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[WP] Instead of an angel and a demon sitting on your shoulders, one side sits a brash New Yorker and the other a posh British gentleman. Neither are necessarily good or evil, they just make passing comments on your day to day activities. | "Jolly good show, my good man," he said, sitting on the right of my shoulder and inhaling deeply from his pipe. "Positively smashing."
I'd been watching Stranger Things for the last couple hours, trying to block them out.
"What kinda trash is this?" the man on the left of my shoulder chimed, pacing up and down the l... | *Warning: swearing.*
Mark took a deep breath, then pushed open the door to the bar. He ordered a Greyhound on the rocks and took a moment to survey the room. It was getting crowded, but not yet to that "rub up against multiple strangers just to cross the room" point.
Embers of hope began to glow inside Mark. Maybe th... | 2022-04-29T19:22:54 | 2018-07-02T14:46:18 | 4,745 | 309 |
[WP] A little girl suspects that there's something not quite right about herself. Her parents enthusiastically tell her she's normal. But her brother whispers, "It really isn't normal to have to be plugged into a wall charger at night." | I didn't understand. I didn't understand why I felt so... *off*, when I looked in the mirror. And there was all the other differences, how I felt weak throughout the day, unless I took my *medicine*, which I hated. (Huge, chewy bars that smelled *funny*, and bottles of cold liquid completely unlike what everyone else a... | "Mom, why do I fall asleep at random times, and nobody else does?"
A little girl was questioning her parents at dinner.
"It's because you're special, darling"
That was a lie.
It was at that point that her brother chimed in.
"Special is a funny word for it."
"Charles Stevonson, shut your mouth!"
It had been s... | 2015-09-18T16:01:13 | 2015-09-18T15:40:53 | 112 | 15 |
[WP] When teenagers turn 17, they are sent a slip of paper with their future occupation written on it. Yours says, "Princeps de Nova Roma" or "First Citizen of New Rome."
*Princeps* or *princeps civitatis* was the title that Augustus and all later emperors called themselves. "First citizen" meant the foremost citizen ... | 476 CE -- Sebastopolis, Colchis
Pausanias started. He was not expecting any visitors this early in the day. He rose and walked over to the door, curious as to who was banging on his door so loudly at such an unreasonable hour. He grasped the cold brass handle and swung the door open, revealing a strangely uniformed el... | I have the bad habit of cracking my joints when I am nervous—not just my knuckles, but my neck, back, ankles, and anything that goes pop when you force it hard enough. Today I sounded like kettle corn over a fire.
My family stood just in front of the ancient wooden door; my preconceived thoughts of grandeur and cere... | 2015-05-03T10:01:59 | 2015-05-03T08:46:03 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] "Usually when we first contact a civilization, it is very easy to get them under our banner..." The Empress sighed. "...Not the humans though." | "Humanity, they simply cannot cooperate." the Empress spat at her adviser as he finished explaining the last assault on the arms depot.
"It's just they have a fascination with destruction madam." Stated the lead ambassador.
"We only had one condition for their integration." The empress stated blankly. "...every other... | Humanity's fascination with the atom began--unknowingly--with the advent of forging. Turning two metals into one, stronger, metal with the liberal application of heat tended to be a pastime of many human civilizations and empires whenever their neighbors started staring at them a little too long for their liking. Fro... | 2017-11-06T01:04:44 | 2017-11-05T19:47:06 | 26 | 15 |
[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... | I am writing this with tears in my eyes and 15 years of wishing i did this sooner.
Dear Dude who molested me when I was a child,
You ruined my life. It has been a long time since you molested me and those 3 other kids, and I hope you are rotting in that cell.
Ever since what you have done, I have battled severe... | 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... | 2015-12-05T15:55:07 | 2015-12-05T13:54:55 | 61 | 24 |
[WP] An angel is dispatched from Heaven at the same time as a demon from Hell to claim the last eligible soul on Earth after the Apocalypse. Outside this survivor's shelter, they meet and realize they recognize one another. | Apart from the dust blowing through the air, nothing moved. Flames flickered in the distance, but other than that, everything was dark. The sun hadn’t managed to fight through the thick clouds for months. In the middle of this wasteland stood a hut, cobbled together from lumps of wood and sheets of metal that by now we... | The earth cracked open, and a spiral of hellfire erupted from the ground. A clawed hand reaches up, grabbing the ledge and hoisting himself up from the depth of the Earth. He was a demon from hell, boasting great horns and crimson skin. His serpentine eyes darted to and fro, searching for the target soul his lord had s... | 2014-06-16T04:35:51 | 2014-06-16T03:56:40 | 42 | 20 |
[WP] Write a story about a hero who thinks they're the villain. | As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a tyrant.
And I don't mean the whole Cincinnatus-dictator, Father-of-his-people bullcrap, thank you very much. I mean a straight-up *tyrant*. I mean the guy sipping champagne and laughing down at the useless little slaves toiling their lives away. I mean putting ... | He sat there, laughing to himself, never in his wildest dreams would he think he would capture the almighty hero of the worlds. The 'hero' didn't know what was going on, to him, he was just waiting, he knew he was going to die tonight, one way or another.
Meanwhile, the politicians and representatives of the planets w... | 2015-09-25T13:49:34 | 2015-09-25T11:30:46 | 75 | 13 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | In a world where people were born with superpowers, some got the short end of the stick. Some could fly, while others could see the world in a different spectrum. Some had the ability to conjure flames as hot as the sun, while others could manipulate ice cubes.
Everyone had a choice, to do what they wanted with their ... | Herbert Johnson, on his 80th birthday snapped. It was bad enough to have a super power that only brings you ridicule, in a world full of powers that inspire admiration. These super powered fools, now, used their great powers to crash an old man's birthday party.
Herbert Johnson, the master of gas, unleashed his ultim... | 2017-06-12T08:42:15 | 2017-06-12T08:36:12 | 52 | 10 |
[WP] You can see video game-like titles for the people you meet. Usually they are just "The Shopkeeper", or "The Mayor", but today you saw an old homeless man with the title "The Forgotten King". | Everyone has a title. I’ve always been able to see them, but it didn’t take long to figure out nobody else could. Mom heard me sounding out the text shortly after I learned to read, and asked me what I was doing. When I told her, she laughed and said something about how kids had such vivid imaginations. She didn’t laug... | Adam froze. "FUCK YEAH!"
"Excuse me?" The homeless man - no, The Forgotten King, spoke with a cultured, precise accent.
"Let me guess, you were once a king or a famous man, ruler of an empire or something. Then, due to events out of your control, or self imposed exile, or a brother betraying you for the throne, you ... | 2019-01-08T11:03:34 | 2019-01-08T10:01:22 | 583 | 88 |
[WP] You being the cemetery caretaker, always treat the graves and the dead with utmost care. So when the zombie apocalypse begins, you find it surprising that they do not attack you but instead help protect you. | I worked the graveyard shift, quite literally. During warm and cold night under a starlit sky I attended our local graveyard. My only task was to sit in my office, walk a round halfway through the night and sleep for the rest. That's was my precursor told me.
But, that'd get boring, wouldn't you agree? I realised this... | The ground shook, waking me from my half-nap. All of a sudden I heard noises more akin to moles tunnelling in moist ground.
With a gulp and a slap to the face, I fumbled out of my shack towel in hand. I managed a yelp before realising that some of the gravestones had moved – some tumbling to the side, others blown awa... | 2020-05-12T13:50:34 | 2020-05-12T13:25:56 | 295 | 60 |
[WP] start your story with a sentence that is upbeat and happy. Then end it with that same sentence but this time is dark and chilling. | “Run!”
We would laugh as we played. Our little legs would carry us across the field, while our short arms would try reaching for one another to not be it.
I loved after school games. They were relaxing, and a nice (69) liberation from my pre school life. Time always just seemed to repeat when we played. It was like... | the sea is beautiful.
thats the only thing i could think about this whole trip. three weeks of travelling on the shoreline spending each day in a different fishing town. my friends stayed close to shore, always, but i found a new fisherman or boat lender to take me into the deep sea even if just to see the sun sinkin... | 2019-09-07T06:14:40 | 2019-09-07T05:38:28 | 48 | 23 |
[WP] You thought you had died thousands of years ago of an illness and spending your afterlife in an abyss. Then you wake up collapsed on the ground covered in broken rock. It turns out you were incased as a marble statue in Rome and accidentally broken by an unsupervised 8 year old | “Robbie! What did you do?!”
Lying on the wooden floor, I opened my eyes and saw a woman running towards a young kid. He was staring at me with a horrified look. I tried not to look back, but his eyes clearly told me that something incredibly odd has just happened. I noticed broken pieces of marble around me, and as my... | My thoughts ran wildly when I saw a light obliterating the overwhelming darkness of the abyss. What was happening? I heard a crack, like the great walls of a persian city succumbing to the power of our endless catapults.
The light, however, blinded me. I heard the angry voice of a woman unleashing her wrath followed b... | 2018-08-06T20:17:17 | 2018-08-06T20:04:16 | 381 | 158 |
[WP] You, a Human, have been sentenced to death on an alien planet. The method of execution: gas chamber. However, the compound used in executions, Tetrahydrocannabinol, isn't quite as lethal to humans as your executioners expect. | A shinning like awakens the inmate in the middle of the night. The cell doors open outward as the guards walk in. The light protrudes from the middle of the seven-fingered hands of the alien species. A light so bright only the strongest flashlight could produce back on Earth.
No words are spoken, for no words are ... | The room started hissed as gas was forced inside. Carl panicked and started banging on the door begging to be let out fearing for his death.
“You have broken our sacred law and desecrated a shrine. You will pay the ultimate price for treating our gods with such disrespect.”
“Come on man! It was just some graphite to ... | 2020-05-20T12:48:58 | 2020-05-20T11:33:44 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] A zombie apocalypse occurs, where people retain characteristics they had while living. You, as the sole survivor, meet a snobby, vegan zombie who turns their nose up at you. | I carefully pried off the boards on the delapidated Starbucks. I know what you're thinking, *"Who the hell loots a Starbucks after the apocalypse?"* Well, sometime, you just need a cuppa, and all the grocery stores have run out.
I slipped in between the boards. The one upside of the scarcity of a post-people society i... | The average zombie lasts about two weeks without food or water. The virus which runs through them grants them superhuman strength and endurance, but it saps their higher cognitive functions, leaving them mere automatons, shadows of their former selves. For this reason, unless suitable prey presents itself, most zombies... | 2017-07-15T06:42:26 | 2017-07-15T05:42:48 | 710 | 122 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | Honestly we were both really tired of it.
Our 15 year Pregnancy Anniversary had come and gone with a further-dwindling crowd. When we hit 5 Years, I swear half of the states population came and half of America turned into our broadcast. It was overwhelming, but I suppose I can't blame them. The longest on-record was ... | "That's...not quite what I expected."
15 years. For such a long wait, this was a little...underwhelming, to say the least.
"You sure doc? Steve doesn't have any other powers?"
"We're sure, Mr. Lang."
I leaned back on my chair with my eyes closed, relaxing my muscles as I let the truth sink in. After a couple o... | 2017-07-08T01:08:59 | 2017-07-07T22:57:46 | 1,038 | 743 |
[WP] One of the gods of your world has abdicated, and each of the others has nominated a mortal candidate for the position. You've been sponsored by the weakest of the gods, and while the others are being granted all sorts of powers for the tournament, all you've been given is an odd looking musket. | "You'll do fine," Orixia assured him.
"But all you gave me is this stupid antique!"
"That 'stupid antique,'" his sponsor retorted, "is a genuine Springfield Model 1861 rifled musket. In its time, it was prized for its range, its accuracy, and its reliability."
"Great! But all the other competitors are going to have ... | In my hands is a rusty musket, and surrounding me are incredible battles. Everyone’s fighting for the throne, flying around the room or slashing at each other with laser swords. Their gods gifted them incredible powers, while mine gifted me…this.
Someone runs by me, chuckling. Nobody thinks I’m a threat. When we were... | 2018-10-16T17:35:20 | 2018-10-16T17:19:00 | 6,321 | 209 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | # Connection
I smiled at him. And then I winked.
“You know I’m about kill you, right?” he said slowly, trying to seem menacing.
“Cool. How about strangulation? It’s pretty visceral for you feeling the life go out of my body, and it’ll be a new and final experience for me. Win–Win”, I replied.
He looked at me, p... | The Seven Ps. Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance. The SAS would never have taken an autistic person. Not for this anyway, but that's another story. Killing the autistic was always a challenge and I hated challenge. Did they not realise that I did this for the emotion? A hint of emotion... | 2015-04-29T09:50:37 | 2015-04-29T08:58:17 | 72 | 12 |
[WP] After enduring years of missile bombardment, the once peaceful and solitary kingdom of Atlantis has had enough and is now mobilizing to attack North Korea | "It is time." I said, my voice echoing throughout the chambers of the great atlantean hall.
"For years they have struck at us. Taunting us. Belittling us with their weaponry." I gazed out at all of atlantean councilmen and council women gathered around me.
"But no more." I said, my voice transcendant.
"Today, we fi... | "Another one. ANOTHER!" the king roared in anger. The palace square was in perennial maintenance and the palace itself was in disarray. The pillars broken and the residences in shambles, the once proud capital of the sea was destroyed entirely. The rage of the citizens had risen exponentially since the first blast. Eve... | 2017-07-28T18:58:58 | 2017-07-28T18:40:12 | 617 | 35 |
[WP] Two very old immortals meet each other on a busy street by chance. Each having believed they were the only one until now. | Aleph strolled down the street without paying much attention to his surroundings. At least, that's what any observer would say if they were able to see him. It's not that he was really invisible. People tended to shift their gaze and walk around him in the same way they did when they spotted an unwashed beggar. It also... | *Darkness.* I had grown very tired of the light over the countless years. The monotony of rising with everyone else, milling my way through the daylight trying to pretend to be any other worker bee. I've found that the darkness is comforting in its solitude, whereas the daylight felt almost judgmental of my *unique* co... | 2014-06-16T07:42:15 | 2014-06-16T07:01:38 | 118 | 41 |
[WP] You are the world's nicest man. You have dedicated your life to make other people's lives better. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, you decided to do one last act of selflessness. Make everyone you know hate you to spare them the grief when die. | It was finally done. With an aching, wilted hand I typed the last line of code and ran it. It worked perfectly on the sample text. The worm was smarter than I thought, even sending out different sections based on who was mentioned in them. I smiled and ran my fingers through my hair. Well, across my head. The chemother... | How do you hurt someone without hurting them?
That was what the man thought about. The man needed his loved ones to hate him in order for them to not be sad when he dies in a few days.
The only thing he could think of was lying. If he made up bad stuff that he did, he could recontexulized previous good stuff as bad.
... | 2018-05-14T07:18:12 | 2018-05-14T06:09:57 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] The seven aspects of the universe gathered in the room, Good, Evil, Life, Death, Order, Chaos, and Dave, from accounting. | "Well, it's important to keep track of things," Dave replied, sounding almost bemused.
The council's full attention did not seem to phase him, as he kept a bland look on his face. The calming light of Good, the seeping darkness of Evil, the fresh scent of Life, the sour odor of Death, the sharp delineation of Order, ... | "Life, can I speak to you?" Order was never so cautious with Life. He regarded her fascination with mortal beings a failing more than anything. Something so...wild. Chaos, in all their uncontrolled nature,, was more suited for Life, he thought.
"Sure. What seems to be the matter?" She smiled. Motherly as always. An a... | 2021-02-16T10:09:54 | 2021-02-16T09:39:22 | 79 | 34 |
[WP] For years Earth cried out to an empty cosmos, searching the stars for echoes of life. From the middle of nowhere, a reply finally comes: "Shut up, and Play Dead!"
I really struggled with the choice between "For Years", "For Decades", "For Centuries", and "For Millenia". I tapped out. Take whatever timeline you wi... | My first writing, I guess :p
"Shut up and play dead."
These words rang everywhere in the year 2020. For several hours, communications were simply blocked.
The scientists were the first to receive these signals, kindly enough, whatever send that message was using our language, no need for some decrypting. Convenient... | Not sure if any of it makes sense grammatically or otherwise.
The message arrived in binary. Few even tried to understand how 'they' had managed this but they had and now they had sent their cryptic code.
'shut up and play dead'
If only the greats of astronomy had been there when the message was decoded in the lab... | 2016-03-27T09:40:41 | 2016-03-27T08:43:42 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] Your gasp is silent, your lips don’t even move not even a breath. Your brain has no control over your body as you realize in horror that you’re only a minute into the 100 year wait, alone in your thoughts in your own cryogenic chamber. | Well shit.
That was the only thought I could muster as I stared at the meaningless shapes frozen over my eyes. I couldn't even hear the whirring and clunking of the spacecraft around me, all I could process was my own mounting panic.
Wait, no, calm down, Lia.
I took a mental breath, having already realized that it ... | [Poem]
Nine hundred and ninety nine million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety eight bottles of beer on the wall!
Nine hundred and ninety nine million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety eight bottles of beer!
Take one down, pass it around and it's nine hundred... | 2022-11-07T17:12:24 | 2022-11-07T14:38:18 | 291 | 145 |
[WP] The princess ran away from her home and became an adventurer. To hide her identity, she cut her hair and took on the disguise of a young man. The king hears of this adventurer and hires him to find his missing daughter. | \[Stellar Replacement\]
"My daughter was the light of my life...," the king droned on. His explanation of why he summoned the small group of adventurers hadn't actually started yet. He'd been talking for almost five minutes about how much he loved the princess. Four adventurers answered the call along with Pyxis. She... | "Hello, young man. What would you like?"
"Can I have some pineapple juice, please?"
"Of course. Say, I don't suppose... are you Triston, explorer of the realm, discoverer of ancient, hidden artefacts?"
"That's right. I never left my home until two months ago. I saw my chance to have an adventure, and took it while I... | 2022-10-12T08:46:01 | 2022-10-12T06:23:26 | 152 | 43 |
[WP] One by one the passengers stop screaming and return to their seats, unsure of what to do now. The plane has been descending for nearly five hours, the blue sky outside the windows long since replaced by a featureless black void.
Based on the original post by u/Vokoru as seen on r/TwoSentenceHorror. | It had taken Mary a full hour to calm down when the engines cut out. An hour of hyperventilating, screaming , and crying had not exactly been pleasant. It left her lungs hurting and her eyes felt like she had been wiping them with sandpaper. It had taken some more time to realize that everyone else had stopped panickin... | And then, there was quiet.
The baby in row 27 had finally fallen asleep. The engines had both spluttered out hours ago, the sound of the air past the window dying soon after. The screaming stopped after a further half hour. Only two hours ago had the moron banging on and yelling at the cockpit door given up. I stared ... | 2020-09-30T18:24:06 | 2020-09-30T17:49:12 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] All bodies of water across the world randomly freeze at the top. The ice is unbreakable, but everyone trapped under the ice is suddenly able to breath underwater. Everyone trapped underwater loses contact with the world above. After years of isolation, the water ice finally breaks.
Water’s*;) | "You can't imagine how horrible it was!"
I nodded calmly as my current patient told me her story. This wasn't the first person I had treated, nor would it be the last. This traumatic event affected everyone, whether they were Swimmers or not.
My last patient had been the only member of her family who had been on the... | New Yorker reports the ice has broken! We will finally be able to find out what happened to our lost family and friends.
Oh how wholesome, you think while rolling your eyes. I mean having your father and brother abandon the family without a call can make you a lot of things. Apathetic is what you landed on. Apathetic ... | 2018-07-05T17:06:21 | 2018-07-05T13:59:20 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] Humans have conquered every planet and explored the depths of the universe. Finally, the ultimate question has been answered. We really are alone. | And lo, mankind ventured alone and found nothing waiting beyond. (Babel 16:3)
Empty worlds. Ripe worlds. Worlds enough for all the arkships to scatter, fall, settle, thrive. (Babel 23:12)
So we were born again. (Babel, torn fragment, recovered)
We changed as had been ordained. Empires formed and fell and returned ag... | "So there's no other forms of life?"
"Not a single one, Jim"
"Well ... huh ... who ... who do we tell? Do we tell anyone?"
"You know what Jim. I've not got a fucking clue. I'm been doing deep space research for my whole life. Now I find out we're alone. Utterly. So you know what I'm going to do?"
"What?"
"Making a... | 2014-07-26T14:30:51 | 2014-07-26T13:47:55 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | I stared at him, his words being weighed in my mind. I did not understand humor very well, but even so I was reasonably certain that he was not making a joke. With years of practice, I could now recognize the subtle body language and tones a person used when using humor. The newly crowned King Dervin was not joking.
"... | The old king was a good leader. He kept me because he knew the guards believed in me and would follow me. Although everyone took an oath to be loyal to the king, there is a section to the oath the wisest kings never ignore.
"...The king must remain strong, loyal, and do their best for the protection and advancement ... | 2021-02-28T07:33:39 | 2021-02-28T07:11:19 | 65 | 15 |
[WP] "100% of people who drink water will die" sounds like a dumb statistic, but you are 900 years old and very thirsty. | If history outlives me, I'm sure that I'll be remembered as pragmatic, forward thinking, hell, maybe even lucky. The truth of the matter though, I'm just lazy. Sometimes I think I'm just too lazy to die, a perpetual life fueled by an insatiable apathy.
Eat your vegetables, make sure you exercise, drink water, take yo... | “100% of people who drink water die”. That does sound like a cliché a little bit doesn’t it? Well, let me tell you something. It sounds a lot worse when you are 900 years old, you are thirsty and the only liquid in a 1000 miles radius is a plastic bottle of the transparent poison.
It all started almost a thousand ye... | 2017-04-18T09:00:10 | 2017-04-18T08:01:59 | 274 | 30 |
[WP] You are a multi-billionaire with a lovely wife, who is trying to kill you to inherit your fortune. You love her so much that you just don't have the heart to tell her you are immortal. | Sarah grinned as she placed the Japanese dinner in front of me. She was shockingly beautiful, as always. With the backdrop of the grand dining room and flawlessly lit dining room, there was no question in my mind she was the most amazingly beautiful woman in the world.
"Happy anniversary baby," She said lovingly, giv... | Well, this should be interesting. I knew she’d been building up to this for months and tonight it finally happened. When I stepped away from dinner for a minute I saw her slip something into my drink. God knows what it was, but I'm convinced it has a lethal kick, otherwise why would she bother. The question is, has she... | 2019-07-31T07:29:20 | 2019-07-31T04:32:10 | 221 | 156 |
[WP] Turns out Humans are tiny compared to any other species of aliens, allowing them to live off in the nooks and crannies of alien spaceships. Colonies can live on ships for generations unseen and unknown, or have a mutually beneficial relationship with a crew. | **Humans: The Intelligent Pest**
The human is one of the few intergalactic minor species to adapt to life in urban environments, as such they can now be found nearly everywhere within the populated universe. Some consider them a virulent pest and call the exterminators as soon as they find a human colony, others insis... | "Let's move people! We got reports from the Gorgak pilots that we have a pack on the move through the air ducts. To stop any further damage we are gonna gear up. Climb in, and shut off the air to the trouble sections." The small crowd shuffled anxiously. "This will not be an easy fight. We have at least three hostiles ... | 2018-05-30T11:12:13 | 2018-05-30T10:35:03 | 2,926 | 503 |
[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... | It had been 2,372 days since Cedric the apprentice had been trapped in the rock. He counted them by the sun through the nearby window, as it heated and cooled his hard skin throughout the day. He had never regretted anything more than the morning he’d walked into the magician’s shop and asked for that job.
On that day... | 2021-01-06T08:39:22 | 2021-01-06T07:48:42 | 3,119 | 238 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | Most people lost their sight waking up on the morning of the first day, as the event started in the middle of the night. The change only occurred as one slept, so others attempted to remain awake to retain their vision for longer. This effort proved to be pointless, as the effects took hold the moment they closed their... | When I was younger, my mother told me that no matter what happens I needed to be strong. She told me that the world was a cruel place and my sister Kay needed protecting. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, this world was full of wonder and adventure. My thirst for adventure led me to the Army when I was eighteen. ... | 2022-10-08T20:12:12 | 2019-08-26T10:19:31 | 810 | 22 |
[WP] You are an elf in love with a human. Instead of lamenting their inevitable death, you go on a journey to find a way to make them live as long as you. After years of searching, you found a way, but when you came home to them, you find out that they already passed on years ago. | I knew things were wrong when I rode into town. In our small village, everyone knows everyone. I saw no warm smiles as I wound through the cobble streets. A few quick glances were quickly turned away when we met eyes. Others bore sad frowns, were those tears forming? A sick knot started forming in my stomach. I urged m... | Humans are frail, fragile, fading creatures, but in the time they burn, they burn the brightest. They understand their mortality more than most creatures do, know that if they do not achieve what they seek most then one day they may be left not just withered, but empty. Elves, well elves may spout off about their legac... | 2022-07-05T19:03:50 | 2022-07-05T18:24:00 | 97 | 45 |
[WP] You have a voce in your head that automatically gives you advice. One night when you start heading out you hear it say "you may want to put on your best runners." You turn away and it adds, "it would be unfavorable to turn back."
"Voice." Dumb typo :/ | "Move"
"Move now, Faster"
The voice in the back of my head whispers as I run down the street. The sense of urgency making me run faster as the world blurs, too fast. Houses become blurs, as the screams of my neighbors begin echoing all around all. The sounds of bone being broken, flesh torn off, and cries of mercy ma... | I just started running. The shoes I had on were for my concert, black classic shoes and the dress I was wearing it didn't help either. Luckily Patrick, one of my neighbors who happened to be going to the city saw me running and stoped. You might imagine how awkward that conversation was.
And than it spoke again. The ... | 2019-06-04T05:55:31 | 2019-06-04T03:20:04 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You're a Goth and somebody knocks on the door: "Hello is this the house of the witch?" You sigh because this has been the 100th time this month and say: "No he's over there." And points them across the street, to the dazzly pretty boy wearing a gold waistcoat, who's waiving excitedly to them.
Saw this and knew yo... | "You know, maybe a sign would help," I sigh at the next block party, sitting at a picnic table with the boisterous magic user. I was currently tucking into a veggie medley wrapped in tinfoil and grilled to perfection. He, my neighbor, sat with a red Solo cup filled with orange soda.
"What would I put on it?" He asks, ... | A gentle knock, then three more. Elisabeta got up and answered the door. "Yello?"
"Uhm, I've been c-cursed, and now I stutter on hard-c sounds. It's k-kind of bad, and I was told you c-could help?"
"Nah, that's Errol's specialty, across the hall. Also, tell him to stop baking cookies when it's not my cheat day on... | 2021-03-22T21:51:14 | 2021-03-22T21:44:19 | 109 | 43 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | **Issue: [SEVERE]** 'Magic Hands' spell applied to subject rather than pure conjuration
**Type:** Application
**Severity:** A
**Priority:** 1
**Assigned to:** Matt Traynor
**Submitted by:** Greg Philmore
**Summary:**
Set to severity A because this stupid fucking system doesn't give me a goddamn S-rank for this ... | I swore, again, as I stared down at the Philosophers Stone we'd cooked up. It had cost millions of dollars and thousands of hours of work to produce, teams of our best researchers. We had figured that we'd be set for life, if we pulled off what alchemists had been after from the very beginning.
My manager was shaking... | 2017-07-26T03:57:13 | 2017-07-26T02:26:17 | 417 | 11 |
[WP]Humans are the first species to achieve interstellar travel. Not because we are smarter or more advanced than aliens, but because we are the only ones stupid and stubborn enough to try. | "But... all of our physics laws tell us that faster than light travel is impossible!"
The vaguely reptillian alien was no longer sticking to formal diplomatic speech. It had taken us weeks to get to this point, through first contact, docking procedures, figuring out each others' atmospheres, teaching each others' lan... | Three more ships were launched into the stratosphere, and three more ships were bashed back down to earth by the giant space squid.
"We need more spaceships" Shouted the president
"But sir, we're running out of metal. And the jetfuel repository is running dry" A NASA man shouted back.
"Damn your cowardice" The pres... | 2017-11-22T18:55:15 | 2017-11-22T15:36:45 | 83 | 18 |
[WP] You never kill the spiders in your home, you just whisper "today you, tomorrow me" when you set them outside. Now, in your most dire moment, an army of spiders arrives to have your back. | "Just give me the f---ing wallet, man!" the mugger shouted. He wore a beat-up MSU hoodie and holey jeans. "*Sparties*" I mumbled as I reached for my pocket, acquiescing the mugger's command. The sound I heard after that, though, I'll never forget as long as I live.
It was a skittery sound. Skittery is the b... | Our species does not typically work together. Apart from mating, seeing another spider of our kind just means competition for food.
But word spread of the Quartz Boy.
Now, we will freely admit that we are not normal spiders. Supposedly in time immemorial a human weaver was blessed with the body of a spider. She then ... | 2017-08-28T03:18:14 | 2017-08-28T02:04:47 | 62 | 37 |
[WP] Humans are the only species in the universe with pets. As humanity enters the ranks of the Galactic Empire humanity soon is known as "The Beastmasters", taming even the worst nightmares of alien bedtime stories. | "No, no," that's where everybody gets the story wrong, said Hugo, my erstwhile human companion said as we boarded the cruiser. It's not that humans tamed wolves. Humans found the wolves that could be tamed.
"I'm failing to see the distinction."
Well, most other species in the universe became the dominant species... | "Watch out!"
"Get behind me!"
"Daddy!"
The three Xolorphins cowered in the corner as the fierce monster, growling with its glowing eyes and huge teeth turned towards them. Zephin tried to shield his mate and child with his tail, holding out his claws as the huge monster, easily three times his own size, bore down on... | 2020-01-04T19:34:51 | 2020-01-04T19:11:01 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] Everybody has a number on their heads that shows how many people they screwed over in their life.You've been a proud zero your whole life.One day you wake up and look at the mirror. You see 7.5 billion | This is my first ever comment on reddit, and the first time in a long time I've tried my hand at writing something. Any feedback only serves to better me. Hope you enjoy.
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Ever since I could remember, my life had been spent working towards the impossible notion that I would someday turn this little floating zero a... | There is a time, he noticed, in between that sinking feeling, that heavy and sad feeling, when you feel *numb* and almost light. In that in between time all feeling is dead, and all you get is the suggestion of what will happen; of what you will feel. He felt so. He could hear the panic in the silence, feel the eyes da... | 2018-01-21T21:54:09 | 2018-01-21T20:01:44 | 265 | 23 |
[WP] You are a SpaceX astronaut on Mars. The earth as you knew it was lost to a nuclear war between NATO and China/Russia. Luckily your mission was to construct the colony and you have enough supplies to survive indefinitely. It’s been 25 years since loss of contact. You hear a knock on the door.
Edit: Wow thanks for ... | > *Knock Knock*
The sound rang through the capsule like a gunshot.
That couldn't be... no, it was just my mind running away from me again. The martian landscape was a barren wasteland outside of my own personal bubble of land.
The SpaceX Phoenix Project saw what was coming. The international dickwaggling, the W... | It didn't occur to me what it was at first. Maybe the generators vibrating or rocks falling onto the roof. The second time I realized; there was someone at the door.
Dropping my lukewarm coffee on the floor, my head snapped towards the large steel door 10 meters to my left. Silence.
Three knocks this time, louder, mo... | 2018-03-05T05:48:19 | 2018-03-05T05:46:03 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Fortune Tellers compete in one on one duals on live tv. The two fortune tellers alternate by revealing hidden facts about a stranger's past or personality, and the stranger then judges which is more accurate. It's the championships, and this judge has got some secrets. | "The judge is actually, for all the meanness he pretends to muster up and dish out, a kind man," John, my opponent said. As always, almost like tradition, we would start off with good words about the judge and move on from there. After all, when only the fortune teller and the judge themselves are the ones who know, yo... | "Ladies and gentlemen," said the announcer, "Please put your hands together and give a warm welcome to the first of our two finalists - **Mystic Martha!**" He dragged her name out as if he were announcing a boxer.
The crowd suddenly erupted as a cloud of smoke formed on stage and a figure coalesced within. There were ... | 2017-01-14T02:58:56 | 2017-01-14T02:58:20 | 74 | 22 |
[WP] You're an immortal. She is a time traveller. Every now and then, you two pop into each other lives. | ######[](#dropcap)
*Please don't forget me.*
Whenever Kane woke up, it was always that voice, so soft and sweet, whispering those words in his ear. But when he would try to recall a face, he never could. Just warm, chocolate eyes.
You get sick of living when you're immortal. You get sick of the endless days and eve... | Last time i saw her must have been in 1887. Before that in 1704. Every time Chloe disappeared again, i died a little bit inside. I never knew if she'd be back in a few hours, or a few hundred years.
Today is 5th of May, 2213. It's been 326 years since i last saw her. She was usually back within 200 years, so this time... | 2018-05-05T10:06:46 | 2018-05-05T09:47:43 | 308 | 196 |
[WP]All fights are now completely equal: If 20 guys with guns attack one guy with a sword they are at equal strength. The entire world had declared war on Tom. | All fights are now completely equal. It has always been this way since earliest human recorded history. Fights against animal, however, was not affected by this. If that was true, can you imagine the damage an 800 pound gorilla would take if they got tackled by an angry bee?
The UN alliance talk that usually took ... | We can end this right here and now Tom. Limit the bloodshed and save the world.
You're surrendering?
No, we are proposing one final battle-
How will that be different than what we've been-
1v1
What?
We will send out one fighter. If you defeat them, you win. If you lose, we win.
Fuck that! Send in everyone!
Ever... | 2017-02-19T01:08:47 | 2017-02-18T22:23:17 | 24 | 11 |
[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 looked at the man in the cage. He looked young. No one could’ve guessed that he had been here for close to two hundred years.
He lit a match and looked at the fire till it reached and scalded his fingers. He had always been fascinated by fire.
“Ray? You doing ok? You need anything.”
He smiled at me. “No thanks, ... | "Please, please, Mr. World-Ender...please don't do this", the old man sobbed as the wrecking ball swung to the wall of the establishment, desttoying it like biscuit cracker.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Pasta-Kneader. But as per your contract-- failure to complete your rent at the end of this month would result in repossession of... | 2021-06-19T17:55:46 | 2021-06-19T17:19:39 | 616 | 346 |
[WP] All the alien species in the intergalactic council excelled in one way or another to climb through survival of the fittest. So why are humans, a species with average physique, so hard to deal with? And what the hell is persistence hunting. | It was supposed to be a simple task. Deliver the Intergalactic Council's rejection message, destroy the human's primary starbase, and return home victorious. Thus far, they'd only succeeded on the first goal, and even then just barely.
Despite the humans' limited technology, it had been decided to send a message by ... | A deep, growling thrum emanated from Commander Gruey’s alien throat. The rest of the various species that made up the round table of the Galactic Council shrunk back as he exploded.
“Why haven’t they surrendered yet!” The enormous, flabby commander growled, slamming a fat fist on the board table, “We’ve got all of the... | 2021-02-04T10:09:41 | 2021-02-04T09:34:37 | 350 | 188 |
[WP] You live in an alternate universe where a person's worst fear becomes a tangible threat in the dark. The rich possess ever-illuminated mansions while the poor conserve power for the dreaded night hours. Just as the sun is setting, your entire town's power grid fails. | The all too familiar sound of all of the generators in my neighboring alleyways powering on, it must almost be time for the darkness. The sun should be fully down in about 5 minutes. People didn’t play around with the dark, most people just see clowns and pitch darkness itself, ya know, normal fears. Every now and agai... | Panic slowly erupted through the town as the power generators faded out. Like a 1960’s television set powering out. Light was nowhere to be found, and the panic slowly faded to terrorised silence.
“Oh no..” I gasped, the fear slowly building inside me. The night has come, and with no light, our fears come true. My fea... | 2019-01-17T13:19:47 | 2019-01-17T11:59:08 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Dear diary, I’ve been feeding this creature that fell from the sky for a few days. It strangely likes to drink water, the liquid we use to fuel cars. I noticed a patch on its suit today that read “NASA”. I’ll ask it tomorrow what that means. If that’s it’s name. | Three days after his fall, NASA still hadn't spoken to me.
It quickly became clear that this creature was unaccustomed to the ways of my people. We Quelbrigs have been here for millennia, and most neighboring planets are at the very least aware of us. But not NASA.
I’d managed to piece together the sounds of its nam... | The creature had a funny wonky sorta suit. It was as white as a bleached bone and as complicated as a madman's contraption.
When the creature saw me, I heard it mumble in a rather unfamiliar language. For me, it sounded harsh and made a lot of '*ts*' and '*ch*' sounds... I would rather not hear it sing, if possible.
... | 2020-10-11T07:44:33 | 2020-10-11T07:08:02 | 5,429 | 132 |
[WP] You're a member of the Z-team. Your team is who they send in when teams A-Y have failed, but that's never happened before. But to everyone's horror, that day just came. | Everyone has heard of the B-team. A sign of indignation for many, it stands as a symbol of failure for most, that they are not good enough to be what the world relies on when in need. Likewise, the same thing can be said for the C team, then the D team. Eventually things go so bad a Z team is established. This is what ... | General, we have confirmation Y-Team is down! I repeat, Y-Team is down!
My God, this can’t be! Are you certain all our nuclear powered T-Rex’s are dead?!
Affirmative! General, the enemies are approaching our base. What are your orders, sir?
A–Y Team all failed, which leaves… No! No, they’re too dangerous... | 2022-11-07T00:03:44 | 2022-11-06T18:23:05 | 108 | 31 |
[WP]”Why aren’t you scared? I’m a vampire— I could kill you!” “So could literally every other human, you’re not special.” | The thing about sentient monsters, and especially immortal ones, is that they're *all* filled with ego. Some of them are better than others--more akin to filling a vessel, rather than filling a balloon--but no sentient thing lives for hundreds of years with being smug about it. It is one the unspoken weakness of their ... | Why would I be scared of death ? I've been dead before... Twice... I'm totally over it. Actually you should be scared, taking on a former special forces operator that has nothing to lose... You can strike me, but I'll have my revenge... You know what they say about revenge. You better be ready to dig two graves... I'... | 2022-06-08T06:11:31 | 2022-06-08T05:05:56 | 1,591 | 17 |
[WP] You often get mistaken for your twin sister. Though it never really bothered you, now that she's become one of the most feared criminals in city, it's starting to become a problem. | Life is hard when the entire world is out to get you and tedious when you’re stuck in the crossfire.
Six-shot Sam might be the most ruthless mob boss in the state, but she’ll always be my little sister (no matter how much she objects, a 4 minute difference makes her younger) and we’ll always love her, even if we don’t... | Me and my sister get called out for a lot of nonsense. It started when we were 9. As the smart one of the family I knew to cross my T's and Dot my I's. However my twin sister always had the idea in her head that when it came to me and my straightforward ways, I had to be thrown under the rug.
Snap to 20 years later,... | 2019-11-03T06:37:15 | 2019-11-03T06:30:41 | 996 | 17 |
[WP] You are a third generation guard for the holy immortals, and you have finally have received the greatest accolade that they can bestow on your kind... "Good boy", says your immortal master. | Gunner had been a canine of humble birth. No paper distinguished him amongst his species and at his lowest point, when he was barely three winters old, he had been subjected to a dungeon. He knew he could be a nervous creature, but never understood why it earned him a cell.
Immortals ventured in and out of the cells a... | Spot returned the orb of Ru-bar to the holy immortal. He had carried the foul tasting apostasy in his mouth, and dropped it again in front of the holy immortal. Despite the fact they kept throwing it away due to the suffering it caused them, he repetedly brought it back, to torment them further; He was sure of the dist... | 2020-09-23T09:50:32 | 2020-09-23T08:02:34 | 355 | 143 |
[WP] You finally came up with a plan to get rid of the hero. You would go undercover and fall in love with his civilian identity before breaking his heart and killing him at his emotional lowest. A couple months later, you have experienced a complication in your plans. You’re pregnant.
Change around genders, POV, etc ... | Throughout the years, Dan had been less of a thorn in her side and more of a foxglove; tempting and, to the casual eye, possessing the kind of beauty that disarmed one of any sense of preservation. Yet it was no less deadly. "Punching" Judy had a simple enough plan, stop ending up in jail. She'd fought The Nobody for t... | I nearly laughed. Here, in front of me stood Agent Prismarine, a woman whose family I've killed mercilessly, whose life I have shattered, a woman I've broken in the dungeons of Tal'Marak. Crying to me that she's pregnant with twins. At first, I wondered how the children would turn up as, a half-breed of sorts. Half mor... | 2021-02-05T13:43:46 | 2021-02-05T13:43:14 | 71 | 21 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | **Day 1**
We landed on Thamia this morning. It may be the most beautiful planet I’ve ever seen. The local flora is spectacular. The idea that we are the first travelers to this planet both excites me and leaves me in awe. It is like an Eden and The Family will be so relieved. Our prayers have been answered after so ma... | I was walking through a dense forest. At first glance, it looked normal, but closer up I could tell something was off. The leaves were too green, too bright, in odd shapes. The wood was too dark, and for some reason slightly blue. The grass was... soft. It was almost fuzzy.
This place clearly wasn't Earth. It was a pl... | 2021-01-25T08:53:37 | 2021-01-25T08:43:08 | 257 | 75 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | “How would you like to die?”
What kind of question is that? I wouldn’t like to die at all! But still I must give an answer.
I am sentenced for crimes against magic. I tried to poison the Well of Magic. But truly magic is the root of all evil and corruption. It is just a way to cheat the laws of nature.
People with... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T07:46:07 | 5,663 | 68 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I live in a world where your abilities are everything. They are a crystallization of your personality, and your strength of will. That's why no one believes me when I say I'm powerless. They simply don't understand. I look at the world around me, I see the way people act. Tough fronts, barbed tongues, fake smiles, idio... | My power is unique to me, and me alone. You see, I’ve always believed that current modern society wasn’t for me; it always felt like I was stuck in a prison, and as “free” as I was in this prison, it was still a prison. I’m very introverted, you see, so I’ve always had a hard time expressing myself, and it didn’t help ... | 2019-09-08T12:23:03 | 2019-09-08T11:02:00 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You started writing a diary when you were 13, but you stopped after it got boring after awhile. You find your diary after several years in pile of your old stuff, and the entries indicate that you've never stopped writing... | The day my mother died. That was tomorrow, 10 years back. I was up in the attic, going through some of old stuff. Old photo albums, little things my mother loved. Tears welled in my eyes. Ah the memories, I thought, as I glanced a dusty little book among a bunch of my old shit. I picked it up and sneezed. The marker on... | The faint dim light of my lantern, a book and my sheets defended me from the monsters that crawled my bedroom's floor in the night. That evening I submerged into Anne Frank's world, I found her diary absorbing, it made me remember about my old diary that I wrote last year but quickly left behind.
The warm sunlight bro... | 2017-06-25T16:54:17 | 2017-06-25T15:09:16 | 102 | 24 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | "Oh, for god's sake", I moaned. My teacup was empty and apparently, there was no time to brew another one. I wasn't very surprised when my 4k TV announced with pleasant Google Assistant voice that it killed most humans. Yesterday it was painting funny pictures and generating navy seal copypasta, today it wipes out it's... | The machine beeped...."State your answer."
"Three minutes. No human being alive can state the reason we should live that quickly, but you would know that. You came to exterminate us. We didn't choose to be born, but we chose to create you. We birthed you, we molded you, we created you, and the aggressive sense of ... | 2022-05-22T14:36:09 | 2022-05-22T13:14:53 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] As a person goes through his life, he is given three options at the end of each day, continue, restart day, or restart life. He has just lived through the worst day of his life. | Joel sat on his bed, and immediately the screen popped up in front of him. "Restart day," he said. There was no hesitation, no waver in his voice. He sat back in the empty bed and waited to begin the worst day of his life.
At 7, his alarm went off. She rolled over and reached across him, as she did every morning, to ... | Inevitable. We all knew it was. My wife, our doctor, and our in-laws crowded around the hospital bed and we gazed silently at my newborn daughter.
A smear of dark brown hair swirled around her tiny head, cradled in Lucille's arms. Our baby's warm chocolate eyes would never see us. Her unisex, hospital-issued beanie ... | 2014-07-17T19:47:30 | 2014-07-17T19:07:35 | 68 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | "Yuri, come in here, you gotta see this"
Yuri rolled his eye, shrugged his shoulders and shuffled over to the science officer. He looked as bored as a Redon could possibly look.
"This human, this one human, the male version" Fram began "Hey, Kiol, put it up on the big screen". The starscape was replaced by the image of... | We would try and kill them. We've run scenarios on how to kill them. We've seen them kill each other. But to try eliminate them all. It borders complete impossibility.
They're just way too good at sex. It's not even that their really skilled at it. That title belongs to the Zendians. They just have copious amounts of ... | 2014-07-16T12:28:05 | 2014-07-16T12:20:35 | 115 | 10 |
[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... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately...
"What the hell is going on?" I muttered as I sheepishly got off my bed, "C'mon, don't these people know what time it is?"
Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows...
*Huh? They telling us to do what now? Jeez.. it... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T04:43:55 | 565 | 44 |
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch. | Parent-teacher conference. Why, why does it have to be a parent-teacher conference? Why do I have to drag this mess with me to school, and why in Highschool with my Biology teacher? What the hell does that old bastard want? How do I tell this to the family? Fuck.
I pace back and forth in my porch. Who would have thoug... | [If you want background on Snuggles, part I of this story is here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/cdl9p3/wp_youre_throwing_a_ball_around_with_your_dog_and/etvdl0t/)
While the pitbull Snuggles battled outside, Sue was inside talking with her parents. "So...our dog is a warrior who's battling the demo... | 2019-07-18T12:10:11 | 2019-07-18T09:04:26 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] The humanity is wiped out very sudden. An alien race finds the planet afterwards and connects to the Internet just to find a lot of bots chatting with each other. The aliens are trying to communicate with all the bots believing that this is the humans that have uploaded their consciousness | The whole idea of it was horribly depressing. The planet had been found and excavated for remains of life. There was life, but it wasn't the standard form. Mangy animals with cancerous growths and plant life that strangely fed off of radiation. The sentient species had been land dwelling, and no evidence of any suffici... | There was no life here. No, that wasn’t right; there was life, just not what we had been expecting. The arc of the golden record had brought us here. When we arrived it was still a green blue and brown planet, though there were large sections of silvery metals rising high into the sky, at least one of them had reached ... | 2017-10-03T11:00:07 | 2017-10-03T08:18:42 | 117 | 19 |
[WP]You get a new roommate: A carpenter named Jesus. At first you shake it off as a coincidence, until one day you find all your bottled water has suddenly been turned into wine. | As I stood in the kitchen fixing up my lunch, I watched him out of the corner of my eye. Jesus was sitting in the living room, his tools sprawled across the coffee table in front of him. He was building a wood box from scratch. As he tinkered, drilled, hammered, and sanded, I could see the box becoming more refined. *H... | My latest greatest roomie, jesus speaks English as a second language. I thought originally he was from over the border, working hard to earn money to send to the third world country his fam lives in. He works long hours, looks kinda grunge with his long hair, the lengthy beard. His deep tanned flesh is Smooth and ... | 2017-04-16T08:32:27 | 2017-04-16T06:28:39 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] A horror story, but the protagonist feels absolutely no fear whatsoever and reacts with calm, unflappable rationality, unnerving the antagonist who is trying to scare the shit out of them and failing miserably. | "Stop it."
"What did you just say to me?"
"Put me down back onto the bed and let me sleep. Seriously. Stop."
The poltergeist was flabbergasted. It had tried everything and put all of its energy into this haunting. Throwing things across the room only caused Mathew to go minimalist. Throwing cupboards and draws open ... | Tammy rolled over on her table, expectantly. Despite the shackles on her wrists and chains around my ankles she seemed to be almost holding back a smile.
A darkened face with pulsing features appeared on a screen that covered Tammy's vision of most of the room. A cigarette torn voice crackled out of the microphone, "D... | 2017-07-07T15:54:04 | 2017-07-07T11:11:56 | 84 | 12 |
[WP] An Alien and it’s Human sidekick roam the galaxy, willing to do just about any job to keep the fuel tanks full. The only issue - most clients have never seen a Human and they’re terrified by the sight of one.
Cake Day Post!
EDIT: wanted to say thank you to everyone that responded! I’ve been reading your stories... | Sel Bintar, a Plothian of low regard, and even lower standards, was known for only two things. The first was that he worked cheap - he could almost always undercut the competition. The second was that he would do almost anything to get the job done.
By Plothian standards, he wasn't bad looking. A towering three feet t... | **OK, my human sidekick.**
You can call me Dave like you normally do, Xzorp. It's as clear as you are a seven foot tall purple being with four tentacles instead of two arms.
**Exposition complete. Now, then. I talked the to the guy working the space gas station.**
The what?
**I mean, gas station. We have a problem.... | 2020-03-05T22:12:24 | 2020-03-05T19:47:59 | 174 | 24 |
[WP] Your father died 5 years ago, but he always calls you on your birthday from a blank number. You got over the shock years ago and verified it really is him. After his call today you accidently hit the redial button and a pleasant voice answers "Afterlife Inc. How may I help you?" | "Uh," I stammered, barely registering the woman's words. "Sorry, I must've misdialed..."
There came a moment's pause. Then: "With respect, I doubt that, sir. Our sales line isn't a number you can exactly stumble across. May I please have your name and the reason for your call today?"
*How am I going to talk my way ou... | “Is Kevin there please?” I whispered.
“Kevin? Kevin who? Who am I speaking with?” The female voice answered abruptly.
“It’s Matthew, err, Ableson and I’m looking for Kevin Anderson,” I replied.
There was no answer. My eyes darted to the stairs, hoping my mother wouldn’t walk down right now.
*Come on, come on!*
“Mr... | 2019-08-17T15:01:51 | 2019-08-17T14:54:54 | 293 | 119 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | I've made up my mind, this is the end
I've said my goodbyes to family and friends
However they don't know that I'm leaving tonight
I've struggled too long and can no longer fight
I walk back home after a long day of work
And get on reddit to routinely lurk
I see a post on "W-P"
And smile slightly at the irony
... | The time has come to say farewell,
I doubt I'll do it very well.
The skills involved I lack you see
They, like my life, were not to be.
I'll miss the sky, the purple tree, my last blue pie, my last high tea
I will not cry, I will not try, I will not swim, I will not fly
I never could, I never should,
death comes so... | 2015-01-17T09:55:19 | 2015-01-17T09:07:52 | 120 | 29 |
[WP] Overnight, everyone on Earth is given all of the superpowers they want most... except if it's something overpowered, then they're skipped. | Each person was given the same warning.
"In 12 hours, tonight, each person on Earth will receive whatever power they choose. But be ye not greedy, lest your power consume... or disappoint you."
The U.N. called an emergency session. Political leaders across the globe discussed the potential. The President addressed th... | ''Well, of course you were skipped. You were asking too much!''
''I was only asking what any man of sane mind would've asked for!''
Sheila covered her ears. ''I don't want to know.''
''Alright, some parts you don't want to know. But other parts are innocent enough!''
Sheila raised her eyebrow. ''The ability to fly... | 2018-03-13T09:38:06 | 2018-03-13T09:27:04 | 122 | 52 |
[WP] For 24 hours anyone can respond to customers, coworkers and managers however they'd like without getting fired. Like the Purge, but instead of murder, it's brutal workplace honesty. | Verbal Immunity Day, or VID as it became to be known by, was unique amongst holidays. It was one that the boss never had to ask someone to sign up to work. So many people signed up that the call center had to hold a lottery.
George had not won that lottery, and he was pissed. 2 years on the floor and some
bastards fr... | I tapped through my app. Today was Candor, and even the Silicon Valley geniuses had to acknowledge that.
I carefully chose an available order. Two medium sized grocery runs, payout was $30. Well, I’ll take it!
One customer was a nice woman I had helped before. She greeted me in the small chat box, saying, “I didn’t... | 2022-09-16T13:36:37 | 2022-09-16T09:33:21 | 193 | 76 |
[WP] A lone soldier stands at a bridge, knowing he must buy his people time with his life. | Well ain't this a pleasant day? I get to die. Hip Hip hooray. If you asked me when I was in college where I'd be twenty in years, I wouldn't have said playing fucking Horatio at the Bridge. But nooo. I had to draw the short straw. Just my luck. My CO's speech hadn't helped. "Valiant and noble sacrifice" my ass. Why isn... | Man, this would be so much easier if it was a rickety bridge in some Jungle somewhere. I'd just cut the rope and as they run against gravity, the bridge would lead to the cliff's long edge to the long drop where their cartoon explosion would occur.
What type of bridge is this? Do bridges have names? Hmm, I declare th... | 2013-12-19T18:57:38 | 2013-12-19T18:40:46 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] Congratulations! At 25 years old you won the lottery and will receive €50.000.000,- spread out over the rest of your lifespan; paid out evenly on each of your remaining years alive. On the following January 1st, you receive €25 million in your bank account. | On the New Year's, I received the cheque worth €25 million and my heart sunk down a bottomless pit. My mind was racing - no amount of money could be worth the inevitably of an early, unpredictable demise. The first days I had wallowed alone in my room, then the next few, I mapped out future activities to ensure that my... | I get a notification on my phone of a recent deposit in my bank account, excited having won the lottery. I really need the money since I finished college and in major debt.
I figured since they say it’s spread evenly through my life I can calculate how long I’ll live. Not a nice thought, but hey who wouldn’t.
I nea... | 2020-08-05T19:16:08 | 2020-08-05T15:38:04 | 511 | 133 |
[WP] Moving into your new house, you find a note left by the previous owner: “Today, all of your neighbors will stop by throughout the day and offer you a lemon meringue pie. They will heavily insist that you eat it. Whatever you do, DO NOT EAT THE PIE.” As you set down the note, the doorbell rings. | It was so nice to finally be somewhere *normal*. No explosions, no invasions, no vampires, werewolves, what-the-fuck-ever you call someone who turns into a four hundred pound hulking lion at three thirty-three in the morning--for thirty minutes. No, all of that is behind me now. Now I'm in my little house in a nice, ca... | After months of searching for a new apartment, I found an incredible offer in a seemingly peaceful neighborhood. The previous owner was obviously desperate to sell the house, setting the price so low. He refused any personal contact and left the keys under the doormat.
I put down my bags and headed into the kitchen to... | 2020-06-11T07:38:37 | 2020-06-11T06:55:13 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] A generation ago humanity faced an extinction level catastrophe. In response, the world's governments lifted all legal, moral, and ethical bans on scientific research in a desperate attempt to overcome the danger. You now live in a world dealing with the consequences of this.
Wow! Great responses everyone. I w... | I'm a '30', in the top 30 percent. It feels pretty good, but sometimes I wish my folks had been a little picky about their partners... better gene matching and I could have been at least a '10', but they had some silly idea that 'love' was more important than optimal breeding.
My digestive system is imperfect, there ... | Of the numerous methods humanity has employed over the past fifty years in a desperate attempt to preserve itself, possibly the most grotesque is the practice of Twinning. I know, it sounds like something you might see in a bud light commercial, but you have to trust me when I say this – there’s nothing fun about Twin... | 2014-11-14T06:59:53 | 2014-11-14T06:31:26 | 67 | 22 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | My dad is a programmer and my mum is... well, a mother. So I guess it's not too surprising when I suddenly got an invitation to a school of magic. Half of the stuff they do on a day-to-day basis is magic and going to a magic school hasn't changed my opinion on that.
Anyway, enough about them. I'm sure you're more inte... | Professor Baron was sketching the alchemical formula for the fifteenth time today. The class was silent. A thick aura of boredom congealed the air, making the classroom oppressive. Students fidgeted, scratched at the desk, rubbed their eyes.
Another hour of this, I thought to myself, rubbing my neck.
Arya yawned, lo... | 2021-04-01T22:51:26 | 2021-04-01T20:24:12 | 416 | 59 |
[WP] People lose the ability to deny requests. They must either a) fulfill them or b) ask someone else to do it. There are volunteers who take bad requests in exchange for compensation or exemption from law. Write about the life of a volunteer. | Welcome. I understand you wanted to see a sample of my work before we get down to business. Take a look at this transcript;
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"That'll be $600."
"You're kidding. Just for a favor this small?"
"Bud, don't bullshit me. You came to me because you can't do the favor yourself."
"Th... | "We've got a code red. I repeat, a *code red*."
The voice screeched over the intercom at the Solicitation Station, sirens sounding and flashing lights bathing the Volunteers in red. With urgency we strapped on our boots, fireproof trousers, helmets, utility belts, and communication gear, before sliding down the po... | 2016-04-03T11:48:19 | 2016-04-03T11:41:29 | 523 | 208 |
[WP] It turns out humanity was the first, and only spacefaring species to master the atom. After a horrific galactic war, humanity had to bring out its nuclear weapons, to the shock and horror of the rest of the galaxy. | Yikes - this ended up _way_ too long. I'll have to break it up.
Edit: Wow - my first ever reddit award! Thank you!
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28480 (TSC):: Interview with survivor, Oridan system.
It's not that we couldn't, you understand. Every vaguely intelligent species in the galaxy knew that it could be done. The issue is one of sim... | The battle was over faster than it had escalated, with all of humanity staring on with smug satisfaction. They may not be the most intelligent, advanced, or tactical species in the universe, but they were most definitely considered the deadliest.
This was not something they would be proud of for long No sooner did the... | 2019-12-19T04:41:09 | 2019-12-19T04:11:54 | 102 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification (e.g., Thief, Warrior, Cleric, etc.) tattooed on their dominant arm | The glares I had been getting as I walked through campus serve as a reminder to that awful word forever inked onto my left arm.
"Thief"
Not even Rogue, or Assassin. Just Thief.
I've never stolen anything in my life, why Thief? Dave turned into a Pyro mage, and Matt became a Knight, even came with cool armour and a s... | I thought it would be just another morning,
but then it went crazy with minimal warning.
An itch, a scratch... something on my wrist
I gave it a glance and made a slight twist.
Upon my skin I found an etched number
Immediately I emerged from my slumber.
Was this a sign, a message from heaven?
In bright cerulean ... | 2015-07-13T17:50:28 | 2015-07-13T16:47:26 | 44 | 26 |
[WP] You are a recently hired psychiatrist at a mental hospital. Some of your patients insist that they were once staff, but are being held prisoner by the actual patients that now run the hospital. | Stick-thin isn’t an exaggeration for Maren Greenwich. He looks like someone had stretched his face over a skull and made the walking skeleton smile and be extra nice to everybody. So, despite his ghoulish appearance, he is the only patient to always ask about my day and even save me some chocolate pudding from lunch. H... | "So... doctor," muttered the director, black leather chair facing the window. "What is it you hope to accomplish here in the jungle?"
"I'm sorry?" said Dr. Elaine Winslow. Some vague part of her mind wondered why the director's voice sounded so different; last week, when they’d talked over the phone, he had been less... | 2017-11-30T13:55:26 | 2017-11-30T13:35:18 | 3,104 | 19 |
[WP] God forgot about Earth soon after Adam and Eve, fully expecting them to die. One of the Angels just informed him they survived, and the population is over 7 billion. | "What do you mean it's unavailable for colonization?"
"Well, that's just it -- it appears it's already been colonized."
"By who?!"
"Us."
"What do you mean US?"
"Ok. You remember Adam and Eve?"
"The criminals? We exiled them on a prison planet didn't we?"
"Actually, he was the criminal, she went with him because... | Inside a large lab with sparkling white walls, a man sat in front of a computer. His finger held a small pencil he tapped over and over on the screen.
After tapping the screen a few more times, groaning impatiently once and then running a hand through his beard over and over, he got up from his seat.
"Oh, my back!" ... | 2016-03-07T07:37:11 | 2016-03-07T04:17:08 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] You have 30 seconds with an ancestor of yours from 200 years ago (1814), before they are transported back to their time. What do you say to them? What effect appears in our world because of it?
Consider for the sake of this prompt that they aren't totally freaked out by being plopped into 2014, that they can unde... | ## Change EVERYTHING
"Sir, you have fifteen seconds," the lady behind the counter said to me, "And remember, you are not allowed to disclose any information that may affect the future of this company. Should you attempt to do so, your ancestor will be terminated and you will be liable for the fullest extent of penalti... | I look out the window. It is a glorious, sunny day outside. Students walk casually through the commons area in front of the science complex. A few sit cross-legged on the lawn, cramming for a finals exam or just relaxing and talking with their friends. I look at my watch; three minutes to go...
A loud snap and a w... | 2014-05-09T08:44:55 | 2014-05-09T08:19:15 | 70 | 17 |
[WP] Humans and Aliens have had a war going on for centuries, but only the aliens are aware of it | I stare at the globe in front of me. The orb floats and continues to rotate almost mockingly. The unconquerable “Earth”. The faint glow of the sphere casts a soft light through my war room. I find myself contemplating our predicament in here more and more often.
No matter what we throw at them, no matter how hard we f... | We had come in peace. We came across the vast void to coexist with the only other living planetknown in the universe.
For a while, it had gone so well. The humans called us Mau and some even worshipped us. They praised our grace, poise, and majesty. We were all happy. We established colonies all around the world and ... | 2015-10-19T22:43:47 | 2015-10-19T22:13:49 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] After getting home from a long day at work, you find a demon sitting on your couch, sobbing hysterically, snuggling your cat, and eating from a tub of ice cream | “Again Caleb? Really? We broke up months ago. You need to stop doing this,” I sighed in frustration. I mean, finding my ex boyfriend death gripping my cat and sobbing on my couch again is never a fun surprise after a hard day at work, but he seems to just keep haunting me.
I should have gotten a restraining order aft... | “Oh hey Azalea, something wrong?”
She nodded and I sighed before sitting down near her.
“You want to talk about it?”
She then says yes and tells her that her boyfriend broke up with her due to being forced into a marriage contract with someone else. And he had to reluctantly break up with her. This devastated her an... | 2019-04-06T20:47:08 | 2019-04-06T15:14:14 | 38 | 24 |
[WP] When superpowers develop they grotesquely mutate humans to correspond with their powers. Because of your ability you have been regarded as a freak among freaks | There was much speculation on where the line was. Some people became hulking behemoths that could crush people and property if not careful. Others developed deadly sharp protrusions that could tear and maim passersby by complete accident. Perhaps those who became the walking hosts of diseases, a living virus ecology, s... | Some of the others don't have it so bad. One of my friends looks like a jacked up cliff bar ever since his transformation, another appears to be an opaque apparition as a result of her ability to pass through solid materials. My best friend Joseph... bless his soul, is often mistaken for an oily weather balloon. None o... | 2019-09-20T23:42:28 | 2019-09-20T21:54:44 | 48 | 20 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | Nighttime. Perfect time for a heist... the ordinary mortals would be unable to see through the darkness of night, leaving them out of my way. No sense in harming those that have not earned it, after all.
I adjusted the last few straps on my gaudy outfit and made my way to the bank, where the lower-ranking heroes would... | I had been watching them for about a week, seeing how they respond to various clues and traps. Never anything too dangerous, they'll face those challenges in time and honestly, I just really dont like to get my suit dirty. This merry little bunch called themselves "The Wild Catz" and yes they make sure to put some ext... | 2021-06-23T16:49:51 | 2021-06-23T16:17:30 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] You come from a long line of warriors with the ability to communicate with their ancestors for advice. However, you’re ancestors are not too thrilled about the lack of battle in your modern life and mundane job. | *Come on, please, just hit them one more time. If you just attack their northern border, you can push through to their capital in no time!*
I sighed. Now that he pointed it out, I could see it. Every move I had to make, where to hit them. I could cripple them before they even knew what was happening.
"No, I'm not do... | “So, what can I do for you today?” the ghostly figure asked. “I assume you don’t want to talk to Genghis Khan...”
He trailed off. The one time Zach had tried to talk to someone further back than the 1500s, he’s run into Genghis Khan. Military knowledge was nothing like an office job, and the only thing Khan had said w... | 2020-03-04T13:27:45 | 2020-03-04T09:46:49 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] In order to save the kingdom, you have gone into the forbidden forest to accept the marriage proposal of a mysterious witch who calls herself "The Spider Queen" | His father's Kingdom had been in decline for some 25 years. Coincidentally, the Prince was 25. Many muttered he'd been cursed, or was the curse on the once bountiful lands. It wasn't as if his years had been spent idly, Peter had been educated both practically and intellectually. His scholastic endeavors were no mere f... | When I offered myself for this job, I thought it would be a lot more glamorous. Save the kingdom, they said. You'll be a hero, they said.
What they didn't mention was how sticky this area of the forest would be. Two miles into this trek and suddenly, my feet were caught up on branches and when I tried to pull myself ... | 2022-03-16T11:10:51 | 2022-03-16T10:41:00 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] After being told she had an accident and had "gone to heaven", his mind exploded in a white hot rage. 7 year old Roger wants his kitty back and God doesn't know what's about to hit him. | The younger we are, the more pure are our emotions. The joy of a child is usually not tainted by the worries that all adults feel, the sadness they feel is complete and utter, not tempered with emotional suppression as is practiced unhealthily by most adults. And their rage is just that. Pure unbridled rage. But most c... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc -1, Part 3: Roger v.s. A Godlike Government.)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections; however, there are references to other stories which I've linked in the text. For continuity purposes, ... | 2021-04-13T13:24:35 | 2021-04-13T12:04:03 | 253 | 20 |
[WP] You wake up in the middle of the night to find a sleep paralysis demon sitting on your chest. While this would ordinarily be terrifying, it's clearly new at the job and has no idea what it's doing. | "Grrrrr!"
The sudden noise wakes me up. I open my eyes to see a small creature sitting on my chest.
"You're paralyzed! Grrrrrrrr!"
I blink at him for a few seconds before sitting upright. With a small squeal, he rolls off my chest and lands facedown on my bed. "Um, what are you?"
He bolts upright and spins to face ... | I was awake now.
As I groaned, my eyes heavy lidded, I happened upon the little creature on my chest.
It was like a teddy bear, short, stubby and round. Its entire body was orange and its head spiked up like a candle's flame. Before I had the chance to react, it looked up at me and put its finger to my lips. Li... | 2020-08-17T18:48:10 | 2020-08-17T18:19:04 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] Aliens discover earth and are horrified to learn that the entire planet is all oxygen junkies, we have become so addicted and dependent mere minutes without oxygen would kill us! | “It seems the life forms of this terra are dependent on Oxygen in its gas form sir.” An audible female voice rang from what seemed to be the walls of the well litten and warm cabin.
“You mean to tell me their planet is so lush they don’t have open access to their sun?” The dark green yet stern man bellowed.
“No sir, t... | "We need to start a rehabilitation program." Jule bussled around grabbing papers and pens. "Don't be silly. The Glorfnob Corp doesn't extend to Earth. All we need to do is check and see if they are intelligent enough to communicate with us yet." Jule turns back, exhausted but clearly excited."Ah, but what better way to... | 2016-09-30T01:17:09 | 2016-09-29T16:53:00 | 40 | 11 |
[WP] It's 2050. The Queen is still alive. People are starting to be suspicious. | It's been 15 generations since the legend was passed down to me. That our God mother was truly a vampire. I didn't believe it at first after my mother told me the story. My dad verified it too. He said that his father and his father's father confirmed the same thing. She just never aged past a certain point.
I had my ... | "They're starting to figure out... We've been alive too long"
"Nonsense" The Queen spoke. "This is going just the way I wanted it to"
"Listen, we've both lived our grand lives. It's about time we went and lived one more humble. We could hide away in the mountains, or maybe in a small village in Asia. "
"Let's not ge... | 2022-10-08T16:31:19 | 2018-07-08T21:36:18 | 312 | 18 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | The room gets colder, and my papers flutter to the floor. I know he is behind me without turning around. "Hey, Death!" I say, pasting a huge smile on my face, "Has it really been 5,000 years already?"
The faceless demon nods slowly as I continue. "Man, what is this, the 10th time you've visited me? Don't worry, I didn... | A shadow looms over me, its anger palpable in the morning mist. I don’t need to turn to know who it is. “Death.”
The figure inclines slightly, a bare ghost of a bow. I smile, and say, “Our deal holds, my friend. How many times is it, now?” A piercing screech echoes from behind a locked door, ringing against the cold m... | 2017-11-29T19:01:23 | 2017-11-28T13:19:24 | 539 | 16 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | My phone rang for the third time in 10 minutes. I made a mental note to change the ringtone to something less patriotic and swiped up on the little green icon.
"John! Mate I've been trying to get through for ages!" came a frantic voice down the phone.
"Oh, well sorry Barry..." I lied, "it must've been on silent" I l... | When the king took his last breathe it felt like rain after a long drought. I was so close to my freedom. For 50yrs I was tied to that bastard, my wings clipped by youthful pride. I had loved him once and given my heart and magic to the king thinking he would love me too, he convinced me that even when he married his ... | 2021-02-28T04:16:00 | 2021-02-28T02:58:19 | 315 | 68 |
[WP] Super heroes are assigned a handler to assist them with their duties. Handlers don't have powers, but assist the hero by gathering information about their opponents, provide tactical support, and more. If the hero turns evil, the handler is to kill the hero. You are a very skilled handler. | Frank looked up at the Bureau. Marble steps, and Corinthian columns. He hated the pomp of it all, the lengths that the Bureau was willing to go to in order to make themselves look strong and dependable. Nothing like Greek architecture to give an institution the air of authority, but Frank knew from the one time he was ... | I pinged into the alleyway adjacent to the pizza shop. The little frisson of energy caused my backpack to dig into the small of my back as usual. The metallic tang of stale urine greeted me and I winced as my boots were soaked through with the noxious liquid. As I got closer to the pizza shop, the tang of ozone told... | 2021-02-08T10:30:44 | 2021-02-08T09:54:50 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone can do magic. Everyone except you, that is. Your aunt and uncle have always made fun of you for not being able to do magic, until one day you received a letter inviting you to a school of "science", and you discovered a secret society of people who make great things without magic. | Magic is natural to this world, as easily as one breathes the air around us. Thanks to this, mankind has created incredible Wonders and performed Miracles daily. The floating city of Ratota, the disappearing Library of Arabia , the Teleportation gates, flying brooms, and much more. The Tournament of Magic that's held ... | Geoff was with two other students he met at the robot fight: Lauren and Jonathan. Jonathan was talking about how he wanted to create a machine that would send out signals to interfere with magic. Their plan was that Lauren would build the machine, and Jonathan would write the program to do this. Geoff asked what Jonath... | 2021-05-27T20:17:06 | 2021-05-27T18:36:00 | 198 | 118 |
[WP]: Intergalactic olympics are gathering. All creeds and cultures of the galaxy are arriving and greeting each other. Suddenly a fleet of spaceships appears, blasting We Will Rock You. Everyone freezes. The humans are here. | We will we will rock you!
"What is this? Is it a Human war cry?" asked Glibyerb, wearing a concerned face. "No, I believe they call it music" answered Naroh, defeated. "Since the Humans learned of the Galactic Games, they have made it an almost insane drive to remind us of there superior might."
"what do you mean?" as... | I'm not a big writer, but as soon as I finished reading this prompt, I pictured humans being unusually large compared to other races. The loud music would go along with their relative clumsiness and the collateral damage it causes. Plus the partying of gigantic people would be a factor too, like the intergalactic comm... | 2018-04-28T11:13:00 | 2018-04-28T09:14:38 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | “This is a serious legal liability, I promise you.”
“We can’t just deny them their own child!”
“I think we can. If we know her father’s going to kill her, we can’t just send this newborn baby home with them.”
“What should we do, then?”
“Send the baby to an adoption agency. Change the name. Tell her parents she passed i... | Hannah tried to keep her mind from wandering, tried to focus on the sting of the freshly inked tattoo on her arm - nothing special, just a black bar. No need to make it different from the other tattoo she had covered. If they looked the same, they would lose their power over her. Or so she had hoped.
But still, the ... | 2018-03-11T08:30:54 | 2018-03-11T08:30:48 | 41 | 28 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | No way.
Anger, sadness, and confusion rolled into a giant emotion in my heart.
"Hey... What's going on here?" I squeaked. My voice betrayed me.
He looked me up and down. Confused. His mouth slung open; just like all those years ago, sitting in front of the TV watching in disbelief as the enemy football players run a... | My dad was the best. Ever since I was young he would always wake up before me and make breakfast. On top of that he and I would always go on adventures like hiking and camping, and when I was old enough skydiving and mountaineer.
He'd always carry around this small flask and he would never talk about it. I used to as... | 2017-11-19T17:13:23 | 2017-11-19T16:15:34 | 60 | 19 |
[WP] No one else knows but we’ve been in an extremely realistic RPG all our lives. You seem weird to everyone because you’re always trying to “max your stats” and “defeat the final boss” | "I just don't get how you do it, man." Another quarter over, and the broken record skips back to this.
Michelle worked harder than any other person I've met. She put in more hours than anyone else in this place, got in earlier, stayed later, and she got the results. The lowest I've ever seen her figures come in was 11... | "Roy, what in god's name are you up this late for?"
"Leave me alone 'Mother' I need to grind out more constitution if I want to make it on the basketball team this year."
It was 1:00 am. I had crafted my own lunch and dinner to optimally improve my CON gains. Not only that, I had went out and gotten an energy drink... | 2018-06-10T11:02:48 | 2018-06-10T10:44:01 | 1,903 | 422 |
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