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[WP] In your kingdom, when a person comes of age, they are chosen by a weapon. The deadlier the weapon, the more prestige their family gains. You were chosen by a pen. | My father had a bottle
My mother used a ring
My sister could call the storms—with nothing but a string
Now I was next in line
to gain a weapon strong
and I dreamed of bringing glory—with a weapon worthy of song
So I stood atop the mountain
where all are chosen, all are blessed
and I called to me the spiri... | I'm not going to pretend that I wasn't the least bit nervous. Generation after generation of mediocre weapons kept our family off the drafting list, but high enough to keep us still in an officer role. Respectable, but nothing that was meant with deadly force yet.
I entered the building and provided my ID to the gent... | 2022-09-01T15:00:19 | 2022-09-01T14:28:42 | 44 | 31 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that’s when you realize you’ve been dating a dragon in human form. | All these years
The planned dates
The firey attitude
The protective attitude
Always wanting my food
Eyeing my mother's silver dishware
Insisting I buy her jewelry for every anniversary
Not wanting to have kids whatsoever
Wanting me to learn music
Making me submit to her demands
Liking it when I play music to her
Lovi... | I look at the massive pile of gold in shock. There must have been a ton of it. It included a wide variety, bars, coins, jewels, statues and any other cold fixture you can think of.
But more terrifying was what layer on top. My girlfriend, Jessica, splayed out in a red dress made of some odd scales that stuck close to ... | 2022-09-10T10:45:48 | 2022-09-10T09:51:49 | 80 | 47 |
[WP] You had a high school friend who always talked about world domination. At graduation you jokingly make them promise you to give you the rank of a general. 20 years later a series of violent coups happen out of nowhere and the new dictator appoints you as a general. | I'm a stand-up comedian. And not a successful one. I do a lot of bar shows. I once did a show on a cruise ship. It did not go amazing. Turns out retirees are not my target audience. Luckily for me, I think cruise-ships might end up being a thing of the past. Retirement might be as well. That is what happens after world... | He stands upon the mountain of rubble, rifle pointed towards the air, extending his hand outward with the sun shining down behind him. An angelic, heroic figure. I can only stare upwards in shock and awe, as I lie on the rubble, I extend my hand outwards instinctively, my wrist slack from being broken. He grabs my fore... | 2022-10-29T18:20:29 | 2022-10-29T17:25:59 | 829 | 76 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | They all had the best power they could ever think of. Some people were already waging war in the skies and in the seas, trying to conquer the world. I tried to think of any power that could help me dominate them all but obviously, they were all gone.
I thought of immortality to wait and conquer once their time had pas... | My turn. Everything obvious like telepathy, teleportation, and strength is taken of course. The two I wanted most are gone. Healing went at 11 and empathy went at 32 which is sort of encouraging I guess.. I'd never heard of Reactive Adaptation but now I want it.
Even the lame ones are gone. Indestructible Digestion wa... | 2022-11-17T02:51:16 | 2022-11-17T00:14:57 | 912 | 529 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | "And yours?" the divine agent asked me. A weariness in the question betrayed some edge of boredom or frustration in dealing with petty mortals.
"Power negation?" I ventured.
"Taken," I was informed, flatly.
"Power *theft*?"
"Taken."
"Domination, then." I was aware of the purpose of these powers and figured th... | "Tell me your bidding and it will be done, Mistress," I reverently proclaimed, just as the past ninety-eight had done.
She smiled at me. It filled my heart with joy. I could see she was weary, though. It had been such a long day for her. Joy fled. Concern took its place, followed by a desperate need to do anything and... | 2022-11-17T07:41:47 | 2022-11-17T05:10:38 | 772 | 64 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | "And yours?" the divine agent asked me. A weariness in the question betrayed some edge of boredom or frustration in dealing with petty mortals.
"Power negation?" I ventured.
"Taken," I was informed, flatly.
"Power *theft*?"
"Taken."
"Domination, then." I was aware of the purpose of these powers and figured th... | "Number 100. Choose your blessing."
It took almost half an hour, but I was finally up. By that point, most of the "traditional" super powers had already been taken. I would've been in a lot of trouble if I wasn't a massive comic book geek. I motioned for the angel to come close so I could whisper my choice in their ea... | 2022-11-17T07:41:47 | 2022-11-17T07:40:04 | 772 | 32 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | I stood speechless at the answer of the last candidate. Everyone else chose a super power following the spirit of the event, but the last one had a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. I glanced down at the written rules, wondering what idiot intern had threw together the wording, and how I was going to fire them immediate... | “My turn!” I yelled, running forward. As I faced the monitor, I scrolled the list of powers already claimed. All of them were, even the one I wanted, but I decided to ask anyway.
“I want the power to fly!” I proclaimed.
🎵 “GRANTED” A musical synthesized voice said.
The crowd jeered and booed, but then the adjudicat... | 2022-11-17T07:33:47 | 2022-11-17T03:54:46 | 420 | 40 |
[WP] Adapt a famous fairy tale so it has a realistic ending.
I'm about to go to sleep. Bedtime story!... Except that I won't read anything until I get up. Happy Saturday. | *And so it was, that upon awakening, the Sleeping Beauty saw the charming prince's face over hers, and pressed charges against him for his misconduct, for he had no means of obtaining consent while she was asleep. And so it was, that the Prince had royal power and manipulated the legal system to frame the princess of c... | She slept and never moved. She looked like a statue carved from gleaming white marble, but stone could never do justice to the beauty of her delicate face.
These were the lips which had so entranced the knight, and he stared at them longingly. A tiny dribble of drool escaped from the corner of his mouth, like a hungr... | 2014-03-29T11:23:57 | 2014-03-29T10:43:35 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] A man finds that each numbered button he pushes on an elevator opens up to show himself at the corresponding age in the past or future, whether it’s floor 40 (age 40) or floor 2 (age 2). Not knowing the consequences, the man decides to exit the elevator at a chosen floor. | It was all so perfect.
35... 36... 37... 38...
The floor number slowly climbed.
"I'm almost there."
He shook with adrenaline.
39... 40...
The elevator doors slid open to reveal nothing. Not his family. Not himself. There wasn't anything at all. His smile immediately disappeared. An empty room would have been... | My mom was there. She's been dead for five years now, but she was there. The doors opened to a bathroom with some big and dark figure standing over me. I could feel something like a rock hitting me in the back of the head over and over. And my mom was in the background, staring, unblinking. Unmoving.
I pressed an... | 2014-06-17T15:07:09 | 2014-06-17T14:27:31 | 41 | 26 |
[WP] In the distant future, an alien scientist has almost fully deciphered the messages found on the Voyager Spacecraft. With growing horror, the scientist realizes the crafts home system, and begins to pray. | Gzrn'llrp couldn't believe it. Three whole yarngs had passed with virtually no progress, and even after the initial results came back it took three MORE yarngs just to verify the information. There was simply no possible way the analysis was incorrect - the device was of Annihilator origin. The doctor's long, wiry gran... | Flying along in the dangerous Quadrant X-7 was a small reconnaissance craft, home to a few hundred Nebulins, a species that while rather stupid, are very efficient at producing offspring, and due to their small size, use up few resources.
"Captain Zarquan to Division A." Division A was responsible for waste managemen... | 2014-11-09T01:15:11 | 2014-11-09T00:37:30 | 55 | 37 |
[WP] a love story that ends with the words "and I hate her" | She wants to hang out absolutely all the time.
And when we don't, I'm constantly reminded of what I'm supposed to be doing with her. Hanging out with my family? "You should be spending that time with me right now."
Studying for exams? "You know, it's been a full 48 hours since we've done our thing together. Why won'... |
She reached out and grasped without my permission, took hold of my thoughts and pulled from remission.
She put on my blinders and opened my eyes, she showed me a sunset, called it a sunrise.
She promised me hope, she baited with joy. She knew me unknowing, too trusting, a toy.
She put on an act, such panache, such ... | 2014-11-24T06:49:36 | 2014-11-24T06:04:06 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] You are 90% certain your waiter is Hitler.
Stolen (shamelessly) from an AMA I saw. | The waiter looked at me expectantly, and rocked forward and back on his heels rather awkwardly as he endured my protracted silence.
"I uh - t-that is to say - my, you've aged surprisingly well!" I finally managed to issue, immediately cringing at my own inanity.
"Sir?" said the man I was almost certain was Hitler in ... | When you go to a trashy Chinese restaurant, having a waiter is a bonus. If the waiter speaks decent English, that's awesome! And if the waiter looks Hitler, that's amazing!
I went to Chang's Chinese Kitchen to eat a quick meal. Granted, orange chicken cooked on a 20 year old iron skillet isn't the best meal, but when ... | 2015-01-15T19:51:26 | 2015-01-15T19:08:15 | 349 | 88 |
[WP] Write about a unique relationship between an immortal and a time traveler. | Emerus was a time traveler, and his brother Amerus could never die,
Emerus jumped through worm holes, while Amerus contemplated the sky.
They were both great men of science, they were the smartest of their kind,
But as Emerus jumped through time, there was only one thing on his mind.
To sneak up on his dear brother Ame... | I waited to see him.
Every day, every minute, every second.
See, I didn't know when he would arrive to see me. It was never planned. Such was our relationship.
Our love.
It was meant to always remain desperate, to always be urgent. When I saw him I would be filled with joy and excitement and when he left I would di... | 2015-05-03T03:38:18 | 2015-05-03T03:04:59 | 214 | 114 |
[WP] The year is 2340 and Dreamworks is filing for bankruptcy due to uninspired movies and their big brother disney is at the height of it's popularity, before filing for bankruptcy, they make one last movie. The story of the boy fishing on the moon. | SCENE: The Crescent Moon
The BOY looks down from his spot on the tip of the crescent moon sadly. He grabs another piece of fishing line next to him and carefully threads it into his rod.
BOY: [morose] Please be long enough this time. Just this once.
The BOY casts off the Moon. For the first time, the camera follows ... | **So, Steven Spielberg Jr Jr Jr Jr Jr Jr Jr Jr Jr. This is it. Last call at Dreamworks.**
Sad but true, Robot Jerry Seinfeld. Can you believe it? From your humble stand up beginnings in 2035 to becoming the greatest robot porn star ever, yadda yadda yadda, and now you've killed Dreamworks. Great job!
**Whats the deal... | 2015-09-07T03:44:17 | 2015-09-06T22:21:30 | 985 | 77 |
[WP] The year is 2340 and Dreamworks is filing for bankruptcy due to uninspired movies and their big brother disney is at the height of it's popularity, before filing for bankruptcy, they make one last movie. The story of the boy fishing on the moon. | SCENE: The Crescent Moon
The BOY looks down from his spot on the tip of the crescent moon sadly. He grabs another piece of fishing line next to him and carefully threads it into his rod.
BOY: [morose] Please be long enough this time. Just this once.
The BOY casts off the Moon. For the first time, the camera follows ... | "... We will now put our reporter Macklin Kaffiyeh on, who is currently positioned in front of the New Atlanta space cinema at Lagrange Station L2, where Disney's and DreamWorks's last movie 'The Boy who Fished for Laughter" is premiering today. Macklin, how is the mood out there?"
"Hello Barbara. There are loads of p... | 2015-09-07T03:44:17 | 2015-09-06T22:54:55 | 985 | 52 |
[WP] All doctors must carry a staff. The staff must be hand carved by the doctor, and for every patient a doctor can't treat they lose an inch off their staff. When a staff is gone, so is their license.
X-post from /r/crazyideas and /u/BrassDidgeStrings | She bent over and lifted a beautiful, pale, wooden staff from under the operating table. Her scrubs were soaked in blood and sweat, chemicals and tears. It was only Doctor Silvia Nite and her most recent patient. The room was quiet. In her gloved hand the staff carved with great care years ago as a bright eyed medi... | Once upon a time, at an elite university, an idealistic pre-med college student, [while showering](https://www.reddit.com/r/showerthoughts), got the idea that all doctors must carry a staff. The staff must be hand carved by the doctor, and for every patient a doctor can't treat, the doctor loses an inch off the staff. ... | 2015-11-12T20:03:09 | 2015-11-12T19:03:04 | 812 | 34 |
[WP] Everyone who dies reincarnates in Tier 2 universe. People there have all memories from the previous lives, and they suspect there are more Tiers. People live really differently there compared to Tier 1.
EDIT: thank you everyone for the great texts. I'm enjoying reading them. Having a lot of people expand on a con... | Tier Two was not what they told us it would be.
Tier Two wasn't the glistening heaven it was supposed to be. Tier Two wasn't the shining palace they said it would be. Tier Two wasn't the utopia we were promised.
Tier Two was hell. Everywhere you looked, suffering, pain, and anger roamed the streets. You couldn't even... | The icy cold gun rested in my hand, it was heavier then I expected, weighing down my hand. Around me the depressing beige walls seemed to get closer to me as I was reflecting my life, well my second life.
I was put on this world at the age of 20. I knew thats not when my life started but my memory was fuzzy on the 1s... | 2016-01-22T01:28:33 | 2016-01-21T21:51:30 | 18 | 10 |
[WP]You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago, today he gives it back and says, "I need a favor". | "And what could you *possibly* require from me?" Vernon asked. After selling his soul years before, he now stood at a somewhat remarkable six-foot-two, dressed himself rather well, and had money enough to retire at forty. Such was the life of one fated for eternal hellfire. "Getting my soul back would be nice, but- wha... | I was splayed out on a filthy hotel mattress, at least two other naked bodies tangled in my limbs, every brain cell in my skull burnt out, when the devil came for me.
He'd gotten fatter since I last saw him, putting on the pounds of middle age, his hairline receding up past his horns. His beard had gotten thicker, jo... | 2016-06-27T06:58:27 | 2016-06-27T06:47:57 | 1,053 | 89 |
[WP] 5000 years after an apocalyptic event, you are woken up from a cryogenic sleep by the new inhabitants of planet earth. Upon awakening, you are told you are the sole survivor of the human race. | "Lieutenant Myers, can you hear me? Blink twice if you can."
Blink. Its like a glass blanket moving across my eyes. Blink.
"Good. Everything seems ok. Vitals are normal. A curious lack of atrophy in the muscular tissues. Myers, I need you to follow this light with your eyes. There we go. Yup keep going. Ok. He seems ... | "Bob, this is stupid. Put the money into a trust for your kids or something - don't blow it on this cryogenic crap!" Bobs wife was furious. "I've always wanted to do this Lisa... It's my dying wish. And with everything going on, who knows? Maybe I'll be recovered once things get better in a couple hundred years," Bob r... | 2016-10-08T09:35:05 | 2016-10-08T04:16:34 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] In a world where people can only be killed by those they truly love, you are an assassin. | You can only be killed by someone you love. That's always been the rule. We don't know who made it. Many people suspect it was God. Some people don't believe in him, but it is a pretty compelling argument for the existence of a higher being. I personally never was a faithful sort. In more ways than one. People are so e... | Coldness swamps the man, his hand trembles as it reaches for the knife sticking out of his ribs. His fingers only brush the blade before it stops and starts to twitch sporadically, the last spasms of a dying man. With cloudy eyes, he looks up to his attacker.
He coughs at the sight of her.
"Why?" croaks the man.
Tea... | 2016-11-15T15:51:49 | 2016-11-15T15:38:47 | 1,012 | 14 |
[WP] The bad guys won and the world was conquered by the villain's armies decades ago. You and your spouse are worried as you suspect your child may be suffering from Chosen Oneness or perhaps an acute case of Prophetic Heroism. | "GET DA FUCK OFF MA LAWN!!!!!!"
I shouted at those crazy worshippers. From time to time there were people in my garden kneeling and praying and hoping someone would safe them from this new management of the country.
It began when some blind witch suddenly had a vision about the dark lord being beaten and the lands li... | I should have known it would have been like this. It started straight from birth. He came out with a sword and shield. What baby comes with a sword and shield? Do you know how much legal trouble my wife and I had to go through just to keep our kid for that? Never mind that though, he also had a full set of blonde hair.... | 2016-11-26T06:54:54 | 2016-11-26T06:12:48 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] Humans are actually the most friendly and curious beings in the galaxy, in comparison to all others.
Inspired from http://imgur.com/gallery/S82QF
(Sorry if this has been brought up before, its my 1st WP after months of lurking ) | "This council is adjourned. Please return to your collective resting spots as defined in Article.."
The movement of the various delegations shuffled throughout the space as if their were ants delivering a few crumbs to the queen ant. Pouring through the exits, there was a tense atmosphere permeating through the crow... | I awoke in the cramped, small escape pod dome.
First thought: am I dead? I wiggled my fingers and toes. Pain. They cracked. Pain is good. Pain means you survived. I was in a lot of pain.
So yeah, I wasn't dead, but I was well on my way. Every conceivable warning siren was blaring and every single warning light on ... | 2017-01-13T21:34:44 | 2017-01-13T19:28:11 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Humans are actually the most friendly and curious beings in the galaxy, in comparison to all others.
Inspired from http://imgur.com/gallery/S82QF
(Sorry if this has been brought up before, its my 1st WP after months of lurking ) | "This council is adjourned. Please return to your collective resting spots as defined in Article.."
The movement of the various delegations shuffled throughout the space as if their were ants delivering a few crumbs to the queen ant. Pouring through the exits, there was a tense atmosphere permeating through the crow... | June 3, 3012
As my first year in space comes to a close, I feel myself compelled to write, more thoroughly, of some of the events that have come to pass. My journal entries until this point have been spotty at best, and I am ashamed. I realize now that it is my responsibility to carry the message and intent of the hum... | 2017-01-13T21:34:44 | 2017-01-13T19:05:15 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | I come home and sit down with a sigh. I can't believe I did it again. I let my heart run away and let an ex take advantage of me again. How many times am I going to fall for her lies? How many times will I just do what she wants when she bats her eye lashes at me?
Pouring myself a drink I sit in the dimly lit room. Ho... | *Plghrt*
> Kill confirmed
*Sigh*
Another bug down, 1XP. Lovely, I'll never reach 10k, not at this rate. It started with the mice and rats, then the cats, fish. It's a privilege to work at a slaughter house or deliver lethal injections. I never could do that, not intentionally. The look in their eyes, the helplessn... | 2017-05-15T08:02:42 | 2017-05-15T06:23:41 | 753 | 10 |
[WP] You are a normal average person but you happen to have many supervillain friends. This is awkward when heroes keep trying to rescue you. | "Come citizen! We need to get you out of harms way!"
"Uhh, nah I'm...I'm good."
"You...what? This bomb is about to go off"
"Yeah I know, but Dr. Nefarious and I have plans to see a movie after making a secret escape, in a way, by keeping me here talking to you, you're keeping me in harms way. I could be watching Al... | "Hey, Ultra Man, this is the sixth time you save me this week, don't you think that I would be dead already if I were in constant danger from The Bastard League?" his words half filled with sarcasm. " But, they are super villains, I can not help but worry about a man living so close to them." answered Ultra Man as he s... | 2017-05-28T08:53:30 | 2017-05-28T06:41:27 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] The rules are simple: you kill a God and you get to replace them. But no one does it. No one wants to find out why the Gods don't seem to care when one of them dies. | I strode up the iron stairs towards the God of War. The gun in my hand was loaded with ammunition painstakingly etched with runes of banishment. Wards of negation hung around my neck and wrists. Everyone said this was folly, that there had to be a reason the Gods didn't care when one was replaced.
But I did care. ... | Living in a seaside town has it’s ups and downs. Unlimited access to free swimming and overpriced ice-cream, getting your lunch stolen by seagulls, and Poseidon occasionally leaving dents in the front bumper of your car.
“What the hell, man?” I got out of my car to survey the damage as the blue-haired deity smirked a... | 2017-09-05T13:29:08 | 2017-09-05T11:55:35 | 859 | 91 |
[WP] Humans weren’t the only species to evolve intelligence. Octopuses arrived at sentience at the same time as us, and war inevitably broke out. Now in 2017, an octopus special ops team is on a mission to liberate an aquarium.
Credit for the title goes to /u/akatavi | *Purple Eye-spots Against Mottled White and Brown Background*
"That's a warning sign," the aquarium guide happily explained, as the cephalopod in the aquarium dramatically changed color in front of a crowd of onlookers. "That coloration indicates that the octopus has been provoked, and an attack is about to foll...low... | >Enemy Military Base, Chicago, June 17, 2017, 7:03 PM
Sek'hl'geg rapidly scanned the area, detecting no pulses.
"We're a go."
6 shadows detached themselves from a wall and slithered down a corridor, turning right, then left, then right again, and they were there. The doors were shut, made of reinforced adamantino... | 2017-09-22T20:54:03 | 2017-09-22T18:11:39 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] Mickey Mouse has died. As per is last will and testament he can only be replaced by “The one who wishes it most.” Roughly translated, a battle royal has broken out and the Magic Kingdom is at war. You’re an obscure character who finally has their chance to climb to the top. Tell your story. | No one expected me to win.
Chaos. Chaos everywhere, all the universes agreed to make a final battle for the new leader, and everyone that wanted to take a shot came to Disney Castle, and so did I.
Blood, screams and death everywhere, kings' and princesses' crowns rolling on the floor. They fought in the gardens, they... | I've been waiting for the worst of the war to pass over myself. I'm not a fighter. Not that many of us were before it all started.
There had been a fan.
Well, I guess they called themselves a fan, but the longer 'fanatic' would describe them better. She'd charged in screaming unintelligibly as they always do, grabbed... | 2018-02-24T17:21:50 | 2018-02-24T16:45:50 | 59 | 30 |
[WP] To get into heaven, you have to beat Jesus at Rock Paper Scissors at the pearly gates. Since the beginning of time, Jesus has always thrown rock. Everyone knows Jesus always throws rock and it's really just a formality to throw paper and walk into heaven. When you play him, he also throws paper | Despite everything you've known and heard from others, you stand there awkwardly for a moment just blankly staring at a hand that should've played rock instead paper.
Your heart starts to panic and your mind starts to fray at the edges as your expression remains as it did when you first approached the Son of God.
"A... | Jesus Christ. The man, the myth (or, as it turns out, not a myth), the legend. He is a very reasonable man, just like he is in the bible. The people ahead of me were rapists, pedophiles, and scientologists, and somehow they made it through. So I thought I was golden.
Jesus is not bearded nor is he white. He's about 5'... | 2018-05-18T10:49:58 | 2018-05-18T10:33:00 | 45 | 17 |
[WP]At last the Dovahkiin dies. Now all the Daedra princes he has served over his life fight for his soul. | "I claim him!", said Mephala, "For we have many machinations yet to do!"
"I claim him!", said Peryite, "For we have many tasks yet to perform."
"I claim him!" said Vaermina, "For we have many terrors to inflict."
"I claim him!" said Hircine, "For we have many prey to hunt!"
"I claim him!" said Sanguine, "For we hav... | The Day the Daedra feared has come. Dovahkiin has died! But not only that, for a great strife has formed. The Dark Daedric princes who did have the Dragonborn serving them, are now fighting for his greatest item. Not a necklace or a sword. For it is not a mundane item. They want the soul of the Dragonborn.
As they al... | 2018-06-15T08:17:32 | 2018-06-15T08:08:41 | 2,893 | 12 |
[WP] As a joke you take your pet pig on a plane with you once you get up in to the air Suddenly, several things once said to be impossible until this very moment start occurring everywhere. | “You think you’re real funny huh?”Tom said as he was rolling his eyes, looking at me like the Black Plague.
“I’m just trying to prove a point, Tom. Get off my back” I said while bringing Trev to the cockpit. “Pigs gotta fly someday and you don’t see a pilot with a teacup pig too often”
The plane was heading to Singa... | “What do you think, buddy?” I lifted Buster up to the window to let him see better.
“Oink!” He responded enthusiastically.
I grinned and pulled him close to take a selfie. This was the best idea ever. I glanced over at my best friend, who was also taking a picture of her own pet pig. “Now we take a picture of the... | 2018-07-28T07:22:49 | 2018-07-28T07:00:10 | 2,333 | 1,648 |
[WP] You are the most generous mountaineer. You give food, drink, and climbing poles to exhausted climbers, and never accept anything in return. Your secret? You died on this mountain years ago, because nobody was there to help you as you are helping now. Someone has figured it out. | She looked at me through the falling snow, not knowing what to think. I could tell she wanted to speak but years of pain were holding her back. I could feel the sorrow behind each tear that fell down her face. “B-but... how?...” she finally spoke, jumbling her words, still unable to get anything more out.
“Janice...”... | Scaling the mountainsides this time of year was, well, the best word would be treacherous. The alpines of the Colorado weren’t exactly forgiving with the slick sheets of untouched snow, crisper than a fresh pair of jeans. Honestly, it catches you in quite the precarious positions. First thing you know your descending a... | 2018-08-18T09:19:27 | 2018-08-18T08:10:30 | 85 | 56 |
[WP] You are the first person to be injected with nano-bots. At first its a dream come true. They heal long-term injuries and even slow your aging. However, soon they begin making 'improvements' to your body. | Their foreman blinked at me. Well, as much as a tiny robot with a brain the size of a microchip could blink.
"I told you, I don't need spikes!"
**"SPIKES INCREASE DEFENSIVE EFFICIENCY BY 250%"**
"You have no idea how hard it is to sit down!"
**"WE WORK 24/7/365, WE DO NOT SIT DOWN AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU.**
My hand... | At first everything seemed ok, then I noticed that I got really dizzy and found it hard to stay focused. I was going downstairs to get coffee and start on my novel. I ignored the dizziness and blamed it on dehydration. I promised myself that I would drink water after I finished my first cup of coffee.
I regretted it. ... | 2019-01-19T13:02:33 | 2019-01-19T12:33:11 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] You're no ordinary doctor. Whenever a patient is brought in to the ER, your job is to battle the literal manifestation of Death, buying time for the surgeons to keep the patient's soul in his body. | I am a Reaper. No, I do not harvest souls and work for Death. On the contrary, I work against Death, I try and preserve lives of mortals whenever I can. Where better to do that than a hospital, am I right?
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My colleague, Angelina, passed me a cup of my coffee and sat down. Just as she was about to start t... | My day passed around wheeling gurneys, like any doctors day should. After all it’s my job to save lives. It is not my decision which soul is to pass over, or which is to remain here on this earth. I try to be dispassionate about the battered and torn bodies fighting for life till their last breath. But it is a tough jo... | 2019-05-20T05:24:00 | 2019-05-20T04:12:37 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Over the years your D&D game has managed to continue with most of the original players. However, almost everyone's life circumstances have changed drastically since they began and you now DM for a group of some of the most-powerful people on the planet. | *Final Call. Session from 6:30pm to 11pm on the 12th. Next session 1pm to 5pm on the 24th. Any objections?*
People usually laughed when they see me text, since it always sounds so formal. It makes me sound old, which isn't fair. I just turned 39 in June. And considering who I was texting, it makes sense to be like tha... | "It seems I have to take the initiative again, I'll scout ahead." Elon said. He played rogue, always.
"i'll come with you Elon, for com-pan-y," Bjork's voice itself was like music. Elon told me once he found it seductive like the sirens, too good to be any good.
"You and her leave at the same time? Not this again, le... | 2019-06-26T05:08:22 | 2019-06-26T04:09:00 | 262 | 23 |
[WP] You hop on a train heading back home from work later than usual but soon notice that everyone in your car is asleep. You hear a loud bang come from the car next to yours but before you can investigate, one of the older passengers whispers "Sit back down and pretend to sleep. It won't see you." |
My heart skipped a beat. "What won't see me?" I asked.
The man replied in an exasperated tone, "The Behavioral Enforcer, you fool! Mandatory sleep time started six minutes ago."
Glancing at my watch, I realized he was right. I was normally home and in bed by now. Not that it mattered.
"Mandatory sleep time is,... | "Excuse me what?!" I whisper in my confusion.
"Just--" Before he finished he pulled me down by the arm and I fall on the floor. The floor was cold and my head began hurting but before I could try to stand up, the thing opened the door, fear and adrenaline froze me. It was a sort of shadow figure with red eyes. I step... | 2019-08-09T10:53:35 | 2019-08-09T10:50:48 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | "C'mon, just tell me," she said, leaning her elbows on the table and facing me, eagerly.
"I'm telling you, it's not that impressive. Hardly a discussion for a first date."
"I think it's the perfect discussion. If you don't tell me..."
I felt a sudden urge to blurt it out, but I composed myself. Her mind powers were ... | “So your power is super... taste?” Roy asked.
I nodded, taking a quick bite of my turkey and cheese sandwich. I was able to enjoy every little detail, and that made everything I ate delicious. Even though I heard people talk about foods they did and didn’t like, I just couldn’t get enough of anything people could give... | 2019-09-08T10:13:02 | 2019-09-08T09:47:00 | 84 | 27 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I always felt alone as a child, even talking to myself when I felt the need for conversation. It started when I was 4 or 5, I guess; parents were too busy to my many siblings that I only had myself for company. So I talked to myself... and I answered myself. My mother always said, "Oh, she's just playing. Let her be." ... | Mike was leaning on me rather heavily, as the office Christmas party began to die down. ‘So,’ he slurred, ‘Whatss yo-your ability, Amily?’ Instead of words, I decided it was better to show him. I tentatively touched his arm, and we were transported into a world of our own. We were sitting beneath a palm tree, on a sunn... | 2019-09-08T11:40:23 | 2019-09-08T11:37:20 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I always felt alone as a child, even talking to myself when I felt the need for conversation. It started when I was 4 or 5, I guess; parents were too busy to my many siblings that I only had myself for company. So I talked to myself... and I answered myself. My mother always said, "Oh, she's just playing. Let her be." ... | Dan watched his partners work. He sat silent, and so nobody bothered him. That was just how he liked it, really. He was able to do his part of the school project in peace.
Fortunately, he got at least one good group member. Ted looked like he he was sleeping, but he was probably being more productive than any of t... | 2019-09-08T11:40:23 | 2019-09-08T11:00:34 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] Earth remained a protected planet by every species in the known galaxy, because Humans are the Greatest story tellers. "The planet of Dreamers," finally reaches the stars much to exhilaration of every race who knows of the story's of Earth. Even simple conversation with humans is entertaining. | We didn't live dreary lives. We fought often, ate good food, and loved good beings. But after meeting the humans, it all seemed so... dull. The tales the humans wove, we thought they were immortal to experience so much. But even though they hardly ever even circled their star a hundred times, they could spin you a thou... | It took many years of frenzied searching to find the best storytellers earth had to offer. Each planet sent forth their research teams to pilfer through each category of humanoid in an attempt to discover the individual that would bring fame and fortune to their planet. It was found that lumping the humans into age g... | 2019-11-21T06:32:39 | 2019-11-21T05:04:53 | 64 | 23 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | Just seconds after I swallowed the last of the table, it started. The laughing. It surrounded me like my blanket at bedtime. It spoke to my soul in a way I can't describe. As I looked round the others, they couldn't hear it.
The whole earth itself began to shake and there he stood. Still no other saw or heard him.
He... | "What the hell, dude? That table is like 10,000 years old! It's made of a tree that doesn't exist anymore," I heard the sound of a voice and my head immediately snapped around to find it. I still couldn't see the individual in question but I had been made alert.
"What? I was just trying to think outside the box, do I ... | 2020-03-19T08:54:35 | 2020-03-19T08:21:44 | 296 | 162 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | Due to various socioeconomic factors; 16 years ago there was an unprecedented baby boom. I was one of such born then. The rules are simple: one at a time you will approach the table and select a food from it. Upon eating the food, you will gain a power. We were told that we would have to each choose something different... | As a kid, my friends and I loved to chat, debate and even argue what we'd eat when we entered the power room. We didn't know what food gave what power (everyone who went through it could not speak of that without losing their power), so we always theorised what we'd get.
Gemma insisted she'd find the food that had tel... | 2020-03-19T09:40:00 | 2020-03-19T09:01:40 | 198 | 63 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | (I don't usually write for these so be gentle)
The day finally came. It was my turn like my brother and sister before me. They each got their powers and now have been assigned jobs that took advantage of their powers.
My brother with his super strength works in a foundry lifting heavy materials. While my sister with ... | I might be a lil crazy but I’m thinking I shouldn’t bite anything . Everyone always bites what’s in front of them and the powers range from making seeds grow into flowers to making clones out of water to jumping through time for hours. Sarah’s right beside me and she just bit into this banana and now she’s teleporting ... | 2020-03-19T10:22:13 | 2020-03-19T10:15:15 | 172 | 44 |
[WP] “Do not go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound.” That was the last thing he said before he shut the basement door. | “Don’t go outside. Ignore all the cries for help, no matter how human they sound,” her father said as he hefted the bloody axe into his hand. He started up the stairs out of the cellar and stopped. "You can always tell when they're not human, listen. Listen!"
“Papa, no—no they *are!* They are people!” she cried pullin... | Half an hour later the cries came from every direction and from everyone. each it's own distinct call never too many to cover another call as if they wanted you to pick out your families cry and add yours to their chorus, but every once in a while you heard every cry stop and you knew someone had fallen for their trap ... | 2020-04-26T08:20:00 | 2020-04-26T03:56:47 | 154 | 59 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | I had been to the school for a month already, but had yet to make any friends. I guess teleportation put some people off as being too powerful, and the blue guy who kept hanging around me kept people away as he was Omega. I guess he stuck close because I could teleport also.
Walking down the hallway I watched my wanna... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T08:27:21 | 9,106 | 16 |
[WP] You are a chef working for a pizza place which is a mafia front, but you don't really care. All you care about is how to make the best goddamn pizza in town, and not even armed gunmen from a rival family can stop that! | 'Do it motherfucker! Do it!'
The chef had a gun pressed against his temple, and beads of sweat were running down both of their foreheads. It was hot in the kitchen, especially during peak hours. The chef was accustomed to it, but what was making him sweat was the thinking about how slippy the mafia guy's hands were, b... | They walked into the pizzeria in their overcoats. Their collars raised high. They wore fedoras and smoked cigars and their oxford shoes click-clacked behind them.
"Where's Corleone?" One wrinkled old face asked.
I rolled the dough out and tossed it into the air. "What's your business?"
"You know our business," he sa... | 2020-12-19T05:51:51 | 2020-12-19T05:23:48 | 1,461 | 338 |
[WP] "What are you doing!?" "Looking up the answer on Google." "You can't do that!" "Is there a rule against it?" "Well, no, but-" "Then I'm doing it." "Look, this is a lost chamber of untold ancient wonders and I am a riddle telling guardian, it just seems to ruin the spirit of the whole thing!" | "I get it, I really do. When I set out on this adventure I was so ready to do it all by the book. Walking everywhere, camping, no modern tech at all. But do you know how *long* that all takes?" The adventurer barely looked from her phone.
"Hey, I ask the questions here." A clearly annoyed statue stood before her, arms... | “Then you’re TOTALLY not going to like the next part. Will you quit bellyaching and accept that I have the answer?”
The guardian stepped to the side, bowed grudgingly, and the door to the chamber opened with that classic, scraping stone noise you see in movies.
Erica squealed at the novelty, “So like, is it an ancien... | 2021-04-20T10:08:36 | 2021-04-20T09:57:52 | 71 | 25 |
[WP] Bartenders serve drinks as a side job. Their real profession? Hunting down every person named Bart. You are the last Bart alive, and they will stop at nothing to kill you. | "You understand it's nothing personal kid. I just got a job to do." The bartender said.
"What job? You serve drinks for Gods sake." Bart replied.
"Oh that, it's just a front for information gatherring. After all who do you tell all your problems to?" The bartender said maliciously. "As for the job well didn't you w... | It was a long shift. The rain had come in early, so the bar was quiet. The seats were cold except for those warmed by a few regulars who had nowhere better to be.
At quarter-to-midnight a group of well dressed guys came in. I could tell that their night had started much earlier. One of the group was wearing a wedd... | 2021-04-25T09:18:51 | 2021-04-25T06:08:36 | 109 | 32 |
[WP] Questing heroes, healers, and desperate peasants, they all come to you garden in search of the 'healing' herb. At first you didn't mind sharing but they're over harvesting. You'd teach them to cultivate it but they're prejudiced against ogres. Thieving racists. | Industry, the grand machine, ever moving, ever living, ever profitable. Industry is never something Garnet was interested in, but of course, he had to make a living. Garnet loved botany, cultivation, working the land in any way, it was his passion.
"Do you do like a subscription service? I'd just love to know I can re... | It's called a "botanical garden" when humans do it.
It's called "letting a field get overgrown with weeds" when ogres do it.
Not our fault that humans don't see the value in burdock and thistles, or can't grow their own food sustainably, or can't have more than two plants growing in the same patch of dirt without fal... | 2021-06-13T15:06:14 | 2021-06-13T13:57:47 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] You're an author who signed up for a writing conference. Sitting at a table surrounded by deities, you realized you may have misunderstood what the advertising meant by "world-building". | "So you're telling me you purposefully include imperfections in these worlds you create?"
Not for the first time today, I wondered if l had made a mistake coming here. Some of the discussions were incredibly basic even though the advertisement had mentioned nothing about this being an entry level convention
"Well, c... | "Let us start with the opening now" I continued "how should we set the tone ?"
"It should be happy themed" said the man in the dark cloak with scythe.
"No, it should be filled with horrors, cries, death every where" said the lady with a rice bowl in her hand with a happy face.
"Before that we need to build the world... | 2022-01-08T23:30:36 | 2022-01-08T22:05:30 | 96 | 34 |
[WP] You're hired to wind down a dying newspaper. When you arrive at the building, you're met by eager reporters and a bustling office full of people trying to break stories. It's actually haunted, they're all ghosts, but they're doing FANTASTIC journalism and you might be able to save this place. | I've heard about local news establishments hiring ghost writers, but this is just nuts.
A legion of Caspers, fielding calls and tapping away at keyboards, haunted the scene before me. I'd been sent to slash them down. Jonah Buster, that's my name. But I'm not that kind of Buster. I've busted plenty of unions, but no g... | The Daily Phantasm’s offices are a shutter-flash buzz of activity, the wavering lights of a thousand restless ghosts. You’re moved by it, even after all this time.
*“Thirty Killed As National Guard Busts Pullman Strike!”* a boy is shouting. His voice echoes thin and reedy and then falls silent. He’s gone.
*“Roosevelt... | 2022-03-31T08:28:03 | 2022-03-31T08:25:21 | 138 | 60 |
[WP] A child's imaginary friend is not as imaginary as his family believes... | "Son, you have to understand something. There are some things children do and there are some things they *dont*! And telling lies is definitely something that you do not do!"
"But dad -!"
He was cut off mid protest, "Also, do not start a sentence with the word *but*".
He took a deep breath and said, "Dad, I did no... | It had been a long school day. Tim was tired and trots off the bus sluggishly. He disposes of his backpack stocked with books in the front hall and then flops onto the couch. No ones home but that isn't unusual, his parents don't get home from work till around 4:00. He wants to watch T.V. but there's nothing on, so he ... | 2013-10-12T07:00:41 | 2013-10-12T06:50:34 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] You have 30 seconds with an ancestor of yours from 200 years ago (1814), before they are transported back to their time. What do you say to them? What effect appears in our world because of it?
Consider for the sake of this prompt that they aren't totally freaked out by being plopped into 2014, that they can unde... | "Apple stock!"
"What? An apple orchard?"
"No, no...Apple is a company! It won't exist until 1976."
"1976??? What kind of witchcraft is..."
"Listen to me! We don't have much time. You need to tell this to your children, and they need to tell their children. Apple stock. 1976. Your future ancestors need to put every ... | I was looking at my great great grandfather James Cater and wishing he would have taught his kids not to hate when all of a sudden he appears in front of me. I hear a voice in my head telling me that if I think I can do a better job then I have 30 seconds to make him changes his mind.
James is currently 12 years old a... | 2014-05-09T05:26:59 | 2014-05-09T05:25:48 | 183 | 15 |
[WP] Every ten years, you must go in front of a board of peers who will evaluate your life for you. If you do not "Impress your peers" you will be executed. | The wait was always the worst, Nikamo knew that, but this time was the hardest of all. In all honesty, he was surprised he had made it this far. "They'll hang you at the next hearing if you keep this up, you little rascal" his mother always told him, yet here he was about to have yet another hearing, not a day younger ... | I shifted somewhat uncomfortably in my seat. I hated sitting on these Liberty Card evaluations. Everyone had to sit on at least one a year, and more if you were singled out for being an exceptional individual. This was my fifth, and it was only August. I've never considered myself that exceptional, and my last review w... | 2014-06-15T13:59:44 | 2014-06-15T12:19:33 | 64 | 19 |
[WP] Women suddenly stop getting their periods. Men suddenly start. | Did you know that scientists think as much as 8% of the human genome was inserted at one point or another by a virus? All the men in my college class are at 8.01%.
Honey. Babe. Listen. About 8 years ago, I got the treatment. S90-C was required for the UC system, right after meningitis shots.
Who wouldn't get it? A ... | "Hey Steve! Good news! You know what you were asking earlier? Weeeeelll.... It stopped. So we can- wait" Stephany stopped walking to her bedroom and backtracked to the open door of the bathroom. "What are you doing Steve?"
Steve miserably looked up at her. He sat on the ground among ribbons of red-brownish splattered ... | 2014-12-17T00:32:06 | 2014-12-17T00:09:29 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously.
Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him?
The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ... | A deep voice comes from the basement. Each tuesday it's the same.
A letter, a number and then silence. It goes on for hours and then I hear someone screaming.
My mom went to check it out, that's when we lost her.
I heard her scream through the vent.
Dad went away, he said he'd be back for me.
I havent seen him in 2 m... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T15:38:35 | 1,493 | 78 |
[WP] Satan is tired of losing countless guitar and fiddle duels, and is now challenging people with obscure instruments.
Wow guys! My first front page on writingprompts :D Thanks for a wonderful surprise! | Well the Devil went to Seattle
He was feelin' a little down
After fiddlin' a bunch, he was havin' a hunch
He'd lost the right to his crown
*In the Emerald City,* he thought,
*there are no southerners or jews.*
*There may be a chance to change my stance*
*Try an instrument I can't lose.*
He wandered 'round P... | "I swear, that's the fourth golden fiddle this month!" muttered Satan.
"Perhaps you shouldn't have such high stakes. I mean, you're lucky we don't have much else to spend our budget on, since all we need is a bunch of fire and pitchforks. Still, some spare cash to spruce the place up would be nice." suggested Satan's ... | 2015-01-31T22:04:27 | 2015-01-31T21:09:49 | 1,639 | 61 |
[WP] Google decides to become evil. | Hi there,
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Responses that critique the search optimization tools and their handsome creators are not allowed.
Joke responses or copypasta are not allowed.
Please refer to the sidebar before posting. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel fr... | "Evil?", Eric asked confused.
"Yes, evil.", Larry reaffirmed.
"B-but why?"
"Well, our PR team says its the right time.", Larry said. "We were never so popular and they believe that our customers will react favorably."
Eric sighed and pinched his nosebridge. Sometimes he wished he could just walk out and never talk ... | 2015-03-11T12:43:30 | 2015-03-11T11:40:15 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] An elf, a dwarf, and a wizard are filling out the character sheets for their next game of Dayjobs and Drudgery, a role-playing game set in the world of humans.
Have fun! | * Character name: George McGee
* Race: Lower Middle Class
* Class: White Collar - Marketing Assistant
* Alignment: Neutral- Passive Aggressive
* Gender: Male
* Strength: 1.5
* Dexterity: 4.25
* Constitution: 2
* Intelligence: 6
* Wisdom: 3
* Charisma: 4
* Self-Esteem: 2
* Initiative: Non-Existent
* Languag... | Zi looked around the table, eyes switching from elf to dwarf, then back again. The elf smiled as he realized what Zi was doing, causing the dwarf to grimace.
"I may be short, but I can plant an axe in you just as easy as I could get an elven woman." The dwarf said, ale spilling as he made arm gestures to accompany ... | 2015-06-09T17:45:44 | 2015-06-09T14:41:50 | 115 | 49 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | Bill liked going to the casino, all the flashing lights and sounds of instant fortunes filled him with euphoria. That was part of the problem though, his luck was terrible. They called it a gambling addiction, and he had lost a sizable chunk of money trying to improve, only to have his efforts seem pointless. He checke... | I skip stones. It's my passtime. Whenever I feel down, I head to the lake and find the flat, smooth rocks that hop on the water's surface. I do it for fun. I do it to show off. It's just my kind of thing.
Then one day, I was sitting at my desk, trying to train my graphing skill. "Shit!" I shout. I haven't leveled up ... | 2015-10-06T04:06:31 | 2015-10-05T23:37:22 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] You have discovered that "God" is actually a computer simulation that is running the entire universe and you have gained access to the console. Upon looking at the screen you see that a service pack to update the program was downloaded 10,000 years ago but never installed. | [Thanks for the nice responses, and thank you for my first gold!]
"So you're still running the beta? I told you last week to patch it." James hated Mondays. He hated managing the engineers that spoke in long sentences full of acronyms. Mostly, he hated being stuck in this job with no way out.
"Yes," said the man acro... | "Do you wish to proceed?"
The brightness of the monitor was giving me a headache. This whole thing is giving me a headache.
Somehow I brought myself to this place but I don't remember how I got here or where this even is.
I remember walking. Endlesslly. I might have slept a little, but I'm not sure how many days it's... | 2016-05-14T04:39:27 | 2016-05-13T20:29:57 | 320 | 45 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | "How We Got Here (A summary)
-Countless vigilantes crop up world wide, secretly abducting known or alleged criminals and forcing them to press their button, then reaping the rewards worry-free
-Weeks go by without a single voluntary button-presser dying, and the global community begins to doubt the risk
-Inflation s... | They both knew they were going to be millionaires.
In the great whirlwind of New York City business, it's rare for a meeting to occur that feels like instant destiny. But then along came Nate Carpenter and Hunter Bryson. One dinner party and one handshake later, they were partners.
*
"Cheers, my friend. To a first ... | 2016-07-16T18:03:00 | 2016-07-16T17:29:20 | 112 | 38 |
[WP] You are able to see the number of days a person has left to live above their heads. For the first time in your life, you see someone with a negative number. | The Numbers. Ever since I was a kid, I've always been able to see them. The red glowing numbers floating above everyone's heads.
At first, I didn't know what they meant. No one else could see them. When I was 11, I stood next to my grandfather on his deathbed, I saw his Number change from 1 to 0. Finally, I knew what... | He was quite well-dressed, in a sleek black suit with a lovely purple pocket square. He *looked*, at first glance, to be doing quite well for himself. Slick hair, shiny shoes, gold cuffs.
As I came a bit closer, however, I noticed that his color was a bit...off. He was a yellowish sort of color, somewhere between a v... | 2016-09-02T10:58:31 | 2016-09-02T08:31:46 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] The girl you sit next to in class turns out to be a mind-reader, and she's surprised that you don't have a crush on her. | It's always like this in the first week. I barely squeezed through the door, and it seems like I'm not the only late one. Eddie said he could save me a seat, but Eddie says a lot of stuff. Spotting an open seat, I rushed towards it, sitting near a red-headed girl, focused staunchly on her notebook. Shit, were we suppos... | Its the first day of university this semester and so far my classes have been pretty tame. Compared to the four lectures and two labs I had, barely scraping by those classes with a low B, I relax with my workload of two classes and a lab. Thank god these courses are almost over. I'm going to miss general education..... | 2016-09-05T08:36:52 | 2016-09-05T07:38:14 | 1,013 | 102 |
[WP] Peering out into the darkness, you call out, "Friend or Foe?" To which the darkness replies, "A friend, if you will. I've always wanted a friend." | "...A friend, if you will. I've always wanted a friend."
I step closer to the darkness, paying mind to my distance. Instincts tell me to stay away from the dark- as far away as possible. Far away from where the danger lurks. The unknown. The unseen. But something compels me to move towards it now; to seek it out. "Yo... | I knew instantly from the granulated voice that it was not a human, it was one of them.... and yet, maybe because of the mix of shock and curiosity, I continued the dialogue:
''uh... why would you say that? Umbra cannot lie like that''
It immediately responded with a noise that I can only describe as someone aggressiv... | 2016-09-28T19:59:56 | 2016-09-28T16:54:42 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] A child abandoned in a supermarket, raised by a pack of wild shopping trolleys. | In the cavernous depths of the country's biggest supermarket, there lived an abandoned boy.
At night, the aisles were his to command. He rode the trolleys, as they whispered to him of the secrets of their kind. Where the fresh, recently delivered food was. Which hidden corners were rarely disturbed by customer or man... | Pushers. Meaty pushers with their meaty purchases, dripping raw juices through flimsy bags of plastic that coated poor carts with stickiness. Oh, how Carter hated them, especially when they brought their equally meaty offspring along just to sit in his basket and fill their cotton buttbasins with excrement. He longed f... | 2016-09-30T11:49:27 | 2016-09-30T11:40:12 | 597 | 69 |
[WP] "A watched pot never boils", as the old saying goes. Throughout all of history there has always been at least one set of eyes on the ocean. Today, for a split second, everyone looking at the ocean looked away at the exact same time. | A split second is all it lasted.
A split second is all it took.
Given the exorbitant amount of time that the ocean had existed before given the opportunity to boil, it was obviously unexpected. Like many pots do, it began with a few small bubbles. Frothy areas of the ocean showed no difference. Calmer areas were bare... | I was in the middle of some quality beauty sleep over the pacific when it happened. I woke up to the sounds of wonderment, hushed voices filled with the tone of a child learning something amazing for the first time. I looked around the cabin, and everyone was glued to their windows; looking up. I was in an aisle seat, ... | 2017-03-20T09:22:40 | 2017-03-20T09:18:59 | 96 | 32 |
[WP] Weapons become more powerful the older they get. Modern guns will barely give someone a scratch but an ancient spear can devastate armies. | You all mocked me
Called me insane.
Said that I was a fool and that I would die trying.
Well now I stand here, your armies desolated, from a simple jawbone.
For it is that jawbone
That weapon
That was used by Cain to slay Abel.
Older then any weapon on earth
For it is the first.
And now, I end this world
| The apocalypse came how we least expected it. Not through famine, not through disease, not even nuclear missiles, but nostalgia.
It was the scientists' faults. Some braniac with a great love for history and an opposite amount of common sense created a time machine. Convinced we could learn from the great heroes of ... | 2017-04-21T09:57:12 | 2017-04-21T07:10:27 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] Bored with Skyrim, you download a mod that has no description, just the title "self-awareness overhaul". Starting up the game, you can tell something's wrong with your character. Turning to face the fourth wall, they locks eyes with you. All you know is you've never seen such intense anger... | Instinctively, my hand reached for the escape button.
"Don't you fucking dharrrre" growled Jizz Dar'Pizz, his bright yellow eyes still fixed on me.
"I rrememberrr. Every time you ssaved and rreloaded. I rrememberrr. You made me sshout five guarrds frrom the top of the mountain in Marrrkarrth. You had me sspend months... | I looked at my character, and she glared right back at me. I had always been annoyed with the modding community – why did they need to change a game that was already close to perfection.
Sure, sometimes even I get bored. When I’ve climbed every climbable mountain and interacted with every character written to perfect... | 2017-05-08T16:30:29 | 2017-05-08T15:14:36 | 367 | 71 |
[WP] A new device shows the user every step they have ever taken as a footprint on the ground where the steps originally fell. On vacation in a foreign country you are visiting for the first time, you see your own bright green footprints everywhere... | "This can't be right," I say to no one in particular. I came on this trip alone. It was supposed to be a spiritual renewal, a time to get away from the stress of daily life. I chose a place I had never been before - or so I thought.
I'm in a crowded village in the mountainous countryside of Nepal. Villagers bustle aro... | *"This must be a mistake. A malfunction of somekind,"*
These thoughts bounced in my mind as I tried to rationalize as what it was that I was seeing before my very eyes. I know I had never visited Germany before. None of my relatives, at least in my immediate family, have never been to Germany. Plus, the fact that thes... | 2017-07-07T03:49:57 | 2017-07-07T01:55:37 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] You've been convicted of 1st degree murder, and (as is customary in society) are sentenced to "death by black-hole." You expect death as your capsule approaches the event horizon. After crossing, everything goes silent, until you hear someone say "Sir, I've found another one." | The capsule is small like a coffin. I am led to it with crowds watching, judging. The irony of my conviction is I am innocent. I did not kill my wife. No one believed me, and the evidence, though circumstantial, was not in my favor. The capsule door closes and Earth disappears. The black hole waits for me. Death by bur... | Everything went black, as expected, when they tossed me into the void. This darkness went on for minutes. I figured, "this must be what death feels like". Calming, in a way. I didn't think much about anything in particular. Not until a bright, blue light appeared in the distant. Wherever it was, I could already tell I ... | 2017-07-14T01:23:24 | 2017-07-13T20:45:26 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | It was a day they would never forget.
According to the Humans, the date was March 27th of the year 2122 when it happend. It might have been wartime, but it was like any other regular day at the Galactic Alliance headquarter. But it happend during the regular strategy meeting the leaders of the Alliance would.
Since t... | Ship YZ089 has haunted the Ortalem species for years. The ship had been part of an exploratory program in search of C40H56. Ortalem biological functions had so completely evolved that they longer died of any cause except C40H56 deficiency. Without it, their bodies would harden like stone until it killed them. Just a ti... | 2017-11-08T20:03:55 | 2017-11-08T19:38:11 | 207 | 89 |
[WP] You are the greatest and most feared hitman in the world. The reason? You don’t kill your victims: You do something much worse. | The man tied to the chair with a gag in his mouth started to stir. "Ah good, you're awake. I do wish to wrap up this contract." said the hitman.
The man crawled back to consciousness quickly as the drug wore off, and looked at hitman and around the room he was in. The room was almost empty, with no windows and only on... | "Bronson! Get down here, I'm going to need some help with this one."
The butler cringed at his master's shout but he did as he was bidden, quickly putting down his tools and scurrying up to the central hall. The gilded front doors were shoved open and the dark-clad gentleman was dragging a very large man. When he saw ... | 2018-02-12T12:57:47 | 2018-02-12T12:52:26 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Your quirk is the ability to understand all languages, extending to fictional ones not meant to be understood such as simlish. This leads to some... interesting results. | 18 years old. That's how old I was when it happened. I sat down at my computer and I started reading. I read everything, ANYTHING I could get my hands on. I clicked on one of those weird ".de" website links and my blood ran cold when I realized that I understood every word on the page. I had only ever heard German once... | "I'm sorry, run that by me again?" Jonah asked, finally reaching the end of his patience. Two men sitting in the corner of the bar abruptly sat up, surprised that a foreigner had spoken to them in their language. Jonah had come to Brazil on a personal trip to try and locate a few older texts he had been tracking down f... | 2018-05-03T18:13:20 | 2018-05-03T17:53:20 | 137 | 59 |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth. Turns out Human weapons technology is way more advanced than it should be. | The year was Sol Standard 2025. Humanity had turned its eyes and ears to the stars to see if there was more outside of its home planet. Historians believe that the only reason humanity did not reach out into the stars earlier than that point in their history is because of the bizarre wealth culture they had created. No... | The Fatal Error
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The Slock were a powerful species, and they dreamt of the day they would control the Galaxy. It was the year of 2018 A.D (Sol-3 years) that they discovered the Sol system. It was an intriguing solar system, devoid of habitable planets except one. This planet was the perfect world. Filled to the brim... | 2018-05-16T14:12:27 | 2018-05-16T13:43:49 | 181 | 89 |
[WP] You probably should have thought it through before you accepted those magical items. Now you’re stuck with a bloodthirsty sword, an overprotective shield, cowardly boots and an arrogant spellbook.
Edit:~~apparently I have “2” comments, but I only see the automatic one. How does that even happen~~thanks for the ex... | "No, no, NO, NOOOOOO! DROP THAT KNIFE RIGHT NOW AND USE ME! USE MEEEEEEEEE!"
I closed my eyes and rubbed the bridge of my nose. Knowing that it wouldn't shut up until I listened, i put the very sensibly-sized not sentient knife down. "Fine."
"Yesssss," Aramok hissed. The sword couldn't physically move on its own, but... | I was crouched in the corner of my living room, plugging my ears with fingers, trying to escape their noise. I hadn't used them since the month I'd got em and now they wouldn't shut up about it. Whispers, man, the fucking whispers won't stop, whispers coming out of nowhere and everywhere at once, asking me to murder *t... | 2019-02-02T12:33:01 | 2019-02-02T12:16:33 | 104 | 12 |
[WP] You live in an ancient world, when someone turns 18, they will receive a gift either magic or weapon. The gift will be of use for them whenever in need. On your 18th birthday, Death knocks on your door and give you his scythe. | Today, is the day death dies.
Finished reaping demise.
Done seeing pain in eyes
Done sending souls through the skies.
Yes my dear boy,happy birthday to you,
The old legend sure holds true.
Once a millennia, twice the pain,
A reaper comes and awards new reign.
You have an important list you will not feign -
worry n... | Middle of the night, I was sound asleep like a bastard and I hear the door banging like a brothel, nearly shat myself when i heard it. So I lumbered out of bed, dragged myself to the door, I was preparing myself for a shock you know the sort of thing, fire or another donkey jumped off the cliff. I nearly hit him, when ... | 2019-02-28T22:49:03 | 2019-02-28T21:09:32 | 39 | 22 |
[WP] You have mastered your trade over the years. An expert in your craft, your skills are in high demand, as you are the only one in the world capable of these repairs. It’s time for another flight, this time to Miami. The McDonald’s ice cream machine needs to be fixed. | I always ask them to close the store first. Most of the time they do, but I don't mind waiting. I get paid, anyway. Pretty sweet gig.
It's always so hard to open. They add all this mechanical crap in the way. Sometimes it serves as a sort of locking mechanism, other times it's just a distraction. Obnoxious, but hey. ... | The limo driver opened the door to the darkened facility.
For years, I had watched one by one of my fellow CreamSmithes ^^TM retire, get shaky hands, or just plain old drop dead from old age. I was not just one of the last, I was _the last_.
Carefully and respectfully I removed my velvet enclosed toolkit of widge... | 2019-09-10T02:58:07 | 2019-09-09T21:06:19 | 23 | 15 |
[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. Did I find you?"
I became a stalagmite of dread, paralyzed in place by the voice that reverberated in my head. Clear as the crisp smell of rain on asphalt. Powerful as an shameful orgasm.
I turned around, certain that the Voice -- creatively named, that -- would be naught but my mental illness quixotica... | I had always heard her voice. No matter what the dose of medication, experimental treatment -- she was always there. In High School, through college. Shit, when I lost my first tooth. Doctors said I had schizophrenia, it was all in my head. That's where I usually heard her anyway, so it made enough sense. But this time... | 2019-09-14T11:18:09 | 2019-09-14T10:49:17 | 232 | 65 |
[WP] You wake up in a hospital with a massive headache. As you regain your vision, you notice the room is packed with terrified scientists, politicians, and soldiers aiming their rifles at you. A five star general walks in, gives the order to remove the muzzle around your mouth, and only asks "Why?" | “Why? You muzzled me and you ask why?!” I sat up - or tried. The shackles on my wrists were pretty strong. I was hungry and my head throbbed. I did what any other imprisoned animal would and howled.
“Those dogs and wolves were experiments! They don’t belong in the wild and you - you let them loose! They were governmen... | "The American dream is built upon greed" I smiled, the air fresh on my face now the muzzle was hanging loosely from my cheek.
"My virus just enhanced that, drove it to the surface. Made the problem clear, for, if the problem isn't clear, then how can we hope to solve it?" I laughed, my dry throat crackling into a cou... | 2019-10-15T10:40:32 | 2019-10-15T06:48:45 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] You are a demon who negotiates contracts in exchange for people's souls. One time you get summoned by a suburban mom who makes impossible requests. When you can not provide her demands, she asks to "speak with your manager". | She ignores the simple beauty of the thing. Contracts like it don't exist anymore. Carefully executed script on creamy vellum that flows sensually from one brilliantly deliberate word to the next. She is so busy fussing over the words, that their presentation and the meaning are lost on her.
It is a shame, really.
Sh... | Draadvakkas the horrible picked up a pen and waited until it burst into flames and started screaming. Perfect. He put pen to paper and started writing.
"Dear... Mom...."
Suddenly, Draadvakkas the horrible felt the ground shake, and the doorframe creak. He laughed. Some poor fool was trying to summon him. The ad ... | 2020-05-04T20:42:28 | 2020-05-04T20:13:07 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] While cleaning out your grandparent's house, you fine a small ... thing? You post a picture on r/whatisthisthing and wait. You only get one response, "your name irl, run." There is a knock at your door. | My grandmother died seven years ago, and my grandfather died two years ago. After multiple years I finally mustered up the courage to go clean out my grandparents’ house.
The cleaning went normal for the first two days, I found old photos, dusty gadgets, ancient books, and more. On the third and final day, in the twi... | I open the door and see a man dressed in a pinstripe suit with a solid gray tie. "My name is Steve. Do not ask questions. We must hurry. Grab whatever is important to you. Meet me in your backyard in one minute."
I hurry downstairs to my room. I throw my computer, its charger, a water bottle, a pencil, a notebook, a R... | 2020-05-25T18:59:38 | 2020-05-25T18:29:28 | 37 | 27 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Looking around the chamber, the Dark Lord had a twisted smile, until he noticed someone hunched over right at the back.
The small man was shaking.
It was not difficult to understand why. He must be terrified of the Dark Lord.
"I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?" the Dark Lor... | The heavens cried at the death of hero of seven ages. The dark lord, Agnruk laughed atop a mountain of dead bodies.
“Thirty thousand men!” He said, in between his laughter, holding the head of the hero—sans his body—close to his face, “and still you couldn't kill me. All those blessings. All those sacrifices. In vain... | 2020-07-11T03:37:24 | 2020-07-11T03:05:31 | 82 | 36 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | "I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?" the Dark Lord asked.
I can't see him, but he towers several feet above me as I feel the spirits leave the bodies of the fallen heroes. A familiarity begins coursing through my body. The heat rising within, ignoring my cold, tattered robes.... | “There’s no one here to stop me now!”
He grinned at me, again that oh so infuriating grin
Light started to gather in his hands, heat emits out of them, and then a blinding light engulfs me as he raised his hands, it felt warm, then hot then before I can scream of the heat,nothing... except his voice, calm, cold as d... | 2020-07-11T04:45:03 | 2020-07-11T03:52:06 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] the Dark Lord had killed almost everyone, even the Hero. The final party member stood in the chamber alone. “I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?”. The final party member laughed maniacally with a devilish grin! “There's No One Here To Stop Me Now!!” | Dark Lord Guldaks gazed upon the halfling Ralas, the last of the heroes companions. He smiled. "I have killed everyone, you cannot capture me alone. Why are you still here?" he asked.
Ralas smiled. Then the smiled grew twisted as he started to chuckle, and like a wave building momentum his laughter started to burst fo... | The Dark Lord stood in silence as he watched the young, covered in torn clothes, barely being able to stand up human started rising up. Hemble, the last member of the party of the Ghand let out a screeching cracking sound as his skin started to glow and flame up.
"Leaving me as the last one was a..." A grand crack int... | 2020-07-11T05:40:29 | 2020-07-11T04:20:41 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] English really is a universal language, and aliens are as surprised about this as humans | I buried my head in my hands. *The military. It had to be the military.* The awkward shuffling of the soldiers was the only noise in the room for a few moments.
"Boys," I said, taking my spectacles off and tucking them securely into my front pocket, "what exactly did your commanding officer tell you about me?"
Thing ... | "Our tongue ... is your tongue?"
Gooey sweat ran from Xeblierxes' mouth holes. As the representative of the Galaxy Supreme, he was a spokesbeing for countless sentient creatures. Millennia of warfare had resulted in intergalactic cultural homogenization and a common tongue: English. Surely, it didn't happen by necessi... | 2020-09-17T11:37:33 | 2020-09-17T11:14:44 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Space is dangerous! The races of the galaxy use long-range transporters to travel to other worlds instead. Wars revolve around transporter tech. The very idea of a "space-ship" is insane...and then the humans arrived...
[deleted] | At first we thought they must have been desperate. Some horrible fate must have befallen their planet. That was the only explanation. Space is far too dangerous for us to even consider leaving the safety of a planet's atmosphere. So many risks, so many variables. The risk of suffocation, radiation, burning alive if yo... | “Something on the scanner, sir,” an aide said, his blue skin turning a panicked shade of teal..
“Let me guess. They ported to the Plains, didn’t they?” General Krel asked.
“No, sir, they’re--”
“Hm… maybe they’re an aquatic species. Did they port to the oceans? It’s a harder target, certainly, but not impossible, and... | 2021-01-20T11:36:09 | 2021-01-20T11:22:27 | 122 | 74 |
[WP] The demon successfully possessed you. However, it didn't expect you to say, "Good luck man, take it from here" and leave it with your problems. | Personal note: Oh lord this never happens.
Read this one first:
[Part 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/l1gt6v/wp_you_die_with_your_cell_phone_in_your_hands_and/gjzxeye/)
"You think you can escape? I own you." The demon clawed at the recesses of my mind as I dodged and weaved its psionic attacks... | *Wait.... What?*
"You heard me buddy, I am sick and tired of this shit. You can deal with it from now on."
*Are u serious? I mean, I am a demon you know! How are you so chill about this?*
​
I was just glad to get away from everything. I just lost my job and I was pretty sure my wife was cheating on me wi... | 2021-01-20T18:15:43 | 2021-01-20T14:51:44 | 52 | 22 |
[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." | Unfortunate bit of chaotic magic that was meant to grant immortality to one person. It failed, and the caster’s life force drained from them and the 5 unwilling participants’ souls merged into that one. The body held up only because of their shared strength.
Erica, Jack, Leah, Natalya, and Terry. They each led differe... | “What on earth?!”
Rudrum jolted up confused, watching with his bloodshot eyes as the self proclaimed hero removed their helmet.
Their face, twisting and turning, contained thousands of different shades and shapes of contempt. The thing’s eyes, the infinitely many colors of their irises all stared at him with som... | 2021-02-28T18:39:29 | 2021-02-28T18:19:55 | 985 | 441 |
[WP] You have been kidnapped and your wealthy significant other was told to pay the hefty ransom. Instead, they sent a message back to your kidnappers. “Nice knowing you.” While the kidnappers discuss their next move, you look up through the tiny window, stare at the full moon overhead … and smile. | So it was really happening. The moon was looking bright; so bright you could read by it. These poor fools didn't know what was about to happen. Maybe the ransom would be paid; though that was doubtful. The University had a standing rule not to negotiate (and this sort of thing happened a lot) but my other half being in... | “They were always the worst fucking person in a room.”
The kidnappers dropped their discussion to focus their attention on me. “What the fuck are you talking about? Is there something you’re not telling us?” As the short one spoke to me, the taller one of the three had begun to freak out. “This motherfucking thing was... | 2021-03-19T03:44:38 | 2021-03-19T02:27:37 | 61 | 35 |
[WP] Faced with execution for his crimes, Lucifer stands before the courts of heaven. He leans over to the gallery behind him and whispers "Hey, Jesus, fancy putting in a good word with your dad? Be a shame if he found out what you got up to during those 3 days you spent with us afer you died!" | Lucifer grinned as Jesus flinched, the courtroom silence hammering the Son of God with nervousness as the devil wiggled cutely, bouncing on his toes and smiling with a grin that would make most lesser beings loosen their resolve. Instead of having horns and the tail and the trident he just had redder skin, his suit hal... | just quick before I start, I'm writing this in lucifer's perspective
the look on his face was priceless."don't say a word about it" he hissed, just loud enough for me to hear."I guess we might just have to come to an agreement then" I whisper back.his face darkens, "I will help you if you keep your mouth shut""I can't... | 2021-04-19T10:24:11 | 2021-04-19T09:56:28 | 70 | 47 |
[WP] "Our greatest feat was switching all the fairytale books and history books, once upon a time. Now they've so muddied the truth with fiction that they'll never learn it." "This is a good thing?" "Good lord, yes. Have you seen the history they THINK is real? Imagine what they'll do with reality." | *Once upon a time there was a guy who was very scared. A guy who loved a girl who couldn’t be woken. A guy who ran far, far away.*
I have a friend who is a couple of years younger than me. She’s a tree surgeon. That is, she cuts down trees. I suppose she treats sickly trees too, and that’s why she’s called a surgeon, ... | “The Illusionist is in place in New Mexico, T minus ten to test start.”
Julius’s voice boomed through the deepness of the bunker. They were so far below Manhattan’s streets that all the hustle and bustle of the greatest city in the world had drifted away. Working here, a man could be forgiven for thinking the world wa... | 2021-05-02T09:51:24 | 2021-05-02T07:55:24 | 154 | 69 |
[WP] One day, every person spontaneously gains a superpower based on their job. Psychologists gain telepathy, Firefighters can waterbend or firebend, Pilots can fly. Your job, previously looked down upon, yields the strongest power of them all. | I pull up alongside the bank, hydraulic brakes screeching. The masked men run out, bags of money bobbing at their sides as they hurry toward their getaway car.
I open the door, and hop out. They stop, comedically bumping into each other like a trio of stooges. "Who the fuck are you?" One asks.
It's probably my clothe... | 3 years ago.
3 years since the event.
The event which gave everyone on the planet powers. No one seemed to realize at first, but gradually everyone discovered their powers. Firefighters can control fire and water, construction workers can manipulate materials and shape earth. Security workers gained impervious skin ... | 2021-05-09T20:57:31 | 2021-05-09T17:46:06 | 249 | 52 |
[WP] You're living in a world where superpowers exist, and you're the most dangerous individual of all. Your power? You project an aura where all the laws of reality/normality assert themselves. You are the anti-super | What happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object? They surrender.
\-Superman
Day 4
I look towards the horizon. Just beyond my power limit, I see more heroes converging. Dawn's arriving on day 4 since the news got out that I am the last anti, and the day the only other anti super besides me died. Th... | All I wanted to be was a normal man with a normal life. Live peacefully with my wife. But the gods… the gods just couldn’t leave us alone.
I looked towards the sky. Their home. Their city in the sky. And then I looked at my home. What was left of it anyways. The fire was dying down but my heart was already engulfed b... | 2021-06-24T19:59:37 | 2021-06-24T19:57:32 | 775 | 119 |
[WP] What’s more horrifying than a biblically accurate angel shouting “FEAR NOT”? A modernized angel whispering to you “Be very afraid…” | Gabriel licked my earlobe and said, "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
Light from his halo reflected off the blade he held close to my throat. "Please," I said. "Don't hurt me."
At this, Gabriel laughed. It sounded almost like he was choking. Perhaps he tried to stifle his laugh. "Didn't you know? The lamb of god was alway... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 5, Part 2: Mare v.s. Tamulu)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections. That being said, [this story](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mmzrng/wp_angels_are_thought_to_be_beautif... | 2022-01-29T08:48:43 | 2022-01-29T07:30:10 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] You're strapped to a table. Surrounded by cultists. They've summoned their demonic deity and are preparing to sacrifice you. You've decided to go all-in on the only way out you have left. Make the demon an offer the cultists can't match. | “WAIT!”
The Bearers of B’HaZh- whatever the name was - froze.
I froze.
The thing I couldn’t quite name froze, too.
Okay, Jack, think. You bought yourself precious few moments. Think how to buy more.
“I won’t be any good as sacrifice!”
The thing chuckled and took a step towards me. I can imagine it heard enough of... | The overwhelming smell of incense stung my nose as the cultists danced around me. As they chanted guttural sounding phrases I couldn’t understand I began hyperventilating. Just when I thought I might pass out the torches all went out and the chanting stopped.
I looked left, then right, but from my vantage point strapp... | 2022-02-14T06:59:23 | 2022-02-14T05:59:47 | 63 | 29 |
[WP] “So how did you get Dragon blood in your veins?” “Ah well, long ago my family was cur-“ “Didn’t you say your family was never cursed?” “Oh uh, yeah um… so uh, there was a witch-“ “Im not buying it.” “*sigh*… so my great grandpa was a bard…” | “My great grandfather was a bard, but hardly a grand one. He didn’t sing great ballads of heroes that would be sung and repeated for centuries after his death, he took the less glamourous path of using his songs to raise disease awareness,” I replied.
Jeremy blinked, “This is not how I expected this story to sta... | I regarded my companion in silence. He looked mostly like a standard human male, a bit taller than average, but many of the details were unusual. For starters, there were his big yellow eyes with vertical pupils. Then there were the nubs of horns protruding from his forehead. And were his ears slightly pointed? And of ... | 2022-10-11T08:59:58 | 2022-10-11T08:44:55 | 251 | 116 |
[WP] You are a simple skeleton enemy in a fantasy world, when you encounter the hero, instead of killing you he spares you and asks you to join his side on his adventure. | (Part 4.5)
Alexia and Ansel were still in the ruins they had fought the necromancer in. Instead of going back immediately, they decided to catch their breath there and make camp for the night.
"Thanks for saving me back there, Ansel. I really thought I was done for!" Said Alexia as she ate some jerky she had brought ... | Deep below the ground, in a dark and damp dungeon waited a skeleton. He didn't know why he waited there, or what he was waiting for. All that ran through his skull was the urge, no, the need to stay here. His rusty steel sword leaned against the wall, the splintered wooden pommel close to hand. How long had it been? He... | 2022-11-18T20:59:54 | 2022-11-18T08:15:04 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] An immortal human has lived , in secret, among humans. Now evolution has progressed enough that he no longer fits the normal appearance of a human being. | I used to love the forest. Now I've grown to hate it. I guess a steady diet of anything loses its appeal eventually. How long have I been alive? Countless years. My children and grandchildren are long dead and unremembered except by me. The others have all changed to the point where I am a monster by comparison. ... | God-damn relativity. I'm a freak. That's what I get for being a have-not
just enough to be unable to afford the non-relativistic drive system in my ... | 2014-04-06T20:47:32 | 2014-04-06T16:27:47 | 69 | 10 |
[WP] A genie is about to concede you your second wish, but a paradox created by your first one prevents him from doing so. | The police sirens grew louder.
I stared at the Genie in horror. He looked back at me blankly.
"Is that okay?" he asked. "What you asked for, yeah? Working on the next one. Gimme a couple of minutes."
"God no. Oh God no. No."
Three police cars screeched to a halt just behind him.
"Just gotta concentrate for a few m... | 'Alright then, for my wish, I wish you were free!'
A whirlwind of history rained downed upon the room, as if Pandora's box were closing shut and all its contents were climbing over each other, racing to get back in before it was sealed forever. When the gust subsided, a little girl dressed in tattered Egyptian rags sa... | 2014-07-07T06:59:01 | 2014-07-07T06:55:29 | 39 | 18 |
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