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[WP] You are just relaxing, it's a beautiful day in Hell. The temperature is a nice 500 degrees, the souls are shrieking, brimstone's are smoking. Life is peaceful. Suddenly, you hear distant sound of a shotgun blast. Heavy metal begins to play. Time to run for cover. | The flesh-melting heat and the screams of pain and pleas for mercy have become all too familiar for me.
"Whats on the menu today, Slarthor? It's been too long, hasn't it? How have you been?"
His fiery eyes give an exasperated look as he says "Oh. My. God. I can't fucking wait to whip you to death then bring you back ... | Jamie heard footsteps behind her.
“It’s this time of the month again, isn’t it?”
“Indeed”. The growl was now inches from her ear. She turned and watched him wearily, managing it for only a few seconds having to look away from the liquid fire in his eyes. The one whom others believed to be the devil smiled, exposin... | 2020-05-06T20:15:41 | 2020-05-06T17:03:54 | 32 | 15 |
[WP]Assasins live life as outcasts. Away from the public eye, they are hard to find. But they still get mail. You are the postman for a secret division of USPS that caters to these criminals. | They say that two things in life are certain: death and taxes.
Mert wasn't too sure about taxes, but he was pretty sure the saying held true for death. He considered himself to be a near-authority on the matter. His whole family had died when he was young, and that was as good proof as he needed.
Mert was a member of... | “Just two today?” You asked.
“Yeah, seems the virus has even got these guys scared,” your manager replied, without so much as glancing in your direction.
“Alright, short day then,” you said blissfully as you leave the stock room with the deliverables in your hand.
In your left hand is a yellow envelope, petite, but ... | 2020-06-22T02:36:32 | 2020-06-22T02:22:16 | 81 | 45 |
[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. | I have been dating Myne for three years, she was fairly secretive about her past, but she was cute so it was ok. She made sure to not give me too much information as to tip me off as to her secret, she was a Dragon. In the plains where we live, dragons are scarce and feared greatly. So much so that people have started ... | "But, seriously, Nina? The crown of England!?"
Nina eyes me from across the room and gives me her little eye tease-corner look.
I tilt my head until I am lying down and I stare up at the our bedroom ceiling.
"What," Nina protests, giving a little pout. "It was pretty..."
"Nina... " I say. "Nina, yes... so are you."... | 2020-08-03T10:13:07 | 2020-08-03T09:52:01 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] You’re a blacksmith and a woman you’ve never seen before walks into your shop, asking for a blade. She stops by daily to check on it’s progress, and you form a bond over time, until one day she disappears. You’re afraid you’ll never see her again, until you're summoned to the castle. | I could hardly recognise her with all the jewels and the fancy dress. But there was no doubt in my mind. There she was, the lady that had been visiting my shop. The lady that had been inspecting every step of creation of blade I had been forging for her. The lady now sitting on the throne right in front of me. Why had ... | I've often dreamed of the inside of the castle. It's parapets, and swooping buttresses all aglow in the moonlight. Though business is usually attended to before nightfall'; it's not uncommon to be summoned after dark. It's not usually a good thing though.
I'm nervous and not a little tired after working the forge all ... | 2020-08-05T06:32:42 | 2020-08-05T05:58:28 | 323 | 159 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I shouldn't, I couldn't, help but laugh at me
At least I would've, if I weren't so angsty
My wrinkled skin, now pale and acne'd
Strange hate for my reflection, hating back at me.
​
If I'd took to the window, and forgot the mirror
I'd have seen it was everyone, not just me that was thinner
In waist, wa... | "This definitively proves God, Roger. You can't deny it."
Stern eyes stared back at Lucilla, a mote less for the apparent youth now gazing back at her, a youthful head of curly brown hair coronating above his ears. "It does not. It proves we do not understand something about the universe, Luc. I intend to find the me... | 2020-11-02T10:58:27 | 2020-11-02T10:09:12 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I have always imagined what the world would be like if everyone was a kid, running on a sugar rush with no worries or troubles to think about.
Now if the world was full of hormone-galore 18 year old kids, that would be a much more different scenario.
And that is exactly what had happened.
It started about two mon... | "You know what, Dave, I never thought that I would do it, mate, never really!" I told my buddy as I looked at his dark eyes, even darker in the lightless dusty room.
"Well, stop bragging, Shane" he snapped, "things are pretty bloody well screwed at this point as it is. Last thing I need is you rambling about Mrs. Bart... | 2020-11-02T09:55:51 | 2020-11-02T09:54:34 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] You’re a siren, with the main goal of luring sailors to their doom, but one day you come across a young guy who seems to be immune to your song. He is deaf, and, even more troubling, just as you start to fall for him you discover that he is really a woman. | It’s always been my life’s goal to get the most sailors to meet their makers. It’s simple really, I sing a pretty song as they go by and they come to me. After they get to me I - well I’ll spare you the gory details because that's not part of this story. This is the story of how I unexpectedly met the love of my life.... | All my years leading sailors to their demise and yet I have never felt so strange.Something warm was making itself felt in my chest.I could not explain it.It was both confusing and euphoric.As I struggled with this conundrum I had let my mind wander before being brought back by the cracking planks and splintering masts... | 2020-11-04T07:36:22 | 2020-11-04T07:20:56 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Some say that your power is future sight. Others insist that you have superhuman intellect. They're wrong. Your power is the ability "Quicksave." | Loading state 2521632-C...
“-will be finished! now you die!”
Dodge left, duck, dodge right, retaliate punch, kick, backflip onto platform.
“Impossible! How could you have predicted my attacks so well? I took every liberty to make sure you couldn’t!”
“Well I’ve already seen this fight hundreds of times, and I must s... | So get this. I was born probably 600 some years ago and that might sound impressive to a human like you but believe me. Im still a youngin compared to some of the oldheads around here, in fact my age would probably equate out to late teens or early 20s. The culture here is kiiiinda shallow and they tend to give a lot o... | 2020-12-15T13:22:34 | 2020-12-15T11:21:10 | 2,756 | 223 |
[WP] Some say that your power is future sight. Others insist that you have superhuman intellect. They're wrong. Your power is the ability "Quicksave." | 4928... That's how many times I’ve saved the world and each time it gets more and more complicated. Before my ability life was simple, I was a twenty-something guy just lazing about during the new year lockdown in 2021. I'd just received the new PS5 I had been saving up for and started playing when lightning hit. I sti... | So get this. I was born probably 600 some years ago and that might sound impressive to a human like you but believe me. Im still a youngin compared to some of the oldheads around here, in fact my age would probably equate out to late teens or early 20s. The culture here is kiiiinda shallow and they tend to give a lot o... | 2020-12-15T13:15:04 | 2020-12-15T11:21:10 | 500 | 223 |
[WP] “There you are! Took you some time here to get here, i bet your predators made you late.” The owl-like alien exclaimed. The ambassador of humanity looked confused “…What predators?” He asked. “Your species doesn’t have predators?” | Captain Hercott jogged through the InterGalactic Trade Commission building. The crowds of various Xenos parted readily. His own SAR boots alongside First Officer Sturgell and Lieutenant Patel's sharp steps made a discordant rhythm of echoes filling the impossibly large chamber. Huge strips of cloths larger than old wor... | “So let me get this straight, it’s some kind of religious thing?” Ambassador Kamila stared at the little Avian in confusion as it hopped back and forth from one leg to another, wings scratching frantically at the parasites that infested it. “Your species still has predators?”
“What other way could there be? The Circle... | 2021-04-29T05:24:15 | 2021-04-29T04:35:56 | 608 | 425 |
[WP] “There you are! Took you some time here to get here, i bet your predators made you late.” The owl-like alien exclaimed. The ambassador of humanity looked confused “…What predators?” He asked. “Your species doesn’t have predators?” | When I see the first owl-like creature, I think of the personification of death with his hooded face and jagged-bone features. I imagine Death reaching into my heart as if it were a clock, and with a single finger, twirling the hour-hand closer to midnight.
Behind the creature is the pulsing blue-tree forest it came o... | “So let me get this straight, it’s some kind of religious thing?” Ambassador Kamila stared at the little Avian in confusion as it hopped back and forth from one leg to another, wings scratching frantically at the parasites that infested it. “Your species still has predators?”
“What other way could there be? The Circle... | 2021-04-29T04:36:42 | 2021-04-29T04:35:56 | 568 | 425 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | An Ounce of Prevention
“They’re here, Sir”. Cybersquire knelt before me in the showy manner he always used to ham it up for the heroes. I sat on my throne as usual, but my normal cool confidence did little to ease the ice in my veins at his words.
“All three of them?” I asked, hoping against hope that perhaps only o... | "There is a time and place for everything."
Faultline shivers, eyes beseeching the darkness to give up the nightmare contained with in. He'd heard of the creature, a hero twisted and malformed until it switched sides. It slaughtered its friends and civilians alike before vanishing entirely.
He thought it had died.
I... | 2021-05-20T08:01:46 | 2021-05-20T08:00:26 | 225 | 78 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | He came from Ultraopolis.
He came to my city. Omega City.
He calls himself The End. I call him a murderer.
He thought the heroes of Omega City were weak, silly even. They had failed to stop me so many times, and what was I compared to him? A joke.
He has incredible strength. Enough to rip the head off of Poor Rich... | My name is Eskimo Souls. I’m a “supervillain.” And I met a weird guy at the bus stop. He was wearing a jacket, but his arms weren’t on the sleeves. He just has his hood on. He even has sunglasses. “What do you do here?” I ask him, “Do you have a job?” “Can I trust you to keep a secret?” He asks me. “Sure,” I say. *What... | 2021-05-20T10:47:04 | 2021-05-20T10:45:22 | 97 | 13 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | Calvin Hearst hurried into the deep core of his main lair pulling off his shirt even as one of his Furies brought him his trench coat and mask.
"I want answers. What happened?"
Fleur turns back from a monitor. "A high school freshman posted video of a dust-up last night. We had some men gathering gear Hephaestus want... | I am White Eteru, the villain of the small city I have always cared for. I am a villain, and I go by the alias, "Phantom". My powers are the ability to control the fifth element, aether. I used to be a hero, but that was before I was accused of killing innocents. I was thrown out of my hero group and they all called me... | 2021-05-20T09:07:51 | 2021-05-20T08:08:53 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | "Megaton? What kind of shit name is that?" Spoke Artrarias admist the rubble of Haven. Atrarias looked around, his lips pursed and the large scar that split the upper and lower right lip stretched.
Artrarias looked about the bodies, some unconscious, many not. His little heroes. He looked to the horde of people in fr... | Five hundred forty-seven and eight hundred people die every day. Some die in their beds, surrounded by family or the cold of loneliness. Some die in a dark alley while other collapse onto the forest floor. Some die when their sick or by an unexpected disaster. Some never make it far enough to face these challenges.
S... | 2021-05-20T10:41:26 | 2021-05-20T09:21:22 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] you are kidnapped by henchmen because your boyfriend/girlfriend is a super hero, but the villains are your parents who just now recognized you as your BF/GF has arrived to save you and now you have to explain the situation to everyone while the henchmen watch barley stifling their laughter | As the hood over my head was removed, I heard the sound of raucous laughter coming from all around me.
"Well, if it isn't our leader's darling little boy! How's it going, Larry? Having fun dating a superhero?"
One of my parents' henchmen stood before me, shining a bright light into my face. Around me, I could see at ... | "Shaun," I heard the small whisper in the back of my head as I woke up.
"I'm here Shaun. Don't worry I will get you out but just so you know, they didn't realize it was you. I'm sure they wouldn't have done this if they did, " the same voice coming through as looking around and realized I was tied up.
"Don, where a... | 2021-07-18T12:25:25 | 2021-07-18T10:40:16 | 959 | 147 |
[WP] Turns out, when a species reaches the stars, their ships resemble the characteristics of that species’ origins. Most other species have ultra fast, hard hitting spaceships, and a few are slow behemoths. But everyone is scared of the relentless, unstoppable humans. | It turns out most sapient life in our galaxy tends to one of two extremes. Some are nervous twitchy small creatures that live and die fast, reminiscent of the squirrels of Earth. Some are enduring behemoths that seem to live on a slower stream of time. Like giant turtles, they let other life be born and in die in the t... | When the first group of mixed ships appeared in orbit advising Earth through our communications network that we were now property of the Empire, there was mass panic and prayer, there was also planning. The moon was home to several military bases from several countries. The Empire thought us disparate and divided and... | 2021-10-12T09:17:10 | 2021-10-12T08:54:03 | 976 | 138 |
[WP] When the human's elf girlfriend broke up with him due to the difference in the lifespans, the human went on to become a mercenary. Thousands of years later, the elf, now an old woman meets the human who hasn't aged at all, known as a scourge in mortal form, even death feared to take the human. | ######[](#dropcap)
"I... I need a moment." The old elven woman turned to her attendants, "I'd like to talk to them, alone."
"But Elder Aethel!" Their main attendant protested, "He's the Scourge!"
"It is *why* he is the Scourge that I must talk to them alone." The Elder's words carried the weight of years, yet she ga... | Zelina shivers and wraps her shawl tighter around her. Her breath fogs but her steps are sure as she tap-tap-taps her way around the blooming evergreens and a particular apply tree that she knows has seen better days. Every morning for a few years now, she has walked down this slope to greet the willow tree her husband... | 2022-01-13T10:52:36 | 2022-01-13T10:51:56 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Batman is a regular dude who *thinks* he's a badass martial artist and detective. All the villains play along, because the poor guy lost his parents and isn't right in the head. Tonight a brand new supervillain hospitalised Bruce. This is the biggest mistake he'll ever make | Redraze was tall and strong and very, very durable. When his gang had hijacked the armoured truck, the supervillain had simply ran into it and the cab had crumpled around him, throwing the driver through the windscreen.
Then the stick with the stupid cape had appeared and said something about coming in quietly and “ge... | It all started on that tragic night in late June. Master Bruce witnessed something terrible. Something I could only imagine. I had been a soldier in the queen’s service, so death wasn’t new to me. But to witness such a thing. It broke my heart.
When the will was read, and I was named Master Bruce’s guardian, I felt a ... | 2022-03-20T14:39:43 | 2022-03-20T14:32:52 | 667 | 336 |
[WP] Aliens take over the Earth. They then announce that they will be forcing the humans to work a "tyrannical" 4 hours a day 4 days a week in exchange for basic rights like housing. Needless to say they are very confused when the humans celebrate their new alien overlords. | My boss hovered over my slumped form, focused on the drawings I was currently correcting. “How do you expect to have this done in time? I expect you to work overtime for this.” I could feel my eye bags start to form. 40 hours a week, and now another 10 or more to finish this drawing.
The mounted TV in the office beep... | “EINCNIxiapwkmfPakmf IsjdnIdjfjKddkF42069 sjdjfj ajsjejjePWLDNFNF!”
The new alien overlords screeched on their speakers from their spacecrafts.
A teleprompter like device soon displayed the following: “And there is a minimum of two wives required with a full two days of breeding, one for each, no labor on these days. ... | 2022-11-03T02:17:47 | 2022-11-02T23:51:10 | 175 | 38 |
[WP] A prisoner woke up to find the cell door open, upon looking around, he discovered the prison is empty. | He awoke abruptly to the sound of a ship’s horn. He had a horrible headache, as if someone or something had hit him in the head with a blunt object. Hard. He was tangled in some chords as well, and had vomit on his chest. It was dry, so he’d been unconscious for several hours at least.
He sat up, rubbed his eyes, an... | *Fuck… Fuck! FUCK!* Have you ever woken up feeling on top of the world, only to have a memory of the night before, or a premonition of the day ahead, seep into you're mind. Seep in and drown that naive piece of bliss that never learned to swim. Try waking up in solitary. Not “Solitaire,” as we used to call it. “Solitai... | 2014-05-17T22:29:17 | 2014-05-17T22:22:31 | 61 | 13 |
[WP] You have just found the cure to a virus that is killing millions worldwide, why do you keep it to yourself? | I did it. me! I finally did it. That damn virus reanimated our dead.its killed millions, billions even. And I finally found the cure. I have been working my ass off I haven't really counted the days.my only friends have been these concrete walls. But it is no matter because I am the true savior to the planet. Now I wo... | I can't share it, it'd be too risky. There'd be pandemonium. Millions, if not billions of people rushing to get the cure. It doesn't seem fair, but it is right. It won't do anyone much good if they're trampled on in a massive stampede for it.
I was working on a chemistry project. I had the virus and it was slowly, pai... | 2014-05-30T02:00:50 | 2014-05-30T01:50:22 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] - You've been talking to someone on a dating and decide to meet up for lunch. You meet and are getting along famously, when partway through the meal you get a text from your date apologizing that they are late, and that they will be there soon.
Dating site | "Running late, sorry. See u in a minute!"
Well now that's odd. Paige wasn't running late. In fact, Paige was sitting right across from me. But my phone clearly said that this text was from Paige, who hadn't touched her phone since we sat down. We had been relatively busy since we met, ordering lunch, talking about com... | March 4th.
Dear diary,
I CAN'T. BELIEVE. WE'RE ON A DATE!!!!!
Like, we've been lovingly watching this guy's every move, for like, a month. And just recently (when spying his e-mails) we found out he's using a dating site!!! WTF! And he's arranged a date with some filthy blonde WHORE. We can't believe he's cheatin... | 2014-07-03T12:07:57 | 2014-07-03T11:48:33 | 121 | 14 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | I looked at the Djinn, "so" I asked him "you said I had one wish left, right?"
He looked at me, and smiled - "yes, make it a good one". I looked around my room, my messy little apartment had become a grand villa, and my wall was covered in degrees. I had the knowledge and the proof of it to live a good life, and make ... | I lay back on my mountain of cash and met the Djinn’s lighting storm eyes.
“For my final wish, I wish to meet the girl of my dreams, my perfect soul mate.”
“It is done.” The Djinn said in it’s mountain slide voice. One final crackling blink and it disappeared into a swirling pile of dust.
I looked down at my cat, “W... | 2014-08-19T10:21:17 | 2014-08-19T09:49:05 | 330 | 90 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | I looked at the Djinn, "so" I asked him "you said I had one wish left, right?"
He looked at me, and smiled - "yes, make it a good one". I looked around my room, my messy little apartment had become a grand villa, and my wall was covered in degrees. I had the knowledge and the proof of it to live a good life, and make ... | I heard the scream. It was loud and I'm sure I ruptured an ear drum. I went toward the source. I ended up in my roommate's room. His room is now completely different. It usually is messy with shit everywhere, but today it was clean. It smelled nice in the room too. I walked into his personal bathroom. The shower was on... | 2014-08-19T10:21:17 | 2014-08-19T08:54:23 | 330 | 89 |
[WP] In the near future a company holding the only patent to a point-to-point teleportation system in widespread use is exposed as a fraud and the truth is more horrible than anyone expected it to be. | “Free Trips for the month of July.” The advert had sparked controversy through governments and their various iterations of CDCs. Concentrated travel of that magnitude…the crowds alone would breed a second Black Death with no mention of the rampant crime. Illegal immigrants would surge through Prilotec’s security barrie... | "You going to hold on to your lunch?"
"You know damn well that I don't eat before a jump," Todd said with a toothy-smile to the engineer, Jerry. Another jump meant another $50k in his pocket, and he was happy to do just that. Jerry stood at the control panel, a small stand that looked like a music director's stand, ex... | 2014-08-25T10:18:29 | 2014-08-25T09:56:59 | 344 | 41 |
[WP] Frighten me without using any blood, gore or explicit violence. | I woke up groggily. I looked at the clock on the wall. 5:30 AM.
"What's the matter, Hon?"
Ann's form silhouetted against the moon light. As she finished her phone call, our wedding ring glistened and shown brightly. "It's my mom. She says she's passing nearby, and will arrive in 10 minutes to visit." | My eyes stopped working this morning. And my arms and legs. I'm lying in the middle of my cold kitchen floor, trying to twist my head, neck, and torso enough to get myself upright. I must have left my door open before all this happened; the wind is whipping through the house. I can hear the curtains ruffling and papers... | 2014-11-18T11:22:43 | 2014-11-18T08:59:17 | 110 | 14 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I decided to go with a 1-15 scale instead of 1-10 hope that's not too big a deal. Criticism welcome.
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I can read your numbers.
Everyone has a number. It's not something that hangs in the air over their head, it just sort of... Pops into my mind.
The way someone stands, the look on their face... The numbers, a... | Every since I can remember, there were numbers in my head.
Everyone had a number, a three for the boy who pushed me down the slide, a seven for those murderer's on TV, a four for my mother, etc... I had never met a ten, nor a nine, and eights were only in other countries.
Until I met *him*.
He was beautiful.
He wa... | 2014-11-29T12:30:55 | 2014-11-29T12:02:03 | 856 | 498 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | So he walked into my 3B class, just like anyone else would. Kinda handsome, I guess, but overall pretty ordinary. Until he turned and I caught the number floating over his shoulder.
The big one-O.
I'm pretty sure I made a noise that would make a mouse call me a pussy, and I sweated through my T-shirt in five second... | He looked at me. His eyes were dark and sunken into his pale face. I sensed something - something terrible - but I didn't want it to be true. Ten. Just a number to some, but to me, it was something terrifying. I could sense danger, but not in the animal planet documentary story of a dog predicting a storm kind of way, ... | 2014-11-29T13:14:54 | 2014-11-29T12:31:42 | 322 | 38 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Ever since I can remember I had a gift. A gift of knowing how "dangerous" a person might be. I measure people on a scale of 1 -10, people in comas are a 1 while dictators and supreme leaders hit a 10.
I've never seen anyone hit a ten in my life until I turned on the t.v. and saw a democratic candidate running for p... | "I'm Michael," he said as he stuffed text books into his locker.
I wasn't sure what to do. He was a ten. The only ten I'd seen was my dad and he'd been locked away. It was his number that brought back the painful memories of my childhood. He would come home every night drenched with the stench of cigarettes, beer, an... | 2014-11-29T14:44:07 | 2014-11-29T13:16:01 | 140 | 36 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Numbers taste funny. Nines bud into fires on my tongue, their spent embers resembling something akin to zeros. Ones bleed blue like melting ice or my nurse's cerulean eyes. Fives dissolve like Wonderbread and feel like cotton in my ears. When I went to school with other children, they tasted like loaves of stale white ... | "I'm Michael," he said as he stuffed text books into his locker.
I wasn't sure what to do. He was a ten. The only ten I'd seen was my dad and he'd been locked away. It was his number that brought back the painful memories of my childhood. He would come home every night drenched with the stench of cigarettes, beer, an... | 2014-11-29T13:27:21 | 2014-11-29T13:16:01 | 86 | 36 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've spent my whole life looking at numbers, judging my safety from them, gathering intelligence, watching, waiting. I am a perfectly average teenage girl; I've got brown hair, brown eyes, and a rather plain face. I'm average height, average size. There is nothing exceptional about me; except that I can judge how dange... | “One, two, two, one, three, two.” Numbers over the heads of my friends, family.... People I knew, people I didn’t. I can’t remember when they got there. I just sort of started noticing them one day.... And what they meant was... Obvious to me somehow. “One.... One....”
I often murmured to myself, no one seemed to not... | 2014-11-29T14:34:22 | 2014-11-29T14:15:56 | 41 | 30 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | It only took a few seconds of staring until the number pops up in the middle of their forehead. Thank goodness for that, since I think I'd go insane seeing numbers everywhere!
Babies and most kids measure from zero to three at most, while grown adults measure up to maybe five or six, depending on their skills in hunti... | Danger is not quantified by how much harm one could cause others, but by how how much harm one intends to cause others. That's why two people of the same height, weight, and muscle mass could be unequally dangerous. That's why my best friend, the huge, 6 and a half foot tall, 250 pound, football player isn't dangerous ... | 2014-11-29T17:05:40 | 2014-11-29T12:41:49 | 39 | 22 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | My own number always bothered me. A 1, seriously? Luckily nobody else sees numbers or they would think I was nothing but a big laugh.
And I couldn't use another reason to be laughed at, you know. Being in high school is already torture enough, and I'm being bullied enough as it is.
Normally the day starts off getting... | This is my first post to WP, so I hope anyone who reads this likes it!
Ever since I was born, I’d see numbers in my brain. From the instant I saw a living face I’d see a number. I learned pretty quickly it was danger: my dog was a 1 (too stupid to hurt anyone even if he tried, bless him), and the highest number I eve... | 2014-11-29T14:33:38 | 2014-11-29T14:18:16 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You travel back in time to the 1900's, you take your tablet out of your rucksack only to find that there is a WiFi hotspot nearby labeled "If you can see this, turn back.". | Thomas looked down at his iPad having just stepped out of the wormhole he had traveled through. "Strange," he said softly under his breath, "wifi." He quickly tapped the settings button and went into wifi settings. As the device discovered the one available network his heart dropped.
*"If you can read this turn back."... | I stole a quick glance into my rucksack at my tablet, the signal for the hotspot was growing stronger. I looked ahead through the crowded Street, towards a tall building. It would be empty on this day
I checked my watch, 12:18 PM, I had 12 minutes. I approached the door and gave a quick push, the door swung open. The... | 2014-12-23T20:15:56 | 2014-12-23T18:36:50 | 2,702 | 911 |
[WP] When a child is born, their parents may pick one skill that the child will be, without a doubt, talented in.
**EDIT** Wow! This went way bigger than I ever thought it would! Thanks to everyone that responded to the prompt! And to the readers - don't be afraid of the new filter, there are a lot of great stories he... | The prediction of all these gift shots didn't come soon enough. Before we realized their folly the majority of the worlds children were given it. If everyone was a master of their field, there no chance of exceeding. And so the economy collapsed as our poverty skyrocketed.
With nations falling under the gifted wars, t... | (please forgive any grammar mistakes, long story as to why I suck at it...Trying to improve.
"I think he should be a talented SLADE mechanic, it is the family heritage after all!" Harry, the boys father stated tapping his foot impatiently. His wife had been pushing for there son to be an artist.
"Everything is not ab... | 2015-01-13T10:33:27 | 2015-01-13T10:30:23 | 44 | 19 |
[WP] Two people discover a fountain of youth. The problem is that upon drinking the water you turn back into an infant. The two decide to take turns raising each other in order to live forever until one day one of them decides to break this agreement. | "No, please."
She pushed the vial away from her lips, her thin and wrinkly hands shaking.
"Why?" I asked.
"I... I'm so tired, dear." She sighed. Then she continued:
"My flesh is tired."
"What do you mean?"
"The other ones, my other lives, I've come to realize... they were not *really* me. I've read their diaries... | At the end I wasn't sure what I was doing.
Was I really doing this for me anymore? I knew he needed me, but did he think I needed him too?
See, the problem with this fountain wasn't just that you became an infant, it's that you also acted like one. Your brain developed just like a child's with your memories coming ba... | 2015-02-14T06:40:49 | 2015-02-14T05:56:58 | 1,103 | 30 |
[WP] A man has the ability to smell death. The greater the stench, the closer a person is to dying. He leaves his house one day and is instantly overcome with the pungent scent of mortality. Every person he passes reeks of death. | He had known it was coming for a while now.
Death had become a constant companion in Jacob's life. A certain familiarity had developed over the years since he first realized the meaning of his gift. The musty scent, reminiscent of a long forgotten sweater buried deep in a cedar closet, with a hint of an unknown sp... | The smell of breakfast delighted him as Ken woke up and got ready for work. There must have been something new that his wife was trying with the recipe, because this had a grittier feel to it. He got dressed and sat down to eat and looked at the clock.
7:45, he thought. Almost time to go. He had a long commute to wo... | 2015-03-20T20:38:30 | 2015-03-20T18:56:15 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] "When hell is full, the dead shall walk the Earth." However, no one said anything about what happens when Heaven is full. | Journal
Week 6, Day 2
Well, journal, we made it to the old school gym. I, along with twelve others, have been on the run since the dead stopped being dead. I can hear them outside, pounding on the doors.
Goddamn they're annoying.
"DO YOU HAVE TIME TO TALK ABOUT OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST?" the horde moans at ... | I walked out of my house, holding my lower back in an attempt to ease the ever present aches and pains. Now, I'm 6 foot 5, so I've been having to crouch down when I leave the house for some time, but it's getting worse. Even my wife is having to bend down to walk outside now, and I may as well be crawling around on all... | 2015-04-07T09:33:04 | 2015-04-07T07:05:46 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I'm going to die today.
The doctor is giving me a run down of what will happen when we pull the plug. It will be painless, he says. Despite his reassurance, I can't help but be afraid. I glance over to my wife, my one true happiness in life, and begin to tear up. I can't handle the fact that I will never see her agai... | Five years old, he's on the playground now, a toe in the sand. He's beckoning to you to push him on the swing.
Six years old - He's been with his mother all day and rushes to greet you at the door. You kiss him on the forehead and hug your wife. The love that connects you three anchors the rest of your life.
Nine ye... | 2015-06-03T08:22:01 | 2015-06-03T07:16:05 | 2,420 | 11 |
[WP] You're a student of music in the 23rd century. This is your A+ essay regarding a famous song from the 21st century, in which you dissected and heavily misinterpreted. | **Blurring the Lines of Sexual Inequality: Robin Thicke's Forgotten Feminist Anthem**
Almost one hundred years since human females won the right to vote, human females everywhere were still massively oppressed. Primary sources gathered from an ancient social media website known as Tumblr have dramatically shifted cons... | William Preston Buckingham III
Rebecca Black “Friday: And the day after Tomorrow.”
Prof Marcus Trout, Dynamic Music.
The 21st century in North American society was a difficult era for many of it’s citizens. Conflicts in the Middle East, a crumbling political structure, economic depression, and the plague of locus... | 2015-08-16T10:07:53 | 2015-08-16T09:52:54 | 116 | 20 |
[WP] Choose an idiom (e.g. "stone-cold killer"). Write the story that caused the phrase to be used literally and therefore introduced it into the language.
Idioms can be from non-English languages also if they work well | “Goddammit!” Exclaimed a man who held awkwardly onto his bandaged stump arm.
The sea surrounding them was vast and seemingly endless, ocean fading and blending into the grey of the horizon. All of the occupants of the small lifeboat looked to one another with suspicion, lips tense with irritation.
“What are you ta... | There were once two rag-doll puppets who loved each other very much. One was a girl and the other was a boy. The boy was made of soft wool and the girl was made of fine linen. They never thought that they could be together, but somehow they came together. Their buttoned eyes would gleam in delight whenever they saw eac... | 2015-12-10T05:03:23 | 2015-12-10T00:16:19 | 475 | 25 |
[WP] A human colony ship is en route to its destination 122 light years away. To avoid mutiny and crew apathy, the onboard AI convinces the middle generation that everyone lives and dies on the ship. And then someone learns the truth. | "You killed them, didn't you?" I asked the ship's computer as soon as the doors whooshed closed behind me. It couldn't deny it; I had the data right in my hand, along with the note from the computer promising to explain everything.
"Yes," it answered immediately in its cold, calculating voice. None of the regret that ... | "Do you still remember our secret?"
Six words, that's all she had to say, and I was transported back in time. I could still feel that easy innocence oozing around us, protecting us in a shell safe from the knowledge that changed our lives.
"Twenty-two years?" I asked, "Has it already been so long?"
***
"Can you ke... | 2016-02-05T08:33:41 | 2016-02-05T08:23:17 | 116 | 18 |
[WP] LifeCloud is a virtual after-life that preserves people's personality and memory. On your death bed, your family is imploring you to opt-in to this service. As one of LifeCloud's founding designers, you know something about it that they don't. | "Dad, don't you want Ray and Sandy to visit you after, you know? And what about Sandy's new baby? Your first great-grandchild. Don't you want him growing up knowing you?" My son meant well.
"He won't be knowing me, Bill. He'll grow up knowing some recording of me. Just tell him to read some history books. Or better ye... | *Server space is finite*. That's what I would tell my junior devs when they came up to me with their SyFy suggestions. "Hey, why can't we give people superpowers?" or "Hey, why can't we let people have multiple avatars?" or "Hey, why can't we run another simulation inside the simulation?" Because our entire server netw... | 2016-08-24T15:33:11 | 2016-08-24T15:28:59 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] The technician takes off your Virtual Reality helmet. The entire life you've experienced has been a virtual reality simulation of your ancestor. The technician looks at you and asks, "did you find out what you were looking for?" | "Did you find what you were looking for?"
I look at the tech. His name is Bob. I remember, in a vague sort of way (like you'd remember the name of the chick you went home with the night before after too much whiskey), I thought his name was outdated and silly before the VR helmet... I was so wrong. Bob. It's a good, ... | My ancestor was prepared for this eventuality. Somehow, I don't understand how, but. He knew. He knew I'd come back to find out. The fucking fuck, *how could he know!?* But he knew. He made me... watch. He knew I was there and he forced me to watch. He took pleasure in it, not for himself, but for me. So that ... | 2016-10-29T03:01:03 | 2016-10-29T02:49:23 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] There are seven distinct schools of magic, but you have just motioned to found the eighth. While many practice necromancy, or polymorphing, you have a more unique practice: Absurdism. | It hit me suddenly when I was studying for the Conjuration final. All these motions and chants they made us memorize, all these poses and moans they taught us in class -- it all added up to the same damn thing! Taking something unreal and making it real. And there wasn’t even a system to it, or any kind of order. You h... | "H-hello?" I pushed the window open and peered inside. From the outside, the cabin I had found looked almost completely normal. It had taken me a few days of walking by to really notice all the inconsistencies with it.
For one, the cabin had no doors, only windows. All of the windows had been locked except for the lar... | 2016-12-08T11:27:01 | 2016-12-08T10:51:28 | 52 | 19 |
[WP] You order a pizza at 12pm. The delivery guy dosen't arrive until 7pm. When asked about what happened, he responds "It's a long story." | I said nothing and tipped him 2 dollars. He stood there, sunken eyes staring silently into the endless abyss. I said "Thanks." No response. I closed the door and still he stood, staring blankly at the mullion. I ate a slice of pepperoni and went to sleep. It was cold. | So there I was smoking a bowl with my friends. The pizza guy arrived and told us it was very much traffic. "Well that makes sense", I told my friends as we started tripping balls. The first bite of the pizza made me feel icky. It felt like a warm sweaty palm of a hand, with no spaghetti sat down on my tongue playing a ... | 2017-02-09T23:19:12 | 2017-02-09T20:46:30 | 117 | 24 |
[WP] Some years ago it was discovered that love is a measurable quantity. Many countries have since deemed it mandatory for couples to prove their love prior to marriage. A couple who are together only to qualify for asylum wait to be audited, and desperately try to fall in love. | "I don't love you."
"I don't love you too," she replies, drawing a heart on my arm using the burnt ashes of a match she just blew out.
Her dark eyes reflect in the flaming candle between us.
"We have to, though."
"I know."
We're quiet for a moment. This is the most desperate time in our lives and we can't get... | "Did you know about this?"
He looked straight into my soul as if hoping to detect some sort of lie, but I responded honestly.
"Not really. I'd heard about this new rule, but it wasn't due to be enforced until at least a few more years. They must have done this very recently."
I sighed and weighed my options before ... | 2017-02-21T15:23:23 | 2017-02-21T12:57:07 | 47 | 24 |
[WP] You're a thief who breaks into homes, but try your best to stay undetected. You lubricate the hinges to prevent squeaky noises, you sweep the floor to get rid of footsteps, etc. Eventually, you fix more than you take, and rumors spread about a mysterious, helpful fairy in town.
EDIT: Wow, didn't expect this promp... | It's no effort at all, really. What better way to remain undetected than to leave the place better than I found it?
Sure, that usually means sweeping up my footsteps, and if one floor is cleaner than the other, now that's just suspicious. Gotta sweep the whole house, no doubt. And you can't be having squeaky doors, th... | "I woke up this morning and like Magic the squeaky stair no longer squeaked and the floorboard that always tripped me up was as even as all the rest, I'm telling you he visited me last night!" One man said to another as they stood outside the local pub, cigarettes in hand as they talked.
"Bill you're fucking nuts is ... | 2017-03-13T07:37:10 | 2017-03-13T06:04:49 | 4,615 | 1,458 |
[WP] In the depths of the ocean some predators use bioluminescence to lure their prey... humanity finds out the same is true in the depths of outer space. | 14 parsecs from the nearest inhabited system, the scout ship Mustela XIV broadcasted a distress signal in all directions. Across the electromagnetic spectrum, a sphere of communications expanded at the speed of light around the stranded ship.
On the bridge, captain Strongbow scanned the external displays, seeing only ... | "Hey, David." My voice echoes through the flight deck to mankind's self-proclaimed 'greatest pilot'. "Say hello to the folks back home!"
David keeps his eyes glued to the screen, hardly budging though my camera probes the back of his head.
"Get that thing off me." He says. "This is important."
"And the people back o... | 2017-04-20T11:11:33 | 2017-04-20T11:06:03 | 87 | 17 |
[WP] Voldemort kills Harry Potter and declares war against the Muggles. He loses horribly, because unlike wizards - Muggles actually understand how magic works. | The first five hours in London were a slaughterhouse. The death eaters descended upon the populace with almost a fanatical frenzy, firing lethal salvos of a deadly green tint, killing without mercy. London bridge was one of the first locations in a series of coordinated attacks orchestrated to begin the start of the mu... | It had been an unfitting and humiliating end for the reign of Lord Voldermort. A name once spoken by only a handful of men with the gall to challenge him. Now that name was little more then a footnote in history. One of countless Dark wizards and witches with aspirations as wild as they were unobtainable. And just like... | 2017-07-17T17:23:34 | 2017-07-17T16:55:41 | 834 | 34 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | For some people, magical ability is like money: when you got too much of it, you don't care how wastefully you use it.
In a similar vein, magical ability is like processor power: when you got seemingly unlimited amounts of it, some people don't care about being ludicrously wasteful with it.
As such I wasn't particula... | "ABRAHAM KADABRAH!" I bellow, the fluorescent lights flicker. I pause frozen wondering if I just made the lights flicker. I wait tensely, then a small moment of joy comes, alright now we're getting somewhere. I'm a spell tester, well that's not entirely true, I'm an aspiring Mechanized Warfare Combat Mage (MW-CM). It s... | 2017-07-26T04:27:10 | 2017-07-26T03:19:32 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] As it turns out, every single species in the galaxy is best at something. Humanity turns out to be the best at robotics. | THE #EEE8AA BLOB-LIKE MEATSACK WAS VERY CURIOUS OF US, THE HUMANS, THE FIRST TIME WE MET. HE QUESTIONED US ABOUT ALL OUR DIFFERENT ABILITIES, TECHNOLOGY AND ANATOMY. AT FIRST, WE WERE CONFUSED AS TO WHY #EEE8AA MEATSACK WAS DOING THAT. APPEARENTLY, IT WAS BECAUSE EVERY SPECIES IN EXISTANCE HAS THEIR ONE NICHE THAT THEY... | "Inhabitants of Earth, we wish to trade. The beauty of your crafts astonishes us, we hope to acquire them in exchange for something you find of value."
This had been the message. The first one of its kind. Inter galactic trade had been at large ever since the year 3000 but humans had never had a part to play in it. Th... | 2017-10-05T09:55:04 | 2017-10-05T07:46:34 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Five people wake up in a metal room with no windows and only one door. In the middle of the room is a revolver and a piece of paper. "One of you has to die. Kill this person, the door unlocks and the survivors win $1million. Each wrong person dead halves your prize. You have four bullets." | As soon as I read the note, I grabbed the gun. "We're not shooting anyone yet. Fuck that. I need to think."
And then I thought.
Kills|Money left if correct|People to split with|Net profit
:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:
1|$1,000,000|4|$250,000
2|$500,000|3|$166,666.66
3|$250,000|2|$125,000
4|$125,000|1|$125,000
Expected profit = 1/... | The other three saw the paper and the revolver first, the big guy called it out, but they all hesitated. Just for a moment. That was all it took, and by the time I finished reading the last line everyone was a mouth breather.
"There's three of us and one of him"
Now's the time to point it at them. I'm not big, bu... | 2017-10-30T21:40:44 | 2017-10-30T19:00:49 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] When an animal dies, we often use the expression "crossing the rainbow bridge." This is not by accident, every animal crosses the Bifröst, having earned their place in Valhalla defending us from a greater evil then we could ever know. Tell their stories. | Carlos crossed the Barkfrost with a swagger in his step. His small legs plodded on that multi-coloured bone bridge, with other honoured brothers and sisters behind and in front of him. Though he felt a sadness at the thought of his master who he left behind, he felt content that he had done his duty and earned his rest... | The Legend of Prince Oscar.
The portal was opening again. I didn't have much time. Those stupid primates! Every few weeks, they do this, and every time, my enchantments, they drain my soul bit by bit. I don't know how much more I can take.
I should've known when I heard one of them ask the other, "What time's your ... | 2018-05-25T05:45:05 | 2018-05-24T20:06:52 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] You are the inventor of the most powerful optical microscope. While testing it with some of your own skin cells, you find a tech support number on each of your cells. You decide to call it. | >Tech support: Human Tech helpdesk, Danyael speaking, this call may be recorded for training and QA purposes, may I have the GATACCA code at your 4th chromosome, please?
>Me: Um... hi.
>HD: Hi. Who is this, please, so I can put the details in your ticket.
>Me: I'm... John. I found your number on a few sk... | As I watched the inner workings of the microscopic worlds inside me, the whooshing and swooshing of amorphous blobs, the contracting and relaxing of the organelles, inscribed oh so casually on the side of each cell membrane was a little banner.
I stared blankly at the numbers..."Contact Us; 080027056398...Account N... | 2018-08-14T11:14:09 | 2018-08-14T09:29:28 | 44 | 25 |
[WP] After a hard intense labor your son is finally born. Just when you think you can breathe easy the doctor holds him up to reveal a baby with impossible spiky multi-colored hair. Gravely the doctor informs, “I’m sorry but it seems your son is the main protagonist.” | Susan Witt held her precious baby boy in her arms, smoothing back the multicolored hair.
"Ma'am, did you hear me?"
Susan cuddled her little boy again, then looked up at the doctor, eyes suddenly focusing almost to pinpoints, expression going rigid. The doctor took a step back, stumbling.
"Like hell he is."
The do... | "What did you say?", I gasp. "Your son is the main protagonist", the doctor apologetically repeats his statement as he brings the child over to me. As I stare into his beautiful newborn eyes, I feel only pain. I realize what is occurring. I realize what I am. I believed that time and fate were at my command, now all I'... | 2018-08-21T04:34:25 | 2018-08-21T03:42:56 | 209 | 43 |
[WP] After a hard intense labor your son is finally born. Just when you think you can breathe easy the doctor holds him up to reveal a baby with impossible spiky multi-colored hair. Gravely the doctor informs, “I’m sorry but it seems your son is the main protagonist.” | Holding my baby boy for the first time was supposed to be one of the best moments of my life, but when the doctor handed him to me, my heart sank. His hair is dark, like his father's, but impossibly long for a baby. I knew what was coming, even before the doctor opened her mouth.
"I'm sorry, but it seems your son has.... | *\[The scene opens on a hospital bed. A new mother holds a new-born baby in her arms, she is stroking his bright silver hair. A Doctor watches her, clipboard in hand. The mother is looking at the baby with love and fear. She turns to The Doctor\]*
**The Mother:** What kind of story? Do you know?”
**The Doctor**: A... | 2018-08-21T08:54:27 | 2018-08-21T08:45:45 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | Joey walked into Subway with 5 dollars in his pocket. He meandered up to the counter and looked up as his friend Tiffany walked around from the back and said "Welcome to Subway!" without looking up.
"Hey Tiff, what's good?" said Joey
"Joey!" said Tiffany, "Not much, 10 minutes to close so day's almost over. What can ... | A sudden smile spread across my face as I handed the cashier a ten dollar bill. I had just saved five billion people because I ordered italian bread. I was pretty much the greatest hero alive. Just last week I had read about good ol' Sups saving a bus. How many people was that twenty, no maybe thirty, but God Fucking D... | 2018-11-17T20:16:10 | 2018-11-17T19:01:38 | 55 | 14 |
[WP] You are a vampire. If one of your victims isn't completely drained of blood, they reanimate as a newborn vampire, which by law, you are now responsible for. You have always carefully avoided this, until one morning you notice a sticky note on the door of your apartment: "I lived, bitch." | Vampire. That's what they call us. We are satirized, sexualised, and objectified, as though we don't exist; as though we are a fabrication, some cockamemie tale involving chromatic adolescents and puerile fantasy. Whether a stroke of brilliant misdirection by the Aristocracy, or a happy accident; I'm grateful for the c... | ######[](#dropcap)
The small cough from the alleyway catches my attention. I flick the note to the ground and sigh, kicking away the small pebble at the entrance of my house. "You can come out now."
For a moment, there's nothing but the patter of the occasional raindrop dripping from the eave to the cobblestone belo... | 2018-12-20T08:22:12 | 2018-12-20T08:16:55 | 85 | 46 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | God stared at his mug.
Number 2?
He turned his omniscient eye to the mortal world, searching for the number 1 dad.
He could find no sign of him.
And God was confused. But also, He did not really want to admit to anyone that he was only #2.
So he went for a stroll, and just happened to find William of Ockham relax... | Tonight was the night.
It'd been one year since the last unveiling and I was eagerly awaiting the ceremony. 364 days of exciting activities, bonding next to the TV, and, best of all, time with my Dad. Really, truly -- he had stepped up this last year. Tubing on the lake, all seven seasons of Game of Thrones, and more ... | 2019-04-18T16:07:46 | 2019-04-18T15:57:40 | 253 | 23 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | We called it humanity's worst disaster. History named it The Great Blinding. What that doesn't entail is that it was our own damn fault. The world was wrought into chaos after several months of warnings and we simply elected to ignore them, feigning assurance - "Oh that'll go away once we start on it."
"That's no pro... | It's surprising how quickly you adapt to the dark. At first it was a disaster, people wept and raged and died in droves, but it was barely two years now since the world went blind and these days, things are almost normal again.
Nikolai came out with their new self driving cars, fully optimised for their sightless pass... | 2019-08-26T09:28:09 | 2019-08-26T09:00:47 | 285 | 86 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When I first regained my sight I saw the messages, "Don't tell them you can see".
I wondered who "them" might be. I'll be honest, my first thought was space aliens of some sort of monsters from a Stygian realm. I was terrified.
I carefully got out my cane and went about my business, often closing my eyes to make the ... | 729 days. That’s how long it’s been since the Great Blinding, although if you ask me there’s nothing great about it. What’s so great about losing your sight? At least I wasn’t the only one suffering.
​
I was in prison when The Great Blinding happened. Whoever was pulling the strings chose the worst possib... | 2019-08-26T10:33:57 | 2019-08-26T10:01:26 | 62 | 35 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished", he says. "You are the punishment." | *Ms. Jennifer Brevis, beloved kindergarten teacher, passed away after a short illness. She was 49. Ms Jennifer was surrounded by her family and friends as she said goodbye to this world ...*
\- Obituary of Jennifer C. Brevis, published 1/10/2016 in the Riverton Times
I am a kindergarten teacher in hell. It was a good... | In the first age, in the first battle, when the shadows first lengthened, one stood. Burned by the embers of Armageddon, his soul blistered by the fires of Hell and tainted beyond ascension, he chose the path of perpetual torment.
In his ravenous hatred he found no peace, and with boiling blood he scoured the Umbral P... | 2020-01-10T18:04:41 | 2020-01-10T17:42:54 | 363 | 11 |
[WP] Every human has stats, like Strength, Dexterity, Wisdom, etc, with them all starting at zero when you’re a baby. Whenever you age a year, one of these stats is randomly increased by a point. One day, you find out that age isn’t the only way to get points, yet it’s definitely the more moral way. | I looked down at the scanning device that had been given to me. It was roughly the size and shape of a hand, but very thin and flat.
“It almost reminds me of a glove,” I told the Captain.
“Where do you think the old tradition of challenging someone to a duel by slapping them with a glove came from? It was an ignora... | I knew I should not have picked this book up, I knew it was up to no good. I could not handle my thoughts anymore, the bullying was definitely getting to my head. I was ill of the thought of being one of the minority whose birthday lie only on leap years. All my friends have reached high stats in strength and intellige... | 2020-02-29T08:57:59 | 2020-02-29T08:36:04 | 37 | 25 |
[WP] You are so consistently bland, that unbeknownst to you, Las Vegas has set up a betting ring revolving around the slightest deviation to your daily routine | "I'll have the usual."
"Absolutely. Would you like a free sample of our new muffins?"
"No thanks, I'm watching my calories."
"One bite won't hurt."
"Thanks, but no."
"You've actually been looking really good. Take my phone number and call me sometime."
"I'm flattered. But if the things didn't go well it might mak... | March, 11th
Today the wierdest thing happened. Well maybe not the wierd*est* ...it's not quantifiable and it's super subjective but...anyway.
I was just ending my day listening to the voicemails at the call center. I logged out, gathered my things and walked down the stairs and out the door to the parking lot and I ... | 2020-03-11T15:01:51 | 2020-03-11T14:17:48 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Vampires aren't averse to garlic. Thousands of years ago a vampire introduced this idea as a way to develop and inspire better flavors in medieval foods. | "But... but you don't eat food" Joey said.
"Who made that rule?" Vlad responded, pulling a clove of garlic out of the fridge and crushing it.
"Um... Stoker I think? Or was it there before him?" Joey said, looking up at Vlad.
"Ah yes, Stoker. He was a fine vampire. Truly pushed our culture forward. Did you know, we a... | "You better not get any closer to me, away from me, you filthy demon," I spoke with my knife out at the tall man in front of me while stumbling back. "I'm not a demon, ma'am, merely a vampire, who, by the way, is more blood-thirsty than what his countenance suggests," he gives out a wicked smile before taking to steps ... | 2020-04-24T22:55:49 | 2020-04-24T20:02:50 | 164 | 48 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | The woman lifts off the floor, rising slowly and spinning counterclockwise. "Widdeeshins", Father OBrady says aloud. He finishes the salt circle, and blesses the bottle of fiji water he bought at the corner store on his way.
"It's not fair!" The demonic voice rips from her throat. "You never let me have any fun!"
He ... | The thing I think you should know about my father is that he's a massive hypocrite. I mean, it isn't hard to imagine given the fact that he's a priest and has a daughter.
I'm fairly certain the church frowns upon that—especially since my mother is a demon. Or was, at least. It’s not like I know anything about her.
... | 2020-10-20T09:37:27 | 2020-10-20T09:29:12 | 393 | 88 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | "That's the fourth time this year, and we aren't even halfway through," Father Jacob sighed as he opened the door to his cottage.
A beautiful boy, with golden flowing locks which danced with ethereal grace, gave an innocent laugh. "But I need it, Father. Do not deny me, as you have not denied yourself."
"I know, I k... | *You're a fraud.* His mind always accusing him as he deposited the latest check. Another $25,000 towards... something. *Why do you keep doing this? She's dangerous.* He no longer had an answer. For nearly ten years now, his daughter, Angelica, had been possessing people and he, the "Priest with the gift", had bee... | 2020-10-20T10:55:02 | 2020-10-20T10:07:05 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] The air we breathe is actually an extremely hallucinogenic substance that affects all of your senses. One day, you stumble upon a strange-looking gas mask sitting on a bench in a park, when you put it on you slowly start to see and feel the world the way it truly is. | James was a normal person. He did normal things with other normal people. He aligned politically where normal people did, and never acted out back in school. He was a safe bet. A man you could count on. But all good things must come to an end. This good thing for James, was normalcy.
It was a regular day. Not too hot... | I quiver, shaking from head to toe. My mind can’t process what the rigid, metal park around me turned into. The rusty valleys of silver, artificial trees turned into the stuff of nightmares. The trees around turned to a comfortable brown. Their deteriorating, splotchy leafs turn into bright green. The cold, hard floori... | 2020-12-19T19:09:34 | 2020-12-19T17:25:21 | 132 | 89 |
[WP] A technician pulls a headset off of you and asks you if you liked the VR. You panic, and he calmly says that your whole life was a 2 minute VR experience to show you what being an average person would be like. You, stunned and afraid, ask, "Who am I, then?" He stares in complete disbelief.
(The title implies that... | " You don't remember who you are ? Uh huh.. memory entanglement... umm.. it's ok.. it's ok. " The technician muttered as if he was reassuring himself. I blinked in disbelief and stared at him.
" Oh sorry.. yes ! Think of it this way; your real life memories are now so old that it might seem like a past life memory.. ... | "Who am I, then?" The words fall from my mouth into the room like heavy stones.
The technician had stared at me, his mouth opening and closing as answers were born and died upon his lips, unspoken.
A woman had come soon after. I don't remember her face or her name. She said she was my wife, and she had been very an... | 2021-03-27T23:12:46 | 2021-03-27T20:03:00 | 48 | 33 |
[WP] "We WILL be friends, whether you like it or not, you stupid, stubborn old lizard!" - yelled the Vampire at the ancient Dragon. Because what is the point of immortality, if you have nobody to share it with? | The hole was thirteen kilometres deep. Gusts of snow and puffs of mist smudged together over its arctic entrance, hiding it from satellites. Lawerence knelt deep inside the burrow, digging. He’d been digging for most of the last two centuries. Now he shovelled compacted earth with his hands and nails, and often his na... | "I have no need of friends." Broodmother tiamat inststed from atop her hoard.
"I don't care if i have to come down here every day we WILL be friends one day!" Lady amarant repeated.
"Then give me space." Tiamat rolled her eyes "do not visit me again this year. Preferably at all."
So it was that they met, year after ... | 2021-04-16T07:08:57 | 2021-04-16T06:09:31 | 1,392 | 212 |
[WP] "We WILL be friends, whether you like it or not, you stupid, stubborn old lizard!" - yelled the Vampire at the ancient Dragon. Because what is the point of immortality, if you have nobody to share it with? | You think me immortal yet I am not so
You call me friend when I am more foe
My thoughts you assume but you do not know
You treat us as equals when you are below
My power will break you with a single blow
In spite of this difference I can see it though
I might have accepted your friendship long ago
And through th... | I was floating, as Tardigrades do, when I became unsure if I was floating in a planet, space, fission, fusion, or, some chaotic vibration of the universe. Then I saw the question. Dragons...vampires... immortal?! Really you poor fool goth child that are but a passing whim. I but squirt my ocular capacity and they are ... | 2021-04-16T08:09:15 | 2021-04-16T07:15:14 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You find an abandoned altar in the middle of a forest. You’ve read about them in class. Abandoned altars would mean someone – or a group – had abandoned their deity. Saddened by the betrayal of the worshipper to his worshipped, you clean the altar. You never thought the forgotten god bless you. | This god was like any other: boring and repetitive and taking fucking ages to wake up. It was a little gold statue that kept stretching and yawning like it was waiting for me to do all the talking.
I stood impatiently before the altar. I was high on the mountain that I, very creatively, named Big Mountain (as opposed... | Rust and nature had caused the gears of this once beautiful clock to grind to a halt. It was the last remnant of a temple to the old Goddess of Time and Machines. She had all but died when the Nature Goddess and her son the Plague God had created the Bisclavret Fever that had run rampant through the civilized lands. ... | 2021-05-01T23:54:36 | 2021-05-01T21:47:19 | 368 | 93 |
[WP] You have been Isekai'ed into the body of a Great and Terrible Lich, on the eve of its greatest, final victory. The forces of the Light are at their limit, resigned to their grim fate. You want no part of any of this bullshit, everyone is confused, nobody is sure what's going on anymore.
[deleted] | The transition was, quick. It was confusing. I staggered out of McCluskeys after a night of drinking with the work buddies and across the parking lot. I'd been slurring by the end and I knew I was in no shape to drive so I made my way to the cab stop beyond the lot. Remembering Jim telling how his wife had made him sle... | The wailing of a siren brings me to conciousness. As I open my eyes, I see white. The white of the ceiling of a transport car. Slowly, I become more and more aware of my surroundings. Some equipment around me, people who inject me with some stuff and the constant siren. Yup, I am in an ambulance. The pain in my whole b... | 2021-08-08T10:46:38 | 2021-08-08T10:02:08 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] You're a high level black mage with a few healing spells but everyone thinks you're a terrible cleric because you only ever use healing spells. | “I don’t know. She’s pretty useless though. Can’t speak. Too dumb for any real magic, but she’ll heal you if you order her to.” Calix said to their new recruit as he marched down the goblin infested tunnels in his massive plate armor.
*Leressa the Black! I bind you!*
The recruit, Daved, looked back at me nervously,... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc ?, Interlude ?: Archmagus LeFey)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**LeFey had done battle with gods old and new.** He had called down the fires of the heavens, and split the earth ... | 2021-09-03T08:38:40 | 2021-09-03T07:54:13 | 2,163 | 463 |
[WP] You are a haunted house, and you’re lonely. You’ve become self conscious because every time you try to engage with visiting humans, they run away in fear. But a party of humans has just arrived, and you realise one of them is intent on killing the rest. | The man smelled of soured desire and oft-remembered dreams. The worst sort of dreams to creatures like us. In the shadows, dreams are best forgotten.
Booted footsteps sounded on my porch at the close of that late fall day. Leaves crunched satisfyingly and a cold breeze whistled through the rotten rail, churned the lea... | It's a depressing existence when every advance towards friendship you make is met with screams of horror as your newfound companions run to escape you.
I've considered giving up on making friends. To be the cause of such genuine terror is destroying me, slowly. Even when I'm trying to be friendly, opening doors for pe... | 2021-11-07T16:23:12 | 2021-11-07T14:26:21 | 584 | 123 |
[WP] You have passive mind-reading. You hear the thoughts of those closest to you. Rather than use it to your advantage You instead use it to give precision compliments to brighten people's day. | I was almost 16 when the powers kicked in. Nothing special. Not flying in the air, not becoming invisible and not telekinesis. But I did start hearing murmurs. Little whispers when I was around people.
I was frightened initially to be honest. I thought it was schizophrenia. But slowly I realized that I was simply he... | Most people spend their entire lives wondering what it'd be like to have a super power. The world of super humans, however, is not all it's cracked up to be. It's not all epic fights and city destruction as hero and villain clash over New York while Michael Bay launches explosions in the background. In fact, that's com... | 2021-11-18T09:02:36 | 2021-11-18T06:48:33 | 344 | 57 |
[WP] You look around the lecture hall and notice all the other students have fallen asleep. You look towards the lecturer, who has now stopped talking and is staring straight at you. “I don’t know how you’re still awake, but I guess we do this the hard way.” He says, before pulling out a sword. | Perhaps, under normal circumstances, I would have been scared. I might have pretended to be asleep, going along with what everyone else was doing out of a panicked herd mentality.
But it was finals week. I was halfway through one essay, I'd barely started the other, and I was still trying to remember an entire semest... | Finally, he was serious about reading my thesis in earnest. I slowly pulled my hand axe and mace from my backpack, having learned to dual wield when I had to take that part-time to pay off my unsubsidized student loans. I grinned at him. I had studied his bibliography. Read his rate my professor reviews. I knew all his... | 2021-12-05T23:01:30 | 2021-12-05T22:33:43 | 59 | 26 |
[WP] "Academy Magic" is generally regarded as safe magic. "Fell Magic" is dangerous and can almost only be used for evil. "Vile Magic," meanwhile, is 'safe' but is also the magical equivalent of "don't google that, if you don't already know then you really don't want to know, I promise" | University of West Boone Unveils First Folk Magic Studies Degree in Country
The University of West Boone announced a new Bachelors of Thaumaturgy degree in Folk Magic Studies at a press conference on May 24th.
“Folk Magic, which is the name we prefer here over vile magic, is just a collection of magical practices ou... | "There are four kinds of magic, and they're separated into two categories," she said. "Academy magic is what most people know about. It's safe, because it's easy to use. Nothing bad will happen to you. But Academy magic is about as useful as a fork when you need a knife."
"What's Fell magic?" I asked.
"Fell magic... | 2022-05-25T14:50:07 | 2022-05-25T12:55:29 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] My job as a demon is to take requests from those who summon me in return for their souls. It's amazing! But it's always the same requests. That's why I promised myself I wouldn't eat the soul of the one to give me a brand new request. Nothing new. Until today. "Can you be my girlfriend?" | Torn and ripped flesh, blood dripping steadily onto the hard wood floor. Five eyes peered outwards towards the insignificant roach that stood before it. The words echoed across the silence as it thought through what it has heard.
"You wish to make a maiden out of me," It was less a question, and more of a ponderance.
... | "Can you be my girlfriend?"
I stared at the prepubescent teenager. "Uh, you realize I'm a man right?"
"Look, if I weren't out of options, do you think I'd be scrawling satanic symbols on the floor?"
"That's actually a fair point." I conceded.
"PLEEEEASE. I told all my friends I'd have a date to homecoming, you just... | 2022-09-09T13:29:06 | 2022-09-09T12:35:52 | 266 | 180 |
[WP] You're a female hero in a fantasy world, and you are annoyed. The wizards keep giving you enchanted armor with incredible stats, but it looks RIDICULOUS! This one has nipples! This one has a hole over your heart! This one is just a necklace and a belt! Would they please STOP IT! | I held up the 'breastplate' between finger and thumb and turned to the shopkeeper.
"Just who designed this ... thing?" This thing made of fine silver wire in a wide mesh, rubies strategically placed, so low-cut everything between my collar-bone and my navel would be visible. "I presume it goes with the belt with the ... | I began adventuring because I thought it would be more interesting than slaving away as a barmaid, or apprenticing for... what, lute playing? Glass blowing?
Yeah, no, absolutely not. I wasn't gonna settle for something where I had to deal with being looked down upon, or leered at, treated like I'm just a floozy. This... | 2022-11-21T05:12:42 | 2022-11-21T03:11:54 | 200 | 54 |
[WP] The new generation of vampire has discovered that just by taking iron supplements and vitamin D drops, they’re feeling fine without drinking human blood | “I am not enthralled with the idea of turning to these…” Isaac paused “Tinctures, instead of our tried-and-true methods of sustaining ourselves “
Elizabeth fought the urge to roll her eyes, why was it that any Vampire who was turned before the telegraph resisted change so thoroughly?
“I’m sure most humans aren... | "But I Am A Vegan!" I screamed at my obsessive and abusive ex as he sat there smirking at me. He laughed as I tried to throw up thick red liquid he had just forced down my throat.
"It's too late Crystal, by this time tomorrow you'll be chowing down on poor old Nancy over there." Samel said smirking. I looked over at my... | 2022-12-04T09:31:13 | 2022-12-04T08:32:43 | 131 | 53 |
[WP] The new generation of vampire has discovered that just by taking iron supplements and vitamin D drops, they’re feeling fine without drinking human blood | The new generation of vampires was unlike any that had come before them. They were stronger, faster, and more intelligent than their predecessors, and they had discovered a way to survive without drinking human blood.
By taking iron supplements and vitamin D drops, the vampires were able to feel strong and healthy wit... | "But I Am A Vegan!" I screamed at my obsessive and abusive ex as he sat there smirking at me. He laughed as I tried to throw up thick red liquid he had just forced down my throat.
"It's too late Crystal, by this time tomorrow you'll be chowing down on poor old Nancy over there." Samel said smirking. I looked over at my... | 2022-12-04T08:46:36 | 2022-12-04T08:32:43 | 72 | 53 |
[WP] You are a well-respected Villain. You caused only necessary minor Damages, you never purposefully took a life, and you made sure to keep a strict Code when dealing with civilians. But for some reason, some of the younger Newbie Heroes seem to think you are Evil Incarnate | Usually one is awoken to the blinding of a golden glow filling their bedroom on a sunny morning, or the consecutive noise of fighting and squawking birds on a colder one. Today however I was awoken to soft and harsh whispers, and when opening my eyes I was not in my bed, but tied to a chair with three pairs of eyes gli... | (I’ve split this story into four parts through four different writing prompts! They are technically standalone, but they tell a more complete story together. This is part three of four, and you can find the previous (second) part here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/zpy3e7/comment/j10vknf/?utm\_sourc... | 2022-12-20T13:51:04 | 2022-12-20T13:19:46 | 163 | 31 |
[WP] Write a mysterious and confusing story, that is explained at the end using only 1 sentence. | He spent what felt like millennia drafting the concept for his next work of art. Would it be worth making? Would his critics and fans ever understand it? If the naysayers were right, why even do it? How could he explain the inconsistencies to his followers? After all things considered, he decided to create.
And with ... | I adored her. She was at once the most perfect and the most terrifying thing that had ever happened in my life. Even though she was sleeping now, I could not stop looking at her face, and thinking about how it trusted me. How my power over her life was complete. And not merely because of the ties that held her arms... | 2014-04-11T08:36:54 | 2014-04-11T07:04:01 | 108 | 52 |
[WP] Write a mysterious and confusing story, that is explained at the end using only 1 sentence. | He spent what felt like millennia drafting the concept for his next work of art. Would it be worth making? Would his critics and fans ever understand it? If the naysayers were right, why even do it? How could he explain the inconsistencies to his followers? After all things considered, he decided to create.
And with ... | Here I am, standing here. My blood soaked knife dripping on my now red carpet. Looking at my own corpse sprawled across the floor. I looked at it for quite some time. I was waiting for this moment my entire life but part of me never thought it would happen. I was finally able to kill myself.
I wonder how my family wo... | 2014-04-11T08:36:54 | 2014-04-11T06:18:45 | 108 | 20 |
[WP] Describe a well known story from the perspective of the antagonist. Try to conceal the actual story till the last line.
Fairy tales, legends, tv shows, book, etc. | I could see the fatass coming in the distance. "Fuck, not him again", I thought. As he walked towards me on his two thin legs that could barely support his big, round body, I cursed myself for ever coming into existence.
Every day, he would come and sit on me. Not for any sane reason I could think of. The motherfucker... | Perhaps he had never truly realized, until that moment, the depthless gloom of his fields. The skies were overcast, devoid of color, clouded by permanent mist - no spark or sign of the heavens' warming light to sweep away the shadows. He had never realized just how quiet it all was: his realm was embalmed with a deadly... | 2014-06-20T09:08:17 | 2014-06-20T07:37:41 | 66 | 23 |
[WP] In a world where you can exchange the remaining days of your life for $9.99/day, Jeff's request for $1000 is declined. | "Are we going to see the horses again today?" A wide smile flashed across his face as he looked up at his father.
Jeff looked down at his son, smiled and said "Yes, yes we are. We just have to make a quick stop at the bank and get some extra cash before we go."
"Do we have to?" His sons smile vanished and a look of ... | He had been in tight places before, but ever since the car accident he had been living paycheck to paycheck since he couldn’t initially afford the deductible for the bodywork. With a deep sigh, he took out a payday loan with a huge amount of interest attached to it, knowing that he wouldn’t be able to recoup the money... | 2014-07-10T10:17:25 | 2014-07-10T08:46:08 | 689 | 100 |
[WP] In a world where you can exchange the remaining days of your life for $9.99/day, Jeff's request for $1000 is declined. | "Want another dance sweetie" she whispers in his ear.
Flipping his pockets inside out he silently tells her he's all tapped out. Not being one to take the first no she grabs his crotch and says "You're young baby.. We just got a new health bank ATM installed"
The young man requests $1000 rolls up his sleeve and sta... | "You lack sufficient credit, sir."
"Wh-why? Am I gonna be dead in a hundred days?"
"You know we can't tell you that, sir. We cannot predict the future, after all."
"Then how do you know I don't have enough time left to trade for a measly thousand? What the hell game you bastards trying to pull?
"There is no reas... | 2014-07-10T09:28:51 | 2014-07-10T09:01:03 | 166 | 50 |
[WP] You're the cynical narrator of a story. However, you hate the optimistic main character and only continue to narrate hoping something bad happens to him. With ill-will, narrate a day in the life of this character.
This came to mind a few days ago and thought it could lead to some funny stories.
Edit: Oh wow, I t... | She slept in every morning, and this was no different. Her alarm would go off, she'd groan, press snooze and the go back to sleep with a stupid grin on her face. And she wondered why she didn't have a job.
When she did get up, she didn't shower, despite her hair being a good place for birds to make a nest. She instead... | Today, Kevin walks to school in his normal happy go lucky fashion. An old saying perfectly describes this moron, ignorance is bliss. Luckily, the saying isn't fully true, else, he'd be the happiest moron the planet.
Obviously, he's walking toward the wrong school again. Even though, he could randomly guess, and have ... | 2014-08-24T17:07:52 | 2014-08-24T16:49:46 | 64 | 11 |
[WP] You're the cynical narrator of a story. However, you hate the optimistic main character and only continue to narrate hoping something bad happens to him. With ill-will, narrate a day in the life of this character.
This came to mind a few days ago and thought it could lead to some funny stories.
Edit: Oh wow, I t... | Timothy strutted meaningfully… wait, no… Harold stomped with the strength of… Dammit… Wait, ah - Cole walked descriptively onto his creator’s page, waiting to be given a personality.
Or was his name Brendon. Or Shane. Oh, or Charlie! Or -
"WOULD YOU SHUT UP AND WRITE ME?” shouted Steven angrily.
His author was not... | *WARNING: strong language below.*
Look at this fucker. C'mon, get a load of this clitoris-faced little cunt sauntering down the street like he's a worthwhile goddamn human being. He has apparently forgotten that he has accomplished a negative fuckton worth of good in his brief, pathetic life, but who cares, he's young... | 2014-08-24T20:34:13 | 2014-08-24T17:01:56 | 58 | 38 |
[WP] A terminally ill man and a suicidal person accidentally meet and strike up a conversation. What do they say? | *Leave. Just. Fucking. Leave. I don't want an audience for this.*
The old guy won't move. He's just standing there, watching the stupid ocean spraying all over the stupid rocks, and smiling like he's defficient.
The whole thing makes me feel sicker. My stomach has been in knots since this morning. Longer than this m... | He gnawed on his cigarette, pacing back and forth in the stalled elevator compartment. After a moment he threw up his hands and reached into his pocket, producing a lighter. He looked across the compartment, at the only other occupant, and gestured at the lighter:
"Uh, you mind? It's just... y'know, three hours stuck ... | 2014-11-02T12:06:09 | 2014-11-02T11:39:34 | 61 | 25 |
[WP] You're at your wedding and you are getting married to the girl of your dreams. When the priest asks if there's anyone who objects to this marriage, one person stands up. No one recognizes who it is,but you do, it's you from the future (aka 20 years from now)
2spooky4me | Beneath the arbor two paths converge
A place where past and present merge
Woe is he
Doth a weary man stand
beneath the arbor? This darkened beast
With blackened teeth
A stricken traveler maimed from
not time,
nor space,
But this very place where two paths converge.
And suddenly two lights emerge!
The ... | While all the other guests and family members turned and froze, looking shocked and puzzled, I was the only one truly horrified. It had taken me all but a few seconds to look at the disheveled bum in front of me, unkempt hair, dirt on his face, to realize I was looking at my future. Alcoholism ran in my family so it ca... | 2014-11-03T17:36:58 | 2014-11-03T14:52:16 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] You're at your wedding and you are getting married to the girl of your dreams. When the priest asks if there's anyone who objects to this marriage, one person stands up. No one recognizes who it is,but you do, it's you from the future (aka 20 years from now)
2spooky4me | Beneath the arbor two paths converge
A place where past and present merge
Woe is he
Doth a weary man stand
beneath the arbor? This darkened beast
With blackened teeth
A stricken traveler maimed from
not time,
nor space,
But this very place where two paths converge.
And suddenly two lights emerge!
The ... | "He's got a GUN!" Screamed one of the bridesmaids. In a moment the room was in a panic. Time slowed down. BANG! First shot. A miss. As the stained glass window behind me shattered, two things became immediately apparent. 1. That is definitely me and 2. I am my own target. BANG! Second shot. Searing hot pain shoots up f... | 2014-11-03T17:36:58 | 2014-11-03T16:24:56 | 35 | 26 |
[WP] Everyone dies on their birthday, but no one knows at which age it will occur.
EDIT:
Thanks all who replied - I've read them all even if I didn't comment!
You are all so brilliant, thanks for giving this prompt life (no pun intended)
:D | "I'm going to be in a bit late today, Boss."
Starting a conversation in that manner with someone that can fire you is rarely a good thing, even with the most understanding of employers. He's not one of them.
"I count on my workers to be here on time," comes a voice from the other side of the line, his displeasure ev... | Everybody died on their birthday, nobody knew which one. Society made birthdays a solemn day for reflecting on the past year. Which was good, in a way, but for some poor souls that reflection became suicide. Taking your own life was the most cause of death in the world. Maybe it was the anxiety of never knowing if this... | 2014-11-19T19:51:21 | 2014-11-19T18:39:37 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] The original stories behind a lot of our fairytales are a lot darker than the versions we tell children. Take a really dark story (fictional or not) and water it down into a children's fairytale. | There once lived a wolf in Europe,
Who’s coat was pale and aerian.
When asked how he kept it so,
He explained he was vegetarian.
He hunted down the stars,
And put them into cars,
Until a bulldog and a bear,
Saw he was being barbarian.
The bulldog and the bear,
Came looking for that krout.
But when they reached hi... | They were always there. Blocking the sun, taking away the vitality. Someone had to do something. Two princes came, from the Far East lands, to win the Fair Princesses favor, and to knock the towers down. They thought of plan after plan, and finally, they decided that the gains were worthy of the sacrifice. They climbed... | 2014-12-07T18:21:53 | 2014-12-07T14:24:40 | 76 | 10 |
[WP] A thief steals a car only to find a dead body stashed in the trunk with a note that says "Tag, you're it." | “The fuck,” I whisper, reading note.
*Tag, you’re it*
It’s tapled to the clothes of the body, written in clear red letters. Possibly blood. Upon closer inspection, definitely blood.
But that isn’t even the weirdest thing. It’s the body it’s attached too. It’s me, or at least looks like it. Same skin tone, build, hai... | *I shouldn't.*
Newton looked longingly at the bright red sports car. He glanced back over his shoulder. The car's dumb owner was out of sight.
*But it would be so easy...*
He walked up to the driver's side of the car, tracing its handle with his fingers.
"Ah, fuck it."
He yanked on the handle and hopped in, taking... | 2015-05-15T07:05:26 | 2015-05-15T07:03:17 | 183 | 62 |
[WP] An alien abduction goes horribly wrong when the human they captured for study escapes and begins to stalk and kill off the crew members one by one. | **Log 1**
Specimen displays unusual amounts of strength, stamina and dexterity, also only requires 5-9 hours sleep compared to our 18. It's appetite is insatiable needing to feed every few hours and large amounts at a time, consumes enough in day for fifty of us.
**Log 2**
It seems irate, our weapons also appear to ... | I have to write a report about this and by far it is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I lost my ship, a large part of my crew and it looks like I will lose my life as well.
It all started when we came across a small metallic object, The science officer was very excited because it was definitely made by a ... | 2015-07-30T03:12:30 | 2015-07-30T03:03:55 | 186 | 40 |
[WP] An alien abduction goes horribly wrong when the human they captured for study escapes and begins to stalk and kill off the crew members one by one. | **Log 1**
Specimen displays unusual amounts of strength, stamina and dexterity, also only requires 5-9 hours sleep compared to our 18. It's appetite is insatiable needing to feed every few hours and large amounts at a time, consumes enough in day for fifty of us.
**Log 2**
It seems irate, our weapons also appear to ... | Aylotiri had been running for days through the ship. It wasn't a large ship, but she was small enough, hiding spaces were many.
It started four Earth days prior. They were on research mission, it was rather simple: Choose multiple, isolated landing sites, and land at each one to collect samples to study in non-damagin... | 2015-07-30T03:12:30 | 2015-07-30T03:09:39 | 186 | 18 |
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