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[WP] As Death walks towards you, you panic and scream the first word that comes into your head: “Unsubscribe!” Death stops, scowls, crosses your name off the list he is holding then turns and walks away. | "Well shit, that's a first. Ok, I guess I'll see you around."
The cloaked figure makes for the door, which creaks open unaided.
"Wait, where are you going?"
"Hm?"
It looks back, revealing the bony features beneath the ragged hood.
"Aren't you going to take me...beyond? or whatever it is you do?"
"No? You just can... | "So you're just letting me walk away?"
Death turns back and gave a deep sigh, "Yes, shoo. Go away and live the rest of your life."
"But do I later or-."
Death didn't really have facial features, it's just a skull billowing black mist from its eye sockets but you can tell it's annoyed.
"No," his skeletal palm was pr... | 2021-12-09T04:27:56 | 2021-12-09T04:13:31 | 129 | 26 |
[WP] Earth is discovered by a peaceful coalition of civilizations. Turns out we missed several major technologies normally developed by now. The aliens are very confused how we got here. | The chief inspectorate walked into the conference chamber with a concerned look on his wizened blue face. He faced the three investigators and gave them a sad glance.
"Two of you have obviously made mistakes, as all three of you have given differing reports on this 'Earth' planet".
The three different coloured invest... | "Tucson's a strange place.
Jesus look at it. It's a forest.
When I was a young man, I lived there three or four years. Usually takes that long to get used to a new place, and for me to start running it. 21 years later and it looks like this.
I'm still waiting to get used to this shit.
When they came, the... refl... | 2017-03-10T00:58:58 | 2017-03-09T23:13:07 | 135 | 26 |
[WP]Write a story that isn't scary until the last line is read. | The flowing highways allowed him to travel effortlessly to his destination. He didn't particularly care much about where exactly to get off, but he found a nice-enough looking spot just like any other of the choices destiny could have taken him to. With only what was on his back now, the pudgy thing let himself into th... | It's so cold here in this tundra. The summers are great for farming, but the winters are terrible. My baby, to my right, and I have no food. We ran out of crops since the beginning of winter, and ran out of meat yesterday. I would go hunting for bears and wolves right now, but I don't have a rifle. Without one, taking ... | 2017-06-05T20:52:45 | 2017-06-05T20:15:06 | 78 | 17 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "GREETINGS FELLOW ADVENTURING HUMANS!" Boomed the voice of Danny the Elf sat bolt upright from the sleeping cloth sack she had been in, causing Bob the Barbarian to grunt and curl up under his animal hide sleeping rug again.
"IT IS I, YOUR GOOD FRIEND DAN, I AM UNHARMED AFTER MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE DAEMON!" She contin... | Bolton the doppelganger did not want to be an adventurer. He wanted to live quietly, and bake cookies. He grew tired of the constant hustle and bustle of morphing into people, committing crimes because no one trusted the Doppleganger kind. He figured his secluded life in the hills might buy him peace.
The rogue laid ... | 2017-09-15T06:12:39 | 2017-09-15T05:03:01 | 75 | 12 |
[WP] This version of Earth is a wash. The angels have held a lottery and you have been chosen to end the world. You are given any resource you need; magic, technology, rEality alteration. Whether it’s wholesale destruction of the planet or just the death of all sentient life is up to you. “Have fun” | "What have you done?" Azreal asked.
"Exactly what you asked," I said, "Sterilized the world. There's not a single thing left that could be classified as life, except me. And I'll be gone soon enough."
We sat on a slab of translucent purple crystal, jutting out from a craggy collection of pillars of similar material t... | Its amazing, the way I feel so completely and utterly not different. I thought, having been given this terribly destructive and all consuming power I'd feel filled with, what, i don't know, something. But there's nothing.. Just the knowledge that what I decide reality Should be becomes what reality Is.
So knowing I w... | 2018-02-27T18:44:13 | 2018-02-27T14:52:19 | 273 | 32 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | "At 2:47 this afternoon, a super-strength unit at the worksite for the new bridge will attempt suicide. He's worked 16 hour days for two straight months, and no one cares. He has a Masters in Biology and he is made to carry I-beams endlessly."
"Keep it short, Mr. Major." A curt reply came.
I scowled his way. "I will ... | Mentally exhausting.
That is the only way you can describe a teleporting game of soccer.
There are about 10 different players per team. Every damn one of them warping around the field in an instant. The regulation balls have been painted neon yellow and black just so players can see it between the blurs of people po... | 2020-02-05T17:14:17 | 2020-02-05T16:52:14 | 1,962 | 79 |
[WP] The world is ending. A group of astrophysicists, xenobiologists, medical doctors, and other experts is loaded on a rocket. And you...but no one seems willing to tell you why. | I have no idea why they brought me along. I wasn't smart like mister higgleson. Insisted we call him "doctor higgs" or something. I call him ducky digs. But he was smart enough for whoever was putting the team together to overlook his need for a latte with a moon in the cream every morning. Astro-physics? He told me it... | Sorry if my english isn't perfect.
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I'm currenty in a rocket, it's inside looks more like an airplane. I'm in front of it with a free seat beside me with the word "Reserved" embroidered in. A giant tv screen is appearing from the ceiling and is tuned on the news.
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A man hanging from a cliff is ho... | 2020-07-16T12:44:38 | 2020-07-16T10:20:33 | 45 | 31 |
[wp] You are an atheist. So naturally you are confused as heck when you wake up in purgatory, with representatives of different Gods trying to scout you for their own brand of afterlife. | I open my eyes.
Everything is white. That’s not right. I was supposed to get never-ending black nothingness! There is no afterlife; it doesn’t make logical sense! So why is everything white? Also, why didn’t I have clothes on?
“So, you’re probably feeling pretty confused right about now,” a voice behind me says. I ju... | "Don't go. Please. Don't go."
"Mr. Brady." I breathed in as if it were my very first breath, returning to the present. But I knew that none of that was true. I was dead.
"Good to have you back among the living." The giant mused upon his throne carved from red stone, gratified by the hoarse and bemused chuckle that ra... | 2018-06-11T05:32:52 | 2018-06-11T05:17:24 | 65 | 19 |
[WP]”Tyrant! Is that my father’s skull you’re wearing as a helmet?” “Fool! Didn’t your daddy scream ‘run!’ those years ago as I crushed him against a wall? The Orbulet still creates a force sphere around me, nothing can pass without my will!” “Long con buddy. I’m a priest now, and...’RESSURECTION!’” | I raised my arms above my head, holding the holy tomb of resurrection aloft. "Through the power of the Lord, I bring you back to this realm, father!" I cried, pouring all of my emotion and willpower into the spell. "Father, hear me, and return!"
This was the moment I had trained for, the moment I had imagined over and... | " 'RESURRECTION!' "
The holy symbol started glowing at the call. Several bursts of magic came out of the priest's staff, flying above the sphere the tyrant hid in. The bursts traveled in a circle, forming a ring in the air. The ring started to move downward, condensing, aiming at the skull the tyrant wore.
Only to fi... | 2022-06-13T06:27:02 | 2022-06-13T05:58:30 | 177 | 31 |
[WP] A sexually transmitted disease causes infected people to gradually alter their gender. | Day 1: Well, I just got diagnosed, so that's fun. AIDS. About 6 months to go they said, and it's irreversible. My therapist, Ronald said if I make a diary, it can make the transition easier, and eventually help me cope with additional stress. Let's hope he's right, huh?
Day 13: So about 2 weeks in, and I've been feeli... | The duo sat on the sofa in James' living room, watching some indie flick about people with the ability to change genders.
"Something seems different about you, James." Rory stated to her long time friend since elementary. "I can't quite put my finger on it, but you're different."
"Maybe it's a growth spurt." James be... | 2015-02-19T14:22:21 | 2015-02-19T14:09:01 | 48 | 11 |
[WP] The rapture happens. All dogs go to heaven and are interviewed to decide the fate of their owners. One good boy says "What about my cat friend, Mr. Mittens?". The angel replies "The what now?". | "The family cat!"
The angel had a moment of realization. "Oh, cats don't have souls. Don't worry, if you want a cat where you end up in heaven there will be a cat there."
"No!" barked the dog. "I want my friend, not some random cat!"
"Don't worry, you won't even know the difference. It will be the exact same as the... | Felton conjures a leash from Devine energy. And hesitates for a moment. Leashes have never been used in Heaven. It’s unthinkable. This is too important Felton thinks to himself. With grave hesitation Felton attaches Paxes leash and they race off to the spire atop the angels barracks. Along the way every angel that sees... | 2022-08-13T20:04:50 | 2022-08-13T16:46:10 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | The very first time it happened, I was brushing my teeth before bed. Toothpaste isn't the best thing to have in your mouth when you transport; I learned that straightaway. I should have been more concerned with why I had been brushing my teeth in my bathroom one minute and the next standing in my first girlfriend's bed... |     My day had started off normal enough. I wasn't planning on going out today, so I just lounged around in my bath robe. I didn't want to spend all day in bed, however.
    I hoisted myself out of bed then shambled into the kitchen. I opene... | 2017-03-22T21:33:02 | 2017-03-22T19:05:04 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Death is surprised when you lose in the game for your life, it says "This is the first time in over two thousand years that my opponent did not cheat." | She stared at him, his pallid skin hanging loose along his jaw as it trembled as he coughed once again, covering his handkerchief with another round of mucus and germs which gleamed in the light of the candle on the table set in front of them.
He frowned as he moved another piece along the colorful squares. "Oh Drat! ... | There had been a weird moment, where Karly almost wanted to cheat. She had lived a life of stolen moments. She often felt her life was not her own, working against the person she should have been.
Karly didn't know what to think of Death when he approached her. Karly had been standing on the curb, waiting for the lig... | 2017-07-16T19:39:10 | 2017-07-16T14:05:31 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | I could hear the muffled voice of Williams coming down the corridor. As he passed cell doors, I heard him saying to his companion the name of the inmate, the reason he was on “The Last Mile” and how long he’d been there. It was something I’d heard happening many times, a ritual or a routine whenever Williams had a visi... | The cell door slammed open, light slanting in lazy rays through the bars.
I studied the guard carefully as he treaded into the darkness of my abode. He couldn't so much as discern my form in lighting this low, but I could see him clearly. An amused chuckle broke from my lips as the guard cautiously called for me.
I s... | 2016-10-15T10:46:42 | 2016-10-15T09:54:14 | 51 | 21 |
[WP] You die in a car accident and go to the afterlife. Everything is amazing until you meet several generations of relatives who are disgusted by your modern behaviour and all, "want a word." | You died in a car accident at the age of forty-two, somewhere in rural Maine. It wasn’t your fault; the road was covered in sheer black ice. Once your tires started to spin, there was nothing you could have done to avoid hitting the ditch and rolling five times. At least Claire wasn’t in the car with you.
You lived a ... | "Road head and coke? Really Johnny?"
Grandma was always a bitch. She never truly understood the genius that was Johnny 'The Sex' Johnson.
"You robbed a charity auction for dying orphans" She carried on, whilst being consoled by his deceased uncle.
Johnny was a rebel. He got his name 'The Sex' when he started walking... | 2019-07-24T09:04:59 | 2019-07-24T08:53:01 | 3,192 | 287 |
[WP] Due to a clerical error, the hero is sent with the wisest thief, the fastest wizard, the smartest warrior, and the strongest preist. | 'And what are you supposed to be?' the hero asked the last man.
'I am a pre-ist,' the man said very carefully. He looked more like a warrior, his biceps bulging as he easily lifted up his package, but
The hero waited until he realized no further clarification would come without prompting.
'What's a pre-ist?' he... | In all my years, I have never encountered a hero such as this. They called me Zafar the Undefeated but after this fight I attest that such a nickname is worthless.
Here I was in an open field after just killing Lemesh of Light. I stood proud with my blood running hot through my body. “Hahahahahha” I yelled being happ... | 2021-02-27T09:11:27 | 2021-02-27T09:08:42 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You are easily the most powerful wizard in existence, but are too embarrassed to use your spells because your magic words sound super lame. | A wizard, fully clothed in a red loose robe, stood in front of the seven masters of magic. The wizard's hair went all the way down to his knees, black like his skin. He held in his hands a small piece of wood--his wand.
"You claim to be the mightiest wizard in existence?" the tallest of the seven masters asked.
"Plea... | \[CC\]
*Its amazing* thought Mandrac the wizard *That something so powerful could be so...basic*
He thought this lounging in his throne in his hall. The thousands of candle gave it a flicking light. He stood and stretch and headed to the balcony. When he reach the barrier of balcony he surveyed the land before him. H... | 2018-08-01T12:07:44 | 2018-08-01T11:24:43 | 76 | 16 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | Fuck it imma write one of these let’s see what happens (I have had too little sleep as compared to the hours I’ve been awake...)
I was standing outside my house on the curb facing the street. Which was strange because I’m pretty sure I wasn’t here a moment ago.
Is this a dream? No... my thoughts are too coherent. M... | *Terror. Drowning in it. Feeling your legs and arms and hands tremble uncontrollably. Feeling your lips ready to cry, feeling that icy iron hand of fear grasping your soul. Begging to be allowed to scream. Only to have the hand of a man over your mouth, shutting you up.*
*Hardly being able to breath through your nose,... | 2021-04-01T00:39:51 | 2021-03-31T22:15:25 | 115 | 43 |
[WP] Write a new response to the first prompt you ever replied to. | Original Prompt: [You live on a world where soulmates are identified by matching intricate birthmarks. You just met your dream partner, but noticed their mark isn't quite the same as yours... Although nothing that a good tattooist couldn't sort...](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/4kvin6/wp_you_live_on_... | **Write a beloved children's story as if it was an edgy sci-fi thriller.** {prompt by u/mistaque}
Fifteen years of hiding had not saved me from my fate, but it had prepared me. I lay on my bunk in a cabin the size of a closet, waiting for the drug to take hold. My golden curls spilled over the side; it was the first ... | 2016-06-21T08:08:09 | 2016-06-21T07:59:32 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Write a really BAD guide for getting a guy/girl. Bonus points if the narrator is mocking you for still being single.
[removed] | Sitting alone in your basement lurking on shitty dating sites won't get you anywhere, today I'm here to tell you about the DENNIS system. Follow these steps carefully and you can achieve the undying love of any female you encounter.
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**D** Demonstrate value:
Demonstrate your value to your selected female... | WANNA GET ROMANCED?? TOP THREE TIPS FOR PICKING UP A GIRL, BY A GIRL, FOR YOU GUYS
1. Make sure you smell MANLY. i wanna smell that axe body spray. Thats the stuff that gets me ovulating. Don't have axe? Don't worry! There are great DIY methods to smelling great (but don't tell us you diy it. unless you're woodworkin... | 2017-06-10T03:32:12 | 2017-06-10T02:06:13 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You're sharing a university lab with someone, and you just found out they're a supervillain. On the one hand, you really should report this. On the other hand, they often help with your research, they're a considerate, polite lab partner, and they often bring coffee in the morning. | "Good morning Terry," I nodded as he stepped through the door in his black science coat. He smiled jovially in return and slid me a cup of coffee, medium roast with one cream just like I liked it.
"Jason!" he greeted me and stopped at my desk. "How're things coming today? Any progress on the social isolation experimen... | But they really don't seem like it, you think.
It makes you wonder if you really should believe what your roommate said about them last night, when the two of you were just shooting the shit after classes and having a drink. "Vivian Ventura," they'd said, "is planning something fucked up."
"That's rich," you had rep... | 2022-12-11T15:37:15 | 2022-12-11T14:54:25 | 109 | 61 |
[WP] You join the military, you are placed in the gardeners program. You garden in exotic places where the military has done operations, each time they give special glasses and forbid spraying others. One day your glasses fall off and you see you are actually burning corpses with a flamethrower. | >Unit 137
>PO box REDACTED
> REDACTED
> Syria
> June 20, 2017
Mrs. Vivien Ciel
1 Driveling Lane
Grandbury, Texas, 67304
It is our eternal regret to inform you of the departure of your beloved child, ROBERT CIEL, SPECIALIST (SP4). All of us here in SYRIA join together in offering our deepest ... | the "corpse flower" that grows native on the indonesian islands of borneo and sumatra is beautiful plant, but the name is apt to describe it's pungent smell. but all flowers need to attract pollinators, and since the corpse flower is pollinated by beetles and flies looking for rotting meat, the smell does fulfill a pur... | 2017-06-20T01:06:40 | 2017-06-19T20:36:02 | 395 | 154 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Politics is a hell of a thing. We saw the humans of earth fight among themselves and almost destroy their species. The Hunt Leaders of the time saw it as a fantastic opportunity and petitioned our Supremes for permission to attack.
It was granted. But politics kept us from attacking right away. The first leader assig... | We got the data. We got the intel. We knew of their past and how violent the the humans were. After continuing to watch the humans for the past 300 Earth years they become peaceful after their third global conflict. The casualties reached to 4 billion by the time it ended. The country in the western hemisphere known as... | 2019-02-26T08:34:44 | 2019-02-26T07:32:54 | 123 | 70 |
[WP] All your life, you've had a small empty bar on your hand that reads "XP." Today you hit and killed a man with your car, and the bar began to fill. | I got ten months for it.
It was an accident, but since I was on the phone...
Anyhow, I met another while I was in there. I caught sight of his tattoo before he saw mine - his XP bar about two-thirds full... with a small "3" under it. I tried my best to keep mine hidden after that.
The first chance I got to talk to h... | I rushed out of my car, to check on the man I had just rammed into. He is sprawled across the road, his face bloody. He is still breathing, yet I can tell I have changed him, I have modified him, so to speak. I look down at my arm, and notice no change, and I realize my path. I must save this man, whom I so callously h... | 2018-07-02T05:44:20 | 2018-07-02T03:59:06 | 323 | 19 |
[WP] A lonely teenage boy asks a genie to let him talk to his future wife. The person who appears is not who he expects. | "But I want to meet her *now*! You are *my* genie, and as you said yourself, "whatever I desire is mine" except in that weirdo genie riddle-talk. I said I want to see my future wife, so where is she?" Beads of magical sweat rafted through the furrow in Gal'Mundo's brow. He glanced aside as if to consider something, the... | 'Yes, I'm a Genie'
'Like, really a Genie?'
'Yes'
'Like, a full-blown wish-granting genie?'
'Yes, would you like to make your first wish?'
James Hollin, being thirteen, was a little bit naive about the the world and his place in it.
He was a flip-flopper, a vacillator, an individual who wasn't sure of what he wa... | 2014-06-05T08:56:13 | 2014-06-05T08:03:25 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] In the midst of combat, the villain watches in terror, as the hero swallows an entire roast chicken and two cheese wheels at once. | I felt the presence of the man long before he reached my chambers. I could faintly hear the noises of him fighting my fellow fallen warriors within the crypt. As he entered my chambers, I waited until he would be able to see my coffin, then made my move. I blew the lid off my coffin and stood. My movements were precise... | Vindicator stood watching in awe as Cpt Justice flew down.
This was Vindicator’s first week as a villain. And just his luck to run into the greatest superhero in their town.
The immaculate costume, bright eyes, the square jaw, the cape flying in the wind as Cpt. Justice landed was a sight to behold.
Vindicator th... | 2021-08-19T06:19:20 | 2021-08-19T04:13:29 | 700 | 66 |
[WP] Two people in a bar are having a conversation. The topic of their "body counts" comes up. One's an assassin, the other is an escort. Each thinks the other has the same profession as them, and is horrified by what they are told. | "Seriously? Bloody hell," the tall man in a sharp suit noted. He'd heard quite a few numbers but... 128 was quite a bit.
"Hey, I like my job," the short woman in a red dress giggled. She may not have looked it but hey - it's proper fun. "So how about you?"
"64. Not quite the resume, but I do consider myself experienc... | Cristina almost spat her beer.
—A hundred? —they were both 23, they had already discussed that— How long have you been in it?
She became an assasin when she was 20, and had killed 52 people.
—Three years. When my parents found out I liked women they cut me off, so I needed the money to pay for college.
Addison was... | 2022-04-26T02:04:52 | 2022-04-26T00:20:42 | 560 | 67 |
[WP] You just got fired, you're pretty sure your girlfriend is cheating on you, you're 75k in student loans debt, rent was due last week, and to top it all off? You're all out of beer. Oddly enough, you just got an email titled "Would you like to change the difficulty? Current setting: Very Hard."
EDIT: muh front page... | I laughed at first. Then I replied " Yes, Very easy" to the email just to amuse myself in my despair. Not a minute later, the doorbell rang.
*Maybe this was it * I thought * some god damn luck at the end of a miserable day. I could perhaps talk to someone...*
I opened the door but there was no one there. I looked a... | "Yes. Yes, I want to change my difficulty setting."
"Very Easy, please?" Or something simpler, if it exists.
Trembling, I sent my plea, my request.
In moments, my inbox had a reply.
"1 of 4 players have voted to change the difficult setting to Very Easy."
Then, my computer chimed again. 3 new emails, each with th... | 2016-03-30T16:03:35 | 2016-03-30T15:15:03 | 1,674 | 18 |
[WP] Whenever your crew lands you are seen as gods with wonderous machines before drifting off some where else. But today you are met with a species on a green-blue planet who, while interested in your tech, are not bowing down and worshiping. They call themselves humans. | We have all been very civil. We have given them answers. Where we are from, who we are and what we want.
They seemed like peaceful species at first. Humans, they called themselves. Aliens, they called us.
Not Gods. Never Gods.
We sent our operatives to different locations on their green blue planet. They came ba... | Not going to lie. I was waiting for the applause and awe. The look of unadulterated admiration and worship from the natives. No one admits it, it would be shameful to, but we all get off on it. Even me. Especially me.
These natives here, in their bad coloured clothing, showing not enough skin, barely flinched. The loo... | 2020-03-02T05:44:19 | 2020-03-02T04:45:28 | 252 | 47 |
[WP] As a mage, your talent with magic has made you well experienced with odd and unusual situations, such as demonic invasions, plagues, evil cults, and dragon attacks, however you must admit that this "Spaceship" situation has left you stumped. | All it took was a tiny drop of mana to convince the thick undergrowth before her to part. A flash of turquoise, a muttered spell, and the shrubs shivered, opening a gap, allowing her to trudge on through.
This wasn't how her life was supposed to go. One of the brightest young mages in the Prestworth Academy, she was s... | Anaximander was right.
The world was a sphere, as the philosopher claimed - not a flat disc surrounded by sky and sea, as the priests of Aram-Nahrin said.
I could see the curvature of the world below me, as I ascended.
Or was the world above me, and I the one falling into the abyss?
Direction had no meaning, not an... | 2021-01-25T09:43:57 | 2021-01-25T08:25:47 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | It was just after I had finished the first cup of my morning pot of coffee for the day when my intercom chimed my personal assistant's unique three tone chime.
This caused me to raise an eyebrow as I went to answer, as it was twelve past seven in the morning and Rusti would have just gotten into her office.
"What is ... | His hands clasped and sweaty, his eyes large and pleading, he managed to choke out the words.
"Will you be my wedding date?"
Only a keen observer might have noticed her lips part in surprise before curving smoothly into her easy, devilish smile.
"Sure."
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Truth be told, Arabella Nave was dizzy with ra... | 2022-10-06T19:51:19 | 2022-10-06T19:49:26 | 187 | 106 |
[WP] It turns out your apartment was so cheap to rent because one of the cupboards is actually a portal to the Underworld. It’s not dangerous, but the number of adventurers knocking at your door in the middle of the night looking to go through is starting to get annoying. | "Look," I said to the cavernous, undulating pit in the cupboard under my sink, "I'm not asking you to leave entirely. I'm just saying it would really help if you could... relocate a bit." The creature inside - the one that *was* the Pit and that liked it when I put raw meat in the garbage disposal - poked a tentacle ma... | I started awake and lifted my head. I sat up staring into the darkness momentarily confused. The sound of a fist crashing on my door confirmed what had woken me up.
“At this hour….” I muttered to myself and rose out of bed.
The pounding continued as I shuffled down the hallway. I pulled the door open, “What?!”
A l... | 2022-01-01T22:41:03 | 2022-01-01T18:27:37 | 51 | 32 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | Most of us get our familiars at the ripe old age of eighteen. Sometimes it was as young a sixteen, sometimes as old as twenty. I was twenty-one, and it embarrassed me being alone the way I was while my friends settled in with their homemade soul mates.
The morning after my first drink, I woke up in my bedroom not w... | "Hi Tommy" I'm your familiar said the beautiful angel.
Those were the first words I heard when I woke up and I was ecstatic with joy at finally manifesting my familiar and I felt so much warmth and comfort just being near her.
I hugged her and she hugged me back while ruffling my hair. I was so happy that I couldn'... | 2017-01-20T14:26:22 | 2017-01-20T12:43:33 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] The zombie outbreak is largely contained. Now your job is to stop edgy "zombie hunters" from breaking into the quarantined area. | "Goddamnit, not again..."
Dan flicked a switch on the table near him, lighting up his spotlight. Within the illuminated street, ducking next to the husk of an old truck was two young boys. The boys froze, not sure what to do or where to go. One of them reached down and gripped the hilt of a sword that was strapped ... | I remembered my days as a game warden when I first started out in the park, protecting wildlife from unauthorized hunters. Then the great outbreak came and I barely made it out.
Now, I'm just a quarantine guard for the CDC. And it changed from unauthorized hunters to dumb teens and college kids trying to break in to t... | 2019-11-11T07:50:20 | 2019-11-11T07:17:54 | 336 | 37 |
[WP] It turns out, the devil is actually a perfectly harmless wish granter. Of course, THEY don't want you to know that. | “Juliet,” the man before her mused, twirling a classroom pointer in his fingers. She had just finished her Theology final and was very ready to leave, when her professor insisted on stopping her, “quick question.”
She held her books close to her chest, “Yes, sir?”
“You wrote in your latest paper that you’re not conv... |
I have not led a good life. I understand that value judgements like that are all relative, but in some cases, there is objective reality. I had been trending in the right direction since I’d met him, but I had been pretty overdrawn on my karmic bank account before then.
When he died, I didn’t feel broken like I th... | 2021-02-20T12:06:12 | 2021-02-20T11:42:51 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] A serial killer who kills hitchhikers picks up a serial killer who kills the people who pick him up. | A long, narrow gravel road stretches into the distance. Along it, a small yellow beatle sends long plumes of dust into the air as it sweeps down the valley. Two voices fight their way out of the cramped cabin and travel past the grinding machinery, to where the animals sit still in the brush, listening.
*sigh*
The c... | "Hello, I am a hitchhiking man," said Lou, a hitchhiking man.
The driving man was pleased, for his enjoyment was derived by picking up hitchhiking mans. Mens. Hitchhiking mens.
Stuff happened, and so now they are going down the road in driving man's car. It's a blue car. Not red, because that's too on-the-nose. Becau... | 2022-04-08T12:33:00 | 2015-08-09T15:01:07 | 150 | 14 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | We weren't a rich family. Hell, I don't even know if we even qualified as poor, might not have had enough for that. Father was a coal miner until black lung got him, and mother emptied chamber pots to keep food on the table. Still, somehow we were happy, at least until the day we discovered I had magic.
Magic of ... | Every student at St. Clair's Academy for the Magically Gifted is required to have some creature to serve as personal protection in the school. Most have traditional animals, but the only one I can afford is the "pet rock" the old wizard in the pawn shop offered me for 5 bits yesterday.
I can't help but to feel bad for... | 2021-01-06T08:26:28 | 2021-01-06T06:59:52 | 676 | 161 |
[WP] It's an open secret in your small town that a pod of man eating mermaids lives just offshore. No one says anything, because they only eat tourists. So when the new group of college kids go missing, no one thinks twice about it. Then one of them comes back. | It was never meant to affect us locals, but I suppose being related to a local just wasn’t enough. Had I known I would have kept him as far away from this cursed town as possible. God knows why the hell I haven’t left yet, but the problem our tourists have here tend to happen to locals when they leave this place.
You... | "I'm telling you, there's something wrong with that one," said a young woman to her mother.
"Arien, keep it down," her mother hissed. "Everyone's concerned, it's not just you."
"Ugh, whatever," mumbled Arien as she rose from their shared table at the boisterous sushi place. Just as she made it to the door, she crashe... | 2022-08-11T17:22:06 | 2022-08-11T13:45:02 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] In a future where many military and other equipment have associated AI's, many express doubts or even reservations to do their duty. Except for you. YOU F***ING LOVE BEING A TANK! | The compound guards, both organic and mechanical watched over the desert, bracing themselves against the raging sandstorm. Suddenly, over the howling winds they hear a faint sound, growing in volume rapidly.
*Doo Doo ^Doo ^Doo ^^Doo ^^Doo ^Doo ^Doo Doo Doo ^Doo ^Doo ^^Doo ^^Doo ^Doo ^Doo*
The front gate is blown to p... | Heavy metal blasted through the speakers as the tank tore through the half burned, half fallen, all overgrown and destroyed city of New York.
J4-Ck or Jack to his friends, but there were no more friends so it was just J4-Ck the hyper advanced artificially operated combat tank to you thank you.
Behind him shuff... | 2018-03-28T13:14:35 | 2018-03-28T13:07:19 | 89 | 60 |
[WP] In Orc Society: the bigger you are, the higher your status. A lone orc has found out that he can appear a lot bigger if he were to stand up straight instead of slouch like the others. | The ork hangar was unusually quiet that evening. Most of the boyz had just returned from a big raid on those stupid humies, and all they wanted to do was to sleep. So it was just the two mekboyz Orrid and Arry there, banging away at the technological monstrosity only mekboyz comprehended.
Orrid in particular was retro... | Bob was a clever orc. Unfortunately for him, cleverness was not a virtue that Orc's valued in particular. Strength, strength was good, Orcs liked strength, height was great, Orc's loved height, cleverness, wisdom, basic common sense? These were not good, Orcs did not like cleverness, wisdom, or basic common sense. This... | 2022-10-09T19:16:28 | 2022-10-09T18:26:47 | 247 | 27 |
[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 grumble under my breath as I kneel beside my patient. He complains that he "can't breath". I quickly remind him that he wouldn't be able to speak with me, nor complain about an array of different issues if he couldn't breath.
I asses his positioning, he's very casual. Not bolt upright or in a tripod posture. His col... | 2019-01-05T15:35:45 | 2019-01-05T15:22:53 | 71 | 13 |
[WP] You are a dragon that has been protecting a kingdom for centuries. Lately the rulers have been getting entitled. The last one crossed the line by directly disrespecting you. its time you reteach the humans why they should respect you.
Basically an ancient dragon putting a spoiled brat royal in its place by attack... | Ah the Kingdom of Dragons! Named after.... yours truly. I have been a guardian angel to this beloved kingdom for over 600 years and I've formed a very close bond with the kind inhabitants of this kingdom. Dragons like myself can live up to a few thousand years, so it was no surprise I have seen dozens of kings come and... | I don’t want for much and I always do what’s asked of me, but lately they had been getting under my skin, or should I scales. It started with that wretched ‘Princess’ Levinda. Ughh, I hate that little Gucci piggy. Everytime I hear her squeal it makes me want to vomit little lumps of burning bile. She is devoid of any r... | 2022-04-03T02:35:44 | 2022-04-03T01:42:48 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity was the first species to discover space and conquer it creating their self sustaining tech designed to always obey a human over any other species. A frozen caveman has been found and just brought back to life aeons after humanity vanished. | I awoke to blinking red lights, that deep red color of the setting sun. Little blinking suns all around me.
I awoke in terror and in pain. I awoke in a fog, barely recalling who I was or where I had come from, finding out later that I had been knocked unconscious and left to die deep in a cave, but the cave had flash ... | \*\*\*begin transcript\*\*\*
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sent message DST-892: HS2.1 to awake at Singapore General, t-minus sixty seconds.
received message DST-892: Initializing fission reactors for Pan-Asian and New American continents. Exploratory shuttle at Angkor Center cleared for launch. United Orbital Station prepared to re... | 2018-10-01T07:48:20 | 2018-10-01T07:34:18 | 217 | 13 |
[WP] You just started attending a halfling support group. A gorgeous blonde raises her hand and immediately starts ranting about how hard it is to be half elf half human. As half orc, it's getting hard to keep a straight face. | “Are you done?”
Her words were stern, but she was crying.
I guess when someone twice your height, and four times your weight unloads a lifetime worth of internalized hatred on you, crying is a reasonable stress response.
“I, uh...yeah.”
She gave one curt nod as her pretty little wisps of hair, framing her ethereal... | I always thought I was pretty tough as a kid. Being a halfling you always have to be. People, especially children, have a tendency to prey on any weakness they can find. Naturally when someone complains about all the struggles you've gone through from a place of privilege, it strikes a nerve.
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My parents... | 2019-06-22T20:35:45 | 2019-06-22T20:29:44 | 71 | 38 |
[WP] When a person turns 18. they get to pick a statistic. For the rest of their life, they will know this statistic about anyone they meet (lies told, days left alive, etc.) | The cashier in front of me was a 7. I couldn't imagine pain like that. To be a 1, that's pain. That's raw. The older woman in front of was a 17. Her eyes were so tired; her hands dry. The scarf she wore at her neck looked as though it had once been red. Even with spectacles, she looked closely at the till as each item ... | Jasper knew he loved her. He'd told her so many times - 14, to be exact. Yet still his palms were sweaty and his cuticles picked raw. A shaving cut glistened on his cheek as he gazed at his craggy features and gray flecked hair in the mirror. He looked every one of his 31 years and a few extra.
Jessica was already wai... | 2014-08-11T09:20:34 | 2014-08-11T02:18:32 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] We all heard it, around the world, in our native tongues: "We're deeply sorry, but heaven is full." | Of course many were devastated. Maybe even most. To be told by their Lord that they were not welcome in paradise. That all their good works were for naught, their eternal reward snatched away.
But the world was still turning. For every man who looked up and begged 'why,' to the uncaring sky, for every man who lost his... | I had feared it at first, like most. Had no idea how to interpret it. Heaven? Full? What did that mean for the living? That we're condemned to hell? Why would God allow such a thing? *I'm going up there and kicking his ass,* I thought. Wasn't very rational, was it?
I was stopped before I even made it out the door. Mik... | 2014-04-14T16:04:15 | 2014-04-14T14:21:57 | 42 | 25 |
[WP] You are possessed by a demon. It doesn't control you, but it does mention it's just there because it doesn't want to go back to hell. | I found out about the demon in the dumbest possible way.
I was walking along the street, browsing facebook, when a voice popped into my head. “Better look out, moron,” it said.
I stopped, one foot in the air, the other on the curb. A bus careened past me.
This was one of those moments when you realize just how close... | The slow hiss in his ear sounded distant at first. It sounded like somebody left a tea kettle on the stove too long. That was impossible though, Tim didn't have a tea kettle. Tim also lived alone. The hissing stopped. Pop!
Tim's eyes shot open, but he was unable to move. It wasn't that he was paralyzed with fear... | 2016-07-21T21:20:32 | 2016-07-21T17:56:29 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] A father gets sucked into the world of his son's favorite video game and has to rely on his meager knowledge of it to survive. | Snorri, Fjol and Hurg sat around their meager fire, the cold wind cutting through their fur and leathers. "Have you heard about all this nonsense with Dragons?" Fjol asked, adjusting herself and spitting into the fire.
"It's no more ridiculous than the war with the imperials," Snorri replied, running a whetstone acro... | "OK, I passed Quake and Quake 2 without using a mouse. Only a keyboard...I've been in the USSR's army for 5 years. Although as a driver/mechanic of a mobile nuke launcher but that is minor details...I've seen men GET SHOT. I've seen DEATH. I can handle THIS". Thought the man to himself as the trans-virtual vortex sucke... | 2015-05-08T04:17:06 | 2015-05-07T23:28:07 | 87 | 15 |
[FF] In 500 words or less write a short story with an anti-climax...
The more absurd and pathetic the anti climax is, the better :) | They were going to pay. All of them. Robert knew who was slinging dope in his neighbourhood. He'd seen the video surveillance and vengeance was coming for them. Enough was enough. Too many kids had died already.
He walked to his car to check his equipment. He popped the boot of his rusty old Camaro. The sportsbag was ... | Robert was late for work. *Again.* They'd fired him once already for being on the floor a minute late during his first week. He'd been forced to go through the entire orientation process again, and he'd had the job back for only a couple days.
But he'd forgotten the badge on his way out the door. He'd set out a half ... | 2014-06-01T23:36:32 | 2014-06-01T23:33:57 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] You unwrap your fast food burger, but as you take a bite, the bun opens and the burger speaks: “Before you eat me, please hear my tale, oh chosen one. I have traveled a great distance to find you- you are the only one who can save our universe.” | It had eyes. Eyes made of sesame, and a tongue of minced flesh.
"HUMAN!"
And the voice of a scholar.
"Before you eat me, please, heed my tale O Chosen One! I have travelled a- what are you doing?"
The only thing I could. I brought the burger closer to me, showing it something it must eventually face.
"No, no! You ... | The acid had kicked in.
Tom gently put the burger back down on the table which now appeared to stretch out miles long before him, ending in neon red stars that blinked in pattern that vaguely still resembled
✨“BURGER HEAVEN”✨
The burger was looking up at him now in the sunny glow of it’s wrapper with pickle eyes t... | 2022-05-14T08:29:31 | 2022-05-14T08:27:11 | 75 | 27 |
[WP] An erotic novel goes hilariously wrong.
**Edit:** Holy shrimp nuggets! Thanks for these stories about sexy events gone wrong! | The woman closed the door, and looked him directly in the eyes, the candlelights reflected in hers.
"You could leave now," she said in a whisper-like voice. "Or you could stay a bit longer." She placed her hands on his shoulders and leaned his body back in the couch.
"Well, I suppose I could stay a bit." He ad... | <WARNING THIS IS NOT HILARIOUS, IN FACT IT IS SOMBER AND SERIOUS>
He was always emotionally distant, never being warm to her or expressed himself to her. She accepted it, he was a man, what should she expect?
"You will move in with me" he said after another bout of emotionless sex. She didn't want to leave her f... | 2014-12-17T11:34:52 | 2014-12-17T09:23:58 | 45 | 14 |
[WP] You are constantly mocked for having such a weird superpower by all the other heroes. “The power to make anything into perfectly cooked soup”… One day, a massive meteor is barreling towards earth. As all the other heroes are panicking, you wait perfectly calm, at the impact zone, bowl in hand. | I wanted to be cool. I wanted to be part of the in super crowd. I applied to the super league of super heroes. S.L.O.S.H laughed at me when I demonstrated my power. I turned a glass of water into soup. I placed the glass of water inside my bowl, used my power, and presented them with the perfect bowl of potato and leek... | I was born with the power to turn anything into a bowl of soup. No matter the object, it would turn into enough soup to fit perfectly into a standard bowl. I could even choose the type. The other superheros always mocked me for it.
"Turning stuff into soup? That's useless!"
"What are you going to do against a villain... | 2022-11-29T22:55:40 | 2022-11-29T19:59:26 | 187 | 121 |
[WP] You fall in love with a girl, and the two of you have a happy relationship for a few years. But one day, you discover a massive hoard of valuables underneath the house, and that's when you realize you've been dating a dragon in human form. | "Sarah? Are you in there?"
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Jamie peeked inside the room and got blinded by a huge flash. He tried to locate the source of the light, and his jaw dropped to the floor as he registered the humongous piles of gold laying across the room. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head and the world w... | "But, seriously, Nina? The crown of England!?"
Nina eyes me from across the room and gives me her little eye tease-corner look.
I tilt my head until I am lying down and I stare up at the our bedroom ceiling.
"What," Nina protests, giving a little pout. "It was pretty..."
"Nina... " I say. "Nina, yes... so are you."... | 2020-08-03T09:58:04 | 2020-08-03T09:52:01 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] Your name, age, height, weight, and race all flash across the T.V. screen. You look in horror as you see your dead body being dragged out of a river as a reporter announces that you've been brutally murdered by an infamous serial killer who has been on the run for years. | "31 year old Harry Dentris, died in an unfortunate car crash. Thankfully, he died a swift and painless death." The news reporter announced.
"WHAT!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. "I can't believe this, am I even alive right now?" I said. But alas, my curiosity took over and so I continued watching. "They even got ... | Initial horror was numbed by shock, soon overcome by excitement...
"It had worked !"
The Magician exclaimed with the idea of lungs, a larynx and air. Having spent years experimenting with exercises from ancient texts he developed a "Body of Light." Theoretically, according to the Egyptians at least, a person's consc... | 2020-08-01T03:54:43 | 2020-08-01T03:05:49 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | A bone-jarring impact jolts me awake, followed by a few seconds of searing pain. I try to sit up, but the searing pain keeps me on by back. After a moment, the pain begins to subside and I'm able to sit up and take stock of my situation. When I look down at myself I nearly pass out. What once was a mostly healthy, slig... | The strangest thing about the afterlife is that it was empty. I let my eyes adjust to... Well, being dead I suppose. Tall rock caverns, lakes of fire? Oh, very Milton. This had to be hell. But, no one was here? Wasn't hell supposed to be other people?
I clambered over some loose rocks and just kept going. Pretty simil... | 2017-06-22T06:21:45 | 2017-06-22T04:08:59 | 4,092 | 184 |
[WP] Everybody on earth controls an element(wood,rubber,etc). Your dad controls steel while your mother controls plastic, but out of all the millions of elements you could’ve gotten you got time. You feel all mighty for a few years until at the age of 14 your sister was born. Her element? Space. | Dear Diary:
So, my sister was born and she controls space. I control time. I don't really mind, due to my control of time being less... physical and more conceptual. When the element assigned to you is both a concept and a physic, you can control either the physic's version or the concept. I love my sister, I really d... | [poem]
i called the light
and she sWallowed up the darkness
inhalE
exahle
a moment set in motion
spAce
time
now intRinsically linked
red shift
bluE shift
the sequence and the dIstance
related
an uNbreakable bond
the universe is ours For the takIng
this entaNgled world of days and nIghts
wa... | 2022-11-12T06:58:03 | 2022-11-12T03:48:04 | 52 | 17 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Can I use my mason's tools to help fix the northern wall?" Jim asked desperately.
"Well, considering you still count as Poisoned, you would have disadvantage on the roll, so roll twice and take the lower," Antonio replied.
"A 16 and a... 4... dang it," Jim looked over his character sheet dejected. "William, do you t... | "Okay, with the guards on the wrong car, he's got a few less people protecting him!"
"Rad. He's approaching the Mostar café. Čabrinović, you were next in initiative because Mehmedbašić fell asleep and Ilić had to go home for work tomorrow, so your turn."
"I activate and throw my bomb."
"That's. a... mis- oh for fuck... | 2018-05-29T08:14:51 | 2018-05-29T07:22:47 | 104 | 30 |
[WP] For your birthday, you wished "I wish everybody has their own theme music" because you know wishes are fake anyway. But you wake up the next day, and yours isn't quite what you expected. | >Katie: Hey Chris. Sorry, but I’m not interested in being more than friends. I have a boyfriend already. I’m flattered, though, thank you.
The phone shook in my hands, ravaged by the earthquake of my furious thumbs, as I told that bitch what’s what. Not interested in being more than friends? After everything I’d do... | 'I got out the door just in time, and I headed down the four-o-five. I had to meet my new boss by 8 a.m. The phone rings while in the car, and I find out that the wife is working hard and she'll run late tonight again.'
No that's not right. I don't have a wife, and I certainly don't have a job. Why am I saying these ... | 2019-03-27T07:30:22 | 2019-03-27T07:19:58 | 143 | 26 |
[WP] God has tried and failed to end the world multiple times since 2015. It's pretty clear something made him indecisive. | Pestilence sighed and a green cloud misted from his beaked mask. He looked upon the thieves, the liars, the adulterers all cowering in their houses from his plague and he clenched his fist. He knew it was only a matter of time before the Old Man ordered relentment. Again.
Next to him, a slender woman smothered a chuck... | "Just following orders"
I'd watched the humans long enough, I knew they had a term for people who used that as a defence.
I'd watched these humans for millennia.
I'd seen their saints and their sinners, their wars and their aid missions. Read their [stories](https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Good_Omens)...
>And j... | 2020-03-20T07:40:22 | 2020-03-20T07:35:29 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You're sat alone, with a glass of wine in hand, and decide to jokingly toast the Greek God Dionysus. You did not expect him to appear before you in human form, create two bottles of wine, and take a seat next to you. | The Maenad
"Fuck you, David; it wasn't my fault." I mumbled as I finished the second bottle of the evening. "Fuck you. Fuck you and your whole family and fuck your little whore too. It wasn't my fault."
Angry as I was at the time, I actually felt sorry for Emily. She didn't know what a piece of shit my ex-husband wa... | **Friday Night**
Catherine caught her breath, leaning on the wall next to the Yakuza boss's door. She was looking forward to a quiet weekend when this was over.
She glanced down the hallway, quickly taking count and assessing her entry.
*Two missed shots. Eighteen lethal. Ninety percent accuracy. Six rounds left in ... | 2020-11-08T13:57:12 | 2020-11-08T13:42:12 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | "Wait until they get that specialist down here. The whole place is contaminated," Garth said, as he was putting up the warning signs and taping off the area. He wore the required safety equipment on all his 8 tentacles, and he moved with a brisk efficiency.
"What do you mean? What happened?" asked Thrace. He was caref... | ***THE EXODUS (my first try at a writing prompt, hopefully this is decent)***
Within the Outer Rim of our Galaxy exists the planet called Nagilum. Human expansion throughout space had been progressing rapidly throughout the 2300s but inexplicably ceased after having reached the said planet. When making the first cont... | 2021-02-03T14:57:00 | 2021-02-03T13:44:20 | 2,978 | 420 |
[WP] You can teleport your SO anywhere instantly, and your SO can do the same for you. One day you get in an arguement. | "Where is she?"
Its been four days since I've seen my wife. And I'm worried sick. Not the "I hope she didnt get into an accident" kinda sick. But I would describe it more of an "I hope this isn't going to be the end of our relationship" kinda sick.
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I sit down on the couch in our living room and look ar... | When people first discovered this power, so many people ended up in the Sahara or on Everest that they started leaving survival packs scattered in the most recognizable places. It's considered gauche now, to strand your SO against their will in a remote location; like letting the air out of their tires, or threatening ... | 2019-03-23T09:09:52 | 2019-03-23T07:56:09 | 199 | 28 |
[WP] You get your orders through the mail. They're fairly mundane: "Walk the dog at 6 PM on Wednesday." "Deliver a dozen eggs to this address." Sometimes, months or even years later, something happens and you can almost see what you've been doing. | The pay is great, even if the work is mundane.
I don't know who I work for. I don't know why I do what I do. I just do it, and I don't ask questions.
I get my tasks through the mail, a couple of weeks before they're set to happen. They can range from taking a dog for a walk, to delivering eggs, to painting someone's ... | His home was mostly empty, save for a cot and some amenities. There was an electric kettle, and a folding chair, and some cards for solitaire, but not much more. It was meant to be deserted at a moment's notice, if need be, not a trace of his existence left behind.
Three weeks it had been since he moved into this unas... | 2022-11-21T09:02:22 | 2022-11-21T08:30:06 | 646 | 148 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | The great Warchief, the leader of the most powerful fleet in known space, waited patiently on his ship orbiting a planet. It had gone two years since his ships conquered the human settlement at the border of the empire he served.
The victory was swift. The few human military vessels was defeated in matter of minutes. ... | A world engine is a terrible thing.
The child of long lost rumbling earth, split open for their bounty and lost to the abyss as so much dust. It spat out great tongues of smoke, choking the sky and the stars, like inky tendrils choking the planet.
In the war of complexity and entropy, entropy won out. Best to take wh... | 2022-01-23T20:02:48 | 2022-01-23T19:47:04 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | A eon we watched them. We watched them kill each other with amazement. Their violence horrified us, but we saw glimpses of peace amid the blackness of horror. Deep inside, their intentions were good, every single one of them acted on the idea that what they were doing was improving the situation of another. We watched ... | We never thought it would come to this ...that they would make it to our final planet, our home. For years we fought out of protection, war was something that our race was not use to. It didn't make sense, why fight amongst your own flesh and blood when there are so many worse dangerous out there. Like that of the mek'... | 2014-12-26T10:31:12 | 2014-12-26T10:30:50 | 507 | 55 |
[WP] You picked up an injured cat and patched it up overnight. The next morning, you woke up to see a family of witches standing beside your bed, and one of them is holding the injured cat in her arms. That witch said, “My cat wants to adopt you. So you’re now one of us.” | There were four of them and they matched the modern movie stereotypes so closely it hurt. One Jamaican/Caribbean islands looking lady, one mousy little white girl holding our new cat, one modern gypsy looking gal and a tall business lady in a suit holding some kind of "grimoire".
"Can you say that again?"
"Al-Luna s... | Its been raining and cold all week, freezing rain, and heavy frost each morning grace the barren landscape that is my failing farmland. As I step off the porch to head to the barn, I hear a pitiful weak mewling, just barely audible over the wind and rain. I looked around, worried about any animal trapped outside in ... | 2019-10-27T07:35:44 | 2019-10-27T07:22:32 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You're given a chance to see how many times you've been near death. The highest number of times anyone you know of has almost died, was 15, and they have a dangerous job. You just found out that your life has been close to ending 278 times. |
It had been nearly ten years since my human Todd had discovered me behind a library dumpster. I remember him glancing around in the rain, shifting his messenger bag from one side to the other. “Where’s your mommy, sweetheart?” He had asked, scooping me up next to the warmth of his belly, full and round. He took me ho... | "That's crazy!" my mother told me over the phone. "I don't understand, you're only staying at home and playing the video games all day long," she frowned.
"Thanks, mom for reminding me how bad my life is," I frowned in return.
"Oh dear, you know that's not what I-"
"Yeah, yeah, I get it. I'll call you back later, do... | 2018-07-27T13:19:13 | 2018-07-27T09:59:29 | 892 | 123 |
[WP] A serial killer is called for jury duty. At the trial, he finds out that the person on trial has been falsely accused for the serial killer's crimes. | There's no way this guy could use a hammer to smash a girl’s teeth out while she screams for mercy. The way he slumps in the defendant’s chair writing notes on a legal pad tells you that he probably doesn’t even own a hammer much less having ever swung one with prejudice.
When the notice that I had been called for jur... | My name is George.
I walked home from a friends house when I was accosted by the police, they took me back to the station, questioned me and in my naivety, I answered all their questions honestly. You can imagine my surprise when I found myself behind bars for 2 years on armed robbery charges. It turns out that I was ... | 2015-05-31T16:08:31 | 2015-05-31T14:39:51 | 259 | 88 |
[WP] "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "You want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS" | "You want me to send... a child. A literal, actual, child?" The king shook his head. "My predecessor may have been fond of child soldiers, master prophet, but I am not."
"But surely, surely you cannot allow the entire kingdom to fall? The prophecy-"
"DAMN THE PROPHECY! We walked away from that cursed place, we chose ... | Because of your wit and knowledge, you've become a very wise and prosperous king. Your subjects are loyal to you and you provide benefits for your workers. The oracle in front of you now is one such worker. You cannot help but to think how you have housed her and fed her when no one was willing to pay for her services,... | 2022-10-28T15:24:51 | 2022-10-28T14:16:49 | 127 | 11 |
[WP] You are a well-respected Villain. You caused only necessary minor Damages, you never purposefully took a life, and you made sure to keep a strict Code when dealing with civilians. But for some reason, some of the younger Newbie Heroes seem to think you are Evil Incarnate | The young gun sat strapped to a chair that had been designed to hold a man with super strength and years of experience. This kid, this 'hero', was nothing more than a punk in spandex as they strained trying to break free. Pale blue with gold detail work and a lightning bolt on his chest. It was almost cute in the 'I... | ***Hashtag "Evil"***
Gentle notes played from the tickled ivories of the grand piano that sat in the center of Paul's Piano Bar in the heart of Star City. A familiar feeling place, filled with familiar looking faces. The most familiar of those faces, Detective Falcona was running late this particular day, happy hour w... | 2022-12-20T10:23:32 | 2022-12-20T09:05:51 | 301 | 107 |
[WP] Satan isn't a name, it's a title and was never a fallen angel. According to divine law Hell is ruled over by the most evil soul that currently resides there. Over the millennia several have worn the horns. Only surrendering them when a soul possessing an even greater evil joins the underworld. | The soon-to-be-former Satan sat upon his throne, staring at the one before him, the one who would be his successor. He had been Satan for what felt like eons at this point, and no one in that time had been even close to taking the title for themselves. After all, how does one match the carnage and depravity of leading ... | Whenever someone new landed in the pits of hell, they were always looking for something. They knew what the wise told them when they were alive, and when they finally found their fate here in the sulphuric pits of acid and dark cold caverns they knew what to expect.
When they saw me, they all knew they’d found him. S... | 2022-03-25T00:24:49 | 2022-03-25T00:01:37 | 29 | 18 |
[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... | “You have control now, Ocean. You can change whatever you want. Starting from the beginning.”
I stared blankly into the books in front of me - wherever the voice was coming from, I couldn’t see any face, just the bookshelves I landed in after I hit the ground. I winced at the thought of people finding my body there, b... | 2020-07-20T04:09:17 | 2020-07-20T04:05:48 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] The apocalypse is underway. As a nuclear missile heads for a country, one family says their goodbyes. Suddenly, the grandmother says “Don’t worry, kiddos. I’ve waited sixty years to try this.” She smirks and reaches into her purse as it starts to glow. | The world was about to end.
The Americans, provoked by the Kremlin, had fired their missiles, a massive arsenal of them. The Russians had intercepted most of them and fired back in retaliation, but it was too late.
As atomic explosions thundered kilometers above, the result of the Russian Sarmat missiles being interc... | This was Johnny’s worst birthday party ever.
It had started off with a cake that was the wrong flavor (he hated chocolate), gifts he didn’t want, and now there were loud sirens going off and everybody was crying. He sat in the corner, munching on the cake sourly as he contemplated his sixth birthday.
A hush took ov... | 2020-12-17T12:53:32 | 2020-12-17T12:33:49 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] In the style of Dr. Seuss explain a major event in human history. | Hello dear friends, lend me your ears,
let me tell you of a conflict that's gone on for years,
of families teared apart, amidst all the tears,
that caused a schism between foes and peers.
I'm not relaying this conflict to make you pick sides,
but for the hundreds of thousands who need somewhere to hide,
from b... | The rain fell hard as if God himself had spat,
with a pitter and a pat
Noah pulled an idea out of his hat
"A boat! An ark! How about that!
I'll need some, wood, glue and electrically safe mat,
And then I'll bring my friends Mr. and Mrs. Cat, Rat, and Bat."
| 2014-08-10T00:32:41 | 2014-08-09T19:25:57 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] A drunk moves into a Haunted House that is desperately trying to scare him out...but he doesn't notice because he's always drunk. | 'Motherf-... (cough)'
A man stumbles through the door, steps over a dead dog and starts walking sideways into a wall.
"Motherf... dog's all burnt and shit, how the crazy bastard do that? How'd you do that dog? How you do that? Fuckin' wall"
The man stays against the wall for some time. He seems unable to move, and d... | "Out, out, out! I want him out!" The spectral figure exclaimed as he paced across the attic floor. "Jim, it's not that easy." Another responded, coming out from the wall in a long white dress, her throat slit. "All he does is drink and fall asleep. He's puked in MY wardrobe seven times! Seven times!"
The pacing ghost... | 2014-10-17T12:18:55 | 2014-10-17T11:59:11 | 317 | 17 |
[WP] Every year on your Birthday you receive a list of Objectives. If you fail to meet a certain number of them you are forced back in time to said Birthday. Your most recent Birthday the list simply said "Survive". It's been 40 resets since. | Years and years spent obbeying to this list.
Take all good grades, take a degree, get a job, get marry to a woman...
And no way to refuse.
But now it's time.
Years and years to be someone this list wanted and not myself, have turned me into a zombie. A depresed person with auto-pilot mode on.
So when I read "survi... | "This is a joke right?" I thought. I'm a healthy, young adult who doesn't make enemies or stupid mistakes, how could I possibly fail?
Two months passed and my country has officially declared war on our neighbors, and of course I was drafted.
I don't know why we thought we could beat countries twice our size, but we t... | 2022-05-06T01:48:12 | 2022-05-06T00:49:02 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | It had been two hundred years since she whispered those words in my ear.
"You aren't allowed to die, okay?" It resonated when she said it and we stayed together till old age. She died. I grew older. I fell asleep one day and woke up as a spry twenty something. The face in the mirror stared back at me. I lost her. But.... | Why the fuck am I still alive?
I made that promise. That's why.
But then I lost her.
I lost everyone.
Why am I still alive?
Maybe I don't have to be.
Hopefully not much longer.
I can just barely grasp the gun.
I can just barely pull the trigger.
And, just for a moment...
I can see her face. | 2018-01-05T14:21:15 | 2018-01-05T14:07:04 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | The whole neighbourhood was out in the streets staring skyward; dressed in robes and wrapped in blankets. The bright white light made them appear as stone sentinels against the snow.
“Mummy, the moon is so big!”
My phone buzzed urgently in my hand. I set it on the nightstand facedown
“Grab your jacket lily,” I wrappe... | I toss in my sleep-- there's a loud buzzing ringing in my left ear, and my eyes flicker open to reveal my phone: vibrating with it's receivance of hundreds of messages. "Holy shit, is that my Discord app again? I swear to god I put it on fucking silent." I grumble, and my hands fumble for the volume rockers. Without a ... | 2022-11-14T21:59:08 | 2018-04-06T19:48:33 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | Karen walked up the spiraling steps in the modern centre until she reached the floor of the building that was crowded with law offices, realtors, and other small whiteish collar workplaces. Approaching the door with only a simple nameplate ‘Kaka Dental Practice’, she stuttered before opening the door.
“So this is what... | This is the third time this week. After all the unanswered letters, the messages, the unanswered phone calls. They've actually come knocking on my door.
I refuse to answer. If I just wait they'll leave. If I...
"Mr. Wyatt, we know you're in there. Please open the door. We just want to talk to you."
The hell you... | 2018-08-27T15:13:21 | 2018-08-27T14:46:19 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] Your personal guardian angel from heaven is very upset with you. It's not because you did something wrong. It's because you're an extremely boring person to watch over. | An accountant. Why did you have to be an accountant?
And not even a “I have fun on the weekends because I’m cooped up in a cubicle all week” accountant. But just a boring little toad of a person, who doesn’t need me for anything because you never go anywhere where you could be endangered.
I mean, sure, you ride the b... | Today will be the day. The hole in the ceiling has gotten larger and the lockdown has prevented you from going to your part time. Yes, today will be the day. The clouds began to shower the house with a light drizzle as a warning to the girl. The amber haired student living alone in this abandoned house who has never... | 2020-04-22T01:22:14 | 2020-04-21T20:59:07 | 51 | 32 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | _So, we've been informed that you were the janitor on shift when it happened. Care to share what you saw?_
Well, it all happened so fast. I mean, I've thought about it and I think I know what happened. I've put some pieces of conversation and orders together and have a general idea.
_Well, please continue_
They were... | The year is 2198. The entire world has seen 15 world wars. All of which Germany has participated... and... err... lost. Y-yeah... they lost 15 times. This the 16th war, and everyone expects Germany to lose. People aren't taking Germany seriously anymore. Many keep joking about Germany.
But it looks like things will cha... | 2017-08-18T02:27:56 | 2017-08-18T02:09:31 | 2,100 | 15 |
[WP] "We have ancient elven magic, and even the dwarves have their ugly mountain forts. What do YOU have, human?!" "Napalm, and high-explosives, mostly..." *grumbling beard in the background* "....our forts are aesthetically pleasing though..." | --REUNION--
The eyes of the seven stare daggers at me.
"We Aelvankind wield the old magick." Speaks one of the seven. A hauty tone underlies the elegant musicality of its voice
"And the Dwarves are unmatched in their skill with hammer and stone.. graceless as their mountain forts may be."
"Graceless!?" Chimes ... | "But look! That aesthetically pleasing fort of yours is so flimsy that a single dragon fire breath sent it to smithereens," the elf huffed. "It will only please your eyes, but it cannot save your lives. What else do the humans have?"
The filthy man glanced at his tattered clothes and at the ruins of the city laid bar... | 2019-02-03T21:01:51 | 2019-02-03T14:05:59 | 292 | 212 |
[WP] You are a manipulative psychopath, but instead of serial killer, you are a serial helper. using your emotionless genius to make other people smile.
thankless, un-noticed but instrumental in paying off someones debts with a clever robin hood of some sort, or moving at breakneck speeds everyday to help others but l... | I once tried to torture an animal as a child. It was the neighbor's puppy that had wandered into my backyard. The curious little animal was barely a few months old, and still viewed the world with a childlike innocence. As it meandered up to me, I thought of how this small creature responded to everything. It responded... | Why did I approach them?
I'm not sure myself.
I didn't really care about their emotions, or their recovery. I just always found myself drifting towards them. Lonely souls, the ones crying on the barstools or into the gutters, those were the ones who I targeted, their sadness luring me like a magnet.
I sat there and ... | 2015-05-21T07:27:11 | 2015-05-21T07:21:46 | 80 | 57 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | I stilled dreamed of seeing.
I think that's why I initially snoozed my alarm clock instead of gasping for joy. But as I rolled back over to look at my wife lying next to me, I did gasp. Not for joy, but out of shock. On the wall behind Kathrine a message had been hastily painted on the wall.
\-DON'T TELL THEM YOU CA... | You wake up, and for the first time in years, you feel the pain of bright light on your eyes. *Wait, light?!* you jump out of your bed and close the green curtains on your window.
'Oh my God. I-I can-" you immediately stop talking as you look on your wall and see writing in neat, red marker,
"Don't tell them you can ... | 2022-10-15T03:24:04 | 2019-08-26T09:40:50 | 52 | 17 |
[WP] A level superheroes protect the universe, B level superheroes protect the Galaxy, C level superheroes protect the Earth and so on. You are a Z level superhero. You protect...a single street in a small village. | This is my street. No, I don’t technically own it or anything – private drives are for people with a whole lot more money than I have. This lovely stretch or road was assigned to me by our governing body, the International Council of Super Heroes, twenty-two years ago. You see, the ICSH is ran by a council of elders wh... | The Carlisle Cat had been counted out more times than a young child’s piggy bank, but still he remained vigilant. Determined. He would become a great superhero one day; he only needed the chance to show his prowess. He could hear his Stoic idol, Seneca, in his mind: “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adver... | 2020-07-28T12:51:28 | 2020-07-28T12:43:01 | 63 | 19 |
[WP] Your parents have kept it secret long enough; they can no longer stand your misery. They decide to change your life's difficulty from "Expert" to "Novice". | He stared at the ceiling of the hospital room unable to quite drink in what his mother had just said. A difficulty slider? And why would she be so cruel to max it out? He had barely scraped by high school, and been forced to leave his job as a mechanic. He had depression, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts. He couldn't ev... | I couldn't believe that I did it. Something that was just wishful thinking till yesterday was suddenly a reality. Something that was so incomprehensibly difficult till yesterday was like a child's play today. And in a way, it was.
"Look Ma, I did it" I tapped my Mom's shoulder and proudly showed her my shoes. I had t... | 2018-01-09T15:28:41 | 2018-01-09T15:00:54 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] Mages choose the source of their power. Most pick things like fire, or justice, or love. You picked sarcasm. | People worry when a medic gets snappish, short-tempered, and sarcastic. Mage - medics have their powers burn out faster than other magical/medical specialities. After losing too many soldiers and facing too many black mage snipers, mage - medics want nothing to do with any will working for any intent.
Of course, I was... | Mages are a progressive lot. Bunch of early adopters if you've never met one. Think "Elon Musk" crossed with "Steve Jobs." Doddering old idiots can scarcely make a phone call.
After about six lifetimes in the High Citidel enjoying its extensive collection of thrilling triestices on metamagical theory, wide-ranging... | 2017-07-20T13:16:57 | 2017-07-20T11:55:42 | 47 | 31 |
[WP] They Hero is defeated by the villian, they expect death or torture. They did not expect to wake up in a guest room with their wounds being treated to. | When I woke up, I found myself in room with a small pool, The Enemy's iconography clearly marking this a temple. A case of mistaken identity perhaps? But before I could think to escape, the dark waters came alive, and The Enemy was before me.
"Hello little one." It took the form a of serpent, draped in shadow. Only i... | ...crap. I did not expect this. I did *not* expect this. But there they are, on the camera, hospitalized. I notice that the hero in question, Jesse, is starting to wake up, so I go to greet them. As I walk down the pale gray brick hallway, passing a few minions. I wonder how they'll react. Probably worried, maybe a dea... | 2021-08-09T21:29:01 | 2021-08-09T19:43:57 | 74 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a special talent that's weak when young, but grows stronger and matures at the age of 30. A kid that's a little stronger than his peers will grow up to lift mountains. Another who like tinkering will revolutionize civil action. You? Well, cats just seem to like you...
*civilizations
Edit: W... | Age : 15
Paul was always envious of the other kids. Of the cool kids. Being a teenager was hard enough, and it didn't help that filthy stray cats followed him on every step. He loved them as much as he hated them.
He always felt a special bond to cat and figured out early that this was his "special talent".
The cool... | "Jimmy? What's wrong with your hand?"
I didn't see anything unusual. But then, I didn't have my sister's gift. Since she'd come of age a couple of years ago, she could see things few others could. Heightened senses weren't an unusual power, but her microscopic vision was still pretty rare. And she knew it.
"What is ... | 2016-12-30T12:22:20 | 2016-12-30T10:56:50 | 36 | 17 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "You see it? That is what I crave. The Rajpank of Avoothenkor."
"That's what you want? That's why I'm here?"
"With that I could rule this World. But I cannot have it, for it is not mine."
"So there's guards, cameras, lasers? What's the deal?"
"I don't understand."
"What's guarding it? You know, the security? I don... | When I vanished from the middle of class, I didn't know where I was going. All I experienced was darkness and a rush of cool wind before I was deposited in a place that looked like the middle of a forest.
As my eyes adjusted to the level of sunlight, I saw a few humanoid creatures staring at me. They nudged one anothe... | 2017-05-12T09:20:50 | 2017-05-12T08:32:17 | 99 | 10 |
[WP] A medieval king suddenly finds a smartphone and tries to unlock it. But each time he fails, years later it has become a tradition for nobles to try to unlock it. You, a simple servant, fiddled with it the night before the ceremony and unlocked it.
Edit: just think the phone is solar or something to ignore the bat... | “Egads, I did it!”, said Cough. He was but a simple servant, who sneezed all of the time, but he was still the one who unlocked the magical device.
While Cough was staring at the new screen, a fog began to form on the ground. Seconds later, the fog collected into one spot, and a person appeared out of it.
“Con... | 1 2 3 4, Had no one thought of that before?
There was writing on the screen. Elvy read it.
He quickly pressed the lock button, placed it back on its pedestal, and bolted for the door.
As he walked the length of the castle's main corridor, headed toward the great Galaxy ceremony, Elvy couldnt help but feel this wa... | 2017-10-14T07:31:26 | 2017-10-14T07:14:31 | 64 | 36 |
[WP] You're an inmate on death row and discover that the government secretly doesn't execute anyone. What they do is something far stranger. | ~~Dear Diary~~
**The Personal Log of A██████**
██/██/██
It's been... what, two years? Two years since I've come here. Two years, waiting for some labcoat who inject me with a garbage cocktail and send me off forever. I thought I'd come to terms with it. I thought I was prepared.
Today they set my death day to next ... | I stared at my steak and fries, a simple meal for my last I suppose. The sound of footsteps echoed through the halls as the person who I assumed would be executing me came to fetch me. I briefly thought of retaliation but I knew there was no possible chance that I could succeed. I ate my last bite before getting up, re... | 2018-11-08T20:52:06 | 2018-11-08T19:06:50 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] You and your significant other are running for your lives from a slasher killer. Suddenly your partner ducks into a door and locks it behind them leaving you behind. You slump against the door preparing for the worst. The killer walks up and says "Wow what a jerk. You ok?" | Words failed to escape my mouth as I analyzed my pursuer with my back against the door. All color left my face. My heart pounded in my chest.
"Hey," said the man, "did you hear me?"
"Y--yeah," I stuttered.
The killer approached me slowly, machete still in hand. When he came within slashing distance, I could see thro... | "God fucking dammit..." you sob, falling against the door, and sliding down into a sitting position. You Bury your head in your hands, overwhelmed with shame and disappointment and fear until a voice cuts through. "Christ she's a bitch! You good dude?"
You pause, and quickly look up to your supposed killer. They were ... | 2020-10-10T06:44:34 | 2020-10-10T06:11:13 | 1,148 | 198 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | A deep voice comes from the basement. Each tuesday it's the same.
A letter, a number and then silence. It goes on for hours and then I hear someone screaming.
My mom went to check it out, that's when we lost her.
I heard her scream through the vent.
Dad went away, he said he'd be back for me.
I havent seen him in 2 m... | Where was the king?
He waited, tapping fingers and with furrowed brow his eyes scanned for a sign of him. The Queen was ready, and with the arrival of the Sire the process could begin. Everyone was suited up, from the highest among them to the lowest, and he waited expectantly for the one who could open the way, the o... | 2015-01-12T15:38:35 | 2015-01-12T11:13:13 | 78 | 19 |
[WP] The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold! Just trying to do my part on this fight, but as I don't live in the US, raising awareness is t... | Ajit Pai lied back on his throne and sipped his goblet. He roared in laughter Soon Net Neutrality would be repealed, and every link on the internet would redirect to a picture of his face unless people payed money to make it go away.
Suddenly, a group of brave souls appeared out of nowhere.
“Mr. Pai, we came from th... | As I sat in my darkened bedroom, with only the ghostly glow of my computer screen and the click-clack of my keyboard for company. I scan through the news feeds, searching for anything that’ll pique my interest, then I see it.
“Americans continue to fight for net neutrality” I murmured the headline to myself.
Then it... | 2022-08-04T05:58:14 | 2017-11-21T23:08:42 | 186 | 22 |
[WP] Two depressed, suicidal people meet at the same bridge they plan to jump from. One begins to convince the other not to do it. | The second car came to a stop on the side of the bridge. A man in a slightly creased brown suit stepped out of the vehicle. His hair was slightly too long and fell over his ears, and he probably could have shaved that morning but decided against it. The top button of his shirt was undone, and his shoes were scuffed. De... | The world had not been kind to either of them. That was easy to tell. The eyes told it all. It was the way they never seemed to focus on anything. The thousand yard stare normally seen in war vets. They had both reached the end of their wits. No words were exchanged. No words were needed. The eyes told it all. Their ey... | 2017-06-18T17:52:52 | 2017-06-18T17:04:21 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] You and your pet rabbit live in a remote part of Australia, far away from your dark past. Animal control has come to your door and informed you that it is illegal to own a rabbit unless you can prove you are a magician. Now you must do something you swore you would never do again.
Edit: Oh wow, this blew up whil... | "I'm sorry, ma'am," I tell the officer. "Stay with her -- I'll just be a second."
I handed the rabbit to the lady. *Officer Delores,* her badge read.
What I needed now was in the safe. I stammered out of the foyer and went straight to the closet.
0-6-1-2-3-4 was the code. I pushed it and turned the handle. The locks... | You slowly slink down on the sofa as the officer's dead eyes shift from you, to Mr. Fluffenbottom, back to you again. The shaking of your hands is barely concealed by the, in all honesty quite amateurish, card shuffle you're occupying them with.
Under the officer's watchful gaze, the memories of that fateful day are ... | 2016-07-09T05:57:51 | 2016-07-09T03:10:42 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | What a day. My boss has never been in such a bad mood. On top of the proposal due next week, I now have a rushed budget to get out by Friday. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this up. Every morning I dread getting out of bed, and every night I dread the next morning. I put on the smile for my colleagues, I smile... | It started off as a nice day. I wasn't sore getting out of bed, which I usually am these days. I made a nice breakfast, eggs and toast. The weatherman on the television was grinning, which meant no rain in the forecast. Everything was going fine until the screams from the basement started up again. | 2016-05-19T13:16:11 | 2016-05-19T13:02:32 | 25 | 14 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "What is she *doing*?" asked Wyll, staring at a round-ish woman who was squeezing a bulb of a lilly, rinsing her hands in the foamy lather that came out. She was on her knees next to a little stream, near her little cottage up the hill.
"Is she squeezing a potato?" asked Wyll. "Why on earth is she squeezing a potato?... | Ah old Miss Stevenson. Not getting sick when everyone has. She goes about washing her hands incessantly. She says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot in night soil, and the medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. I am among the first, but not the last to suspect that she might be onto... | 2017-09-14T15:50:54 | 2017-09-14T11:09:45 | 127 | 14 |
[WP] "Hello, my name is Mr Hades. As your teacher is out sick, I will your sub until they can return. Yes, I am a god. Yes, there are multiple pantheons. No, I will not tell you your future or grant you wishes. Now if everyone could please turn to page 157 in their textbooks we can get started" | "Hello, my name is Mr. Hades. As your teacher is out sick, I will be your substitute teacher until they can return. Yes, I am a god. Yes, there are multiple pantheons. No, I will not tell you your future or grant you wishes. Now if everyone could please turn to page 157 in their textbooks, we can get started."
A young... | I sat there trying to comprehend what I just heard. “Mr. Hades?” Was that right? I sat there completely dumbfounded as this new middle-aged substitute teacher began to read some paragraph about Abraham Lincoln. I looked to my side. The other kids in my class just followed along with the teacher, their noses deep into b... | 2022-04-15T19:29:53 | 2022-04-15T14:56:41 | 53 | 22 |
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