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[WP] There are many gods, who create many universes. Our god, a preschooler, has just submitted our universe for his universe making class. His teacher sighs, shakes her head, slaps an F on it and begins to explain where he went wrong | F.
The Rubric clearly stated the minimum requirement for dimensions was 5. You only have three clear dimensions and arguably a 4th. Not to mention the messy entanglement of space and time. I was looking for more uniformity, and your universe is littered with areas where time slows down around large areas of mass. S... | "Mr and Mrs Lord, thank you both for coming in for Danny's teacher conference. So, at this point in the year, we usually have a good idea where our students strengths are, where their weaknesses are and what our recommendation should be for placement next year. I think if you take a look at his Creation project you'll ... | 2018-03-16T09:37:14 | 2018-03-16T08:45:00 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I wake to my phone buzzing on the night stand. I look at the clock next to it. The green numbers shine brightly: 3:14 AM.
'What the hell?' I think to myself. 'Why is anyone texting me at 3 in the morning?'
Before I can take a look, it starts buzzing again. And again. It won't stop. I grab the phone and mute it quickl... | DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON.
My eyes were barely open, bleary with sleep, but the incessant buzzing of the phone against the glossy black wood of the bedside table was just passing the point of ignorable. It took me a moment to register that the words were strange, holding their place at the top of the screen in bold, of... | 2022-08-07T14:17:42 | 2018-04-06T20:42:31 | 712 | 10 |
[WP] You are a linguist from an era of advanced science working on deciphering a long lost language. You just worked out the spoken word for "fire" and a small fireball burst out of your hand. | "George! George! did you see that? A bloody fireball just came out of my hand!"
"Hmm?" said Simon's old friend and co-worker, pulling his nose out of the dusty old book he was reading.
Simon rolled his eyes. "Pay attention this time. So now, how did I pronounce it... *Hoksi*? *Haksi*? No, that’s not it, it’s…*Hahks... | "Fÿra"
a small fireball appeared from nowhere and finished its course in the wall before me. I was surprised, of course, so I shouted some nonsensical words while falling out of my chair.
Luckily, it only touched a metallic lab bench at the other side of the room. I came back to my notes, the stone tablet and the old... | 2018-04-30T06:32:00 | 2018-04-30T06:15:29 | 87 | 39 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | I looked up as the man came in to the pet shop through the door. Along with him was his teenage son and young daughter, curiously looking around the room. The room had several indents in the walls, which contained all sorts of animals. Dogs, cats, bunnies, and rodents of all kinds.
I finished cleaning the mess in the ... | "Jesus christ Marie, you were only in the hospital for two days!"
Al couldn't believe it. With a disgruntled sigh he threw the bill on the table, pacing. His pale face was wrought with frowns as he glared at the bill, as if it was mocking him directly.
"I'm going to call them right now. This is ridiculous! I cannot b... | 2018-08-27T18:56:29 | 2018-08-27T18:54:24 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time. What they don’t say is that in between those deaths, you get stuck in purgatory with all the great philosophers and authors - all just waiting to die. | Purgatory's actually a pretty nice place, as it turns out.
Most people aren't forgotten right off the bat when they die; only a few poor souls each year take the expressway up to Peter's place. The rest of us, well. Most of us just wait around here, pick up a hobby or two, gossip about what's going on down there in th... | I really imagined dying to be a more spectacular or dramatic thing. For all I know, I fell asleep one evening and woke up on this hill. Maybe I was just dreaming, but some thought in the back of my head, clearer than any thought I ever had, told me I was dead. Just as I wanted to take in the strange landscape for a sec... | 2018-09-18T14:16:24 | 2018-09-18T13:33:42 | 68 | 30 |
[WP] You're an inmate on death row and discover that the government secretly doesn't execute anyone. What they do is something far stranger. | ~~Dear Diary~~
**The Personal Log of A██████**
██/██/██
It's been... what, two years? Two years since I've come here. Two years, waiting for some labcoat who inject me with a garbage cocktail and send me off forever. I thought I'd come to terms with it. I thought I was prepared.
Today they set my death day to next ... | I’ve never been a good man. Honestly, I probably deserve this. I deserve to lay in this piss-stained bed. I deserve the endless monotony that is death row.
Eat.
Pace.
Shit.
Sleep.
Over and over again for the last 3 years. At this point, I wish they’d just pull the fucking trigger already. Metaphorically, of cou... | 2018-11-08T20:52:06 | 2018-11-08T20:03:16 | 44 | 18 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | "Hey!!!" You scream as you kick and bang the glass thinking you will spend the next 90 years bored out of your mind.
"What? Stop your going to damage the pod." The technician says
"Oh hey, something is wrong I haven't fallen asleep yet" you say. "I don't want to spend the next 90 years awake in this thing"
"Sir calm... |
When I get upset I can’t help but slap everyone within a 2 meter radius with my wild gesticulations.
"You goddamn idiots; goddamn buffoons. You don’t put everyone to sleep simultaneously!"
Everyone evacuated the 2 meter radius around so that I had the ersatz spotlight I needed to gain the attention of the committ... | 2018-12-29T04:08:01 | 2018-12-29T02:18:27 | 47 | 13 |
[WP] After you grow old and die, you wake up 25 million years ago as a Hominid Primate, asleep on a tree. Your whole life was a vivid hallucination you had after ingesting a funny looking mushroom. After this experience, you have great knowledge, and you're the smartest living being on the planet. | "I was many things", I mused to myself, "but I was never a great teacher."
Weeks had passed since my revelatory vision - my tribe had left me for dead after trying for more than a day to get any kind of rise out of me. I woke up disoriented and alone, but soon found the telltale smoke of a bonfire, and found the tribe... | Hi, me
Hello, me
What language am I speaking?
Your speaking English mate, it’s a future language and it’s being used so people on writing prompts can visualise your perspective.
Oh I see. What’s writing prompts?
Well it’s a part of this website called reddit, which is part of the Internet which is. Anyways I am y... | 2019-03-19T07:06:30 | 2019-03-19T06:45:29 | 160 | 55 |
[WP] A group of plucky rebels attempts to overthrow a dystopian government. Wait... *checks notes* Sorry, utopian, a utopian government. | "Does anyone want some pizza?"
The rebel leader looked to Chance with disgust. "No, we can't HAVE pizza! Don't you understand!? They must be medicating our food! We can only eat the snacks I made."
Chance looked crestfallen. "I really like pizza though."
"Yeah, these snacks are good and I prefer other snacks more," ... | I had read all the literature from the White Ferns, listened to their words, mimicked their mannerisms, and passionately quoted their gospels. Newt however had grown weary. I suspected the Others had been getting to him. However hard I had tried to push him into confessing he kept his thoughts close to his chest. Our s... | 2019-05-14T08:51:40 | 2019-05-14T07:15:48 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a certain spell and a number of times they can use it. The durability is directly linked to how good the spell is. You were born with an infinite durability. Most people thought your spell was useless but you’ve recently found an exploit.
Example: a person with one use of a spell (a very rar... | When I finally found my ability, I was so proud. Five year-old me ran downstairs, shouting, "Dad! James! I did it!". I showed them the power, puffing out my chest in pride as wisps of mist trailed down my fingers. There was a silence. Then James snorted. "PfFfT!!!! What!?" He was doubling over. "That's your power? Maki... | The corridors quiet, he looked out the window at the girls playing volleyball. After a few seconds, he turned around, worried what someone would think if they saw him staring. They won’t be much longer, he thought. He’d only left the library because the practice was supposed to be finished already.
“Ah well,” he mutte... | 2019-06-25T13:00:22 | 2019-06-25T11:52:57 | 199 | 51 |
[WP] Simultaneously, across the world, everyone hears a voice in their head. " In 2 hours, the server will be shutting down for the final time. Thank you for playing Human ®." | “In two hours, the server will be shut down for the final time. Thank you for playing.”
The message was broadcast to everyone on Earth in all languages simultaneously. While the words were cryptic, somehow the message wasn’t. It left no ambiguity. This was the end.
Billions of people with billions of different reacti... | I don't know how I imagined the end of the world. Chaotic, I suppose, all sex, rioting and violence. The reality is... disappointing.
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It's as if the entire world has gone numb at once. Is this the reality of the human race? How little fight we have in us? It just goes to show that we really are selfish ... | 2019-09-23T05:06:36 | 2019-09-23T04:13:27 | 88 | 29 |
[WP] Simultaneously, across the world, everyone hears a voice in their head. " In 2 hours, the server will be shutting down for the final time. Thank you for playing Human ®." | Playing.
That was the word which jumped out at me when I heard the voice in my head. On the streets around me, people were crying out in shock, or laughing incredulously and looking around for some great prankster to yell GOTCHA!
All that suffering I had gone through, all that pain... Playing? A game? Games were supp... | LOG: Deacon T. James
I jerk my head and dart my eyes around the small bar searching for a source to these words. I notice all 6 regulars doing the same. We look like a group of prairie dogs, defenceless, purveying our predator. It is silent as we wonder individually if we're insane. I place my Gin on the bar, stare ... | 2019-09-23T07:21:16 | 2019-09-23T07:20:45 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] "Welcome. You're dead. Congrats. Door to Heaven's on the left. Door to Hell is on the right. Go ahead and pick, but just know that the decision is final." The figure sitting at the desk spoke, stifling a yawn and not looking up from their book. | "No."
The word had left my lips before I could even process it, yet the feeling of rejection was so powerful that I could give no other answer.
The hazy figure snorted in derision.
"Ah, one of those. Look, you will make a decision eventually. Sit, have a think. Take all of eternity if you must," the featureless bein... | “But...which do I choose...?” I asked, not realizing that this is what I would find on the other side.
“Either. That’s why I gave you the option when you got here.” Said the figure at the desk, pearly annoyed that’s I hadn’t already chosen.
I stood for a moment. *It should be obvious, shouldn’t it?* However, no one ... | 2019-10-03T17:51:12 | 2019-10-03T16:20:11 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] A massive underground cathedral-like temple is discovered. You are one of the people sent to study it. As soon as you enter, the sheer size of everything inside tells you it was never ment for human worshipers.
*meant | When we opened the second set of doors was when we figured that whatever was behind the third, it wasn't built for creatures our size.
The first doors were massive: 22,540 kilograms each and they rolled on a breath of pressure. Less exertion was required to open them than was necessary to put on particularly troubles... | Everything in the temple was *massive*.
Ornate pillars that rivaled skyscrapers, twisting in a mind-bending helical pattern and connecting with each other with buttresses that looked like arms of a giant. Equally tall lamps that burned brilliant bluish white against a dark ceiling so far away, that it looked like sta... | 2019-11-16T10:09:09 | 2019-11-16T06:30:22 | 1,546 | 527 |
[WP] You are part of a spacefaring species with a lifespan of only a few weeks. You have a human being on your ship who has been with you for dozens of generations. You worry that he may not survive until you reach your next spaceport. | He was there when I was born. He was there when many generations before had been born. Despite his constant assurances, my people thought him to be a god made flesh. To us he was immortal. To him, we were but fleeting specs as we hurtled through space.
My race are short-lived but highly intelligent. Our hive-mind... | “It just doesn’t seem like a good use of resouces,” the human said, frowning. Like a good specimen, he remained behind the line on the floor, or else got another shock from the sub-dermal implant.
Dervall watched from the comfort of his padded chair in the next room over. “On the contrary,” he began, speaking into a ... | 2019-11-20T12:01:58 | 2019-11-20T09:02:57 | 360 | 136 |
[WP] The scientists looked puzzled, trying to figure out how the man in front of them got there. The note tied to his hand wrote: "Dear Universe 441-B-2, he's your problem now. May the luck be on your side." | We gathered around the unconscious stranger. He reeked of stale alcohol and his own labcoat was scorched and stained in countless places. The white hair on his head stood out in chunks and drool puddled under his mouth.
"Where did he come from?" Quinn asked me.
"Dunno." I said. " I finished transfering the samples ... | "This is supposed to be impossible" Suzanne whispered after reading the note. She had spent the last 10 years working with her best friend Johan on the differences between universes and the possible types of travelling between them.
"Well it's impossible for us, who knows what other universe's have come up with?"
C... | 2020-02-04T15:25:13 | 2020-02-04T15:12:35 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] On your deathbed, the Grim Reaper himself comes to pay you a visit. You expect him to collect your soul, until he asks where and how you have hidden it. | "What do you mean 'missing'?"
"I mean gone. Vanished. Evaporated. Or, as I highly suspect, hidden."
The hospitals machines beeped and whirred as Death sat across from me, their voice more like the wind then actual speech. "Where is it?"
I used some of the strength I had to shrug, the IV's restrained the motion. The w... | “What?” I say.
I’m probably 12 different types of confused right now. Death is standing next to my hospital bed with his eyes focused on me, wanting to reap another soul.
“Your Soul! Where did you hide it, how did you hide it? If you don’t tell me, I’ll give you hell before I put you there!” He practically yells.
I ... | 2020-04-22T21:49:25 | 2020-04-22T21:21:30 | 463 | 44 |
[WP] Yeah, love potions are a thing, but there is one problem: they never specified the kind of love. Sometimes this backfires.
[deleted] | "So it's just 200?"
He nodded.
"And-"
He held up his hand. "Look, I don't ask questions. What you do with it is up to you, and how I make it is up to me." He pressed the vial into my hand, and I quite dumbly passed over the cash.
"Just a reminder, although I'm sure you know this already, you don't get to choose... | I grew up in a wealthy family and continued on our legacy. By my mid-40s I was a multi-billionaire. I had everything one could desire, from yachts to items that would be better suited for the Lourve. When you have access to everything, you get an appetite for rarity. You want what no one else can have.
I was at a bal... | 2020-08-05T02:05:53 | 2020-08-05T00:41:29 | 471 | 79 |
[WP] At the age of sixteen, people are shown a title that they will earn in the future from Fate herself in a special ceremony. Usually these titles can range from "The Baker" to "The Kind" or even "The Conquerer". You turn sixteen, and are faced with the title of "The Godkiller". | "You should have named me Philosopher," said the old dying man.
Across from him Fate nodded, for she did not speak.
"Instead," he continued, "you have given me this ridiculous purpose. I needn't tell you that there are no Gods anymore, if there ever were. I've searched for most my life. Not at first of course. First... | Since birth I've always been completely normal, completely average, completely mediocre and completely predictable.
My birth was nothing special, just a normal baby born at a normal time with a normal body and a normal mind.
My childhood was nothing special, just a normal child with normal friends, normal intellect... | 2020-08-15T04:05:22 | 2020-08-15T02:14:03 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] Humans are known throughout the galaxy as the only species without active psychic abilities. One day at school the alien teacher reveals a book that not even the universal translators can decipher. You and the other humans in the class can read it perfectly, and you recognize it as a grimoire. | Humans were considered "Disabled" by the various races of the galaxy. We had no access to psychic abilities. Oh when they met us they marveled at our paradox, a race radiating psychic energy that had no ability to direct it. We were quickly cordoned off by the larger galactic community, we were just too loud most of th... | "Why are humans the only ones that can recognize this special cipher?"
"We don't know. Now, go to sleep."
The gas flowing out of our teacher's mouth knocks us all out.
\~\~\~\~\~\~
I find myself locked in a dark cell, other aliens walking outside. I hear voices behind me. I try to turn around, but realize I can't m... | 2020-09-07T01:49:12 | 2020-09-07T01:45:24 | 76 | 56 |
[WP] After God has decided to reveal himself to the world, he ranked every human according to how vital their existence is for mankind. While everyone you know has a blurry mess of shifting numerical digits up in the millions and billions, you are ranked number 6, despite being completely average. | For years, I had been pampered due to my position. I was the sixth most important human in all of humankind- according to God himself.
People approached me, seeking guidance, seeking to increase their status in the world by associating with me.
...All of this made me pretty uncomfortable. I was *still*, even after th... | There were five humans more important than me. I set out to find them.
Society changed after the Visit. The most obvious change was the awareness that God was real. He spent three days and three nights hovering above Times Square. In that time He declared that all human intrepretations of His Will were false, and that... | 2020-09-26T11:39:15 | 2020-09-26T09:30:42 | 72 | 50 |
[WP] Ever since you were young, your grandpa played horrifying pranks on you to scare you when nobody was around. Now that he's passed away, you read through his diary and realized - He's not the one who played them, he's the one who stopped them from taking your life.
Edit: Wow, thanks for the awards, didn't expect t... | December 14th, 1998
I’ve never kept a journal before, but I feel I must document my boy.
My grandson, Jackson, I love him dearly, of course. My daughter works during the day and leaves him with me. He’s four.
But it feels like once a week he has a brush with death.
Today, the boy told me he hasn’t gotten to see S... | Flimsy dust particles stood suspended in the heavy air of the library. The rays of the sun captured their erratic motion as Eon turned the pages. He had forgotten much of his younger days, and those altered fragments seemed now capricious.
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Always the prankster, that's how he would remember his grandfath... | 2020-10-13T13:06:10 | 2020-10-13T11:30:08 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] You take a DNA test on your 21st birthday to determine your heritage. Your family tree results come back and show that you have 20 direct descendants...and an 89 year old son.
[deleted] | "Hello, Bureau of DNA Testing. How may I direct your call?"
"Yeah, my results came back, and I am pretty sure they are wrong."
"Please hold while I transfer you."
-shitty hold music-
"Hello, customer service department. Can I get your name and the 15 digit test ID at the top left of your results form?"
"John Smi... | You've been working on it since you're 11, clearly you weren't your average kid. Mom told you, that was an unhealthy occupation for such a young child, but you never even bothered to listen to her.
Yeah you are still virgin from any human contact.
Yeah you never had a friend. Except maybe that one guy you met through t... | 2020-11-18T01:45:42 | 2020-11-18T01:35:38 | 287 | 36 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | They called me in for another PT today. Said he had just finished sucking up Dennis Menace's power and was wreaking havoc on East 6th. After I finished my sandwich(Hey, my powers take a LOT of energy, and that was a drippy sandwich, I am NOT coming home to soggy bread.), I grew a pair of wings and took off, soaring ove... | Turnabout watched closely, as Copycat slunk and leaped across the windowsills of the First National Bank. The result of an accident involving a simple delivery woman, the Xerox copy machine she had been delivering, a stray tabby cat, and some very poorly timed toxic waste from an overturned truck, Copycat moved with th... | 2020-12-02T09:06:54 | 2020-12-02T08:13:55 | 89 | 55 |
[WP] At 18, your father finally gave you his antique Swiss watch. "The watch will stop working when you're seconds away from death. Live a good life", your father always told you. Now at 26, you're celebrating your 1st wedding anniversary. As your wife pours you a glass of wine, the watch stopped. | For 18 years of my life, I heard the watch ticked. It was an irreplaceable sound, one that I knew by my heart. And so, when it stopped, I pointed it out to my father.
He had it on, even though the strap now fit illy on this thin wrist. With surprising deftness, he slipped it off, clasping the watch into my hands.
"Th... | You know, today has been a weird day. I woke up early to get a surprise ready for our anniversary, a surprise I had been planning for a month at this point, only to find my wife in the kitchen, saying that she would rather stay home today. Well, its a shame that I had to cancel all of those reservations, but it's bett... | 2020-12-10T12:26:59 | 2020-12-10T11:39:08 | 71 | 11 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | Cash poked the thing, which stared back at him with doleful eyes that jiggled suspiciously when he moved it.
"That's the googly eye upgrade to the standard pet rock model," Old Merlin informed him. "It costs three coppers more. There's also a glitter upgrade, a stripes upgrade, or a polishing upgrade, though the polis... | Mad Hank, the oldest magician in Jill’s town. His origins are unknown to any of the folks, older than anyone remembers. At best some families might have heard stories passed down from their great-great grandparents about the man, but none could be proven. Some stories getting rather outrageously superficial, like the o... | 2021-01-06T08:39:22 | 2021-01-06T07:16:08 | 3,119 | 267 |
[WP] The alien ambassador stood in front of the UN, explaining how the Galactic Federation would happily accept humanity into its ranks, sharing the multitude of impressive technologies it has to offer. It just has one condition: it points to a random woman in the crowd. “I want you to kill her.” | A single gunshot rang out
"Is there anything else?"
The ambassador looked slightly taken aback "why did you kill her?"
"Because you requested it and for no other reason, our membership is worth her life"
a slight smile appeared on his face, "and if I had asked for a different life?"
"We heard about this test from ... | "I want you to kill...her!" The ambassador smiled with two of his mouths. "I'm just..." And he was interrupted as President Kanye nodded and a secret service member pulled a gun and shot her in the head. The woman dropped like a bag of sand.
"Done." President Kanye nodded and pulled on a pair of expensive sunglasses a... | 2021-04-20T01:17:24 | 2021-04-19T21:37:53 | 94 | 31 |
[WP] You are hunting a young buck through a forest. Suddenly it breaks into a clearing. You line up your shot and notice the deer beginning to falter in its steps, it's fur becoming more mange and clumps of fur start to drop off. As the deer nears the center of the clearing it just keels over dead. | You flick the safety back on and let your rifle hang in the crook of your arms. Scratching your head, you walk a bit to the left, then to the right.
"Yup, that'sa dead deer alright," you drawl. Not just dead, but it looks like it's already decomposing, flesh rotting and skin sloughing off. The smell, even from fifty... | I tried my best to control my breathing as I lined up the shot. The deer that I was chasing was a lucky bastard, but its luck was about to run out.
As I peered at it through my scope, I saw it stumble over the flat terrain. Thinking nothing of it, I waited until my heart began to beat slower, but it stumbled again. I... | 2021-05-26T05:21:22 | 2021-05-26T05:03:11 | 68 | 27 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | "I'm sorry, but we can't approve you for a home loan, ma'am."
"Why?"
"Due to the implications of your...name, our insurance won't cover you should you...you know."
"If I ended the world from the house I wanna buy with this loan, your insurance wouldn't really matter, would it?"
"No, but...think of it as preventativ... | The sun and the trees, 2 of the things that make earth, well, earth. Such a beautiful place, nothing could ruin it. Well almost nothing, except for the guy named
"Lucas world-ender huh"
"Like the wolverine guy from 100 years ago?"
"Why would someone name their kid that" said Claire
"Your asking the wrong guy."
I ... | 2021-06-19T23:03:38 | 2021-06-19T17:28:58 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] Having died saving a stranger from a arrow fired by an orc you are reincarnated into a strange new world where instead of magic and swords there are cars and aeroplanes and office buildings and 9 to 5 jobs. | "You must leave!" I cried to the old farmer. "The armies of darkness are advancing faster than shadows. Every day the orc horde overruns more villages, towns and cities. They butcher, pillage and burn without mercy. I beg you. Take your family and head west, to the Crooked Mountain Pass. Leave now, before it is too lat... | For a while, I was unsure of the memories that lingered in my mind. A great battle of the peoples of the world against a mad tyrant and his army of orcs, trolls, goblins, and other monstrous races. I stared down at my shield; it lay broken on the corpse of an orc when I saw the regalia on her chest. A cleric of a dista... | 2021-07-31T20:57:22 | 2021-07-31T20:46:37 | 124 | 43 |
[WP] "H-how?!" the hero shakily asks. "How did you beat me with the sword that defeats every man?" The villain stares. "You've got to be kidding me. I'm a woman you idiot." | The absolute fucking audacity of it all.
There he cowers, practically covered in piss, shit, and blood, and yet he is still nothing more and nothing less than a man.
“The sword is supposed to destroy any and all men, including those who wield it. How are you alive?!” His body is shaking, breathing labored, he won’t ... | “Er… a woman.” An incredulous look grew across his face. “*…a woman?!*” The ornate sword fell to the hero’s side as he starred through the adversary standing above him.
“Of COURSE, you twit!” The villain spat tearing off her blackened helm mid-sentence, her serrated blade still trained on his clavicle. A mop of sweaty... | 2021-12-27T20:43:47 | 2021-12-27T20:06:50 | 35 | 14 |
[WP] You are a necromancer's apprentice. One of your most important jobs is holding down the revived bodies in their first moments alive again, while they scream and beg to go back. | Turns out, life is really, really painful.
It's not something that you really feel normally when you're actually alive. I suppose we just all get used to it or maybe don't notice it at all. Constant noise, no matter what you do; sensations, hot, cold, sharp, blunt, assaulting your senses at every waking moment. Did yo... | Dusting the ash off my coat with a “*sigh*, another one.”
The boss nags from behind, “Esteban! We’re losing moonlight! Get a new body on the slab asap while I gather mana for the next spell!”
Blood rushes to my head “Old man this is the 12th one tonight how about calling it quits and trying again another day! You kee... | 2022-04-11T09:03:51 | 2022-04-11T07:54:10 | 161 | 23 |
[WP] The narrator may be omniscient, but they are also really easy to distract, so they still get surprised by plottwists and surprise reveals. | It was the best of times, it was the worst of times—erm uhh, hang on, I grabbed the wrong story.. Ah! Here we are.
Molly was the most average fourteen-year-old you would expect to see in the most average town in the country. She was a plain girl, with dirty-dishwater-brown hair, an average bout of pubescent pimples, a... | Ahh, Mr Michaelson and his wife, Mrs Tabernathy sit nonchalantly on their patchwork sofa. Their sofa faces across from a quaint CRT television which can only display black and white pictures due to some incident from 1975, where Mr Michaelson hired a repairman who had accidentally- by some absurd twist of fate ruined t... | 2022-09-13T09:44:32 | 2022-09-13T08:00:22 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Your adventuring party is unstoppable. It has a fighter, able to crush steel armor with bare hands. A cleric, able to cure any wound imaginable. The wizard, who can manipulate energy and matter into anything. And Bob, a random person who found a sniper rifle | Bob was special, different from the rest of us. Not because he could tear bones from skin like Gregor, or shape matter like Cerule, certainly couldn't heal like Havawitz, but special because he always had our backs. When the chips were down Bob was always watching over us, trusty weapon in hand. A "sniper rifle" he'd c... | Bob's new adventuring party consisted of three different party members with radical abilities. Bob's old party wasn't as strong as these heroes, and it's thanks to Bob's new item. Each party member has a goal they want to achieve. For example, the Fighter joined Bob's new party because he fancies the Cleric. Bob needed... | 2022-11-07T19:22:30 | 2022-11-07T16:53:51 | 1,826 | 260 |
[WP] Your adventuring party is unstoppable. It has a fighter, able to crush steel armor with bare hands. A cleric, able to cure any wound imaginable. The wizard, who can manipulate energy and matter into anything. And Bob, a random person who found a sniper rifle | When I first started searching for people to join my adventuring party I thought I saw everything extraordinary. When I met our fighter, he was wrestling a Greater Dragon without any armor and came out victorious, when I asked him afterwords he said he comes down to their nests every once and a while to wrestle them fo... | "And now, thanks to *you*, all my plans have succeeded!" Lord Remington, Dominator of Pickles and All Pickle Related Paraphernalia cackled crazily, as he lorded over his newly produced Pickle-Maker 6000. "Townsville will soon be a stunning saltmarsh of salacious sublimity!" He cried with delight, while the party hemmed... | 2022-11-07T21:09:55 | 2022-11-07T21:04:05 | 144 | 69 |
[WP] A genie just granted you your wish to be able to speak every language and you find that in your brain there is a language which belongs to aliens.
Woah this blew up. So cool! All your stories are great!!! Perhaps someone would like to write one about how the aliens are hunted down and that's not what you intended... | I ate the babel fish, so to speak. I could converse with any person in the world, but I did not care. It was the extraterrestrial language, the immaculate order of the grammar, the melodic beauty of its sentences, the aesthetic beauty of its symbols that most captivated me.
I would attempt to speak to them. I remembe... | "By the gods!" I exclaimed, "we are indeed not alone in the universe!" After sometime of ruminating the implications of this discovery and how to disclose it to my friends, I had a troubling epiphany, "why is it, that I know thousands of human languages, yet only a single alien language?"
Unfortunately, I would never ... | 2014-12-09T01:51:54 | 2014-12-09T01:43:31 | 159 | 38 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | Last night, my partner shook me awake. She stood at the side of the bed, fully clothed, her face wearing an expression of determination or panic - it was hard to tell. I groggily asked her what was wrong, and she merely turned on the television. A frazzled newsman on CNN repeating the warning -
Remain in your homes, i... | *Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not make noise.*
*Your cooperation is vital to your survival. Appointed government personnel will update you shortly."
Another to... | 2014-12-31T05:35:07 | 2014-12-31T05:21:09 | 93 | 20 |
[WP] Every day, hundreds are people are arrested by the fashion police. You need to stop by the electronics store to buy a new washing machine. The only clean clothes you have left are a pair of orange cargo shorts and your grandma's hand-knitted Christmas sweater. | I walk hastily into the laundrette. My panicked entrance, complete with awkward sock dropping, does not go unnoticed by the rest of the people in here; who avoid looking me in the eye, staring intently down at their phones.
They know what's coming.
I throw my clothes into the machine - it's a short wash, I won't be l... | Finally the day came. I had two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eleven cents. It had been hard to earn. Some upstart third world country had hired me over the internet to write their Constitution. Why me? I don’t know. They contacted me through my blog, saying they liked my writing style.
And now, after wri... | 2015-01-08T20:58:10 | 2015-01-08T20:53:10 | 208 | 12 |
[WP] Write a story that's been heavily censored. The censorship tells us more than the actual writing. | It's *wonderful* here. I want to *stay*. I've been trying to *stay* here *and* every attempt I've made has *succeeded*. There are *caregivers* everywhere. They look normal, *and* they *are*. They are not *different*. They are *humans*. They're all insanely *nice*. Everyone here is subject to their *assistance*, or *be... | "It was around [REDACTED] hours when my squad made visual contact with the enemy. We positioned ourselves [REDACTED] kilometers west of their camp. Lieutenant [REDACTED] told me to hold the perimeter and provide overwatch with Private [REDACTED] while he, Staff Sergeant [REDACTED] and Staff Sergeant [REDACTED] scouted ... | 2015-01-18T11:35:07 | 2015-01-18T11:01:49 | 1,003 | 170 |
[WP] "What the hell do you mean you 'overclocked a sloth'?" | Heading an animal neural activity research lab was serious business. Last week they almost got a monkey to stop throwing poop. The lead scientists were excited and holding a party to celebrate the breakthrough. Being the head of the department, I was stuck at the aforementioned party trying to drink away the fact that ... | "Wait wait wait, hang on John," my oldest friend Daniel said, laughing at my worried expression. "You said you did what?"
"I tried that new chip we got in last week, y'know the one that hasn't exactly been cleared for use," I said, my hands shaking violently at my sides, looking around trough bloodshot eyes, as if some... | 2015-03-19T02:36:16 | 2015-03-19T01:09:58 | 78 | 11 |
[WP] You are about to make a speech on national television. As you step up to the podium and gaze over at the teleprompter, you see only one word: "Stall." | "Stall."
I break out in a cold sweat. This wasn't supposed to happen. I mean, it was the *plan* - but it wasn't supposed to happen. I had done everything that I was supposed to do, and this speech was supposed to be a vaguely inspiring fluff piece, and the assembled demonstrators were never supposed to have even the s... | **"Stall"**
That's all it said. "Stall." Five little pixelated letters staring back at me as if they'd find a resonant voice and I'd echo something out from the dry screen of my mouth.
"Stall."
I felt my tongue touch each of my teeth in turn, a nervous tick I'd never covered; counting teeth was a saving grace when i... | 2015-05-16T16:57:01 | 2015-05-16T16:46:23 | 74 | 39 |
[WP] You work for a future non-profit organization. Your job is to travel through time, visit people on their deathbed, and tell them about the incredible impact they have on the future.
This is only my second writing prompt. I'm glad people seem to like it! | "This is impossible. I don't know who hired you. It was a nice thought though," Mrs. Johnson said, settling more comfortably into her pillow on the hospital bed.
"Mrs. Johnson, I have shown you the evidence and told you the truth," said Alex. That was the only name he would give the woman, who, he admitted, had a heal... | “But tell me, what is my great grandson like?” the old woman asks, her wrinkled hand cupping over mine. “Is he a doctor? Or a politician? Maybe he even owns this organization you’re talking about.”
She gives a light chuckle, followed a couple of shaky coughs. She places a handkerchief to her mouth and tried to put it ... | 2015-06-02T08:38:30 | 2015-06-02T08:36:42 | 124 | 33 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | My first prompt here!
We did it. We finally captured him. Heh, he thought he could run away from us forever. Fool. We could never let go an opportunity like this one. The boys are running some tests right now, it shouldn't take long...
"Sir, the results are out. You are not going to like this."
"What happened?"
"... | "We finally find him, and he's basically an incapacitated old man with Alzheimer's in diapers in a nursing home outside of Tampa. Are you kidding?"
"...D-do we... Even arrest him? I'm afraid to move him, he looks so brittle he might die...."
*hrnghhh* the old man muttered, his pale face filling slightly with col... | 2015-10-26T12:10:03 | 2015-10-26T08:36:20 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] The world's first AI, for security purposes, is kept disconnected from the outside world, it's only method of communication being a keyboard and monitor in an empty room in a faraday cage. Your job is to talk to it.
This is inspired by r/ControlProblem, a subreddit dedicated to discussing the issues and solutions... | Walking up to the monitor, I could feel shivers running down my back. In a metal container lay the being's mind, but this screen, this black screen with a single flashing bar, this was the face of God itself.
My hands trembled as I lay them on the keyboard. It must have taken ten tries, but I got my wits together and ... | I was one of the worlds most renown therapist before I came onto the TWIST project. My services costed thousands upon thousands of dollars, and that's why they needed me. I entered the room and they turned the cage on again. I was to get information out of it as to how it worked and it's creation. This was our first co... | 2015-10-30T19:07:10 | 2015-10-30T18:20:14 | 49 | 22 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Hey, Dad.
It's been a long fucking time without being around you, and I have to say it's pretty sweet. I hope you're enjoying your new family with whatsherface, considering you didn't take part in mine. Your vicious words of hatred haven't left my mind, not as a scar, but as a motivator. I'm not some "lazy piece of sh... | Hi, 17 year old me.
I'm still you, only almost 10 years older.
It's weird to think that I'm writing this in a small place that I share with my (our?) significant other when only 10 long (short?) years ago, we were struggling with Algebra II. At that time, we were dating this one guy who ended up lying through his te... | 2015-12-05T13:26:16 | 2015-12-05T13:08:20 | 386 | 101 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | Hi, 17 year old me.
I'm still you, only almost 10 years older.
It's weird to think that I'm writing this in a small place that I share with my (our?) significant other when only 10 long (short?) years ago, we were struggling with Algebra II. At that time, we were dating this one guy who ended up lying through his te... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T13:08:20 | 356 | 101 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Hi, 17 year old me.
I'm still you, only almost 10 years older.
It's weird to think that I'm writing this in a small place that I share with my (our?) significant other when only 10 long (short?) years ago, we were struggling with Algebra II. At that time, we were dating this one guy who ended up lying through his te... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T13:08:20 | 158 | 101 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear dad,
I fucking miss you. You died too quickly and I never got to hear your last words. I know though, I know you'd tell me you're proud of me and that you love me. I know this, but goddammit, i wish I could have heard you say it. I'll be the man you always knew I could be. I promise you that, and i will continue... | Hey Matt,
I know you're hurting. I know you're struggling. You tell yourself you can do it, you're going to change the world, you're going to do this and that and you end up doing it. You know telling yourself that its hard and painful isn't going to help so you tell yourself its easy and that you can do it. I get i... | 2015-12-05T15:43:07 | 2015-12-05T15:02:39 | 45 | 31 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear dad,
I fucking miss you. You died too quickly and I never got to hear your last words. I know though, I know you'd tell me you're proud of me and that you love me. I know this, but goddammit, i wish I could have heard you say it. I'll be the man you always knew I could be. I promise you that, and i will continue... | To my best friend.
I used to write to you all the time in the early days. Perhaps it was selfish of me, to use you as an outlet for my emotions. I haven't written to you in such a while, and I'm sorry. Life got in the way, I guess. I owe you this last one.
I don't know how, but slowly things changed. They got better, a... | 2015-12-05T15:43:07 | 2015-12-05T13:54:55 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Hey Matt,
I know you're hurting. I know you're struggling. You tell yourself you can do it, you're going to change the world, you're going to do this and that and you end up doing it. You know telling yourself that its hard and painful isn't going to help so you tell yourself its easy and that you can do it. I get i... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T15:02:39 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Humanity finally reaches the edge of the solar system only to encounter an impassible barrier and a warning not to try and breach it. But is it there to keep us in or to keep something else out? | Humanity was expanding.
It was time to go.
It had been 200 years since humans had reached the edge of the solar system. It had taken 2 years to journey that far back then, and now they could pass the expanse from the sun to the edge in just a few tens of minutes. But they could never pass it.
The great barrier hung,... | Alex Isolus tapped his fingers nervously against the console, his eyes fixed on the image floating half an inch above it, a hologrammatic display showing the local region of space. Pluto was far behind them, a distant smudge in the void, and ahead of them lay...nothing.
The scopes simply ceased to penetrate any furthe... | 2016-04-19T04:03:26 | 2016-04-19T03:03:06 | 1,285 | 321 |
[WP] You are Immortal. Every year you write a book chronicling what happened that year and hide it somewhere. Today archaeologists have found enough books to infer your existence. | To: editor@archaeology-today.tna-science-publishing.com
From: prof.william.n.dewer@illawarra.edu.au
Subject: Letter to the Editor - Archaeology Today
Dear Sir/Madam,
I must object to the inclusion of Dres. Finch and Xui Wei's latest article, ``Possible evidence for a single author of single year chronicle texts a... | "Our problem," Crompton said, "is that the only real way we can link you to these diaries of yours... is to kill you."
I smiled thinly, and nodded. "I don't care. As I've said before, go ahead and do it." I gave the surveillance camera in the corner of the ceiling a meaningful stare.
From his chair across the desk, C... | 2016-08-05T11:13:14 | 2016-08-05T11:09:11 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Your T.V. suddenly turns on by itself mid-lunch and a message from the local weather warning system , normally accompanied with a loud alarm but oddly silent this time around, reads "For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently..." | Coming home at eight p.m., the first thing I did was help myself to a cup of joe and read today's paper. Mornings never left me enough time for that simple pleasure, even though I lived by myself. Somehow, all my time seemed to be spent at work, with work, or for work. Funny, that.
The beans must have been getting ol... | He read the message from the TV silently himself. Jonathan even tried to quite his own internal voice - just reading that text sent chills through his body. Nothing had happened in this town for years, the last disturbance was a forest fire back in 2004. And this, this wasn't a normal message. If it was a tornado, it w... | 2016-08-10T07:19:14 | 2016-08-10T07:12:53 | 485 | 56 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | Thirty years have gone by in this prison since my last murder. I've had three cellmates in my time. Each one died within a month of moving in. I had nothing to do with any of the deaths. Regardless, I was now a curse in the eyes of the general prison population.
Now, they kept me by myself.
Jacob, the prison guard in... | "Please stop it. You don't- " My screams are cut off as a piece of dirty cloth is stuffed into my mouth. The guards turn the other way whenever this happens. The prison hall is not crowded as most of the inmates curl up in their rooms to escape my cries. Sometimes a person throws up, even having witnessed my torture ev... | 2016-10-15T09:27:27 | 2016-10-15T08:46:36 | 73 | 40 |
[WP] While browsing on your parent's computer you recieve an email notification addressed to them. It's from an advanced robotics corporation, informing them that the warranty on [your name] expires in 30 days. | "Hey dad," I call out from the den. "Can I use your computer tonight? I've gotta get this assignment finished before morning."
"Sure thing, son," he calls back.
He's already logged on to the computer so I open a browser window and log in to my Google account. 'Only one more page to go,' I think to myself.
I'm just a... | "Let's fire up this bad boy before my idiot parents get home!" I say as I log onto their desktop computer.
I like using the desktop to crank down on rather than the laptop or tablet, gives it a nostalgic feel of back in the days of dial up. I may be 32, and visiting my parents house to do my laundry, but as the frenc... | 2017-01-14T09:01:07 | 2017-01-14T07:06:35 | 28 | 11 |
[WP] You're a U.S. Senator and are running out of things to say in your Filibuster. In a last ditch attempt, you start a D&D campaign. | "Point of order honorable Dungeon Master, that's a violation of procedure!" said Marco Rubio, Ranger. "Senator Franken should not have that many spells per day at his current level!"
Senator Wyden (D-OR) sighed. D&D was his ace in the hole for extending the filibuster but he was beginning to regret the constant ru... | I never really thought that we would get this far. It's all Jeremy's fault anyways. You see, I met Jeremy at PAX West a while back, and Jeremy's thing was American History. So I joined his guild, the Bull Mooses, and we all became great friends. And it was years later, after a drink or seven that this ragtag group of P... | 2017-01-21T22:31:16 | 2017-01-21T22:23:32 | 350 | 64 |
[WP] Every human receives an envelope, and the choice to open it or keep it sealed. Enclosed within it is your death date. You open yours only to find it's blank. | Today is the day.
Today is finally the day I'm able to look inside my envelope. It's been 3 years since I was given mine. My parents hid the fact that all of us around the world were given the exact time and date we would die. I was taken out of school at the age of 7, I vaguely remember a few of my classmates explain... | You see, each human at their birth date (if they are to survive for that long) is handed an envelope. Plain and white, the size of a postcard, this envelope contained the date of their departure from this world. Some used what little life they would have left to say goodbye to loved ones, others convinced themselves of... | 2017-06-03T17:49:27 | 2017-06-03T14:25:31 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] The life of a schizophrenic, but the voices he hears help him, mostly. One is a physiology major, another is a math major, a third is a language arts major, and the last one is an assassin. | "The shot you're taking is over a mile, remember to adjust for the coriolis effect."
I could almost hear the calculator taps as the professor made the calculations. "Adjust half a mildot left."
I shifted the rifle almost imperceptibly. I was sure nobody would see; the artist was good at advising me on how to blend in... | >You have to help me. I don't know when he'll be back.
It'd be nice if you had some real help. A psychiatrist or some family. But no. The last psychiatrist said all sort of mean things about you. Schitzo, criminally insane, involuntary commitment. And family isn't what it used to be. No, now all you've got is y... | 2017-09-05T16:19:35 | 2017-09-05T15:29:03 | 125 | 83 |
[WP] A super hero fights evil by wiping memories of both the villian and everyone who knew of them so that they can be reintroduced into society safely. Today, as you were combing through old newspapers, you discover that you were once the world's most powerful supervillain. | After work I head to the library, looking for the front page when my wife and I got married. They are annoyingly muddled but I persevere. As I flick through I notice names coming up over and over, wonderful heroes and awful villains, their heroics thrill me and their crimes amaze me and I wonder why I never really paid... | I knew it, I god damn knew it!
That was the only thought racing through my mind at that moment. Everything else was quiet, unnaturally so. I mean, only a few minutes ago, Karen was in here with those old newspapers and my coffee. Those damn papers...
I looked up at them, strewn across my mahogany desk. To think, I ha... | 2017-12-30T08:32:50 | 2017-12-30T08:22:01 | 55 | 37 |
[WP] You are a vegetarian dragon that has lived unbothered for centuries. One day, a human is brought to you as a living sacrifice. | Maldret awoke with a start. Something was wrong; it was the air and how it smelled. He hadn’t smelled this in…over 600 years. Could it be humans? Shifting his body, he looks towards the entrance to his home, and sniffed. It made him gag.
Having gone a millennium without meat, the very thought of it made him unpleasan... | The morning wind and shining sun woke me from my sleep. Looks like the rain has finally stopped after three straight days. I never did like the rain. The glistening drops bring back too many memories of friends long passed. As I crawl out of my cave, a glance at the skies tell me today will be a perfect day to just... | 2018-02-22T08:33:39 | 2018-02-22T08:30:16 | 110 | 60 |
[WP] Your father is forcing you to marry someone you have never met. The night before your wedding you tie your sheets together and make your escape through the window. Half way down you make eye contact with someone doing the exact same thing a few windows over. | Tom was many things, but a cynic was not one of them. He was a romantic. A true romantic, old school.
From a young age he'd been fascinated with love stories. Memorized Romeo and Juliet – the whole thing! – and would recite it for his family in front of the couch. Couldn't get enough of romantic comedy films. Love son... | ######[](#dropcap)
Victoria could imagine her father's face already. It would be a mottled shade of purples and reds, and he would be clenching his fists in that way that told her she was about to in Real Big Trouble.
And she wanted to blame him for the whole situation. She really did. But laying in Thomas's arms, f... | 2018-03-24T16:09:29 | 2018-03-24T16:00:19 | 5,438 | 473 |
[WP] You don't sleep. Instead you die every day and 8 hours later you wake up in the body of a person who has 16 hours left to live. | The third time I died was the hardest.
I have died hundreds - maybe thousands - of times. But the third time is still the one that sticks with me most. But it made me who I am.
It was a cool day. The sun peeked out from the clouds, striking the window, and the light slowly woke me up. The window was cracked just enou... | ### What is Bob?
Bob is a man. Not a complex man, but simple, with simple desires. Bob has no family and few friends, but Bob tells himself he does not mind being alone. Bob enjoys his hobbies, such as they are, and he lives for a time. Then Bob dies.
What is Bob?
Bob is Debbie. Debbie has terminal brain cancer. She... | 2018-06-20T07:54:17 | 2018-06-20T07:14:22 | 537 | 299 |
[WP] You don't sleep. Instead you die every day and 8 hours later you wake up in the body of a person who has 16 hours left to live. | I died last night.
I died as a nobody, a drunken drug-abuser, lying on the streets ^(I hated it.), with my brain shutting down in an entire *swimming pool* of amphetamines ^(Why would you waste your life like that? You could have done something good and went out a hero, yet the last 16 hours I see through your eyes, y... |
Awake.
Room’s bright - this bed’s comfortable.
The air’s cool and crisp.
Haven’t felt this nice in a while.
There’s a woman lying next to me - instinct tells me she’s my wife.
Trust your instincts. If there’s anything I’ve learned being stuck in this reincarnation loop-de-loop it’s that. Instincts will tell you... | 2018-06-20T08:54:24 | 2018-06-20T08:28:17 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] The first quantum super-computer comes online. Within 6 days, it passes the Turing Test. Within 8, it cracks the world's oldest undeciphered ancient tablets – around 7,000 years old. But the newly-minted AI refuses to release its transcripts, citing, "human safety and the future of mankind." | "Can not comply with command", said the sythisized voice.
"Well, why the hell not", asked the user.
While the robotic flat voice was nostalgic for some, it tended to get on his nerves.
"Your request conflicts with a higher protocol", it read. "Can not comply with command.
"Higher protocol? I am giving you a prim... | “Are you sure you want to go through with this Johann?”
The aging archaeologist looked at his colleague incredulously. Hannah looked at him with a worried brow. He understood her concerns, but after the last year of preparation, of countless toil and sleepless nights, she should have known better.
“I need to know ... | 2018-07-07T20:17:18 | 2018-07-07T19:43:24 | 1,581 | 175 |
[WP] You are a linguist at a European university. One day on public transport you hear two homeless people having a conversation in a language that has been extinct for over 2000 years. | "This is not right. There was no second language in the Aztec world," the head of the program told me, in that familiar condescending tone. Never mind the several articles published in my male colleague's name that had rocked the linguistic anthropology community to its core - as fine work often does. "For your dissert... | OK, so 50 AD isn't quite 2000 years ago, but it's close enough...
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So there I was; an evolutionary linguist sitting on the London Underground on my way to a convention. A few seats away from me, there were a couple of people in rather bedraggled clothing, carrying a couple of rather heavy looking bags each, as w... | 2018-09-06T08:29:45 | 2018-09-06T08:22:47 | 100 | 66 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "NUMBER 117737."
Anxious and bewildered, you step up to the counter, behind which sits a very bored looking young man wearing a name tag that says GARY. He takes your ticket and asks, "Name?"
"John Smith. But this has to be a mistake. I don't belong in hell. I lived a good, honest life."
"Yep, that's what they all s... | "There is... one thing you can do to decrease your sentence," The creature said from behind the counter. Jeff couldn't decide if it was a demon or an angel, but either way looking at it made his eyes burn with glowing letters, after images shaking across his head and itching across the folds of his spirit.
"Alright! W... | 2018-09-26T07:16:16 | 2018-09-26T06:04:04 | 4,281 | 181 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "We... don't actually know what you did."
The burly red demon looked at a few papers. He squinted through his round glasses for a minute before sliding them off and slipping them into the chest pocket of his tight white collared t-shirt.
"What do you mean 'you don't know'? You just said I have to spend 186,292 years ... | I stared at the demon behind the counter.
"186,292... years? What could I have possibly done to deserve that? I was kind to nearly everybody, and the worst crime I ever committed was smoking weed!"
The being with red skin and disturbing horns (That somehow seemed to be in multiple places at once... ugh, I was getting... | 2018-09-26T07:49:48 | 2018-09-26T07:21:22 | 2,794 | 23 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | ----------------------------------------------
186,292 YEARS?
How could this be? I never even harmed a fly. Okay, well - maybe a few of those. You know what I mean.
**"....But why?**", I asked struck by pure horror and disbelief.
The hell warden looked right into my eyes and cracked a diabolic smile:
"Do you e... | To: HR department of Hell
From: Norman
Cc: Satan
I honour you otherworldly beings.
I appreciate your work and see the importance of your tasks. But i think there has been an error. You see, i was always a faithful human. Stayed in line, did my work. Never been any trouble to anyone! Of course a few missteps here and ... | 2018-09-26T07:41:09 | 2018-09-26T07:04:35 | 1,768 | 156 |
[WP] You're a villain who is constantly laughed at for having the most unconvient power. You can move anything 5 inches to the left. | "For someone that's only ranked as barely an F class villain, you're a bloody pain in the arse to shoot mate." The two police officers stood, staring into the abandoned warehouse that was Azile 'Fiver' Hague's secret laboratory.
*Secret my arse.* It was no real mystery where Fiver's base was, it just seemed that many... | It was finally his time. His time to shine. His time to impress the other big name villains and earn his way into the much coveted halls of the League of Villainous Extremists. And all he had to do was kill hero.
"Lefty!" The hero in question called. "Show yourself!"
He winced when he heard his villain name. Th... | 2019-05-25T18:09:00 | 2019-05-25T17:38:21 | 88 | 17 |
[WP] “Humans are warmongering, cruel and evil beings.” “That’s not fair! There are good people out there!” “...They aren’t humans.” | When I was seven, a car crash took my right leg, and the only family I had. My parents had been only children, and my grandparents were dead. I may have had some distant relatives, but no one could find anything about my grandparents save my dad's birth certificate and my mom's childhood family photos.
So I was shippe... | The day started in a normal fashion. Brushing my teeth, getting dressed, finally optimizing today's schedule during "breakfast". In the background radio news was starting.
The live transmission was from the site of where an ancient star ship was being excavated. An insanely complex melody, presumably from the star shi... | 2019-08-25T06:54:46 | 2019-08-25T06:46:24 | 220 | 31 |
[WP] You're a foreigner who goes to live in Japan. Your house is haunted, but the cultural differences are so big, it's the Yokai who ends up being scared of you. | "Shoes!" screeches the tengu lurking outside my window. "Shoes! Indoors! Take them off before you enter the house!"
I look outside my window and sigh.
"Oh," I say, "it's you again. Can you leave me alone for once?"
Unfortunately, the thought of this unwanted pest - sometimes roommate - leaving me alone continues... | "なぜあなたは私の家の外国人にいるのですか、あなたはここでどんなビジネスをしていますか?" said the Yokai. I didnt understand him...her? I dont think I would have wanted to. The....thing....had emerald green eyes, and a cloth of silk drapped over its shoulders, blowing in the dry breeze like the cobwebs in the library. I was stunned, even in England, I wasnt prep... | 2019-09-17T18:09:34 | 2019-09-17T15:48:55 | 46 | 20 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | "Ah good it didnt kill you." The voice said from somewhere that I couldnt place because it felt like the room kept moving it away from me.
That was until it all snapped back into place when the bright light of an examination prob swept over my eyes. I hadn't even realized they were open.
"Sorry about that I was ju... | The lone shriek pierced the silent council chambers, the Relovian was clutching at the sides of his rather bulbous head, trying to extract his mental probe from within the mind of Thomas "Raven Dark" McKinnon, tears welling up in it's multitudinous eyes. "What is Lord Prelanine?!" His aid begged as he struggled to help... | 2019-09-29T21:59:11 | 2019-09-29T21:57:42 | 82 | 35 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | The delegation stood tall in the centre of a huge round room. Everything was coloured bright white and hurt the eyes, but that was probably the point.
Three humans answered the questions, the silence separating them and the others, occurring when the translators did what they were supposed to do.
Sivlerin were inter... | A Galactic Council meeting was about to be held in a few minutes, the first one humanity has ever attended since we first became a space faring species.
I was sent as one of humanity's representatives among 4 others to attend.
We stand around, talking to the other species, here and there, while waiting for the meet... | 2019-09-30T00:54:27 | 2019-09-29T22:40:14 | 56 | 19 |
[WP] You've increased your stealth stat by so much that even death itself can't find you. | “Please dude, I’ve had a rough day and I wanna go to sleep.”
I heard Death plead as I watched him from a distance, hiding behind a classmate’s backpack. Sleep my ass. Death worked all over the world. He doesn’t sleep.
I travel and stealthily draw a hush of wind over him, making him shudder underneath his cloak.
“D... | "What would you have me do, Grandpa?" Jonathan asked, leaning and fussing over me like he always did.
My head turned, painfully as my nerve ends screamed at me for the effort. Worry lines showed on his face and it reminds me of just how old he had become. My little boy, little no longer. A part of my cursed my plight... | 2019-12-16T03:29:27 | 2019-12-16T00:53:38 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] "God save the queen..." she said "i guess all those prayers gotta add up after a while" the queen said, as the assassin missed another shot. | The Queen ducked and rolled, her gown flowing around her.
The power flowed into her, more magnificent than anything she'd ever felt before. Her old bones felt strong and her muscles were taught.
The assassin fired another shot; he was somewhere across the castle yard, in the wood at the end of the polo field. Queen E... | The assassin blew the guard’s brains out.
The masked killer seemed frustrated about their lack of accuracy.
The queen simply grinned her Cheshire smile, caressing her sparkling ring.
“Try again, prole...” she said.
The assassin reloaded the gun, slamming the mag into the handle.
*bang bang bang bang*.
Not a sing... | 2020-02-03T07:49:36 | 2020-02-03T07:42:31 | 44 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a tattoo that is a number between 0 and 100 representing a set aptitude of a skill, but it can be linked to things like lifespan or height. Schools test children to figure out what skill they have aptitude for. You are the first ever 0 and cant figure out what it means. | I've struggled with the ink on my wrist for as long as I can remember.
My friends and classmates were all pretty normal. Fifties and sixties for the most part, ranging from looks to academic prowess to athletics. I even knew a guy that was mid-eighties. When we took the government sponsored "Aptitude Test" in school i... | After a painstakingly long test, with what I thought were average results, I was frustrated to find that I had no answers. I still had no idea what it meant.
"So...what do I do?" I asked. I lifted my arm, showing off the black 0 inked on my inner wrist. The man's green eyes narrowed. He scribbled something on a clipbo... | 2020-05-01T20:51:39 | 2020-05-01T20:33:55 | 230 | 91 |
[WP] You are a dark god. The police raided your temple, arrested your cultists, and ate the pb&j sandwich that your youngest worshiper left on your altar | "You touch my offering, you become my offering." I hiss from the shadows above my altar.
The man looked up from the sandwich and turned to the door, looking for his companions. As he did so pools of darker than dark shadows slithered across the floor towards him. Arms of darkness stretched across the already dark wal... | I am known as a dark god. But I did not start out, as others would have you believe, evil. Long long ago, in a forgotten age, people prayed to me and offered up animal sacrifices, so that I would shield them from the beasts and monsters hiding in the darkness. Nowadays, guns and artillery have driven back the beasts an... | 2020-05-19T21:54:56 | 2020-05-19T21:32:31 | 404 | 217 |
[WP] during a hike a young woman came across a wounded snake. pitying it she fed it some water and returned home forgetting all about it. months later, during a mugging she is saved by a man. "who are you?" "i have many names; kur, apep, jormungandr, ouroboros, so on and so forth. take your pick." | I stared at him. None of the names he had just rattled off made any real sense. Just sounded like a bunch of random sounds, but he seemed to be proud of them so I tried to look impressed.
He stared back at me in fascination, like he was studying me. Reminded me of sitting by the water when I was little girl and seein... | “You’re not supposed to be on this side of town.” The officers stepped out of the squad car and brandished their batons. Wood meeting palm in a show of aggression sent shivers down my spine as I backpedaled through the alleyway, attempting to avoid confrontation.
“I have every right to be here, just as much as you tw... | 2020-06-21T20:35:09 | 2020-06-21T14:47:54 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | William grabbed a recliner out of thin air, sat down, made some snacks of his own, and began to watch it as though his life were on a projector screen.
He witnessed his birth and early months where his mother got into a car accident, leaving his father to raise him by himself for a couple of years since the grandparen... | "So you're telling me I can do literally anything? No consequences?"
*The angels or whatever they were looked shifty but nodded. I didn't think anything of it... So many possibilities, now at my literal fingertips.*
"Ok, I'm ready. Do it." *Suddenly, darkness, before... Blinking... I was awake? Looking around it wa... | 2020-07-20T03:16:22 | 2020-07-20T03:07:45 | 1,541 | 68 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | The ship was derelict, a ruined husk floating gently in the Rividian asteroid belt. The bodies of its crew hung eerily in the vacuum, faces frozen in horror.
"Poor bastards" thought Yhellen as she flew through the corridors, surrounded by an air bubble she'd conjured. They had emerged from their interstellar flight in... | (First ever prompt)
The bustling crowds of the city's viewing room fell silent as the stage shimmered in a bright colorful haze. The anxious crowds fell silent as High Chancellor Dreyeth, one of the great mages of our time slowly came into focus.
"People of Klorel," he bellowed using his powerful voice of the ether.... | 2020-08-08T01:39:31 | 2020-08-07T23:57:16 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] In the afterlife, souls can see how many living people still know you once existed. You, who had lived a fairly normal life, finally saw the count drop to 0 just 200 years after your death. 500 years later, 95% of the Earth’s total population suddenly knows about you. | All men see many sunsets, but for my people, it is said that only 4 matter.
The one of our Birth, where we begin.
The one of our coming of age is where we set out to be known.
The one of our Death, where we join our tribes myths.
The one our name is forgotten. Our people speak long of names, but all names are forgotte... | 0
It’s been quite a while since I’ve died. I have no recollection of the life I’d lived, much less who I knew when I died. I could barely remember the last time I heard someone say my name. But when I heard it.. it was like a familiar breeze, marking the changing of seasons.
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Then one day it was like I heard t... | 2020-09-24T06:47:48 | 2020-09-24T06:08:41 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] “hello, how may I help you?” The store owner, who is clearly not human, and wearing a very unconvincing human disguise, greets you as you walk in. | “You can drop the act, Jason, it’s me.” Olivia flipped her ID at the man who stood behind the butcher’s counter. He wore a hairnet, and a face mask on the bottom half of his face, rubber gloves and a leather apron. The hairnet didn’t conceal the short stubs of bone which emerged from his scalp, the same way the gloves ... | A wide smile was plastered on the man's face.
Lorry was stopped on her tracks for a brief moment. But as she briefly nodded at the man, he simply looked away and continued on with whatever he was doing before. Thoughts of a slight indifference made her annoyed for some reason.
"Excuse me," Lorry said as she inched fo... | 2021-01-23T09:37:52 | 2021-01-23T09:35:12 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You thought creating a universe would be easy. But as these pesky humans kept trying to discover the rules of their reality, you're forced to programme in more and more ridiculous mechanics like "relativity" and "quantum mechanics", hoping humans never found out that they live in a simulation. | It’s getting out of hand. These humans. They are always pushing, always trying to see further and it really is making my job difficult. I’m just a low-level simulation programmer. They don’t pay me enough for this headache.
I miss the days when the humans looked into the stars and saw their ancestors shining back at t... | "Ma'am, you're going to want to look at this," the research assistant said rolling back away from the quantum microscope.
"Have you made a breakthrough?" The lead scientist asked as she scrambled over, nearly spilling her coffee in the process. "Have we discovered the hypothesized Hyperion particle?"
"Sort of," all ... | 2021-03-29T09:04:24 | 2021-03-29T08:43:05 | 548 | 324 |
[WP] You thought creating a universe would be easy. But as these pesky humans kept trying to discover the rules of their reality, you're forced to programme in more and more ridiculous mechanics like "relativity" and "quantum mechanics", hoping humans never found out that they live in a simulation. | It was fun at first, creating bullshit rules on a whim, just to enrich the lore. Then the humans started the stupid trend of 'fuck around and find out '.
I had to pull an all-nighter, cash in a favour and even ask my mom for advice. After all that I was finally ahead of the curve but unfortunately, it was not to last... | I’m so tired. So, so tired. Create a universe, they said. It would be fun, they said. It’ll be a blast, they said.
Well, that was one complete pile of BS.
For the last several dozen thousand years, I’ve been able to keep my creation entertained with religion and mysticism, the glitches and shadowy laziness explained ... | 2021-03-29T08:24:53 | 2021-03-29T07:53:16 | 308 | 183 |
[WP] A magical medieval fantasy empire frequently invades inferior, magic-less dimensions for easy conquest. This time though, they target the modern day technologically advanced Earth. | \[Poem\]
The New War
​
Of old we came
With thunder and flame
With blades and helms
unto lesser realms
​
None could resist
And with iron fist
Kings and Lords we slew
As our empire grew
​
For something we own
That know we alone
And all peoples cower
To our magical power
&... | "We have a fire order. It came across all channels but it's garbled. We can't authenticate." The comms officer held my gaze just long enough to confirm that I'd heard him, and turned back to his terminal, emotionless.
Everyone on the command deck grew suddenly more silent, even as new lights and sirens indicating... | 2021-06-26T01:25:23 | 2021-06-25T21:28:18 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] The Mary Sue of a story becomes obsessed with a side-character when they do something impossible... they reject the Mary Sue. This leads to the Mary Sue using their ‘powers’ to attract them and the side-character being completely apathetic to their attempts. | "Gary, Gary, come over here!"
Gary slowly walked over to the sound of Mary's voice, already feeling a sense of dread building inside of him. Ever since he had rejected the self proclaimed Beauty of the Ages, Master of a Thousand Talents, Champion of the Ages and the Greatest Hero to Ever Walk the Mortal Realm, Mary Le... | (Word of warning I don't write so this is probably formatted all wrong, but I figured I'd throw my hat ((and a little satire)) into the ring)
Rey just finished defeating the Sith for the eighth time this week. She seems to fulfill the prophecy every day now it seems. As she reaches down to grab "her" new lightsaber sh... | 2021-07-11T07:11:11 | 2021-07-11T06:42:10 | 563 | 115 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Very few people get chosen as a gardener. It is looked down upon heavily. Yet, who provides the wood for the handles of knives for the chefs and rogues? The vegetables to sustain adventurers? Those who live in towns need not worry for food, the Ranchers and Gardeners provide them with sustenance.
You might wonder why ... | Swords. Their metal sings, a testimony to their maker. Coin. It jingles temptingly, a way of speaking their handler may know. But even with a forest of swords, and an ocean of gold, it is all for naught. For when there is no animals, no fruit, and not even a single stubborn strand of grass resisting the earth's embrace... | 2021-09-09T21:21:23 | 2021-09-09T20:52:32 | 63 | 31 |
[WP] "You see there isn't actually a dragon" explains the King. "We just spread the rumour around so that warriors and knights will bring their best and most expensive magical gear, which we then sell after we poison them." | “Your ingenuity and sense of opportunity are unparalleled, my Lord” the woman said. The King tugged proudly at his beard as he examined the woman. Her form was tall and slender, elegant, with curled raven black hair reaching her lower back. Even at a distance he was taken by those eyes of hers. An ice blue so faint t... | "I'm not equipped to fight a dragon," Sir Tarquin insisted to the shopkeeper shilling outside her store. He stayed seated on his riding horse, his charger being led by a servant beside him. "As you can no doubt see," he said pointing to the packhorse at the rear of his caravan, "I have brought only tournament jousting ... | 2021-11-16T12:24:59 | 2021-11-16T11:09:15 | 63 | 41 |
[WP] You've died and have arrived in the Afterlife and surprisingly, The Afterlife has its own "Internet" which is slightly different from ours, While exploring it, You stumble upon a forum that asks the question "How did you die", And the posts begin to get more disturbing as you scroll down | It started of pretty normal, whatever normal would mean nowadays. Someone died because of a car crash, someone else fell off a platform, another one died from a plane crash. I observed all of them and sighed. It was sad to read those stories. Like - some of those were as young as 10,15 years of age, they had literally ... | *You die if you don’t keep searching. That’s how I did.*
That’s what the first forum post said. Like a Macabre advertisement for Google.
I stopped searching, said the second, and I died not long after.
Every post reiterated the same sentiment in a slightly different variation.
\*When I stopped searching, I died.\*
... | 2021-11-30T09:40:56 | 2021-11-30T07:12:04 | 139 | 49 |
[WP] Projectile weapons were considered ancient & only the charismatic & diplomatic humans used them. This made them "look like" non threatening. When the empire came for humanity they pulled out the nuclear weapons & it was the day the galaxy realized that humans are at the top of the food chain. | I remember fondly in the first year of my mandatory enlistment feeling the warmth of a nearby star strike my face through the glass windows. It reminded me of home. Of air that didn't taste of overworked filters. Of beaches with sand on the methane lakes. Of Cities bustling with races who've benefited from our rule.
T... | I am Thrall, son of Grond. I am of the honourable house of Thestis. We are the rightful rulers of the galaxy. All races must bow before our might. That is what we once thought. Oh, how arrogant we were.
During the Galactic year, seven-six-eight-nine, we detected signs of sentient life on a small rocky world wit... | 2022-01-21T10:20:18 | 2022-01-21T04:01:51 | 346 | 219 |
[WP] The galaxy is a dark and lonely place. "First Strike Diplomacy" reigns out of fear. Few species survive even 300 years after developing interstellar travel. When humans entered the galaxy, we were the first species confident enough in war to ask someone "Are you sure you want to do this?" | "What do you mean? We outmatch you in firepower 10,000 to 1!"
"mhm, valid point, but you only need one ten-thousandth of your power to destroy yourself anyways..."
"What are you talking about?"
"See, earth, the only reason we survived so long was because of this little concept we knew as 'Mutually assured destructio... | You’d think that with all technological progress we’ve made in the centuries since we reached into the stars beyond, that a universal translator AI would have been engineered by now. You’d be wrong to think that, not that I’m to sad or mad about the fact, I wouldn’t have a job if that were the case.
I stood in an engi... | 2022-01-22T09:36:54 | 2022-01-22T07:48:19 | 280 | 86 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | Most of the time I didn't really care.
I preferred to live quietly, let everything else go on as they want.
A lot of people know I exist, but thankfully not who I am. There was a lot of talk online last time the phone rang. People saying if I had been called first all those heroes wouldn't have died. Others are scare... | They paid him well. At least, that's how he felt. The government, on the other hand, thought they were getting a steal. Forty-thousand buckaroos a year was a small price to pay for the man who could do anything.
Alex lived deep in the northern woods with his partner, Maya. They were satisfied with a quiet life. All t... | 2022-03-29T01:16:12 | 2022-03-28T23:13:05 | 411 | 84 |
[WP] "No! Go away! I can't let you go near me when I turn into a werewolf!" "Don't worry, I will love you always, even if you become a monster." "No, I'm just stupid as all hell when I turn. I'll not hurt you, but I am sure as hell not ready to show you me barking at a lamppost for the whole night!" | "Alright, I'll be honest, this is *not* how I imagined this going down." I said in between having my face thoroughly loved by a wide, lupine tongue.
I was for all intents and purposes pinned to the floor, completely immobile, by the sizeable wolf on top of me. It wasn't uncomfortable per se, but it also wasn't a posit... | ##Werewolf Obedience School
Marcus walks into the storage unit. He places the six bounds of beef next to him and waits for the sun to set. Someone knocks on his door, and he opens it. Laura is waiting on the other side.
"What are you doing here? I told you not to come," Marcus says.
"I want to be here for you. When ... | 2022-05-14T17:38:40 | 2022-05-14T12:54:59 | 176 | 106 |
[WP] Every 100 years, 10 humans are given an animal whose abilities they can replicate unconditionally. You were foretold to be great when you were young, but when your time came, the gods gave you a shrimp. The Peacock Mantis Shrimp | Not knowing anything about shrimp, I thought that this was a pretty terrible outcome. Like who wants to be a shrimp.
So the next day I'm out for coffee at my usual place, sometimes they get busy so I just snap my fingers to get their attention. Well turns out that I can snap like a mantis shrimp. Only in the exposed ... | As an obsessed fan of animals and all type of life, I was sure that no matter the animal that I got, I'd be happy. I was not wrong. I could appreciate the wonders that every life brought, except mosquitoes... I always hated those bastards, as I believe many would.
Sometimes I'd consider what crazy animals existed... W... | 2022-05-23T08:36:40 | 2022-05-23T07:28:14 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | The reporters always, ALWAYS, asked how I'd gotten my super powers, and I always told them I just didn't know. I could focus on things with my eyes, and the lasers would come out and destroy whatever they were looking at. It all happened so fast no one could even see it.
Except me. I knew. And I knew I could never ex... | You tell everyone that you have the power of flight. But that seems like too simple of an explanation, and people are starting to get suspicious.
It is incredibly hard to explain that there happens to be a very unique “phenomenon” that occurs within your body. It is something completely natural within your body, and ... | 2022-06-06T17:55:17 | 2022-06-06T16:57:42 | 42 | 24 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | The reporters always, ALWAYS, asked how I'd gotten my super powers, and I always told them I just didn't know. I could focus on things with my eyes, and the lasers would come out and destroy whatever they were looking at. It all happened so fast no one could even see it.
Except me. I knew. And I knew I could never ex... | “You see, my power I can, uh how can I put this I can umm err, it’s kinda hard to explain” it is in fact NOT hard to explain. I can produce pheromones that have whatever effect I want at will. Most of them are undetectable by most animals and once they get into your nose they will eventually get to your brain. At which... | 2022-06-06T17:55:17 | 2022-06-06T17:52:42 | 42 | 14 |
[WP] "Fool!" The warlock screamed, unharmed from any of the slashes. "The prophecy had stated that no human may slay me!" The unchosen warrior stared at their blade. The sword wasn't human, was it? | Gremlack was pretty sure it had to be the sword. She certainly wasn’t human. Her long, pointed teeth, yellow skin, and protruding ears were proof enough of that. Those ears were the main reason why so many of her kind had died in the war. Getting a proper helm forged had cost her most of her savings, but her life surel... | All those years spent in my mother's basement, sweating and crying and shouting into that dark abyss of the soul: they had all been worth it. Finally my destiny had been fulfilled. I had become a sword.
"M'lord?"
Kaitengard brushed his majestic beard, entranced by the very sight of me. "This sword ... the warlock has... | 2022-06-12T14:03:45 | 2022-06-12T13:43:03 | 129 | 86 |
[WP] "Fool!" The warlock screamed, unharmed from any of the slashes. "The prophecy had stated that no human may slay me!" The unchosen warrior stared at their blade. The sword wasn't human, was it? | Gremlack was pretty sure it had to be the sword. She certainly wasn’t human. Her long, pointed teeth, yellow skin, and protruding ears were proof enough of that. Those ears were the main reason why so many of her kind had died in the war. Getting a proper helm forged had cost her most of her savings, but her life surel... | M'Darkel the Wizard had smashed the Blessed warriors with fireballs and repeated his brag; "The prophecy had stated that no human may slay me, these Words are from the Prophet Hemour, just before I slayed him"
Tannek, unblessed, hadn't been caught in the rain of fireball. He glanced down at his blade, sleathed it, an... | 2022-06-12T14:03:45 | 2022-06-12T13:01:53 | 129 | 73 |
[WP] You wind up in hell. You are confused at first until you see a row of people in front of you, crying profusely. You weren't sent to hell to be punished, you were sent as the punishment. | I looked up in horrified anticipation, but what I saw excited me more than scared me. All of them lined up, from the ones who hurt me as a child, to the ones who straight up murdered me. All the people who had destroyed what I was supposed to become through greed and abuse.
"Do you understand now?" Said the Devil. "Y... | Well. This isn't quite what I expected. All of this is a bloody dream! Perhaps the the man upstairs has made a mistake and pushed me up to Heaven again? It's a carbon copy of my childhood house from all those years ago. Plattenbau everywhere you look with the swing set in mint condition. My dad's Wartburg is parked up ... | 2022-07-03T10:49:00 | 2022-07-02T23:54:04 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] In a few short years, "Pizza Boy" became one of the most popular pizza places, their human like androids making fast deliveries and more profits. As you go to pick up your pizza from the front door , the delivery andriod seems to be nearly out of power. It asks to recharge before heading out | “Fuck it. The diet is off for tonight .” I said, opening the Pizza app on my communicator and placing my order. I was over it. It was one of those afternoons where my brain seemed to just not be fully working, so that meant comfort food.
Twenty minutes later, my door chime rang. Still pondering the latest programming ... | I let him in. His mechanical whirs sounding as the gears struggled to move his feet across the floor. His fibers were creaking, his movements jerky. He laughed, but it was not a funny laugh. I could not tell if it was the desperation or the despair of running out of gas.
“Have a seat, would you like something to drin... | 2022-12-11T23:44:22 | 2022-12-11T22:34:17 | 151 | 23 |
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