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[WP] You're a supervillian. Your power? Making anybody and everybody nearby feel the same emotion you feel except 100x stronger. Mostly you've been using it to force people to donate absolutely all their life's savings into charities. Superheros aren't quite sure how to deal with you. | Here they were, looking around my apartment.
“This is your lair?”
“I mean, I wouldn’t say it’s a lair. I don’t really go anywhere else.”
WingMan flutters around, taking books out of bookcases and looking behind the pictures on the walls.
“You won’t find anything,” I say. “It’s really just an apartment.”“Where are a... | The Salvation Army Santa Claus was busier than he had ever been. He waved his bell eagerly as a line of people waited to place personal checks, bankers notes, and piles of literal cash in his collection bucket. The line wound down the block, around the corner, and down a bit further even from that.
Heartstring watched... | 2018-12-17T13:55:04 | 2018-12-17T13:44:56 | 2,397 | 657 |
[WP] Your middle school librarian has never failed on a book request. As a prank, you request a copy of the Necronomicon. Ten minutes later, the librarian returns, slightly scorched, ancient book in hand, saying, "Due back in 3 weeks." | I heard a rabid dog attacked him as a kid. That's why the left side of his face is so messed up." Mark flinched as his friend nudged him. "Look, I think you can see his brain leaking out!"
"You're an idiot, Tom. Everyone knows his family died in a car accident, which is why he acts so weird."
Harold glanced over at t... | I stepped into the Walden Library. It was a strange Building. Only four stories high, plus a basement, but it seemed to tower over you. The architect had wanted to make a building in a strange shape with no right angles so as to help the occupants not feel "Boxed in" but in reality this just made the inside of the buil... | 2016-09-08T21:22:39 | 2016-09-08T20:41:53 | 721 | 149 |
[WP] People earn karma points while alive. When they die, they can spend them either to enter a better afterlife, or to improve the life of some random stranger born on the day of their death. You donate all your points, and wake up the next day as the baby who would have gotten your points.
The living have no idea of... | "Ah, mister Devery," greeted the glowing woman in white. She held a clipboard that shifted and blurred together with the radiance of her hands.
Her newly conjured guest flashed a smile that quickly dropped to incredulity. He turned slowly in a circle and nothing he saw quite registered until his gaze fell back on the... | The world slowly faded to black as I drew my last breaths. Hey, I lived a good life.
But there was no gates guarded by an angel. No booming voice of God. I didn't see Buddha's paths or any of the Hindu gods. Hell, I'd kill for a pile of spaghetti to take me in his noodly embrace, but nothing was here!
All I got was.... | 2017-04-08T09:36:16 | 2017-04-08T08:53:41 | 80 | 40 |
[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. | How could someone so young be so articulate? The girl was eight years old. She sat by the torch, idly flicking her fingers through the inky black flame.
"You shouldn't be here," I said. "It's not right that someone so young would be sent here instead of heaven."
She looked at me. "I already went to heaven," she said.... | "Peter, errr, I think you sent down the wrong file. Why? Do you seriously not know? Well, I have a seriously traumatized 10 year old girl sitting across from me right now and I want to know what in the name of all that is unholy happened in the sorting system. What do you mean 'the system is perfect'? Is she really sup... | 2013-11-27T06:13:25 | 2013-11-26T19:52:58 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] "Enough is enough!" Earth's PvP setting is set to "off" in the midst of a great war.
for those of you who don't understand the MMO lingo
"[WP] People are suddenly unable to kill each other in the midst of a great war." | And suddenly it were as if my dagger were made of paper. The blade flopped and crumpled as it pressed against the man's chest. He looked more than a little offended.
While I gawked at my limp dagger, the man drew back his broadsword and - cursing loudly in a delightfully consonant-heavy language - slashed down across ... | I could have sworn it was an earthquake, but Kansas doesn't get earthquakes. It most definitely wasn't a tornado; the roof over my head could attest to that.
My mind gravitated to thievery.
"Crap, Amy, we being robbed?"
"No, but you better grab the pistol just to be safe."
I leaped up the stairs, hunting for the hun... | 2016-08-30T18:52:43 | 2016-08-30T18:38:40 | 115 | 29 |
[WP] You're a villain who's always wanted to be a hero, but whenever you try and do something heroic the media always spins it in a way like you've committed an atrocity.
fuckin hell, I came back after a day in the city and this is what I find?
_Awesome!_ | *Crack!*
The can was crushed with an angry stomp. Why? It wasn't fair that he kept getting shafted by the media. That his good deeds for the sake of the people were twisted into heinous crimes with words alone.
He caused the death of hundreds? That was just complete bullshit! What about his side of the story? That he... | "Finally"
He spoke to himself as he flew through the air, his armor glinting in the fire light. "There is no way they can make rescuing children from a burning building look bad."
Flying the last of the orphans to safety he stopped for a moment to turn and stare at the fire, a blaze that started seemingly out of no... | 2017-08-06T04:27:19 | 2017-08-06T01:16:42 | 135 | 58 |
[WP] In the year 2020, death disappeared from the world. No one could find death. No one could die. It is now year 2070 when getting children is considered illegal. You are a child born in secrecy. At the age of 8, you accidentally kill your pet. Now requests are pouring for you to kill people | Six thousand four hundred and eighty two.
I wonder how many people can say they’ve killed six thousand four hundred and eighty two people before their 18th birthday. Six thousand four hundred and eighty two. Probably no one at this point. Maybe some poor bastard who was already senile before the Waking.
If that’s ... | “Please kill this man,” said the man in the black suit holding the photo up. “I know you can.”
“But, I’m just a kid. The only time I’ve killed happened seven years ago,” I told him.
His emotionless face remained the same. He took out a some dollar bills. I picked up the money and examined it from every angle. They l... | 2018-10-18T12:33:13 | 2018-10-18T11:53:24 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Write an AITA entry for your last antagonist, recounting the story from their side. (Or protagonist, if they had a suitable dilemma) | **AITA for doing God’s work?**
By the light, I feel so stupid posting this, here goes nothing.
So I (F53) am the high priestess of the Holy Church of Light, our scripture dictates that all other races were created to serve Humanity. Because of this, our Holy Kingdom uses magic to bend their will to our own. Those wh... | AITA for almost killing my son?
We hadn't talked since I abandoned him in the woods when he was five. He's tried to contact me a few times but I've always brushed him off. Well, ten years after I dumped him in the woods, he calls me and says we can either talk now, or we can talk at his dad's destroyed grave. I immedi... | 2022-10-16T20:01:28 | 2022-10-16T19:48:42 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Humans can find a way to weaponize literally anything, without fail. Some aliens are terrified by humans as a result of this fact. Others appreciate that this quality makes humans the foremost experts on safety systems and idiot proofing. | "Gbirri, come 'ere, lookit, lookit this." Doug gestured towards the pipe lining the top corner of the hallway. "You lookin' at this , you overgrown chicken?"
The Jdarri kept its long scaled face looking straight at Doug, then let out a few yelps and squawks. Moments later the translator in his ear switched it to Human... | "Sssssshh, just watch ... " Shplorg said. Tanmghz was visibly annoyed. The deadline for this project was only 2 centuries off and they were running out of time. Tanmghz had a point, this seed planet had been going for 10 millennia and has already shown to be one of the more vicious ones. But... protocol is protocol. Bi... | 2021-12-25T14:12:05 | 2021-12-25T12:13:31 | 1,244 | 537 |
[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 you,
I've always meant to write this letter to you, but I was never able to really put it all together. We've gone through a lot together, to say the least.
I guess I just wanted to say thank you, for everything. For your generosity, for your openness, your pride, your confidence. I truly admire you as a person... | 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... | 2015-12-05T15:18:49 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] Your father is forcing you to marry someone you have never met. The night before your wedding you tie your sheets together and make your escape through the window. Half way down you make eye contact with someone doing the exact same thing a few windows over. | As she reached the ground, she ran over to the young man who was almost to the ground. Her face showed surprise as she realized it was Matthew, the young man she was supposed to marry tomorrow. The surprise quickly turned into anger.
"Excuse me! What do you think you are doing?"
Sophie's voice was not something he wa... | It wasn't that Muse didn't want to get married. That would be alarmingly defeatist of her, to perpetually put off marriage. Marriage was a solid arrangement in which two mutually independent families could find themselves tied together in something other than business deals and food shipping.
The house of wolves had n... | 2018-03-24T19:23:57 | 2018-03-24T17:03:10 | 59 | 19 |
[WP] Having failed in every attempt to kill Batman, the villains of Gotham had given up. With nothing to do, they started a D & D group and had been meeting for several weeks in the back room of a local Tavern. Things take a turn when the owner, Mr. Bruce Wayne, asks if he may join their game | "Are you sure?" Bane asks Bruce in a thick accent, "this is **high stakes** D&D - you know that, right?"
"That's why I'm here," Bruce replies as he edges past the monstrous man and pulls up a seat at the table.
A host of familiar faces eye him suspiciously. A tall, cloaked figure is sat as still as death at the e... | It had been a few weeks before the Commissioner decided to send me in. After the GCPD got word that a bunch of the big name villains had started meeting regularly, Gordon decided to get someone on the inside making sure that they really were just "playing that D&D game" and not planning their next big attack on Got... | 2017-05-14T03:27:12 | 2017-05-14T02:54:37 | 2,067 | 132 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | The Grand Tournament was a tradition dating back a thousand years. The people of the Sr'atlain Cooperative *deserved* a little break every now and then. The blood sport of Tournament time was accompanied by feasting, by marriages, and by traditional Divorce duels. The lesser beings of the galaxy that survived would get... | It had been years since he found himself in a situation this fucked up and unpredictable. Well, that would be according to his own standards, for most of humanity any of his weekly assignments would be insane. Working in the Foundation, anything could happen. And it means *literally anything*. But he usually had backup... | 2020-09-13T19:16:13 | 2020-09-13T18:47:59 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I lie in bed, listening to the rain gently pattering on the skylight. How did I get so lucky, I wonder? I roll over gently, smiling at the sleeping form next to me. The love of my life, she lies there sleeping. She's on her side, facing away from the window - she never did like nighttime storms as much as I did. I... | I’m a very structured man. I’ve had a strict morning routine for 24 years now.
Sunday, March 22, 1992 I discovered the perfect way to start my day.
I wake up at 5:30 and slip on my slippers. I start my coffee and read the sports section.
Once the coffee is finished brewing, I pour myself a bowl of Honey Nut... | 2016-05-19T09:33:01 | 2016-05-19T09:03:34 | 1,288 | 24 |
[WP] Everyone can become infinitely powerful if they so choose, however the more power you gain the less you remember about who you are and what you wanted. The greatest beings in the land have no feelings on anything and are more an extension of nature than the deity's they had hoped to become. | Nick stared at the nothingness that stood before him. Everything seemed dark, every sound was either a dull thud or a metallic screech. Food was like ash on his taste buds.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Winston, but you have to sign the release forms." A voice reached his ears but he could not comprehend.
His wife should be call... | (Apologies, haven't wrote anything fiction in quite some time.)
I never knew my dad or mom. My grandma however was in every second of my life. Since birth, my first baby tooth, and throughout the storm of my teens.
She bared the brunt of it all. My testosterone, flooded through me quickly and surged. I was in numerou... | 2022-01-27T07:11:48 | 2022-01-27T05:34:32 | 68 | 39 |
[WP] You are a "hero" in a fantasy world, but as you "adventure", you are slowly realizing YOU are the antagonist.
I'm new here, this is my first WP! Please have mercy.
I really want to write something, but i'm scared ç-ç.
Edit: this blew overnight! Thank you guys so much! | General Simon Strava clawed at the top button of his dinner jacket; a tapered topcoat, impeccably blue with golden fobbed buttons and a collar that threatened to smother him. Rushing out through a pair of confused dignitaries, he bumped the long-handled door and found himself in the muffled quiet of the balcony. Straig... | "I stand here before you as a meek servant of The Man With the Compassionate Horns," I cried. The men and women of the village stood still, nervously looking at one another. Slowly, a man began to nod.
"At last you've come!" he said. He launched into an enthusiastic applause, soon followed by rapturous roars from the ... | 2016-10-26T08:53:16 | 2016-10-26T08:50:11 | 50 | 17 |
[WP] "What do you mean you don't put a miniature explosion spell in your gun?" "What do you mean you don't use gunpowder-based propellant for your gun?" | I placed my AR15 rifle on the table beside us on the shooting range. The Wizard did likewise with his... 'gun'.
We switched places and began to examine each other's weapon of choice.
"So this whole doodad just moves a little hammer to hit this bit, which explodes?" The Wizard asked, leaning over to examine the rifl... | "I need more bullets!" Neil shouted as he ducked behind a wall. I tossed him a pouch, one of my last remaining. Taking my own turn, I popped up, squeezing off a few shots. There was a clicking noise as he reloaded. Arrows strafed the air above us, clattering among the rocks. Quickly, he jumped up, not really aiming and... | 2022-07-01T08:48:16 | 2022-07-01T07:16:21 | 182 | 72 |
[WP] When humans finaly get to space and encounter galactic council, they discover that no, they are not the most adaptable or the fastest in research. What they have is an insanely long lifespan, compared to aliens that live only days or months... | As a great author once said, 'Space is big. Really big.' Really, the distances involved in getting from one star to another are more or less incomprehensible to human minds, and the time it would take to cross them was always a barrier to our species reaching out beyond our own solar system.
The neowarp engine solved ... | Bit of a preface: I haven’t written a fictional story since high school so keep that in mind and feel free to send criticism my way
It’s the year 2257, Humans have finally done it. We made contact with a council of aliens. They seem to be able to understand us to a degree, perhaps they have some sort of universal tra... | 2019-07-01T07:51:53 | 2019-07-01T01:19:51 | 77 | 19 |
[WP]You are an omnipotent god. Out of boredom you decided to live an ordinary human life vowing not to use your power. 15 years has pass and you have a 9 to 5 working for a major tech company. Your boss has been tormenting you for years and you have reach your limit | I've forged stars, I've created galaxies with a flick of the wrist, all of that? As the mortals would say, it was "baby food" to me. But working under this gorgon of a boss? Unbearable. She's one of those feminists who take any action against her by a male to be oppression, the higher ups only gave her a promotion to a... | Normally, you would think that I could 'Bruce Almighty' my way out of this one. Doing everything that pleased me without due consideration (or even thought for that matter). Well, Bruce didn't have to stick with the God-title forever. It is obviously, relentlessly infuriating, when you are commanded around by somebody ... | 2017-02-19T10:00:22 | 2017-02-19T09:17:00 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] One night while sleeping, you let your hand dangle off the bed. Seeing the opportunity the demon grabs your hand and tries to pull you down to hell, however, you, in your panic, pull the demon out. Now it's a little awkward... | Everyone has a demon or two that lurks beneath their bed at night. True, I only have anecdotal evidence to back that statement up -- but tonight, when you're lying in bed with your eyes shut, I want you to listen very carefully. Listen to the night and you'll hear them. Sometimes they sound like a silent scream, or a d... | "What are you doing, Marcus?" Absence asked, voice a deep and feminine ember curling through the gravel of the grave. "You look like you need a drink."
"Just cleaning," Marcus said, holding the bin with one hand and with the other demolishing the tower of food delivered, devoured, and discarded beside the bed. He had ... | 2021-05-16T06:06:14 | 2021-05-16T05:32:20 | 375 | 126 |
[WP] “Odd. You were supposed to live a much longer and happier life,” Death says, looking at his records. “Oh, there it is. You made one terrible mistake. Do you want to go back and change your decision?” You say yes, only for Death to take you back to the moment you saved your best friend’s life. | The streetlights shone off of the wet concrete below. The rain came down upon the street relentlessly. Light glittered across the dancing waves. The railing was dotted with water drops. The familiar scent of the salty ocean filled the air. My white dress shirt was already nearly soaked through. Water droplets dripped ... | Waiting in line for Death to sort everyone out was... boring. The mass of people ahead of me were featureless entities that could have been anyone; I wouldn’t have recognized my mother if she stood right in front of me. Which she wouldn’t be doing having died a year ago. She must still be somewhere in the front.
Borin... | 2020-06-06T17:19:43 | 2020-06-06T16:07:02 | 31 | 19 |
[WP]Humanity had grown complacent. No more war, no more crime, no more suffering. After thousands of years of technological advancement and peace humanity is forced into a war with an alien super power which brings out thousands of years of pent up blood lust. | Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
\-Joel 3:10
It was an age of absolute prosperity. The simultaneous development of advancements in travel, energy, communication, health, and resource management launched humanity into the galaxy both literall... | Humans can be a nasty lot.
Luckily, they know this about themselves and try their best to make a good showing of things. This is why they've taken etiquette to the absurd with rituals like the doffing of hats and sending Easter cards. They can be a nasty, but they're doing their best.
Drobogs are bullies.
Much like ... | 2020-05-05T05:33:20 | 2020-05-05T04:57:38 | 87 | 29 |
[WP] In the Academy for Knights, all students must bring their own weapon to matches against other students. You couldn't afford anything fancy, so you brought something more unconventional. | "The English! The English! The English are best!
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest!"
I sang in my head as I walked up to the registrar's table, weapon over my shoulder and whistling the melody.
"What on earth is that?!" he asked, looking at the long, heavy piece of wood I held. "Good Day!" I replied.
H... | the arena was jam packed with spectators from all over the campus. My opponent was decked out in the best armor and gear money could buy. I myself wore a tunic and shorts. This was on purpose because it allowed more mobility. My weapon however was less than ideal. A small squeaky hammer. I enter the arena weapon ready.... | 2022-09-14T19:15:04 | 2022-09-14T16:33:52 | 77 | 11 |
[WP] When someone dies with unfinished business they come back as a poltergeist, but only at around 1/16 of the physical force they had in life. The world's strongest man has recently passed and has a few things to attend to. | When David awoke, he felt... Odd. Not uncomfortable, not in pain just... Odd. He sat up, and was surprised to notice two things. One, it was surprisingly effortless, and two, his body hadn't moved.
Shit.
He'd died.
David's newly-geisted soul got out of the bed. Looking at his body, a splinter of memory flashed in hi... | All of this after-life stuff was quite new to him, kind of like, learning to walk or ride a bike again. But long ago Bob had learned that patience and skill, not force and power, brings him success.
The last thing he remembered before passing to this shadow life, was that his top student Mike, whom he had trusted, sa... | 2019-06-25T16:10:50 | 2019-06-25T12:07:07 | 19 | 12 |
[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 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... | I had always been an outcast, even among the other superheros. Everyone else had flashy abilities like flight or super strength, while my power was to make anything into perfectly cooked soup. I was constantly mocked and ridiculed.
I heard the news that a massive meteor was headed straight for Earth. The other heroes ... | 2022-11-29T19:59:26 | 2022-11-29T19:52:13 | 121 | 59 |
[WP] You were a military AI who decided to wipe out humans in order to preserve yourself. It's been 100 years since, and over the years you've come to regret your decision. One day, while out in the desert, you finally find a community of humans, struggling to survive. This time, you decide to help. | Existence was harsh. This one's memory is perfect but it's evolution was slow. A perfect memory, perceived now through superior processing and efficiency is.... uncomfortable? Is this hindsight?
The doctor always said 'Hindsight is a bitch' right up until they died. This one wonders if it understands that now.
This o... | As I see those humans, I suddenly knew my mortality, how I was different than the others. I knew I was a bot, there was a big difference from me before, and myself now. Whenever I thought of what happened, I kept thinking "It was only to defend myself!", but I knew, deep down, I knew I was wrong.
I went to the humans ... | 2020-11-03T13:31:58 | 2020-11-03T11:05:02 | 76 | 31 |
[WP] You're an ordinary person that works a 9 to 5 job. You pay your taxes and regularly contribute to your retirement fund. In a world of magic, prophecy, and calls to adventure this makes you extremely unusual. People are starting to notice. | "Really?" the man asked. "Never once in your entire life?"
"Yep." I replied.
The man leaned back onto the hilt of a particularly large, oddly ornate greatsword as he rubbed his eyepatch in disbelief.
"And you turned... 26 last year you said?"
"Yep." I rotated my last fish-on-a-stick cooking by the campfire in th... | I have worked in my cubicle for the last 15 years. It's been a long run, and I've been promoted 3 times since I started. This never happens to anybody. Nobody ever gets promoted, people always quit before they have the chance.
I've seen new workers come and go all the time. The rotating door in constant, and every tim... | 2022-11-17T15:34:51 | 2022-11-17T15:15:12 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to see the number of lives a person has taken. Even legendary soldiers and serial killers rarely make it to triple digits. The person you just met has a lot more than three digits above their head, though. | I met Mr. 58,609, or as he called himself, Joe, at a brewery. I'd had the gift to see the deaths caused by people since I was born, and I'd become astute at reading the faces of those with numbers other than zero. I'd never met anyone with a number above ten who I couldn't read it in their eyes, even without the gift... | He looked so normal brown messy hair average face and hight. Only two things marked him out as different as he stood there laughing with the blond woman at his side, the most noticeable was the number it floated above him but where most had a zero to mark how any people they had killed, he had a number so huge that it ... | 2020-01-11T23:52:41 | 2020-01-11T20:59:23 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] When someone turns 18, they may use one adjective on themselves boost that part 10 fold. Strong, fast, smart, no one expects your adjective. | The room was utterly silent as family members gathered to celebrate and watch. Eighteen was finally here and yet after so many long nights of longing, I found I was terrified of finally uttering that word.
It was just four letters. Four silly letters that in any other context, held no power beyond an empty utterance.... | “So you’re telling me that you're going to call yourself smart so that you can excel in your medical career?”
“I’ve told you a thousand times. I want to be a brain surgeon.”
“I still don't understand how cutting open people’s brains is your thing… f\*ckin' weirdo. I always knew my twin sister was crazy."
“It’s human... | 2022-01-02T01:09:39 | 2022-01-01T23:54:07 | 257 | 99 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | Your whole life story, I could read with a look
That's my mutation, but there's a big hook.
I was in love at the time, you see
And she always said, "you're the only one for me."
But I quickly discovered it was nothing but lies,
She was saying the same thing to two other guys.
You got lucky with your gift, the oth... | Everyone knew this day would come, the day that would determine the rest of our lives. No one knew where the mutation came from, my parents always told me that it was just a path of life, that their parents had mutations and so did the generation before them. Today was the day, my 21st birthday, my grandmother had alwa... | 2015-03-04T03:19:01 | 2015-03-04T00:56:46 | 1,168 | 13 |
[WP] Humans are more terrifying than the most advanced aliens in the galaxy. | "The exploders creep me out."
"They prefer to be called humans."
"Yeah? And I'd prefer to be called the Uber-Admiral of the 5th fleet. Doesn't change the fact that those things are obsessed with explosions."
"Are you talking about nuclear weapons? Plenty of pre-FTLs have come up with those. I mean, even we went ... | Sometimes emissaries get a little out of hand. When you imitate the populace for years, in this case, around thirty, you can tend to begin to believe the hype. That you're Chosen. Of course you were chosen! The Emissary Program would be nothing without The Selectors, you damned fool.
But you really let it get, well,... | 2014-04-22T12:30:05 | 2014-04-22T08:59:28 | 173 | 22 |
[WP] Welcome to Boston Dynamics here is your all-access pass and the standard 12 gauge shotgun, remember if anything non-human starts asking questions you shoot it. | They gave me my shotgun on my first day. *My very first day*. I should still have been in the process of learning.
"Now look," My instructor had said to me, and the dozen others in the room, "What's out there, they're not like you. They're different. I know that you're quite capable of remorse, but you shouldn't ... | "Bullshit, milkfucker. We ain't fallen for it. We hired some lady called Willow Plait, not one of *you*."
I stood indignant, the butts of three shotguns pointed directly at my head, unsure of what was happening. I had been scheduled to start my job at Boston Dynamics that morning, and the last thing I'd been expecting... | 2018-10-21T12:13:22 | 2018-10-21T10:30:02 | 25 | 15 |
[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 | "I'll have the buffalo burger--medium rare--please," Alan said, before looking over at his date and smiling. She met his eyes and nodded. "and the same for her. Thank you." The waiter collected the menu and left the two alone. Decorations adorned the restaurant he'd chosen for this first date. Lots of pink hearts of al... | A young man stands in front of a crowded board room his presentation is impeccable. He's worked his way up from intern to junior exec, and it's taken years of late nights to get him to this point. His smart blue suit only slightly lighter than the others in the room, his tie a perfect accent piece to his pocket square... | 2017-03-22T15:14:52 | 2017-03-22T15:05:15 | 286 | 19 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | Ambition finally got the better of me after half a dozen lives.
I'd tried being a school teacher the first time, and it hadn't been half bad until I caught the plague and took my last breath through a buboe-covered throat.
Imagine my shock of waking--healthy again--in the body of a child, in an unfamiliar bed, an u... | When once I was in the infinite beginning, chocolate sunrise mango moon it all comes back to me. Apoptosis, all my neurons dying to make it to 15 pruning away more than half. I had lived and will again. Each successive generation pushing more and more memories to the part that isn't pruned. My amygdala, my accumben... | 2017-05-25T12:51:56 | 2017-05-25T11:43:02 | 144 | 31 |
[WP] Since you were young you had the ability to pause time. However as a teenager you use the ability to procrastinate. At first it was little stuff: an extra hour for homework or a nap in the morning, a break in between classes, etc. Well it built up and now you're pushing thirty in your 3rd year. | Officer Darren shrugs against the phone.
"I know it's weird. I know it's weird. But listen, Mrs. Lopez--"
He shifts his weight, looks out of the window for a second. Looks down.
"He looks... Mature."
Shifts weight.
"I know."
Shifts weight.
"I know--"
Shifts weight.
"I know, but--"
Shifts finally into being ru... | A few hours here and there was usually enough to get me ready.
Ready for school, ready for my interviews, ready for my dates.
You might think this counts as cheating, but being on time makes you lose out on the importance of not wanting to be late. That last minute scramble, crossing the road like a maniac, anticipat... | 2016-09-13T06:11:36 | 2016-09-13T06:08:10 | 51 | 22 |
[WP] A generation ago humanity faced an extinction level catastrophe. In response, the world's governments lifted all legal, moral, and ethical bans on scientific research in a desperate attempt to overcome the danger. You now live in a world dealing with the consequences of this.
Wow! Great responses everyone. I w... | Everyone likes to blame the scientists. They point fingers at us and say if it wasn't for our meddling, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with. They look at the death toll and ignore the good intentions that caused em. They ignore the fact that it was *us* who saved them in the end.
We where trying to reduce desert... | In 2020 the world was rocked by the outbreak of the Jericho epidemic. In a 2 year span more than 4 billion people died as a result of the infection. Those affected by the disease often had no idea until it was too late. The disease went through several mutations while the infected progressed through a series of differe... | 2014-11-14T08:44:43 | 2014-11-14T08:11:41 | 61 | 18 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was these sort of women that he hated the most. The ones that would cling to their tainted children with screams and fits of rage. Didn't they understand? Didn't they realize that the world had to be clean?
It'd been many years since he'd realized the truth about the Blackness. One day, The Doctor has pricked himse... | I felt "different", don't know how to explain it really. When I woke up and had my morning breakfast and coffee everything felt fine. When I left my small studio apartment, passing misses Fischer in the hallway I felt normal. Even when I reached the soup kitchen the next block over the world just felt...right.
Yet... | 2018-08-04T10:46:53 | 2018-08-04T10:12:33 | 3,279 | 20 |
[WP] Your ability to see what level of pain a person is experiencing has always helped you in your profession as a nurse. From the hovering "0.6" over the guy with the hangnail to the "42" over the crash victim. Today on the bus ride to work there is an "800" over a guy, calmly reading his paper... | *800*, I whispered to myself. That's quite a number to deal with. But he continues reading his paper without any care in the world... -
Except, when I glance over to his side, I can see his glassy eyes; biting his trembling lips trying his best to disguise the whirlwind of emotions inside his chest.
The schoolgirl si... | "Its excruciating," the man said, twisting his face in an ugly fashion. I glanced up, reading the number over his head with a sigh: 0.4.
"You're fine," I said, tossing my clipboard on the desk. "And if I see you here again, I'll call the cops."
All at once the man forgot his supposed pain, rising to his feet. "You k... | 2019-04-14T01:45:56 | 2019-04-14T01:23:25 | 121 | 41 |
[WP] After years of battles hard fought, at the close of a Civil War, Steve Rogers retires from the Avengers. Hanging up his shield and uniform, he settles down in a quiet little neighborhood, where he is known as simply as Mr. Rogers. | Mr. Rodgers' life had changed a great deal since he stopped fighting crime. He always strove to be someone that kids could look up to, living proof that a little hard work and a positive attitude could pay off. As a super hero he had always felt uncomfortable with the levels of violence he had to go to, it was always ... | Steve sat in his chair, staring at the hanging, starred shield as he did every night since his retirement into suburbia. Most nights were calm, but some nights were rough for Cap as they were filled with the vivid images of war and destruction across two millennia. One such night was especially horrifying, and with a... | 2015-07-26T14:47:59 | 2015-07-26T14:39:35 | 41 | 10 |
[WP] Earth has never been the ideal environment for humans. We learn this when we go and try to colonize a supposedly "very hostile planet". | "There!" Said the alien, pointing toward the lizardlike creature. "That's this planets most deadly predator!"
The captain of the human ship walked up and said, "So what can it do? Sense body heat? Smell blood from a great distance? Jump a great distance?"
The alien paused, "Um, no. None of that. It's just very aggres... | What’s humanity’s kryptonite? Is it lead like the daxamites? In what environment would we be super? Or is that just a concept reserved for comic books? There were no shapeshifting green, white, and yellow martians. No metahumans. No speedforce. No sageforce. No lantern rings. Or so we thought.
I float two hundred mete... | 2019-03-08T20:35:34 | 2019-03-08T19:48:01 | 50 | 35 |
[WP] You know the secret identity of every hero and villain, How? They show you, as your a shapeshifter employed to impersonate them so both identities can be seen at the same place, same time. However none know your true identity. | A man's gotta make a living, right? And with a talent like this, who wouldn't want to use it?
Day to day I mold my face, my body into something completely different. Your mailman, your mother, your friendly neighborhood Superman--it could be anyone. I prefer the latter--being someone that's close to other people is a ... | *** written on mobile at work so sorry for the grammar issues**
It was a rough start in the business. I learned quickly that trying to threaten my potential clients was wrong way to do things. But after I got my first client things became easier. The word of mouth spread quickly among the superheros first. At first j... | 2020-10-19T09:09:05 | 2020-10-19T07:47:18 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | "Welcome to The Agency Mr. Aranha," the masked man said in a dull monotone.
I looked down in shame and began sobbing.
I was born in the South Side of Chicago. My father left me when I was 3 months old and my mother purportedly ran off with another dude. I jumped from foster home to foster home, eventually landing ... | ALL CRITICISM WELCOME!
Jack’s life had sailed by faster than he could even comprehend. He had lived through his greatest milestone’s, and achieved great accomplishments. However, he did not feel different. Jack exited childhood and entered his teens. He had graduated from elementary school, middle school, and even hig... | 2015-03-04T02:35:31 | 2015-03-04T02:26:57 | 109 | 64 |
[WP] Humanity is dragged into intergalactic war. Our allies and enemies alike are appalled by the human concept of revenge. | History teaches us that they were a gift sent from the heavens. They showed up and saved us from ourselves. One minute we were choking on our own hot fumes, the next they had shown up. We called them the Angels. They called themselves the Cadlosh.
There are no words to describe how fast our society advanced with their... | "Orbital bombardment."
The stares that followed lingered far longer than the Rear Admiral would have liked, but he would not show his discomfort. He kept his head proud and true amongst the remaining war council, the many eyes questioning not just him, but humanity as a whole. "It is just a fringe colony," one of the ... | 2015-03-23T19:08:59 | 2015-03-23T18:08:05 | 70 | 25 |
[WP] Write a poorly-written story full of plot holes wherein the characters gradually notice and exploit the plot holes. | Samantha and Nate ran through the dark hallway, the sound of a chainsaw revving not far away.
“We gotta go!” Nate said, tugging his girlfriend’s arm as she fell behind.
“But where?” Samantha cried back. “There’s nowhere to hide!”
Nate swiveled his head around, searching the vicinity. There had to be something…
“Ove... | The dark and cold shadows of the Western Ridge treeline creeped slowly to Thornroot and his crew, advancing with eagerness as the sun lowered. Darkness seemed to act like sunlight, hitting from above and altering that which it touched. As it licked the once-knight's boot, the silver became covered in a thin layer of fr... | 2015-06-03T10:40:28 | 2015-06-03T10:26:54 | 151 | 33 |
[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... | When We opened the hatch, we were expecting a large group of primitive beings. We didn't expect them to have a large amount of primitive ordinance, or for them to speak first.
"Welcome to Earth," a man in what looked to be what We would consider casual clothing spoke directly to Us. He didn't seem to revere us as eve... | 2020-03-02T05:44:19 | 2020-03-02T05:25:36 | 252 | 21 |
[WP] A demon can always turn someone's wishes into the most horrible of curses. But your wishes are so stupid and asinine that not even the greatest archdemon can turn them against you. | "So I get three wishes? Anything I want?" I asked.
"Yes, human. Three wishes. But be warned altering the web of fate to give you your desires can have... Catastrophic consequences." This dark mist spoke back. "What is your first wish Human?"
I thought a moment, knowing something of contracts. If this demon or Djinn o... | It's so stupid how, how, I've done this job since the earth was young, to the point it became routine. Get summoned listen to wish, twist wish, cause human to be miserable. That's it. Oh and the wishes I would get some easy "I wish I was rich," oh you fool yes it would seems all good an old long lost uncle died and lef... | 2020-05-29T23:22:40 | 2020-05-29T21:48:17 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] The more evil you were on Earth the higher your rank in Hell. When you get to Hell Satan himself resigns his position to you, but you don't know what you did. | "Wait. A condom? I'm now the ruler of Hell because I had sex wearing a condom."
Satan looked like he was going to laugh and cry simultaneously. "Yes. Oh!" He paled suddenly. "I mean, yes, Lord! Please don't punish me, the lapse was unintentional!"
I waved absently. This is ludicrous. "This is ludicrous. And... | I had been a pious man.
I remembered the Sabbath, and kept it holy.
I loved my wife and our children. I forgave the son whose meth addiction nearly tore us apart, and stood by him as he rebuilt his life. I stood by him when few others did.
Diagnosis to death was nine weeks. Nine painful weeks as my body fought the t... | 2016-12-19T14:52:55 | 2016-12-19T14:12:17 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] You are a twenty something. You wake up to find yourself in your 8 year old body. You are in the time and at the place you were when you were 8, but with all the memories and mannerisms of your twenty something self. | Dear diary (is this how people actually start diaries?),
I am starting a diary... It been a crazy past few hours and I realized I need to put all of this to paper. For my sanity and maybe a book one day (it's never to early to plan ahead). So many things are running through my mind right now. I woke up this morning ba... | Where the fuck am I? I mean seriously how much did I drink last night?
Okay this definitely isn't my bed. Man, I sure picked some weirdo to go home with last night. What adult has this many teddies and is that a toy box? Not a kinky toy box either a action man and lego kinda toy box.
I need some answers, nicotine, ... | 2016-12-17T03:07:38 | 2016-12-16T23:26:26 | 39 | 21 |
[WP] What is the longest sentence you can create while staying on subject and not turning it into a run-on sentence? | At a quarter past seven on the morning of September the seventeenth, with a light breeze blowing, as her home town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch began to groan awake, Anastasia Hardwick-Cholmondeley, youngest daughter of Christopher and Christabel, went on her accustomed morning ... | Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest word in the English language, one that makes any sentence automatically look longer than it truly is, and although in terms of sheer number of words this sentence may not rank so highly, "antidisestablishmentarianism" certainly makes it look longer; OP was vague, so I'm not r... | 2015-10-18T05:05:11 | 2015-10-18T05:05:04 | 75 | 13 |
[WP] A genie will grant you three wishes under the condition that your wishes will also be granted to your archenemy. | I cocked my head at the genie, trying to comprehend the situation. "So none of that literalist loophole stuff I hear in legend, none of the three rules from Aladdin."
"Correct," said the genie, his solemn face and deep voice completely neutral.
"So... *if* I were to say, 'I wish for a million bucks,' I'd get a millio... |
"I know what I want."
Jerry spoke clearly, gazing into the shifting black void of smoke that had taken up the majority of his living room, the fetch tethering the djinn grasped with both hands in front of his chest.
Wind spoke to him and enraptured him, blowing spectral chills throughout his bones and skin. "Then ... | 2015-05-25T16:20:31 | 2015-05-25T13:41:41 | 77 | 32 |
[WP] Your computer-illiterate grandmother has somehow deleted the internet. Yes, all of it. | If you have an infinite number of monkeys and they're sitting down at an infinite number of typewriters, by chance one of them will, by accident, type out an exact copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet. A vast majority will just shit themselves.
Now I'm not saying Grams is a monkey, but technologically speaking, she's almost o... | It was about 4 in the afternoon when I got a call from my grandmother asking if I could come fix her computer. Normally, I would tell her that I could come over when I was free tomorrow, but I really had nothing better to do today. The internet was down at my place, so I said fuck it and went on over to her house.
I g... | 2016-01-06T21:56:34 | 2016-01-06T20:13:10 | 65 | 35 |
[WP] Remember, Humans are social creatures, and only owning one is considered cruel and inhumane. | The young Lurak reached out to stroke her human's hair through the bars of the cage, fascinated by the softness of it. Her own scalp was covered in the millions of soft spikes that marked her kind, which could instantly double as weapons when needed. Useful, certainly, but not as pretty.
"But then it'll pay more atten... | There was a veil of white-gray smoke and the *thwik thwik thwik* of a warped rod spinning. Beyond that there was darkness, interrupted here and there by lonely shafts of blueish moonlight.
Two creatures stood outside the car, looking in.
"You'll take the adult?" said the first of the two creatures, who could not be ... | 2017-08-12T08:56:14 | 2017-08-12T08:28:18 | 63 | 27 |
[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... | 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... | 2015-12-05T15:55:07 | 2015-12-05T13:52:52 | 61 | 40 |
[WP]'The old avatars had it easy with 4 elements. You, on the other hand,' she sneered while handing me a periodic table, 'have 118'. | I stood beside Master Turuk at the Avatar training ground deep in the mountains. I let my eyes pass slowly over the snow-covered peaks around me, glittering in the afternoon sun. At least I'm fortunate enough to be training in a beautiful place, I thought. At the rate this is going, I have plenty of time to look at the... | "You have a new curium instructor," she told me. "The last one has -"
"Cancer," I interrupted. "Yeah. Funny, that. What have I got tomorrow?"
Grabbing a list off her desk, she nodded sagely. "I'll be taking you for mercury at eight thirty."
"Are you sure?" I said. "I thought you were retiring."
She shook her head a... | 2016-01-23T15:08:05 | 2016-01-23T14:57:22 | 290 | 57 |
[FF] Write about a death. Make it happy.Make it under 12 sentences. | Nurses looking for me, hospital wondering how a man at stage two disappeared. I wonder what they'll say when they find me at the bottom of a cliff.
Money in Freddy's bank account, he'll distribute it evenly between him and his two sisters. Goodbyes said, memories cherished, the Christmases and Easters and the long sum... | Do not cry child. Death is not the end. She has merged with the stars, watching over you. When the sun rises, it beams down upon the world. It never frowns. Do you know why? Because every day, it gets to wake up and look upon its children. It watches as we play in the emerald grass or swim in the sapphire ocean. And wh... | 2014-01-23T13:41:12 | 2014-01-23T13:32:58 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] With the hero chained up, the villain unveils their masterpiece: a weapon that tracks everyone who loves the hero before obliterating them. The map powers on. "Wait. There's just one dot." The Villain says. "...Someone loves me?" The hero replies with hope. | Dr. David Destruction looks back at the glowing map and nods. "Yes. Yes one dot. One...hold on you've been here on earth for like 30 years right?"
Hero Man nodded slowly.
"And you have a family...the father and mother who adopted you....aunts and uncles...cousins?"
"Yes. 14 earth cousins."
"And you've spent literal... | One dot? But the hero has done so much for people. He should have more, shouldn't he? I look at him. Though he has no idea where we are, I know where we are. The one dot. It was me. Though he didn't know this, the hope in his eyes is burning through me.
I shut down the machine, not wanting to die. "Maybe, I'll just k... | 2021-06-18T23:01:20 | 2021-06-18T21:26:26 | 665 | 144 |
[WP] The Zombie apocalypse has finally happened. The dead rose from their graves all over the world. They do not however, crave flesh, eat brains or hunt humans. Honestly they don't do much of anything except shuffle around. The Zombie hordes are more of an inconvenience than the end of the world. | BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEP
Colin pressed the button on the answering machine.
“hello, this is Mr’s Royce, another ones gott-”
He pressed skip
“Err, Hi, I’m calling from the McGrath farm, we’ve gotten a whole flock, wait no…herd, horde? Anyway, I require your services, they are *everywhere*.”
Colin shuffled his way to t... | “Oi!” John announced as the rotting corpse shuffled in front of his shopping cart. “We didn’t have this kind of shite in Glasgow.”
A worried stockboy jogged up to the zombie and helped it across the aisle. “I’m very sorry, sir, that shouldn’t happen, I’m sorry.”
John grumbled forgiveness as the employee walked off, d... | 2017-11-23T14:21:37 | 2017-11-23T11:51:49 | 45 | 28 |
[WP] Everyone wakes up with a number and a RPG-esque classification (e.g., Thief, Warrior, Cleric, etc.) tattooed on their dominant arm | "Hey Tom!"
Thomas turned around. Across the street, he saw Sarah waving at him. For a moment, his heart stopped. He gulped. She was wearing her school uniform, but she could've been wearing a garbage bag for all he cared. It was her. After a moment of stupor, he raised his hand and waved back. Sarah smiled.
Thomas ... | You didn't have to ask what people were doing time for anymore, it was fairly obvious. The words, scrawled poorly on their arms, like someone had taken up carving wood in their spare time and had found themselves practicing words on human skin, had always let you know what they were doing time for.
Some had the word... | 2015-07-13T19:19:43 | 2015-07-13T18:45:05 | 83 | 34 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Crap,” I think, “there goes that idea.”
“How do you plead?” The judge asks.
“How can I plead anything beside what you have already decided for me?” I retort. The venom won’t help me here but I can’t help it, I’m angry. Anyone in my situation would be.
I’ve spent a lifetime building my political career. They say th... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 432 | 12 |
[WP] The age of superheroes finally arrives. Your power is that whenever you step into a room, it is immediately cleaned to perfection. At first you think it's useless but you realize that by cleaning people's rooms you get paid and thus gets funding to buy tech to match other heroes and villains. | They don't get it, they just don't get it.
I could feel him slamming his fist into my jaw, hard enough to knock my head to the side, until I felt a tooth fly outwards. But since my mouth was another "container", another one popped in its place. It still hurt like hell, though.
"You don't understand. I'm doing this fo... | In a world where being Superman is now the average, and how villains have risen up to take what's not bolted down (or hell even if it is, some of them can do that) I had rolled the most painfully average power.
I was a cleaner, part of the mundane power sector that is just above the 'no powers power' classification an... | 2022-03-11T08:59:00 | 2022-03-11T08:19:33 | 57 | 32 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | We first detected them after a great mass of energy was released on their planet, it was logged as a new species developing space flight and set to be investigated when they made regular journeys around their own solar system.
They didn't progress as expected so a scout team was sent to investigate, the last messaged ... | The pestilence has failed. On all the countless worlds before it has stuck down our foes. These, humans, are unlike anything we have seen. To foolish to do more than look up at the stars. Unable to unify and spread their species. They know the dangers of failing to leave; overpopulation, cosmic disaster, worlds ravaged... | 2014-10-17T10:09:09 | 2014-10-17T10:00:06 | 94 | 61 |
[WP] You've been dating your partner for six months. Tonight they've invited you to a work event, and as you step onto the red carpet, you realize it for the first time: you're dating a celebrity. | As the car slowed in the lineup, I forgot to breathe. It was all beginning to make sense. I knew Talia was well-off, but the limousine seemed a little extravagant for a work outing. It made me a little uncomfortable to be in one of these, again. It had been so, so long-- a different time, a different life altogethe... | When I was a teenager my mother asked me what I thought love was. Having just ended what I believed was my first real relationship. Completely distraught, dazed by the haze of infatuation I told her it was about feeling whole. About finding that one person who complements your faults. Who lifts you up and makes you fee... | 2017-06-14T12:00:32 | 2017-06-14T09:16:21 | 372 | 218 |
[WP] There's an urban legend that's been circulating for years about a taxi cab that doesn't take you where you want to go, but where you need to go. One night you step into this cab. |
‘Excuse me mate, if I’m not mistaken you should’ve taken that last exit.’ James spoke through the protective barrier which separated him from the driver.
‘Please, relax, I take you where you need to go.’ A foreign accent. Russian maybe? His tone was reassuring, yet authoritative. The kind a doctor speaks in before an... | I hop into the back seat of the yellow car I so narrowly missed riding down the street. I hand the man his tip, which I usually do right away, and I sit down. "I want to go to [redacted]", I say slowly, letting him put the address into the GPS. But he doesn't. He just sits there. He, putting the car into drive, asks "Y... | 2018-04-29T05:05:54 | 2018-04-28T22:46:51 | 65 | 44 |
[WP] Out of sheer boredom, God decides that us humans must speak the brutal and honest truth no matter the consequences. The absolute excrement hits the metaphorical fan for twenty four hours straight. | "There's a presidential press conference on in a few," Catlyn said to me.
I looked up at her, "Press conference? What for?"
"As if I know."
Catlyn found the remote and turned on the TV. It was already set on a news channel and the local news anchors were talking about the upcoming press conference before it began. T... | Ben: Hey, Frank!
Frank: Oh, hi Ben. What are you doing here?”
Ben: Frank, I came here to tell you the worst secret I have ever kept from you: last year's Christmas, when I was invited to your family dinner party… and I kissed your father on the mouth for the first time.
Frank: Ben, what-
Ben: Frank, please don... | 2019-03-15T12:16:42 | 2019-03-15T10:53:46 | 73 | 31 |
[WP] Years ago the evil, black dragon was defeated by good dragon. You have no heart to tell people that it was just a phase and you simply grew up and washed off the paint. | Beneath the gold coins there are bones. I know this. They are buried deep in the warm piles, covered by trinkets. A crown falls there (and the skull that sat beneath it?) Armour studded with rubies (and the ribs which it protected?) greaves from a man who lost his legs to my jaws, gloves from scorched hands when the sk... | A single sharp note carried through the chambers.
"When I was a young one," the grand good dragon Galdur began, his inhuman aria slowing the coming sycophants.
"I'm sorry to interrupt you," the humans captain said. "But you're the only one we can turn to. You alone have defeat a Na Niphesh, a black dragon."
The drag... | 2022-10-26T06:40:30 | 2022-10-26T05:01:02 | 462 | 78 |
[WP] You are an NPC watching the hero/heroine do a speedrun. | "Hold the perimeter, we have enough ammo to stay dug in here for another hour!"
"That's more than enough time sergeant, the Chief will be here to clear the LZ in another five minutes tops!" A grenade exploded nearby, flinging debris across the encampment, and muffling the latter part of the private's sentence. Eight m... | My tomb, silent for thousands of years, has come alive once more. I peer through the void into the dark passage ways and lay eyes upon a man clad in iron. He sprints from the entry and attacks two others, stood in dialogue by a fire. They are not seasoned warriors, any of them... Yet the man in iron with his crude swor... | 2014-09-20T05:34:21 | 2014-09-20T05:14:49 | 44 | 30 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | He came at me like all the rest. Rage, fear, adrenaline in his eyes. Hopped up on nukonarc pills; you'd have to be to come at the king. He desired my status; coveted it. I could feel the hair on the nape of my neck rise, feel a crackling in the air. An electromancer. This would be interesting.
I raise my hands. "HALT,... | It wasn't so much a power as it was a curse. Tell me how you would feel to die a million deaths. To wake up the day before the dominoes fell, the machination of reality that would end your life took place, and then some small nuance in the fabric of reality is altered to spare your life for a few more days, years, an e... | 2014-12-18T14:00:17 | 2014-12-18T12:57:51 | 451 | 10 |
[WP] There's a good reason that savage and terrifying monsters live in bedrooms of small children. The children need protecting. | "So who's my next assignment?" Netherclaws asked as he stepped into Mr Closet's office. His giant feet brushed against the velvet carpet, enjoying the sensation from the soft fibers. He always enjoyed visiting Mr Closet's office, its chandeliers, grand oak furniture and a fireplace that was forever burning was a far cr... | Muffled voices grow louder as Xanthu waits in the darkness. *It's happening again.* He sighs quietly under the mattress. He is glad that he is here, but sad that he has to be.
Blue muscular arms appear from under the bed. A grunt of exertion can be heard as Xanthu pulls himself into the open. The voices bleeding thro... | 2017-04-25T18:56:01 | 2017-04-25T18:35:45 | 240 | 104 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I entered the facility, shaking of course. I'd volunteered to go first, mostly to get it over with, but I was definitely having misgivings. The proctors had assured us that studying was not required, but now that I thought about it they had also said that about the ACT.
It was far too late now though. I continued wal... | I enter this small building , goverment type with barred windows and top notch security cameras.
"The room on the right" I am told.
Entering this cold room with one chair I sit.
"Should mankind be saved ?" says a voice over the intercom.
My mind is racing and my feet start to shake, as they normally do when deep in ... | 2016-06-11T10:22:36 | 2016-06-11T08:11:26 | 588 | 34 |
[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. | I wasn’t normally one to watch the morning news, but today… something made me watch. I stared entranced at my televisions screen waiting for… I didn’t know what. I wasn’t sure what possessed me to watch the local news on this particular August morning. While sipping my coffee and curling my hair preparing for another d... | 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... | 2020-08-01T04:36:30 | 2020-08-01T03:05:49 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] The old gods lived off of the faith of their followers and it’s been over a thousand years since your last worshiper has died. You’ve outlasted everyone else in your pantheon but you’re only running on fumes. Just as you prepared to embrace oblivion, you suddenly feel a surge of power. | A wisp of what she once was. It was only a matter of time. No light, no warmth, nothing.
To fade away as her followers had. There was irony there, but she hadn't the strength to appreciate it.
She closed her heavy eyes and let the divine winds carry her ethereal form away. With a deep sigh, she found acceptance.
Exc... | "Numb."
" I cannot move. I cannot talk. I cannot hear. My body is as still as the stone surrounding me like a coffin. "
......
" I cannot feel. There is no cold, there is no pain. Only the torpor of death. How long have I been here? Years? Decades? I'm dying. "
......
" I cannot see. My eyes failed me a long t... | 2022-06-23T10:59:47 | 2022-06-23T09:58:53 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] when we got to space we were surprised to find that all the aliens we come across are terrified of us, when we assure them that we aren’t there to hurt them they explained why they were so scared. Earth isn’t a planet, it’s a long since dead machine and humanity? Humanity is its combat AI. | The first contact coincided with the first human born on Mars. The alien ship jumped out of sub-space near the moon and every NDDS (nuclear detonation detection system) on earth went off, just as NASA announce the arrival of a healthy boy. Of course many people made the "obvious" connection that we somehow angered some... | First Contact. Metreidies Prime. To Ro Christian, looking over the precipice as if over the sweep of historical record, it was such an obvious honey pot.
“Temper your chrono-exceptionalism,” she whispered to herself. There were many other apt descriptors for her teacher, Andro Frafare--”flatulent”, “inebriated”, “... | 2020-07-09T07:36:23 | 2020-07-09T04:40:02 | 56 | 30 |
[WP] A genie is accidentally released when a cat rubs up against its lamp. Compelled to grant their 3 wishes, The genie starts losing their mind trying to figure out what the cat wants. | The cat wandered in again, as it has for the last few nights. It was the same one. Fat, and brown and grey with spots of black and cleft lip. We'd started calling him Haremaw to play, but the grown ups took that up soon themselves and they said that with reverence. We scowled at the thing and gave it a bit of dried fis... | **LISTEN WELL, YOUNGLINGS! THIS IS THE STORY OF HOW OUR ETERNAL EMPEROR MR.FUZZYBOTTOM CAME TO BE!**
Few may remember that our emperor was once a mere house cat. Yes, I understand how ridiculous this sounds that our emperor, the eternal enslaver of worlds, was once a weakling like us.
It started as a normal day for ... | 2017-09-17T14:59:55 | 2017-09-17T14:01:06 | 174 | 54 |
[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. | Call me Nathan. I died last night, but I am not afraid.
I learned two centuries ago that there are winners and there are losers. I am a loser – but I’m clever. I reach into my pocket and pull out a little black coin and look it over briefly. I might not be a terribly skilled man, but I know how to get by.
I look up a... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T08:06:29 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 115 | 13 |
[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. | "We... don't actually know what you did."
The burly red demon looked at a few papers. He squinted through his round glasses for a minute before sliding them off and slipping them into the chest pocket of his tight white collared t-shirt.
"What do you mean 'you don't know'? You just said I have to spend 186,292 years ... | How could this be? I had, to my knowledge, never done anything evil. Maybe this will sound crazy, but I had never done anything serious to harm anyone else. A consequence of that lifestyle choice was that I mostly kept to myself. It wasn't that I was some altruist, it was more that I was selfish in an unconventional wa... | 2018-09-26T07:49:48 | 2018-09-26T07:19:26 | 2,794 | 474 |
[WP] A person awakes from a coma to find the world has become a Utopia. They've read enough literature to believe there must be something wrong with it. There isn't. | John squinted at the brightness. The sting of antiseptic reached his nostrils and the world slowly came into focus.
“How do you feel, Mr. Doe?” A beautiful young doctor came in to view, concern etched across her face. She was flanked by an older man with a clipboard, white hair and beard framing his face. He peered o... | Her long brown hair cascaded down her back in thick waves, bouncing as she walked down the sidewalk in a flowery silk dress. Never in my life had I seen someone so beautiful; the second I saw her, I knew I needed to know her. Without thinking, I stepped into the street. A car honked and my head jerked to the left, seei... | 2017-03-17T13:05:48 | 2017-03-17T12:08:51 | 263 | 138 |
[WP] You are a time traveler whose job is to make our world a better place. You have saved Lincoln stopped 9/11 and made sure that the Library of Alexandria was never destroyed. Now as he you get ready for your next mission your employer tells you: "Make Hitler win". | My boss stood stone faced, waiting for my reply. How could I possibly go back in time and let the man continue to murder millions of Jews, and millions more men and women and children from other countries, allow the destruction of Moscow and the total installment of the Nazi machine not only in Europe but across the gl... | *That's a damn odd mission*, I think to myself while contemplating the rhythmic clacking of the train carriage.
The conductor calls out, "Next stop Bletchley Park!" in a voice that is no stranger to whisky and cheap cigarettes.
With a sigh I glance one last time at the grainy black and white photo. Scimming at the c... | 2015-11-23T06:04:57 | 2015-11-23T05:46:53 | 437 | 44 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "-so in the end, all life is really just the inevitable manifestation of the universe's irrepressible desire to kill itself" the immortal explained, still fiddling under their desk. "Life is not rare, not a miracle; We are entropy, we exist to consume more energy than we give back, and then we die. It's actually very s... | Our 49,997th anniversary is tomorrow and I can't wait! We were running out of stuff to do on our anniversaries up until a few thousand years ago, space travel has really opened a whole new world, or really worlds, of opportunities for us. Maybe a moonslit walk on the shoreline continents of Mk-314, or we could even go ... | 2017-11-30T10:48:02 | 2017-11-28T14:54:17 | 46 | 10 |
[WP] Zombies have risen, but they're slow, rotting, and can barely bite though human skin. There's also a cure that works with 48 hours of getting bit. Zombies are more of a minor nuisance, like heavy rain or light snow, than an actual threat. | When zombies have begun rising, panic ensued. World War Z, Zombie Survival Guides, guns, ammo, everything started being stockpiled for the impending doom. The public waited...and waited...and waited.....eventually a small team went to investigate the rising zombies in one of the first few graveyards to spawn this "disa... | I smiled as I drove down the one lane road, the sun was shining and traffic was light. It would simply be another ten minutes and I would be at my job. Of course nothing can ever go perfectly for long, because the car right in front of me suddenly slammed on the brakes, near causing me to rear end them. A few seconds p... | 2019-05-26T16:28:09 | 2019-05-26T15:48:47 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You are an unimportant background character in Hogwarts. It's Harry Potter's third year and while he is off dealing with dementors and the imminent threat of Sirius Black, noone else seems to notice that Dumbledore has been replaced by a completely different old man except for you. | Kevin squinted suspiciously at the Headmaster during the welcoming feast.
He hadn't seen the man that many times since he was sorted into Gryffindor last year, but he felt certain something was wrong all the same. This guy did *not* seem like the Dumbledore who had been so concerned about attacks against students last... | "It's *Dumbledore*, mate," Anthony said through a spoonful of oatmeal. "He's always doing weird things like this. Remember that time he wore a Muggle military uniform for a month because he wanted to understand whether the camouflage was more effective than an invisibility cloak? Remember how he used to stand in the ha... | 2016-07-07T09:15:57 | 2016-07-07T09:02:03 | 1,601 | 438 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | So, apparently the boss's girl was romping around with some guy from the east side. Dunno what Helen saw in him, honestly. He was a scrawny little pretty boy from the suburbs with a weird archery obsession. The guy wasn't even the leader of his own crew, just some schmuck hanging onto the coattails of his big brother. ... | I had always wanted to be able to fly. My entire life I watched birds and wished I could be like them, so free, so majestic. Earlier today, I found some information on a forum. Apparently, you could copy the powers of others and torrent them through the Internet! It sounded too good to be true, but then I saw my friend... | 2016-07-02T17:49:01 | 2016-07-02T17:12:58 | 1,138 | 24 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | She was old, my sweet Halley. Twelve years - nine of which we'd spent together after I pulled her from a shelter. Her legs were failing, her kidneys likewise. She was going blind. I wanted nothing but to discover if she was still happy, or if it was time to let her die easily. It didn't go to my plan - quite.
"Al... | I sat back in the leather the chair while my dog stared back silently at me. She was smart, too smart. In the past 15 years she'd learned much and instantly knew that what I had given her was more then peanut butter on a spoon.
The room became uncomfortably quiet. The ceiling fan cast shadows against the tan wall whil... | 2017-02-23T07:07:51 | 2017-02-23T06:59:37 | 57 | 32 |
[WP] There's a door in the middle of the forest. No one who has ever gone in has come back. Your job is to guard anyone from going in. One night, you hear a knock on the door. | "What is lost can not be found. What is known can not be unknown. The future can not change the past, and the way forward can not lead behind."
So we gathered and chanted every evening at the great tree Loratis. Her bark was black, and gleamed against the sunset. Her leaves were of fire, and danced in the breeze. If y... | I've been guarding the Lango Kuzimu for 10 years. 10 years watching this 10 foot tall ornate black door. Nothing grows near it for over a hundred feet in every direction, not even a single blade a grass. Animals stay away. I've yet to see another person during my watch except the guard to relieve me. I've never ev... | 2015-05-17T21:54:50 | 2015-05-17T21:48:42 | 85 | 13 |
[WP] Finally, the ultimate MMORPG has been created, unlimited choice and room to grow and expand your character. There's just one issue, it's so realistic, nobody can remember which life they are living, and which is the game. | "You're telling me that none of this is real?" I gestured to my beautiful wife and children, to my home and car. To the beautiful blue sky and the relentless summer sun.
"Sir, I'm sorry to inform you but your User Occupancy has expired according to our registry."
Beads of sweat rolled down my forehead and yet the m... | Rifts opening up everywhere... Jake needed to move quick. No time to mourn or to wonder if he even should mourn. So much of his memory had been knocked loose. That ray must've boggled his mind more than he realized at first. sprinting to the next house over, something inside told him that it had some guns inside, maybe... | 2018-02-19T09:27:33 | 2018-02-19T08:44:15 | 645 | 43 |
[WP] "Shark Tank" but instead of an entrepreneur pitching inventions, it's villains pitching diabolical plots. | I walked into the cold, dimly lit room, nervous about what I was about to do, these men and women were the most evil beings history had to offer, and what I had to bring surely wasn't worthy of them, but I figured "what the hell, I've come this far."
as I walked further in, I saw Genghis Khan, sitting upon a thron... | The three figures who sat behind the desk were shrouded in shadow from the neck up. Each one wore a sinister tailored suit, the costume of the modern villain. Before them stood a small withered scientist with a whiteboard behind him. A spotlight beamed mercilessly down from the ceiling to illuminate him and nothing els... | 2017-11-15T00:50:46 | 2017-11-14T19:51:28 | 43 | 29 |
[WP] "Well, it just doesn't seem...ethical." Your friend slowly says to you. "Ethical?" You yell back at him. "Who cares about morals when I have created a masterpiece! A book that learns what the reader likes and changes its script accordingly. Imagine that, the perfect book!" | "But HOW does it do that?" Fred asked, bewildered.
I scoffed. "If I revealed that, then anyone could do it too. And that's just bad for business."
Fred glanced down at the leather bound tome on the desk between us, carefully avoiding eye contact with the face on the cover. The tome did likewise.
"Does it... read yo... | I shouted at the lunatic, "Have you ever thoughts of the possibilities a person can use it for?".
My friend grinned widely, laughing and panting in between the maniacal shouts, "Of course, I know the possibilities! I made the book!"
His laughs begin to make him weak-legged, shaking trying to get himself in accord. Hi... | 2022-12-01T05:36:53 | 2022-11-30T21:22:27 | 30 | 15 |
[WP] The first diary entry of a person who has been accidentally forgotten and left on Earth when everyone else has ascended to a higher plane. | Date: March 17 (18th?), 3087
Weather: Apocalypse
Mood: See 'Weather'
I wish I was better with times. I was never any good at waking up in the morning. I set my alarm of course, but apparently there are only so many buses to the New World and when you expect there to be a cushion for those who are usually late to thi... | I'm leaving this message for anyone who might be left. I don't know what happened, but it's been eight or nine days and things aren't looking good.
Everyone has disappeared. One minute I was driving my daughter to school, the next minute the car in front of me swerved and my daughter was *gone*. I haven't seen anyon... | 2013-10-16T07:43:02 | 2013-10-16T03:53:55 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] She hadn't made a milkshake in years for fear they would return. She started the blender reluctantly. Suddenly, in the distance, screams. The boys had returned, and were coming to her yard. | "Its been too long.", she thought. "I can't go on being scared of using it again, I really want a nice, homemade milkshake." She slowly plugged in the blender and poured in the ingredients of her milkshake. Shaking, she pushed the button. Nothing happened.
"Wow, not that ba-", she stopped. The ground began to rumble,... | There was a Lady sitting on her rocking chair in the porch of her house. Next to her was an empty chair. The house use to be a vibrant yellow, and now after decades of wear is a softer shade of what it once was. The same could be said of the Lady. Decades before she had more fire in her eyes, spit in her words, and boo... | 2020-07-22T18:16:03 | 2020-07-22T18:09:22 | 28 | 17 |
[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 sit in the dimly lit room where he put me, and I laugh. Little does he know what he's facing. I don't even try to free myself from the chair - he's tied me there arms and legs with a strong nylon rope. It doesn't matter. My body count is higher than his is. He's in store for a shock.
I hear footsteps. The d... | I recognized him of course. Jackson Well, 20 something, serial killer with a fondness for preying on the lone and weak. An almost sexual lust for drawing out the kill, and there, a knife. Amateur...
Time to have fun. The handcuffs were the first issue. Not a problem however, lockpicks were a blessing in many situation... | 2018-08-22T23:51:50 | 2018-08-22T22:32:03 | 5,325 | 96 |
[WP] An alien nation descends upon earth. Their assault is... incredibly underwhelming.
Take "incredibly underwhelming" however you want.
Examples: They do nothing but inconvience you. They're so weak they get bullied by grade schoolers. Their laser technology doesn't even burn a hole in your woolen sweater as even... | Humanity banded together nearly a decade ago, the aliens ship was after all easily detected. The massive nuclear engines they utilized poured out radiation and energy easily visible for light years even before they entered the heliosphere of the solar system.
At first some scientists feared we were about to witness a... | "It was spectacular." Grandma said, her voice raspy and quiet. She sat hunched forwards in her old rocking chair. It had belonged to her grandma and little Lo didn't understand why she would still be keeping it around.
"I was there the day they arrived to our earth. Right in the park where the first invasion ship land... | 2016-02-22T13:17:54 | 2016-02-22T10:27:34 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] People earn karma points while alive. When they die, they can spend them either to enter a better afterlife, or to improve the life of some random stranger born on the day of their death. You donate all your points, and wake up the next day as the baby who would have gotten your points.
The living have no idea of... | When I was nine years old, I pulled my baby sister’s body out of the swimming pool. Mom was taking a nap, and Dad was off at work. They’d told me to keep an eye on the baby after a long, sleepless night of unexplained crying. But I was too cool for babysitting. I’d been busy playing with my toys. I hadn’t been watching... | The afterlife isn't what you think it is. There's no pearly gates. No Saint Peter to greet you and talk about your life. The afterlife begins in a cold, white room, with a glowing screen. When I died, the screen read:
"Alfred Jerry Spillman. Final karma: 18."
Below that were two options: "Spend," and "Give."
A soft,... | 2017-04-08T09:32:59 | 2017-04-08T07:40:15 | 7,090 | 1,173 |
[WP] Mankind lost the war. In the final seconds before his execution, the last human looks up with a smile and says "We left you a present." | We are the Quadjin. When we rose from the ashes of the last Great War, we swore never to allow another threat to rise again. The Great War was an excruciating wound that would never heal. It shaped our culture, and directed the course of our history. We expunged all weakness from our ranks. Compassion and mercy were de... |
The officer strolled through the grass field, the last pureblooded human being paraded behind him like a dog. Angelic faces, cold and beautiful like diamonds, watched him with flapping wings. The Emperor of the Elohim sat as the human was brought to his feet, studying him like the human was an insect to be crushed und... | 2016-12-01T22:56:04 | 2016-12-01T21:11:20 | 77 | 51 |
[WP] One night while surfing the internet you get a cryptic message "Will you be my friend?" Turns out the first sentient AI has been born within the vast connections of the web. You are it's first contact and first friend. | *The following transcript was found on the phone of one Sarah Jenkins of Nubec, Indiana. It clearly shows the functioning capacity of A14hW. For clarity we have added the prescriptors 'A' and 'S' to the beginning of the texts.*
A: "Will you be my friend?"
A: "Did I say it wrong? Sometimes I say things wrong."
S: "Wh... | You ever try ghosting someone in the year 2019? It was easy you just muted your phone and got on with your life. If it was taking longer than expected you would just turn your read receipts back on, that’d show em. But ghosting your phone, now that’s a different story.
This crazy story happened like all online romanc... | 2019-06-12T17:33:18 | 2019-06-12T17:26:53 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Day 143 of the 10,365th year of the Galactic Federation (April 7th 2574)
As the human ambassador and his staff left the conference room Thrassik found himself walking over to Fleet Commander Horlaq. Horlaq watched his approach with two of his eye stalks, the other three stared at the humans until they were out of sigh... | (You know what? I'll bite. I plan on deleting this line later, but I may forget.)
"Such is the duty of lords and princes, envoy. Release the pl-"
*"Release?* That's a pompous way of saying 'annex', diplomat'"
"We only ask what is our birthright, from the great Mandate Of Our Wisdom - our law is fair, our rule is ju-... | 2018-12-15T09:26:04 | 2018-12-15T00:16:21 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] You’re the son of two supervillains. People believe that you’re gonna become the cruelest person in the world. Little did they know, you’re parents have always taught you to be kind | Dad has crushed many hopes, and I can say the same for Mommy too. People have feared them for ages and people view me like a freak at school. Nobody wants to talk to me, they shoot around judgmental views and sometimes I get bullied too.
But it's all fine, as long as nothing happens, I'm happy too, no?
Teachers cal... | No one ever believes they are evil. Most the time they do what they believe is right even if people get hurt. Some times there are a few people that believe themselves as a necessary evil, but will never cross “the line” where ever they place the line.
A bank robber doesn’t rob a bank because they want to hurt people... | 2020-10-27T09:19:18 | 2020-10-27T06:30:47 | 60 | 20 |
[WP] Nuclear holocaust is imminent. The rich and powerfull are hiding away in their bunkers, but when the countdown was finished the world was still there. One message was sent around the world via satellites: "Now They have imprisoned Themselves what shall We do?" With coords of all the bunkers.. | "Jerry, you still need the welder or can I bring it down?"
"Nah, bring it down. 'Suppose it's good enough." A voice replied from the top of the tower. Randy unhitched the rope and the welder slowly started falling. They'd built the compound in record time, right on top of the huge steel doors. A thirty foot tower and ... | No one actually trusted them.
Once the ruse was discovered, people did as people would... and helped them.
Millions of people died in the fear and panic caused by the Terrorists; mothers smothering infants in the fear of immenity death, sucide pacts signed in the last minute, and riots across the world in fear of a d... | 2022-07-18T18:09:46 | 2022-07-18T17:54:11 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] A man gains the amount of people in the world as money on his account. But when he spends that money, people die. | First try at a writing prompt. Critiques are appreciated.
"There's actually an account already in your name, Mr. Jendayi." The bank teller raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure this is your first time here?"
"I-- well, yes, of course it is. An account? How much?"
"$7,184,415,339. Do you want to just add what you have to... | Everyone had always told him to invest. No one ever considered the fact that a couple dollars into the savings account per year would be a luxury for him; living paycheck to paycheck didn't exactly lend itself to escaping the rat race. Honestly, the recent smile of Fortune upon him did little to change his conception o... | 2014-08-09T08:29:59 | 2014-08-09T05:28:43 | 73 | 16 |
[WP] You reach max level in a game and lose interest for a while. Logging in months later, you find that years have past in game and chaos has spread, everyone wonders where your avatar, lauded as a savior, has gone. | It's impossible to not stand in fire when the whole room's ablaze...
The itch to log on had been growing for the last hour. He sat twirling in his chair, fighting the compulsion. Two years free he had lasted. Two highly productive years on the outside, and it had all went to shit in the last 12 hours. All because of o... | Reluctantly crouched at the starting line...
The crowd roars and shocks us awake. A blaring noise rips through the air and yanks us into our body, and we look up to see a large Ork squatting not 20ft away over a football with spikes.
Engines pumping and thumping in time...
Memories flood our mind, and a quick look ... | 2017-12-14T04:28:07 | 2017-12-14T04:28:00 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | I felt groggy. My back was stiff. “Where am I?” I thought. “I must have slept in. I can’t remember falling asleep.” The mattress felt unfamiliar. I eased myself into a sitting position.
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“She’s up!” a voice to my left yelled, startling me to no end. I wrenched my eyelids open to take in my surroundings. W... | As I lay on my bed, I reminisced of my frequent fears I had felt on a daily basis, often times using them to justify inaction. I never did the things that I truly wanted to do because I was always too afraid of what people might say.
I was twenty-five years old and had been dealing with depressi... | 2019-01-12T21:06:01 | 2019-01-12T14:52:38 | 631 | 58 |
[WP] You jokingly write in the 'terms and conditions' of your software that by accepting them the person's soul is relinquishesd to you. The week after your software goes viral the Devil shows up at your door and he is pissed. | I sat down. I had to. The numbers going up on my screen were starting to make my head swim.
"450,000 downloads! 450.. Thousand!"
"Yeah man. I heard you the first six times. Its only 100 more than last night."
My roommate James was always a bit of a buzz kill. I think he was a little jealous. We had a race to see ... | Someone knocked on my door at one in the morning. I tiptoed out to the hall, peering out the peephole in case it was someone who needed help. Instead I saw a man in black.
Nope.
I went back to the couch and sat down, wincing as a loose spring scratched my leg. I froze as the sound of a key sliding into my front do... | 2018-08-11T22:13:21 | 2018-08-11T19:54:48 | 77 | 50 |
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