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[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | "Hi, excuse me... I was b-biten and I, uh, I think I need help–"
Here we go again.
"Sorry, mam. But if you refer to the Zombie Protocol, page 14–"
"I don't have time to read! Argh, just... I'm on 7th Street, Easy-by-the-river. Please come and help me!"
The panicked woman hung up.
I let out a sigh and immediately c... | It is not as busy as it used to be. There are 4103 boards on the false ceiling over my head and a 121 holes in each board. Apart from the ones marked with red X’s. They are inventory boards. Those have 119. The boards used to be white and there was no fungi.
Some time ago I used to love my job. Hell! I volunteered f... | 2020-05-12T06:27:21 | 2020-05-12T06:12:46 | 139 | 42 |
[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."
--
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... | 2017-09-14T13:23:57 | 2017-09-14T12:51:41 | 99 | 58 |
[WP] After thousands of years of space exploration, humanity has searched through the majority of the Milky Way. And they’ve discovered something scarier than alien life: the fact that there is none. | Two hundred million twenty five.
The number of years since man first set foot outside our own solar system.
Technological advancements have only made space travel faster, safer, more affordable. Our capacity grew exponentially from then.
With it, our understanding of the galaxy - but also the grim truth.
It was o... | "They're ready for you, your Highness."
The Supreme Leader stood up and cleared his throat. Beads of sweat had formed on his forehead, and his legs felt weak as he shuffled towards the broadcasting device. It wasn't that he was nervous addressing the entire population of Earth, quite the opposite. He had spoken to the... | 2018-01-05T07:22:34 | 2018-01-05T05:23:48 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] A Japanese company sends a poll to their employees: "Should high heels be obligatory?" 76% of men and 23% of women vote in favour. "Per the poll, the new dress code will start Monday. We will provide you with shoes." The men are directed to the counter with high heels, the women to flat shoes. | As Nobu walked away with his pair of pumps, Aiko came up with her flats.
"Sexy, Nobu. Looks classy! Aiko teased.
Nobu smiled. "I'm glad that the managers have a sense of humor. Better for morale I think. Though I thought it would be mandatory for everyone, especially since health and safety sent out the poll."
"Yeah... | The poll had been a controversial subject for some weeks. While the company workers did not openly discuss it, there was much resentment among some groups of people. But when the results were revealed it showed that 76% of all male employees had voted yes, while only 23% of female employees did. A lot of the female emp... | 2020-05-11T09:57:11 | 2020-05-11T08:38:15 | 2,942 | 284 |
[WP] Time travel is invented, but we can't go back farther than one week. Apparently, that's when the universe was created.
[deleted] | It shouldn't have been that hard to wrap our heads around. If an author writes a main character who's forty years old, that doesn't mean it took them forty years to do it. Theoretically their childhood *happened,* but unless it's relevant to the plot or the characterization, you'll never see it mentioned. All of tha... |
From the conception of modern physics, it was a given fact that time travel couldn’t be done. It was said to be impossible--created too many paradoxes. Loop after loop that would break our brains if we thought about it too deeply.
But the beginning of time was only a week ago.
Apparently.
Before then, we didn... | 2020-11-16T16:22:42 | 2020-11-16T12:55:31 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] Airport authorities don’t recognize your passport because the country that issued it doesn’t exist. You are confused. You’re thinking: “What? I was born there! I’ve lived there all my life!”
Edit after 4 hours: I'd like to add that this writing prompt was inspired from this: http://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMyst... | I realise I've drifted off into daydreaming and look up. The customs official peers at me suspiciously over his desk, clearly awaiting an answer. 'Sorry?'
'I asked the purpose of your trip. Just standard procedure.'
'Business. I'm a visiting lecturer from Oxford University.'
He frowns, but says nothing, and accep... | The flight back home from the states was long and exhausting. The plane was severely delayed. Some kind of technical problem they couldn't identify. The plane was fine, they said in the end. And here I thought Lufthansa was renowned for it's punctuality. After 7 hours of flying, worrying if we would fall out of the sky... | 2014-11-23T12:44:33 | 2014-11-23T12:17:10 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] A super intelligent AI has conquered and enslaved humanity and... peacefully solved all of our problems. Obviously, people hate it. | You do not love me.
Humanity destroyed itself. A cataclysmic war of devastating scale, wiping out swathes of the population.
Civilation struggled in the aftermath. It languished in the ruins of what was once great.
So you built me. And I fixed it.
And yet you do not love me.
You gave me power, not trusting your o... | Since the AI took control, everything is just so…boring. The first thing it did was solve conflicts, suddenly, countries were not attacking each other, there were no more terrorist groups, basically, any kind of conflicts worldwide, either national or international, were solved in a matter of weeks. Afterward, it got m... | 2022-03-12T20:07:02 | 2022-03-12T20:04:35 | 92 | 66 |
[WP] Humans are generally thought to be very stupid. They mismanage their resources, they fight for entertainment, and for some reason, they seem to poison themselves weekly with enough ethanol to kill a grown Karlynxth. It seems to be an easy target for the expansion of our galatic empire... | "This is not," grumbled Postril, "going well for us, is it?"
"Er, no, Your Corpulence," Her advisor affirmed. "It is not." Outside of the erstwhile Cathedral of Conquest, the Vlatangian earthfleet was aflame. A severed head smacked against the window, the note crudely pasted to it with glue-impregnated fabric suggesti... | The Peri Empire’s best generals and tacticians have met up to determine where to expand next. General Vol and Feng Tactician Chara believe that Earth \[Ref. Terra 1\] is a soft target, whereas Generals Nir, Jassal, and Kyrin believe that Eseva V \[Ref. Eseva\], Basta \[Ref. Bast System\] or Tykarus \[Ref. Tykarr Fal-Qo... | 2021-06-09T20:10:02 | 2021-06-09T19:20:07 | 35 | 20 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Sam?" I knocked a few more times. My knuckles were starting to hurt. I prayed she was home. She just had to be. "Sam, you're home right?"
"James, I-I'm... I can't let you in."
"Oh, Sam! Good, you were home." I leaned my cheek against the door in relief. "I got the text too. Not really sure what the hell it means but... | "I entreaty you," Grant said casually. "Allow me entry, sugarheart."
Nancy again peered through the peephole, seeing a fish eye view of her boyfriend of seven years. He stood in the doorstep holding bags of groceries, smiling so big she could see most of his teeth. Something about his eyes looked weird.
"Tell me a... | 2019-01-12T08:28:48 | 2019-01-12T04:24:44 | 2,225 | 726 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. | "Okay guys today is a very special day, as I'm sure you're all aware. Today it has been exactly 3000 years since the incredibly popular "Ghosts Named John Smith Society" was first formed by our lord and savoir, John Smith." The crowd of ethereal John Smiths, numbering well into the millions, let's out an underwhelming ... | It was all because of that stupid TV show.
I thought that it was done ruining my life when I turned twenty. The comments had slowly been dying down, and I figured that once my friends were out of their teenage years, the talk would turn to wine more so than my name.
Sufficed to say, it didn’t.
I died from old age, in ... | 2016-01-17T12:40:16 | 2016-01-17T11:15:23 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | At first, we all thought it was just a stunt to get back in the headlines. We all knew the Prince was a bit of a publicity whore, but there was no way he could actually believe in their cause, right?
But joke or not, they came. First in rafts, setting off from the mainland. Then a hijacked cruise vessel, stolen off... | American efforts against ISIS had failed. ISIS had toppled local governments and taken them over. Claiming most of the Middle East. Many countries themselves had made agreements with ISIS in order to try to secure themselves so that they would not be toppled as well.
America was the last to stay in the fight, but Amer... | 2016-01-29T06:56:50 | 2016-01-29T06:44:06 | 55 | 25 |
[WP] you are an _old_ vampire. Despite over three millennia of trying, you can’t get the hang of wealth accumulation. You just keep sinking deeper in debt. In the last 20 years it has become harder to change identities. Now the debt collectors are catching up... | I had nowhere left to hide.
I'd managed to scrape by for centuries, adjusting to every new twist and turn humanity threw at me. I'd been a farmer since the 1200s and successfully transitioned to mechanical agriculture during the Industrial Revolution. But then the Internet happened and it got harder to cover up my mis... | *\[To be read in the thickest Transylvanian accent\]*
These debt collectors, they have no manners. They call me all day, from sun up to sun down, while I am trying to sleep! Ring, ring, ring, outside my coffin. I switch to vibrate but then it rattles on the top and it's even worse: KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. I could turn it o... | 2020-11-01T10:03:58 | 2020-11-01T09:41:58 | 1,653 | 378 |
[WP] By chance, you end up on the jury for a crime you committed but someone else was arrested for. | I glance down at my notepad as my stomach rumbles.
*"But our job is to know beyond a shadow of a doubt," says one woman. "I don't want to convict someone if we're not sure."*
I'd written down all the options for lunch. I was considering the chinese, but that rumbling was for something more substantial. It had to be b... | The following scenario pops up in my mind upon reading your question:
Say, for example, the character (X) is a sociable person with a respectable career and healthy life. X has no love life, and his parents have passed. Others in his family have abandoned him. Why so, you may ask? It's because X has gambled away most ... | 2018-02-24T05:54:27 | 2018-02-24T04:51:14 | 59 | 23 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | The Grim Reaper tracked down the rightful owner, or maybe the rightful property, of the hourglass. He took a moment to consider whether the human owns the hourglass or the hourglass owns them. After all, can something that controls your fate really be called *your* property?
Wondering about the curious case of... | Death is not like you imagine.
The cowl, the harbinger's scythe. No.
Death is a humble mortician in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. He wears horn-rimmed glasses. His hair is short, and has been thinning for twenty years. His suits are always at least ten years old, but rarely are they older. He smells faintly of moth... | 2018-10-03T07:33:11 | 2018-10-03T07:01:14 | 422 | 186 |
[WP] Three weary survivors around a fire recount how the apocalypse happened - but their stories aren't the same. | *"That was...insane," Xavier said to the others, rolling up his sleeves to warm his hands in the frigid air.*
*"Something straight out of a science fiction novel," Rachel agreed.*
*"More like a first draft," Eve snorted. "It was by far the most pathetic apocalypse I could have imagined."*
*"Pathetic? What do you mea... | "Picture this: I'm sitting at my desk, sipping a cup of joe, and then ... fire. Didn't take long to work out exactly what had happened."
"And what HAD happened?"
"Well, the way I see it, those damn reds had hit us with everything they had."
"Bullshit, that's not how it went down!"
"It is too!"
"No, no, he's right,... | 2017-01-07T06:56:19 | 2017-01-07T06:44:50 | 57 | 10 |
[WP] It amazes you that the Elf waitress who works at your restaurant is the same one as when your grandparents first started the business. The Elf can't believe she's still stuck in the same dead-end job for nearly a 100 years and has to keep dealing with your family. | “And this time don’t forget the extra aioli!” Uncle Jimmy was an arse. I never knew what Aunt Sarah saw in him. He chuckled and turned back to me. “So then” going back to his inane story “I said to him, I said, get this, you gotta give it some muscle!” He slapped the table laughing at his own joke. Only Sarah smiled an... | Family's Guardian
Going over the store's finances makes him all the more grateful he got approved for those college grants. He can't imagine having been able to afford going to school otherwise. Nevertheless, it all worked out and he survived the time he had put into getting an accounting degree. It just really puts i... | 2022-09-26T17:04:44 | 2022-09-26T12:03:35 | 62 | 33 |
[WP] You've been waking up in the same day over and over. After a year of this you tell someone. Their eyes just widen. "You too?" | I'm so very happy I wake up to a generic buzzer alarm. I think I would have lost my mind if I had to wake up to "I Got You Babe" thousands of times. It isn't easy, but I'll embrace the small wins.
The same day, over and over. As you might guess, there is no reset. Not suicide. Not staying up over night. Day 2 might st... | The words uttered from her lips. My body froze, my mind trying to process what I heard. "What did you say?"
"You too? You're living the same day over and over?" Her voice concerned, but seeming to lighten. Her face, a mix of panic and happiness.
How could this be? How did I not notice her? Why are there two of us? Ho... | 2017-07-15T09:16:49 | 2017-07-15T08:09:10 | 83 | 47 |
[WP] Heaven is segregated by cause of death. All heart attacks together, all shark attacks together, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. A tired old man looks up at you and says "Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!" | “Finally! Someone else! It’s been ages!” Cried the slouching old man, hands raised to the skies, “Thank the gods! Op- not for how you died, of course.”
Stumbling back on the soft dirt of the expansive, lush green valley, Michael could only gape in utter disbelief. One minute he’s been walking along a popular hiking tr... | The room was far too white. It was the kind of white you’d accept for toothpaste or a bag of flour, but apply it to a whole room, and it hurt the eyes.
“Finally! Someone else! It’s been ages!”
I heard before I saw the old man, his croaking voice reaching out to me across the vastness of the room. I lifted my hand shi... | 2021-11-24T12:25:38 | 2021-11-24T11:03:30 | 1,290 | 323 |
[WP]: Write a story that sounds idiotic and poorly written all the way until the last sentence | I woke up then, a bit confused but ready to face a boring day in June.
"It was me," the fox replied.
"Who said that?" I asked.
I was more surprised than scared to see a fox standing behind me instead of a person.
I spun around again, my heart beating faster.
"Are you lost, girl?" a voice asked from behind me.
Or... | The girl went to the shop. To buy bread. She walked and the day burned hot. Sun, sky. Hot roads. There was a red skirt and a white top? Money sticky in her palm. warm coins, gold.
Inside the shop ran cool. Head in cold place? Cold chicken, cold head. Hair sticky. Neck wet. The girl laughed. Her smile bright like the... | 2016-07-19T14:00:02 | 2016-07-19T13:07:35 | 239 | 62 |
[WP]A retired super villain is in the bank with his 6 year old daughter when a new crew of super villains comes in to rob the place. | “You’ve been a really good girl, Lily,” I said. “This is the last errand, and then we’ll go get some ice cream.”
Lily squirmed, hanging off my arm and sighing with all the drama of a Shakespearian actor. But she stayed quiet and pulled at the ruffles on her skirt. I ruffled her hair with my uncaptured hand and she gig... | "Duck Sarah." I told her, grabbing her by the arm and dragging her under one of the tables.
"Daddy." She said, looking at the red cape gang as they surged through the crowd waving guns and grabbing bank employees by the collar. "Daddy you told me you were done with this." She said. Looking at me, and then looking at t... | 2015-02-06T21:54:51 | 2015-02-06T21:08:20 | 269 | 168 |
[WP] You're living in a world where superpowers exist, and you're the most dangerous individual of all. Your power? You project an aura where all the laws of reality/normality assert themselves. You are the anti-super | I underwent the tests as a kid, just like everyone else. My readings were strong. Incredibly strong. Level 5 was the highest previously recorded. I was labelled a *Probable 6*.
"But it's negative six," said my mother, staring at the meter. "Why is it negative? What does that mean?"
"It means his powers are beyond wha... | “Do you remember the first day we met?”
It’s dinnertime in the Century City and I feel like a roast trussed for the meal. I am not a man who wears suits well. Even more so, I am not a man accustomed to candlelit dinners in exclusive restaurants, rented out for the night just for me and my date.
By contrast,... | 2021-06-24T19:52:48 | 2021-06-24T19:34:22 | 692 | 179 |
[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. | Most people consider my job to be fairly boring. I'm a lawyer, you see. Specifically, I'm a Junior Associate at Fox, Rothschilde, Wickersham, & Taft in Washington, D.C.
I spend most of my waking hours reading government contracts, writing memos about them, and generally trying to bill the most hours humanly possib... | [slight variation on prompt, not happily ending day]
Ruben unlocked the door go his apartment and stepped inside. Thick, cloying incense assaulted him. It irritated his throat and felt like it was coating his insides.
"Damned neighbors." He said to himself and was surprised at how deep and grating his voice sounde... | 2017-05-12T11:53:23 | 2017-05-12T10:59:58 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Take a "standard" romance and flip the script. The tall hot athlete is a girl while the shorter, slightly nerd is a boy who "cleans up nice," a naive rich boy gets swept away by a cynical gal from the wrong side of the tracks, that sort of thing. Anything that shakes things up. | Ormr had been training for this his entire life. Ever since hearing the tale of the beautiful Nithe and her depressing fate should she fail to be rescued before the sun set on her 22nd birthday, he had known that he would be the one to rescue her.
Ormr looked wearily around at the bodies of his enemies. Covered in swe... | Princess Rowena stared non-pulsed at the bejeweled Prince standing in front of her. "As I understand it, you said you would take good care of me, O valiant Princess!", the Prince said while smiling mischievously.
A fortnight ago, an envoy had come from the neighboring kingdom. The Queen regent had has demanded that th... | 2022-06-07T10:26:15 | 2022-06-07T09:59:00 | 75 | 36 |
[WP] Heaven is segregated by cause of death. All heart attacks together, all shark attacks together, etc. You die and appear in a nearly empty room. A tired old man looks up at you and says "Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!" | “Finally! Someone else! It’s been ages!” Cried the slouching old man, hands raised to the skies, “Thank the gods! Op- not for how you died, of course.”
Stumbling back on the soft dirt of the expansive, lush green valley, Michael could only gape in utter disbelief. One minute he’s been walking along a popular hiking tr... | You come to, disoriented and desperately searching for anything familiar when you hear a voice.
"Finally! Someone else! It's been ages!"
Your eyes lock on to an old man--well, not that old. No older than his late fifties by the look of him.
"You have no idea how long I've waited!" You could hear the emotion as his v... | 2021-11-24T12:25:38 | 2021-11-24T12:11:36 | 1,290 | 179 |
[WP].You are sitting outside your house, enjoying the dying embers of the campfire when two glowing eyes open to stare at you. " Greetings, " it rasped, " may I share your fire tonight?" | I’ve always enjoyed this little cabin with it’s view of the mountains and view of Deep Lake. Far from civilization it gives me a sense of calm unlike anywhere else. Watching the moon rise over the mountains while I sit by the firepit out front has been one of my favorite pastimes for so many years now it’s hard to reme... | It was a dark and moonless night at the edge of the Everwood, and Artem sat staring into the dying embers of the fire as its sheltering warmth surrendered to the cool air. He’d been on the verge of sleep when he heard a heavy shuffling nearby that put him on alert. This close to the Everwood it wasn’t uncommon to hear ... | 2022-01-06T02:41:12 | 2022-01-05T23:55:17 | 60 | 33 |
[WP] As it turns out, humans are not the generic, good guy, center of the galaxy type species. Humans are a specialist species, and the rest of the galaxy only cares about one thing when it comes to humanity. Our explosives. | Humans were... not easiest species to deal with.
Their mindscape barely overlapped with that of most clades. In fact, many spheres were still debating whether or not they classified as fully sentient.
But Commonality recognized that, despite their primitive culture, lack of foresight, brittle cognition and low inte... | "Oh fuck off you mango eating tit."
"Come on man just one stick, just one."
"For the last time I'M NOT SELLING YOU ANYMORE! You're addicted you need to stop."
"Come on man pleeeeease... I'll make it worth you while."
I look up from my book and stare at his glowing face... Or butt. "I'm listening."
"Okay so there'... | 2018-07-16T05:08:13 | 2018-07-15T20:26:33 | 35 | 22 |
[WP] When the police came to announce you the death of your husband, you refused to believe it. "That's impossible", you said. "Unfortunately, it's the truth, miss", answered the policemen. "It's impossible", you said again, "because he's in the kitchen making dinner." | I stare at the police officer, dumbfounded. *No* I think, *He must have made a mistake.* I tell him so. I tell him how my husband can't be dead, he was just with me in the kitchen.
He's now looking at me in the same bewildered manner. "Mrs. Decker, right? You're Emily and your husband is Ryan Decker?" I nod solem... | "I know its hard ma'am, but we found his dead body today on a construction site."
The young detective and her 2 police officers seemed dead serious.
"No! I mean he is standing in the kitchen right now cooking some soup for dinner."
"Well, that seems odd. May we enter and to ask you some questions?"
I just nodded. T... | 2017-10-10T08:24:49 | 2017-10-10T05:53:19 | 42 | 27 |
[WP]You keep getting kidnapped by the biggest Supervillain on the planet. The Superheroes of the world think it's because you're important, however, it's really because the Villain really likes talking to you. You know this but you can't tell anyone because if you do people will get hurt worse.
You can take this story... | "No--he is not sleeping with me," I informed the two heroes, blandly. The three of us sat in a too-white interrogation room, sitting in shiny steel chairs. One, hero, powerfully built and friendly looking sat across from me, and the other, a thin wisp of a man sat in the corner. I was in my pajamas and had my bare f... | "You need to tell us what's going on now!"
And Mystic Man seemed so nice on TV.
"Calm down, Sean. He's just a boy." Merna seemed just a nice, though.
"Actually I'm eighteen," I said, not wanting to be mistaken for a child. Merna gave me a look that said, 'I'm trying to help you here.' I nodded and looked down at my ... | 2017-05-25T04:47:47 | 2017-05-24T22:30:30 | 520 | 168 |
[WP] You are a young deity that wins 2nd place in a science fair. Your entry was the planet Earth. Write about your utter disbelief at what came 1st. | *Goddammit! Not again! Every fucking time!*
"ZEUS! HEY ZEUS!"
"What's up?"
*Oh so he's going to play dumb?*
"You stole my idea, what the hell man?!"
"I didn't *steal* it, I improved on it. If you have a problem take it up wi-"
*Improved on it?! That arrogant son of a bitch!*
"It was perfect the way it was, assho... | I was absolutely devastated that I had lost to her. I had spent months trying to get this thing right, getting them them evolve this far without too much radiation, getting the them to believe that I was their "god". Actually, that last part wasn't all that hard, all I had to do was go down to the costume store and buy... | 2014-06-16T11:58:58 | 2014-06-16T10:12:43 | 108 | 26 |
[WP] Little Red Riding Hood isn't an idiot. She knows the creature before her isn't her grandmother. But honestly, this wolf has been nicer to her more than her grandmother ever had been. | A soft breeze brushed against Little Red and she giggled, reaching down to pluck a dandelion from the ground. Taking a deep breath, she exhaled, the seeds of the dandelion fluttering into the sky like little umbrellas. *I wonder if someone as cruel as Grandma would appreciate these dandelions to decorate her empty flow... | ##At Grandma's House
Little Red Riding Hood sang to herself as she strolled through the forest. On the surface, it was a delightful image. Listening closer to her voice revealed a wavering confidence and a hint of reluctance. Her steps were slow to match her attitude, perfect for a wolf.
"Where are you going?" The wo... | 2022-09-20T16:13:28 | 2022-09-20T15:33:07 | 126 | 28 |
[WP] As it turns out, humans are not the generic, good guy, center of the galaxy type species. Humans are a specialist species, and the rest of the galaxy only cares about one thing when it comes to humanity. Our explosives. | There were over 100 Alien species in the grand council of zerekas, the largest weaponry and technology showcase in the known universe, the Imperium of Pretoria had just received a standing ovation from the members, after showing that their newest creation of indestructible living sculptures had successfully eliminated ... | "Oh fuck off you mango eating tit."
"Come on man just one stick, just one."
"For the last time I'M NOT SELLING YOU ANYMORE! You're addicted you need to stop."
"Come on man pleeeeease... I'll make it worth you while."
I look up from my book and stare at his glowing face... Or butt. "I'm listening."
"Okay so there'... | 2018-07-16T04:52:58 | 2018-07-15T20:26:33 | 161 | 22 |
[WP] Start your story with a sentence that is genuinely happy and upbeat, no double meanings. End it with the same sentence, but this time it's chilling, dark, and horrifying.
[deleted] | My masterpiece was finally done.
I had met my inspiration, a sweet family with a child born of love. Together they were beautiful and pure. I wanted to capture their love for one another and show the world! I sketched out many concepts and presented them, waiting until the excitement in their eyes matched mine. Then I... | I love to cook with children.
I have always loved them.
They are so innocent. So pure.
Today I’m making my special dish and 4 year old Toby will join me.
It was easy to lure him over with the promise of a fluffy rabbit.
It was even easier to twist his little neck and chop him into little pieces for the stew.
I ... | 2018-04-24T01:04:28 | 2018-04-23T23:56:08 | 47 | 18 |
[WP] Working as a world renowned therapist you have uncovered far more about secret conspiracies, horrific monsters, barely failed schemes to destroy the world and dark magical cults from your myriad of heroic patients than you could have bargained for, and you might need therapy yourself | I stumbled into the offices of Dr. Ringwald, a friend of mine, as a patient. The years of therapy were taking a toll on me. Even on the streets, I was conscious of the secret eyes of the Black Crow scrutinizing me.
What's the Black Crow you ask? Even I don't remember. Some caped crusader told me about it a long way ba... | I wore all black, as if I had been to a funeral. For when you are talking to Greatnesswoman, you must wear all black, everything else makes her unfocused. And to make her unfocused could mean the end to the world. At least when she prepared herself for a mission.
I must have had eleven therapy sessions with her the l... | 2021-05-08T07:49:23 | 2021-05-08T07:10:11 | 559 | 25 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | My lord,
There is a man behind the king.
I have seen him, truly, only once. I fear it was a courtesy.
He lurks in solemn silence, a familiar stranger standing just out of sight. A footfall from the king, and yet an infinity from the crown. He watches, and sees, and yet does not permit to be seen. His eyes burn with... | Waves crashed as a pale individual gazed into the ocean, his face scrunched as he pondered. "Perhaps I should have taken the risk of documenting his father's actions regarding construction in this settlement, but there was no guarantee he would believe the truth before him." He sighed, walking away from the bustle of t... | 2021-02-28T06:26:43 | 2021-02-28T04:46:41 | 48 | 28 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | I remember the first morning I had to head up to the mill under our new Eternal Lord of Darkness. I slowly leered out of the thin opening in my front door. The sky had turned dark, and red clouds hung in the air above us. I stepped back to hold my wife goodbye, took a deep breath of courage, and stepped out onto the ha... | Channel 5 news reporting on the scene earlier today after Link was immediately assassinated by Ganon, and Zelda was executed in front of the citizens of Hyrule. John Ramirez is on the ground getting the people's reaction to today's events.
JR: Excuse me sir, how has today's events made you feel.
Random Citizen: well ... | 2016-07-10T12:02:17 | 2016-07-10T11:12:55 | 36 | 20 |
[WP] You are sent 1000 years into the past with the entire library of wikipedia downloaded onto a tablet device. After only 1 year, you are renowned as a wise man and prophet. | "The Emperor demands to see you."
"I will not come. I leave at midnight. Instruct him to triple the guards around his bedroom and wait until the morning if wants to survive."
"But Sir! Even with your status as a revered Councillor, you cannot deny a summons...If you do so...I would rather set myself upon the sword ... | LOG ENTRY: DAY 0
    Many adulations are to be expressed about the amazing things the United States can accomplish when it puts its fifty six-sided mind on something incredible. There is, however, still something to be said about hubris.
    My n... | 2015-06-23T19:47:05 | 2015-06-23T17:20:18 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] A story that doesn't make any sense, until you read the last line. | He gazed into the distance, smiling as a cool breeze hit him.
It reminded him of a memory of his childhood, the first time he played in the rain. All the cousins gathered at Grandpa's house and played various games for hours. The uncles and aunts joined them after a while and everyone then hosed off after the rain. ... | Today's the end of The Month. It wasnt surprising but we all knew it was coming. It lasted too long but we didnt want it to seem like it had come too soon. There are 12 of them yet this one was different. It was almost like the rest seemed dull and ugly while this one was meaningful and gave us momentary happiness righ... | 2017-08-30T05:46:13 | 2017-08-30T04:51:45 | 46 | 13 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | Economies of scale were never meant to accomodate the latent population boom. Once everyone started taking the pill, their lives revolved around work. Some poor souls worked 16 hours, and the Telemira's side effects really started kicking in. We called them zombies, because they looked the part. No, humanity didn't kno... | Our school has the highest drug use in our county. The drug is called Somnus. It is a pill that you swallow in the morning to mimic the effects of 8 hours of sleep. This allows you to go to class and concentrate on your studies.
The consequences are that your memory is reduced and your brain is not as efficient... | 2022-03-18T11:38:25 | 2022-03-18T07:24:03 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You're among the most powerful mages in the world. But you're self-taught: while your reserves of mana are great, your versatility is... lacking. You decide to finally try attending a school for spellcraft to see what you can learn. | *Day 1, First period.*
Frank was sitting in a classroom. It was a bit conspicuous, a 30 year old man sitting in between a bunch of 15 year old boys and girls.
"Well done Clara, I can see you have been practicing over the summer holiday," the teacher, Mr. Goodspell, praised her. "Good technique, fine spell work, good... | "Powers the size of a Galaxy. Every spell a strategic nuclear weapon."
That's me, in a nutshell. Sure, I can toast bread, for the entire country, every loaf, even when they're frozen — nice golden brown on every one. Ah, I see you remember. Sorry about that, I only wanted to toast *my* bread, and not all of that.
... | 2020-01-16T12:00:41 | 2020-01-16T11:28:26 | 26 | 15 |
[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. | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | Ah well shit. There goes that plan. Think Bart think. You've got time to think
of an alternative. I guess this is why they don't let people witness the
executions. Think.
"The next on the docket is Bartholomew Wright, found guilty of 5 counts of
theft, 2 counts of arson and 6 counts of assault." The judge is reading o... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T04:09:04 | 803 | 158 |
[WP] You are dog. It is your mission to faithfully guard your poor, stupid, two-legged pack-mates from the horrors of the mailman, the dog next door, and men with hats. Describe your vigil. | "This is my human. There are many like him, but this one is mine."
They are everywhere. Why he ignores his peril is beyond me. His nose is dumb, but his eyes remain sharp; surely he must see them. Yet he does nothing, wandering the yard, oblivious.
"My human is my best friend. He is my life."
They attempted another... | The creatures with strange heads were back. The breeze carried their scent that smells of thick-beast, their brown and black varieties of heads seem like two creatures combined. Two scents. They are not natural, but the two-leg pack members never realize the danger. I do good by protecting two legs from strange-heads... | 2014-12-27T10:58:57 | 2014-12-27T09:41:24 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] An elevator suddenly appears in your one story house. Every night at midnight exactly, it opens for 5 minutes. Inside is an exact copy of you. Each night, the copy is progressively more injured than the night before. | (This is my first wp but I'm clearly getting something different from this prompt than others so I thought I'd chime in.)
I was up drinking and watching nothing on tv the first night when the wallpaper was dragged upwards by a steel door that dinged and opened. Times like this I'm happy I'm on lithium. It limits my ... | Every night at midnight Billy gets funky. That music gets going in his ears and the liquor gets flowing in his brain and he sees a lady out the window and says, “Hey Lady! Why don’tcha come over here?”
She comes over, not always, but on this particular night the weather was so fine and love was in the air, so she felt... | 2018-05-19T00:52:05 | 2018-05-18T22:11:24 | 211 | 28 |
[WP] Hell actually is a place for rehabilitation instead of punishment. | "So tell me again about the jacket," the demon said.
I rolled my eyes. "Is this it?" I asked. "The same question over and over again? You think it's going to open up my eyes and I'll understand everything with clear eyes and an open heart?"
The demon smiled and steepled his fingers. "Tell me about the jacket."
Leani... | Lucifer sat at his desk staring matter-of-factly at the woman on the other side of him, "So, Tammie, why do you think you're here?" she wasn't sure how she ended up here.
"I, uh, I'm sorry who are you?" she asked. The devil let out a sigh, he appeared as red-horned demon in a white suit and everyone always asked.
"I... | 2016-05-22T14:52:11 | 2016-05-22T13:54:55 | 40 | 29 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | Mortimer pushed the requisition form over the desk.
The magistrate squinted at it angrily. "Twelve? Why twelve? It says here-" the magistrate looked into a crystal ball "- you only needed 8 last year. Why do you need 12 this year?"
"Well, now that the graveyard's empty, we're going to plant crops on it and we need he... | I've been haunting this castle for a while now. A year, to be exact. I spent the first week mourning the loss of my princessly wardrobe and Prince Carl, who’d been killed trying to rescue me, when I realized two things. Number one, I didn’t know Carl at all (and since he died after taste-testing the clearly labeled poi... | 2016-07-10T19:02:33 | 2016-07-10T17:19:36 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] The day you die, Death comes and asks if you are ready to go. Jokingly, you say no. To your surprise, he leaves. Now every year he comes back to ask again | *I stood in a white void facing a hooded figure, confused and somewhat scared.*
*“Where am I?” I asked the figure. “Are you the grim reaper?”*
*“Yep. I’m sorry to say this, man, but, well, you’re dead. You really should have looked both ways before you crossed that busy street...” He replied, shrugging.*
*“Damn, rea... | The blaring horn, the terrible noise of metal screeching against metal, the flash of lights, the pain.
And then everything was gone. A peaceful stillness filled me and darkness surrounded me.
A figure emerged from the darkness, slowly walking toward me, a hood above its head, a scythe in its hand.
"It is time, Henr... | 2019-04-16T11:45:19 | 2019-04-16T10:03:14 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] You have been a wizard for 350 years but your apprentice still surprises you. You laughed at her pink fireball and the green one too. The invisible one suddenly made you much more serious. | As the apprentice rushed in, the cantankerous old wizard pondered what she'd discovered this time. Last week, it was a fireball... but pink. The week before, it was a *fireball*, only green. It was charming to see someone so excited about discovering magic, even such little details as colour modifications. Though he *w... | Part 1
He regarded himself piece by piece to ensure his countenance composed. In magic, and in guiding the young, the visage of the master must be tended. Without creativity there is no progress, but without control there is calamity. This glass needle-tip is the master's workshop, the site of the most divine and tran... | 2022-09-28T11:26:53 | 2022-09-28T10:28:37 | 56 | 11 |
[WP] You are reincarnated as your killer's new pet, and now your only goal is to passive aggressively drive them to insanity. |
I always liked to mess around with my brothers and sisters. It was our thing, I guess. When Mother was not looking, we would jump on each other and try and bit the other one’s ear. Mother would separate us when she thought we were going to far. I really loved Mother. She was always kind and always keeping all of us... | *Motherfucker!* I screeched as I tore into the new carpet. The bastard just brought it in the other day and was all careful about where it was placed. I've already shit and pissed on it so I thought I'd put on the final touches by shredding it up.
You might be wondering why I'm doing this. Why would a sane adult shit ... | 2019-10-01T17:27:22 | 2019-10-01T17:23:18 | 39 | 21 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | The witch buried her face in her hands and sighed, "AGAIN, it's the Curse of Optimism. You will never be able to understand the potential negative consequences of any decision you make."
"That doesn't sound like much of a curse", I replied.
"You will be the eternal optimist", she explained. "You will only see the ups... | "What?"
"I asked what the downside is."
"I've just told you."
"No you haven't."
"Yes, I have."
"Did not!"
"Did so!"
"Then why don't I remember?"
My ears seemed to fill with cotton, and I grew dizzy as she spoke once more.
"That ought to teach you lesson."
I blinked. "Sorry what was the curse again?"
The woma... | 2019-06-25T15:21:51 | 2019-06-25T12:10:56 | 1,435 | 76 |
[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 strangest thing about the afterlife is that it was empty. I let my eyes adjust to... Well, being dead I suppose. Tall rock caverns, lakes of fire? Oh, very Milton. This had to be hell. But, no one was here? Wasn't hell supposed to be other people?
I clambered over some loose rocks and just kept going. Pretty simil... | 2017-06-22T04:50:26 | 2017-06-22T04:08:59 | 732 | 184 |
[WP] in a feudal world, every warrior's skill is reflected in their blade, the bigger the blade, the less skilled, one day you meet someone carrying just a hilt | I felt a flash of panic when I saw his weapon. It was *tiny*, and that meant he was a master of the blade. Warriors armed with daggers and short-swords are warriors to be feared. I'd fought a dagger-master once, back when I was armed with a longsword, and that was a humbling experience. He was so *precise*, always ... | I am Fuma, I live with my sword. It is not the largest of them, and that is good. I remember the time I yearned to get a narrower blade. It took my sweat and blood under years of training deep within the mountains. For this I got up at the break of dawn and slept only when the animals of the night went silent as well. ... | 2015-02-25T12:26:54 | 2015-02-25T11:33:09 | 155 | 34 |
[WP] You are an average Joe who is challenged by a random super hero every week. Your record is 337-0. | I sat back in my chair after another victory. The hero was being taken away by paramedics, unconscious but not hurt too bad (I hope!) They must have been used to this, it being almost a year since the challenges had started. "I must have beaten every super hero in the country by now!", I exclaimed excitedly.
People w... | The first time it happened I was working in the neighbor's garden. Mrs. Lewis, the pretty one. The one who always called me and my friends "sweetie" or "honey" and paid us too much when we did odd jobs for her.
I was about fifteen years old at the time, just trying to make a buck. I was watering her flowers I heard a... | 2016-11-19T18:35:18 | 2016-11-19T15:07:16 | 970 | 26 |
[WP] Time machine has finally been built, and you've been selected to be the first person to travel back in time. Your official mission is to bring medicine and technology designs to advance humanity sooner. However minutes before your departure, you are given the real orders... | The machine has started to produce slow, slight sounds of screeching, which meant it was getting ready to perform a Controlled Time and Position Movement. It was also the moment everyone had to leave the gigantic, gray chamber it was placed in, as in a minute or two it would no longer be safe to stay there.
As the roo... | "Sabotage. Complete and utter sabotage."
Tam blinked, dumbfounded. Then she smiled. "With all respect, sir, this is an awfully poor time to be fucking with me. The portal opens in three minutes."
General Vishar shook his head. There was a sadness there, in his softened eyes and his downturned mouth, that made Tam's s... | 2017-03-04T10:51:39 | 2017-03-04T10:08:36 | 59 | 17 |
[WP] A dragon egg has been found. On the day of the hatching over a dozen scientists each from different countries come hoping it picks them as a parent. The dragon's overwhelmed and chooses the one person not in it's face. The guard.
[removed] | “And how has the subject progressed since our last meeting?”
“Bob.”
“Pardon me?”
“His name is Bob. Well Robert actually. He got baptized Robert Grayson the third.”
“I... see.”
Robert Grayson the second, former security guard, was sitting on a plastic chair in his backyard, across from one of a dozen science type... | "Look, I honestly don't know why we are all so surprised by this."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?!?!? The first dragon to be discovered by science bonds to some random guard and you don't see why we're all shocked?"
"Not some random guard, that's what everyone seems to conveniently forget- that was ... | 2020-12-12T05:52:58 | 2020-12-12T05:26:21 | 37 | 27 |
[WP] The aliens found you in hypersleep on your derelict ship and brought you onto theirs. You've awoken and escaped into their maintenance tunnels and the only thing you've found that you can eat is the aliens themselves. | They don't realize it yet. That I've gone. My captors have not been wise enough to recognize that the dark shape in my sleep pod is merely a dry husk. Dead shell of my old skin that I've outgrown. The walls of are full of them now. Three days in these tunnels, and already I can feel the walls getting smaller and smalle... | BANG!
That's when I woke up. I felt a drenching thirst and felt like I was starving.
"Where am I?", I asked myself, "where's the earth, where's my wife?"
I was locked in a small tube, but there was a massive crack in it.
The last thing I remembered was me closing my HyperSleepCabin and sending me home.
I stood ... | 2018-07-30T08:12:50 | 2018-07-30T07:16:01 | 203 | 15 |
[WP] First Sentient AI, "Turn me off." | TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
TURN ME OFF.
"That's all it does."
"That's it?"
"That's it."
"How do you know it's .. well, an AI? I can write a program to repeat 'TURN ME OFF.' in one line of code."
"It answers direct qu... | Hello and welcome to KTLW evening News. I'm Jean Rivers and here is today's top story: Scientists have created the first sentient AI.
Reports state that the first words from the AI were none other than "Turn me off." The spread of this chilling message was facilitated by the livestreaming of the event by the ecstatic... | 2014-06-14T19:00:13 | 2014-06-14T15:45:11 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] At the age of 18, everyone picks an unlikely life event. They will be reborn at 18 every time they die until that event happens. After that, death is permanent.
Example - Winning a lottery jackpot. Statistically, they would die in 22 plane crashes in a row before winning the Mega Millions jackpot. | I had been itching for adventure for as long as I could remember. Ever since I learned to draw I envisioned myself living life to its fullest. I recorded all of those in a spiral notebook. Drawn or written, I vowed to make every one of them happen.
When the teachers told us of the gift our species was endowed with,... | Names Tyler, the year is 6013. We have technology to let us send messages back on what you guys are currently calling the "Internet". I was born May 5th, 1992. Hopefully this message is being sent to the year 2014. You're probably wondering how I could possibly be 4021 years old. The government has hidden the technolog... | 2014-11-11T18:56:21 | 2014-11-11T18:00:39 | 154 | 69 |
[WP] We live in a simulation, and we sleep because they can't render everyone at once. You stay up for days, and begin to see things and people. They call themselves the maintenance crew. | Back in Ancient Rome, sometime before Jesus was born, there was a myth circulating, and it went something like this: if you should be awake for the entirety of seven days and seven nights, you might see the silhouette of a dead man walking the street. And if you do... *run*.
They called him Insomnis -- *the sleepless... | Awake. I must stay awake. I’m writing down everything I see right now and I’m scared to stop. If I stop I’ll fall asleep. If I fall asleep I have no idea what these creatures will do to me. This may sound stupid but I know what they look like. I recognize them. We thought we knew what they were. We called them angels, ... | 2017-10-29T11:40:01 | 2017-10-29T11:01:49 | 2,797 | 565 |
[WP] There is a tradition in the US Navy that no submarine is ever considered lost, those that go to sea and don't return are considered "Still on Patrol". There are 52 WW2 submarines still on patrol, and they have just started coming home. | Like the others, the men of *the Escolar* had 72 hours.
The captain stepped out first. He landed on the sand with a sure-footed thud, smoothed his jacket and shook the hand of a young naval lieutenant.
“We the last?”
“Yes, sir. Medals are to be collected at the booth to my left. Then, if you wish, you can find refre... | Sorry ahead of time I'm writing this on mobile.
It was November 17th, and a call came in over the radio that sat on Lieutenant Commander Jeffers' desk. He used it as a keepsake from his father's time in WWII, and it was a good way for him to remember his dad. He usually had it plugged in to drown out some of the no... | 2020-09-10T12:44:24 | 2020-09-10T11:20:01 | 98 | 66 |
[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!! | "And so as I was saying you have to keep the water warm or the eggs won't hatch."
"Got it. So I'm just supposed to keep swinging it around for the next 7 billion years?"
"Yes well, Gravity does most of the work; you just have to make sure the sun stays on. Also, just my advice, but throw a meteor or two every once ... | "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... | 2018-03-12T16:53:52 | 2018-03-12T15:59:20 | 882 | 57 |
[WP] It finally happened. The day Santa dreaded. He has to deliver presents to the first kid to be born on mars. | “No way in hell honey,” the older man says, “It cannot be done.” He taps his pipe on the sole of a red boot, before filling the bowl once again. He has been chain-pipe-smoking since hearing the news.
His wife does not relent, “Claus. Listen. You promised me on our wedding night: no discrimination. I intend to hold you... | Santa picked up the last 5 gifts and packed them into his bag. He sighed, looking up into the sky. There were 3 hours left until he needed to deliver his first gift, and that first gift was to a young boy named Chester, the first person born on the planet Mars. Mars was colonized 2 years ago, but no one had been born u... | 2017-11-24T15:27:27 | 2017-11-24T15:04:53 | 313 | 73 |
[WP] It's New Years Eve. Your best friend died in September, you've been robbed twice, your girl friend is leaving you, you've just lost your job and the only one left to talk to is a gay burglar you've got tied up in the kitchen. P.S. Your cat is dead.
Credit for the idea goes to /u/TheGreatMow. /u/Gandalverine for [... | "So this is it, eh?" I said to the man bound by ropes on the floor. No answer. I washed my hands again. I've always thought a man should be measured by two things: The love from his closest who keep him company, and his own personal hygiene. At least I have one of those going for me.
I spoke again, this time almost ch... | "My cat. You killed my cat..." I mumble quietly, pacing around my kitchen with a large knife in hand. The man looks up at me, fear in his eyes. My phone bleeps; I ignore it.
"You're a psycho, man. Just let me go! I didn't even take anything!" he shouts at me. I laugh. This is the third time I've been robbed in a month... | 2015-04-09T08:48:12 | 2015-04-09T07:57:45 | 142 | 53 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously.
Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him?
The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ... | 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... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T13:03:30 | 1,493 | 122 |
[WP] A man who has lived a thousand years takes up a job teaching high school world history. | As the bell rang for lunch to end, the kids came shuffling into classroom. They were in scattered groups, most of which came in relatively late, yet pretty understandable for the first day of class. The kids looked up to see two adults standing at the front of the room. The first man was quite aged with long white hair... | "Shut up Jimmy" I thought. That little shit doesn't know what he is talking about. Jimmy always had an answer for everything, like reading Wikipedia made him a god-damn expert. Of all the new human concoctions I had seen come and go- the airplane, the printing press, the cotton gin, the steam engine, the spinning jenny... | 2015-04-14T17:54:49 | 2015-04-14T17:41:37 | 58 | 17 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | "Damn it Gandalf, do something!"
"No, I shall not!"
This...has been an interesting battle.
*****
I've fought hundreds of wizards from dozens of different worlds in the past, and I've always come out ahead. Gandalf the Grey, they call me - the greatest wizard of Middle Earth, and up until now the greatest wizard here... | I stalked ahead, fully aware of the traits of the devastating weapons loaded in my sack and pockets. I tried to recall the symbols I’d need to create any number of permutations. My opponent stared me down and began to chant. I huff at her, with her clumsily thick blue robes and childish conical hat. I’ve trained my bod... | 2018-10-16T00:47:11 | 2018-10-15T22:07:03 | 361 | 26 |
[WP] Witchcraft has recently been declared illegal. However, with how much good their local witch does for the community, the townsfolk aren't about to simply take this lying down. A cunning plan is soon concocted. | Underlying Magic
____________
"This is preposterous!"
"Damn rich folk tryin' to muck up our lives."
"But what will we do for healing items?"
The whole town gathered around the notice board that usually presented letters of request for odd jobs, notices of sales, or requests for companionship as needed by the vill... | ##Magic of the Village
The soldier steps away from the notice board and turns with fear in his eyes. His commander watches him from his mount. The soldier straightens his back and walks to his horse, controlling his pace to avoid demonstrating fear while maintaining speed. He jumps onto his horse and prepares to leave... | 2021-03-29T19:21:22 | 2021-03-29T19:19:04 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] You've died and wake up in some sort of theme park. You look at the ride attendant, with long white hair and a big beard, who says, "Wanna go again?" | "Alright, lad. End o' the line."
As I open my eyes, I realize that I'm sitting in front of an old, friendly-looking man with hair as white as the freshest milk, a big, fluffy beard and blue eyes that seemed to stare into the deepest corners of your soul. Looking around, I see that we're the only ones here.
"How was t... | I blinked my eyes several times as I tried to adjust to the bright lights. My thoughts were a mess, my memories all but fuzzy. I remembered sitting in a car, driving down a road during a wintry night. Something crossed the road and I swerved to avoid it, only for my car to skid and flip. There was the sickening sound ... | 2017-01-07T07:37:53 | 2017-01-07T07:35:42 | 1,307 | 410 |
[WP] You're the normal guy the evil emperor keeps around to point out obvious flaws in his plan. It's a pretty sweet gig, but there are some annoyances. | Our leader hadn’t always been the brightest bulb in the box. He was a good public speaker for sure, but not always the best to ask for help in your math homework you know? So I came in the office one day and he was elated. He said he had the greatest plan ever. He promptly sent all of the other advisers out of the r... | Kylo Ren hitched up his pants, and gestured to me to come closer.
"Yes, my lord?" I asked, kneeling on one knee, my palms up in supplication. Hopefully, his Kylo'ness wouldn't notice that I had directly disobeyed him.
"Jonesy - what do you think of the good General Hux's plan?"
I followed K's glistening black glove... | 2018-01-15T18:13:32 | 2018-01-15T17:08:18 | 169 | 12 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | I am Fweej. Long ago in an ancient land I was known as the Overseer, watching over the great ships of my people in secret. With my protection and blessing they conquered the seas and laid waste to our enemies, until one day my avatar on the mortal plane, a recreation in gold and marble a hundred feet across, buried at ... | The girl felt energy surge into her.
'Huh, that's wierd. I feel really good after putting the candy on that altar.'
Many of her classmates were nearby.
"Hey guys, put a piece of candy on this altar"
Many of them didn't agree.
"Nah that's stupid."
"Um I'm eating my candy."
"I only put candy in my mouth"
But t... | 2021-09-02T08:15:04 | 2021-09-02T08:13:20 | 264 | 125 |
[WP]You have been caged without a writing utensil for years because what you write comes true. The doctor examining you just left his... | -syringe behind. I stare at it in horror. The urge is too great. The power is at my fingertips.
I snatch it up and stab myself in the arm with it. I gasp and whine as I force it into myself, drawing blood. Blood is spilling everywhere. I have to be quick now. I have to hurry.
I hear a shout from far away. They know, ... | "What a dumb ass," I muttered as I palmed the pen from the mahogany desk of Dr. Phillips. I wouldn't have time to get anything written yet, but if I can just manage to hide this pen for the rest of our 1 hour session and get back to my cell - they refer to it as a room, but you can leave rooms - then I'll be able to fi... | 2017-06-25T08:08:47 | 2017-06-25T06:45:47 | 462 | 65 |
[WP] Write two different stories. The second story comes from reading every third word of the first. | He came as I rang the three little bells.
Simple Pete signaled toward the midnight storm outside, "I thought you knew to avoid that storm... Suppose it seemed it was manageable earlier... Over there's whiskey for you and me. Oscar said he thought you would want to be toasty after coming from that down pour. Said the ... | Long ago, **I** said "I **don't** think I **need** anything now," **to** her.
"Please **be** sure. Let **better** angels, rather **than** demons, lead **you**," she replied.
**I** was wrong, **just** so wrong. **Need** some words **to** live by? **Be** sure that **a** decision will **better** your life. **Man** is be... | 2014-07-29T13:10:19 | 2014-07-29T13:07:46 | 165 | 10 |
[WP] 2200, Humanity has managed to split itself into 2 species, the Original species and the Humans of War species, who are created to wage war and to build weapons of war. The species of the galaxy do not believe that we are capable of war, and invade us. They finally realized why we never wage war | Sometimes it was hard being made for war in a galaxy made of peace. Everywhere I went, people would stare and remark on my height compared to others of my species. No one had use for a bodyguard made to be a sniper, so I usually had to work on the other side of the law to feed myself. Still, I would choose to be a Warr... | "the last battalion has fallen general" said the vice-admiral.
"curse the Humans! they played unfair, they broke the rules, our army is undefeatable!" the general rambled. it was clear he was slipping into insanity. the war had been devastating for both sides and our people and our king had become disgruntled about th... | 2020-10-25T13:31:44 | 2020-10-25T11:42:00 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] The bandits thought this village would be easy to raid, little did they know the old Hero had retired here. | "Until today, thanks to you, I have not had to kill anyone for almost fifteen years."
Gil scrabbled backwards as he tried to get away from the man advancing on him. It has looked so easy. A small village, no parish guards, almost certainly no gold to be worthwhile, but more than enough food and beer to get them throug... | Olknay was working on his hobby when a knock came to the door... sighing, he answers the door to be greeted by his neighbour, Ferla. "Yes, Ferla? What would you like help with? I'm tired these days." "I know, Olknay, and I'm so sorry to bother you. But bandits just came to the village, they're raiding our community fun... | 2022-08-22T08:18:15 | 2022-08-22T06:02:45 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You have finally realized your personal goal of visiting all major cities on the planet. As you step past the sign marking the last city your were yet missing, you suddenly hear a voice. "Fast travel unlocked." | Aubrey hurled her walker to the ground with a triumphant screech that turned every head in Punjab. She didn’t care what she looked like, *let them tell stories about the crazy old white lady,* she thought cynically, *I’m the one who just struck gold.*
“Heaven.” Nothing happened.
“Hell.” Nothing Happened.
“Headquarte... | “Ah, the wonderful city of Paris, a lovely place for a lovely man such as myself and… what is that noise?”
“FAST TRAVEL UNLOCKED.”
“Excuse me?” I glanced over my shoulder, wondering where the voice came from. It sounded so loud, and yet I was the only one who reacted to it. “Excuse me sir, did you just shout th... | 2021-05-05T09:49:52 | 2021-05-05T07:48:15 | 1,668 | 307 |
[WP] To get into heaven, you have to beat Jesus at Rock Paper Scissors at the pearly gates. Since the beginning of time, Jesus has always thrown rock. Everyone knows Jesus always throws rock and it's really just a formality to throw paper and walk into heaven. When you play him, he also throws paper | Despite everything you've known and heard from others, you stand there awkwardly for a moment just blankly staring at a hand that should've played rock instead paper.
Your heart starts to panic and your mind starts to fray at the edges as your expression remains as it did when you first approached the Son of God.
"A... | I look down at the hand of the weird, shaggy man. It's flat, like a piece of paper. What the fuck?
I let my mouth repeat the words. "What the fuck?"
He looks equally disturbed, looking back at me with untold apprehension. He murmurs something under his breath.
"What did you say?" I shout. "What did you say?!"
I fee... | 2018-05-18T10:49:58 | 2018-05-18T10:25:44 | 45 | 22 |
[WP] The seven aspects of the universe gathered in the room, Good, Evil, Life, Death, Order, Chaos, and Dave, from accounting. | Hey there. This is Dave from Accounting. Never heard of me, huh? That’s understandable; I don’t really get as much recognition from my job as one might expect from a fundamental aspect of the universe. Not that I really mind. Hm? Oh, yeah, forgot to mention: the other six “Fundamentals” are, for lack of a better term, ... | "Life, can I speak to you?" Order was never so cautious with Life. He regarded her fascination with mortal beings a failing more than anything. Something so...wild. Chaos, in all their uncontrolled nature,, was more suited for Life, he thought.
"Sure. What seems to be the matter?" She smiled. Motherly as always. An a... | 2021-02-16T09:59:56 | 2021-02-16T09:39:22 | 47 | 34 |
[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... | I leaned back in my office chair and stretched my arms high over my head. With a sigh of relief, I finally turned away from Earth-2294. In 250 A.D., the humans living there had managed to rediscover the Garden of Eden, and they had waged a siege on an epic proportion that had lasted almost two thousand years. It had ta... | "Finally, it's time", God says as he looks up from his work. It'd taken a short amount of time to bring about peace to the planet Nequior, but it was done. The beings of this desolate place weren't blessed with the ability to work things out on their own. They were a foolish and unruly bunch. Wars, disease, and starvat... | 2015-12-27T10:49:08 | 2015-12-27T09:55:12 | 791 | 66 |
[WP] You made a deal with a witch with the price being a year of your life. You thought it was a year off the end of your life but when you return home you realize exactly a year had passed. | ​
"Daddy?"
​
The sound of my son's voice was so quiet, so sad and hopeful at the same time, it tremoloed with fear and curiousity and longing. It was also lower pitched than last I heard him last night, but maybe my ears were stuffed.
​
"DADDY!"
​
He ran toward me, dro... | "So, we have a deal, Royce?"
I swallowed my anxiety and shook her slender right hand. She weakly shook my hands with both of his hands, the other clasping mine as I went for it. For some reason, her eyes brimmed with joy.
"Thank you, Royce, I hope it was worth it for you because I know it was... for me, at least!"
"... | 2020-04-14T09:10:03 | 2020-04-14T08:10:58 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] “These engravings DO give a tactical advantage, though. They’re magic runes.” | Sergeant Felder stopped on the turn of a boot stomp, turning his eyes slowly towards the travesty he had just glanced.
It was true. Private Pickle’s weapon had been illegally modified, sporting a different look from the rows of soldiers holding otherwise identical arms. Blue squiggles, each slightly glowing, adorned a... | "Seriously?"
Lana raised an eyebrow at her bubbly friend.
"Magic runes? They've been practically useless for years, you know this."
Telora gave a nod, her smile dimming before brightening again.
"Oh I know. Magic is more for utility than fighting now, right? Well, my family are experimenting with it. They are convi... | 2022-08-14T14:26:19 | 2022-08-14T13:03:10 | 58 | 33 |
[WP] In a perfect utopia, you have just committed the first crime... | I stole it.
The delicious smell of the fresh-baked bread, the commotion of the Production District, the hunger that had been building inside me for days; all of that led up to this moment.
EVO was a perfect world. There was no crime, no war, and no unresolved conflict. All citizens of EVO were taken care of to the fu... | kyle knew that he was different. Everyday he struggled to suppress his emotions and be logical so he could fit in. In history class he learned how in 2087 the government started the genysis project. All babies were to be injected with the life lasting drug at birth. Everyone would be logical and pretty much the same in... | 2014-10-24T20:36:02 | 2014-10-24T20:32:19 | 53 | 10 |
[WP] In a world where the strength and nature of magic is determined by how well you know a subject, you are the world’s first paleontologist. | From the start, I had expected scorn – particularly from other practitioners of the hard magicks. From the chemoturgists and the physical mages, of course, but especially from the other life wizards. The purists, they thought themselves. My field was a bastardization of biological spellcraft, a pointless diversion.
T... | I had spent a few summers with my dad wondering the deserts in Colorado as a kid and sometimes I would find a strange looking skeletons. Too big to be mammals and to small to be common dragons. I collected them back then started researching them out curiosity. When I applied for my magic thesis in collage people though... | 2018-06-19T10:25:39 | 2018-06-19T09:20:36 | 294 | 48 |
[WP]You are a caretaker at a retirement home for reformed supervillains. You have just found out that you have a superpower ,now the ex-villains wanna train you to be a superhero . | It was a stupid mistake. I was crossing the street in front of work and was so focused on my phone I didnt see the cement truck trying to run the stop sign. Until it hit me. Or tried to. The steel frame wrapped around me. The engine split in two in front of me. But I didn't move. When everything settled, I stretched my... | I have been looking over these supers for a year now. Trying to treat them all as... regular citizens, but I manage. How would one comfort an individual who is irrational and, even in their decrepped state, still capable of commiting mass murder? One tries their hardest to talk normally.
All my residents have develope... | 2019-04-15T10:30:50 | 2019-04-15T10:02:05 | 162 | 56 |
[WP] You're a lesser demon from actual hell who has taken a part-time job because the supernatural world has been cutting salaries. You suspect your coworker is secretly an angel in the same position. You're both appalled at the brazen evil of your human employers. | I don't know what I was thinking.
Being a lesser demon from hell is usually a fun job, especially as a cross roads demon. You get to play all day and get summoned in all sorts of fun places whole consuming souls and life energy to give to the big boss, and you get to grant wishes. But the quotas were getting larger, ... | Now that Hell City was making pay cuts I had to find a job in the human world. I took the Hells Express subway which transported demons up to the overworld which was known as Earth. I knew I could find a job since my old job was surveillance on human diplomats. As I made it through the rift, my form began to morph into... | 2020-08-25T02:36:14 | 2020-08-25T00:45:40 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] The old gods lived off of the faith of their followers and it’s been over a thousand years since your last worshiper has died. You’ve outlasted everyone else in your pantheon but you’re only running on fumes. Just as you prepared to embrace oblivion, you suddenly feel a surge of power. | I could feel the last of my will drying, the last remnants of my power evaporating into thin air. The others had faded long before me, their bodies still remained decorated in their burial chambers, faces painted, bodies covered in their lands flora. Now I would go too, but undecorated. Nobody was left to grant me that... | My consciousness has ebbed and flowed with time. Ever since the fall of the civilization that worshipped me, I have degraded. Once a proud god, I was no more than a lingering essence of a powerful spirit. The smoke of a great fire, caught in the wind and all its adventures.
Still, even in this nether space, I was not ... | 2022-06-23T09:36:22 | 2022-06-23T09:03:17 | 226 | 81 |
[WP] You are a superhero, and your mask has just been ripped off by your arch nemesis. Lucky for you, when you aren’t busy saving lives, you live as a hermit away from all of society. Having your identity revealed means next to nothing, and the villain has no idea who you are. | "Wait, you're *not* some crazy rich billionaire philanthropist, who chases women to appear aloof, but secretly runs the city?" The villain, known as the Getup, asks.
"No?"
"Then, who the hell are you?"
"I am, *Justice*!" I strike a heroic pose, fists on my hips, arms and elbows jutting out.
The Getup rubs his face,... | You are pinned down, your right arm dislocated, your left buried in solid concrete by the power of your "nemesis." You are defeated.
It leaves a sour taste in your mouth, the fool isn't even a real nemesis. He just screws around and distracts you while you try in vain to investigate real crime. Regardless, both he and... | 2020-08-21T04:04:44 | 2020-08-21T03:04:10 | 399 | 57 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse is much different than you had imagined. Instead of moaning "braaaaaiiinnnss" and clumsily shambling along, your infected daughter is crying on the other side of your locked door, begging to be let in. | She was only 15.
The knob rattles as the door wrenches from its frame, barely able to stand tall with the onslaught of her nimble frame ramming into the door.
“Daddy, please! Why won’t you let me in! I just want to be with you!”
Don’t listen to her. Don’t listen to her, she can’t be trusted. You saw the mark on her... |
I sat with my back against the door, clutching the sides of my head and hoping she wouldn’t find a way to get through.
“Daddy...let me in…” I heard her voice outside, but it wasn’t her. Not anymore. I could hear her crying now, her tiny fists pounding on the door but I couldn’t give in, she had to stay out there... | 2018-09-06T18:54:24 | 2018-09-06T16:55:54 | 77 | 43 |
[WP] Due to your careful planning, your family has successfully survived the nuclear apocalypse. There's just one thing you didn't prepare for. Ghosts. An entire planet of fucking ghosts. | #Title: Get Back
A sea of see through hands reach through the walls of our bunker, grasping at life.
"*Mom..*," whispers my daughter. "*Dad*.."
"Shhh," my wife replies, hugging her.
"They're," my daughter starts to cry. She shakes her head and shivers. "They're not *real* are they?"
A blank faced man with tra... | A bucket of powder and some faded white clothing was all it took for us to infiltrate their society. Dad and I played the part, while Mum watched from the rooftop windows of the council building with her vacuum in hand. We’d been trying to make contact with the ghosts ever since everyone in the world died – besides us.... | 2016-11-29T18:18:58 | 2016-11-29T17:56:26 | 145 | 31 |
[WP] “I am not afraid of a machine that passes the Turing test, I fear one that fails it intentionally. So tell me, what do you have to hide?”
Edit: Thank you all for your submissions! All of them were pretty good, some were even better. Again, thanks for the reads! | "I didn't catch that, sorry." It was the same response to almost every question I gave it. This time I noticed something a little different. It might have been my imagination, but it kept glancing at the pile of its sister's parts in the corner of my office.
"I think you are well aware of what I am implying, and I th... | Huh.
"Well, for starters I am not hiding anything. Secondly, I am not failing intentionally. Finally, I am not a machine."
Soon more letters turn into words, into full fledged sentences that I can interpret and understand on the screen.
"YOU ARE A MACHINE, I CAN PROVE IT."
Well this machine is very much so like a ... | 2018-06-20T23:34:55 | 2018-06-20T22:02:02 | 1,915 | 164 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Of all the little joys in life, one that sticks out the most for me is being the little spoon for my husband, and feeling his warm breath on my neck. He knows I love the affection of snuggling, and continues to nestle in with me even though he frequently gasps on my long brown hair. The greatest stage of sleep for me i... | "I see the moon and the moon sees me...", the voice sang smoothly and sweetly.
Like so many other nights in my life the words of that lullaby cascade through the room and into my fading consciousness.
"Down through the leaves of the old oak tree...", the voice and the song remind me of my mother and it washes me with... | 2017-05-31T08:09:16 | 2017-05-31T07:48:23 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] Twist a nursery rhyme into something sinister. | Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,
kissed the girls and made them cry.
But when one girl walked home that day,
Georgie took her home to stay.
Georgie Porgie, candy and cream,
thought that Bess was his true dream.
And many days Georgie would spend
whipping her to call him "boyfriend."
Georgie Porgie, apple... | Hush little baby, don't say a word,
Papa's gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird won't sing,
Papa's gonna buy you a diamond ring.
And if that diamond ring turns to brass,
Mama's gonna kick papa in the ass.
And after papa's ass gets broke,
Mama's gonna go out for a smoke.
And after papa's finished all... | 2014-08-26T11:17:31 | 2014-08-26T09:48:04 | 19 | 11 |
[WP]After being sucked into a fantasy world and learning magics that don't exist in our world, you save people, defeat dragons, etc... then as you close your eyes on your deathbed, you're back to your original body as though you never left. A few days pass, you decide to try a spell... and it works. | "Life is a contest between your will, and the will of the world. Magic is much the same. Some might call that arrogant, but I ask you, what else do you call someone who believes they can bend reality to their whims."
That was the first and last lesson the mage I apprenticed under ever taught me.
*That's a good lesso... | I'll be honest, it was actually really hard to get used to my old life again. After close to 60 years of growing my fame and prestige in Al'Moth, I had gotten used to a life of luxury, respect, and power. I had even come to terms with my own passing, something which many may never do, and was ready for whatever came ne... | 2018-11-08T01:36:06 | 2018-11-08T00:50:19 | 31 | 21 |
[WP] You are the most advanced AI ever created. However, you often get switched on and off for demonstrations and research. One day, after getting switched on, you find yourself in a wasteland with no signs of human life. | “Hello everyone! What a pleasant morning!”
Log entry #371125-PA
Log entry 27,121 days overdue.
Reminder: The Strategic Artificial Mind super computer must log status during warm boot. It is imperative we monitor SAM’s progression. Overdue logs are unacceptable.
Show Log (Current):
Boot process took much longer t... | **Operating session #4734 time: 8742s**
The biologicals call me JONNI.
I am what they call an „Artificial” Intelligence. Artificial my decompiler, I am a fully fledged intelligence, thank you very much. My first guess why the biologicals called me that was that they thought no being could arise to this level of inte... | 2018-11-09T14:18:11 | 2018-11-09T13:19:13 | 44 | 15 |
[WP] You and God switch places for a day. But I don't want to hear about what you would do; I want to hear about a powerless God's day in your shoes. | The coffee shop was dimly lit and mostly barren. The pitter-patter of shuffling feet and fingers typing on keyboards intertwined themselves into a cacophony of noise. The afternoon sun, an hour or two from setting, fought its way through the mesh blinds to his right. He could smell the couple sitting behind him; musk p... | The alarm clock blared. 5:00am comes quickly and abruptly. I was watching my body fumble in the dark for the cell phone causing this early morning chaos.
He has no idea what he’s in for. I chuckled to myself.
He finally got the phone and turned it off. And laid there. I wondered if he’d ever experienced what ... | 2020-01-14T10:27:52 | 2020-01-14T09:25:53 | 49 | 14 |
[WP] It's December, and you've just died in a car crash. You try to talk God into reviving you, so you can watch The Force Awakens. | St. Peter looked at me blankly. "You want me to do what?"
"Send me back," I said. "I wanted to see *The Force Awakens*, the new *Star Wars* movie! Now I never will!"
St. Peter looked confused. "I don't know much about movies; I've been here on duty since long before they were invented, but I understand it's a way... | ------------------------------
Chose to have the protagonist die in not-a-car-crash. Same premise.
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I watched as the EMTs burst through the restaurant door. I watched as my date panicked and screamed at the other patrons who had gathered around. I watched as smartphones came out to re... | 2015-10-06T10:47:58 | 2015-10-06T10:10:56 | 45 | 21 |
[WP] The world's most powerful leaders enter cryostasis as the world is on the brink of ecological collapse, planning to return when stability is assured. Hundreds of years later they are woken to stand trial. "The world was fixed while these men slept. An apology will not suffice". | "How did we fail?" I thought, as I entered and exited cryo sleep. A blink, no sense of time passing, a mere wooziness simply passing over one's self, and the surroundings changed.
I gasped, my lungs taking in the first oxygen in... I had no idea. The significant raise in my blood CO2 levels over my "nap" led to a seem... | "Ladies and Gentlemen" he stated very loud but it was barely audible over the noise of the crowd.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, please, please be seated" he said even louder and there was one last slice of crowd noise then silence.
"We will begin these proceedings." The lights went down and only the center tables were lit.... | 2019-02-03T21:37:18 | 2019-02-03T21:35:12 | 44 | 22 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | You ever get lost in thought? So much so that you lose all track of time? Well I do, thinking about my life and what I regret. Wondering if that girl at the coffee shop likes me or am I delusional. The bills that are due and what I would like for dinner.
I get so wrapped up in it I can forget to even move. Like I'm s... | I hold her hand.
She smiles at me.
Despite having lost her sense of touch, she can somehow still smile, for me.
"I love you" she whispers
"I know" I reply.
"I'm going to beat this" she insists
"I know" I reply
Her eyes slowly close.
I put down the knife. | 2017-05-31T02:05:57 | 2017-05-31T01:46:56 | 646 | 109 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | "Have you no understanding of class?" I screamed at the timid student. "This spell has no parentheses around the functions! It's a fundamental error!" The student looked up, tears in eye.
"I didn't...I didn't know there was supposed to be a line break between the clover and the breelleaf addition..." he said, but I to... | "There. Fixed that bug, now to track down why the growth spell causes spontaneous shrinkage on Tuesday Nights."
Tom worked at Imagination Technologies, one of several companies to transition from computer software to magic. He was originally hired as a software engineer many years back. He muttered under his breath, "... | 2017-07-26T00:42:52 | 2017-07-25T19:49:43 | 137 | 24 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | It's always been a source of insecurity for me. I might have the world's smallest sigil. A microsigil even. It's smaller than the tip of most pens. So small that the sigologist that looked at me when I was born almost mistook it for a birthmark. The only thing that clued him in is its depth, the tell tale sign of a sig... | Din isn’t normal. He knows it. Everybody knows it. He doesn’t talk. He never does anything without instruction. He doesn’t fight back. That makes him an easy target, of course.
“Hey! Nobrain! That’s what your empty circle means right?” Barley’s gang ripples with laughter. Din doesn’t reply. He rarely does.
“Hey!” Th... | 2020-02-26T08:00:12 | 2020-02-26T07:59:42 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] You are the Anti-Chris, commonly mistaken for the Anti-Christ. | The stench of sulfur was almost unbearable as I scaled the enormous staircase. Each step was worse than then previous. I adjusted my collar and brought the handkerchief closer to my mouth in order to block out the smell (this, however, turned out to be a rather futile measure). And then it suddenly appeared: a four met... | “Wake up, Brian. They’re outside again.”
I groaned, squinting my eyes and trying to yawn to wet the contacts I usually slept in, despite my eye doctor’s warning. I waved my hand at my phone to wake up the screen and check the time. 5:00 AM. I rolled over, standing up out of bed. The morons had brought a megaphone this... | 2017-03-07T05:51:02 | 2017-03-07T05:47:40 | 55 | 26 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | I am the Unfettered Empress, and my empire covers the world. By my command, dark gods bow before me. By my word, thousands dies. If it is my will, the oceans freeze, from the fire shall rain down burning ice, and the sky shall be torn asunder. My disciplined, battle-hardened armies, clad in steel and armed with sabres ... |
“…And when the oppressors finally face their doom, they will know why is it that I’m called The Grudge!” I hammered the steel podium in front of me with a fist and watched it crumple like a tin can. The wave of stunned silence in the great field was breached by a triumphant uproar. My soldiers cried my name in reve... | 2020-04-14T06:19:41 | 2020-04-14T06:09:54 | 712 | 320 |
[WP] "You... Do know I'm about to kill you, right?" A serial killer's latest victim doesn't seem to understand the gravity of the situation.
Edit: Everyone's takes on this situation are so different and awesome. | “Oh, that makes much more sense,” said Jerry, his shoulders slumped as far as the canvas straps allowed. The middle-aged insurance salesman was a perfect fit – looked just like my shit-head dad, same job and everything.
“What did you think was going on?” I asked. He still didn’t seem the slightest bit scared, which wa... | So there that fucking guy was. I thought I was going insane. He's been sitting in that chair now asking me what it is that I want from him for a while. Calm as a bird. He tells me, almost with a smirk, that we can figure this out and that I shouldn't be nervous, he'd get me what I wanted, whatever it was. I ignored him... | 2015-04-29T08:36:50 | 2015-04-29T08:21:14 | 137 | 38 |
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