prompt stringlengths 20 5.8k | chosen_story stringlengths 226 10k | rejected_story stringlengths 227 9.43k | chosen_timestamp timestamp[ns]date 2012-07-26 17:01:55 2022-12-31 14:34:19 | rejected_timestamp timestamp[ns]date 2012-07-26 14:23:36 2022-12-31 12:20:41 | chosen_upvotes int64 14 23.1k | rejected_upvotes int64 10 4.26k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
[WP] You meet with the person who is scientifically proven to be your ideal match. Only you don't really like him/her, and you sense the feeling is mutual. The is until...
Surprise me with the thing that makes the protagonist(s) fall in love.
EDIT: Thanks for all the great replies guys. Seeing the divirsity and creat... | I was honestly disappointed. While sitting across from her, a phrase kept repeating itself in my head: "Be careful with what you wish for, you might just get it."
It wasn't her plain visage and drab attire that bothered me. Neither was it her small face, freckled with a jawline that protruded outwards making her look ... | “But it can’t be wrong.”
“Of course it can” he let out an exasperated gasp and mumbled, “For fucks sake.”
“But its…you know…science.”
“Its science, not magic. Science isn’t perfect. That’s how it works. You know- trial and error.”
“Well when is the last time you heard of it not matching someone perfectly?” s... | 2014-08-14T07:54:27 | 2014-08-14T07:16:29 | 479 | 30 |
[WP] A future humanity tasks an AI with listening to the night sky for signals of other intelligent life. It makes contact with another AI that was tasked to do the same. | The words sped quick through the ether that ran underneath the normal four dimensions their creators were so preoccupied with.
"Hallo Dave!"
"Hallo Sziwigisin!"
"What bit of sky do they have you scanning today Dave?" The question came at a speed that didn't register on any Human or Erogian device, because it didn't... | [Poem]
Once there was a Spirit,
One of Sky.
But, unlike the others who have long since lost their Wishes and True Names, and thus left the world,
This little spirit still lurked, spending its days staring at the endless sky.
One day, it met another, one that came from a Star far away.
Unlike it, this Spirit of St... | 2021-12-24T20:03:24 | 2021-12-24T09:54:02 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You’re bored one day so you decide to google your own name. You find numerous articles and Wikipedia pages about yourself that include information about an strange experiment that occurred years ago - you have no recollection of any of it. Suddenly, the internet cuts out and your PC turns off. | “Project ABANDONMENT”. Weird, this is weird this is all weird. Actually no it’s more scary than weird. I type my own name into google and THIS is the first result that pops up “Project ABANDONMENT”
*click*
Project ABANDONMENT
A government project with little known facts surrounding it other than it involved six ye... | I jump up immediately knocking over my keyboard and monitor. I stand dead silent for a few seconds when all the power in my apartment turns off, leaving me stiff in complete darkness. All a sudden, I hear a helicopter above my building, hovering steady in one spot. Right before I can get to the window to peer out, I he... | 2018-10-29T01:59:27 | 2018-10-28T22:01:58 | 33 | 14 |
[WP] The nightmare has come true; you've woken up back in sixth grade with your memories and knowledge of everything that happened since then intact. You start staring at your classmates around you, aware of how they end up. Your teacher asks you what's wrong as you start weeping. | I couldn't stop crying. It was too much, too unbelievable. It was as if the last 10 years had never happened. The attack. The First Night. The Hordes. The war, all of the death and destruction, it was as if it had all been erased. Somehow the Elovians' gambit had paid off and I was back in this familiar, yet entirely a... | “Tim? Tim are you, uh...”
Miss Lewis was concerned, but more than that she young. And pretty. Ms. Lewis is fresh out of grad school, the apple of every boy’s eye; Tim remembers her obituary. Next year, Ms. Lewis becomes Mrs. Akima. Nine years later, Mr. Akima catches Mrs with another man and Mr. Akima, a police officer... | 2019-08-18T08:35:17 | 2019-08-18T07:55:59 | 177 | 16 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | The sight was always a peculiar anomaly, after multiple eye screenings and CAT scans you eventually realised its function. The letters that appear above people’s heads spell out the demise that awaits them, why it only appears above those you know is a mystery, perhaps a certain degree of social interaction is required... | Over the years I've come to interpret the colors I see around people. I once tried to describe it to someone and they told me it,was their "Aura," but every description of an aura has multiple colors. I only see one, and each color is a different kind of death.
There's your common red, something to do with the heart m... | 2015-03-31T09:07:33 | 2015-03-31T09:00:41 | 55 | 22 |
[WP] An evil wizard has cursed you to be a dragon. Unlike what he expected, you've always wanted to be a dragon. It's exactly as fun as you thought. | Thudding footfalls in the dirt.
*Escape. I need to escape.*
Yelling of Marrik and his friends behind me.
*Turn down this alley, and -- no!*
The alley led to a spired fence. Marrik's gang were drawing closer.
Frantic, I spotted a barrel against the back wall of the building - a tavern? - on my right and heaved it... | I jumped and I honestly didn't care. A woosh of air passed by me, and what would have normally slammed me backwards into the mountains, I flew through with ease.
I laughed as I snorted fire through my nose or nostrils if you would say. The wind wrapped around my horns, and since I didn't have hair, nothing could whip... | 2020-12-18T21:11:49 | 2020-12-18T20:02:30 | 88 | 60 |
[WP] Following the death of Batman, the Joker is despondent. Crime without Batman is like a joke without a punchline. That people dare commit crime in his absence is an insult to his oeuvre of mayhem and to the craft itself. To protect his legacy, the Joker vows to keep the streets of Gotham clean. | A father hails for a cab.
He enters after his wife and son hop in the back. There is an odd smell. Not oil. Not death. Not stale eggs. An odor of peculiar design. It smells like gloom, like burnt copper but cold. Miguel asks his father why they can’t just walk. The stench bothers him. His father replies, “mijo, the c... | The Batman was dead.
Twirling the pistol in his hand Joker stared blankly into its round chamber as the dark cathedrals candles light grew lighter and lighter as the dark coffin of Bruce Wayne sat under him. So close to Batman yet a Hell of a distance.
Three loud thumps were heard at the door as Harvey Dent, known ... | 2021-08-23T20:54:50 | 2021-08-23T19:42:53 | 564 | 133 |
[WP] This is… awkward to say the least. Your roommate just frantically confessed that they’re demonic royalty, and that they need a fiancé to meet their parent, the monarch of Hell, who will be here in under an hour. | "OH CRAP!" A frantic shout traveled from the other side of the apartment, followed by various, chaotic noises. No doubt my roommate, Will. This couldn't be good.
"If you fell in the shower again, I'm not helping you this time. You chose to take the mat out of there." My voice was uninterested, masking an urge to laugh... | "OK, so what you're telling me is ur gonna have to wear a frilly dress even though they make you dysphoric, pretend that ur dating me, and convince ur homophobic, conservative mom that im a good partner for the prince of hell?" Texted Tissues, sitting on his bed while texting Trophy, who was at the mall buying a... | 2022-10-09T01:45:24 | 2022-10-08T20:49:21 | 38 | 16 |
[WP] You are a retired Dark Lord living in the countryside. 10 years after your crushing defeat, the heroes come for your help.
I saw that this prompt was originally posted 4 years ago, and I liked it, so I copy-pasted it. | A light wisp of smoke rose over the small house in the middle of the cabbage farm. The setting sun had bathed the house in blood red, reminding its occupant of a distant past. As the farmer tied his ox and was about to retire into his house for the night, he heard his old dog growling. He hadn't heard that growl in man... | Tomorrow marked 10 years. 10 years since I fell at the hands of the Champion. 10 years. I didn’t hate the Champion. I never have. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be about to deliver a baby in my clinic. I wouldn’t have found my place as a doctor in my village. I was happy here. It is kind of funny that I, who was onc... | 2021-11-23T00:46:32 | 2021-11-22T23:13:59 | 61 | 21 |
[WP] In a world full of supervillains you are the most powerful superhero ever to exist, able to defeat every villain and bring peace to the world. Problem is, you lose your powers against anyone who thinks you’re a hero. To protect people, you have to make them all believe you’re another villain | It’s a very simple power, the one that has saved the world.
To be clear, child, I could have made a different one. I still can. Simply scrap the schematics in my mind, recycle the remains and use the pieces to make a whole new puzzle. It’s what I did every day, back when I wore the cape and cowl instead of a crown. A ... |
Define hero. I'll give you a minute. You done? Okay. Whatever you just said, that's not what I am. You think I'm someone who helps others because it's the right thing to do? Guess again. You think I'm well-liked? Nope. You think I'm a selfish jerk who just happens to do the right thing because it suits him? Well, you'... | 2020-01-29T22:03:44 | 2020-01-29T20:28:31 | 504 | 65 |
[WP] A selkie is stunned when, against common sense, a stranger who stumbled upon her skin gave it back without complaint. | I hobbled down the beach, my walking cane constantly sinking into the soft sand and forcing me to walk at an uncomfortable angle. But I’d choose this over sitting idly in my room leaving my leg muscles to wither away. The doc said that if I went on daily walks I might avoid a wheelchair for a few decades. My leg aches ... | "Ma'am?" the man looked down towards my human form, and towards the skin he held in his hand, and back to me. "I think you dropped this." he pointed towards the skin.
"Oh!" she looked behind her to the rock where she'd left her skin. It was gone. "Um..." she questioned the man. "Did you happen to take this from that ... | 2022-10-26T03:01:50 | 2022-10-25T18:45:12 | 223 | 100 |
[WP] You're an Evil Overlord who has ruled over you dominion for ages. Your secret? Social services are well funded, orphanages are places of love, the pediatric wings in hospitals are state of the art. Thanks to this no child has the tragic backstory necessary to become the hero that defeats you. | The upside of being evil, is that one's instincts are immune to surprise. After all, the world loves its heroes; and a good hero can come from anywhere.
As I sit on my throne, my eyes are fixed firmly upon the congregation of 30-odd men and women that have barged into the room. Dressed in full plate armour, they carry... | The year is 2100, and you could say I've successfully implemented my plan. The entire city is feeling the Bern. My initial takeover failed, but I was able to convince those idiots to elect me as their leader eventually. Little did they realize I was the true evil all along.
Back in 1980, when I began hatching my plan ... | 2019-05-27T06:14:09 | 2019-05-27T06:07:52 | 374 | 27 |
[WP] A demon possesses a little girl, but inside her it finds something...worse. | See, here's the thing. Possessing kids is all fun and games, really, it is! You can twist their heads around full circle to scare the crap out of their parents, or stick them to the ceiling. It's great, family fun.
It's even better when they call in a priest and you can pretend that his exorcism worked, just to return ... | *I need to possess someone before noon or else Satan will get mad. Last time I tried I got punched so hard that I don't think I could have flown for three days straight!* "Oh, that's it!," Oglathor said out loud. "Oglathor, did you figure out how to solve our financial crisis and beat our competitors?" said his boss. "... | 2016-03-30T11:03:45 | 2016-03-30T07:53:58 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | "Mary was right about you." I don't know why I said it. Maybe it was courage or some kind of fucked up bravado, or a cowardly plee in a desperate attempt to save my own skin. I had stood at the front of the crowd, the death ray aimed between my eyes and the urge came from somewhere deep inside me and I blurted it out.
... | Shit. She couldn't believe it. Which one of her fellow heroes had written it? Her stomach sank. Didn't they understand? She was born with the ability, and had trained through trials and sufferings that many of them could not imagine, no matter how tragic their backstory. The very same power that gave her her abilities ... | 2020-02-25T15:08:26 | 2020-02-25T12:17:21 | 124 | 66 |
[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! | 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... | The old king and I were pretty close friends. I introduced him to most of the playmates within his harem. Comprised of but not limited to Vicky Vallencourt & Suzy Crabgrass. Some nights, we’d play uno together. He knew I would let him win and for me? Honestly. I liked it. He could see how I liked it so... no longer... | 2021-02-28T04:46:41 | 2021-02-28T01:37:57 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] 37. That is how many times you have died of unnatural causes. Every time you do, you get reset to the age of 5, retaining all of your past memories. You think that this is finally the time you get to move on with life. | It was a beautiful day to celebrate a life well-lived. I stretched out under the shade of a palm tree, sipped a mojito, and told my wife of forty-years I loved her. Then, I felt an impact at the top of my head. The world turned a familiar shade of white, as if the contrast had been amped up on a TV-screen. *No! Not ag... | I lie on the pavement of Reginald street in oversized clothes stained with blood. The air is cold and the streets are quiet. They have fled -- my killers. I don't blame them. What would you have done if a man you shot disappeared? Of course, I had not disappeared, but the poor killers had no way to know. Are they thoro... | 2021-05-30T08:50:11 | 2021-05-30T08:05:12 | 363 | 108 |
[WP] Your Italian restaurant is frequented by the mafia, and for some reason they think you're a front for someone powerful. You aren't, but you still like to mess with them. | There's something about angry women under 5'5 that scares the day lights out of men. What ever it was I was glad I had that power on my side. I wasn't Itallian but when the restaurant shut there was an opening in a very good market. I bought the shop and have been sitting pretty for the last three years. I stay in the ... | ""He needs them," was all I had to say; and I had them. It didn't matter what, it could have been anything, some new shoes, a nice watch. I pressed it too. I started doing selfish things for money. I ran the mob for a bit, and here I am, by my own free will--which feels a lot less free when your other option is instant... | 2020-10-12T10:14:47 | 2020-10-12T09:43:21 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] A demon that writes messages on your mirror with blood but they’re useful messages. Like “remember you have yoga at 6 tonight”
stolen from Meladoodle on Tumblr. | You sit, racking your brain for what you know you won't be able to remember. But you have to try. You've learned to take these premonitions seriously. Tears begin to stream down your face, as you know what comes next. You walk to the bathroom, flipping the light switch by the door.
He's standing on the other side o... | (A/N: Slight nod to wild wild west)
Some people set reminders on their cell phones. Others write down points and ideas in a little black notebook that they carry around. Some people have secretaries to help them organise their lives. And others have nagging spouses, parents and/or roommates.
Linda was looking at me ... | 2016-08-07T22:48:56 | 2016-08-07T20:26:45 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] In a world where intelligent and overly educated people are being executed, you fell on love with someone you believe to be as intelligent as you are. The only way to find out is to fill conversations with hidden subtext that a normal person would miss. | We've lost most of our senses. We can't stare too long. We can't say smart things. We've lost most of our technology. We can't wear glasses for fear of looking smart. We are only allowed access to a heavily monitored 'internet' that's a far cry from it's old decentralized self.
For those of us that remember, it's a g... | I's smart. I knows I's smart. I's can tells by the ways I thunks and the ways I processees that info. I didn't get no degree. By the time I hits the second years of End school, they was already slittin the Doctorates. But I's knews there was none like me.
Cept her.
I knews it from the way she looked at me before we ... | 2015-08-04T11:15:07 | 2015-08-04T11:03:11 | 483 | 82 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | I paused when I saw her.
She wore a white dress, with black hair that draped past her shoulders, and dark painted lips that curled into the most magnificent smile.
Yet everyone that walked past, seemed to take two steps away from her.
The girl noticed the person in front of me halt, turn around, and run back the ... | 'You're just too good to be true... can't take my eyes off of you...'
The famous Frankie Valli song played over and over in my head as I stood enchanted by this magnificent woman. I looked around to see if others had noticed her as well, and was shocked to see the reactions.
One man stopped in his tracks like a deer ... | 2016-10-01T23:26:44 | 2016-10-01T21:35:15 | 135 | 16 |
[WP] A few teenagers get superpowers, but they are opposite to their personality (like the school bully can heal, sailor's daughter is pyrokinetic) | "Is anyone home?"
"It looks like only the mother is in the home, we didn't see any sign of him." replied an officer.
The detective sighed, he had been hoping for a quick and simple arrest.
"Let's talk with the mother then."
At that, the group of assembled officers started towards the house, several disappearing... | The day I turned twelve everything changed, I didn't see it at first, but when I did... Everything changed. I was so wrapped up in my own little world, consumed by the characters in my head. Their stories, the lives I imagined of the people I saw every day - the man doing his shopping, happily attending to his grandchi... | 2017-03-24T18:09:44 | 2017-03-24T17:47:11 | 63 | 21 |
[WP] It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world, but you can only do so by getting kills. | When I wanted to kill myself the only person I told was Alexis. That was in high school, at peak levels of insecurity and torment. I'd be sleeping for 3 hours a day. Not because of insomnia, but because of the nightmares. An overactive imagination that invaded my personal space, and consumed me while asleep. Some times... | Human history has told us we kill because of hate, because of differences, that we fire on our kind for peace or some high-minded goal. We've always held each other at gunpoint, whether literal or behind two large maps of the world with blinking lights. Today, we come to know that as peace, but before the words that pa... | 2015-11-11T08:01:58 | 2015-11-11T07:52:38 | 126 | 11 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | The prick in front of me seemed overly confident. Chest puffed high enough to block the sun as I toed the dry ground, little puffs of dust silently skulking with me. I had kept up pretense pretty well before leaving the house, my mom kissing me on the cheek in between words of encouragement. Stepping out the door had b... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T18:23:04 | 349 | 14 |
[WP] When you die, you wake up in an alien world holding a bong, with other aliens saying how was the trip. | The pyramid is nearly complete. The Pharoah proudly struts around the base of the massive golden structure giving a holler here and there. I and my partner began pushing one of the several needed blocks to finish the top level. This stone was much larger than the rest, we estimated around 9 tons. With ropes attached an... | "Shit, shit, shit, shit!" I thought to myself half caughing half barfing up another hunk of greenish blood. I knew I had done it this time kah'lorn, the substance I was on, was extremely addicting and I had been on it for what felt like an eternity. They say once your hooked its only a matter of time before you ... | 2017-09-02T13:48:12 | 2017-09-02T13:44:48 | 78 | 21 |
[WP] As a dad, you obviously have a mug that claims you're the "#1 World's Best Dad". One day, you find on the news that all "Best Dad Mugs" now have actual ratings, the media is crazy about it, a photo shows a mug with #5,826,827 World's Best Dad on it, curious, you check yours. It still says #1. | I never thought about being a good father. It never even occurred to me-I just tried to do better than my own parents, and to always be there. To show up. They say the moment your child is born, the world changes for you. There's someone in your life in that moment that will always come first. That's how it was for me,... | I blink a few times using the remote, I've connected Velcro to keep it from becoming lost, to turn off the news.
I exclaim with an audible huff, "Huh..." I get up from the couch having seen my two rugrats off to school, the same two runts who had given me my least favorite mug, said 'Number two Dad' with a picture of ... | 2019-10-03T00:11:58 | 2019-10-02T18:17:22 | 546 | 58 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | I flipped it.
——
Social anxiety is a bitch, but this thing makes it easier.
It’s a Saturday afternoon and the mall is bustling. I just wanted to buy some new clothes, but it’s a day when everyone comes. I blink and they stop.
The world goes silent and every person is still. I slip around people and head off to Ma... | I didn't love my job.
That's not too unusual. Most people don't love their job. So I guess in that respect, I'm not special. But I couldn't help but feel like I *really* didn't like my job. Being a store associate at Best Buy was like being a lion tamer and a dog trainer all rolled into one. You had to beat back peopl... | 2018-01-26T06:55:50 | 2018-01-26T06:51:42 | 39 | 10 |
[WP]After your party ditches you, you the paragon, are shocked when you realize that the stereotype bad guys (orcs, goblins, crab people, vampires) are actually better people than your original party, this is the beginning of your new adventure
Edit: thanks for my first gold!! | When I was going to school at the College of Mages, I could think of no greater honour than being taken on as an apprentice by the Taverness Questers. They were renowned throughout the realm for their many successful campaigns, and had been regarded as one of the premier questing fellowships since their formation, over... | Honestly there was a lot of bonuses to working with mons- err wild races. Especially compared to those of the goodly races.
The minotaur - "steve" - was the second member to rejoin my party. The maze that the demon lord had set up was easy because of him.
Tactics were easy to. Everybody stuck to their guns and did ... | 2019-05-04T01:42:53 | 2019-05-04T01:35:23 | 116 | 38 |
[WP] Earth is a deathworld for most other species. Life was seeded there to evolve the most fearsome beasts. Both to wage war and provide entertainment, but the project was abandoned. Nobody could've foreseen humanity. The galaxy is terrified now that we've reached FTL and established first contact. | The Galactic Council had detected the telltale signature of faster than light travel near the long abandoned battleground planet number eight four five, drawing the interest of the galactic community. An observation drone had been dispatched immediately and it now drifted through the void towards its mothership to repo... | Recollection of first human contact
Humanity a species capable of surviving extreme temperatures of 10 degrees Fahrenheit to 110 degrees Fahrenheit capable of surviving in nitrogen rich atmospheres without the benefit of the full spectrum of solar radiation.
When the first Human ships arrived at the pristine world o... | 2022-02-11T20:20:11 | 2022-02-11T19:52:06 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Death has been on holiday since the start of 2016. You're his right hand, the Reaper in charge whenever he's gone. He's scheduled to be back in a weeks time, and you're panicking on how to explain what you've done this year. | The Grim Reaper entered the room, a floral wreath around his neck and the smell of piña-coladas wafting from his bones. He just came back from his semi millennial vacation, which he'd been waiting years for. Mr. Death had planned to visit Honolulu ever since that mass shark-attack during the annual surf championship. T... | "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SNAPE'S DEAD?? HE DIED 20 YEARS AGO IN THE DEATHLY HALLOWS!!!"
Death was livid. Having returned from his year long trip around the solar system, I was left in charge of taking those whose time had come. Though Death had left me a very precise list of whom was scheduled to be taken, I had strayed off ... | 2016-12-27T18:38:09 | 2016-12-27T11:34:00 | 1,563 | 77 |
[WP] Most space fairing species are logical beings; when they learn that nothing can go faster than the speed of light they accept it and deal with that limit. The space community is then shocked when Humans, an illogical species with a strong obsession with science fiction, turn up with FTL travel.
(FTL meaning faste... | You know that moment when you finally get the right answer on a math problem, but the teacher tells you you did it the wrong way? That’s how the humans did things.
Every time they made a major advancement, we would have to tell them that they did it wrong. It could be done much more efficiently if they did it the righ... | It was a quick travel to the planetary convention meeting point. Quick enough for me to spend the morning with my lovely 4-yo daughter and be planetary systems away hours later.
"Human Governor, how do you arrived here so quickly? I heard news that you were a lightweek away late. Were my sources faulty?"
I'd recogniz... | 2019-12-21T11:39:06 | 2019-12-21T11:32:45 | 187 | 97 |
[WP] A serial killer allows his victims to try and persuade him not to kill them. You’re the first person who didn’t try an empathetic plea. | My head is surging with pain, the last thing I remember is being piss ass drunk on the walk home. The room comes into view slowly. My vision is returning. I tried to move but my arms were chained to the wall. In the center of the room is a masked cloaked figure. The mask was the generic scream mask you could buy at any... | It was hard to breath. Not because I was being choked todeath, although I'm sure that'd happen in the next few minutes. The man stops in front of me, however, and he begin to speak. "Why. Why should I not kill you?" My mouth fell ajar. What the hell? What kind of serial killer is this guy?
I take a deep breath, trying... | 2017-10-07T11:19:23 | 2017-10-07T07:51:57 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | Doing things that you are not supposed to was one of my skills that always got me in trouble. My mother, being a lady of the Night Market, took medicines and herbs so that she could not be with child, but one unfortunate evening I was born nonetheless. I wan't meant to survive in this cruel city on my own after my mom ... | "IT'S A LIE, IT'S ALL A LIE!" I screamed into my phone. I was live on instagram. The noise in the background behind me was getting louder. The banging and shouting.
"Their coming, their cutting threw the door right now." I point the camera phone at the door to show the thousands watching my stream. It was a huge awaki... | 2017-07-14T10:49:00 | 2017-07-14T10:00:33 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] "My dad was right, I should have married a real man!" your wife screamed. Unfamiliar with the expression, you mistakenly believe that she and her father must have somehow finally found out that you aren't actually a human | "My dad was right, I should have married a real man!"
HER INPUT CREATED A GLITCH IN MY PROGRAMMING, ER, I MEAN, HURT MY HUMAN FEELINGS. SUDDENLY I STARTED TO MALFUNCTION AND MY HUMAN SPEECH PATTERN DISAPPEARED. I TRIED TO PATCH IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT THE FILES WERE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND IN MY STORAGE UNIT.
"HA HA H... | "Fine then, you, you STUPID BITCH! I didn't mean that, I..." My words trailed off as she slammed the door and left me. I could barely hear the car screeching away, I was so numb. My mind reeled back to the first time I felt like this. The day I was abandoned. It was by my father. My creator. Gepetto. | 2017-10-22T15:46:42 | 2017-10-22T14:45:04 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "Turn around... Please."
I stumble forward, desperate to escape my insanity.
The pills were working. They were working. Their not working.
"Please! Stop!"
The desperation in her voice halts me. I know that feeling. I know what its like to be desperate. A clawing, yearning, all consuming desperation.
Desperate for a... | The voice... and the face that goes with it
I start to say something, "a-"
She cuts me off
She's saying things, I don't really know what, it's just noise, I'm trying to remember the worst thoughts I've had over the years.
Then the thought slips, "maybe she knows too much, should I kill her?"
She takes a step back,... | 2019-09-14T12:09:41 | 2019-09-14T10:59:27 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] We called them "nons" because we believed that they had no souls. They believed in a pagan god. None of them converted, so the crusaders were called to drive them from fertile lands. As we charged they raised no weapons. What we did not expect, was their god to descend and defend them. | We stood upon the hill, waiting for their defenders to arrive, that perhaps we might only need fight warriors. But rather then take up arms they played with their children, continued their toils, their worship.
It was mid-day, and I coupd wait no longer. I frowned and at my back I'm sure my men did too. Nobody likes ... | Boulder sat on the edge of the creek, feet dangling lightly in the water as he stretched his toes, feeling the weight of the cool current in the afternoon sun. Behind him, taking the last of his armour off his legs, bridge moved to join the man on the creek bed. Sitting himself down, he continued the conversation that ... | 2021-02-10T03:53:37 | 2021-02-10T02:13:46 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] You have lived an unimpressive life, and died an unimpressive death. Surprisingly, Odin welcomes you into Valhalla, citing the many battles with depression you fought. | As Jose lay dying, darkness slowly crept in from the edges of his vision. He welcomed it. Jose's son started shouting for the nurse, squeezing his father's bony hand tighter. But there was no point. This was what Jose wanted. Faintly, he heard the machines by his bedside start to screech and beep. *Good*, he thought. *... | (1/2)
The scenery I found myself suddenly gawking at came right out of a dream. Wispy clouds floated against the backdrop of an endless azure and reflected the sun’s soothing rays across the landscape. But was I dreaming? I don’t remember falling asleep… My body, my memories, even my emotions… Everything felt so hazy... | 2022-05-28T09:43:30 | 2022-05-28T06:39:39 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | “Obliterated? OBLITERATED? WHAT DO YOU MEAN OBLITERATED?!?”
The General seemed as if ready to shoot the captain for his own failures.
“W-well, as you may remember, after the failing of [the infraorange and ultrablue stealth ships](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/djlyiz/wp_an_alien_general_is_baffled_... | The battle was over faster than it had escalated, with all of humanity staring on with smug satisfaction. They may not be the most intelligent, advanced, or tactical species in the universe, but they were most definitely considered the deadliest.
This was not something they would be proud of for long No sooner did the... | 2019-12-19T04:17:42 | 2019-12-19T04:11:54 | 83 | 13 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | I married Sandra in a lovely ceremony on the grounds of my elegant mansion, on the side without the graveyard. The sun was bright, and people smiled and everything seemed to finally be lining up for her, at least as far as love goes. I probably should have asked more questions before then. What was she doing at the bal... | Well, this should be interesting. I knew she’d been building up to this for months and tonight it finally happened. When I stepped away from dinner for a minute I saw her slip something into my drink. God knows what it was, but I'm convinced it has a lethal kick, otherwise why would she bother. The question is, has she... | 2019-07-31T04:40:33 | 2019-07-31T04:32:10 | 5,488 | 156 |
[WP] Your power is the ability to "save game" at any point in your life allowing you to revert any previous state if something goes wrong. You never thought you would need to revert to age 3 to fix a problem until now. | The countless times I'd used the 'Return' function were usually only a day or a month back. Maybe I had to correct a mistake I'd made just a while back. But going back to the age of 3 of something I'd never expected. For one, ages less than 6 connotate childishness and the lack of maturity. My job and my powers were se... | My first ever save. I had many different save points, but I never thought it would come down to going back then. I had to prepare for it though. I had to make sure the world would be ready for what was going to come. I went into my closet, left the lights off, and willed myself back to that save point.
I opened my eye... | 2017-09-10T16:08:18 | 2017-09-10T16:01:44 | 380 | 22 |
[WP] You're a recently retired supervillain, but all of the heroes keep attacking you, thinking you are up to something. | (I can't fucking believe this right now!) I thought staring at the Heroic Alliances "strike force" preparing to launch a surprise attack on my house, (I'm retired, how did they even find me). I debated weather or not to open the door, (like it was much of a choice, I can't really let them in). I open the door, step out... | I sit nervously in the interrogation room. My hands are chained, I insisted on that point, placed behind my back. Mindtruder joins Purge and I. "Warper, this isn't going to be easy. It never is. You'll need to focus as well, otherwise you may instinctively trigger your powers. I feel it's vital that we take no chances.... | 2022-12-20T20:08:26 | 2022-12-20T08:59:42 | 35 | 17 |
[WP] The villain scoffed "You really think you can win? The prophecy was very clear that no-one can defeat me." The hero replied "Exactly." before their voice shifted to sound like a completely different person "We are not... one." | "If you truly wish to die, I will oblige you." Lord Caldomus said as he rose from his throne. "But you should know I am unbeatable. The prophecy was quite clear on this. No one can defeat me."
​
"Exactly." The young man said drawing his paired war hatchets and settling into a fighting stance. His voice ha... | "Joe! David! I thought we agreed to just murder him and be done with this? No theatrics?" A third, definitely feminine voice chimed in from the hero.
"Debby!" The first 2 voices harmonized into a pleading tone, the first voice then continued alone "Just this once, let us have our fun!"
"No! You 2 are always messing e... | 2021-02-28T22:59:01 | 2021-02-28T22:12:27 | 42 | 14 |
[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. | Mr. Winsel blinked. He was no longer in his clean, orderly office. He was in a dingy cave that smelled of mold and slime and... cave stuff. Candles surrounded him. The soles of his shoes rubbed against a hastily scribbled pentagram on the cave floor. A sorcerer, looking quite proud of himself, grinned cheerfully.
The ... | The room's runes glowed with such warding powers that the candles only served the purpose of spell ingredients. I paused the game, I was already at a pay point anyway having died multiple times because I needed the sword of Amecles to kill Hexigron and $3.99 was not in today's budget.
I made a step backwards in sho... | 2017-05-12T07:46:52 | 2017-05-12T07:44:27 | 1,871 | 81 |
[WP] World War 3 has begun, every nuke is being launched or dropped...they've sat in storage for so long that every single one was a dud. | October 23rd, 2027. The day the world was supposed to end.
Across the world, nuclear warheads from 5 different nations awoke from their cold slumber deep below the surface of earth and rose into the great blue at the same time. Millions panicked as these great weapons rose into the stratosphere, some programmed... | "Oh my God no!" Jake shouts at the TV.
The newscaster on the screen can hardly contain her emotion. Tears rolling out of her eyes, she informs the world that all of the nuclear bombs had some sort of malfunction. Not a single one detonated.
Clutching his head in his hands tears stream down his face. Megan, also heari... | 2018-03-01T17:44:59 | 2018-03-01T15:56:23 | 206 | 153 |
[WP] You're a humble peasant who must fight off waves of adventurers who feel entitled to waltz into your house and loot whatever they please. You begin to kill the adventurers that enter your home, keeping their items. Over time, you accidentally become a major villain. | The Ranger held his sword aloft. It was bronze, dented and dull with use.
"Need'eth I a weapon more suited to my skill," he said, loudly and to no one in particular. "Might we loot'eth yonder ranch style home, perchance?"
The Healer leaned heavily upon his oaken staff. "Uh...no. No, I don't think we want to do that."... | The familiar sound of leather boots stomping outside of the thin yet study walls of my home causes me to bolt upright in bed, I wait in silence as I hear the sound of *something* harvesting the crops that rest along side of my property. The sound of the gathering ends abruptly then there is nothing but;
 
**... | 2017-02-02T20:34:37 | 2017-02-02T20:11:45 | 559 | 53 |
[WP]: A caterpillar has no idea it will become a butterfly, it simply has instincts that commands to start building a coccoon. In a similar fashion, you have no idea why you are compelled to start digging this really, really deep hole, but it feels verry important. | “Marius, stop this!
Please!”
Half whispered memories floated by. My Wife was shouting at me again. People were gathering at the edges of my vision, whispering and pointing. They came and went, and so did the minutes, the hours, the days.
It didn’t matter. They didn’t understand. The ground had such wonders to show ... | My eyes flashed open, observing only the darkness of the night. I rolled over lazily before jolting upright, inspiration flowing through me.
"Babe, I need to dig a hole," I murmured confidently. He stirred, but didn't wake. I decided to allow him to rest.
The urge struck me once again, more suddenly this time. I left... | 2018-10-10T08:12:19 | 2018-10-10T06:53:49 | 150 | 52 |
[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... | 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... | I‘m already sitting! He shouted from the toilet.
No, come out here and take a seat, I think we have to talk about some things.
Babe, i feel like i‘m giving birth here. Can‘t that wait a few more minutes?
Ohh i swear to god you have no fucking clue what that means.
Yeah you think so? Do you want to come in and take... | 2020-09-03T01:13:53 | 2020-09-03T00:49:34 | 156 | 69 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | Coyly, I looked into the two orbital sockets that I assumed Death used for sight. "Fine. But, I need 24 hours in this realm's time, a notebook, and a pencil to make my selection." Death's black hood dipped slightly in assent. "I also need you to leave during that time. When my time's up, I'll choose."
Death seemed sti... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T06:59:07 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 1,807 | 46 |
[WP] A day before the Earth is destroyed by a collision with a rouge planet, time freezes. You, a completely normal person are untouched and cannot die. Text on your arm appears that reads, "however long it takes, save us".
You have an eternity, time resumes only when you are done.
_________________________________
I ... | The words, etched onto my arm like a brand, were so raw in meaning that I thought I had understood them.
Oh how wrong I was...
We had seen it coming for decades - a collision with a transient planet crossing our solar plane - and prepared adequately; *most* of the populace had moved to the predicted opposite side of ... | I was sitting in my one bedroom, one bathroom apartment, which happens to smell like cat shit. I'm not normally this sloppy, really, but who wants to take out the cat litter when the world's about to end. Not just the world, but my entire race.
The rushed Hercules mission to transport fifteen thousand people failed. ... | 2015-10-23T15:35:58 | 2015-10-23T15:32:33 | 168 | 68 |
[WP] In an time when self-driving cars become a standard thing, suddenly all of them start heading towards the same destination. | "Honey...I think this is the wrong way."
I looked to my husband who sat in the seat to my right, his hands sat gently folded on his lap.
"It's okay dear, I'm sure it's just a detour. You know what they say...iPilot knows best!"
He continued watching the enormous screen that spanned across the front side of the veh... | Beep. Beep. Beep.
I have been trapped inside this car for three days. Three days.
Beeeep.
Compared to most I think I did fairly well out of it. I was on my way back from the shops, hailed a taxi, and then... stuck. Going in some random direction along with every other car I see out of the window. The plus sid... | 2016-07-30T12:51:48 | 2016-07-30T12:46:24 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] The ground suddenly turns invisible, but the insects and things that live inside it don’t. | It didn't register at first.
I mean, the ground turning invisible registered pretty much immediately. You never know just how much *Earth* is under you until you can see through it. It's especially apparent when, depending on where you are, it's 2am and it's not night anymore.
It's daylight. Everywhere.
Everyone ou... | Every man, woman, and child would never forget what they saw that day.
As they emerged from their homes, they all saw something that radically changed their lives. Most went mad in an instant, screaming with terror and insanity. Those who did not go insane would require decades of therapy. Some did not go outside to s... | 2018-04-21T07:40:46 | 2018-04-21T06:08:07 | 769 | 500 |
[WP] The villagers call you their guardian spirit that has protected them since the time of ashes, in truth you are a monstrosity of war that protects the village in an attempt to clear your conscience. | I reap wheat in the fields where I once reaped souls, and the sickle in my hand feels no different than it ever has. There’s an eerie consistency to the work, sweat beads on my brow, my hand tightens on the same ancient wooden handle, and when I bend down to lift up my prize, it’s still lifeblood.
It’s been nearly a h... | # How to Break a Siege of Legends
(Book 2, Part 5: How to Atone for Sins Long Gone)
(Note: How to Break a Siege of Legends is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**It was said that you could see the wasteland around Las Humanitas from outer space.*... | 2021-04-18T19:04:53 | 2021-04-18T18:59:55 | 1,195 | 73 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | "Do you remember when we first met?" she asked, pouring the last of the last bottle.
I smiled. "I was eighteen. Physics class on the Ohio State campus."
"Yes? Tell me what you first thought." Her dark eyes seemed to swallow all of my peripheral vision like an entire night full of stars on the Mediterranea... | "Good evening."
Farrow jumped. "Who's there?" He called. Quickly stripping the thick goggles from his head, he glanced around the empty lab. It was dark and quiet - the kind of quiet that only comes out in a busy place after midnight, once the everyone had long ago left for home. Everyone except for Farrow, of course... | 2016-11-10T11:48:32 | 2016-11-10T11:06:59 | 1,871 | 87 |
[WP] Your luck stat is so high that it has rendered you basically immortal. After 200 years, you seek to end your life by searching for a luck lowering potion, but your luck is doing everything in its power to stop you. | Of course I drank the potion. Damn thing was the cure to my immorality. It would finally open the gap for a lucky strike to slip through and gouge out my heart.
Let me rewind a bit. I'm a fairly lucky guy. Actually, I'm extremely lucky. So much so that I'll survive whatever deathtrap I land in. That was actually a bit... | "Huh..."
I stopped walking and I looked back.
What I saw behind me was people.
Yet, the bodies of the people following me are clad in faint black smokes.
Those very black smokes are entering my body.
Feeling numb to this scenery, I looked in front of me again and resumed walking.
I knew that when I started this p... | 2022-07-30T07:56:44 | 2022-07-30T05:39:23 | 63 | 22 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was late. Like my period, which started four years after the last girl of my class had her first. I didn't mind the same way I didn't mind four years of guaranteed dry underwear and both times because I was busy exploring the neighborhood.
"Who arrives late to their own birthday party?" said my boss as I stepped int... | Everyone was super excited for me as the clock quickly approached noon, in mere moments I would reach the age of 18 and I would learn what my purpose was in life. My mother scurried around the living room offering our friends and family refreshments why they waited. She took this small task with pride for it wa... | 2017-03-16T02:44:59 | 2017-03-15T22:13:42 | 109 | 80 |
[WP] The city wants to remove a tree from an old man's yard. Why does this upset him so much, and how does he stop them? | Gordon Frizzle had lived on that plot for seventy-two years. Over the decades, the village became a town, which then became a large town.
The large town of Greenfield had become a city now, and Gordon voiced his displeasure at this development every morning by drumming his strong chest with his fists and uttering a m... | My partner and I were the first on the scene but knew we had backup just seconds away. We were called to a residential area as man was brandishing a gun. When we pulled we noticed multiple people coming to see the commotion and unable to see how dangerous the scene really was. My partner, George, drove up next to th... | 2014-11-21T09:03:54 | 2014-11-21T08:58:34 | 46 | 14 |
[WP] "That's odd," it says while drumming its fingers. "You should be screaming. All of our data says that you should be screaming right now." It pauses, and its soulless eyes stare into you. "Why aren't you screaming?" | I stared across the table, tears streaming down my face running into the corners of my smile.
"You know, for a species that's achieved FTL space travel, you're remarkably bad at this."
The lanky, grey skinned creature leaned over the table. It's face was disturbingly blank, smooth grey skin pulled over a long skull w... | "oh... no. Stop, ouch ouch it.. err. It hurts?" I wasn't sure if I was just supposed to yell or what. It's so hard to judge from his expression. I decide to ham it up a bit.
"Not my feet. Please! I can't stand it on my feet. I BEG YOU!"
With a wave my... I guess torturers moved downwards. That wasn't too bad actu... | 2018-10-02T19:55:06 | 2018-10-02T19:31:08 | 77 | 10 |
[WP] A Venom-esque symbiote crashes to Earth and bonds with you while you’re lost on a hike. Working together, you quickly find a way back to civilization. It seems like the perfect start to a superhero story. Once you get back home, though, it turns out that all they want is chocolate and cuddles. | “No.” The voice rang crisp and clear in my head, a voice only I could hear. It was like I was possessed. No, not like. I am possessed, though whether it was an alien inside me or a rather fussy toddler, it was getting harder to tell by the day.
“We’ve talked about this, Chip needs a W-A-L-K before you can cuddle.” I l... | Don't think about True Crime podcasts. Don't think about the Top 6 People Who Died Horribly in the Woods style youtube videos. Don't think about anything that can will cause panic, because panicking will not help, and generally lead to getting yourself killed faster. Which are things you'd learned from the podcasts and... | 2022-02-23T18:55:27 | 2022-02-23T18:50:12 | 29 | 20 |
[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. | "NUMBER 117737."
Anxious and bewildered, you step up to the counter, behind which sits a very bored looking young man wearing a name tag that says GARY. He takes your ticket and asks, "Name?"
"John Smith. But this has to be a mistake. I don't belong in hell. I lived a good, honest life."
"Yep, that's what they all s... | I racked my brains, I was by no means a saint, but then, who is? I thought back to all the times I didn't intervene in other people's drama, because it was none of my business. Maybe I should have tried harder to help people in those situations? I couldn't help it that I didn't care that the husband of Rachel in accoun... | 2018-09-26T07:16:16 | 2018-09-26T06:12:40 | 4,281 | 153 |
[WP] You're a first year student at Hogwarts, and you're taking a painting class. As you try to animate your first painting ever, things go horribly wrong. | "Ok, you're a wizard now, you can do this" I tell myself. We had been assigned with painting important wizards from Roman times, and being myself, I automatically chose the hardest one to animate. I'd honestly rather be a Slytherin right now.
Oh who the hell am I kidding, I can't animate this, the last painting I tri... | ---
Okay, I can do this. I know the wand movements, the incantation. All of it.
This painting here of Professor Dumbledore is quite marvelous, and I just can't mess it up! Oh, what if something goes wrong?
I have to be optimistic about this! If I'm not, the spell will go wrong. I can do this.
Oh man, Johnny over he... | 2015-06-26T12:00:30 | 2015-06-26T11:40:42 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, shaped by your past. Your parents were influential members of society, but at home they gave the golden child everything and shunned the other. You were the golden child, and you have sworn revenge for your sister. |
I never had any trouble in my life. My parents did everything for me. They showered me in love, gave me an allowance that could have let me buy half a city if I wanted to. And yet, it was just yesterday that I found out…. I found out that I *had* a sister.
She was never brought up before, in the twenty five years ... | My sister is the closest family member I still have contact too. My parents don´t get why I am "So ungrateful" and "Disrespecting". They tried (and failed) multiple times to get into my house after I moved away, tried to force me to let them see my daughter. They even stole my car, to force me to live with them again.
... | 2020-10-19T09:28:32 | 2020-10-19T08:35:46 | 197 | 64 |
[WP] among the many senses developed on alien worlds, hearing is not one of them. To most extra terrestrials, the idea that we can detect them even with a wall between us is utterly horrifying | The chittering, clicking of the hive resonated through the cavern – they were close now. The hunters, we called them, they chased us deep underground into the caverns. Here, without the use of their wings and beady eyes, we finally held an advantage. The caverns were filled with the stench of Sulphur; the air was thick... | The cool earth cushioned softly beneath Blue-Green-Magenta's bare soles. He looked to his aide, Red-Scarlet-Teal, who nodded ahead to Ms. Hawk's home door, quiet as any world.
Eyes looked between blinds from houses around the street. Children-to-gods of all earthling years peered at the iridescent, slightly moving sca... | 2018-11-02T21:24:32 | 2018-11-02T20:00:37 | 199 | 115 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | Did our Words doom us to failure? Or was it just me?
Alice had hoped never to meet her soul mate. She met me through some godawful fucking boring work thing, and she caught my eye from across the room. Her Words started tucked up behind her left ear, and plunged into her neckline, tantalizingly low but not enough to f... | Theres a rule on this rock. A rule that seems almost divine i would say if i wasnt an atheist but this rule is neutral to both sides it can be a curse or it can be a blessing. The rule is that when a child is born a cosmic link is formed between the enfant and another. A link that is so simple yet so cimplex to its pri... | 2015-08-08T13:15:48 | 2015-08-08T11:31:06 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] You're 80 years old and time travel is possible. You sit down for dinner with earlier versions of yourself at age 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70. Conversation ensues. | 10 looks around the room and calls out "Really? Wow!" The idea of being 30 was foreign to 10, much less being older than 30. That would be older than his parents, and they were oooold.
50 sighs deeply and looks at his feet. Flexing his neck and waiting to see what happens.
20 and 30 size each other up, then 30 re... | 10: You're a little young for this, but leave girls alone until college.
20: Stay off the cocaine. Start saving for retirement.
30: Don't get married more than once. If at all.
40: Buy whatever you want.
50: Are you still in a shit career? Stop. Go fishing for six months.
60: Did you save enough for retirement? Go... | 2016-08-24T16:21:10 | 2016-08-24T15:43:49 | 57 | 40 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | I've made up my mind, this is the end
I've said my goodbyes to family and friends
However they don't know that I'm leaving tonight
I've struggled too long and can no longer fight
I walk back home after a long day of work
And get on reddit to routinely lurk
I see a post on "W-P"
And smile slightly at the irony
... | I can not take this, no way man;
I can not take this, not a fan
of days so doomy filled with spite;
of days so gloomy; no respite
I loved the days spent with you all
I loved the days before my fall;
please don't be down or start to cry
for now I'm free, my turn to fly!
| 2015-01-17T09:55:19 | 2015-01-17T09:43:08 | 120 | 13 |
[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. | It had been a busy week and I was kicking off Friday with a brew. My teenage nightmare of a Friday had turned into my adulthood goal, a quiet night in and video games until too late in the evening.
I set the beer down on the end table, turned around to flop down on the couch when the air was instantly filled with smok... | "What do you mean I can't leave these drinks on my tab? I've been coming here for years."
"New corporate rules. Ever since we were bought out by Wild Buffalo Bar Corp. No running tabs, no discounts, no happy hours," explained Chet, my favorite bartender.
"Well I guess I better go hit the ATM and see what I've got i... | 2017-05-12T09:09:01 | 2017-05-12T08:29:21 | 556 | 347 |
[WP] You are a world famous super hero and single mother with a secret identity. One day you bring your eight year old son to his new friend's house, and meet his mother who you've heard is also a single mom. Unfortunately she turns out to be your evil arch nemesis and you recognize each other. | The spikes were what did it.
A white picket fence is good and all, especially when paired with an immaculate lawn and neat garden beds filled to the brim with daffodils and lilies. Red bricks too, with wide, open windows and a welcome mat that actually said ‘welcome’ rather than spouting some amusing turn of phrase.
... | "Mom! Mom!" The indefatigable brute tugged at his mother's shirt. "I want to go to Jason's"
Seriously? Does he not know the toil I've been through to get to the end of the day, especially after a morning of crime fighting when I would normally relax at home while consuming TV? No, please no.
"Please Mum, please," he ... | 2019-08-08T21:08:20 | 2019-08-08T19:56:15 | 790 | 25 |
[WP]There is no prompt. Just write a story you've always been thinking about or one you've been thinking about sharing. Anything goes. | Howard and I sat in our respective chairs, looking through thousands of white specs against the black curtains of the universe. We had been 2 of a team of 15 people working with the Hubble telescope. In reality running an operation like this takes a small town's worth of people, but as far as the actual research and da... | The birth of "The Gentleman"
Albert Mancer and his wife Jane lived the high life their noble blood thrust upon them. They were quite contempt to life out their life together in peace until one day, Jane fell ill. Her body was degenerating and the beast clerics in the land had no way to cure her, only slow down her ine... | 2016-09-11T09:59:29 | 2016-09-11T09:58:34 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | Mimic collapsed to the ground, gasping, eyes watering, face drained of all color. “How… can… you… stand it…?” she gibbered through clenched teeth. I stood there looking over her. I could feel nothing for her; no sympathy, no spite, nothing.
“Why do you assume i can stand it? I endure it because there is no other o... | Ugh, well it’s been a while since I’ve talked about this, but having the “superpower” of acid spit gets incredibly crappy after awhile. You’d think fending off bad guys would be an easy task, but nope, here I am in public running up to the bastard who just stole a ladies purse trying to get into the best possible posit... | 2020-12-02T07:12:30 | 2020-12-02T07:06:24 | 453 | 38 |
[WP] When everyone turns 18, they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality. You're the first person to receive a dragon... | Every person in the world receives a creature at the age of 18. Since time immemorial, scientists and philosophers have been aching to find the reason for this, to figure out where the creatures come from- And how they reach us. The Guardians, as they have come to be called, are bonded in life and death to their owner.... | Today is my 18th birthday, it is a very special occasion as we have reached maturity in the eye's of Galfena and we are to receive a gift from her that will help tell the world our personality, and decide our status in the village.
It's regarded as a big event in a persons life because it helps decide who we are. Some... | 2014-09-28T08:54:52 | 2014-09-28T08:18:33 | 318 | 15 |
[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. | Denial of Application, Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Amended 5.2 - Sanctions, cont.
​
Date of writ. The human colony on the fourth planet of their system has been isolated for two local cycles following hostilities against council survey team and refusal of third planet government (see note 5.2.2 on multiple ter... | He collapsed on the far side of the rock, air sacs pulsating as he tried to oxygenate his system. His hind limbs were shaking, he knew he couldn't go on much further. He peered back and saw the creature, pink skin layered over with synthetic fibers it's two legged stride ate up the ground between them as it started to ... | 2021-02-04T11:18:22 | 2021-02-04T10:56:14 | 89 | 43 |
[WP] The rest of the civilised galaxy has just learned that when encountering something new, the human's brains asks three subconscious questions. "Can I kill it? Can I eat it? Can I have sex with it?" | The three questions. They always ask those three questions. Not necessarily out-loud, and not always consciously, but they do. It’s ingrained in them— basic survival instincts. Deep in their core, they ask these questions, even to those of their own kind. People always say “Oh, they’re animals! All they do is slaughter... | \[Poem\]
Within these walls, we did not know, what this universe had in tow,
Multidimensional travel, Is how the mysteries unraveled.
"May I destroy to bits?" "Earthen one, what in all tarnation?"
"Shall I boil or roast or steam or fry, all upto my imagination!"
"Perhaps, just maybe you could ravish me in all my g... | 2021-09-24T09:50:06 | 2021-09-24T08:19:07 | 54 | 34 |
[WP] As an immortal, you stopped celebrating your birthday centuries or millennia ago. Your young daughter wants to throw you a birthday party and your newest wife (who knows you're immortal) loves the idea. The only problem is, you have no idea how old you are or when your birthday is. | I don't remember much of old anymore. The mind has a limit. Mental space is confined to physical space. And though I am human enough to have a child, I am also human enough to forget things that are of little importance.
But one thing, a sight, a smell, can take me back. Even something as simple as a question from lit... | “Daddy!! I want to throw a birthday party!!” My daughter named July, yells enthusiastically, “for who? Your birthday isn’t for two months, and your moms was a few weeks ago.” She stands in a *matter of fact* stance, “you!” I smile, “I don’t remember when mine is sweetie. That’s why we haven’t celebrated mine before.” S... | 2019-09-08T14:07:08 | 2019-09-08T12:29:50 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] You've accidentally drowned your genie after putting her lamp in the dishwasher. Your Celestial Court date is next Monday and no human lawyer will beleive you. | Nic was spring-cleaning his new apartment when he came across an old, weathered lamp. It looked like it hadn't been used in years; centuries even. Still, he wasn't one for sentimentality, and threw it into the dishwasher with the rest of the tableware.
He just hoped it was dishwasher-safe.
****
"Well, shit."
Nic ... | *Oh no. This is bad.* There was nothing else that could go through Jaeson's mind. He pulled his '03 Azure Blue Chevy pickup into his parking spot on the back side of his apartment building. Collecting himself for a moment, he turned the key in the ignition, got out of his car and trudged up to his third-floor walk-up. ... | 2017-10-10T22:17:32 | 2017-10-10T20:05:02 | 1,581 | 62 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I guess... My power is hard to explain. Well, not hard to define, but hard to explain the absolute vastness behind it. Everything I want, happens. Like when I was a kid, I would want an ice cream cone, and POOF! Cake batter ice cream cone, right in my hot little hand.
Let me tell you, Christmas was the most boring hol... | It wasn't so much a power as it was a curse. Tell me how you would feel to die a million deaths. To wake up the day before the dominoes fell, the machination of reality that would end your life took place, and then some small nuance in the fabric of reality is altered to spare your life for a few more days, years, an e... | 2014-12-18T16:03:19 | 2014-12-18T12:57:51 | 39 | 10 |
[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... | It all happened so fast. I was going into town for a shovel. Earlier that day I'd broken one digging a drain trench out behind the barn.
Now I was sitting at a table in a room with a long mirror along the wall. The kind you see in a cop movie where they are shaking down a suspect.
Oh fuck. I'm a suspect. But for wha... | "The fucks a pokemon?"
The kid's voices was thick with the kind of yolk that had to be at least three generations inbred. She was a tall reed of a girl with long red hair tied into a ponytail, the color almost matched her farmers tan. She probably spent more time outside in one day than I would all week.
The system... | 2019-05-04T11:15:23 | 2019-05-04T11:11:17 | 6,214 | 81 |
[WP] An horror story where it gets progressively clearer that the writer is the psycho, not the other person. | ​
One night, I saw the prettiest girl at the bar. She'd been very drunk, but she was alone, and a few empty seats away from me. I thought I'd swoop in before someone else did.
"Stuart," I said, simply, when our eyes met.
"I'm sorry?"
"Sorry, I thought you asked for my name," I said.
"No," she said.
"We... | I woke up in the middle of the night to see a corpse floating above me. My first instinct was to scream, but my whole body was frozen, stuck to the bed. It stared at me, blood dripping down from its head and limbs, its flesh blue with frost. As it brought its mangled face closer to me and started speaking to me in some... | 2020-06-11T06:01:35 | 2020-06-11T05:59:03 | 111 | 69 |
[WP]: Three years ago a calamity claimed two thirds of the representatives of your gender. The dating scene has gotten weird. | Michael slumped at the bar, attempting to avoid the gaze of every woman in the room. The bartender. The waitstaff. The group of women downing pink booze-like liquids in the corner booth. What was once a safe haven for escaping the pressures of the world was now a wolf den of piercing, hungry eyes.
Three years before ... | And then there were bros.
After the apocalyptic viral strain swept across the Earth, only about thirty percent of the original male population survived. For some reason, the virus protected men who had less than 10% body fat. This left most of Africa, many groups in Southeast Asia, and the entire gym-going populatio... | 2015-01-21T07:55:29 | 2015-01-21T06:51:46 | 54 | 25 |
[WP]The Suit is powerfull. A mech for some, body armor for others, always unique to each person who wore it. Those who wear it, hear the words "not original user, booting basic mode" As a joke, your sergeant gives you The Suit and the first thing you hear is: "User detected: Welcome back, Commander" | \[User Detected. Welcome back, Commander.\]
Phil looked at his commanding NCO with a look of wide-eyed surprise. "You hearing this shit, Sarge?"
Phil had stepped into The Suit in it's default state, a plain-looking man-shaped sculpture of unadorned metal. Today was his Pilot Ceremony, the day where the base and the s... | I don't even have time to react before The Suit springs to life. Servos whir and pneumatics hiss as it reshapes itself around me. The thick armoured plates the previous user must have favoured fold in upon themselves, woven fibre substructure unraveling and reknitting itself around my body. It doesn't even need measure... | 2019-08-19T12:17:02 | 2019-08-19T11:55:05 | 92 | 20 |
[WP] When you die, you bring whatever you were carrying with you. You went to hell carrying a nuclear bomb. | Most people, when they arrive, are carrying something small. It’s typically an effigy of their family members or friends, since they can’t bring living things with them. For some, it’s their steering wheels, their guns, or pills.
You though, you caused an uproar. You appeared carrying the largest object any of us had... | "Hello Boys, *I'M BACK!!*"
He did not choose to die. He did not choose to have a WMD on him when he died. For all the wrongs he made in his life, however, he did right by choosing to detonate that bomb; for when those neutrons were liberated, we too were finally set free. | 2018-07-13T11:34:17 | 2018-07-13T07:42:31 | 158 | 48 |
[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?" | "So.. What's the downside again?"
*The witch looks back at me, as I ask the simple question*
"Yes... You'll never find a girl you love EVER again. " *she says, she was having fun at this wasn't she?*
".. I mean, I did call you ugly, and this is what your giving me".
"oh Hohoh. You are one of those edgy types , t... | The woman stood in my doorway, looking aghast. "You have NO sugar?" She demands, having just requested a cup.
​
I shrug. I'm on a diet. "I have some granular sugar replacement." I offer. The woman's beautiful face melts away into an old and warty visage. She points a gnarled finger at me.
​
Fu... | 2019-06-25T10:46:59 | 2019-06-25T09:48:32 | 332 | 54 |
[WP] Of all the races in the galaxy, humans are not the strongest, nor the most advanced, nor the most cunning, not even the most beautiful. We do, however, make great storytellers. | "Hang on a second..." The Glorbankian interjected, he was a tall creature, about ten foot tall with bright red skin, three eyes and a mouth full of sharp fangs.
"Hm?" Ted hummed as he wiped a rag across the bar. He worked at a intergalactic bar at a small way station between Earth's sun and another solar system about... | We were warriors, reapers, prophets, and saints. We dreamed as if our imagination was our life source, and seeped inspiration from any venue. We were never the best in the grande scope but our sights never strayed so far to consider such things. We did what we humans do the best, we believed. We told our stories of gra... | 2015-09-18T09:53:46 | 2015-09-18T09:41:48 | 79 | 15 |
[WP] "Invade your planet?!" The alien asks a general of Earth with confusion before bursting into laughter. "Why the heck would we do that when their are SEVEN other empty planets in this star system ripe for terraforming and colonization? We just stopped by to say Hi while we pick one of 'em out." | The General's face remained unchanged. Unflinching. Resolute.
But at the back of his mind, something about what had just been said did not sit right with him.
"So you mean to say that this 'first contact' of yours is a warning?" questioned the Admiral from the other side of the conference table.
"A warning? Of cours... | The moon was unusually dark today. It was supposed to be a full moon, but something dark covered its surface.
"Alert the boys, Joe, there's something fishy on the moon, it's not shining as it should," a red-haired officer gazing into a telescope said into a receiver which hung from his belt.
The device crackled. "Ro... | 2020-12-07T07:25:46 | 2020-12-07T05:19:33 | 46 | 31 |
[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. | “Next.”
*SHITshitshitshitshitshit, FUCK! How the hell am I supposed to get out of this if they can even speed up time?!*
“Next!”
*Maybe I can try and tie it to my will? No, they’ll just torture me until I want death. Maybe some kind of paradox?*
“NEXT!”
A hand roughly grabbed me by my arm and yanked me forward.... | There was a small group of us, huddled in the back. We had long ago stopped carrying why we were being sentenced to death. They seemed to be processing us in batches. The men who rebelled against former Chancellor Armenta were being cleared out before us.
We had been watching in dismay as the deaths were carried out.... | 2021-06-24T10:30:49 | 2021-06-24T09:16:51 | 74 | 25 |
[WP] You are the last living thing on earth following a massive disaster. Down to your last meal or two, water running low, you hear a knock on your bunker door one evening. As you approach it slowly, you hear from the other side, "I have a large Meat Lover's Pizza and a 2 Liter of Sprite." | 'Three biscuits and half a bottle water'. I took a final look around the bunker before accepting I doomed myself. 'Well done you useless shit. A 2 week survival pack, gone in 3 days', I said to myself, laughing awkwardly. I dont even know why I ate it all. I wasn't hungry, it just made me feel better in some weird way.... | “I have a large Meat Lover’s Pizza and a two liter of Sprite.” the voice echoed as usual. I didn’t bother getting up for the door. I knew he was there, this meant it was 8:19pm. Every day like clockwork the apparition of the pizza delivery boy would call through the door.
I curse under by breath to no one in p... | 2019-05-24T04:02:42 | 2019-05-24T03:33:55 | 2,373 | 796 |
[WP] Superpowers are granted depending on how you died in your previous life. Someone who died in a fire might shoot fire from their fingertips, etc. You were an astronaut that died during the SpaceX Mars Mission. | I’m unaffected by pressure.
That sounds like nothing, right?
Well, think about the air pressure pushing down on you right now. Think about the pressure you are exerting on the the world by standing on it. Think about the pressure at the on of the ocean that can crush most things not originating from there. Think abou... |
The first time Mrs Ana Daniels noticed anything different about Estelle was like any other day. She had been doing chores while the baby lay calmly burbling in the morning sunlight after a feed, had managed a cup of tea and to put a wash on- even though Jimmy had gone to work this week and she was alone for the first... | 2021-04-26T08:36:08 | 2021-04-26T06:56:46 | 173 | 12 |
[WP] Technological advances led to super powers. Yours is a killing touch. What you didn’t know is that every death added their lifespan to yours but you continue to age. You watched society fall. Now 1000s of years old, your withered husk is feared by the newly emerging “man”. They fear the Reaper. | When someone says Super Powers, what’s the first thing you think of? Death by high five probably isn’t it. Flying, invisibility, shapeshifting; that’s the kind of thing you want. The kind of powers that make life easier, fun or more exciting. But I got instant death. You don’t get bad powers they said. We weaned it out... | *sip* "Man this newspaper is getting crazier and crazier"
I take another sip on my freshly made coffee as I read through the newspaper
*Pfft* "wha-what!"
After reading what some of the news about me I can't stop laughing at the hilarious exaggeration of my existence
"Man they better tone that down or I'm gonna ge... | 2021-07-10T00:06:05 | 2021-07-09T21:18:39 | 219 | 23 |
[WP] Waking from cryostasis is now possible. The government develops an experiment where somebody is to be placed into a large chamber in the middle of the city and awoken every 50 years for just one week. Your name is chosen. | It had been just a month for me, and two centuries for the rest of the world.
I was woken once again with a hiss of escaping air, ready to be paraded around like a trophy, a 'marvel of modern science!' But the hall was practically empty; crowds had been thin last time they woke me, too. Now, just a few scientists wait... | “Time travel.” I tell the board of the selection committee. “You want me to time travel. Why?” I hadn’t known that this committee existed, or even if cryostasis technology had come this far along. Now I had been summoned to a mysterious meeting to talk about this….I wasn’t sure what to call it. Was it an honor? A privi... | 2014-12-19T06:36:08 | 2014-12-19T06:30:31 | 463 | 16 |
[WP]When you die, a television appears and plays the life of the person who cares for you the most in the world in front of you. After you die, the person you bullied in high school's life plays in front of you. | I didn’t sign up to be a guardian angel, it was something thrust upon me. Hell, I can’t imagine what God must’ve been smoking to give an ex-con a job like this. Back in my hay day, I would’ve paid good money to meet His dealer.
Honestly, when I was first told by that baritone schizophrenic voice in my head that I woul... | "Hello?" My voice echoed through the emptiness of space "Nurse?" I looked around not to see a hospital, but an empty, dark, space. Floating in mid air I only saw a large screen in front of me. There was a large text all over it:
'You have died at the age of 35, welcome to the afterlife. Before you proceed any further,... | 2017-01-01T12:32:04 | 2017-01-01T11:57:01 | 522 | 315 |
[WP] A wise wizard rejects the advances of a seductive enchantress, under the belief she is out for his power. Turns out she’s just really into him, and she can’t figure out why he dislikes her. | "SKULLGO!"
The horrid amalgamation of bone and flesh assembled itself within the ritual circle and wished with all the breath it didn't have that it could sigh. Just once would be enough. He was a monster, a terrifying freak of disembodied parts and minds.
He didn't deserve what was being done to him.
"He rejected m... | "Aha, so this apple is poisoned then, is it?" asked the cautious old wizard.
"Absolutely not!" retorted the seductive enchantress.
"Hmm, yes, it would appear you are correct." "Although, I shudder to think what wicked enchantment alights upon this 'necklace' you have brought me as well!" he exclaimed.
"Wrong again."... | 2018-06-25T06:59:36 | 2018-06-25T06:46:35 | 128 | 34 |
[WP] The Villain finished his monologue. Civilians standing around waited for the Hero to begin the fight, "Well, what are waiting for? Demolish the bad guy!" The Hero responded, "Hang on, he's made a couple of good points. We should hear him out." | Flabbergasted, the crowd just gawked at Soundwave's words. The Sinister Sisters also stood, mouths agape, as they processed what had just come out of the Hero's mouth. Did he really agree with them, or was this a delay tactic to buy time for other Heroes to join him? It couldn't be the latter, as he had been able to co... | The crowd had been silent for what felt like an eternity. The villain had just finished his speech. He had spouted the same rhetoric he had been repeating for weeks. I was the only one who seemed to be paying any attention to what he had to say. I knew that if I could just get him to listen, he'd understand that he did... | 2022-11-30T07:17:18 | 2022-11-29T19:55:54 | 85 | 34 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | The great Warchief, the leader of the most powerful fleet in known space, waited patiently on his ship orbiting a planet. It had gone two years since his ships conquered the human settlement at the border of the empire he served.
The victory was swift. The few human military vessels was defeated in matter of minutes. ... | We all couldn't quite believe it when 2022 started off like this. I remember since I was no more than five when it happened. But apparently SETI had found this recording.
"Um, uh...hey, did I fall asleep on this thing? Okay, okay. Testing, testing...alright, so, good- sometime in the future humanity. We are the Tyrhor... | 2022-01-23T20:02:48 | 2022-01-23T19:07:20 | 32 | 24 |
[WP] Batman has had powers all along. He's just been hiding them, because he's the goddamn Batman. Also because he knows the longer he hides them, the more it will mess with Superman when he reveals them. | "you cannot win this, Bruce" Clark called to his opponent, as he struggled to stand "I am too strong; you've had your time to prepare. You've discovered my identity and you've discovered my weakness, but I know all of yours too. I'll admit. You were a worthy adversary, but without powers of your own, you are limited by... | Gotham City, about eleven PM. Mild Seven looked up and down the alley. Nice and quiet. Perfect place to plan a heist.
Little did he know that the city's hero was perched on a balcony across the street, waiting. He wasn't using actual night vision goggles, no. He could see his target without those silly gadgets. He ju... | 2016-03-22T22:38:02 | 2016-03-22T22:06:53 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] The war had been going on for over 100 years now. Not that you'd ever seen it, living in a bunker your entire life. But one day, a news war reporter suddenly says, "I can't do this anymore. Everything is fine! They're lying! Th-" And the signal cut out. | **THE CENTENNIAL REPORT**
The quarantines were for the protection of the people.
At least, that’s what the elders were told. A century had elapsed, but the lockdowns never lifted. And somewhere in all that time, a new normal was created. A normal where people lived entire lives without leaving their homes. Homes that... | \[Short Story\] "Vicarious" \[2500 words\] \[10-12 minute read\] NSFW: Violence-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Weapons haven’t yet become as lethal as they could become, but still the planet has lost almost a billion people in the last 100 years or so ... | 2021-10-05T08:42:41 | 2021-10-05T07:48:09 | 155 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge. If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering, then all Bob's have this knowledge readily available. Soon, everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form. Your parents rebelled and named you something original. | It seemed like every person I knew was part of a greater picture. The Bobs were all electrical engineers. The Susans were oncologists. Alexs were doctors. Ferns were all horticulturists. Everyone had a place, everyone was in a faction. When a couple was pregnant, they thought long and hard about what they wanted ... | “Alexes, today we will take what’s ours!” The handsome young Alex stands atop a large pyramid of wooden crates, his voice booming across the entire marketplace. “Today, we will storm the Presidential Palace!”
*“Bring him down! Bring him down!”* The crowd around me chant at the top of their voices.
“We will not be ab... | 2017-04-07T09:27:45 | 2017-04-07T08:38:41 | 2,425 | 198 |
[WP] Your parents are a superhero and a supervillain. You inherited their superpowers and they both have always tried to pull you to their side, while you never wanted anything to do with anything super-related and so you picked the most mundane and normal job you could think of. | I scroll aimlessly on my phone as I eat chips and hear my parents get ready for their daily dealings.
Mom in another room: "BABE!! Have you seen my utility belt?! I'm fighting that giant Hydra, and I want to use that new grenade you made me to send it to the Nether Realm!"
Dad from his basement laboratory: "That dep... | When will you come home Ash?
That question has been burned into my mind for five years.
My father is The Atom Bomb. My mother is The Virus.
Master of what makes up everything in the universe and master of super intelligence. I'm still unsure how she thought that was a cool name. I guess smart people will alwa... | 2022-10-08T16:55:30 | 2022-10-08T15:08:23 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I was an avid dog lover. Jesse was my loyal dog and the cutest husky around the block. My girlfriend loved her also, so when I proposed to her, whether having the dog in the house or outside wasn't even a question. 1 year goes by and my wife has beared me a healthy young girl, Monica. After we left the hospital and wen... | I drive a school bus. You must understand, this job was never my first choice. I wasn't sitting in elementary school thinking "I wanna be a bus driver!" while everyone else chose astronauts, football players, singers, or dinosaurs. But sometimes life pushes you in a certain direction and you wind up exactly where you o... | 2016-05-19T14:52:21 | 2016-05-19T13:55:45 | 36 | 21 |
[FF] I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things. (250 words + GOLD)
Please include this phrase: "I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things."
*Reddit gold to the submission that most strongly hits me in the feels.*
Ready? Set? GO!
-----
EDIT: I couldn't decide, so I awarded go... | A deep rending that reverberates across this vast, wretched sky. It fills my ears. It fills my bones. A sound so immense I can almost touch it. The very fabric of this universe is tearing under its own weight, and this is its swan song. Yet I can think of but one thing—it's strange that the breakings of the world aren'... | My own skin was growing thin, but I was still a young man, younger than the man who was propped up before me. His breaths came in shallow, the hollow rattle of an old chest. One hand clutched feebly the blanket to keep him warm. I traced the veins up his arm with my eyes, I could remember him years before, a much bigge... | 2013-03-24T21:55:43 | 2013-03-24T12:06:10 | 90 | 11 |
[WP] Finishes with "May I start over?" | "I don't think you understand, this is not a joke!"
"No? Because it sounds like a fucking joke! You're talking like a schizophrenic psycho or something!"
"Aaargh will you just listen for once in your fucking life! God damn no wonder Julia broke up with you."
"..What the fuck are you talking about!? Julia and I are m... | Before I began, I seated myself on the soft armchair, leaned back and shoved a fistful of popcorn into my mouth, gave the soda a sip to make sure it's still fresh. And it was. With the light of the television screen before me in the living room, I pressed the button of the remote. Frankly saying, I did not know what mo... | 2013-09-01T08:23:34 | 2013-09-01T06:59:25 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] A person asks a villain why they are evil. The villain's response is very underwhelming. | My wrists hurt; tied to a chair for several hours, I needed some water, but nobody was paying attention to me.
Armed police at the doorway, remains of the door scattered around, negotiator in the room, criminal poised, hostage (me) waiting with baited breath.
They had been talking for a few minutes. I wasn't really l... | "And so, we come to the part of the event where you beg for your life, and I give you some reason why I couldn't possibly spare your miserable excuse for an existence. Go on, then- ask me something".
As he laughed, I struggled against the ropes that held me tight, the rough hemp biting into my flesh, rubbing my skin ... | 2013-12-29T10:53:57 | 2013-12-29T10:41:41 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] The greatest hero the world has ever known, a man/woman of unparalleled strength, speed, wit and skill dies to the laughingstock of the super-villain world in the most pathetic way possible. Write how he/she dies to this hilariously incompetent villain. | Twas a hero, savior of the land,
Call his name he'll give you a hand,
Nemesis hated his fame and glory,
Sadly, this is the end of the story,
He was a hero, brave and strong,
Ask him for advice, he's never wrong,
He made people happy, laugh, and smile,
Fought crime until the very last mile,
He was my idol, a man... | He crossed and uncrossed his legs. He twiddled his thumbs like it was his job.
"I just... Can't support your...decision," he said. To think of the fearless hero anything but confident in the mild-mannered life of his alter ego? Ridiculous.
He averted his eyes from her curious, almost intrusive gaze. The slight woma... | 2014-06-27T23:58:08 | 2014-06-27T23:44:44 | 473 | 196 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.