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[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. | Alex,
It has been 99 days since you left. 99 days. Some days are easier than the rest. There are days when I genuinely smile as I remember you. You left me with so many good memories; and I thank you for each and every one. I miss you. Every. Single. Day.
You said we'd be together for the rest of our lives - we just ... | Dear Jeremy.
I'm sorry I didn't call.
I don't remember if I was busy, or tired, or anything else that could be considered an excuse. I felt like it was all my fault. I could have stopped it. When I met your family and found out you had been living with this all your life, I almost gave up.
I should have called. I h... | 2017-11-05T21:44:07 | 2017-11-05T19:17:09 | 1,462 | 508 |
[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. | Dear self, I hate you. I hate what we've become. When did we change, when did we grow so old and angry, and when did we decide to be alone? I know that we did not always act like this. I know we used to laugh, and let other people get close. Remember when we had so many friends? remember when we go to other people's ho... | Dear Melody,
It's been a year.
I guess I know why you didn't call me. It's not like I bothered to keep in touch. Not like we stayed close. Besides, I'm pretty sure I was kind of a jerk to you when we were still talking.
I miss you. I wasn't really expecting to, I hadn't thought about you for a long time. I don't eve... | 2017-11-05T19:56:15 | 2017-11-05T18:20:52 | 799 | 157 |
[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. | Dear Jeremy.
I'm sorry I didn't call.
I don't remember if I was busy, or tired, or anything else that could be considered an excuse. I felt like it was all my fault. I could have stopped it. When I met your family and found out you had been living with this all your life, I almost gave up.
I should have called. I h... | Dear Melody,
It's been a year.
I guess I know why you didn't call me. It's not like I bothered to keep in touch. Not like we stayed close. Besides, I'm pretty sure I was kind of a jerk to you when we were still talking.
I miss you. I wasn't really expecting to, I hadn't thought about you for a long time. I don't eve... | 2017-11-05T19:17:09 | 2017-11-05T18:20:52 | 508 | 157 |
[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. | Dear grandad,
You died 11 years ago when I was only 10years old. I had begged my parents to go to your funeral but they refused and I never got to go. I never got a formal goodbye so here it is.
I loved playing the violin for you. It always brought you such joy. I loved how you would always say “one day I’ll be bet... | Dear Dani,
After everything that happened I continue to see you everywhere I go. Whether it's bringing up the past or driving through town and seeing a car just like yours or in my dreams sometimes I can't escape you. And I always think about what exactly it is I will do when I see you again. I want to scream at you o... | 2017-11-05T21:06:53 | 2017-11-05T19:53:10 | 351 | 95 |
[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. | Dear grandad,
You died 11 years ago when I was only 10years old. I had begged my parents to go to your funeral but they refused and I never got to go. I never got a formal goodbye so here it is.
I loved playing the violin for you. It always brought you such joy. I loved how you would always say “one day I’ll be bet... | Hey Em,
I'd love to say I've changed, I'm new, brag about things I've done. I'd love to say I've grown.
But you, with your disarming blue eyes, somehow always knew. You always knew when I was making things up, when I was caught in little white lies. You'd encourage some.
And I'd love to say how different I am, from ... | 2017-11-05T21:06:53 | 2017-11-05T19:02:54 | 351 | 55 |
[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... | Dear friend,
Oh dear friend. If only I could just step back for just one day and talk to you about all that has occurred since we last saw each other. I’m so thankful that we were able to spend the time in life together that we did.
I miss that little sigh of excitement that would rise up from my chest and escape my... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T23:44:56 | 235 | 32 |
[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 kiddo. It's been too long since I've seen you. It's crushing to carry this weight some time. I'm really trying to show you that you can grow up and accomplish anything but it's manifesting in me leaving you behind. Your mom and I weren't right. She will forever hate me for it but I needed to do this for my happines... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T22:18:21 | 235 | 14 |
[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... | I really miss the look on your face when I would pop up unannounced... You would walk into the room, eyes lit up and say "my Andy!" That always made my day. I loved feeling wanted, needed, loved. I'm starting to ache from the pain of no longer hearing your laugh. The way it would hit me full on in the chest and bounce ... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-06T00:06:31 | 235 | 13 |
[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. | Dear Omar,
I know, I know. The last thing you wanted was your obituary to read "...an Oakland Man." I was telling some of my other friends that despite the fact we'd only been close friends for something like a couple years, you were someone that I would've wanted in the groom's party when I eventually got married. ... | Dear Pop Pop,
I miss you. It's been about 11 or 12 years since you died. I was really young at the time, so all I remember is the last few months you were alive, watching the cancer slowly eat away at your body. With each visit you got more and more frail. I didn't recognize it at the time but looking back, seeing wha... | 2017-11-05T22:20:06 | 2017-11-05T20:37:15 | 78 | 16 |
[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. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Alex,
Its been nearly 15 years since I have seen you. While we were only kids then I think about you often. We were best friends, and even when we had so little and our families argued we still found a way to hang out. Be it play wrestling games in your room, or have grass fights...it was the highlight of my youth. I ... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-06T00:29:01 | 27 | 17 |
[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. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Emily,
I know this isn't where I should be writing this, and I know i should just tell you outright, but I think everything's just too fucked the way it is right now. Shit's complicated, and you found someone else who might be able to make you happy.
I've done a lot of wrong, both to you and everyone else I've loved... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-06T00:29:03 | 27 | 13 |
[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. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | Hey Dad,
I've grown up and got a decent job. I have 2 sons and I've carried on our family name like you always wanted. I was only 11 when you passed but I still think about you all the time. I never got to tell you I love you and I'm sorry I was scared to give you a hug in the hospice, I was young and scared. I loved... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-06T02:11:26 | 23 | 15 |
[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. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | Dear anyone,
I’ve had bad times the past couple years since their blood bath of a divorce. The way she handled everything. Destroyed everyone’s lives. Picked a new family with new children to cook them breakfast before school like I️ would get. I️ know I’m an adult, I️ know I️ can take care of myself. But I️ just feel.... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-06T01:52:49 | 23 | 13 |
[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. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | Hi,
You’ve been gone for about a month and it feels like the longest month of my life. It’s crazy that I spend so much time worrying about the possible bad outcomes of every situation but you truly never know what is going to happen. Six months ago I did not think we would still be together. Yet after everything that... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-05T23:59:24 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You are God. You have just discovered that the world you thought you had destroyed in a flood still exists. You've never heard of this 'Jesus' dude, or anything else since the flood. You really just thought you'd canned the thing and walked away. | Oh, Jesus Christ. That guy. What an entrepreneurial spirit, and a big pair he has.
First of all, it's my fault for leaving the burner on, planetarily speaking. I should've come back and checked that that flood did it's job. My b. But still, you don't go around telling upright monkeys you're my son.
I mean, it'd be o... | "Wait, what?"
Travelling along the universe and passing through the Milky Way I decided to check the environment of Planet Earth. It had been many years since I just doomed the place and was done of it. Humans... Disgraceful race. Even the Zorgons were better, and they were my first creation.
I thought it would be ju... | 2017-11-11T07:57:57 | 2017-11-11T05:36:05 | 195 | 95 |
[WP] The year is 2038 and net neutrality has been dead for almost two decades. But a rebellious group managed to travel back to 2017...
https://www.battleforthenet.com/#bftn-action-form
Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold! Just trying to do my part on this fight, but as I don't live in the US, raising awareness is t... | Ajit Pai lied back on his throne and sipped his goblet. He roared in laughter Soon Net Neutrality would be repealed, and every link on the internet would redirect to a picture of his face unless people payed money to make it go away.
Suddenly, a group of brave souls appeared out of nowhere.
“Mr. Pai, we came from th... | Chapter 1:
Two birds with one stone.
Those were grandfather Elon's last words.
He hadn't whispered them, no.
He had invented them... and engraved them onto the side of the titanium sphere.
It was no secret that our family had been part of the revolution. Grandpa's effect on the world had been as far reaching anyone... | 2022-08-04T05:58:14 | 2017-11-21T23:06:17 | 186 | 44 |
[WP] You joined a mob. The boss asks you to prove your loyalty by killing your girlfriend. Failure to prove your loyalty will result in your loved ones dying. You look around the room at all the pictures and notice, you're dating daughter of the mafia boss. | “Now go.” The boss grumbled, leaning back in his slick arm chair.
“But sir,” I️ tried to protest, twiddling my thumbs and glancing at one particular photo of his daughter, it was one of my favorites. “Sir you have a very beautiful daughter.”
“I️ know.”
“It would be awful if you were to lose her.”
He pressed his pa... | I at her and said, "Ok, Boss Lady. I'll take care of it."
She stared at me for a moment. "You have 24 hours." One of the grunts standing next to me chuckled. I decided he was going to bleed out.
I nodded and turned to leave.
"Jimmy." She said. "I want to read about it in the news. Make a splash."
Without t... | 2017-12-02T19:22:11 | 2017-12-02T18:38:07 | 512 | 64 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | Jason was surprised, Death knows who he deals with.
"*Any* game?" he replied, with a hint of confidence in his voice.
"Any game you want. Remember, cheating is allow-"
Jason cut him off. "Do you want to get the setup or should I?"
"Setup? What do you mean? You haven't even told me a game yet." Death was confused. O... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T07:23:27 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 88 | 46 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "Hey Death, whats up?"
Gary knew the bitter cloak of cold that surrounded him was the physical manifestation of Death. Most mortal folk would have cowered in fear if they knew the Grim Reaper was coming for them.
But not Gary. He had played this game before and won.
*You know why I have come, mortal.*
"Of course ... | My heart was pounding as I sat in the plane, staring at the map. There was just me and one other person on board. I was waiting for him to take his exit first, staring at that yellow dot. However we were almost halfway through the island, and he was still there. Panicking I decided if I jumped and went straight down I ... | 2018-03-07T07:52:34 | 2018-03-07T07:11:15 | 41 | 17 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "Hey Death, whats up?"
Gary knew the bitter cloak of cold that surrounded him was the physical manifestation of Death. Most mortal folk would have cowered in fear if they knew the Grim Reaper was coming for them.
But not Gary. He had played this game before and won.
*You know why I have come, mortal.*
"Of course ... | I look at the game’s Death has surrounding the room.
There’s the ornate antique marble chess board, polished to a gleam with ivory and ebony pieces.
In stark contrast, right next to that there’s a well loved and worn checkerboard. It has obviously faded areas where players over the years slid their pieces over the b... | 2018-03-07T07:52:34 | 2018-03-07T07:49:56 | 41 | 10 |
[WP] One night, you go to bed in 2018, and you wake up in 1853. After going to bed in 1853, you wake up in the year 2183. After falling asleep in 2183, you wake up back in 2018, then the cycle repeats. Somehow, you managed to create a life in all 3 time periods. | *George. I forgot your wife's anniversary. You might wanna deal with that. - CC*
Ever since it began two years ago, the three of us had learned of each other's existence and made it a habit to leave notes, emails, and digital imprints for one another. I was George Stanson from 2018, the other was Oliver Jemmings from ... | "Alexandria! Wake up, dearie!"
My eyes shot open, shocked to hear an unfamiliar voice a name that wasn't mine, but also felt... oddly familiar. I looked up and saw a canopy above my bed, draped in what looked suspiciously like white silk. It was odd-- I couldn't quite see very well. I thought my eyesight was perfect.... | 2018-04-06T06:30:18 | 2018-04-06T05:04:46 | 73 | 41 |
[WP] You are given a writing prompt by your English Professor. You decide to post the writing prompt to r/writingprompts and get an amazing story. You decide to use that story as your own and turn it in as your assignment only to find out that your professor was the one who wrote the story. | "You didn't write this."
"Sir? 'Course I did."
"No. You didn't. And get off your phone."
" Sir, you can't accuse me of playerger- player- of *copying*, without no proof. I could report you to the teacher council."
"*Teacher council?* You really are a buffoon."
"Thank you, sir. So you believe me?"
"You could... | ######[](#dropcaps)
Once Upon a Time. There was a writer. She had been writing since high school and through college. She loved writing but she was afraid. She was afraid to risk it all on a novel, so she worked a corporate job for 50 hours a week, made money, and hated her life.
But despite the world's best efforts... | 2018-04-14T07:08:38 | 2018-04-14T06:48:23 | 3,552 | 83 |
[WP] You are the world’s most elite assassin. Although you usually only kill when paid, you finally decide to take matters into your own hands and kill the person who keeps leaking your past contracts onto Reddit disguised as writing prompts. | "Asshole."
That was it. The last straw.
That guy has some real nerve to fuck with the likes of me.
I packed my bags in the dimly lit dingy hotel room, meticulously checking each and every piece of equipment.
This would be the day.
After I got wind of this, I swore to have my revenge.
What motive could have for thi... | Many wrote about my feats without knowing they were writing about me. I didn't care about them. They were simply victims of a coincidence. However, in every one of those prompts, there was always a constant: the author.
I investigated him. He's a master of disguise, with a knowledge that surpasses mine when it comes t... | 2018-04-24T13:18:02 | 2018-04-24T11:37:30 | 59 | 26 |
[WP] Nine out of ten dentists recommend a certain brand of toothpaste. You're the one dentist and, despite constant assassination attempts, refuse to change your mind. | "Listen, we can do this the easy way or the hard way." A hand slammed across Roger Smiley's face, causing brilliant bursts of color to appear in his vision.
"Yeah, well, flossing is hard but I still do it twice a day." Smiley turned his head to the side and spits out a tooth. "Guess I got one less place to worry about... | Virtually every inch of the Kommen Space Colony was under constant visual and audio surveillance. Cameras hummed away tirelessly, transcribing the steady rhythm of everyday life into a trillion splices of electronic data which were flashed back to homeworld, almost two light years away. Even the faintest whisper, the s... | 2018-04-29T23:00:09 | 2018-04-29T22:42:25 | 360 | 29 |
[WP] “Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.” | I’m the oldest cliff diver in La Quebrada. I was born in 1928 to two peasant farmers who lived on the outskirts of Acapulco. We never had any money so when I was 12 I went to the beaches to try to sell things for money. That’s when I saw the cliff divers and I decided I wanted to train to do what they did.
Over the y... | *Tranquil Bar*
On the first glance, it's just a normal casual bar. People sitting around after work, drinking alcohol and chatting, maybe playing a game of pool or cards in the back. But the real bar is the one situated below, in the basement. But this bar isn't the same as the one above. It doesn't sell alcohol, but ... | 2018-07-15T09:19:53 | 2018-07-15T08:11:37 | 79 | 18 |
[WP] In 150 years, we start terraforming Mars as the Earth begins to die. It is only then that we realise this has happened before, to Earth. | It was hard to leave Earth, but its core was dwindling and on the verge of dying. We were forced to terraform Mars and start civilization back from scratch.
However, something strange happened while the engines suited Mars to sustain human life. First, its surface was covered in a vast ocean, but soon, a widespread pi... | "Where's the artifact?" the commander bellowed, barging into the primary research lab.
An ensign obediently pointed to the long, phallic object on the table.
The commander sneered. "Is this some sort of joke?" He picked up the artifact, waving it at the field captain's face. "Do you think you're fucking funny or some... | 2018-08-11T09:15:52 | 2018-08-11T09:08:17 | 867 | 139 |
[WP] The longer you charge an attack, the more powerful it becomes. SWAT charges a punch for 30 seconds to break down a door. You’ve been charging for the last three days. | "Squads 2 and 3, post at the North and West exits respectively." Commander Henry Rogers' voice crackled through their biosuit comms, devoid of all the emotion he had undoubtedly stored up. "Squad 1, you're on point with me. Squad 4, form a loose perimeter, we don't want to lose the target. Observe and report if he ... | At first it started out as just a joke, but eventually it became an obsession. I think that's what ruins everything in the end, when it spirals out of control and suddenly something you were doing so you could laugh about, becomes something that destroys everything that you care about. Since all stories that I've read ... | 2018-10-02T15:26:58 | 2018-10-02T15:20:01 | 721 | 72 |
[WP] You are eight years old when you fall into a coma. 70 years later, you unexpectedly awaken, a child in an elderly person’s body. Your parents are dead, and your relatives are nowhere to be found. Your only friend is the nurse who has watched over you for the last 30 years of her career. | My eyes adjusted to the darkness and I looked down at my hands. But where had previously been the pudgy, supple fingers of a child I now saw the wizened, feeble hands of an elder.
Something didn’t seem right, but I couldn’t quite place it. I started to sob, and called out for my mother. But where had previously been ... | I remember that day, the bright lights in the hospital were unmistakable but I didn't remember the journey there. Confusion and panic wrestled with my mind, I tried scanning the room for pictures, toys, anything that I could hold onto and feel a sense of familiarity.
Noticing new movement from my room, a stranger ap... | 2018-11-03T12:27:06 | 2018-11-03T11:43:59 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] Your SO loves fun, risky situations like skydiving, while you always liked to play it safe. After a long, happy life together, you're reunited in the afterworld. Everybody has a number for how many times they SHOULD have died throughout their life. Your SO's is 3,300. Yours is 1,450,294.
Edit (1/27): Wow! This id... | "one point four million!?" I asked, utterly exasperated. The angel chuckled and nodded, flipping through the pages of the great book of records.
"Wow! I barely cracked the thousands. Were you James Bond and forgot to mention?" Beth snorted next to me. It seemed ludicrous that we'd be here. Side by side. From carbon m... | "And you see, right here? The methane level in your flat was so high that you passed out. You told your mother it was a nap but you actually asphyxiated. Crazy huh!". His black robes shook at hs spoke. The thick hood cast a deep shadow along his skeletal face, leaving only the movement of a gleaming white jaw bone visi... | 2019-01-27T03:15:59 | 2019-01-27T02:18:27 | 122 | 41 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Generally all life is fairly passive. Not to say that aggression isn’t a part of life. It’s just that life isn’t aggressive just to be aggressive. This is the law of the universe, or so the universe thought. The biggest rule, and the smallest submit. right? This was true until we found them. Never before had the thousa... | The beings reviled themselves to be what we all fear, everyone saw the end of the human race, end of our world, a world war, this is how they scare the other aliens, humans are the violent creatures of the galaxy, so, we are used to the destruction of our species, as it has happened twice already.
“Look now! See what ... | 2019-06-11T10:26:16 | 2019-06-11T08:24:52 | 48 | 26 |
[WP] You are the King's must trusted advisor. Your advice has saved the kingdom from devastation many times. There's just one problem: You're actually trying to sabotage the King with the worst advice you can think of, but it always somehow works out. | Korth slumped down against the railing, looking out disbelieving as the rising cheers of the crowd filled the city. The army had returned victorious against all odds, even after the army itself should have been an impossibility...
How! It should have been impossible, the Dark Elves had always betrayed any other race a... | I stood outside the doors and took a deep breath. I had been summoned again, and I was not prepared for what awaited me on the other side. As the doors swung open, I took a step over the threshold.
“Ah, there he is!” exclaimed the booming, aging voice. “You’ve done it again, my boy!” I watched as long, graying hair fl... | 2019-07-07T17:00:42 | 2019-07-07T16:02:09 | 60 | 28 |
[WP] You are happily married and have a 4 year old child with your SO. But when your child starts to develop super powers one day, you have serious questions for your SO who has always seemed to have a boring accounting job. | I was washing dishes when I hear my husband s hushed voice on the baby monitor. “No, no,no... come on” I quietly put down the dishes and walk into the nursery to see my husband staring up at the ceiling where our son Theo sat. Not just him but everything in his room was floating.
I was faint at first but this was my ... | “Honey? Can we talk please?” I finally found a time to talk to Gretel tonight. She put her book down on the night stand and looked at me.
“Sure. What’s up?”
“Uh, well I’m not sure you know this but uh... Tommy was flying.”
Gretel looked shocked. “Flying you say?”
“Flying. Was going to bring him a bag of chips today. An... | 2019-08-23T10:18:27 | 2019-08-23T06:49:08 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] Walking home one night you find an old lamp and a Genie pops out. He tells you that you have 6 wishes, 3 more than usual. You take it home to sleep on it, because this is important. You must be sure! You wake up to find a frantic Genie. You only have one wish left because you sleep talk. | “So if we were on a plane and it was about to crash, who would you save? Me or the dog?” I ask.
She hugs Penguin harder and smiles. “The three of us? Why would we be the only ones on the plane?”
“I don’t know. I guess I didn't think it through. But who would you pick?”
She looks down at the Great Dane, and it licks ... | I found an old lamp as I walked home last night. Or maybe the old lamp found me. That's how those things work, right? It was sitting on the mailbox of the house at the corner. I rubbed it, because what else do you do when you have something smooth and shiny? Well, out popped a genie. More like out poofed a genie, to mo... | 2019-09-20T07:33:59 | 2019-09-20T05:48:14 | 138 | 79 |
[WP] You are death, but in a post apocalypse world, only a few survivors remain. You’re doing everything you can to help them cause if the last human dies, you die too. They can’t see you but they feel you presence and noticed your efforts. They’ve started calling you ‘life’. | "That's Life, that's what all the people say..."
Or, they would, if there was any left who remember it. I've always loved that Sinatra tune. Ironic, I know, but it's the little things you learn to appreciate over an eternity. I was a little nervous when I met him, actually, though probably not as nervous as he was now... | For myriad of eons i’ve forgotten who I really was, harvesting the essence of all existence. I treaded the earth for eternity, collecting souls for the Great Source.
It was something like a menial job no one wants to do but someone needs to do it so I got the job. I never asked for it but I never said I do naught wan... | 2019-10-19T22:10:12 | 2019-10-19T22:09:07 | 50 | 24 |
[WP] For $10M you have accepted the bet, to be tied to a chair in a pitch black room for 24 hours. You’ve been assured that there will be no physical pain, but if you beg to be let out, you lose. | Ten million dollars seemed like a no-brainer at the time, but now you knew why they were called no-brainers. You'd have to be without a brain to do it.
After the first half hour, you wondered why this was a challenge. Then the hallucinations set in. You didn't know if they were amazing or terrifying, but you knew you ... | I knew that I could do it. From the moment I read that ad in the Psychology wing of the Medical Teaching building. I spent days working on my plan, reading everything I could on sensory deprivation studies.
I walked into The Center confident and prepared. But you know what they say, that no plan survives first contac... | 2020-02-27T02:17:15 | 2020-02-27T02:12:43 | 50 | 11 |
[WP] You’re in the mafia and the boss has ordered you to kill your girlfriend to show your loyalty. You look around the room and see the pictures only to find out you’re dating the mafia boss’s daughter. | My heart froze in place, my veins turned to ice; I couldn't believe the order I was just given.
"B-but, boss," I stammered, "you want me to kill my girlfriend?! Your daughter?! Why? How could you!"
The patriarch of my family, Hirayama Makoto, had a reputation for giving such bizarre tests of loyalty. Those closest to... | (I am female, but I'm willing to play as a male.)
My eyes widened as I heard his order and I felt my heart stop. Kill my girlfriend...? His own daughter...? What kind of cruel man orders such a thing...?
With a heavy heart, I stood up. "Consider it done." I said, having a hard time keeping my voice from cracking. He ... | 2020-07-02T12:02:21 | 2020-07-02T10:40:22 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] You’re an immortal 30-year-old-looking serial killer who was sentenced to 1,000 years in prison. After 100 years people started asking questions, but now it’s been 400 years and you’re starting to outlast the prison itself. | The old warden took over the jail at 25 years old, the youngest person ever to run a maximum security prison. He was a great person. Ex military, troubled young man who turned his life around and felt the need to reform himself and so he got into the criminal justice system. I had been here for about 17 years by then. ... | I lost track of time fifty years in. I assumed someone else was counting the years, but now I’m not so sure. The guards stopped coming around and, if my body needed food, I would have starved long ago. I’ve watched the others pass---some quietly in their sleep; others loudly yelling for someone, anyone to bring them a ... | 2020-08-17T05:44:12 | 2020-08-17T04:52:28 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] You're a warden who had always been professional and friendly, even to criminals. As you're about to celebrate your retirement alone, you got kidnapped. When your blindfolds are removed, you see many familiar faces smiling. | I closed the door, and leaned down to rub my knee. For 45 years I had given my all to those who had made the wrong choices. I had seen men and women pulled off the streets. Drug addicts, thieves, gang members, you name it, I probably met one. I tried with all of them to give a second chance. The public may have forgott... | They called me Mr.Wise and criminal people respected me more than other wardens that I worked with. Some people even questioned my intention because I was able to empathize with people who punished with awful crimes.
Among all of them, there was three criminals who I never forget. Jonathan, Joseph, and Joshua they wer... | 2020-09-02T09:58:33 | 2020-09-02T08:57:39 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] You have been earning rave reviews for the "authentic" feel of your wrestling show. Truth is, not only is the fighting real, but so are the bizarre storylines and outlandish rivalries - you are struggling to keep everything together. | My hands were shaking as my eyes scanned the shelf over my desk. Row after row of little orange bottles, each printed with a neat white label.
*Let's start with the ativan, and then we can move on to the stronger stuff when --*
There was the pop. The headline match was starting. Donny Decathlete had just entered the ... | Besides the fights themselves, we had long since begun streaming the planning meetings as well. Not only did this afford the viewers a rare glimpse behind the scenes of semi-professional wrestling choreography and planning but fights usually broke out, too.
"...and then I'll climb up the cage and do a back-flip droppi... | 2020-11-30T09:34:35 | 2020-11-30T09:18:41 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] On the train home from work, you see a woman accidentally leave papers behind as she exits. On the front it says: “read this & call me at this #”. You realize that it’s a verbatim script of your past few days and even goes into that evening. | People usually ignore each other on the train, a form of trying to avoid eye contact in subtle ways. So it really stood out when this sharply dressed woman stared at me for a moment and made sure to catch my eye as she put her papers down just before she got off at the next stop.
Everyone else on the train acted as we... | *Wednesday 7:15 PM*
''Sorry, miss. You dropped these.'' I hand the papers.
She is looking at the ground and not holding the papers tightly.
''Do you need help?'' I ask.
She drops the papers again this time one of the papers stuck at the door of the train and the train leaves the station with that paper. I turn back... | 2020-12-11T11:50:33 | 2020-12-11T10:43:14 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | "Wait until they get that specialist down here. The whole place is contaminated," Garth said, as he was putting up the warning signs and taping off the area. He wore the required safety equipment on all his 8 tentacles, and he moved with a brisk efficiency.
"What do you mean? What happened?" asked Thrace. He was caref... | Zarome stood proudly in line with the rest of the new recruits to the Intergalactic Police Force. As a Ghar of pure lineage, he was easily the tallest and the most powerfully built among them and he drew the envious looks of many.
A tiny, soft-fleshed, creature beside him gaped openly at his silvery ivory tusks and hi... | 2021-02-03T14:57:00 | 2021-02-03T14:26:28 | 2,978 | 613 |
[WP] We may not be the strongest, but our immune systems are legendary among alien races. There is a saying: "if it makes a human sick it will kill you." | 'Dinner's in the mess' Mira shouted jovially over the ships intercom. Alex, Karnag, Celephlan, Jarus and Thud began slowly to kongregate as Mira one of the 2 humans gleefully served up a vile smelling meal to each of the crew of the Serendipity.
Each of the crew had their own job aboard the ship but they all took it ... | “Why are we doing this again?” Glarm asked.
“I want to do a ‘human in a wormhole.’ You know, like a modern version of a ‘canary in a coal mine.’” Gleek said.
“But the whole point of the canary is that it would die easily and be a warning to surrounding life forms.” Glarm said. “And these humans are crazy resistant.... | 2021-02-03T18:06:36 | 2021-02-03T16:54:38 | 87 | 28 |
[WP] For decades you've worked as a superhero protecting the city and its people. Your powers have been slowly killing you for years but you kept being a hero much to your doctor's protest. The citizens are starting to take notice. | I push forward as much as my failing body will let me. The wind barrages my face as I whistle through the skies like a bullet going on and on, waiting to inevitably lose momentum. I just about make it to the edge of my city, my home, before I clatter out of the sky at the Bolstonville coastline.
Bolstonville. The plac... | “Today’s the day you fall PileDriver!” I screamed at the woman standing on the street above.
“Looks like you’ve fallen for me already darling.” The woman cackled at the edge of the hole she had just tossed me into and aimed her weapon at me in the hole.
“Time to die BeastMaster!” Her weapon launched a blast of liqui... | 2021-02-18T10:48:59 | 2021-02-18T07:50:09 | 59 | 28 |
[WP] Turns out hell is real. This was made known once demons and devils came to Earth. However things quickly got awkward and confusing once people heard them mutter, "If Heaven won't fix this shit hole, we might as well do it ourselves." | "this is bullshit." satan said from his throne. "utter and complete bullshit." he said gesturing to the portal showing the earth. countless dead from wars, plague and simple poverty. "Fuck this." he said as he stomped off to his desk and picked up the white phone.
"This is the great satan, Heir..." he stopped speakin... | "it may take a few cycles, but it's gone too far", and "it's like those robe wearing boughie hipsters don't care anymore".
Humanity is ill equipped to deal with the realization that there is more than just the physical. The streets in cities all over the world are empty with masses of people barricading themselves to... | 2021-04-29T20:53:00 | 2021-04-29T20:32:15 | 279 | 12 |
[WP] Turns out hell is real. This was made known once demons and devils came to Earth. However things quickly got awkward and confusing once people heard them mutter, "If Heaven won't fix this shit hole, we might as well do it ourselves." | "So..." My devil supervisor glanced up from the paperwork and looked at me. I nodded enthusiastically.
"You were sent to Earth to spread evil and go against the word of god..."
"Yup, that was my project"
"And...Not going to lie, I am a bit confused here. According to the report you submitted, you taught humans to mak... | "it may take a few cycles, but it's gone too far", and "it's like those robe wearing boughie hipsters don't care anymore".
Humanity is ill equipped to deal with the realization that there is more than just the physical. The streets in cities all over the world are empty with masses of people barricading themselves to... | 2021-04-29T21:46:53 | 2021-04-29T20:32:15 | 66 | 12 |
[WP] You are part of the league, the superheroes who save the world, yet you never go on missions. You are only called for one thing only. Total annihilation, for when they don't want survivors. | I pushed through the crowd. With everyone running the opposite direction my progress was slow, but that was fine. Let as many of them get to the evac point as possible.
Apollo- real name Rupert, told me no witnesses. The league has a code, and they never kill. Guess thats why i don't get to be on the posters or any of... | We all grow up hoping to be in that fraction of a fraction of a percent of people to be born with powers, or the still rarer super powered. We all dream of being the hero of the moment, saving lives, helping others, being useful.
​
I dreamt of getting flight, speed, laser vision, strength, telepathy, telek... | 2021-05-26T08:03:14 | 2021-05-26T04:24:14 | 917 | 108 |
[WP] A necromancer plays with the forces of life and death, often feared are the ones who raise undead armies and can kill with a mere word, but far worse are those who have mastered the ways of life | “The problem with undead armies is that they’re, well, still dead.” I said to the scribe as we walked down the torch lit corridor. The scribe stopped his furious scribbling and stared at me with a confused look on his face.
“Um, isn’t.. isn’t that the point, sir? Them being dead I mean.” He asked timidly. Henry was ... | *An excerpt from the journal of the one known as The Entropic Crafter, discovered near ground zero in the year of 5 PW (Post Wanderer)*
All creatures must feed. Nothing can move without energy. If there is none to be had, the hand that feeds will suffice to the created. It takes a great deal of stamina to bring locomo... | 2021-06-08T08:38:42 | 2021-06-08T08:11:37 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] There is a procedure offered to the wealthy and powerful that allows their minds to be transferred to the brain-dead body of an anonymous individual. Except it's fake, the volunteer is actually trained in every minute detail of the person's life to assume their identity as if they were them.
This prompt was inspi... | “You’re not my husband,” Lorelei said.
Martin, as was currently his name, looked at his wife. “Sweetheart?”
“It’s not that I mind. You at least pretend to love me in a way he stopped bothering to do, not long after we married. But all the same, you’re not him.”
Martin leaned back into the plush armchair and consider... | [Part 1 of 2]
I could hear the nervous grumbles of Mr. Walker as he entered the room. My body laid flat on one of the medical beds, only a thin white sheet covering my body, offering some dignity as his eyes lingered over me.
“This is the body I’m taking? It looked a lot nicer in the photos.” He raised my arm, wri... | 2021-07-02T07:09:46 | 2021-07-02T06:49:24 | 1,270 | 77 |
[WP] You, a bully, stand over the weak nerd, glasses broken under your shoe, waiting for them to cry. They look up at you in pity, eyes shining with a peculiar light. "I curse you," they intone in a voice that echos in your mind, "with seeing the truth." | A man's gotta eat, whatever his problems. That's why I work the job. I work third shift in the middle of nowhere so I don't talk to too many people. Everyone just hops off the interstate, gets their gas, buy's some chips, and maybe hits the head before they get back on the road. Fine by me.
I'm not really a people pe... | John sneered, his bottom lip curled and his nose wrinkled, as the pair of glasses crunched under his sole. Emmet winced, trying, John guessed, not to look.
“Curse me?” asked John, his smile widening. “Funny, you’d think I would have stopped standing by now.”
He raised his arm then, and he brought it down as hard as h... | 2021-07-15T09:06:34 | 2021-07-15T08:16:46 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] Two criminals share what is to be their last conversation on death row. With nothing left to lose, all is laid bare to the other stranger. | "One more miserable year," I groaned. "I couldn't have made it just one more year?"
"What does one more year matter?" Came the voice from the other cell; a grimy slithering voice if you could imagine it. "Would it have been... any different from the last?"
I wrinkled my face up and stared through the bars into the da... | *Life takes on strange colors when laid bare to the sunset of dying. The irreconcilable reality of death weighs on the human mind heavier and more concrete than anything else. The foundation to the soul atop which all men rest and fall.*
"I never imagined it would be like this." Jacob's voice was strong but a lie, ben... | 2021-07-28T08:40:26 | 2021-07-28T06:59:19 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] You lost your sight, along with everyone else on earth in the great blinding. Two years later, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor, and surface has been painted with the same message - "Don't tell them you can see"
I get that this is a repost, can we just chill and... | I cannot seem to remember what I looked like. It was probably the only positive effect the great blinding had. I did not care what I looked like, who was there to judge? I finally felt free in that regard. I thought it would be much better when I did not care what people think of me. But in reality it was an absolute n... | D̷̛͈͆̊̊͠͝O̸̪͙̊̏͠Z̸̧̛̗͈̫̤̆̑̕͝-̴̻̘̉̂͂̈͐͂I̵͎̳̭̟͓͒̒̄͠
Two years. Two years since sight was abruptly torn from our eyes. Of the five senses, sight is the most important in this digital era that us humans have built for ourselves. Without it, catastrophe and cataclysmic failing of the infrastructure of the world.
D̸̲̱̐O̸... | 2021-11-29T04:16:03 | 2021-11-29T02:02:55 | 548 | 367 |
[WP] At dinner, you serve the king a glass of wine with poison in it. He sips from it and continues to eat as usual. At the end of the meal, he walks up to you and says. "Next time you make poison, make sure it really works. It was pathetic." | Chuckling, he let me walk away.
I scuttled to the cellar, where Dani was waiting for me. He rubbed his hands together slowly, a gesture of pity. “I wish you’d let me know,” he muttered. “I could have told you that wouldn’t work.”
I lay on the floor with a grunt. “I don’t understand. That toxin would have killed a... | I work for a fucking psychopath.
It started out well enough. Good pay, free meals, and a general sense of autonomy given my high position. There was a certain strangeness to the arrangement. However, my need for approval and adulation outweighs my moral code.
Originally, the commission seemed easy enough.
"Cr... | 2022-06-03T21:20:04 | 2022-06-03T19:30:12 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] The army operates on a strictly merit based promotion system. At first, giving the bear a medal for honorable service was just a joke. The bear, however, keeps meeting the legal requirements to advance, and is getting uncomfortably high in rank. | “Gentlemen,” Shah began. “Captain,” he added to the one female in the briefing room. She didn’t nod back. Operators are like dogs, his mentor had warned him. They can smell fear. The key to briefing them was total confidence. “I’d like you to meet Objective ARTHUR.”
A dozen hard faces looked particularly frozen as Sha... | Inspired by [Real Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)) \-
My grandfather's hand was wrinkled, skin stretched across it like thin paper covering his knuckle bones, but just barely. I tugged him through the imperial war museum. There was sad pride in his eyes walking through the history he helped build, bu... | 2022-07-21T13:06:54 | 2022-07-21T13:05:02 | 88 | 39 |
[WP] A psychic alien who feeds on dreams comes to Earth for the first time. Turns out humans are the only sentients in the galaxy that have nightmares. | Oh how I hate what we have become.
Sickness and despair, families torn apart, entire economies in shambles.
A new source of sustenance we were told. An inexhaustible supply of the richest dreams ever found. Most sentient species dreamed infrequently and only then short periods. They had evolved from sleep to hiber... | The psychic being turned to the busy Metropolis for its first meal since arriving on Planet Earth, the moonless night having fallen on the community. Freshly asleep, its denizens knew not of the being from the cosmos sent to feast on their nightly visions.
It crept onto a rooftop, peering into a window of one of the f... | 2022-09-06T09:13:46 | 2022-09-06T07:34:55 | 586 | 115 |
[WP] “Us humans must be pretty special for our tenacity right?” “No.” “Our battle prowess?” “No.” “Our…creativity?” “Not particularly.” “Is there anything special about us?” “You guys are definitely the best cooks.” |
"Bring the prisoners forth!"
The large metal walls creaked upwards, slowly replacing the darkness within the room with light. Inside, various creatures lurked and began to move as if cued by the loud sounds and light.
"Come on, you bastards step away from the walls!" an irritated guardsman shouted towards the occupa... | I stare at Edina, my personal guard. "You know, you Utopians have gotten *super sassy* every since you visited Earth!" Edina smirks at me, then nudges me with her elbow. "Hey, I said your species are great cooks, didn't I?" We both chuckle, as we watch the sun set. Because the sky is purple on Utopia, the colours shift... | 2022-09-15T09:18:57 | 2022-09-15T09:11:55 | 217 | 23 |
[WP] You've been warned that you'll be sucked into the next fictional story you consume. You're desperately trying to find a fun and survivable book or video game. | "Minecraft isn't that bad," I said, tilling another block of soil and planting a potato. "I could do this all day."
At least, it wasn't that bad until I realized I was alone, and the universe wanted me dead. What made it worse was that I couldn't die, but everything else could.
Infinite worlds, each infinite in their... | It was only after my second Margarita that I started to think clearer. Tequila always had a calming and reassuring effect on my sense of reality.
I had to think. I needed to elevate my thinking to a point of survival. I needed that instinct to finally kick in, but all I felt was the numbing sensation of dread and pan... | 2022-10-09T07:37:11 | 2022-10-09T07:08:20 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You have the peculiar ability to pause time. Nothing can move, including yourself, meaning all you get is time to think. Today you find yourself paused with a bullet right in front of your eyes. | Terrified, I humored myself by absentmindedly dreaming of a mishmash of beer commercial slogans: "this silver bullet is for you." Yeah. I hoped to drink a cold brew once I figured out a way out of this. Problem was that nothing came to mind. The moment I unpaused time and moved forward to the next moment, the bullet wo... | The vision in my right eye is distorted. I think the shock wave of the bullet just inches in front of it is warping its shape.
I can feel panic rising. The bullet has past my face, heading towards the one I love. I can't react fast enough once I restart time to do anything about it. The reflex to stop time only happen... | 2022-12-26T19:37:24 | 2022-12-26T18:19:15 | 116 | 40 |
[WP] WARNING: OFFENSIVE. Write a witty workplace sitcom about terrorists.
I didn't make this NSFW because, while offensive, it does not necessarily contain material which would get you fired, merely get you scrutinizing looks from coworkers. | [*TALIBANTER was filmed in front of a live studio audience.*]
<KASIM enters through the front door looking dejected. MO is reading a newspaper on the couch.>
MO: So, how did the suicide bombing go?
KASIM <Hands on hips>: How do you *think* it went?
<Beat for laughter>
KASIM: I got all the way out... | Enter Muhammad and Muhammad
"Muhammad! You sly dog! Why are you still here? I sent you out to get milk an hour ago!"
Audience laughs
"I am sorry Muhammad! I needed to *fire* off an email to Muhammad first!"
Audience laughs
"Oh ok Muhammad. Well get out there now, I still need milk!"
Audience laugh... | 2014-03-19T02:31:41 | 2014-03-18T23:40:53 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] For the first time ever, a person is born with a genuine superpower. They proceed to live out their entire life without noticing or realizing it. | "Intuition" people would call it. "Socially adept" educated people would call it. "Cold reading" he would call it. He had always been good with people.
Social interactions aren't the only thing he was good at. He always advanced quickly at whatever job he held, he was an excellent waiter in high school, great at retai... | The woman spoke to the assembly, pausing now and then to look one particular person in the face, then another.
'...a hard worker, raising a business up from nothing, and a loving mother, helping to raise all of us and making time for us when she could. A generous and fun grandmother, that all of her grandchildren were... | 2014-08-08T08:51:54 | 2014-08-08T05:28:34 | 52 | 30 |
[WP] September 11, 3001 | "Daddy, why is September 11th a galactic holiday?"
Jim peered down to his little girl, while taking a sip from his coffee made from the exotic beans of planet 109-B.
Kelley was 12 years old, just the right age to find out the truth. His eyes focused on the George Bush framed picture placed on the front page of the pa... | The stories say that somewhere, buried in a vault in the earth, there are still the hard drives with the footage on them. Original footage of those planes, with their now-long-dead passengers, slamming into the symbols of status and power, sending them crashing to the ground in clouds of ash and dust.
The stories say ... | 2014-08-08T12:23:39 | 2014-08-08T12:10:15 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] Write a letter to a fictional character who got you through a tough time in your life or greatly influenced you. | To all of you whom I created only to forget, (be it in RPGs, or writings, or for fun)
Thank you. Thank you for coming to life in my mind, and somtimes in paper or screens. Thank you for letting me live your adventures alongside you, or dictate your life. Thank you for sticking with me when real people did not. And fuc... | Dear Commander Shepard,
I Just want to say thank you. Not because you defeated the reapers, But because you gave me a reason. Before I met you I was rather listless and miserable; I was angry and lashed out.
I saw what you had. A purpose to kvetch for and a crew that was family. I admit, at first I was jealous, But t... | 2014-08-10T22:52:25 | 2014-08-10T22:11:32 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | Day 1.
Sigh..... As I wake up on my 16th birthday I knew it would happen. I was dreading it. I didn't want it, I didn't need it. I didn't believe in it. My parents had useful powers though as much as they hated it. Dad being a doctor of course managed to heal people at a touch. Mum being the cook that she was never ne... | Dear Journal:
I turn sixteen in 2 minutes and 27 seconds. I know because I've been awake all night counting the seconds to midnight. Tonight is special and you know why? At midnight I finally Change! I've waited forever but now I finally get a power like everyone else. What do you think it will be, Journal? Will I get... | 2015-01-21T22:46:38 | 2015-01-21T22:26:31 | 62 | 10 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | My love,
I miss you and the child terribly. Life in the trenches is hard, but bearable, knowing that-
*A fold and several stains coat the paper.*
---
To whom it may concern:
No words can express my sorrow for your loss. Gerard was a brave man - a good soldier, one who anyone could be proud of.
War is hell. Men w... | Hey Judy,
I know it's been a while since my last letter and I'm sorry. I honestly did try to write whenever I got the chance, but time gets away from you, you know? There's a lot I want to say and probably not a lot of time to say it.
First, I want you to know that I love you. Always have. From the moment I saw you ... | 2015-02-03T13:02:09 | 2015-02-03T12:59:38 | 48 | 20 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Maria,
Thinking of you all today. Things aren’t getting better out here. There’s not many of us left. The recruits are younger and younger. Most of them don’t last much more than a week but there are still a few naturals. I don’t know what the reels back home are saying – things are pretty grim but we have one last tr... | To my Love,
I don't know if you're still getting this, or if the post keeps on messing it up, but I want you to know that I'm doing this for you. The past few weeks have been hell, but thinking of you helps me to push forward. Speaking of which, how's our little man doing? I hope you went with Thomas. I've always like... | 2015-02-03T16:03:03 | 2015-02-03T13:14:11 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is able to choose exactly one superpower. The catch: the more people select a certain power, the weaker it becomes.
Example: if many people choose telekinesis, they'll only be able to move small, light objects. If many people choose time travel, they'll only be able to go back a few seconds. | 'It' happened on a playground, and it was madness. Imagine a bunch of eight year olds running around with Superman's powers. They caused half a trillion dollars worth of damage and killed thirty million people in about twenty minutes. Turns out any idle wish for a special ability immediately comes true. In that chaos, ... | The Great Halt. That is what they called it. The day that the Earth stood still and from eldest to youngest, powers were received like some sort of divine blessing. I watched the Earth from the ISS, completely bewildered.
One by one they chose. The eldest chose traditional powers. The first man to declare "Flying" ro... | 2015-05-05T07:48:28 | 2015-05-05T06:57:37 | 152 | 72 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is able to choose exactly one superpower. The catch: the more people select a certain power, the weaker it becomes.
Example: if many people choose telekinesis, they'll only be able to move small, light objects. If many people choose time travel, they'll only be able to go back a few seconds. | Strength and flight are vastly overrated. No, really, ask anyone stupid enough to take them. They're basically worthless, oh boy I can float am inch off of the ground or lift something slightly heavier! No real thought went into those choices, dumbasses just wanted to be Superman.
Everyone remembers that group of p... | She was special.
Her golden little curls bounced around as she jumped back and forth playing with her superhero doll with one of the boys in her class. 'Bang bang! -No John, you're dead now. You've got to play dead.' She informed the boy. He laid his hero to rest on the table and wandered off. She smiled to herself. ... | 2015-05-05T10:11:25 | 2015-05-05T09:46:53 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | As a young man in Delphi, Gouliélmos generally rushed through lessons with his tutors in order to run outside and wrestle and throw javelins and race chariots. As a result, his standing in the academy was low, but at sport he had few equals, and this gave him great confidence and arrogance.
One day, Dionysus and Herm... | The world shook, and the ground trembled. So began the story of the hero whose name is lost to is today. My father, my father's father, and my father's father's father all recall the tale, but none know of the great hero's name. Thus, I will refer to him, the great hero, as "The Cat in the Hat", as he is so described i... | 2015-06-10T10:25:42 | 2015-06-10T07:07:24 | 730 | 61 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | There was once a man who had a great love for the animals of the land. The goddess of the Hunt, Artemis saw his great love and appeared before him with this message:
"I command you to be the very best, like none other before you. To catch animals shall be your test, to train them shall be your cause."
He traveled ac... | Once upon a time, there was a man who owned a tavern with his sister. Times had been bad in the city where he lived, so he had decided to come home and live closer to his mother, who was very ill. With him, he brought the fairest princess in all the land. She had long golden hair and a radiant face, with a smile that c... | 2015-06-10T16:10:18 | 2015-06-10T06:53:17 | 57 | 16 |
[WP] Thor is sitting at a diner finishing a meal. A waitress comes by and casually picks up Mjolnir to wipe off the table.
Inspired by a comment made on [this image](http://imgur.com/MMALQdg). | "Excuse me..." said Jenny.
She lifted the weird ornate hammer and quickly wiped the table with her other hand. As she expected, the hammer was some kind of prop, not nearly as heavy as it looked at first.
The man at the table was lost in his thoughts, but as she put the hammer back he suddenly looked right at her. T... | "sorry about the wait" the server said as a he placed a steak in front of the man whose gaze bothered the staff.
"Do you know who I am Mortal?" the man said as his blue eyes burned into the waiters eyes.
"Hmm, you look familiar and I know I have seen you before now let me think... Oh yeah your Chris Hemsworth, you pl... | 2015-07-10T17:43:21 | 2015-07-10T15:58:23 | 924 | 62 |
[WP] As a joke/Tic, an atheist always thanks the Dark Lord when good things happen. When they die, they are shocked to find out that The Dark Lord is real, and they are his favorite follower, as they never, ever asked for anything.
The Dark Lord's favor could be pleasant, or ironic, or mundane. Or maybe it's a Dark La... | "You should sit. We have walked far."
Through some window my eyes were not privy to, some impossible breach in the air, he entered his arms and withdrew two bone-white stools. He offered one into my outstretched hand, and I felt - reassuringly - a smooth, dry wood. I knew I was in Hell, or some equally unfathomable re... | "Sooooo where to then?" Larry asked gazing into my eyes. I smiled lightly and run a finger up his arm.
"How about me place then." I smile lightly and giggle. He stands up and puts an arm around me and all I can think is thank you Satan another night and another man this one the best one looking yet. We walk out the c... | 2015-08-17T01:18:49 | 2015-08-16T22:35:10 | 1,022 | 38 |
[WP] On the day you were going to propose to your girlfriend, your future self comes back in time to convince you not to. While at the same time, your future wife comes back in time to tell her past self to do anything to keep the two of you together.
I love these prompts, but I haven't had time to really read any of ... | I placed two cups of hot coffee on the table, as I sunk into my couch. The two recepients quietly took sips from their cups as my eyes took trips over their faces, studying their expressions. Their mannerisms. How they resembled.
They really were me and my wife from the future.
I rubbed my temples as i leaned onto ... | Today marks the 4th year of my relationship with jordan, the love of my life. I sit at the outdoor patio of my go to bar. Slowly drinking my beer and taking a good drag of my stoagie. Just as I put the butt to tray I feel eyes on the back of my head. A grizzled old man sits next to me, two shots of bulleit in hand.
"H... | 2015-10-15T14:53:11 | 2015-10-15T14:30:29 | 49 | 21 |
[WP]You find yourself in the body of a 16-year old, 200 years in the future, in the middle of a test on early-21st century culture. | "Please state answers clearly towards the microphone. Some questions may also include a visual prompt. No network access or use of implant augmentation is permitted.
Question one: what factor most limits our knowledge of this period?"
"Um, unreliable sources?"
"Partial credit - the correct answer is 'The great copy... | **Kyle!**
What? Oh, I guess that's me. Yes, robot who is most likely my teacher?
**It's your turn for the oral quiz. Are you ready?**
Gosh, I hope so.
**Silence! Now tell me, what is Snapchat?**
I don't know.
**You don't?**
Not a clue.
**Then you fail your test.**
I did? What's the subject?
**Early 21st centu... | 2016-02-10T21:35:47 | 2016-02-10T21:33:32 | 100 | 31 |
[WP] Tell the story of a dog who lives in, but doesn't understand, the zombie apocalypse. | I'm a good dog. When the stinking men attacked my owner I pounced on him, straight for the throat. The most awful taste filled my mouth--like steak's blood but worse. It knocked him to the floor but he got up with half his throat in my mouth. Things aren't meant to do that.
But my owner is a good human, she knew what ... | She used to take bottles of stiff water and throw them across wood. She would sit for hours, pushing my nose away. It didn't taste good, the stiff water. It left mud of distinctive greys and browns. She would smile, showing happy fangs.
She would turn on the noise box, screaming at the little man trapped in the windo... | 2016-03-08T22:48:31 | 2016-03-08T22:34:21 | 91 | 62 |
[WP] Create a guilt trip so that anyone reading my diary's first page automatically feels they don't want to.
Morality is one of the strongest things to control someone's actions. So I want a first page to sort of guilt trip the person reading to make sure they don't read the rest. | I didn't think I'd ever put this down into words, but I can't take it any longer. I need to process it somehow. Thinking about it doesn't do me any good. So, dear diary, please lift this burden off my shoulders, if only by a little. I feel scared writing this. If anyone knew of what I'm about to write, I'd have to kill... | In a Godless universe, there is no room for moral arguments. So, if you aren't God-fearing, read on and feel no shame, but keep one thing in mind:
Tread lightly, for you bear the responsibility of your actions from this point forward, from this page forward.
Every action has a consequence. And it's extent does not a... | 2016-03-11T04:06:24 | 2016-03-11T03:45:55 | 83 | 24 |
[WP] You finally meet up with with your online cosplaying group at a convention for the first time but you're starting to get the feeling that these guys aren't cosplaying. | Disney world is burning. I thought wearing storm trooper armor in the Florida sun was hot, but the heat from the flames threatened to melt the flimsy plastic armor I wore. The rest of the division seemed unaffected by it. As a group, they were mostly silent. They followed the directions of their captain, and I did as m... | Who knew scale mail was so heavy? Mia's shoulders had been slumped over all day. Her small frame mimicking the dwarf she was dressed as. She was tempted to apply a beard that matched her hair too, but she didn't feel like explaining the joke to people who didn't get it or dealing with the extra heat in the overcrowded ... | 2016-05-17T07:11:44 | 2016-05-17T06:30:36 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | "Your annual re-evaluation results are in, Geoffrey", came the familiar, monotone voice of Master Computer. Some people found it creepy, but I was actually fond of the emotionless machine. You could always rely on its honesty and incorruptibility. Today, however, I would've loved to have been able to bribe, coerce or m... | I've heard stories of how, long ago, people of all types were allowed to live together, a place where people with a goodness score of 1 were allowed to live in the same places as people with goodness scores of 200.
Of course, this world stopped existing after a team of scientist invented the perfect way to test someo... | 2016-08-26T14:51:22 | 2016-08-26T10:59:35 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] After mankind first encountered aliens, we figured out why first contact took so long: We are fearsome space-orks who drink poison for fun, beat each other to a pulp for sports, can survive mutilation, and other stuff. Aliens are afraid, and mankind feels inclined to conquer things...
Bonus Internet Cookies for w... | It began more than a generation ago. How many, exactly, has been forgotten. But we still remember how it began, we still see how it continues, and most of us now believe we will see how it ends. That is, the end for my people is quickly approaching.
It's in the air, how each of us walks, the quiet whispers and sullen ... | “It’s repugnant! It’s vile! Take it away! “, cried various delegates of The Quorum of Sentients as the Human is lead in.
“It does not belong in this place!”
Iridescent angers bloomed across the crystalline surface of the chmyrhmrhm representative, and the oily flush of the srt’nt was enough to nearby cause the end o... | 2016-09-21T12:37:39 | 2016-09-21T12:29:43 | 43 | 27 |
[WP] After mankind first encountered aliens, we figured out why first contact took so long: We are fearsome space-orks who drink poison for fun, beat each other to a pulp for sports, can survive mutilation, and other stuff. Aliens are afraid, and mankind feels inclined to conquer things...
Bonus Internet Cookies for w... | “There is a loss of two prime civilizations in the Vut Expanse.”
“What?”
“Exactly what I said, Piyt. Probes sent to that region have returned showing complete civilization collapse in two of the prime galactic civilizations there: Autros and gGri.”
“How in Teovgan’s Eyes?! When did this happen?”
“Exact data is ... | “It’s repugnant! It’s vile! Take it away! “, cried various delegates of The Quorum of Sentients as the Human is lead in.
“It does not belong in this place!”
Iridescent angers bloomed across the crystalline surface of the chmyrhmrhm representative, and the oily flush of the srt’nt was enough to nearby cause the end o... | 2016-09-21T16:21:52 | 2016-09-21T12:29:43 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | It’s always funny when we tell the story of how we first met. Sure our marriage isn’t a conventional one by any means, but hey, love is love.
I know what you’re thinking, marrying literal death seems like an ill-advised idea. I assure you though, the truth is it’s the opposite. I think this might be the best god damn... | 'You're just too good to be true... can't take my eyes off of you...'
The famous Frankie Valli song played over and over in my head as I stood enchanted by this magnificent woman. I looked around to see if others had noticed her as well, and was shocked to see the reactions.
One man stopped in his tracks like a deer ... | 2016-10-01T22:31:15 | 2016-10-01T21:35:15 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] In another reality, the Americas, Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Antartica don't exist. Instead, the super-continent of Pangaea never broke up. | Van woke up and watched the sun rising through his window for a while. Then he got up, took a shower and examined himself in the mirror. His skin was dark, his monolid eyes a bright blue and the hair on his head black and bushy. He cleaned his teeth, shaved his beard. Today was going to be a hectic day so he needed ext... | Jerstom’s back ached with the strain of the alderwood he had hewn from the hillside, but he persisted, one burdensome step at a time, with only the thoughts of his father for company.
By the time he reached the beachside, dusk had already usurped the horizon. Mathae, his wife, was heating meagre provisions over a mode... | 2017-02-09T06:49:18 | 2017-02-09T06:21:57 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "Damnit Susan..."
"I don't wanna see you either Jeff..."
"At least tell me it's something important unlike last time"
Susan blushed, remembering how Jeff had randomly appeared because her (now ex) boyfriend couldn't bring her to climax. Quickly she shook her head.
"No, nothing like last time. Follow me."
She led ... | I was on my third date with a lovely woman when the tingling in my fingers started.
"No... Not now!"
"What's wrong?" Jennifer looked at me, baffled.
The tingling was creeping up my arms. More intense as it spread.
"Uh... So, I'm going to disappear for a bit. Not sure where I'm going or when I'll be back. Just kno... | 2017-03-22T13:49:02 | 2017-03-22T11:45:22 | 735 | 106 |
[WP] The day is 4th of July. The US suddenly cut off its connection to the outside world. Then they start to broadcast an international countdown. | Approximately 23 hours ago, all signals and information originating from the United States of America have ceased, except for one.
A countdown of 24 hours, broadcasted live onto all countries.
Approximately 20 hours ago, the United Nations convened in haste to discuss the blackout of the United States.
Approximately... | "20, 19, 18."
The television had cut off the rerun broadcast of the Fourth of July fireworks. It appeared almost like those emergency service testing broadcasts.
"17, 16, 15."
I wonder what this countdown is for. Typically the broadcasts state that this is a test and blare that jarring obnoxious alarm. This progra... | 2017-06-25T09:38:50 | 2017-06-25T08:53:10 | 283 | 34 |
[WP]: You find yourself in a dark room, standing in the middle of a pentagram. On each corner is your favourite meal, your favourite drink, some insence, a religious item and the tools of your favourite hobby. Around you are teenagers, all shocked that they actually managed to summon you. | “Ave Imperator!”
Those were words I heard as I appeared in a dark room in a puff of steam, that smelled sickly sweet, like bubblegum.
Looking around I saw 5 teens, standing at the points of a crude chalk pentagram. Each stood looking agape at me, with a mix of shock and revulsion on their faces - nothing out of the ... | I was having a great night. Weather was fine, nothing to worry about, all bills paid, a pizza for myself, And a videogame. Probably the perfect night. Then while playing my game my vision went white for a few seconds. And now I'm here. In the middle of a pentagram. Interestingly, each corner has my favourite meal. Pizz... | 2017-10-08T13:08:12 | 2017-10-08T05:55:49 | 85 | 37 |
[WP] You die and find yourself at the gates of heaven, but they're rusted and hanging open. The entire place seems abandoned. | "Pearly gates, my ass," I muttered to myself as I took in the ungodly sight before me.
To say I was not in the best mood was an understatement. Mere minutes before, my soul left my mortal body after the vending machine on my floor toppled over and made a human yoga mat out of me. I always wondered how I would go throu... | I walk in, not feeling my steps as if I'm gliding, over the ground that breathes a soft light. It's all ground for miles on end.
I feel as if I should be remembering 26 years of a life, but the emotions are present, the images are not. I only barely recollect a second of it, a group of masked figures looking over me.... | 2018-09-06T20:16:08 | 2018-09-06T16:38:53 | 147 | 24 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | “I would slay this fiend for thee and gain your hand in marriage.” The knight said excitedly. *Ugh no thanks why is it always marriage with these virgin losers*
“Oh you’re so gallant Sir knight. It’s terrible what the dragon makes me do.” I gracefully faint playing my role properly. I hate this part to be honest. Play... | Thank heavens Shadow had impenetrable skin.
Why are knights so pesky? Is it that it intimidates them that a woman has a keep, filled with only women and children not of age, and no man?
Is it a fear of dragons? My poor Shadow wouldn't hurt a fly, except for the occasional sheep willingly given to her, or another pesk... | 2019-01-09T06:40:51 | 2019-01-09T06:35:55 | 1,597 | 37 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | "Kinda short for a knight, aren't you?"
The words hung in the air. Sir Gregory was taken aback. He was expecting the princess to be excited to see him or terrified of the dragon. Condescension was an emotion he never entertained.
"Oh Gods, you reek. No, this won't do. If you wish to rescue me *properly* I insist you ... | I was in the midst of cleaning, scrubbing at an extra tough stain on the floor, when I was distracted by some noise at the door. Not swearing - a lady should never take foul words into her mouth - I rose from the floor and the bucket of cold soap water whilst using the back of my hand to push some loose strands of hair... | 2019-01-09T11:59:29 | 2019-01-09T10:18:32 | 158 | 80 |
[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. | This was a mistake.
When we arrived the whole planet focused on us as though a great beast was questioning who had awoken it far far to soon.
At the start. Before our intentions were known and we offered them a choice of submit or perish they were excited buzzing around in a frenzy that so many other species had wh... | 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... | 2019-02-26T09:23:50 | 2019-02-26T07:32:54 | 227 | 70 |
[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. | This was a mistake.
When we arrived the whole planet focused on us as though a great beast was questioning who had awoken it far far to soon.
At the start. Before our intentions were known and we offered them a choice of submit or perish they were excited buzzing around in a frenzy that so many other species had wh... | — Dude, come check it out
— My mom doesnt want me to hang out with you
— Come on, she wont find out. Look at this — he said turning the telescope-like device to his friend — look at that planet.
— The red one?
— No no dude, the blue one next to it.
— What about it?
— Look closer — he said and zoom it in.
... | 2019-02-26T09:23:50 | 2019-02-26T07:46:38 | 227 | 35 |
[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. | This is commander Xxar speaking. I am ordering all troops to retreat. I repeat, all troops must retreat. We were wrong about these creatures. On the surface, they seemed weak, they seemed like non-intelligent vermin. They hadn't even developer nuclear fusion for vxyyr's sake!
Once we had landed, they approached us wit... | — Dude, come check it out
— My mom doesnt want me to hang out with you
— Come on, she wont find out. Look at this — he said turning the telescope-like device to his friend — look at that planet.
— The red one?
— No no dude, the blue one next to it.
— What about it?
— Look closer — he said and zoom it in.
... | 2019-02-26T09:29:33 | 2019-02-26T07:46:38 | 60 | 35 |
[WP] you’re eating at a nice restaurant alone when suddenly time seems to stop. You can still move freely but everyone else is completely frozen and unaware of it. Except for one of the waiters who laughs maniacally as he goes around pickpocketing everyone. He hasn’t noticed you moving yet | Mitch stopped mid-chew, a bit of cheese still dangling of his lip. His eyes darted around the room first, then he threw his head left to right, twisting his body a little. He let go of his slice of pizza, which slopped down unto his plate, and looked at his girlfriend sitting across from him.
"Honey?"
The yell put h... | Jacob, sitting where he had sat for the last forty-five minutes, glanced down at his watch once again. The watch wasn't a Rolex, but it was sturdy and served his purpose well; for it told him that his date had quite likely stood him up. Again. With a deep inhalation, venting frustration out into the restaurant, he reac... | 2019-03-24T04:24:23 | 2019-03-24T03:34:14 | 31 | 11 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | 'The All Seeing Eye' honestly I just thought it looked cool. I can't exactly 'think' much these days. I rarely get the chance.
I can see the Universe, it truly is beautiful, I see the chaos that created it and the peace that will, or already has, brought it back together.
It's hard to tell these days, these centuri... | “For the love of all that is holy, please Mom!” I shouted, but I knew it was all for naught. The pounding on the door increased. “I love you, but not in that way. You’ve got to stop, you’re hurting yourself!” But still she threw herself against the door. The old hinges began to buckle against the strength of someone wi... | 2019-05-07T09:09:10 | 2019-05-07T08:50:39 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | *Ring ring.*
"HELP! The zombies are right behind me and-"
"Good morning, Tracy speaking. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
"The-the what?"
"Your gun safety. Big black dial on the side of your rifle. Can't miss it."
"What? What dial?"
"You are holding a CCD rifle? If you are a customer of SurvivorLink I... | "Good morning. Call centre of the dead. How may I help you today?"
"Dude come on. I've been on hold for ten minutes now. I..."
"Yeah, we're having a high call volume today." We weren't really. I got good price on turnips so I just had to.
"Ok, so I'm stuck in a grocery store and "
"Sorry to interrupt you sir. Can y... | 2020-05-12T07:25:12 | 2020-05-12T06:42:59 | 1,637 | 627 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | *A new employee finds a note under the desk of his new job at the "Zombie Hotline". Parting advice from the previous occupant at the desk.*
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I used to work in a call Centre for taxes before this you know?
But there's not much use fo... | "Ma'am? Ma'am, please listen to me!"
The frantic shouting on the other end of the line seemed never-ending. I sighed silently to myself. Everyday I had to deal with hysterical people wondering what to do. I knew from the get-go that working in a call center was no picnic. I had done it before; two years for a tech fir... | 2020-05-12T08:55:39 | 2020-05-12T06:22:29 | 104 | 67 |
[WP] Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | **When Daniel asks you to prom, say no.**
“What? Is my brother fucking with me again? How did he know I have a crush on Daniel? Whatever.”
I angrily wipe away the mirror, but it doesn’t smear. The steam, it wiped away, but the words didn’t. I run my hand over it again, smooth and cold. As I pull my hand away, turn an... | I frowned at the message on the mirror.
"Wow, okay, wow. How could... I'm not even--" I choked on the donut I was eating.
After a coughing fit, I spat out the offending food and grabbed the next one in my morning box of donuts. I set the box down, now empty, and began licking the paltry amount of glaze off my finge... | 2020-06-07T22:10:04 | 2020-06-07T20:16:11 | 314 | 184 |
[WP] Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | I grabbed my backpack and hit the door running. I knew from previous messages which ones meant "now", so I didn't stop to pack.
I got to the end of my block and rounded the corner, taking a quick look back. A car had pulled up in front of my house. *"Run"*
I kept going.
I entered the train station and headed down th... |
It’s hard to say when it started, or even when the first Message came. Most mornings, when I’d go into the bathroom, I might see one in the mirror’s reflection, just in sight in black letters. They usually consisted of advice, telling me to water the cactus next week, or to not go into Subway that day – I was feeli... | 2020-06-08T01:39:27 | 2020-06-07T23:56:26 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | I grabbed my backpack and hit the door running. I knew from previous messages which ones meant "now", so I didn't stop to pack.
I got to the end of my block and rounded the corner, taking a quick look back. A car had pulled up in front of my house. *"Run"*
I kept going.
I entered the train station and headed down th... | I stared into the mirror, and the scarlet letters stared back at me. Then I bolted.
I ran, not knowing where I was going, not caring my stubby out of shape legs searing in pain. I tore through the streets in a maniacal frenzy, mind racing faster than my body was. What was coming? What would it do to me? What if I don'... | 2020-06-08T01:39:27 | 2020-06-08T00:26:27 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] After a long journey, you finally reach the dark lord's lair. Then your companion, who you met shortly after starting your quest, opens the door and says: "It's nice to be at home again, come in I'll make some tea." | With my blessed longsword in hand, I was prepared to cut down the dark lord with the unsung fury of a holy knight. Was. Drerlar had just pulled a key out of her pocket and unlocked the doors to the dark lord’s castle, and walked inside before hanging her robe on a nearby coat rack. Before I could sputter out a question... | "It's so good to be home!" The amethyst haired girl gave a deep sigh of relief, dropping her pack with a thump. "I never thought I would ever see it again." She fell to her knees and literally kissed the floor, going limp so she laid directly flat on the stone. With a giggle she rolled onto her back, smiling up at ... | 2020-06-17T10:12:50 | 2020-06-17T09:34:20 | 321 | 64 |
[WP] After a long journey, you finally reach the dark lord's lair. Then your companion, who you met shortly after starting your quest, opens the door and says: "It's nice to be at home again, come in I'll make some tea." | "Rather small," said Shahma, who was gazing around the room with a mildly curious expression, "but comfortable enough."
"Thank you," Elias said, shrugging off his long, black travelling cloak. He hung it upon one of the hooks extending from around the room and made towards the large, ornate, serpentine table resting i... | "..."
She stepped forth, into the darkness that lied behind the two massive metal doors. I, on the other hand, simply watched with my mouth dropping down to the centre of the world. If it wasn't for the nonchalant mood, I wouldn't have even batted an eye.
"Hey!" her head popped out comically from the side of the half... | 2020-06-17T09:59:58 | 2020-06-17T09:03:39 | 172 | 76 |
[WP] "Checkmate," you say, a smug expression on your face. "Finally," says Death. The smirk is wiped off your face as the Grim Reaper removes his robe and hands you his scythe, "It's been 400 years since I beat the last guy." | “Wait wait wait wait,” I said, standing up quickly as Death - Maybe Old-Death? Yeah. Old-Death “I thought if I won I didn’t die!”
Old Death shrugged, “Yeah. Death doesn’t die.” He grinned, “You’re welcome!”
“Oh come off it,” I growled, aiming the scythe at Old Death’s face, “You bloody tricked me!”
“Yeah I totally d... | “Checkmate,” Jake felt a smug expression stretch across his face as he looked across the table. Facing him in this competition a grim figure - Death himself. All around them, Jake could see a vast expanse of just… emptiness, surrounding the rock on which they play.
Jake had always been competitive - he couldn’t help h... | 2020-07-07T22:19:14 | 2020-07-07T21:31:05 | 55 | 39 |
[WP] You're thought to be one of the world's most powerful magic users because of your massive collection of cursed items, none of which have affected you. In reality, you're completely magic deficient, but smart enough to put on a decent set of gloves before handling any them. | Lab Assistant Altria diligently wrote down the results of the most recent experiment after her employer attempted to destroy the golden eyestone with Sædr’s Hammer. The rock in front of them had a myth that explained it’s power of foresight and omniscience, but all those who held it would be cursed by its first owner t... | "Is this the power of the noble, all powerful Time Thief clan?" The Black Mage stared at me, standing by for the fight. The wand in her hands was still aiming at me with my bracelets floating about.
For your information, dear reader. My golden bracelets, among all of my inventions, are my masterpieces. Thanks to Kosmo... | 2020-08-26T04:37:51 | 2020-08-26T03:02:04 | 45 | 19 |
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