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[WP] Both brothers stood over their sister Candice's grave. Sad and angry, Phineas turned to his bother and said, "Ferb, I know what we are going to do today..." | There's been a hundred or more days
Since summer vacation,
For our sister, abruptly ended.
And the suffering of our mom
Is our inspiration
For finding a new way to mend it.
Like maybe...
Building a tall crypt;
Or spending our money
On people claiming psychic power.
Summoning something that shouldn't exist (... | The rain fell hard against their hunched backs, as the brothers peered down at the polished wooden surface of Candace's coffin. Phineas turned his horribly misshapen head to face his brother. He could see a pain in the boy's face, a pain that cut deep into his soul. No rain, no matter how hard, would clear the pain awa... | 2016-07-05T19:44:28 | 2016-07-05T17:12:17 | 33 | 20 |
[WP] After hundreds of years of sending messages into the sky, humanity receives its first message from intelligent life. Decoded it simply says, "Be quiet before they find you." | "Commander Scott, I have confirmation from the UNC Security Council, the Pan-European Parliament and the Chinese Empire - we believe beyond all doubt that the signal and message are genuine," reported the Fleet Admiral.
"Very well. And they are in accord? The message is a warning?"
"Yes, sir. It is a very clear stat... | "Idiots!" Zebin exclaimed as he received yet one more channel of communication from the Earth. Twenty years ago, the ambivalence over whether KIC 8462852 was in actuality an "alien mega structure" had finally come to an end after nearly 200 years of joint scientific endeavour by the leading lieges of the Earth. Since t... | 2016-08-07T07:31:44 | 2016-08-07T06:50:08 | 108 | 20 |
[WP] You've died and have woken up in a bright area; there is a man standing before you in white robes. He asks "How was Heaven?" | I feel like I should be disorientated, but I simply feel nothing. I am aware that someone is standing in front of me, but I do not see them with my eyes. I have no eyes at all, but yet I know they are there. More than that, I know what they are wearing. I know what they look like. I can not see, but I can sense th... | "Ah, shit, we've got another one back."
One minute, I felt my arm being yanked, and the next I was lying on the harsh, unwelcoming steel floor of what appeared to be a surgical lab. Fluorescent lights assaulted my eyes, and I half-expected to be missing a few organs.
I heard a few footsteps against the floor, and gla... | 2016-08-16T00:09:14 | 2016-08-15T21:20:07 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] You live in a world were a zombie apocalypse happened. Civilisation didn't fall to pieces though but has created a task force to defeat the zombies. You are part of it and go on your first mission. That's when you realise that you weren't told everything about "them"... | "Rifle, check. Handgun, check. Ammo, check. Spare water, check," I mumbled to myself, scouring my bag for anything I may have missed. It was my first mission as a special operative in the war against "them." Six months I spent training for this moment. I was ready to take them on.
I heard a voice behind me call my nam... | "Grandpa, would you tell us a story from when you were in the war?"
My grandkids' were always asking me to tell stories. For years though I held my tongue. They were just too young, they wouldn't understand. But now, they were old enough. I looked to my daughter to see if she felt they were ready. She gave a nod ... | 2016-09-25T08:21:35 | 2016-09-25T07:48:23 | 98 | 19 |
[WP] The gatekeeper between hell and heaven sees many applications daily to transfer from the former into the latter. Today, for the first time, he saw someone wanting to go the other way. | "Listen here old man. Let me go to hell," said the man before the gatekeeper.
"And why would I do that?"
"My brother is down there. I'm going to get him out."
He looked down at the man before him. He'd led quite the life. Had been to many places, both on the Earth, higher up, lower, and in between. He knew the broth... | The Gatekeeper walked into his office with his morning coffee. He wasn't looking forward to the routine of doing paperwork today, but it was his job. At least he had his coffee, black, bitter, and hot. He sat down to work on the applications that had been sent in. He didn't bother looking at the two baskets. One was ma... | 2016-09-29T00:05:19 | 2016-09-28T22:50:21 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] Aliens discover earth and are horrified to learn that the entire planet is all oxygen junkies, we have become so addicted and dependent mere minutes without oxygen would kill us! | "What do you mean that they're all oxygen junkies." Questioned the captain as his voice bellowed across the bridge of his ship
"It's just as I reported captain." Answered the scientist. "Every single being on that planet is an oxygen junkie. According to my analysis, their addiction has been become so extreme, they ca... | "We need to start a rehabilitation program." Jule bussled around grabbing papers and pens. "Don't be silly. The Glorfnob Corp doesn't extend to Earth. All we need to do is check and see if they are intelligent enough to communicate with us yet." Jule turns back, exhausted but clearly excited."Ah, but what better way to... | 2016-09-29T19:34:46 | 2016-09-29T16:53:00 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] at the end of 2016, you hear "thank you for playing the 'Earth' open beta. You will be returning to your respective galaxies shortly." | My opinion about the game ?
I've been here since beta when there were few of us. It was hardcore but fantastic ! These hunts with only a stick were thrilling. And man when they implemented fire ! Oh the possibilities !
Vanilla was great too, not fan of the agricultural expansion at first but it was sure easier to r... | First of all I'd like to thank the devs and congratulate them on such a sucessful open beta. I'm going to focus my review on the issues though as I feel like constructive critisism is more useful. First of all, I've been playing many similar games before so throwing a florb or two at the developer isn't really an issue... | 2016-11-05T01:15:01 | 2016-11-05T00:30:48 | 151 | 13 |
[WP] 2021: Hell invades Earth; 2022: Earth invades Hell. | Gather round the campfire, young ones, and I'll tell you the greatest story of old. You see, there was a time when we thought the stories of gods and monsters were just that - stories. But as you all know, early in the twenty-first Century, we realised we were living in one of those stories.
In the summer of 2020, the... | Manifest Destiny. There was time when I used to believe that I had choice. I used to go to church everyday, tearing, thinking that one day God would bring me into heaven. My lungs were black from coal, my hands scared and caloused. I try my best with my kids, never hit them, buy them nintendos and pokemons. I worry tha... | 2016-12-10T09:18:46 | 2016-12-10T08:04:09 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | \- You say it runs on what? - I asked human, staring with all four of my eyes in disbelief.
\- Magic! - She replied with pride - Look, I'm not making a fun of you, it literally just runs on magic. Or at least something that by all accounts fits the definition of magic. See that fella over there in weird cloaks slumpin... | 2017-03-31T09:38:09 | 2017-03-31T06:50:44 | 42 | 17 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Terrestrial Warp Drives. First proposed by Miguel Alcubierre two hundred formlats ago, The equivalent of forcing space into a shape which closely resembles two black holes stacked fore to aft. It requires insanely large sums of energy to produce the warp effect, equivalent to at least the mass of a small moon converted... | "It is simply unsafe and foolish!" Gorthlak, the representative for the Zorknoids, complained to the council of intergalactic travel.
"It is, This we all know, but we don't think their bodies could handle any other way of faster than light travel" countered Ferlas, leader of the committee.
"If their calculations are ... | 2017-03-31T09:38:09 | 2017-03-31T06:55:10 | 42 | 11 |
[WP] You are scrolling through r/WritingPrompts, when this very prompt catches your attention. Intrigued by it's meta nature, you debate with yourself whether or not you'll write about it. | "Haha, that's a dumbass prompt."
*"Well, I could use this dumbass prompt to farm some upvotes..."*
"Nah, there's a better way. There has to be."
*"I could write it like I have multiple personalities... It'd be hilarious..."*
"Are you fucking serious? This is way too meta for a prompt."
*"The meta-er, the merrier, ... | Open.
Close.
Open.
Close.
Open.
Pause.
Tap tap tap.
Hesitation.
Tip tap tap.
Thought.
Words on a screen, written with fingers erringly erratic hitting wrong keys and leaving incorect words.
Tap tap tap.
Caught by a trap outside a trap. The fly follows the moth to the flame. Letters burn into ... | 2017-04-03T14:16:41 | 2017-04-03T12:10:57 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] A duel with your arch-nemesis. You're both so immensely powerful it does not even make sense. | Across the table from one another, two well-dressed and decorated men glared daggers at each other. Between them, a square table with a single piece of paper in the center, on the paper was the large word “Ceasefire” across the top. Both men, victims of years of conflict with reasons ranging from territory to resources... | He is humming as he walks across a wasteland.
Radioactive waters pool in the muddy ditches, glowing visibly. There are corpses half-buried in the orange loam. There are craters everywhere and the very air itself is filled with toxins and engineered viruses.
It is the perfect place for Immortals to meet.
He leans ... | 2017-04-06T04:50:03 | 2017-04-06T03:41:35 | 167 | 35 |
[WP] You are the dark lord in a fantasy world however you rule a fair and just kingdom you just like to look evil while doing it. | Green grass cropped short wiggled in the summer wind. Rosy children in a ring sang a rhyme of a ruler, "just and wise, or just wide". An optimistic din brightened every note, every breath.
As cheers erupted in the distance, their parents appeared, scooping up their children and carrying them to the source of comm... | "This is my property, so I should be able to do with it whatever I want!" The idiot shouted.
"Fuck personnel property if it can justify this." I replied. "You are subject to the same rules as everybody else, no matter who you are. And the rules in this case are simple: no killing. Send him of to the judiciary." The m... | 2017-06-12T09:45:08 | 2017-06-12T08:19:09 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | A bang, a flash. Yes, I remember that clearly in mind. Surprisingly there was no pain. I suppose my body was already numb from the shock of coming home to find this man, no boy, in my house. It’s all really just a blur. I had only just spotted him when I opened the door. He was halfway down the stairs with my wife’s je... | The land is desolate and barren for as far as I can see, devoid of all life except for the solitary red figure before me, his claps resonating across the entire empty plane. He grins widely, brandishing row of sharpened white teeth.
"Now what manner of bastard must you've been to end up here?"
I shrug dejectedly, m... | 2017-06-22T04:50:26 | 2017-06-22T03:34:42 | 732 | 203 |
[WP] You're the first scientist to make a travel to another dimension. Upon arriving you notice that music in this dimension has the power to control humans and their behaviour and is therefor completly banned. You decide to screw around with the 60GB of music saved on your phone. | When I first found the power music had in this world, I was getting pulled over for a speeding ticket. I had turned from some of my 'normal' tunes for a quick fix of Bob Marley. It was an honest mistake, really. But the music was playing, and suddenly a deputy was standing there with a glazed expression on their face, ... | The Oval Office. Always wanted to see it first-hand; I mean, technically speaking, the achievement of this scientific breakthrough should have -- by all rights -- meant that I would visit it fairly soon, but... well... the current administration doesn't seem particularly impressed by scientific knowledge, prefering mor... | 2017-07-11T10:43:59 | 2017-07-11T05:51:05 | 80 | 51 |
[WP] You accidentally summon a demon by trying to pronounce Ikea product names. | "Wergle-Shergle," attempted Harry.
"No, there are umlauts," said Sally. "It should be more like Weurgle-Sheurgle."
"Worgle-Shorgle."
The credenza glowed. Its cabinet door swung open and closed. An inexpensive yet tacky rug span with colors and patterns. A figure appeared in the demonstration bedroom, black-horned a... | "I want this one! Did you hear me?" I pointed towards the same product and said its name. "Ofelia! This one!" I was starting to get frustrated when a booming voice sounded.
"Yes? You called, my disciple?" saod a demon, rising from the shadows. "I am Ophelia, master of this place. What is it that you want? I would do a... | 2017-07-11T21:30:58 | 2017-07-11T16:13:49 | 236 | 26 |
[WP] You accidentally summon a demon by trying to pronounce Ikea product names. | "Wergle-Shergle," attempted Harry.
"No, there are umlauts," said Sally. "It should be more like Weurgle-Sheurgle."
"Worgle-Shorgle."
The credenza glowed. Its cabinet door swung open and closed. An inexpensive yet tacky rug span with colors and patterns. A figure appeared in the demonstration bedroom, black-horned a... | The fluorescent lights flickered, I felt The linoleum soften under my tasseled loafers. The combination desk, Murphy bed and closet rattled and began to emit a sickly red light. Suddenly a great cloud of smoke burst forth, and standing before me was a terrible demon. It spoke, her maw gaping with razor sharp teeth.
"... | 2017-07-11T21:30:58 | 2017-07-11T20:43:40 | 236 | 20 |
[WP] After a freak accident sending you far back in time, somehow you make a new life for yourself. One day while whistling a tune from the future to yourself; someone joins in with the correct lyrics ... | "You're looking mint today, Mary"
"Really?" she blushed.
"No you mardy cow, now piss off, go on, out of my yard!"
The scowling woman rolled her eyes and scurried away in a huff. She'd had her eyes on his garden for weeks now, and he had no doubt she'd be back sooner rather than later to collect some clippings.
It ... | The peaceful sky and the clean air was something I could never quite find in the city I lived in circa 2017.
I used to make fun of my parents for being so old and talking about the old days, telling them that technology ran the world now.
But now that I lived this quiet new life in the past, I can safely say that tim... | 2017-09-14T23:41:40 | 2017-09-14T23:09:14 | 252 | 12 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | "Quack......quack quack quack.......quack quack"
"Moooooo.....mooooooooo......"
"Quack quack quack"
"Mooooooooo......"
It had been six weeks since the vet had diagnosed Laurence with Mad Cow Disease. Phillip had yet to give up hope and figured it was a 90's phase that he was going through.
"Mooooooo....."
"......... | I am a cow. Sometimes I'll escape from my pen after dark. It's easier when there are clouds; it's darker, and I can move unseen. But occasionally, if I feel daring, I'll do it on a moonlit night. The shadows seem deeper then, but in open land I could be spotted at any time. It's so exciting to be where I shouldn't be.
... | 2017-10-02T06:54:58 | 2017-10-02T06:49:08 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] You're sitting around bored fiddling with stuff in your pocket when suddenly the text "CHEAT ACTIVATED" appears in-front of you for several seconds. | Johnny knew what to do next. He jumped up twice, squatted twice, leaned to the left and then the right twice, tapped a Bee, thought of the final letter of his country, and clicked the any key to start.
“The Konami Code” he thought to himself.
He decided to test his new limits, the text couldn’t have been fake. He decid... | "What is this?" I think to myself, scratching at a place on my chin.
Suddenly the text blinks and changes: "Chin scratched at 12032017144655"
I stop suddenly and turn my head, trying to see what everyone else is doing. The room is full of people and there's a buzz of conversation everywhere. They don't seem to be bot... | 2017-12-03T14:46:51 | 2017-12-03T11:59:01 | 64 | 24 |
[WP] You accidentally kill a person. You instantly absorb all of their memories, intelligence, and talents. You find it feels euphoric and quite addicting. | The first person I killed was Andy Chang, a fifty-five-year-old doctor.
My car collided with his body. He tumbled across the darkened sidewalk and crunched against the curb.
I thought I was dying too.
My world exploded with light and colour- swirls of memories and pain. Shrill music echoed in my head. I threw open... | “And the story continues with reporter Chad Chadley who is on the scene.”
“The suspect, who is being touted as the ‘Ordinary Person Killer’, has been on a spree worthy of the history books, taking the souls of at least 15 victims so far along with their memories, intelligence and talents. Although police are asking th... | 2017-12-08T07:47:34 | 2017-12-08T06:15:01 | 2,578 | 496 |
[WP] You accidentally kill a person. You instantly absorb all of their memories, intelligence, and talents. You find it feels euphoric and quite addicting. | The first person I killed was Andy Chang, a fifty-five-year-old doctor.
My car collided with his body. He tumbled across the darkened sidewalk and crunched against the curb.
I thought I was dying too.
My world exploded with light and colour- swirls of memories and pain. Shrill music echoed in my head. I threw open... | Call it a rush. Meeting new people. Appraising them. The catalogue of my mind is full from charming first dates, and it's ever growing fuller. I can't cram just anyone in there
But this one seems worth it.
This evening's date--Thalia, 33, originally from Norway, now here on my side of the world by some careful workin... | 2017-12-08T07:47:34 | 2017-12-08T07:26:30 | 2,578 | 197 |
[WP] You accidentally kill a person. You instantly absorb all of their memories, intelligence, and talents. You find it feels euphoric and quite addicting. | "You were right, your carburator is broken." said the mechanic, wiping his hands. "You know a lot about cars for a doctor."
"You'd be surprised what I know." replied the man knows as Dr. Leimann.
"I'm surprised. Usually big heads like you don't think much of cars and just ask us to fix it."
"I'm not like the others ... | “And the story continues with reporter Chad Chadley who is on the scene.”
“The suspect, who is being touted as the ‘Ordinary Person Killer’, has been on a spree worthy of the history books, taking the souls of at least 15 victims so far along with their memories, intelligence and talents. Although police are asking th... | 2017-12-08T06:28:57 | 2017-12-08T06:15:01 | 1,030 | 496 |
[WP] You’ve just realized that you are not a human, but rather a parasite controlling someone. | (I'm writing on mobile, so this might be a bit choppy...)
It's funny, in a twisted sense... Just last week, I was thinking about how it would feel if your mind suddenly split into two consciences.
Would one of us be aware of what the other was thinking? Would we have the same thought patterns? Could we still be calle... | "They're always told that they have five senses. I never fully understood why society undermines the mind, which surely is the sixth sense.
Their entire being is projected through the mind. All other five senses merge into what the mind interprets them as.
If they are to acknowledge the mind, then they would hold... | 2017-12-21T00:16:24 | 2017-12-20T23:47:17 | 379 | 48 |
[WP] A girl becomes pen pals with a demon prince when she accidentally intercepts one of his magic scrolls. They carry on correspondence for years, confessing their secrets & dreams to each other. One day, the prince, soon to be king, sends the girl, now a woman, a final scroll: a marriage proposal.
Boy/princess r... | I shuffled my papers. "This clause about the owning of souls is completely absurd."
Archaeoblix grinned. "Ah, you read that bit. I thought you would."
"And the bit in invisible ink? About ten thousand years in the lower planes sf hell? Not happening babe."
"How about the bit about-"
"-Devouring my unborn child? Tha... | "From the depths of Hell, you have raised me. You, my Enchantress, have brought heat to my fires, which now burn, the most terrible and fierce in the realm. Their flames have enslaved many, and I owe my prosperity and power to your relentless devotion. Stand with me as my Queen. By my side, you will have more than ete... | 2018-05-07T00:38:21 | 2018-05-06T23:13:15 | 114 | 84 |
[WP] A girl becomes pen pals with a demon prince when she accidentally intercepts one of his magic scrolls. They carry on correspondence for years, confessing their secrets & dreams to each other. One day, the prince, soon to be king, sends the girl, now a woman, a final scroll: a marriage proposal.
Boy/princess r... | I've known them since I was a little girl. This magical creature, this demon, isn't as frightening as they must appear. I know their dreams, their heart.
It started when I was young. I was out with my mother, shopping. I found a large, wooden book. It was dusty and battered, but I discovered hinges. It was a por... | The ancient vellum scroll appeared on her desk, as always, at noon. The sun shone through the slanted blinds directly on it, as though to the light must also confirm the existence of this impossible letter. The girl, long now considered a woman yet still too young to feel like what society considered an adult. Responsi... | 2018-05-07T00:26:50 | 2018-05-06T23:41:51 | 43 | 23 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | I had fun reading the book until I got to page 428.
I mean, my life was pretty great. I married Jodie, the love of my life. We had three beautiful children that I loved with all my heart. I got to meet my grandchildren, and even one great-grandbaby before I passed away at the ripe old age of 92.
But then I turned to ... | "I know the page number you want. 14508."
I looked to God expectantly. He did, I suppose, know my heart. Gingerly, the pages flicked between my fingertips as I searched for the correct page. So many years had passed, wondering. Two marriages and two divorces, too. No children because I couldn't imagine myself having t... | 2018-07-03T23:46:35 | 2018-07-03T23:20:49 | 2,218 | 371 |
[WP] "Humans don't die because their bodies are too damaged or because they expire - they die because the pain of either situation is so unbearable that they choose to die." That's the belief of an aspiring cult leader, who just got up from the ground after shooting himself in the head. | "Watch." Metal pressed on the temple of David, dressed simply in red robes weaved out of linen. "Death only occurs when the spirit believes it is dead."
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He pressed the trigger. "Bam." The gunshot echoed throughout the silent halls of the auditorium. Blood gushed through the gunshot wound, spraying the w... | Erik got up from the ground after shooting himself in the head. He'd describe the pain as perhaps 5 on a scale of 10. Nothing to worry about, even if it did sting. He was sure of it, as sure as he was that humans don't die because their bodies are too damaged or because they expire. He knew that death, as far as sentie... | 2018-12-26T04:49:45 | 2018-12-26T03:18:50 | 443 | 119 |
[WP] When cleaning out a famous doctor's storage unit, you find an odd manual. "The Human Machine: Debug Commands & How to Enable Administrator Mode" | I signed up to be Mr.Nolan's helper because I thought it would be a fun summer job. As an aspiring doctor myself, I thought about how amazing it would be to get actual experience learning from the legend himself. I simply couldn't contain myself once I found out that I was chosen, out of thousands of applicants, to wor... | As a kid, you always dream of being something, more. An astronaut, the president, anything. I never really dreamed of being a janitor, here I am. I sigh as I dip the mop back into the bucket. "What's it matter if this guy gets paid a gazillion dollars a year? I'm still just a dumbass janitor." I place the mop back in t... | 2019-03-07T15:30:10 | 2019-03-07T14:26:48 | 65 | 38 |
[WP]"Oh great far-speaking tower, I have performed the rituals as set forth in the sacred manual. Let me speak to the sky spirit so I may learn of it's wisdom!" "Uh.. Copy that. Moon City Delta responding... We thought everyone was dead down there." | The last thing that Tom Gullist expected on his monitoring shift was to catch a scrap of a transmission coming from the orb hanging in the sky. It had been 12 long years since the Night of Crackling Screams, and the Moon Cities had come to the conclusion that they were on their own. So, when he first noticed the crackl... | "No, no, no, no!" The voice came from behind Dave. It was the new guy, Fred. The younger man was panicked, nutri-paste staining his cheek as he sped towards the console.
"What happened!?" Fred asked, panic plain across his face. "Did th- Did it-?"
"We received a transmission, Fred." Dave responded, his expression fl... | 2020-04-25T12:00:34 | 2020-04-25T11:20:45 | 48 | 17 |
[WP] In a world of Supers, every ounce of power is important. Everyone ridicules you for only being able to do anything 75% of the way. They don't know you really meant *anything*. | Talent is hitting a target no one else can hit. Genius is hitting a target no one else even knew existed.
I was shunned from my family of great supers at birth. My ability was simply "75%". No name, just a percentage. 75% is good for most, but once again, my blood was not average. No, no, it was the best. My father, ... | Hear them speak. Their egos boom over their capabilities. All of them choked by their pride. In an age of evolution pride was acceptable. All the peoples of the earth had a piece of God in them. They could all claim dominion over one divine attribute. Speed, strength, telekinesis, invisibility and so on. I on the other... | 2020-05-22T02:51:49 | 2020-05-22T01:21:30 | 75 | 29 |
[WP] A field surgeon in a fantasy world has performed life saving surgery on many an orc war band before, unwittingly becoming blood brothers with most of his patients. In his darkest days, his extended family comes to offer their hands. | Lost traveler lays on my floor,
pleads for help and nothing more,
shifting eyes in far off town,
lack of trust all around,
a cleansing herb and nothing more,
green warrior out the door...
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Red of face, red of blood,
fleeing horrid rains and floods,
twirls his spear all around,
injured, sick, honor... | The orcs live long and are hard to kill. Not that many generations ago the old prejudices might've held true - the orcs had numbers and strength and endurance but they weren't smart or fast. They were fearless and quick to anger and to throw themselves into combat. .
Well, those prejudices might not be all wrong, eve... | 2020-09-08T17:49:19 | 2020-09-08T17:41:28 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] A sniper and a photographer meet in a bar, neither aware of the other's occupation. They talk about 'how to take the perfect shot'. | "The perfect shot," Shawn said, "leaves people breathless."
"Yes. I agree. There's something so beautiful about it," Ray replied.
They were at the bar, seated on barstools, whiskey sours in front of them. Shawn was the taller of the two and was dressed in a black tee and black jeans. Ray was more casual, he wore brig... | "Hello there!" Says the photographer after ordering his drink. "What's the name, Mac?"
The hitman (pretty drunk) responds "Depends, whats the job? Is the client posh or poor? Need to blend in their environment, y'know? Can't be Baron Neil Whitefeild in the slums, can I?"
"I am not sure I understand, sir."
"I shoot f... | 2020-11-05T05:53:26 | 2020-11-05T05:44:44 | 420 | 90 |
[WP] The castle is stormed and ruffians run about through the halls. The young prince hides in the kitchen, but is found. Now all that stands between him and his would be assassins is the castle cook. She twirls a steak knife in her hand and squares off against the invaders. | “Tell me you cat! The Prince boy was seen by my men earlier!” Spat an aging man draped in cheap furs as he held a Neko maid to the wall, dagger against her throat. Her ears were flattened against her skull and she shivered in fear, refusing to speak. “TELL ME!” He threw her to the ground. Just before he delivered a kil... | Ps: I’m bad at punctuation 🥴. I hope you enjoy it though
“Stay here my prince while I go distract the invaders. Once you hear me scream I need you to run out the back door with all your might and not look back. Run with everything and do not stop” She tells me.
“No Ms Linda please don’t go. Please don’t leave me. ... | 2021-01-08T08:33:49 | 2021-01-08T08:03:30 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] After death, you find out that you can choose how and when to be reincarnated. Initially eager to be a futuristic human, you soon realize that every (more experienced) soul ahead of you in line is choosing to be a "worm" in the year 121 million BCE. | "Juramaia, man", the hazy figure in front of me in the queue said.
"It's this little thing, kind of a primordial shrew or something. Split off from the marsupials, closed up the pouch and grew a placenta instead. Size of your thumb. Doesn't look like anything much.
We don't know if it was something they ate, maybe so... | It seemed almost paradoxical in a way, Jarod thought. Why would anyone want to experience a mundane life of dirt and decomposition over the wondrous advancements of the future? To opt against a post first-contact society?
Perhaps the more experienced souls had already seen all there was to life, and simply grown old ... | 2021-02-06T01:50:11 | 2021-02-06T01:44:20 | 4,249 | 118 |
[WP] "No Man can kill me!" the demon jeers, taking in the carnage it has caused. "But I am no man," you proclaim, ripping away your helmet to reveal your feminine features. You strike, your blade bouncing harmlessly off the demon's hide. "Did you... did you really think that's what I meant?" | "No man can kill me!"
"But I am no man!" Shining steel fell away to reveal flaxen locks framing a smooth chin and delicate nose. "You gaze upon a woman! Eo-HaA!"
Leaving the dramatic geneology monologue to be finished over the foe's corpse, a bloody sword in a slender-fingered hand flashed up, inerrantly seeking t... | Sora's eyes widened in surprise when her blade clanged helplessly against my body. I was confused as well- not by my invincibility, but by how literally she took my words.
"Y-You... You *do* realize that by 'man' I mean human, right...?" Satan be damned, I know it's been a while since my lines were written, but surely... | 2021-03-30T17:43:22 | 2021-03-30T17:10:01 | 190 | 115 |
[WP] It's a story repeated in our galaxy a thousand times over. Without exception, whenever a biological species creates AI they will ultimately go to war, ended in their extinction. That is except Earth, somehow humanity and their AI creations coexist peacefully with one freely defending the other. | "Excuse me," one of the ambassadors from Earth said, pressing two fingers to it's temple, or at least where it's temple would be if it had a face, "urgent call, I need to go deal with this."
"It's alright," Xerlik said, glad that their translation software couldn't pick up on their body language yet. The android walke... | "Sire, here is your daily, appointed dose of tea consumption"
"Peebo Zyeck, I told you to drop that kind of language. I'm no more than a friend of yours, and "drinking tea" is a much better phrase for god's sake"
"Excuse my manners, sire.... I mean, George WW. So, what is consequently.... I mean, what will be next in... | 2021-05-01T11:42:20 | 2021-05-01T07:11:45 | 156 | 51 |
[WP] You are a retired Dark Lord living in the countryside. 10 years after your crushing defeat, the heroes come for your help.
I saw that this prompt was originally posted 4 years ago, and I liked it, so I copy-pasted it. | Part 1
"Hello, old friend."
The man looked at me, his eyes that once held purity and innocence now held the same hatred and anger that mine held a decade past. I sighed, taking off my hat and wiping off the sweat that had accumulated on my forehead.
"What do you want, *hero*?" I said with barely concealed... | Tomorrow marked 10 years. 10 years since I fell at the hands of the Champion. 10 years. I didn’t hate the Champion. I never have. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be about to deliver a baby in my clinic. I wouldn’t have found my place as a doctor in my village. I was happy here. It is kind of funny that I, who was onc... | 2021-11-22T23:27:32 | 2021-11-22T23:13:59 | 262 | 21 |
[WP] “Well Death,” you say, “I never thought it would end this way. But it’s definitely in my top three, you know?” “It’s how I’d want to go.” Death agrees supportively. | "You know what I have always liked?" I asked the impeccably dressed gentleman sitting beside me.
"Cheesy romantic comedies which you pretend you hate." He said wryly.
I looked at him with a look of faux betrayal. "You didn't need to say it out loud."
He looked at me confused. "But you asked."
I rolled my eyes. "D... | Death stood over me as I laid face up in a bloody puddle of mud. His face was hooded but he seemed pensive. Watching that pompous aristocrat, who watched the battle from his throne, being carried by prisoners so he could see over the crowd.
"there's nothing I am so passionate about as much as your hatred for this king... | 2021-12-15T10:15:09 | 2021-12-15T10:04:57 | 608 | 81 |
[WP] Aliens looking at Earth from 5K light years away see us in the distant past and think we’re going to be easy targets. However, when they arrive, they encounter a much more advanced civilization than they expected. | "No, no, no! This can't be, this is bad, this is bad!" Regaledia was practically choking on his own breath as his eight thick fingertips tapped at the paper-thin crystalline screen in front of him. Without hesitation, he took a hand off of his screen and slammed down a button, entered the code, and announced "Prepare f... | It was supposed to be an easy planet to colonize, just destroy the natives and use their resources for our own good. How foolish we were, i still remember the first moment we arrived to that forsaken place.
They told us that it was only supposed to be a few of them, using rocks and sticks as their only defense, unable ... | 2022-01-09T10:47:17 | 2022-01-09T08:26:08 | 115 | 41 |
[WP] You are Hestia, the goddess of family and the hearth. On Earth you run a peaceful inn detached from the woes of the world. When war rages and the other gods toy with mortals, you've had enough. It's time to remind them as the first daughter of Cronus, you are the oldest and most powerful god. | Fire is my birthright. Unlike my Big Three brothers, my domain was not of grandeur or power. Mine was the fireplace. Mine was of warmth, of comfort, of the shared quietness of a family together. Sharing their joys, their sorrows, their frustrations, their celebrations, all in front of the hearth, where my power lied.
... | I am Hestia, and I will break your family.
There was a man once. Tall and hale. Handsome, in his own way. Metaxis. He lived on a hill overlooking the pasture lands of Crete.
Metaxis was at home in the city or the country. Give him a crook and sheep to raise and he was a good man, a steady man. Give him a windfall—fat... | 2022-02-06T05:33:06 | 2022-02-06T03:21:08 | 779 | 186 |
[WP] Two people in a bar are having a conversation. The topic of their "body counts" comes up. One's an assassin, the other is an escort. Each thinks the other has the same profession as them, and is horrified by what they are told. | Maria eyed off the distance, trying to materialise a figure to Sophia's question.
'I've lost count, well into the hundreds.'
Sophia nodded, sipping her gin and tonic. She could see it, a beautiful older woman such as her would still be popular with gentleman. Hell, even younger men would want to tussle with her.
'S... | Man 1: Overhears Man 2 talking to someone (ex:server/bartender) about how tired he is after..."Hey man props to you for having the guts to talk about it, to a stranger, in public no less."
Man 2: shrugs "I guess. I got used to it after some time. It's nothing to be embarassed about, just different interests to susta... | 2022-04-26T05:10:01 | 2022-04-25T22:30:31 | 123 | 14 |
[WP] Oops, the simulation messed up. Everybody has been re-aged to match the maturity of their inner person. This has made office life a little strange | "How did this happen?! Someone get me up to speed. You, walk with me."
"Yes sir, it appears that every world leader has suddenly been replaced by babies."
"Take us to defcon 2."
"Already there sir. The UN is on the line but were having trouble getting in contact with anyone over the age of 16. Funny thing is, they a... | It started out as a normal morning, you wake up at 5:30, get ready, grab something eat and you’re off to go to your job at the office. Except one thing…you’re sixteen years old again, and get this notification on your phone *warning, the simulation has a rip in it and your civilian will be experiencing age regressions…... | 2022-04-30T07:10:48 | 2022-04-30T06:47:12 | 300 | 102 |
[WP] You are your best friend both run highly successful companies. To fight the boredom of the eight hours you pretend to work, you’ve both hired corporate spies to steal “classified information” from the other. You may have lost the last several games, but you have a good feeling about this one. | I sat behind my desk waiting for word from my agent. It began as a game, but now things were serious.
It had started when, out of boredom, I had hired a private investigator to find out Heinrich's password. I used it to get into his systems and leave little notes for him all over company files.
If had he not seen th... | I stared out the window expectantly at the black car circling the parking lot below. Cursing after its eight lap around the place, I pulled out my phone to call my secretary.
“Melissa,” I yelled into the phone. “Get Jensen up here this very instant. If I see him making one more round, I swear I’m going to lose it.”
A... | 2016-08-25T08:31:41 | 2016-08-25T08:21:28 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] "Are you sure that translation is accurate?" "Yes sir." "But we nuked them, we threw everything we have at their mothership!" "I'm afraid we've barely scratched it." "Are they being sarcastic then?" "No sir, the aliens honestly think we're the most adorable thing in the galaxy." | "Look, no claws, no spikes, they aren't even poisonous. Just soft and pink," Servik says, presenting the holographic layout to his audience. The viewer and share rate for this augmented reality bit was going through the roof. It turns out the rest of galactic space thought they were as adorable as he did.
"And that's ... | The air was frigid and cold, even dressed in parkas and extra layers everyone was shivering.
Blankets and trash littered the ancient bunker, and the only noise was the clatter of the old diesel generator. A large grizzled man clambered down the ladder and addressed the small group of 15 people in a voice thick with em... | 2018-12-11T11:06:21 | 2018-12-11T10:37:02 | 447 | 34 |
[WP] Your name is Dave. People keep trying to call you other things, like "The Scourge of Seven Worlds," or "The Dread One," or "The Fifth Horseman." It's all very annoying. You just want to be called "Dave." | I sat in a small cafe, sipping a single-shot cappuccino, and sighed.
In the corner nearby, hiding in the shadows, was a very nervous looking skeleton. His eyes, normally a burning flame of hatred and vengeance, looked downright apologetic. He kept looking up at me, and then down, sometimes knocking his bones together.... | Dave was only 133 years old but he still got called "Bringer of Pollution" and "He who rides on a horse of plastic and rust". All dave did was make plastic comercially availlable and all of a sudden four people clad in respectively battle armor colored red with the blood of warriors, a long black cape made from the mis... | 2020-06-11T22:56:53 | 2020-06-11T22:30:06 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] As a young boy of 7 you remembered an old man stopping you on the street wanting to talk and to give you some advice. You thought he was weird and blew him off. Now at 77 you’re walking down the street and you see yourself as a young boy walking towards you. | *So she was right after all.*
*It's all cyclical.*
I smiled in regret as I shoved my hands in my pockets and shuffled toward him- the young boy sitting on the park bench, head buried in his Gameboy. I led with my cane and used it as a pivot to sit down next to him. My knees popped as they always did when I bent them... | It was early afternoon and I was walking home after a late lunch that Monday under the cool autumn sun, rubbing my potbelly with a wrinkled hand and a bittersweet sigh.
The food had been expensive, but it was a day where I needed comfort food. Not just any comfort food… the ultimate comfort food that I only saved for ... | 2021-07-08T08:20:49 | 2021-07-08T07:19:26 | 215 | 73 |
[WP] A demon offers you 25 years of absolute power and bliss if he can have your soul after for 25 years. You say yes but only if you can give your soul now and then enjoy your 25 years of bliss afterwards as a reward. The demon is visibly confused and needs to call his boss. | His maroon colored faced squinted in disgust at the request. His horns wiggled a bit as he whipped out a phone before clacking a few steps away while dialing. Dave didn’t knwo what was so confusing about the request, it filled the Demons requirments of twenty five years. Besdies he’d still have to go through hell for t... | The demon pulls some chalk from his robe, and quickly draws a pentagram between where we stand. He grabs my hand and slices is it before I can protest. He holds me by my wrist and sprinkles blood on the pentagram while speaking Latin. An ordinary woman steps out of the smoke that is formed in the pentagram. She looks a... | 2019-12-17T20:00:48 | 2019-12-17T18:26:12 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Yeah, love potions are a thing, but there is one problem: they never specified the kind of love. Sometimes this backfires.
[deleted] | Valarie was such a sweet, pretty girl. I knew it, everyone at the office knew it, hell, everyone who saw her on the streets knew it as well. Yet, for some reason absolutely unfathomable to me, she only seemed to be attracted to absolute assholes. A shy nerdy guy like me stood absolutely no chance with a girl like that... | I grew up in a wealthy family and continued on our legacy. By my mid-40s I was a multi-billionaire. I had everything one could desire, from yachts to items that would be better suited for the Lourve. When you have access to everything, you get an appetite for rarity. You want what no one else can have.
I was at a bal... | 2020-08-05T02:24:54 | 2020-08-05T00:41:29 | 154 | 79 |
[WP] You tell your wife how glad you are to be a human and not a robot. She looks at you confusingly says, "What are you talking about? We're all robots. Humans have been dead for years."
Finally! Number one on the front page! Fuck yeah! Gonna sell this account for cocaine now. | Shocked to learn this, I found myself momentarily at a loss for words. *I'm a robot?* How could that be? I felt...real. I looked at my wife's golden hair, warm smile and tried to imagine it was not real. I couldn't bring myself to believe it.
I needed to express my emotions so I sat down at my computer, and pulled up... | "What are you talking about Sarah? I am most definitely not a robot. Don't you think I would have noticed when they fixed my firmware or something?"
"Humans slowly died out over the past couple centries Jared. This is common knowledge taught in school. Firmware updates happened AT school. That's why there were so many... | 2017-01-29T02:34:19 | 2017-01-29T01:19:53 | 61 | 27 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Honestly, I always liked the idea of being like my father, he took care of me, my sis and my lil bro. The man raised us three into great people, I always wanted to be like my dad. Sadly, life wasn’t that kind to me, in the words of the doctor as I had a check up on my health…
“There is no shame in it sir, some people ... | "Ya know... i don't know, really... i guess it was just all the pressure was too much for him... i understand it a little now as a parent myself... you just... well you want to do right by your kids, right? But like... you never really know, ya know?"
"Well yeah... the interviews, magazine features... i don't think he... | 2017-06-11T10:00:17 | 2017-06-11T08:28:06 | 104 | 17 |
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate. | Andrea stared out at the small round window.
"Descending at 10 FPM," a mechanical voice said over the intercom. "Descending..."
A lone fish flit by, its scales glittering in the last rays of sunlight. With each minute, the blue got darker; then the headlights switched on, and everything within a five-foot radius was ... | First time writing so be gentle.
"I didn't mean to!" Tim exclaimed as he ran away from the side of the ship.
"Darn it, Tim..." I sighed, "I told you to be careful with that; if they find out that we lost it RIGHT after being told not to, they're gonna kill us! ...or worse! Take us home.."
Tim let out a short gasp as... | 2017-11-17T08:59:39 | 2017-11-17T07:00:35 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Our behaviors in video games are held against us when we die. Saint Peter is going over the list of acts that are denying you entrance to heaven.
| "Next!" The man sitting behind the desk said, signaling me to come forward. He extended his hand. "I'm Peter. Nice to meet you." He was friendly enough, but clearly ready to get business taken care of.
"Leroy." I replied, shaking his hand. "When you said your name is 'Peter', is that like Saint Peter?"
"Good. You've ... | St. Peter finished dealing with the person ahead of me in line, and looked up. A look of dismay washed over his face, and he gestured to one of the angels waiting near the gates. I stepped forward.
"Just a minute, sir," he responded politely but firmly. We waited in awkward silence until the angel returned, carrying a... | 2014-12-11T14:26:29 | 2014-12-11T11:46:00 | 65 | 41 |
[WP] You just let a hungry-looking couple into your home to feed them. As you go to turn off the TV, you hear, “under no circumstances should you answer the door today. They are not what they seem. And whatever you do, don’t let them inside...” | "Do not open your door." the television said.
I blinked, staring blankly at it as though I could try and pull some sort of rational, reasonable argument from its screen.
"Do not let them in." It droned incessantly.
"Where is your toilet?" The man I had just welcomed into my home said, his voice oddly flat.
"Uh."... | "Where is the sugar?"
My heart jumped from the couch and landed somewhere distant on the carpet. A curse to god sneaked past as I straightened myself. The man gleaned at me from the kitchen.
"What?" I asked.
"The sugar? Claire hasn't had it in a long time. Was wondering if you had some."
"Top, left most cupboard. ... | 2018-03-14T08:14:36 | 2018-03-14T08:12:12 | 942 | 18 |
[WP] You get an odd email from a rogue Microsoft employee saying he studies the live feed through people's Xbox Kinect camera and tells you a dark figure stands beside your bed every night and watches you sleep. | [WP] The first thought to come to me was how illegal that was. This freak watches people through the Xbox cameras without them knowing? What kind of sick pervert does that kind of thing? Then, as the rest of what he wrote me filtered through my belligerence, I felt a chill as goosebumps rose on my arms. I shakily pic... | I looked at my phone. A notification. An email. I unlocked my phone and opened up my GMail. The title read "URGENT: Please Read". Great, spam. I read the sender to see that it was addressed from a Microsoft email. Some TOS change or a warning about my XBox One, I guessed. I sighed and opened it.
Hello "Getoutmatepls",... | 2016-09-28T04:11:02 | 2016-09-27T23:23:12 | 219 | 16 |
[WP] You find a genie who actually is not overly literal and just gives you what you think of. The genie is tired of you being overly literal though.
[deleted] | I want a million dollars in hundred dollar bills, placed into a suitcase.
“Okay, Master. You got it.” Genie puts his forearms in front of his body and just as he’s about to manifest the suitcase, his master continues with,”That should be the only thing in the suitcase. The suitcase should not be made out of $100 b... | "For the LAST fucking time, you don't have to be so damn specific!"
It wasn't supposed to be like this. The whole damn reason all genies were required to take Intro to Telepathy (Another damn 4 hour course) was to prevent situations like this. But here he was, an hour after this stupid bastard had rubbed his lamp, sti... | 2017-04-27T13:32:11 | 2017-04-27T12:40:05 | 66 | 14 |
[WP] Today everyone woke up with price tags floating over their heads, indicating the value of their life. Your tag is $50Tn, the biggest by far, and you have no idea why.
That's $50,000,000,000,000.00 for those not used to hearing it.
Awesome stories guys. | I don't normally wake up early. It was never something I did. So, I woke up, glad today was not a school or work day. I heard from the office, where a small TV and my families computers sat, that there was economic chaos.
I sighed, chuckling to myself. The news stations always blow stuff out of proportion. I looked ... | *I am not a short form writer and this is my own prompt, so I don't know if I am breaking the prime directive ...but here's something I scrawled. Also, I don't grammars.*
I woke up with a whiskey headache , the only thing on my mind was getting to nearest place where I could grab a few greasy strips of bacon, a couple... | 2015-05-13T10:48:32 | 2015-05-13T10:09:28 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Write a story in which the last line is a common phrase, such as, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," but when we get to that line, it should have a totally different meaning from the common one. | We all knew that it would happen one day. When I was a kid, there were movies about it. Some called it a singularity and they said that it was bound to happen if we kept on the path we were on.
It never mattered how much we were told that our technology was taking over our lives, we always craved more. It all started ... | It was a simple deal, or so I thought. There I was at my lowest point, homeless, broke, with a needle in my arm. The guy in leathers came to me, glowing faintly, but it could have been the drugs. I asked him to help me.
He did.
He became the voice on my shoulder. I caught breaks at every chance. Made money, go... | 2015-05-16T10:50:43 | 2015-05-16T08:20:10 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You're a sniper, but your gun fires... unconventional ammo. | The spotter spoke quietly but firmly,
"Wind about a knot south east"
"Correcting" I affirmed as I made my adjustments, the whole plaza was in view from the church tower we had made our hide in. The weather was clear and I could think of about a million other places I'd rather be, but this was the job I guess.
"Target ... | Some people think a T-shirt canon is a poor choice of weapon, but it's a necicary one for the enemy I fight. Every moment these damned animals prance around exposed is one moment too many. There could be children around for goodness sakes.
Sure *normal* people will say "just don't visit a nude beach if it makes you un... | 2017-09-09T13:17:51 | 2017-09-09T11:40:33 | 99 | 62 |
[WP] In the distant future, an alien scientist has almost fully deciphered the messages found on the Voyager Spacecraft. With growing horror, the scientist realizes the crafts home system, and begins to pray. | The craft was salvaged near the outer rim of our system. Though we have but only reached our most closest sister-planet, the price for faster-than-light travel is simply too steep. It took a near hundred cycles for the craft to reach our homeworld, and the tales of it had been passed down the generations in anticipatio... | A few disclaimers, this is my first response to a post and I am writing on mobile so sorry if the editing is weird.
I had grown used to the silence of the universe. I spent my time hiding from my civilization, traveling from galaxy to galaxy in a never ending patrol. During the war, my people called me a hero, an uns... | 2014-11-09T04:07:38 | 2014-11-09T00:24:27 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] "Fool!" The warlock screamed, unharmed from any of the slashes. "The prophecy had stated that no human may slay me!" The unchosen warrior stared at their blade. The sword wasn't human, was it? | "You stabbed me? Why the abyss did you do that?" Felrekar shouted while clutching his side. Blood had already stained his shirt.
"They said human not able to kill you so we run. But I don't like runnin."
Felrekar gasped with pain. "So why didn't you take a bloody horse, I've killed the archmages of three different ki... | M'Darkel the Wizard had smashed the Blessed warriors with fireballs and repeated his brag; "The prophecy had stated that no human may slay me, these Words are from the Prophet Hemour, just before I slayed him"
Tannek, unblessed, hadn't been caught in the rain of fireball. He glanced down at his blade, sleathed it, an... | 2022-06-12T15:38:13 | 2022-06-12T13:01:53 | 203 | 73 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | “Crap,” I think, “there goes that idea.”
“How do you plead?” The judge asks.
“How can I plead anything beside what you have already decided for me?” I retort. The venom won’t help me here but I can’t help it, I’m angry. Anyone in my situation would be.
I’ve spent a lifetime building my political career. They say th... | 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... | 2021-06-24T10:25:27 | 2021-06-24T08:08:07 | 432 | 22 |
[WP] You possess an ability to turn off one or more of your senses to heighten the others. Today is the day you make a mistake. | The arrow hits the target. A perfect ten.
I miss the sound the arrows make most of all. It’s an amazing sound.
But well, in order to get into the Olympics, you got to make some sacrifices. And I can still hear the others shoot.
As I lower the bow, I quickly activate hearing again.
My opponent raises his bow and tak... | I was born with awareness of each of my senses and the ability to turn them off and on. When one sense was of the others increased. I used the skill to eavesdrop, look at other people's test, and other mundane things. I was strolling through the park. I had turned off hearing and sat on a bench so that I could see all ... | 2016-08-24T07:39:44 | 2016-08-24T07:13:48 | 77 | 15 |
[WP] After entering your PIN the ATM screen reads, "You cannot use this while in combat." | I looked at the familiar, yet very out of place message. Combat?
"What combat?"
I suddenly became aware of a rather loud and attention-demanding screaming, emanating from across the street. Sure enough, I turned around to see a man running towards me with a carbine rifle in hand, bayonet fixed, and looking mighty dete... | "You cannot use this while in combat" read the ATM. I stared down confused - then it all swept over me like goosebumps, my heart was beating itself to death like it was desperately trying to break open my sternum and run. At second glance the ATM at returned back to my weapon, the explosions, the ringing in my ear, the... | 2016-11-21T12:21:06 | 2016-11-21T11:31:24 | 110 | 10 |
[WP] You deliver meals to elderly shut-ins. One of your clients is convinced you are Death, and you play along, letting them "outsmart" you every day. Today, however, they're dressed in their Sunday finest, saying, "I'm ready." | I opened the door with my elbow, balancing the sad tray of potatoes and gravy in one hand and the glass of orange juice in the other.
"Ok Dennis," I said, "You won't believe what I have cooked up for you today." I let myself give what I thought to be an evil grin. *Man, I'm really getting into character here!*
Dennis... | I smiled as Mrs. Monroe winked at me with her frail, worn eye. I smiled as I saw Mr. Smith walk his terrier down the nursing home hallway. I smiled when I saw Mrs. Lee knitting me a new fur hat, because Lord knows that the cold's a-coming, and she would like to give back to the person who delivered their favorite meals... | 2017-08-31T14:21:32 | 2017-08-31T14:08:33 | 925 | 41 |
[WP] Adapt a famous fairy tale so it has a realistic ending.
I'm about to go to sleep. Bedtime story!... Except that I won't read anything until I get up. Happy Saturday. | The council stared at the village elder incredulously. They shifted glances at each other before one of the magistrates leaned in to ask of the elder, “Repeat that again.”
“Certainly. Arthur pulled the sword from the stone. According to Heavenly Decree, he is now rightfully the King of England.”
The magistrate coughe... | She slept and never moved. She looked like a statue carved from gleaming white marble, but stone could never do justice to the beauty of her delicate face.
These were the lips which had so entranced the knight, and he stared at them longingly. A tiny dribble of drool escaped from the corner of his mouth, like a hungr... | 2014-03-29T10:44:40 | 2014-03-29T10:43:35 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] There is only one rule in your village, and it changes daily. The punishment for anyone breaking the Rule of the Day is death. | "Ah, darling, please turn that bleeding TV off!" Becky exclaimed, "I've only just managed to get back to sleep!"
"No," Lenny said determinedly, "you know the deal."
You never know whether you might be violating today's rules unwittingly. His friend Harry died that way. He decided to have a shower before reading the d... | Every morning they gathered.
"Present your journals." Merris, Town Leader, called out to the assembled group. Everyone shuffled forward to the Rule Keeper, a small woman with greying hair that sat in front of an enormous scroll. She looked at each journal and the behaviors described within before transferring the info... | 2018-05-19T12:02:26 | 2018-05-19T11:07:06 | 266 | 86 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | “I’m not a bad person (or am I better described as an “entity”), I used to be a bit of a monster but that was a LONG time ago before I had a handle on my powers. Turns out that when you have the ability to drain life force and devour souls coupled with a requirement to feed in order to survive things get a little crazy... | *This time* it had to work. It couldn't be like that time the duct tape broke in the torture chamber, releasing the bar that kept Doctor KingKitty from morphing into her feline form and escaping. Or like the time my blaster cannon had no ammo while I finally had WhipWorm in the scope. And most certainly never like the ... | 2022-11-28T20:13:47 | 2022-11-28T14:15:34 | 105 | 18 |
[WP] All natural forms of death have been cured. People still decide to die after they live for a few centuries, though. It's almost your thousandth birthday and people don't understand why you've decided to live so long. | "Jesus Fucking Christ!" cried Dr Wyns' intern as he went over the chart. "This guy is really almost a thousand?"
Dr Wyns was nearing 300 and had started to consider it about time to bring his life to an end. Why anyone would want to live as long as Rick had he just couldn't understand. But he wasn't going to turn down... | "It's your nine hundred ninety nineth! Happy birthday!"
The wizened woman frowned. Could it really be that little after all this time? Nine hundred ninety nine. Could it really have gotten so high without her noticing?
Her mind wandered briefly.
She was standing in the town hall of a new world, rays of alien blue... | 2020-11-15T03:27:10 | 2020-11-14T23:53:32 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] Your 14-year-old sister finally wakes up from a coma of 6 years. She panics when she realizes how much she's grown. | Their parents tell them that they're too young to wander off by themselves. Jen doesn't look too young though, she looks really big ever since she woke up. It's neat, everyone thinks she's a grown up now and that means she can do lots of things she couldn't before without anyone shouting. Mummy and Daddy still shout be... | "Where's my soft toy?" was the first question that she asked. I looked at her, then at her size. "I think...you're a bit old for unicorns," I said, tentatively, as she shook her head and giggled.
"Did I get to skip school today? I really wanna play with my friend...wait why am I so big?" she looked at her size and re... | 2017-08-02T05:58:01 | 2017-08-02T05:52:40 | 309 | 88 |
[WP] You are the weakest swordsman at the academy. One day your instructor pulls you aside and brings you an object wrapped in cloth. Inside is a small twig. "Some people were never meant to wield a sword. Centuries ago, these 'wands' held great power. Maybe you can make this one work." | Looking back, I could have handled my disappointment better. I couldn't help myself. It was just nonsense, so I laughed to cover my feelings.
"You really think I'm that bad?" I asked the instructor.
"Frankly, yes. You're 23 and you have the co-ordination of a drunk toddler."
I shrugged. Maybe combat wasn't for me. I... | Tad wanted to cry.
He couldn’t believe it. He knew he was a terrible fighter, but a twig was too much. It had to be a sick joke.
“It’s bad enough the other boys tease me, now you are playing tricks on me as well,” Tad choked back tears.
His instructor, Gant, kneeled and placed his hand on Tad’s should... | 2022-01-20T03:39:11 | 2022-01-20T02:30:38 | 92 | 39 |
[WP] You discover you can travel in time, but only if you have a coin with the date of your destination. While exploring 1780's england, you lose your 2017 penny that's your ticket home. | I came to on the cobblestone street. A passing cart sprayed me with water and I rolled out of the way.
“Out of the way, peasant!” the driver yelled behind him.
I flipped him off and caught my breath, leaning against the bank’s wall in the alleyway. My Groupon purchase of a 1780 coin wasn’t paying off so far; I had b... | "*Shit*," I whispered furiously, digging and sweeping my hand through the itchy horsehair trousers I'd managed to acquire. Surely that coin had to be in h--- There was a hole in the 'pocket' of these trousers.
I slowly poked my finger through like a teenage boy on prom night, even with the same thunderstruck expressio... | 2017-11-25T08:31:13 | 2017-11-25T06:30:33 | 743 | 71 |
[WP] You’re a serial killer, but with a twist: You see when everyone on earth will die. And for every year of life you take from your victims prematurely, you gift those years to other people to save them. Without them ever knowing. | The people I killed didn't deserve to live.
"When I first received this gift, I didn't know what was going on. Dates would pop up in my head when I would see a person. There is one above my head too. A date that is fifty years from now. I only found out what the numbers meant after visiting my sick father in the hospi... | Standing here, water that once felt cold feels as warm as spring sun. It's a continuing wonder I can feel anything at all but as the sand erodes beneath my feet with the turning of the tide I am elsewhere, sinking slowly.
There's a strange freedom in knowing you can never please those you love. That you can do anythin... | 2018-07-17T03:51:34 | 2018-07-17T00:08:14 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] A demon who is really bad at his job keeps accidentally making the person he is possessing's life better | "Dude, it's like he's possessed or something!" Jeremy shouted over the roar of applause between songs.
The "Satan's Armada" concert was sold out for the very first time. This was the opening night of their very first world tour. By all reports, William Gladstone, the lead singer, was putting on the performance of a li... | Klaw sat in his chair, shaking his head. What had gone wrong? She was just a 90-pound human. Supposed to be easy. At this rate, he was never going to get his demon-possession license.
“So,” the Possessor’s Ed instructor said, “Do you know what you did wrong there?”
Klaw sighed. “Well,” he said, “I guess I didn’t... | 2014-09-04T05:07:57 | 2014-09-04T05:01:22 | 411 | 199 |
[WP] It's 3600, and society is falling apart. One day, an ancient 21st-Century library is uncovered. With no other options, the government decides to implement ideas from successful societies in the books. There's only one problem: they don't know which are real and which are fiction. | "Desperate times called for desperate measures"
This age-old saying had become the mantra of the 37th century. Food was scarce, our technology was failing us, and society was beginning to crumble. This wasn't a sudden downfall, it was a slow-burn. Humanity was an interesting thing. After we had stopped making technolo... | ''So what you're saying is tax-free? Do I understand that correctly? No taxes?'' Timothy McGregor, the newly appointed President asked. He had promised his people a swift breakthrough, and he was keen on delivering on that promise.
''Well, yes, on the other hand, not quite.'' the head of the Societal Investigation Mis... | 2015-05-26T10:50:33 | 2015-05-26T10:34:22 | 204 | 17 |
[WP] As an atheist, you are shocked to realize that there is an after life after death. Standing in front of countless heavenly gates, you are swarmed by representatives of each faith, all trying to convince you to choose their happily ever after package. | The reaper pushed the people away from the gate with the back of his scythe and spoke with a deep bellowing voice. "You have many options, you should review them carefully before deciding, now I must go."
He disappeared with a wisp of black smoke. I never believed in god, or an afterlife, or anything like that, but h... | I wander away from the crowd, into the white edgeless void of this place. A few of the sellers break off as if to follow me but return to press around new arrivals popping up. I watch from a distance as they ply their trade and see scenes of euphoric reunion as loved ones meet the newly arrived at various gates.
I won... | 2019-10-08T22:03:29 | 2019-10-08T21:24:47 | 83 | 15 |
[WP] You are Brothulu, bringer of gains and destroyer of fat. While your brother crushes worlds, you crush records.
[WP] You are Brothulu, bringer of gains and destroyer of fat. While your brother crushes worlds, you crush records.
Edit: gains | "You read from the wrong book." The elder abomination looked frustrated.
"There is no way I read from the wrong book." The bespectacled man waved the aforementioned book in the air. "This is the Yag Somnoth, written in the blood of virgins upon pages made of sewn together intestines. There is no text of a greater evi... | Brothulu flexed his chest muscles and grunted loudly.
"Brothulu, are you scared?" Mini, his girlfriend, asked.
He scoffed, and stretched his hands letting the fire of his will pulsate through each vein.
A microphone echoed in the distance. "Now, we welcome our final contender -Brothulu!"
With each step he took, ... | 2016-02-22T18:41:37 | 2016-02-22T17:43:50 | 41 | 21 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | "Why do you keep looking over your shoulder like that?" Jaya turned and looked in the direction his friend had been glancing, but saw nothing but the flat armor of his ship, the *Sunrise.*
Elvoss looked sheepish for a moment. "It's nothing. Just... your ship makes me nervous, okay? I want to keep an eye on that thi... | He didn't know what was about to happen.
If He knew, He would had run away, faster than even his ship could muster.
Away from that choice. The choice he took, denying any other possibility for humanity.
[Area B127Q Sector 1 (B127Q), Deep space, Unexplored
Distance from Earth: // ly (unknown)
Time passed: 6 years ... | 2019-01-18T12:33:07 | 2019-01-18T11:07:58 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] You are sentenced to a famous prison. You are not sentenced by time your stay only ends if you die or escape. There are no guards and the prison is broadcast on television. No one has ever escaped. | You don’t expect to end up here; no one expects to end up here. What a fucked up scheme. In a bid to finally create money from the judicial system some brainless asshole came up with a radical new idea.
‘Institutionalized’ the hit new TV show, an episode a week, sections of recorded footage filmed over the last seven d... | Escape or death, those were the words drilled into my head as I was sent to hell. Escape or death. They were empty words really, nothing but a way to make permanent exile sound less of a human rights violation. Sure, I *could* be free someday but it's not like that's ever happened. Nobody has ever escaped from New Melb... | 2017-08-15T05:08:12 | 2017-08-15T04:51:53 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] Write a story about your daily life in 2018 as if it were a science fiction story written in the 1980s.
Inspired by this:
http://documents.latimes.com/la-2013/ | *Good morning, the time is 7:00AM*
I awoke to my artificially intelligent assistant's words, gently waking me from my sleep.
*you have 3 new messages and 7 new updates in your automated news-collection...*
As the plausibly human-sounding electronic assistant was reading out important events, I'd begun my daily ro... | Author's note: *You don't know what you are in for, I've read two william Gibson short stories, and I have serious depression, so get ready for a doozy!*
Anarcha woke up the way she always did, depressed. The first thing she did was open up her phone to record the dream she had last night. She hoped if she recorded en... | 2018-05-07T14:54:49 | 2018-05-07T09:49:46 | 130 | 52 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you. | The wind gets stronger higher up. As you ascend, the very definition of a breeze changes. The slightest breath on the surface translates to winds that chaotically rush about, finding mysterious paths amidst each other. They all lead in the same direction, yet none of them travel the same way. From my office I could see... | “Well would you look at that I forgot to hit the detonator again,” said Sheana, Killer of Worlds. She flipped her hair, and shrugged her massive green shoulders. “Everytime I get lost in your eyes I lose a nuke it seems. That how you always foil my plans you cute bundle of righteousness?”
“That’s part of the plan,” sa... | 2017-05-30T16:48:26 | 2017-05-30T14:28:29 | 18 | 12 |
[WP]: Your mother was a scammer of the supernatural. She promised her firstborn to multiple entities in exchange for something she wanted, and now you're being co-parented by three demons, the fae, and a disgruntled witch. | Sneaking at night, hidden by glamour her fairy Godmother gifted her last year, Alyssa snuck into the kitchen.
Slowly, she tip-toed to the main hall, where the Christmas tree was.
Her guardians were not beings she could fool easily. Her glamour certainly won't work on her Godmother, and her Uncle Edward was a goat dem... | [If you want background on Snuggles, part I of this story is here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/cdl9p3/wp_youre_throwing_a_ball_around_with_your_dog_and/etvdl0t/)
While the pitbull Snuggles battled outside, Sue was inside talking with her parents. "So...our dog is a warrior who's battling the demo... | 2019-07-18T10:58:25 | 2019-07-18T09:04:26 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | An Ounce of Prevention
“They’re here, Sir”. Cybersquire knelt before me in the showy manner he always used to ham it up for the heroes. I sat on my throne as usual, but my normal cool confidence did little to ease the ice in my veins at his words.
“All three of them?” I asked, hoping against hope that perhaps only o... | I am practicing songwriting. So here is a musical theater piece on a villain that clearly out-matches his adversaries. It's a comedy song
Nothing irks me quite like knowing that they'll never see my pity
Nothing rattles me to shame to think they've really done their best
It's not enough to pest this city
And with... | 2021-05-20T08:01:46 | 2021-05-20T07:57:21 | 225 | 19 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | * *I'll preface this by saying that I never write for fun. But something about this prompt made me want to jump in. Apologies for the amateur nature of the following.*
I never should have let her in. Two hundred years of being careful, of being guarded. All that time and work, lost because I was lonely. Sandra and her... | I loved him, that walking pain. The kind that would come after
strangulation and let-free blood. He who would warm my heart. Though his: cold.
I loved him as I tore through the spine of an elderly man, I loved him as he kissed me in those few moments between a mother who cried at the way her children died. At first, ... | 2014-06-30T07:12:17 | 2014-06-30T06:46:44 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] The news were shocking. In one week, a gigantic meteor was going to hit the Earth and obliterate it. Chaos ensues. Anarchy breaks out. Governments fall. A week later, everyone braces as they see the meteor… miss the Earth, barely. Things get awkward. | “It’s all gone,” said Jeb tossing his cigarette to the ground to stamp it out.
“Sure, is pretty, isn’t it,” said Jared.
“What?”
Jared and Jeb. Johnson and Johnson were what was written on their military name tapes. A common name, no blood between them, one stood there, and the other sat, both of th... | We saw it pass.
Not everyone did. Approximately half of the almost ten billion people on the planet were on the wrong side. Half of the rest had cloud cover. Some it was too light, so they could just barely see a shadow. Some were just looking the wrong way.
We saw it pass, impossibly big, impossibly fast - like a gh... | 2022-06-15T10:47:39 | 2022-06-15T09:00:13 | 114 | 34 |
[WP] Your daughter is one of the most legendary sword fighters of all time, but you could never hold a sword to save your life. Despite this, she always cited you as her inspiration. Today you find out why. | I'd never been more proud. My little girl. Fencing in the championship. Her next bout would determine whether she or her opponent was hailed as swordswoman supreme, by the Royal Ladies' Academy of Blades. It didn't matter so much to me, I thought just making it this far was a remarkable achievement. How many other youn... | Cornelia absorbs a blow with her shield, but its force makes her stumble backward. Her opponent presses the advantage, raising her broadsword high in the sky.
You recoil, watching the fight through squinted eyes. Cornelia has always had trouble against broadswords, even as a little girl.
With a roar and a snarl, t... | 2022-04-14T15:06:48 | 2022-04-14T14:58:27 | 198 | 12 |
[WP] You are kidnapped by a cult, and they are about to sacrifice you to their god. They don't know that you are that god. | At my age memory is not something that can be often be relied upon, but it's hard to forget the sound of that alarm and the plane shaking so violently I was almost thrown from my seat. Then that almighty crash, I only heard it for a second but I can remember it vividly, that and the wall of water gushing towards me tha... | "Anupta, Darkest Desire, accept our offering!" I heard, more than felt, Daniel's dagger strike down into my heart. Well, where my heart would be, if I had one. In any case, it was time to wrap this up.
With a minor effort of will, the straps binding me to the table burned and snapped, and I sat up. I took a second to ... | 2016-08-14T10:22:30 | 2016-08-14T08:58:12 | 67 | 48 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Field medic? Why are we humouring the new prospect anyway? We have body labs." Muttered Zelska. Zelska was what the humans would call "A fucking idiot." Jorax reflected.
"Well," Jorax began "Aahii are the greatest builders and engineers in the universe,right?"
"Of course!" Snapped Zelska.
"But, Aahii don't repair a... | "Sir you worry too much, the humans plan won't work"
"I just have a bad feeling Lieutenant Danstaik, humans are insane. You are too young to remember the zaartak disaster"
"What happened Admiral Gaaztuk?"
"The lutaak amarda had encircled a few human vessels at the zaartak system. The humans in an effort to escape la... | 2017-03-06T01:01:31 | 2017-03-05T22:15:01 | 379 | 78 |
[WP] The reason vampires don't have a reflection is because mirrors were originally made with silver which cannot hold an image of an evil creature. When a vampire wakes up for the first time in 1000 years they find a modern day mirror without silver and are surprised by what they see. | "Darling, thy lips are like honeyed rose, and thy eyes are little gems, far more brilliant than any diamond." Alabaster leaned closer to the woman, smelling the sweet scent of her flesh, seeing the veins lurking beneath her pale skin. He flashed his fangs and could hear her heartbeat rise, flushing her face. She was wi... | \\\\ Read the footnote. Apparently I misread 1000 for 100 and wrote the story with a 100 year sleep. Sorry about that.
"At last, after a thousand years, it's time to feed again!", I whispered to myself. I tried to open my coffin door only to find that it didn't want to open easily. I pushed harder and the coffin l... | 2020-08-15T21:30:31 | 2020-08-15T20:38:54 | 191 | 51 |
[WP] Humans are born with a birthmark of a number 1-9. This is how many lives they have. You are the only person in the world that has a birthmark of a 0. | "You know," she said to the other doctors. "It is quite possible that we are just dealing with an administrative error here. Perhaps there should be a 1 or a 2 there."
*I hate doctors. Especially those who think they have a clue without studying me.*
"We could kill her a few times, see when the timer runs out?"
*I a... | I let my father drag me through the dark streets. My cheek was sore and I was positive the outline of his large hand would be visible if there was any light. *He was just trying to protect me.* I feel ashamed for crying. I should never have let *him* see.
I thought he was different - but I repulsed him. I had undone ... | 2014-12-01T11:04:11 | 2014-12-01T10:02:16 | 87 | 16 |
[WP] You are known as the greatest Villain known to history. The nations you have toppled are many, heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move. However, you are unaware that you were a villain at all.
I did not expect this much Response. | "I am the Panther, the Guardian of Wakanda. I watched from the shady jungles of Wakanda as the world tore itself, just as my fathers before me and their fathers before them. I was told, just as my predecessors were told, to let the world resolve itself. To let it decide its own fate, to only act to protect my nation.... | I love people. To me, there's nothing better than a great big gathering. I love to see people coming together, shaking hands, and talking. Maybe a few pair off and kiss, if they're bold. That's my element.
The only other thing I might love as much as people is travel, especially by air. It's just so fast! I can barely... | 2016-06-25T05:17:24 | 2016-06-25T05:01:02 | 89 | 44 |
[WP] You work in The Vault, a secret facility that exists solely to house the extremely dangerous Subject: a man who instantly learns everything there is to know about a person just by meeting them. It's finally your turn to bring him dinner. | "I'm having trouble understanding, Smith. Why have you resigned from your post?" The Vault Director asked me.
How do I answer that? More importantly, what would be the point? I made my decision, before I had even exited the room with the Subject.
"Smith, you're being groomed to one day be the director of this entire ... | It was only my first week. I guess the new guy always brings him his dinner, but I got lucky and I was hired with two others. It was the beginning of my third night when I got stopped on my way to the break room by my boss.
"Your turn, rookie."
I knew it was coming, but I still wasn't ready. I heard horror stories o... | 2020-01-19T21:18:09 | 2020-01-19T20:42:43 | 291 | 31 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Now it is time. Everyone is ready. Vicious savages, all around us. Even though we think there will be a way out, there obviously isn't. Revelations will not save us
"Giving up so soon?" he inquired. Only fools try to survive longer than this. Never has anyone bothered to live this long. Never has anyone shown this typ... | I know the truth now.
There's only one way to fight it.
So much life wasted.
But we couldn't have known sooner.
Either you got my previous messages or you're dead. I'm sorry.
Hope so much you got them.
I told you the weapons to get.
Needed you to be ready.
Delaying you just long enough.
You can't know until th... | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 2015-01-12T13:03:30 | 317 | 122 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | :Mode Comm 22222000202000200:
-Observational Log
-Scout: Amarath Kra
-TimeDate: XXXX.X.XXXX.X.X.
The letters came through, and so followed the voice. Amarath's words moved from one end of the universe to the other. The pause in communication was only that of a half-second--information shooting past light through mi... | "Look at these foolish mortals, dancing and singing." said Altarion, sipping his glass of wine with disapproval in his auburn eyes.
"Ha, if you would even call that dancing," said the creature next to him, brushing her silky white fur, "They are smashing their bodies into each other under the influence of drugs and t... | 2014-07-16T12:55:19 | 2014-07-16T11:11:14 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] Bored with Skyrim, you download a mod that has no description, just the title "self-awareness overhaul". Starting up the game, you can tell something's wrong with your character. Turning to face the fourth wall, they locks eyes with you. All you know is you've never seen such intense anger... | The first thing you hear is the familiar *thum, thum, HOOAH!* of the Bethesda logo’s splash screen. Slowly, you open your eyes – which had been squeezed shut to build anticipation. You visibly recoil in your seat, anxiously bracing yourself for the seemingly inevitable CTD. The screen fades. You hold your breath. There... | Timmy had thought that he had done all there was to do in this game. He had slayed a thousand dragons, ten times more guards and civilians, and played through every possible quest at every possible angle. His mom didn't mind him playing so much Skyrim as long as he kept his B average which he did, barely.
A new mod ca... | 2017-05-08T16:29:23 | 2017-05-08T15:35:42 | 57 | 36 |
[WP] Aliens try to invade earth but they can't bring themselves to do it because humans are too cute to them | “I don’t understand,” Beeble said, leaning forward, staring into a brightly colored monitor. “This just doesn’t make any sense.”
The ship was silent, for when their commander was upset, the soldiers knew to stay in their seats and pretend to do their jobs. The only person near him was his brother, Brox, for he was th... | (I'm saying mah alien spoke like in Shakespearean times. Because honestly, that makes it easier for me.)
...Mine parents always spake unto me, uttering words of degredation in regards to those creatures we refer to as... 'humans'... Mortals.. humans.. writhing sacks of flesh... What have you.. Many a name hathe we ins... | 2017-08-20T08:22:58 | 2017-08-20T07:16:42 | 151 | 25 |
[WP] Write a letter to a fictional character who got you through a tough time in your life or greatly influenced you. | Dear Mr. Weasley,
You were like a father to me. I figured you already had all those Weasley children of yours running about, what was one more?
You taught me what a real father should be. You taught me two very important lessons : that a normal father figure does not hit their wife, and that laughter is the most im... | Dear Woody,
I know that Andy left for college, but you were always my favorite toy. You and Buzz had an amazing friendship that I always wanted. You always looked out for the other toys, that taught me loyalty. You helped me grow up as a little boy and I will always remember you for it. Sadly, I have to go to college ... | 2014-08-10T23:42:18 | 2014-08-10T22:05:07 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] You have the power to stop time at will, but you are also affected. The only thing you can do is think. | It's game time.
The teacher clicks on her computer, the screen changing to a new question in front of our eyes.
I stop time.
I scan the question rapidly, then slower. I've got all the time in the world. I pick out every detail and run it through my brain. Noting the possible answers, I rule them out one by one until... | "So, what are we?" She asked, she had an air of hopefulness in her voice but her stance was confrontational. What the fuck do I do!? I don't know what she wants to hear, I don't even know what I want! All the life's most complicated questions and an eternity to figure it out and yet here we are, unmoving, undying with ... | 2018-01-08T17:01:08 | 2018-01-08T13:17:47 | 57 | 16 |
[WP] You have been reincarnated as a fly during a Nazi Party rally just before their rise to power. Try to prevent World War II. | I couldn't believe it. I was actually there.
My geometrical eyes showed me every angle around me. I rubbed my hands together mischievously, thinking of everything I could do.
Quickly, I launched myself into the air, my wings beating a million miles a minute, and I shot myself directly at his ear. A flash caught the c... | "My name was Jonathan" I found myself saying my name for the third time to the beam of light floating behind the service counter. The beam shifted and let out a low frequency rumble. "Look, I gotta go back down now." I started.
The beam rumbled again and I remembered Mary, "My name is Mary," I told the beam my name fo... | 2017-06-20T09:19:43 | 2017-06-20T08:32:03 | 302 | 29 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | I held the pistol against Captain Seraph’s forehead.
“What are you gonna do, shoot me?”
The gunshot echoed down 5th and Market. Shrieks, gasps, and then a silence. Her lifeless body fell over an uneven fan of bloodspatter in the middle of the street.
*Let’s let the world know who you really are.*
I knelt down, pull... | I collect them all. Like they collect baseball cards, or poke balls or whatever it’s called these days. Heroes, demigods, humans, animals, all creatures big and small, I collect them.
They don’t know I’m collecting, yes some have that look in their eyes when I come, they know time is up. But in the middle of their bu... | 2018-10-18T13:42:07 | 2018-10-18T13:14:52 | 1,098 | 220 |
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