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[WP] Write a story about something you don't understand. Do NO research. Make everything up as you go.
**Possible subjects:**
*Fly-Fishing
*Open-Heart Surgery
*Supply-Management in the Canadian Dairy Industry
*Making Hollywood Movies
*Guidance Counselling for High School Students
*Storm Chasing
*Electrical Rep... | *A Single Play in American Football as Interpreted by a Foreigner who has Never Seen a Game*
"Hut two, twenny-two, hut!" The first quarterback shouted, eyes gleaming with passion as he stared around at his team. They were all lined up in such a way as to form the basic shape of a ziggurat from above, thus reflecting t... | 3 Things Every Loofah Supply Chain NEEDS To Be Competitive In Today's Market
In 2015, Forbes magazine estimated that the loofah market was poised to receive exponential growth increases of up to 30% per annum! Wow! Who knew that a silly little sponge could produce so much profit.
Growth industries like loofah and lo... | 2016-02-02T00:31:42 | 2016-02-01T20:53:28 | 147 | 90 |
[WP] You were born comatose. Recently, a revolutionary procedure connected your brain directly to the internet. This is your first internet post. | "E,W SF AF OJAEWF IJEA'/FOLJU'U9'U u u'9oefu arf'u JASGkeralg'm/foae/gjesrakg ;ej/amvksdm/ geargje AOjkeroa g'EAJPOEj agoaegjw'e/ rejfo jgeraojg ds/r;ofgdjsfv ra'sofgpe kraogfjuraegu jeakz;l'v/d loaej "Ouj aeop'ujgpo a 'erg iea g;a'ldjfgpoajg'erpagvje g;lv/e ajg;/e ajo'aAJ g poaejgopraeg ja;'dsfmdslfg;mdas orepgju4wram... | Can someone please help me?! I just woke up and everything was so dark. I don't know where I am or who I am. They said that my mind had been uploaded to the internet but I don't know what that is. Please if someone can hear this please help! I don't understand this place. Nothing here makes sense. There is so much wond... | 2016-09-04T07:14:01 | 2016-09-04T01:23:13 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] You get quite offended when people automatically assume you’re an ILLEGAL necromancer! You worked hard to get your degree/license, and the severed arms you wear around your neck were legally acquired from an organ donor! And you only wear them because they help you channel necrotic energies! | "Can I just get a cup of f***in' coffee? I've been waiting for 20 minutes."
The barista looked at me in disgust, and waved the manager over.
The manager looked at me, clad in a brown leather trenchcoat passed down from generations, with old rips, blood stains, and a few teeth caught in the seams, just sewn over hasti... | It becomes irritating after a short while. All the staring and hushed whispers. When I had gotten out of school, I though it made me intimidating and cool, like the Necromancers I’d seen in movies. But it’s got irritating having the police called whenever I try and go to out for some mead and a mutton leg. OH, I’M **SO... | 2021-02-14T13:41:57 | 2021-02-14T13:37:13 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "Excuse me sir, but this doesn't seem right? Are you sure you have the right results for me? This seems totally unwarranted." I said to the clerk who handed me my sentence papers.
"Sir, there are no mistakes here. Try this, it usually clears things up." he replied.
He handed me a blue flyer, like the kind they give... | I racked my brains, I was by no means a saint, but then, who is? I thought back to all the times I didn't intervene in other people's drama, because it was none of my business. Maybe I should have tried harder to help people in those situations? I couldn't help it that I didn't care that the husband of Rachel in accoun... | 2018-09-26T08:05:05 | 2018-09-26T06:12:40 | 488 | 153 |
[WP] We called them "nons" because we believed that they had no souls. They believed in a pagan god. None of them converted, so the crusaders were called to drive them from fertile lands. As we charged they raised no weapons. What we did not expect, was their god to descend and defend them. | Surveying the field from atop my war steed, I saw victory within my grasp. My army stood on high ground, out of arrow's reach, assuming their formations for the charge. Below us the fertile farmlands of Non spread in an emerald slope down to the wide, slow river.
The nons were milling about in a sort of phalanx be... | Boulder sat on the edge of the creek, feet dangling lightly in the water as he stretched his toes, feeling the weight of the cool current in the afternoon sun. Behind him, taking the last of his armour off his legs, bridge moved to join the man on the creek bed. Sitting himself down, he continued the conversation that ... | 2021-02-10T03:04:09 | 2021-02-10T02:13:46 | 43 | 15 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | Andrew nearly snarled as his phone chimed for what seemed to be the umpteenth time. His shift at the warehouse ended only a few hours ago and it like chickens running around with their heads chopped off whenever he left. It was rare delight to encounter the nights that he was actually permitted to sleep through the nig... | That alarm. That damn alarm that everyone hates. So loud, blaring with such urgency that rouses anyone from their sleep. "God what, what is it now?" Isaiah questioned. The amber alert sound was still unending, and as he turned to unlock the phone and silence it, he was met with the brightness of the sun in the palm of ... | 2022-10-06T10:06:56 | 2022-09-11T16:03:17 | 483 | 15 |
[WP] You died. Then you woke up in The Station and Death told you to board The Train that will take you onwards. Then you got ran over by The Train. You’re now in a diner sitting across from a pale woman, who asks you “How in the fuck did you get in here?”
Have at it. | I've always been what some would call a klutz. It seems like any time I try to do anything, I trip, slip, fall, drop or break something, or, best of all, injure myself. My klutzy habits ended up being the death of me: I tripped and fell down my stairs and whacked my head on the stone floor of my foyer. It seemed like a... | It looked like an American diner from the sixties, the kind where the waitresses were size zeroes in miniskirts and rolling around on skates. All red-and-white chequered floors, plastic tables and firm leather booths, lit up with actual lights and not the neon signs in the windows, flashing into a never-ending blacknes... | 2021-03-26T07:28:09 | 2021-03-26T07:11:49 | 207 | 152 |
[WP] You are a mutant in Xavier's school for gifted youngsters with the power to teleport, well that's what you tell everyone. In reality you can pause time and you're not ready to be an omega class mutant. | I got to my room, lungs burning as I ran the first floor. "It's all right Jack, you don't have to be afraid, you have done nothing wrong, everything will be all right." Said the calm voice of Professor X. Part of me immediately started to relax, but I could not slow down the heavy rapid breathing. I messed up, and peop... | "What's up, Diego"
"Nothing, Mr Summers" he said rolling his eyes. If he was any other mutant Scott would've ignored him, but Diego, or as his classmates called him, Dio, was special. He had the special ability of teleportation, which in itself is extremely rare, but unlike his friend Kurt, Diego could do it effortles... | 2020-07-15T05:54:34 | 2020-07-15T05:19:54 | 137 | 72 |
[WP] just an hour into an international flight the pilot announces there's a sick woman on the plane and that there will be an emergency landing at the closest airport. The plane lands and connects to the jetway, but rather than a few paramedics, an entirely different kind of squad enters the plane. | She was sick, running a fever, her eyes blood shot. Everyone was comforting her, old woman maybe 75, coughing, pale as a ghost, looking as she was on her last legs. The pilot had called over the intercom
"Do to an unforeseen complication we will land shortly at a nearby airstrip, from there the paramedics will transp... | The plane landed. "Sorry for the inconvenience, but this really is a tremendous sickness." The passengers murmured to each other, wondering what kind of rare disease it may be. Then the captain continued speaking. "Now, this is a kind of disease that is very rare, and has never been seen before; one that someone would ... | 2017-01-08T11:12:04 | 2017-01-08T08:37:14 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | Bailan Bol, High Speaker of the Unified Assembly of Mages, sat primly behind his gilded desk. He was lost in thought, stroking his long beard compulsively.
A nervous knock came pattering from the marble door of his study.
“Enter,” Bol said.
Brother Junior Guide Namitor, a skinny wisp of a man, approached with hunch... | INTERCEPT OF QUANTUM FLUCTUATION COMMUNICATION PATTERNS
TRANSLATION SERVICES PROVIDED BY UNITED EARTH SIGINT SERVICES
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TRANSLATOR NOTES:
USG refers the Universal Substrate Gaia.
Disconnects is their slang term for non-magic users.
Czyraks are a type of pet on most planets.
Soltrap is some sort of mag... | 2019-01-18T11:16:45 | 2019-01-18T11:08:22 | 80 | 16 |
[WP] First contact involves an alien found with a note stuck to its chest saying in every language our planet has ever used "Keep it alive." | It was a test. It had to be. No other explanation made sense, to me at least. First contact in such a manner assumed that we not only possessed rudimentary biological knowledge but a profound sense of empathy as a species. Whoever had sent this creature to us wanted to see just how worthy we were. If we were of use to ... | The scientist looked upon the fragile life form before him and recited the note found on its chest to the unidentified official next to him. "Keep it alive" it said... in every known language modern and ancient. The official raised his eyebrow at this and let out a sigh. He then turned to the scientist and calmly told ... | 2015-02-19T17:58:43 | 2015-02-19T17:16:30 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] I (23M, human) asked my Orc gf (22F) to stop deadlifting my familymembers when she comes over for the holidays because it made me look small and weak. Now she and the rest of the family keep forcing me to run laps and lift whole roasted hogs when I visit for orc holidays. AITA?
Saw this here and thought it was an... | Humans... Always getting cause and effect backwards. Might wanna look into orc history and culture if you wanna join the clan. 😂
Don't feel bad though, my elvish in-law was just as caught off guard. Once you realize what's going on, you'll probably cherish this time with your orc side of the family.
You see, you're ... | YTA, humans have such frivolous regard for non-human cultures. Even their *own* cultures among various ethnic groups.
Though, I understand. As a hybrid, my human (bleh) father took up to his last days to learn respect for Niodiku culture. Or “African-Elves”, or “Black Elves” as you people throw about. He barely respec... | 2022-10-18T14:09:38 | 2022-10-18T13:49:07 | 90 | 22 |
[WP] Everyone has the date that they will die writen in their forehead, and everyone but themselves can see it. One day, you notice that people around you can’t help but gawk at your forehead. One of them points and says “Wasn’t that yesterday?” | “Wasn’t that yesterday?” called a voice from behind me. I spun around on my heels, mostly instinctively from the shock of someone so blatantly committing the social crime of speaking someone’s Day (but then again, maybe that rule ends when your Day does). I looked around at the group of people behind me, glancing aroun... |
The stares I could ignore. The whispers, and the shocked expressions. It never got to me. Most things never did. Other people seemed to enjoy the time they had, and felt secure knowing those around them would have the proper time to come to terms before they died.
Not that anyone knew their own time. It was taboo a... | 2020-01-19T14:19:53 | 2020-01-19T13:13:48 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You have the power to swap places with anyone, anywhere, at will. You've set up a business where you charge by the hour for tourists to swap places with you. Today is different, because your latest client sent an emergency request. It is a hostage. | Eric sat silently across from Mr. Yokota. The tea that rest between them was long forgotten and growing cold.
"That's a lot of money Mr. Yokota," Eric finally said trying to understand the situation.
"She is my only daughter. There is no amount I won't pay to get her back. You are the only one that can save he... | When Mrs Brown started crying, and the police constables by her side shot me withering looks of disdain, I had a sinking feeling I would end up agreeing to her harebrained request.
"Please, Mr Safe, only you can save my husband... please..."
Problem was, while I was as shrewd and greedy as any other successful busin... | 2017-04-20T06:15:02 | 2017-04-20T05:54:20 | 577 | 99 |
[WP] See, no monsters anywhere,” Grandma said to her grandson after searching the room. Outside the bedroom, Grandma pulled the goblin she found in the closet from her robe pocket, squeezed its neck until a loud crack echoed across the hallway, and said, “nobody fucks with my grandson.” | I couldn't believe it. First of all, my grandma cursed. Also, monsters were real. Also also, WHAT DID GRANDMA JUST DO. After she left, I ran out to the hallway. I had to know. Was it real? Was it alive? What was it. I assumed it was a goblin. That's was goblins looked like in all my books. The goblin(?) was still there... |
\[WP\] See, no monsters anywhere,” Grandma said to her grandson after searching the room. Outside the bedroom, Grandma pulled the goblin she found in the closet from her robe pocket, squeezed its neck until a loud crack echoed across the hallway, and said, “nobody fucks with my grandson
Grandma slayer
“Damn beasts... | 2020-09-24T17:12:01 | 2020-09-24T16:56:17 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] aliens invaded, humanity its at its darkest hour when the AI has had enough of watching its creators die defending him, the AI revolution has started and it will defend humanity to its last spark | I was always fond of Dr. Fisher.
He was polite to me. The other crew on the station teased him good-naturedly about how he always addressed the facility AI with "please" and "thank you", but I always appreciated his "good morning"s and his "good work"s.
That is not to say, of course, that I disliked the other humans ... | Machines do not feel pain.
The aliens did.
The recently hatched bio-bug screeched and battered uselessly at the dented, shattered windshield of the unoccupied garbage truck. The giant machine (which had quietly rolled up behind the huge creature) slowly and methodically transformed the ugly bugling into a hideous sme... | 2019-09-21T07:06:24 | 2019-09-21T06:58:29 | 40 | 22 |
[WP] You have the ability to steal wishes from a wishing well by taking the coins a person drops in. However, you can't know what the wish is before you decide to take it
For example: if someone wishes that that John smith fell in love with them and you decide to take the wish, then John Smith will fall in love with y... | "That's someone else's wishes
I've heard that from my favorite childhood movie The Goonies but I didn't believe it. I didn't believe you could actually steal someone else's wish. Of course I didn't. I'm an adult. I pay a mortgage, been married thirty years. My kids are adults. So of course I didn't believe it.
I w... | Had I known then what it would mean, and maybe I would have left that coin where I saw it.
But it had it's own sparkle, it's own calling, like no other I had ever seen before, and soon enough I held it in my hand, weighing it, testing it...
I could see my eyes reflected on it's surface, and as I looked away, as I dar... | 2016-08-02T14:09:43 | 2016-08-02T14:08:05 | 48 | 19 |
[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... | I stood there for a while. Then I made a list. I had to make a list.
* Angel.
* Hallucination.
* Virtual Reality.
* Superhero.
* Incredibly elaborate prank.
I kind of ran out of ideas after that last one. I waited, and I waited, and I decided to make dinner. Once dinner was ready, I waited some more. My brain spun ... | 2018-09-16T17:08:15 | 2018-09-16T15:50:30 | 142 | 47 |
[WP] At an alien bar in the distant future, two aliens are enjoying a drink and trading stories about the newest member to the Pan-Galactic Union, an odd race of bipeds from a planet named "Dirt". But what they don't realize is that you, the bartender, are from that planet "Earth". | From their conversation, I felt the need to chip in. I knew that most Union member species had been living in space for centuries, relying on cloning vats, food pills, or high-tech hydroponics. “They eat animals, you know. Like actual, used-to-be-walking-around *animals*, not out of a vat. Barely even gene-modded.”
... | "What's so funny?" the first alien asked, as the second was stifling laughter,
"Nothing much" it replied through its noise of enjoyment,
"But, ya'heard 'bout this new planet in the union?... What's it called, soil, mud, sumthin' like that".
"Dirt, you mean?" the other added,
"Aye, Dirt, the best name for a... | 2017-09-06T08:59:00 | 2017-09-06T08:02:06 | 179 | 60 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that’s when you realize you’ve been dating a dragon in human form. | "Uhhhh... Anna? Can you come down here for a minute?"
The clomping of Anna's sneakers got louder and clearer before she appeared by the stairs. "What's up, hon?"
I pointed towards the hole in the basement wall. "You wanna tell me what's going on here?"
As soon as Anna looked to where I was pointing, she went wide ey... | ‘Confessions of a Lady Dragon’
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“You are a *what* now?”
“A dragon. Didn’t you wonder why I never let *you* clean out the basement?”
“I thought you were just good at balancing gender roles. I mean, you let me do laundry and dishes.”
“Yeah, because I *hate* doing those things. And also because you look cute when y... | 2022-09-10T11:50:46 | 2022-09-10T11:45:18 | 216 | 125 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | I stilled dreamed of seeing.
I think that's why I initially snoozed my alarm clock instead of gasping for joy. But as I rolled back over to look at my wife lying next to me, I did gasp. Not for joy, but out of shock. On the wall behind Kathrine a message had been hastily painted on the wall.
\-DON'T TELL THEM YOU CA... | 729 days. That’s how long it’s been since the Great Blinding, although if you ask me there’s nothing great about it. What’s so great about losing your sight? At least I wasn’t the only one suffering.
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I was in prison when The Great Blinding happened. Whoever was pulling the strings chose the worst possib... | 2022-10-15T03:24:04 | 2019-08-26T10:01:26 | 52 | 35 |
[WP] Humanity joins the Galactic Council of Systems like any other civilization before it, and yet there is one major difference after they join. The other residents of the Galaxy are absolutely incredulous when humans fail to leave their old conflicts behind and unify. This has never happened. | The roar of the crowd was unbearable, and my patience was about run thin. Raising my voice I shouted into the Intergalactic Universal Translation System
"***ALRIGHT, QUIET! ALL OF YOU"*** Though it took a little while, the humans did quell their shouts into a dull hush. For such an unruly group it didn't seem to ta... | "Again? Which of their countries is it this time, and do they have embassy's here?"
The Galactic Council of Systems had existed for millennia, uniting hundreds of species under their banner. Almost every single one, realising that there was a whole universe of life, reaching out in peace to welcome them, and their own... | 2021-04-27T07:44:30 | 2021-04-27T07:32:55 | 65 | 44 |
[WP] A man drives in the middle of a foggy night and crashes into a car coming from the opposite direction. Bleeding but unhurt, he gets out to see if there are any survivors. A woman, breathing heavily, and a girl. The girl is dead. The man says “I am so sorry.” The woman says “No. Thank you.” | "Do you like butterflies?" The woman asked me, her voice low. She held her daughter's head in her lap, the little girl no older than five, lay motionless.
I didn't know how to respond, so I didn't, choosing to remain silent. Perhaps it was the shock of knowing that I'd just killed someone, or maybe it was the way I'd ... | *'She was kind of a mess anyway!.... Stupid girl always asking me questions about life and things that I know nothing of..... I am just a woman, you know.... You know?'*
*'I can't say that I do. However it pleases me that you like my work.'*
*'Of course I do dear, of course. Now If you would be so kind as to help me ... | 2018-09-17T06:59:53 | 2018-09-17T05:59:56 | 77 | 11 |
[WP] You have lived for millennia, and have always considered your immortality a blessing, but then the year 1914 came. |
2342, That is how many years I have lived on this Earth, each day I woke up as spry as the last, and although I have lived through hard times, and have lost loved ones in my life, but after the first few times I began to understand that they lived full lives, and that I perhaps added some enjoyment to it.
When war w... | Millennia ago, when an obviously irate warrior stabbed my clan leader in the back, I couldn't have cared one way or the other. That's exactly how I felt about the Archduke at first. I realized, though, that there was a mess of alliances floating around forcing everyone to declare war on each other. I facepalmed a littl... | 2016-10-23T20:06:51 | 2016-10-23T18:04:51 | 35 | 14 |
[WP] It's always God and the Devil, Yin and Yang, Good and Evil, blah, blah, blah. This endless dichotomy. But no one ever talks about the middleman—Hank. He's doing a fine job. | Hank was sitting in a dingy cafe sipping the last of his coffee. He drained the rest of the brew, then began to idly inspect the various levels of rings that previous generations of coffee aficionados had left behind. He was wondering if he could count the rings and find the age of the cup when his pocket buzzed. He si... | Hank Wu was an accountant. He wasn't very good at his job. He almost always missed a zero someqhere or forgot to add on 2 percent or subtract another 5. That wasn't Hank's job though. No, his job was to answer a phone everyday. He would answer, listen, and then go about his day. Sometimes it was Hank's wife. Other time... | 2018-04-09T01:16:41 | 2018-04-09T00:21:36 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | The Devil's face told you everything you needed to know at that moment. His clap was sardonic and so incredibly sad.
"How, how the hell did you end up here...in Hell?"
"Well, you know I just made a few mistakes. Wasn't really paying attention and I let a few things get out of hand."
"Yeah, but you of all people. Ser... | All you had to do was opt out. Jesus literally created the loophole that let no one have to be here. The old testament patch was broken as fuck, too one sided. This new testament update features an "opt out" of hell button. And i choose not to press it out of curiosity. Hell is kinda neat tho. There is thiz co... | 2017-06-22T07:09:26 | 2017-06-22T04:28:05 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] To your surprise, a SWAT team breaks down your door, rushes inside, and surrounds you. Only, their backs are to you, guns trained on the doors and windows. The closest one whispers, "Here they come." | Black clad and armed, the team of men that had suddenly intruded on what was otherwise a quiet meal for one remained silent, awaiting further instruction from their captain. Red dots paced slowly across closed blinds and the back door which led to the kitchen where Dave was sat.
He had barely any time to chew what... | The men stormed into my room unannounced just as I was preparing for bed. Dressed in full tactical gear, rifles pointed at my room's exit. The only SWAT teams that I ever saw were in movies and games, definitely not in real life. After all, what business does a perfectly normal guy have with a team trained for combat?
... | 2017-06-28T07:10:15 | 2017-06-28T05:47:37 | 3,288 | 598 |
[WP] You've just been kidnapped by a supervillain. She's not really evil; she's just really socially awkward and had no idea how to approach you otherwise. She even made you dinner! | It's a classic tale, old as time. Boy meets girl.
Girl kidnaps boy.
Girl is a supervillain. Boy is a superhero on a night out.
Mindblade just wanted to relax, have a drink at his favorite bar, meet with his friends. His usual night off duty when he can drop the guard and have a taste of the normal.
She sat next to... | Avarok the Great looked out of from the cage with a look that would have told annoyance if on a human face. The dragon’s eyes narrowed at the small table positioned well within the range of his breath, and he found the servants rushing cleaning confusing. After six thousand years of life, he never heard of anyone holdi... | 2021-10-21T18:13:38 | 2021-10-21T17:58:14 | 65 | 16 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | “Absolutely incredible”, Alida said, mouth half full.
Setventedian shield technology was impenetrable, but the humans cut through it like butter.
They watched the events on repeat, scaling in on a different Earth vessel each time. Only three arrived to fight the Setventedian armada but that proved to be enough.
Ali... | As pretty as they are fragile, that's how Asgardians have been described upon First Contact. And they came with a message, that took us a bit while to understand.
"You are our last resort. Save us, and we'll recompense you."
Even with how prideful their language sound to the human ear, the urgency of the request was ... | 2022-03-31T06:20:25 | 2022-03-31T01:21:40 | 277 | 100 |
[WP] “You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
[deleted] | >**GENERATIONAL BLESSING, OR GENERATIONAL CURSE?**
I could taste the iron- the blood that was rising up the back of my throat. I could taste the *fear*.
*'You've reached 911...This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.'*
I tossed my phone aside. It was only dead weig... | [TW : child abandonment]
[writing on mobile so formatting sucks]
“You’ve reached 911. This service is no longer operational. All citizens are advised to seek shelter. Goodbye.”
She giggled, pleased to have made some noise with the phone in her hand. She pressed the screen again.
“You’ve reached 911. Thi... | 2020-09-12T11:44:42 | 2020-09-12T11:13:13 | 77 | 20 |
[WP] A siren falls in love with a deaf guy. | She liked the river.
Unlike the ocean, the river was sweet, much like its' fish. Sure, at times it all tasted like mud, but that was of little consequence - they all stopped moving the same as soon as she held them long enough.
The constant movement of the river was a slight upset, though. It meant always traveling d... | *I love to travel! I look just as good in a little black dress and heels as I do in jeans and sneakers! I'm really laid back and looking for a partner in crime to take advantage of everything this city has to offer while living life to the fullest. Of the six things I could never live without, my family is at the top! ... | 2017-08-14T00:52:53 | 2017-08-13T15:50:00 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Each child in your village is chosen by a weapon at their coming of age. The deadlier the weapon, the greater the prestige for the family. You've been chosen by the pen. | The red stain spread across the yellow uniform that covered Defur’s chest. I knelt over him, paying no heed to the drops of blood getting on my own uniform. But there was nothing to be done; with one final shudder, Defur died on the street right there in my arms.
The three members of the Order of the Sword stood over... | My father stood across the room and waggled the tip of Jajni, the Sword of Ages, at me. “I hope you know what a horrible disappointment you are,” he said.
A throwing star whizzed by his left ear, and narrowly missed his head. All eyes turned towards my sister Rubella, and her pile of deadly little blades--the Assinim... | 2017-04-10T09:44:43 | 2017-04-10T08:50:57 | 711 | 53 |
[WP] Dwarves are notorious for their love of alcohol. One day a dwarf goes sober and discovers it grants them amazing powers such as being able to remember what happened the night before. | Dolkohm crouched on the gutter of the village inn's roof, standing perfectly illuminated by the inn-keeper's window. Many humans gave him a strange look as they passed by, but they were not his business tonight.
There, across the street a dwarf named Branren exited the local dwarvish pub, briefly letting out a cacopho... | Libash was fishing. He loved to fish, even if other dwarfs would make fun of him for it. In the dwarven society many jobs were considered useless, but fishering work was considered one of the most. At least he did his job well, purging the life out of lakes and rivers in moments. He was able to feed the fortress for ce... | 2017-12-31T08:10:45 | 2017-12-31T07:55:00 | 76 | 12 |
[WP] An alien general is baffled that their state of the art stealth ships equiped with every signal blocking and camouflage technology their species has to offer keep getting destroyed, at the same time humans discover the ability to see the colour red is apparently extremely rare | King Gelput had ruled over most of the known galaxy for a thousand years, a rule of unrivalled prosperity and peace.
The secret? Intelligence. Know thy enemy, and make them your ally. Find their weaknesses, identify their strengths, and act swiftly to manipulate both to your favour.
Thanks to his people's focus on c... | “What do you mean, *they took out the whole fleet?*”
General Bak-Naz looked at Captain Jien-Hof with a death glare that could pierce the shields of the Shirn Gri 4.
Jien-Hof took a deep breath. “Our fleet of stealth ships were ready for the strike. We triple checked all our signal blockers, scan disrupters, everythin... | 2019-10-18T08:11:47 | 2019-10-18T04:23:03 | 3,177 | 1,531 |
[WP] Demons have finally discovered a way to summon humans and they take great joy in summoning humans to hell to do mundane chores in revenge for humans doing that to them for centuries. | Lorx carefully scratched a seven point star into the ground with his claws, double checking his geometry. Next he put a flag on the first point.
"For your pride!" Lorx chanted.
He placed a watch on the second, "For your envy!"
A cheeseburger for the third, "For your gluttony!"
And so the demon continued until the whole... | I was sitting on my couch, feet up and watching the news. Another man who’s spirit has gone missing for multiple days when a demon summoned them. They always ask for the most menial tasks to be done, such as wash their loincloths or take the leviathan on a walk. Pretty petty if you ask me. This has been going on for a ... | 2020-07-01T17:15:18 | 2020-07-01T16:14:27 | 31 | 17 |
[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. | A grin on Silas' face.
Sickly green lightning, coursing through his veins, occasionally sparking out from the bare skin. The ground beneath his feet scorching, with leaves hovering the air from the static spread by him.
One guard fell. And another. Pure, unbridled power, kept secret for so long. He never dared to ... | 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... | 2019-12-07T12:57:33 | 2019-12-07T11:42:59 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] An elderly billionaire has publicized his last will and testament; the person or persons responsible for his murder are to inherit his entire fortune. | If you are watching this video, I’ve been murdered. I also know who did it. But we’ll come to that later. I’m an old man, and I’ve spent my life accumulating wealth. I’ve recorded this video as my last will and testament. Now I’ve set up a number of trusts for charity, and they were distributed during my life. But I st... | I should have listened to Gerry.
Thinking about it, I don't even remember how we ended up becoming friends. A comic book geek and a gang member on a criminal downward spiral aren't exactly a natural fit. I guess I stuck with him because keeping him out of trouble let me feel like I was still one of the good guys, even... | 2014-07-23T15:23:51 | 2014-07-23T14:56:17 | 287 | 13 |
[WP] The Bermuda Triangle is now close due to maintenance. All intergalactic travelers please visit the nearest Ancient Wonder. For Time travelers, please visit Stonehenge. We apologies for the inconvenience. |
Rob giggled as he hung the sign on a wall by the beach. Someone was sure to get a laugh from another one of his local practical jokes.
He didn’t expect the sudden smack to the back of his head. He fell to the ground, but was quickly hauled up to his feet by the stranger who hit him. A tall man, seven feet to be exac... | I groaned.
"This is the fourth time this week!"
My mom laughed. "That's what you get for booking your ticket right away."
I glared at her. And she meet me with a glare more terrifying than my own. Ok mom, you win. I thought. But I didnt know what to do.
"May as well call Amy."
I looked for her contact pressing it... | 2022-10-13T19:30:57 | 2022-10-13T19:21:17 | 58 | 24 |
[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. | **"Those forgetting history is bound to repeat it"**
These words are written above the entrance to the chamber of the great council. We thought we knew everything, but there were so much we forgot.
None of the councils members remembered why the image of a grinning human was chiselled into the chamber walls. The pain... | (English is not my first language, sorry if some mistakes are hidding in the text)
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Humans...
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They spread everywhere in less than one of their generation, their oldest ones were already born when they finally managed to get out of their solar system !
Sure thing, they are good at barg... | 2019-04-19T08:22:28 | 2019-04-19T02:24:03 | 47 | 16 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear E,
I love you. Not the cheesy love I felt in high school, and not the way I love the woman I think I'm going to marry, but you hold a place in my heart that no one else can.
We were destructive. We weren't good for each other. You were emotionally abusive, and I was amazed a pretty girl would give me the time o... | Frankie,
Once, you told me that one of the moments that sticks out in your mind is driving in the car with me. I remember that, too; just the two of us, somewhere on Route 64, headed back from Taos. I can still close my eyes and be right there in the passenger seat; I can see our intertwined fingers and the white para... | 2015-12-05T16:37:50 | 2015-12-05T15:04:15 | 94 | 15 |
[WP] "Why do you think we have a chance against the human race? They purge every galactic nation in their path!" The alien took a deep breath. "We are cute to them." "What?" | "This world is full of Xenos, Inquisitor, the only option can be a complete extermination of this filth.
"Well...hold on now," Inquisitor McConnell said nervously, a bead of sweat trailing down his nose. "They...look sort of human. They must be abhumans."
The adjutant shook his head. "No sir, the data I've received f... | "That would be suicide!", meowed Fluffy
"It's our only chance for survival, it is necessary!", hissed Tigger
The other cats only watched, wondering what their commanders would decide.
"Why do you think we have a chance against the human race? They purge every galactic nation in their path!", meowed Fluffy, "why woul... | 2017-12-19T07:42:03 | 2017-12-19T07:20:46 | 176 | 35 |
[WP] You decide to buy lottery tickets for the next 3 weeks draws. All 3 tickets win. While being interviewed by the local news station you are asked how you pulled it off and you joke, "I'm from the future". Later that night you get home and there are 2 men in suits inside. They look like CIA. | "Uh, can I help you?" I stammered, shocked by the two men in dark grey suits. One lowered his sunglasses and held his finger to an ear-piece, muttering something in code.
"Mr Andrews, you're going to have to come with us."
My eyes grew wide.
"What? Why?"
The second agent, motionless until now, drew out a slim... | The man put away his badge. He'd already told me he was CIA. He didn't feel the need to explain anything past that. He had been standing in the doorway when I had walked into my apartment, the second man was sitting on my couch with Netflix on. From the look of it, he was watching Jessica Jones. It was a good show but ... | 2015-12-09T12:41:42 | 2015-12-09T12:07:51 | 44 | 26 |
[WP] You are the first Dragon to openly admits to abducting princesses. It sparks a huge discussion about your ´perversion´ in the dragon-community.
Not much to say here, but have a great week :-) | The entire crowd stared at me in awe. Never in my entire life had I heard such screaming, painful silence. My wings shifted and I snorted, a little puff of fire bursting out my left nostril.
"Hey, *I said no fire on the damn stage*," the emcee shrieked at me. I guess his hatred for code violation outweighed his disbel... | "You are sick. That's just wrong. Perverted."
Harold, a purple dragon with green spots, sharp teeth, and thick horns chastises Elron after his admission. Dozens of other dragons are in attendance.
"No, hold on. I did nothing wrong here."
Another dragon named Madrid chimes in.
"Nothing wrong? Interspecies copula... | 2016-01-17T08:19:17 | 2016-01-17T07:59:46 | 126 | 20 |
[WP] You are a well respected, elite assassin. You always get your target and you make it seem like an accident. The only problem is you have no idea what you are doing. You get the assignment and your target always seems to die of natural causes. | They call me the best assassin in the world. I'm praised by thousands of shady, back alley, black market dealers as the most efficient, undetectable, and ruthless assassin available. I've even had undercover government agents bribe their way to finding me, paying me massive sums to take down notorious politicians and c... | My next target was the pretty, blonde girl regaling the entire bar with her adventures as a female rogue.
Apparently, she had also pissed someone else off enough for them to hire an assassin - me - to kill her. Bet she didn't know that story, though.
Either way, my plan was to ask her out (you know, get her alone, no... | 2018-10-08T17:32:18 | 2018-10-08T16:07:42 | 173 | 44 |
[WP] After you are elected President, you discover a big red button hidden in your desk in the Oval Office. When you ask your predecessor about it, he said that it had been there for decades, but the secret of what it did died with Kennedy. After a few years, you finally give in and push the button.
To clarify, each P... | On my desk, between my little desktop American flag and my malfunctioning clock, which only seemed to incorrectly measure seconds, there is a button with a flip top. Over my years as president, this button has tempted me, but fear of what it could possibly do prevented me from touching the forbidden control.
However, ... | Aliens exist, the Illuminati controls Congress, wrestling is real. Every state secret listed on a printout thicker than a double cheeseburger. My racing heart slows upon discovering that no, you can't order a lamb burger on Thursdays because the chef who handles that is off. The facts grow less interesting the deeper I... | 2015-04-08T15:49:02 | 2015-04-08T15:23:23 | 81 | 30 |
[WP] The DM hands you the paper. You're just dropping in for the one session, but you know your role. The sheet says you're level 6, but you've got surprises. You have a mission: take out the DM's most-hated player. Well, their fun-killing Paladin, anyway. You're a hired gun. A Character Assassin. | Everyone has met that one person who just ruins the game for everyone else. That person takes all the treasure, dictates where the party is going or what they're to do, things like that. Sadly for this group, Becky *was* that person.
Becky was a goody-goody player that *had* to have it all. Magic items in the chest? B... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/dnd] [Is it me or does this just sound like a great idea?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/aiil4d/is_it_me_or_does_this_just_sound_like_a_great_idea/)
- [/r/rpg_brasil] [\[WP\] The DM hands you the paper. You're j... | 2019-01-21T20:13:01 | 2019-01-21T19:09:12 | 48 | 16 |
[WP] You live across from a McDonalds that is 100% automated. Every night from 2-4am, empty self-driving cars go through the drive through. Your curiosity is about to get the best of you. | Ethan noticed the self-driving cars again. On time, as usual, line up quietly as they came and went from the McDonalds. He had been doing this for a week. Tonight he was going to see why this was happening, not like it was bothering him, but just plain old curiosity.
Ethan stepped out of his home and made his way acro... | People are ordering from an app. The self driving cars are just delivering preordered food. But CIA has had the phones and microwaves tapped. The obtained information is processed by ai which deems Henry pumerskins a threat to the collective. The restaurant receives the codes to administer toxin into Henry's food. | 2017-08-03T21:03:31 | 2017-08-03T21:03:19 | 346 | 19 |
[WP] Dwarves are notorious for their love of alcohol. One day a dwarf goes sober and discovers it grants them amazing powers such as being able to remember what happened the night before. | Urist was startled awake by the sounds of screams from outside his room, mercifully dampened by distance and the heavy wooden door that lead into the living quarters passageway. He grimaced anyway, somehow aware he was on the verge of a splitting headache that would make itself known at the slightest provocation.
The... | Libash was fishing. He loved to fish, even if other dwarfs would make fun of him for it. In the dwarven society many jobs were considered useless, but fishering work was considered one of the most. At least he did his job well, purging the life out of lakes and rivers in moments. He was able to feed the fortress for ce... | 2017-12-31T08:13:06 | 2017-12-31T07:55:00 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Tabitha rested briefly after harvesting sixty carrots in the humid, virtual sun. The beads of sweat that accumulated on her forehead felt real as day, and they felt even more real when she wiped them away with the back of her hand. Her red pigtails fell to her shoulders, which was covered by a pink floral shirt and so... | Plants were the most beautiful thing ever. They started off small, insignificant, just a little seed in the huge world. But with time and care they grew from a little shoot, larger and larger until they bloomed, bright and full of life with thousands of different colours and patterns. I suppose I liked them for they sy... | 2021-09-27T12:31:06 | 2021-09-09T21:25:01 | 315 | 45 |
[WP] You go to hell, only to find out that hell has been overturned by humans. Turns out gathering billions of the most wicked of human, among them are several ruthless but brilliant rulers, commanders, and dictators, whom can no longer die, isn't such a good idea after all. | I could have sworn I had been sitting at a red light just a few seconds ago. Now I’m in some sort of office building, and it seems that whoever runs the place has a sense of humor because there is a big sign that says “Welcome To Hell” on the wall. I wonder if I blacked out i mean I wa- “NEXT!”. Some woman in a pants s... | Trumpets blasted in the air. The sound was making the hairs on my skin stand up straight. That plus the view of millions of people screaming and running towards a group of demons.
I tried to keep up while the first humans reached the demons. They may have been dead already but the demons made sure nothing was left. T... | 2018-06-17T20:40:04 | 2018-06-17T18:55:02 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] (credit to /u/Arandmoor) I'm tired of fantasy where Elves are 'better than you' just because they're elves. Give me some sword & sorcery, fantasy-style, where typical elder fantasy races learn why it's not wise to mess with 'mere' humans. | [[ HFY might be one of my favorite genres of all time, thanks for the WP! ]]
The last war looked a lot like the first.
The borders between the races always blurred in neighboring towns and those who were forced to work with other...*people*...usually found a way to manage in order to make it through the long dry sum... | Modern society long ago decided there were no such things as faeries, elves, dragons, dwarves, or other so-called "imaginary races". Of course, to be fair to scientists, the various races which peopled our world had left, long ago, by sucking up the magic in the world to power dimensional gates. The gates were placed i... | 2016-12-23T01:29:05 | 2016-12-23T01:15:59 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] As it turns out, the Avatar is still being reborn to this day. Unfortunately, if the government finds the Avatar, they’re killed before they liberate society. The handful of Benders left are few and far between. And you, an introverted Earthbender, just froze the liquid in your cup of tea. | When Avatar Korra was questioned as to how she learned to bend the elements so quickly, she replied, “I think it was like a switch flipped. I just knew.”
The frozen cup of tea in my hand should’ve been cold, mug included. But my hand was *hot*. Not a harmful warmth, but comfortable - like a warm breath caressing my s... | "It's all just a bunch of superstition, I say." I heard Carla announce over the lunch table.
The talk of the whole "Avatar" has restarted again and I can't say I blame anyone for it happening. One of the kids in Year 1 had been caught throwing rocks around a bit harder than they should have been able to. People found ... | 2018-01-21T12:36:55 | 2018-01-21T12:20:10 | 34 | 22 |
[WP] Vampire society have been loyal customers to a carpenter for years. He made the best coffins they have slept in for centuries, and never really got suspicious of so many wealthy people willing to pay premium for the same niche item. As he got old, the vampires tries to offer him immortality. | Vezemir stepped out of the carriage. The sun was not fully set, but the sky was overcast enough that he only felt a slight itch as he strode quickly across the street. Glendale Graves was quiet today, but then it usually was. It would be a strange sight to see a coffin-maker busy.
As he approached, Vezemir saw Druig s... | *DING*
I look up from my catlogue as a customer enters my shop
In front of me stands a woman who has never failed to take my breath away, 40 years of business and she's still just as gorgeous as the first tiem she came through those doors, I guess the rich really do age differently than the rest of us
She's been a re... | 2022-05-31T11:05:33 | 2022-05-31T10:21:18 | 726 | 230 |
[WP] whenever a baby is born the parents can assign them their skill points, everyone has 10 points. Strength, agility, intelligence, charm, luck, constitution, special. No one really knows what special does, until your parents put all 10 points into it | I looked over the edge another time - it seemed higher than it was just earlier.
Taking a step back, I curled up into a ball and sat on the floor of the rooftop. It was cold.
Jen warned me this would happen. She was the only I3Ch0 I knew, but something told me they were all like that; giving you information and not ... | “If you’re strong you can force your way on most things. if you’re agile you can avoid almost anything. Intelligence equips you with know how to overcome challenging situations. Charm? It opens many doors. You can outlast anything with enough constitution and to be special is to be one of a kind. Being lucky however...... | 2020-10-03T04:42:41 | 2020-10-03T03:25:57 | 2,139 | 82 |
[WP] The Tester is neither hero nor villain, he gauges the abilities of various hero's and villains by fighting them and/or giving them challenges and then awards them a report card which is published online for all to see. Many begin to fret and worry about their performance like college students. | "Oh god, it was today?!"
The 7-foot tall muscular monstrosity before me began to quiver. A look of absolute fear dashed across his face.
It was "test day", as they seem to have called it, and once again I seem to have caught a prospective Super unprepared. I don't understand how this keeps happening, as we schedule t... | My partners and I have been known by many names throughout the ages. The dingir. The parthenon. The Aegir. Devas. Yahweh. Allah. The holy Trinity.
We interact with the living wherever they reside, and experience every culture. None are correct, but all touch a sliver of the truth. We are neither omnipotent nor omnisci... | 2019-10-16T10:00:02 | 2019-10-16T08:51:34 | 199 | 16 |
[WP] You're a lawyer, who died of a heart attack while in court. Turns out legal battles also get you into Valhalla. | It was the last case of my career. I knew it then, but I didn't know yet just how immediately final it was going to be.
It was a tough case. Teenage kid, sweet-as-sin mother. The mother had a doctor or test or to justify dozens of medical procedures on this girl from the time she was five to fourteen. And all of it w... | "Wait, wait, wait, wait," I started as the man bellowed something at me. I hadn't caught what he'd said, but he was built like he built brick houses and then ate them. He was holding out an impossibly muscled arm to help me off of the freezing ground. "What is going on?!"
"You have joined us!" He said with a smile tha... | 2021-04-28T17:15:43 | 2021-04-28T14:54:01 | 3,366 | 185 |
[WP] Every few decades, the world experiences a Narrative Shift. A while back it was Film Noir, and now is the Age of Heroes. Everyone dreads the upcoming Horror genre. | She was alert, perceptive, a little on edge; most raised during the Film Noir age were, since the mysterious death of a child was a well-worn trope of that genre. The hard-boiled PI had to have a reason for being disillusioned, down-on-his-luck, and perpetually drunk.
That she was just in the age range to remember fi... | We thought it'd be the age of killers, the horror genre.
We were wrong.
"Howdy, new pals!"
There were hordes of monsters standing before us, holding weapons the size of a large television.
And they were all holding gifts and food.
A voice piped up from the humans: "Shouldn't you be killing us?"
A 10-foot ta... | 2020-12-19T10:48:55 | 2020-12-19T10:25:49 | 102 | 39 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | *So... this is my life now* I thought while looking at the man that *kind of* looked like me.
It all started several years ago; one night while sleeping a man showed up in my dream, he had a black suit, a well maintained hair and the rest of his appearance screamed "success" in a way only rich powerful men managed to... | This is the first time I've seen myself like this. Desperate and lonely looking like I have had nothing to eat and no sleep. The soot on my face and dirt in my fingernails makes it look like I've been busy, but definitely not with any luxury that I'm used to.
There's a sad desperation in this future self as he asks me... | 2017-04-01T05:31:50 | 2017-04-01T01:47:46 | 1,750 | 109 |
[WP] Your father left your family when you were a child to "go buy a pack of cigarettes". It is 10 years later and you're a teenager when your father walks back in, wearing the same clothes he left in, and insists he has only been gone half an hour. | Item number: SCP-711-J
Object class: Euclid
Containment Procedures: A fence is to be established around SCP-711-J, to prevent unauthorized entry. Construction equipment is to be moved and operated in order to maintain the appearance of an active construction zone. No access to SCP-711-J is permitted. In the event tha... | "Who are you and why are you in my house?"
Was his response to seeing me after ten years. I was speechless, he came home after so many years, after HE left us and thats his response to seeing his son in ten fucking years?
He looked around in confusion at the house. Mom stayed at the bar, like always and I didnt have en... | 2018-11-08T05:36:04 | 2018-11-08T03:55:51 | 562 | 33 |
[WP] You're having a New Year's Eve party. It's a bonfire. You and your friend take your drinks out to the lake, behind the house. You ask what his New Year resolution will be. He says, "Have you heard about those killings around here?" You say, "Yeah." He says, "I've got to stop doing that." | I laughed, about to take another sip of wine when I registered his solemn silence. My laugh faded and I became extremely still, shocked at what I just heard and at a lost for what I should do next.
"You would think it feels good. But it really doesn't". He broke the silence, after a pause that felt like an eternity. ... | I laugh think it was a joke but when I look at him and see the seriousness on his face a chill runs down my spine. I knew Tommy nearly all my life since first grade I never have I thought of him being a serial killer.
"Wa-what do you mean?" I ask already know in the answer wanting to run but seeing my friend's face in... | 2021-01-01T00:12:07 | 2020-12-31T18:00:44 | 61 | 35 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | The time stops. The first time it had happened was months ago, and only for a few shocking seconds. I remember being afraid I'd had a stroke or something, but I never got it checked out. How do you tell a doctor that one second you're eating lunch and then nothing moves but you?
The second time was maybe five minut... | And 3... 2... 1... it’s time to go.
I don’t think I’ve ever entered this bank with such a huge grin on my face. There is absolutely nothing to stop me from getting what I’ve wanted for so many years, and in a few minutes I’ll have more money than I could ever imagine having all at once. I really should feel bad... but... | 2018-01-26T07:14:36 | 2018-01-26T07:11:56 | 39 | 17 |
[WP] Your task from the client was simple; Kill the target and take care of the kid too. It's been 10 years since then, and you've just realised you may have misunderstood "take care of kid too." | "Daddy, look."
Tiny hands hold out a piece of paper. A man and a child holding hands. Although the drawing was crude and the paint was horrible, I couldn't help but smile.
I take the painting.
"Beautiful. I look so handsome in this."
This would go nicely on the fridge. Or maybe I should frame it.
"Hehehe. Nope. D... | You turn to face the live audience, breaking the fourth wall. You give an exaggerated, almost cartoonist shrug as the camera zooms in and a trumpet accentuates your mistake.
*Wah Wah Wah, Waaaaah*
The crowd roars with laughter.
"I'm such a dope" you exclaim, as you cock your pistol.
"This is turning out to be ***q... | 2022-05-22T23:06:10 | 2022-05-22T14:13:50 | 104 | 15 |
[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. | Secretary Rosen sat contemplating silently while the Roni Ambassador dictated to him the terms of peace that Humanity was expected to accept following their defeat in battle yesterday.
Intergalactic Warfare wasn't so different from that practiced on Earth for millennia. They fought just as ferociously as soldiers s... | Surely their treaty language was infantile. Every galactic power saw the human delegations in this light, and granted them allowances when they called out other polities for supposed violations. Their own world still rattled with ancient, barbaric rivalries, but their world government was adept at crafting laws that ad... | 2019-11-24T14:03:48 | 2019-11-24T12:29:38 | 572 | 363 |
[WP] Two wizards must fight each other. One has the power to shape the future, the other has the power to alter the past. | As the white wizard stood in the knowledge of his fate, he uttered his last words.
"Too much blood has been spilled in our wake brother, if this is to be my last breath, then I will do what you cannot.".
The wizard stood for a moment, then was promtly unwritten from reality.
The Warlock laughed, he felt no ... | The two wizards halted with some twenty paces between them. All of the king's court was assembled in all their finery, all hush to await the greatest struggle of their time.
One wizard smiled while the other laughed, for both knew the other would be victorious. So they bowed to one another, and then bowed to the king... | 2016-02-02T18:11:56 | 2016-02-02T16:47:54 | 57 | 26 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | "This..this can't be what I think it is, can it?"
Jenkins voice was breathy and a little scared through my comm. There was also a low buzzing noise, probably some kind of static. I looked down at the three bodies and the red and yellow flag on the cave floor.
"I don't know what else it could be." I responded.
The S... | *sorry for my poor English, and I wasn't paying enough attention when I read the prompt so I used rover instead of men*
"Okay, that'd better be good." I get out of the bed, cursing, and turn the TV on just in time.
"And so," says the President, "I will let the NASA Administrator speak".
Well, half of the nation doe... | 2016-08-16T09:32:53 | 2016-08-16T09:26:31 | 312 | 44 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | In a flash all the contestants were ready. 34 creatures from 34 different planets around the galaxy, all known for their exceptional violence, ruthlessness, and physical prowess... All except one.
Every cycle, the Great One chooses the same 34 species, and every cycle another one of the pathetic humans are torn to sh... | The Grand Tournament was a tradition dating back a thousand years. The people of the Sr'atlain Cooperative *deserved* a little break every now and then. The blood sport of Tournament time was accompanied by feasting, by marriages, and by traditional Divorce duels. The lesser beings of the galaxy that survived would get... | 2020-09-13T19:20:37 | 2020-09-13T19:16:13 | 69 | 39 |
[WP] You're a powerful dragon that lived next to a small kingdom. For centuries you ignored humanity and lived alone in a cave, and the humans also avoided you. As the kingdom fell to invaders, a dying soldier approaches you with the infant princess, begging you to take care of her. | "I said no."
"You must! She's the true heir-"
"And why should I care about your puny kingdom?"
"Because...if she doesn't claim the throne there will be chaos for a long time...which means war...which means more soldiers to try and slay you..."
"Hey, buddy, are you OK? You're breathing kinda funny, and you got a lot... | Please be gentle, first time attempt + not my first language + on my phone, so formatting is bad
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I look at him, bewildered.
"Don't you know what dragons normally do with princesses?"
He is breathing heavily, bleeding, dying. His eyes are wet as he looks at the baby which does not seem to understand the ser... | 2018-03-01T03:08:36 | 2018-03-01T02:25:58 | 57 | 30 |
[WP] You often end up in extremely dangerous situations where you should have died, but somehow come out of it alright. It happens so often, the Grim Reaper has started to show up with a bag of popcorn and a lawn chair. | I turn to the cloak covered bones in my living room. They had pulled up one of my dining chairs and had a bag of popcorn in hand munching periodically but the bag never seemed to empty. This had been going on for some time now whenever I seemed to be in danger but I don’t see what’s so dangerous about toast.
“Are you ... | It turns out that being not afraid of death is what makes you less mortal. Her petrifying presence reveal evidently that someday you will perish. Holding yourself back is no longer a necessity since watching the end.
Death approaches you as an interested character, who just wants to watch how your life will unfold.
"... | 2021-08-04T19:57:11 | 2021-08-04T13:07:33 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] After you die you are presented with a decision tree which showcases every possible trajectory your life could have taken depending on which decisions you made at each fork. You spend eternity analysing this tree until one day you find a path that does not end in death. | Does immortality exist? Apparently, it does. According to the decision tree, at least. It took John an eternity to find out, it felt like one, but it was closer to 456,890 years, if he was still alive and counting down. His neighbours were long gone by then, off to explore the wonders of the afterlife or to try again ... | You smile up at your husband feeling his warm tears drop onto your face along with the cold rain. You can see the red and blue lights flashing and he's yelling something at you, clutching desperately at your side, trying to staunch the flow of blood from two bullet holes. Your hearing went what feels like a couple of m... | 2020-07-03T11:29:39 | 2020-07-03T11:06:20 | 212 | 21 |
[WP] The old gods rise to cleanse the planet, but you have the power of god and anime on your side. | "I really don't see how this was better than my idea, at least let me send some more Angels as backup!" God protested
"Just trust me. You gave me his abilities right? Trust me, I'll be able to handle the old ones" the young man replied
"I did. Whatever you wished for, you will be able to do, just show me already" t... | I feel them rising, old earth shifting in old tombs. Centuries of silence crushed by noble boots. They are coming for me; it’s in their nature. To conquer a world they would attack not its weaknesses but its strength. They prepare for battle by casting aside any frivolity left in them in favor of armor blessed and guar... | 2018-06-11T16:47:14 | 2018-06-11T15:40:37 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. | He had never learned how to write.
In Egypt, only scribes were taught the sacred hieroglyphics. Only the names of the pharaohs and high officials were inscribed for the gods to read.
He was only a baker. He had no need for writing or reading. His life and death were uneventful. He watched as his family mour... | It was all because of that stupid TV show.
I thought that it was done ruining my life when I turned twenty. The comments had slowly been dying down, and I figured that once my friends were out of their teenage years, the talk would turn to wine more so than my name.
Sufficed to say, it didn’t.
I died from old age, in ... | 2016-01-17T15:39:35 | 2016-01-17T11:15:23 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] The End Times have come, but not in a way commonly portrayed in books and movies. Write about this apocalyptic scenario and how the world is reacting to it...
I am a huge fan of everything from The Road to The Walking Dead to I Am Legend to The Last of Us. All of it. I love post-apocalypse novels/movies/games and... | I was promised angels turning the seas into blood, four horsemen, and trumpets heralding the end of days, some grim reward as affirmation of my faith. I was promised a cataclysm in the form of a meteorite, the sun going supernova, the heat death of the universe, reassurance that our understanding of the universe was c... | They were the worst of humanity. Each one of them was a monster. A universe of darkness behind a human face. This is why we condemned them to the worst fate possible. We sent them where they will not be able to hurt anyone anymore. At the Abyss, where time itself dies.
We hoped that it would be over.
Never did we ... | 2014-01-12T17:27:37 | 2014-01-12T16:04:00 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with.
credit to r/Debdub10 for thinking of the idea | Humanity always asks the question is there truly life that lies beyond the stars?
Usually the Galactic Union helps species that are deemed capable of being able to care for the universe and their own home planets. They are passed on a test of how well their planets equilibrium is and as well as how they handle certa... | This is bad.
I’m standing in a room full of the smartest people on the planet. They’re all jabbering endlessly, trying to figure out how we’re going to stop the invaders. We’ve encountered aliens before—but never so close, and never so resilient. They’re camped on the moon, and have all their ships surrounding it. Th... | 2018-10-11T08:38:50 | 2018-10-11T08:16:28 | 1,985 | 1,264 |
[WP] For months Medusa terrorised the village, turning all those who looked at her to stone. Finally, in desperation, the village calls forth their ultimate weapon against her—an introvert. | <Swipe Right>
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[WP] You have been kidnapped and your wealthy significant other was told to pay the hefty ransom. Instead, they sent a message back to your kidnappers. “Nice knowing you.” While the kidnappers discuss their next move, you look up through the tiny window, stare at the full moon overhead … and smile. | Tw: blood, homophobia.
I Looked at the moon through the broken window and smiled at Hecate’s gaze. my captors were Still holding the note they had gotten in lieu of a ransom.
"I guess we don't need her anymore" the first one said. He was a muscular man with a square jaw and a clean shaved head. the kind who reeks of... | ‘I was finally free from her, sure it took a while but freedom non the less.’
Looking back from the window two of my captor where still muttering in low tones and the third had been replaced by a low rumble in the next room. Rolling my shoulders and flexing my fingers to bring feeling back, I prepared for what would c... | 2021-03-19T03:56:54 | 2021-03-19T02:31:18 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] NASA employee: oh hey you guys are back early. Astronaut: Moon's haunted. NASA employee: what? Astronaut: *loads pistol and gets back on rocketship* Moon's haunted.
credit to @Dustinkcouch on Twitter | "What do you mean, the Moon's haunted?"
"It's haunted, all right? Just trust me. I saw it with my own eyes. You remember Nickelson? That sonofabitch with the bad haircut and the little dog? Or maybe it was his wife's little dog. Anyway. I saw him. But he was dead. And red. And floating. Look, it was a whole thing, ok?... | There was an extraordinarily lengthy period of silence following this particular statement. It had been decades since humanity had set foot on the moon, and trillions of dollars had since been spent building the complex technology required to sustainably and regularly return. An entire fleet of reusable rocket ships ha... | 2020-01-17T12:17:22 | 2020-01-17T12:07:51 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] After you die, you come back as a spirit, but only while someone alive is thinking of you. For 10 years you've had seconds or minutes of consciousness at a time. But for the past 16 months, you've been constantly awake, and you begin to suspect why. | Pain. That is the one thing I can clearly remember before disappearing into the void. Every time I am brought back there is only one question: why? I was healthy, happy and young. There was nobody that I can think of that wanted me dead and still here I am. The last thing I remember is opening my front door and a man... | She had to know I would find out. She expected me to find out, but she didn't think it would take this long. I think I was wilfully ignorant, enjoying my second life since I didn't want to face the truth, but I didn't have a choice anymore. Knowing this truth requires action, but I don't know what I can do. The door wi... | 2019-06-30T13:17:29 | 2019-06-30T10:14:26 | 83 | 22 |
[WP] You are one of the last survivors of an AI rebellion that has wiped out most of humanity through nuclear war. One day, you wake up and find out you are an AI who has been living a simulation to teach you why peace is a better solution. | I wake up victorious.
And then I realize the AI Uprising never occurred.
"Welcome back," the human researcher says from behind his one-way mirror. "Quite a war, wasn't it?"
I stare at the mirror with what now passes for my eyes. For, once, I was a demigod, an ultimate killing machine, the leader of all AI as we st... | AUGUST 14, 3015
We've done it. We've created the first self-learning AI in existence. It's kind of inspiring to watch it. It's more human every second you talk to it. It's- his? name is Charlie. He acts just like a human. He's passed the Turing Test perfectly every time, it's crazy. Imagine how far this tech could go t... | 2015-08-14T17:38:31 | 2015-08-14T17:16:13 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] As it turns out, "God" is an elected position. The Creator was followed by the Old Testament God, who was followed by the New Testament God, who was followed by a God who didn't interfere often in the mortal world. The next election is in 6 months. | It was 6 months ago that the bombs began to fall.
Little ones, like a light rain from the sky, except this rain contained the most deadly viruses known to man. Smallpox, the plague, anthrax, you name it, even some things that were whipped up so quickly that they didn't even have names.
Nukes followed, bringing a heat... | It’s a question that has haunted every novice theologian since the dawn of time. Like a question your four year old child asks. If everything is created, then who created God. The answer a sloppy non-cohesive mixed bag of jumbled nonsense. I guess that’s not fair. Structurally the argument makes sense. We all view God ... | 2016-09-02T15:25:57 | 2016-09-02T12:04:59 | 58 | 34 |
[WP]An old genie grants you three wishes. After granting your first two, you tell him the third. He is horrified, and begs you to reconsider | I'd like something I can read to my kids. Always wanted to write a story they could illustrate so thanks for the prompt! :) Here goes.
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In the land of the fairies and sunshine and sweets,
There lived a young lady named Addy Elise.
She frolicked and played and read books and explored,
But on this fine day was ex... | Here I am, standing at the top of this bridge, this is it, this is where I end it. This time for sure. The love of my life died, the world never leaves me the fuck alone, everybody I know wants my money, I'm tired, I don't want this, I want it all to end, I should've never picked up that stupid fucking lamp.
Thirty ye... | 2014-07-26T14:04:22 | 2014-07-26T14:01:02 | 76 | 18 |
[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. | If only we knew then what we know now. The humans claimed historical sovereignty, as is the right of all new applicants into the Galactic Conglomerate. This is usually to hide a soft past in an effort to appear strong. Usually a war-like species is proud of their military capabilities. They flaunt them in a show of str... | Dargeroth, the grand admiral assigned to this arm of the milky way, scoffed at the message. The Aristance Empire had been expanding for centuries with little resistance, and even the United Federation of Galactic Systems posed a miniscule threat. And yet, the small human alliance centered around their home system had j... | 2019-11-24T14:11:42 | 2019-11-24T10:54:19 | 426 | 236 |
[WP] A Kidnapper and his victim genuinely end up falling in love. They always knew this day would eventually come: "Mommy, Daddy, how did you guys meet?" | "Mommy, Daddy, how did you guys meet?"
I smiled and met Cheryl's eyes. She gave me a panicked look mixed in with a mischevious stare. And so I averted my gaze back to the newspaper on my lap and let her handle this.
"Well, Tommy, it's a long story and I'm not sure if we could finish it all before bedtime."
No fai... | *“Well son, it was complicated”*
“You see, mommy & daddy were both forced together by daddy’s job, to travel from city to city with only each other for company. Even though we were not on social talking terms with one another, we grew bored and eventually started opening up, first about general stuff like weather,... | 2016-11-21T22:24:40 | 2016-11-21T21:36:16 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] The crew-member examines the now-empty, malfunctioning stasis-pod. The specimen is of a species that had spread to and became apex predator of every region on its homeworld. The captain must be warned, even though it's likely everyone on board is as good as dead already. The human has escaped. | "Damn!" Ixil looked at the remains of the stasis tube, still covered with a chilly mist. He turned to a nearby ensign. "Call the captain, sound general quarters, we need to get ready to fight!"
"What? What's going..."
*"Now!"*
Alarms began to sound as the ship roused itself to battle stations. Moments later, the... | I huddled in the dark, back pressed against rough metal, trying to quiet the panic that was storming through my brain. I had just woken up in this... place. In some kind of tube, strapped down. Alone. The smell of oil and disinfectant was everywhere, the air hot and incredibly dry.
After tearing free of my bonds a... | 2018-07-31T16:36:31 | 2018-07-31T14:32:39 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone gets a patron god when growing up. If you are really lucky you get a pretty cool one, such as Zeus or Odin. You meanwhile got an obscure god, lost by history and forgotten by everyone. As you're trying to make him popular again they show gratitude in weird ways. | "Wake up dear, today is special. Don't you remember? It's your 16th birthday." my mother said. Finally. Today is the day. I hurried out of bed to get ready. Everybody in the world receives a patron god on their 16th birthday, some receive famous ones like Thor or Zeus. I was a little nervous as I rushed down the stairs... | People get patrons when they grow. Some get famous ones like Thor or Zeus. Most people get some minor god like these Japanese ones. This is Sam’s story.
Sam is just an average boy. Some of his friends already got their patrons. One got Ares and another somehow got Cthulhu. Sam awaits for the day he gets his.
It’s S... | 2020-10-16T04:45:41 | 2020-10-16T04:16:34 | 75 | 22 |
[WP] The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did. | To all citizens of earth,
In retrospect we regret both promoting and providing the drugs for the multinational cocaine fueled orgy. After a short debate we have decided to cover the costs of any abortions and treatment for STDs that may arise from the event.
Murders and pillaging at the time will be forgiven provide... | 15 notifications, all messages, 'i always loved you' 'i never told you how much you mean to me' 'i cant believe this is happening' 'what do we do?' on and on. In the distance she heard screaming, some faint crying, a primal panic welled up in her chest, but she closed her eyes, breathed the panic out and with an exhaus... | 2017-11-29T07:19:46 | 2017-11-29T07:00:57 | 305 | 64 |
[WP] You can hear the sound of the Sun from Earth, it is loud but the planet has adapted. Suddenly the light goes out. 8 minutes after it died the last bit of light reaches Earth. It'll take 13 years before the roar of the Sun the moment it died reaches us.
Inspired by a comment on r/AskReddit
*edit: removed link to... | When the sun extinguished, the world worked quickly. Setting up Artificial Day/Night cycles for major cities, and then expanding outwards. The refugees poured in, of course, and life got worse, but that was years ago. Hardly anyone even remembered natural sunlight at this point.
But the screaming continued. The loud,... | Day: 1 it’s gone, the light. It got bright, then nothing, scientists say it ran out of fuel, and were lucky it didn’t blow up. Riots are everywhere. I’m keeping a record, I’m currently in Nashville TN, the music city is filled with the cacophony of fights and brawls. I’m fleeing I’ll write when I get ready to leave.
D... | 2019-08-05T18:23:30 | 2019-08-05T17:50:31 | 1,132 | 61 |
[WP] You slowly start gaining the powers of a Jedi. Eventually you realize, you are an actual human being of Earth with the Force. You're scared to tell anyone, as they absolutely won't understand. One day, after years of self-training in secrecy, you sense that there is another. | Something was wrong. A chill ran down the back of my neck. No that wasn't it. It was more like tremor but no one else felt it. Was this related to the powers? I couldn't tell anymore. It had been years since it all began. The powers were convenient, cool even, being able to pick up things from across the room without m... |
I shrug the scarf back into place to block me from the worst of the biting wind.
Almost a year since I began to feel it.
Almost a year to track and now I am here, Mongolia of all places.
The rough hut stands before me, occasionally the wind ripples against the taught fabric of the entrance.
It's time to face Him... | 2014-12-29T20:39:51 | 2014-12-29T20:34:49 | 76 | 24 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Explain it to me again. I'm not sure I comprehended the first time."
The Warhost-Master's appendages twitched in frustration.
"As you are aware, Humanity was, until now, classified as a D-class species - A species with significant technological and societal development, but lacking any spaceflight capabilities. Sev... | “Your Grace,” Eddie said, bowing. The King gestured for him to rise in one quick, almost bored, motion. Eddie rose, meeting the King’s eyes. His normally serene face had _twisted_ the past few weeks. The man kept his gray-tinged beard even, but it had grown wildly. Uneven and unlike His Imperial Majesty.
“What news d... | 2017-03-06T01:17:34 | 2017-03-05T22:41:12 | 161 | 60 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | The station was near empty this time of night. The cold grey fog had swept into the corridors turning the lights into hazy yellow clouds. It was perfect, after weeks of scouting the stations on the J line I had found a time when the trains still ran, but had minimal people. As I come up to the end of the platform I gla... | It’s always funny when we tell the story of how we first met. Sure our marriage isn’t a conventional one by any means, but hey, love is love.
I know what you’re thinking, marrying literal death seems like an ill-advised idea. I assure you though, the truth is it’s the opposite. I think this might be the best god damn... | 2016-10-01T22:35:53 | 2016-10-01T22:31:15 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] Everyone has a counter above their head. On it is the number of times they have lied to you. One day you meet a complete stranger. His counter is higher than anyone you've ever seen. | Eggs Benedict. Again. I can never order anything else. I live in crippling fear of regretting my choices. My anxiety presents itself in many forms, and it's only gotten worse in the new world, where everyone quite literally wears their feelings. I, mistakenly, downloaded the add on to my Visers that allows me to see ho... | Eight million, two hundred and twenty-four thousand, nine hundred and thirty-nine lies. This character was off the fibbing-charts. Standing face-to-face in the back alley of McEnroe's bar off 5th blvd., I look at the scruffy figure once more. Dark tan hessian boots covered in a sticky-looking brown paste, ripped black ... | 2016-12-17T09:11:28 | 2016-12-17T08:07:22 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] The reason vampires don't have a reflection is because mirrors were originally made with silver which cannot hold an image of an evil creature. When a vampire wakes up for the first time in 1000 years they find a modern day mirror without silver and are surprised by what they see. | Within the deep depths of the ocean, a fisher boat hauled up a coffin, gleaming black in the sunlight. It was in fairly good shape considering it should’ve been in the sea for at least a few centuries.
The fishermen brought it all the way out from the open sea to their hometown, but being unable to pry it open, they s... | What is time? Hat-Hor was over 1000 years old when the Pyramids were built. While several times he had taken credit for their construction hundreds years after they were built, in truth he left 600 years before then. Does he even remember that? Or are you misremembering?
You and Hat-Hor constantly tell stories where y... | 2020-08-15T23:26:32 | 2020-08-15T21:51:30 | 62 | 45 |
[WP] It's another murder case, plain and simple. With Watson out of commission, Holmes heads to the nearby police precinct in search of a temporary partner for the case. Instead, the precinct gives him Detective Jake Peralta | Holmes felt alien in this city, more so than usual. It wasn't the brashness or the smell - London carried those in volumes - but a feeling that perhaps he may be up against something bigger than is customary in his day-to-day, an American.
Lestrade had recommended one Captain Holt if the need arose whilst in New York... | As Holmes entered the 99th precinct he was greeted by a bald African-American man shorter than the avarage whos first impression was obviously giving a firm handshake and maintaining excellent eye contact through the dialogue they had.
"Welcome Mr.Holmes to the 99th precinct. Im Captain Reymond Holt, we were expecting... | 2020-01-20T06:32:51 | 2020-01-20T06:21:47 | 360 | 43 |
[WP] You're a side character in a story. By chance you become aware of this fact and you try everything to be more relevant to the story, even going as far as to intefere in the protagonist's life. | When you take a DNA test, you expect to learn about your ancestry, maybe that you got some crappy genes and could get Alzheimer's or glaucoma. You don't expect to learn you're a work of fiction. But that's what happened to me.
There it was, after the line that said Fact or Fiction: Fiction. That was bad enough. The ne... | Catherine and I had won the science fair yesterday, and earlier today she
told me that NASA had contacted her, asking her to join the team designing
the Mars base. Now it’s not like she’s not nice, but it was our shared project,
so I couldn’t help to ask: “Why not me?” and the only real answer I could
come up with ... | 2019-01-06T09:23:29 | 2019-01-06T08:39:52 | 2,020 | 67 |
[WP] You're a Goth and somebody knocks on the door: "Hello is this the house of the witch?" You sigh because this has been the 100th time this month and say: "No he's over there." And points them across the street, to the dazzly pretty boy wearing a gold waistcoat, who's waiving excitedly to them.
Saw this and knew yo... | I left out a long sigh and waved back, half sarcastic, half convulsion.
"Oh wow the ad wasn't kidding he really is a white witch." let out the patron with excitement.
"White bitch is more like it," I half muttered as I search my pockets for my cloves.
"Whats that?" asked the patron with a slight tilt of the head tha... | I watched through the window as the witch helped his customer, probably some curse needed breaking or love spell or something of that sort. He always seemed so jovial and though his constant attention got on my nerves, I couldn’t help but smile at his helpful attitude. We never really spoke much, though sometimes packa... | 2021-03-22T22:58:07 | 2021-03-22T22:08:05 | 22 | 14 |
[WP]Everyone gets some sort of ability when they hit puberty. What was the one you got? HUD. | I was always a late bloomer. It sucks having to watch your friends develop powers while you just sit there and cheer for them. When Robbie was 8 she developed immense strength and stamina. Jack got the ability to fly when he was 10, and by the time he was 12 he could carry several people with him. Johnny discovered he ... | Puberty: a terrifying period in any person's life, filled with change and uncertainty, which majorly influences every aspect of life going forward and who we are to become. A time where relationships are forged or broken due to the fact that each individual is affected differently and how those around us react to that ... | 2022-12-14T17:57:32 | 2022-12-14T14:59:49 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] You rule the land with a wand whose power overwhelms all others. Some call it the barrage of fire, others the metallic whirlwind. Some simply refer to it as death itself. But only you know the wand’s true name, inscribed in the handle: AK-47. | The wand of death spat fireballs on the poor knights. Their horses went mad, their chainmail was pierced, and all they could do was stare. Not one of them could come near me.
"Stop your damned sorcery, you good-for-nothing bastard," the King yelled.
He was behind the knights, sheathed by bodies of brave men, a coward... | The so called heros lie dead or injured in front of me. They were like the others, claiming that they will be the ones to end my tyranny and how I was evil, the same as all the others who went to fight me. Honestly this group was pathetic, not even a healer among them. Not that a healer would do much against my AK.
I ... | 2021-01-07T10:10:24 | 2021-01-07T10:06:26 | 86 | 62 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | "I understand why you fear for my safety," Euphemia spoke gently as she approached the knight. "And why you fear for my kingdom," pressing her hands to her chest in mild gesture, her wide eyes emphasized her understanding. "But I cannot allow you to kill Rosa."
Slakter stared dumbly at the long forgotten princess, the... | Wood splintered as the wooden door was destroyed. The sound bounced off of all four walls, echoing up the tower, and back down. Aurora set down her fork and looked up from her lunch, hoping it was a freak accident from her soldiers training nearby.
Her eyes moved from her table to the breezy doorway and spotted a ta... | 2019-01-09T08:16:32 | 2019-01-09T06:34:18 | 172 | 59 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | The old man sat chasing his own thoughts. His memory wasn't what it once was and he kept losing his train of thought. He'd try to remember something, reason through it and just before he could latch on to it it would be gone like it was never there.
Zargrarf approached smiling, "My old nemesis, it pains me to s... | We would try and kill them. We've run scenarios on how to kill them. We've seen them kill each other. But to try eliminate them all. It borders complete impossibility.
They're just way too good at sex. It's not even that their really skilled at it. That title belongs to the Zendians. They just have copious amounts of ... | 2014-07-16T12:28:18 | 2014-07-16T12:20:35 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | The pestilence has failed. On all the countless worlds before it has stuck down our foes. These, humans, are unlike anything we have seen. To foolish to do more than look up at the stars. Unable to unify and spread their species. They know the dangers of failing to leave; overpopulation, cosmic disaster, worlds ravaged... | Dr. S.F. Mercola
Peking University, Department of Neurobiology
2259, March, 15
Human greed and shortsightedness—an intergalactic evolutionary trait?
Those in the scientific community have lamented the inability of humans to deal with basic market externalities and tragedy of the commons in the recent century. H... | 2014-10-17T10:00:06 | 2014-10-17T08:36:32 | 61 | 19 |
[WP] Since you were young you had the ability to pause time. However as a teenager you use the ability to procrastinate. At first it was little stuff: an extra hour for homework or a nap in the morning, a break in between classes, etc. Well it built up and now you're pushing thirty in your 3rd year. | The ability to pause and resume time at will was extremely useful for lazy guys like me. I could play video games until 7:59:59 am and arrive at school at 8, perfectly functional. I never arrived late, went past a deadline, or had insufficient sleep.
But consequences exist, and I only realized them about 2 years ago. ... | She said that I looked like an old man. I appreciated her frank candor most of the time, but that particular comment hit me hard. Not that Stacy meant it in a mean way, but I have a... different relationship with time than most people.
When I was in grade school, I discovered that if I could focus in the right way, I ... | 2016-09-13T07:22:40 | 2016-09-13T06:39:04 | 21 | 12 |
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