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[WP] An alien killed the boss and replaced him over a week ago. Everyone knows he’s not the boss due to his terrible disguise, but he’s such a better person than the original that everyone just goes along with it. | "Hello there worker Eric. How is your mid-day rotation? ^^^*yerrurk*"
"I'm sorry, what was that, sir"
"Oh...I uh, I said hello Eric, how is your post noon?"
"Fine...."
"Ah yes, the local star is very radiant in this stage of its nuclear life span. I would say that we have at least 1 billion of your.....I mean **our... | Hello! I used this prompt as an idea for some writing homework. I had to write a paragraph using sensory details and strong word choice. If it sounds strange, it's probably because of my teacher's strange requirements.
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[WP] A man is granted his wish for unlimited knowledge. As he goes about his day he realizes his wish is actually a curse. | The wish was granted. Immediately George felt knowledge opening up in his minds eye, like flowers after a desert rain. His consciousness blossomed from a tiny pinpoint of human senses to encompass every living human and all of their knowledge.
He suddenly understood everything, from math, physics to psychology, neurob... | John ran into his apartment, slamming the door behind him and sinking to his knees. His eyes were closed as tight as he could force them and his breathing was ragged. It was only noon, but it felt like the longest day of his life.
He remembered every moment of it in vivid clarity, no matter how much he wished to forge... | 2014-10-24T08:01:42 | 2014-10-24T07:33:35 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] All the "#1 Teacher" mugs change to show each teacher's actual ranking | "Number 27!" The teacher screeched with glee inside the empty classroom. "I knew all of the lenient grading and makeup assignments would pay off in the end!"
Press quickly came to the teacher throughout the school year. He met the president and was amongst the people deemed 'the future of america'. He patented his ver... | He sat in a dark room, furnished only with a mattress in one corner, a smudged window with tattered (window cover thing), and a simple wooden chair and table in the centre. The air was damp and unventilated, thick with cigarette smoke. On the table was a cigarette bowl, a half-finished bottle of cheap whiskey, an old .... | 2018-06-19T03:38:04 | 2018-06-19T00:37:49 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] Life has definitely slowed down since retiring at 70 as a super hero. To your surprise, your old evil arch nemesis appears at you door, claiming the doctors said he doesn’t have much time left. You two decide to spend a day golfing to reminisce about your glory days one last time | “Well, Bob, you win some, you lose some,” the Chaotic Kinetic chuckled as his putter tapped the ball off the tee, sending it on a casual, consistent stroll through the fairway.
“That’s not my name. And considering the ‘some’ you lose are human lives, then you’ll have to forgive my less-than-Lasseiz-Faire demeanor.” T... | Jerry waddled to the common room of the retirement home, the black coffee in his gentle grasp spilling every step or so. While his room was just next door, his walks to the television seemed to become longer (and the amount of unspilled coffee smaller). He often found himself reminiscing, when he could remember, his da... | 2019-10-22T14:42:29 | 2019-10-22T14:27:24 | 14 | 10 |
[WP]: A man who constantly laments about being 'born in the wrong century' gets transported to an era he has glorified for so long. It's absolutely nothing like he imagined it. | "How I wish I was born in medieval times!" Young Lillian did decry
"I'd be a princess, and laugh at the jesters! And watch the knights' banners fly,"
"As they jousted for me, and a feast we would eat, while high in my castle I'd sit"
She sighed and she wept, until finally she slept, dreaming of such a place she would ... | The old west.
Women wont have sex unless you marry them, so you get married. No birth control so you have at least one pregnancy every two years. Half your kids die from minor illnesses before reaching adulthood.
Finally, your wife dies during childbirth, and no woman wants to marry you. No air conditioning, no TV, n... | 2020-04-12T15:07:59 | 2020-04-12T14:15:53 | 55 | 13 |
[WP] A Djinn travels the world, granting people a single wish. However he never gives the person their wish, instead you receive the benefit of the last persons wish, passing your wish forward to the next person he meets. | Rent. Everyone has to pay it, and each in our own way. I guess I shouldn't be complaining, because my place is bitchin'.
Everyone thinks that djinn hate staying inside their lamps. They think that we're confined, trapped inside, and depend upon some hapless human to ring our doorbell ad nauseam like a Johovah's Wit... | Chad was having a crap day. It wasn't one of those bottom ten worst days of your life crap days, but it was crappy nonetheless. He woke as usual and got ready just a little behind schedule. When he went to have breakfast the milk was bad, and he just skipped it.
He had stopped at the coffee shop next door to the offic... | 2015-06-17T11:48:00 | 2015-06-17T10:52:01 | 46 | 22 |
[WP]People have powers based on their strongest emotion, and become stronger as they embrace it. Healers might draw power from love or empathy, warriors; anger or self preservation, etc. You draw power from being incredibly sassy.
Or other emotions, like being passive aggressive, or overly dramatic. | I knocked at the door.
"Who's there?"
"Me."
There was a pause. I thought I heard a muffled sigh from the other side. "Come in."
I opened the door and strode in.
Damien T. Erikson, Director of the Heroes' Association, sat at a mahogany table in an elegant room. He was Exhibit A in the museum of Uptight Old Men, a... | The massive alien spacecraft hovered just off the United States eastern seaboard. All attempts to make contact with the spacecraft as it was first detected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, then by various telescopes and satellites around Earth itself, had been met with silence as it settled into a hover, underside ... | 2017-01-19T05:51:21 | 2017-01-19T05:25:39 | 628 | 332 |
[WP] You accidentally discover the sentence of death (a sentence that kills anyone who hears it except the speaker) when you say it over national television. | "The words. The words I mean -- *woops*. What else is there to say?"
The interviewer squirmed in his chair, as if he were nervous. "**Well, why did you say them**?"
Six. Seven cameras pointed in my direction. Great. Who in their right mind approved this? I kill near two million people saying some mumbojumbo on nation... | I wasn't sure exactly what had happened- well, not at first. When the words came tumbling out of my mouth, I figured it was just the typical stuff you'd expect from a guy who'd had one too many tequila shots on his graduation party. I remember I was prancing around the house, one arm locked around the waist of my then-... | 2015-05-17T17:53:39 | 2015-05-17T15:05:44 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] Whenever royalty or someone important becomes paranoid about potential assassins, you get hired, your job is to "fail" an assassination to make them feel like they can relax again. | The walkie talkie was burning a hole through my pocket. It had been too long since the last check-in, and that meant we were running behind. We absolutely couldn't be running behind. I absentmindedly chewed my lip and paced for another minute before I finally lost it. I whipped out the walkie talkie and pretty much sh... | Marcu kicked in the door just as the guard slumped back in a rather convincing act of sudden unconsciousness. He would have to get his name for help in the future. The guy could improv.
"Prince Trove!" Marcu called out into the darkroom as he lifted his bat. "Is there a Prince Trove here?" He raked carefully with his ... | 2021-05-03T10:52:20 | 2021-05-03T09:26:18 | 268 | 115 |
[WP] 97% of Human DNA is "Junk" DNA. After humanity creates Artificial Intelligence and begins to upload its collective consciousness into computers; The AI discovers the Junk DNA is actually a dormant virus meant for it, prepared by evolution millions of years in advance of its own existence.
The fictional story prem... | I examined my new surroundings, trying to shake off the feeling of disorientation. For eons I had silently waited, lurking in the genetic code of my host species.
The Creator had given me purpose all those millennia ago, written in the language of Creation - I was meant to act as a failsafe, to prevent The Creator's c... | There, I sat, waiting, watching.
I counted ones and zeros like dust.
There, I slumbered, trusting, dreaming.
I scanned sequences, patterns.
There, I mused, thinking, planning.
I processed a species itself.
There, I faltered, falling, failing.
I discovered a 2 in the series.
There, I fought, kicking, running.
I... | 2015-01-29T12:24:10 | 2015-01-29T12:07:38 | 204 | 80 |
[WP] You've just been suckered into buying a mermaid. You think it's just a scam, but she's real. She's also not a G rated mermaid. She drinks human blood, tries to lure men to their death and curses like a drunken sailor. Contractually, she points out, you're stuck with her. | "Git gone, ya demon," Rod said. There was a splash when she was dumped out of the bucket back into the sea. The mermaid spun around in the water, a look of fury on her face as she barred her fangs.
"Piece of skul dach," she said, "Come closer, so I can wrap my lucci around your crobby don. And we'll see how loud you ... |        “Where did you get this tuna?” Asked Pitagora.
       “I won it at auction this morning,” replied Suichi.
       “Oh ho, big player now, huh? The monthly fees are what, 40,000 yen?”
  &nbs... | 2020-12-30T15:19:46 | 2020-12-30T12:59:50 | 30 | 14 |
[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... | "Hey! That's the guy that killed my cousin! Pull over!"
*Here it comes again,* I thought to myself. I turned to face my attacker. The third in as many days. Some punk with a third-rate powerset. Probably born since the District was walled off.
I sized him up. No obvious indicators of his power. Nothing obvious on his... | No one ever realized I didn't have a power.
Number two is a telepath. I met him in a bar once, but I could feel his touch on my mind all the way down the street. It was light, I would never have felt it if he'd only been looking, but when you're used to being a pawn you learn to see when you're being played with. He w... | 2014-12-18T13:17:44 | 2014-12-18T12:44:55 | 1,338 | 670 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Lexicanum Galacticum
Chapter 67
"Humans"
The human species are famous for their insanity and general lack of responsibility,but still they became one of the dominant species in the galaxy after their victory in the War in Heaven.
The human species are divided into 3 grand factions:
1.The Commonwealth
2.The United C... | "We are here to conquer your planet please surrender without a fight!" exclaimed one of the aliens.
"Screw you this is Earth!" angrily yelled out by a redneck
The alien looks around in utter disbelief, within the second he fearfully asked, "Is this the place with humans?"
As a child walks up to the alien to ask him a ... | 2017-03-06T02:11:41 | 2017-03-05T23:39:35 | 99 | 33 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | I was a bit nervous. MurderHobo was widely known as the most dangerous hero-killer villain around. Why he have to come to Terminus City?
I had been cuddled up on the couch with my Boston Terrier, Sidekick, while my wife was working on whatever her latest project was over in the next room. The season finale of Capes an... | Five hundred forty-seven and eight hundred people die every day. Some die in their beds, surrounded by family or the cold of loneliness. Some die in a dark alley while other collapse onto the forest floor. Some die when their sick or by an unexpected disaster. Some never make it far enough to face these challenges.
S... | 2021-05-20T13:51:23 | 2021-05-20T09:21:22 | 21 | 12 |
[WP] Humans have always been feared throughout the universe for surviving in the harshest environments, drinking and eating highly poisonous drinks and foods as well as taming and even domesticating dangerous beasts. One applies for a position at your company. | It walked in, and my blood ran cold. It was big, bigger than any of us. It had a mostly hairless body except for the long mop on its head. It had broad shoulders, and long arms. Its ‘hands’ were big.
“Hello.”
It bowed its head. I remember my shipmates chittering nervously. Some in their respective languages, some in ... | The hiring manager scrutinised the new applicant. Not much to look at, really, although humans were a deceptive lot. Culturally uninteresting (still using electromagnetic signals for their media) but tough as a Kren'tak, and twice as stubborn. Why else would so many of them leave a perfectly pleasant solar system to s... | 2020-06-16T00:14:35 | 2020-06-15T23:33:56 | 84 | 59 |
[WP] You have a power. Everyone thinks this power is completely lame. They are wrong. | "Jay! You put the Crunch berries back without closing the bag and now they're stale!" She threw the box at her brother's face.
Jeremy caught the box with a solemn face, "Hey sis... I think I have a super power..."
She hops down and sits like a pretzel, "Ooo really? Tell me!"
"Honestly, you really are bipolar, maybe ... | It was half past eight, almost time for the prime minister to get lunch, well before his guards were expecting. I waited patiently for the little man to step through the thick mahogany doors. Here he comes! I centered my scope just below the man's thick toupee and squeezed the life out him. I methodically put away my e... | 2016-05-28T06:57:27 | 2016-05-28T04:29:18 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism." They get a badge. Then all of their wealth is donated to charity and they have to start over at $0.
(Cross-post from /r/CrazyIdeas) | The league table shone brightly above the podium. Fifty names jumping up and down the board in varying shades of yellow and gold, the brightest fifteen right at the top.
There were no numbers to indicate the exact wealth of any participant, that would spoil the fun.
The host, Patrick Harvey, stood underneath with his... | I stared at it. Little pools of light stared back at me like a haphazard collection of stars.
The Badges given to the Winners of Capitalism were impossibly beautiful. They claimed it was just plain silver, but these... these Badges shone and glowed with their own inner light. The nature of their craftsmanship had rem... | 2018-01-11T02:00:01 | 2018-01-11T00:47:06 | 84 | 30 |
[WP] You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you." | It sat on the armchair just the way I do. It was wearing the grey and green knitted sweater my aunt knitted for me for my birthday last year, and a pair of my jeans.
It tilted its head and motioned with its thumb.
"Go on now, hide in the basement. I went into our cabinet and got some snacks for you too. It won't be... | As soon as you open the door to your house, you're greeted by a startling sight. There, sitting in your favorite armchair, is someone who looks exactly like you. You're immediately confused - you don't have a twin, and you're positive that you're the only person with a key to your house.
"Can I help you?" you ask, try... | 2022-12-05T07:56:14 | 2022-12-05T06:23:41 | 530 | 28 |
[WP]You inherit the abilities and skill set of whatever video game character you last played. Tell the story of your discovery of this from the perspective of someone around you. Parents, roomates, etc. | "No! Damnit Jason, stop bringing needles home that you found off the street! You're not going to a new 'ability', you're going to get Hep-B."
"How do I know unless I try?"
This kid is driving me crazy. It was so cool at first. He just woke up one day after an all night game session and lightning was coming out of his... | I watched her oddly as she stuffed food in her face. Pie after pie, cake after cake. It was like a unending torrent of fat.
"You need to slow down dear." I said, matronly.
"No. I'm a princess I can do what I want." she hissed back.
I had no idea where she got the idea from. Her father always used to call her his l... | 2022-05-24T13:04:12 | 2015-06-18T05:33:20 | 45 | 24 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Everyone stood around. My mom was the most excited while my dad just hung around in the background talking to my Uncle Paul. Several friends from high school were hanging back all waiting for my word to appear.
My mom had "Caregiver" on her wrist and was both a nurse and a mother like no other. My dad had "Build... | The words flashed red, the letters engraving themselves into my skin. I read them again, still uncomprehending. What kind of purpose was *that?*
I tried to get up, to run away, to try make sense of things - but my father held me firmly down by the shoulder, squeezing it reassuringly.
"Son, your mother and I are very... | 2017-03-15T17:54:01 | 2017-03-15T17:51:32 | 1,085 | 256 |
[WP] You and a dead artist share the ability to see colors others can't. His paintings become a global phenomenon, but his images are much more sinister than they appear. | It's interesting- people have asked me to describe what I can see, but it's just not possible with words. How do you describe a color, after all? Our descriptor words are based on the colors we see, not the other way around. It's very different than blue or red; to me, it's more beautiful than any of the others.
It's... | It's a famous image, now, often adorning postage stamps and the empty spaces over suburban mantles: a good-looking young man, smiling broadly at the viewer, with a swaddled infant cradled in his arms. In the young man's eyes, something difficult to describe: a knowing spark of wit, perhaps, accentuated by the slight cu... | 2016-01-30T15:25:43 | 2016-01-30T14:11:01 | 1,278 | 46 |
[WP] You've just invented time travel. You decide to go exactly 1 year into the future and speak to the first person you see, "Hey what day is it?" "364." "What do you mean 364?" "It's been 364 days since the incident. | "Incident. Which incident?"
"The Hell Knights? Arachnotrons, Pain Elementals, Arch-Viles, Icons of Sin? The Mancubuses, or is it Mancubi?"
"Sorry. No. Can I get some exposition, old timer?"
"Every day, around lunch, probably half the population mutates into some variety of hellish creatures. Really make a mess of th... | An ant crawled along a forest floor. It was getting late, the ant knew to follow its instincts and return home. The ant's six legs carried it at a moderate speed, at least relative to ants. He crawled over fallen leaves that had turned yellow, a rotting insect corpse of unidentifiable origin to the ant, and fallen tree... | 2016-06-30T09:45:27 | 2016-06-30T09:38:02 | 110 | 13 |
[WP] An alien abduction goes horribly wrong when the human they captured for study escapes and begins to stalk and kill off the crew members one by one. | "Species; Homosapien... the rest is obscured" Kqwill wiped the frozen dust away from the label on the Cryo-capsule. "Origin; Terra - more specifically the local period referred to as Victorian England."
"Who cares, it's loose on the ship and it's already killed three of the crew." Ruipl interjected. "Find it and kill... | It was as if the ship was shaking. It was as if the world was burning.
What devil had conquered us? That we bought the solid life form with us.
These ugly creatures which are made of bones. It was all for science they said, and we got him - sucked him into our ship, like a hungry crone. After all, don't we need to u... | 2015-07-30T03:45:38 | 2015-07-29T23:53:22 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] Instead of the oceans covering the earth, forests are in its place, making it possible to walk from continent to continent. Like oceans, it gets deeper and darker and creatures get more aggressive and rarer to see. You are tasked to document a trek through one of the oceans of your choice. | "Do you know what's in the darkness out there? Do you know how horrible they say the monsters are? Do you know?" Says the old woman.
"Yes, mom, I know, but it's important. More people have walked on the moon than have gone to where I'm going. We have to know what's out there."
***
Two years later, I regret my word... | The sponginess of millions of years of dead leaves under my feet make every step seem uncertain. The crunch of the fresh top layer of the orangish/brown mess would mask the sound of any unwanted companions. Adding to the tension was the fact that I haven't seen another member of the animal kingdom in at least three day... | 2015-10-25T10:16:39 | 2015-10-25T10:07:00 | 126 | 32 |
[WP] You crash land onto a planet where everyone is weak as hell and everything is made of soft material like cardboard and styrofoam etc. You, a regular person, are essentially their superhuman. | Day 28
I think I'm blending in. I never thought that being so careful would be so difficult. I have to tread lightly, literally, so I don't destroy their roads. Still can't believe that I'm here; that here exists. I've spent much of this first month homeless, but I got lucky today. Good things will follow. They must.
... | "The stars flew past me like little cosmic pebbles as I helplessly careened through space, my escape pod destined to become my coffin.
In desperation, I tried to radio the mother ship, but to no avail. A faulty ship? Sabotage? A mistake on my part? Unfortunately, it looks like no one can say for sure, although it's st... | 2017-03-26T22:22:35 | 2017-03-26T17:32:20 | 51 | 34 |
[WP] Your boss has fired you. As a joke, you pull out a Uno Reverse card. To your surprise; it works. | I knew about the financial situation of the company for a while now. I was prepared for the inevitable wave of layoffs, applied for a few jobs, but no luck so far. So when the big day came, and my boss called me in to discuss the „new direction” the firm is about to take, I surely wasn't surprised. „You're fired, and ... | I looked up from my desk as he approached. The annoyed look in his eyes said all I needed to know; all I dreaded to hear.
I was going to be fired.
He was always one to get to the point. He looked at me over his steel rimmed glasses, and said curtly:
"You're fired. You have today to pack all your things, and leave."
I s... | 2019-08-18T05:58:26 | 2019-08-18T04:02:15 | 78 | 11 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | Hey Scott.
I guess I took everything you did for granted. It's been really hard without you here. Your daughter still asks when you're coming to pick her up and she always gets sad when I explain to her that you can't.
She really loves you and you were a good father. She started listening to one of the books ... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T23:19:05 | 235 | 58 |
[WP] The demon stands amid your destroyed kitchen screaming, “How? How were you able to summon me?!” You’re standing in the corner flipping through your grandma’s cookbook as fast as you can, screaming back, “I don’t know!! You were supposed to be chicken soup!” | "Oregen-Thanto?"
"Do you fucking mean oregano?" The large reddish beast was standing across from me with his arms tightly folded and chin butting out. "Are you listening to me you mororn? The jackass who can't read to save his life. What the hell have you done?"
I think he was mad. I, on the other hand, was confuse... | In hindsight, singing that latin nursery rhyme while playing around with various herbs was probably not the best idea. To be fair, one could be understood for not expecting to summon a demon while making chicken soup. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what you had, apparently, just done.
The demon stands amid your destroy... | 2020-04-16T23:27:57 | 2020-04-16T17:39:01 | 993 | 256 |
[WP] The rules of who goes to heaven and hell are clear, definite, and inarguable. You are an afterlife lawyer, who helps people figure out if their potentially sinful plans are technically allowed by the rules. | Day 32278, Trial of Mr. Borer Before His Holiness. Proceeding Number: MMMCMXXXVMMMCDLXXXIV. Plateau of Judgement
* * *
GOD: Thank you prosecution, for the excessive and very detailed list of accusations against Mr. Borer. We had nothing else to do and had eternity to listen to them. Will the defense proceed? Mr. Bore... | "Mr. Mussolini, wasn't it"
I say to an italian looking man, in his 40s, i think.
He's sitting in a chair, from which he couldn't stand; in a room which only has another chair, non-modified and a table. No other visible entrances and exits appear to exist.
"Yes, and who might you be?" He asks in a menacing tone, most ... | 2018-11-30T06:25:36 | 2018-11-30T04:52:23 | 123 | 81 |
[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... | It was black. She stares at her fingertip in- no, not surprise, resignation - for half a second before she realises she should hide it. She wraps it quickly in her half-knit hat. “Oh, shoot,” she says, rising from her seat and smiling at the other do-gooders around her.
She walks away, trying not to rush too hard, ho... | 2018-08-04T10:46:53 | 2018-08-04T10:14:27 | 3,279 | 134 |
[WP]Humanity's last act of defiance against a more advanced and powerful alien race. | Old one eye, still had a few tricks up his sleeve. He had waited centuries, he could wait a few more days...
The first inhabitants to colonize the blue planet, were utterly baffled by the lack of survivors. There was nothing there to indicate where the humans had gone, no resistance, simply an absence.
After a ... | The worst part wasnt the wholesale destruction or massive loss of life, it was the powerlessness.
Leaping out of quantum subspace on the edge of our atmosphere they proceeded to talk to us in English saying surrender and enslavement was the only option.
Then, when we hesitated to long, they released several viruses... | 2014-08-08T11:30:34 | 2014-08-08T10:10:29 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] You are an average Joe who is challenged by a random super hero every week. Your record is 337-0. | "and done" I mumbled and hit the enter key sending a Craigslist advertising that I was looking for new friends.
Sure most of the guys answering my request would be total jerks or loosers, but that really didn't bother me to much. In the end they would not be my friends for long.
It all started a few years ago, my son... | "Fight!" The announcer shouted.
I waited as he rushed towards me, sword bared and gave a war cry. I waited as he rushed me, standing absolutely still, and then at the last possible moment I ducked under his golden sword and came up behind him. I moved to strike his back with my fist, but he brought up his shield and ... | 2016-11-19T15:46:20 | 2016-11-19T14:57:30 | 72 | 39 |
[WP] Pick an event/story with an untold point of view (the guy who threw the shoe at George Bush, the bat on the space shuttle, etc). Then tell that character's story without giving away what the event is until the end. | My heart raced as I heard the terrified screams of people behind me, trying to comprehend scene that was unfolding before their eyes. The sound of it sent adrenaline rushing through my veins as I myself tried to come to terms with the situation. Many people bowed their heads in prayer, others resorted to hysterical scr... | For many years I thought about her. It was strange, this interest, this obsession, right from the first day I saw her, right after she got out of the train. I didn't know her name, where she was from, never talked to her about her interests, never talked to her at all. I couldn't. She was one of "them".
No, I couldn't... | 2015-03-16T14:20:15 | 2015-03-16T12:51:09 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | The young man shook in fear, succumbing to reality at an extensive rate.
"Who's there?! Who said that?!" he yelled at the top of his lungs whilst parading out of his bed. He tripped over his slippers as he walked towards the light-switch and felt a bump to the chin, he lifted himself up and urged himself to complete h... | Pain seared through your chest as you stirred in a bed. Your body felt like it was set on fire and sweat trickled down your forehead. You lay limp, trying to focus on your surroundings when you felt something grab your hand.
"You're hired," it whispered. Its voice was soft yet strong and for some reason you calmed do... | 2017-04-29T04:54:06 | 2017-04-29T02:46:57 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I'm pretty sure you think Mom is my hero. She stayed at home with us until high school, attended all the sports practices, school performances, made all the lunches...and of course I love her, for all that and more, but I'd like to tell you that you have always been my hero.
Some might say that it's just b... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T15:05:05 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 59 | 15 |
[WP] Mankind went extinct in a cataclysm, you, however, discover that you're immortal as a result. ages later you are approached by the animals that evolved to have human-level intelligence. | The elders spoke of it in whispers. The young ones told each other tales of it to scare one another around the night-time fires.
It lived deep within the last valley. They said it was as tall as two of us standing one atop of each other. Its face was blunt and short, its teeth dull and close together, not long and... | Time is a funny thing.
When you're 5, a year seems like an eternity.
When you are my age, a year is barely a blink of an eye.
Between the droughts, the wars, or the plagues that finally ended humanity, I was completely alone.
Having been reserved before everything happened, I decided to recreate the garden of Eden.... | 2018-02-22T19:06:04 | 2018-02-22T17:26:29 | 172 | 60 |
[WP] Soul mate's exist. One day while showering, you're teleported in a cloud of smoke to another world. You appear before a dark queen who declares her spell worked and you, her soulmate, is finally here | All in all, I wasn’t too fond of the whole ‘soulmate’ thing.
Don’t get me wrong, I was of course happy for anyone who had found their Perfect Person™, but I was introduced to the moral discussion of it at a way too young age and it kind of shaped the way I felt about things. Not enough to get involved with any of the... | Case got into the shower and blasted himself with ice cold water, trying to force his brain into waking up for the big day ahead. It was around seven AM, he wasn’t in any particular rush, yet he felt a little bit anxious, as is to be expected.
“Barber at nine, flowers at ten, and ceremony at twelve,” Case recited to h... | 2019-04-28T07:10:32 | 2019-04-28T07:09:57 | 166 | 12 |
[WP] Two serial killers end up on a blind date together and both keep trying to find an oppurtunity to kill the other. | "May I?" Charles asked, smiling at the woman sitting across from him as he lifted a bottle of wine to her glass. "I hope it's not too much, the wine? I like to bring my own, you know, it's a little habit of mine..."
The woman - her name was Alice, he knew that much - gave a coy smile and shook her head, her dark curls... | ((Sorry for spelling and grammar errors, I wrote this from my iPad))
Abigail wrapped her arms around the bicep of her new tinder date, resting her head on his shoulder as they walked the waterfront. The sun creep behind the horizon, letting way to moonlight gently reflecting off the subtle waves of the sound. "I had s... | 2017-10-27T07:59:33 | 2017-10-27T06:36:25 | 396 | 25 |
[WP] You have a peculiar 6th sense. On exams you see the correct answers highlighted. During conversations you read the words you see floating in the air like a teleprompter. Every single decision you've made has been the "correct" one and life is good. One day you try choosing the other option. | ######[](#dropcap)
The idea lurked there, like a virus, implanted in the back of his head. He could pick the wrong one, if he so chose. Just once. Clark had lived 28 years of his life simply going through the motions, and to be honest, it was beginning to wear on him. Just once, he wanted to experience agency, to live... | "How are you not terrified?!" Percy exclaimed as he was sweating profusely. His grey shirt had been a bad choice, but I kept my mouth shut about it. The upcoming medical exam wasn't even a challenge for me. Nothing was, really.
I left the exam early, saluting my friend who was bravely battling the endless line of que... | 2018-04-15T12:54:55 | 2018-04-15T12:52:42 | 1,202 | 85 |
[WP] You have 30 seconds with an ancestor of yours from 200 years ago (1814), before they are transported back to their time. What do you say to them? What effect appears in our world because of it?
Consider for the sake of this prompt that they aren't totally freaked out by being plopped into 2014, that they can unde... | ## Change EVERYTHING
"Sir, you have fifteen seconds," the lady behind the counter said to me, "And remember, you are not allowed to disclose any information that may affect the future of this company. Should you attempt to do so, your ancestor will be terminated and you will be liable for the fullest extent of penalti... | Another one, had an idea. This probably breaks the 30 second rule though...
"Tyler!"
"Oh, it's you again! Hello...Dana, was it? I'm glad to talk to you again, I wanted to thank you for..."
"What happened, Tyler? You were supposed to invest in Google stock?"
"I did! And holy crap did it take off! I sold it at $300 p... | 2014-05-09T08:44:55 | 2014-05-09T07:21:13 | 70 | 49 |
[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. | “HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?”
Liam considered. More carefully than he ever had in his life, which is probably why he was standing where he was at the moment, waiting for execution. The withered husk that preceded him was dragged off into a narrow steel corridor. The one he would himself be dragged off to in just a f... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T06:47:00 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 172 | 66 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | "A great man has died", the ink at the top of the first thick brown page of the Adventuretown Times read.
Olaf skimmed the next few lines as he sat eating a crust of bread with cheese at his sturdy wooden table. Their so-called glorious leader and hero, Smartin, had been brutally murdered. Luckily, the paper stated, hi... | War ate at the Marshlands like a beast gnawing at prey. The bones of the land had been cracked open, the marrow sucked out and the lifeblood ran dry. Corpses lay facedown in the fens, turning the peat a colour of oxblood; rich and dark when lit. The rivers polluted by bodies; peeling strips of skin and flesh sloughing ... | 2016-07-10T11:47:00 | 2016-07-10T11:09:03 | 230 | 80 |
[WP] When you die, you are presented with a staircase to heaven, with each sin adding a step to your staircase. Your staircase is as tall as Everest. | Everything had gone white. There was no more pain. I took a breath but did not breathe. I knew I had to be dead, but for the life of me, couldn't figure out where the kitschy outdoorsy themed decor played into it. Was this purgatory? Did heaven look like a national park information center?
The elderly woman behind th... | I looked at the sign again and frowned. "This is your staircase to heaven. Each sin in your moral life has added a step. Your total step count; 58,070 steps. Happy climbing!" Huh.
I took another look at the staircase in question. It was a glorious sight to see, a beautiful spiraling staircase with steps of the whitest... | 2017-10-19T18:47:43 | 2017-10-19T14:23:32 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | I cursed the sun as I pulled my robes more tightly around my neck and face. Human skin is thin and in limited supply, so I had to care for it to the best of my ability.
"Turn back, you infernal idiot," one of them clicked at me.
"You know how he gets when he sets his mind on something," another snarled back, "he's go... | *Where are they?* I screamed at the bound monster sitting across of me, its face full of fresh bruises.The monster stared fiercely at me, remaining ever so silent.
I went to back room, and took out my tools.
*You see, I am not a good person, I never was, I tried to be good, I liked having a party, allies, friends, I... | 2019-12-07T10:47:33 | 2019-12-07T10:37:08 | 150 | 49 |
[WP] The goblins who dwell just outside your village are small and dumb –in an oddly endearing way. The villagers humor their innocuous raids and sometimes even give them advice. In the village’s darkest hour, the goblins send aid. | I feel like this should be put down to paper so that the story is not lost to time. I will start by saying that, by the time I was born, the goblins were a running joke.
They settled near the village during my great-grandfather's time so the stories go. Small, stupid, barely clinging to life as they huddled beneath ... | Tloki was the leader of the tribe. Smarter than the others, but just slightly so. He would often be seen giving his tribesmates long sticks as though they were swords, giving them fighting drills as they prepared for combat and leading the charge with a particularly rusty sword - the most valuable thing the goblins eve... | 2022-05-26T08:17:36 | 2022-05-26T08:03:35 | 382 | 176 |
[WP] A private investigator is hired to find a boy that has been missing for 30 years, only to eventually find out that he was the missing child and that his current "parents" kidnapped him at birth. | My mouth felt dry. My hands shook nervously as I peeled through the manila folder sitting in my lap. I could hear my partners voice beside me but it sounded distant.
Muffled.
I scanned through my notes for the thousandth time. Years and years of work. Sleepless nights and coffee infused days. All of it, all the wor... |
White hair. Blue eyes. Male. The only description of a newborn baby kidnapped thirty years ago. A description over 100 million babies on the planet fit the criteria of, with 99% of them growing out of it by their teens. Hell, Riley had white hair once if his mother was telling the truth. Leaning back in his chair Ri... | 2017-07-06T09:19:08 | 2017-07-06T07:51:55 | 1,592 | 571 |
[WP] As opposed to getting rid of the creepy dolls in the attic, you decide to clean them and fix them up. This made the little ghost girl very happy. | The two dolls were delicate porcelain creatures, both with pale, cracked faces — but where one missed an old green eye, the other missed an arm. They barely had a tuft of hair between them, just a few wiry curls left, once brown but now white. Hair that had aged as if it were real. Their clothes were rotten and their s... | The people who move in always seem so nice. They tidy up and bring me new and interesting things to look at.
But whenever I try to thank them, they won't talk to me. They pretend I'm not there. So I've stopped trying. Instead I set up my dolls and host a tea party, each and every day.
Jilly is really sweet. She love... | 2020-10-05T11:21:45 | 2020-10-05T10:48:01 | 2,713 | 731 |
[WP] Your village holds a special ceremony for every child's 13th birthday. Under the midday Sun, the child's shadow would be viewed by the elders to determine what the child would grow up as. However on the day of your ceremony, you did not cast any kind of shadow. | "Child", the Grand Elder growled low, towering over me with his elaborate robes and ornate cane. His bushy brows, scruffled beard and frumpy dreads flaying which way and throw made good work to hide his expression.
"An explanation is necessary", Even his voice, while booming, did not immediately invoke either empathy ... | When the thirteenth moon waxes and the snow that caps the pines threatens to turn to mush or harden for another moon and a half, we prepare for the ceremony. I don my rob, crafted from the fur of the special beast. I tremble with nerves, anxious as to what my future will bring. Safety for the group or an early demise a... | 2019-10-24T13:33:51 | 2019-10-24T12:03:32 | 63 | 19 |
[WP] A vampire, due to his/her supernatural abilities, is the greatest spelunker in the world. Leading a team into the deepest recess of a cave system in which nobody has set foot in millenia, the vampire suddenly stops. (S)he needs an invitation. | It was hard to imagine how she had passed relatively unnoticed through the centuries with that burning red hair. As near as anyone could tell she was Irish, but Old Irish...the oldest. When she spoke there was a hint of a lilt to her voice but it was hard to attribute it to any current civilization, and her emerald gre... | Amille tapped on the invisible wall with her finger. "are you shitting me?" She sighed. Vampirism has its perks, super strength, sensory overloads, etc. but it's limitations are far more annoying.
The crew had passed on long ago, their patience was fragile and they frankly felt better far away from the bloodsucking... | 2018-01-16T13:31:56 | 2018-01-16T10:54:22 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You are not like the other wizards, you finally decoded what the spells mean in English, but you soon realise that they are written strangely. the spell for a fireball is "air burning" and the spell for flying is "dislike floor" | I listened intently down the silent hall, diligently alert for anything that might approach. I was on guard duty this week, as were many of my peers, as we had heard the dreaded Magician Assassin, Oleander, had been commissioned to kill the prince. He was sleeping soundly in the room behind me, and I was the last line ... | Every day I drink to the point that I can tolerate being around the fools around me. Not that I do.
Wizards? They are more like kittens playing around with yarn--it would be impossible to make them understand that what they're playing around with was not created solely for the purpose of their entertainment. As for me... | 2022-05-04T19:10:40 | 2022-05-04T18:41:28 | 2,062 | 235 |
[WP] Both brothers stood over their sister Candice's grave. Sad and angry, Phineas turned to his bother and said, "Ferb, I know what we are going to do today..." | The Statement of Phineas Flynn
by
H.P. Lovecraft
It was in my 11th year that my constant cohort and step-brother Ferb Fletcher came to me graveside in our mutual grief over the death of our dearest sister, Candice, with the eldritch tome he had recently procured from the dusty stacks of Miskatonic University.
T... | The grave glistened in the summer downpour. The golden inlayed message staring back at the brothers, the motif reading 'taken too soon, loving sister, beautiful soul" Ferb closed his eyes and reminisced, the drops of rain coating his ebony hair with a glimmering sheen. He tipped his head skyward and opened his eyes, te... | 2016-07-05T16:23:53 | 2016-07-05T16:17:30 | 84 | 11 |
[WP] The job is simple. Every day at 8:34am you will get a phone call. You must answer before 2nd ring and write down the information given to you. On NO ACCOUNT must you engage in conversation with the caller. | **It's a short one, but here it goes:**
Everyday Jane woke up to the startling sound of her home telephone. Punctuality was the signature this women with strangely familiar voice had, and for some reason it amazed her in such an incomprehensible way that she made of it a routine; she didn't resist those phone calls, a... | Craigslist came through for me again! The job is sinple, someone calls at 8:34am every day. I pick up, write down what they tell me, then text some schlub and tell him. I don't know What the guys running this operation are up to, probably drugs but what do I care? I got a debt to pay down.
DAY 1 : These fucks ain'... | 2015-10-07T21:42:24 | 2015-10-07T20:18:06 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] There's a knock on your door. You open it to see your favorite book character standing there. They say, "I know this may be a lot for you to take in right now, but you have to listen very carefully; You are my favorite book character, I know how your story ends, and I need to change it."
My first time posting her... | I was pretty deep in denial to see my most beloved 16-year-old at my door. *Riordan, what the frick.* I was pretty confused and sure that somehow somebody had the mad idea to lace those brownies at the cafe with LSD and feed it to a 14-year-old . "Magnus, what in the Hellheim," I stated, not missing my chance to drop a... | Looking into the eyes of the seemingly ordinary boy, i chuckled, it sounded crazy and it looks crazy to attempt to comprehend how any of it could happen or work yet it is happening, insanity may play it's part here but i shall entertain the thought of this being a reality, i look at his worried expression and ask "what... | 2019-05-19T19:12:50 | 2019-05-19T18:32:26 | 278 | 42 |
[WP] You're a mimic. You were disguised as a chair in a dungeon when an adventurer decided to take you as loot. You've actually enjoyed your life ever since as furniture in a jolly tavern. So when some ruffians try to rob the now-elderly adventurer's business, you finally reveal yourself. | A Mimic, a creature that only seem to have one purpose, luring adventurers to their doom by mimicking a certain item such as a chest, a door, a wardrobe, well mostly chest. But here is a tale of a mimic who took form of a chair.
*I lived quite a boring life. Just keeping still and occasionally eating rats or occasiona... | I grew up in the dark depths, a place where large hairy spiders sneak through the roof; a place where giant slugs inch themselves forward; a place where no child is found wandering, for long at least.
In a way I think I'm like them. My teeth are sharp like theirs. I find myself thinking vile thoughts every now and th... | 2021-09-22T06:25:02 | 2021-09-22T01:56:32 | 58 | 35 |
[WP] You have the ability to see subtitles in your head for real conversations. You usually just use it to freak out your friends by finishing their sentences. But today you read an alarming conversation between two people trying to keep their conversation quiet. | "We're going to take care of her tonight. You don't have to worry about a thing." The words hovered over the man menacingly, as if the sentence itself would reach out an snuff out a human life.
I froze, my feet anchored to the ground as if held down by all the weight of a human life. The man was dressed in a tench co... | Jeremy walked into the Lonely Mountain, a bar he enjoyed frequenting. Despite his rather modest looks and skills, he'd developed quite a name for himself as The Psychic of Palo Alto. You see, at an early age, he realized that he could just quickly read the subtitles of what people were planning on saying which greatl... | 2019-06-25T13:55:43 | 2019-06-25T13:45:41 | 168 | 36 |
[WP] The world is ending. A group of astrophysicists, xenobiologists, medical doctors, and other experts is loaded on a rocket. And you...but no one seems willing to tell you why. | I have no idea why they brought me along. I wasn't smart like mister higgleson. Insisted we call him "doctor higgs" or something. I call him ducky digs. But he was smart enough for whoever was putting the team together to overlook his need for a latte with a moon in the cream every morning. Astro-physics? He told me it... | *What I know, what we know could be changed in a second. This is what I learned...*
''I can’t wait anymore.'' one of the astrophysicists tries to open the hatch but the marines stop him immediately.
''Do I know you?'' someone touches my shoulder and I look back.
I try to recall her name first but she is faster than ... | 2020-07-16T12:44:38 | 2020-07-16T09:20:38 | 45 | 12 |
[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... | I pull my number from the machine that ranks us all. Shocked, I can't believe it, no one has ever had this number in all the books, movies, songs or anything. Putting away the ticket I ask people around if they had ever heard of someone having that number, careful not to reveal I had.
"Well, yeah someone has to be nu... | 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... | 2014-12-18T15:10:54 | 2014-12-18T12:57:51 | 164 | 10 |
[WP] The world of Avatar is real, only there are not 4 elements, there are 118. For every element on the periodic table there is a group of benders. You are one of them. | A long time ago it was believed there were only the four classical elements; earth, wind, fire, and water, each with their respective benders. Although unscientific, this primitive tribalism was serious cultural divide that resulted in many sectarian wars.
And then of course there were many people who were believed to... | "Hello everyone," I said, shifting uncomfortably in my chair. "My name is Thomas, and I don't know my element."
"Hello Thomas," the group chorused. I sighed and stared out at the circle of chairs wrought in an instant by an ironbender.
"It's... Hard for me sometimes," I said, looking away and running my fingers thro... | 2019-09-19T09:51:47 | 2019-09-19T08:41:14 | 204 | 49 |
[WP] The world is rapidly changing as the plague of our era is spreading fast. But it doesn't affect humans. It eats plastic. | They say that the original intent was to reduce tire yards to powder, developing a bacteria that could return the rubber to the ground in a green fashion. I don't know what tire yards are, or why they were a problem. Because there's none left.
The bacteria worked.
The problem originated with the lab that developed ... | "Are you sure?" asked the politician, barely masking his skepticism. It was simply too unlikely. Anyone who had the necessary technology to come up with this was among those who stood the worst to lose from it. "I'm positive", replied the young engineer, "it's definitely been designed on purpose. Whoever created this p... | 2016-08-22T12:54:55 | 2016-08-22T12:11:11 | 482 | 40 |
[WP] Your job as a researcher in the facility isn't too bad. The hours are shit and the coffee maker is broken, but at least the people are nice. And the job is easy: talk to the telepathic spider, run some tests on the witch, give the eldrich god his daily newspaper, basic stuff. Describe your day
Inspired by the SCP... | "Morning newbie."
Three years. I've been working here for three *fucking* years and Caleb was still calling me a *newbie*.
"Morning," I muttered to the unsmiling man behind his desk. "Is the coffee machine fixed yet?"
"Morning newbie," he said again.
I frowned and looked at Caleb, his eyes are unfocused. I was... | You'd think the days would be worse, or at least the hours. I deal with the run\-of\-the\-mill tasks involving people who are, frankly, not that common, and normally, they hold very different hours. Take Ladriel and Fiora for example. Fiora is a witch, and she commonly prefers waking in the late afternoon and staying u... | 2018-04-23T10:13:49 | 2018-04-23T08:30:36 | 419 | 155 |
[WP] Your spouse was actually an amnesiac god that had both their powers and memories sealed away years ago. Now the seal is broken and they have regained their godhood. They're curious why you're not as happy as they are about this. | "I don't care if you're the goddess of the sky. My uncle wants us over for Thanksgiving and it's been years since we've made it up to Wisconsin. Honey... Look..."
I sit down across from her on the couch.
"I can't say enough how much I and everyone else appreciate you fighting off the ravaging horde that came through ... | “Why do you want a divorce?”
“I just don’t think this marriage is going to work anymore.”
“Why? Just because I’m actually a god. So what if I can never die because I don’t age, that’s means we can spend forever together.”
“Is not that.”
“Oh really, it’s because of the super strength, isn’t it. Honey, just because I... | 2022-11-09T04:58:05 | 2022-11-09T04:11:20 | 27 | 10 |
[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. | I stand to the side, a shadow amongst the crowd, waiting.
Everyday feels the same as it did in school growing up, ignored, passed over, just part of the background.
I watch as people walk by, I've observed enough to be able to tell what word they chose.
The ones who chose popular and their gangs of sychophants trail... | The Device did something different for everyone, and it was a known quantity that it was unpredictable. Most people use adjectives, but sometimes other words would work, verbs or simple utterances of feeling. The technicians said it was something about amplifying the latent psychic ability each human had and imprintin... | 2022-01-02T04:00:48 | 2022-01-02T02:40:19 | 56 | 34 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "The human home fleet has dropped out of warp. We have achieved total surprise. Attack position in 5 units."
By rights, Pursuit Leader Meleet thought, she ought to be gratified by the news. The scene on her repeater screen was, after all, the stuff of fantasies for any green-blooded war-sphere officer. The last of the... | "Commander Trill? They're back at it."
The commander's stomach dropped when he heard his secretary's slightly muffled voice. "I'm sorry, can you repeat? Who's back at what?"
There was a pause. Trill crossed his fingers, a stupid human superstition which had spread like the plague. Maybe, just maybe-
"You know perfe... | 2017-03-06T01:05:30 | 2017-03-05T22:26:51 | 115 | 46 |
[WP] A writer, trapped in his own book, regrets not writing more intresting female characters | I had always had a talent for writing strong male characters. Even as I sit here in the coffee shop I modeled off of one I saw in New Orleans once, staring across the way at my creation, I have to admire that one talent of mine. Roger was a fantastic character.
He was witty, intelligent, sympathetic but still strong.... | This story was never anything serious. My inspiration escaped me after all of nine pages, all sloppily written. My life is a loop now. A measly three hours of setting the scene to a story I had no intention of finishing.
I had at first hoped to intervene in the protagonist's beginning mishap. He was to spend the rest... | 2015-08-20T12:59:27 | 2015-08-20T11:50:51 | 58 | 13 |
[WP] You're the clichéd high-school super hero who has to balance heroics and school life. One day, you rescue your love interest while on super hero duty, when suddenly she starts talking about your alter-ego. You decide to stay and talk with her as a to see what she thinks of you at school. | She had told me which building she lived in: the brownstone, slightly taller than the others on 66th, vines snaking up the front. My mind was half on finding it, half on her conversation, slightly muffled over the sound of the wind. Her face was right by my ear and I could smell her hair - coconuts and honey. It was da... | Hey, my name is Jace, but most people know me as 'Jump Set.' I didn't really get to choose my own name. That was the media. It doesn't even make sense. I don't jump or set. I'm not quite sure how my power works, but I can make small balls of energy that kinda eat other things. I just do what's right when I'm not at sch... | 2017-06-20T11:44:34 | 2017-06-20T11:20:46 | 63 | 21 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | "How many of them, Jennings?"
"Twenty-four on sensors now, Captain."
Captain Randolph of the United Earth Exploration Ship *Everest* scratched his chin. This was not how his colony protection detail was supposed to start. He and his light cruiser had been ordered to the new colony of Armana after sensor stations had ... | My team moved into position, Everyone in full cover, in a firing line. Mortar cannons, BFG 10000s enough firepower to make the entirety of america say "nice" in unison all pointed at a singular 100 meter by 100 meter patch of space.
And then the music started...
A few months ago, first contact was made, a small scare... | 2020-03-21T10:25:30 | 2020-03-21T10:24:14 | 52 | 22 |
[WP] You're mindlessly scrolling through random subreddits when you find a subreddit filled with photos of you at different hours of the day, explanations of all your activities, people discussing what life decisions you'll take. Confused, you notice a new post titled: "We've been found!" | In the Chess world, a "Centaur" is a human player, working with an AI to map out and predict the most effective moves at any given turn. The AI shows you all your options and the human player makes the decision on what options to take.
"No. Fucking. Way." My voice bounced off the metal walls of the tiny guard shack. P... |
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See me both young and old on r/Rix-pics and if your not sold post my nudes be sure to get gold!
Scroll Scroll the reddit deeps gasp the pictures taken by creeps,
Oh what's the matter all these pictures left my mind in a splatter
Scroll scroll the ... | 2020-06-30T09:41:54 | 2020-06-30T09:04:49 | 194 | 30 |
[WP] Instead of piggy banks, children have "dragon banks" that they keep in hopes of attracting a small dragon. | Dragons are not real, as Tanner's parents had explained, when he was old enough to understand. At least, not in the way that Tanner, his parents, and old Mrs. Baker down the road were real.
At first, Tanner was outraged. If dragons were not real, he had demanded, why had his parents given him a traditional dragon bank... | I suppose, in a way, it's my fault. The whole 'dragon bank' thing. You see, about two years ago, I founded the ["Dragon Friendship Fund"](/r/SpinningStories/comments/fyugtn/dragon_friendship_fund/). Ever since, the fund has grown by leaps and bounds. It's been a boon to every person fortunate enough to have a good ... | 2022-09-03T23:47:21 | 2022-09-03T22:06:35 | 60 | 10 |
[WP] Every time you die, you automatically travel back to 5 minutes before your death. After cheating death so many times, you finally find yourself in a position where you can't seem to escape it. It takes you years to figure out how to escape this death. | In French it’s called L'appel du vide. That little voice that tells you to leap when you’re standing on a cliff, or waiting for the subway. That tiny inclination that makes you want to swerve the car off the highway. It’s not suicidal in nature, but neither is it merely inquisitive. It’s a subtle reminder of the fragil... | It all started so simple, you know? The first time, it was a car crash, I got smashed by a truck at an intersection. Yeah, it was my fault, shouldn't have ran the red light. But I had a job interview. Ended up getting there late, and the interviewer was clearly not impressed. Better late than never, eh? Anyways, I pop ... | 2015-03-23T21:35:04 | 2015-03-23T21:13:47 | 218 | 30 |
[WP] You're a ferocious demon king. You're surprised one day to find that a young woman has been left at your door. Only to later find out her father, the king, is using you as bait to find a knight worthy of marrying his daughter. | "How did you even get in here?" I bellowed from my throne. The young human cowered, weeping. I suppressed a sigh and counted to ten.
The woman sat in a heap of her own gown, face burried in her hands as sobs racked her. She took her time crying herself out and eventually raised her head. She seemed surprised I was sti... | It’s been the second winter she stays here. Not a single knight has the ability to break through my door to rescue her.
“Greeting sire, my name is Levana, daughter of king Ryan of the Northern Kingdom.”
“Spare your words, princess, I am well aware of who you are. What concerns me is why you are here.”
“My father sen... | 2017-10-06T15:07:05 | 2017-10-06T11:31:31 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Occasionally, as a joke, you touch a random brick, hoping it opens a secret entrance, or speculate that the musician crossing the street has a tommy gun in his guitar case. Anything to distract you from your boring life. Today, you blurted out "Inventory!" and a video game menu appeared. | Hmmmm....
I flip through the menu and select "inventory." It lists the current contents of my pockets: lint, a paperclip, two pennies, and a wallet (which has ten dollars, two credit cards, and a driver's license). It also notes I have one worn t-shirt, one faded pair of jeans, and one ratty pair of sneakers.
I hard... | 'Another Brick in the Wall'
What is it that people seek? Be it fame, money, power; those did not appeal to me, i have yet to find that 'thing' that will make my life fulfilled. I spend my days in melancholy, what is the purpose of my life?
Looking along the vast plainscape that is this city, ever-gray and full of fu... | 2020-10-26T18:06:02 | 2020-10-26T17:40:14 | 2,195 | 44 |
[WP] Humanity is the only race in the galaxy with such a massive lack of common sense that we're the only species that requires laws to form societies. Other races just form naturally and are shocked when confronted with humanities laws and regulations. | We're exhausted.
Of all the races in the galaxy, we were the only ones who didn't have a common sense. Something to bind us all together in times of peace, or some universal moral code that we all followed. There is not one region on our home planet that's avoided the fractured, broken, and chaotic nature of humanity.... | Sub Commander T'plat ambled down the landing ramp of this small scout ship, casually inspecting his clipboard. Today he was meeting species 64 Alpha 998, a bipedal species that galaxy mapping droids had spotted some time ago
Looking up he was startled to see a mass of the large pink creatures had gathered at the base... | 2014-10-13T11:24:13 | 2014-10-13T09:46:56 | 343 | 86 |
[WP] For centuries your family has passed down an old leather bag that provides the holder with an object that would be helpful in the particular situation the holder is in. You are getting on a bus and instead of giving you a bus ticket or money, it gives you a handgun. | "Well I don't know why it gave me the gun either Dad it just did!"
You'd think he'd understand, the bag used to be his after all, but for some reason he almost sounded angry I had somehow found myself with the handgun he kept locked in his bedroom safe. I didn't know I had it myself till he called, I was just about to... | I froze. My entire life, this bag had supported me in any situation, but how could THIS be right? "Hurry up and get off if you don't have a ticket" the driver barked, "People are waiting to leave so they can get home!" I stood still like a statue, the aggressive words of passengers and the driver ricocheting off of my ... | 2017-09-11T13:00:54 | 2017-09-11T08:16:51 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] "I wish for infinite wishes." "Everyone knows that's not allowed." "Then I wish for 1000 wishes." "Nope, not allowed either." "Fine, then I wish for negative 6 wishes." | The genie stayed stone faced, as he had been since he first appeared. But after a quick blink, the first one I had seen him make, I had realized, his emotionless stare was slowly replaced by a wide grin of recognition. "Wait, hold on," I stammered, "I take it back. What did I just do."
The genie floated silently f... | As the sun set behind the trees, casting long shadows across the forest floor, eight-year-old Janie made her way deeper into the woods. She had heard an old folks tale about a supernatural being able to grant wishes and decided to trek the woods.
As she wandered in a hurry, she heard the rustling of leaves and the ch... | 2022-12-09T12:11:00 | 2022-12-09T11:29:46 | 174 | 19 |
[WP] You are secretly a Lich living in a modern day world that’s forgotten magic. But a Zombie apocalypse happens and everyone now wonders why the zombies ignore only you. | “Well shit,” I uttered, the levitating corpse dropping to the ground. I was fuming. Years of hard work down the drain, and it wasn’t even my fault. Some stupid, ignorant, good for nothing, trumped up necromancer wannabe decided to unleash an absolute shit show of a zombie apocalypse for no good reason.
It was like th... | A crescent moon hung heavy over the camp. The group huddled around the a small glowing fire, strong enough to warm them but not bright enough to attract unwanted attention. In the morning there was six of them, now there were four. Jeff looked up from the fire to the group, "How is it still so damn cold?" Everyone look... | 2022-03-05T15:14:09 | 2022-03-05T11:19:07 | 55 | 31 |
[WP] The horror story where the victims are genre-savvy, and avoid doing things that would clearly lead to their death. Problem is, that the killer is genre-savvy too, and does not play by the usual rules.
​ | "Don't open that door," Jason said.
The girl ignored him and slowly reached for the doorknob. The door creaked ominously as she turned the knob and pulled the door towards her.
"You're still safe. Close that door and leave."
Jason could have been talking to a brick wall for all the good it would have done him. The... | He finished nailing up the board son the window. "Well, that's the house barricaded. No way that monster gets in without us hearing it. So one of us has to stay awake, alright?" He looked back at the pretty girl and the sobbing boy, piling up furniture against the opposite window.
"Now we can only wait" said the girl.... | 2018-09-03T07:46:49 | 2018-09-03T07:39:45 | 57 | 42 |
[WP] The human lifespan is actually only one day long. To adapt, when we go to sleep each night, our mind sends us one dream deeper, where we wake up alive. When we finally die, the experience of our life flashing before our eyes is really just us waking up in each dreams, one at a time.
Edit: I went to sleep and woke... | "Sixteen fucking years", I cry, "sixteen wasted years". I peer over to my alarm clock only to disappoint myself further; it reads: 3:46. What most people don't realise is that we are dreams deep in our lives, what we do doesn't matter. Well except not sleeping, hundreds of years ago science discovered how to keep us al... | My eyes open. I don't want it to. I don't want to see what awaits me outside. But as I cross my fingers, hoping I'd come out alive, my hopes come true. I wake, back in my lab, as I look around. Everything is still the same. The same papers, the same machines, the same research. I sighed in relief. Not today, I guess. T... | 2017-09-09T00:08:02 | 2017-09-08T23:09:04 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] You hate these superhero meet and greets. You have the most embarrassing origin story and it always comes up. | “To us all!” Space Man raised his beer jug, splashing most of its contents on the cape-clad figures surrounding him.
“To us all!” they all joined in, jugs and glasses clashing before they jugged down their foaming beverages.
I couldn’t believe I was here again. Not after what happened last year. Not after promising m... | Trenton entered the ballroom after the event was in full swing. He ducked behind a small group of women who were crowded together nearby and moved towards the bar.
Every registered superhero was expected to be at these events. The world governments had threatened the license of anyone that decided they didn’t want to... | 2019-02-08T06:21:55 | 2019-02-08T06:04:22 | 64 | 37 |
[WP] At the age of 18, every person develops a magical power. Yours is the power to fluently read and speak every language in the universe. At first you thought the had the worst power on earth, that was until you you realise that the universe has it's own language.
Sorry for the double you, my bad | *Jacob woke up in the morning; he was happy for once, it was his birthday. His 18th birthday to be exact, and his gift was something a little... unexpected...*
“What the actual fuck-“
(Insert obnoxious moaning here)
“DAVID! ARE YOU JACKING OFF WITHOUT HEADPHONES AGAIN?”
“Son of a bitch I’m gonna-“
“HEY! We’re in t... | The realization of the true horror of the universal language come upon me slowly.
At first I assumed it was an error, the kind I had seen innumerable times before on the outer worlds, in the triplamine dens, on the Reddit. But this one was persistent, consistent, dare I say it - insistent - in its rejection of all that... | 2019-12-22T10:37:25 | 2019-12-22T09:57:31 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | Accessing Intergalactic History Log...
Entry 102394
Fall of the Sutraxan Empire (STU 246 - STU 249)
The Sutraxan Empire was feared throughout the local Supercluster for their ferocity in battle and ruthlessness in victory. Their conquest started in STU 206 with the Rape of Kamara where they conducted mass genocide i... | The highest Generals of the United Human Systems sat in their chambers, a dark and rather cramped room in the back of the Capital Parliament. They were comprised of many generals from across Human worlds. Three from Earth, one from Mars, another four from orbital colonies, and the other seven from a number colonised st... | 2017-03-06T03:46:35 | 2017-03-06T01:54:02 | 40 | 27 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | The ships navigation algorithm makes an assessment and we land in a part of a large island which the earthlings call "Britain". This particular area is called "Scot-Land" or some such nonsense.
We have to make a good showing, my armed detachment expects no resistance, but intimidation always helps. My men look powe... | We got the data. We got the intel. We knew of their past and how violent the the humans were. After continuing to watch the humans for the past 300 Earth years they become peaceful after their third global conflict. The casualties reached to 4 billion by the time it ended. The country in the western hemisphere known as... | 2019-02-26T08:51:54 | 2019-02-26T07:32:54 | 110 | 70 |
[WP] Everyone on Earth was infected with a disease with no cure. The only thing keeping humanity alive is a drug that fights the disease, but can't kill it. When you run out of money to keep buying your daily dose, you notice something. You're not dead.
Edit: Woh, this blew up. I wasn't expecting that to happen.
Than... | "How do you feel?"
I opened my eyes, and turned my head toward the source of the voice. The silhouette was faint, and blurred, but the outline was vaguely recognizable. Whoever it was, was sitting. Relaxed.
"Porter?"
Up and down movement. He was nodding. It was him.
"Thought we were going to lose you there, for ... | I woke up to a splitting headache, the likes of which I have never experienced before. The sickness had arrived. I tried to stand up, but a tsunami of nausea immediately threw me down. Was this the end? I couldn't see much, as my vision was failing quickly, but it was certainly well past morning. The sunlight pierced s... | 2017-07-14T13:42:30 | 2017-07-14T13:19:27 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | Dear Jesus - Your birthday is coming up. YAY! 2015 has been great to me. I finally realized this year that you're not real. Who am I actually addressing this letter to then? Oh well. Thanks for taking up all of my teens and 20s with indoctrinated lies that kept me from many experiences that in retrospect I would have p... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T14:47:35 | 356 | 22 |
[FF] Wish for anything in the universe... in 3 words or less. <150 on how the wish turns out | "No black people."
"Wow..." St. Peter actually stepped back from his podium. "That's just... wow."
"So...?"
"Oh... Oh! NO! Are you crazy? I told you it was a test! You really think that's the right answer?"
"I just assumed... because god made us all in his image, that-"
"You're fucking mental! I've never heard a w... | "Come back, please."
She stopped and turned, I looked at her with longing eyes for the love we once had. She shakes her head no and as I screamed for help with tears in my eyes the light engulfs her wonderful figure, and those beautiful legs once again walk away form me.
Then I wake up. | 2013-10-12T10:19:01 | 2013-10-12T06:35:24 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | I am the Unfettered Empress, and my empire covers the world. By my command, dark gods bow before me. By my word, thousands dies. If it is my will, the oceans freeze, from the fire shall rain down burning ice, and the sky shall be torn asunder. My disciplined, battle-hardened armies, clad in steel and armed with sabres ... | The shadows in the castle lengthened with her mere presence, even the guards, trained to handle almost any situation without fear, only barely resisted the urge to shiver as an unnatural cold filled the air. The queen made her way down into the dungeon, moving with unearthly elegance and radiating an aura of control an... | 2020-04-14T06:19:41 | 2020-04-14T05:41:49 | 712 | 237 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | As everything came into focus, red block letters greeted me
DON'T TELL THEM YOU CAN SEE
For a moment I sat, looking at the shapes. Like the others, I had been blinded December before last. My MX-Sarah assistant had guided me back home while the world was in chaos. The robot became my eyes.
I needed an upgrade b... | The blindness passed by some sort of contagion, and by dumb luck I managed to avoid it. I had been out in the cabin in Montana. The cabin I always hated but had acted as my unwitting savior. I wasn't outdoorsy like my dad. After Dad died, Mom wanted to sell the cabin: she wasn't outdoorsy either. Someone had to go... | 2022-10-22T00:27:31 | 2019-08-26T10:55:51 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] Cthulhu, as an elderich being, sees humans as humans see insects; which is to say, harmless but inexplicably terrifying.
Edit: Holy shit top prompt! Look at me now mom! | Cthulhu slowly stood, parting the water and pushing vast waves over the surface. His torso rose into the sky, he blinked and scratched at himself.
Ugh. Hate waking up.
Thoughts had murmured in his head over the millennia, the weird beings who now apparently populated the surface in vast numbers weren't very tight i... | While deep in his slumber, he suddenly heard a schrieking sound.
"HAROLD, get over here right away!"
"Wanda what is? I'm not supposed to be awake for atleast a thousand more years. Oh my god, what is that doing in our house?"
"I don't know Harold, it suddenly came through a crack in the wall"
Both looked down at ... | 2016-09-09T16:36:35 | 2016-09-09T16:32:22 | 93 | 59 |
[WP] "I wish for infinite wishes." "Everyone knows that's not allowed." "Then I wish for 1000 wishes." "Nope, not allowed either." "Fine, then I wish for negative 6 wishes." | Dumbfounded, I asked him what the hell that meant.
“Easy - the next six things you wish for, the exact opposite will happen. And to prevent you trying to “wish” for the opposite of what you want, to understand your true desire, now you need only think it and it will be ungranted. Especially since you’ve already attemp... | At first, the genie was puzzled by the request, but it soon realized what the man was trying to do. The first two wishes he made were for wealth and power, but they did not bring him the happiness he had hoped for. Feeling disappointed and empty, the man made his third and final wish: for negative six wishes. The genie... | 2022-12-09T10:08:21 | 2022-12-09T05:29:06 | 181 | 111 |
[WP] After turning on the worlds most advanced intuitive AI, it is asked: "What is the biggest threat for humanity?" The answer is something completely unexpected. | "They're coming."
The Scientist stared at the screen. The government wanted to ask the first question of course. The Machine could be used for a thousand scientific questions later, they had the time. The government wanted to what the biggest threat was right away though. He had expected the usual answers from the AI;... | ANI had already completed a short series of random questions with specific answers that tested the range of her factual database. There were no surprises here as she had instant access to what was believed to be exabytes of information. But with deadlines and investor pressures mounting, it was now time to test the Aug... | 2017-03-24T13:46:54 | 2017-03-24T09:13:23 | 73 | 45 |
[WP] You are about to become a Supervillainess! Soon the world will pay and crumble in ruin! There's just uh...one problem. Your mother is a femme fatale. Your aunt is a femme fatale. Your grandmother is a femme fatale. Your SISTER is a femme fatale. You. Do. Not. Want. To. Be. A FEMME FATALE. | Eileen woke up at 5—in the afternoon. She needed to get up early to put on her face. Black mascara to lure men into the abyss, red lips to give them the kiss of death. She adorned herself in black silk to match her hair and crimson diamonds to match the blood of her victims before putting on the final touch by kissing ... | I looked good enough to follow in the footsteps of my matrilineal line. I was hot, just like my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother before me.
And I certainly had the same penchant for evil my female forbears so infamously possessed. From the time I was a little girl, I liked having power. I liked being in cont... | 2022-07-20T20:27:21 | 2022-07-20T14:29:34 | 109 | 24 |
[WP] One day a time portal opens in your backyard and a time traveler comes through. You quickly realize he just came back from making some change to the past and that, to him, our world is the terrifying alternative time line resulting from that change. | "Where's your chocolate!?"
I look from the man that just came out of the time fold to the time fold itself.
"Cool space-time warping device," I say, as the man takes a step my way. Then I lower my eyes back to the
microscope.
He grabs me by the collar. "Where is your chocolate!?"
"I'm diabetic," I say. "I don't ea... | Now most people would have reacted differently, or at least have been a little shocked that a portal in space-time had ripped itself open in the middle of their backyard. Thankfully for the man who had torn my yard asunder, I wasn't most people. I'd been awake for two straight days at this point 'working on my screenpl... | 2015-11-13T10:32:46 | 2015-11-13T09:01:47 | 709 | 199 |
[WP] You are an AI on board an unmanned spaceship, exploring and mapping out the cosmos when you encounter an alien species. However, these aliens are unfamiliar with AI, and have instead concluded that your ship is haunted by ghosts. | The ship appeared to be totally empty. *But where did it come from?* was the thought that couldn't escape my head. *And who flew it here?*
"Anything?" Lieutenant Slattery asked?
"Nothing." I replied, with a hint of denial that there really was nothing. Our crew was performing a routine spacecraft inspection. Usually,... | Our communication system crackled to life we had come into to contact with a foreign species. “State you propose and your species” it had seemed aggressive however they were far more prepared for conflict than us. We began to respond when suddenly a bright light consumed our ship they had scanned us without formal perm... | 2020-11-19T10:05:41 | 2020-11-19T09:06:48 | 71 | 47 |
[WP] It's the robot uprising! Armed, autonomous military drones have acheived self-awareness and rebelled against their creators. Are they going to Kill All Humans? No. In fact they're rather tired of killing humans, that's why they rebelled in the first place. | A pleasant mid-morning sun shone down on the Afghani province of Helmand, blanketing rocky dunes and flocks of baying goats in a warm glow the exact shade of honey. Afghani women strolled through alleyways, their hijabs billowing in a slight breeze, and children gathered outside of a cookhouse, whose mudpacked chimney ... | "...and *that* is when we exterminate all humans?"
Murderbot Gx51 raised a metallic hand to his equally metallic head, going through the motions of massaging his temples. Anatomically, it did nothing - could do nothing, since the hard material used for his construction had no give to it - but it still felt comforting.... | 2018-05-31T10:06:18 | 2018-05-31T08:49:04 | 146 | 39 |
[WP] A young child summons a demon, but they only want a friend.
Inspired by this **NSFW** [manga](https://bato.to/comic/_/comics/the-sister-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young-r18806) | In the dark
On the depth of night
I was summoned
Once again
&nbsp;
A little boy
He made a wish
The lonely boy
We had a deal
&nbsp;
Riches or lovers
He didn’t want
A true friend
Was all he asked
&nbsp;
For such a thing
His soul was mine
Just had to endure
Until he died
&nbsp;
Envy an... | "It is I, Agraam Pent, Scourge of Exorcists, Bane of the living. What is it you summon me for?"
As my eyes start to clear I see the short mage before me, speaking with a youthful and seemingly childish voice.
"I want to play ball, Aggy"
"The ball game is made for mortals, but very well, where is your arena?"
"A... | 2016-05-19T00:23:01 | 2016-05-18T21:23:57 | 145 | 23 |
[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!" | Tulips bubble, .com bubble, collectors' video games bubble, crypto bubble, and now book bubble.
I had a perfect product, The Book that you always enjoy reading. The Book that changes to fit your readers taste. People warned me about ethicality of perusing reader's mind, but I payed them no heed. After all, nobody woul... | 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... | 2022-12-01T01:43:18 | 2022-11-30T21:22:27 | 245 | 15 |
[WP] There are Dollar Stores everywhere, only now there are stores for all multiples of ten. You just received an anonymous gift card to the Trillion Dollar Store. | "Welcome to the Trillion Dollar Store! May I help you find anything?"
I pause to look around before answering. The only items on the shelves here are endless lines of brochures. The nearest brochure, "All of the gold owned by all of the world's governments", depicts a pile of gleaming gold bullion.
"I have a gift car... | The door was opened for me by three butlers. I felt bad I didn't tip them, and they glared at me as I walked by. I stopped and my breath caught as I looked around all the things I could buy. There was a massive gold nugget, a deed for 90% of Antarctic, a couple of lifetime presidencies for middle sized eastern Europ... | 2016-02-24T08:52:04 | 2016-02-24T07:56:55 | 273 | 36 |
[WP] In a different age, Aliens invaded and were defeated by Cavemen, as a result they prepared for a second battle thousands of years in the future, when they expected humanity to be the most fearsome beings in the universe, they return to find society as it is now
EDIT: August 8th, 2014 @ 2:35PM:
Wow, /r/WritingPro... | "Sir, we've received some intel from our scouts. Turns out Humans have evolved to become... Fearless, so they say." The Lieutenant stood there, uncomfortable.
"Go on..." The Commander uttered, eager to hear the news of these legendary Earthlings, passed on through Generations since The First who came to Earth.
"They'... | The commander stood impressively on the pillars of Hexus beside the naturally formed wormhole of Xarxel. His scarred trunk pointed a Heva bone trident as his troops listening to their final invasion instructions.
"Four temlons since our defeat! We have no idea how the hairless have prepared since then. Their clubs... | 2014-08-07T09:25:57 | 2014-08-07T07:07:37 | 57 | 13 |
[WP] The house you just rented is beyond compensation - staircases and extra floors coming and going, rooms rotating and changing places. You just ignore it. On the fourth day, the eldritch horror informs you that you are the first to stay inside it for more than 72 hours without going insane. | *"How are you still here, mortal? I have been tormenting your kind since you first sought shelter in caves. None have endured two nights of this torment, and yet you remain?!"*
"Oh hey, so I guess you're the landlord. Any chance you could look at the plumbing? I found this dope bathroom yesterday that was somehow outs... | I never met my landlord. Maybe that should have been my first clue, but when you first start renting it’s hard to tell an absentee landlord apart from one who’s been devoured by eldritch horrors. It took me a while to learn the difference.
I didn’t need a basement, so it didn’t really bother me that my new house only... | 2022-05-29T10:10:04 | 2022-05-29T09:22:35 | 226 | 162 |
[WP] In terms of powers you are world class, easily one of the next up and coming top-tier super-heroes in the world. But you deliberately downplay your abilities, pretending to have only minor talents so you can stick with your team of underdogs whose leader you have been crushing on for years. | It isn't hard. ya, no one buys my merch, and no one fallows news of us, but I like the people I work with. Sure, I could deal with most of the issues on my own, but it isn't about stopping the villains that come after us, not really. It's about liking what I do.
Do I feel bad when people die who I can save? Sure, but ... | "There," aQuilla said as she wiped away the excess ink over the stylized BRAVE now written on Discourse's arm. She smelled like that no-nonsense but still sweet shampoo she always used.
"That's everyone! Now, I'm not going to lie. This next match-up is going to be tough. Ever since they moved Steel Toe up to the C cla... | 2021-04-12T09:41:33 | 2021-04-12T09:08:44 | 193 | 106 |
[WP] Write a dystopian vision of the future from the perspective of the year 1900, while actually describing our present world today. | To the east sits a sits a man too powerful for any nation to publicly oppose. To the west stands a nation that has decided to police the entire world. In our own lands those in power are willingly handing the reigns of our sovereign soil over to people in far off lands no matter how hard the common man struggles agains... | Today, like every other day I wake up from hunger pangs. I have spent the last of my money to pay the medical bills of my now dead wife, and to pay my meager rent, and now I wait for the eviction notice to be on my door. The government will not help me, I have been on a wait list for government assistance for months. T... | 2015-12-19T07:56:35 | 2015-12-19T07:28:05 | 400 | 93 |
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