressing buttons, maybe it coul... | *Click*
"Bro," he sighed.
"What?" queried Dave, a sly smile on his face.
*CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK*
"Dude, why do you *ALWAYS* have to be *THAT GUY*?"
*CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK*
"Cus, its funny. *CLICK* Besides, who cares? Its a fuckin elevator. There are two others that ... | 2015-08-14T11:37:23 | 2015-08-14T11:24:48 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] A curiosity shop opens up where you can rent superpowers, magical abilities, mystical artifacts, and mad science technology. The catch? Payments are made with abstract concepts. Life, memories, etc. | It was relegated to a creaky shelf in the very corner at the back of the room. A golden telescope, no larger than the cardboard roll inside paper towels. Most patrons had passed it over in exchange for the flashier powers and artifacts. Flight, immortality, attractiveness... you name it.
"A very special object," Apoll... | The bottle holding the swirling silver mist was on sale. One never knew what the shopkeeper demanded, but it would be worth it. A plaque propped up near the jar advertised its contents.
***Be the prophet of your age! Guaranteed seer abilities: rent for one year! Accurate to the finest details.***
I grabbed it, huggin... | 2015-09-25T11:02:10 | 2015-09-25T10:24:49 | 1,242 | 222 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | There I was, my friends, in the marble courtroom, on a chair surrounded on all sides by heavy stone platforms. The room was nearly empty, but it was filling up with people and animals, and it must have been five minutes after I sat down that the trial started.
I'd heard the details of this process in the waiting room ... | "Hello PT."
There was a faint red glow surrounding me as I opened my eyes, blurry at first, the room I was in came in to focus. If you could call it a room; it became apparent that it was more of a large cavern than anything. As I looked around I saw thousands of animals, some perched on jagged cliff outcrops, others... | 2016-03-24T15:18:13 | 2016-03-24T13:50:00 | 65 | 36 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. |
"Crap. So... Hell. That sucks. Guess I'm in line or something, I always imagined there would be someone to tell you what horrible fate awaits you in Hell, but this place is....boring. Buncha rocks, and sulphur smell, but not much really happening."
Just then a door appeared in the middle of the room and opened. Out w... | Alexander came into the 3rd floor apartment with a stutter, his glasses and awkward unshaven appearance left him unappealing. When my roommate, Casey, had told me he was bringing his friend over and that he was a little strange, he wasn't exaggerating. Casey had forgotten to mention a very important detail to Alex. The... | 2016-03-24T14:20:04 | 2016-03-24T12:50:08 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] Pain is beauty. The more pain somebody has experienced in their life the more physically attractive they are. | The more desperately I tried to cease the tears, the harder they streamed down. I screamed in my head for it to stop, not only for the pain to end, but for what I knew the after effect would be. Everyone knew when bad things happened to you. It was humiliating to walk the halls of my school and have the girls snicker a... | The suicides were always so gorgeous.
A stunning blue-eyed blonde, her incredible figure slumped lifeless in her bathtub. Wrists rivers of red.
A lean, tan-skinned man's body crumpled in a contorted, unnatural position, the right hand still gripping the pistol. We all knew how handsome his face must have been.
A man... | 2016-06-19T16:59:30 | 2016-06-19T15:42:40 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] Reverse Attack on Titan! Humanity has been plagued / rather annoyed by tiny humanoids flying around with swords. You're about to have your first encounter with them | "Oh, it's horrible, horrible!" Said my mother from the porch as the man walked up from the white van in the driveway, with "Al's Extermination" painted on the side.
"I'm just going to need you to calm down, Ma'am," he said, pulling three necklaces from his bag, "But before we begin, I'm going to need you to put one o... | I was making my way through the forest, back to the village. I often like to walk through the woods on sunny days like these. My father, along with the rest of the elders in our village Warn us of the dangers of going near the edge of the forest. They never tell us why, exactly, just that there are dangers to be avoide... | 2016-10-09T09:27:18 | 2016-10-09T09:05:31 | 38 | 27 |
[WP] You wake up on exact date of your 5th birth date in your 5 year old body, with your current memory. | I shifted in the scratchy sheets waking up as I heard my mother shouting from outside the bedroom door for me to wake up. I turned over, trying to ignore it and get back to sleep. I had worked a double last night, plus it was my birthday. Why couldn't she just give me a break today...
Suddenly the cloud of sleep flew... | It was just another day, I woke up and realized that I missed the alarm to go to school.
I shot out of bed to get ready, and I immediately knew that something was wrong. My room was completely different. My walls were bright pink and I had my old Hannah Montana bed sheets I used to use when I was a young girl.
I t... | 2017-03-11T22:11:16 | 2017-03-11T21:02:27 | 1,227 | 82 |
[WP] A few selected minds are gifted with a dream about the "Library of all Books". In only one night, they experience a full year of reading and learning. You are one of them, but instead of once in a lifetime, you wake up in this f*cking library every single night. Today is your 9th birthday. | The ramblings of a madwoman, pure and simple. The book starts off well enough but it soon devolves into an incoherent mess of unused characters and frayed plot lines. At one point, the main character literally dissolves into the book itself and only comes back to make zany one liners at seemingly random points in oth... | According to the calendar on the wall, I'll be nine tomorrow. For as long as I can remember, I've always been here, in the library. Reading books of poetry, philosophy, math, and science. When I first woke up, there were other, kids, here with me. We were all reading and asking each other questions. But they are a... | 2017-05-02T08:44:37 | 2017-05-02T08:38:23 | 43 | 30 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Bryce Morrison thought he had it all: a loving wife, a charming son, and a satisfying job. Yet there was something that nagged at him - a constant feeling that he wasn't good enough.
On The Day of the Mugs, his suspicions appeared to be confirmed. "#598,432 Dad." The jarring bold words remained seared in his memory th... | > #489,231,337
Robert Johnson wasn't a very good dad. He'd drink, and he'd smoke, and when he was tired he would grumble at his kids. He didn't play catch. He didn't play video games. He mostly sat around and got fat after working at the mill. His wife, Leslie, would ask him to mow the lawn and he'd yell at her. Hi... | 2021-11-17T12:05:14 | 2017-06-11T09:22:28 | 4,068 | 228 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Word had quickly spread through the country about the bizarre mug changes. A whole host of dads were waking up to vindication or disappointment as the numbers of their mugs changed from #1 to some indiscriminately high number. Those who placed in the low hundred thousands were those few dads who had always seemed stabl... | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | 2021-12-03T09:27:18 | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 828 | 31 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Startled awake by a hand on his throat, Jamie flinched hard, the thumb digging in deeper.
"Is this some sick fucking joke, Jamie"!" Bill roared, squeezing a little tighter. "Answer me, you little shit!"
Opening his eyes to slits, Jamie took a raspy breath. As his eyes fell upon the mug sloshing whiskey all over his b... | She didn't understand this change in her father. She was accustomed to him focusing more on his work than on her. Frankly, she couldn't remember the last time he picked her up from school at all and now he had shown everyday this week. And to top it off, there he was, sitting in the front row of her play.
You see, Car... | 2017-06-11T08:52:12 | 2017-06-11T08:30:57 | 187 | 113 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | The Pope knelt inside the cool, grey dark of the nave. He was a man with a simple, strong faith and he felt both troubled and blessed this morning. God had come, and He had both measured and spoken.
A genuinely supernatural event.
But the act had felt both capricious and strange. God had used the medium of #1 Dad m... | It had been an incredibly difficult few years since Michael's wife died. The sudden loss caused a mental breakdown which took months to recover from. He had to sell the house, lost his job. But at least now he was trying. He could see the world again.
Michael took up a third job for a little extra money, a cleaner. W... | 2022-02-18T23:24:10 | 2017-06-11T12:25:29 | 78 | 11 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 70 | 31 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | Nate had sort of backed himself into a corner. Having been on as many dates with Amaya as he had, the walls were closing in on him. He had to pretend not to know all her answers to common first date questions (2 siblings, parents divorced when she was little, works in accounting), and if he ever misstepped, the game wa... | There was something about her stare that caught me. It wasn't the green of her irises nor the deep black of her neverending lashes. It was the curvature underneath her eyes every time she smiled, and the glint in her pupils shining like a shooting star in a cold winter night.
I had never witnessed beauty in such purit... | 2022-08-04T05:56:26 | 2018-02-14T07:36:01 | 930 | 212 |
[WP] The heroes failed. The villain now rules the world with an iron fist, and...actually, things have never been better. | As I shut the door, I reached down to lock it, but stopped, chuckling to myself. All this time and I still have that instinct, I suppose. But we don't need locks now. They don't even manufacture locks anymore. I walked down the steps, turning away from my car at the last moment. I'll get some fresh air.
This us... | The three brave heroes walked over cobblestone paths, the rain beating down heavily upon the armor they carried on their backs. Vael knew these streets-years ago, he had been stationed here by the Order of the Shining Star, back when he was but a squire. His master, Sir Evantus, had sent him away when he realized the d... | 2018-07-25T06:20:11 | 2018-07-25T06:17:22 | 55 | 11 |
[WP] The lone survivor of an Arctic exploration, you were captured generations ago by a band of tiny warriors. They’ve placed you under an enchantment to do their bidding; heading out into the world once each year as their unwilling emissary. They call you “slave,” or in their tongue, “Santa.” | Let's just pretend Neil Gaiman wrote this today after seeing this prompt, because it's way too fitting...
Nicholas Was…
...older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.
The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conduc... | "Santa bunny ghost turkey!" ordered the leadiny, Easter.
"Oh ho ho" I replied, in their tongue "As you command." I wasn't really worried. Every year I have to deliver all around the world the toys they make. They give me a fast rocket - they made it in the shape of a sleigh and some reindeer in order to fool the p... | 2018-12-01T11:17:49 | 2018-12-01T08:36:16 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] The multiverse is real. It's election day November 7th, 2180. After failed attempts to defeat the volatile two-party system, a new kind of voting booth has been implemented. When you cast your vote on election day, you are then teleported to the alternate universe where your candidate won. | You can vote for anyone. Anything. The future is an infinitely wound ball of yarn.
You've never really boight into this whole voting thing so every year after the election you get transported into the majority and voila. Status quo. Always been this way. Until you met her. You loved her and she died.
You have no di... | My companion AI is quite annoying.
*"Are you really sure?"*
"**YES**, this is what I wanted for so long. I'm tired of being told I'm on the wrong side of the argument by my friends and family. I can make my own choices, I'm a 110 year old adult. I want this."
*"But while I cannot predict the future, the odds of this... | 2019-03-26T07:00:49 | 2019-03-25T17:33:33 | 127 | 32 |
[WP] You are reincarnated 10,000 years into the future. You come across an ancient artifact on display in the Museum of History, where you work. Little is known about it, not even where it was uncovered. Upon touching it, you realize it was yours. | “Finally, the Museum of History,” he said. “Not like there’s a couple thousand,” he added under his breath.
The wastefulness of the 23rd century had left behind lots of junk, as did the 27th and 28th. All had a strange obsession with emulating previous centuries, sort of like a come-back of the Romans (in some cases).... | My right hand gravitated towards case containing the human skull in front of me. It was so familiar... and yet I couldn't place it.
"Damn, that's fancy. You know when it was from?" I blurted out. There was a plaque on the pedestal displaying the exhibit, but no year was given.
The curator plucked at his beard for a... | 2019-09-23T19:52:09 | 2019-09-23T19:33:30 | 35 | 13 |
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