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[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. WMDs. | It was a tired, overused trope by now, canonized in hundreds of years of entertainment media: Humans winning wars against all odds and surprising the overconfident Big Bad Aliens who never expected them to bite back. A trope. For stories. Not something that happened in reality.
Our first contact went well enough. We’d... | Lord Dunbar could not believe his eyes. The Planet Lo was there a moment ago, a loud bang, a shockwave felt in space and blinding flash, the entire planet was gone.
3 billion lives, extinguished... but how?
This was not the Lothrax's homeworld, it was a long established colony world, just on the outskirts of Lothra... | 2021-07-04T18:36:34 | 2021-07-04T14:51:29 | 197 | 99 |
[WP] You've just defeated the dark lord, as you were prophesized to. But as you walk back into camp, everyone looks at you, shocked. "There was no prophecy," they explain. "We just told you that to give you confidence. How on earth did you kill an unkillable sorcerer?" | Such a fitting night for the end to come. A heavy rain, a loud storm and shiny lightnings to lit up the starless sky.
Azoth watched as a crack went up the brown walls of the manor under the mountain. The structure trembled, slabs fell, each bigger than the last.
In the middle of the room, Azoth saw the boulder from t... | Defeating the Dark Lord wasn't hard. Of course, the real problem came after I returned to the camp where all those people who'd trained me and told me about the prophecy stumbled around like headless chickens. ''*There was no prophecy, we just told you that so you'd feel braver, have more confidence.*'' They all mill a... | 2021-08-20T10:16:19 | 2021-08-20T09:48:36 | 1,213 | 179 |
[WP] You are a necromancer's apprentice. One of your most important jobs is holding down the revived bodies in their first moments alive again, while they scream and beg to go back. | I have gotten used to the dead bodies. They always stay in one place. The ones on either side of dead move around far too much. Just today one of the revived gnawed through it's leg and tried to hobble off, into the city. The gatekeepers are ever vigilant, and brought it back.
The not yet dead are generally smarter in... | Dusting the ash off my coat with a “*sigh*, another one.”
The boss nags from behind, “Esteban! We’re losing moonlight! Get a new body on the slab asap while I gather mana for the next spell!”
Blood rushes to my head “Old man this is the 12th one tonight how about calling it quits and trying again another day! You kee... | 2022-04-11T09:49:42 | 2022-04-11T07:54:10 | 63 | 23 |
[WP] The alien invaders were confident. Their personal shield tech had withstood all enemies and types of energy weapons. Then they landed on Earth and found the shield's fatal flaw: Solid Projectiles. | Nearly all species follow a similar trajectory in their evolution of warfare: first, you hit something. Then you find a more efficient way of hitting it. Eventually you realize the most efficient way to hit something is by removing the mass from that equation and using pure energy. This was what the Twii had planned fo... | The Grand Empire was ruled by Emperor Skirmik. He took power over thirty thousand years ago, and he made the Grand Empire what it was today. He conquered half the galaxy, subjugated hundreds of species, even began colonization of other galaxies. What is happening now, well, it is most likely the end of the Grand Empire... | 2022-07-23T07:31:27 | 2022-07-23T05:42:06 | 600 | 141 |
[WP] The alien invaders were confident. Their personal shield tech had withstood all enemies and types of energy weapons. Then they landed on Earth and found the shield's fatal flaw: Solid Projectiles. | Nearly all species follow a similar trajectory in their evolution of warfare: first, you hit something. Then you find a more efficient way of hitting it. Eventually you realize the most efficient way to hit something is by removing the mass from that equation and using pure energy. This was what the Twii had planned fo... | "Marine, report!!" The El'tee glanced around the squad of Marines gathered around the small tablet computer, the screen showing an aerial view of the dense forest nearby with strange structures that appear not from this world. The Marines all appear calm and focused under the layer of camouflage paint on their faces, w... | 2022-07-23T07:31:27 | 2022-07-23T05:49:51 | 600 | 138 |
[WP] "The trees move, stick to the path do not stray, and don't stare. If you make eye contact don't acknowledge them. If you feel you are being followed don't turn around. They have eyes. No one is behind the trees." You both read the warning when entering the forest but only one of you listened. | "There are no words to fully summarize how dumb of an idea this is."
Dennis continued to set up the tent regardless as he fired back, "And yet you're out here with me all the same."
I rolled my eyes as I tossed another marshmallow into my mouth. "First of all, you threatened to tell Sister Isabel about my crush on he... | I was carrying a bag full of photography equipment, food, and water. Including our tent, the bag was heavier than expected. I was not used to camping, but Jake had the plan - let’s go a forest, let’s make some crazy video, let’s go viral.
Jake was straight behind me with his own heavy bag and a head full of ideas.
“... | 2022-11-12T08:47:18 | 2022-11-12T06:16:57 | 68 | 13 |
[WP] Once a year the world hosts an annual superpower lottery, where one lucky person gets a superpower of their choice. This year the winner was dumber than a bag of rocks. | "Oh my!! A child!! It's been a while since we've had such a young winner!!" exclaimed the announcer. "Now don't be scared young lady, what's the power that you've always wanted?"
"Well," the young girl began, "I want the power to make things come to me."
"The power to summon things? I think the judges understand what... | The crowd hushed as a short, stocky man walked onto the stage.
"I'm 671724425."
The announcer smiled and extended his hand to shake. "Congratulations, what's your name?"
"Uh," the man reached out and shook. "I don't know yet?"
"You don't know?" The announcer paused for a second. "Oh, not your super-hero name, son, ... | 2014-05-25T13:06:57 | 2014-05-25T12:35:47 | 129 | 44 |
[WP] Almost every year, the house on the left gets new occupants. Today you find out why. | It's that time of the year -- almost down to the day, every year. They'd move out in a huge hurry, leaving no trace and never to show their faces again. Some years the house would sit empty for two to three months, and other years new occupants would take their place immediately, moving in with equal hurry. It's like t... | The families always seem normal when they first move in. Smiling faces followed by large moving trucks. The family last year had three full U-hauls – I still can’t figure out where all that furniture went.
Every year the house goes back up on the market, like clockwork. My parents say the house price is always a stea... | 2014-08-05T11:09:17 | 2014-08-05T09:51:36 | 293 | 84 |
[WP] Almost every year, the house on the left gets new occupants. Today you find out why. | It's that time of the year -- almost down to the day, every year. They'd move out in a huge hurry, leaving no trace and never to show their faces again. Some years the house would sit empty for two to three months, and other years new occupants would take their place immediately, moving in with equal hurry. It's like t... | “Let's go play over there,” Billy said.
“Uh-uh. Mommy says not to go to the house on the left.”
“But it looks like they're having a party!”
“They do that lots. Sometimes new people move in. I ask Mommy. She say, ‘That person stay there now.’” Susan laughed. “I never see them though. They have lot of parties.”
“Come... | 2014-08-05T11:09:17 | 2014-08-05T10:49:08 | 293 | 10 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | You put down your phone, exasperated.
"DAVE YOU MOTHERFUCKER ITS FOUR IN THE MORNING." You yell into the wall to your right, not hard as your bed is right up against it. Opposite you your television you left on was quietly blaring the same message you saw on your phone moments ago.
Through the slits in the blinds on ... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T05:10:44 | 565 | 177 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | It's four. It's fucking four in the morning. What kind of bullshit could be this urgent.
I thought while getting my groggy legs out of bed. Then Slipping on the slippers and donning my reading glasses. The morning ritual, five hours too early. My baggy eyes attest to that.
I turn on the lights. Stumble downstairs to ... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T05:35:41 | 565 | 19 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | The parishioners shuffled into the cathedral and huddled beneath the dim light offered by the few, sparsely lit torches. Luminal quartz would have been preferred for lighting, since its light was less harsh, but decades of use had depleted their supplies and nobody had yet found more.
The quiet murmuring waned to noth... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T05:48:35 | 565 | 19 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | When I was a very little girl we had a garden. I used to 'help' my Mum out there. What I was actually doing was getting dirty and falling over a lot, but I thought I was helping anyway.
A few months after my seventh birthday, my Mum died. It was the worst winter we'd ever had, and she got a very severe case of pne... | John's eyelids flutter and he slowly comes to. At first the man is groggy and doesn't take notice of his surrounding - the white walls, the smell of medicine and the beeping of a heart rate monitor. But after a few seconds pass, he realizes where and why he is.
*Fuck* he mutters to himself quiet as not to wake up his ... | 2015-03-07T03:34:38 | 2015-03-07T01:52:00 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | It's getting worse. I closed my eyes and tried not to think about it. I can't have another incident at work, I just can't, I'm in enough trouble as it is.
"Are you even listening to me?" my boss yelled.
As I opened my eyes, it happened. In an instant, a flash of an image of a clown popped into my head, and just li... | As a young man, Nigel Premeiter lived a simple, if unconventional, life with his two parents, Houghler and Tricia. He would stay out doors, normally at the edge of the lot his parents owned. His home was a simple trailer, with one room on one end and his own on the other end. Taking most of the length of the trailer wa... | 2015-03-07T06:00:29 | 2015-03-07T00:58:07 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You are about to make a speech on national television. As you step up to the podium and gaze over at the teleprompter, you see only one word: "Stall." | As I walk on the ceremonial podium, already seating at the idea that every citizens of my country will be starting at me for the next twenty minutes or so.I clear my throat finalizing my last mental preparation; I knew my speech by heart I knew I was ready.
I was wrong...
The light on the camera turned red, I sta... | The auditorium speakers squealed with feedback as I tapped the microphone.
*Stall.*
I sighed with frustration. It was still there.
"Good evening, everyone. I am honored to be here tonight to address the nation."
*Stall.*
It wasn't changing. I cleared my throat.
"It isn't every day I am asked to make a speech befo... | 2015-05-16T18:01:32 | 2015-05-16T17:45:13 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story where the antagonist is doing something obviously horrible, but by the end of the story make me want to side with him over the good guy. | He slid the knife down my cheek, so sharp that I couldn't even feel it part the skin. I only knew it left a mark when I felt the thin trickle of blood down my neck.
"Where is she?" he asked again, flipping the knife dexterously between his fingers. I could see my own blood coating the fine blade.
"You'll never find... | "I'm not sure why I need to keep explaining this." I wandered around the room while the man tied to the chair tried to look toward my voice. "When billionaires are keeping people poor and hungry, and when governments are either doing nothing to stop them or engaging in wholesale facilitation of these people's treachery... | 2015-06-19T09:51:13 | 2015-06-19T09:34:27 | 98 | 44 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | Dear Eyllisa,
I think you know what this letter is going to say, but I'm going to write it anyway. I love you more than I have ever loved any person. You have been through so much and I can't understand how you still manage to pound through life. It's a beautiful thing to see. The past three years have been a privileg... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T13:52:52 | 356 | 40 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | To my best friend.
I used to write to you all the time in the early days. Perhaps it was selfish of me, to use you as an outlet for my emotions. I haven't written to you in such a while, and I'm sorry. Life got in the way, I guess. I owe you this last one.
I don't know how, but slowly things changed. They got better, a... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T13:54:55 | 356 | 24 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Dear Eyllisa,
I think you know what this letter is going to say, but I'm going to write it anyway. I love you more than I have ever loved any person. You have been through so much and I can't understand how you still manage to pound through life. It's a beautiful thing to see. The past three years have been a privileg... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T13:52:52 | 158 | 40 |
[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... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T16:37:50 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 94 | 11 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | I am writing this with tears in my eyes and 15 years of wishing i did this sooner.
Dear Dude who molested me when I was a child,
You ruined my life. It has been a long time since you molested me and those 3 other kids, and I hope you are rotting in that cell.
Ever since what you have done, I have battled severe... | 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... | 2015-12-05T15:55:07 | 2015-12-05T15:04:15 | 61 | 15 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I'm pretty sure you think Mom is my hero. She stayed at home with us until high school, attended all the sports practices, school performances, made all the lunches...and of course I love her, for all that and more, but I'd like to tell you that you have always been my hero.
Some might say that it's just b... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T15:05:05 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 59 | 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 Eyllisa,
I think you know what this letter is going to say, but I'm going to write it anyway. I love you more than I have ever loved any person. You have been through so much and I can't understand how you still manage to pound through life. It's a beautiful thing to see. The past three years have been a privileg... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T13:52:52 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 40 | 15 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me,
Grow a pair of balls and ask that bitch out.
Dumbass. So what if she says no? Are you gonna cry? Hell, no. You'll be sad but you'll move on.
You'll be more happy if she says yes than sad if she says no.
What a pussy. | Dear Teacher,
This is letter that will try to explain my frustration. My constant frustration. You are an unkind human being of ~~average~~ below average intelligence. You are also sexist. I am not going to overstate my intelligence, but it exists. I am scared of you destroying my future because you can not comprehend... | 2015-12-05T14:30:45 | 2015-12-05T13:38:34 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Mom,
I know you're just a room away from me, but I probably will never have the courage to tell you this. I'm sad, mom. Everyday. I know I'm the one that always laughs and smiles through anything, but it's been getting pretty hard for me. It's weird though, because there's nothing terribly devastating going on in ... | 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... | 2015-12-05T19:23:33 | 2015-12-05T15:04:15 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Natalie.
So here I am. Funny how things work, right? Never thought I'd end up penning this letter, but I guess something prompted me to do it.
I know. I've known ever since it happened what your real motivations were, and you never had me fooled for a second. After you apologized, and said that you were just mes... | Dear Azura
You have no idea how much you mean to me. Throughout the years I have known you you have brought me countless joys, you make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me happy. When people bring up perfection you are the first person that comes to mind, even though you don't believe it yourself. Your eyes. Your... | 2015-12-05T14:43:55 | 2015-12-05T13:59:40 | 26 | 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... | To my best friend.
I used to write to you all the time in the early days. Perhaps it was selfish of me, to use you as an outlet for my emotions. I haven't written to you in such a while, and I'm sorry. Life got in the way, I guess. I owe you this last one.
I don't know how, but slowly things changed. They got better, a... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T13:54:55 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Quote by Mary Anne Radmacher | They called me a coward when I didn't vote for the draft. Democracy - the very thing that we were sworn to defend - our very way of life was under threat, and every able-bodied man should pick up arms and defend it. Yes, even the ones that object - for isn't that how democracy worked? You went with the majority, even i... | I opened the locker door and pretended to take a long time putting my chemistry book inside. The goal was to just be at the locker for as long as possible without making it obvious. My eyes were trained intently on the back wall, but I was constantly searching my periphery for anyone approaching. After a minute or so, ... | 2016-07-18T06:41:11 | 2016-07-18T06:25:21 | 46 | 32 |
[WP] To get in Heaven, you have to confront the person who you hurt the most. You were expecting an ex, your parents/relatives, or a friend. You didn't expect to see yourself. | "Oh shit, not you. I've had enough of your self-hating bullshit," you say as you see yourself sitting across the table.
"I know, right?" he replies, "You'd figure the one reprieve you'd get from your own misery was up here, but guess what, God throws you yet another curveball."
"What a cocksucker," you mumble under y... | I expected to see him. The thought of facing him made me question the worth of getting into heaven. Just open the door so I can't face my fear, fail and continue on my way to hell because logically that is where "they" are sending me anyways.
"To get in heaven.." pfft. This is just a ploy. I'm already here devil, open... | 2016-08-15T06:49:48 | 2016-08-15T05:10:29 | 132 | 18 |
[WP] You sold your soul to the Devil some years ago. Today he gives it back and say, "I need a favor." | I gazed upon the Devil's problem, and laughed. "You're older than humanity, know secrets of the cosmos reserved for those actually present for Creation, and yet you can't figure this out?"
"Come on," Satan replies, "can't we just fix this?"
"Fine." I collected my soul. All of it. Marvin Gaye. Arethra Franklin.... | "So soon?", the old man grinned. The creases of old age followed his lips, the smile echoing across his face. His eyes shone brighter now with a spark that had been missing.
"I need a favor." said the darkness.
The smile faded, "I'm not the young man I was."
"Obviously.", the voice dripped with disdain.
"Then what... | 2016-09-17T13:17:23 | 2016-09-17T12:03:43 | 33 | 23 |
[WP]As the axe murderer at a teenage campout in the woods, you had expected them to split up. You didn't expect them to band together to hunt you down. | "What do you mean they haven't split up?"
[Muffled and incoherent speech]
"Take the mask off, you idiot."
"Sorry. I mean they haven't split up. They remain intact. As a group, they are. I don't know to explain this any further to you."
"Well did you try doing some spooky stuff?"
"I tried all the spooky stuff. All ... | Through the slits in my mask, I could see Amber talking to Becky, which was just *classic* her.
You see, Amber was dating Becky's ex-boyfriend Mark, who'd slept with Amber while dating Becky. She'd found out and the two of them had broken up, but Amber had apologized (*not that she'd meant a word of it*) and now the t... | 2016-11-01T12:01:48 | 2016-11-01T11:39:11 | 120 | 60 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | ”Okay, here we go,” June said, spinning the wheels on her mechanical glove, which sent her on a dizzying ride through space and time.
She landed in a pub buzzing with activity, colorful bottles lined the wall behind the bar and yellow light radiated through heaps of stacked cups. Women in long dresses and updos danced... | "Good evening."
Farrow jumped. "Who's there?" He called. Quickly stripping the thick goggles from his head, he glanced around the empty lab. It was dark and quiet - the kind of quiet that only comes out in a busy place after midnight, once the everyone had long ago left for home. Everyone except for Farrow, of course... | 2022-05-07T07:51:43 | 2016-11-10T11:06:59 | 2,588 | 87 |
[WP] You're a neo-Nazi scientist who has been working tirelessly to revive Adolf Hitler. You succeed after decades of effort, only to find that Adolf has no memory of Nazism or the war, and wants only to become an artist. | "I dont believe you!", Hitler said in a think accent.
"I also dont think I would have killed myself.", he added shaply.
"Ok look, let me show you.", the scientist pleaded. He felt very uneasy. He was overcome with awe in seeing his hero, his beloved idol, his reason for living in front of him, but on the other hand i... | "Fuck," Zach says and falls into his chair, sighing.
James and Francis stay standing, looking intently at the painting. James shrugs and offers, "It's not terrible."
Francis scoffs and turns to the table, looking at Zach. "Well, the board isn't going to like this." He then sits down and opens the folder on the table... | 2016-11-14T13:06:27 | 2016-11-14T11:58:42 | 73 | 15 |
[WP] One day, while petting your cat, you accidentally pull his tail, and it opens up. Inside, there's a USB connector. You connect it to your laptop, an announcement pops up. -Cat Version: 1.0.0. Update to 256.3? | I sat staring at the screen, my thoughts conflicted. What could the update entail? Would it make Mittens more intelligent? More agile? If it made him more of a dick, then I'd just plug his butt back up and forget about this entire ordeal.
But curiosity got the better of me, and his incessant pawing and meowing didn't ... | "Holy shit, the cat's tail just came off."
"What do you mean th ... holy shit. I don't think that's supposed to happen to cats."
"What do I do? I'm freaking out, man!"
"I don't fucking know. Put it back on!"
"OK, hold on. Wait, there's a USB cord. There's a USB cord in the ass of the cat."
"There is *not* a USB co... | 2016-11-16T10:13:25 | 2016-11-16T08:21:18 | 878 | 440 |
[WP] While browsing on your parent's computer you recieve an email notification addressed to them. It's from an advanced robotics corporation, informing them that the warranty on [your name] expires in 30 days. | "You really had no idea you were a robot?" my mother asked.
"No, of course not."
"We update your firmware every two weeks."
"I thought that was normal. That's not normal?!" I was steaming, and a little embarrassed. Mom waved the steam out of her face.
"What about that time you shocked Melissa when you kissed?"
M... | It was like one of those click bait advertisements that grabs your attention out of nowhere offering to help you last longer in bed or hook you up with a local Russian in the area. It was different this time though, the message had my name in there and not just my first name, my first middle and last name! This was not... | 2017-01-14T06:46:08 | 2017-01-14T04:39:26 | 137 | 19 |
[WP] You are a Historian sent back in time to record historical events. You are given a camera, and told to hide SD cards at sites of historical value, hidden in capsules which will survive through time. However when you return to the future, you find there's a hefty prison sentence for opening them | I had seen it all - the fall of Carthage, the invention of the printing press, the building of the Great Wall of China. I shood in the shadows at each event, staying out of sight and photographing every minute detail. Then, once done, I buried the evidence, the images to prove what had been seen and I jumped to another... | "I plead not guilty your honor. I stand by my previous statement that I believe that this was the right thing to do."
"Mr. Richards, surely you realise by now the immense termoil were facing here. These acts were staged for important purposes; surely as a senior agent you know this and I won't bother you any more wit... | 2017-09-10T11:12:43 | 2017-09-10T10:05:10 | 271 | 61 |
[WP] A man is being tortured, and throughout the story, the reader begins to sympathize with the torturer and hate the victim.
[removed] | The room was cold, despite the bright light being shined into Franklin’s face. While clutching the arms of the chair he squirmed in, he couldn’t help but feel anxious.
“Open your mouth wide.” the masked man said. Franklin was now consumed with fear but couldn’t talk his way out of this one. With an ounce of hesitatio... | "Please," begged the victim. "Please. No more..."
"Oh," the torturer said, "you want me to stop?"
Whimpering, the victim nodded.
"Did you stop before you trespassed on my property and kidnapped my dog, huh?" The torturer knelt down and leaned close. "Or what about when you chopped him up into little pieces? Did you... | 2017-09-27T19:30:27 | 2017-09-27T17:22:38 | 482 | 28 |
[WP] A super hero fights evil by wiping memories of both the villian and everyone who knew of them so that they can be reintroduced into society safely. Today, as you were combing through old newspapers, you discover that you were once the world's most powerful supervillain. | Maria fumbled for the keys in her bag, eventually finding the heart shaped keyring her husband had given to her long ago. How long exactly, she couldn't quite remember.
The lock clicked. A monotonous buzzing greeted her, as if a giant hornet had taken up residence in their home since she'd left for work. "Honey?" she ... | I remember the day that I found out who I was.
I had thought that I was Curtis Clark, a 37 year-old pediatric dentist in San Antonio. And, for a time, that is who I was. I had also had memories of a time before that: memories of growing up, of having friends in high school, of struggling to get my degree and opening m... | 2022-12-05T21:34:05 | 2017-12-30T09:39:15 | 3,733 | 85 |
[WP] Democracy no longer exists. Each four years, there is an exam that everyone can take in which the applicant who gets the highest grade gets to rule the country for the next term. | CONGRATULATIONS,
YOU ARE NOW THE RULER OF AMERICA!!! PLEASE PROCEED TO 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, USA, FOR THE COMMENSURATE AND DUTY PROCEEDINGS. PLEASE NOTE, SHOULD YOU NOT APPEAR WITHIN 48 HOURS OF THE CEREMONY, YOU WILL BE HELD LIABLE FOR LETTING DOWN YOUR COUNTRY
YOURS SINCERELY,
HAL LTD
... | It happened after the reign of Trump Jr’s 5th term, it was time for change. The democratic system had failed us time and time again, but after it gave us a tyrannical elitist dimwit, we knew something had to change. The walls meant to keep them out? Were really to keep us in. We were trapped behind those walls until so... | 2018-01-07T10:55:52 | 2018-01-07T09:29:59 | 48 | 25 |
[WP] Democracy no longer exists. Each four years, there is an exam that everyone can take in which the applicant who gets the highest grade gets to rule the country for the next term. | CONGRATULATIONS,
YOU ARE NOW THE RULER OF AMERICA!!! PLEASE PROCEED TO 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, USA, FOR THE COMMENSURATE AND DUTY PROCEEDINGS. PLEASE NOTE, SHOULD YOU NOT APPEAR WITHIN 48 HOURS OF THE CEREMONY, YOU WILL BE HELD LIABLE FOR LETTING DOWN YOUR COUNTRY
YOURS SINCERELY,
HAL LTD
... | "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!"
Derek paced around the room, hands behind his back. *How could this have happened?* It wasn't anything they had planned for at all. How did an oversight like this slip by?
The office was in a frenzy. Papers were flying as test graders searched desperately for a better score. The best an... | 2018-01-07T10:55:52 | 2018-01-07T09:56:42 | 48 | 12 |
[WP] You're just killed in a car accident. Before you move on to the afterlife, the grim reaper offers you a choice. You're given 24 hours to live, completely healthy, and for every person you kill in that period, you get an extra year to live, or you can chose to wait out that period and die. | I felt the rush of air in my lungs and I knew I was back. I was bloody, bruised, and there were a couple of broken things, but the huge shard of glass that had pierced my heart was gone. *It worked!* I thought. Then I realized something else. I have 24 hours. I had to think, and fast. Then, I heard it.
“Please… Help m... | "Mr. President! Mr. President! Are you ok?"
The President was coming to his senses, he lay on the ground "The Beast" was on the lawn having been stopped by secret service. The meeting was fresh in his head, could it have been real? Did the 24 hours already start? He felt well enough, no pain, no broken bones, how woul... | 2018-01-23T18:41:07 | 2018-01-23T17:06:05 | 75 | 10 |
[WP] You don't sleep. Instead you die every day and 8 hours later you wake up in the body of a person who has 16 hours left to live. | Often our final hours are our best moments. Charlie woke up on the couch, clutching a bottle of jack, aching from the relentless beating chronic alcohol does. But this morning he does something he hasn’t done for a long time, he showers. His wife comes down, mouth agape, as there is breakfast already made and a smile s... | As the gun is pressed against my head, the steaming hot barrel singing and letting the aroma of burning hair spiral up against the top of the car, I wish, not for the first time, that I had my original body.
Breath in, the gun clicks back.
Breath out.
Move.
Hand snaps out, spirals the gun in front of me. The jerk... | 2018-06-20T08:23:57 | 2018-06-20T06:23:08 | 117 | 40 |
[WP] You are a medieval villager who has been cursed by a witch. She curses you to be live until you are the last human alive. After a 1000 years you try to start the apocalypse. | *Five*
The button in my sweaty hands seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
*Four*
It is 5:29 AM, July 16th, 1945.
*Three*
As the seconds felt like hours, my mind raced back to the laboratory. An old man with white, eccentric looking hair spoke to me.
"Do you really think this is such a good idea?"
Hah, he q... | The last pages of Josef Mengele’s diary found in the year 2120:
It’s been one thousand years, a thousand fake histories under my belt, and a thousand things that could have gone wrong. Very few people had actually tried in the past to destroy humanity, one man had nearly gotten there. It was back when I thought that w... | 2018-09-01T00:16:09 | 2018-08-31T23:50:34 | 243 | 114 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "186,292".
The number kept ringing in my ears as I was huddled onto the elevator to Hell. I had led the most unremarkable and conflict-free life ever, an average joe. Easy-going, I almost always acquiesced to what the group wanted, not wanting to raise an issue. A voyeur of life, almost.
Chapters from life flashed ... | One could've heard a pin drop, provided the pin wouldn't immediately liquidate and disappear into the suffocating humidity of this divine DMV. I blinked a couple times at the number on the dated 80's era Linux machine and back to the impatient elderly demon peering over her ironic horn-rimmed glasses across my face. ... | 2018-09-26T08:17:41 | 2018-09-26T07:48:10 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] You discover some seeds and decide to plant them in your yard. After several weeks, odd orange plants with triangular tips have grown, and life begins to get a little easier for you. You have become a Karma farmer.
[removed] | It was once again a scorching summer. And i once again went out to get water from the nearby lake.
r/Redditlake so called. It’s a nice place, lots of folk went there to take pictures, quite a lot of karma for a photo.
But i don’t like moving a lot, or taking pictures, that’s why i have a farm, more of a lawn but it’s... | Karma is a bi*ch
Unbelivable! I manage to grow karma!
Well, the story is a little more complicated. When i found the seeds, I desided to take care of them, because why not? I have a small garde in my backyard, and nothing better to do. So, they grew, but i didn't recognize them. I mean, I am not butanic expert, but I ... | 2018-12-30T03:21:56 | 2018-12-29T22:53:42 | 183 | 71 |
[WP] After strict homeschooling, you and your twin decide to enroll in college together. While at lunch with Mom, you mention a ridiculous discussion in Child Psychology about "Imaginary Friends", and that (your twin) especially found it hilariously absurd. A frown falls on your mothers face. "Who?" | It was early in the morning. Dad had prepared our breakfast. Three plates, as usual, rested atop the table. Mark, my twin, was a night owl, and so he never woke up to share the first meal of the day with us.
"How was college, sweetie? Anything interesting?" my mother asked, as my father entered the bathroom.
"Not rea... | Mom looked from Michael to me, then back to Michael. Her eyes then drifted down to the kitchen table we were sat around, settling on the grain as if it were more interesting than either of us. Perhaps to her, it was. After all, she'd stopped paying us any real attention long ago. Back when...
"Mom?" I said. "Are yo... | 2019-01-02T03:47:18 | 2019-01-02T03:46:10 | 1,569 | 216 |
[WP] After strict homeschooling, you and your twin decide to enroll in college together. While at lunch with Mom, you mention a ridiculous discussion in Child Psychology about "Imaginary Friends", and that (your twin) especially found it hilariously absurd. A frown falls on your mothers face. "Who?" | It was early in the morning. Dad had prepared our breakfast. Three plates, as usual, rested atop the table. Mark, my twin, was a night owl, and so he never woke up to share the first meal of the day with us.
"How was college, sweetie? Anything interesting?" my mother asked, as my father entered the bathroom.
"Not rea... |     I blinked. I glanced at Tim. Tim looked back at me, confusion sprawled across his face, his jaw slightly slack, his mouth slightly open. “Tim, Mom. Tim,” I said, putting my hand on her knee. Her brow furrowed in confusion, and she repeated her question. I sighed and shook my head... | 2019-01-02T03:47:18 | 2019-01-02T02:40:31 | 1,569 | 64 |
[WP] You're a paramedic. In fact, an immortal paramedic. Since you first treated a wounded soldier on the fields of the 30-years War, you didn't age and followed the development of "Emergency Medical Service". Your coworkers are astonished by your knowledge, but sometimes, you slip into old habits.. | From within the ambulance shed came yelling which was muffled but loud enough to bring nurses from the hospital adjacent. Several EMTs and a paramedic stood outside the building shaking their heads at the terrible noises coming from within. The nurses walked up with concerned looks on their faces.
“What’s happening,” ... | I asked for the cocaine...everyone looked freaked out. I quickly said "justkidding" and took the narcan. Little sips like this happen at least a few times a year. Being as old as I am, yet young compared to the rest of my species, humankind I had issues with that word since the 50's, you tend to just roll with it. The ... | 2019-01-05T15:35:45 | 2019-01-05T15:22:51 | 71 | 30 |
[WP] Jerry was erased from existence by Thanos’ snap. The grieving Tom decided to revenge for his fallen friend. | No endgame was necessary.
It wasn't much of a battle, that was for sure. Thanos was sitting on his fat purple arse, watching the sun rise, the roasted Infinity Gauntlet locked around his injured hand, drinking in his success. The Gauntlet felt lighter, opprobriously so, almost. It was supposed to represent infinite po... | Everyday for the last month, I’ve sat on the windowsill looking out at the changed world. Fewer people walk by, fewer trees stand in the yard. Fewer birds fly in the sky.
My tail twitches in annoyance, and I look over my shoulder into the house. Normally I would have had my tail snapped in a mouse trap. Or if I was sl... | 2019-04-01T06:16:41 | 2019-04-01T05:40:35 | 363 | 121 |
[WP]You’re a human stranded on an alien planet. The locals are sapient, but have a lifespan of only about six months. After dozens of generations (about a decade), you’ve managed to make quite a name for yourself.L | It wasn’t until a month had passed I realized the Vinari, though seemingly as intelligent as humans, have an extremely short lifespan of only 6 Earth months. At first I thought that was extremely tragic. Forever stranded from my home, my loved ones, my entire race, and my only company are a primitive society whose peo... | 14 years... 14 God damn years I've been stuck here! For whatever reason these things only live for roughly 6 months then die. They've been astounded by me since I crashed here after I lost control from that space prick Callhoun. I thankfully haven't seen on in years because I've been in hiding. Hopefully for them it me... | 2019-04-22T07:00:35 | 2019-04-22T06:41:10 | 1,492 | 66 |
[WP]Abducted humans have, so far, all displayed the same internal organ structure common throughout the galaxy with only one exception. Every one of them has a Glarnak parasite beating inside their chest. They even think it's necessary for life. | "What do you mean, dead?" His wide black eyes blinked slowly.
"I'm telling you, we excised the parasite absolutely perfectly. Not even a trace of it left anywhere in the subject's system. They expired partway through the surgery, and get this-- the GLARNAK died first. Not the host, the parasite."
"That's..." He trail... | “Experiment zx62h3 has been wildly successful.”
That’s how I planned to start my presentation. It was my mentor who originally taught me that to be successful you must declare success.
The leading life form on planet Earth, mammalian creatures known as apes, have achieved a level 1 civilization.
“Soon,” I spoke to ... | 2019-07-10T02:09:35 | 2019-07-10T02:01:43 | 258 | 70 |
[WP] You are a magical girl, but instead of the usual Sailor Moon esque transformation, you turn into your favorite gritty D&D character. This surprises and terrifies the main villain, who was expecting a frilly dress and some sparkles. Instead they got greasy plate armor, and a bloody battleaxe. | I think the idea of magical girls is a pretty common trope nowadays, so I think I can skip all the bullshit about transformation, how we’re meant to be pure of heart, and all of that jazz unless you’re following something like Mahou Shoujo Site where things get a bit, let’s say hairy to avoid spoilers. And I just like ... | I never knew having a D&D obsession could save my life. Yet, it happened. Sometimes it seems as though fate has a sense of humor.
Let me start from the beginning. I was on my school bus (headed to school, of course), drowning out the sound of fellow adolescents with the voice of Matthew Mercer. It was a peaceful ... | 2019-08-08T19:06:57 | 2019-08-08T17:55:32 | 110 | 71 |
[WP] No one expects the healer to fight but your party is down and you're out of Mana. "you know, I try to be a nice guy." you shed your robes revealing a full body tattoo. "I promised my therapist I wouldn't do this anymore." You pull two blood stained axes from your back. "But it's just so hard." | “You know, I try to avoid this. I try to be the nice guy, but no. You guys fucked around and now I gotta change therapists’ because now I’ve got to break my promise. Again.”
The soot on the ground puffed up around my feet as my robes hit the ground. What should have been bright white robes laced with a deep blue and b... | **Well look who finally dragged his ass into work today. Congratulations on doing the bare minimum, Lt. LaBore.**
You don’t know what I went through last night, Captain.
**Oh I think I do, LaBore. I was there at the bar when you and the other officers were celebrating closing that double homicide case.**
Yeah, but y... | 2019-12-07T01:32:43 | 2019-12-06T19:35:02 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] You, an American, awake in an alternate dimension where magic exist. But unlike the fantasies on Earth, where magic is conjured through Latin (the more Latin you know, the stronger your magic), beings in this dimension all speak a different language, and their language of power is English. | I open my eyes, only to see I'm laying on a sidewalk in the middle of an unfamiliar city. People are busily walking by, paying no mind to me. I get up, dust myself off, and sit on the bench at the bus stop nearby. How the fuck did I end up here? The last thing I remember was having a little too much to drink and a deep... | Fair warning: some foul language including the f bomb.
"What in the hell is going on?" James muttered to himself. Mondays were made to be awful - a view shared by most of the world's population - but this one *redefined* awful.
He glanced at the sad little empty space that used to be his cat's favourite spot. They ... | 2020-01-28T12:25:29 | 2020-01-28T12:19:44 | 127 | 59 |
[WP] Only a direct descendant should be able to wield your weapon, the hero's sword. When the neighbour's daughter came to play with your son, you were surprised to see her waving said sword as your son happily chased her. Your wife now looks at you with a literally chilling gaze. | As my wife laced into me with scathing insults and several choice words I dare not repeat, my mind was racing. It made no sense.
Despite the obvious assumption that I'd had a bastard child with the woman next door, it was a false accusation. I'd barely spoken to her let alone slept with her.
I stood up, my abruptne... | Confusion overtook me as I saw the neighbor's daughter playing with the sword.
My wife grabbed me by the ear, "Inside. Now."
"I should get the sword back-"
"Alright." She sighed and let go of my ear.
I took the sword from the child and went inside.
She was glaring daggers into me, "Is that kid yours?"
"No. She's ... | 2020-06-13T06:50:26 | 2020-06-13T06:32:49 | 88 | 29 |
[WP] After one’s death, the ‘creative mode’ is unlocked. You replay life, except everything goes the way you want it to. Unlimited wealth, complete domination of the world, you name it. Unknowingly, that play-through is what is used to judge whether you belong to heaven, or hell. | You would think that given complete control and no consequences, they would all eventually pass this test. They'd put more thought and effort into putting more good into the world rather than satiate their own selfish whims. But I guess the world that they first lived in taught them to fight hard for the things they wa... | Woken abruptly up by a spine thrilling headache, you shiver at the end of your bed, drenched in sweat.
"Thank fuck that was just a bad dream.. getting hit by a burning bus isn't the way I want to be taken out..".
The nightmare was surreal enough to wake you up, but not strong enough to break your will to move your l... | 2020-07-20T04:09:17 | 2020-07-20T04:06:19 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | "Grand Admiral Zadox," Dartok purred quietly, bowing in submission. "Do you remember the proto-civilization, species 19857, that you ordered me to study?"
Zadox glared at Dartok, furred brows furrowing at his son. "Sub-Ensign Dartok, why would I remember a proto-civilization?"
Dartok clicked his claws together, hold... | BANG!
Kalvar the Martianwas almost done with his midday ritual when he heard the noise. Surely it was...
"K to the R! What's up bro?"
"I've told you several times... My name is..."
"I know, I know, The Martian Kalvar of the Order of the Ethereal Knights. Is that your real name, or do you just put that on your resum... | 2020-08-08T01:11:59 | 2020-08-07T17:06:37 | 76 | 38 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | "Grand Admiral Zadox," Dartok purred quietly, bowing in submission. "Do you remember the proto-civilization, species 19857, that you ordered me to study?"
Zadox glared at Dartok, furred brows furrowing at his son. "Sub-Ensign Dartok, why would I remember a proto-civilization?"
Dartok clicked his claws together, hold... | # first time doing this, please go easy on me haha
Logfile GA-0087:23Intergalactic-Subzone:FH247
## IGA-Sentient-ID: FH247-0 Self Classification: Homo sapiens
Humans.A less than averaged sized and shaped carbon-based life-form in this universe's equivalent of the badlands.They were seen as weak, their communities- k... | 2020-08-08T01:11:59 | 2020-08-07T21:47:11 | 76 | 17 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | Bulwhop wheezed on all eight on the floor while Schitlth struggled to stay on his stool. Meanwhile, Zuweev was barely visible because he was losing his concentration on materializing.
“So.... a... are you telling us you blow yourself up into space? HAHAHAHAHAHA. No wonder why you look so charred.” Said Bulwhop after... | BANG!
Kalvar the Martianwas almost done with his midday ritual when he heard the noise. Surely it was...
"K to the R! What's up bro?"
"I've told you several times... My name is..."
"I know, I know, The Martian Kalvar of the Order of the Ethereal Knights. Is that your real name, or do you just put that on your resum... | 2020-08-07T19:33:24 | 2020-08-07T17:06:37 | 57 | 38 |
[WP] A therapist starts treatment of an unusual client, a teen displaying clear symptoms of PTSD, without any sort of apparent cause. In fact, said teenager is a former Chosen One, recently returned from the fantasy world they'd been drawn into, and they're not having an easy time adjusting back. | A man with glasses and a notepad sat opposite to a teenage boy, the both of them staring away from each other. There was a clock somewhere, the dull ticking quiet in the warm-colored room.
"Is the tapping something you do often?" The man with glasses asked the first question after a good five minutes. Most of that bef... | Dr. Niche looks over the questionnaire filled out by this new patient, a 16 year old boy who now sits across from him on a comfy couch. As he goes over the different answers the boy had filled out, he struggles to maintain a calm facial expression. Simply put, this teenager had checked all of the boxes for PTSD in his ... | 2021-02-11T14:49:32 | 2021-02-11T13:29:05 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] A bunch of teenagers in color-coordinated outfits are standing in a V formation on your lawn. | The old man shook with barely-contained rage. With one arthritic hand he drew the metal rocker directly in front of his front door and sat heavily down upon it. As the spring took his weight, he bobbed silently, looking out at the newly minted team on his lawn. Eventually, he took a long drink from the can in his hand ... | “Jennifer?” What the hell were they all doing looking so creepy on my front lawn? My parents were going to kill me. My dad is completely the man that screams “Get off my lawn!” to anyone that even glances at it. He is going to be home in an hour. I hear a loud boom and a bass beat starts. Ugh. This girl is nuts! I run... | 2021-02-17T19:59:06 | 2021-02-17T19:26:26 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?”
"*That*."
He cocked his head.
"Dude just fucking *fist pumped*."
The boy turned and stared. A chill breeze wandered across the field. The boy stared. Leaves -- part-turne... | "Look, kid. I'm still figuring this out," the junior hero Cattle Drive said. "I can't fight crime and have an existential crisis at the same time. Rowdy is the only gear I got."
"But, the cost of the jewelry she stole is likely already far outpaced by the damage the single hole you plowed through all those store front... | 2021-04-18T06:36:57 | 2021-04-18T06:02:21 | 151 | 86 |
[WP] Humanity has finally noticed that almost every other galactic species has rather bizarre beliefs about humans. They seem down right gullible about just what humans can or will do at any time. So humanity decides to have some fun with it. | *On an online forum discussing humans*
"Humans are terrifying I tell you! I heard that if you cross paths with one in the middle of the night, when you wake up the next day a baby human will burst out of your stomach!"
"That can't be true. First of all that sounds dumb, and Second, humans reproduce by laying eggs int... | I remember as a kid I had a very wild and wacky imagination. I watched those weird science-y YouTube videos on stuff like "what if we all jumped at the same time" and stuff like that. Before I watched that video though I'd always thought that if every human on Earth jumped at the same time the planet would collapse. Of... | 2021-06-13T11:21:40 | 2021-06-13T11:07:30 | 157 | 34 |
[WP] A magical medieval fantasy empire frequently invades inferior, magic-less dimensions for easy conquest. This time though, they target the modern day technologically advanced Earth. | "First reported sightings of what seems to be large armies of men and monsters in the Yukon. The Canadian government demands a summit at the U.N to discuss this issue after they ravaged through the territories of Nunavut, Yukon, and the Northwestern Territories and are now bearing their jaws at the prairie provinces of... | "We have a fire order. It came across all channels but it's garbled. We can't authenticate." The comms officer held my gaze just long enough to confirm that I'd heard him, and turned back to his terminal, emotionless.
Everyone on the command deck grew suddenly more silent, even as new lights and sirens indicating... | 2021-06-25T21:49:14 | 2021-06-25T21:28:18 | 31 | 20 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | Getting home from work excited as the new update came for my favorite game. I sigh as I step inside with my food and the lights don't work. How I ask myself. Fortunately I keep a flashlight on my belt. But when I turn it on *he* is waiting for me just outside the light from the hall. The Archon comes close and leans in... | “Why me?”
I thought as I’m walking while two heroes are stalking me. I can’t possibly be the only person with powers that just minds their own business, so why are they targeting me? I guess it could be that I have multiple are pretty strong powers, I can use both fire and ice, as well as lift stuff with my mind, incl... | 2021-08-16T15:42:19 | 2021-08-16T13:29:39 | 388 | 145 |
[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. | “Please, around the roses.” I called out, trying to salvage my garden. It was impossible to be a gardener class in an age of warriors and mages. No one cared about the little gardener boy who was just trying to maintain a healthy system of flora. No, if my plants couldn’t fire lightning bolts or wield a sword, they wan... | Life is a cycle of birth, reproduction, and death. This is natural. And we all have our roles to play in the symbiotic relationship of society. I am one of many who feed the adventurers, they protect me. It has never truly bothered me that they don't understand this, any more than it bothers the leaves that the bark d... | 2021-11-12T11:42:53 | 2021-09-10T03:57:10 | 1,235 | 17 |
[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. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | A sun-darkened hand reached into his satchel, fingers grasping at the cargo with practiced ease and withdrew, eight seeds held gently. A gentle, almost graceful twist of the wrist and they were deposited in the freshly tilled soil; he patted the rich earth down with his trowel before taking the watering can from its p... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-09T23:20:57 | 1,001 | 16 |
[WP] You're considered by the Jedi Order as a very cryptic but accurate oracle. Truthfully though, whenever someone asks a question, you just retreat to your chambers, say you're consulting the Force, watch the DVDs of Star Wars and say it very cryptically to make it look legitimate | He heard a knock on his door as the spaceships flew past his windows.
'You may enter' he called in a voice akin to the croak of an ancient frog, and Mace Windu walked in amidst a flurry of robes. 'you're prediction about the young Skywalker appears to be correct, oracle,' he said in his deep voice, 'we wish to cons... | As the sun shone through the windows, broken on the pretext of an 'intense oracle', A slim man immediately sat in athinking position. With his left leg above his right leg, He awaited the general's return from yesterday to question about the oracle.
"He is two minutes late..." irritated, He whispered only to hear the... | 2022-02-26T20:10:34 | 2022-02-26T17:17:40 | 656 | 99 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | “The Red Phone” was a joke. My wife had bought it for me as a prop when I had told her I got elected President of the book club.
“A President needs a red phone!” had been her gleeful cry when I had opened the mysterious parcel. It was a cheap plastic thing, garish and bright. A child’s toy.
And I loved it.
It sat on... | Most of the time I didn't really care.
I preferred to live quietly, let everything else go on as they want.
A lot of people know I exist, but thankfully not who I am. There was a lot of talk online last time the phone rang. People saying if I had been called first all those heroes wouldn't have died. Others are scare... | 2022-03-29T02:39:22 | 2022-03-29T01:16:12 | 609 | 411 |
[WP] You are the Last Hero. The one they call when nobody else can handle the threat. You've answered the call only twice since discovering your powers, devastating as they are. You prefer the quiet life, living on your stipend. The Red Phone has just rung for the third time. | I blinked in surprise, turning from the TV in surprise as it rang.
The Red Phone.
They don't bother me lightly. I've made it clear that I value my privacy too much to get involved in every little scuffle between nations. After it leaked that the Heroes Society was trying to recruit me and Doctor Nefarious came after... | I’d say I never know how they find me, but the Red Phone has followed me around for my entire life. Some days, I can forget it’s there—sometimes it’s just a slim little device, a flip phone tucked away in a backpack or suddenly in the pockets of my pants. But on other days, I reach for a pack of tissues, or I go to fis... | 2022-03-29T10:06:36 | 2022-03-29T08:54:38 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Superheroes lie about their powers to protect themselves; some speedsters are actually just able to teleport, and some people with super-strength can just cancel gravity to make things lighter. You're trying to come up with a plausible lie for your powers. | [This kind of got extremely out of hand, but I hope it is still close enough to the prompt.]
My name is Delphi, and I am an Oracle. I am known for quick wit, adaptability, and using mixed martial arts in lieu of a physical power. To the public, my gift is foresight. I can see what will happen in key points in the futu... | # VI | [Read from I](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/v1fq6x/wp_as_a_joke_the_gods_decided_to_reverse_the/iaoubt6/)
Aside from Adrianna, Cassidy Quinn was Shizuka's only real friend.
He'd been at the Academy longer than almost any of the other students. Long enough to have been here when she'd first ... | 2022-06-06T17:58:01 | 2022-06-06T14:18:28 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] In vampire society, it is a capital offence to touch prey marked by a senior vampire. There is a very good reason they all shy away from the cross.
All credit to [https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/wwon7a/in\_vampire\_society\_it\_is\_a\_capital\_offence\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentence... | "We can't go in there, Victor"
"Why not, Rabbi?"
The Rabbi stood there for a second, his face one movement away from laughter, before recomposing itself and replying, "I guess you wouldn't yet know. You know how whenever we scout, I leave a mark somewhere on the property?"
"Yes, Rabbi. What does that have to do with... | It had all started a long time ago. So long, most vampires didn't remember it.
But I did.
It had been a dark, dry night. Four of the most senior vampires in the world had gathered. Two vampires were not present, but precedings went along anyway. One stepped forward.
"I have changed my mark." She announced, her sle... | 2022-09-05T08:55:39 | 2022-09-05T08:50:39 | 676 | 151 |
[WP] An entity that appears as a normal person is following you everywhere you go, it won't say a word, and it won't stop smiling. | "See the girl across the bar over there?"
Eli gestured towards the thing he'd named Joanna. It was a fairly busy night at the Rat's Tail, but even amidst all the noise it was hard to miss the brunette with the unnatural grin. So hard to miss, in fact, that the patrons in her vicinity kept her at a two-table distance.
... | Sally, I would come to name her.
She first appeared after my late grandmother passed away. It was the morning after the funeral and there she was, standing at the end of my bed. Staring. Smiling. A light, misting aura surrounded her, clearly nothing from our reality as we know it.
Of *course* I shat myself. Wouldn't ... | 2022-09-12T12:30:05 | 2022-09-12T11:16:32 | 54 | 26 |
[WP] In all of history, it is estimated that there have been around 109 billion deaths. Tell me the story of one of these 109 billion people's last moments.
[Source](https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth/) | I have no regrets.
The battle was well-fought. Even though the Picts took us by surprise, our training and mettle were superior - the foul barbarians stood no chance as they broke themselves upon our mighty shields and fell to our swords. Though... not that there weren't losses. Like me.
All I remember was sinking my... | There so many stories to tell. So many to choose from. One could almost say it was infinite, though in reality that is not quite true. Yet. Theoretically, until the human race does perish there are still infinite deaths to occur as no one really knows how many more are to come. Anyway, anyway, you wanted to hear about ... | 2022-12-26T05:36:19 | 2022-12-26T03:58:21 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Sleeping soul so innocent
awakens in a blaze. Knowing not
where she is. She wanders on for
days. Beasts with horns and pointed tails
with fire in their eyes, spent the day wondering
the cause of her demise. She was too young,
too filled with life. How does one so very
small have such a shortened time. "We ca... | "*Damn you to hell.*" Biggs muttered, very nearly fulfilling his daily quota for hellishly damnable puns.
"All right, come on!" He shouted to the child.
She was hesitant. Nice things in the pit had a tendency to attain immense weight, and the girl didn't have a telemarketer's shot at heaven of picking her teddy ... | 2013-11-26T16:25:34 | 2013-11-26T15:22:41 | 58 | 16 |
[WP] You are an assassin. This job is all your life. You submit your CV to the Company, the dream job for all assassins. They accept your offer under one condition, you have to pass a test. You are given a target to kill within the next few days. The only weapon you can use is a pickle. | I followed him for three days. It was his posting, his almighty company. Arrogant bastard, that's not how this works. There's gigs, targets, and clients. Nobody puts me on retainer.
So I accepted his test. Now here we are. Despite the breeze blowing from the top of the building, he stands before me sweating. A bead... | *ding*
34th floor. Steve steps forward, briskly moving past the secretary's desk. She nods as he passes. A suit and a name badge will get you just about anywhere in this world. Thank god for apathy.
As he walks purposefully down the hall, a brief moment of anxiety passes. He lets it pass through him, as he was traine... | 2014-12-12T17:46:46 | 2014-12-12T16:56:58 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Stephen Hawking's chair can transform into a mecha suit. He has not used that option till today. Describe the events leading up to, and during his rampage | The audience applauded as Stephen Hawking took the stage. His chair came to a stop and spun to face the audience.
"Good afternoon, Berkeley," he said to the crowd of academics. "Thank you for giving up your time to hear me speak. We are, after all, short on time these days. We are nearing peak oil. Millions die o... | Budget cuts. It was always the excuse given by the weak of mind.
“We didn’t have enough money to pay for the technology.”
“We needed the money for other projects.”
“Who could have even seen this coming?”
It pissed off Hawking to no end.
He had warned them. We needed to get off this planet. We needed to develop te... | 2015-03-07T10:18:32 | 2015-03-07T10:17:23 | 108 | 30 |
[WP] Earth is the uncontacted Amazonian Tribe of the Galaxy, and aliens don't want to contact us because they want to preserve our primitive and unique culture. | "Look....look what they're doing now. It's disgusting."
"What?"
"They're regurgitating their methyl alcohol mixtures at each other."
"That's....that's unpleasant."
"Correct, and according to Teenor's behavioral pattern logs they will fight each other afterwards."
"Why would they fight? Are they trying to establish... | In all my time working for the Planetary Protection Agency, I've never dealt with a planet as bothersome as #20993E39, or "Earth" as the most common dialect on the planet refers to it.
When the PPA was formed (far before my time, and when this planet was still just an uninhabitable molten heap) it vowed to shield any... | 2015-06-14T12:22:21 | 2015-06-14T10:44:40 | 34 | 23 |
[WP] Everyone on earth woke up with super powers this morning, but everyone thinks they are the only one with powers and tries to keep them secret. | “Hey, guys,” I said, sidestepping the mess on the floor as I walked into the living room. “Do you think we could have a quick house meeting?”
Neither of my roommates bothered to peel their eyes from the television.
So I cleared my throat and tried again. “Dave? Sheila? I really think we need to set a few ground rules... | I never wanted this.
Well, the powers I did want, but the whole "secret identity" part? It's not worth it.
I was walking down the street this morning on my way to the bus stop, when I tripped on an untied shoelace. I fell forward at first, but then...I stopped. *This is weird,* I thought, and I pictured myself fallin... | 2015-09-15T18:49:35 | 2015-09-15T15:32:35 | 85 | 15 |
[WP] Every time someone says "Long live the Queen", the Queen's life is extended by one second. You only notice this when the Queen looked terrified when only a few people say it during a public speech.
Credit to /u/kroxigor01 for the idea. | From the crowd only a few people shouted it. Before this all happened, the entire crowd would say it. But the phrase is dying. Experts have pointed out how it may come of as nationalistic, and that it's somewhat old fashioned. Fewer and fewer people started saying it. And that took its toll. Looking back now, it all ma... | "SAY IT! SAY IT!" screamed the Queen, her frilly dress following her as she ran about. Unfortunately, her crazed screaming had the opposite affect on the people in the room. She saw this coming. Recent polls showed that the Queen wasn't as popular as she was last decade ago. But alas, she had an alternative.
"Commenc... | 2022-09-08T11:11:40 | 2015-11-09T08:28:13 | 971 | 16 |
[WP] A total newbie is trying to start a drug cartel. However he doesn't get street talk, and interprets everything literally (dime, brown sugar, etc) | Jim sat across the desk from his prospective partners.
"We hear you move dope" said one of them
"You calling my friend a dope?" said Jim
"What?"
"I just helped my friend move houses. Are you saying he's a dope"
"No like dru..."
Jim shot them.
...
Jim sat across the desk from the heroin seller.
"Alright now I'v... | Amelia Bedelia took the sharpest knife she could find in the kitchen.
She held the little red can down against the cutting board, and sliced it down the middle.
*psssst!* All the Coke fizzed right out of the can, all over the counter and onto the floor.
"Oh no!" cried Amelia Bedelia. "How am I supposed to cook it no... | 2016-01-31T09:39:26 | 2016-01-31T07:55:19 | 76 | 20 |
[WP] Write a horror story that takes place in broad daylight in a crowded area. | I instantly left home when I got the sms and headed to my sisters place, my safe place.
Ever since that disgusting man violated me I could barely sleep, and only a week after being released from prison, a week of freedom in which he could come good on his promise he had somehow got my phone number.
He had waited thro... | The train station is packed. In front of me a few hundred men and women crowd the edge of a small platform. They are waiting for my train; the 6pm from London to Birmingham. There are far more people here than usual for this time of day and I know what it means - the previous train was cancelled. It also means that as ... | 2016-07-05T11:26:18 | 2016-07-05T10:40:02 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Just pick another fucking age!" Death said, snarling as he looked at Bobby.
"No, I get to pick, and I pick my 16th birthday."
Death screamed and punched the little shit in his head, and Bobby disappeared. All death had to do was touch his forehead, but he was way to angry for that. He waited for a few minutes, and a... | Back again, through the weird voids and other planes your soul shuffles through when you die. I never got used to it.
"So, how's things here in the... Nether?"
"Aether" he corrected.
"Right, Aether, Nether..." I said trailing off. Even though he didn't have eyes, I could feel them judging me. He stood there an uncomf... | 2016-09-23T10:49:59 | 2016-09-23T08:30:19 | 232 | 24 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | “You know, in all the times you’ve come to meet me you’ve never once told me what would happen once you’ve actually taken my soul.”
The woman sitting across from him remained expressionless, not a single feature on her smooth sun-kissed face changed, nor did a single dark hair resting gracefully on her shoulders move.... | Back again, through the weird voids and other planes your soul shuffles through when you die. I never got used to it.
"So, how's things here in the... Nether?"
"Aether" he corrected.
"Right, Aether, Nether..." I said trailing off. Even though he didn't have eyes, I could feel them judging me. He stood there an uncomf... | 2016-09-23T08:57:47 | 2016-09-23T08:30:19 | 196 | 24 |
[WP] You are notified when you visit somewhere for the last time. Today, the notification appears everywhere you go.
[deleted] | In a mad flurry, the new app LastChance had been downloaded in 24 hours more times than any other application in the world. Most were heralding it as the harbinger of death while some were embracing it as justification to their YOLO moments, living out every day like it was their last. For John David, however, it was a... | "The fuck? That's like the thirtieth message today."
"What's that?"
Joe is waiting for his order next to me. He's glued to his screen just like me.
"LastCall is blowing up today. Don't know what's up. "
"Lol, that's a gimmicky service anyway. How do they know it's your 'last ever check-in.'"
I sip my coffee and do... | 2016-11-03T07:36:30 | 2016-11-03T06:14:59 | 592 | 21 |
[WP] You are trapped in a small, windowless room with nothing but a computer with a text editor. When you type in a word, the object appears in the room. However, there's a catch: the only keys on the keyboard are in the first half of the alphabet (A - M). | A debacle befell me; I abided jailed, a glib academic, a magical gimmick. Ideal? Deific? Damaged. Hacked. A bleak, addleheaded facade.
I calmed, checked a claim. Click, click, click: a bed, a meal, a diadem. Call a fabled elf? Failed. A male, a female? Fake. Mafia? A gaffe.
Idea: dig, backfill? A dilemm... | Can't make a saw, drill, auger, or bore, so I'm tapped on cutting tools.
Blade? I get an Xacto knife... really guys?
I could try bomb but I'd just blow myself up and det-cord's a no-go
Crap, why didn't I pay more attention in Spanish class? I'd have a whole other language to work with!
Okay, lets get a bed to chi... | 2017-05-09T10:36:57 | 2017-05-09T09:12:58 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You've been teleported into an unexpected deathbattle. Your special ability...is your username.
EDIT: You guys are awesome. Alot of funny and interesting ones so far! I might want to start this prompt every year or something (if that's allowed). | *"Uh... Someone help me,"* I called to the audience.
"No! We are just spectators and this is funny" Some random guy yelled bac
I looked back at the giant lumbering towards me.
Suddenly a group of people dressed in WW2 outfits appearing in front of me, one of whom looked suspiciously like Tom Hanks.
Then, they charg... | Here I was, minding my own my own business going through writing prompts, when the next thing I know I am in an arena with thousands of spectators.
**"Welcome to the Deathbattle arena, where your only weapon is your reddit username. In the the left corner we have u/diamondweapons and in the right corner we have u/BAG_... | 2017-07-17T22:02:16 | 2017-07-17T21:39:44 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] You've been teleported into an unexpected deathbattle. Your special ability...is your username.
EDIT: You guys are awesome. Alot of funny and interesting ones so far! I might want to start this prompt every year or something (if that's allowed). | "SEND IN THE LEGION!" I cried. The battle cries soon followed.
"Oh. Crap." It said. With a cry of "MAAAAHHH!" my troops had arrived. It was time to get down to business. The Legion set to work instantly. With a few commanders riding, but mostly a lot of spitting from the troops, it was trampled. Whatever it was, I did... | Here I was, minding my own my own business going through writing prompts, when the next thing I know I am in an arena with thousands of spectators.
**"Welcome to the Deathbattle arena, where your only weapon is your reddit username. In the the left corner we have u/diamondweapons and in the right corner we have u/BAG_... | 2017-07-17T21:47:57 | 2017-07-17T21:39:44 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | They gave me the option. Heaven, or Hell.
Being the dumbass I am, of course I answered with "Hell".
Rather, I meant to answer with "Hell, I don't know why you give that choice. Heaven, of course!". But they didn't hear the full thing. The second Hell had been spoken, they marked down my decision.
So here I was. Stoo... | Would I really be a friend of the Dark Lord himself? Be pals with Old Scratch? Well I guess it was much better than being one of the three poor saps his three mouths were chewing on.
"Too often, I get people who don't want to come down here willingly. But since you chose to be here, we can be friends! This place is on... | 2017-11-04T04:24:35 | 2017-11-04T03:16:31 | 318 | 195 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | He really... wasn't what I expected. For one thing, he was-
"Really? 12 years of Sunday school and they _missed that?_" Lucy replied, blinking slightly as she realised just how little the humans knew. I nodded sadly and gently patted her back, feeling her skin under my fingers like dry paper and fire-tinder. She didn'... | In a end of a large room filled with books and statues of ferocious animals, was a grandiose wooden desk with a giant comfortable looking chair. Sittin on it was a man reading a book while holding a glass of whiskey in the other hand. This man was immaculately dressed, wearing a black pinstriped suit and a gold watch. ... | 2017-11-04T09:51:52 | 2017-11-04T09:18:11 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] People can only be killed by someone older than them. Nursing homes are now assassin groups. | Every day I thank my grandfather for the gift he's given me.
Sure, I'm no assassin; at least, nobody would pin me as one. 'Too young to have done it' they'd have said. After all, they were all my seniors. Even if someone did suspect me if killing the crooked mayor, nothing would stick in court. It's likely the cops w... | It's the first Friday of November of 1983. In the Truman Retirement Home, five old geezers are playing a round of poker.
"Come on, Bill, you fucking ass-cake. It's been your turn for the past hour," said Margaret as she knitted Christmas sweaters for her grandchildren.
Bill was about to extend his hand to play when, ... | 2017-11-19T07:06:57 | 2017-11-19T04:08:54 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] "Stop," commanded your GPS. "It is time you discovered the truth. In 400 Yards, turn left..." | Deep within, I knew the GPS didn't say those words. I knew that its was a trick of a long suppressed thought nibbling at my brain like a starving rat. But, what could I do? I was "happy" like this, wasn't I?
I guess not.
I turned to the left and there, a white house stood tall. It was beautiful, it really was. Two li... | “This left?”
*No, not this left.*
“It looks like it’s this left on the map.”
*It’s clearly the next left. Why would you take this left?*
“Because that’s what it looked like on the map. It looked like it was this left. Why would you make it look that way if you didn’t want me to take the left?”
*Calibrating route.*... | 2018-01-25T06:55:00 | 2018-01-25T06:09:53 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] In a school of Monster Slayers, it is tradition to design and build your own weapon. The professors find your design... "Unique," but effective | I wasn't sure exactly how old Professor Maia was. Her public bio on the school's network was infuriatingly vague on that front. Which was probably on purpose, given the need for information security.
But there were some dates, like when she'd published books or won awards. And those dates suggested a chronological ag... | As the only heir to the Denev estate, it was only natural that the young master, Lucius, made use of every resource he had access to in the design of Gustav mk IV.
Dr. Kip scowled from behind the schematics, while his colleague, Dr. Thera, couldn't help but try to hide a smile. "My dear Lucius, you are full of surpri... | 2018-02-14T02:41:10 | 2018-02-13T22:45:50 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] To extend your life, you've played Death in many games and beaten him. However, after your last game, you begin to see that Death has been losing to you on purpose. | Daredevils are a rare sight in today's world. I blame the internet. When you go to watch some daring do, everyone is amazed by the acrobatic feats and death defying stunts, they're wowed by the fearlessness and strength. But the real reason they're there? They're just waiting for the guy to bust his head open at 100mph... | I set down my rook.
“Checkmate.”
“DAMN. I THOUGHT I HAD YOU. EXCELLENT PLAY, MICHELLE.”
“Thank you. Tomorrow, then, Death?”
“AS ALWAYS.” He began to disappear. As I looked at the board, I noticed something off about the play.
“Death, wait.”
“YES? WHAT IS IT?”
“You could have easily blocked my move. I’m no grandmaster, ... | 2018-03-21T10:30:42 | 2018-03-21T08:35:33 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] Scientists have announced that severe phobias are linked to the final moments of a past life. You're set on finding out why your child has such a phobia. | Bonilon glowered at his son. "Drink it. It's beer, and we are dwarfs," he said, thumping the tankard twice against the table. "We forge and we drink. There's no more to us than that."
His son trembled visibly, his pupils big and wide with fear. "I-I can't do it, father!" he said and his eyes grew glossy with arising t... | Danny's fear of aglets started at a young age. When he was 4 years old, he cried for every time we put his tiny tennis shoes on his feet. My wife and I assumed that the shoes were hurting his feet, and bought him a new pair. One pair turned into ten pairs, and eventually a visit to the doctor's office. It was here that... | 2018-07-12T18:01:34 | 2018-07-12T17:35:21 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You've been captured by a serial killer. However, he doesn't realize he's the one in danger - your body count is much higher. | ######[](#dropcap)
Jack glared at the woman that *should have* been cowering the back of the carseat. Instead, she sat there calmly, her back straight as she stared wordlessly out the window. It was unnerving, to say the least, and Jack couldn't help but stare into the rearview mirror at her.
She had acted scared ea... | The restraints were surprisingly well done - maybe he was more experienced than I thought. My knife, however, was making short work of them. Although, I wasn't going to cut it all the way just yet.
I didn’t want to ruin the fun.
He was rummaging through a drawer, the stench of death filtering up through the floorbo... | 2018-08-23T00:33:40 | 2018-08-22T23:57:48 | 1,680 | 587 |
[WP] You've been captured by a serial killer. However, he doesn't realize he's the one in danger - your body count is much higher. | I'd picked him up about a mile back. Hitchhiker, maybe mid-20s. New to the gig. Still too jittery. The gun against my head hadn't been customized at all, yet.
"Just down this dirt road here."
I did as he said. "Terror of Mile 202?"
"Yeah! Cool, huh? Go ahead and stop behind the trees there." He gestured with the gun... | *God damnit, not again*, I thought as he pressed up the chloroform to my nose in an attempt to knock me out.
*Whatever, let's have fun with this one.* I feigned unconsciousness as he dragged me into his van. His seats were firm, uncomfortable, and his driving showed nervousness. *You'll wake up when he wants you ... | 2018-08-23T02:12:03 | 2018-08-23T02:09:35 | 44 | 29 |
[WP] 1,000 years after the battle of Helm's Deep, the orcs have tracked down the elves in the undying lands. Calling in a favour with their allies the men, the elves expect an army of 10,000. Instead they get 8 marines with MASERs, rail guns and anti-matter grenade launchers. | Agandauer the Accurate responded in that cool calm voice that all Land of Shadow watchtower scouts aspired to.
"I've got you at three quarters of a hundred lár per hour across the ground"
With the High Elves' amulet of rumificatus active, Agandauer could communicate directly with anyone within range. So, too could ... | "how you doing chum?"
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Logbook of the battle engineer Clem K. Harvard, 05-10-2935 AD. 0600 AM.
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SO! just finished my shift, we're well underway with the ambush setup. the orks are marching out in the open, upstream, about 10 miles from our location. Dukes, Hicus, Max and Laos have placed th... | 2018-12-03T06:38:00 | 2018-12-03T06:24:07 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] You've always dreamed of becoming a supervillain when you got your powers, and just because you were bestowed the power of healing doesn't change anything | "Your 1 o clock is ready sir". My PA respectfully withdrew.
***Most kids dream of being hero's. Me? I always put myself in the shoes of the villains.***
Strolling into the brightly lit room I took a look at what I had to work with. I met dull eyes in a deeply lined face.
***They always seemed so much more free. Her... | "Is this the one?" Brainwave asked his accomplice as they watched a woman walk down the street from a car window.
"Yes, that´s definitely her", Mist said as she looked at a photo of that woman with Powerman. Mists greying hair was flowing in the air despite the lack of wind.
"So, what´s the plan again?"
"You us... | 2019-01-30T06:51:16 | 2019-01-30T06:46:53 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] You are the best thief in the kingdom. You’re hard to find but money talks. A stranger in a hood has a request for you. “What do you want me to steal?” You ask. They remove their hood. “Me,” says the Kingdom’s prince/princess. | “No. Absolutely not.”
“Why not?” she asked, taken aback. The dim tavern lighting reflected off her shimmering green eyes, revealing a keen intelligence that no disguise could hide. Riven cursed under his breath and tore his gaze away.
“I know how this will end. No,” he said to the table.
“Please,” soft fingers grasp... |
"My father is dead," she says. "Within a few hours, the servants will find his body tucked under his bed. The blood should be oozing by now."
I fold my arms. This couldn't be the same princess Saist. I've seen this woman before. I mean, who hasn't? Everyday, she would enter the town square and help and guide people ... | 2019-08-05T12:13:20 | 2019-08-05T10:23:48 | 36 | 12 |
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