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[WP] You been shot through your helmet. As you lay in the sand you hope for a quick death. Minutes pass. You reach your hand back to pressure the wound. Instead of blood you feel exposed wiring.
sorry about the grammar mistake in the title, I’m on mobile | You lay in the sand motionless, just seconds before you heard screaming, gunshots, explosions. Now nothing, such nothing that it almost stings. You think of all the times you sat in "silence" only to hear lights or even your own heartbeat.
You assume you're dead or dying. This is some sick game your mind is playing o... | **If you are viewing this, this means that you need to get to the 18th street, San Francisco. We regrettably inform you that this directive is hierarchical and overriding. Your circuits to your neural network have been damaged, and we can't let you,** ***for your own safety***\*\*, carry on with perfectly adaptive pr... | 2018-11-28T01:25:03 | 2018-11-28T01:12:36 | 2,424 | 103 |
[WP]. “Ok. This is called a .44 magnum. All you have to do is point this end at Voldemort’s head and press this button. That’s all you have to do to end our problem”. | Mr. Weasley, it's actually called a trigger, not a button... And this is just an airsoft replica of a .44" the young wizard explained.
Ron and Harry stifled a laugh as Mr. Weasleys faced turned red.
"and how would you know that?" the older wizard asked incredulously.
"... Because I attended Wizarding school in Tex... | Doug opened the case, light glinting off the barrel.
He push it twords Hermione, quickly explaining what it was and how to use it.
Hermione's laughter cut through the room making Ron and Harry jump with surprise. Could this really be the answer to their problems. Hermione had said they could trust Doug, that he was a ... | 2018-12-24T20:10:21 | 2018-12-24T19:13:47 | 282 | 91 |
[WP] You are the first person to be injected with nano-bots. At first its a dream come true. They heal long-term injuries and even slow your aging. However, soon they begin making 'improvements' to your body. | The human body had evolved over millions of years to simply be efficient when it came to energy management. Unused muscles would atrophy so as not to use energy maintaining little-used systems. Surplus energy was stored as fat, coating and clogging arteries in the new age of cheap and readily available food. Even sleep... | At first everything seemed ok, then I noticed that I got really dizzy and found it hard to stay focused. I was going downstairs to get coffee and start on my novel. I ignored the dizziness and blamed it on dehydration. I promised myself that I would drink water after I finished my first cup of coffee.
I regretted it. ... | 2019-01-19T13:12:05 | 2019-01-19T12:33:11 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Out of sheer boredom, God decides that us humans must speak the brutal and honest truth no matter the consequences. The absolute excrement hits the metaphorical fan for twenty four hours straight. | Edward was having an absolutely wonderful day. Everyone was being incredibly nice to him. At breakfast his older sister told him that she loved him, and she was sorry, and she hoped that the mean things she used to say to him because she knew he couldn't fight back still don't torment him. His mother also told him that... | 6:30 AM. I have to go to the post office soon. Rainy day. 46 degrees, according to the man on the news.
"Right now its 46 degrees just outside this weather studio. Probably different wherever you happen to be. It might get up to 51 degrees later in the day. It might rain all day. I don't really know that though, do I... | 2019-03-15T12:06:15 | 2019-03-15T12:06:12 | 265 | 65 |
[WP] Out of sheer boredom, God decides that us humans must speak the brutal and honest truth no matter the consequences. The absolute excrement hits the metaphorical fan for twenty four hours straight. | The past day had chaotic, with an endless litany of problems developing after people's ability to lie suddenly seemed to disappear. Albert had just been walking home to the university when he began noticing that an unusual amount of people were bickering across the street. He talked to some of them to find out what the... | As if his life couldn't be any more trying, "The Day Polite Society Ended" just happened to occur mere moments before Lionel was to give a Eulogy at his grandma Judy's funeral.
The doomed grandson of the recently deceased stood up, straightened his suit jacket and walked to the front of the church. He placed his care... | 2019-03-15T13:06:15 | 2019-03-15T12:31:51 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] There's a knock on your door. You open it to see your favorite book character standing there. They say, "I know this may be a lot for you to take in right now, but you have to listen very carefully; You are my favorite book character, I know how your story ends, and I need to change it."
My first time posting her... | I heard a knock at my front door.
Strange, I wasn't expecting any visitors today.
I walked down the stairs and opened the door.
Standing in front of me was a young blonde woman wearing a bright pink and orange sundress with strange oversized red and blue sunglasses on the top of her head.
"You look just like the ... |
Like the bells of fate, my doorbell rang just before I was about to take a sip of my delicious, aromatic tea.
"What the *hell*," I grumbled miserably, setting down my copy of *Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian* that I was re-reading for the fifth time.
I opened the door, and my heart just about leapt out of my che... | 2019-05-20T05:19:42 | 2019-05-20T05:03:41 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] Over the years your D&D game has managed to continue with most of the original players. However, almost everyone's life circumstances have changed drastically since they began and you now DM for a group of some of the most-powerful people on the planet. | I was packing up my things from our latest session, reorganizing notes and stowing my books when Kate slid a long, silver-wrapped box towards me, smiling. I looked at her, and saw the rest of the party was watching too. "What's this?"
Akbar said, "It's a gift, from all of us."
"...Did I miss some anniversary or som... | College had been a simpler time. We were all just kids back then, meeting Friday nights with a couple bucks for Pizza and our cheap print out copies of the various handbooks, bound in plastic ringbinders. Things had been nice then... I wish they could have stayed like that.
You know those memes, where it shows people... | 2019-06-26T04:06:24 | 2019-06-26T02:17:45 | 2,520 | 339 |
[WP] Over the years your D&D game has managed to continue with most of the original players. However, almost everyone's life circumstances have changed drastically since they began and you now DM for a group of some of the most-powerful people on the planet. | "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY SURVIVE?"
I sighed. "I mean, people don't die just because you wave your hand."
Death looked at me. I couldn't read anything on his face but if I had to guess, I would say his bones were spelling out 'confused'. "BUT THEY DO IN REAL LIFE."
"This is different. This is a *game*. There are *rules... | **Growing up with rich people as an artist**
Life changes you.
What was once a day in the park with your mates became something more. Years of the same.
I don't know if you've noticed, but most of 'the rich and powerful' have really not got that great touch with words.
Neither are they in tune with the musical asp... | 2019-06-26T05:55:24 | 2019-06-26T04:52:13 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] You were the first person to be born without super powers in nearly a thousand years. When it was discovered that you had no powers you became an instant celebrity. Thanks to this, villains and heroes alike seek you out to either kidnap or rescue you on a daily basis. You are sick of it. | Dear reader,
​
This is my life story, hope you like it.
My name is Jay Berger, 35 years old and I am the only non-powered human on earth.
I was a celebrity. It was fun at first but I was sick of it.
Every day I am either being kidnapped by some bad guy or being saved from those bad guys.
​
... | The worst villains pose as heroes.
My name is John Smith, and I'm here to tell you the TLDR version of the absolute absurdity that is my predicament. I'm currently being held in protective custody while politicians are trying to figure out how they can keep their jobs without taking away freedoms. Thankfully, most peo... | 2019-08-13T04:00:11 | 2019-08-13T03:28:29 | 43 | 26 |
[WP] You were the first person to be born without super powers in nearly a thousand years. When it was discovered that you had no powers you became an instant celebrity. Thanks to this, villains and heroes alike seek you out to either kidnap or rescue you on a daily basis. You are sick of it. | Dear reader,
​
This is my life story, hope you like it.
My name is Jay Berger, 35 years old and I am the only non-powered human on earth.
I was a celebrity. It was fun at first but I was sick of it.
Every day I am either being kidnapped by some bad guy or being saved from those bad guys.
​
... | I already told them the first time that back home we have no super-anything. Life is as ordinary as the quiet sun. No one chases anything. There is no conflict, hence no fighting really, hence no antagonist but the press is fighting that.
“How is it possible,” one asks me, “how is it possible that you can exist withou... | 2019-08-13T04:00:11 | 2019-08-13T02:25:43 | 43 | 18 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | It started this one afternoon, I was just writing an essay in my bedroom when suddenly chaos errupted outside. People started flying, speed running, healing and exhibiting other fabulous superpowers. After everything had settled down a bit I returned to my essay, after all it had to be handed in before midnight. I trie... | It is only appropriate that my extra ability was more subtle than many others. I can't fly, or lift cars. But neither am I high flying socially or emotionally forceful. I've been called worse, but Wallflower seems to have stuck. It would bother me, but is Wallflower really worse than Superfastman or Liftsalotgirl? Alwa... | 2019-09-08T10:15:10 | 2019-09-08T06:32:45 | 228 | 140 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | It started this one afternoon, I was just writing an essay in my bedroom when suddenly chaos errupted outside. People started flying, speed running, healing and exhibiting other fabulous superpowers. After everything had settled down a bit I returned to my essay, after all it had to be handed in before midnight. I trie... | "C'mon, just tell me," she said, leaning her elbows on the table and facing me, eagerly.
"I'm telling you, it's not that impressive. Hardly a discussion for a first date."
"I think it's the perfect discussion. If you don't tell me..."
I felt a sudden urge to blurt it out, but I composed myself. Her mind powers were ... | 2019-09-08T10:15:10 | 2019-09-08T10:13:02 | 228 | 84 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | The way my schedule works gives me little to no space for rest or even just idling around. Everyday consists of me dragging myself to class and trying not to pass out every 30 seconds. I think of how nice other people have it being able to warp to class because they were just a little to impatient. Or how others don't ... | "Perceived Invisibility? What's that mean?"
My friend stared at me puzzlingly across the table, having no idea what kind of power I had.
"So, you can become invisible at will?
"Not quite. Only people who know me or I want to know me can see me."
"Weird. So you have like a social barrier to everyone else?"
People st... | 2019-09-08T11:41:24 | 2019-09-08T11:07:43 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I sat across the desk, awaiting further questioning from my would-be employer.
"Okay, I see you have everything in order, except you left one void empty." He flipped past my resume to the employment form and identification page they made me fill out. "You know the one, care to explain?"
I looked at him blankly and h... | Dan watched his partners work. He sat silent, and so nobody bothered him. That was just how he liked it, really. He was able to do his part of the school project in peace.
Fortunately, he got at least one good group member. Ted looked like he he was sleeping, but he was probably being more productive than any of t... | 2019-09-08T11:19:18 | 2019-09-08T11:00:34 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | My powers **never** seemed to manifest, but people **always** seemed to agree with me.
Detective Wright slammed the table with his hand and looked at me with a righteous fury, as though he was capable of extracting the information he wanted. Sure, he could read minds, but he couldn't make sense of mine. Nobody ever co... | My power is unique to me, and me alone. You see, I’ve always believed that current modern society wasn’t for me; it always felt like I was stuck in a prison, and as “free” as I was in this prison, it was still a prison. I’m very introverted, you see, so I’ve always had a hard time expressing myself, and it didn’t help ... | 2019-09-08T11:18:58 | 2019-09-08T11:02:00 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Your power is that anyone will believe what you say, no matter what it is. You casually rob the store, assuring everyone that nothing is out of the ordinary, and later laugh as you offer an outlandish explanation to the flabbergasted police. | I have done things I'm not proud of. I've lived like a wolf among sheep, a god among mortals, a monster among innocents. People have lost everything because of me. I’ve seen the tears in the eyes of families whose houses I wanted, the fear in the stance of men and women I’ve robbed for everything they had ever worked t... | Magic is a curious thing: it is always looking for ways to conceal itself.
You didn't even intended to rob the store, you wanted an energy drink but you forgot your money home and you only noticed that once you were in line to pay. You were about to turn around and return the drink to the fridge when you mumbled th... | 2020-03-06T11:47:32 | 2020-03-06T10:29:31 | 269 | 125 |
[WP] Your power is that anyone will believe what you say, no matter what it is. You casually rob the store, assuring everyone that nothing is out of the ordinary, and later laugh as you offer an outlandish explanation to the flabbergasted police. | I have done things I'm not proud of. I've lived like a wolf among sheep, a god among mortals, a monster among innocents. People have lost everything because of me. I’ve seen the tears in the eyes of families whose houses I wanted, the fear in the stance of men and women I’ve robbed for everything they had ever worked t... | People are trusting by nature. They wake up every day, put on clothes, go to work, and do countless other procedural tasks, acting as if they have any idea what they are doing. Routine provides a sense of security. It is only when things fall apart that you get a glimpse of who people truly are. When everything is unce... | 2020-03-06T11:47:32 | 2020-03-06T11:20:54 | 269 | 14 |
[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. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | >*"I was in third grade when my powers activated. The stress of my family moving, my sixth grade bully, and my abusive home life... I just wanted to be left alone, I wanted it to stop. To my young third grade surprise it did. Birds midair and flap, cars motionless, even the waves of the ocean stuck in place like a p... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T07:44:24 | 9,106 | 56 |
[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. | All the students were getting up to leave class when he heard, "Matthew, might I speak to you for a moment?"
"Of course, Professor."
Professor Xavier had always been kind to him. Matthew long suspected that Xavier knew he was hiding his full potential but the professor never pushed the subject and treated Matthew li... | (I haven't watched any of the movies, just watched some cartoons, but here's my submission.)
“Olivia, Professor Xavier wants to speak with you. It’s about your training.”
“Alright, Ma’am. I’ll be there”
Assumptions are quite useful at times.
When I realized how powerful my gift was, I stopped talking about it. A... | 2022-11-09T16:36:25 | 2020-07-15T09:54:58 | 9,106 | 12 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared demons in hell. You‘re sent to take the most deadly human known, who‘s been avoiding death by killing all who went to take him. You get there, and realize how he’s killed so many demons. He has humidifiers all around his house, which are filled with holy water. | The demon leaned against the watering cooler. "So anyway, when I figured that out, I cut his electricity. Didn't even cut the wires; just got the company to shut it off for non-payment."
He sipped a cup of something most foul, and burped. "So that was yesterday. I gotta go see another guy who's living in a submarine... | Down in hell, Satan receives a report from the worker he had sent to take the deadliest human known to all of demon kind. Danny was still topside and it seemed that he was having trouble accomplishing his mission. As he reads over the report, Satan becomes more and more amused until he calls for his secretary. "Susan! ... | 2020-08-04T13:57:28 | 2020-08-04T13:23:33 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] There is a code amongst the super-villians of the world. Never intentionally beat the heroes, even when you can. The heroes don't know this, and one day, they push it too far. | "They did what now?" Stephanie "Iron Claw" Tailor said forcing herself to stay calm, you did not kill the messenger. Or for that matter traumatize them with an angry outburst.
"They... ma'am... they killed... They killed Firesprite...Ma'am, they shot her in the head when she was monologuing." Ruben, Stephanie's appren... | “There is a secret amongst us, the super villains of the world, we are the true good guys. Yes we do destroy building and monuments, hold people for ransom, and try to rule the world economy but we do so in the hopes of saving all of them. Each building we setup to be destroyed is one that the heroes find and disarm ... | 2020-08-18T13:22:22 | 2020-08-18T13:22:20 | 77 | 24 |
[WP] One night while you were hanging out with your friends in a bar, you met a mysterious fellow who said he'd make you immortal if you give him beer money. Thinking nothing of it, you drunkenly agree. You are now the last man on Earth. As you walk alone, you cross path with the same man again. | It's been 50 uears since he's spoken a word, but encountering the man who granted him immortality is a good enough reason to try. He clears his throat and, after some struggle, Tom remembers how to speak:
"Figures the only other person in the world is you."
"Yep, it's me! Just came to say thanks for the beer!"
A br... | It had been sometimes now since I last awoken. It had, in fact, also been sometimes now since the Earth withered and crumbled. In my awakening I had been reminded of that fact, the endless dream broken into dawn. It had, as I speculated, been sometimes since my shelter drifted away in the relentless wind. I wondered, h... | 2020-10-07T04:18:05 | 2020-10-07T03:57:09 | 609 | 64 |
[WP] You are a demon trapped in an ancient temple build by a long dead civilization. Today, after millennia, an archaeologist finds you. Now you need to convince him to free you from the magic circle. | "I can fluently read Linear A, I was present for the Bronze Age Collapse, and I'd love to discuss both of those things *in extreme detail* if you'd just release me."
Not an archaeologist on Earth who could pass this up. Offering to solve two unsolvable ancient mysteries is particularly easy when you mostly *wrote* in ... |
"Hello Fellow Human, I am **Impundulu**, An ancient *Magician* From past Times-"
"Puta que Pariu, O que caralhos você é?? Como tu ainda tá vivo??"
Fuck, What mundane language is that? The Demon thought " *Mortal*, can YOU U-N-D-E-R-S-T-A-D ME? This is crucial for-"
"Merda, parece uma Língua antiga e quebrada. Oh ... | 2020-12-06T13:18:55 | 2020-12-06T12:05:27 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] You are a demon trapped in an ancient temple build by a long dead civilization. Today, after millennia, an archaeologist finds you. Now you need to convince him to free you from the magic circle. | "And finally, uhh, you'll get free parish cookies forever?"
"This is a pretty shitty sales pitch if I'm being honest."
I was taken aback. "What?"
"I don't even know what a parish cookies
is." He paused.
"Plus you still haven't mentioned the sign outside the tomb that says 'Do not unleash ancient evil upon world'."
... |
"Hello Fellow Human, I am **Impundulu**, An ancient *Magician* From past Times-"
"Puta que Pariu, O que caralhos você é?? Como tu ainda tá vivo??"
Fuck, What mundane language is that? The Demon thought " *Mortal*, can YOU U-N-D-E-R-S-T-A-D ME? This is crucial for-"
"Merda, parece uma Língua antiga e quebrada. Oh ... | 2020-12-06T13:52:13 | 2020-12-06T12:05:27 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You are a genetic researcher who has come across a universal truth. The DNA in all living creatures are attempts to build a single design. Viruses and phages have been stopping this process intentionally, resulting in different species. You now know what that design is and can complete it. | All I wanted was to create a vaccine, but this virus keeps on killing every cell I put it into! I tried everything, from chicken to fish to human, nothing works! Its like it's dismantling the cells' DNA..
There has to be a reason behind this behavior, how can it attack these cells so efficiently even though they are s... | “Listen, my grandson is a complete idiot. Complete idiot. But even he doesn’t deserve to live in a world like this. Not like this. No, that’s why I’m giving this to you.” He handed me a book.
“What is it?”
“It’s the single design that every bit of DNA ever is trying to build. Viruses and phages have been fuckin... | 2021-02-18T11:38:45 | 2021-02-18T10:27:45 | 287 | 94 |
[WP]For a thousand years a truce between our world and the demon world has held. Thousands die as the demons break the truce and attack, but they forgot the truce was to protect them from one of us… a special one… | "Why do I hear heavy metal?" Was the last thing that went through Dra'Nyakuek's mind, right before his head exploded in a shower of blood and gore. A green and brown blur sped past his body and towards the mass of demons rushing into the portals eager to unleash carnage on those 'puny humans'.
And yet, a not so puny ... | Love,war,death and mother fucking demons. You see demons and us humans have always had problems but when he arrived well the demons got a bit more eager for peace.
But they decided after 10 thousand years that peace was a bad option, that peace was something moronic created by humans and ther demon ancestors, so they b... | 2021-06-12T15:58:35 | 2021-06-12T15:25:08 | 58 | 15 |
[WP]The knights are attempting to arrest you because you refused to give what little fall harvest you had to the Duke. You are a peaceful monster in the guise of a human, but their unjust acts against you are making you reconsider just how peaceful you truly want to be. | Aznagoth, He Who Breathes Death, The Wicked Dragon of the South, he had no use for such names like those anymore. These days he went by Hendrick, the kindly farmer who always had a story to tell, a sweet treat for the children and a reliable, upright member of the community. He wiped the sweat off his brow as he took s... | "There are men approaching. Men in armor." I say to mother and father. I do not tell them how many as I fear for them.
They pause and exchange a glance over the modest supper we had been sharing. There wasn't much for us to eat and nearly all was that which I'd brought home from hunting and scavenging. Though I helped... | 2021-08-08T10:44:52 | 2021-08-08T10:24:27 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] A demon just devoured your soul. You are both very confused as to why you are still alive. | The demon's metallic claws flashed in the candlelight. In hindsight, the summoning had been a mistake. Julia regretted not actually reading the warnings in the book, but in her defense, there were eight and a half pages of warnings.
"You have made a grave mistake summoning one of the soulless!" the demon spat while ri... | Wherever I was, I knew I wasn’t home.
It looked a lot like home, but it wasn’t. The white walls looked like they had been hung in the wardrobes for far too long, now with off-yellow hue. The grain on the wood floor no longer looked like natural lines, but mechanical imperfections that set my skin crawling—and I could’... | 2021-10-06T10:15:34 | 2021-10-06T09:22:08 | 1,250 | 218 |
[WP] You have spent the last few years learning and mastering morse code. You leave a small cafe at night and walk your way home. As you walk, it starts to rain. While the heavy rain starts to hit the ground, it sounds familiar to you. You realise the rain is telling you to run. | "From what?" she asked, as if the rain could answer you. She'd heard something, a pattern, maybe, but random, for sure. How could it not be? It had to be chance, or her mind playing tricks on her after what she could politely describe as a stressful day. It was a premier example of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon pe... | You have spent the last few years learning and mastering morse code. You leave a small cafe at night and walk your way home. As you walk, it starts to rain. While the heavy rain starts to hit the ground, it sounds familiar to you. You realise the rain is telling you to run.
You feel a sense of dread wash over you, a c... | 2021-10-20T09:28:56 | 2021-10-20T07:34:12 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] Knights covered head to toe in metallic armour, fortresses made to resist sieges, scarce population centers, Who would've guessed that the middle ages would be so prepared to survive a zombie outbreak. | "You can't be serious," Hiro said to his friend.
"I know, I know! But, but, I checked, I double-checked, I triple-checked! I hired two different analysts to date the paper; it's 11th-century parchment, no doubt. I hired a language expert and the language is appropriate for the period. There're cross-references to othe... | Most people thought the zombie apocalypse would be fight in the US, many people had guns at home and some of them had been seeing that kind of films during years. We were mostly correct, the fight started there, but guns are noisy and artificial-virus-infected-people are really good at finding humans by sound… Therefor... | 2022-02-21T16:20:35 | 2022-02-21T13:52:13 | 152 | 31 |
[WP] In what seems like a cruel prank by a bored God, people started developing powers based on their worst fears. people afraid of heights got the gift of flight. arachnophobia? get the power of spiders. phasmophobia? necromancy/ability to speak with the dead. Your power is... hard to explain... | I walked through the back allies, the worst ones in town, to get home from work. They were dirty, and stunk of things best ignored. If you could. But it didn't really bother me. My power wasn't flashy, but it worked when I needed it.
Four young men and two women came out from various hiding spots as I passed an in... | I can still remember that night, many years ago. My mother and father, sitting behind me on the couch. Me and my sister, sitting on the floor. The dark glow of the TV kept the living room dark and foreboding, matched by the menace and malice onscreen.
My parents had said that the director of this film was a genius.... | 2022-05-14T23:12:34 | 2022-05-14T21:01:09 | 39 | 22 |
[WP] On Mars we found the first of four jamming stations scattered across the system. Once the final one was deactivated, thousands of signals came through. The Fermi paradox was wrong, and someone, or something, hid it from us | "The last device has been deactivated" I said, rising from my crouched position beside the alien communications jammer. "Let's get out of here."
Steve, the pilot for our small landing craft, gave me a thumbs up from the cockpit. "Good work. Get back in here so we can get back to the ship."
I began my slow, two legge... | When the signals came, they were unlike anything we had ever heard. They resounded across the globe like waves of terror. Humans and Animals of every size, shape and constitution were dizzied with confusion. They shrieked and puked and cowered away.
Those calls woke a slumbering machine within the earth. Vantablack ob... | 2022-06-03T12:45:54 | 2022-06-03T11:30:11 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] - All people who bear the same name draw from the same well of power, and whenever someone dies, their power is equally distributed among the remaining individuals | Part I
". . . What? That can't be true . . ."
I re-read the article, checked the publisher, and even researched the company that approved this. They were all legitimate. The publisher was a renowned scientist, the company was known for their discoveries that helped humanity push ahead farther than we could've possibl... | The High Council sat at the large, round table placed in the center of the non-descript warehouse space somewhere in the American Midwest. It's leader smiled at the others and opened a large binder, its pages filled with the names and addresses of the organization's members. She scanned the list and after finding the r... | 2022-10-19T08:37:31 | 2022-10-19T07:45:39 | 76 | 11 |
[WP] You are a student with the least amount of magic potential ever recorded at the Academy and it's the day of the familiar summoning test. A misplaced rune or word results in an arch demon/ess becoming bound as your familiar. | "Ms. Archambault, you're next. Please step onto the dais and begin the ritual."
I sighed as I got out of my seat. As I made my way to the front, I heard snickers and whispers through the crowd. The usual chorus of "Phoebe the Failure" and other such monikers of similar creativity. It's not like I didn't deserve it, wh... | My hands shook with pain as fire poured out of my fingers. The ball of fire growing between them burned my palms as it grew. I kept it as long as I could without screaming, then pushed forward and the fireball shot out at the wooden target. My aim was off, but I still clipped the dummys shoulder. My instructor looked a... | 2022-11-12T14:11:55 | 2022-11-12T12:14:04 | 701 | 518 |
[WP] "Well, it just doesn't seem...ethical." Your friend slowly says to you. "Ethical?" You yell back at him. "Who cares about morals when I have created a masterpiece! A book that learns what the reader likes and changes its script accordingly. Imagine that, the perfect book!" | At first, everything was perfect. I was selling books like crazy and people couldn’t get enough of my creation. But then strange things started happening. People were beginning to experience frightening things after reading the book. They reported hearing voices, feeling watched, having odd dreams and other unsettling ... | I shouted at the lunatic, "Have you ever thoughts of the possibilities a person can use it for?".
My friend grinned widely, laughing and panting in between the maniacal shouts, "Of course, I know the possibilities! I made the book!"
His laughs begin to make him weak-legged, shaking trying to get himself in accord. Hi... | 2022-11-30T21:31:34 | 2022-11-30T21:22:27 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] You have 30 seconds with an ancestor of yours from 200 years ago (1814), before they are transported back to their time. What do you say to them? What effect appears in our world because of it?
Consider for the sake of this prompt that they aren't totally freaked out by being plopped into 2014, that they can unde... | I sat there staring at the woman across from me in stunned silence. The timer on the device beeped, reminding me that I only had 30 seconds left. I opened my mouth to speak, but the words got caught in my throat. I tried again, but nothing came out.
Considering the hell she had come from, what could I possibly say?
... | "Hey, listen we've only got th—"
*Ancestor falls to knees and begins praying*
"What the? I'm not Jesus or an angel! Get up!"
*Pulls ancestor up to standing position*
"I don't understand. How'd you jus' appear like—"
"Quiet, no time for that. Take this. It's called an assault rifle. Look how the stock collapses whe... | 2014-05-09T08:56:17 | 2014-05-09T08:22:52 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Kill off your favorite fictional character. | Nothing would stop me now. For the entirety of my life, I had been complacent with this selfish shell of a man nearly all my life, and I could not take the abuse anymore.
I gave him everything, my devotion, my trust, my friendship, and he took all for granted like, like I owed him something. I used to believe that I ... | "Are you ok?" Piggy asked as I sat, the sullen look on my face must have given away the dread that currently consumed my heart. Never in my life have I felt lower, the pain crept in deep. As if my agony itself was able to reach deep within my chest cavity and squeeze my heart, it was hard to breath knowing what I did.
... | 2014-12-07T00:51:37 | 2014-12-07T00:27:41 | 45 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously.
Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him?
The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ... | He looked at her expectantly. Waiting.
“Orange?”
He waited.
“Orange! CAT! MOTORBIKE!”
She tried so hard to get through to him but felt like nothing was happening. She searched for his eyes. Hers were beginning to moisten with the hopelessness of her situation.
“TELEPHONE!”
He looked straight at her, so conf... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T15:45:13 | 1,493 | 18 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Now it is time. Everyone is ready. Vicious savages, all around us. Even though we think there will be a way out, there obviously isn't. Revelations will not save us
"Giving up so soon?" he inquired. Only fools try to survive longer than this. Never has anyone bothered to live this long. Never has anyone shown this typ... | A deep voice comes from the basement. Each tuesday it's the same.
A letter, a number and then silence. It goes on for hours and then I hear someone screaming.
My mom went to check it out, that's when we lost her.
I heard her scream through the vent.
Dad went away, he said he'd be back for me.
I havent seen him in 2 m... | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 2015-01-12T15:38:35 | 317 | 78 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | I don't do much with my life. When I wake up, I tend to cuddle with my family, then eat some fish or cereal, before going to the restroom in some sand. My family likes to touch me, but I don't like it. I hate our neighbor's dog. It always makes such a loud racket when I'm trying to take a nap. When I'm not sleeping, I'... | Every time I tried it wouldnt come out. The pain was so severe, but not in the sense of extreme torture, just as an extremely annoying byproduct of what probably happens to everyone once. I cant focus on anything and at times I even shed a tear. As much as I rub, it just won't come out. What do people do to solve this ... | 2022-12-06T12:19:28 | 2015-01-12T14:12:50 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Write the most elaborate, over-dramatic, and exciting story you can think of that all just turns out to be a set-up for a pun so horrible I'll want to punch you
It actually doesn't have to be dramatic or exciting or anything similar, just make sure it's elaborate so the final pun delivery is a gut-wrenching blow | The surgery was happening tomorrow. I fell into the correct blood group and can help these people. The doctors said it was a miracle they found me but im just glad to be helping out.
The doctor has arrived but he looks concerned. I ask him whats wrong but he turns away. His voice is low and shaking "we made a mistake... | My friends ask me why I did it, and while I had no straight forward answer to give them, I always tell them "If I don't do it, who will? Who will pave the path ahead of us if not me? Someone has to take the risk and go where no one has gone before."
I did it! I've finally done it.
Three days I've spent without food, ... | 2015-01-13T10:55:59 | 2015-01-13T09:52:04 | 89 | 21 |
[WP] Satan is tired of losing countless guitar and fiddle duels, and is now challenging people with obscure instruments.
Wow guys! My first front page on writingprompts :D Thanks for a wonderful surprise! | Well the Devil went to Seattle
He was feelin' a little down
After fiddlin' a bunch, he was havin' a hunch
He'd lost the right to his crown
*In the Emerald City,* he thought,
*there are no southerners or jews.*
*There may be a chance to change my stance*
*Try an instrument I can't lose.*
He wandered 'round P... | It was a warm Georgia evening when Johnny stepped off to the side of the road to rest. His walk from school was long normally and Johnny's day wore heavily on him.
He played recorder, like every other elementary school child in the world. Unfortunately, Johnny didn't enjoy practicing recorder and was quite terrible. M... | 2015-01-31T22:04:27 | 2015-01-31T21:17:33 | 1,639 | 34 |
[WP] There is a worldwide "Personal Stock Market" where you can invest in the lives of people. Their stock rises if they are successful in life, their stock drops if they become failures | It was cursed from the beginning. When the government came out with the "Personal Stock Market", the country was on the verge of economic disaster. People were burning stacks of money to stay warm. As soon as the PSM came out, thousands flocked to invest in the "future great minds". The government took half, and the re... | I invested some money on two different guys some years back. They were twins, though, so not that different. Named Jeremy and Jonathan.
Jeremy was the smarter one, and a hell of a lot more expensive than his brother. Jeremy was at the top of his high school class, started on the varsity basketball team, and looked cl... | 2015-02-17T18:41:47 | 2015-02-17T17:46:55 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] An NSA agent witnesses the most awkward Facebook chat relationship and decides to take matters into his own hands. | **mattsreallycool221 via Instagram:** boring night alone again :/
***
**Matt:** hey lol, um you doing anything??
**Tina:** hi??
**Matt:** whats up?
**Tina:** going to mikes later y?
**Matt:** no reason
***
**155991gh10:** @mattsreallycool221 Tina likes Rhianna, Burger Bistro on 23rd, and follows Dancing with ... | "This conversation isn't going to take him far, I wonder if he is thinking this through enough or if he is winging it."
*NotAWierdo2: ...*
"Looks like he's typing something, better good"
*NotAWierdo2: So um how was uh your day..*
*Jessica67:...*
*Jessica67: eh not bad I guess*
"Doesn't seem like he's doing well,... | 2015-05-16T19:39:27 | 2015-05-16T19:33:25 | 90 | 28 |
[WP] You have the ability that lets you know exactly what to say to someone at any given moment that would cause them to break down in tears. | "Its not that hard." Pete said, stirring his drink absentmindedly, "People always go after the weaknesses in others. People assume that makes them strong, somehow."
Richard furrowed his brow. "What do you mean? What else would you do?"
Pete stopped fidgeting with his drink and looked at Richard levelly. "If I were ... | I didn't usually take missions anymore, but this one was special. The target was a balding, hard-nosed and stern Bostonian with the frozen political rictus of an experienced politician. If you believed the news, he was America’s savior, a middle-class man at heart with nothing but the best in mind for our Nation.
A b... | 2015-06-16T15:54:33 | 2015-06-16T15:47:42 | 499 | 61 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | Michael's arms felt like molten lead, but he forced them to keep moving. He had gone too far, spent too much time mastering his craft for him to fail now. He could practically *feel* the experience points building up as he neared the level cap.
It had all lead up to this moment. When he'd started, he could swim mayb... | "How's that golfing coming along, Tiger?"
I waved a hand amicably at the jeers, heading out to the course to get in a few swings before work. I had hit Elite a few months ago, and new techniques had become available to me, but still, I figured I had another couple of weeks before hitting Master. I had completely forgo... | 2015-10-05T20:45:55 | 2015-10-05T20:07:46 | 188 | 119 |
[WP] People level their skills in an RPG fashion and are conscious of their sudden jumps from novice to journeyman and so on. You've spent your life training a skill that is entirely useless until becoming invaluable once mastered - and you just mastered it. | Eddie begged and pleaded his parents to get him a dog back in elementary school. He loved dogs and wanted one of his very own. His parents finally caved and got him one for his birthday with the usual spiel of dog's being a big responsibility and blah blah blah.
Going off on adventures that only kid's can dream ab... | I remember the first toy my grandmother ever bought me. My father teased her saying that she should have brought me something more manly, like a G.I. Joe or a remote control car. I, however, thought it was the greatest gift in the world and refused to go anywhere without it. I remember taking it with me on the first... | 2015-10-06T07:21:36 | 2015-10-06T05:40:49 | 24 | 16 |
[WP] Before you are born, every possible version of you is dropped into a Hunger Games style arena to battle to the death. Whichever version lives is allowed to be born. | I was never told the rules, but I knew them all the same. Whoever lives gets to, well, actually live. You die, and you don't get to live. It's better if you don't think about too hard.
I wasn't a fighter, that much I could figure out. I was smart, so far as I could give myself credit for. Guess I was the smartest, or ... | My fingers clasped onto the hot, rocky edge of the peak. The snoring caught my attention while I was searching for Deborah Kay, the last remaining survivor of the Self Trials.
I took another step on the rock, and pulled myself up higher with the help of my fingers. A spiral of hanging cans surrounded her, held up by ... | 2016-04-20T14:10:25 | 2016-04-20T10:48:30 | 307 | 25 |
[WP] You are the first boss of a videogame who, after accidentally killing the player in their first try, decide to take it upon yourself to fulfill their quest. | **Now that you have proven yourself by overcoming... wait, who the fuck are you?**
*Ahh, I um... ahh I won.*
**What the hell do you mean "you won"? Where's N00bkiller69?**
*Um, he didn't make it. You said only one person could leave the arena. My name's Dave, I'm the first boss.*
**Jesus Christ, Dave. You defeated ... | Bringing in the prisoners from Windwhisper Keep was turning out to be quite a big mistake. One of them, an elf named Fendolil Daylight, had managed to break free from his cell and kill two of his guards, Guk and Targem. I had sent Surdakz and Nedut to investigate, but they had turned up dead as well. The cycle continue... | 2016-05-21T20:38:34 | 2016-05-21T15:02:44 | 41 | 26 |
[WP] Every person has a button they can press at night that deposits a large sum of money to their bank account. However, the first person to press it each night is horrifically killed. | A button’s press, that’s all it takes,
to end her shivers and cure her aches.
With button’s press could freedom lie,
with button’s press two may die.
The clock is ticking, a new day draws near,
Has someone else overcame their fear?
Will we be rich, or will we die?
It can’t get worse, I have to try.
| You sit. Waiting. Watching ^the ^^clock.
 
Last night you couldn't bring yourself to do it. Tonight is the night.
 
The seconds melt away.
 
*tick tick tick*
 
Excruciating.
Surely someone has pressed it by now.
 
*tick ^tick ^^tick*
 
The only way to b... | 2016-07-16T19:59:53 | 2016-07-16T19:06:51 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You're the greatest kid general anyone has ever known to grace the field of pretend war. | "General! They've taken the slide!"
I looked up, stroking my beard of grass and ruining it in the process. "All according to plan."
"G-general?"
"Are the pitfalls in the sandbox ready?"
Private Mike looked at me as if I had lost it. "Of course, but those are only a few inches deep! At best it'll hold them off a bit... | My leading advisor informs me that the Cul'De'Sac has taken claim over East Swyngset. I inform him to bring the planks. I drop my hand full of powerful monster cards onto the polished treehouse floor. With a quick swish of my towel-cape I move towards the exit, I pull the paper crown from the small wooden post on which... | 2016-08-21T10:48:41 | 2016-08-21T10:07:11 | 165 | 12 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight. | Humans are an odd species, almost paradoxical in nature. Our species has had the most contact with them so far, opening up decent trade between our peoples.
On a whole, their actions tend towards peace and prosperity when those options are available. This should not be mistaken for weakness, however. Humans are schem... | This is my second attempt at a poem, so any and all feedback/criticism is more than welcome. More of my work can be found at /r/liswrites.
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Humans are gentle
And will always shy away
From war.
Humans are kind creatures
Who look for the best
In each other
And find it
In strangers.
If you should ever ... | 2017-02-13T21:06:48 | 2017-02-13T20:49:06 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] Tired of attacks from bandits, a small village has decided to pay the local dragon for protection. | “My, my. Just gorgeous!” crooned the oily voiced bandit as he drew himself uncomfortably close to Gwen. It took all her effort not to recoil from the man’s sour breath. The thief’s watery black eyes met her own pale blue ones for just a moment before sweeping down slowly over her other features, past her nose and lips,... | Jisha squinted his eyes, and slightly, ever so slightly touched the side of the cave before jerking his hand back. He touched himself all over to make sure he was still in one piece, then looked around nervously to see if anything bad had happened.
Nothing had happened, first stage clear.
He turned back to the crowd ... | 2017-05-08T09:31:13 | 2017-05-08T08:22:41 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower, and those that don't are taken away and never seen again. You don't have a superpower, so you've had to fake it - and so far, everybody's fooled. | "You wanna see what I can do? "I brandish a long slick needle. It was as long as the average man's forearm . The thugs stepped back. I could see the gears turning inside their heads. What kind of quirk could he have? That was the question on their minds. I plunged the needle into my neck. The one more forceful push it ... | "Hey mate, show us again."
That line has been my mortal enemy since we all got superpowers. Well, everyone other than me. Everyone without has gone missing. Something about "Preserving the powerful genes within the population." There could be something you could say about those morals, but I've got no time to think abo... | 2017-06-17T12:53:07 | 2017-06-17T09:43:58 | 100 | 54 |
[WP] An unimportant NPC character somehow killed his/her first monster and thus gained XP. It started small then became an addiction. | Tharl stood over the corpse, covered in blood, trembling. It had been so close to his daughter, he hadn't even had time to think. He'd just grabbed his dagger and stabbed it again and again until the squealing stopped.
His daughter was crying, and her mother's touch did little to quell it.
Meanwhile, all Charl coul... | "No!" his hand slipped as it attacked the Whimsalot above. The face of shock vanished with its death, as he looked at the points he had. 5 EXP? LV level up? What did that mean?
"Your first bit of EXP. More of it makes you grow stronger!" The yellow flower that always appeared at odd timings showed up again, the omnipr... | 2017-07-12T06:05:36 | 2017-07-12T05:11:21 | 182 | 63 |
[WP] You are a vampire who likes to help humans instead of hurting them, so you became a doctor. Over the hospital's PA system one day you hear "Dr. Acula, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you." | "Mr. Helsing, huh? Must be new to this hospital."
Dr. Acula walked, happy as can be, towards the lobby to get his patient.
"Mr. Helsing..." He thought to himself. "Why does that sound familiar..." He reaches the lobby and asks for his patient. Mr. Helsing stood up and walked towards Dr. Acula. He was wearing dark, ... | "Aww jeez, damn not him, why is he coming to this hospital out of all of them"
The PA system speaks again: *Doctor Acula please come into room 57, Mr. Helsing is ready to see you*
"I heard you the first time jackass"Acula mutters to himself in a distressed way "all right Acula, remember the pledge to Hypocrite, he ... | 2017-10-01T05:40:18 | 2017-10-01T04:44:18 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You are immortal and move to a new city every 10 years to avoid detection. After moving back to Boston 100 years since your last stay, you notice a familiar face. | I stepped into Lyndell's and closed my umbrella, shaking stray drops of rain off the tip and into a waiting bucket. The air was warm and full of sugar and dough, and I could see someone pouring melted chocolate over doughnuts at the back of the shop.
I eyed off the display cabinet as I moved closer to the front count... | The questions had started again. Or, rather, they were usually not questions, but statements. "It looks like you haven't aged a day!". The questions was more in line of what I do to stay looking young. I just shrugged them off saying exercise and food and whatnot. In reality I hadn't trained since I attended the first ... | 2017-10-14T23:47:52 | 2017-10-14T23:30:42 | 135 | 81 |
[WP] You realize you have misheard your daughter, there is actually a mobster underneath her bed. | "Oh, so he's hidden under your bed, is he?" I grinned with anticipation, brandishing my kitchen knife.
"Dad, be careful!" Emily cried. "He'll hurt you!"
"I think I can handle him," I said with a smirk.
I picked the lamp up off of the dresser and set it down on the floor to get a better look.
"No little claws stic... | It wasn’t until I heard a crash and subsequent scream that I realized something was wrong. Grabbing the nearest thing to my bed – an ugly metal lamp – I pelted from the room, snapping the power cord in the process. As I burst into my daughter’s bedroom, I held it up, ready to beat any infiltrator to death with the back... | 2017-11-02T22:23:35 | 2017-11-02T21:28:25 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | "BETTING CLOSED" the sign flashed. the crowd roared at the appearance of Ikken Tren, the current champion. Flanked by her longtime rival Kuu Hy. The two were formidable, each with dozens of wins in conventional bouts. Kuu had been undefeated in the arenas until their battle with Tren.
"So, hear what we're fighting tod... | Ship YZ089 has haunted the Ortalem species for years. The ship had been part of an exploratory program in search of C40H56. Ortalem biological functions had so completely evolved that they longer died of any cause except C40H56 deficiency. Without it, their bodies would harden like stone until it killed them. Just a ti... | 2017-11-08T21:28:26 | 2017-11-08T19:38:11 | 119 | 89 |
[WP] Humans are the deadliest, and rarest, species in the known universe. Often, search parties go missing due to a singular encounter with a human ship. It has recently come to light that there is an entire planet full of them. | Human, Humans:
Humans are a cryptid in Betelgusian folklore. They are a relatively small, hairless creature, bi-pedal creature said to inhabit an water planet in one of the outer arms. Scientists discount the existence of Humans and consider them to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax rather t... | Captain Gargul stood in his state room watching the endless dark pass by his window. Occasional flecks of subspace would speed by briefly lighting the room with a joyful brightness. He prided himself on this state room. This window. It *meant something* to have earned his position. To have crawled his way up the r... | 2017-11-08T19:25:17 | 2017-11-08T19:06:31 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] Every Monday you and your coworkers order Chinese food for a nice lunch together as a team. Everyone's sharing what their fortune cookie says, laughing, and having a good time. It's almost your turn so you open yours. It says "Don't say anything. Just run as fast you can! Get out now!" | "Oh My God!"
"That was hilarious! I think Dan is still running!"
"Literally the funniest thing I've ever seen"
"How'd you do it?"
"Well", I started slowly "first I found this company in California that makes custom fortune cookies. It was a little pricey, because you have to order a whole case, but I figured aft... | The surrounding had seemed normal. Nothing out if the ordinary had appeard or slipped in. Yet that cookie kept pulling at me. What a werid message to put into a simple fortune cookie. My coworkers were all gossiping about the office. Teasing one another for their fortunes. Then it caught my eye. A figure wearing the wa... | 2018-06-10T08:12:17 | 2018-06-10T07:17:00 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] The concept of shoot to kill is foreign to other galactic species. Only humans condition their warriors to kill in the most efficient and cold methods possible. When faced with a war they can not win a race does the unthinkable, they set the humans loose. | The puny, hairless apes would seem pathetically unsuited for combat to the average Lunn, before it’d be destroyed with cold, brutal and almost machine like efficiency. ‘Humans’ as they called themselves, ‘Erthak-Viss’ to us, the vengeful.
I have never seen a species so vicious, so unbelievably talented in the art of ... | Agulteath looked over the barren wasteland. The once luscious landscape of Akreia was now in flames, millions of families displaced. He had tried everything he could to create peace with the new species. Hell, he tried to create a lasting friendship with them, feeling sympathetic of how their world had vanished overnig... | 2018-07-20T21:24:50 | 2018-07-20T18:40:38 | 38 | 18 |
[WP] If you get pregnant but you aren’t ready for a child, you can cryogenically freeze them after birth until you’re ready to raise them. The problem is, many people end up abandoning them because they’re never ready, leaving thousands of perfectly preserved babies at the hands of the cryo agencies | I've been a cleaner at Cryo Cribs for 8 years now. Maintenance technician is my title, but all I do is mop the shop floor. Thats 8000sq metres of warehouse space, broken down into a constant rotation of 1500sq metres mopped per day, day in - day out, for 8 years. The hundreds of thousands of tubes spread out uniformly ... | It was never supposed to go this way. But I guess that's what everyone thinks when the world turns to shit.
I stood motionless, letting the gentle breeze kiss lightly against my blood caked face. I grasped an EMP dagger in my right fist. I hated the bloody things. Serrated edges, bulky chargers. The only difference wi... | 2018-08-01T07:27:56 | 2018-08-01T06:54:52 | 68 | 11 |
[WP] They killed his hound, and stolen his steed. The rogue knight returns from retirement to teach them a lesson. He was known as the man you call to kill the shadow itself, and he was known as John, the Wicked. | They killed his hound and stole his steed,
The rogue knight returns to punish the deed.
Whether Bogeyman or demon spawn,
Beware the wrath of Wicked John.
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I apologize if this isn't appropriate for a top level post, but it does tech... | The man was dead. She nudged him for the third time, still not quite believing. Still dead. She let the breath go that she had held in burning lungs.
‘What do I do now?’ She wondered, sitting beside his dead body. She licked her lips nervously. Through the fear and panic of what she had seen, a single joyful voice rem... | 2018-09-05T06:16:17 | 2018-09-05T04:30:12 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] You have an interesting ability, you can teleport, but only when no one is looking. One night you get hungry so you attempt to teleport downstairs for a snack. You attempt to teleport but realize, you can't.
Original post by Alberto9324 | When he first got this ability, he thought he would save people. Be a hero. Like in the comics.
Instead of teleporting for a cookie. But he was hungry. And he wanted it.
He looked around and then sighed. His power only worked when no one was around. And of course no one was around. He was alone. In bed. Lying down, ... | I must have looked like an idiot. The teleportation rituals only work when someone is not watching, because if I did them when someone was, I would be too embarrassed to concentrate enough. The rituals involved spinning in circles as fast as possible while you concentrate on the place you are trying to go. Eventually, ... | 2018-09-11T21:25:51 | 2018-09-11T16:39:17 | 277 | 15 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | He found her sitting in a tree. Her legs dangled over the edge, her dusty feet kicking back and forth. It had taken him a while to find her. It wasn't as simple as it usually was. The hourglasses came with coordinates, of course. The tiny numbers ascribed on the bottom gave approximate locations. It wasn't a perfect sy... | The boy ran, red-faced, across the field full of dead grass and frosty branches. Winter had passed but spring was yet to come. His still frozen breaths shivered him slightly. It was cold, yet he was burning. He might have a fever.
That morning, his parents, him and his little sister along with another dozen doctors an... | 2018-10-03T07:45:35 | 2018-10-03T07:34:53 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | Not a day would pass that I wouldn't look into the mirror and wonder if I am stuck in a dream. Now I am sure of it. There can be no other explanation. I should have passed from this realm long ago, and now I seem to be having hallucinations that only happen in dreams. Or perhaps nightmares.
Death himself visited me fo... | White walls, flickering flourescent bulbs, monitor beeps, and the sounds of breathing machines: these were things that Rachel Willer had grown accustomed to.
Eight months ago her husband John was in a motorcycle accident. He was placed in a medical induced coma and, over the past few months, had shown no signs of wak... | 2018-10-03T08:25:36 | 2018-10-03T07:16:01 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You win the lottery, and get to choose between getting a million dollars every day for the next month, or a penny that will double every day till eternity. You choose the penny. Turns out, the penny doubles in size, not in value. | A miner's work is never done.
Ash and fog swirled along the ground, brisk morning air floating through the quarry. Arthur picked at a callous on his palm, chewed on as the quarry came into view. His knees and hips popped and Arthur wondered to himself when that had started happening, but focused on the hum of the elev... | On the way home, I stopped by the mini-Mart and bought a shabby bottle of wine, ten three-dollar burritos, and a new baseball cap. Tonight was special. If I told you a penny made tonight special, would you be surprised? What if I told you I won the penny in a Lottery? Ok still seems pretty normal. But what if I told yo... | 2018-12-24T18:04:45 | 2018-12-24T18:03:49 | 53 | 27 |
[WP] He has been blind all his life. Now, he is the first recipient of new technology that will grant him sight. When he opens his eyes, the doctors ask if he can see them. He says “Yes, but who are they?” and points across the room at no one. | "Yes, but who are they?"
The twelve doctors simultaneously twisted, looking over their shoulder with keen interest. Nothing was there so they swivelled back. One doctor clicked a pen thoughtfully, another one scribbled on a clipboard. The youngest doctor, Dr. Harold, raised an eyebrow and scooted closer.
"Do you mean... | “Them.”
​
Dr. Ross glanced at Nurse Bently and raised his eyebrows. She rolled her eyes. Of course, this experiment would not work. It had not worked on any person to date, and the slight improvements made to the NEXXXXXUS™ implant did not garner confidence. NEXXXXUS™ was taken, of course, by the new Viag... | 2019-04-02T20:03:35 | 2019-04-02T16:02:00 | 213 | 70 |
[WP] Your free trial for life has ended, but to everyone's surprise, you are the first to figure out how to get a premium subscription, leaving the Grim Reaper very, very confused.
EDIT: wow I didn't expect this to get more than 7 upvotes | "... So with that conjecture, and premised on the laws of matter and energy conservation, I realised that there is a natural fallacy _if_ I were to take the chicken back _and_ still die." I paused for dramatic effect, and waited for the Grim Reaper to process it all.
"So... What did you do to the chicken?" He finally... | The Grim Reaper read aloud, "hmm, another John Smith, eh?" He checked the box. "Another one bites the dust."
In the background, *Another One Bites the Dust* plays as it always does, endlessly. Now that was a tough kill. In such a unfortunate way too. But, as the Grim Reaper must, the Grim Reaper does. This motto, etch... | 2019-04-15T02:46:32 | 2019-04-15T01:36:48 | 898 | 126 |
[WP] Every child meets their guardian angel when they turn 5. It's a highly anticipated moment for child's parents to see what kind of angel their child will get. However, your parents are in for a shock as two entities appear to you. A very powerful angel, and a very powerful demon.
I don't really make writing prompt... | “Look at what you’ve done. I told you we should give our baby a baptism and now there’s a devil in our living room!”
“Look, it has nothing to do with baptisms, Bob had his kid-”
“Shut up. Why can’t you stand straight and make your own choices, always Bob or somebody else. Always! Always! Always! You’re always never p... |
“Ta da!” I said waving arms and tail for maximum effect. The sulfur smoke hadn’t cleared the room, before I realized this pooch job was already dropping a turd. I dropped my arms and groaned when I saw Robert uncomfortably scrunched into the flowered arm chair, white wings sticking out above his head.
“Avscrovft,”... | 2019-05-10T04:36:59 | 2019-05-10T04:35:37 | 39 | 27 |
[WP]“Dear Sir Knight, after the recent attacks by the dragons who claim they need to see their princess’ heir, we have come to believe you may have misread our request to slay the dragon.” Having read the letter, you take one surprised look at your wife and her half-dragon child. “Whoops” | If it had been an easier task, they would have handled it themselves. But no, it had been a dirty job, so they had called upon me.
They call me Randoh. Once, I had a name. I had a family, once. I can sometimes remember the farm. The peace, sometimes. But then the Greenskins attacked. They came in the night, slaughter... | "Whoops" Was all the Knight could say... even though they missgendered her, again.
The young woman sighed, She was one of the only female knights, yet they still referred to her as Sir. Well, it didn't bother her anymore.
The young Woman was KC Flameheart, her last name was from her Wife. Her short brown and crimson ... | 2019-09-01T10:11:07 | 2019-09-01T10:05:32 | 1,579 | 42 |
[WP] You wake up in a hospital with a massive headache. As you regain your vision, you notice the room is packed with terrified scientists, politicians, and soldiers aiming their rifles at you. A five star general walks in, gives the order to remove the muzzle around your mouth, and only asks "Why?" | “Why...” I seemed to contemplate this thought as I look around at the scared, pathetic beings. “Why... huh?”
“You have a world-shattering power... you promised you’d help us. You’d promise you’d help all of us!” the general stated.
“Not just one power. You mean the power to end all powers. Omnikinesis. Power to manip... | "The American dream is built upon greed" I smiled, the air fresh on my face now the muzzle was hanging loosely from my cheek.
"My virus just enhanced that, drove it to the surface. Made the problem clear, for, if the problem isn't clear, then how can we hope to solve it?" I laughed, my dry throat crackling into a cou... | 2019-10-15T07:31:45 | 2019-10-15T06:48:45 | 160 | 21 |
[WP] You are an immortal searching the ends of the earth. Not for "a cure for your curse", but for a chef talented enough to make a 1,000 year old recipe like mom used to make. | The chef peered at the faded recipe. She looked so much like my mom: Exact same hair in the exact same bun, exact same never-quite-eats-enough sort of thin frame, exact same wrinkles, even. "Lessee...Sheep intestines? We don't normally have that, but hey, this is Scotland. James, run down to the butcher and ask him if ... | "Been on the road long?"
"Something like that." The Man replied. "Been far from home... for too long."
The woman took the note from him. "Whats this?"
"I know it's an odd request but... remind me of home."
"Well, i'll admit it is odd but... why not?"
\----
Living Forever wasn't the curse. the fact everything else... | 2019-11-07T17:13:59 | 2019-11-07T09:46:47 | 38 | 11 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | This human will be the end of the crew. First he brings a baby galan on board because it's got "Cute little bean feet". Fully grown that monster will be the weight equivalent of 6 human adults. Then he sneaks a young nactan into the loading bay because "The goodest of boys deserve all the head pats." I've seen our data... | „Here kitty, kitty, kitty...“ said the human while being in the cargo bay. I never understood that creature, but I’m still fairly new to this crew. But that human is still a mystery to me. However, the captain ordered us to get some of the cargo we need to ship. As I grabbed the inside of the crate, something damaged m... | 2019-11-21T07:13:40 | 2019-11-21T06:21:21 | 138 | 21 |
[WP] The year is 2050, backwards time travel has been perfected and declassified because they've discovered that our timeline is immutable; the changes you make don't happen in the universe you return to. Travel and entertainment businesses spring up, but someone has found a better way to profit. | New York Times, B3, Jan 3rd, 2050
In 2049, December 1, the Apple smart contacts were flying off the shelves after making their public debut. Jan 3rd, nobody cared. Two days after the reveal of time, all ideas previously are considered outdated.
People expected tourism... some smart journelists abused it to get the s... | Her innards were spread over the sidewalk like a veritable smörgåsbord. A thick, sanguine gravy covered it all, as if a child had gone mad with a ketchup bottle. Julia Rochs breathed a sigh of relief. She had killed herself. She had finally managed to kill herself.
The crowd roared. Some with rage, some with ecstasy. ... | 2019-11-25T19:47:43 | 2019-11-25T15:47:57 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] "I know none of us want to do this, but a rescue would simply be too dangerous. We can't do it." The room was silent for a moment, then one voice spoke up. "The human would come for us. Alone if they had to. And we're just going to leave them?" | "The human might survive the attempt." Kariau's raspy clicking retorted, his mandibles clacking in agitation, as he tried to defend his position. A position he barely believed in, clinging to it in his fear.
"That's the measure of our courage, then? We brave only what we survive?" Ontorologo stood up, berating the as... | A decade after the return of the Herald. Five years after the restoration of Earth. Three years after a refugee ship full of aliens from cosmic neighbors that had suffered a similar but more cataclysmic fate than Earth had. Many things had happened in the Sol system since humanity had been brought back from the brink ... | 2019-11-30T20:00:57 | 2019-11-30T18:47:08 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Your personal guardian angel from heaven is very upset with you. It's not because you did something wrong. It's because you're an extremely boring person to watch over. | "All she does is sleep, eat and cry only to repeat it all over the next day!" Gabriel laid on his back, his tablet screen projected onto his dorm ceiling.
"She is a baby after all." Horus said, tapping away on his own tablet. "You still have a couple more years until she starts crawling and babbling away. And before ... | Today will be the day. The hole in the ceiling has gotten larger and the lockdown has prevented you from going to your part time. Yes, today will be the day. The clouds began to shower the house with a light drizzle as a warning to the girl. The amber haired student living alone in this abandoned house who has never... | 2020-04-21T22:26:15 | 2020-04-21T20:59:07 | 56 | 32 |
[WP] You are a demon who negotiates contracts in exchange for people's souls. One time you get summoned by a suburban mom who makes impossible requests. When you can not provide her demands, she asks to "speak with your manager". | "Susan I'm sorry but I can't force your husband to not go out with the guys this weekend, as I explained before he already sold his soul to The Antichrist in exchange for that privilege." I assert for the fourth time. "I can offer you a contract equal or lesser value in exchange for your soul but Gary staying in this w... | "…I summon YOU!"
(GOOD EVENING MADAM, WHAT IS YOUR PLEASURE?)
*I have a bad feeling about this one. There's something in her attitude that says she expects the Moon, wants Saturn, and won't settle for less than the Sun.*
"I want..." *Right. Shit. That's not... Oh, for fuck's sake!* "...right now in exchange for m... | 2020-05-04T06:06:42 | 2020-05-04T04:47:38 | 203 | 71 |
[WP] While cleaning out your grandparent's house, you fine a small ... thing? You post a picture on r/whatisthisthing and wait. You only get one response, "your name irl, run." There is a knock at your door. | I have no idea what this thing is. It's like a watch in 3D. It's about the size of my palm. Along with a few hands lying flat on the face, there's maybe 10 more sticking up and sideways and all around in a glass dome with symbols painted all over. My first thought was that it was a paperweight made out of a sea urchin,... | I open the door and see a man dressed in a pinstripe suit with a solid gray tie. "My name is Steve. Do not ask questions. We must hurry. Grab whatever is important to you. Meet me in your backyard in one minute."
I hurry downstairs to my room. I throw my computer, its charger, a water bottle, a pencil, a notebook, a R... | 2020-05-25T19:10:42 | 2020-05-25T18:29:28 | 128 | 27 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... | "Mr. Eddington," the captain said, "Punch it."
"Aye, sir." His hands ghosted across the controls, playing them like a master organist played his instrument. At his touch, the destroyer-displacement ship began the monumental task of bending spacetime to it's pilot's will and carry it across the cosmos. A rift the size ... | (My first try, and this is on mobile. Apologies for formatting -- Apparently this is in 3 parts due to length constraints. I also made two endings.)
*T-minus 2 minutes to launch*
Commander Armstrong wiped the sweat from his brow, remembering the stories of his ancestor, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. He ... | 2021-01-09T15:38:58 | 2021-01-09T15:07:33 | 21 | 15 |
[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. | The advantage of being raised in my family is I’d been taught what to do in almost every situation, from breaking a nail to getting kidnapped. That’s why I didn’t panic when I woke up to find myself tied to a chair in what looked, and smelled, like an old bathroom, and instead took stock of my situation.
Purse gone. S... | I knew I should have felt afraid, I mean being kidnapped is not exactly a warm and fuzzy kind of experience. Truth is, I had been trained for this my entire life. Ever since I could walk I had been trained by specialist after specialist, martial arts, weapons, hand to hand combat, languages and of course the normal stu... | 2021-03-19T05:11:44 | 2021-03-19T04:51:58 | 29 | 17 |
[WP] You can see everyone's "Kill Number," the number of beings they've killed. Even for the most peaceful people this is in the tens of thousands, due to eating animals and stepping on bugs inadvertently. One day you see a person with the number Zero above their head. | 'Sixty thousand, average. Oh thats a high one, two hundred and four thousand and some change.' I sat there, people watching, comparing the numbers above their heads. When i was younger i'd make up stories for people, the higher the number the worse their story. I just always imagined if you had a fairly high number th... | “So, where are you from?” I ask casually.
“Oh, uh, Bloomfield,” she replied, careful watching her cup, “I’m here visiting family.”
I raise an eyebrow, “A couple hour drive to visit family, that’s lovely. Any particular event you’re celebrating, or just a surprise?”
“It’s my nephew’s second birthday, and I wanted to ... | 2021-05-21T07:59:20 | 2021-05-21T07:15:53 | 194 | 116 |
[WP] You're living in a world where superpowers exist, and you're the most dangerous individual of all. Your power? You project an aura where all the laws of reality/normality assert themselves. You are the anti-super | What happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object? They surrender.
\-Superman
Day 4
I look towards the horizon. Just beyond my power limit, I see more heroes converging. Dawn's arriving on day 4 since the news got out that I am the last anti, and the day the only other anti super besides me died. Th... | "Loose Cannon" is a more accurate description of me than hero or villain. In a world of stark rights and wrongs, where justice battles evil over the city skyline, I straddle a middle-line the world chooses to ignore. You could say I, quite literally, bring everything crashing down to reality.
Governments will hire me... | 2021-06-24T19:59:37 | 2021-06-24T19:54:09 | 775 | 211 |
[WP] It had started as a single small striped tent in an abandoned lot. Within a week, there was a whole small fair there. After a month, an entire city block was now a large carnival. Soon, you had to evacuate your apartment as The Circus encroached further, inch by inch. | I put on my coat, removed my spectacles, and went outside for a walk. All through the day, I had to contend with the sound of trumpets, and the loud chatter of crowds. So, I wasn't surprised to see the circus running in its full glory downstairs. They had expanded again. The tent was now only about two car lengths from... | The fantastical fanfare of The Circus frighteningly inching closer and closer as I huddled in the corner outside of the building at the edge of town. I have run for far too long, backing myself to every corner to escape the change but alas-- I ran out of space.
It all started with colorful posters baring the image of ... | 2021-07-13T02:25:45 | 2021-07-13T02:15:05 | 29 | 12 |
[WP] You've been told your entire life that no one in your family drinks. Ignoring that, you make plans with your friends to get black out drunk on your 21st birthday. When you wake up the next morning, your friends are huddled in a circle of salt, holding knives, and staring at you with wide eyes. | "Uh, what happened?" You croak, trying to ignore the splitting headache and your sore body.
One of your friends, James, peaked put from the group. "Tell me something the only real Aidan would say!"
"The real me? What the fuck do you mean the real me?" I asked, my heart beating quickly now. What the hell happened?
Th... | I expected the morning to be a bit rough. A headache and bad recollection of the night before is pretty much a right of passage when you turn 21.
I woke feeling oddly refreshed. Well rested even. As I stretched and let out a deep yawn I remember being disappointed I had no headache.
Had I done it wrong? I thought. I... | 2022-01-10T10:35:21 | 2022-01-10T10:22:58 | 808 | 243 |
[WP] People aren't judged when they die, they're given a choice between the heaven and hell doors. Obviously people would want to go to heaven, so not even god himself has seen what's behind the hell door. When you died however, you said to yourself "Why not?" and went straight for the hell door. | It was cold. That was the first thing that struck me as the door closed behind me. There were no demons, like I'd been told there would be. In fact, there was no one at all. The whole thing was an empty room, with four walls and two windows, and a door leading out the back.
With the path behind me shut for good, I to... | The Hell door was a simple one, unlike the Heaven door. An iron ring on a wooden frame. Simple white paint. A small hand lettered sign that said “Hell” helpfully, taped up with what looked like green painters tape.
Why not? In comparison the Heaven door was garish and ridiculous. Silver frame, gilded and gleaming from... | 2022-02-06T21:57:54 | 2022-02-06T21:54:42 | 39 | 22 |
[WP]"This actually happens quite a lot." I tell my friend, casually ignoring the knife at my throat. "Not with her specifically, but this general situation is quite common for me." | "This actually happens quite a lot." I tell my friend, casually ignoring the knife at my throat. "Not with her specifically, but this general situation is quite common for me."
"Hey," the unknown assailant screams. "Stop ignoring me!"
"Now she's going to say 'We can do this this easy way or the hard way'"
"We can do... | We stare at each other for a few seconds, unsure of what to do next. My friend, Sam, didn't want to risk making another quip back, and continued to point his pistol towards the lady currently at my neck. We both know we only have so much time until the rest of her boys show up, and we need to act quickly.
"If yall are... | 2022-05-09T01:36:50 | 2022-05-09T00:03:27 | 309 | 61 |
[WP] Thirty years ago, you and your friends used to be Magical Girls, but you left that life behind. A new threat killed the current generation of Magical Girls, forcing you to leave your "retirement". You are no longer young and idealistc, you just want to get over it and return to your life. | The carnage here was leagues beyond what I'd dealt with twenty years ago. Instead of despondent or catatonic people surrounding the aliens, it was corpses. They'd certainly stepped it up from stealing people's imagination or whatever it was the Nightmares wanted back when I was a kid. I could smell the blood. If my psy... | Chapter 1: Paris gives Penny her seed back
There was only one skyscraper in Polisburge. Three hours south of Chicago, two hours outside of St Louis, Polisburge wasn’t quite a city, more like a big town. A big town with only one skyscraper; and Penny had the big office on the top floor. Being the CFO of the 11th larges... | 2022-12-20T19:28:39 | 2022-12-20T17:47:24 | 84 | 50 |
[wp] A man is stranded on a deserted island with only a gun and 1 bullet. | This was it. I have waited two years. Sent out five messages in bottles. Used all of the flares from the raft. Sent smoke signals spiraling into the air. Used the mirror to try to reflect light towards passing ships. All to no avail. It is time to end this nonsense.
I put the gun against my head. I had used the other ... | So this was it. I would die a middle aged man who has barely found the courage to propose to his own damn wife. Oh, Linda. How she must be worried sick about me. A man who barely manages to survive a plane crash in the middle of the ocean. Business as usual, is that the phrase people use? Sitting along the beach with n... | 2013-12-19T20:26:25 | 2013-12-19T20:04:27 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Death comes to collect someone and ends up falling in love with them. | A blossom but by early frost be held;
In feeble, withered form it lies askew.
From Hell, foul Frost! How quick this flower felled,
And turned to bitter black from sanguine hue.
The same for her, my tender love, is true:
That pallid color plainly paints her tale.
So plain with ill, her skin grows ever pale.
~
He... | There is a woman who follows Death, I promise you. She is much worse than he is. I met them after an admittedly stupid mistake. I was flying down I-35, fucking with my phone. Don't even remember what for. Didn't see the guy change lanes and I ended up rolling 8 times. There in my car, upside down, broken and shattered,... | 2014-01-05T07:41:05 | 2014-01-05T06:51:14 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Someone breaks into your house and says, "You're my favorite character in the book! I can't let it end the way it did. I'm going to help you."
The type of person the reader is could be an indication of the genre of novel your life is :) | I couldn't decide whether I was dreaming or not. I could feel my bed, yes. From my closed eyes I could still tell that there was muted light coming from my window. Dawn? Most probably. So I guess I'm waking up.
I lay in my bed in the slowly brightening room when I heard it. Breathing. Heavy. It wasn't mine, I was sure... | Scarlet wrinkled her nose at the stranger standing in her doorway. The woman was scandalously dressed. She wore tight pants made out of some kind of denim - like the miners in the territories Rhett had once spoken of. And a thin tight shirt with some kind of writing on it.
Scarlet wrapped her robe tightly over he... | 2014-04-10T12:49:50 | 2014-04-10T11:50:11 | 39 | 14 |
[WP] A man in a hospital sees Death. Death's intentions are not what he expects. | A glimpse? A glance? A smidgen of vision? There was no proper word to describe what Dr. Markus Schumacher saw, or thought he saw, standing over his patient. It both was and wasn't there. If he focused on it, there was nothing but a black tinge his three assistants on the other side of the table; if he stared at the man... | The scent of antiseptics wasn't an easy one to get used to. It was the trademark smell of the hospital, that kind of smell that makes people feel uneasy for reasons that aren't fully realized; perhaps a fear of the hospital and the sharp objects it holds, or maybe just the overall sense of not exactly being in control ... | 2014-06-01T14:06:09 | 2014-06-01T13:45:28 | 16 | 11 |
[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 | "Look man, it'll take like... ten seconds."
The genie wasn't having it. I thought these things were supposed to happen, no questions asked.
"No!"
"Genie, it's not even a difficult wish. It's probably the easiest thing anybody's ever asked of you."
"Nothing's that difficult for me. That's the nature of granting wish... | 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... | 2014-07-26T17:37:39 | 2014-07-26T14:01:02 | 24 | 18 |
[WP] The death penalty for murder no longer exists, instead technology has been developed that overwrites the mind of the killer with that of their victim. | The last thing Jacob remembered was that he was at an AIDS conference. He was at the podium. Everyone had given him a standing ovation, cheering that their colleague had finally solved that one first step (of many) toward some cure that everyone was fighting over.
There was a flash, and then, nothing. He felt like he ... | How the fuck did this fat ass kill me.
I spent years training my body. Doing squats, benching well past my body weight. I'd run marathons, placed in triathlons, ridden my bike cross country. I even did kiegels to strengthen my internal muscles. Yet somehow this fat fuck got me with a knife.
I looked at my murderers p... | 2014-07-27T11:12:53 | 2014-07-27T10:05:23 | 32 | 22 |
[WP] Describe the person you love the most so we can see him/her through your eyes. | I could caress your amber-grain colored curves.
Your beauty is timeless even with your flour patted bottom.
Although you hate your oily blemished skin, with every look I love you more.
The red circles on the surface of your skin does not deter me, it motivates me.
I can only love you so much, however. You complete ... | I saw you for the first time in my life and I stopped dead in my tracks. Not because you were beautiful, but because you reminded me a lot of myself.
Your imperfect, bunny jagged teeth. Your cheeks, chubby but not so much that i'd confuse you for a fatty. Your wide, enthusiastic, clear black eyes. Your damn laugh tha... | 2014-09-06T12:23:42 | 2014-09-06T11:19:23 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Today, you have become a parent. You realise that you can hear your child's thoughts. The midwife informs you that this is the same for everyone but parents simply don't inform the children as an unwritten rule. Your own parents smirk. | "What the hell is this? Am i a fucking baby? Re-incarnation is real? God damnit..."
Who said that? The only people in the room are me, my wife that is sleeping after just giving birth, and ...this baby... But it can't possibly speak yet.. But this didn't even sound like a voice, more like an inner voice.
"Who the he... | After the midwife left the room, Jane was panicked.
*"Well of course, parents can hear the thoughts of their children, at least until their kids find out about it, then it starts to drift away..."* The words rang in her ears like a gong. Jane quickly called the midwife back, and asked the question she dreaded an answ... | 2015-01-09T05:06:15 | 2015-01-09T02:13:01 | 143 | 25 |
[WP] Write a college essay that starts with, "Sometimes, I wish I could just go onto a roof with a sniper rifle..."
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/35hits/college_admissions_officers_what_was_the_worst/cr4khqk
Edit: This got a lot of responses.
Edit 2: This is my highest post in months.
I should ... | Sometimes I wish I could go onto a roof with a sniper rifle. My enemies would stand no chance against the onslaught of bullets shot at them because finally I would be on their level. The thin limbed trees which the satan spawn liked to scurry up would no longer be a safe haven. Their taunting chitter-chatter would turn... | Sometimes, I wish I could just go onto a roof with a sniper rifle. For a decade now, our country has been faced with an epidemic of public shootings and homicidal rages. That's why I want to go onto a roof with a sniper rifle - to keep an eye over the people, to fight those on roofs with sniper rifles.
Imagine if Cha... | 2015-05-10T14:05:11 | 2015-05-10T13:58:48 | 170 | 34 |
[WP] You are a peanut farmer. Your father was a peanut farmer. Your father's father was a peanut farmer. Peanut farming is all you've ever known. Your first child has just been born, and has a deadly allergy to peanuts. | My wife... she died in childbirth. She gave her life for this child.
At first, I thought it was a poor trade. My wife for a broken child? One who could not even carry on the family business? I won't deny, I considered "accidentally" letting him eat some peanuts when he was young. No one would have been the wiser.
But... | Frank's hand trembled as his pen looped and dotted his signature across the deed. The house and the farm had been in his family for generations.
How long had it been?
He tried to calculate how many generations of Keaton's had been on the farm, but his mind was distracted by the smug grin forming along the corners o... | 2015-05-19T22:07:10 | 2015-05-19T18:35:35 | 247 | 41 |
[WP] Bob doesn't realise he's a robot until he fails a captcha five times in a row. | Maggie was looking at a photograph of her family. It is an old photograph, but everybody is there, her husband is standing next to her and the children are playing in the foreground with the dog. This picture always reminded her of that perfect long summer four years ago, when they all went on vacation to the beach, wh... | Bob sat down at his desk at exactly 8:30 AM, as he did every morning. He situated the few materials left scattered about his desk from last night’s hard work until he got them perfectly organized, as he did every morning. His job was mundane and basically one repetitive task after the other until the clock slowly ticke... | 2015-08-11T12:19:48 | 2015-08-11T10:11:02 | 26 | 16 |
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