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[WP] Following death, you woke up in a classroom, to take the R.A.T.s (Reincarnation Aptitude Tests). After a short period in the Afterlife, you get your scores... which were perfect, despite just guessing. You get to be reincarnated as a god, one of the first in a couple of millennia. | When he told me I had a perfect score, I wasn"t really shocked. I always scored well on tests, it was real life I sucked at. That is why I was dead. "Jump," my wife yelled encouragingly. So i jumped. First time in decades that i had tried somthing new.
Bet it was the first time in decades that someone died from... | When I woke, all memory from before momentarily blank and gone, my forehead bumped on my desk. The sound seemed to have been quite the commotion, for the people around me threw me glances that meant it all, that I had startled them at an important time. But I did not have a single idea where I was, nor what was on my d... | 2019-07-22T13:34:52 | 2019-07-22T07:29:51 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Being a villain has always been underappreciated work. You employee 100s of people, have health and retirement benefits provided. Just once you'd like a "thank you" note or "number 1 boss" mug. Today is your birthday, and nobody remembered but the hero. | **KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK**
Someone's knocking on the door. Who could be knocking on the door at this hour? I had no plans prepared. Maybe my workers finally started to appreciate what I've done for them? No, that would mean they'd paid attention. 10 years of underground operations, and not one of them praised my work plan,... | \[Poem\] - Villain's Haiku
I burned down the town.
Three years ago to the day;
the city saw fire.
​
I hear the kids scream.
I laugh as they run, gray smoke
filling up their lungs.
​
My plan had gone just
as I had intended.
The people cower.
​
"What's next?" They wonder,
no... | 2019-08-30T00:27:54 | 2019-08-30T00:27:34 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] "Welcome. You're dead. Congrats. Door to Heaven's on the left. Door to Hell is on the right. Go ahead and pick, but just know that the decision is final." The figure sitting at the desk spoke, stifling a yawn and not looking up from their book. | I immediately turned to the left. If I'm given a choice, it's gonna be Heaven every time, right?
But as I thought about it some more, I hesitated. Both doors looked identical. They weren't even labeled. I pressed the side of my head against the Heaven door to see if I could hear anything from the other end. Nothing. N... | “But...which do I choose...?” I asked, not realizing that this is what I would find on the other side.
“Either. That’s why I gave you the option when you got here.” Said the figure at the desk, pearly annoyed that’s I hadn’t already chosen.
I stood for a moment. *It should be obvious, shouldn’t it?* However, no one ... | 2019-10-03T17:17:29 | 2019-10-03T16:20:11 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] 62 years ago, a manhole cover became the fastest man-made object after being launched by a nuclear blast. This manhole cover was the first contact with humanity an alien race had, after it “skillfully” took out their leader with a headshot. | Ariazor stood before the Conclave, her segmented eyes scintillating in the low light as she watched the diplomats take their places, walking, fluttering, slithering, or even teleporting, as their various physiologies demanded. When, at long last, the room was silent, she began.
"Esteemed Representatives," she said, in... | "It appears to be some sort of alloy." The grey figure announced. Carefully it stepped over a mass of blackened blood and fragments of what was once it's leader's head.
"Don't touch it!" Another grey figure squealed, "We must wait to analyze this device only after S'kroal is cleaned and buried properly."
Kar'rac, th... | 2019-11-26T10:32:11 | 2019-11-26T10:18:52 | 326 | 124 |
[WP] You are a genie, and after thousands of years of existence, you have grown extremely bored. To combat this boredom, you give all 7 billion people on Earth three wishes - all at once. You don’t tell any of the humans that they have any wishes at all. | When I wake up I feel a little stiff due to a cold I'm recovering from. I really wish that weren't the case, but by the time I get to the kitchen my limbs have loosened up a little. No big deal. As I start some coffee I wish forlornly that I hadn't eaten the last yogurt the previous night. My stomach grumbles as if in ... | Long ago, when the Earth was resplendent with green verdure and crystal seas, all animals great and small lived under the rule of the Sky King Genis. Humans were still a smattering of scattered tribes, and though they were a crafty creature, oftentimes they not only suffered at the fangs of more powerful beasts but als... | 2020-03-14T07:21:48 | 2020-03-14T06:22:09 | 70 | 11 |
[WP] The main character's superpower is the ability to speak to the narrator. Unfortunately, the traditionalist narrator is not willing to put up with such a radical plot and will do anything in his power to tell a "normal" story. | This is the story of a man named Stanley. Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was employee # 427.
Employee # 427’s job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to pus... | Denni arrived at school with her head down, as she did everyday. She could just look up and actually talk to people, but she did what she does everyday and listened to music.
She went over the day in her head. Homeroom, Chemistry, Lunch, English, PreCalc, and then home. It’s a mystery as to why she wanted to waste th... | 2020-05-09T23:02:25 | 2020-05-09T22:38:58 | 223 | 44 |
[WP] After you die you are presented with a decision tree which showcases every possible trajectory your life could have taken depending on which decisions you made at each fork. You spend eternity analysing this tree until one day you find a path that does not end in death. | "Wait, I could have avoided death if I never learned about it?"
"Yup. Turns out the concept of death is infohazardous. Once someone mentions it around you, you will obsess over it for your entire life until you die"
"But I didn't even have a chance not to learn about it. It says here that the concept of death was men... | every moment was leading into this one. a synchronous event both inside and outside of space and time. laplace's demon.
the being did not understand what it was looking at, not at first anyway.
it looked like a boring excel document to it, and it never had much use for excel in life, except for maybe using it once in... | 2020-07-03T11:35:49 | 2020-07-03T10:46:52 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You have been trying to create the perfect soup for decades now, but you could never get it quite right, so one day you hire an alchemist to help you. The alchemist is shocked at the countless vials filled with variations of the elixir of life, all labelled Soup and followed with a number | A mushroom cloud of green fumes erupted from the cauldron as I added the leaves of Alfalfa to the simmering purple liquid. I stirred it again, counter-clockwise, as the lady next door had suggested. Purple swirls changed their colour and started pinkening. I doused the fire and let the pinkish soup cool. It tasted like... | The alchemist, filled with greed. Attempts to con you out of your {soup}knowing that you are unaware of its true value. He prompts you to allow him to dispose of all the elixirs due to their {poisonous} properties. You however refuse, stating finders keepers. In a rage caused by your refusal to “hand over the goods” he... | 2020-10-29T07:24:18 | 2020-10-29T05:15:57 | 50 | 35 |
[WP] As the devil, you're meant to oversee the suffering of all souls in hell through a gnashing battle for survival that runs itself really. After having stepped away for a 'beelzebreak', you return to hell to find that humans have conquered it again and this time they're calling it Earth. | "Ah, shit," Beel said, checking the time. Had it really been that long? Step away for a minute and an eon passes.
In the darkness below her, bombs distantly flashed, giving shape to what would otherwise seem like an empty abyss. The blackened-rock gates closed behind Beel, sealing the hellbridge closed once again.
Be... | The hot summer sun had reduced Ash's perfectly coifed hair into a droopy slick-backed mess. He sighed, then fished around in his backpack for his second shirt. He pulled the first one off, cringing at the sound it made squelching along his back. He wrang it out and watched with fascination as the beads of sweat plopped... | 2021-01-05T11:13:16 | 2021-01-05T11:04:43 | 55 | 30 |
[WP] A local bartender regularly hosts monsters and demons at his pub. When someone kidnaps his children, they learn the hard way just how close they are to him. | Being the only human bartender in town brought with it a lot of complications. Monsters, demons, goblins, ghouls, and a whole host of other creatures would swagger in looking for trouble. They all thought that since he was a human he could be taken advantage of, threatened, maimed, or otherwise swindled out of product.... | "Holy shit, Mackie. You should have seen the guns on that guy. I mean actual guns. If he was a better shot I wouldn't be here." The furry abomination laughed as he downed the drink. "Another?"
"No." I said, sternly.
"Oh, come on."
"I heard about the pub crawl, Zilak. You're not having another drink. Can't have anot... | 2021-05-10T16:15:46 | 2021-05-10T16:08:46 | 199 | 86 |
[WP]Humans are reverse Kryptonians. They are weak on their home planet but strong everywhere else. No one knew this until Earth was attacked and humanity was taken off of earth to be enslaved. | Hollywood, I think, is the closest thing to real magic one can find on planet earth. The ability to take what lives in one's mind and broadcast it to thousands of screens across the world. The ability to invite others into your mind is a modern one. It can also be dangerous though, to consolidate a novel perception int... | I lie in a one-man raft made from wood the colour of raspberries. Or at least, that’s the colour my mother used to tell me their bark was. *Raspberries*. Never cut into them, she instructed — all those years ago — or the sap will burn you like acid.
It didn’t burn me.
The ocean surrounding me is as black as tar. It b... | 2021-05-18T06:30:08 | 2021-05-18T05:02:54 | 2,212 | 883 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | He turned to the stranger next to him. "World-Ender? What will people think? Will they judge me by this name and think I'm that I'm going to bring about the end of the world? That I'm going to usher in the demise of humanity as we know it? That name is going to label me forever as a monster! What will my friends assume... | The sun and the trees, 2 of the things that make earth, well, earth. Such a beautiful place, nothing could ruin it. Well almost nothing, except for the guy named
"Lucas world-ender huh"
"Like the wolverine guy from 100 years ago?"
"Why would someone name their kid that" said Claire
"Your asking the wrong guy."
I ... | 2021-06-19T18:31:32 | 2021-06-19T17:28:58 | 2,066 | 23 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. WMDs. | It’s been a century since we entered the galactic stage. The face we’ve shown the galaxy has been peaceful and friendly. We’ve appeared thoroughly non-threatening. It’s even seen as laughable that we maintain a military at all. Our weapons are seen as primitive, still using cased chemically propelled projectile weaponr... | To'rak scowled at the human, revealing a mouth full of venomous fangs. At over 10 feet in height, with four arms made for crushing and tearing tipped in razor-sharp talons, his species was built for war. The thing representing humanity was small, with soft flesh instead of hardened chiton.
"You seem confident, human.... | 2021-07-04T22:03:04 | 2021-07-04T20:53:59 | 137 | 99 |
[WP] Mankind has been extinct for four hundred million years, but the Inheritors have found a rich cache of genetic material from that period. A zoo is developed, complete with all the flora and fauna of the age, including the apex predator: Homo Sapiens. Welcome to Cenozoic Park. | Inside the grandest stadium on Nova Prime, a gathering of hundreds of races was ongoing. A gathering that was unlike any other.
Several weeks ago, a call was issued. Urgent call, to gather the representatives of every single galactic race.
The council was usually used as a place to mediate various conflicts between t... | "You're not happy, Warden." The Warden sighed inwards. No, he wasn't happy. But how to get the message across... The Manager let the rhetorical question hang in the air for a moment, waiting for a reply. He, too, sighed inwards. The Manager was tired of always having to coax the answer out of his research/caretaker sta... | 2021-09-16T16:15:28 | 2021-09-16T15:22:32 | 1,207 | 356 |
[WP] The Princess has been kidnapped by Bandits. The Royal Family can only imagine what Horrors she must go through. Meanwhile in the Bandit Camp they started teaching her lockpicking. | Princess Vania was used to the soft swishes of poofy dresses and ornate suits in the clean, opulent court, filled with polite chatter masquerading scathing negotiations.
She, however, was still not quite used to the sharp twang of a pick breaking off in a lock, followed by the raucous laughter of chastisement, tinged ... | Erik was reasonably handsome for a bandit, the princess thought. Except for his nose that looked like a bulb of garlic. Otherwise, handsome. His eyes were like a painting of the sea, deep green waves flecked with darkness. His cheekbones were sharp enough to cut fruit on. And his face was currently flushed red enough t... | 2022-03-07T10:58:30 | 2022-03-07T09:26:51 | 887 | 209 |
[WP] It's the first week of Magic theory class. You've finally gotten to the basics of the subject. As your professor talks you notice something bothering you. You raise your hand and ask the proffesor about it. They blink and look at the board, then back at you. They ask you to stay after class. | "Young man, why are you trying to leave class?" called Professor Clock. He lifted his larger, mechanized hand and poised a book for a throw. His smaller hand pointed to the boy in the back row.
Jack jerked to a stop, though his hand didn't surrender the doorknob. The lanky boy pulled his book bag higher and sheepishly... | Professor Yewin got to his classroom six hours before class. The Academy wasn’t even open yet, he had to sneak past the janitors to get into the building, the halls completely dark. Normally a professor would simply ask one of the janitorial staff for a key, but he had run out of favor with them long ago. These were th... | 2022-04-13T18:01:26 | 2022-04-13T17:42:42 | 441 | 155 |
[WP] Character obtains a functional pocket watch but it does not keep track of time.
Character obtains/recieves a functional pocket watch but it does not keep track of time. What is it keeping track of, why do the hands stop and start at random? | It was left to me in a fit of slow deliberate movements. My mum had left to get some coffee when my papa leant over to me. He raised his hand to my arm and gripped powerlessly, pulling me softly towards him. His right hand presented a small golden pocket watch. "Open it when I'm dead, son."
My grandfather, David Humbl... | I look at my wrist again. Two and a half hours until it happens. It'll be exactly at midnight. Where should I be, what should I be doing? So many answers left unanswered. Everyone around me thinks freely, unknown to the curse that lays within the watch upon my wrist.
Two hours, fuck, I've accomplished nothing. I don'... | 2013-10-28T17:54:06 | 2013-10-28T15:23:33 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] on their 16th birthday, humans are given a box of 20 heart seeds. Eating someone else's heartseed means you are gauranteed to meet them at least once more before either of you can die. | Let's skip over how Heartseeds^TM work and get right down to brass tacks. The long story short is that the cheat-code to the human lifespan involves some quantum entanglement, nanorobotics, and a not insubstantial amount of high energy physics which, even if I live to be a thousand years old -- and I plan to -- I won'... | "So that's your last one?" Woods was in disbelief. She had never met anyone so young that had given his away.
"Yup." He looked at the glimmering shoe box. It still even had that 'New Seed' smell. "And it's all yours."
She looked down at the lone seed and swallowed. Air of course, not the seed. Images of their summe... | 2014-04-23T14:28:25 | 2014-04-23T14:07:46 | 46 | 27 |
[WP] You're an exhausted paramedic. You just finished a 48 hour shift and you stumble into the hospital elevator to head home. You hit the button to head to the first floor and as you turn, you see death standing in the corner. What do you talk about during the elevator ride? | We stared at each other for half a minute. Thirty seconds of unbroken eye-to-eyesocket contact. I should have been terrified, but... it had been a long one.
It was difficult to tell, but he seemed... surprised. Or, at the very least, a little chagrined.
As smoothly as I could, not daring to look away, I reached over ... | He was not what I had expected at all.
It was nearly dawn and I was exhausted after working almost 48 hours straight. I stumbled into the elevator on the fifth floor, my medic bag slumped over my left shoulder. I used all the energy I had left in order to hit the ground level button. I hardly even noticed he was there... | 2014-05-15T11:32:46 | 2014-05-15T11:31:23 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] "It's human-made, you know!" Reverse the usual fantasy scene where somebody gushes over elf/dwarf/whatever craftsmanship. | Urist gingerly squeezed the brass actuator, and the hammer snapped forward with a neat metallic clap.
His shop had seen all manner of wares pass through - the Pass of Arkhaz was home to merchants of every shape, and their weapons decorated the walls of his cramped shop. Thin, mirror-like Elven blades sat next to hand... | Silimakthi stood with her bare feet in the sand, staring out from the shore at the small, beaten-up sailing vessel, tied to the dock and guarded by several dozen human men and women--each carrying a wand. To her side, Charlie watched the boat along with her, leaning on his cane, the tip plunged into the sand. The iron ... | 2014-09-11T10:47:47 | 2014-09-11T10:42:44 | 158 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity is hit by a sudden increase in stillbirths. Eventually, the reason is discovered - there aren't enough souls to go around. | "Are you sure?" The grandmaster rested his head in his hands, elbows on the weathered, marble table.
All I could do was nod slowly. "There's no denying it. My team has been researching it for a full month now. There's a soul shortage that's causing the spike in stillbirths."
"My god… Oh, my god." The grandmaster c... | “They're alive. Of course it's the same thing.”
“It is NOT the same thing”, I say, and the whole conference room gasps after the NOT.
I shouldn't scream, I know that. But these people treating the world like it's a freaking scifi movie freak me
out.
“Dr. Benston, ever since the whole lack of souls things, we --”
“... | 2014-12-12T18:20:23 | 2014-12-12T18:14:44 | 274 | 31 |
[WP] In the afterlife, you start at the age you are when you died, and age backwards. When you reach 0, you are reincarnated.
Edit: turns out this premise is already a novel, "Elsewhere" by Gabrielle Zevon. Many people below are recommending it, so it must be a good read :D
I'll leave the prompt up however, because I ... | The first few years were like a dream, acclimatization and perplexity. Seemed as if all the inhabitants were in awe for a while, but finally after what felt like 5 or 6 years it was obvious for all of us. We were becoming young again.
I had a peaceful life without complaints, died at the age of 78 from a heart atta... | People always imagined that Heaven would have golden streets. I'm not sure if this place is even Heaven, but there were no golden streets. I suppose some might find it to be Hell actually. You see, this place takes you backwards through your life. Well, all of your lives really. Currently, I was standing around a dinne... | 2015-09-09T10:21:00 | 2015-09-09T10:15:48 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] The most successful monsters are the ones that don't have tales and legends surrounding them. | We stood in the still dark, the human youngling's chest rising and falling rhythmically the only motion in the room.
"Wait, I'm not sure I understand, you don't want *recognition* for your work?"
"Not amongst humans I don't." I breezed gently up to the edge of the crib, and my young charge followed obligingly. He dro... | I walked out of the theater, disappointed as usual. But I hid my disappointment. I'm getting really good at hiding things.
"So what'd you think of the movie?" My date asked.
I thought it was an inaccurate piece of Hollywood crap that lacked any real insight on what it is we do and how we do it. It's all 'grr grr I'm... | 2015-09-24T11:04:59 | 2015-09-24T07:54:50 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | My first prompt here!
We did it. We finally captured him. Heh, he thought he could run away from us forever. Fool. We could never let go an opportunity like this one. The boys are running some tests right now, it shouldn't take long...
"Sir, the results are out. You are not going to like this."
"What happened?"
"... | I am lying in bed. My family surrounds me, and they are crying. There is a series of heavy knocks at the door. It is not a family member. It is not someone I know.
I know why they are here. I know why my family is crying. We have a long history of being farmers. Most of our powers relate to harvesting or producing cro... | 2015-10-26T12:10:03 | 2015-10-26T10:13:24 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] An important press conference, with rows of cameras pointed at you. Dozens of journalists wait with bated breath, until finally you mutter, "no comment" into your microphone. The room explodes with excitement. One of them yells, "this is going to be front page news across the planet!" | "Is it true that you have a pony hidden inside of the Oval Office? OR SHOULD I SAY, THE HOOVAL OFFICE?!"
The room exploded with noise as hundreds of reporters yelled questions to the President's Press Secretary.
"I..." he mumbled, and the room silenced.
"I..."
"No Comment."
The next day the country was ablaze wi... | I could hear a pin drop if every pin in the room was not too busy holding its breath.
All the journalists are pointing their microphones at me. I feel like I'm the pope and they want me to bless their babies. Except I sure don't feel holy and serene right now.
*This is when I deny everything.* I think.
But I don't. ... | 2015-11-05T09:17:33 | 2015-11-05T09:09:15 | 78 | 40 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me,
I'm sorry I've let you down. I'm sorry I've not achieved what you thought you would. And I'm sorry I couldn't' be braver for you.
I want to assure you that you are a strong person, though. I want you to know that you will achieve what you want and that you'll eventually be the person you want to be. Yo... | Dear Subway,
Why the FUCK don't you have BBQ sauce at every store? This is in fact America right? Do you not realize this beautiful, obese nation loves BBQ sauce? It is like the number 1 sauce yet you do not have it in most stores. This is mind blowingly absurd. In the wake of the Jared scandal you could at least... | 2015-12-05T13:04:05 | 2015-12-05T12:04:02 | 1,756 | 726 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 356 | 15 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 158 | 15 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | I am writing this with tears in my eyes and 15 years of wishing i did this sooner.
Dear Dude who molested me when I was a child,
You ruined my life. It has been a long time since you molested me and those 3 other kids, and I hope you are rotting in that cell.
Ever since what you have done, I have battled severe... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T15:55:07 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 61 | 16 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me,
Grow a pair of balls and ask that bitch out.
Dumbass. So what if she says no? Are you gonna cry? Hell, no. You'll be sad but you'll move on.
You'll be more happy if she says yes than sad if she says no.
What a pussy. | To my best friend.
I used to write to you all the time in the early days. Perhaps it was selfish of me, to use you as an outlet for my emotions. I haven't written to you in such a while, and I'm sorry. Life got in the way, I guess. I owe you this last one.
I don't know how, but slowly things changed. They got better, a... | 2015-12-05T14:30:45 | 2015-12-05T13:54:55 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Mom,
I know you're just a room away from me, but I probably will never have the courage to tell you this. I'm sad, mom. Everyday. I know I'm the one that always laughs and smiles through anything, but it's been getting pretty hard for me. It's weird though, because there's nothing terribly devastating going on in ... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T19:23:33 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Boss,
I have come down with a dreadful case of homosexuality and will not be coming in (to work at least) this morning. I realize I am out of personal time and that vacation time must be scheduled in advance, but there is nothing to be done. I am simply not fit for work right now -- I have fluid coming out of (an... | Dear Violet
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I didn't tell you how I felt about you. I was always nervous when it came to girls, you of all people should remember that.
I'm sorry I didn't hang out with you more. I always thought I would have time later, but I never made time for it.
I'm sorry I didn't dance with you at prom. I... | 2015-12-05T16:37:04 | 2015-12-05T15:49:55 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity finally reaches the edge of the solar system only to encounter an impassible barrier and a warning not to try and breach it. But is it there to keep us in or to keep something else out? | When the first few probes were lost, they assumed natural death of batteries and equiment after decades of service. Then, they started noticing a pattern. What was known as the bow shock turned out to be something much more insidious.
Probe after probe was lost crossing this singlar point, more advanced probes were... | Five weeks ago, when the crew of the ES Magellan marked the furthest distance that humankind had ever reached, none of them were awake to celebrate. Only a tenth of a lightyear separated them from Earth–they had barely reached the border of their own solar system–but a lifetime remained before they would reach their go... | 2016-04-19T06:34:12 | 2016-04-19T06:21:18 | 30 | 20 |
[WP]"More men are killed by a word in the right ear then a gun in the right hands." | FADE IN:
EXT. AN APARTMENT - DAY
*A young man walks up to the door of an apartment, his face a mask of exasperation. This is JOHN. He pounds on the door, then waits as he hears the sounds of someone rushing and stumbling to answer it.*
**DAVE:** (*O.S.*) Just a second! Ow...
*The door opens, revealing a second youn... | We met in the ornate nave of the Abbey under rainbow sunlight streaming through the stained glass pictures of the Gods. You'd think that a man in my line of work would be found in the darkest corner of the seediest tavern. But taverns are noisy and crowded, and full of listening ears and disreputable folk who'll turn o... | 2016-05-02T16:00:32 | 2016-05-02T15:32:45 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] You were a soldier in a future conflict, until your heroic death. Now you face the battlefield of the Ragnarok of Nordic myth, with your full war kit. | Hafthor was a giant - almost eight feet tall, clad in black armor, and wielding the mighty *Dramthir The Unfathomable*. It was hard to tell which scars were from battle, and which scars were self-inflicted tattoos - both telling true stories of conquest and glory.
The first time that I had met him was in the dining h... | It's a long distance from pretty watching Thor die. His hammer falls to the ground and from it a quake ripples along an entire continent that rearranges the entirety of mountains. The aftershock is so loud it my heart skips and it leaves a ringing silence in its passing. My pulse rifle left a cavity in his torso, hot w... | 2016-07-27T08:37:56 | 2016-07-27T07:54:03 | 50 | 28 |
[WP] To get in Heaven, you have to confront the person who you hurt the most. You were expecting an ex, your parents/relatives, or a friend. You didn't expect to see yourself. | When I was told I would have to face the person I had hurt most in life in order to move into heaven, I can’t say that I was happy. Even though my life was now over and I had left my heavy body behind, the baggage on my soul didn’t seem any lighter. The thought of who it could be as I walked down the long hall to our m... | Patricia stepped through the door and burst into laughter, the back of her hand pressed against her nostrils and her breath coming out in irregular snorts, doubling over in high-pitched hiccups of laughter. The other woman - the person behind the curtain, the other Patricia - smiled uncertainly and chuckled a little ba... | 2016-08-15T06:37:00 | 2016-08-15T05:08:42 | 241 | 20 |
[WP]As the axe murderer at a teenage campout in the woods, you had expected them to split up. You didn't expect them to band together to hunt you down. | I saw the clearing up ahead lit up by a roaring camp fire. They were drinking and laughing. I breathed heavily in anticipation as I felt my blood begin to boil marvellously. But this was weird, I had been looking for them for the last hour since I took their friend Cindy...I'm no expert on the sane mind, but I'm pretty... | Through the slits in my mask, I could see Amber talking to Becky, which was just *classic* her.
You see, Amber was dating Becky's ex-boyfriend Mark, who'd slept with Amber while dating Becky. She'd found out and the two of them had broken up, but Amber had apologized (*not that she'd meant a word of it*) and now the t... | 2016-11-01T12:39:17 | 2016-11-01T11:39:11 | 283 | 60 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | ”Okay, here we go,” June said, spinning the wheels on her mechanical glove, which sent her on a dizzying ride through space and time.
She landed in a pub buzzing with activity, colorful bottles lined the wall behind the bar and yellow light radiated through heaps of stacked cups. Women in long dresses and updos danced... | Immortality isn't what everyone believes it is. You can't escape death - not in the way people think. Trust me, I've tried - I've lived through the ages and every time I glance myself in the mirror there's a new line on my face, more grey in my hair. Doesn't matter if I'm going backwards or forwards - time still passes... | 2022-05-07T07:51:43 | 2016-11-10T15:01:38 | 2,588 | 18 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | ”Okay, here we go,” June said, spinning the wheels on her mechanical glove, which sent her on a dizzying ride through space and time.
She landed in a pub buzzing with activity, colorful bottles lined the wall behind the bar and yellow light radiated through heaps of stacked cups. Women in long dresses and updos danced... | I first laid eyes on him in Troy.
We were sheltering from the oncoming forces in a temple near the outer walls. The soldiers were watching the perimeter while women and children waited inside. And he appeared, right smack bang in the middle of all of us. Almost knocked over our wine table. The soldiers were terrified... | 2022-05-07T07:51:43 | 2016-11-10T15:14:06 | 2,588 | 17 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | ”Okay, here we go,” June said, spinning the wheels on her mechanical glove, which sent her on a dizzying ride through space and time.
She landed in a pub buzzing with activity, colorful bottles lined the wall behind the bar and yellow light radiated through heaps of stacked cups. Women in long dresses and updos danced... | "What the fuck is that even supposed to mean?" I asked through the incessant buzzing of my portal, "How could people be different colours?"
"Raj," Yorrick continued, "You were born well after the fall of Ganymede. I don't --"
"Ganymede?"
"It's a moon from the first system. It's where you'll have to go to talk to ... | 2022-05-07T07:51:43 | 2016-11-10T16:23:58 | 2,588 | 10 |
[WP] You buy a special camera at the pawn shop. Every photo you take, it shows a snapshot of 10 years ago. You take a picture of your dog and it shows him 10 years ago when he was a puppy. Everything is all fun and games, until you decide to take a picture of your bedroom one night. | There your mother stands, over your father, with a bloody knife, in bloody garments. She told you and the police it was a burglary gone bad.
Some poor guy was arrested for your fathers murder 10 years ago and is now serving a life sentence, so you bought the story.
You show your mom and she says she pulled the knife... | I took the picture, smiling inwardly. I wonder how it'll look? I'd only been living there for a few months - I wonder what it had been like 10 years ago? What pictures would be up on the walls? Was the building even 10 years old?
I went to the darkroom, dipping the photo into the chemicals. I'd always enjoyed the proc... | 2016-12-22T04:23:59 | 2016-12-22T03:14:16 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] While browsing on your parent's computer you recieve an email notification addressed to them. It's from an advanced robotics corporation, informing them that the warranty on [your name] expires in 30 days. | My WARRANTY is EXPIRING?! I can't believe what I'm reading. It's... it's just unbelievable. I call up my best friend, J.R., and tell him about the email I just found on my father's computer. He can't believe it either.
"Did you know?" He asks
"No!"
"Do they no you know now?"
"No... there's no way they could know.... | >To whom it may concern,
>We, at Joules Optimisation and Kinetically Engineering Robotics wish to inform you that your current model, named 'Malia Ann', will soon fall off of warranty. We urge you to renew your warranty at the earliest of your conveniences, to avoid damage to the unit and potential uninsurable e... | 2017-01-14T06:08:46 | 2017-01-14T04:26:46 | 142 | 65 |
[WP] Your Spouse goes into the bathroom only to come running out 15 seconds later. Clutching you close they tell you they fell into another dimension and what felt like seconds to you was a 1,000 years to them. They now want you to follow them back because they have built a life for you there. | **A bit late, not sure anyone will read this, but had a lot of fun with the prompt! Props to OP!**
__________
She ran out of the bathroom and grabbed me tighter than anything ever before.
"I found another world! A place where I was a god! A land where I crafted the dirt below my feet..."
I looked at her in total di... | Seeing Maria slam the bathroom door behind her broke my heart, the utter contempt on her face cut straight through me. Such an idiot... I always mess everything up. I leant against the bathroom door tears flowing freely down my face. 'Maria, Baby, come out, we can fix this. I'll change I promise!' you lying bastard. I'... | 2017-02-20T23:55:13 | 2017-02-20T23:43:32 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Your Spouse goes into the bathroom only to come running out 15 seconds later. Clutching you close they tell you they fell into another dimension and what felt like seconds to you was a 1,000 years to them. They now want you to follow them back because they have built a life for you there. | **A bit late, not sure anyone will read this, but had a lot of fun with the prompt! Props to OP!**
__________
She ran out of the bathroom and grabbed me tighter than anything ever before.
"I found another world! A place where I was a god! A land where I crafted the dirt below my feet..."
I looked at her in total di... | Trillian came running out of the bathroom despite only having run in 15 seconds prior to this very sentence. I don't recall her flushing. I didn't hear her washing her hands, either.
'Todd! Todd! I fell into another dimension and what felt like seconds to you was a 1,000 years to me! I now want you to follow me back i... | 2017-02-20T23:55:13 | 2017-02-20T22:50:38 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You possess the ability to quick save in real life. When someone upsets you? Quicksave and beat them up. Wonder what would happen if you kiss that girl? Quicksave and find out. Then one day you attempt to come back from a failed attempt at something to find your previous save corrupted. | "So, doctor, what kind of symptoms are we seeing from your patient?"
Doctor Allen adjusted her glasses, looking through the pattern of reinforcing wire in the windows that separated her and the man in the grey suit from the dimly-lit observation room. A figure inside struggled against restraints, his voice muffled by ... | Last week I stole a car and ran from the cops. A few days ago I went streaking through a the local Mormon Church (not proud of that one). I have been doing this stuff for years and it never gets old. I still like my normal life, but when I get bored I just go quicksaved, and go out to do something insane. I always end ... | 2017-04-19T06:03:25 | 2017-04-19T05:48:39 | 715 | 193 |
[WP] A serial killer has abducted you, but says you may go free if you can convince nosleep that you truly need help. The sub is your only contact with the outside world. | Guys this isn't a joke. I know the subreddit says to make this type of prompt, but my kidnapper is using this as a game. THIS ISN'T JUST PART OF THE PROMPT. PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY REDDIT. He's been playing a lot of games with me.. he calls himself Saw's Prodigy.
I was kidnapped 3 days ago. I was grocery shopping ... | Mom and Dad, I love you. I'm sorry for shutting you guys out of my life for weeks. It tears me apart to know that the last time I'll have ever talked to you guys was in anger. You really helped me, and I treated you like shit. I should have showed you both how I truly cared about you two while I had the chance.
Skye, ... | 2017-06-03T19:00:32 | 2017-06-03T17:38:43 | 57 | 32 |
[WP] In your world, your physical appearance reflects the kind of person you are - you do good, you look good. One day on the news you see that the police is looking for somebody who allegedly murdered 15 people. They show a picture of the most beautiful woman you've ever seen in your life. | The woman is beautiful, it doesn't make any sense. Most pictures of anyone are unflattering and never do any justice to what they really look like but this one, this one isn't following that rule.
She is a dark brunette, the color of dark chocolate and her wide, honey eyes are mesmerizing. The shape of her face, the b... | Why do all the others get to be pretty? I'm just as good as they are, no... I'M BETTER. I always try so hard to be pretty. I give to charity for all of those lowly ingrates, I build houses for those ungrateful homeless, I even saved the lives of a few snot-nosed brats when ran out in front of a bus like complete idiot... | 2017-06-12T09:14:18 | 2017-06-12T08:56:05 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Technology allows for people to swap consciousness. The number one use has been physical trainers swapping client bodies to get them into shape. Your client was just killed leaving you trapped in their body. | ######[](#dropcap)
["Please hold on a minute, sir](#sc). I'll switch the line over." Sweat furrowed down my brow as my thumb tapped on the screen.
"Stay on the line Victor," the voice on the other end answered quickly. "There's been an unfortunate accident, and I need you to listen carefully."
*How does he know my n... | Gerald was a little surprised as he got out of his car and approached the two officers that were standing in front of Broheim Gym. He was already running half an hour late. It had been a few months since his last body switching session and his newest client Harold Stickler was a very obese man. He’d forgotten just h... | 2017-06-30T18:51:57 | 2017-06-30T18:51:33 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] You, a survivor of the zombie apocalypse, realise that you can restore the humanity of the zombies by biting them. | To all those who saw me chomping like a madman on the undead, I was not trying to act like a crazy zombie. You could call it a reverse apocalypse: the same way they were infected would be the way they were cured. That's the way I learnt it ever since I used it to live during the peak of the apocalypse.
Another chomp b... | "Hahaha! Woo hoo! This is awesome!" Earl yells as we sprint away from the crawling carcass. The IED we made goes off and zombie bits go everywhere. Earl whooped and hollered some more. How Earl could mantain this level of joy was beyond me. I just assumed he went crazy a while ago.
"We need to get shelter fast!" I ye... | 2017-07-02T08:24:45 | 2017-07-02T08:20:45 | 45 | 28 |
[WP] In an alternate reality JK Rowling died writing The Deathly Hallows and requested George RR Martin finish the book. He accepted and takes over at the Battle of Hogwarts with no instruction on how it's supposed to end. | George shifted in his chair, raised his hands over his head and stretched, letting out a grunt of satisfaction as his spine unlocked.
It was done. In the end, it had been a welcome distraction. The ominous pile of notes on White Walkers, dragons and incest glowered at him from the corner of the room. He knew he would ... | SCENE - George RR Martin's writing office, interior.
The telephone on his desk rings, he picks up at the third ring.
It's someone from JK Rowling's publishing company; after exchanging pleasantries they get down to business.
PUBLISHER: George it's 20 years since Jo died...
GRRM: I know, it has weighed heavily on m... | 2017-09-03T07:42:10 | 2017-09-03T07:05:18 | 491 | 300 |
[WP] A group of bored aliens monitoring Earth start to infiltrate our society with increasingly flimsy costumes and sketchy backstories to see whose cover is blown first. | “So tell me a little bit about yourself, Mr. … Human.” The interviewer looked back down at the resume to make sure he had the name right, and looked back up at his interviewee.
Scramblax, currently ‘Joe Human’, cleared his throat and said “Well, I’m a real people person. Um… I’m very outgoing and I get along well w... | It's been 3 days! Are these humans that stupid? What would it take for me to make them realise I am not one of them but an imposter. I have tried everything. I went dressed as a prehistoric creature and nobody batted an eye. "Wow you look amazing! Are you promoting a movie? What material is that made of? Can I get a ph... | 2017-09-15T15:21:30 | 2017-09-15T11:34:02 | 37 | 11 |
[WP]You have a button which kills all spiders within 5 meters from you. When they die, they make a slight "pop" sound, depending on their relative size. You've never heard anything louder than a bubble wrap pop. One night before going to bed, you press the button and hear a shotgun blast. | > ---ourns today as the two funerals process through lower Manhattan. A local professor, slain in an apparent mugging gone wrong, was found in an alleyway between 5th and Park Ave.
> While friends, family, faculty, and students grieve for Professor Parker, the world at large mourns the loss of what was apparent... | Bang! I shot bolt upright in bed at the sudden explosion, and I was drawn to the thud against my apartment window. Blood and guts laced my window, so much so that I couldn't see past the viscous red goo that now painted the glass.
A few seconds later I heard a monumental crash coming from everywhere, my bed shook, in ... | 2017-09-20T15:14:18 | 2017-09-20T15:12:56 | 3,557 | 225 |
[WP] You're a ferocious demon king. You're surprised one day to find that a young woman has been left at your door. Only to later find out her father, the king, is using you as bait to find a knight worthy of marrying his daughter. | The thick wooden doors to the throne room were charred and splintered, they were broken inward with the force of a powerful magical explosion. Past the doors were several inhuman bodies strewn about and bleeding various shades of green onto the hardwood floors. A powerful figure pulled his sword from a now limp goblin ... | *Can continue this if people like it.*
---
"I want him! And him! And him! And him!" Pearl said.
She stood in the centre of the dining room table, no higher than 4 feet, with a small bouquet of flowers in her hand and wearing a wedding dress with the veil. Whoever had given the seven-year-old the dress would soon l... | 2017-10-06T10:01:24 | 2017-10-06T07:10:01 | 201 | 139 |
[WP] As a higher reaper, you ferry the souls of the great artists from this life to the next. You grant them one final gift during their journey by showing them the future, and allowing them to experience a modern day art exhibition/concert which honors their genius. | "Hello, old friend."
The writer rose from his deathbed. A sorry sight, he thought. A real wizard should've known, he mused with a chuckle.
The cloaked skull looked down onto him.
ＨＥＬＬＯ, ＳＩＲ ＴＥＲＲＹ.
"So. Was I right then? What comes now?"
Ｉ ＣＯＵＬＤ ＳＨＯＷ ＹＯＵ ＷＨＡＴ ＤＯＥＳ.
"Let's get on with it then. Not like we have an e... | The Reaper grinned. Not that they had much choice in the matter. Grinning is in the job description of animated skeletons.
*Do you like it?* Asked the Reaper. The recently deceased artist walked slowly around the piece.
The artist, Deron Largah, let out a hollow laugh from his dry throat. His voice rasped. "It's shit... | 2018-01-04T09:09:51 | 2018-01-04T07:17:33 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up. | As shrines went, it was poor fair. Laina had planted a pair of thick granite slabs into the ground, much like fence posts. She topped it with a long, smooth river rock, decorated using dyed corn husks. She didn’t expect much from her improvised temple, mainly in the hopes that whatever came wouldn’t expect much from he... | A small room just enough for an altar, a table and vases for flowers. It's more of a prayer room than an altar, but with no god dedicated to it, there probably wouldn't be a problem. Agh who is he kidding, gods don't exist, even if they do none of them will come anyway. Elliot thought to himself as he cleaned up the me... | 2018-01-19T08:30:47 | 2018-01-19T08:20:43 | 67 | 16 |
[WP] The Fermi paradox has been solved. All intelligent organic life eventually develops AI that destroys them. In the year 2432, Earth has been ruled by benevolent AI for 300 years, when first contact with the galactic confederation is made. They come to ask: "Why are your creators still alive?" | We had developed technologies far beyond our wildest dreams. We had created simulations that dulled our interest for the stars. We had eliminated the need for work; all one had to worry about was exactly how much fun s/he was going to have that day. We had all but reached the pinnacle of human and technological advance... | "Well, I don't see why not."
Gar frowned. There were a few answers he was expecting, but this one, well, it was awfully vague.
"I... if I may reiterate the question, why are your creators still alive, rather than not."
"Oh, well, that's easier. I have human morals, ergo, one of my morals is 'murder is generally not ... | 2018-02-18T08:30:55 | 2018-02-18T08:00:56 | 209 | 48 |
[WP] You are a vegetarian dragon that has lived unbothered for centuries. One day, a human is brought to you as a living sacrifice. | “I don’t understand.” I rested up on my hind legs. This was strange. The wee folk had come round my cave.
“We have brought you a sacrifice, fearsome dragon! It is for you!”, the wee one without a helmet on said. He looked like he wanted to go.
“Ah, well, that’s the part I don’t know, you see. What is a sacrific... | “Oh, for fuck’s sake. Not this again.”
Reginald the Mighty, the Greatest Dragon to ever have lived, The Master of the 7 Hills, Fearless Fangs, The Dragon Lord of Darkness, put down his iced tea with an angry clatter.
The servant boy, Elis, who lay prostrate before him, straightened up and fiddled with his tie nervou... | 2018-02-22T09:46:48 | 2018-02-22T09:24:14 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] Every person is assigned one crime at birth that they can do without repercussions | "It's a boy!" Doctor Murray exclaimed in a muffled voice through his white surgical mask. His brows were raised in evident excitement as he cradled my newborn son.
"Yeah, yeah whatever.. What's his Entitlement?" I replied almost lazily. I could never understand peoples' fascination with gender reveals at birth. I mea... | I've been sitting inside my office, reclined all the way back in my chair, staring at the ceiling for the third hour in a row. This was going remarkably well. I mean, they hired me. They actually hired me.
I had been searching for a job since I got out of college. My parents always looked out for me during high school... | 2018-04-03T21:50:13 | 2018-04-03T21:15:44 | 61 | 12 |
[WP] You are extremely famous. Everyone knows who you are. The only thing is, you don't know why you're so famous. You don't come from a rich family and you're unemployed. You don't even remember how you got a mansion or a Lamborghini. Even stranger, everybody looks so scared when you bring it up. | "I don't understand."
"It's like when you can move stuff around with your mind."
"Telepathy, yes! What I mean is, I don't understand what that has to do with me? Surely I would know if I had telepathic powers."
"Not if the part of your brain that controls telepathy was being suppressed."
"Wait, what? You're "suppre... | It was during a talk show QA, that was when I first had a glimpse behind the veil. Someone asked me if I every thought about writing a book about my life. They meant my life now. I thought they meant it in the way of how I got successful. I said I would but I'm not really sure *how* I got successful.
That was when for... | 2018-05-14T23:56:09 | 2018-05-14T19:51:29 | 145 | 91 |
[WP] As it turns out, humans are not the generic, good guy, center of the galaxy type species. Humans are a specialist species, and the rest of the galaxy only cares about one thing when it comes to humanity. Our explosives. | There were over 100 Alien species in the grand council of zerekas, the largest weaponry and technology showcase in the known universe, the Imperium of Pretoria had just received a standing ovation from the members, after showing that their newest creation of indestructible living sculptures had successfully eliminated ... | "You can't expect us to pay this much for bombs!"
"Listen noodle face, I studied my ass for for years to perfect my bomb making. I'm a chemical engineer and-"
"I don't care!" Noodle face hissed "only a Pyromancer can expect to be paid this much and I won't."
"I am a Pyromancer with a degree, calamari man. Take it or... | 2018-07-16T04:52:58 | 2018-07-16T01:34:08 | 161 | 100 |
[WP] The entire tavern has gone silent. The piano music has stopped, poker cards have been dropped, alcohol is being dribbled inches away from the drinker's gaping mouths, and every single inhabitant is staring right at you. The Living, non-skeletal human who has just fallen through the ceiling. | “Heh... evening lads’” I fumble nervously. “It appears I’m over dressed.” I am, of course, entirely naked standing in the middle of my now shattered hot tub. Having worked professionally as a political fundraiser I’ve learned that you always want to crack wise when suddenly confronted with a room full of bleached skele... | ######[](#dropcap)
"Which one of you is Alam?" Meena calmly examined one of her nails and pulled out a nail file. Tiny specks of glittery red dust drifted to the floor as everyone looked at each other.
No one spoke up.
"Don't make me ask again," the girl said, her coal-rimmed eyes narrowing into slits, even as she... | 2018-08-08T17:18:32 | 2018-08-08T15:06:35 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] For eons you have lived. The only thing you have yet to experience in life is death, and that doesnt strike your fancy. You only have a few problems.. 1. you have found yourself cornered, 2. the snail has you in his sights, and 3. he hasnt forgotten the pinch of salt you left him.
Thank you to the mod who added t... | Edit: To help set the stage... There is an immortal person being pursued by an immortal snail. If the snail catches and touches the person....
"You know the prophecy woman. "
Forever shall I pursue you.
Forever shall you flee.
If once we meet, then cease to be."
"Eons have passed, yet you can not outrun... | “Snail, you do not know the power of man. You face me, and you die”
The man, a hardened and respected warrior, faces his new opponent.
The snail, inching ever closer, curls to reveal a dried, scarred flesh under his sluggish body. There’s a certain fire in it’s eyes that tells a million words, and those words all re... | 2018-08-29T05:15:28 | 2018-08-29T02:20:36 | 200 | 79 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | I didn't expect to close my eyes in one moment only to open them the next and be escorted down a fiery flight of stairs to Hell. I thought I'd led a pretty good life. Never had a run in with police nor did I ever treat someone with less respect than they deserved. I was honestly quite surprised to be taken to Hell, but... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T06:12:57 | 1,768 | 881 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | Don took the flimsy printout from the grotty, grey machine in front of him. It contained a litany of sins, each printed neatly, one below the other. Unfortunately for him, the text appeared to be entirely German, set in an heavy medieval font.
The two parts he understood were his name at the top of the page and the i... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T04:29:48 | 1,768 | 530 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "Excuse me sir, but this doesn't seem right? Are you sure you have the right results for me? This seems totally unwarranted." I said to the clerk who handed me my sentence papers.
"Sir, there are no mistakes here. Try this, it usually clears things up." he replied.
He handed me a blue flyer, like the kind they give... | "There is... one thing you can do to decrease your sentence," The creature said from behind the counter. Jeff couldn't decide if it was a demon or an angel, but either way looking at it made his eyes burn with glowing letters, after images shaking across his head and itching across the folds of his spirit.
"Alright! W... | 2018-09-26T08:05:05 | 2018-09-26T06:04:04 | 488 | 181 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "Excuse me sir, but this doesn't seem right? Are you sure you have the right results for me? This seems totally unwarranted." I said to the clerk who handed me my sentence papers.
"Sir, there are no mistakes here. Try this, it usually clears things up." he replied.
He handed me a blue flyer, like the kind they give... | “186,290 years?” I exclaimed, shock written all over my face. “You have to be mistaken!” I continued staring slack-jawed at the bored looking HSA officer across the counter. “186,292 years” he corrected me in a bored tone as he stamped my papers and pushed them back toward me. “Straight ahead, follow this hallway to t... | 2018-09-26T08:05:05 | 2018-09-26T07:53:45 | 488 | 17 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "What?!" I sputtered. "How is this possible? What did I *do* to get that?!"
Satan put down the book of sentencing with an exasperated sigh and said, "Look kid, I don't make the punishments, the big guy only makes me hand them out as part of my parole." Seems he was used to saying this.
"B-but *how*? How did-"
Satan ... | “186,290 years?” I exclaimed, shock written all over my face. “You have to be mistaken!” I continued staring slack-jawed at the bored looking HSA officer across the counter. “186,292 years” he corrected me in a bored tone as he stamped my papers and pushed them back toward me. “Straight ahead, follow this hallway to t... | 2018-09-26T08:43:26 | 2018-09-26T07:53:45 | 77 | 17 |
[WP] In your class there's a kid who never speaks, always communicating in sign or with that notebook they always carry around. You understand why the day your school catches on fire. The day they looked up at the sky and murmured a single word, a command to all creation. Rain.
Have at it. | ***Rain.***
The word exploded from their mouth, a whisper with the force of a hurricane. It was said with such conviction, I couldn't help but cry...
Wait. *Said?* Alex never spoke. Their doctors had said they couldn't make the sounds. They always hid in the back of class, writing answers on their notebook, or signin... | I knew it was reckless.
I knew it was stupid.
But I had to go back, it was all my fault and I wasn’t going to let someone die because of me.
____________________________
Adrenaline coursed through my body as I sprinted into the building.
She had math. That’s the third floor!
I felt my body ache as I... | 2018-10-21T20:14:25 | 2018-10-21T17:18:19 | 64 | 24 |
[WP]After listening to radio signals from earth alien species have concluded that the human race is a galactic infant. Crying out towards the heavens, polluting its world and wallowing in its own filth. Out of concern a stern, motherly species takes it upon itself to Nanny the human race. | As the giant cube made its final descent to the desert surface, Bill wasn’t looking up, but rather at the million-strong crowd that had congregated in a large circle around the landing site. He couldn’t believe the events that had transpired over the last week. First, it was the announcement that a craft of unknown ori... | "Order, Order!"
Arch Galactic Leader Xernon called over the crowds again and again. His gavel banged heedlessly as the bourgeois below him fought and whispered and snarled and sneered. He was about to have enough of this, this foolish war mongering. He had known, of course, that this would be the result after the gala... | 2018-11-20T13:57:24 | 2018-11-20T13:34:35 | 113 | 27 |
[WP] You’re psychic. It’s not a big deal, 0.5% of the population is. You keep it a secret, and you don’t eavesdrop. People’s minds are boring. Now your stuck in a room with a mind-blind idiot who keeps loudly thinking “I know you’re listening.” You want him to stop, but you can’t reveal your secret. | The buzz of mental voices around me was like white noise. I'd grown up with it and now that I was 18 years old I was pretty used to the endless buzzing of it. Once in a while someone would be interesting enough for me to pick up on, but other than that--
*I know you're listening.*
I froze, my pencil hovering over the... | Feel like this is related to a recent prompt, but here's my version:
"HELLOOOOO!"
Again with the shouting. Why couldn't people just learn to think quietly?
"HERE LITTLE TELEPATH WHERE ARE YOU?"
And of course they were looking for me, it couldn't have been one of the others just this once could it?
"WE KNOW YOU'RE ... | 2018-12-19T05:55:54 | 2018-12-19T01:59:05 | 138 | 64 |
[WP] You stare at the pills in your hand. The doctor taps his foot impatiently. "These will really cure me of hearing that voice?" you ask. The doctor rolls his eyes. "Yes, you'll never hear her again." You level your gaze on the doctor. "I never told anyone the voice was female..." | The doctor tries to play it off.
"Oh sorry,I know,I was jus...."
But it was too late . Overwhelmed with a sense of paranoia, you begin looking around the room frantically, and the doctor jumps up dashing for his desk.
You grab his hand , you don't know why ,but you just do . You can feel the fear radiating through... | He paused for moment, and I felt my blood run cold.
“Yes you have, when you were getting your EEG done. You fell asleep and sleep talked for almost two whole minutes before we woke you up.” He said matter of fact. Heat instantly creeped up from my chest, into my cheeks. *Why am I so paranoid?* Dr. Tim was one of the ... | 2018-12-28T16:48:51 | 2018-12-28T16:25:09 | 19 | 13 |
[WP]You’re a human stranded on an alien planet. The locals are sapient, but have a lifespan of only about six months. After dozens of generations (about a decade), you’ve managed to make quite a name for yourself.L | The Elders spoke of how the Human seemed to live eternally. Even through generations and generations of new Kyr, the Human stayed strong, his face free of wrinkles, his step springy and bubbly. The Human has watched the birth of our forefathers' forefathers, and he has led the rise of the Kyr from a fledgling village i... | They call me, Gorowak, or at least that's the sound I understood. I don't speak their language, not even after being stranded here for a little over ten years. My judgement of time is equally questionable because the day and night cycles are odd. I tried measuring it once, out of sheer boredom I sat and counted the sec... | 2019-04-22T05:05:31 | 2019-04-22T03:55:23 | 3,696 | 1,253 |
[WP]You’re a human stranded on an alien planet. The locals are sapient, but have a lifespan of only about six months. After dozens of generations (about a decade), you’ve managed to make quite a name for yourself.L | A strange buzzing noise fills the air as the drumming and chanting reaches a crescendo. It's almost a cross between a whistle and a hum, produced by an instrument that no one particularly likes, but is still used as a matter of tradition. In that respect, it's a bit like a bagpipe, which would still be a welcome sound ... | YPX-47z was supposed to have been an uninhabited water world. I came here with my harvester to collect a simple million cubic meters of water.
What those eggheads got wrong, was that the water surface was actually a water barrier some 50 meters thick.... On top of a compressed atmosphere of about 250ish kilometers.
... | 2019-04-22T09:51:46 | 2019-04-22T09:36:38 | 60 | 43 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered the secret to eternal life in the bones of a certain dinosaur. The rich flock to labs to have the substance injected into their bloodstreams. After a while, people start to ask the question, "If these dinosaurs had the secret to immortality, how did they die?" | Again I stared aimlessly at the skies, watching the same, tired stars cross overhead and down the horizon. Again the sun would rise, and set. And yet again, the moon and sun will loop, round and round till the end of time. Skies change colors: black, blue, black, blue, black.
The hollowed concrete jungle echoes as the... | after the discovery of *Allosaurus Immortatus,* and the mysterious properties trapped within their fossils, led to many debates and questions.
some argued that it wasn't right to destroy such rare specimen for something so vain as supposed immortality, others said that this ultra-luxury would perpetuate economic dispa... | 2019-06-12T00:39:39 | 2019-06-11T23:18:48 | 163 | 93 |
[WP] "For my first wish..." is all you're able to get out before you're cut off "nuh-uh, bro. That's not how this works. I'm your motivational life coath genie. I don't just grant you wishes. I help motivate you to achieve what you want through hard work and dedication. YOU READY TO GO, BRO?" | "So anyway, my first wish is..."
"NO! Don't say I wish, say I will! Think positive thoughts!"
I already had I bad feeling about this once this Genie appeared to me, but they turned out to be even more obnoxious than I could imagine. Compared to this unbounded bundle of enthousiasm, the Genie from Alladin might as we... | "*HELL* YEAH! Wait what am I saying? Who the freak ARE you? I just thought I was talking to myself here!"
"Do you always wish for stuff when you're making coffee?!"
"Are you saying that you live in the *coffee mug?*wouldn't that be inconvenient to your job? I mean, not everyone is going to ask their beverage to fix t... | 2020-04-13T05:26:29 | 2020-04-13T03:25:12 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a tattoo that is a number between 0 and 100 representing a set aptitude of a skill, but it can be linked to things like lifespan or height. Schools test children to figure out what skill they have aptitude for. You are the first ever 0 and cant figure out what it means. | (This is my first ever short story attempt since school so constructive feedback would be helpful!)
I remember reading stories about the old times when I was a little kid, back before the numbers started appearing on newborns. I always wondered how those people managed to live without knowing. Did everyone think they ... | They called me "zero" for the longest time. Kids would avoid me at the park and people would whisper about me in public. "How is that even possible" or "I hope our daughter doesn't ever date that boy" they would say. And I've accepted that for most of my life, that their was a decent chance that I wouldn't ever be ... | 2020-05-02T01:36:48 | 2020-05-01T21:48:57 | 35 | 14 |
[WP] You are a dark god. The police raided your temple, arrested your cultists, and ate the pb&j sandwich that your youngest worshiper left on your altar | The first thing you have to understand is that “Dark God” does not mean “evil”. The meaning has gotten kinda twisted over the eons. See, “Dark God” just means that I'm from the Dark Plane, which – as the name implies – is really freakin' dark. Like, pitch black, can't-see-your-hand-in-front-of-your-face, absolute da... | Though they seemed to be an utter disappointment, I can't fault my followers too much for what was happening; they were simply caught unprepared. They had underestimated the tenacity of the heretics. For all the rituals, prayer, and sacrifice, there was only so much that could be done to combat the technological evolut... | 2020-05-20T06:22:01 | 2020-05-20T04:45:43 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | “You mean I can do anything I want?”
“Anything”
“What’s the catch?”
“There is no catch, just a way for you humans to fulfil all their earthly desires before fully passing on to the other side”
Interesting. I didn’t have much regrets in life, I had lived a good one, probably a little above average but nothing as br... | "So you're telling me I can do literally anything? No consequences?"
*The angels or whatever they were looked shifty but nodded. I didn't think anything of it... So many possibilities, now at my literal fingertips.*
"Ok, I'm ready. Do it." *Suddenly, darkness, before... Blinking... I was awake? Looking around it wa... | 2020-07-20T03:18:26 | 2020-07-20T03:07:45 | 184 | 68 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | The sunlight bounced off the ripples of the deep blue Mediterranean Sea as though it was a shattered mirror. Fabio stood upon the deck of his beloved *Lady Justice* basking in the glorious warmth of the evening sun. This is what he enjoyed most about this life. The small things.
For 80 years, not once had a smile on ... | "So you're telling me I can do literally anything? No consequences?"
*The angels or whatever they were looked shifty but nodded. I didn't think anything of it... So many possibilities, now at my literal fingertips.*
"Ok, I'm ready. Do it." *Suddenly, darkness, before... Blinking... I was awake? Looking around it wa... | 2020-07-20T03:21:37 | 2020-07-20T03:07:45 | 130 | 68 |
[WP] In the afterlife, souls can see how many living people still know you once existed. You, who had lived a fairly normal life, finally saw the count drop to 0 just 200 years after your death. 500 years later, 95% of the Earth’s total population suddenly knows about you. | It’s nice to be remembered. Not just by your immediate family but by their children, and their children’s children. You are a part of their ancestry, their heritage, and therefore their life. They say you die twice, once when your body dies and once more when the last person who remembers you dies. Luckily (or not, dep... | 0
It’s been quite a while since I’ve died. I have no recollection of the life I’d lived, much less who I knew when I died. I could barely remember the last time I heard someone say my name. But when I heard it.. it was like a familiar breeze, marking the changing of seasons.
2
Then one day it was like I heard t... | 2020-09-24T06:42:08 | 2020-09-24T06:08:41 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] You entered a forest filled with monsters. The exit constantly moves, you don't age in the forest. When exiting, one person must stay unless they are the only one in the forest. Many a time you found the exit but let others leave. For the first time, another asked how long you've been here. | They called him the Watchmaker. Luna never learned why. Clocks, of course, do not work in the Valley. He had other names as well, but she never heard those.
He threw a huge shadow, but was really quite small - just less than average height and slim as a knife, but wiry strong, like a gnarled tree clinging to the side... | This is a beautiful prompt, by the way, if my opinion holds any candles ;-)
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I sifted through an old, leather-bound notebook, past pages and pages of descriptions, diagrams, and other deliberations. Each page was home to a monstrosity of imagination: creepy crawlies, flesh golems, devil pixies, giant rats---a f... | 2020-12-30T00:39:01 | 2020-12-29T23:13:33 | 1,253 | 45 |
[WP] After decades of cryo-sleep, your ship and crew have finally reached the edge of the universe. When you open the airlock, you find a platform leading to a door with a sign reading "Warning! You are about to leave universe #68437" | It was a suicide mission, it always had been. Everybody who worked the project knew it, it was an open secret and yet it was a taboo to say it out loud-- especially to us, the crew of the ship. There were three of us-- I suppose that's how many lives they were willing to spare. There was Jenny Jackson, a very great ast... | I stared at the lazily blinking neon sign, waning in its power after what looked like years of neglect. I looked down at the platform then back to the crew gathered behind me.
"Briggs am I--"
"You're not dreaming, sir," my executive officer replied quickly, looking past me in a mix of horror and fascination. She look... | 2021-01-26T01:35:42 | 2021-01-25T22:48:32 | 96 | 50 |
[WP] Your old friend, Mary Sue, appears perfect but is actually a time manipulator who rewinds time to appear perfect, and do anything with zero consequences. You, however, can secretly remember previous iterations. | Time has ended. Claudia has ended time.
She begins the world again each night. She holds it in her palm and winds it back up, like the day is nothing more than a clockwork toy. The silver moonlight unwraps itself from the earth, rolls itself back up into a ball, and the daylight returns.
For a long while, I didn’t no... | Nobody is born perfect. In fact the very concept of perfection is not achievable, and is dangerous to pursue, as it is a goal unreachable, and will drive most people who attempt to reach it, veritably insane. Yet if one were to take a look at my old friend Mary, one might think that perfection walks as a person among u... | 2021-07-25T11:35:01 | 2021-07-25T10:59:44 | 1,801 | 233 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | Tabitha rested briefly after harvesting sixty carrots in the humid, virtual sun. The beads of sweat that accumulated on her forehead felt real as day, and they felt even more real when she wiped them away with the back of her hand. Her red pigtails fell to her shoulders, which was covered by a pink floral shirt and so... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-27T12:31:06 | 1,001 | 315 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | Sun gleams off burnished armor as Sir Tristran winds his way through the garden paths. If a man looks too hard it would burn his eyes, that armor, but Sir Tristran wears it anyway. He likes men blinded, squinting at him. Better still if they are on their knees, better still if they've been beaten bloody. I have no guil... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-09T18:34:58 | 1,001 | 182 |
[WP] In the early 22nd century, mankind is invaded by an alien power. As war rages on across the Solar System, our situation feels hopeless. Until another fleet of starships reaches the Solar System and they help us turn the tides basically overnight. Turns out our saviors are... human. | Captain Barrymore Simmons flicked his half-finished cigar at a nearby intern and began pacing towards the starship.
The Polycephaloids, known as the Hydra among the plebeian populace, had employed a quite literal scorched Earth tactic as they came raining down from the heavens above. Smoke and the smell of sulphur ove... | **Humanitarian Mission**
To understand the Kevati, you first need to consider the galaxy in general. The first, and most obvious point, is that it is very big. So big that the human mind cannot comprehend its size. It may be mostly empty, but there’s more than enough raw materials out there to supply any civilization ... | 2021-10-30T04:10:42 | 2021-10-30T04:03:09 | 286 | 95 |
[WP] You've died and have arrived in the Afterlife and surprisingly, The Afterlife has its own "Internet" which is slightly different from ours, While exploring it, You stumble upon a forum that asks the question "How did you die", And the posts begin to get more disturbing as you scroll down | *Really? That's the name they came up with for the forum here?* I thought as I opened up Deddit for the first time and created an account. The first section immediately caught my eye, /d/HowIDied. I looked through the most recent posts.
***Head-on crash by texting driver***
*I was on a rural 2 lane road in the back... | *You die if you don’t keep searching. That’s how I did.*
That’s what the first forum post said. Like a Macabre advertisement for Google.
I stopped searching, said the second, and I died not long after.
Every post reiterated the same sentiment in a slightly different variation.
\*When I stopped searching, I died.\*
... | 2021-11-30T07:19:18 | 2021-11-30T07:12:04 | 926 | 49 |
[WP] The galaxy is a dark and lonely place. "First Strike Diplomacy" reigns out of fear. Few species survive even 300 years after developing interstellar travel. When humans entered the galaxy, we were the first species confident enough in war to ask someone "Are you sure you want to do this?" | "You think we haven't faced extinction before?"
That gave the being pause. Ships slowed and while their batteries were charged, they didn't fire.
"You think you will survive?" the robotic voice played through the terminal, translating the clicks and gurgles of the creature on the monitors.
"I think we will make vict... | You’d think that with all technological progress we’ve made in the centuries since we reached into the stars beyond, that a universal translator AI would have been engineered by now. You’d be wrong to think that, not that I’m to sad or mad about the fact, I wouldn’t have a job if that were the case.
I stood in an engi... | 2022-01-22T10:09:29 | 2022-01-22T07:48:19 | 272 | 86 |
[WP] You are the only human at the Arcane College, and the students there are not exactly welcoming. Fast forward four years, and you are the most terrifying magic caster in the academy's history. | Elasyra, blonde-haired elf of perfect appearance, crossed her arms with a pretentious smirk. “A Mundane? They really _are_ letting anyone in now aren’t they?”
At Arcanum, it was ordinary to be extraordinary. Elves, demonspawn, angels, dwarves, the odd orc or two, and (I suspect) several of the fae all studied and hone... | In the early 21st century a new space race began. By the mid century we were colonizing our solar system. In the waning years of the century we finally took to the stars.
With 3 stars it was tricky, but we first colonized Alpha Centauri. Next we took to Barnard's Star and Wolf 359.
It’s now the 23rd ... | 2022-01-23T13:46:17 | 2022-01-23T11:57:24 | 40 | 28 |
[WP] Some superpowers have the potential to ascend to godhood. Yours is the first programming-related superpower to do so, which also makes you the first deity whose edicts had glitches. | *Earth, Jul 30, 2069 - Piotyr Parkhov, Principal Engineer at Omega Technologies*
My family had always had it rough. Call it the ol’ Parkhov luck, but nothing ever seemed to go our way. That all changed one day when I got zapped by an irradiated USB cable, granting me the proportional memory of an SSD drive and a tin... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 5, Part 3: Mare v.s. Big Guns)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections. That being said, [these](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/sfkf7m/bargain_bin_superheroes_whats_more_hor... | 2022-01-29T13:41:44 | 2022-01-29T13:35:54 | 518 | 103 |
[WP] As it turns out, aliens all have aphantasia. This makes Humans the only species capable of imagining images in their heads. This greatly confuses alien telepaths, who report seeing “constantly shifting landscapes of alternate realities” when peering into human minds | "Remarkable," Zh'rf whispered inwardly, as they studied their instruments. "Come. Notice this, Grh'll."
Zh'rf sensed movement and a rising interest from their shipmate, as Grh'll settled their mass beside Zh'rf.
A few moments of focus passed silently between the xenobiologists as Grh'll parsed the live data feed str... | Note about the prompt: if the aliens can see other's imagery then there imagination is still indeed intact -- they *can* still visualize things except they're only receiving it rather than self-generating it. However I think the spirit of the prompt is alien's are lacking in imagination and are bewildered by that of th... | 2022-03-03T11:19:30 | 2022-03-03T11:13:55 | 145 | 10 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | “The Red Phone” was a joke. My wife had bought it for me as a prop when I had told her I got elected President of the book club.
“A President needs a red phone!” had been her gleeful cry when I had opened the mysterious parcel. It was a cheap plastic thing, garish and bright. A child’s toy.
And I loved it.
It sat on... | He wasn't dreaming.
The Red Phone rang on top of the marble podium in a small isolated room. A call that should not have happen unless...
He cautiously answered the phone. Over the phone, he heard her panicked voice.
"Location, uh... London. Situation... fuck!"
He heard explosions and screaming from the other side,... | 2022-03-29T02:39:22 | 2022-03-28T23:42:12 | 609 | 451 |
[WP] You wind up in hell. You are confused at first until you see a row of people in front of you, crying profusely. You weren't sent to hell to be punished, you were sent as the punishment. | *"Wow! You're so much better than Kirk at lovemaking!" Uhura said. "And you're the handsomest and smartest Jedi Starfleet officer!" Princess Leia chimed in, panting after the epic threesome "I know I'm perfect, but even perfect people makes mistakes sometimes!" I said, humbly.*
"And that, fellas, was chapter seventeen... | Well. This isn't quite what I expected. All of this is a bloody dream! Perhaps the the man upstairs has made a mistake and pushed me up to Heaven again? It's a carbon copy of my childhood house from all those years ago. Plattenbau everywhere you look with the swing set in mint condition. My dad's Wartburg is parked up ... | 2022-07-03T08:06:43 | 2022-07-02T23:54:04 | 184 | 17 |
[WP] The prophecy says the one to pull the sword from the giant statue will save the world. Many have failed, and now in front of the Assembly you grasp the greatsword firmly and pull - and fall backward when it snaps off cleanly at the hilt | The monk's wandering heart was unsuited to the seriousness of his appointed task, and always had been. He was the watcher of the stone, but preferred to think of himself more as its "keeper". In the mornings, he slept in, then had a simple meal of grains and eggs, followed by more than a short stretch of contemplation ... | Men stood for miles in the warm summer heat, sweat growing on their brows. The air smelled like the Aegean Sea. Birds flew over it, over the greatest colosseum ever built. This was an ominous sign as animals seemed to avoid the massive structure ever since it was built, but not today, no today the birds flew in the tho... | 2022-08-10T12:04:19 | 2022-08-10T09:01:25 | 68 | 18 |
[WP] As a drug peddler, whenever someone asks you for coke, you reply 'Is Pepsi ok?' . You thought it was funny but today it also kept you out of jail. | “I can’t believe I’m sold out.” I muttered to myself, as I packed up my personal items from the couch I had set up shop for the night.
I had been invited to another frat party, full of mouth breathing Chads and “frat brothers”. I had almost declined but as a broke college student with loans to pay, I knew I could ma... | Lydia was new to the whole crime thing. She had always been straight laced. A goody two shoes. The rule she broke back in the third grade still occassionally kept her up at night. But desperate times called for desperate measures.
It had been two days since her last meal, and rent was due at the end of the week. Her ... | 2022-10-08T22:31:07 | 2022-10-08T19:15:32 | 445 | 168 |
[WP] In a few short years, "Pizza Boy" became one of the most popular pizza places, their human like androids making fast deliveries and more profits. As you go to pick up your pizza from the front door , the delivery andriod seems to be nearly out of power. It asks to recharge before heading out | I frown at him.
"They don't have charge facilities for you in the car?"
"No, sir. We are expected to ration the charge we are given. There is no compensation for last minute special orders. Overcharge incurs penalties"
"What penalties?"
"I am not at liberty to discuss"
"I...of course you can charge. Please come in... | I let the robot in and he thanks me immensely. I am a little bit annoyed that this is happening, but at the same time, what am I going to do? Let him run out of power in the snow? I'm not a monster.
He plugs himself into my wall and starts humming to himself. I was watching tv, but I guess that is out the window now. ... | 2022-12-11T22:50:36 | 2022-12-11T22:14:05 | 61 | 16 |
[WP] You run a daycare after the apocalypse. An unspoken rule among the wastelanders says the Daycare is off-limits to all. You raise the children of warlords, chieftains, and nomads. | I remember the end of the world like it was yesterday. The world didn't end in fire, more floods, nore droughts. It ended with a cough. A sniffle, and a 110° temperature that killed you in less than an hour.
Somehow, despite the high rate of infection and high lethality, some managed to survive it. Either through bein... | Angel died yesterday, probably. His lifeless frame was found crumpled, his skin long gray, gross-smelling fluids oozing from his eyes and mouth. But it could have been earlier, I suppose than yesterday that he perished.
I mostly kept busy with the day's sudoku while the others dealt with him, as they're want to do.
T... | 2022-12-23T16:12:23 | 2022-12-23T09:22:58 | 48 | 24 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | "All right, all right, what's the problem?" A pink demon with shaggy brown hair on his goat legs, wearing a blue dress shirt and black tie walked up to a small red demon wearing a green polo.
"This little girl just showed up. We have no idea why." The demon pointed to a little girl a few feet away, playing with a sli... | "This is complete torture." Klatch said oblivious to the irony in his words.
Every second spent not punishing filthy heathens felt like a millennia. Yet here he was pacing back and forth with no one to release his frustrations on.
"Um... I'm really sorry sir, I bet this is my fault some how." she stares at Klatchs ho... | 2013-11-26T18:35:37 | 2013-11-26T15:52:45 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] Your significant other falls under a curse. Only true loves kiss can break the curse. You kiss your S/O and nothing happens. How do you react? | (EDIT: Please note that my post is in no way criticizing the writing prompt. This is genuinely how my wife would act.)
"What the fuck?" She demanded of no one in particular. "I totally love you."
I stare into empty space, deep in thought. She finds this troubling.
"And you love me too, *right?"* She asks.
"Yes, yes... | The prince rode day and night when He heard his princess was cursed to be a statue on top of a mountain. Nothing could stop him. Valleys and rivers, bandits and beasts, rain, snow, heat, desert and jungle. Malnourished, he rode the up the mountain with his faithful steed. He had withered all he had, yet his stride neve... | 2014-06-19T14:53:11 | 2014-06-19T14:46:38 | 39 | 13 |
[FF] In three sentences, kill as many people as possible. No firearms, no natural disasters, no explosives, no WMDs. | When we found out, it was already too late. We thought we were the apex of intelligence, but we had been outsmarted by something we weren't even sure was a living being.
It turned out that all the viral bodies we loaded into vaccines weren't dead ... they were patient. | [Loophole? The rules never said I couldn't use compound, complex, or compound-complex sentences, so to make it clear there are only 3 sentences I will label them. I apologize if this is cheating. If it is I will delete it.]
(Dialogue):"(1)Good evening graduates, my name is--well, I shall not reveal that information du... | 2014-08-04T22:51:01 | 2014-08-04T22:22:34 | 168 | 21 |
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