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[WP] The year is 2040, and you are the last smoker alive. The "Quit Smoking" ads get personal. | He buried his head in his hands. The condensation from his steamy sobs leaked through his fingers on to the pavement. It took every ounce of strength to pull his head up and confront the billboard, but he did it anyways.
There she was. His wife, holding his withered body. It didn't seem like it was truly his corpse. ... | I walked down the overgrown, muddy street in my village. It was quiet, as it always had been. The quietness is the thing that was typical of this village, it had always been this quiet. I walked into the house where I was born, or at least: the place where I remembered I first was.
I don't remember much of my childhoo... | 2017-02-17T12:06:05 | 2017-02-17T11:15:56 | 51 | 13 |
[WP] You are Low-Key, the Norse God of really subtle mischief. | The mortals have forgotten me. Yes, I was never one of the blustering and bold members of my ilk, but I am certainly not one to be taken lightly. They will learn. Subtlety is not merely a mood or manner, but an artform. To be able to tell how taut a string can be pulled before it snaps is an ability possessed by many. ... | "Fuck! Again?!" I screamed as I dropped yet another object. This has been happening for weeks now, every drink spilled, every small crack tripped on, every item I pick up magically slipping from my grasp. I don't get it! One day I'm fine, the next I just can't even. I think I'm going crazy, maybe I'm cursed... Maybe I'... | 2018-01-27T22:46:09 | 2018-01-27T22:18:18 | 197 | 10 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | "Hey Glinda! Stop eating that cow meat! You need to cook it first."
Glinda rolled her eyes at Dahv-id. He claimed he could read, and was from a time far beyond ours. But Glinda knew he was just some crazy guy who didn't want her to eat.
"But I'm hungry!" Glinda shouted back. "Can one not partake in a meal during meal... | "She's something all right."
"Yes but a lady belongs in the houses, not working whatever it is she's always up to."
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As I pull back the curtains to the cellar, the stench of her recent 'concoctions' hit me once again. Though I love her enthusiastic, or as I call it 'free-spirited' personality, others whisper wher... | 2017-09-14T09:55:29 | 2017-09-14T09:53:18 | 97 | 56 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | F/26/Washington DC : gamer gurl! i like video games lol and having a fun time!11 No dates yet, have the sniffles ;)
WANTED: antibiotics plz
yeah i have a cold and i hate having a red nose lol. will agree on price later.
WANTED: tried and tested cure for mystery virus
so i have that virus thing thats on the news a... | 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... | 2015-04-29T10:15:48 | 2015-04-29T07:28:18 | 34 | 10 |
[WP] You're sat alone, with a glass of wine in hand, and decide to jokingly toast the Greek God Dionysus. You did not expect him to appear before you in human form, create two bottles of wine, and take a seat next to you. | “Finished at last,” Shelby cheered to herself, alone in her studio apartment.
Shelby stood up from her two-person dining table where her laptop lived. She stretched her body from the extensive writing session. As a final class project, her history professor assigned everyone to write a report about modernizing a forg... | Have you ever just drank alone? I do. I like to drink, but I dont really know that many people. And, we don't hang out much.
I spent the entirety of today playing video games. And drinking. During a session of God of War, I jokingly sang out a prayer. And seeing as I was properly drunk on good wine, Dionysius was my ... | 2020-11-08T11:33:42 | 2020-11-08T10:44:09 | 47 | 34 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | He was on the street, content with rage.
She typed away, in her own cage.
He stood on this stage in glorious fame.
The wizard stole the Frost Queen's Claim.
Her water broke. There was no time.
They finished up their master crime.
Would they kiss? Time would tell.
Charon crossed the river in Hell.
He sat in his car whe... | Mom was singing Christmas carols again. The martini in her hand glowing like the contents of a broken glow stick. The dog was barking too. When I went to go look I could see children running around the classroom, having too much fun to notice the SS Titanic sinking into the giant kiddie pool outside. The sound of bagp... | 2015-01-12T17:07:48 | 2015-01-12T10:42:43 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] Write the happiest story you can think of and completely destroy the atmosphere with a plot twist in the final sentence. | This is the love of my life. I remember the first time that thought crossed my mind...I stopped in the break room to get my morning coffee. She was there. The most beautiful creature I had ever laid eyes on. It was her first week in the office, and she was still struggling with the coffee maker. Luckily I was there to ... | Stained windows, check. Blue roses, check. Orange lighting, check. Bare-backed white dress, check. Perfectly curled hair, check. James, check.
I smile. These were all I ever wanted the moment I fell in love with him. It was a stormy Sunday afternoon in his room.
"James, we have talked about this before. You want ch... | 2017-05-25T04:45:01 | 2017-05-25T01:09:41 | 723 | 82 |
[WP] Convicted criminals can choose to shorten their sentence. The only catch is the more it is shortened, the worse the conditions are where they are held. Describe a one night stay.
Thanks guys, I'm reading all of them. Keep it coming! | At this end of the jail everything smells bad.
The warden's aide takes me past the 6 month room. It's lowered below the floor a couple meters. Inside, I see a room full of prisoners up to their waist in liquid shit. The smell is unbearable
Then the 3 month room. Much like the last, except here they're up to their c... | My first hour I spent on my back getting my teath drilled in. I volenteered for that. Was it painful? No, I was loaded with annestetics, and I was 4 and a half years due for a dentist apointment anyways. Back when I was free I'd been too cheap (and lazy) to book for an orphadontist, but now the prison's health system c... | 2015-10-27T08:07:44 | 2015-10-27T07:32:55 | 150 | 13 |
[WP] The devil mixed up your paperwork and gave you someone else's personal hell, which to you, is heaven. | "Ms. Carter, correct?"
I slowly nodded, still in absolute shock that Christianity had been the one to get it all right. I mean, heaven and hell? God and The Devil? I had never thought that in a million years what I had done during my life would matter, or that my mother's voice would echo in the back of my head; 'Mind... | I stared into the room, not daring move from the long, endless corridor the demon had led me down. I could see beyond the doorway, an old house, leaky, crumbling, mouldy. I could smell it from where I stood, it smelled of age, of decay.
The demon placed a flaming hand on my shoulder, his touch cool on my skin. "A tho... | 2016-05-28T14:59:14 | 2016-05-28T14:22:58 | 149 | 102 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | continued straight from the prompt...
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Now... Luckily I'm a redditor, and things like being summoned against your will into an unknown world/situation are a common topic so I had thought through this scenario before. Otherwise I would appear quite confused at my situation and not at all in control of the situation.... | "Da hell?"
When finals ended I had resolved to spend no moment of the weekend sober. One moment I had been sitting on the steps of my apartment building smoking a cigarette, fending off last night's hangover with a bottle of whiskey, and the next I was sitting in a small, darkened room.
"Where's my cig... FUCK!"
Hav... | 2017-05-12T10:38:10 | 2017-05-12T09:53:02 | 427 | 59 |
[WP]: "I'm sorry. I just don't understand how you managed to fuck up a five-word sentence, offend the inhabitants of three planets and start a world war at the same time." | Here are the facts:
1) The Varbloxians of Varb 3 have a very particular conversational structure, comprised of facial expressions and words in equal part. Gestures with other organs is viewed as taboo, resulting in a culture where few Varbloxians ever attempt walking and talking at the same time.
2) The preva... | Robert peered into the dark abyss. That's one thing he'd forgot about working on a offworld broadcasting station; the view was so vast and empty. Of course, tonight it will be different. The first of the Asmoydian and Veluese dreadnoughts have already jumped into Centauri's orbit, appearing as elongated blue flecks aga... | 2015-06-19T05:51:39 | 2015-06-19T03:26:36 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, he neglected to give him the ability to die again. 2,000 years later, it doesn't feel like a miracle anymore. | I didn't even know he was on earth. I had pretty much given up after the fiasco at the Nevada test site. I still have no clue why I turned green, bulky and stupid for a month. A celestial joke made at my cost? It took me two months to escape after they caught me.
I was just...living, trying to get by with small jobs t... | Resurrected by Jesus, forsaken by God. I know firsthand that there's an afterlife and I know I'll never attain transcendence. I'll simply exist even after the last star slowly dims... I will remain. Tormented by this curse. Those who think heaven is enless life don't truly understand what it means to have consciousness... | 2018-07-10T23:20:45 | 2018-07-10T22:51:10 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When I first regained my sight I saw the messages, "Don't tell them you can see".
I wondered who "them" might be. I'll be honest, my first thought was space aliens of some sort of monsters from a Stygian realm. I was terrified.
I carefully got out my cane and went about my business, often closing my eyes to make the ... | I see walls covered with writings.
I see floors painted with blood.
I see surfaces, chairs, refrigerators and any available surface to draw on plastered with the same damn message.
*"Whatever you do, Don't tell them you can see."*
Whispers of instruction fill my head.
"Hush. Do not speak of your sight."
I follow ... | 2019-08-26T10:33:57 | 2019-08-26T09:05:53 | 62 | 39 |
[WP] This new apartment complex you’ve moved into is great. Sure, the landlord is a Eldritch God, the elevator has well over a thousand stops and the bizarre survival guide you received changes daily. But hey, the rent is cheap and the undead girl next door is kinda cute. | My neighbor pulled me aside by the ear. "How the hell did you get in here?"
I frowned. "The door?"
"Not what I meant, I mean, in this building! No one is supposed to know about it."
I smiled, thinking on it. "I mean, you know about it. I was looking for a room to rent, my job is just down the street..."
I should me... | My friend thinks I should really start a blog. Although whenever I try to do something like that I rarely receive any interest or views. I mean, who wants to hear about my apartment in the ether dimension?
It's really like any other apartment downtown. You have to deal with a crappy commute of some kind, right? On Ear... | 2020-03-10T19:07:07 | 2020-03-10T17:45:14 | 88 | 61 |
[WP] Four immortal beings rule over the land. A dragon that flies across the deserts in the south, a living dungeon whose Labyrinth seems to go on forever in the caves of the west, The Kraken, so large that it can sink islands with ease, beneath the seas of the east & the 'Man' of the north. | "Master, we are running out of time!” the young boy said.
He had been appointed as The Man’s newest apprentice. Even though the boy was the youngest apprentice The Man had ever appointed, he showed promise from the age of three – already showing signs of *the craft*. By age six, he had somehow mastered more of the a... | "They called them the Primordials, four ancient, eternal beings who stood at each corner of the world, reigning, unchallenged, over all that resided there -- Tartarus, the living prison, a hellish, labyrinthine dimension whose ever-growing walls encaged thousands of prisoners, starving them, depriving them of the comfo... | 2020-04-19T08:21:50 | 2020-04-19T08:21:26 | 38 | 10 |
[WP] You are a cat. Contrary to what people think you do love your human. Unfortunately the dog has read one too many pro-dog writing prompts and thinks you're some evil being out to enslave the human. | I was staying in the tree. Why was I staying in the tree? Because the dog was trying to... Well I'm not exactly sure, it never quite caught me.
The Human looked up into the tree. My Human. My friend. But according to the dog, I was the enemy of the Human.
And the Human thought I was just Stupid. I had climbed up the ... | "Ugh this creature has been staring at me all day, I really wish he had something better to do while Stephen is off hunting. Not like he will bring anything back, he never does. That's why it is my responsibility to make sure he has *something* the it's absolutely stunning how evolutionary deficient these creatures ar... | 2019-12-13T16:25:40 | 2019-12-13T13:16:32 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up by a dusty road with 1,000 Mexican pesos and a note from your Spanish teacher: "Este es el examen final" | I woke up with a major headache. I felt in my pockets and found some pesos and the note stating that this was my final exam.
No problemo, I thought to myself. I was in a level 300 class, and had aced all the assignments this semester. So I strolled confidently into the town I could see in the distance.
When I got int... | "¿Qué pasó, chico?" dijo una mujer.
"Uhhhhh hola uh... lost... soy Steve, dónde está escuela"
"¿Qué escueña? Estamos en Cozumel. Es estudiante? De dónde es?"
I was so confused. The last thing I could recall was walking into my Spanish class and the fire alarm sounding. Next thing I knew, I woke up parched, with nothi... | 2017-06-29T11:09:35 | 2017-06-29T09:12:30 | 139 | 30 |
[WP] You possess the Psychic Abilities: Postcognition and Second Sight. You write historically accurate books about Forgotten Arts, Crafts, Creatures, Cultures, Customs, Histories, Languages and Traditions. During a book tour, you realise almost all of your fans are time-travellers. | “Next!” My agent calls waving the line forward.
Another book ready for me to sign, is laid before me. Ah, a copy of my Cultures and Customs of Edo era Japan. I sign it with a flourish even though my hand is getting tired. Smiling up at the woman I lock eyes with her.
She was obviously Japanese by descent, but … I pau... | There's something off.
I can feel it in my bones, these people in line right now are smiling so widely- *thanking* me -so sincerely that it's a little disquieting. With every book I sign and every person I meet, I feel a sense that my contributions to the historical world mean almost nothing. However, these people are... | 2019-07-21T07:30:40 | 2019-07-21T07:28:30 | 1,063 | 147 |
[WP] You're the only human in the world who can use magic. Rather than being locked up or amything, you have to deal with a lot of passive-aggressive laws set up wherever you go about the use of magic. | "What do you mean flying is illegal?"
"Single-person, unrestricted flying, sir. It applies to all types, including but not restricted to hoverboards, jetpacks, giant balloons, drones..."
"Got it."
If my smile is more teeth than warmth, it doesn't affect him.
****
"Sir, please take out your hellbeast companion."
... | I got up from bed feeling groggy. I knew I should never have drank that beer last night. Once I start, I won’t drinking.
I wobbled to the kitchen, grabbing the walls as I go. I need that hangover medicine. Boss will kill me if I end up late again.
My left foot stepped into the kitchen, and walked into that same damn ... | 2018-02-08T04:23:51 | 2018-02-08T04:13:18 | 3,472 | 200 |
[WP] Every sentient species in the universe receives a Jesus figure from God. It turns out humanity was the only species to torture and crucify him. You're an ambassador priest informing the Inter-Galactic Holy Church what your species did. | Tightly lashed tourniquets cut into his wrists, a dull and constant pain as his hands slowly died from restricted bloodflow. Nails in the palms of his hands leaked blood. Pastor Thompson tried not to feel the warm trickle as blood dripped down his bound arms.
His legs grew tired of holding his weight up, of stopping ... | The council chambers, despite their vastness and high, vaulted ceilings felt claustrophobic as all eyes fell on me. None of them were human, either. Species of every type had gathered here today, as was custom for welcoming another into their fold. But our membership into their ranks was...unique. They had analyzed our... | 2016-08-18T06:52:46 | 2016-08-18T04:37:42 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] It's been six months since your high school became you and your peers only stronghold from the zombies outside. The students have dissolved into factions, each with their own role in this mock society. Tell about your daily life. | Before this mess started, I couldn’t have told you what I wanted for breakfast, let alone what I wanted to do with my life. I was only seventeen, I had a right to be indecisive. Moodiness, petulance, and a “woe is me” attitude can be excused when your brain is still developing and you haven’t yet had a chance to experi... | 10 dorky high school students traipsed unceremoniously in circles. They shambled about in a fashion nearly indistinguishable from that of the zombies outside, which they found to be so repelling and repulsive. The reason for their lackadaisical meandering is uncertain. See, I was one of those dorky teenagers that day a... | 2016-05-04T07:38:32 | 2016-05-04T06:21:52 | 75 | 11 |
[WP] For lack of better candidates, someone's parents jokingly named the Norse God Loki as the child's godfather. He decides to take this seriously. | We really just didn't have anyone to name. My sister was long gone, my husband was an only child, and none of our friends really went to church anymore. Jerry was just being a smartass when he named Loki, God of Mischief, the godfather. The pastor didn't get the joke, and... well that was that.
The first time I rememb... | He shuffled forward across the sterile tiles as his robe dragging behind him. There was the child. It slept peacefully, swaddled in white cloth behind the glass. He leaned forward and readied his staff, but stopped as it yawned and stretched. Its eyes opened and it stared at the old man curiously. Innocent, but for it... | 2017-11-07T10:09:25 | 2017-11-07T08:35:47 | 2,907 | 63 |
[WP] The end of times has come. Heaven, hell, and earth are thrown in a three-way war. It's a little unfair how advanced Earth is, though. | The voices of the Arch Angel's heralds sang unto the world,'Praises be to he upon the throne of our Kingdom of Heaven, for he shall rise again, for the battle at the end of days upon the Earth! In three score and ten years, the father of Christ will return with the righteous to lead the final holy war!'
Then they sang... | It looks like we were mistaken.
Who would have known that religion was not just some dogma created by man to control the masses. Instead they were are first line of defence, warning us about the impending attack. The Gods have become more formidable foes then previously anticipated.
It all started when we accident... | 2015-09-24T09:22:58 | 2015-09-24T08:29:53 | 52 | 23 |
[WP] Something in the ritual went horribly wrong, and instead of the demon possessing you, you possessed the demon. | Q'llar looked through new-found eyes, suddenly aware that something was very, very different. He felt the sensation of floating, and power, and *rage*.
This was a wholly unexpected event, seeing as Q'llar was meant to be a sacrifice, a kind of human vessel, for the blood demon that he until very recently had certainly... | “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.”
The sound of the unexpected voice sends a shiver down my spine. I swivel 180 degrees in my desk chair, turning my attention from the blank Microsoft Word document on my laptop to the man standing behind me in my cubicle. I have never seen him before, but he looks the part of upper m... | 2017-10-26T02:42:44 | 2017-10-25T06:28:16 | 1,618 | 249 |
[WP] To get in Heaven, you have to confront the person who you hurt the most. You were expecting an ex, your parents/relatives, or a friend. You didn't expect to see yourself. | When I was told I would have to face the person I had hurt most in life in order to move into heaven, I can’t say that I was happy. Even though my life was now over and I had left my heavy body behind, the baggage on my soul didn’t seem any lighter. The thought of who it could be as I walked down the long hall to our m... | I expected Niflheim. I hadn't died a glorious death in battle, which was to be expected of most of my kind these days. There would be no Valhalla or Folkvangr for me. If I was lucky I could avoid falling under Hel's purview, but I had my doubts.
Hel was waiting for me, and my heart sank. However, she smirked as I appr... | 2016-08-15T06:37:00 | 2016-08-15T05:24:38 | 241 | 30 |
[WP] You and your roommates have a bet to see who can pull off the most illegal act and not get caught. You thought you secured the win after an elaborate graffiti project. However, one of your roommates shows up with a briefcase full of nuclear launch codes. | "The fuck is that?"
My eyes, still a little watery from the 4 hours of spray-painting I had done to the sides of the school buses, rested upon the matte black briefcase in Harry's hand. It wasn't made of plastic. We could all tell it was heavy by the veins popping out of Harry's forearm.
Not 5 minutes earlier, every ... | Don't we all have that little demon that just itches to get out from time to time? Well, thats me and my roommates in a nutshell. Theres Kelvin, he can pretty much get away with anything, as his father is the head officer in our city (Definitely a friend with a benefit), Hawkins, who once reset ALL clocks at our collag... | 2019-05-13T06:55:40 | 2019-05-13T05:13:01 | 79 | 34 |
[WP] There are multi-Gods for the multi-verse, and it turns out ours is kind of like the 'cool mom who lets you drink at her house,' though other Gods look at our free will and generally silent deity as bad Godding on His part. | Sam sighed as he looked upon the whole of his creation. "I just don't want them to hate me," he said. "They never even knew their mother. I'm all they've got."
The woman seated next to him nodded sagely. "I know it can be hard, raising them alone. But this hands-off approach you've been using for the past few millenni... | Entity C-137 looked over her favourite creation, humans. They were the most interesting thing that she had ever seen. These complex beings were not perfect paragons of virtue that all worked together to advance the species, they were a bunch of animals that were equal parts mis-informed, self-interested and unpredictab... | 2017-05-07T09:14:56 | 2017-05-07T07:39:28 | 524 | 139 |
[WP] YOU CANNOT DIE, no matter what, for the first 65 years of your life. AFTER THAT you're completely mortal. This is the first morning after your 65th birthday... | I shouldered my rifle as the APC rolled to a stop.
"Happy birthday cap" Jimmison smiled as the doors burst open and he followed America's oldest soldier into battle.
The immortality had been handy, saved a lot of lives, ended a lot of bad ones... but I never told him that today it was over. Today might be the last ... | I woke up in the same hospital bed I'd been occupying for the last 23 years. My numerous scars and gouges greeted me with a sore welcome. I had done such amazing things with my life prior to this. The feds had covered all my medical expense for my service to them for so long. The injuries I sustained during my duty are... | 2014-12-24T13:02:14 | 2014-12-24T11:45:17 | 78 | 15 |
[WP] You have just died. The Good News is that there is an afterlife. The Bad News is that it isn't Heaven. Or Hell. Or Purgatory. And you aren't a Ghost. In fact, the afterlife is something that no sane human being would ever predict, and has most likely never been written down.
Go balls to the wall crazy with this. ... | You take a deep breath and die.
It's not so bad.
You breathe out and open your eyes or maybe close them, it's difficult to tell. You're not sure what's just happened. You do know, though, that you're standing in a kitchen. You also know that you're not standing and it isn't a kitchen and you aren't there. You rememb... | You are dead, or are you really? You have been an atheist, all your live. Well most of it, sometimes you have ventured into agnosticism, but mostly you have been an atheist. So why the hell, can you still think, you remember being alive, you remember the doctor saying that it would all over soon, then pushing the pisto... | 2015-10-19T04:40:00 | 2015-10-18T20:21:54 | 38 | 23 |
[WP] You gain EXP for everything you kill and you know when you gain EXP. Easy kills like bugs get you only a couple of EXP, tougher kills give more EXP. One day at home doing nothing, you unexpectedly gain 1500 XP... | There I was, sitting in my designated chair at home, making memes and singing along to this old game I used to play which tells you how good you were at singing the song it gives you.
"OH DAMN! THIS IS MY JAM!!" I exclaimed having heard the first few chords of my favourite song. As I began singing along I noticed a sm... | NOTE: Sorry about any mistakes. I am working on being a better writer. But I have never been good at punctuation
Any advice welcome.
PART 1
As I lay reading the newest issue of my favorite comic, I began to feel that familiar warmth. The retinal display showed +1,500 EXP. Odd I hadn't killed anything today.
As I p... | 2017-05-15T08:57:56 | 2017-05-15T04:49:15 | 37 | 12 |
[WP] "Why do we have to put on gas masks every night?" | "But why, mommy? Why do we have to wear these?"
Jennifer stared at her daughter. Of course she didn't understand; how could she? But she needed to tell her something. She owed it to her child.
"Honey... I'm sorry. We all have to. Even those up on the surface."
Stacey gazed into her mother's eyes, confused. "But *why... | Images of flourishing cities came into my head. Smiles on people's faces as they greeted one another passing on the sidewalks. The large neon signs flashing the newest products to buy. Each product with the same promise of "making your life so much more manageable."
How the wildlife occupied the lush forests and ma... | 2016-10-19T11:15:11 | 2016-10-19T11:07:36 | 79 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity has begun colonizing the galaxy, but no other intelligent life forms have been found. One day, your ship's warp drive malfunctions and you crash-land on a previously-undiscovered planet. It contains intelligent life... but it's currently going through its equivalent of the Dark Ages. | *All alien talk will be translated for your reading pleasure. Unfortunately, for the humans of this story, they have absolutely no idea what the aliens are talking about.*
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Grope reeled in agony. Les joined, same with Chine, Sindee and Baden.
"Damn,... | Tupryx approached the High Esh, who sat upon his Esh-Clol. Ever since the fall of Gleox, every trial in Cuab had been overseen by a High Esh seated upon an Esh-Clol, and not by a jury of fellow Allida. But what would a jury have offered the accused today, Tupryx wondered? Would any among the Allida - the same Allida... | 2016-12-24T07:25:39 | 2016-12-24T07:11:40 | 38 | 26 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | As i emerge from a sort of sleep, I’m standing in my school hall, and there is a bunch of people standing in front of me.
“Umm, what happened”, i ask my self, as one of the people staring at me asks, “you are back, is everything’s alright?”
I start to feel anxious, it’s too much attention, i utter under my nose “what... | Jan 2, 2022
USA
Operation Stark progress log,
Day 365
Today marks the 1 year anniversary of Operation Stark. So far, the government has been unavle to create a human weapon that can control radioactive elements. The deathtoll is, as of now, 314 people.
Day 370
Test subject #322 did manage to awaken an abilit... | 2021-04-01T03:47:34 | 2021-04-01T03:41:16 | 58 | 11 |
[WP] The "violent videogames teach you how to use a gun" thing is true for you. Literally. Everything you learn in videogames, you can do in real life as well. You realize you have that power when you drink an energy drink after a bad injury and you find yourself completely healed. | "Your wallet and your watch or your life, boy. Decision is yours!"
I looked around the alley. No way out. Two men behind me, three in front. Garbage lay strewn across the dimly lit corridor.
I was beyond panicking. Shaking, I tried to unclasp my watch. Pity, it was just a G-Shock, hardly anything to murder over. I f... | Harry found it strange, as he walked down the busy street he'd periodically see people in nothing but their underwear. They'd be carrying on as usual, reading a paper, nose in their phone, or sipping coffee. He looked across the street and saw a group of people waiting at the bus stop. Three of them were already in ... | 2018-08-14T09:18:10 | 2018-08-14T08:22:35 | 256 | 91 |
[WP] Death gave you immortality with the plan that you'd realize how awful it is and beg him to let you die. 50,000 years later he's getting annoyed as you continue to have fun and live a wonderful life. | "Death, my existence has turned into suffering," I said. "My very bones ache, my skin is weathered. My body became nothing but a green leaf shriveling in autumn's time."
Death chuckled like a five year old, hiting his ball joint as he crouched slightly. "Immortality, a game only a few can play Darren," he said. "If yo... | I recognised his voice from behind me. "Cancer, this time? Not a good way to go. She suffered in the end."
"They all suffer in the end, don't they? But I give them the best I can with the time they have."
Death approached, placing his hand on my shoulder, the sleeve of a crisp white shirt poking out from beneath the ... | 2017-11-29T12:47:04 | 2017-11-28T16:29:45 | 149 | 17 |
[WP] The human soul is music. Every person has their own melody. How a person perceives someone depends on how their melodies interact. | I knew it when I saw her- she was no stranger to love. It leaves scars on a person, like the pockmarks of battle, each telling a story of the soul. It's a dangerous game we play, laying our lives on the line.
But when I first looked into her eyes, and I felt our hearts strike a chord in key, I knew it. I knew she was... | The soul is a symphony; we are each a conductor of orchestral harmonies that play in the psyche, every crescendo a chill down the spine. It's why music connects us, as humans, a common bond that ignores race and gender. Everyone has a sound that clicks with them, makes them feel whole inside, completed, like the final ... | 2019-04-05T05:04:52 | 2019-04-05T04:14:28 | 153 | 29 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Lek'tar strong Kholan warrior. Strongest of Lekh clan. Conquer twelve planets in nebula of birth with horns, teeth, and blade. Have one hundred seventy families with twenty species, three hundred children, all strong warriors. But Lek'tar strongest.
Lek'tar forty-fifth family on Tsina say Lek'tar must prove strongest ... | Dr. S.F. Mercola
Peking University, Department of Neurobiology
2259, March, 15
Human greed and shortsightedness—an intergalactic evolutionary trait?
Those in the scientific community have lamented the inability of humans to deal with basic market externalities and tragedy of the commons in the recent century. H... | 2014-10-17T11:04:27 | 2014-10-17T08:36:32 | 46 | 19 |
[WP] You are a time traveler entering a medieval tournament in which the winner gains the right to wed the princess. You're the first match and the king announces that you may use any weapon. Quickly you draw you're glock and shout "parry this you fucking casual" | My opponent was dead before he hit the ground. In hindsight, bring a Glock-18 to a medieval tournament might have been a little overkill.
Smoke billowed out of the barrel, forming plumes around my visage, I knew I looked kinda cool but to these people, I must’ve looked like a witch. Because that’s exactly what the men... | The roar of the shot started to settle as the knight dropped his sword and fell into the mud. I turned to the king elevated in the stands with his beautiful daughter sat beside him.
"Well whens the wedding your majesty?"
Standing there with a grin I holster my weapon. The crowd is dead silent. The king stares me do... | 2019-03-22T21:47:18 | 2019-03-22T19:48:23 | 1,094 | 80 |
[WP] Suddenly the whole world hears a voice from the sky: Hi guys, God here. I'm being promoted to the Andromeda galaxy and I'm here to introduce my replacement, Bob this is earth, earth this is Bob. Have fun, pleasure to meet you all!! | Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned their heads up to the sky. Had they heard correctly, God was leaving and left some man named Bob in charge? People in the cities looked out their windows, and stepped out of their cars looking upward for more answers. Meanwhile, in the Vatican, Pope Francis and his ca... | "Well... fuck." said the Atheists of the world
"I thought his name was Yahweh.." said others
Yet more would come to fear the days of Bob's 'tweaks'. "Nothing too huge, just want to get my own chapter in that neat book of yours!"
Armageddon might be a little harsh to wish for, but it certainly changed the religious se... | 2018-03-12T17:05:40 | 2018-03-12T15:59:20 | 3,717 | 57 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Alex,
Its been nearly 15 years since I have seen you. While we were only kids then I think about you often. We were best friends, and even when we had so little and our families argued we still found a way to hang out. Be it play wrestling games in your room, or have grass fights...it was the highlight of my youth. I ... | I’m not really sure if I should be doing this, or if I even miss you right now, but some how you always find your way into my mind. I can’t believe I promised you I could be strong that day because I felt so weak knowing I couldn’t have your presence in my life anymore, but I think I have gotten “stronger” since then. ... | 2017-11-06T00:29:01 | 2017-11-06T00:23:50 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | This is in response to a comment that was deleted (This is a more appropriate way to moderate a story telling subreddit IMO, shame the buggers):
So you can choose between extreme intelligence and horns? Claws? Who would choose f---ing useless horns over intelligence?
"For someone with extreme intelligence, you shoul... | Everyone knew this day would come, the day that would determine the rest of our lives. No one knew where the mutation came from, my parents always told me that it was just a path of life, that their parents had mutations and so did the generation before them. Today was the day, my 21st birthday, my grandmother had alwa... | 2015-03-04T05:03:27 | 2015-03-04T00:56:46 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Suddenly all over the world, the sky was completely covered by a gray blanket of clouds. After a month, suddenly the clouds disappear with a voice saying "Sorry for the wait. The rework of Sky has now been enabled. Enjoy!" and the sky is now filled with floating islands and cities. | Jaxon could live with the changes to the sky. Even the odd voice that boomed through the air when it happened didn't bother him much. For all he could tell, things didn't really change. Except for the cities in the sky.
That part Jaxon hated. With a passion. It wasn't that they were ugly, in fact they were rather... | John prodman was in the middle of his morning coffee when a thin streak of sunlight slowly crossed his living room. He thought nothing of it, instead he focused on the news reports of the sky suddenly clearing and various world governments scrambling to claim “stationary airspace”. Nobody knew how it happened or why. F... | 2018-08-26T10:36:01 | 2018-08-26T09:49:46 | 177 | 56 |
[WP] A Monster Made In A Horror Game Becomes Real, But Still Follows It’s AI. For Example, It Cannot Perceive People When They Hide, Even If They Hid While The Monster Was Starring At Them | The most feared scenario had manifested itself. Zombies were everywhere. Is this the end? Or is it the supply of these disgusting creatures that has no end? It was only one night, but it felt like forever. They just kept coming.
Those who had plans for this exact scenario started to execute their plans, to varying deg... | When they first appeared, nobody was quite certain of how to respond to these strange violent creatures with their hands that weren't quite hands and their faces that weren't quite faces.
They attacked viciously, and with minimal provocation, though in particular, the word "sweetroll" drove them into a ferocious rage.... | 2022-08-22T03:29:18 | 2022-08-22T02:17:54 | 296 | 83 |
[WP] You're 90% sure your flat-mate's a vampire, unfortunately for him you're a vampire hunter. But he does pay half the rent so... | Before you start to judge me: I live in Los Angeles. We have more weird shit per square foot going on than any other place (except maybe New Jersey), and the average 2-bedroom apartment starts at 3 grand a month.
You might be skeptical about denizens of the night living on the Golden Coast, but really, the sun's out ... | His name is Edward. He sleeps during the day. In a coffin. He only ever seems to drink "V8". And he owns several books that he "inherited from his great-great-great grandfather". If I didn't know any better, I'd say his transparent attempts to emulate the mannerisms of a vampire were more than that.
"Walter. If you co... | 2015-11-10T05:23:29 | 2015-11-10T04:34:27 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] Earth is actually an abandoned colony of an ancient human empire, who have returned after thousands of years. | *The Saga Begins* : Part 1
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I remember well the day the saucers came. It was a chaos as you would expect. Governments panicked. People rioted. It took three days for martial law to be declared. We didn't need telescopes to see them. The saucers were huge. It was the biggest news event in the histo... | I've always hated working at my low end job at the diner, serving those pricks that would never leave anything more than a two dollar tip. Hey I won't complain though, it was a small town and I was still in high school, despite graduating in a few months.
It was a relatively slow night, considering we hadn't had over ... | 2015-01-01T13:25:14 | 2015-01-01T04:45:15 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] You could have been the most powerful hero this world had ever seen. By a long shot. But all you wanted was a normal life and the world didn't need your help. So you settled down. Naturally the governments of the world declared you an international threat and put a price on your head. | A soft thud resounds from the forest.
It's not a thud any normal human would be able to hear. It's the soft flattening of mud still wet from yesterday's rain. It's the boot of a soldier who has no idea what he's walking into. It's the beginning of another end.
The thud is quickly followed by a hundred more. They appr... | The alarm was going off. Sighing I pushed the button that silenced it, checking my wall of monitors. Yep. There they were, sneaking around the house. It looked like about three of them. Which was a significant downgrade from the last group. Of course, this was probably a different mercenary boss than the last. Checking... | 2022-06-26T06:54:05 | 2022-06-26T03:12:09 | 833 | 278 |
[WP] You are a security guard working for a supervillain. One day, superheroes break in, and in the ensuing fight you get what should be a fatal wound. Hours later, you wake up... | Life has a mysterious way of dicking me around. Repeatedly, I might add.
I used to be a tech guy for the empire, only after several failed experiments and an exploding microwave, they deemed me too dangerous to have on staff.
Which is when Doctor Death approached me.
After being laid off nobody wanted or trusted me... | The crashing sound of glass broke through the serenity of the night. Lee, a security guard at Harris Tower, ran to the source. He was too late to catch sight of more than the fleeting blur of the intruders. He hesitated, looking at the broken windows, then took off in their direction.
Two costumed heroes stood at the... | 2017-03-14T10:59:37 | 2017-03-14T09:17:31 | 46 | 15 |
[WP]At birth, everyone has a mark showing how long they will live, yours shows infinity. One day, you wake up shackled to a table. You see three men around you. Looking at their arms, you see infinity. | I woke up shackled to a table. I see three men around me. Looking at their arms, I see infinity.
"What?"
"You've got infinity on your arm son. Also, the list that everyone uses to rank their superpowers shows you as number one, but no one knows why. Also, Bill here can see numbers above everyone's head, and he doesn'... | "What is this? Where am I? Who are you?" The questions poured out of my mouth as soon as they removed the gag and blindfold. My hands and feet were shackled and I could not move. "Stay calm, we are here to help you" one of them said. He looked like a pretty normal guy. Besides the guns, weapons, and swords that ... | 2016-10-01T07:03:29 | 2016-09-30T23:30:54 | 80 | 20 |
[WP] As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin " Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over.". | The both of us enter the throne room of the Dark Lord. As we gaze upon the empty throne, my companion says with a grin,
"Well... this has been delightful, milady. But I'm afraid the fun is now over."
“Yes... I suppose it is.”
I give him a nonchalant reply.
All these past few months we’ve traveled... From one town ... | “Well, this has been delightful, but I’m afraid the fun is now over.”
“Rover? You can talk?” My one-time master’s last words faded into silence. I shook his throat back in forth in my teeth, then let go, satisfied.
I barked, signaling my human attendants to come and dispose of the body. Then I trotted over to my comf... | 2018-01-23T23:01:54 | 2018-01-23T17:21:17 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] You’re a cafe owner who is also secretly a mage. One day a customer barges in, claiming to be a supertaster and demanding to know the secret ingredient in your poppy seed muffin. The secret ingredient was literally magic.
EDIT: Guys, this is the first time I posted in this subreddit and I’m so stupidly happy to s... | Changed up the prompt a bit. Hope y'all don't mind.
Myxia heard the soft cry of the bell hung on the front door as it was pushed open. To humans, it would sound like the ordinary tinkling of an ordinary bell. To Myxia, however, the sound was that of the musical chirruping of the splendid gold-and-crimson phoenixes tha... | "...octarine", I say, and if despondency seeps into my voice, it's only for a heartbeat. Gone. All gone. The peace and quiet. The evenings spent poring over ancient tomes, the cosy fireside chats with Bastet, all gone. And for what? One girl who just will not be deterred... and a law that is (as recently unearthed tabl... | 2020-02-28T01:21:53 | 2020-02-28T00:52:51 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] The King is a shapeshifter. Every day, they walk among their people in various forms. Everyone in the kingdom is super nice to strangers for fear of accidentally disrespecting their ruler. | It was the perfect society.
No crime. No trickery. No corruption.
King Louie would gleefully repeat these things to himself as he hobbled the cobbled street. His walking stick was half a step ahead of him, prodding the ground with indistinct *tap tap tappings.* It was a wonderful day and his tunic, although filthy... | (WP) An Urgent Question
Everyone knew that The King is the last of his kind, a shapeshifter with unimaginable power.
Our monarch was not one to let injustice stand; that was why he walked among the people daily, always in disguise. It was an elegant method; crime was at an all-time low, and everyone, no matter their ... | 2019-11-13T13:36:01 | 2019-11-13T10:10:47 | 95 | 65 |
[WP] Humans are born with a mark around their wrist which has a matching color with that of their soulmate's, but can change through their life. Your mark has had a blue hue since you were 14, but one night, while you're out, people start looking at you funny. You realize that your mark is gone. | I actually didn't notice it until someone pointed it out. I'd had it since my birth, like everybody else. So long actually, I never noticed when it faded away.
My days were the same for the most part. You've heard the same story every time. College graduate. Dreams of doing something good. A llifetime of student debt.... | I don't know if this multiverse has a similar time tangent to mine, but I'm stuck here now and need to write down how this came about.
Two months ago my soulpatch disappeared, and I'm not on about someone sneaking in at night and shaving my lower lip. It's never happened before in our history and the auditors decided... | 2016-10-04T19:26:14 | 2016-10-04T18:14:29 | 346 | 77 |
[WP] Humans have - by a very large margin - the longest lifespans of all intelligent life in the universe. You are a human student at a multi- species college, and you / your friends are just realizing that compared to them, you are an ancient being.
e.g., individuals of all other intelligent species live, like, a yea... | "How long!?"
I shifted uncomfortably under the combined gaze of my study group friends. The Drû who posed the question, either Klrdt or Bill (I could never tell the two apart) quirked one eye-stalk in a way that my new student orientation class told me was disbelief.
"Errm, three years, I think? I don't really know."... | 'You're *how* old?!'
'Twenty-two years,' I repeated in surprise. 'What's the problem?'
'Sorry, twenty-one *years*?' said Ma'thask, her multi-faceted eyes glittering in the light. 'As in, Earth years?'
'Yeah,' I said. 'But why are you acting so shocked?'
'Her natural life-span is roughly fifteen of your Earth years,... | 2015-02-28T15:46:45 | 2015-02-28T12:46:10 | 141 | 95 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | The problem with life magic is that it's so damn boring. I know, I know - that sounds silly, doesn't it? We're so popular. Who wouldn't love a man who can mend a broken bone with a gesture? Cure arthritis, grow back a missing limb. Make a paralyzed man walk.
Every village has a life mage - or wishes it did. In the cit... | The world had fallen. Chaos ran rampant through ruined streets, demolished buildings scattered across the landscape. People ran from crumbled wall to crumbled wall, avoiding each other in fear. A child, crying, is silenced as a burning ball hurls into a building, engulfing everything within.
Not many survived the... | 2016-11-12T10:49:45 | 2016-11-12T10:14:05 | 94 | 28 |
[WP] You're a lazy superhero with the power of precognition. Your modus operandi is showing up to a crime scene ahead of time and making some small change to foil the criminals' plans. | God, I hate Steve.
Don't get me wrong, he makes my job a hundred times easier, but he just has no *professionalism*. He just waltzes in to work, an hour late, and tells me me to meet him in some random spot.
Invariably, where I meet him is at the scene of some supervillain attack. Or, some *attempted* attack. Last we... | What would you do if you could see the future?
Would you run the numbers?
Not make that deal with the devil?
Go to starbucks when you know they have that Unicorn milkshake thing? Get ahead of the mass of college kids that find out on twitter/insta, 30 minutes later after you have one.
I choose option C which is ... | 2017-05-11T08:10:53 | 2017-05-11T06:34:26 | 38 | 10 |
[wp] Sick of somebody trying to get into your servers, you let them in, only to spring a virus into their system. To your surprise, the news the next day says that the goverment's systems have been absolutely wrecked.
​ | I’m still relatively new to writing, so any constructive criticism would be appreciated, thanks.
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Another ping. They’re trying to get into the server again. Why? It’s a tiny server. It’s for running this game I made for me and a few friends. No one would ever find it particularly interesting. And yet, here they are... | The sounds of the cafe around me drowned in the shivers of my ragged breathing, my racing heart. I glanced at the man across the table. He sat in front of me, still silent. Still expressionless. My eyes fixed themselves firmly on the table, perhaps in some vain hope that he would go away if I pretended not to notice hi... | 2018-09-03T22:24:30 | 2018-09-03T22:05:53 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You're a renowned author who's still going to school. Annoyingly, your English teacher is reading way too deeply into your books. | I'm finishing my bachelor's degree in English literature. I want to be a professor. Teach others to love literature, to dissect novels with love and humanity not emotionless like my current professor. She loves to tear into novels and read deeper into them than what is there. This semester is about current literature. ... | The class was almost over, yet the tension in the room only seemed to intensify. As I packed my books away, I heard her voice behind me, as measured and crisp as a spring morning.
"I have a theory," she said, her dark eyes inquisitive. I stopped in my tracks, my heart racing. What had I said or done to conjure such i... | 2022-12-02T09:13:25 | 2022-12-01T22:22:00 | 106 | 21 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | >**LAUGHTER AND LULLABIES**
**Warning: Horror themed, dark content.**
The Priest stood over the convulsing body, his face hardened. He would allow no sympathy within him- like a surgeon lopping off a limb, he would remain stoic in the face of pain.
The young man before him- curly hair soaked in sweat, bloodshot e... | *You're a fraud.* His mind always accusing him as he deposited the latest check. Another $25,000 towards... something. *Why do you keep doing this? She's dangerous.* He no longer had an answer. For nearly ten years now, his daughter, Angelica, had been possessing people and he, the "Priest with the gift", had bee... | 2020-10-20T12:05:43 | 2020-10-20T10:07:05 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] As a former Chosen One you saw the signs when your daughter/son got themselves into a similar situation. You sent them off on a sleepover with their new friends. It's time to have a 'talk' with their new 'stuffed animal'. | I always knew my kid, Halo, was special. However, instead of pride, I have worry. Tell me it's normal for a 7-year-old to pick up sewing in 15 minutes by himself. Tell me it's typical for little Halo to make his own stuffed bears that look store-bought after a few mere hours of practice. Please do. I could use more den... | I swirled my drink and watched the ice cube clack against the glass. Used to be that I'd keep bitters and fancy simple syrups around the house to play at being a mixologist, but these days by the time I got around to having a drink, I was too tired to do anything but to sip whiskey on the rocks. Being a single parent w... | 2021-03-02T18:49:36 | 2021-03-02T17:53:24 | 261 | 141 |
[WP] Your 'friends' just slammed the door on you, leaving you in the room with the crazed axe murderer. "Damn, that's a dick move. Want to get revenge?" The murderer offers you their hand. | Skeptically, and terrified, I nodded my head to the murderer. "I'm tired of their shit anyway," I managed to respond as I slowly backed away from the door. The murderer had been chasing us and I ended up left in a small room located in a small bar by the pool.
Alarms rang from all around the resort, and most of the va... | The palms of my hands start to ache and bleed as I clenched my fist tighter, my dirty broken nails digging into my skin. I quickly scanned the room, finding any point of exit that was big enough to aid with my escape. Nothing. Freedom was right in front of me, blocked by something inhuman.
*If I could just distract h... | 2020-11-10T07:00:17 | 2020-11-10T04:47:35 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | The delegation stood tall in the centre of a huge round room. Everything was coloured bright white and hurt the eyes, but that was probably the point.
Three humans answered the questions, the silence separating them and the others, occurring when the translators did what they were supposed to do.
Sivlerin were inter... | The lone shriek pierced the silent council chambers, the Relovian was clutching at the sides of his rather bulbous head, trying to extract his mental probe from within the mind of Thomas "Raven Dark" McKinnon, tears welling up in it's multitudinous eyes. "What is Lord Prelanine?!" His aid begged as he struggled to help... | 2019-09-30T00:54:27 | 2019-09-29T21:57:42 | 56 | 35 |
[WP] It's the year 2782. You're hanging out with your alien friends one night and browsing Netflix, wondering what to watch. Then a title catches your attention: "Star Trek. The Original Series"
I posted this before, got 10 upvotes but no comments before getting buried. Hoping that this time is different. | "Warp engine?" K'Rax let out a sound Jeremy knew was supposed to be a laugh for K'Rax's species. "Everyone knows spaceships can't handle the strain of travelling in warpspace."
"And seriously, *two* warp engines on a single vessel?" Jeremy snorted in reply. "That's just asking for trouble."
In old times, warp drive w... | “Arto, you want to Netflix & chill?”
“Sure why not. Which year should we watch?”
“Let's see... This like fun. From 1966. Star Trek. Okay for you?”
“Haha! The oldies. Screen it up, Marco! Screen. It. Up.”
I open it up. The oldies picture start to move on our super tech water screen. Super as in water scre... | 2017-09-24T03:38:43 | 2017-09-24T01:47:22 | 66 | 16 |
[WP]Humans make first contact with an alien race, and discover the galactic community shares a verifyably true religion. However, none of it applies to anything humans are capable of doing. | “They are Godless then?”
“Truly, we’ve never seen anything like it. No one has.” Skyf proffered the display tablet. “See for yourself. We’ve scanned millions now and none seem to have anything like a capability to Merge.”
Flipping through the images, M>Sh’l became lost for a moment. Just imagine. A life spent e... | The edge of the hole was still glowing faintly pink as Jefferson leapt through. The colonel couldn't begin to guess what type of energy had ripped a ten-foot-wide gap in the station's interior wall, but he did know that blast wasn't meant to provide him with an escape route -- it had been meant to kill him.
Angry shou... | 2019-01-28T16:35:01 | 2019-01-28T16:01:36 | 160 | 25 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | **April 29, 2015**
M, 51, Atlanta - I'm a virologist at the CDC, and my job makes is hard to meet people, as I work long hours. Hoping to find someone here to share quiet weekends with, maybe more. Please reply to this ad if interested -- Frank
**May 5, 2015**
ATTN: Frank the Scientist
Frank, I feel really ... | *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... | 2015-04-29T09:53:01 | 2015-04-29T09:07:02 | 450 | 15 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | To my oldest friend,
It seems we have nothing much to say to each other when we meet. Our conversations are prompt and direct. We no longer share secrets or take an interest in the other's life.
It is a sullen and disheartening realization that we are not who we were ten, twenty years ago.
I miss the days of doin... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T23:46:31 | 27 | 15 |
[WP]Both of your parents made deals with fae about giving them their firstborn. Different fae... Now you live under the joint custody of two faeries who don't like this situation one bit. | From the outside, our family looks like any other one. A mom, a dad, and a son they both love. However, once you peel back the front we put on, you start to see it’s almost entirely a lie. My mother, Hyna, and my father, Cillin, are both faeries to whom my parents sold my existence to. This causes some, minor, disputes... | “You live past the place no one goes, getting the child to you on your visitation days is going to be a nightmare...a literal goblin infested nightmare journey!”, said Hilea the maiden fairy of the Anderall Forrest.
Tilea, the peculiar fairy maiden of Bak’Tulgurr, the land of brimstone and ash, floated about with a p... | 2021-05-14T10:07:34 | 2021-05-14T06:03:17 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time in 750 years, he just glanced in our direction.
This prompt has two possibilities. What has he been dealing with for the last 750 years elsewhere, or what his reaction is w... | It wasn't all perfect, it had taken a few tries. Free will can be a double edged sword sometimes.
But by and large the last few billion years have gone by without a hitch. Watching his children learn to harness the power of the universe, explore, meet and share was one of his greatest pleasures.
In the end it boile... | He turned the sphere on its slightly tilted axis, examining more closely the drier, barren regions. Once, they had been lush and full of life - full of strife, to be sure, but this was an inherent cost of free will. What struck Him the most was the great disparity clearly apparent in resources, wealth, and status whic... | 2015-12-27T09:32:22 | 2015-12-27T09:13:39 | 1,795 | 196 |
[WP] You find yourself at the gates of Heaven, unable to remember how you died. Which would be fine, if it weren't for the fact that Saint Peter started laughing hysterically as soon as he saw you and hasn't stopped since. | *BOOM* There's nothing but while light and the sound of laughter. I'm lost, but I know exactly where I am. I feel at peace with the world and everything is amazing, or it would be if Saint-Fucking-Peter wouldn't stop laughing his ascended ass off.
"Was it something I said?"
"No, no, not at all *HAHAHAHAHAHA* It's jus... | "So, is St. Peter just a dick?" I asked Johnny, my childhood friend-cum-guide to heaven.
"Not usually. Why?"
"When I got to the Pearly Gates, he was laughing so hard I couldn't understand a thing he said, and every since then, every time I see him, he just busts up laughing."
"Tommy, my friend," replied Johnny, "do ... | 2015-10-06T20:42:36 | 2015-10-06T19:26:34 | 144 | 46 |
[WP] We are all born with a tattoo on our wrist, it reads the first sentence spoken to you by your soulmate. Your sentence: "Hey!" | Of all the thing's that could be plastered on his forearm, it had to be this stupid word. Not a sentence, not even a recognisable phrase. Just this one overly generic word everyone used to greet each other. And just when Lars was starting to think it couldn't get any harder, Iris showed up in his life.
The day they me... | He didn't even notice it anymore... He rolled his eyes at it just as he was about to put the toothpaste on the brush.
Times New Roman with an exclamation - "Hey!". Small and boring.... All his friends and family envied Davids tattoo however - "Wouldn't it be so exciting to have already met the one and not know?",
"Oh... | 2017-01-09T07:53:02 | 2017-01-09T07:01:33 | 152 | 54 |
[WP]: Your village idiot is full of the strangest superstitions. She goes on about washing one's hands, says you get worms in your intestines from standing barefoot on night soil and that medicines with mercury should be avoided at all costs. You're starting to suspect she might be onto something. | The cabin was about a half mile outside of town. It had been abandoned, no river or fields nearby to make it worthwhile. It had been an old trapper’s cabin but the game had gone from this area a long time ago. Josef quietly shuffled towards the front door, a small parcel hugged close to his chest.
The door opened b... | It was hopeless. It took her years of painstaking advancement through social ranks, starting with little more than a village idiot, of taking three steps forward and two back, of cracking one glass ceiling after another just to arrange this meeting, yet only one of the assembled feudal lords was listening and even his... | 2017-09-14T11:14:03 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 114 | 25 |
[WP] You have died and gone to hell, but it's not what you expect. You wake up naked in a field with nothing but trees around you... it turns out that hell is an early access survival game. | Out of nowhere, it appears. The berry bush. It's a green thing that mysteriously makes me less hungry, so I am sticking with 'berry bush'. As my deformed limbs move closer, the bush disappears as quick as it came. I feel less hungry.
If I could sigh, I would. I don't remember breathing since I got here. 'Here' seems t... | Ok ok no reason to panic i have done this before. It cant be too hard after all. As I walk over to the next tree i see I try to brace myself. "There is no way i can hurt myself. I saw the loading screen this is just a game. This is just a game!" Using this Mantra I close my eyes and punch as hard as I can, but i cant f... | 2017-04-20T23:37:04 | 2017-04-20T17:20:48 | 85 | 23 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | “You have no idea what you’ve begun. Do you really think that this is over? Oh, you stupid idiots. You don’t know what’s coming.”
She could barely see out of her right eye, and her left was swollen shut completely. Mostly, she saw large blobs where her captors stood. But she didn’t need her eyes to speak, and speak sh... | As the collation party read the reports they decided this would be perfect and they approved the plans. The Formicidian Queens decided they’d level certain areas, let the natural flora and fauna grow for a few decades and then start the vacation colony they had dreaming about for years.
It was mostly an unclaimed pl... | 2019-12-17T18:19:52 | 2019-12-17T18:18:31 | 53 | 38 |
[WP] Instead of the death penalty, convicted criminals are sentenced to have their minds overwritten by that of a recently deceased notable individual. | I watched as they strapped him down to the chair, sinews in his neck bunched tight as he struggled to free himself. I watched as they tweaked his harness, making little adjustments here and there as needed. I watched the man who killed my son and relished the look of animal panic in his eyes.
Nodding to himself, the o... | "But, that's still president Laz?" The confusion was still clear on her face although I had explained the process the last time.
I set the ramen next to the gathered bills on the right side of the stove, maybe the full weight of my coming statement would hit her if I sat down with her while explaining it.
The now fe... | 2016-01-08T08:41:40 | 2016-01-08T08:13:38 | 56 | 41 |
[WP] An alien replacing your father and pretending to be him sounds like everybody horror's story, except for you and your mother since it is affectionate, caring, helps you with school and has even been promoted at work and is an absolute dork for SciFi movies. | My father was replaced by an alien.
He used to be a terrible father. He would get drunk, and then lash out at us. Blaming us for his troubles, blaming us for our debt, blaming use for everything.
He used to yell at mom, hitting her. Then he would leave to go hang out with his buddies.
I honestly dont remember much ... | My father always annoyed me to death and he was soo overprotective. I couldn't go out to drink, wasn't allowed to have sex in the living room and he wouldn't even allow me to tattoo myself!! How does he think I'm the crazy one?! You know someone is crazy when they don't eat pineapple on pizza. He tries to force me to ... | 2020-04-23T09:51:30 | 2020-04-23T08:25:57 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] A drunkard unknowingly convinced Death to be the Godparent to their child. Death gets very invested in their role. | The frigid wind brushed over him as he stood there under the sun. It had been a year and some change since the funeral. But still, Henry came to visit.
Let's be clear. He didn't like his father as much as one should. His love for alcohol had taken his love for his family and eventually his life. Henry himself had spen... | It's true, the drunken man had absolutely no clue what he had agreed to when he had talked to me that night. He was slumped down on the sidewalk, crying, mumbling something about a kid. I was there, of course, watching. His heart was close to giving out, and his liver wasn't far behind that. I asked him what he needed,... | 2019-12-11T08:25:44 | 2019-12-11T07:17:53 | 63 | 35 |
[WP]A man's wife died recently in a tragic accident. He uses magic to bring her back at the cost of his own life. Realizing what he's done his wife gives her life to bring HIM back. The two use this method to continue their daily lives. | Me and my wife discovered black magic 2000 years ago. Back then we could’ve been hung for it. And she was. But I figured out a loophole. All I had to do was give my life for hers.
The first time I performed the spell, she was angry at me but she also discovered an opportunity. An opportunity for us to live forever. Th... | Hello. Yes. It is a beautiful day. I let the bedroom window open a bit and the breeze is playing with the curtain. What? Oh yes. That's my husband dead there on the bed. He'll be shocked to see I put him in the pants he hates- also having to imagine his dead limbs flopping around while I dressed him, he hates th... | 2019-02-12T15:03:16 | 2019-02-12T14:51:31 | 78 | 11 |
[WP] Whenever you speak, people hear you speaking in their native language. Most people are surprised and delighted. The cashier at McDonalds you've just talked to is horrified. "Nobody's spoken that language in thousands of years." | All my life I have been able to subconsciously translate my speech to match the original language of who I am talking to.
It was quite terrifying at first. speaking Polish to my Mom when I was 2 minutes old was quite the tale. The poor Korean woman at Walmart...
Anyways, life had gone on as usual. Occasionally, I wo... | "Hey thanks, I hope you have a good afternoon"
The swirling void took me by surprise, really. The crimson red eyes of the cashier, not so much. I'd seen it before, I thought. Glimpses and glances, really; bad punctuation as a coda to the overbearing sentence of ordering a Whopper.
"We don't sssserve Whoppers," she ... | 2018-06-24T21:53:14 | 2018-06-24T21:01:01 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] You were looking at your bathroom mirror when you heard voices coming from it. You lean closer and they sound like your parents calling out to you. One sentence was clear: “Please come back. You don’t belong on the other side.” | That’s what they said. The voices in the mirror, I mean. It happened while I was in the middle of brushing my teeth.
“Come back to us, Jacob.” I shook my head.
*I really should stop smoking before bed,* I thought.
I walked downstairs. On the table, there was a newspaper. But the wording on it, at first, looked like ... | In our bathroom, there was this old mirror. So very old and so very big. It had a golden frame around it, looking like it came straight out of a gothic horror movie. Dad said it was the one of the few things that great-granddad managed to bring with him when he escaped the collapse of the czarist regime. Said it had on... | 2020-05-03T11:10:54 | 2020-05-03T10:01:23 | 33 | 24 |
[WP] You've had a dashcam for years. One day you get into an accident and play it back. You hear another voice in ALL of the recordings talking to you that you've never heard before. | "You just carry on every day like nothing happened, and I'm stuck here waiting in this ridiculous fucking car.
I paused the video, my breath catching in my chest. I'd listened to this a dozen or so times now, turning the volume up and down, tweaking the audio settings here and there, trying to make out what sounded li... | There’s one thing Johnny loves, and it’s his car. Right now, it’s laying in a ditch, flipped over and leaking smoke. The side of it’s completely ripped apart, shredded by another vehicle, and all the windows are shattered. It won’t be easy to salvage, and while he should call the cops, he ain’t that kinda guy.
He tak... | 2018-10-05T08:22:54 | 2018-10-05T08:21:47 | 1,001 | 197 |
[WP] The fact the uncanny valley exists is terrifying. Being scared by things that look almost human but aren't. Other animals do not have this. That means that at some point in our evolution, running away from things that looked almost human was advantageous enough to be imprinted on our genetics. | "So there is a bit of fuzzy area. Anything below this and our brain is happy to leave it alone and call it Non Human. Anything above this, our brain will identify a face as definitely human. But if you look at a face that falls in this area, uncanny valley as we call it, our brain just can't fully process it. It confus... | The retired professor turned this way and that, crazy haired and wild eyed, looking for something that wasn't there.
Sturbink's office light had shut off about thirty seconds ago. He had been lost in the research time vortex that afflicted adderall users everywhere, absorbed by first hand accounts of murders from the ... | 2020-09-15T13:26:22 | 2020-09-15T12:37:49 | 590 | 132 |
[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... | Mom was singing Christmas carols again. The martini in her hand glowing like the contents of a broken glow stick. The dog was barking too. When I went to go look I could see children running around the classroom, having too much fun to notice the SS Titanic sinking into the giant kiddie pool outside. The sound of bagp... | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 2015-01-12T10:42:43 | 317 | 10 |
[Wp] Humans have discovered how to live forever, allowing them to die when they feel ready to do so. But it is considered bad form to live for too long. You have lingered much longer than is polite and those around you are trying to convince you to die. | I woke up and stared at ceiling. The latest layer of plaster was beginning to chip and the crack that I'd patched over hundreds, maybe thousands of times, was starting to show again. I sat up and looked at the clock, knowing the time before I'd mentally processed what it said. Yes, 5:43, just like every other morning. ... | "Unfortunately, this ended up derailing Trump's campaign due to"
"Yeah, I was there!" Frank shouted across the classroom.
"Yes, we're all aware you were there, Mr. Henbeynz, you've been reminding us throughout the semester. We appreciate your....contributions.... to the class here at Star Station 55,"
"Yeah, I wa... | 2016-08-09T09:23:25 | 2016-08-09T08:49:34 | 68 | 23 |
[WP] A man who hears voices in his head, but they don't degrade his life. He can live with it and sometimes they even help. | *Remember to get milk, you used the last for breakfast*.
He heard it in the back of his mind, as he was standing in line to the till. He quickly went off to get some, as he had forgotten he needed some. That was what they were like. Helpful. Reminding him of stuff. If you want a clearer imagine of the man, imagine a p... | It was hard explaining the voices at the best of times and I wish I didn’t have to, but she was going to be my wife. I had to try. Everyone, well not everyone I guess, but some people have their own inner monologue. Not me. I have five. By that I mean, I have five voices in my head that can speak to me. Insane right? T... | 2020-06-13T11:52:03 | 2020-06-13T11:51:15 | 1,176 | 24 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | Dear self.
I’m sorry for what I’ve become. A lowly clingy piece of trash just barely surviving. If you could see me 10 years ago, what would you think? Maybe I was happy before. Maybe I had friends who truly cared for me.
Now I hide. I’m broken. I’ve lost my will to live. I can’t function on my own. I cry myself to s... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-05T23:37:29 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | "Now, Mr. Truth, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Do you mind if I call you Mr. Truth?"
"That's fine."
"Right, Mr. Truth. Our readers are dying to know more about you. You can just make any statement you want, and it becomes real. Besides you, Nobody has that power, correct?"
"Yes, absolutely correct."
... | I sat at my desk looking at the computer screen with simultaneous interest and absolute disgust. On the screen was a video I had found of the world famous superhero The Truth stopping a giant monster that had attacked our city. I chuckled a bit when the monster slapped him across the face with one of it's tentacles, be... | 2021-11-23T11:51:41 | 2021-11-23T09:27:32 | 109 | 10 |
[WP] You are one of the most powerful and dastardly supervillains on the planet. However, you are also one of the most requested supervillains for the Make-A-Wish foundation, and cancel a battle with your arch-nemesis to make a sick little kid's day. | "So why don't you just rob a bank?"
I turn around to the child that had the *gall* to question my methods. "Rob a *bank*?" I raised one hand up to my chest with a theatrical flourish. "That is far too basic! And pointless! Do you take me for a common criminal?" The entire roomful of children start to giggle. I had to ... | They call me Master Plan.
*He* calls me Master Plane, or Bastard Plan, or any number of stupid names. His laugh, the laugh of a man who thinks he's clever but is really far more muscle than brains, drives me crazy.
Unfortunately, that much muscle makes him a bit of a wild card, but I don't usually involve him unl... | 2016-09-13T15:07:14 | 2016-09-13T11:51:21 | 44 | 23 |
[WP] "Is this the hill you wish to die on, soldier?"
You can take this literally, but for those who don't know, it can also mean 'is this an argument you really want to have?' Enjoy! | Is this the hill you wish to die on soldier?
The end is drawing near
Are you ready to meet your maker?
A soldier has no fear
 
The sky is roaring thunder
The ground a roaring fire
You can't help but wonder
If death is not too dire
 
Is this the hill you wish to die on soldier?
Is... | From the distance, me and the Captain watched from our hill as the opposing army advanced.
Our army had long fled, but a Captain was never supposed to leave a soldier. So for now it was only him and I.
"We should run," he said.
"You can go, Captain. Tell the squad I died fighting."
"Is this the hill that you wish ... | 2017-06-05T09:26:24 | 2017-06-05T08:54:47 | 67 | 13 |
[WP] You are a true immortal. You stay sane by hanging out with the descendants of friends that are long dead. Today, one said a very familiar phrase you haven't heard in a long time. | “Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?!”
I stopped, mouth open, as I stared into the very soul of this human. He spoke the words and spoke them rightly. I was compelled to answer.
“Mortal....you have saved yourself from death. The words you utter echo a plea I made 25,000 years ago to tho... | "Charlie, look there a top the throne! It's the one beyond time! He's been with our family longer than our family can remember. It's been several thousands of years. Mayve even ten thousands."
"Woah, why doesn't he look old like grandma?" exclaims the little kid.
Today is his 6th birthday and as tradition within the... | 2019-03-08T03:48:20 | 2019-03-08T03:42:55 | 56 | 37 |
[WP] Write a generally lighthearted and cheerful story that is turned dark by its last few lines/last paragraph. | Connie throws open the door to the pantry.
"We feast!" she yells, eyes shining and wide as saucers.
I crouch just behind her. How can she be so bold, I wonder? So brave? I'm envious in every way, standing, stupid and slow as she rips off the top of a box of granola bars and dumps the whole thing out on the floor.
... | The three year old birthday is the elephant birthday. Or at least, that's what my wife and I decided.
So I spent a couple of weeks tracking down all things elephant. Elephant plates, elephant cups, an elephant table cloth, elephant balloons, everything. I tried to get the zoo to even lend me an elephant for the day, ... | 2017-03-21T07:08:40 | 2017-03-21T05:29:37 | 50 | 19 |
[WP] You are immortal, and you cannot die. You are the very subject of legend. You were the Headless Horseman. You were Jack the Ripper. You were the Zodiac Killer. You were there when treasure was buried on Oak Island, and you dug it up a lifetime later. Talk about your life. | "Is the tape recorder already on?" I ask starting across the table at the chubby reporter. He nods and raises a hand to beckon me on.
"Alright... um, well... it is all true." His eyes widen and excitement grips his face, but he does not make a sound. He waves at the recorder on the table.
I flip through the paper... | "You want to know who I am? I'm not sure you are ready to hear it."
Jonathan picked up a single match from the table, striking it and lighting the candle which sat between him and the man. "Is anyone ready?" He spoke in an icy whisper.
The man smiled, a disfigured grin stricken with teeth of dark yellow and diseased ... | 2015-06-13T09:30:15 | 2015-06-13T09:07:03 | 88 | 29 |
[WP] Every morning you wake up with a new talent. The catch is, you aren't told what it is. IF you discover what talent you have, you get to keep it. The talents NEVER repeat | When I was a kid, they used to tell us that things like painting and writing and gymnastics were skills. "Work hard enough and you can be just as good as anyone else," they'd say. But they don't say that to kids anymore. After the flurry of studies--of articles in TIMES--they swept that wrongness right out the door. It... | The French have an expression called "l'esprit de l'escalier," a phrase referring to the perfect retort that strikes you on your way up to the bedroom, hours past the time it ought to have been applied. In the same *esprit*, I'd like to propose the expression "l'esprit de chambre," a phrase referring to the 1 AM realiz... | 2016-07-19T13:02:14 | 2016-07-19T12:57:47 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You wake up to find everyone sleeping, you go on Reddit and see a new post titled "Any one else awake?" It has 7 replies.
Woah, I had no Idea this would blow up and be Number 5 on the writing prompts page! Thank you to everyone! | I roll over, unable to sleep. Finally, I check the clock. Three AM? Seriously? Why couldn't my body find some other time to sleep-drink twenty tons of coffee? Oh well. At least it's a weekend.
I get out of bed and turn on my phone for a lack of anything better to do and scroll through my bookmarks. I tap Reddit on a w... | What the hell is going in? Everyone here just rolled over here, like they all died. They're still breathing, but no matter what I do, they won't wake up. Is anyone out there still awake? I'm currently in Toronto, and everywhere I've looked, there have been people asleep. What's going on out there? | 2017-07-15T09:26:34 | 2017-07-15T07:07:44 | 112 | 33 |
[WP] Every sentient species in the universe receives a Jesus figure from God. It turns out humanity was the only species to torture and crucify him. You're an ambassador priest informing the Inter-Galactic Holy Church what your species did. | Tightly lashed tourniquets cut into his wrists, a dull and constant pain as his hands slowly died from restricted bloodflow. Nails in the palms of his hands leaked blood. Pastor Thompson tried not to feel the warm trickle as blood dripped down his bound arms.
His legs grew tired of holding his weight up, of stopping ... | "We were led to understand it was necessary," my eyes were now fixed squarely on the floor in front of me, "in order to redeem humanity."
A hush descended over the assembly, Golgon of the Asterath shape-shifters let out a low whistle.
"And how was that supposed to work exactly?" Asked High Priest LK4186.
"Well..." I... | 2016-08-18T06:52:46 | 2016-08-18T06:52:16 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone on earth is immune to one specific type of damage (fire, car crash, kicks, falling off buildings, etc.). The problem is, you have to find out your immunity on your own. You have just discovered yours. | "Dude, you probably just inhaled wrong. Take another hit."
Travis passed the rolled paper back to me. I sucked it in hard, felt it fill my lungs. I waited, meanwhile watching Travis and Aaron succumb to the weed's effects.
Ten feet from us on the television, Towelie taunted me, "You wanna get high?" Dammit, Towelie, ... | Well, this isn't so bad. I get to help all these people, and bonus, I don't even need a face mask.
Another guy sneezed on me, and I didn't even feel it. It may be mundane, but with this, I will save lives!
Unless, of course, I am shot, not immune to that. | 2017-08-06T14:01:23 | 2017-08-06T13:13:41 | 115 | 27 |
[WP] You are a Squib who mastered a vast repertoire of Muggle magic tricks to finagle Hogwarts into sending you a letter. Everything goes smoothly, until it is time for the Sorting Ceremony... | "This is something," the hat mused, "something rather unusual."
My mind racing, I focused on everything I knew about the practical world of magic. Misdirection, slight of hand, proper rabbit care - every bit of knowledge that had gotten me to this hallowed seat at the front of The Great Hall.
"I can tell you have am... | As the hat was placed upon me, a cold dread overcame my entire body. And this time it wasn't a senior prankster from Slytherin. As the hat wiggled around my head, the halls were dead silent. Something was obviously wrong. The hat had never taken this long to make a decision. Dumbledore sat at his chair, mildly amused. ... | 2017-06-25T15:07:52 | 2017-06-25T13:48:53 | 358 | 33 |
[WP] Whenever your crew lands you are seen as gods with wonderous machines before drifting off some where else. But today you are met with a species on a green-blue planet who, while interested in your tech, are not bowing down and worshiping. They call themselves humans. | The ship seemed to cascade against the forest's night sky, an oddly shaped lump of red metal against the inky black void and dark trees cradling the world as the ship slowly floated downward. It touched down with the mighty grinding of metal and the weight of not just the alien world's gravitational force, but by the s... | When We opened the hatch, we were expecting a large group of primitive beings. We didn't expect them to have a large amount of primitive ordinance, or for them to speak first.
"Welcome to Earth," a man in what looked to be what We would consider casual clothing spoke directly to Us. He didn't seem to revere us as eve... | 2020-03-02T05:55:32 | 2020-03-02T05:25:36 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] you have the magical power of psychic delusion, for example: bear traps can’t harm you “obviously it won’t trigger, i’m not a bear” | Slipping through tough shit was Sorel’s thing and he wasn’t about to let this streak end because logic didn’t twist in the way he wanted.
And so, when a knife was at his throat, he smiled. He was being held hostage during a robbery at the bank he worked at. It was unfortunate, really. It didn’t matter though—this was ... | You ever lie to your parents growing up? Let's just say I'm the best. When I figured out that I didn't have to brush my teeth etc., I didn't go to school for 5 years. Those years are a blur of infantile impulse satisfaction.
One day when I was 12 I got a toothache that made me change my perspective on life. Up to th... | 2021-12-26T19:36:53 | 2021-12-26T19:19:55 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] The world's greatest detective doesn't fear the world's greatest criminal mastermind, they fear the stupidest, because they can never predict what the idiot will do next. | "Stupidity drives unpredictability," Detective Daniels said as he surveyed the crime scene. His drawl twanged more Southern than a banjo, his eyes more keen than a bloodhound's snout. "And unpredictability is no more than justice's demise."
The officer standing nearby shifted uncomfortably. Not just from the detective... | *Bank robberies. A common criminal classic.*
*Masterminds offer a challenge, but you're able to figure out where they're going. They leave a trail of calculated track-coverings but you're always able to pick up on their equations.*
"Detective Schwartz, I'm sorry to say this, but he left over an hour ago, is there any... | 2020-07-13T09:57:31 | 2020-07-13T09:43:03 | 861 | 51 |
[WP] you are the first immortal. While it is true that you cannot die, your flesh and body can. After so many millennia you are reduced to a sentient skeleton sitting at the bottom of a peaceful pond to avoid contact with other people. Some bastards are trying to drain it | I didn't want to kill them.
The pond of Love's Lament had lost its meaning to the people of the nearby village, but that didn't justify slaughtering them in their sleep. There had to be some purpose behind this plot. Perhaps there was a drought in another part of the kingdom, or a misguided baron looking for treasure ... | The annoying part about immortality is losing the feeling of time passing. Since death became a non-issue, you likened time to a sweet lullaby you heard once as a child. You can't remember why, how, maybe there wasn't even a reason for it. A minute went by, or a year, it made no difference, to you it felt like the mela... | 2020-11-20T11:48:01 | 2020-11-20T11:17:50 | 579 | 278 |
[WP] "Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the street, then getting hit by an airplane." | "You know what being a kid is like?" Tommy said.
I resisted the urge to ruffle his hair. "What's it like?"
"It's like going out with your mommy and daddy, and you look both ways before crossing the street, and you're holding both their hands, and then they get hit by an airplane." Tommy took a swig of apple juice. ... | Had a health-conscious aunt who didn't eat meat, dairy, or more than one or two pieces of fruit every day; her total daily caloric intake was approximately 75% kale, with the occasional carrot/hummus "treat" thrown in (portion size: avian)... this same aunt of course being the one who forwarded health-related chain ema... | 2016-05-10T05:43:52 | 2016-05-10T05:34:31 | 16 | 10 |
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