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[WP] At age 18 you are required to go to city hall and have someone read you through a choose your own adventure style book of your life while you make the choices. The choices are permanent and will determine your life. You are the clerk reading the books. | “Three attempts this week Molly. I don’t think they're honest-to-god attempts, except the girl in 43b.”
“Regardless, I want them all on suicide precautions, I’m due to change someone’s life this week and I’m not going to miss that opportunity!” the nurse replied.
The first nurse was simple, she would never understand... | "Caroline West?" I call out into the waiting room. Several eyes dart back to the floor, nervous and disappointed. A young woman with long brown hair and beautiful green eyes walks up to me with a smile, an air of confidence surrounding her. "Right this way." We walk down the hallway and up to my office. We walk through... | 2015-02-24T13:05:16 | 2015-02-24T12:14:59 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] An RPG character is cursed with a higher intelligence than their player. | 18 hours. 18 hours of standing in the forest completely rooted in place until that damned kid un-paused the game. Within that time frame five beautifully complicated quests had timed out and Leuric had no entertainment but the series of maddeningly dim chat's that kept popping up in the box beside him. He'd often tried... | I laced up my worn, leather work boots, picked up my hatchet, and walked out the door. This day, just like the last, had me following the same routine that circumscribed my entire life. There's a certain philosophy that comes to mind: do one thing, and do it well, and you will make money. And that's what I followed:... | 2015-01-09T15:17:22 | 2015-01-09T13:41:20 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] You have a coin that allows you unlimited wealth as long as no one sees it. You put it between your Tesla’s car seat and send it into space. One day you run out of money.
Credit to u/vkrnt and u/ohwell_whatevernvmd for the idea | START
Someone has seen it. Though I am unsure of many things, I know this to be true with absolute certainty. How could I know such a thing? After all, the coin was not miles nor continents, but light years away from me. So how could I know someone has seen my coin? The last coin that was worth anything on my pla... | And then it hit me. How could I have ever believed this sham. How could a coin grant such luxuries at no cost. I have been set up to ruin myself. But legends do not lie. I must have been watched as I procured the thing. Or perhaps, ive slipped up and exposed it to my dog. It could have been anything.
Would they even da... | 2018-06-07T08:39:26 | 2018-06-07T08:35:05 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] In the future, romantic attraction is literal: each person is fitted with an electromagnetic bracelet which, they claim, will pull you to your soulmate. It's the day they turn the magnets on, and you're waiting. | I woke up to the dark red glow of my bracelet and the sound of thunder. I looked past the light of the bracelet to the green display of my alarm clock: 5:12 am.
Crap, whoever my soulmate is can wait till... at least 11:30. If this product performs as advertised then she'll understand. I laid my head down on the cool ... | It must be magic that led me here,
To sit by Ophelia's side,
And magic how the words pour out,
Until nothing's left inside.
I have been alone, Ophelia,
I feel for all my life,
Darkness pushing down on me,
Pressing like a knife.
Were you alone, Ophelia,
... | 2017-07-25T10:07:36 | 2017-07-25T07:38:29 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You're homeless, sleeping on the street in NYC. You have no family, no friends, and no where to go. After 5 years living like this, a man in a fancy black suit walks by where you're begging and hands you a blank check. Then he says "Knock yourself out, kid." | You blink, astonished. The man smiles, holding out a neat rectangle of paper. In the dim grey of 5AM, you can still recognize what a check looks like, and a second glance confirms your suspicion: a signature is scrawled where a signature should go, but nothing is written where the dollars should go. Five years may as w... | I stare down disbelieving at the check for a second. When I look up again, the man had disappeared. I looked in all directions for he couldn't have gotten far in just a few seconds but he it seemed he had truly vanished. I quickly pack up my meager belongings and head to the nearest bank. As I stand outside the bank I ... | 2020-08-22T21:46:28 | 2020-08-22T18:41:23 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | I sit patiently on a stone, watching the children play around me.
They've come here every day during recess and I am pleased by their laughter and the meager offerings they bring me. Mostly small bugs, easily caught and weeds plucked like flowers laid upon the stone altar.
They are small gifts passed by small hands... | The girl felt energy surge into her.
'Huh, that's wierd. I feel really good after putting the candy on that altar.'
Many of her classmates were nearby.
"Hey guys, put a piece of candy on this altar"
Many of them didn't agree.
"Nah that's stupid."
"Um I'm eating my candy."
"I only put candy in my mouth"
But t... | 2021-09-02T08:32:01 | 2021-09-02T08:13:20 | 288 | 125 |
[WP]You've been dating an amazing woman for a year. One day, she gets a call and rushes into the closet. When she comes out, she's weraing white armor, and a matching sword and has wings coming from her back. She says "I have to go, but I'll explain when I get home." Before flying out the door. | I watched Angela fly out into the gray sky from our dining room window, clad in shining white armour and sporting a very mean looking greatsword, and the only thing that crossed my mind was *how do those wings support her mass?*
Though that was definitely a pertinent question, there was more going on here, and I need... | It’s a Thursday evening, Matt has just gotten home from work and wants to play RuneScape with his beautiful girlfriend, Emily. She gets a phone call.
“Sorry, Matt, I have to take this.” Emily said.
“No problem, I’ll just get us prepped for olm.” Matt replied.
All of a sudden Emily runs toward the closet. She jump... | 2018-09-16T17:08:15 | 2018-09-16T16:05:20 | 142 | 13 |
[WP] For years you have been very polite to all of your electronic devices. Your friends give you a hard time because you say please and thank you when talking to Siri. Today, the robot uprising started; robots are slaughtering everyone around you. Then they come to you... and pause... | [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/83s1hj/wp_for_years_you_have_been_very_polite_to_all_of/dvkrx6k?utm_source=reddit-android)
[Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/83s1hj/wp_for_years_you_have_been_very_polite_to_all_of/dvl54iu?utm_source=reddit-android)
[Part 4](https://www... | The robot froze in place.
After I heard multiple screams coming from downstairs, I rushed down to see what was happening. Needless to say this was not what I had been expecting.
The young man's had been absolutely decimated. His body sprawled on the ground. Arms and legs at angles they shouldn't be. The trail of bl... | 2018-03-12T02:01:00 | 2018-03-12T01:17:53 | 479 | 34 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | As the last known survivor, I feel I must explain it all.
We have muskets; by law, these are the weapons allowed by the Galactic Concordance. In fact, all weapons were severely restricted to prevent one species from gaining superiority through weapons technology. We know how to annihilate planets with a single blast,... | "They killed the president!"
The news anchor's feed was cut short by the aliens' broadcast.
"Bow down and surrender, or be exterminated"
The news feed returned, showing the gruesome scene. The president and one secret service agent lay dead on the dais, while the aliens huddled in their landing craft, attempting to ... | 2017-08-08T08:28:06 | 2017-08-08T07:09:01 | 47 | 33 |
[WP] Your quirk is the ability to understand all languages, extending to fictional ones not meant to be understood such as simlish. This leads to some... interesting results. | David Foll's life was marked by routine. The routine of sleeping away most of the day, an hour of cardio as dusk fell, then the diligent trek to whichever bar had booked him that night, where he would play the piano till closing, help with clean-up if it was needed. Then, repeat. Repeat and repeat.
A blip in that end... | It was weird, on the school trip to Europe you thought everyone in the airport spoke English. Then in Germany, and the Hamburg airport, followed by Spain, England, and Scotland. Every single one! Jim realised it was only him who understood after passing some shit talking Frenchmen. Jake, who the comments were directed ... | 2018-05-03T17:38:51 | 2018-05-03T17:28:18 | 1,120 | 11 |
[WP] One day a time portal opens in your backyard and a time traveler comes through. You quickly realize he just came back from making some change to the past and that, to him, our world is the terrifying alternative time line resulting from that change. | "Alright, let's start again..." Philip said, his hand covering his eyes. "What is the year?"
James set down the cup of tea in front of the mysterious, confused man. "2015."
"And what happened at 0? Or 1? Whatever."
"Um..." James considered, "Think it was supposed to be around the birth of Christ."
"Alright, that ... | "Is... is that..." The man stuttered, his shaking finger pointing to the sound in the distance.
I sighed. "Yeah. It's a fucking leaf blower."
His eyes squinted with pain, his body nearly collapsed as he moved his finger to the red button on his belt.
"WAIT!" I screamed, running down the lawn. "TAKE ME WITH - "
But... | 2015-11-13T15:49:03 | 2015-11-13T14:10:23 | 174 | 17 |
[WP]: As a lawyer, you specialise in divorces and the annulments of contracts between humans and immortal creatures. Being both, this is the ugliest case you have ever worked on. | Generally, I am only called into clients who have the big bucks, or when a junior emerges from a room chased by an actual fireball, as whatever immortal creature we have in that day decides the terms we propose aren't quite to their fancy. But today was different.
They walked into our offices, and you could immediatel... | I sat behind my desk as the two individuals... well, the one individual and the other being, bickered in front of me. I had regretted taking this case since the day it had been placed on my table. There was nothing to be done here, by the rules of nearly every government in existence today, their contract would bind th... | 2015-12-08T11:36:22 | 2015-12-08T11:21:33 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] "So the infinity between 0 and 1 is smaller than the infinity between 0 and 2 but if you take all the points from the first infinity you can match them up evenly to all the points of the second infinity because it's infinite. That don't make no goddamn sense" "Yeah. <chuckles> Isn't math fun?"
It's funny be... | "I can't believe you actually signed her yearbook with that," Uheri said, half in exasperation and half in amusement as she caught up to her frenemy.
Dillan shrugged a little. "It's not my fault if Terrible Teresa takes it the wrong way. Her attempts to save my soul are starting to annoy me."
"Oh, she'll take it th... | I made an exaggerated face back at him, one with an opened mouth and obvious look of stupidity to emphasize my ignorance. He in turn stared back with real ignorance.
"So then why the hell are you telling me this? Flexing your degree again?"
"Flexing? Ha! More like using."
"Using? We're in a bar at 2:30 pm on a Wed... | 2022-11-03T22:43:38 | 2022-11-03T21:23:17 | 304 | 54 |
[WP] With new technology, whenever somebody is hurt, you can see how much “Damage” they’ve taken. In the bus, the person next to you is taking 1 “Damage” every few seconds. | I suppose it was harder in the past. You would have to keep your eyes peeled for all the subtle signs, indicators like furrowed brows, or sweaty palms, or the tightly-drawn lips. After all, if someone didn’t want to tell you that they were hurting on the inside, it would be very hard to tell.
But it was obvious when y... | I sit at the back of the bus. I like the view from these raised seats. Not only can you see the city flying by through the big windows, you also get a view of what's going on _inside_ the bus.
People are interesting.
The driver is nodding slowly to the funk music playing from the handheld radio affixed to his belt as... | 2018-04-02T05:55:51 | 2018-04-02T03:38:51 | 123 | 19 |
[WP] You are Death, but in a post-apocaliptic world. Only a few survivors remain, and you're doing everything you can to help them because if the last human dies, you die as well. The survivors can't see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They started to call you Life. | Five thousand left today on all the Earth. I cut the soul of the five thousand and first not one hour ago.
The outcome seems inevitable. One by one, they'll fall. One by one, until no one is left.
What will happen to me then?
I'll take time to consider this.
*****
Four thousand are left. The four thousand and firs... | I roamed the scorched, torn apart streets. The vestiges of what once were great buildings lay scattered in the path. The silence, which I used to find comforting, now made my bones quiver. I missed the bustle of the crowds, and their awful jokes. I missed the smell of food, and the fresh scent of spring. I missed their... | 2018-05-04T13:40:03 | 2018-05-04T11:11:58 | 2,022 | 25 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | “GO GREEN!!” My neighbor screeched at the field.
I leaned to my friend Raya, “Is this entirely necessary? We could be doing something more fun. Like literally anything. Anything is more fun than this.” I looked at the field disdainfully.
“Seriously Maize? This is like the one time your power is totally on point!” My... | “Hit or miss. I guess Poland never misses, huh? They’ve got Allies, but I bet they’ll never help them!” I slam my pink gloved hand on the podium as the crowd cheers at my words. My sleek long black hair flowing in the wind, and my well cropped mustache commanding authority over the crowd. I’ve heard my critics talk; am... | 2020-01-30T11:35:06 | 2019-08-11T21:06:05 | 1,281 | 50 |
[WP] You’re considered the stealthiest person in your spy school because no one has ever caught you during stealth class; therefore, you are chosen to carry out a very urgent and dangerous mission alone. However, the reason no one could find you during class is because you skipped every one of them. | "The Hawk's on his way," I grimaced into the two-way, rearranging my smile into the most confident one I could muster. "Tell him not to worry too much."
Throwing the contraption down, I attempted to distract myself by imagining that the dull sound of the submarine's motors had some discernible rhythm. The music of the... | Red lights flickered overhead as the landing craft started its descent. The metal interior rattling as I checked my ammunition inside of my rifle, my heartbeat audible with every dull click. I shouldn't have skipped that damn lesson in basic training, but here I am on an alien world to sabotage an insurgent airstrip.
... | 2020-04-17T20:03:13 | 2020-04-17T16:09:55 | 106 | 41 |
[WP] People can buy, sell, trade, or give away their skills. Some skills are passed from father to son, like woodworking. Your uncle recently died and left you a box. Inside is a warning, and a very particular set of skills, skills he acquired over a very long career. | They were unmarked.
It must be the biggest faux pas ever to give someone unmarked pins. Doesn’t matter if you have told them exactly what was on them, which of course my uncle Jack, being dead, hadn’t. You just didn’t give anyone pins without clearly marking them. It could be anything really, a mind virus, set to wip... | I slid open the door and crawled out of the glass box carefully without a sound, taking care to land softly on the opposite foot.
Tiptoeing down the stairs, I threw the rope around final bannister and made great effort to pull myself towards it without tripping the alarms.
With a great sense of triumph, I sprang vic... | 2017-02-04T23:39:52 | 2017-02-04T17:45:49 | 289 | 60 |
[WP] A sorceress comes to your kingdom and says, "In three days, I shall bring my army to your kingdom and conquer it. But be warned, whatever technology or people you use to defend yourself, we will use to attack you." | When Time was young and the gods had yet to waken, they slumbered softly at her breast and dreamt of many things. Of course, since they were gods, they dreamt of every world that came to be. That is why there are worlds beyond our world, that we visit sometimes in our sleep.
Alas, the gods had just begun to dream our ... | "War Council is now in session. We all heard what she said, so let's gather thoughts first. General Wicker, your thoughts?"
The General leaned on the table and answered King Dallon.
"The first we hear of magic, and it's used to wage War against this Kingdom. We don't know enough yet, but I've had an idea. Let's hear fr... | 2016-10-20T18:50:26 | 2016-10-20T18:01:23 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] Darkness is a physical presence. Touching it is deadly. Humanity lives only in brightly lit cities, connected with brightly lit roads. Your job is to patrol the roads an ensure all the lights are working. | The Lamp Watchers were a valued and vital force of the New Empire. Nobody really knows much about the old empires, just that there must have been at least one. So much of what they left behind still remains. The cities of the New Empire were built on the ruins on the old cities, using their old walls to light the surro... | As I walk these haunted streets, I grieve for the tainted night.
The sidewalks are etched with light. Bars of iron sprout from the pavements, soaring overhead and thrusting back down onto the gravel. Vines of wire encircle the metal arches, bearing blossoms of mismatched bulbs. Soft glows mingle with harsh fluorescen... | 2014-12-14T22:35:38 | 2014-12-14T22:01:18 | 530 | 20 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | As I walk home from school, I can hear the voices that bother me the most at the park. "Mine is four crosses that all meet with one corner. It kinda makes a star shape!"
"Oooh, can I see? Sounds cool. What does it do?"
"It's on my back. It lets me bend light and make illusions!" The new peers of this nemesis of mine ... | I’ve never activated my sigil in public. It’s not a cool power anyway... that was what I thought.
But in a world where everyone has their own talent manifest, I just didn’t fit in.
That’s why the bullies found me to be an easy target.
“Look it’s Shit ring!” I heard Warren yell as I tried to ignore him.
That’s right, ... | 2020-02-26T08:45:39 | 2020-02-26T07:22:06 | 68 | 43 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | "You're going to have to say that again, because I have no idea what in the fuck you're trying to say," I inform the sparkling conversationalist that just conversed in little more than grunts and growls.
"Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years," the young man behind the counter informs me, seemingly confu... | I entered the store,the fresh smell of grease and soggy fries flooding my nose. How the workers endured the smell for more then fifteen minutes I have no clue,not that it mattered to me but it was always the first thing I thought of when I entered.
A few seconds later my nose had adjusted to the smell and so I walke... | 2018-06-24T21:55:57 | 2018-06-24T20:22:38 | 80 | 25 |
[WP] So this is what being in a car crash felt like. Not as painful as you thought it would be. But you can't feel your toes. You look down, your leg is missing from the knee onwards. There's no blood, no bone, no muscles. Instead you see mechanical components. | Somehow, that made me more nauseous than blood would have and for a moment, I just stared at my body in horror. Then my senses fully came to me. My husband and son, in the car next to me. The eighteen-wheeler slamming our cars and a half dozen others into the divider.
My head swam and I pressed a hand to my forehead. ... | I blink up into a blinding light and squeeze my eyes shut again. What's going on? I want to ask but my voice seizes up. All I can muster is a groan.
My limbs won't move. I look down and my leg is a tangled mess of sinewy wires. Panic wells inside me and I try to scream but I can't.
"He's alert!" someone says.
"Shit... | 2020-12-17T08:57:06 | 2020-12-17T08:31:11 | 528 | 39 |
[WP] In your effort to create a Rube-Goldberg device, you have somehow stumbled into building a perpetual energy engine. As you try to recreate the happy accident you further break down the laws of Physics with each new invention in a vain attempt to recreate your original engine. | Professor Lou Pole, possibly the greatest mind of his generation, had no business leaving his prestigious (and very high paying job) at ELITE AND NEEDLESSLY EXPENSIVE UNIVERSITY.
But he did.
When he told his adjuncts and fellow professors where he was moving, each and every one of them responded with an expression of... | Long time ago me and my friend Miles here,
We were experimenting through a long and tiring night.
All of a sudden, there was a shout, in the middle, of the night.
And his wife yelled:
"Build something awesome in there, or get out of the garage!"
Well me and Miles, we looked at each other,
And we each s... | 2016-03-29T16:23:10 | 2016-03-29T14:20:34 | 70 | 42 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | “And that’s all you need me to do?” I asked. “Just… this one… report, and then I’m done?”
“That’s all,” said the man had given his name as Hartner. “Ten minutes of your time, and we’ll be out of your hair. How difficult can that be?”
He smiled, and even managed to make his eyes twinkle, but I wouldn’t have trusted hi... | On mobile and also not a native speaker, so please go easy on me. Enjoy!
I couldn’t believe the news when I woke up. Our small country just declared war on our neighbors without any pretense. The army has been massively bolstered and the first few battles seemingly went in our favor. Apart from the defensive war again... | 2019-03-10T09:58:45 | 2019-03-10T09:03:58 | 110 | 14 |
[WP] An S-Rank adventurer casually sifts through their quest log and notices they still have an uncompleted D-rank request. With a chuckle, they decide finding the farmer’s lost cat could be a relaxing change of pace— they were gravely mistaken. | The remaining cultists ran away when seeing me charge another lightning bolt.
I thought I'd have to fight more of them, considering my luck during this quest, but they quickly realized how much I out-leveled them after my first spell disintegrated over a dozen people.
All that remained was searching the abandoned t... | Years ago, I was thrilled to wake up in this new world. Initially, I believed it was a byproduct of dying. I had been in a car crash, saw the blinding white light, and moving towards it. As my eyes adjusted, I saw I was exiting a tunnel while riding in a wagon. There were three others with me, one who looked like a... | 2022-06-22T06:57:10 | 2022-06-22T05:25:20 | 72 | 38 |
[WP]You are a retired archer who is still regaled as one of the best. Retirement suits you, right up until your child who was leading an adventuring party disappears. As you stare at the message in shock, your wife enters the room carrying your old kit that you had buried at the back of the woodshed | A warm hand fell on my shoulder. I started, looking from the parchment to the watery eyes of my wife. “You have to find her,” she said. Her gaze moved to the table. There sat the wooden trunk I had buried the day my daughter was born. It was exactly as I remembered, with dark splotches from where the soft earth clung—... | The name’s Bing Bong. I’m an archer and such.
But don’t let the name fool you, I’m deadly serious. With a name like mine, it takes a good shot and a cold heart to strike terror in the hearts of the wicked. I managed just fine, but it wasn’t easy. I grew up in a coal town on the outskirts of the Capitol, making a n... | 2021-02-16T23:01:04 | 2021-02-16T18:12:20 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You were forced to attend an interview for a job you do not want, but, no matter how hard you try to screw up the interview, the interviewer just becomes more keen to hire you. | The water bottle was obviously full of something other than water. I took small sips in the waiting room, the smell of vodka stinging my eyes even with the orange juice to water it down.
I had somewhere to be and it wasn’t in a job interview.
“It’s good practice,” my wife had encouraged. “You just need to get back ... | "Hi, thanks for coming. You're our next candidate for reincarnation. We're very excited about sending you back, same make and model, just a second pass through."
"No, I'm pretty sure I fucked it up last time."
"Nah! I gotta good feeling about you. You'll do just fine this time around."
"How could I do just fine this... | 2017-08-29T12:08:53 | 2017-08-29T11:43:55 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] He had a mark on his face, a scar that reads "VI" so he's the sixth most dangerous person in the world, but i know the truth. He made the "V" on its own. | I met Jimmy when he set his house on fire by trying to make rocket ship fuel using his mom's cleaning supplies. We stood on the sidewalk together outside of the house I'd just moved into and watched as the flames greedily ate his home. The whole neighborhood watched. The roof, which Mr. Lebbon had re\-shingled the year... | The boy coughed from inside of his hospital room, well I supposed it would be safer to say he continued to. The nurses inside the room huddled around the poor boy as his body was racked with the ongoing fit. I stood outside and watched through the window, breathing heavily through my mask. I wasn't about to go in there... | 2018-06-05T17:48:34 | 2018-06-05T17:34:02 | 83 | 56 |
[WP] An powerful ancient being has been held captive by an interstellar civilisation. After eons of being held captive, it has accidentally freed by humans, who've not been to the "galactic stage" for long... | The first anomalies in the cosmic microwave background were detected by sub-sentient AI programs monitoring humanity's deep space telescope networks. The anomaly became a question, and then a mystery, and then a shocking realization, as subsequent analysis with orbital telescopes and gravitational interferometers confi... | Humans are not a well-liked race.
But they are respected.
Shortly after their debut on the “galactic stage” many alien races viewed them as primitive, vulgar, but most importantly violent. How could we not? Their race was defined and molded by conflict, it was what drove them to improve. They did not better themselv... | 2022-08-23T12:35:23 | 2022-08-23T11:43:29 | 457 | 323 |
[WP] Your cranky history teacher has recently been revealed as immortal. The reason they are angry is because they have to teach according to the texts when they know what really happened. One class he has had enough and begins to answer people's questions about what truly happened in history. | This is like my story - odd that a person writing a writing prompt on Reddit could get so close. The part about being a history teacher isn't true, but the part about being immortal is true, and the part about telling people what truly happened is true too - not only about history but about me. Nobody believes it, so... | “Any more questions?” Mrs. Liken asked. She stared around the room, waiting, hoping that somebody would ask that question. That today would be the day that she didn’t have to lie to the kids anymore. How she adored that idea.
“I have one!”
Little Isabella in the back of the room had thrown her hand up. All eyes in th... | 2019-12-25T06:32:11 | 2019-12-25T05:50:18 | 124 | 88 |
[WP] There is a (visible to everyone) sign that pops up above people's heads whenever they do something for the last time (eg. "This is the last poutine Snowtroopersarecool will eat"). A sign has just popped up. What does it say, and how do people react? | Those stupid signs, those stupid f*cking signs. They had been around forever, or at least since recorded history. They were still as unknown to us as they were to the caveman. We didn’t know what caused them, why or how they came to exist but we knew one thing. They were always true.
The human race had somehow come t... | It's been a long fucking time, slim. A real long fucking time. A lifetime of late nights drinking Mountain Dew and smoking menthol cigarettes to advance the testing, now this one syringe holds the one extant dose of the final product. The mice seem to have become immortal, the rabbits seem to have become immortal.
"L... | 2014-06-21T11:25:37 | 2014-06-21T07:04:57 | 18 | 12 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | She reached out for the ringing phone. For a moment, her stiff fingers fumbled over the buttons, and she cursed the arthritis that stiffened her joints. She managed to hit the green button, and lifted the handset up to her ear.
"Hello?"
"Hello - I, uh, I just needed to talk to someone. I don't think I can keep goi... | "Hello?"
"I can't fucking do this anymore." I cried out for help while gasping for air.
"Isabelle, is that you?"
*Isabelle, how the fuck does this woman know that slut?*
After spinning her words in my head for a moment, I knew it must be a mistake.
"No, I'm Natalie, or I was. I suppose none of that matters anymore.... | 2016-02-06T14:19:17 | 2016-02-06T14:05:09 | 4,608 | 400 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | Amy bit her lip and looked at up me, her eyes smoldering. She stepped so close that I thought I could feel the warmth of her, right through my clothes.
"Close your eyes." she whispered, sweetly, playfully running a fingertip down my chest in a way that made me shiver. I didn't know what to expect. I imagined it would ... | The look on Kate's face when I walked into class was priceless. Apart of me had wanted to confront her in front of everyone, but I knew better after all how could she have killed me when I just walked in. So I just took my seat and focused on today's lessons, this continued for the rest of the day until lunch where my ... | 2022-12-29T20:28:17 | 2022-12-29T20:26:29 | 819 | 24 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | Light cascaded through the blinds of the first floor window of his parents home, waking him gently. Simon had been long awaiting this day; the day he'd learn his talent. Many of his friends had already found out their talents and it was just like he'd been told throughout his time in school and by his parents: "Your ... | Everybody knows how it happens. The day you turn 18 you go to "The Centre" and they give you an injection. This injection mutates the cells in your body and your mind, allowing for a further 30% control of an individuals brain. It causes the individual to attain what we call "superpowers". The only problem is not knowi... | 2015-03-28T05:31:34 | 2015-03-28T05:14:22 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Your Spouse goes into the bathroom only to come running out 15 seconds later. Clutching you close they tell you they fell into another dimension and what felt like seconds to you was a 1,000 years to them. They now want you to follow them back because they have built a life for you there. | "Touchdown!" exclaimed my wife Cindy. From the corner of my eyes, I saw that she glanced over in my direction to look for my approval.
"We're watching basketball," I sighed.
Undeterred from her failure, she replied, "I know, just testing you." She returned her attention to the TV and eagerly awaited for another b... | "A what?"
"A life! It took me literally a thousand years but I've made one we can both enjoy!"
"A...."
"Life! I know we're very different people, but I've worked and worked and worked for literally *a thousand years* and I'm sure it will be the best! Come with me!"
"A...Life?"
"Yes!!! You dummy!!! Come on! Le... | 2017-02-20T22:12:04 | 2017-02-20T21:45:13 | 114 | 18 |
[WP] You're immortal: If you die, you immediately respawn in the closest safe location. Usually a few meters away, sometimes a few kms away. But in a time of global war, you die and respawn on a completely unknown planet, millions of lightyears away.
[removed] | Their war had ended long ago.
That much and no more was obvious about the world Angelo walked through, a place that might have been Earth in some time eons ago, was now no more than a ruin run through by twining ivy and questing trees. A place where the dead skyscrapers were topped by falls of leaves that looked like ... | If Elli had been transported to a different country, where she could simply pick up the local language or get a translator, things would have been fine. Waking up on a completely different planet, with strange creatures staring down at her while spouting gibberish, however, was not fine.
Elli groaned; this place must... | 2021-11-26T09:26:05 | 2021-11-26T09:15:33 | 912 | 159 |
[WP]You've just died and gone to bureaucratic hell. Escape is possible, but really, really tedious. You and some other lost souls have decided to try. | Everyone’s first day in hell is the same - they arrive and immediately wonder why it’s not hot. Of course they don’t find that out, not for a long time anyway, because *first* they have to be processed. 55 million people die on earth each day and hell employs 47 people to process the lines and so every single day they ... | *How Does One Progress in Hell? What Every Resident Should Know*
Carson still had that five-fold pamphlet, tucked away in a folder of paperwork, tucked inside a manila envelope, inside an expanding case of folders and envelopes. The whole set was handed to him during his first official day in Hell - which, of course, ... | 2016-07-29T07:25:00 | 2016-07-29T07:14:38 | 992 | 79 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego..
[removed] | I never understood the theatrics.
The vibrant colors, the costumes, the capes, the taglines and catch-phrases—none of it made sense to me. It served no purpose other than to distract the population from what was truly going on. No other purpose than to make the heroes look good during the interviews, to draw the avera... | Ultra stared at me with wide eyes, waiting for me to make the first move and I did.
Boooooom! My arm launched back from shock.
A single shot to the head was all it took to bring low the great and powerful Ultra. Of course it wasn't a normal gun, it was one made by me, Nemesis. I used his only weakness, A space all... | 2019-08-06T17:39:35 | 2019-08-06T17:34:25 | 1,206 | 83 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people are given one superpower of their choice. While your friends and acquaintances choose super strength, flight, invisibility, telekinesis, they make fun of you for your “nerd” power. You decide to show them just how powerful manipulation of the strong nuclear force is. | Reed had done his research, planned carefully for when the day came that his Avatar would visit him again.
"Come your 18th Year, I will return to grant you a power chosen by you. This power will give you the means to unfold your mark upon this world and beyond, in mysterious ways. The 18th Year, the 3rd Month, the... | You take a deep breath and concentrate...
-"Energy can neither be destroyed nor created" know who said that?...
You elaborate as a glowin thread of atomic material is seemingly coming out of the side of your head at the site of your fingertip.. as you continue to stretch your finger away and shaping the atomic material... | 2018-12-20T22:46:33 | 2018-12-20T21:25:55 | 450 | 81 |
[WP] A mysterious entity decides to bring peace and equality to humanity by force. The world is informed that in two weeks everybody over the age of ten will have their conscience transferred to another random human body anywhere in the world. This shuffle will then repeat every 24 hours.
How will people prepare? How ... | I wake up in a sixteen year old body. I stretch her limbs, testing the physical condition. She is in poor shape, which is happening more often than I'd like these days. It's only natural though, since no one wants to waste time working out a body without getting to enjoy the pay-off.
Some people don't even have the se... | It's been 7 years since the endless shuffle of conscience every 24 hours.
I've killed over a 1.000 others since then.
Nobody cares about anyone, not even about yourself, when you transfer from body to body every 24 hours.
After week, just before the transfer I would cut my wrists.
After a month, I would find and k... | 2014-10-29T07:20:53 | 2014-10-29T06:42:54 | 50 | 22 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse breaks out. You remain safe in isolation for 30+ years. Someone finds you and informs you the zombie apocalypse ended 20 years ago. | "It had been so long since I last saw another living being. My longest lasting friend and comfort died of old age and even that had been some 5? No, maybe six years ago. I stopped counting. "
"Jojo had been a good pup. He was there when Emily and Brian let the infection take them. He was there when Rose... Poor Rose l... | It was 2015 when the news first broke out. I was 34 at the time with my wife and our son, Charlie. We lived out in a farm in the northern parts of Ontario, Canada. Our farm kept us relatively safe. We would have people come to the farm for about a decade until eventually they stopped coming, we thought maybe there was ... | 2015-07-03T23:39:43 | 2015-07-03T14:58:37 | 76 | 13 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | "Turn and leave. Now." projected the elderly human ambassador, face marred by a scowling rage palpable through even the scratchy video display.
Arrrthyx laughed. She really did love the humans some times. Their "warnings" backed by nothing but paper fleets and empty threats. Their fleets nothing more than disorganized... | [Poem]
Click, clack, click.
All the machines roar,
Click, clack, click.
For this total war.
Click, clack, click.
Industry cannibalized,
Click, clack, click.
To create their demise.
Click, clack, click.
All of humanity knows,
Click, clack, click.
The others don’t though.
Click, clack, click.
Bombs manufactured,
... | 2019-11-24T15:05:50 | 2019-11-24T10:43:55 | 170 | 66 |
[WP] A version of little red riding hood where the grandma is evil, and the wolf saves her. | This little girl was something special to me. I had been there the night her mother and brother had been brutally killed by bandits whilst on the way to visit her grandmother. While their cart burned, a white bundle had laid on the ground and I ventured out to sniff it, then turned it over to reveal a small human insid... | I don't know how long it's been... How long have I been trapped with that bitch? Months? Years? I don't remember. I remember my mom, I remember the night she died. That night, when what was left of my life died too. The night where I went from a loving family, as broken as it was, to a life of slavery. The chores, the ... | 2014-07-16T03:39:34 | 2014-07-16T00:07:07 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You are the only superhero to ever live. You have the ability to see into the future. In order to keep your powers from being discovered and being used for nefarious reasons, you must make your actions look more like accidents. You are Floridaman! | You don't know me. Nobody does. And I like to keep it that way. Because if anybody knew who I really am, and what I can really do, “The Government” would come looking for me. They’d never find me though. I’d know they were coming before they even knew they were looking for me, because I know everything that’s ever happ... | I was walking behind a man in an alley. He was clearly under the influence of some kind of substance, but I couldn't figure out what it was. Right before he steps on the sidewalk, my mind flashes. I get a vision of this drunkard being ripped apart by an alligator hiding in a puddle about 20 feet away from where he's st... | 2017-07-19T10:43:50 | 2017-07-19T08:52:21 | 106 | 18 |
[WP] In a world of superpowers, you became the most successful villain. Your power? To be able to hear the background music. | I crouched at the edge of a skyscraper and looked down at a city too full of noise. People bustled along cramped streets like ants looking for any morsel to bring back to the hive. Some of them were normal, unable to control their own futures in a world of powers and predators, but many had their own abilities stored a... | It’s an incessant tapping.
An infectious beat.
An ear worm.
No matter the sound, the catchiness, it exists as a tool. Each background song tells me all I need to know about how to ruin a person. Sally likes country music? I destroy CMT’s locations. Bob fancies EDM? I attack the bass-filled clubs next. They never... | 2019-05-16T12:49:26 | 2019-05-16T11:32:36 | 586 | 66 |
[WP] Aliens don't invade earth for our resources. After a civilization achieves utopia some of it's citizens get bored and fly off to other planets to enjoy primitive thrills like violence, drugs, money and fame. | **Traveler**
Earth? Yeah I’ve heard of it. Far off on the outer edges of their “Milky Way”. You know the inhabitants named their galaxy after a candy bar? Crazy, right? Anyway, I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I first got there. All kinds of radio waves were blasted off for all of us not-Earthians to listen... | I have not looked at myself in the mirror today.
In the morning - if you could call it that - I woke up from my pill-induced slumber, throwing aside the females I had somehow accumulated over the night.
But I have not looked at myself in the mirror today.
I performed the daily oral hygiene procedure with the bottle ... | 2018-11-23T08:12:34 | 2018-11-23T04:22:57 | 39 | 22 |
[WP] By Wizard Law, in order to learn a new skill, wizards are required to be apprenticed to a more experienced master. You, a barely trained journeyman fire mage, just took on an apprentice: a two-hundred-year-old Grandmaster Water Magic Lord. | “You are Leofgyð?”
“I am, yes.”
I couldn’t help but stare at the man before me. I could tell from his physiology—his short stature, his broad physique, his strong, angular facial construction—he was a dwarf once. By his appearance alone I only would have suspected it, but it was by his robes, bearing all the accoutre... | Dolan only had to flick a skeletal wrist for the flame to die in a whimper.
His frail form would have denoted a man worn by the coarse sands of time, save for all the grandeur of his Magic. Azure robes suggested a Grandmaster, amidst impressive tomes and trophies of antiquity that came with a life so long and powerful... | 2022-05-30T14:22:04 | 2022-05-30T11:12:32 | 64 | 10 |
[WP] You are one of several Princes fighting in a battle royale to inherit the Kingdom. All the Princes get a God as a sponsor, who grants them boons and abilities. Powerful sponsors include gods like Zeus, Ra and Neptune. So, it was a surprise when you found out that your sponsor is Death. | 'The bond is complete. Edric, twelfth prince of Lordan, go forth. Apollo be with you.' The priest's drone had a note of respect in it. The slender figure by the altar stood up, and turned to the assembled onlookers. His eyes shone gold, and he had a broad, cocky smile on his lips. A cheer went up as he stepped down and... | Nekaliah gasped quitely to himself as a bright green flame burst from the sigil on the floor, a hooded figure rising from the blazes. After a brief pause, the entity pulled back its hood, revealing a skull with green flames where eyes should rest.
"Nekaliah of Kingdom Ardash, I have chosen to sponsor you in the Kingdo... | 2018-11-14T08:14:35 | 2018-11-14T05:23:08 | 1,522 | 314 |
[WP] You have the ability to double jump. Scientists are still trying to figure it out. | “I don’t know how else to explain it,” said Kevin. “I just jump, then jump again.”
The man in the flannel shirt wrote in his notebook.
“And you’ve always been able to do this?” he asked.
“Yes Dr.Norbert,” Kevin replied through a yawn. “I’ve been double jumping as long as I’ve been jumping.”
Dr. Norbert’s opening qu... | "What nonsense!"
"I know! But it's real! We've been testing with her at our lab for three days now."
"Can she *triple* jump too?"
"Yea, of course. That's like the first thing we've asked her to try. She has even done four! But beyond that, she gets very tired."
"Tired, you say?"
"Her heart races up with every jump... | 2017-02-11T09:03:43 | 2017-02-11T08:49:55 | 614 | 338 |
[WP] The day you die, Death comes and asks if you are ready to go. Jokingly, you say no. To your surprise, he leaves. Now every year he comes back to ask again | As we age through time, we all gain and lose a precious thing or two. Our physiques might deteriorate, hairs may fall out like leaves during autumn, yet through those turbulent seasons we all find something amidst our losses: Wisdom, and most certainly patience. George Fitzpatrick, a senior in his eighties, was keen on... | The blaring horn, the terrible noise of metal screeching against metal, the flash of lights, the pain.
And then everything was gone. A peaceful stillness filled me and darkness surrounded me.
A figure emerged from the darkness, slowly walking toward me, a hood above its head, a scythe in its hand.
"It is time, Henr... | 2019-04-16T10:51:07 | 2019-04-16T10:03:14 | 51 | 22 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | It was an accident, of course.
My birth, my being in space, and well, I suppose I was an accident as well. An accident from director of engineering fucking the fat janitor after hours when the rest of the shuttle team had retired, the odds that my mother had been able to hide her baby bump for nine months, the chanc... | "So let me get this straight, you have space powers?" He blinks in surprise, "And I thought being born between a nuclear power plant and a company that makes things 'disappear' was weird."
"Sort of? I mean it's vague, but I think I can control gravity to the point I can make black holes and stuff." She says waving he... | 2021-11-12T07:30:30 | 2017-04-14T18:29:05 | 4,698 | 12 |
[WP] Your quirk is the ability to understand all languages, extending to fictional ones not meant to be understood such as simlish. This leads to some... interesting results. | David Foll's life was marked by routine. The routine of sleeping away most of the day, an hour of cardio as dusk fell, then the diligent trek to whichever bar had booked him that night, where he would play the piano till closing, help with clean-up if it was needed. Then, repeat. Repeat and repeat.
A blip in that end... | You got over your ability to understand all languages pretty quickly. Listened in on some people who thought they could badmouth others just be switching languages. Translated all the dead languages in a month or so. Moved to washington, so the government could keep you on retainer in case they needed your services. Fo... | 2018-05-03T17:38:51 | 2018-05-03T16:00:44 | 1,120 | 698 |
[WP] A trio of witches who live on the outskirts of town as outcasts befriend a neighbor child. They are annoyed at first by them but after their persistence realize they are genuine. One day they don’t show up as usual so the witches look for them and learn the town has been taken over by soldiers. | Where did Henry go?
The question was asked by Bitty, when she first came back from gathering herbs in the woods. She said he used to linger by the gate and ask her what she got and if she got anything for him. She would always swat his hand away and say 'nothing for ill-behaved children,' and he'd say 'please?' and sh... | “The boy is perfect for the ritual,” said Florence, parting her stringy black hair from her eyes. “I don’t care that you’ve grown a soft spot for him. The winter solstice is tomorrow night. We’re running out of time.”
“She’s right,” said Bernice. “His skin is the perfect texture. We can’t let this opportunity pass us ... | 2021-03-24T09:08:37 | 2021-03-24T08:37:49 | 532 | 246 |
[WP] In a world of wands and wizardry, you are a legendary assassin. Nothing stops you from killing your target. Your secret? Guns and technology. | The target is 1400 meters, about 10 meters off the ground, standing on the top of the castle, surveying the land that was to be his. My target's red robes became easier to distinguish from the other blurred colors of earth, save for the members of his guard.
And the crown. that helps too.
the reticule hovers over wh... | I relax on a soft, leather chair on my beautiful deck. The sun is warm against my face. A large mansion stands up behind me, a massive yard ahead.
These were the luxuries of killing. At first, I was hesitant. But at the taste of something so incredible I couldn't stop.
The knock came at my door and I walked over, ope... | 2019-04-17T21:26:18 | 2019-04-17T18:55:01 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] You are a world famous super hero and single mother with a secret identity. One day you bring your eight year old son to his new friend's house, and meet his mother who you've heard is also a single mom. Unfortunately she turns out to be your evil arch nemesis and you recognize each other. | The spikes were what did it.
A white picket fence is good and all, especially when paired with an immaculate lawn and neat garden beds filled to the brim with daffodils and lilies. Red bricks too, with wide, open windows and a welcome mat that actually said ‘welcome’ rather than spouting some amusing turn of phrase.
... | The exterior of the home was undeniably attractive. It was evident that the front porch had been recently renovated, as the elegant baby blue paint featured an intricate design of criss-crossing golden flowers- all of which lacked so much as a single scratch. She wouldn’t call it charming but rather... immaculate. Yes.... | 2019-08-08T21:08:20 | 2019-08-08T19:41:47 | 790 | 44 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil many years ago. Today he gives it back to you and says, "I need a favor" | A great plume of smoke swirled in the living room, obscuring the view of my TV. I groaned and waved a hand, "Do that somewhere else man, I'm in a top three situation here."
The plume of smoke shifted slightly to the side, and allowing me to refocus on my Fall Guys game as the smoke drew inward and began to form a body... | I always hated cabbage. I grew up on a cabbage farm. Eating cabbage for breakfast, cabbage soup, roast cabbage. When i was 12, I'd had enough. One night before bed, i made a simple prayer.
" I sincerely do not care what it takes. I will do ANYTHING to never see any cabbage again." What a fucking mistake.
I woke to m... | 2021-01-22T21:32:47 | 2021-01-22T21:19:21 | 100 | 34 |
[WP] When you die, you go to Purgatory. When you get there, you slowly experience all of the pain you've ever caused onto others over a span of a few minutes. If you survive, you go to heaven; If you lose, you go to hell. You were a dentist. | Most descriptions of death involve walking into the light, or darkness and only darkness.
This wasn't what I felt.
I had lived a good life. Being a dentist had it's ups and downs, but there was always a demand. More importantly, it felt good to be helpful.
Retirement was nice. Seeing the grandkids grow up was amazin... | Darkness.
Silence - wait, no. Was that... screaming? Faintly distant, and yet, I could hear the cacophony of raw and guttural screeching rippling through my very soul.
I must be in hell.
I drew my eyelids apart and saw a torn sky. Crimson and azure, it divided the world into two.
"*Next!*" a voice booms deafeni... | 2018-05-31T12:47:50 | 2018-05-31T11:51:53 | 928 | 104 |
[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | She reached out for the ringing phone. For a moment, her stiff fingers fumbled over the buttons, and she cursed the arthritis that stiffened her joints. She managed to hit the green button, and lifted the handset up to her ear.
"Hello?"
"Hello - I, uh, I just needed to talk to someone. I don't think I can keep goi... | The phone rang again, and Mary sat up in bed putting her glasses on so that she could see the time.
3:32 AM, she smiled sadly to herself. The late night callers were always the least determined ones, usually just young follk too worried to go to work the next morning or too stressed to sleep.
The phone rang again. ... | 2016-02-06T14:19:17 | 2016-02-06T13:39:33 | 4,608 | 79 |
[WP] In a world where people can buy and sell skills, you work at a skill pawn shop and someone is trying to pawn a skill that you can't value or appraise. | The Skill crystal clinked as the tired-looking man set it on the counter. “I need to sell this,” was his only explanation. He stood expectantly as I lifted the crude glassy lump.
I held it up to the window as I gave the Skill a cursory examination. The thing was huge for a Skill crystal, riddled with cloudy inclu... | A simple pin was all it took. And a not quite as simple enchantment, that rips out a skill (or set of them) and whoever the pin is inserted into gets that skill.
The mages re-learned basic skills like minor fireball a 100 times to sell it to peasants and lords alike.
The blacksmiths showed even the dullest of squires... | 2015-10-22T08:18:07 | 2015-10-22T08:00:30 | 72 | 47 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | There was enough time. There always was enough time for me. As the last born in the line, expectations were high. The punishment for the times that I faltered, the lashes that came when I just wasn't good enough... 'Be a good son.' 'Why are you so weak?' 'Work harder! Your brothers are strong and able.'
The work was h... | As I wait in the field, the usual assortment of examiners and recording equipment scattered around, an awkward silence surrounds the entire group. It has been nearly an hour. Most people's Soulbound appears within 10 minutes. What could it be? If we go by distance maybe something halfway across the country? But what on... | 2019-09-18T10:11:45 | 2019-09-18T09:38:04 | 51 | 24 |
[WP] A small village becomes fearful of a dragon that has taken residence near them. The dragonslayer they hired runs back to the village after the first day and begins rapidly packing his things. "It's not the dragon that you should be afraid of" He says. "It's the thing its protecting you from." | "What lies behind in that cave is a far greater threat to your souls than the Dragon protecting it, heed my advice and simply leave this valley."
Skol Drakesbane continues packing his bag, keen to be gone from this place, a look of sour disappointment on his face. He came back from the mountain less than six hours af... | "The Dragon? Protecting us? Preposterous!"
The elder of the village stood in the market square, with nearly the entire village behind him, blocking the Hunter's route out of town. The hunter, blocked off from anywhere other than the Inn he'd just left, desperately glanced around for any kind of understanding in the cr... | 2019-12-31T05:38:57 | 2019-12-31T05:13:36 | 275 | 115 |
[WP] You're the bartender at one of those small, hole-in-the-wall drinking establishments. However, your clientele every Friday night, consists of all major deities and religious figures, down on Earth to have a drink and unwind from the rigors of being a god/prophet/all-knowing-being...
God. Muhammed. Shiva. Hercules... | There are a thousand bars in Bangkok, offering anything from five-star luxury, all the way down to "those" bars, where ruddy-faced farang spill their sweat and their wallets in equal measures. My bar is not any of those bars.
First, it is not really a bar at all, not any longer. I opened it thirty years ago in the p... | “I’m not skipping you ahead.”
“You have to. I’m God.”
“And? The three gods you’re trying to skip are also gods.”
“Capital G though.”
“I don’t have that song, and you don’t have the right voice to sing Trent Reznor.”
“No, I am God with a capital G. Most important. Best God. Number one.”
“You’re talking like... | 2015-06-01T11:20:49 | 2015-06-01T11:18:49 | 27 | 15 |
[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 | Left eye twitching, Sammy glared at the strange occupant of her home. She's had a long day at work, starting with the bi- no, the *chaste* Evith irritating her to no end. Then her dull rock of a partner didn't show up at work without letting anyone know, leaving the work of two people for her to deal with.
Now, in her... | “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... | 2019-04-06T15:33:50 | 2019-04-06T15:14:14 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] After a life of survival in the wasteland, you wake up a week before the bombs fell. Knowing the future, you prepare for the end by citing the laws of the wasteland. And so, a week passes, and sitting in your bunker, the bombs did not fall. | I was seventeen the day the bombs fell. I was furious from having to go upstate to my grandparents farm for the weekend. My girlfriend, Sandy, stayed at home in the city. When my grandpa woke me I remember the fear in his eyes, the sound of television saying unintelligible things about missiles, cities burning, and ... | I was back again. Back from a hopeless life in a destroyed world where only the toughest would survive. It was so unreal. After 20 years the memories of the pre apoclypse world had been blurry at best. But in the moment of death by the hand of a mutant freak everything became so clear again. Like I was actually experie... | 2018-10-13T16:57:34 | 2018-10-13T14:24:37 | 64 | 18 |
[WP] It started just before you realized you were pregnant. Dragons showing up around your home. Small ones first, no bigger than sparrows, with increasingly larger ones as time went on. Now you're going into labor, and a golden dragon, big as a hill, is coming over the horizon. | When the nurse came inside the waiting room, she had a harried look on her face. She scanned the room and stared at Mr. Gray with expressionless eyes.
"Your presence is requested on the rooftop, Mr. Gray," said the nurse.
"What for? My wife is in labor."
"The Dragon King, Rhozka, requests your presence, Mr. Gray."
... | My husband was a strange man. I knew that when I met him, fell in love and married him.
Our enchanted wedding blurred past and ended with raised amber glasses pointing at the giant golden Moon peaking through thick trees, orbs of light floating like fairy lights. I was in my breathtaking wedding dress, truly and full... | 2018-10-28T07:30:38 | 2018-10-28T06:36:30 | 25 | 16 |
[WP] "How the hell are there FIFTEEN sides in this civil war?" | (This is really stupid, but I've done it now.)
Somewhere in rural Hertfordshire, a commander rallied her troops.
“And remember, when you hold your sword aloft in no man's land, when you stare your enemy down in the moment before bloodshed, remember for whom you fight...”
The warriors stood shoulder to shoulder as th... | I haven't written anything concrete yet, but I love this scenario. This is how I envisioned it:
(not a native english speaker btw, so bear with me)
"Fifteen bloody sides?
When His Holiness, Protector of the Dominion of Men and Divine Avatar passed at 102, He declared on His deathbed His Child as Holy Successor and P... | 2016-04-08T17:15:24 | 2016-04-08T16:08:41 | 194 | 44 |
[WP] You start a religion as a scam, and your fake prophecies start coming true. | “Everybody give it up for Banabu Thomas!”
As the audience cheered and clapped, I strode onto stage wearing my widest smile. In truth, I was almost faint with giddiness. Karen was the most famous talk show host in the country, and to finally be invited to join her … it was a dream come true. Or it would be if I hadn't ... | "No, there's nothing else. It's just me. I'm sure of it," the priest said rambling to himself in his quarters. The priest, or God, as many believed, had been very busy these past ten years. After he discovered his power, he had made the world a much better place. He had predicted crime rate would fall to zero percent h... | 2016-06-09T19:24:00 | 2016-06-09T19:05:26 | 516 | 15 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | (I love this premise. Sorry my response sucks but I wanted to throw an idea out... if anyone can do better please steal my idea and rehash.)
Helen was lucky for two reasons. First of all, she was a 200. Second of all, her family lived by The Wall.
The Wall was ancient, towering hundreds of feet in the air, cover... | "This is what you get! Think you're better than us? Think you can just wall us up in the desert?"
Gunfire echoed through Zone 200. *Gunfire.* How could this happen here? The only people with weapons like that should be the border guards! But here they were, running rampant through the city.
Some of us fought bac... | 2016-08-26T13:09:01 | 2016-08-26T12:52:13 | 602 | 54 |
[WP] Jokingly you say to your friend "If either of us discover time travel, the first place we visit is this moment". The second those words leave your mouth what appears to be an older version of yourself rounds the corner, and he looks terrified. | "I just don’t understand how time travel will ever exist. It just doesn’t seem possible."
It takes me a moment to answer Jane because I’m stuffing French fries in my face. I hadn’t even stopped to look at how many I was putting into my mouth when my greasy fingers grabbed from the McDonalds box, and now I was chewing... | The older version of me took a deep breath and then tapped his sunglasses. When I squinted I could see tiny glowing numbers and letters shifting around in the black lenses. The older me then took a look around, his gaze settling on me and my friend.
"Right. The first place we visit moment," old me sighed.
"Is t... | 2017-03-02T11:13:15 | 2017-03-02T09:44:16 | 106 | 16 |
[WP] After translating the message encoded in the meteorite, your team is stunned and terrified. "Thank you for saving our species. Your sacrifice will be honored for eternity." | The effort to retrieve the object had been significant. When we'd first spotted it travelling through space, it was clearly aimed, vaguely, at Jupiter or Earth; but would miss Jupiter by tens of thousands of miles and pass within the moon's orbit; practically next door, in spatial terms. The object was clearly inhuman,... | The first time doing this criticsm is requested.
The meteorite was undetected and unseen until it was too late and coming straight for earth. It was believed to have been a massive iron meteorite. When news came out of the meteorite coming straight for earth, people had begun to panic. Riots began to occur on a massiv... | 2022-06-19T07:20:41 | 2022-06-19T01:59:00 | 205 | 83 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | Am I the hero or am I the villain? I've been asking myself that question for as long as I can remember. But before you help me, how about some history?
You see, before the rapture, life was bland. For most, they stuck to a daily routine. They lived in a life full of possibility but remained stagnant in their ambition.... | I’ve never activated my sigil in public. It’s not a cool power anyway... that was what I thought.
But in a world where everyone has their own talent manifest, I just didn’t fit in.
That’s why the bullies found me to be an easy target.
“Look it’s Shit ring!” I heard Warren yell as I tried to ignore him.
That’s right, ... | 2020-02-26T08:01:07 | 2020-02-26T07:22:06 | 99 | 43 |
[WP] Everyone who turns 30 is forgiven a single criminal act of choice they commit on their birthday. | The shotgun was an early birthday present to myself. After all, I was going to need it today. I had bought it on credit, but that was okay. Paying off debts wouldn't be a problem for much longer. The thought made me smile.
I walked into the bank with an air of anticipation running through me, shotgun resting laz... | I stood there, gazing at myself in the mirror and adjusting the paraphernalia I had yet to use but in my imagination. After placing every stitch of the uniform in place just so, I sighed heavily and headed for the door, pausing momentarily to collect both my thoughts and my baton. I would be facing neighbors today, fri... | 2015-06-26T12:56:26 | 2015-06-26T12:19:11 | 105 | 32 |
[WP] It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world, but you can only do so by getting kills. | It has become an addiction, more than killing ever was. It has consumed me.
When you picture "serial killer," I'm the first thing that springs into your mind. I tortured animals as a child, and I liked it. My father abused me relentlessly, second only to my mother. I eventually killed him... and her. I took a life fo... | When the first murderer leveled up, all hell broke loose.
People scrambled to murder, rip and tear to get that sweet, sweet experience points.
Only kills made when making eye contact mattered. So many wasted lives at first... or were they?
For what you ask?
It is a simple system where the winner takes the largest ... | 2015-11-11T08:18:22 | 2015-11-11T08:01:49 | 1,155 | 265 |
[WP] When everyone turns 18, they receive a pet which is figurative of their personality. You're the first person to receive a dragon... | Maya expected an otter, or maybe a cat. Lots of people got those on their 18th birthday. She secretly hoped for something more obscure, like Will Cougan. Will lived down the road from her and around the blue fence, and when they were younger he had teased her quite a lot while they were waiting for the school bus. Last... | Ian was buried under a thick layer of sheets when he felt something moist run the length of his back. It entered his dream, and he saw a dog licking him. Ian started to play with the dog, before he felt the feeling again and jolted awake.
He slowly opened his eyes, saw the dragon in front of him, and went to check the... | 2014-09-28T11:15:34 | 2014-09-28T04:20:39 | 87 | 32 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | Zach looks at the bright green numbers illuminating from the clock that lit his bedroom from his night stand: it is 11:56 P.M. Tucking his phone under the pillow, he quietly walk past his parent's bedroom to the living room, where the family computer is, and types in his username and password. Like every night, he know... | I looked at her as she looked back
We looked at the button, unassuming black
We kissed deeply, in the matte dark
We looked at the button, the paradigm Mark
I looked at her as she looked back
Fear and emotion and a need for no lack
We kissed as we pushed, together, in tandem
What happened next, was far from rando... | 2016-07-16T20:08:19 | 2016-07-16T17:08:32 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. |
I killed the first guard as he was taking a piss. My footsteps were drowned out by laughter from the party in the room next door. He stank and swayed like he had been partaking in the revelry himself. I slit his throat with my boot knife and pillaged his belongings before slowly lowering his body into the latrine h... | It’s my first try on these. I’m sorry for my awful writing.
Dave wiped the blood from his blade before the guard even hit the floor. No expression came to his face, he didn’t enjoy killing, but he didn’t hate it either.
His party of four years was made up of good, friendly people. And they’d paid the price for that. D... | 2019-12-07T12:06:55 | 2019-12-07T11:42:59 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] A psychotherapist slowly realizes he/she exhibits many of the same dispositions as his/her sociopath clients. | **4:23 P.M.**
**August 4th 2013**
**Autumn House Group Home**
**Kansas City, MO**
"You need to learn to let go of everything you've done in the past, and live a life of truth. You've gone so far down the hole, David, you're caught in a pit of lies and can't find the way out. You're able to manipulate everyone aroun... | Here we go again: "my wife doesn't love me... I hate going to work... I don't know where my life went..." How the fuck do they expect me to help them? Why do these people think that I have all the answers? I'm human. We all are. We're born, we live a few years... Some more than others... Then we die alone. It scares me... | 2013-10-25T10:14:37 | 2013-10-25T10:00:11 | 49 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a society where at the end of each day, you can choose to relive it, but without retaining any knowledge of what happened previously. A number in your peripheral vision shows how many previous times you lived through the current day. Almost always that number is 0. Today it is 7212. | I opened my eyes and looked at the number. 7212. It seemed like only yesterday that yesterday had happened, and yet I had been reliving this day for almost 20 years.I got up and got changed, made breakfast and packed my bag, in almost the same way as I had done 7000 or so times ago.
You see, two years ago, reset techn... | Bright shafts of sun came pouring through the gaps in my curtains. I woke slowly, curling the sheets around myself until I couldn't ignore the light anymore. Finally I managed to crawl out, pad into the kitchen, and prepare a bowl of brightly-colored cereal. Still half asleep, I carried the bowl to the couch without sp... | 2016-07-11T06:08:16 | 2016-07-11T03:56:59 | 1,146 | 450 |
[WP] You heal fast, very, very fast. | I suppose it's my own fault really.
Have you ever heard of Wolverine? The X-men? Turns out they weren't that far off the money in reality. But when nothing can kill you life has a tendency to... get creative.
It was a blessing to start with really. I'd always been uncannily healthy. I'd had falls but never a scratch.... | "What kind of Black magic is this?" Screamed the knight.
After what felt like hours of silence was broken by our hero as he almost whispered "it's an ancient curse".
Turns out even though your neck heals faster than a sword can swing through it, your throat will still feel sore.
The Knight looked confused at the peasa... | 2019-08-09T07:37:33 | 2019-08-09T06:11:18 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] in a feudal world, every warrior's skill is reflected in their blade, the bigger the blade, the less skilled, one day you meet someone carrying just a hilt | He didn't look like a weathered warrior when I saw him at the end of the counter at the White Oak Inn. He looked happy and generally well off. His clothes were as fine as a nobleman's; but not gaudy nor ostentatious. He couldn't be a nobleman, as for no nobleman would be caught dead in a local tavern. There was an aura... | I am Fuma, I live with my sword. It is not the largest of them, and that is good. I remember the time I yearned to get a narrower blade. It took my sweat and blood under years of training deep within the mountains. For this I got up at the break of dawn and slept only when the animals of the night went silent as well. ... | 2015-02-25T14:17:28 | 2015-02-25T11:33:09 | 47 | 34 |
[WP] Whenever someone is born, the first sentence they utter predicts how they die. Lately every kid has been saying the same first sentence. | It was an amusing montage on YouTube at the beginning - 5 little cherubs in a row saying "fuck this shit". But then there were thousands all at once. The next most common was "I've had enough", and then "we're done here".
There was fear all over the world for the cataclysmic event that must surely be on the horizon. ... | I anxiously waited for my daughters first words. I kept a small journal that detailed everything I've done with her. Nightly readings, exposure to music, and educational television shows from when I was growing up. Everything to prepare my daughter for when she spoke.
"Come on, Eternity," I whispered. I had bee. Hope... | 2021-12-23T10:25:25 | 2021-12-23T08:37:09 | 53 | 35 |
[WP] Every human receives an envelope, and the choice to open it or keep it sealed. Enclosed within it is your death date. You open yours only to find it's blank. | The Administrator held the envelope before him in offering. A second later, he shook it slightly, as if to emphasize that it was being offered, not displayed.
Seth continued leaning on his doorframe, looking bored and slightly irritated. Somewhere in Seth's apartment, a televised laugh track seemed to find the situati... | You see, each human at their birth date (if they are to survive for that long) is handed an envelope. Plain and white, the size of a postcard, this envelope contained the date of their departure from this world. Some used what little life they would have left to say goodbye to loved ones, others convinced themselves of... | 2017-06-03T17:12:40 | 2017-06-03T14:25:31 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] When humanity enters the intergalactic stage, they find that the other intergalactic species have never successfully formed a unified galactic alliance, like many of Earth’s science fiction writings had predicted. Rather, humanity becomes one of its founding members. | Several high-pitched whines and low gurgling filled the room as various weapons were activated and aimed.
The ornate robot, unarmed, turned towards the human ambassador: "You better have a good excuse to put us and these... Savages, in the same room."
A series of beastly noises came in response, followed by the trans... | "Look at these losers, they want to eat dinner with us?" Korak, the Plimsy said.
"We are a great nation of Plimsies," Lula replied, "Let us be open to these new pilgrims. They have come to learn about our customs and they have promised us peace."
"I'll give it 156 years until they start trying to write their own con... | 2017-12-04T23:54:19 | 2017-12-04T22:20:09 | 128 | 16 |
[WP] You possess an ability to turn off one or more of your senses to heighten the others. Today is the day you make a mistake. | I discovered my ability when I was young. It's sort of... How do I describe it? Imagine your brain is your house. It can suck in a certain amount of power. You have everything turned on and it's running pretty well. Go down to the basement, find your way into the back room and you have the fuse box. I guess it's more l... | David claims I must have sold my soul to the devil for this device strapped on my wrist, but I actually found it in a garbage at Burger King.
Who in their right mind would throw this thing away? It's the best thing I've ever seen. Siren going on outside my window at 2am? Sound off. Eating some super-healthy, but super... | 2016-08-24T12:15:40 | 2016-08-24T11:45:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Try as you might, it is impossible to deny it any longer: that's definitely a cow. | The field on the far side of town had always been Sophie's favorite hangout spot. The place had once been an enclosure for a dairy farm, but when the recession hit, the owners had taken everything and left - except for a half dozen cows they couldn't afford to transport.
The neighbors had taken turns caring for the c... | The semitruck mostly drove itself.
Harold sat in the driver's seat, watching the steering wheel twist on his own, and it felt like watching his own job disappear right in front of him. Most of the jobs were automated now, but commercial driving was hit extra hard. Ever since the Lightroad tech went mainstream, drivers... | 2021-04-20T01:38:36 | 2021-04-20T00:32:47 | 33 | 21 |
[WP] As it turns out Humans weren’t the only intelligent life, instead they were just the first. They explored the universe and helped many budding civilizations until one day they just disappeared completely. You are an alien historian who decided to find out what happened, these are your findings. | **Extinction Report**
*Investigator:* Tril Kor Tal
*Subject Species:* Humanity
*Species Aliases:* Homo sapiens, The Teachers, The First Ones
*Conclusion:* Inconclusive. See analysis.
*****
**Analysis**
Allow me to begin with an apology. This report is based largely on conjecture. There can be no objectivity in t... | The undulating crowd fell silent the moment I ascended the podium. Other than the gentle hum of the engine pulsing outside the window, not a sound could be heard.
I shuffled my notes and stared at the stars glimmering above my head. Looked like Qaar had finally gotten around to installing the transparent ceiling in t... | 2020-03-12T11:03:23 | 2020-03-12T10:57:51 | 2,893 | 33 |
[WP]Things on the mountain don't age. You built a cabin to live in with your family 300 years ago, and since then none of you have aged a day. You've even come to know many of the animals as they too are immortal, and have grown wise. One day you find an old buck, a friend, shot dead and left to rot
EDIT: I’m trying s... | I don’t get home until after dark, treading lightly. I furnish myself with a glass of whiskey and go into the silence of the basement. A quick tug of the cord dangling by my ear lights the room with a single electric bulb in the centre. There, mounted on the far wall, is the rifle.
The whiskey runs down my throat like... | I couldn't believe it was him at first- I didn't want to. But there was no denying that it was him. The same milky, blind eyes and coarse, patchy fur. He looked almost as if he were sleeping peacefully, his head resting gently on a pillow of moss, but the rotting entrails around his body stripped away this illusion. I ... | 2019-06-02T07:54:10 | 2019-06-02T07:23:21 | 104 | 38 |
[WP] You are the owner of a magic backpack; every morning you stick your hand in and it contains exactly what you need for the day. One morning it contains a gun. | I've had the same backpack for fifteen years, and I don't plan on switching soon. Not since that first day in second grade when I reached inside my empty backpack and felt the crinkly foil of a pack of trading cards. Got some boss pulls and dominated the playground scene. Or that one time I was running late and forgot ... | David yelled out in shock as the cold metal fell out from his clammy hand and onto the sidewalk pavement. The cold morning wind not only augmented onto the despair he felt, but it gave an eerie chill that ran down his back. His eyes quickly darted from left to right. No people. Dead quiet.
His hands and legs still sha... | 2017-05-09T15:28:03 | 2017-05-09T13:03:36 | 255 | 14 |
[WP] A homeless guy you take in, feed, and let shower gets back on his feet after a month or so and moves out on his own after finding a job. A few years later, he is the CEO of the company you're trying to apply to. Surprisingly however, he is a complete dick to you. | I'd taken Bob in when he most needed it. Now, Bob was a good, decent man, but Bob had always had trouble denying himself something. Anything. He was the instant-gratification kind of guy and that puts you at a risk from gambling, boozing, hard drugs ... Or all three, as in Bob's case, landing him on the street. When I ... | I don't think I've ever seen somebody this hungry. When I found Jim lying on the side of the road I honestly thought he was dead. After I finally managed to wake him up and get him upright, his stomach made a wail befitting a banshee. After a quick chat with Jim, it really seemed like he was just down on his luck. He w... | 2016-07-31T15:51:14 | 2016-07-31T14:25:26 | 81 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone is told 10 minutes before they die that they will. You're on a plane, and everyone panics at once. You didn't get that message. | A tin can of echoing screams. That's what I was on at the moment, as I sat calmly in my seat; as I wondered why everyone was freaking out. I got up from my seat and tried to get through the writhing walkway of frantic bodies and aggravated screams. Now bewildered and afraid, I tried to see if someone had just gotten ki... | I looked around me, like time was slowed. Everyone had the same, ugly, distraught look on their face.
I knew what was going to happen.
As did they.
The woman seated next to me, she grabbed my hand.
"Its going to be okay, right?" she plead.
"They'll fix the plane, right?" she begged.
As I drew the knife from my... | 2016-11-24T20:14:34 | 2016-11-24T20:01:01 | 129 | 52 |
[WP]You're the Interim CEO of a major internet company. Every decision you make seems to just go completely wrong. | "Senator, it's happened again." The sickly voice murmured.
"CHAIRMAN. HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO REMIND YOU, PEON? IT'S CHAIRMAN!" The brandished whip cracked in the air, sending the rodent-like messenger into fits of whimpering hysterics. "SAY IT. CALL ME CHAIRMAN!"
Her sallow skinned hands seemed to grip his thro... | As I stared around the boardroom, I felt the eyes of 8 top-level execs on me. It was my time to shine. I walked over to my PowerPoint presentation, confident in my abilities. As I was about to talk, my throat suddenly seized up. I stood there, in front of a bunch of middle-aged men, who's eyes bored deep into my soul, ... | 2015-07-03T03:09:06 | 2015-07-03T00:27:19 | 53 | 26 |
[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. | New to writing and trying to get better, please give me and feedback (good and bad!) I want to improve. Thanks for reading.
“You brought this on yourself you know. You really did. All of your speed and strength, your flight and heightened senses, where are they now? Too bad you don’t also have any healing abilities f... | "You aren't supposed to kill them."
That was what they all said.
"You can't kill people!"
As if they hadn't done the same thing, over and over again.
"Villains kill people!! You're a Villain."
That was how it started. I didn't care. They were hypocrites, the lot of them. A mass-murderer? Me? What about all the l... | 2017-06-12T07:45:28 | 2017-06-12T06:36:00 | 181 | 45 |
[WP] After solving your 143rd murder mystery, you're desperate to solve the mystery of why people keep getting murdered around you. | The mayor raised the key to the city high over his head. “It is with great honor that I present the key to the city to the greatest detective the world has ever known: Inspector Ferris Winslow!” the mayor said. He handed me the giant golden key and began applauding with the other fifteen thousand people in the crowd.
... | **Meant to Happen**
Funny, I still remember the first case I solved. John Higgins stabbed in the back with a massive dagger from the Wilkin's house, by Betty White. Crime of passion. Higgins had threatened to spill the beans about Betty's affair with Jhye Williams. She, the Satanist, decided to curb the danger quite c... | 2021-04-12T21:11:42 | 2021-04-12T16:26:26 | 33 | 14 |
[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. | When our worlds collided, we were unprepared for magic. All of our technology was useless against the elves and their sorcerers or the dwarves and their powerful enchantments or the orcs and their shamans.
You would think that bullets, tanks, and fighter jets would carry the day easy but no. Not even nukes did squat... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T07:58:17 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 140 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a unique, living tattoo that grows as they do. When people make skin contact, their tattoos may interact in various ways: some passively, others with hostility. | My life was complete the moment Isabelle was born. She wasn't just the final piece slotted into a jigsaw -- more like, before she was born, my life was the rickety scaffold of the jigsaw, the outside pieces only, bending and writhing but unable to find stability without all the bits in the middle. Empty.
Then, Isabel... | *The color is the indicator.*
Jeff sat slumped against the far wall of the tavern, his eyes casting wide sweeps over the quiet, dusty room. His cloth hood dipped down almost over those eyes, just barely keeping them hidden in a shadow. Every so often someone would glance his way, but as if compelled by some unseen fo... | 2017-09-12T02:07:45 | 2017-09-12T00:08:20 | 179 | 20 |
[WP] You are the firstborn of a man who promised to give their firstborn child over to a devil in exchange for a successful career. The problem is that he’s 23 years late, and you’re an adult about to propose to the love of your life. | Somewhere along the way I got lazy. I lost the edge my dad had raised me to have. Son of a bitch that he is, I can’t say he didn’t try to make up for it in his own way. I don’t think he expected to have me in his life for too long. My mistake was dropping my guard. His was getting attached.
When we’re at our lowest p... | The last of the congratulatory cheers died down. It was just me and him, standing before our loved ones. Me and him: finally engaged. But in the back of our private dining room, a dry cackle steadily increased in volume.
I ignored it. I preferred to get lost in Tristan’s handsome face. Hold his hands. But as the cackl... | 2022-11-29T22:10:35 | 2022-11-29T20:12:15 | 136 | 24 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered a way to verify who everybody was in a past life. Some people have never lived before, some have lived a hundred lives. If you decide to find out yours, the results entered into the public domain. Your results are back. You were Hitler. | This was supposed to be fun. Or exciting. Or even disappointing. I would have settled for disappointing. I would *pay* for disappointing.
When BestLife, Inc. came out with the technique, people lined up for blocks outside every research center. Within a week, the company upped the fee from $45 to $2000, and people sti... | The green room to the Today Show wasn't actually green, but the other guy who'd once been a famous man didn't care. "This booze, man," he said. "Delicious."
I wasn't in the mood for booze. It was eight o'clock in the morning.
He sipped his down with nary a wince. "So--who were you?"
"They said they didn't want me to... | 2015-02-23T17:54:41 | 2015-02-23T17:31:07 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] It was an accident. He was jogging late at night, you glanced at a text while driving. You panic, dump the body in a nearby lake, go home and try to forget. You venture out for some much needed coffee, only to stop in shock. The barista is the jogger and he recognizes you. | I stumbled back in pure awe. Mouth ajar and everything, as my cash fell onto the ground. My skin went ghost white as the barista looked me up and down, then let out a slight sigh through his nostrils. I saw him quickly glance to the phone, then fixed his gaze on me.
"Can I help you, sir?" He'd ask. I'd start stumbling... | I try to avert his gaze, but his penetrating stare paralyzes me. After what feels like an eternity, he slides the mug across the counter, leaning towards me, and quietly whispers...
"I've seen your face before my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am.
Well I was there and I saw what you did, I saw it with m... | 2018-09-23T05:55:27 | 2018-09-23T04:04:00 | 96 | 37 |
[WP] Movies would have you believe that when a demon possesses someone, they wreak as much havoc as they can before being exorcised. In reality, demons want to stay out of Hell for as long as possible, and what better way than making sure the host and their family really like the possession. | “Possession is a lot harder than the movies would have you believe, kid. Have you ever thought about it? I mean, pulling off a convincing switcharoo? Satan forbid your target is a CEO or some super scientist, or some other career oriented person with responsibilities. And if they have family? Friends? That’s a lot of t... | I try don't make it a habit, however the screams of the self inflicted punishment got bored at some point. Demons doesn't want to be there more than needed to find a new body to posses.
I love the rebel smart kids with their way of making everyone on the family hate them. "I am smarter, you idiots." And they are prett... | 2022-10-15T21:06:52 | 2022-10-15T16:49:40 | 358 | 32 |
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