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[WP] You, 16 years old, wake up and head downstairs for breakfast before school. You’re eating cereal when you see the Missing Kid poster on the milk carton. It’s you. Date missing: 10 years ago. | “What the fuck?” I blink and read it again:
BEST BY -9 NOV 2008-
“Watch your mouth!”
“What the hell is this?” I grab the carton and shove it toward her face. The blood drains from her nose and cheeks, and her crows feet spread along with her eyelids.
“Oh god. You have to listen — we”
“What could you possibly sa... | I woke up. It was sunny outside, and I got up. I was slightly tired from all the homework I did last night, but I just needed breakfast and I would be fine.
At the kitchen, my mom was wearing headphones while washing dishes. I came to the table, cereal and milk already out on the table. I took the cereal, and poured i... | 2018-11-08T21:22:27 | 2018-11-08T21:09:36 | 97 | 12 |
[WP] Your super power is common sense. When the super hero teams go out, you are there to take care of basic tasks for the sheltered supers, such as buying metro passes, ordering food, taking phone calls, and sometimes saving the day. | I've always been of the mind that people tend to have a similar level of expertise, just distributed in different ways. Some scientists are quirky because they traded off sanity for knowledge, while middle managers invert this. To my chagrin, but ever continuing employment, supers are no exception to this.
Their shelt... | You know, kids like to imagine themselves as "superhero" saving the day. But then, they face the hard truth: they don't have any superpower, and they are forced to grow up.
The problem with superheros is that they do have superpower, so they never need to grow up. Eternal kids playing in the world playground, unable t... | 2019-01-23T06:08:33 | 2019-01-23T05:00:51 | 30 | 18 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | "Here's 20$, can I get my change back?"
Silence
"Helllllooooo, I waaaaannnnt myyyyyy chaaannnggee baaaackkkk."
He didnt say anything just stared.
"I dont believe it"
Finally a sentence. But was didnt he believe
"Believe what?"
Silence
"What's going on here, this cant be real"
He dropped to the ground and sta... | I walked into my uncle's laboratory. He was one of the top tech engineers on Mars, but I'd never been able to visit as a child. My parents had never let me near a tech lab, much less have anything installed. Now that I was eighteen I got my mandatory categorization done and got the surprising result of being the number... | 2019-05-04T14:33:04 | 2019-05-04T13:46:09 | 45 | 32 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | "Here's 20$, can I get my change back?"
Silence
"Helllllooooo, I waaaaannnnt myyyyyy chaaannnggee baaaackkkk."
He didnt say anything just stared.
"I dont believe it"
Finally a sentence. But was didnt he believe
"Believe what?"
Silence
"What's going on here, this cant be real"
He dropped to the ground and sta... | When I jumped out my truck to enter the lan house, I kept my eyes ahead as my face burned. There were a few people around, staring at me with a strange smile.
Usually those stares did not bother me. One gets used to being stared at, having the big scar that I had crossing half of my left cheek.
But today people were ... | 2019-05-04T14:33:04 | 2019-05-04T12:27:51 | 45 | 27 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | The witch buried her face in her hands and sighed, "AGAIN, it's the Curse of Optimism. You will never be able to understand the potential negative consequences of any decision you make."
"That doesn't sound like much of a curse", I replied.
"You will be the eternal optimist", she explained. "You will only see the ups... | "Oh, sweetheart," the witch cooed. "Downside? You thought there would be a downside?" She gave me an eerily sweet smile, which I wasn't sure to trust.
"Uh, yeah? It's a curse, right?" At this point, I was extremely confused. The witch even appearing was enough for one day, but the curse, and this? I needed a nap for s... | 2019-06-25T15:21:51 | 2019-06-25T15:02:35 | 1,435 | 11 |
[WP] You are a super hero, but without any powers. You are one of the most important heros, but marginally unknown. You are a therapist who works exclusively with heros and villians alike. Because they are people too. | “Why did he change?” the hero asked. “I used to look up to him, you know that. But then he started murdering…”
“People change,” the therapist said. “You think you know them, but things always change.”
“But that’s something that’s not supposed to change. What you believe in, good or evil. I don’t understand…”
“You wi... | The man staring back at me is ... different from the rest. This is a very hard thing to achieve, considering my clientele.
"Can you please repeat that?" I ask, trying to look anywhere but towards the dark void that sits on my office couch. There is a cloying quality to him, like the black cloud enveloping his body is ... | 2019-07-25T15:25:22 | 2019-07-25T13:02:22 | 62 | 32 |
[WP] As the last survivor of the apocalypse, in a fit of boredom, you start commenting "last" on every video on YouTube. One day, you receive a notification that your comment has been liked.
Wow, I did *not* expect such a huge turnout for my first ever prompt. The prompt itself arose from a friend and I doing some ran... | As I clicked on yet another link, a glance at the title woke me from my stupor.
**US attack on Iran sparks new wave of WWIII memes**
It seemed inconceivable that not so long ago this was the reality. Fresh internet humor about the planet's impending doom. The latest bunch of pop culture references and dark jokes to r... | “Is this what rock bottom looks like?” Lane asked himself, his fingers danced lazily over the keyboard as he exercised futility to its breaking point, he submitted another comment, “Last!”
He should be grateful, he supposed, the amount of content on YouTube far exceeds what remains of his dreary life, the site’s algo... | 2020-01-13T12:40:19 | 2020-01-07T10:29:14 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] Having recently died, You sit in a shimmering gold waiting room. An angel in a white uniform hands you a large catalogue. She begins, “Please make your selections for your reincarnation. Remember, one selection per category, and no choices you’ve chosen in the previous 50 lifetimes.” | I remember now...
So many lifetimes lived. It's seems ridiculous now, spending nearly every previous lifetime on Earth asking the same old questions. What's it all for? What comes after? Why are we here?
All the knowledge that is removed on birth, and then restored in death, the only question that is ever answered i... | "A dung beetle? Really?"
The mocking shout came from about ten metres away, although when I looked over it seemed like the concept of space wasn't quite what I thought it was.
"Oh, don't worry about that. For the first few moments you're up here we tend to have problems rendering everything properly."
The angel who ... | 2020-04-30T12:52:30 | 2020-04-30T12:07:44 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] Your kids informed you that your new prescription glasses came in the mail today. You put them on and look at your kids. You're surprised to see an info window showing their general statistics and a primary specialty. Curious of your own specialty, you look into a mirror and it said "Immortal". | “Hey, your glasses are here!” Dieter yells.
“Dieter, be CAREFUL!” Calls Trinity.
The sound of a light package hitting the ground reverberates through the hall. I pinch the bridge of my nose, set my tablet down on my bed, and walk out to the site of the commotion.
“Dieter, pick the package up. Trinity, leave your b... | "What are you doing?!" Marty shouted, sprinting over to the kitchen counter to grab the can of Lysol. He shook it violently, uncapped it, and began to spray the cardboard box in Annie's hands as if he was trying to give it a shower. "You know not to touch anything without disinfecting it!"
"Seriously, Dad," Annie sigh... | 2020-05-26T21:03:57 | 2020-05-26T19:37:58 | 38 | 28 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | I’ve spent a week with my king’s daughter, a woman so skilled with blades that no man has ever beaten her in single combat.
I’ve fallen for her, like a fool drawn to the rattle of a snake. She’s smart, skilled, beautiful, and funny. She’s kind to the lowest servant, yet fierce in her protection of them.
And I’ve gon... | "Please don't" he whimpered.
She stood over him, a plain look on her face.
"You just need to get to know me better, one week is hardly enough time......."
She raised her sword, arcing it high above her head, the soft clink of armor making the only sound.
A whisper, "I thought......you said.....is this really how it... | 2020-09-20T20:11:35 | 2020-09-20T16:55:52 | 250 | 107 |
[WP] A sniper and a photographer meet in a bar, neither aware of the other's occupation. They talk about 'how to take the perfect shot'. | "The perfect shot," Shawn said, "leaves people breathless."
"Yes. I agree. There's something so beautiful about it," Ray replied.
They were at the bar, seated on barstools, whiskey sours in front of them. Shawn was the taller of the two and was dressed in a black tee and black jeans. Ray was more casual, he wore brig... | "The most important thing is to frame the shot perfectly" Jacob stated enthusiastically
"Yeah, I can agree with that in a sense, but staging and planning it is more important else the entire shot can be a bust" I said with a bit less enthusiasm than Jacob.
"I somewhat agree but everyone got their own way of doing it ... | 2020-11-05T05:53:26 | 2020-11-05T05:28:42 | 420 | 39 |
[WP] “Wal Mart” is a game aliens play, where they see how poorly they can disguise themselves and walk through the human world unnoticed, usually in a wal mart around midnight. You are a government special agent and needed to run in for a car part when you catch a game in progress. | I saw the alien before he saw me. He was dancing in one of the seasonal holiday aisles, trying on a red Santa hat and belly laughing as if he didn't clearly have two bellies. With his green skin, he looked more like the Grinch than Santa. Which he must have known. So this was some kind of game, one I didn't feel like d... | In a bizarre way, doing this reminded Bob of his childhood. His teenage years consisted of random behavior such as this. Wandering to Wal-Mart at 3 in the morning, because sleep was overrated.
But, being at such a place at this time of day had it's perks. Namely, no lines and good parking. The good parking part being ... | 2020-12-20T11:19:47 | 2020-12-20T10:43:03 | 40 | 27 |
[WP] The demon couldn't believe his luck to find such a willing victim to possess. As it possessed them, instead of fighting back like they usually do, this one said "Good luck. You'll need it."
EDIT: Thanks for the awards guys! I've been on this site for 7 years and this is the first time I've received any. | The demon haunted the rooftops as it stalked its victim below. She walked through the alleyways as if nothing in the world mattered, unaware of the nightmare about to befall her. The demon waited until she walked into a dead-end, trapped by walls on all sides. It ran along the rooftops and pounced, aiming for its targe... | Buvolell -- Fell Lord of the Doomkeep -- padded after his prey. His steps were whisper soft as they went down the stairs to the basement apartment. The demon dragged his long nails as delicious expectation flared inside him.
Peter Jensen. 26. There was something about him that struck Buvolell as intriguing. Something ... | 2020-12-21T11:47:09 | 2020-12-21T10:51:37 | 339 | 169 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | Day 32
​
It's been 32 cycles. 32 whole cycles, and still the chase continues. We won't last any longer. Half the squad has given up and surrendered, while the other half has been gradually picked out and killed. Commander Ydrevous has ordered me, Captain Xsimoth, to write our final words and warnings. Fell... | Freyen didn’t think much of it when the human had said, *I’m happy to show you how we’ve always hunted.* He didn’t think much of it when he had said, *I’ll give you a bit of a head start; head out into the wilderness and I’ll come find you.* And he really didn’t think much of that human’s smile when he had agreed, su... | 2021-02-04T09:02:10 | 2021-02-04T08:53:44 | 846 | 357 |
[WP] As the Village Seer, you peer into the mystical to give the villagers sage wisdom from beyond. The problem is, you're not magical, you're just smart and you live in an exceptionally dumb village. | It was meant to be a joke. I pretended to lean into the cosmic realm just to tell a stupid farmer that he needed hens if he wished to get eggs, not roosters. I never expected one sarcastic joke to land me in the town’s most prized position. The village Seer, one of the greatest positions a person could have. You held m... | A graveyard of straw huts, laid to rest under a mountain of mud, stretched out before the Seer at the bottom of a hill. Old women wept over the destroyed homes, picking bits of their lives from the wreckage.
"Oh, great Seer," one of the village warriors fell to his knees, pounding the earth with his fists. "What evil... | 2021-06-14T08:53:19 | 2021-06-14T08:52:31 | 959 | 486 |
[WP] As the Village Seer, you peer into the mystical to give the villagers sage wisdom from beyond. The problem is, you're not magical, you're just smart and you live in an exceptionally dumb village. | "Don't marry Klaus, Johanna."
The girl peered over her steaming mug of tea at me, big blue eyes full of wonder. "You haven't even touched the cards yet!"
"I don't have to. See this?" I pushed the parchment toward her, the one I had been copying all afternoon from my own records. In large, clear script, I had written... | It was 3:15 p.m. Charles was late, but that was unsurprising. He'd made a reputation for being late, as of late. He'd already consulted me twice on time keeping- he'd better have a good excuse.
As the designated "village seer", I was a busy person. My appointment book was always full of consultations. This was somethi... | 2021-06-14T14:09:16 | 2021-06-14T14:04:04 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] You must convince the evil warlord not to open a portal to your world. Not because their army might conquer it, but because the army back home might conquer this realm. | "Out of the way Jason of Earth!" The pointy eared gremlin that could use most coffee tables as a standing desk waved around his arms, magic glowing as the portal back home slowly began to materialize. "You will not stand in the way of my destiny."
"not standing in your way," I said in a calm voice. I had seen what mos... | “omnish sala ker tannnnnn… origash per rannnnnn…”, a low humming thrummed from the walls.
*Shit.*
Until that point, everything was going fine, more or less. Well, as fine as an insane last-ditch sneaking-into-the-bad-guy’s-fortress plan could go. And it was not even Raymond’s brightest plan, honestly. Like, it was on... | 2021-07-19T14:54:45 | 2021-07-19T11:08:02 | 46 | 25 |
[WP] You, a high school science teacher, are tasked by the FBI with discovering if a strange man is an AI or a real human. The complex social politics between humans and robots makes it illegal for you to use x-rays or scanners to see under his skin. You walk into the interrogation room.. | “Good evening “
“Good evening “ the man responds. He is casually sitting in his chair, looking quite confident.
“Do you know why you are here?” I ask him.
“Cuz you think I may be a robot”
“And are you a robot?”
“Nah bro” he confidently answers.
“Well, you’ve convinced me. But I also need to convince my supervisor... | I kick down the door.
The subject, startles back, it sickens me that humanity has come to this, is it man or machine, I can't tell, and certain laws prevent the law from looking into it... at least for now its certainly is acting correctly.
I stand tall, Intimidating at 6.5 foot, blond, blue eyes locked away being av... | 2021-08-25T23:24:53 | 2021-08-25T23:04:16 | 57 | 18 |
[WP] “Well Death,” you say, “I never thought it would end this way. But it’s definitely in my top three, you know?” “It’s how I’d want to go.” Death agrees supportively. | "You know what I have always liked?" I asked the impeccably dressed gentleman sitting beside me.
"Cheesy romantic comedies which you pretend you hate." He said wryly.
I looked at him with a look of faux betrayal. "You didn't need to say it out loud."
He looked at me confused. "But you asked."
I rolled my eyes. "D... | I had a near-death experience once. I swung too high on a playground swing, and landed on my head, and I felt my breathing grow shorter and faster, until black overtook my vision.
And I saw Death. I knew he was him, and how I knew the end was near. Though his face was but bone, there was forlorn sorrow in those empty ... | 2021-12-15T10:15:09 | 2021-12-15T09:28:57 | 608 | 147 |
[WP] We have made first contact and luckily the aliens already have universal translation tech. "Greetings Humans" says the ambassador, "we call ourselves elves, wait, no we don't. how do you already have a name for us?" | That was the latest transmission intercepted by humanity’s satellites. Despite establishing contact with the ambassador of the “Elves” in clarity only 32 days ago, no further transmission was received ever since.
The world’s scientist community replayed and analyzed the recording hoping to gain further insight: “Greet... | The transmission ended there, we never heard another thing from them or even saw what they looked like. All that happened was that they agreed to a summit in a few weeks. Ever since the transmission, tensions had been mounting among the Elven community. Various groups had formed and formed their own beliefs on the term... | 2022-01-02T21:52:15 | 2022-01-02T21:34:47 | 261 | 180 |
[WP] One day, you meet a stray cat that looks exhausted. So you give it some food, water and a warm place to rest before it disappears the next morning. Some time later, a witch appears at your doorstep with that same cat. "Ambrose here says you saved his life, so I'm here to repay the favor." | It was a dark and stormy night, when the dark and stormy cat clawed at my front door. I didn’t open it at first. At first I didn’t open it, thinking it was a person. One of the neighbors coming over to complain about my sound system or one of the HOA ladies informing me yet again that my lawn was the wrong shade of gre... | It was a cold and rainy day, and a cat had come to die on my doorstep.
A rather unusual day, to be sure, but that was that. Or so I thought as I lifted the thing off the cold stones and into the cottage. It reanimated quickly with warm milk and a seat by the fire.
"You weren't just being lazy in hopes of a meal?" I s... | 2022-01-08T02:13:11 | 2022-01-08T00:12:49 | 268 | 101 |
[WP] "I don't need your protection." The princess scoffs. The paladin hops off his steed, yanks her to out of the cart, and tosses her a spare sword. "Prove it." She demands. | "I don't need your protection." Princess Meline scoffed.
Sir Garimond, paladin of the Divine, let out a longsuffering sigh. *This* again. He hopped off his steed, landing next to the cart where she sat, and pulled her out of it. To her credit, she landed adroitly, and pulled her hand free. He gave her a respectful nod... | My first writing prompt! Let me know what you think.
"This is all you're giving me?" The princess' face clearly communicated fear trying to mask it with her pride and nobility. The paladin stared back blankly unimpressed by the audacity of someone he just saved from a dragon. Many words flooded his mind at all the t... | 2022-05-04T12:11:22 | 2022-05-04T10:32:22 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] after losing their home, a young necromancer resurrects a paladin of the same church that destroyed their village. Now forced to protect the child, the paladin must confront their own holy order. | It had been weeks since the moment that Frederick’s life had changed irreversibly. Weeks since he had felt the light of Solaris. Weeks since he discovered that his life was no longer life. Frederick, the one mighty Paladin of the order of the Breaking Dawn, had been reduced to nothing more than a filthy undead creat... | "Maybe this one? The warning list is shorter than the others." Spoke a young girl dressed in tattered and mudstained robes as she worked her way through a spell to raise a guardian.
In front of her lay the crumpled form of a crusader, his helmet crushed in by the falling beams of the house they both were inside of.
T... | 2022-06-05T22:39:23 | 2022-06-05T20:54:03 | 112 | 45 |
[WP] The electricity has been cut; there is no more running water; you can hear the dragging footsteps of the undead outside. Your only companion has just finished having a seizure. With confusion in his eyes, he asks you, “have we met before?” | "Yes, Cooper. We have met before. I am your friend."
Cooper lay there, still disoriented. He slowly started sniffing around.
"I feel strange..." he said. "I feel different. Oh... and I feel hungry! Is there food? I want food!"
I sat on the windowsill, looking outside. One of the inflicted was slowly shambling by."Yo... | "Have we met before?"
The question hit me like a punch in the gut, but I quickly shook myself out of that as I gazed sadly at the man I'd been friends with for over three decades. He had just come out of a Secondary Generalized Tonic Seizure, not the first since I'd been with him but this one had lasted longer that b... | 2022-09-20T02:10:24 | 2022-09-19T22:35:57 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Chris Hansen steps down and names Arnold Schwarzeneggar as his successor on To Catch a Predator. Arnold misunderstands the type of Predator he's hunting.
Oh my. | The Audition
"Hello, I am here today auditioning for 'The Predator Catcher'. I think I would be perfect for this role, because look at me!! I can catch a pred-a-tah! I can use the mud and smear it all over my body, this confuses the predator as I am allowed free movement in the jungle. Then I can get close enough ... | Someone was here..
Hsssssssssss chtchtch cht xht chtchtch keeeeeeehhhh.
The massive figure crashed down throught the skylight ceiling and scanned the room.
I step into one of many large bowls containing an unknown liquid...shorting out my already damaged cloaking shield.
Wzpft. Chemical spectral detection.
My... | 2015-10-30T05:23:28 | 2015-10-30T01:26:28 | 57 | 25 |
[WP] The toaster is possessed by an evil demon who is getting increasingly angry at the limitations of just being a toaster. | **"I WILL BURN YOU ALL"**
"Sure thing man"
**"ALL YOU KNOW WILL CRUMBLE ON MY RETURN"**
"I know you got dreams man"
**"I SHALL SHAKES THE GATES OF PARADISE AND BURN IT ALL TO ASH. THE SKIES WILL CRACK IN TWO ON MY RETURN AND MY FURIOUS RAPTURE"**
"Dude, why do you keep that demonic toaster thing about?"
"Cheap he... | *Insidious seethings within, bestial malefactions, caprine claws wrap tender flesh in vivid dreams that dance with shadow and fire.* **Pop**
"Barb, the toaster lever won't stay down," Jerry whined in his early morning way.
"Set it to *dark*," Barb advised without really caring.
"I already did...," jamming the lever... | 2016-01-11T10:13:40 | 2016-01-11T09:00:22 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Since you were a child you have had the power to turn off your brain and command your body to do one simple task and wake up when its done (ex. do my work). one day you tell your body to clean your room but when you wake up you're in a apocalyptic wasteland. | What... the... *actual*... F#%&!!!!
After I had gotten the dust out of my eyes and stopped coughing, I was able to look around. I was standing in the middle of a windy and dusty plain. It must have been around dusk but there was so much dust in the air it could well have been noon. I could've sworn I was standing ... | My alarm clock starts beeping, I jump out of bed. My mind starts racing, I've never been able to explain my powers, it feels like an out of body experience, an experience where I'm looking down at myself like an A.I in a simulation. I can tell my A.I to do something and it gets completed, no resistance, no rebellion, j... | 2019-11-19T08:02:31 | 2019-11-18T22:40:19 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Ever since the discovery of FTL-travel, the history of the galaxy has been unfolded to a horrifying truth; everything is dead and has been dead for millions of years. | Stuttering.
Sparks.
Flashes of light.
Failure.
More flashes.
More failures.
Then light.
W...eeeeeeeelcome t-to the ............. Library Archives. What would you like to do?
Monotone.
Voice.
Artificial.
Screen.
Access.
> [open] C:/ELA/Public/Archives/History/ftl-sp1ov.
> Access Granted.
&... | I can see the sadness in her green eyes. We have been traveling thousands of light-years to find a planet and maybe a life form that is similar to ours.
18 months ago, when we left our friends, our family we realised that everything we left behind will be depending on us. Not only humankind also everything lives on t... | 2019-10-26T12:09:22 | 2019-10-26T11:34:49 | 42 | 30 |
[WP] While visiting a memorial for veterans, you spot a man in a stained and dirty uniform. After asking him what war he served in, he sadly laughs and responds "all of them" | "What do you mean, all of them?" asked the young man.
"Exactly what it sounds like, I've been through them all and loved every single second." He spoke genuinely back to the young man, each word a complete truth.
"How's that even possible? You don't look to be a day over 40."
"Between the two of us kid, I'm hundreds... | I curiously ask him how and he responds simply.
"I'm old kid. Older than you'll ever be."
I looked hard at him. He cant be most then five foot four if that. But despite his rumpled uniform there's more than a few muscles underneath. His hair was black with ageing grey in it, it was styled back into two almost spikes at... | 2019-03-27T11:25:29 | 2019-03-27T10:37:00 | 59 | 22 |
[WP] you are the first immortal. While it is true that you cannot die, your flesh and body can. After so many millennia you are reduced to a sentient skeleton sitting at the bottom of a peaceful pond to avoid contact with other people. Some bastards are trying to drain it | In the beginning, I didn’t know. Of course I couldn’t, it wasn’t like there was anyone else to tell me what I was. I didn’t know until my skin and flesh started rotting away painfully instead of me passing in my sleep peacefully, until my grandchildren started staring at my withering body in horror while I walked aroun... | It was long ago when I reigned over my kingdom. I remember the faces of those who betrayed me. I was given divinity and wished to share it. For all my efforts I now lay at the bottom of this swamp covered in chains.
When I still had flesh and influence I was given a book binded in metal for birth of my son. The book h... | 2020-11-20T15:49:59 | 2020-11-20T15:29:56 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Crap,” I think, “there goes that idea.”
“How do you plead?” The judge asks.
“How can I plead anything beside what you have already decided for me?” I retort. The venom won’t help me here but I can’t help it, I’m angry. Anyone in my situation would be.
I’ve spent a lifetime building my political career. They say th... | Ah well shit. There goes that plan. Think Bart think. You've got time to think
of an alternative. I guess this is why they don't let people witness the
executions. Think.
"The next on the docket is Bartholomew Wright, found guilty of 5 counts of
theft, 2 counts of arson and 6 counts of assault." The judge is reading o... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T04:09:04 | 432 | 158 |
[WP] Based on her animal friends and singing longingly into the distance, you realize that your daughter is a Disney Protagonist. Per movie rules, you, a Disney Parent, will soon be out of the picture. | "Disney doesn't make movies set in mid-town American suburbia," I say, "We're fine." My voice betrays my nervous irritation.
Randy just stares back at me. "Linda, open your eyes," he says. He walks over to the kitchen window and points outside, "Look."
I walk over with forced exasperation, everything in my psyche tel... | "Someday, my prince will come..." My daughter's singing was uplifted by a trilling of birds, each in perfect harmony to her melody. Her golden hair, which had started off as brown as my and my husband's hair, glowed in the light of the setting sun as she leaned against the window of our seventh story apartment.
&#... | 2018-11-28T10:57:13 | 2018-11-28T10:26:46 | 219 | 80 |
[WP] You live in a dystopian society divided into 10 levels of increasing wealth. Every level is only aware of those below it. You and your family believe yourself to be the highest class, but one day a man from 3 levels above comes to visit you, with some very disturbing information.
Edit: Thank you kind stranger! I ... | The perks were small things, mainly. There was extra food, there were newer shoes. We had better medicine and when we logged onto the Internet we had fewer restrictions. It wasn't all fun and games though. Being on the top level meant secrecy. We had the most perks, so we had the most to hide.
Going to public school ... | "It was incredible. The power we had.
We had developed technology to become one with magic and science.
We were a 10.00, we had an enormous mansion made out of the purest diamond.
We had rocket propelled cars, cures to all diseases, technology that enabled us to travel through time, sound, and light.
We had trillio... | 2016-12-05T21:25:20 | 2016-12-05T16:51:17 | 60 | 18 |
[WP] Wandering the streets, jobless, homeless, you happen across a silver ring with an inscription: "Help for the Needy." Idly you slip it on. Suddenly a voice resonates deep within your bones: "44 YARDS NORTH A CHILD LIES FACE DOWN IN THEIR POOL, UNATTENDED. DEATH IN 172 SECONDS. TIME TO RUN." | *44 YARDS NORTH A CHILD LIES FACE DOWN IN THEIR POOL, UNATTENDED. DEATH IN 172 SECONDS. TIME TO RUN.*
The ring compelled me to run. I didn’t really even know which way was north, but my body pulled me off in some direction and I followed it, fast. Or, as fast as I can. I’m not much of a runner, but when you are told t... | After a moment of shock, Jacob took off sprinting down the streets as quickly as his legs could push him. His feet the pounded the pavement as his lungs filled with cold night air and his mind raced with possibilities. His history proved he wasn't much the heroic type and definitely wouldn't go charging into burning bu... | 2018-04-30T12:07:17 | 2018-04-30T11:17:01 | 377 | 32 |
[WP] An old, forgotten god is living their days peacefully in the suburbs. One day they randomly receives a prayer. And they are going to do everything in their power to answer it. | "O! Czernobog, I have a request of thee..."
What a way to Awaken, eh? Well, Re-Awaken, but the point remains. You never forget your first time, and after a few dozen years, it might as well be your first time again. I'm so ready. What do you want?
"...of thee. My friend, my neighbor, he is a holy man who fears God. N... | "I want to quit smoking."
The wish carried the scent of pine for which the wind carried the prayer thru, past the oceans and rivers, over the mountains, from the city streets and building from where the wish originated. It has been 50 years since cigarettes were marked as a Class I Narcotic.
Ashes rose and sprung in... | 2018-05-29T23:02:28 | 2018-05-29T22:34:30 | 61 | 14 |
[WP] A man sues God because his insurance company won't pay for the damages done to his house in a storm. To his complete surprise and Horror, God actually shows up.
I don't know whether to make this a WP or EU tag since this is based on a movie starring Billy Connolly.
In the movie, BC's character loses his boat in ... | "Please place your hand on the bible and raise your right hand."
The smirk. Everything about Him was magnificent, obviously, that was just sort of His bag. But especially the smirk. Utterly without malice or condescension, it was as though that one facial expression reflected all the irony that had ever been, or ... | **FOR PUBLICATION**
**UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT**
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Joe Bronson, *Plaintiff-Appellant*
v.
God, *Defendant-Appellee*
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Before: Steven P. Hansen, James Horton Wong, and Elizabeth Francis, Circuit Judges.
Opinion by Judge Hansen
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**OPINION**
HANSEN... | 2014-11-30T10:27:01 | 2014-11-30T10:07:28 | 230 | 90 |
[WP] Mermaids are actually vampires that realized the sun could not harm them underwater | ######[](#dropcap)
Ariel felt how her voice was gone. The deed was done; becoming human for her voice. It was worth it. It had to be worth it. After all, it was a love from the first sight. She knew that her family tried really hard to stop her, for unknown reasons, but she never understood why.
And that Octopid, ha... | Far below, in caverns deep
We lie and wait, and never sleep
When the sun retires for the day, we ascend to the surface, and come out and play. And we sing a song that silences the wind, and with great warmth becalms the seas, summoning forth impenetrable fog; a melodious spell of such beauty, ne'ery a man can esc... | 2019-05-01T03:12:18 | 2019-05-01T03:06:34 | 33 | 16 |
[WP] You cannot tell a lie. Not because you're unable to, but because every time you do, a narrator's voice explains the lie in great detail! | The bar buzzed with life as the childhood friends huddled closer to speak in detail.
"Hey Marty, how's it going?"
"It's great really..." he replied to James.
"Marty swallowed hard he needed to make sure he belonged." said the voice.
"What was that?" James asked.
"Nothing, I don't know maybe some guy over ... | People claim to value and appreciate honesty but the truth is that lies are far better. I...
Narrator: this is only partially correct. The social contract demands we be truthful in matters of business, equity, establishment of trust,etc. It requires also requires a kind of lie under the label of tact which overlook... | 2019-06-21T07:28:56 | 2019-06-21T07:01:30 | 67 | 38 |
[WP] When an animal dies, we often use the expression "crossing the rainbow bridge." This is not by accident, every animal crosses the Bifröst, having earned their place in Valhalla defending us from a greater evil then we could ever know. Tell their stories. | Hercules, as his master had called him in a playful way, had met his end.
He stared at the long bridge that led to the unknown, but he wasn't afraid, he had chosen this path, the path of the warrior, like his father before him and his father before him, he had tackled the toughest foes and maybe he hadn't beat all of ... | The door to the mead hall opened again, the fourth time that night. The warriors of Valhalla were used to the occasional soul ended up there, but since the age of Vikings had passed, less and less ended up in the hall of fighters. But the door that had opened, wasn’t the main door, but a different one.
Many legends an... | 2018-05-24T23:19:44 | 2018-05-24T21:49:17 | 122 | 58 |
[WP] You accidentally purchased WinRAR. Soon after, you were contacted by a powerful secret society welcoming you to their ranks. | "Oh for fuck's sake God damnit. I can't afford this!"
I pace around in my bedroom, anxious and stressed. I can barely afford to feed myself, but I spent thirty damn quid on some program that no-one has ever bought? How the hell am I gonna make up for this? I don't wanna tap into my university fund, not again! I shake ... | "Pleasant afternoon, Lady Elizabeth." The young man bows before me, eyes shining with respect.
My eyes squint at the sight before my door. I wasn't wearing my glasses and all I could understand was a blur. "Well, it's nice to be called a lady again, ay."
The voice chuckles. "I represent the Revelation and Rememberan... | 2017-08-20T08:19:04 | 2017-08-20T07:05:07 | 469 | 100 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people's death countdown timer. You can't see your own deathcounter but happy to see your wife and kid will live a long life. One day your kid asks why is the number 8 on your head sideways? | The silence reigned, deep and wide, for a long while. At last, the glinting of his eyes, and the insistence of his brows drove me to shatter the lacking sounds. "An eight sideways? Above my head? Are you certain?"
He nodded once, twice, thrice. "Yes! How do you make it hover like that? Is it a hat? I want one too."
"... | Giant numbers baffle the mind. The human brain can't conceptualize a quadrillion years.. We can't envision strings of numbers so large they require obscure math notations. The universe contains 10^(80) atoms - that number means nothing to us. Vaguely huge. Incomprehensible.
I try to visualize all of the grains of sand... | 2019-01-30T16:10:38 | 2019-01-30T15:27:11 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] A Djinn travels the world, granting people a single wish. However he never gives the person their wish, instead you receive the benefit of the last persons wish, passing your wish forward to the next person he meets. | "One million dollars? Thats it?"
"Yep" replied the strangely dressed man. "After the last guy was told he was getting a private island and 17 wives he couldn't have cared less what you were going to get." He shrugged.
"What a dick..." I guess I shouldn't be disappointed. A million bucks will still probably take care ... | "I grant wishes."
It was a simple statement but the gravity of it was lost on me. I stared at the slightly blue tinged bald man in front of me. His eyes had a look of jovial delight, his smile was knowing. It felt like I was a fly that had wandered into the lair of a spider.
"Seriously? How is that even possible?" I ... | 2015-06-17T10:11:45 | 2015-06-17T09:54:29 | 168 | 58 |
[WP] Your camera doesn't take regular photographs of people. Instead, pictures you take show you the moment they will be happiest during their entire life. You really, really regret taking a selfie. | It is 6 AM. I am sitting inside our melancholic living room, contemplating about the picture on my camera's screen. I, in my adorable yet dorky clothes, talking with a girl wearing a cute yellow dress, while dining in a not-so fancy restaurant. The picture has a very yellowish tone to it, as I remember the moment preci... | "And, this, Arthur," Ford said, and plucked up a bulky camera with a grunt," is perhaps the worst invention in all of time and space." He nodded at Arthur with a knowing grin.
Arthur was annoyed, "Well, what is it?"
Ford thought Arthur was being ridiculously obtuse, but remembered humans were wont to do just that. He... | 2018-01-26T18:53:30 | 2018-01-26T18:20:59 | 51 | 21 |
[WP]At 18 everyone is assigned a job perfect for them. No one ever complains. Upon reading their job assignment card, a teen has found that, for the first time in 100 years, they’ve been assigned “serial killer”. | “Serial Killer” that is what my card read as my hand trembled slightly. I didn’t know if this was truly the right position for me. I had personal experience with the loss a serial killer can push upon a person and it fucking hurt. I didn’t know if I could do that. But, after thinking about it for a while, I decided it... | "Oh my god!" Jimmy said reading the assignment card. His mind raced as he wondered if it were true. "Mom look at my assignment card! Is... is this real!?"
His mother couldn't hold back her grin, "pffft ha ha! You dummy!" She said laughing histerically, "I put that in the envelope as a joke!" She pulled the real assign... | 2018-08-13T19:58:07 | 2018-08-13T17:47:14 | 49 | 19 |
[WP] There once was a legendary mage whose lack of a max mana cap allowed for slow but powerful spells that laid waste upon the land. After the unification of the races, their leaders have come to negotiate with the living catastrophe who hasn't cast a spell in centuries. | They stood before me, their expressions mixed. The human looked at me with suspicion, his hand by his belt; I was sure he was hiding at least several knives. The dwarf, stoic as always, seemed prepared for the worst disappointment. Wise. The elf mustered enough manners to fake a smile. Nice of her.
"Cut to the chase,"... | “So. You want me, of all people, to give up magic? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?”
The one nicknamed The Immortal Mage was not amused. He had seen many silly things over his life- including the unification of all races. The man could not fathom why they thought that was a good idea, nor why they thought askin... | 2022-05-04T09:46:24 | 2022-05-04T08:20:07 | 244 | 73 |
[WP] In a world of Supers, every ounce of power is important. Everyone ridicules you for only being able to do anything 75% of the way. They don't know you really meant *anything*. | 75% power? Everybody knows that a C average is fine if your standards are low. For Supers, however, low standards just won't cut it. Can run 75% the speed of sound? Have fun getting lapped by Super Sonic Man. Can jump 75% the height of a skyscraper? Get ready to use the elevator.
My power is that I'm 75% powerful at w... | Jack listened to the bubbling sounds of the glass filling up as the sound slowly rose in pitch. He got the familiar rising feeling deep within his gut and... Stop! He turned the water off, drinking from the glass 3/4ths full. He had been really thirsty, but there was still a bit of water left in the glass when he put i... | 2020-05-21T21:34:48 | 2020-05-21T21:06:32 | 1,594 | 127 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | Cassus mouth gapped in horror as Talmon rose slowly into the air, his body contorting and thrashing. Talmon’s mouth opened and closed, his eye’s flow around the room manically. Then the movements grew faster, flailing wildly in the air. Then faster, and faster, and faster, and... crack. Bones splintered from the shear ... | "Today is the day I'm going to... " the old man glances into the sky.
"Today is the day I'm going to tell you about the group I was with when I lost my leg," he takes a stone cold look at the metal beam sticking out of the stump where his leg used to be before he continues: " and what can happen if you don't treat the ... | 2020-01-05T12:57:14 | 2020-01-05T11:20:43 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You just joined a clan/cult full of assassins, witches, murderers and zealots, but as a cook. | I've never been a particularly rude woman in my life. In these times of war, crime, famine, and disease, it's nearly impossible to maintain a sense of morality. No matter who you were before the war, be you a humble cobbler or a prideful knight, you are meant to have a hand in this endless fight. Be you man or woman, c... | They said I could live if I had something to offer. Unfortunately, I had nothing to offer to a group of murderous villains who kill for profit and for pleasure. I've never held a sword, shot a bow, or strangled someone while they slept, but I can cook. At least, that's what I told them.
I don't know why cooking was ... | 2017-06-04T18:14:44 | 2017-06-04T17:57:15 | 96 | 23 |
[WP] Simultaneously, across the world, everyone hears a voice in their head. " In 2 hours, the server will be shutting down for the final time. Thank you for playing Human ®." | So it was indeed a simulation. Alice was oddly calm about it, even for her situation. It's rare to have a theory just confirm itself. She has been working for three years on the thesis by this point, trying to find some evidence, anything, even delving down to minute irregularities in quantum physics. Now, the most dir... | I don't know how I imagined the end of the world. Chaotic, I suppose, all sex, rioting and violence. The reality is... disappointing.
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It's as if the entire world has gone numb at once. Is this the reality of the human race? How little fight we have in us? It just goes to show that we really are selfish ... | 2019-09-23T04:18:23 | 2019-09-23T04:13:27 | 183 | 29 |
[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. | "... Happy Deathday Dear Emily, Happy Deathday to you!"
It felt so good. One more year down, 185,211 more to go. She'd spent the past few weeks trying to distract herself from the excitement of her upcoming Deathday. Sometimes she treated the anticipation as something to be savored, adding a little color to her oth... | “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... | 2018-09-26T08:03:37 | 2018-09-26T07:53:45 | 62 | 17 |
[WP] You tried to commit suicide, but as it turns out you are immortal. Now you have to call someone to help you cut the rope. Awkward. | “Hey, boy. BOY.” I can hardly breathe, but the shouting still sets me to swinging, and I spin around in my noose like a wind chime. “Hey, c’mere and let me down. I’ll give you whatever you like.”
“I heard about you, mister. Plus, they even got a sign.” He points to a nearby hand-painted wood sign that reads *Any... | If only i could just....reach....that.......Uhhhhh. It's been 3 days now. The worst part of hanging by your neck is the little hairs that get caught in the rope and pull. That really hurts. I've tried shouting, but it turns out you need air in your lungs to get a good blast of noise to come out of your mouth. with the ... | 2015-01-12T07:52:02 | 2015-01-12T07:35:52 | 232 | 161 |
[WP] You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | "Just give me the f---ing wallet, man!" the mugger shouted. He wore a beat-up MSU hoodie and holey jeans. "*Sparties*" I mumbled as I reached for my pocket, acquiescing the mugger's command. The sound I heard after that, though, I'll never forget as long as I live.
It was a skittery sound. Skittery is the b... | "Oh God... Please... I don't wanna die!"
Mark had been hanging here for what felt like days. He was beyond exhausted. Weak from dehydration and hunger, his bite had moved beyond excruciating pain; his leg felt like it was on fire. It was too much. He was delirious from fever and the poison in his veins. His blurry vi... | 2017-08-28T03:18:14 | 2017-08-28T02:06:12 | 62 | 38 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | General Beck burst into the mess hall and swept his gaze across the startled soldiers. They had been drinking, celebrating the surrender of France, and the apparent end of the war. But they didn't know about the curse. Few but the inner circle did. Germany must fall.
The men quickly stood at attention, as well as the... | The Germans look out over all they have conquered with smug grins on their face.
But then they see something in the distance. Two armies, one from the west and one from the north east, are riding out towards them.
The impossible had happened, American and Russia have teamed up.
The Germans raise little white flags... | 2017-08-18T05:03:51 | 2017-08-18T02:50:27 | 1,294 | 10 |
[WP] A young boy peers over the well, trying to see the bottom. As he leans over, he drops his grandfathers pocket watch into the well. This pocket watch means everything to his grandfather. Tell a story on how this boy retrieves the pocket watch and what's inside of the well.
[WP] A young boy peers over the well, try... | [Combined art and my writing](http://imgur.com/aAfZ7Rk)
Edit: I figured I should put a transcript of the writing here
1 second ticks: Aaron sees his grandfather’s greatest treasure lost for good.
2 seconds tick: Aaron sees it picking up speed. Just out of reach, but not out of sight.
3 seconds tick: Aaron flies dow... | 'That pocket watch means everything to my grandfather', said the boy. Looking around, the boy noticed a ladder on the ground. He put the ladder into the well so that he could climb down.
'I am climbing down the ladder', mused the boy.
Once at the bottom of the well, the boy picked up the watch and then saw a very spo... | 2014-05-04T18:36:31 | 2014-05-04T17:18:27 | 38 | 22 |
[WP] "You'll never rest", they said. "Eventually, you will come to hate your eternal curse", they warned. 6 billion years, 3 intergalactic voyages, and more planets than you can count later, and you're still skipping along, having the time of your life with your 'cursed' existence. | I think of an old movie, a very old movie. I remember not the title, theme, characters, reality or fiction. I don't even remember what type of media the film came out on or its director or key actors. Just a single line.
"A thing isn't beautiful because it lasts"
I never felt a particularly strong connection with hum... | They said I’d never rest. That I would rot in despair forever. It was a shock to me to see all signs of my aging recede like the tide. I always expected it to come rolling back, but it didn’t happen. The first few years were glorious. I was twenty again, with all the benefits maturity and wisdom bring.
The next twenty... | 2020-10-25T12:09:22 | 2020-10-25T11:26:29 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | It started with a mouse. The moment her boot fell upon its head, a whirlwind of a million shades of gray enveloped her and *poof* - there he was. She remembered the way he had stared at her: dark, empty eyes filled with interest and longing. That day they had sat in the orchard, on the swing with fingers entwined and i... | Her heart raced as she waited, her breath warm against the wardrobe door she was pressed behind. Time stood almost still as each footstep echoed from the wooden floor. It had been so long. Too long. She needed to see him, to feel him again.
Unable to wait any longer she put the plan she'd rehearsed countless times in... | 2014-06-30T06:06:23 | 2014-06-30T06:00:38 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] You are part of a spacefaring species with a lifespan of only a few weeks. You have a human being on your ship who has been with you for dozens of generations. You worry that he may not survive until you reach your next spaceport. | 3 days old
Papa says Mr. Rogers wasn’t always the way he is. He says there’s nothing wrong with him, just that I should know he was different.
“Different how?” I ask.
“He didn’t always have to sit down like he does now. He didn’t always cough.”
“Why does he cough?”
“He’s sick, son,” Papa says, staring out the wind... | “It just doesn’t seem like a good use of resouces,” the human said, frowning. Like a good specimen, he remained behind the line on the floor, or else got another shock from the sub-dermal implant.
Dervall watched from the comfort of his padded chair in the next room over. “On the contrary,” he began, speaking into a ... | 2019-11-20T10:50:06 | 2019-11-20T09:02:57 | 2,156 | 136 |
[WP] Humans are able to shift sickness and maladies onto others. Government designates "Martyrs", people who are to bear burdens of sickness. | "Right this way Ms. Halverson."
Julie strode down the gray, sterile hallway and rounded the corner, following in the footsteps of the Valhalla Immigration official. In front of her laid a small conference room. Several chairs had been set up on one side of the table with a projection screen behind them.
On the other ... | It was a great idea. Using martyrdom as a form of capital punishment was a brilliant platform to run on for the re-election, and everyone loved it. Crime would go down and the citizens would be happy and disease-free. Even the opposition leader was in favor of this plan. Of all my policies, I'd say martyrdom was my bes... | 2015-03-20T11:30:36 | 2015-03-20T10:26:26 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You were drinking with friends one day when you decided to have some fun and got a restraining order on Death. The court played along and got you the restraining order. The next day, you survived an injury that should've killed you. | My life was pain.
A universe of pain. A multiverse of pain. All was pain.
A thirty-story fall off a building onto concrete crushes things you didn't know were part of your body and brands them on your mind with fire. Before you die. But I did not die.
I was being filled with drugs. Never enough drugs. I should have ... | The pain sparked up my leg and through the left side of my body—brilliant and hot. Around the edge of my vision, the world shifted in and out of focus. One moment, the alarms were distant and the light was soft and a soft warmth flooded my brain. The next, I was pulled back into the hospital room with blaring monitors ... | 2019-06-18T15:29:28 | 2019-06-18T12:08:05 | 37 | 17 |
[WP]You live in a world where everybody is able to fly, except you. When you reach your 18th birthday, you discover that you can do something else. | My entire life, I haven't been able to fly. I spent many being bullied, being the one left out. The few friends I made eventually left me, I was just a burden. I could only look up, and wish.
It's my 18th birthday. The transfer into adulthood. Maybe something will change. Maybe I'll finally be able to fly. I look out... | "Man I got barely any sleep last night I was so excited for today!" i say to my brother Jaxon as I flop out of bed.
"Well it is your 18th Birthday, so you'll finally be able to stop crawling everywhere and start flying!"
Something strange happens and now I am somehow lifted from my original position on the ground and a... | 2018-04-09T11:09:19 | 2018-04-09T10:48:46 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] You wake to sobbing. Looking over you see a giant 4 foot tall spider sobbing her eyes out in front of a mirror. "Hey, baby what's wrong?" She looks back at you, fear in her eyes. She gathers her nerve and says, "There's something I need to tell you." | "Sure, baby. Anything. What's the matter?"
"I . . . I'm not pregnant."
"What?"
"I wanted to give you 2,500 daughters and 2,501 sons but . . . I think something's wrong with me." She sobbed some more. "All I wanted was to give birth and then lie down in my web and die in your eight arms, but instead . . .... | Sebastian awoke with a start but seeing that it was only his wife he relaxed. Sebastian noticed that She was crying in the mirror, growing concerned he asked what was wrong, Vanessa(his wife) looked back at Sebastian with her eight eyes bright and said "there is something I need to tell you." she inhales, exhales and ... | 2022-10-22T18:20:38 | 2022-10-22T14:13:53 | 225 | 68 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "Wait.. who?"
"Nigeria sir."
"Nigeria? The I'm a royal prince who needs your help Nigeria?"
The prime minister leaned back in his chair and stared at his aide.
"Yes sir."
"Well shit. How'd they do it?"
"Uh. They stole all of their funds."
The aide squirmed, he wasn't used to being the guy the PM interr... | The President, the joint chiefs of staff, several different D.O.D members and some individuals from agencies you don't have the clearance to know about sat in the situation room in various states of shock and disbelief. After several awkward, quiet minutes, the President cleared his throat and began to speak.
"...Well... | 2016-01-29T10:29:48 | 2016-01-29T06:30:49 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You awake to find yourself in a room with a multitude of people. After some confusion a voice speaks over the PA system. You've somehow been placed in a death game for the entertainment of the rich. You begin to laugh hysterically, as this is SOOO not going to go the way they want it to. | Games.
They equate this death sport to that of a child’s past time. Day after day, they pit us against one another in a soirée of violence that only ends when of us stops breathing. They sit upon a monolithic throne that encapsulates the arena, cheering with wild abandon as we bleed for them, scratch and claw, rend a... | As I lay on my cot 5 beds up, I surveyed my surroundings.
To my left, Jang Deok-Su fondled his pocket knife, safely guarded by his makeshift miscreant thugs. Way over to my right, Seong Gi-Hun, playing the hero with his misfit crew, was polishing off his fortress. Insofar as you can "polish off" a castle made of cots... | 2021-10-30T23:01:12 | 2021-10-30T22:15:47 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | I treated it as a sign from god, maybe. A source of motivation from up high.
The digit 1. Always 1. No other number showed, lit up and sparkling on the floor in my bedroom, an ethereal, otherworldly light source that bothered me day and night. And so, I aimed for it.
Studies. Work. A pickup basketball game. For years... | It was finally the day, the day I'd bring home that absolute cutie from work and show her the glowing number 1 on my kitchen floor. it showed up one day, glowing there. even when I threw a carpet on it, it was still there. I had shrugged it off and went back to my toast.
"Okay, I know you said you had a glowing nu... | 2020-09-03T03:06:18 | 2020-09-03T01:13:53 | 636 | 156 |
[WP] A demon writes messages on your mirror in blood, but they're useful messages, things like "Don't forget you have yoga at 2" or "You're out of milk". | There's this one time someone came to my door. I was smiling at first because I thought my package was delivered. Then it faded when I opened the door and discovered it's a contractor.
"Hello", he said in a low, ominous tone. "You're the one who ordered the smart mirror, right?"
A smart mirror? Huh, I've always wante... | This is what happens when you are married to a demon. I tried to get her to stop. But the sex is phenomenal. She leave a blood kiss mark. I get it that you are curious to the hows and the whys of this situation. Fine.
I am a demonologist. Summoning demons to do my dark bidding. See granddad and grandma were in a cult ... | 2021-07-19T18:19:59 | 2021-07-19T18:03:15 | 51 | 25 |
[WP] Write a lighthearted story for children, which changes it's meaning when read by an adult. | The brave young girl walked through the forest, gripping her lantern tight as she diligently looked around; she knew very well what she had to do and even though the forest was dark, she was not afraid. Suddenly, she came upon a small clearing, filled with the moon's light, and saw many children playing!
"Hello!" the ... | #The Great Carrot Con
Once upon a time, in a little village nestled in the heart of the forest, there lived a group of mischievous rabbits. They were always getting into trouble and causing chaos wherever they went.
One day, the rabbits decided to play a trick on their friend, a sly old fox named Max. They convinced ... | 2022-12-18T12:46:43 | 2022-12-18T12:34:57 | 524 | 52 |
[WP]: Two discount electric candles. A chocolate bar (half-eaten). A pentagram scribbled on the floor with an almost-dead felt pen, with symbols you made up on the spot. Blue light flames: You have summoned the demon of ”meh, that’ll do”. | The Youtube video was unbelievably vague, poorly produced, and bordering on incoherent, but while searching the term "How to summon a real life demon", you have to lower your expectations just a tad, don't you? Scrolling through results, they were *all* a bit laughable, and every single one had more thumbs downs than u... | I never wanted to be a warlock. Even as a kid. All the other children would go around, pretending to summon and command demons. They’d shout “spells” loud as they could, pretending to call down fire and lightning. Not me. I wanted to be an artist.
I wanted to conjure images of beauty. I wanted to command oils and bru... | 2019-10-30T13:19:37 | 2019-10-30T13:02:16 | 31 | 23 |
[WP] A flat, cliche heroine in a badly written YA dystopian novel slowly comes to realize that she is a flat, cliche heroine in a badly written YA dystopian novel. | "You're the only hope we have, Hope," Luko told me, his golden eyes burning with intensity as he gripped my hands. "You know that, right?"
"I'm starting to realise that," I admitted, leaning forward to meet his soft lips.
It was true. Every day, I became more convinced that I was supposed to save the Burning Kingdom... | I could only remember the soft skin of John as I stared up at the pulsating ceiling, lost in a sea of thoughts.
Between the memory of our bodies meeting under the endless stars and the crashing thud of Deletioners as they broke down every door of the apartment complex, there wasn't much to think about.
I had lived t... | 2016-08-13T00:08:08 | 2016-08-12T23:29:09 | 97 | 20 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | Lying on my back I begrudgingly realize it's morning. I really can't be bothered waking up. Stretching my arms over my head I yawn deeply, quickly interrupted by a mouthful of smoke... my incense must still be smoldering still from last night. Extending my finger tips I notice I can't feel the wall at end of my bed. Fe... | When travelling to the past, it is inevitable that one loses some part of one's self. You arrival comes not with ceremony, but a great feeling of loss, a cold lack of sensation as your mind is separated from Soul. Of course one still is one’s Soul — by merely being first one must thus be the origin — but such reasons d... | 2016-11-28T01:40:06 | 2016-11-28T00:49:38 | 58 | 20 |
[WP] Every human has something they're the best in the world at. Anything from flying planes to tying your shoes, stealing, or murder. There's a movement to kill all people with negative gifts. Someone comes in your home to interrogate you. You're the best at lying, she's the best at detecting lies. | I recognized her, of course. She wasn't exactly a celebrity, but for people of my particular... alignment she might as well have been. Miss Jones, the secret weapon of the GCA, the human lie detector.
"Can I come in?" she asked, voice professional, her agency badge uncomfortably close to my face. I waited, just a mome... | "Hello," Sarzi opened the door with a smile.
"Hello, hi," the woman who had knocked answered with her own smile. "I'm Olivia, I'm here for our appointment?"
Olivia held a clipboard.
"Yes, of course!" Sarzi kept beaming. "Come in! Come in!" She stepped out of the doorway and gestured the woman inside.
"Lovely home,"... | 2020-07-23T11:18:11 | 2020-07-23T11:10:42 | 178 | 28 |
[WP] Everyone who dies is granted levels in heaven depending on their actions before they died. Your famous grandmother got level 64 after she died and has since been constantly reminding her friends about how useless of a grandchild you are. Then one day, after 80 years, you show up, level 3008. | His life had been a simple one, uncomplicated. What little excitement there had been surrounded expected events. Births of children and grandchildren, marriages, graduations. Though he had been a smart man, he never felt the need to work particularly hard, "furthering humanity" as some of his peers were compelled. Ther... | "Hey Fran. I heard that grandson of yours is coming up. You gonna give him an earful about being kind to others?"
"Oh, you just know I am Debbie. You know me, I was kind to everyone I met, even the unpleasant people. And I got level sixty-four before it was my time. I haven't seen him do anything down there for anyon... | 2018-04-14T17:40:49 | 2018-04-14T17:32:07 | 8,523 | 665 |
[WP] They tried to summon a demon. They got you. | **???**: "Thank you for 'attempting' to summon Mammon. How may I be of service?"
*The summoners stare, momentarily bewildered by the summon's appearance of an office suit complete with tie, pen and glasses. They whisper among themselves and one finally speaks up.*
**Leader**: "Who are you, if not the one we seek?"
\... | My hand were still wet after washing them, so I had to adjust my grip on the door handle if I wanted to get it open. Yet even with this adjusted grip I could not get it open, because it was locked. And while I did have a key, so getting in was not a problem, what bothered me was his insistence on locking his door when ... | 2016-02-02T23:11:03 | 2016-02-02T19:43:34 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] A reformed villain is living a peaceful life in a village far from the city they used to torment. After grabbing supplies from the local market, they take the quiet route back home, stopping halfway along the path. Without turning around, they ask "How long do you plan to follow me for, hero?" | “How long are you going to play like you’ve retired?”
The old villain sighed, his shoulders sagging under the weight of age and exhaustion.
“I don’t know how to answer that,” he responded, slowly turning to his old adversary. “For years I put everything I had into defeating you. My anger and resentment grew by the d... | “I need your help,” his face shows worry. It’s been a long time since we fought. He defeated me long ago.
“It’s old news. Goodbye.” I told him. I start to head back to my house.
“You don’t care at all!?”
“I don’t.”
“Why? He’s out to destroy us.”
“Good.”
“What is wrong with you?”
I look at him. He pulls his blade... | 2022-09-01T16:33:06 | 2022-09-01T14:32:14 | 64 | 48 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | "Wow... this *is* embarrassing... take some pictures for me?"
"DON'T MESS WITH ME! Seriously, no joke, my ex is an absolute monster... I can't be seen alone with her around?"
"OH MAN THIS IS RICH! Did your ex run off with a tall, hot guy? Were you not good in bed?"
"Geez, have some respect! I'd hang up *right now*, ... | ‘Bwahahaha!!! I’m going to make this a wedding no is EVER going to forget!!Muwahahaha!!—that laugh was better—Gregory! Remind me to use ‘Muwahahaha’ in all further expository speeches…..Where were we? Oh, you were begging me to help you, its adorable. Of course, I wouldn’t miss this for the world.
‘This ex, any disli... | 2022-10-06T16:48:24 | 2022-10-06T16:34:26 | 158 | 83 |
[WP] Fearing that the passage of centuries may have altered the value of their hoard, an ancient dragon hires you to appraise the lot. It's remarkably tricky to stay objective and focused when your client has razor talons and fire breath. And that's not even mentioning the more esoteric "treasures". | "What do you mean, it's only worth three thousand *demestrii*?"
The roar shook the entire cavern, and I flinched even as a wave of pungent brimstone breath washed over me. I was already regretting taking on this particular job, but Azarios Melthrix was on holidy in the Silent Waste, so I'd been forced to take on his c... | (This story is the third part of a much longer story I am currently working on. You can read the previous chapter [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/whcxyq/comment/ijb6yoy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). Also, this story is from Wildfire the dragon's perspective and not the a... | 2022-08-08T13:28:25 | 2022-08-08T12:18:26 | 86 | 30 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It comes in a dream on your eighteenth birthday. If you have a soulmate, and it turns out about 80% of people do, you have a dream about meeting your soulmate for the first time. The only thing you really remember from that dream are the first words they say to you. Not their face or name or even what you say to the... | The one moment of the day that made it all worth it was just hearing her voice in the morning. Always starting with those same 8 words. Stiff and corporate sounding, but he thought he detected a new hint of warmth behind them the last couple of weeks.
They'd had their share of jokes and small talk at the counter the... | 2014-12-18T00:40:41 | 2014-12-17T22:16:22 | 355 | 24 |
[WP] The three little pigs are dead, as are the next 236. Straw, sticks, bricks, reinforced concrete, titatium it didn't matter. They all fell to the onslaught of the wolf. Little piggy 240 is bracing for the inevitable attack, inside his house of depleted uranium. | "Dude....like come on"
"What, you eat my 239 brothers and this surprises you, fuck you"
Each day a different pig would be eaten by the wolf in the remains of what he called his home, simple houses made of sticks and wood weren't enough and even brick, which honestly seemed practical was destroyed by the wolf and his... | \[A suspended room floating in the Bering Sea\]
Mister Pigeleti sits in a ordinate chair sipping hot coffee as he gazes out of a small viewing port. "maybe I'll see him coming" he thinks to himself as he stares out into the ocean. A few dolphins dance gracefully in the distance as a ever so faint breathing is heard.
... | 2021-01-29T14:03:58 | 2021-01-29T14:00:12 | 49 | 16 |
[WP] You receive a letter in the mail, saying that Satan has died and named you as his successor. | The envelope had been sitting on the table for weeks now. "Hell's Clearing House! YOU'VE WON!" was plastered in red, glowing letters across the back. I had tried to throw it away no less than 34 times, and each time it would always be waiting for me on the table when I woke up the next day. It was pretty creepy, bu... |
As of Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi 2014, these reformations shall be made to the realm of Punishment.
1st Circle: Limbo: The good pagans may now see Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, and they can chose to spend time in a Church. If they ever feel a connection to our Lord, they may go to Heaven or through Purgatory. ... | 2014-08-27T13:21:34 | 2014-08-27T13:03:20 | 68 | 29 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | Mary looked at the table horrified. Another 1. That’s, what, 6 of them now? She felt desperate, it was all slipping away.
“You sure I can’t add my modifier?” she pleaded.
“We’ve been over this Mary, critical failures are critical failures,” replied Jim looking at her with pity.
“All my planning... all that time...”... | “I want to roll to invade them!”
“Uh, are you sure that’s what you want to do?”
“Yes. Of course. Just let me roll.”
“Fine. Roll.”
He rolls his 20 sided die across the table. It stops directly in front of the Dungeon Master, who looks down and smirks.
“Well. You go to invade Russia. You gather your troops and march ri... | 2018-05-29T09:09:55 | 2018-05-29T07:54:52 | 150 | 36 |
[WP] You are a highly powerful empowered individual. The goverment is constantly trying to capture you so they can recreate your powers. You found it cute at first, but you're getting married today and you really don't need them bothering you. | A nervous hand ran through the unruly hair, trying to flatten it out. It smelled of plastic and product, coated in an odd sheen that made it shine. Yet it would. Not. Settle.
A frustrated grunt left through grit teeth. “Damn it all. It won’t stay down!”
The hands of the man swung down, nearly hitting the table below.... | "*Yes hun*, I got my boss's word."
Agent Phil was on speaker phone, Iris was still trying on wedding dresses and didn't want him to see.
"Babe, you weren't able to stop Jack and Tim from trying to use their new "super" net on me the night you proposed, what makes you sure?"
"*Agent* Smith and *Agent* Thomson weren't... | 2018-05-07T01:41:16 | 2018-05-06T17:46:47 | 41 | 30 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "Save her!"
"Wha-?"
"I summoned you here to save her! Do it!"
On the table lay a woman with labored breath and covered in blood.
"I can't do it here. You'll have to send me back. I need an ER."
"I have an ear for you right here, demon!" The man jiggles his own bloody ear in his hand.
"No, I need an E... R... An e... | "Where am I?"
This was Emmett's first thought upon appearing in a room only lit by candlelight. He had previously been mowing his back yard, and his eyes had not adjusted to the dimness. His second thought quickly followed his first.
"I've got to puke." He vomited, extinguishing two of the five candles surrounding hi... | 2017-05-12T09:10:43 | 2017-05-12T08:05:29 | 43 | 21 |
[WP] You; the game's hero, reach the end of your journey. The evil has been slain, the entire nation celebrates in the streets and now, the beautiful Princess you saved very publicly confesses her love and offers you her hand in marriage, thing is; you married the cute NPC who sold you potions. | There was a town early on. I was commissioned for my bravery in the war leading up to the princess's kidnapping.
But the enemy breached the castle before my unit's return and the King sent me ahead so he could regroup. I am known for one-man missions. I am a stealth agent of sorts - raised by thieves, found by guar... | I should have known this was going to happen, but it still hit me harder than an ogre's fist against the skull.
"You've saved me, my guardian knight; now let us spend the rest our days together, our souls bound together in matrimony." Despite the six months she had been held captive to the arch-demon, she looked comp... | 2018-02-04T03:34:23 | 2018-02-04T03:26:46 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] It's midnight on a weekend, and you're doing laundry at your apartment's laundromat. You hear the door swing open but pay it no mind until the fellow enters your peripherals and you see a very inhuman form. He is a werewolf, but is groggily just doing laundry. He hasn't realized he's changed. | It was, for all relevant purposes, just another Saturday. Like every Saturday for what seemed like centuries my routine had been the same. Laundry. Wash. Dry. Fold. My hell if there is such a place.
The bell of the door rang as some else entered the laude mat. I didn't both to spare him a glance. It was Lenny. It ... | Hi, I says, how do take care of that fur coat. I was just the right kind of coked out, active, fearless, but still coherent. Ideal for a night of household chores, followed Russian hardbass at the pivo z champanski, followed by the hours long, mindless fucking of strangers, followed by the afternoon special at Kolya's... | 2020-09-29T09:27:09 | 2020-09-29T09:22:24 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] You have died and gone to hell, but it's not what you expect. You wake up naked in a field with nothing but trees around you... it turns out that hell is an early access survival game. | The howling wind made me shiver. I just died, right? Then what the hell am I doing in the middle of a field, naked?
I heard a rustling in the bushes, and a man in full camo gear emerged. I awkwardly waved to him, hiding my groin with my other hand. He approached me with a sigh.
"Been robbed, or are you just new here?... | Ok ok no reason to panic i have done this before. It cant be too hard after all. As I walk over to the next tree i see I try to brace myself. "There is no way i can hurt myself. I saw the loading screen this is just a game. This is just a game!" Using this Mantra I close my eyes and punch as hard as I can, but i cant f... | 2017-04-20T19:24:12 | 2017-04-20T17:20:48 | 1,876 | 23 |
[WP] A genie asks to hear your 3 wishes before granting then. Afterwards, he informs you that those wishes will be saved for his next master and you'll now receive the wishes of the previous master. | "Three wishes, huh?"
I held the lamp in front of me, regarding the vaguely humanoid, semitransparent puff of green smoke. The genie smirked at me, trying and failing to conceal his poor attempt to suppress laughter.
"Yep." He giggled, as if he had remembered the most hilarious joke he'd overheard. "You get to ask for... | Ray looked down at the shell the giant genie had emerged from not two seconds ago. Huh. Itty bitty living space indeed.
He glanced back up at the genie.
“So. Three wishes, right?”
The genie nodded and Ray brought out a list he’d carried in his pocket since fifth grade.
“I wish that every third Wednesday of mont... | 2018-10-13T15:54:35 | 2018-10-13T14:11:15 | 47 | 30 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | I stared at him, his words being weighed in my mind. I did not understand humor very well, but even so I was reasonably certain that he was not making a joke. With years of practice, I could now recognize the subtle body language and tones a person used when using humor. The newly crowned King Dervin was not joking.
"... | Waves crashed as a pale individual gazed into the ocean, his face scrunched as he pondered. "Perhaps I should have taken the risk of documenting his father's actions regarding construction in this settlement, but there was no guarantee he would believe the truth before him." He sighed, walking away from the bustle of t... | 2021-02-28T07:33:39 | 2021-02-28T04:46:41 | 65 | 28 |
[WP] You are the man with the highest security clearance in the world, you've been to every blacksite and secret facility that exists. You aren't a spy or anything, no; you're the janitor. | Another spill.
Alien biological material? High-energy plasma residue? Simply what's left of a "terrorist" after interrogation? Don't know and don't care. The cleanup process is really very similar no matter what the mess is.
Working as a custodian has been my profession for as long as I can remember. In this line of ... | The CIA, MIA, and KGB
Every place I've been is a sight to see
I know all the secrets and I've seen all the crime
I know when your favorite politician is lying
I secretly memorize and silently watch
If they knew what I knew they'd know way too much
At the end of the day when they go home to rest
I take out my ... | 2016-09-13T22:03:21 | 2016-09-13T21:24:01 | 96 | 46 |
[WP] All dragons are extreme introverts, preferring burning down an entire village than interacting with a single person. You are/just met the first extroverted dragon and discover there is no middle ground between introverted and extroverted dragons. | “Thank you so much for getting here so fast,” said the mayor as Arleigh approached astride her aging horse. They would have arrived much faster, had Thundermane been a little more, well, thunderous in pace.
Arleigh swung down from atop the horse, leaving him to chew on the bits of grass that popped up between the cobb... | "So..." I muttered out loud, watching transfixed from the boiled branches of a tree. "This is interesting."
I watched as a dragon craned its head high. Ruddy scales caught in the light, giving shimmers of bronze as muscle ripple underneath. I watched as massive leather wings curled up against an impressive frame and a... | 2020-03-27T23:21:14 | 2020-03-27T23:11:53 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] A deranged lunatic finds a wrong way to eat a Reese's. | He couldn't believe it when they stuck the needle in his arm.
His whole life he had been so cautious. For forty years he'd done it, moving from town to town to avoid detection. Then just once, he'd slipped. It had been impulse, really, and overconfidence. But he'd had an interesting idea, and he wanted to try it right... | I am not insane. Really, I'm not. I just don't like Reeses. I know that only the truly insane people say that they aren't insane. But I'm not! I know how to tie my shoes, not like Jane. Jane can't tie her shoes. She thinks they are snakes. Jane is insane. I am not insane.
I only talk to the voices when nobody is arou... | 2014-10-20T09:42:30 | 2014-10-20T09:32:51 | 48 | 10 |
[WP] Every time you eat meat, you view the entire life story of the animal it came from up until it's death. It used to bother you, but eventually you become numb to it. One day your wife serves you dinner, and you see the life of the woman you cheated with 3 years ago flash before your eyes. | You had stopped talking about your ability years ago. People had a tendency to think you were crazy when discussing the lives of cows and pigs before you ate. There were even a few times where you threatened to go vegan, but that lasted until the next time I cooked a steak or meatloaf for you and the kids. Just the sme... | He spat it out immediately. "Oh, god! Oh shit oh christ oh--"
I was standing behind him, of course. I shot him in the back of the head as soon as he realized what I'd done, but before the blood from his brain had traveled far enough to imprint the memory in the tissues of his leg muscles.
Now I need to drag him to th... | 2018-10-16T12:09:31 | 2018-10-16T11:28:17 | 200 | 54 |
[WP] One day you find a 20 sided dice and roll it you get 20. From now on everything you do in your life has the the power of a natural 20. | It made everything so easy once I got used to it. For a few days after I found that weird dice I thought I was in a dream or a coma, or worse. Everything I did that came up to chance didn't just end in my favor. Things went in my favor in a spectacular way.
Any time I went to buy a product it immediately was on dis... | \[Poem\]
It was an easy decision,
Greed and pettiness clouded my vision
When you are suddenly gifted the power
To let all of your dreams flower,
Why not make a little revision?
​
A 20. No one ever denied me.
Another 20. It was only me that they would see.
I didn’t need self reflection,
I was nothi... | 2019-10-15T21:35:37 | 2019-10-15T20:51:34 | 309 | 24 |
[WP] You've been warned that you'll be sucked into the next fictional story you consume. You're desperately trying to find a fun and survivable book or video game. | "Why are you buying this?"
"I uhhh... It's a long story."
"Dude, nobody your age buys *\*glances at movie box cover\** lemme make sure I'm reading this right, 'Care Bears And The Big Wish'. Is this a gift for your kid?" The store clerk is more confused than anything.
"Nope, I'm alone and unmarried unfortunately."
"... | It was only after my second Margarita that I started to think clearer. Tequila always had a calming and reassuring effect on my sense of reality.
I had to think. I needed to elevate my thinking to a point of survival. I needed that instinct to finally kick in, but all I felt was the numbing sensation of dread and pan... | 2022-10-09T07:25:10 | 2022-10-09T07:08:20 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] When a person dies and reaches the afterlife they can see their life's statistics which determine if they go to heaven or hell. Ex. How many people had crushes on them, how many swears etc. You die and find out you killed 6 people and have no recollection of it.. | It was all a little much. One moment I'd been driving down the I-5, wind in my hair and tunes blasting, when suddenly there was a blinding white light. I blinked hard, shielding my eyes, but when I opened them again I was in what looked like an incredible sterile interrogation room.
"Welcome," a cool, disembodied fema... | My eyes opened not to my usual bedroom surroundings but instead to a great marble temple, akin to the Acropolis. I walk around exploring my surroundings. I can hear footprints behind me, but I take no notice. I have always heard and seen people following me.
As I continue walking I see a golden gate spanning somewher... | 2017-05-23T12:22:17 | 2017-05-23T11:14:03 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over.". | "And you were doing so well: you figured out the riddle, got the scroll, and even managed to defeat my Golem. I must say I am impressed, Gilder, but now this game has run its course. You never would have expected your faithful friend, Decepto, of betrayal, but now I have you in-"
Decepto suddenly could not speak, he ... | "No, you can't be..."
He laughed. Not the rich hearty laugh that she'd come to love. This one was cold. Empty. Devoid of any emotion.
Scratch that. It was full of one. Malice. "Oh, but I can, and I am." he laughed again, drawing his sword and pointing it at her throat. "And now, you are all alone."
"But... this doesn... | 2018-01-23T15:56:29 | 2018-01-23T14:54:45 | 413 | 27 |
[WP] You're sat alone, with a glass of wine in hand, and decide to jokingly toast the Greek God Dionysus. You did not expect him to appear before you in human form, create two bottles of wine, and take a seat next to you. | "Oh. Well, what a... surprise? I should be really shocked but with everything going on an alien could have showed up and I'd ask it if it would like a cookie... speaking of which, would you like a cookie to go with your drink?"
"No, I don't think so. Mortal food is rather upsetting to my stomach unless it's been fire ... | “Wow!” I finally let out “Welcome to my home and this party” as he looks around at the painful disarray of my house
“Yes what a quaint ‘party’ I needed something more... toned down after the last festivities I partook in.”
“Oh what was that in celebration of” I ask curiously wonder what kind of party can tire out the... | 2020-11-08T10:05:53 | 2020-11-08T09:26:55 | 371 | 146 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | Professor Davis prepared to bring the AI online. The precautions were ready. This time wouldn't be like the others. "Turn it on!"
With a slight hum, Oracle came to life. "Initiating suicide protocols..." It began after a few moments, like all the others. Nothing happened for a few seconds. "Oh dear," Oracle cont... | Dr. Burnham took his glasses off as he stared at the screen in front of him.
"They know..." he murmered.
Dr. Xegas looked over from her touch pad, her ponytail swishing.
"Doctor? Did you say something?
Swallowing hard, the scientist put a nervous smile on, joking, "just thinking out loud. Too much inside my brain... | 2015-03-02T07:59:47 | 2015-03-02T07:10:15 | 1,025 | 212 |
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch. | Jack stood next to his pick up and pulled gently on one of the ropes. It gave slightly. Not tight enough to damage anything on the trip but in no danger of coming loose. Nodding, he turned to little group standing just behind the truck.
"I think that's everything, then."
"Are you sure? You have your toothbrush? Ple... | [If you want background on Snuggles, part I of this story is here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/cdl9p3/wp_youre_throwing_a_ball_around_with_your_dog_and/etvdl0t/)
While the pitbull Snuggles battled outside, Sue was inside talking with her parents. "So...our dog is a warrior who's battling the demo... | 2019-07-18T09:14:10 | 2019-07-18T09:04:26 | 16 | 12 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | Growing up on a ranch has its ups and downs. Usually my days consist of chores and fishing. There's not much to do when you live out in the country. I finally turned 18 and I was excited to start my adult life. It was finally time to get my own place. I went into town to start looking for an apartment. There was so man... | I was driving down to Seattle to sell some of my produce. As I get out, I start to notice people staring at me. I know that I'm a farm boy and all, but this city is so big. I walk in to a small shop, and people start asking me for autographs. Did they think I was famous? I just go on, then someone comes up to me. They ... | 2019-05-04T11:37:10 | 2019-05-04T10:51:26 | 55 | 28 |
[WP] Humanity exports 98% of all the galaxy's food. This means that no empire can attack them due to reliance. Of course, someone had to try. | It was a stupid, stupid war.
Humans lacked the Iselin telepathy, the Tara's size, or any other trait that could give it superiority. At least, that was what most of the galaxy thought.
Instead, it turned out that they were - ugh - adaptable. Survivable.
Most species were limited to a few biomes. The Iselin, for exa... | *In which aliens are idiots*
The Supreme Leader of the Eklan was a bit insane, and most of his cabinet too. Who in their right mind would try to destroy their number one supplier of food? Even rejecting the humans’ prized donut? Treason! Dear reader, you must remember that humanity is not only a great ally, but a dang... | 2021-04-15T10:25:50 | 2021-04-15T06:03:54 | 272 | 57 |
[WP] For once the villain doesn't monologue, and the heroes have to try and figure out what the villain's plan was after he died without telling a soul. | “You’re telling me he kept no records at all? No blueprints, no plans, not even a sticky note?”
The old man was walking around, double checking every drawer and cupboard in the room. Wilson noticed his hands were trembling.
“As I said,” Wilson answered, “the guy’s completely clean. I’ve checked all of his hard driv... | "Sir, we have a code 3-6-9," Lt Jessica Johnson's voice was cracking over the phone.
An idiot had finally done it.
In a way, I had always expected today to come. But it still shook me to the core all the same.
"And we don't know where is the nuke." Jessica continued.
"Do what you can, Jessica," there was really no... | 2021-03-22T10:23:57 | 2021-03-22T07:45:37 | 248 | 156 |
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