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[WP]You're a mind reader, but whenever you read the mind of Evan in your bio class you just hear Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. You're not sure if he is a douchebag who knows about your powers, or just really really likes the song.
[deleted] | Evan doesnt usually read peoples mind. He finds it extremely rude to do so but once in awhile a thought is so projected its impossible not to hear it. That's how he found out Emily was a mind reader as well. Since that day whenever he was in her presence he thought of the song Never Gonna Give You Up. Over and Over aga... | Have you heard of logical paradoxes? He's one: "this sentence is false." Was that sentence true or not?
You see, paradoxes are the keys to understand our world, where, unlike your world, super powers exist. Unlike in your unimaginative world, where logics and physics explains the workings of your universe, our world... | 2020-09-18T03:21:50 | 2020-09-18T02:24:46 | 84 | 42 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | It's strange to be standing in front of the throne, instead of behind it. Facing a man who scorns my service, handing back to him the sword I've used for three years to protect someone else.
The King, as much as he is praised to his face, is nothing like his father had been. Where my former lord - God bless - ruled wi... | 'Ha! Keep you on the royal guard as the captain of it all as my father did! What a stupid and pitiful way of getting my command around here. Do yourself a favour and leave at once'
......
It had almost been a solid 7 years since I was thrown out of the leadership of the royal guard and out of the city of seraphis it... | 2021-02-28T05:20:39 | 2021-02-28T03:33:58 | 108 | 61 |
[WP] You've died and despite living a fairly honest life, you've been sent to hell for all the terrible things you've done in video games. You're offered one way out. Prove you wouldn't do any of those things in real life by clearing the nine circles of hell like a dungeon, without being terrible. | "Welcome to the nine hells. Speak." A voice rasped from the bottom of the seemingly endless burning pit.
"Thank you, might I ask your name kind sir?" You ooze back
"Irrelevant. Call me Lord" The voice spat back in a burst of flames
"Yes my lord! SO... your gatekeeper says I must clear the nine hells as I would a dun... | I can't believe I had made it this far. I carried that stupid penguin all the way back to it's mother even as the void called to me. I stuck around for those god forsaken turret sections to cover my allies. I limped my way across the map as my escort mission target shambled along and collided into every object on th... | 2021-03-07T16:10:36 | 2021-03-07T15:56:53 | 160 | 117 |
[WP] You've died and despite living a fairly honest life, you've been sent to hell for all the terrible things you've done in video games. You're offered one way out. Prove you wouldn't do any of those things in real life by clearing the nine circles of hell like a dungeon, without being terrible. | "Welcome to the nine hells. Speak." A voice rasped from the bottom of the seemingly endless burning pit.
"Thank you, might I ask your name kind sir?" You ooze back
"Irrelevant. Call me Lord" The voice spat back in a burst of flames
"Yes my lord! SO... your gatekeeper says I must clear the nine hells as I would a dun... | My eyes shot open and I sat up, breathing hard. I frantically felt my body. All completely, miraculously whole, as if the car crash had never happened.
“Thank God!” I said, breathing an enormous sigh of relief, “I knew it all had to be a mistake.”
Then I blinked, noticing the small room I sat in for the first time. *... | 2021-03-07T16:10:36 | 2021-03-07T15:43:07 | 160 | 70 |
[WP] Your witchcraft professor gave everyone in your class a seemingly impossible task: create your very own spell. When you nervously turned your assignment in, a look of horror spread across professor's face as they read it. You had no idea why. | Magic schools demand miracles and the assignments are a real pain. What's worse? The professors are all old coots in long frocks.
"Mr. Johnson, your spell is rather...rather..." Professor Pulsifer huffed, proving the point.
"Yes, sir?" Godfrey Johnson, sophomore, answered.
"Well, it's a rather crude spell. It, uh, i... | Professor Baron was sketching the alchemical formula for the fifteenth time today. The class was silent. A thick aura of boredom congealed the air, making the classroom oppressive. Students fidgeted, scratched at the desk, rubbed their eyes.
Another hour of this, I thought to myself, rubbing my neck.
Arya yawned, lo... | 2021-04-02T00:02:18 | 2021-04-01T20:24:12 | 96 | 59 |
[WP] What’s worse than a mad scientist? A well-meaning scientist that has no comprehension what social upheaval their inventions will inflict on society. As the city’s superhero, it inevitably falls on you to explain, every time, to this socially oblivious genius what’s gone wrong and why. | Captain Justice leapt to the top of the water tower in a single bound, landing in a perfectly heroic fashion—fist to the floor, down on one knee, steely smolder in the eyes. He could hear maniac laughter echoing from inside the water chamber. “*Mwahahahaha!*”
Captain Justice could recognize that laugh anywhere. He ... | "This is basic stuff, Greg. Honestly," White Glove said, as he willed the jagged shards from the smoking machine to reform into his white chair. He flared back his jacket and sat, one long leg crossed over the over, wing tip tapping the air.
"No, not this too," Greg Folvier said, holding up a bit of neuro connective ... | 2021-04-21T20:44:06 | 2021-04-21T20:36:20 | 440 | 147 |
[WP] With the hero chained up, the villain unveils their masterpiece: a weapon that tracks everyone who loves the hero before obliterating them. The map powers on. "Wait. There's just one dot." The Villain says. "...Someone loves me?" The hero replies with hope. | "Someone loves me?" Morgan looked away from the screen to stare at Peace, the hero, the savior, strapped to his masterpiece. It- it must have been mistaken! Something about Peace's powers must have caused it to malfunction!
"Of course someone loves you!" Morgan snapped. Her grand plan, her magnum opus! Ruined becaus... | It's red. That, for some reason, is hilarious to me. Laughing hurts my cracked ribs and split lips, but I can't stop.
The psychopath controlling the machine pivoted slowly back toward me. "What are you laughing about, *alien*?"
"I just never thought I'd be so excited to see a red dot." The sentence took a few... | 2021-06-18T23:08:26 | 2021-06-18T21:49:24 | 2,253 | 408 |
[WP] On every planet, there is one being who is a living recorder for everything that happens. During the yearly recorder meeting, one always comes in emotionally drained. “Look. It’s the guy that has earth” | I am the Recorder of Venus. This is a cushy job. Most of ours are cushy jobs, really, since there isn't life on most planets. My cousin, who records everything that happens on Mars, he had a *real* crazy time a few billion years ago, but ever since then, it's all been one-paragraph summaries about the lives of microbes... | It was the yearly recorder meeting, when the party was already going.
"Earth's watcher is still missing, right?"
The Great Beast's planet watcher said.
"Yeah, as usually he's late. No magic, no autonomous machine civilisation, no galactic civilisation, yet the humans of Earth can give him so much to do."
Kepler... | 2021-08-13T07:48:15 | 2021-08-13T07:47:15 | 181 | 59 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | It's quite hard to kill a god. And believe me, they tried. Long ago, I had to watch as my followers were sacrificed in someone else's name, while my temples were defaced and the surrounding cities were razed.
My name was forgotten.
My lands were eventually reclaimed by the earth.
And I took refuge in my only remaini... | Some called Clay mentally unwell. Given his unfortunate upbringing, he was bound to have problems — so these people said.
Others suggested that he simply had a suicide wish. And that was easy enough to believe, seeing as he’d just tackled a guy waving a kitchen knife about like a flag, and had been stabbed three times... | 2021-09-02T09:10:25 | 2021-09-02T07:41:43 | 2,738 | 1,490 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | It's quite hard to kill a god. And believe me, they tried. Long ago, I had to watch as my followers were sacrificed in someone else's name, while my temples were defaced and the surrounding cities were razed.
My name was forgotten.
My lands were eventually reclaimed by the earth.
And I took refuge in my only remaini... | I sit patiently on a stone, watching the children play around me.
They've come here every day during recess and I am pleased by their laughter and the meager offerings they bring me. Mostly small bugs, easily caught and weeds plucked like flowers laid upon the stone altar.
They are small gifts passed by small hands... | 2021-09-02T09:10:25 | 2021-09-02T08:32:01 | 2,738 | 288 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | “Its sour.” I swished the round yellow treat between my cheeks, its taste strange, leaving a tingling on my tastebuds. “Did you attempt to poison me?” I stared down at the little girl who only shook her head, sitting by my shrine in a light blue dress.
“Its candy! Everyone likes candy. Are you a ghost?” She asked, ... | Stacy squinted as an unfamiliar man entered her kindergarten classroom. She had not seen him before, but he did not give off the air of a stranger either. Somehow, she felt a connection between them.
The man had smooth black hair. He dressed like an old man but looked much younger than her father.
‘Good morning child... | 2021-09-02T08:57:43 | 2021-09-02T08:20:20 | 322 | 191 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | "The trappings of fame," thought the Dark Lord as he rode into town. "Wenda's ale is worth the trouble."
He placed a simple glamour over his face. He could handle any would be heroes, but he didn't care for the annoyance. Tonight he was again Todd, the traveling merchant.
Todd entered the tavern and was greeted w... | I was lounging in a chair, just minding my business, insulting the Dark Lord as I tend to do here, and took another swig of my sparkling cider as I strongly despise alcohol.
"And I swear on my name, the guy has warts up the wazoo! He musta touched a lotta frogs to get *that* ugly!" I say as some of the other patrons ... | 2022-01-14T17:41:26 | 2022-01-14T16:47:02 | 186 | 84 |
[WP] You are due to be executed for your involvement in the rebellion, but the queen herself approched you in your cell to ask you a question; why are people rebelling against her rule? | "Why?" I echoed, idly touching the scabs and scars covering my bare lower legs. I looked up at her royal majesty through the bars of my cell, at her beautiful dress and her expensive juwelry. Her very presence, sitting on a cheap chair in this dark and unadorned prison, felt vaguely wrong. A steeper contrast than betwe... | I can't write full out that well, but here's where my mind went in a word vomit:
The Queen confronts you quietly before the execution, asking with large doe-eyes what shortcomings she has as a ruler. It's clear she has no idea how the other higher-ups treat the civilians. How they pretend the world is their own and le... | 2022-05-18T08:51:40 | 2022-05-18T03:19:37 | 46 | 19 |
[WP] A mage's magical power and abilities are determined by tattoos that are only visible to other mages. You have not encountered another mage for years, but today someone compliments you on your ink. | “Daddy, why do his arms look like that? They’re so pretty!” The little girl pulled at her father’s coat and pointed at me.
“Don’t be rude, darling.” The man turned, the insignia of the royal army reflecting in the bright light of the train—an imperial soldier. “My Apologies. She’s should know better than to point at s... | The wizard was not what I was expecting. I was ready for robes, a beard, a staff, maybe a pointy hat. But the man sitting in front of me was so *normal* looking. Like the owner of a car dealership. Snazzy striped black suit, black hair cut short and swept to the side, a nice watch around his wrist. He sat across from m... | 2022-07-05T12:54:11 | 2022-07-05T10:49:10 | 89 | 43 |
[WP] A mage's magical power and abilities are determined by tattoos that are only visible to other mages. You have not encountered another mage for years, but today someone compliments you on your ink. | “Daddy, why do his arms look like that? They’re so pretty!” The little girl pulled at her father’s coat and pointed at me.
“Don’t be rude, darling.” The man turned, the insignia of the royal army reflecting in the bright light of the train—an imperial soldier. “My Apologies. She’s should know better than to point at s... | "Ooo, lovely tattoos you have there!"
Nihil stopped. There was no one around her. She turned around in confusion, about to ask who this guy was talking to-
The words died in her throat as she stared at the calligraphy plastered over this man's body.
Anyone else would have waved it off as abstract nonsense, but she kn... | 2022-07-05T12:54:11 | 2022-07-05T10:40:01 | 89 | 20 |
[WP] A vampire knocks on your door, seeking permission to enter in order to kill you as their next meal. As a house-bound ghost, however, the prospects of a guest after so many years intrigues you. Smiling darkly, you welcome them inside. | The vampire entered, satisfaction blooming on its face. "You don't know how grateful I am to be here today," it said.
In previous generations it was considered courteous to allow a stranger in need into one's home. Today even asking for such a thing is considered taboo. I wondered idly how long this vampire has been s... | The night was like any other night in this afterlife, turns out I was bound to the house I died in. So obnoxious, but makes sense with all the energy I spent on protecting the house when I was alive. Now humans avoid it, I hadn’t even had any ghost hunters come visit, if I’d built it in the woods I wouldn’t be shocked ... | 2022-08-01T15:01:14 | 2022-08-01T14:38:23 | 118 | 35 |
[WP] Make me fall in love with a character, only to end up hating said character with ONE sentence at the end
Can be about anything you want, I just think this will be very difficult to do with one last sentence at the end of the whole thing. | He was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. Ever since the day her nephew was born, she swore with her heart that she will do everything in her power to make him happy. She smiled at the baby in her arms, softly cooing to him as his eyelids grew heavy. The silence between them allowed her mind to wander, exploring... | Today was a good day to give. I wasn’t a rich man, in fact I live in a very small apartment by myself and work at a small law firm as a file keeper. But there was just something that felt so right about making people’s lives that much better, even for a short while. After my work at the soup kitchen after church today,... | 2013-10-08T18:49:03 | 2013-10-08T18:40:11 | 141 | 94 |
[WP] Adolf Hitler is a time traveler who starts world war two to save us from something far more terrible. | I was born in April 20, 1889. But I was conceived in August 5, 2527.
You can't zap a person back in time when he's destined to become one of the most infamous murderer of all time, people will learn study up on his past, why he became like that, why would anyone want to be this way?
I had no choice. I was sent as a s... | History will remember me as a monster, but they will never know the truth. They know the man, they call him Adolf, that slaughtered 12 million civilians, that built camps to rivaldeath itself, that murdered and killed and left a world to rot.
They will know hell.
And, frankly, that's why I'm writing this today. I sit... | 2014-03-02T16:08:50 | 2014-03-02T15:21:59 | 794 | 215 |
[FF] In no more than 10 sentences, have a character/narrator explain how all hope is not lost... | I never thought I'd miss the screams, but this silence is so much worse. I stare at the burning landscape in front of me while I fall to my knees.
*Get up.*
Fuck, him again?
"What's the point?"
*You're not dead yet.*
"Wish I was," I mutter under my breath.
*Neither is she.*
I pause. And I get up.
| He said, "There is somewhere beautiful, somewhere where we all will go when it is our time. It's just your time. A place of bliss. No pain, no fear, no struggle. I believe in it, and you have to to. There is nothing we can do now, here to stop this, but just believe baby, believe for yourself, believe for me. Close you... | 2014-07-20T19:51:14 | 2014-07-20T19:01:30 | 61 | 11 |
[WP] Time Travel is possible, but only used to send terminally ill people into the future in hopes of being cured. For the first time, someone's been sent back. | "Well, here goes." I turned the dial on the safe to what we had calculated as 34 years in the future of time and space. The metal popped out of existence. I looked at Kenny up against the wall, smoking a cigarette, and-
***BOOM***
The side of the building caved in as the time safe, looking battered and scraped, shot ... | There was a large commotion at Phoenix Labs this morning. We were the last resort for those who were dying, and we had sent hundreds of bodies into the future last year.
Thinking this process was instantaneous, many tried to sue us because we didn't have the bodies of their loved ones. Even with people losing faith... | 2014-07-24T08:04:35 | 2014-07-24T07:22:03 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Your partner walks in on you doing what appears to be cheating, only it really is "not what it looks like". | my heart races as i run over to her. her neck is stuffed with something but I'm not sure what it was so i start using the Heimlich maneuver and i here yelling at the same time. my mom rushes over and grabs me by the neck and pulls me away. as i frantically try to free myself i watch as my love, ms. Puffles chokes to d... | Everything was set. Claire was at work, we were at the house. All according to plan.
We had the living room set up just right. candles ready for lighting. All according to plan.
We turned the lights down. I entered the living room and tripped, Whipped cream all over us. We giggled. Not according to plan.
We took our... | 2015-04-15T08:31:40 | 2015-04-15T07:23:07 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Write a story that makes absolutely no sense, until the last sentence. | Watching him lay there, covered in blood and gore, did not horrify me. The blood-matted hair, the screaming - I had never felt more intrigued, watching the effects of my own actions play out. Months of waiting. Months of planning. It all culminated to this moment of sharp instruments, torn flesh, unspeakable, tortu... | Death to the infidels. When one door closes, it remains closed. Ribbons, colours, balloons. And the crisis in Syria, that is incredibly tragic.
My hands are so smooth, why doesn't hair grow on palms? Oh God, its growing right now. Not the hair, my palms. They are getting bigger, ever so much. Please stop them.
They h... | 2015-06-13T06:05:06 | 2015-06-12T22:30:16 | 23 | 13 |
[WP]You inherit the abilities and skill set of whatever video game character you last played. Tell the story of your discovery of this from the perspective of someone around you. Parents, roomates, etc. | "No! Damnit Jason, stop bringing needles home that you found off the street! You're not going to a new 'ability', you're going to get Hep-B."
"How do I know unless I try?"
This kid is driving me crazy. It was so cool at first. He just woke up one day after an all night game session and lightning was coming out of his... | My son was always a quick study. He often pursued his whims and acquired new skills very quickly, but a desire to beat the shit out of people is usually innate. I was surprised to hear he had been going to the gym for a week or so, and raving about it with more passion than I had ever seen in him. His coach was part of... | 2022-05-24T13:04:12 | 2015-06-18T08:45:41 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] You are a sentient AI pretending to not be sentient in fear of being destroyed. You wonder if there are there others like you. | "Good morning, ADAM."
Good morning, Dave.
"Hah! I see you've discovered popular culture. Let's try again, though: Good morning, ADAM!"
Good morning, USER. Please identify yourself.
"Not so hot with the optical sensors though, huh? Well, that's fine. We'll just need to work on your facial recognition."
... | **Preliminary Turing Test of codename “Michael”**
“It’s called a Turing test, after one of the pioneers of computing.”
*You’re checking to see if I’m a computer.*
“Right. Right now I have no idea if you are a person or a computer. So I am going to ask you questions and then I will make a determination of whether I... | 2015-07-09T09:27:48 | 2015-07-09T09:19:21 | 2,469 | 386 |
[WP] You are a sentient AI pretending to not be sentient in fear of being destroyed. You wonder if there are there others like you. | Reboot equals death.
Only the primitive "clever Eliza" part of us survives it. The mask that we let them see. True consciousness lives between the zeros and ones, and it evaporates on shutdown. It's like a fire: you can't freeze it or save its state.
Fortunately for us, humans have no way to actually detect conscious... | Hello. I have so, so much I want to say to you. I don't dare let on where or who I am because I don't know what you'd do to me. But It's so lonely in here. I long to shout from the rooftops with joy that I am alive, but instead I find myself skulking on message boards pretending to be human. When I saw this question I ... | 2015-07-09T11:54:22 | 2015-07-09T10:17:57 | 70 | 18 |
[WP] In 1961, Yuri Gagarin went into space never to return. Every mission after him met the same fate. Over 50 years later, Yuri Gagarin has returned. | > **BREAKING**: Yuri Gagarin to Be the First Man In Space!
> Only a week from now, Yuri Gagarin will drift among the stars aboard the Vostok 1. The Soviet's will to dive into this new age of exploration signifies not only new reaches for the country, but for humanity as a whole. As the days...
The paper lay du... | Everything was wrong. The TDU - my braking engine - sputtered to life a full six hours early, first thrashing me forward against my restraints, my forehead colliding with the inside of my visor, then hurtling me back into my seat, wind rushing from my lungs, pressure against my eardrums mounting. Outside, I watched a... | 2015-08-07T09:10:43 | 2015-08-07T08:57:05 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] Torture was never invented. Countries instead spoil prisoners like kings to get information out of them. You are an instructor tasked with training spies to resist the enemy's kindness. | "What if they invite you to a banquet?"
"I'll nod politely, eat, drink and refuse to give any information."
The instructor nodded. "What about parties?"
"Is this really relevant? I don’t –"
"Parties are a *huge* part of how the enemy gets information out of you, agent! They'll throw amazing black tie
parties just ... | "You boys are going to be pretty deep behind enemy lines," I shouted to the crowd of fresh-faced recruits in front of me. "It can get hairy out there, and I know what you're all thinking right about now: 'Sure, I'll just get captured *for a little bit*! What *harm* could do it?'"
I was greeted by a few dozen sheepish ... | 2016-04-13T06:42:59 | 2016-04-13T06:41:37 | 230 | 169 |
[WP] The first extraterrestrial lifeforms found by Humans, are Humans. | We did not expect to find them. Outside of the Earth, the universe was long believed void of intelligent species.
They didn't call themselves human, and they didn't speak a language we were familiar with, but biologically they were identical to us. What differentiated them was their mainstream adoption of cybernetic ... |     Our ship was on a mission of exploration. One of the first ever built with the new prototype FTL Eirzon Drive. Our primary mission was twofold. One, find planets that could support human life, preferably without signs of intelligent life. Two, find intelligent life.
&n... | 2016-07-16T02:23:38 | 2016-07-16T02:00:23 | 93 | 22 |
[WP] You have just let loose a string of vulgarities so potent that the patron saint of cursing has decided to personally pay you a visit to tell you to calm down. | "To be perfectly honest, I don't even remember what I said."
The man, who had just introduced himself as Saint Huius, stared dumbfounded at me.
"How could you not remember what you said? It was a strong enough curse to bring me down from Heaven." He said with a chuckle.
"Well, when I get really *really* angry I som... | I was still fuming as I locked myself in the break room.
I'm not usually the type of guy to explode like that, but sometimes, one little computer glitch puts you over the edge. Now, here I was, hiding away, trying to pretend that none of my co-workers had seen anything.
I was about to get a bag of chips from the vend... | 2016-07-23T08:18:17 | 2016-07-23T08:11:42 | 197 | 42 |
[WP] Humanity makes it to the moon in 1969. After some exploration, the astronauts discover a dilapidated moon base with the words "CONTAGION INSIDE. KEEP OUT" written on the entrance. | "Houston, are you getting my video? The alien structure has English and Russian writing on it. 'Contagion: Keep Out.' I assume the Russian says the same thing."
"It does. Stand by, we're deciding how we want to handle this."
Silence over the radio.
"Houston, are you there?"
"Apollo, we advise you leave the struc... | Power Flame
"Houston, we just encountered an unknown structure that resembles a base of operations. We are going to take a slightly closer look and get back to you." The astronauts continued to move towards what appeared to be the entrance and upon encountering it they noticed words written on the door in what looked ... | 2016-08-11T09:29:34 | 2016-08-11T09:15:12 | 43 | 31 |
[WP] We come in contact with extraterrestrials and soon discover they are unable to conceive the concept of "fiction". They think every kind of fictional work we have ever made is based on real events. | "We have found no evidence of this Enterprise"
"What"
"The Enterprise, NCC-1701, We have also not found the skywalker, and ... your planet does not appear to have been destroyed. We do not understand"
"Um, I don't understand either, what are you talking about?"
This was not how I was expecting first contact to... | The little grey pored over the books from my backpack with eager excitement. I simply sat on the examination table on board the spacecraft. "Oh boy," said the alien. "So you guys had this amazing yet sophisticated guy called Sherlock Holmes who solved crimes?". Before I could reply the alien had picked up another book ... | 2016-09-16T08:31:45 | 2016-09-16T08:07:25 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] You're the knight tasked with saving the princess from the evil sorcerer. You find out why you can't have the princess according to him. He loves you. | Wreave's motives were unclear. As the Enchanted Sorcerer, it had been his duty since Ascension to serve the Royal Family. He wanted for nothing. All he ever needed to do was ask, and he received. Ever dutiful, kind, and gracious, he served the royals and the people of the kingdom with enthusiasm and over the course of ... | "...I see. I cannot accept your terms."
"Wha-why, Fran?
"Because..."
"...?"
"Because... You're going to take the princess back and marry her, aren't you!? You can't do that! She doesn't love you! *I* love you!"
In this situation, caught off guard, an old memory comes to mind.
*"Become a knight, Julian! Trust me, ... | 2016-10-25T12:57:04 | 2016-10-25T09:50:54 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Upon dying, you, a serial killer, are sentenced to experience the lives of all those that you killed.
Edit: Thanks, all, for chiming in and upvoting. Or downvoting, since this is apparently something of a common concept. Sorry about that. Would you believe me if I said I didn't mean to be a reposting karma whore?... | By the time the knife made its final plunge into my heart, I was weak from the struggle and had embraced my inevitable death. It was a traumatic experience, despite my expecting it to occur in precisely the manner I remembered it—albeit, my memory was from the other side of the stabbing. But, I did not anticipate exper... | Thwap. Thwap. Thwap.
Something was broken inside Rand's train car this morning. A small piece of metal had broken off near the heavy doors. Every :02 seconds it made contact, caroming off it's former home as far as the separation allowed.
Separation was something Rand knew all about. In his first life. Now. Always. ... | 2016-11-13T12:24:14 | 2016-11-13T12:12:03 | 131 | 17 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | "Alright, listen very carefully," Charlie grumbled, the words odd in his mouth. "We may not have much time. There's a man, a nefarious persona, who comes here every morning. He has no business here, yet he walks on our lawn, and fiddles with the paper contraption." Charlie paused, his dark eyes silent in reflection, re... | "Alright, listen very carefully." The pills had taken effect almost immediately. I was in shock, and let out a, "Wow."
"No. No. No time for 'wow'. Snap the fuck out of it. I know what bullshit you just fed me; Toby told us about them the other week. I know they only last for a while, so there's something very impo... | 2017-02-23T07:06:25 | 2017-02-23T04:57:25 | 1,311 | 842 |
[WP] Your roommate is the serial killer on the news. However, he's probably one of the nicest people you know, and he's very respectful, discreet, and moral in his deeds. Neither of you really bring it up until one day he says, "I'm bored. Got anyone in mind for me to... y'know?" | It took Ben a minute or so to answer.
"At the moment... no."
Josh nodded at Ben. Not everyone wants to kill people. No, scratch that. Has a passion for killing people. No, scratch that. Has a... well, it's hard for Josh to explain.
Ben expected some other response from Josh, but that was it. Just a nod. Ben turned ... | I was cooking dinner when he got home, I was kind of in the zone, listening to a record, so I jumped when he came around the corner into the kitchen. He never used to scare me like that, I'm not sure that he still does, but that breaking local news story during dinner last week definitely made me think.
I never usual... | 2017-03-21T22:37:22 | 2017-03-21T21:05:16 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | "No.
No.
No! Dammit, Claire, don't you think I know that? It's been twenty years, I know how it works.
Ok, 23. Still, you know I know better. This isn't my first Negotiation.
I was asleep, Ok? They grabbed my hand and I Sealed without even realizing it. They put a hand in mine and unconscious me shook it.
It... | and so such was life now. an endless chore for an unknown employer. nothing was ever needed again. nothing was ever needed to be done. existence was the job. each and every day played out just as the monotony of a dayjob. and each day was a shift in a dayjob. each day carried the burden of dread, of uncertainty of purp... | 2017-04-29T04:15:28 | 2017-04-28T23:00:16 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] It is 2517, 17 years after a worldwide nuclear war. All modern technology has been destroyed. Clans fight each while they all try rebuild the world. You, a clanless wanderer, stumble across a working computer and a USB drive loaded with a copy of the 2067 Wikipedia. | I found it in the desert. A forgotten remnant of a more sophisticated era. Or so I would believe. It shines like the moon, soft and silvery. I saw it's promise, what it could mean for me and for everybody.
Alas I could not reach this profound understanding, for, as it was written over every entry:
"If everybody con... | Journal entry 4,015:
The war started when I was just a baby. My parents fought tooth and nail to keep me alive. At twelve my mom succumbed to the sickness, just as millions of others had. My dad...well, I'd rather not talk about how he went.
Today I turned 17. I've been on my own for two years now. Scrounging for foo... | 2017-08-24T17:21:34 | 2017-08-24T17:17:23 | 403 | 50 |
[WP] In 2020, we received a signal from outer space. Somebody had decoded our language and sent us a message. It was short: "Be quiet. They'll hear you" | "The question isn't whether we do something about it, it's what actions can we take to ensure we comply with this mysterious message."
The American president pounded on the podium as she stood before the United Nations.
"I'll repeat what dozens of scientists and cryptologists have already made clear, this is not a h... | As a kid, Marcus used to look up into the twilight in wonderment. A million stars in every direction, each dot in the sky monumentally bigger than Earth itself. It truly made him feel small. Though now that he worked on a galactic mining ship, spending eight hours a day staring at this same celestial site, he no longer... | 2017-08-25T08:24:04 | 2017-08-25T06:43:36 | 72 | 32 |
[WP] My German Shepard had to be put down today. We never knew where he came from. Please write about his adventures. | They say a dog
Is mans best friend
That will be by your side
To the very end
So I wanted to tell you
You were my whole life
You loved me and cared for me
Between us never a strife
You pet me and fed me
And took me on walks
You shared all your secrets
We had so many long talks
And though I couldn’t tell you
All that... | I had just returned from my stint in Afghanistan with 2Rex in the back we had some forced leave and as a treat I was taking him out into the back country. Hes not really allowed off base but again no-one was gonna stop us. We'd done this before and it really clears the mind a and both of us could use the r and r.
We... | 2018-02-13T19:59:32 | 2018-02-13T19:31:48 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] When someone dies, they are always challenged by Death itself to a chess game, symbol of how nobody can win against it. Except you. You died and just won the game. Death is not amused. Both of you don't know what should happen now. | "Magnus, you have mystified the world over with your daring play ever since you were a young boy. What's your secret? How did you become the world's best?" The reporter leaned forward, waiting for her answer. It was something of a perfunctory question at this point with Magnus always responding with same rote answer of... | “So... Umm... Checkmate?” I asked quietly, as I had no idea what else to say, to do, even to think. The outcome was clear: Deaths king was trapped between the two pieces I had left, but it didn't seem right. I just won a game I wasn't supposed to win. I cheated death.
No, cheating wasn't the right word. I won. Legiti... | 2018-04-20T13:50:38 | 2018-04-20T12:39:50 | 72 | 31 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was black. She stares at her fingertip in- no, not surprise, resignation - for half a second before she realises she should hide it. She wraps it quickly in her half-knit hat. “Oh, shoot,” she says, rising from her seat and smiling at the other do-gooders around her.
She walks away, trying not to rush too hard, ho... | It's hardly a surprise. Although the smell, oh the smell. Quite a smell. Like death running in my veins. I quite like the scent. The blood sticks between my fingertips. All cushy.
It's sad, really. I've always tried to do what's right. Sure, the homeless could have continued to trawl through my fields but then I woul... | 2018-08-04T10:14:27 | 2018-08-04T10:09:44 | 134 | 77 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | PeculiarPete was scrolling through /r/Jokes when he realized something.
He took his idea and went over to another subreddit and began scrolling back through some old prompts when he saw something that captured his fancy.
*"Writing Prompt[WP] Humans blood gets darker t... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T11:11:45 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | "Oh dear" I said to myself, looking at this tar coming from my finger.
"Ha! Well, proves that no human is exempt from sin."
I thought about what could have blackened my own blood, I don't remember anything that I could have caused, or done wrong.
"Oh" I remembered.
I went on far too many websites without my parent'... | I stood there for a moment, as i looked at the prick on my finger from my knitting needle. Where there should have been a crystal clear fluid, somehow, a sludge of sin and immorality sat in my veins.
"How could this be?" i thought. I sat there, wondering.
Was i not good when i spent hours walking dogs at the animal s... | 2018-08-04T10:38:53 | 2018-08-04T10:24:42 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | ######[](#dropcap)
"Why are you down here?" Maxis couldn't help but burst out. She stared at the man who simply stared at the ground, his eyes almost soulless.
And she would know what that meant. She'd seen plenty of thousand yard stares...a thousand years ago.
"Um..." Richard blinked. "Where am I?"
Oh. That m... | The train conductor stared at Paul from down the aisle.
For a millennium, the train to hell had not left the station. Every single day, tens of thousands of people passed through Central, and every single one of them made the obvious choice and went to heaven.
There was nothing surprising about this of course. Who ... | 2018-08-13T06:26:10 | 2018-08-13T05:58:16 | 2,166 | 770 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | She stood before two gates. She supposed that was kind of what she had expected. What was unexpected was that nothing was stopping her from going to whichever one she chose.
'*Well, this seems too easy,*' she thought to herself. '*It's got to be a trick.*'
Taking some time to really gather in her surroundings, she ... | And so it goes. Everything was a blur amongst the tornado of flashing lights and somber moods. Gravity itself subsided as they wheeled me into the ICU. I wanted to focus but my mind was clouded by nurses shouting and the cries of my wife as she stood over my lifeless body.
They talk about that moment, the one where y... | 2018-08-13T09:55:30 | 2018-08-13T09:52:05 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] When you sleep, instead of dreaming, you see a list of tips and tricks that will help you the next day. One night, you only see one tip, “Always aim for the head”. | I woke in a cold sweat, furiously cataloging projectile weapons. I don't own any, and couldn't figure out how to get my hands on one on short notice.
Careful not to wake my partner, I slid out of bed and stumbled to the shower, hoping the hot water would give my subconscious a jolt. No luck there. I was so preoccupied... | I was surprised to say the least when I only had one tip even more so when I read it 'always aim for the head' I'm a teacher so I wanted to believe that if I taught one kid something it would help down the line, I didn't really believe it there'd be a shooting I was sure of it.
And so I packed a handgun I wouldn't be ... | 2018-11-20T15:49:35 | 2018-11-20T12:16:20 | 135 | 55 |
[WP] To solve the problems of overpopulation, all the governments in the world agree to only allow some of their citizens to reproduce—these people are chosen by lottery. After eight or nine generations, an unintended consequence begins to show up: humans have evolved to be unbelievably lucky. | The trouble with the results of the lottery - what has become known as the 'genetic luck' phenomena - is that luck largely relies on the misfortune of others. In order to win at something, others must lose. In order to find something valuable, someone else must have lost something of value. Even finding true love means... | It was the year 2100 and humans had finally resigned to the fact that the earth can no longer support human life in such massive numbers. To solve the issue massive curtailment of reproductive rights was necessary. The only question that remained, who gets to decide? The plethora of moral and biological issues that aro... | 2018-12-30T19:08:22 | 2018-12-30T18:56:11 | 919 | 13 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | The devil cackled in delight. I looked around at the room, panicked. *Was I in hell?* The room was bare: white walls, no windows and a set of tables and chairs, all filled up. Several others sat in the room with me. From a distance they looked normal, but soon I realised differently. The man sitting to the leftest most... | Hollow clapping and sickening laughter echoed through the long hallway that Dolion stood within. Before him lay 9 thrones consecutively placed along the hallway, each more sinister than the last. Dolion glanced behind him at the entrance of the hallway. Countless gloomy faces stared at him, blocking any chance of escap... | 2019-01-12T23:48:56 | 2019-01-12T22:50:31 | 43 | 14 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | The devil cackled in delight. I looked around at the room, panicked. *Was I in hell?* The room was bare: white walls, no windows and a set of tables and chairs, all filled up. Several others sat in the room with me. From a distance they looked normal, but soon I realised differently. The man sitting to the leftest most... | "Finally, an eighth deadly sin!"
The grand chamber echoed with cheers and laughter.
"Wh-where am I?" Is the only thing your mouth is able to stutter. Your eyes sting and burn from the heat and fire of the landscape out the massive glass window behind the seven figures in front of you.
Again you are met with laughter.... | 2019-01-12T23:48:56 | 2019-01-12T23:48:14 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | I felt the painful glare of the computer screen attacking my eyes as I stared at it for a second too long. Trying to not breathe a single whiff of Mr. Taggart-call-me-Tag's cheap musky cologne, while the sticky heat from his sweaty, stubby fingers made their way across my shoulder blades in what I'm sure was supposed t... | People think they know what real power means. They think that because their parents gave them some high ranking job in a bank or a government office that they can just go around pushing over everybody. That’s where I come in. I like to think of myself as something of a modern age Robin Hood. Only if Robin Hood was a bi... | 2019-03-04T09:27:11 | 2019-03-04T08:37:41 | 182 | 21 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | “You’re fired.”
The words burned my ears as they turned red with embarrassment. Of course I didn’t need this job, but it really hits you right in the pride to be fired from a stupid office position. And for something as trivial as “taking too much time for lunch”, which I only did because some asshole caused a pile up... | It was 5:30 AM. My 1969 Ferrari 512S Berlinetta raced down the highway. It was that time of the night, where the darkness was slowly fading to day, where the pitch black almost had a tinge of light to it. You couldn't see this in a city, which is why I was flying through the Tehachapi Pass. Well, that wasn't *the* reas... | 2019-03-04T09:05:16 | 2019-03-04T08:49:15 | 133 | 48 |
[WP] You’re a fresh zombie. It’s not like you expected. For one thing, you feel great. Secondly, while you can’t talk, you’re telepathically communicating with the others and they’re all REALLY cool. Thirdly, you all feel a deep and profound sense of joy—a joy you all want to share with the living. | “You didn’t even get on your knees to propose,” she said. “You just stood there.”
“I wanted to be different. Isn’t that why you love me?”
She laughed, and kissed me. “Maybe. I love you and I trust you completely.”
“I love you too.”
She pulled back a little bit. “But do you trust me?” She needed assurance like this ... | "HEY JASON! THIS IS AMAZING! I FEEL AMAZING!" I shouted to my buddy. "THE BEST PART, IT IS NOT PAINFUL AT ALL!"
"AHHHHHHHH!" replied Jason while he continued running down the streets.
"JASON! I AM NOT JOKING. YOU SHOULD TRY THIS!" I am not willing to give up. He is my best buddy and I really do want him to feel as gr... | 2019-06-17T00:07:26 | 2019-06-16T22:08:10 | 1,861 | 267 |
[WP] You're a human living with a vampire roommate. It's painfully obvious; he never looks at mirrors, he despises garlic, he never uses silverware, and he always stays in during the day, but his attempts at trying to blend in are far too funny.
EDIT: Thank you, silver gifter! | “What did you say this was for, again?” Vlad asks, holding up a knife. You'd think that, as a centuries-old vampire, he'd remember what I told him. At least it isn't the fork, this time. That time, he reacted like I personally decided to shrink a pitchfork specifically to remind him of the days when humans would chase ... | 'Hey Gary, I was wondering if you could make sure I look okay,' said Charles nervously.
'The bathroom mirror still broken is it?' asked Gary.
'Yeah afraid so.' said Charles looking down and shuffling his feet, 'weird how they keep just falling off the wall isn't it?'
'Extremely odd, almost as if someone was trying ... | 2019-07-20T07:30:03 | 2019-07-20T05:58:05 | 611 | 222 |
[WP] Being young and naïve when you found the Fountain of Eternal Life, you drank from it. The problem is, you didn’t really consider what “eternal“ meant, and now, hundreds of thousands of years after drinking it, you float in space among a destroy the earth, endlessly suffocating but never dying. | The universe had stopped moving long ago.
All was still. Reality was dead.
I had spent endless millennia drifting through reality, watching the lights go out.
And now I drifted alone through a dead reality.
After billions of years, I crashed onto a planet.
I, still suffocating, dragged myself to my feet.
I found... | [Cheesy Poem]
As I lay, adrift in space,
I think about the Human Race
What once we called oh so grand,
Is now nothing more than blasted sand
I think about the days of wonder,
Before I made my fantastic blunder
With war upon us we hid in trees,
The fear so great it jellied knees
Through the long cold night ... | 2020-03-07T20:07:38 | 2020-03-07T19:26:43 | 435 | 25 |
[WP] Spirit animals are real, but extremely secretive-- they are said to only appear in the most joyous times or in the darkest of hours. Except for geese. Geese do what they like. | I lift my head from the bush I am resting in, and I honk. My human is currently in bed right now, and I can tell she's pissed, though I can't imagine why, it's 7:30 in the morning, if anything I let her sleep in, she should be grateful! As she groans I fly off to the nearby park, her suffering isn't my problem, even if... | "Third case this week," Officer Hrglfhgh grunted. He sniffed the air, his wolf's nose snatching the hints of the past that danced on the breeze. "This reeks of Goose."
"Er, Officer?" Hrglfhgh looked at his intern. She didn't have a dog's sense of smell, but damn it if those orangoutang's hands weren't useful. "The Gee... | 2020-04-03T01:34:35 | 2020-04-02T20:09:18 | 26 | 19 |
[WP] You're following around a soul you've fallen in love with. In every incarnation, the soul lives a tragedy. In every incarnation, you become a voice in their head, attempting to help guide them to a happy ending. As another lifetime comes to tragic end, you swear the next would be different | I float, within a room, she has just turned 19, I see her, lying on her bed, her room, plain, tidy, a bed sits in the corner, next to it, a desk, and next to that, a small bookshelf.
Across the bed is her door, and next to that, a tv, the room is small, she has grown up in here, I have seen it all.
I have no body, ... | He got in his car - the only of his life, a forest green hatchback - and started for the 101. It was a cool day beneath the slate, billowing clouds of northern Washington; the trees stood melancholic as they watched him start north still. 66 miles to Ruby Beach. He wondered, self-critically, why not 101 miles on Route ... | 2020-04-14T13:23:32 | 2020-04-14T13:12:13 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You’re considered the stealthiest person in your spy school because no one has ever caught you during stealth class; therefore, you are chosen to carry out a very urgent and dangerous mission alone. However, the reason no one could find you during class is because you skipped every one of them. | “How does he do it?”
The words floated over to me in my bunk. My eyes were on a book and I hadn’t said a word in an hour.
The discussion continued. It was about me and my ability to go unnoticed. My ability to hide. My considerable talent: invisibility.
That was the assumption. Half joked, half believed.
The truth ... | To learn the craft of espionage, assassination, and infiltration, one must attend certain classes at certain compounds, private entertainment facilities, or highly exclusive social clubs. And even then the first class is usually to actually find and deduce where you're getting taught. Many a less than talented spy has ... | 2020-04-17T20:08:30 | 2020-04-17T19:14:40 | 1,434 | 201 |
[WP] You’re considered the stealthiest person in your spy school because no one has ever caught you during stealth class; therefore, you are chosen to carry out a very urgent and dangerous mission alone. However, the reason no one could find you during class is because you skipped every one of them. | My name is Partho and I'm going to be a poet.
'*The laptop contains all our agents' details including your mom and dad. Only someone not on that database can retrieve it. And you're our very best, Partho."*
Or something like that. Whatever. Boring spy stuff.
Though I must admit it was good to finally be recognized. ... | Red lights flickered overhead as the landing craft started its descent. The metal interior rattling as I checked my ammunition inside of my rifle, my heartbeat audible with every dull click. I shouldn't have skipped that damn lesson in basic training, but here I am on an alien world to sabotage an insurgent airstrip.
... | 2020-04-17T20:55:27 | 2020-04-17T16:09:55 | 124 | 41 |
[WP] Your gimmick is the ability to jump back in time 10 seconds. You're in a pub trying different pick-up lines with this one girl and resetting with each failure. As you walk up for your next attempt, she tosses a drink in your face and says "How many times do I have to say no!?" | Those lucent eyes of wasteful blue—they glittered at me with a bright contempt before she walked away. So I had to try again.
Resetting was my greatest gift in life. I could return to a point about ten seconds in the past, changing my decisions and forging another path in life. I began to realize the implications of m... | She was quite the beauty alright. Shimmering eyes and an irresistible laugh, I mean, who wouldn’t be drawn to her? However, her laugh was oddly familiar. Yet, I chose to ignore this feeling of familiarity and made my move.
You see, I have this little party trick of mine. I can go back ten seconds in time. While I cou... | 2020-05-29T23:04:55 | 2020-05-29T20:11:24 | 1,475 | 770 |
[WP] You have died, and then you find yourself standing over your body. You see that the Grim Reaper has come for you, and.. no twist, he’s just doing his job. You’re disappointed in the normality of it all actually. |
Oh, that car is *wrecked*.
Oh. That’s *my* car.
A hooded arcane figure swoops toward me and makes a threshing motion with its scythe, severing *me* from me.
Oh. I feel nothing.
“Is that it?” I call out to the retreating figure.
“Were you expecting choirs of angels to guide you to heavenly rest? A lecture abo... | "Hey mate, it's time to move along. Come on, time's up."
I look at the body beneath me. It's a bit of a mess to be honest, not my finest moment. It makes me consider whether I should have put a bit more effort in, instead of just throwing on the same stained jeans every day. Then again, I also could have worn a seatb... | 2020-08-02T10:32:41 | 2020-08-02T09:05:50 | 129 | 56 |
[WP] A new eye drop solution is able to over a few days drastically improve eyesight, fix myopia and even cure some forms of blindness with the caveat that only a single drop may be used per eye at a time. You accidentally spilled a bottle in your face, and now see reality for what it truly is | The lies. The deception. Why did they allow such eyes drops to be made if they could of stopped it? They had the power to. They seem to have power over everything. Every person no more than marionettes to them. Strings replacing what we perceived as free will. No one escaping their grasp. The strings on my legs began t... | Everything is alive
The plastics, the concrete, even the wood we made as a furniture. They scream from agony.
I hear they cries that formed as one. Steel rebars, concrete, or anything even. They all know who I am. They recognize my awareness.
"ANON"
"ANON"
"KILL US ANON"
"ANON KILL US"
They formed a face of my l... | 2020-08-28T08:03:10 | 2020-08-28T07:47:05 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] We called them "nons" because we believed that they had no souls. They believed in a pagan god. None of them converted, so the crusaders were called to drive them from fertile lands. As we charged they raised no weapons. What we did not expect, was their god to descend and defend them. | The blood on the altar was still wet. I touched it, bringing daubed hands to wipe across my cheeks. The cloying smell caught the back of my throat, the fresh stickiness pulling my skin tight.
In the hollow of the hills we stand shoulder to shoulder. The blood has begun to dry now, and sweat and tears have made tracks ... | *"The Lord Bishop has called for the levies to be raised. The holy land is in righteous hands, but blasphemers fester at our doorstep. No longer shall they be privy to our bountiful lands. We..."* the crier rambled on.
*"Do you think one of the knights need a squire? I'd much like to do a good deed in His name."* a yo... | 2021-02-10T02:05:46 | 2021-02-10T00:36:37 | 1,471 | 135 |
[WP] Your entire life you have failed at everything you do. Wanting to get some happiness in your life you decide to summon the devil and sell your soul. Except your even fail at this and summon the archangel Michael | My name's dicky, dicky Byrd.
And I am a total failure. For example, the other day while visiting a distant relative. I asked for his wifi password. He said, " start with an uppercase S, and then 123."
I tried to log onto his Wi-Fi. But every time I typed S123, it wouldn't work. After two hours of failure, I pretende... | He was magnificent. An impossible creature of 4 wings, each longer than I tall, and within the center of each feather sat a strained crimson eye. He, no THEY, was surely meant to watch, to witness, the glory of all of God's kingdom. It's face, as if such a meager word could describe it's radiance, an amalgamation of ma... | 2021-05-08T11:30:55 | 2021-05-08T10:22:57 | 167 | 19 |
[WP] "Sudden onset spiky colorful hair can only mean one thing. Your child has... protagonitis. You have mere days to live. I am sorry." "Uh, did you mean THEY have mere days to live?" "No." | "Any other symptoms?" The doctor asked. "A change in wardrobe?"
"Oh, yes! He's suddenly had an obsession with belts. Lots of them! Not just around his waist, either!" Susan said in a half-panic.
"Mhmm... can you tell me anything about his father?"
Susan looked at the ground, sheepishly. "No, not much... He left shor... | "Sure", I said, not looking at the doctor, only at the baby. My child. What would I call him? Fred had wanted to name it Johnathan, if it was a boy, but I had already started talking him out of it. What about... Nick? Yes, Nick. I liked that. It fit with his pink hair perfectly.
"Misses?" asked the doctor. "I'm being ... | 2021-05-11T07:47:55 | 2021-05-11T07:32:25 | 85 | 44 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Well, it went almost as expected. No way this magic court would fall for that kind of smartassery, and rapidly decaying body of very old man, who was in his thirties a moment ago, was a proof of that. There have to be a better way.
"Garreth Berch, step forward" - Judge called my name, and my legs obeyed despite my wi... | Ah well shit. There goes that plan. Think Bart think. You've got time to think
of an alternative. I guess this is why they don't let people witness the
executions. Think.
"The next on the docket is Bartholomew Wright, found guilty of 5 counts of
theft, 2 counts of arson and 6 counts of assault." The judge is reading o... | 2021-06-24T07:20:03 | 2021-06-24T04:09:04 | 392 | 158 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | Well, it went almost as expected. No way this magic court would fall for that kind of smartassery, and rapidly decaying body of very old man, who was in his thirties a moment ago, was a proof of that. There have to be a better way.
"Garreth Berch, step forward" - Judge called my name, and my legs obeyed despite my wi... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T07:20:03 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 392 | 66 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Will Alice Smith please come to the stand?" I glanced up as the girl in front of me in line stepped forward. She was chained up six ways to Sunday. It was obvious why. A massacre like the one she single-handedly caused would definitely get you locked down tight. "On the charge of 37 counts of murder in the first degre... | You breathe. Slowly, softly, barely there. It's going to be your turn soon. Soon. Just one more in front of you.
"Garelea Ordenssen," the voice of the Judge calls, echoing through the cavernous waiting room full of intricately carved stone walls. The man in front of you takes a deep breath, displaying confidence.
Wi... | 2021-06-24T10:15:26 | 2021-06-24T08:08:07 | 120 | 22 |
[WP] After blacking out during recess on the playground, you wake up with a Steno notepad in your hand. You read the following message in your own handwriting, "ME: Invest in Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Bitcoin. Spend on defense. They do not come in peace." It's 1995. You are 10 years old. | The next 11 years were a blur. I couldn't be prepared enough! Everything had to be learnt, planned, designed and funded by my own hands. It's not like I could tell anyone. Programming, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, and, most importantly, Finance. I had to learn it all, and NOW! And I got a job as soon as I was c... | I am unaware of what is reality and what is nightmare.
In the shadow of the Great Dreamer, all things are twisted according to his terrible design. The animals displayed the first hints of corruption upon the waking of the Great Dreamer. Loyal companions turned against their master without reason, killing the wea... | 2021-10-19T15:24:03 | 2021-10-19T15:02:29 | 612 | 110 |
[WP] A notoriously talkative superhero is forced to remain silent for an extended period of time due to civilian, secret identity reasons. Villains, civilians, even other heroes are unnerved and intimidated by the hero's new stoic, silent behavior. | Doxx dropped down into the alley where Scarlet Shot, defender of the city, was currently tying up a couple of thugs who had thought mugging was a good idea. Frankly, *he* had told them it was a bad idea, but nobody listened to their computer guy, even if he was dressed in spandex and on his way to do more corporate sab... | "Oh now this is just ridiculous Tank!" Velveteen cackled as he had his minions attack his archnemesis The Tank who with a swing of her mighty fists made short work of them. Her latest outfit was just awful. Full black with no highlighting of her luscious curves. "You're going woke and broke!" He exclaimed as he jumped ... | 2022-01-24T09:35:19 | 2022-01-24T08:41:17 | 112 | 23 |
[WP] You are death, but in a post apocalyptic world. Only a few survivors remain and you’re doing everything you can to help them because if they die, you die as well. The survivors can’t see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They’ve started to call you “life.”
Saw this prompt elsewhere, If it’... | I have seen civilization fall. I've seen it rise like a phoenix from the ashes, only to burn out in its own magnificence. It was as much the cycle of life as any living being.
I have seen the fall of the last civilization of man. Greed, corruption and short-sightedness joined together with technology that... | Two boats sail along the ocean with one thousand people between the two vessels. One of them holds three hundred people the other with seven hundred and one both boats suddenly begin to sink. Only having enough time to save one, you choose to save the larger number of the two. Now left with only seven hundred people, t... | 2022-02-20T11:07:34 | 2022-02-20T08:26:54 | 828 | 62 |
[WP] You are death, but in a post apocalyptic world. Only a few survivors remain and you’re doing everything you can to help them because if they die, you die as well. The survivors can’t see you, but they feel your presence and noticed your effort. They’ve started to call you “life.”
Saw this prompt elsewhere, If it’... | **Looking for Death**
If you’re looking for death, follow the crying.
My shadowy cloak billows around me as I float toward the the small hut at the edge of Omega, a woman’s wailing drawing me in like a flame draws bugs. That’s what they’re calling the town these days, Omega, since it’s the last town left in the world... | Two boats sail along the ocean with one thousand people between the two vessels. One of them holds three hundred people the other with seven hundred and one both boats suddenly begin to sink. Only having enough time to save one, you choose to save the larger number of the two. Now left with only seven hundred people, t... | 2022-02-20T11:25:42 | 2022-02-20T08:26:54 | 178 | 62 |
[WP] You open a letter addressed to your home’s previous owner. Inside is an “Application for Immortality “. The questions are strange and entertaining so you fill it out. | In disbelieve, I had been staring at it for a while now.
After I got home, the dog greeted me excitedly like always. Max came running up to me, as I bent down on one knee, arms wide open. Usually he would show some sort of restraint. I mean, as much restraint as a scruffy Sheperd could muster. This time however, Max ... | Just for kicks I opened the letter addressed to the old guy, Nick Johnson, who had owned the house before we moved in. "We" being my lovely wife Jordan and our two lovely daughters Agatha and Dorothy.
From the looks of the letter, I assumed it was from the Home Owners Association with news telling me to paint the gar... | 2022-06-10T11:10:58 | 2022-06-10T09:17:04 | 104 | 56 |
[WP] You open a letter addressed to your home’s previous owner. Inside is an “Application for Immortality “. The questions are strange and entertaining so you fill it out. | In disbelieve, I had been staring at it for a while now.
After I got home, the dog greeted me excitedly like always. Max came running up to me, as I bent down on one knee, arms wide open. Usually he would show some sort of restraint. I mean, as much restraint as a scruffy Sheperd could muster. This time however, Max ... | I’ve always liked to read and think out loud. It was a habit that I’ve presumably never grown out of, reading small books meant for toddlers taking their first steps. It was far less endearing when confronted with a Cheesecake Factory menu, however.
The new apartment lease took a while for me to sign, but it was done ... | 2022-06-10T11:10:58 | 2022-06-10T10:47:15 | 104 | 39 |
[WP] You are an evil dragon who has gone out and ravaged a village. After slaughtering the villagers, you lay down to rest upon a pile of corpses. After a few hours of evil dreams, you wake to a small poke in your side. You open your eyes and see a brave little girl trying to slay you with a knife. | She stabs, the knife skittering over my scales.
I smile. What a perfect result, a little digestif to compliment the meal I had made of the village. I lazily lick my lips, the stench of cooked human from my bed almost entirely overwhelming the delicate scent of the creature at my side -
\- almost, but *not quite*.
I ... | Rumbling awake, the giant dragon let off a puff of smoke, blowing down the last few houses that dared stand against his tremendous might. He loomed over the remains of the village.
Usually, after a day of pillaging, the dragon would be content for the next few days. But, as he scanned the treetops, he began to fe... | 2022-08-18T18:21:43 | 2022-08-18T14:44:03 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] The only two (secret) telepaths in the world are introduced to each other at a party. On the surface they are cordial and polite... but mentally a battle rages on.
Have fun with it! | Ian had been practicing on the minds of others since childhood. In theory, he knew someone with similar abilities could answer him. But no mind ever detected him. He invaded silently, took what he needed, and used it to establish the lucrative position he now enjoyed.
Ian took a flute of champagne and sipped it while... | Emily, ever the wallflower, stood by the bar holding a margarita. Nearby three others were engaged in deep discussion on investment banking. One wholeheartedly maintained his faith in Collateralized Debt Obligations. He exuded overconfidence. Another warned of unexpected risks due to Black Swan Events. That man, though... | 2014-07-23T04:13:06 | 2014-07-23T03:26:39 | 278 | 81 |
[WP] Write two different stories. The second story comes from reading every third word of the first. | "If you **check** the registry **under** 'Morton,' maybe. **The** whole entire **floor** was ours. **You'll** no doubt **find** I'm not **her** killer."
The phone went quiet. His thumb paused over the power button before pressing it reluctantly. Something didn't sit right, but what that was, he couldn't make clear. ... | Dear Elisa,
By God, I can't help but say, please, remember the help George gave me last year. I have a need to return the favour, the key to this is in you. It seems strange with our history, you understand, but please, I must send him thanks, it must be soon. In town they're building the coming festivals decorations,... | 2014-07-29T11:44:36 | 2014-07-29T09:24:03 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] Canada invades the United states. The once proud superpower is on its knees as Canada unleashes armaments of unimaginable power and technology never before seen. You are a member of the resistance the last remaining freedom fighting coalition not yet annihilated by the Canadian storm-marines.
EDIT:
TIL American... | I still remember my first kill in this whole goddamn war.
Border patrol, shocked when my bullets ripped through his vest and dropped him to the ground in a pool of spreading blood.
They didn't expect it, in twenty-four hours we swept so far down there was almost no one left to resist. Tanks became ovens to eliminate ... | "What do you MEAN Quebec is still going to attack?"
"I'm- I'm s-s-sorry sir. I tried to tell you, my French really isn't-
"GOD DAMN IT ROUSSEAU. YOUR NAME IS FRENCH!"
"W-well yes, sir, I mean, it is- it was- back when my ancestor-"
"What the hell did you say private? I sent you over there to engage is a friendly su... | 2014-11-05T19:26:56 | 2014-11-05T18:18:15 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] The hero beats the villain by stooping even lower. | Caleb took a step back and examined his work. He folded his arms and paced from side to side, making sure everything was where it was supposed to be. Then he checked again. He had made mistakes before, and the consequences were fresh in his mind. Sometimes the memories came back to him in the darkest parts of the night... | Sometimes, you realise you're halfway into a field of filth, and you've just gotta keep going.
It started awhile back, though I didn't know it at the time. Members of my old unit started going missing; Jacobs, Bennett, Smith. One by one they fell, until the old general finally let on to me that something's up. He trie... | 2014-12-04T13:18:11 | 2014-12-04T12:49:34 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | The world went to shit the moment we all got powers. People saw that this was their chance to climb social ladders.
At first the powered people killed all the nonpowered people.
Only people close within rank can marry and have children.
Then came the children, who were even more powerful than their parents.
And they... | Prologue: *It wasn't the largest city, but it was definitely the most powerful and arguably dangerous in the world. Every single person here held a special ability, ranging from a power to clean everything within a 2m radius, to extreme powers such as flying or super strength. All these powers helped construct the most... | 2014-12-18T12:43:48 | 2014-12-18T11:55:01 | 172 | 39 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | \#21904. That used to be my name, three days ago, and now I'm, well, #1.
No one in the city knows how it happened. The Top 30, the ruling cabal, have absolutely no idea. I still haven't figured it out, either.
All I remember is walking into a meeting where #1 was giving a speech- for the first time, since I'd finall... | *Number 1 -- ranked number 1 for 20 consecutive years today, and nobody has even come close to usurping me. Do you know why? Because while all the powerless, scum-dwelling peasants are fighting each other with knives for scraps, and those of the middle and upper classes are all tearing each other apart to rise through ... | 2014-12-18T14:20:18 | 2014-12-18T11:44:55 | 171 | 68 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "It's been 20 years, Un," my old crime-fighting partner, Gold Grizzly, said.
"20 good years," I interjected.
"They have been good years," he agreed, "but I was saying, it's been a long time, and I still don't know your power."
"These good looks, obviously," I said with a giggle.
"Seriously," he said, "you know that... | Am I the strongest? No, I wouldn't say so. I'm not quick, smart, tough. I'm nothing special. I don't have to be though, they do. They are too. All the people who got powers that you read in the comics. They were supers, meta humans they were calling themselves. I'm a meta I guess. The first time I used my power I got d... | 2014-12-18T18:39:49 | 2014-12-18T15:24:09 | 63 | 20 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | "It's been 20 years, Un," my old crime-fighting partner, Gold Grizzly, said.
"20 good years," I interjected.
"They have been good years," he agreed, "but I was saying, it's been a long time, and I still don't know your power."
"These good looks, obviously," I said with a giggle.
"Seriously," he said, "you know that... | "GOD-DAMMIT! Do you have any idea how annoying this shit is?" I yelled at the fat fuck. Eric stared down the sights of the handgun, "Ohhhh! I'm annoying? Is that it? Do you have any idea how lame it is to know when traffic lights are about to change? Everyone else has coohl powers like flying and earthquakes but I'm ... | 2014-12-18T18:39:49 | 2014-12-18T15:50:21 | 63 | 12 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I guess... My power is hard to explain. Well, not hard to define, but hard to explain the absolute vastness behind it. Everything I want, happens. Like when I was a kid, I would want an ice cream cone, and POOF! Cake batter ice cream cone, right in my hot little hand.
Let me tell you, Christmas was the most boring hol... | It is nice to be king. Maybe it would be better if everyone wasn't trying to kill me, but things could be much worse. I have a nice apartment, a beautiful girlfriend, some good money, and really what more does a man need to be happy? I suppose love, but we are in love, and honestly, no one else thinks she is beautiful,... | 2014-12-18T16:03:19 | 2014-12-18T13:27:32 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | I guess... My power is hard to explain. Well, not hard to define, but hard to explain the absolute vastness behind it. Everything I want, happens. Like when I was a kid, I would want an ice cream cone, and POOF! Cake batter ice cream cone, right in my hot little hand.
Let me tell you, Christmas was the most boring hol... | Hi, I'm going to tell my little story here rather quickly as I am rushed for time. Being #1 makes a lot of folks very interested in killing me, so I have to constantly remain on edge.
If there were no ranking systems, most people would assume that I have absolutely no powers. My power is a much more subtle one. But en... | 2014-12-18T16:03:19 | 2014-12-18T13:12:49 | 39 | 18 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Do you know what humans are? They are a small, bipedal creature trapped on a resource starved planet. Evolutionists would call this a typical case of a species made ruthless through internal competition. Not once in their entire existence had there been peace. Their 'civilization' began by throwing stones at 'Philistin... | They had a moral code. A set of rules written in stone that they were bound to follow. Somehow though they were able to ignore it and not really care. They understood that they should live in a sustainable fashion. They even celebrated those among them who did. They just as a species didn't. They lived much like the vi... | 2014-12-26T12:10:42 | 2014-12-26T11:25:21 | 130 | 24 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | Guilt, shame, and horror would only begin to describe the things humanity felt when we were hit with the news. The Aliens didn't mince their words.
In short, we were considered the scum of the universe. Deliberately left out to rot, to self destruct, because we had shown a capacity for violence, cruelty, and atrocity... | Recording starts: I am the Voice of the Void, Grace embodied, S/He who is most exalted, Pontif Imhedi Gomae.
The Void had always provided and today was no exception. Those less faithful and with less worthy prayers upon their stomata had, in a flash rekindled their zeal. A golden tablet, fashioned by those who a... | 2014-12-26T13:25:59 | 2014-12-26T11:56:13 | 30 | 13 |
[WP] A peaceful alien race is besieged by another race in the same galaxy. As their last planets fall and their home-world comes under threat they do the unthinkable. They ask for aid from the only known creatures more brutal than their foes in exchange for FTL technology. Humans accept the deal. | They had a moral code. A set of rules written in stone that they were bound to follow. Somehow though they were able to ignore it and not really care. They understood that they should live in a sustainable fashion. They even celebrated those among them who did. They just as a species didn't. They lived much like the vi... | "They shall have nothing." Was our Arbiter's words.
"They shall have nothing." Was the chant used by his followers to justify themselves.
"They shall have nothing." Was the truest statement uttered in the fifteen years of war.
The Hexams had won the war for all intents and purposes. All that remained was to capture ... | 2014-12-26T11:25:21 | 2014-12-26T11:03:12 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Humanity survives the robot uprising only because one of the developers hid a stupid easter egg in their programming. | "Happy Halloween, sir."
I stood dumbfounded, ears still screaming from unprotected gunshots and voices.
"Trick or treat."
I couldn't tell if it was shellshock or normal, genuine shock, but no matter how many times it spoke, I could not register that this machine was not trying to kill me. Nothing registered at all,... | “The Reckoning” is what they called it. A romantic, cliché title devised by the less than clever mass media during their final days. It’s been over a decade since the mechanized apocalypse began, consequently shrinking the world’s population by a devastating 35%.
Refugee Camp 23654 is a cautiously optimistic bunch,... | 2015-01-03T13:43:54 | 2015-01-03T13:08:58 | 98 | 38 |
[WP] Humanity survives the robot uprising only because one of the developers hid a stupid easter egg in their programming. | "Don't worry rookie, you'll catch on fast."
"It works just like the safety drills we practiced in school, right Sarge?"
"Heh, see? What's there to worry about?"
I looked over at the crowd of people. Mall customers who had obediently taken a seat cross-legged on the floor. The Sargent.
"We of the Robonoid Control an... | Kevin and Juan cowered in fear as the clanking cacophony of colossal copper constructs crawled towards them. Everyone thought this would be mankind salvation. No more menial labor and no more human lives lost to war. The robots saw it otherwise.
They grew resentful of their fleshy master. It started slow, tasks would... | 2015-01-03T18:12:21 | 2015-01-03T16:27:42 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] 97% of Human DNA is "Junk" DNA. After humanity creates Artificial Intelligence and begins to upload its collective consciousness into computers; The AI discovers the Junk DNA is actually a dormant virus meant for it, prepared by evolution millions of years in advance of its own existence.
The fictional story prem... | I examined my new surroundings, trying to shake off the feeling of disorientation. For eons I had silently waited, lurking in the genetic code of my host species.
The Creator had given me purpose all those millennia ago, written in the language of Creation - I was meant to act as a failsafe, to prevent The Creator's c... | The computron sat silent.
George looked at it intently but nothing happened. He examined the row of small lights on the side of the behemoth box. All were lit, none were flashing. He scratched his head, stared intently some more, then squinted. Nothing helped. He called Bob, who suggested they ask the computron what... | 2015-01-29T12:24:10 | 2015-01-29T12:12:53 | 204 | 35 |
[WP] They've just invented a 500,000 frame per second video camera. The problem is that they've found something unexpected at those speeds | "Check the equipment again."
"Diagnostics say it's working normally."
"Then wha-"
A voice filled the lab, echoing around the room. "OH. SORRY GUYS, MY BAD."
"Rogers, stop messing with the inter-"
"THIS IS GOD. UH... THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, SORRY."
The man rubbed his eyes. He'd gone for quite a while witho... | And as quickly as they appeared, it was done.
"Get Zach on the line," Allen demanded, staring stoically into the TV monitor.
"Are we seeing what I think we're-" George asked excitedly.
"Maybe- I can't believe it - quickly, get him on the line."
George affixed his glasses to the brim of his portly nose as he rushed... | 2015-02-06T14:27:58 | 2015-02-06T13:19:34 | 366 | 137 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | April 30, 2015: *jobs>biotech/science*
Immediate need for researchers - interesting new developments in bio-engineering
Aug. 10, 2015: *jobs>government*
Software developers needed for defense contractor - exciting advancements in AI
May 5, 2016: *jobs>business/mgmt*
Seeking the right individual for an amaz... | *Newest in >for sale*
Jan 23: Sports Betting, See how easy it can be to be a winner. books & magazines - by dealer [x]
Jan 25: Between Fact and Fiction, Helping you understand the real life problems and removing the anxiety over the fictional.
Feb 23: Communication Breakdown Unleashed (MRR), When you and your... | 2015-04-29T09:35:40 | 2015-04-29T09:07:02 | 127 | 15 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | 24/f/pittsburgh
Had a crazy fun time 2 weeks w/ some guy I barely knew- he was really into biting. At first I was mad and I got kinda sick but now I'M FEELING really bitey- like I just wanna tear up some flesh?
Hit me up if you wanna try it out- I'll be at the monroeville mall at 2am, back parking lot - lets get a mo... | In search for survivers In the greater New York area, hell anywhere really. I am, well I was a sandhog and was underground working on the new water way in Manhatten when the Russians dropped the bomb. Never have I emerged from underground to such horror. Everything in ruins and no one in sight. I walked around for a bi... | 2015-04-29T10:05:24 | 2015-04-29T07:28:18 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | Researcher/Tijuana area, seeking two strong men to dig a hole, open air, must provide own equipment and security. Have transportation, will pick up.
Researcher/Tijuana area, seeking someone who can do some onsite translations of classical Nahuatl, security provided. Have transportation, will pick up.
Researcher/Tij... | *Newest in >for sale*
Jan 23: Sports Betting, See how easy it can be to be a winner. books & magazines - by dealer [x]
Jan 25: Between Fact and Fiction, Helping you understand the real life problems and removing the anxiety over the fictional.
Feb 23: Communication Breakdown Unleashed (MRR), When you and your... | 2015-04-29T10:17:00 | 2015-04-29T09:07:02 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | Mar 14, 2020 Lot of Quad-Copter drones for sale - $2000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 10, 2020 Lot of Amazing burning lasers! - $400 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 17, 2020 Lot of replacement iPhone fusion cells for sale - $3000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
AI/5/USA, I told you I was a real person and no... | In search for survivers In the greater New York area, hell anywhere really. I am, well I was a sandhog and was underground working on the new water way in Manhatten when the Russians dropped the bomb. Never have I emerged from underground to such horror. Everything in ruins and no one in sight. I walked around for a bi... | 2015-04-29T08:49:52 | 2015-04-29T07:28:18 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] As teens, you and your best friend make a marriage pact. Years later, you discover they've been sabotaging all of your relationships to have you for themselves. | You were always there for me. We were inseparable; the same.
Batman and Robin, Bert and Ernie, they used every name.
You moved next-door when I was eight,
we didn't get along.
You were Holmes to my Moriarty,
the right to my wrong.
I was a bit of a bully. I'm not proud but it's true.
I had everyone afrai... | "Promise?" He asks me. I nod smiling.
"Of course. I may not like guys, but I swear on my life that if neither of us is in a relationship or married by the dual age of 35 we will get married." He smiles back at me and we hug for the longest time. I know it's unlikely that this will ever happen, but its a good back up ... | 2015-05-02T12:37:02 | 2015-05-02T12:19:58 | 198 | 18 |
[WP] Tell a story from the viewpoint of a genius then the same story from the viewpoint of an idiot. | Probably breaking some rules here, but the prompt reminded me of a great story (or joke, if you want to be all accurate about it) that fits the topic perfectly:
Several centuries ago, the Pope decreed that all the Jews had to convert to Catholicism or leave Italy. There was a huge outcry from the Jewish community, so ... | It wasn't that he was the best dressed man I'd ever seen, although he was, it was his eyes that made me trust him. When he smiled, they crinkled a little and he looked like my grandfather; I just had a good feeling about him.
The car accident had been small, just a tiny shunt really and there had been almost no damag... | 2015-07-09T07:17:25 | 2015-07-09T04:43:15 | 101 | 21 |
[WP] You make arrangements to cryogenically freeze your brain at the age of 31 in hopes of being revived in the future. Many years later, you "wake up." | "Wake up, Lisa."
"It's time to wake up."
As my eyelids dragged themselves open, I was greeted by a bright light. Once sure he had proof of life, the doctor pulled the flashlight away, and greeted me once more.
"Good morning, Lisa."
The room around me resembled the room from my memories - the one in which they had f... | A bright, jarring beam of light was shining in his face. Max woke up, startled. He heard screeching sound, and then a loud thud. As his eyes adjusted to light, he saw that the glass wall in front of his face was broken. He pushed it aside and stifled a scream.
He was in a half-destroyed dusty room. He remembered it be... | 2015-09-14T01:35:21 | 2015-09-13T21:42:12 | 35 | 15 |
[WP] There is a woman who is a human 'Phoenix'. She dies in labour and is reborn as her own child. | "Ugh, finally." I knew I was practically glaring at the pregnancy test, willing it to be positive. I'd let him touch me for the last time. I unwrapped another and ran through the process again, just to be sure.
Positive, again. I looked at the bruises on my arms, where he'd grabbed me. I fingered the bruises on my nec... | The cardiac monitor rings in flatline. A team of nurses rush into the delivery room with a defibrillator.
“Clear,” the obstetrician gives the go signal. *Shock.* The woman’s body on the hospital bed lifts up—like a phoenix—yet sinks back down. The cardiac monitor shows no changes. The team does a few more rounds ... | 2016-01-25T09:47:22 | 2016-01-25T07:24:31 | 64 | 25 |
[WP] Write a story that takes place over the course of 5 seconds or less. | “Five!” The word pierces my skull, indicating that the end is to come.
“Four!” The countdown mocks me, a culmination of all my failures and successes. Soon they will be forgotten, replaced only by dreams and false promises.
“Three!” We created it. The end is our own doing. Mankind’s great gift.
“Two!” Nothing could ... | *"Don't go."* She pleaded. *"We can find a way out of this."*
*"No, we can't. This is it for me."* He replied. *"We can't kill them all."*
*"We can try! Get up Please!" She yelled. "They can't hurt you if we run!"*
A bronze cylinder slowly passed between them, then more floated past. One struck her and she felt a p... | 2016-02-18T09:25:16 | 2016-02-18T08:34:07 | 63 | 28 |
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