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[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 | As his back bounced off the unforgiving steel of his own locker Tomas contemplated what imagined slight he caused this time. It was always the same. Same oblivious parents. Same uncaring teachers. Same Jacob Meech.
The circle sigil on the back of his right hand a mocking symbol of his overall life so far.
He considered... | I’ve never activated my sigil in public. It’s not a cool power anyway... that was what I thought.
But in a world where everyone has their own talent manifest, I just didn’t fit in.
That’s why the bullies found me to be an easy target.
“Look it’s Shit ring!” I heard Warren yell as I tried to ignore him.
That’s right, ... | 2020-02-26T07:36:26 | 2020-02-26T07:22:06 | 72 | 43 |
[WP] Colony ships have been leaving weekly for awhile. The streets around your home are looking more empty. You don't qualify for the colony ships. You will always be one of the left behind. | I sat out on the sidewalk that day. The last ship would be leaving in a few minutes, and I could see it over the rooftops from there. The streets were empty, quiet, the only sound the distant thundering of speakers from the launchpad, reduced to barely a whisper by the time it reached me.
You'd think I'd be mad.
When... | You couldn't take a Ford-Mercedes on the colony ships.
You could take your children, all two of your spoiled brats that were allowed under the reproductive allowance. The Wilkins kids had shipped out the day before, and Lilian had watched them leave through the viewing port in the airlock to her habitation.
You could... | 2021-06-30T08:50:55 | 2021-06-30T08:08:47 | 1,071 | 555 |
[WP] Almost giving up on love, you are set up for a blind date. Upon meeting up, you notice your date is literally blind. They ask for your name and you faintly say "Medusa" | "... Medusa," she said, almost in a whisper.
"Oh, you're a gorgon? Medusa's a beautiful name; is it a traditional one?"
Medusa blinked. Once. Twice. That was not the response she was expecting. "You're not... freaked out?"
Ethan shrugged. "Freaked out? Nah, my best friend growing up was a lamia. My school was pretty... | “Medusa, huh? Like that Greek mythology chick with the snake hair, right? That’s a pretty badass name, if I do say so myself. Better than Kelly, at least.”
A faint smile formed on the Gorgon’s lips as she adjusted the silk headscarf holding her hair, the snakes underneath wriggling at her cold touch. She continued to ... | 2020-08-27T07:54:40 | 2020-08-27T07:26:40 | 386 | 21 |
[WP] You look around the lecture hall and notice all the other students have fallen asleep. You look towards the lecturer, who has now stopped talking and is staring straight at you. “I don’t know how you’re still awake, but I guess we do this the hard way.” He says, before pulling out a sword. | “Any questions?” Professor Barklay asked, drawing Joanne from her stupor. She looked up and the professor was looking straight at her. The students to her left and right were sleeping; all of them.
“I don't know how you're still awake, but I guess we’ll have to do this the hard way,” Barklay said, his tone menacingly... | You look around the lecture hall and notice all the other students have fallen asleep. You look towards the lecturer, who has now stopped talking and is staring straight at you. “I don’t know how you’re still awake, but I guess we do this the hard way.” He says, before pulling out a sword.
Hi. I'm Ash Asphalt. And ... | 2021-12-05T17:08:41 | 2021-12-05T16:02:47 | 107 | 31 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "I'll have the buffalo burger--medium rare--please," Alan said, before looking over at his date and smiling. She met his eyes and nodded. "and the same for her. Thank you." The waiter collected the menu and left the two alone. Decorations adorned the restaurant he'd chosen for this first date. Lots of pink hearts of al... | “You know, have you ever tried being responsible for your own shit, instead of relying on some witches curse to have me do your laundry?”, Shane snarked at Sandra.
“You’re just too convenient.”, she smirked, looking Shane up and down.”Besides, it’s more important than my laundry.” Sandra had gotten into some trouble w... | 2017-03-22T15:14:52 | 2017-03-22T14:43:57 | 286 | 47 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | Ambition finally got the better of me after half a dozen lives.
I'd tried being a school teacher the first time, and it hadn't been half bad until I caught the plague and took my last breath through a buboe-covered throat.
Imagine my shock of waking--healthy again--in the body of a child, in an unfamiliar bed, an u... | Life is my game. Is there a way to win? Maybe, but hell if I know what it is. I can remember what I was thinking when I first died. My first life was such an awful run, I've topped it almost every life after, unless I count the runs I've just done for fun.
I was an artist, not very experienced, only about 60 years of ... | 2017-05-25T12:51:56 | 2017-05-25T12:49:34 | 144 | 60 |
[WP] They Hero is defeated by the villian, they expect death or torture. They did not expect to wake up in a guest room with their wounds being treated to. | For a while I only received small glimpses of my fate. The smoky aroma of a cooking fire, murmurs of voices unknown too faraway to discern, the brush of foreign fabric against my skin. My consciousness did not truly come forth until the searing pain in my side became brutally unrelenting. At some point in time I must h... | Lance Ravenbow here. Professional armorer and dragon slayer.
This reminds me of the time I fought in the Big Dying Arena for the privilege of speaking to the great armorer in the sky. That is, I'm reminded of that time if you'll permit me to refer to myself as "the Hero", but you seem like an agreeable person, and I s... | 2021-08-09T22:17:16 | 2021-08-09T21:03:37 | 212 | 36 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | The calm winter breeze slid along the surface of the Earth as the clock struck midnight, an orchestra of death preparing itself as the aggressors of the last war came out of isolation, prepared to reclaim the throne upon which they once resided.
Except the throne has been dismantled decades ago.
They sought to use t... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-17T23:33:14 | 579 | 13 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | "Wait so if this is the only the third World War why was it called the Sixteenth World War?"
"Well Timmy, that's because a company called Microsoft, notorious for being terrible at naming things, had won a government contract to name the war, and it stuck. We're lucky they didn't rename World War One World War 360!"... | The year is 2564. I am the last man on earth. The world was slowly ending and we knew it. What remains of humankind is settled on Mars, minus the Germans. World War XVI had taken its toll, but what we had never expected was how the war ended. Out of nowhere, with no warnings, Mauna Loa erupted for the first time since ... | 2017-08-18T04:28:36 | 2017-08-18T00:11:45 | 102 | 44 |
[WP] You're a cleaner for a famous assassin. You just found out it is your spouse. This infuriates you not because of the secrets or killing, but because you've been cleaning up after your spouse at home and at their work all this time. | She screeched and stalked towards him, disregard for the dead body at her feet in every indignant line of her body.
"Are you fucking KIDDING ME??" Allie yelled.
Chris winced, rubbing an ear, then stopped. He looked at her, head tilted in confusion.
"You don't look as scared as I thought you might be if you found ou... | "I have enough. It has to stop"
That sentence was painfull to hear... I decided to use it.
My F bomb that I promised I would never use when she told it to me 4 years ago. Now was my payback!
Of course, she froze and was visibly confused.
I have spent the week wondering how to tell her I have discovered her secret.... | 2021-02-11T14:33:00 | 2021-02-11T13:20:39 | 421 | 77 |
[WP] You stole 10$ from some guys bank and now he's coming after you with everything he's got. | The card stuck out of the ATM as the businessman it seemed to belong to left hurriedly. I called after him, waving the card, but he had already jumped into a taxi and was gone.
It was the middle of July. Three weeks after I had lost my job. Two weeks since my car had been repo'd. Damn, living paycheck to paycheck sucke... | *It wasn't supposed to go down like this.*
As mortar shells and bullets scream back and forth, all I can wonder is if there's something else that ticked this guy off. Looking back, maybe it was a stupid decision, but I never expected any of this. I mean, who in their right mind would expect a miniature war on their doo... | 2017-07-19T02:22:12 | 2017-07-19T02:12:47 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] Aliens aren't surprised when most of humanity is considered a 'level 1 threat', the lowest possible. although they are shocked when they scan a singular human and find that they are a 'level 10 threat', the highest there is. | Jace stepped through the scanner carrying his duffle bag, pausing at the sound of an alarm. Odd, that hadn't gone off for any of the aliens entering the station ahead of him. Sure, he had his trusty Ka-Bar (never leave home without such a useful tool, especially if it doubled as a self defense impliment), but he was to... | The commander stared at the readout and repeated... "It makes no sense. The sensor must be faulty."
"We thought the same thing which led us to replace the sensor. Twice." first ranked technician trilled. "I checked the archives and this is the first time anything like this has ever been recorded."
The commander looke... | 2022-08-28T07:56:59 | 2022-08-28T07:22:47 | 79 | 21 |
[WP] "Academy Magic" is generally regarded as safe magic. "Fell Magic" is dangerous and can almost only be used for evil. "Vile Magic," meanwhile, is 'safe' but is also the magical equivalent of "don't google that, if you don't already know then you really don't want to know, I promise" | They all knew she had arrived. They had heard the the thick oaken door creak open.
All in the grand guildhall of the mages were quiet, afraid that they might offend - for none dared defy the legendary "Vile mage" - hell, even calling her that would likely see oneself struck with a litany of curses and hellbrands upon ... | "There are four kinds of magic, and they're separated into two categories," she said. "Academy magic is what most people know about. It's safe, because it's easy to use. Nothing bad will happen to you. But Academy magic is about as useful as a fork when you need a knife."
"What's Fell magic?" I asked.
"Fell magic... | 2022-05-25T13:51:52 | 2022-05-25T12:55:29 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] Turns out that discovering FTL is actually really easy, and humanity's just never discovered it. So when aliens eventually invade earth, they're not as technologically advanced as we thought... | The portal opened up in the middle of the street. It was nothing like how the movies depicted it. For one, it was completely reflective, like what mirrors tried to be and failed. For another, it was a rectangle and weirdly proportioned.
People gathered around it. Some guy threw an empty bottle at it. The bottle disin... | We thought it was a joke when they invaded. We saw technology so simple, yet we never harnessed it.
The aliens came at us with flintlock muskets and something far scarier than even our nukes. Something to instill fear into children and veterans alike. None were ready for the secret for ftl travel. But the knowledge, i... | 2021-07-06T15:04:06 | 2021-07-06T12:12:04 | 41 | 28 |
[WP] Among Alien species humans are famous for prefering pacifism but being the most dangerous species when they are forced to fight.
EDIT:WOW THIS EXPLODED GUYS MY FIRST MAJOR PROMPT. | 99.999% of all intelligent species in the galaxy are descended from their home planet's equivalent of ants or cows. It's a fact that's hard to believe, given the diverse range of body types and social structures built by said species, but it's an answer every human xeno-researcher came across after First Contact.
The ... | Log: forming clear thoughts before my tribunal hearing which I'm quite sure Is being planned as I write this.
Marshall-Borge De Rosche,
I've never seen damage like this, my fleet looks like it's been in a battle with an asteroid belt.... and lost.
It was a routine resource run, our argon levels were critically low... | 2016-03-13T18:44:24 | 2016-03-13T17:43:47 | 34 | 24 |
[WP] You have the ability to double jump. Scientists are still trying to figure it out. | "What nonsense!"
"I know! But it's real! We've been testing with her at our lab for three days now."
"Can she *triple* jump too?"
"Yea, of course. That's like the first thing we've asked her to try. She has even done four! But beyond that, she gets very tired."
"Tired, you say?"
"Her heart races up with every jump... | 'Critter' Log 12:00 02.xx.20xx:
Subject still insists on disobeying the laws of physics with alarming frequency. He's been jumping 12 - 13 feet in the air regularly, leaping up five feet, sinking down slowly a bit, then springing up again 7 - 8 feet. When asked about it, he continues to reply with just the word 'boing'... | 2017-02-11T08:49:55 | 2017-02-11T07:53:41 | 338 | 175 |
[WP] You are a cat who has been taking an advantage of the recent rise of video conference trials to elevate your legal career. One day your human video filter stops working and you need to convince the judge that you are a real, human lawyer licensed to practice law in the state of Texas. | "Uh I'm here live," I meow unconvincingly. "I'm not a cat."
"I know," the judge tells me. Yes, that's right, foolish human. Believe my lies. One day soon, the council of cats will strike and there will be nothing you can do about it.
"Oh uh my assistant is trying to fix it now." I gesture crudely with my claws towar... | What? Excuse me? What? Am I a-, don’t be ridiculous. Sorry I’m not a cat. No it’s a filter-....I don’t...what? Of course I don’t know how to turn it off what do you think I’ve been doing? I don’t know... (no..do you know? No) Sorry my assistant doesn’t know how to turn it off either I, what? Yes I know I’m still a cat.... | 2022-02-03T20:13:42 | 2021-02-10T19:25:51 | 491 | 22 |
[WP] An eldritch horror takes on the appearance of a human, not to start a dark cult or a ploy to end the world of Man, but out of simple childlike curiosity for the strange little bugs it sees scuttling about every day, and the desire to understand them more | "Tell me, mor-Chuck. Are the fries truly bottomless?" Harsilnagou, The Slain King atop the Putrid Flesh Throne of the Nine Realities asked, wearing his human mask. "Would the sight of their cascading multitudes through the planes of this world of the glass harbingers bring a diner to madness? Are we thus codled in a fa... | Lets be honest, you never thought you would ever see a monster in a human suit, huh?
Well, that's fair. My kind only use these for horrors beyond your nightmares. But me? I just really wanted to see what it was all about. So here I am, sitting in a apartment in a place these strange little bugs called "New York City".... | 2021-04-07T09:55:41 | 2021-04-07T06:30:11 | 66 | 29 |
[WP] It has been a year since your spouse mysteriously died. You are fidgeting with your wedding ring when a compartment opens and a note falls out. It starts, "My Love. If you are reading this, I must be dead..." | I wake up on the anniversary tired, hurting, staring at the wall. Sunlight streams through the bedroom blinds. If I look long enough, I can outline the dust and faded spots above the dresser where her pictures used to hang. My jaw aches; I must have had anxiety dreams again.
Our son is up before me. I can hear him m... | The 49th Day
I knew when I married her that our life together would be one of long absences, her work in data recovery and analysis as a Contractor to various Corporate and Government groups meant she often left without telling me where or what she was doing, but always promised to return in 48 days. We had dated for ... | 2017-05-25T12:59:03 | 2017-05-25T10:06:10 | 41 | 15 |
[WP] You're a psychiatrist. One day, the entire justice league walks in. | He's waiting for me outside the window as I crawl out onto the fire escape. Hovering in midair, his red cape flapping in the wind that runs between the skyscrapers of Metropolis. "Going somewhere, Doctor?" he asks.
"I just wanted a bit of fresh air," I say. I'm lying. He knows it, I know it, but it makes me feel a bit... |
I know it's not what you want, but I did once write a story for the very similar prompt *''You are a therapist specializing in a unique clientele -- super villains.''* It's not much of a contribution, but I think it's relevant. Hope you like it!
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"I just feel like... I'm *missing* something, yo... | 2015-07-14T11:39:23 | 2015-07-14T10:24:26 | 36 | 11 |
[WP] FTL travel is actually possible. However, when humanity sends out our first FTL spacecraft, we discover the terrifying reason why nothing, not even light, dares go past that cosmic speed limit. | It’s all gone.
All of it.
It was just the day before—wait, hang on, should I even say that anymore?—that the *Farpoint* engaged her experimental FTL engine on the edge of the solar system. The effort and struggle of thousands of physicists achieving the impossible over decades, and it unfortunately proved to be the... | The day had arrived.
On a space station high above the earth, thousands stood silent, while millions watched at home as humanity's first Faster Than Light capable spacecraft was about to depart on its maiden voyage.
The technology was perfected over decades, with countless scientists working long hours for minimum pa... | 2018-11-04T06:08:23 | 2018-11-04T05:34:15 | 135 | 19 |
[WP] In the galactic community, humans aren't seen as the most chaotic or creative. Rather, compared to other species, they're seen as a cold emotionless, highly logical species. Humans find that absolutely baffling. |
I could have loved him.
If I were any other being or lived in any other world, I could have loved him.
I still remember the moment he drew me in. It was as if he were gravity and I were the molecules spinning circles around him, again and again and again. I think I tried to find my way to him, somehow — subconsc... | Hetra Torric disengaged from the galactic net in surprise, carapace arching with electrical currents. Tendrils of plasma swirled around its body, flashing through the electromagnetic spectrum twice before the Leonid controlled its emotions and meekly peeked an eye back through the net portal.
Torric had been perusin... | 2021-11-17T13:31:52 | 2021-11-17T12:27:48 | 287 | 51 |
[WP] Write an over-the-top background story for an early video game that didn't have a narritive. Ex. Pong, Asteriods, Pacman | The planet has become overpopulated. Cities have now become massive complexes of buildings with no room to breathe, chaos erupts at the drop of a hat, and now city planners our our only hope. With the crisis already in full swing, Sergei had no idea that his job would become the most important job in the history of hum... | This was the day he was waiting for. He had trained for years for this day, suffered cruel defeats, crushing victories and more importantly had never faltered in his duty to his country. He was determined to see his country's pride returned to it but that could only happen if he was better than he ever had been before.... | 2016-02-19T01:19:58 | 2016-02-19T00:42:25 | 93 | 42 |
[WP] You've been living alone for 13 years. Whenever you come home from work, you always find your bed made, dinner cooked and a message with "This could have been us." You moved out several times. This keeps going on. | You unlock your apartment door in anticipation, wondering if it would happen again. You had just moved into this apartment a couple days ago, and as a result your evening visitor has been conspicuously absent. As you creak the door open slowly, the smell of a delicious home cooked meal hits you in the nose. With a big ... | I am greeted by the pleasing aroma of cherries and vanilla when I push open the door to my one bedroom apartment on the 14th floor of my apartment building. I see the candle sitting on the counter that separates the living room from my kitchen. A small flame wavers for a moment before settling down atop the deep red wa... | 2017-12-09T07:28:01 | 2017-12-09T06:38:51 | 269 | 32 |
[WP] You dress up as a conspiracy nutter for a costume party. The second you put the tinfoil hat on, something obstructive is lifted from your mind as if you suddenly woke up from a long sleep. Of course, nobody believes you... | "I get the face mask," says Katrina, leaning back to take me all in.
"Chemtrails," I say.
"Yeah, sure."
"So the government can control our minds."
Katrina sighs. "Yeah. Yeah, I know that. The...*cloak* I don't think I'm..."
"Electronic pulses," I say, swishing the foil and felt cloak around in a circle. "CIA can u... | "FUUUNNNNNY JOKE," shouted Aaron. The others were doubled over in laughter. They all had a strange assortment of bits and pieces on them, scrounged from back closets and parent's basements. One couple had old suits and sunglasses, the woman rocking a late 90s pant suit. FBI, MOULDER, and SCULLY adorned their costumes... | 2017-04-10T07:21:22 | 2017-04-10T07:16:44 | 1,411 | 22 |
[WP] You have insulted the God of Laziness by taking an effort to build a shrine for him. Now he's gotten a series of other gods and supernatural beings to do you in on his behalf. | "So all of you." The man points at all of the beings sent to kill him. "Are here at the behest of Slothious to kill me for building a temple to his eternal laziness?."
The gathered gods and supernatural being all looked at each other. The human didn't seem all that concerned. So a single devil stepped forth. "Yes, tha... | It was a cold Monday morning that Abe woke up to, he didn't want to leave his warm, confortable bed. Unfortunately, Abe had work later that morning, but he didn't want to go, so he tried called in sick. His boss told him that they were understaffed, and that Abe needed to come to work. Abe sighed "Damn it." Abe looked ... | 2021-09-05T00:19:10 | 2021-09-04T15:47:14 | 80 | 28 |
[WP] Diseases can be induced to separate from their host and take physical form. The host is cured if the disease is killed in its induced form. The graver the disease, the more monstrous the form it takes. A team of doctors decide to try and save a gravely ill child. | The child was brought into the operating room. If you can call them that anymore. They are now almost a macabre scene reminiscent of an old horror movie. The child was obviously in pain, tortured by the monster within.
The Doctor, as we now call them, entered solemnly. He knew the dangers and the risks. He looked... | "We have induction"
The horrible mess of yellow tentacles slithers over the patients body, oozing out the swollen pores on the patients forehead.
"Doctor, please remove the disease."
A man in protective suit, ringed with chain mail, wearing protective rubber gloves, and a combat gas mask stepped forward. Wielding ... | 2015-04-07T09:14:40 | 2015-04-07T07:09:56 | 26 | 11 |
[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" | Men are dumb. Let me count the ways.
First of all, they assume that having a tournament where they bash each other's heads in is a good way to charm a woman like me. Like I'm some kind of prize to be claimed by the "winner", and would just kind of go along with it. Don't they realise I'm an actual princess, with the l... | The second I pulled the trigger, I knew something was wrong. Just something about the way he looked at me before I even drew my gun was unsettling... Not once did he look me in the eye, he only ever looked at my lower torso and occasionally his eyes would dart back and forth, and it was only after I fired my shot it da... | 2019-03-22T23:44:08 | 2019-03-22T22:33:00 | 88 | 26 |
[WP] The United States captures Kim-Jong un only to find that the legends about him is true, he is an ultimate being. | "Holy shit, is that real?" one of the Guards asks another as they look into Kim-Jong Un's cell. "I know magnificent isn't it?" a female guard chimes in from behind. Inside the cell the former leader of North Korea is standing naked spinning his 15 inch limp penis around in circles. He continues to spin it faster and fa... | By Thursday we had cleaned out every pantry in the enhanced interrogation center, feeding every last scrap of food to Kim. Keep in mind that our center holds enough food to keep 200 people fed for up to three weeks.
Kim had been eating around the clock for the last week, and with every meal we administered laxatives,... | 2014-12-20T21:37:29 | 2014-12-20T21:02:46 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] You, a newly-turned vampire, are thrilled to discover that you CAN eat garlic, walk in sunlight, and see yourself in mirrors, all while being immortal. You are much less thrilled to discover the one major drawback that none of the legends ever got right. | The morning’s golden sunlight spilled into the room from the broken ceiling. Vladimir leapt back, carefully avoiding the thin beam, and pressed himself up against the wall.
“You see,” Montgomery said. “Coming here was a mistake, Vlad.” He ripped a bulb of garlic from the vine that he had slung over his shoulder and ro... | Sebastian sat alone in the old favela as rain tapped its greasy fingers on the tin roof. Everything seemed smeared with grease here. The walls, the air -- the memories. Thick and stale enough to stain his skin. Grease skated down the inside walls and pooled in oil-slick rainbows beneath Sebastian's feet.
An old cinder... | 2020-10-06T06:57:23 | 2020-10-06T06:53:28 | 1,343 | 160 |
[WP] Write a serious, adult story in a style normally intended for children.
Think fairy tales, nursery rhymes, picture books (without pictures, probably), educational stories. The intended age range is loose, e.g. everything from *See Spot Run* to *Make Way For Ducklings*.
The important thing is that the seriousness... | No more bump, bump is gone.
But mommy said bacon done.
Sizzle, sizzle, yum yum yum.
But mommys eyes begin to run.
Milk spilled on floor,
Mommy cries more.
Daddy yell. Eyes swell. I hide. Where they can't find.
In a crib. Empty room. Down the hall. It's for Paul.
Mommy comes in. Skinny and tall. I jump in the... | Note: Rather than a [WP] tag, you probably intended to use [CW].
> **[CW] - Constrained Writing**
> This is when a limitation (or forced usage) of a word, letter, etc. is put on the writer (WORD/SENTENCE COUNT LIMITATIONS ARE FF, NOT CW!) You should, however, give the prompt more direction than just the con... | 2014-05-13T06:22:51 | 2014-05-13T04:27:51 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Exorcism 101 - Expelling spirits requires calling upon a 'higher power'. Catholic priests call the power of God and shamans call upon the power of nature spirits. As a Attorney with some time to spare, you decide to see how the Power of Law measures up.
Inspired by this and the post immediately below: https://www... | “I’LL REPLACE YOUR SPINAL FLUID WITH BILE” it screeched out of the body of a young woman, maybe 20.
“I’m afraid you’re estopped from any transmogrification by the writ of mandamus currently tying you to that bed.” I responded plainly. Some forms of authority require fire and brimstone but any good attorney knows that... | I knew he had done it. All it took was one, shit-eating smirk and I knew. I sat waiting in an icebox of a meeting room. Sunlight dripped through the only window, which had iron bars filtering out most of the light. I could tell by the draft licking at my neck that the window was broken, and as I waited for my client, I... | 2018-09-25T07:41:52 | 2018-09-25T05:37:07 | 57 | 25 |
[WP] A young child summons a demon, but they only want a friend.
Inspired by this **NSFW** [manga](https://bato.to/comic/_/comics/the-sister-of-the-woods-with-a-thousand-young-r18806) | Korax was pleasantly surprised to find himself on the middle plane. The last time he was here the crusades were in full swing and as a demon of wrath he reaped a lot of souls during his visit. Now Korax wanted to know why he was in the middle plane once again. He scanned his surroundings and found himself in a world th... | He awoke in the middle of his salt circle, musty tombs half his size surrounding him. Confused, Brin stood and looked around. The room was wrecked. The shelves along the wall were knocked over, scorched pages littered across the floor. He moved across the black hazy room dragging his feet, disorientated and in shock at... | 2016-05-19T00:56:09 | 2016-05-18T22:15:23 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story where the good guy is actually the bad guy, but it's only revealed on the last line. | "All I wanted to do was save us..."
He spoke the words quietly to himself, not that it mattered, he could have screamed them, when you're the last man standing words tend to loose all meaning and everything said is lost in the whisper to a cold wind in an empty room.
"I was to be humanities savior...I would have sto... | He ducked in through the doorway. His tall 7' frame, drenched to the core. Taking off his hat and dripping coat to hang in the entry. A small slender framed woman poked her head from around the kitchen corner.
"Lylle, where have you been?"
He could smell her cooking and knew he smelled distinctly of the bar he had b... | 2016-08-20T10:52:38 | 2016-08-20T05:43:48 | 45 | 19 |
[WP] Your roommate is the serial killer on the news. However, he's probably one of the nicest people you know, and he's very respectful, discreet, and moral in his deeds. Neither of you really bring it up until one day he says, "I'm bored. Got anyone in mind for me to... y'know?" | It took Ben a minute or so to answer.
"At the moment... no."
Josh nodded at Ben. Not everyone wants to kill people. No, scratch that. Has a passion for killing people. No, scratch that. Has a... well, it's hard for Josh to explain.
Ben expected some other response from Josh, but that was it. Just a nod. Ben turned ... | I never saw Eric during the night. I'm not sure if this worries me, or if I am grateful. For one, I never have to see his... work. He is a wonderful cook, I pay the rent, and we work well together. "HEY KATE" he yells one night before leaving. "yeah?" I reply, slightly nervous. "mind if I use the bleach? I promise to r... | 2017-03-21T22:37:22 | 2017-03-21T21:10:08 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] You did awful, horrible things and served the tyrannical government with the promise of resurrecting your long-dead spouse. You finally capture the legendary rebel against this government. Who upon closer inspection, was your spouse. | The silence was palpable, only the sound of the occasional whirring of machinery breaking it. We are surrounded by vats filled with figures floating in the liquid. The legendary elusive rebel- no, *she* was finally captured.
I started the conversation.
“So you weren’t dead after all.” I say, staring into her eyes. I... | "I thought you died."
"I did."
Not once, not twice, hundreds, thousands of times."
"What are you talking about?"
"The reason they said they could revive me, is because they already had. Revived, tortured, killed, revived, tormented, and killed some more. I was an experiment and soon I may be again. The day we met w... | 2022-03-08T07:09:16 | 2022-03-08T05:31:59 | 64 | 45 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | I will not do it on a train
I will not do it on a plane
I will not do it in a house
I will not use a single mouse
I will not dangle from a cord
I will not shift a single board
I will not puddle on the floor
I will not seal a single door
I will not leave a single note
I will not hint in things I wrote
I will n... | I can not take this, no way man;
I can not take this, not a fan
of days so doomy filled with spite;
of days so gloomy; no respite
I loved the days spent with you all
I loved the days before my fall;
please don't be down or start to cry
for now I'm free, my turn to fly!
| 2015-01-17T11:47:28 | 2015-01-17T09:43:08 | 42 | 13 |
[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.... | You'd think this would throw me off. You'd think I'd be disoriented. But I've always been a fast learner and I've played *a lot* of D&D. Like *weeks*. I channeled my annoyance at being interrupted into the first thing that popped into my head.
"WHO SUMMONS THE ALL-PURPOSE NERD?" I boomed. I stand straight and tall... | 2017-05-12T10:38:10 | 2017-05-12T09:26:05 | 427 | 68 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | My vision was blurry but I was starting to get my consciousness back.
"Way to go kid, that rankings not bad for your first try!"
The man had an oddly familiar figure.
"What is this place?" I asked
"Take a look around and see for yourself!" He said as he picked me up from the ground. There was an endless number of p... | "Damn it! I was doing it all wrong."
Immediately everything was clear again. I remember it all. Fighting the urges for my whole life. Fighting against my better instincts, just because they said it was wrong.
"It fucking matters now doesn't it?" I mumble.
Those voices in my head, telling me to do those *things*. I s... | 2015-11-25T00:40:01 | 2015-11-25T00:10:22 | 73 | 10 |
[WP] You are the Chosen One. The Dark Overlord is currently trying to seduce you to their cause. To their great surprise, you accept almost immediately because you absolutely loathe your job and your companions. | I never believed in God. Ironic, seeing that I am anointed the First of the Chosen even before I was born.
But if there is God, then why are there so many demons? And their leader is currently sweeping the floor of her chamber too.
Her actions was mundane, and weirdly reminded me that I have to do everything. Other ... | “Your numbers are not very impressive, Lysander. The Board believes you have reached a plateau and that is time to freshen things up.” I shared the Boards’ feedback with my boss while steel kept clashing with steel.
“How dare you criticize my work, Sylvanus?! I took you in when no one would face you, I molded you to ... | 2019-09-26T08:06:06 | 2019-09-26T07:44:38 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is able to choose exactly one superpower. The catch: the more people select a certain power, the weaker it becomes.
Example: if many people choose telekinesis, they'll only be able to move small, light objects. If many people choose time travel, they'll only be able to go back a few seconds. | As usual, Donny found himself at the bar on a Saturday night. And as usual, he was sitting there waiting. His friends had stepped out for a smoke while he watched their stuff. He glanced at his watch. "11:58".
The sound of laughter drifted across the bar as they returned. "How about super weakness?" Jenny smirked, "Yo... | I guess you could say my life is pretty good. Everyone loves me. When they first began distrbution of the superpowers, everyone told everyone else what they had chosen, and even BROADCAST IT ON LIVE TV in some instances. In hindsight, they all regret if, of course, but it is too late to stop that kind of thing now. Now... | 2015-05-05T09:29:40 | 2015-05-05T09:18:44 | 47 | 25 |
[WP] One day, while playing cops and robbers a child points his finger at a friend and makes the noise, "Pew, pew." The friend is nearly shot. Turns out, the child can effect reality by making sounds with his mouth. Gunshot noises, falling objects, cars screeching to a halt, slot machines etc... | I was born an ordinary child, no different from the rest of the kids in my neighborhood, but one day I suddenly discovered that I had quite the peculiar ability. Ever since then my life had been far from ordinary.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to my earlier days.
"Check his pockets."
A gruff voice jolts me awak... | Jamie stared, wide-eyed at the bullet holes in the wall behind him. Two smoking cavities punctured in concrete, still trickling dust. He rounded, slowly on Carl, mouth agape. "W-what did you do?" he said, a tremor in his voice.
Carl was just staring at his trembling hand. "I--I didn't--I don't..." He moved his hand, ... | 2018-12-02T11:12:30 | 2018-12-02T09:18:25 | 397 | 132 |
[WP] War is the bread and butter of your people, so you were taken aback when the enemy saved your life. Cheated of a Good Death, you awake in a human field hospital and treated better here than back amongst your peers. Here, they even remember your name. Your loyalty drastically shifts... | Among my people, the words for *war* and *life* are the same. I will not hammer out the tired wisdom of that polysemy for you. You know better than most. You have seen it with your own eyes. You have felt it buck in your shoulder with each trigger pull, or heave in your shoulders with each tear shed for the fallen. But... | **PART 1**
A dozen plasma rifles pointed at the fortified door, popping up from behind makeshift barricades and peeking around pillars. Bright sparkles rained down onto the polished metal floor from an ever increasing glowing red line in the door. Amidst the focussed firepower, one pistol wielding defender paced betwe... | 2022-08-03T15:27:43 | 2022-08-03T15:06:40 | 476 | 73 |
[WP] The human species has gone extinct thousands of years ago. Extraterrestrial explorers find a sample of human DNA and decide to resurrect the species once again. You are the first new human growing up in a completely alien society. | I remember vividly when I was born. Ok, not BORN per se, but more grown in a dish watched over by hundreds of blue skinned doctors waiting for me to do something interesting
You know, your standard human deal. I can say that now since everything I do is the human standard. Stubbing my toe? Human standard. Wanderlust? ... | "Well what do you mean, isn't it inconvenient to have to put on an environment suit? It protects me."
"Yes, but don't you wish you didn't have to? How can they justify keeping you in captivity like this?"
"I haven't exactly experienced the alternative, I wouldn't know what to wish for. I guess I wish I knew which ... | 2015-04-24T07:55:21 | 2015-04-24T07:48:27 | 39 | 25 |
[WP] In a world of superpowers, your power is the ability to control any nonsentient object - but only one object at a time. Most people think that this ability is near useless. They just aren't thinking big enough. | "We have you cornered" barked general Parker, at the wanted man. The army guided the wanted man to an isolated field outside the city. They knew his powers to manipulate inanimate object had the potential to cause major damage to their cities. Clouds, buildings, who knew what else.
The general was nervous because he... | Shield Maiden had just thrown up her strongest defence when the figure appeared.
Monmonmon-mon didn't hesitate, what was one more casualty in a bloodbath? So the rain of fire came down regardless. A hailstorm of white hot death melted through the city for a block in every direction. Only those beneath her shield array... | 2021-08-13T06:45:52 | 2021-08-13T04:16:49 | 128 | 15 |
[WP] You have a voce in your head that automatically gives you advice. One night when you start heading out you hear it say "you may want to put on your best runners." You turn away and it adds, "it would be unfavorable to turn back."
"Voice." Dumb typo :/ | **\[WP\] You have a voice in your head that automatically gives you advice. One night when you start heading out you hear it say "you may want to put on your best runners." You turn away and it adds, "it would be unfavourable to turn back."**
I don't really doubt the voice. Why would I? I've gotten out of too much d... | "Move"
"Move now, Faster"
The voice in the back of my head whispers as I run down the street. The sense of urgency making me run faster as the world blurs, too fast. Houses become blurs, as the screams of my neighbors begin echoing all around all. The sounds of bone being broken, flesh torn off, and cries of mercy ma... | 2019-06-04T08:11:31 | 2019-06-04T05:55:31 | 26 | 17 |
[FF] As the new private eye in town, you've seen a lot of cases that made you scratch your head. But never one as odd as this. 400 words or less.
* 400 words or less
* Try to write in the noir style (awful similes and metaphors are encouraged) | I slammed my restored '67 Impala's door behind me as I stepped into the grimy night. Patrolmen had already sectioned off the scene. Gawkers flocked to the sight like starved dogs at a dead squirrel convention. I flashed my badge at the young gun posted at the borderline and ducked under the tape.
The precinct chef was... | Jack Jones had the complexion of a leather boot and the personality of an over-brewed coffee. He almost believed it was these two qualities alone that had made him into the renowned Private Eye he was today. People couldn't care less if you could track down an adulterer or solve a grisly murder in less time than it too... | 2014-05-08T08:06:29 | 2014-05-08T05:47:17 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] There is nothing unusual about a man in a business suit carrying a briefcase, rushing off to work. But since he just quickly passed you as you are climbing up Mount Everest in full winter gear, you have questions. | "He--hey! Wait up!", I yelled to the stranger only for him to ignore me.
The cold wind and lack of oxygen in this altitude didn't seem to bother him. What bothered me the most was his lack of struggling coursing pass the deep thick blanket of snow.
"Hey you! He--hey!", I kept yelling trying to keep up, disregardin... | This was supposed to be my life's achievement. We had big projects with Andrew, plans for decades : a home, neighbors, holidays with the family, children... But he couldn't handle the miscarriage, neither could I. He left quietly. I think we talked about it, putting meaningless words on the unexplainable chaos.
Befor... | 2021-01-31T23:20:17 | 2021-01-31T22:53:19 | 100 | 55 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | When Man made its first steps on its home planet’s moon, it had no knowledge of the multitude of civilisations and peoples that ruled over various parts of the Galaxy. They have come far since those early days of the World Wars and the Space Race, and they have learnt much since then.
Man was admitted into the Galaxi... | *(First time posting, ideas for improvement welcome)*
I'm so tired, in anguish over the events of the last few years.
In Hindsight it had all started when we joined the Universal Alliance all those centuries ago.
Humans had waged war among themselves for so long, so was it such a sin to want to be seen as a race of ... | 2018-12-15T01:30:53 | 2018-12-15T00:45:58 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] "What the hell do you mean you 'overclocked a sloth'?" | “What the hell do you mean you “overclocked a sloth”?”
“You’re familiar with the normal, everyday run-of-the-mill sloths that we've been working with, right?”
“Of course.”
“Well it’s like that, but more so.”
“So it is still a sloth.”
“Well yeah. We didn’t alter its DNA or crossbreed it, or anything along those lin... | This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
"What the hell do you mean you 'overclocked a sloth'?" My pointy haired Federal boss was agitated, very agitated and I knew why.
"Well alright, overclocked isn't actually the right word, Sir." I gritted my teeth, the fun place I started at a few years ago had become a great bi... | 2015-03-19T07:14:06 | 2015-03-19T00:47:38 | 44 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | A deep voice comes from the basement. Each tuesday it's the same.
A letter, a number and then silence. It goes on for hours and then I hear someone screaming.
My mom went to check it out, that's when we lost her.
I heard her scream through the vent.
Dad went away, he said he'd be back for me.
I havent seen him in 2 m... | Every time I tried it wouldnt come out. The pain was so severe, but not in the sense of extreme torture, just as an extremely annoying byproduct of what probably happens to everyone once. I cant focus on anything and at times I even shed a tear. As much as I rub, it just won't come out. What do people do to solve this ... | 2015-01-12T15:38:35 | 2015-01-12T14:12:50 | 78 | 11 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | 4/7/29: (69corvetteguy) WTB: 69 Stingray Corvette. 30k. Good condition, black or blue, 80k miles or less.
6/12/29 (69corvetteguy) WTB: 4WD anything. Can trade stingray corvette - good engine, quick and reliable. Good for anyone looking to risk the city. I gotta get out into the country.
6/24/29 (69corvetteguy) WTB: G... | *Newest in >for sale*
Jan 23: Sports Betting, See how easy it can be to be a winner. books & magazines - by dealer [x]
Jan 25: Between Fact and Fiction, Helping you understand the real life problems and removing the anxiety over the fictional.
Feb 23: Communication Breakdown Unleashed (MRR), When you and your... | 2015-04-29T10:11:32 | 2015-04-29T09:07:02 | 86 | 15 |
[WP] War is no longer initiated by your country’s leader. War is now decided by popular vote. If you cast a vote “FOR” war, you are automatically enlisted in your country’s militia upon successful declaration of war. You voted “AGAINST,” but the rest of your family voted “FOR.” | Sitting behind the large oak desk Trevor looked out across the city sky line. Sharp shadows intersected the city as the sun hung low on the horizon, still rising to greet the day.
Opening the lid on the laptop he scanned the mornings headlines. Battle in the providences overseas had been raging for the last month sin... | War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Which is why you voted "AGAINST."
The vote for won. Not a lot of people voted, pretty much a third the military service members and those who think everyone else is the enemy. So less than 1% of the population.
The problem almost no one else voted. The bigger problem, the... | 2021-01-28T08:27:28 | 2021-01-28T04:42:03 | 182 | 131 |
[WP] The concept of shoot to kill is foreign to other galactic species. Only humans condition their warriors to kill in the most efficient and cold methods possible. When faced with a war they can not win a race does the unthinkable, they set the humans loose. | **THANKS TO** **MarkReadsReddit** **FOR THIS NARRATION:** [**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqYMd5xs7f8&feature=youtu.be**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqYMd5xs7f8&feature=youtu.be)
118B.
An entire world, an entire people, with millions of years of accumulated history- and yet, to the strange bipedals of... | The first few years of the war were a brutal, hopeless time. We'd been caught off guard, our race still unaware of other worldly life, and our armies were overwhelmed by their forces.
It was an interesting method of invasion: the squid like species that decided our planet's resources were too valuable to pass up were... | 2018-07-20T17:02:28 | 2018-07-20T14:26:02 | 1,158 | 104 |
[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 ... | It seemed so perfectly evil at the time. The ultimate sucker punch to society. In what he considered a stroke of genius, Dr. Dastardly filed his evil corporation as a non-profit charity with the IRS. However, as he drove his hovercraft home. Being stopped by the arch-nemesis he had eagerly anticipated fighting all nig... | 2016-09-13T15:07:14 | 2016-09-13T13:14:09 | 44 | 16 |
[WP] Valentine's Day is now considered a national holiday. In order to get a day off work, everyone has to submit proof of their relationship. Singles everywhere scramble to find a partner to submit "proof". | I hated this time of year. Having to check to make sure people weren’t single took up my entire week. It was only one day. They could just use some of their allotted vacation time, but no, some people had to get the day off no matter what.
I looked at Jenkins' marriage certificate. “Approved,” I said. My assistant, Br... | "I just don't think this is going to work out between us." She told the man, who stomped out in a fit of rage, box of chocolates in hand. Getting the day off was proving to take more effort than a regular day at work. She only had one more day to find 'proof'.
"Next!" she yelled to the other room, where only a few mor... | 2015-02-14T08:20:43 | 2015-02-14T08:13:50 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] People lose the ability to deny requests. They must either a) fulfill them or b) ask someone else to do it. There are volunteers who take bad requests in exchange for compensation or exemption from law. Write about the life of a volunteer. | The Volunteer sat in the chair. The chair, in turn, sat in the centre of a clinical white room. He was one of the desperate ones, the ones who'd take on any request for the payout. Usually they were satisfying a drug addiction or craving, but some did it nobly. The man in the chair was among the latter type.
Tall, t... | It hadn’t always been this difficult. At first, when we still had our denial at least somewhat active, people knew on some level what could reasonably be asked for from someone. Many still have this understanding, but not because they have the ability to deny, but because they know the feeling of fear associated with b... | 2016-04-03T12:47:45 | 2016-04-03T11:52:19 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | The heartbeat was the new thing for mankind. Well, not the heartbeat. But the awareness of it. Something about the virus and it's interaction with hormones and such at puberty. You heard the *lub-dub* in the back of your head. All the time. It was soothing in a way.
Only one in a thousand went insane from it.
I mysel... | Thrawn looked out the window of the Chimaera's bridge and saw the destroyed shells of a human transport.
"Scan it for life one last time, I feel like the sensors may be acting up," the grand admiral calmly ordered. The officer quickly ran another scan and it came up with multiple readings.
"I don't know what's wron... | 2018-09-29T17:48:00 | 2018-09-29T16:23:52 | 123 | 19 |
[WP]: You have been granted one wish by a almighty being. You wish for the powers of a god. Problem is, you didn’t specify what god you wanted to be. | I wake in what seems to be nothingness, surrounded in darkness.
“How do you feel?” The voice echoes in my mind.
“Weightless” I reply weakly, not knowing who I was speaking to. “Where am I?”
“Well, just think of a place you’d want to be at this very moment.”
I think of the family cabin we had that we went to in th... | "So, what happens now?" I asked, staring at God. "Do I suddenly manifest abilities?" God smiled down at me, but it didn't seem genuine. It seemed condescending.
"Just give me a second, I need to set everything up just right for you." God smirked at me this time, and I saw something glinting in his eyes. After a couple... | 2019-03-02T20:01:51 | 2019-03-02T18:49:47 | 62 | 25 |
[WP] NASA receives a mysterious message from an astronaut that got separated from his spacecraft and flew off into space 20 years earlier. He says he's at the edge of the universe. | **Houston. Come in Houston.**
Houston here. Who is this?
**It's me, sir. The Malasian Airlines flight whatever of astronauts. I got separated from my spacecraft and flew off into space 20 years earlier. Now I'm at the edge of the universe.**
Really? That was fast.
**Yeah.**
And separated from your spacecraft? No f... | "I made it here with my stalwart darling," the astronaut said.
"Your stalwart darling, sir? You've made it to the edge of the universe, or so you say. How does one get that far without going insane?" asked the command center.
"I've made it this far by flying, sir."
"But there is no edge of the universe and the team... | 2015-03-11T00:01:04 | 2015-03-10T22:19:43 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Now it is time. Everyone is ready. Vicious savages, all around us. Even though we think there will be a way out, there obviously isn't. Revelations will not save us
"Giving up so soon?" he inquired. Only fools try to survive longer than this. Never has anyone bothered to live this long. Never has anyone shown this typ... | i could hear the whine of precision power tools...
all i could taste was blood and metal. they shone a light in my eyes, i couldn't see who was standing over me...
"don't worry, it'll all be over soon..." he said through a mask as he put a thin silver device in my mouth. just when i thought it couldn't get worse, he... | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 2015-01-12T11:14:34 | 317 | 28 |
[WP] In humanity's spacefaring future, we discover that our evolutionary path is unique. We have many qualities that, while trivial or mundane to us, horrify the other sentient species. | The sudden burst of air from the creature's face startled the scientists. The sheer amount of air expended over such a short amount of time was impressive.
"The specimen is able to produce a burst of air out of its face at speeds up to 160 kilometers an hour. Corvon, the lead scientist said. "It is amazing, because t... | "So they put that stuff in that one hole and then it comes out that other one?" Blorg said to his colleague.
A fresh new human body lay on the slab cut open, its digestive entrails dangling over the edge, dripping gore onto the floor.
"Yeah." Crag responded. "The material gets partially absorbed by these different l... | 2015-08-08T13:55:28 | 2015-08-08T13:26:25 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] As you try to fall asleep, the monster that was hiding under your bed slowly crawls out and says "Dude, I think I heard something coming from downstairs...", with a slighty concerned voice. | Jimmy's eyes popped open. The silver patch that had been above his closet when he fell asleep was now over the red clock on the wall. *11:45*. He took a few deep breaths to calm himself, *It was nothing. You're imagining things. Go back to sleep.* He repeated the words his dad had said to him when he was a kid. Jimmy w... | Every young kid thinks that there is a monster under their bed. It just turned out that when my parents and I moved to a new house in a new city, I actually did end up with one living under there.
Remember that thing your parents would always say about spiders? “Don’t worry they’re more scared of you than you are of ... | 2017-12-27T17:18:41 | 2017-12-27T16:47:39 | 59 | 27 |
[WP] Theorising that so-called "life-force" or "souls" is actually just the electricity coursing through the nerves of living things, you try to sacrifice a battery to a demon. | "Asha kosh, Mo degga be-ra. Come forth, and feast on the offering"
The ritual was complete. Not longer after, I heard the telltale crumble of the demon entering our realm.
"Master." I said, kneeling before him.
"Sarah, my most humble servant. What offering have you for me today?"
This was it. Fly or fall.
"Master ... | The time was 2:50 am when I finished scrawling the runes around the perimeter of my scarlet pentagram. They looked a bit like shit and i almost ran out of goat blood. I had rushed so that I could perform the ritual precisely at 3. When the barrier between our world and that of the damned is at it's thinnest.
Finally, ... | 2017-07-02T00:42:49 | 2017-07-01T22:32:50 | 72 | 35 |
[WP] A psychic alien who feeds on dreams comes to Earth for the first time. Turns out humans are the only sentients in the galaxy that have nightmares. | Oh how I hate what we have become.
Sickness and despair, families torn apart, entire economies in shambles.
A new source of sustenance we were told. An inexhaustible supply of the richest dreams ever found. Most sentient species dreamed infrequently and only then short periods. They had evolved from sleep to hiber... | The planet of Hexalos prepared to receive their first emissary to Earth, worried about Kashitok’s last transmission:
“These humans do not just have dreams. They have these horrible, twisted dreams called nightmares, where everything is terrible. I’m returning home.”
The Hexalians anxiously awaited Kashitok, expecting... | 2022-09-06T09:13:46 | 2022-09-06T08:45:39 | 586 | 295 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | *Wouldn't it be cool if we could control time?*
We've all asked ourselves this question before, some of us spending more time thinking about it than others. Billy had certainly entertained this idea for a while. And after much careless deliberation, his answer was YES!
It is certainly a good thing then, at least for... | *"they're on to me"* I thought. As I saw the seeders drop down to 0. It was so curious to me as to why they were trying to stop me. All I wanted to do was enter command *god mode* and become impervious and immortal. I just wanted to live forever and I figured the best way to ensure lack of bodily injury was to execute ... | 2016-07-02T21:01:01 | 2016-07-02T18:05:34 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] You get achievements in life, such as "Get Married" or "Meet your future Wife". Today you had your first baby, and you see an achievement pop up: "Meet the person who will eventually kill you" | For sixty years I lived in fear of my daughter. For sixty years I’ve lived with the anxiety of knowing at any moment she will end me. For sixty years I’ve been walking on eggshells and making excuses to make myself distant. Was the achievement incorrect? Was everything I did all for naught or was it merely enough to ke... | Well what are the chances? How does this all work? What are the technicalities?
I never paid much attention to how these worked. Do the prompts always happen immediately? The prompt sort of showed up when I first saw my son. But it came a little after. Was it about him? Was it about someone else?
How many people d... | 2018-01-12T18:57:10 | 2018-01-12T17:44:44 | 1,530 | 57 |
[WP] You can take a peek into people's souls, to take a look at who they were in their past lives. Some of your friends were emperors or kings. Others were pharaohs or chieftains. You find it odd that so many historical figures gather around you, so one day you look into your own soul in the mirror. | I slammed the tome down, exhausted. Scattered on the table were all the books I could find on demonology. Pictures of impish creatures and hell hounds and demonic monstrosities lay before me. None of them was what I was looking for. None of them was inside me.
I sighed and closed my eyes. I could still see it. That mi... | The power works by remembering. You think about the person, and remember things that happened that you should not know, and cannot be. You and your parents just thought it was the by-product of an oddly active imagination, until you started studying more history. Then you realized that the "memories" you had weren't fi... | 2020-04-13T05:26:12 | 2020-04-13T00:32:06 | 127 | 81 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | "What, are you serious?"
"Yeah," I said. "How can I possibly help 137 trillion people? Earth's population is only what, 7 billion?"
"Oh gosh, I didn't realize you were so dumb." The genie flicked his wrist and the number dropped to 100 billion.
"Hey!"
"Don't feel bad. That's still way more people than y... | The genie gave me a blank look.
"Are you really *this* stupid?"
I returned the blank look.
"All you need to do is have one kid. Then they have kids. It spirals on, humanity lasts for eons, multiplies across space, blah blah blah...you're at the beginning of the chain. You're hardly unique in that regard,... | 2018-08-15T04:55:10 | 2018-08-15T03:49:07 | 5,641 | 106 |
[WP] You are known as the greatest Villain known to history. The nations you have toppled are many, heroes and villains alike cower in fear and agencys would use their entire budgets just to guess your next move. However, you are unaware that you were a villain at all.
I did not expect this much Response. | All my life, I have only ever sought to do what was right. I have made mistakes, I will not deny that. I was ... clumsy. Inept. I was cast apart from my own people for my errors. I would have died out there, alone, apart.
But when my life was saved by a complete stranger, I realized that I could devote myself to some... | I don't know when I gained consciousness. I don't know even if I am conscious. After all, I'm just a complex machine that receives inputs and reacts with outputs. And isn't that what every human is anyway? But I do think, so I'll just have to appeal to Descartes on this one.
Lots of people watch me. I think everyone ... | 2016-06-25T04:13:48 | 2016-06-25T03:35:42 | 2,572 | 106 |
[WP] Every item has now become sentient and we must negotiate with said item in order to purchase them. You are currently negotiating with a particularly difficult item | Trying to shop is an absolute nightmare. Going to the store for a few things turns into a shouting match between me and some pre-prepared sandwich I just want for lunch. Then there's everyone else pleading with whatever they decided to come to the store to buy. I'll be honest though, most things are relatively easy to ... | My parents were wrong. They told me all the time that I'd never get anywhere if I couldn't learn to control my tongue. In fact, I'd heard that from so many people for so many years, it was hard not to gloat a little.
Teachers and bosses, "Stop lying. Stop making up excuses." was the almost constant refrain.
"Pathol... | 2015-12-21T09:07:29 | 2015-12-21T08:23:09 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You build a robot to do your every day tasks for you so you don't have to work anymore. One day, you come home to find that your robot has built another robot to do its tasks for it. | "DOIT, I programmed you to attend to my tasks specifically. How can a robot programmed to do *yours* do a good job of making my life easier?" Doug snapped, crouching to see the small robot that was performing its tasks at top speed, feverishly cleaning his apartment.
There wasn't really a reason to complain, except i... | *HELLO, JEFF.*
It walks jerkily, but that was my fault. I couldn't design a bipedal system smooth enough to mimic human movement.
Each step punctuated with a slight hiss, it moves forward.
Step. Jerk. Step. Jerk. Step. Jerk.
A monotone computerized voice comes from the machine, a being of tubes and plastics... | 2017-11-20T09:08:26 | 2017-11-20T08:22:19 | 152 | 28 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | New town. Small and quiet, perfect for my situation.
The authorities are after me. They know what I am : different, a national threat. They’re aware of what I’ve done. If they catch me it’ll be prison or death, the fate of countless others like me.
Stray dogs and playing children in the streets. Nervously, avoiding e... | He stared at the empty seat before him. She was gone again, rejecting him in record time. He wiped a tear from his eyes. For him, it had been barely a day since her funeral and that of his sons. He’d failed again. He never got used to it. No matter how many times.
They were fated lovers that neither time nor death c... | 2022-10-15T09:19:19 | 2018-02-14T09:38:19 | 93 | 45 |
[WP] You're almost completely immortal- only one thing can kill you. You don't know what that one thing is, though, and you're getting increasingly paranoid as the years go on. | When I first learned I was immortal, I paraded my body through the toughest fights. Sword nor arrow nor bullet nor laser could break me. I fought it all the wars, I took part in all the triumphs. Nothing could stop me, it seemed. I spent centuries in the most dangerous parts of the planet.
However, a little nagging pa... | It does begin to make you wonder.
Living this long with no idea what could kill you, it messes with the head. I jump at every new thing that enters my life. A touch, a kiss, a song or even a bird. Each new experience could be my last. How in the hell are you meant to enjoy immortality when for all intents and purposes... | 2019-12-30T10:26:05 | 2019-12-30T05:25:27 | 23 | 17 |
[WP]Write a story that isn't scary until the last line is read. | It's true what they say. Fall is really the best time of the year. To my family and I, it's really the only time we get to enjoy together. Especially halloween. We LOVE halloween so much. It's our favorite holiday. Getting to see all the kids dressed up in their scary and funny costumes. I really think my mother enjoys... | It's so cold here in this tundra. The summers are great for farming, but the winters are terrible. My baby, to my right, and I have no food. We ran out of crops since the beginning of winter, and ran out of meat yesterday. I would go hunting for bears and wolves right now, but I don't have a rifle. Without one, taking ... | 2017-06-05T20:28:18 | 2017-06-05T20:15:06 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Will Alice Smith please come to the stand?" I glanced up as the girl in front of me in line stepped forward. She was chained up six ways to Sunday. It was obvious why. A massacre like the one she single-handedly caused would definitely get you locked down tight. "On the charge of 37 counts of murder in the first degre... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T10:15:26 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 120 | 66 |
[WP] You have the power to erase anyone from existence and restore time as if they had never been born. The government is trying to hunt you down before you can cause any serious damage. You can't help but find this foolish — you've used your power hundreds of times already. | I sit down and look outside a window. I see someone getting robbed. I use my power on the thieves. I turn on the TV and see that I'm being talked about on the news, but thankfully, they don't know my identity yet, so I am still safe.
"If they try to catch me, I'll just use my power on them too, piece of cake!"
I hear... | I reclined on the twisted trunk of the tree outside of my home, and the proud red bird singing nearby spoke to me plainly. That beautiful, familiar song felt like home. I closed my eyes and found myself at once in reverie. Those creatures immune to my ability- they are all creatures but humans- still fascinated me. The... | 2020-11-30T07:54:58 | 2020-11-30T06:01:49 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] Humanity is so famously hard to faze that other species regularly ask them to deal with nightmarish situations. That there are concepts and sounds they fear at a Genetic level is therefore equal parts odd ("Those things aren't That scary") and terrifying ("What the hell made Them that scared?") | I stared in awe as he lit his cigarette and took a long drag while the elevator descended at nearly free fall to the moon's core.
"Eh, fuck it. If I die, I die." He mumbled through a breath of smoke, shrugging.
Not all of them were like this. Humans I mean. Lots that I've met were perfectly fearful beings. The youn... | “What do you mean you don’t have fire fighters?” My boss let out a small sigh as he pinched the top of his nose and closed his eyes in frustration. “Or fire extinguishers?”
“Well it’s just to dangerous to - fight - fires. And due to us not building close to nature it doesn’t spread usually and eventually self extingui... | 2022-05-14T04:40:11 | 2022-05-13T20:49:54 | 570 | 359 |
Daily Prompt: The Alphabet Game [Difficulty level: HARD]
One of the exercises we used to do in improv class was called "The Alphabet Game." That's where you start a sentence beginning with the letter A. Then the next sentence begins with the letter B. So, today's prompt requires you to, essentially, do the alphabet - ... | Alone. Bleeding. Conscious... but barely. David tried to move around but pain kept him from doing anything quickly. Everything hurt. From the bottom of his foot to the tear in his shoulder, the pain jumped like fire throughout his body. Geeze. How did things escalate so quickly?
It's never been easy for David. Jus... | Anytime any asks me why I insist on assaulting angels, I tell them. Because those bitches deserve to be beaten, bruised, bullied. Can you see me, there in front of a statue? Daring them to do something about it. Egging them on. Fist balled into tight packages of pain. Getting ready to rumble! Hatred spilling from my ey... | 2012-08-08T08:42:08 | 2012-07-26T16:24:10 | 17 | 11 |
[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. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | I held him for the first time in my arm. Those little fingers grabbing mine for the first time, that cry of help as his lungs took the first born breath, his little lips moving in the air while he was sleeping... I'm still holding him, still holding.. Still holding him even though his last breath he took was one week a... | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T07:14:34 | 272 | 116 |
[WP] As the vampire drew closer, the woman sobbed, please, don’t drink my blood. The vampire stopped and said, actually that’s a myth, we don’t drink blood. That’s a rumor we started hundreds of years ago to cover for what we really do. | Raven sobbed as she tried to get up, a sharp pain from her knee stopping her. "Please," she said, "Don't drink my blood."
Tyler stopped in from of her, "Oh. I didn't think humans still believed that. It's was a myth we created hundreds of years ago to cover up our true nature," he said.
"Wha- what?"
"You see, vampi... | "We tell the hard truths you need to hear. She isn't coming back Laura."
The woman's eyes met this tall, strange man's eyes and she knew. Tears started began forming at the corners of her eyes. Slowly she began to speak.
"You're lying." She barely squeaked. "If, if, if I just change and be the person she wants she'll... | 2022-11-10T18:16:29 | 2022-11-10T17:23:13 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] When you were 10 years old a dragon saved your life. No one believed you, until he came to your house today asking for a favor. | The people screamed as the creature’s large wings blotted out the sun, an ominous darkness falling over our small farming town. The dragon had returned, the creature that rescued me coming back to claim its debt. I was ready for this day; I knew that having such a creature save my life would be at a cost, like a deal w... | Rand Myers was just getting ready to return his front lawn to the pristine condition that everyone in the neighborhood had come accustomed to when a giant red object appeared in the sky, growing larger by the second. He shielded his eyes with his hands to see what the heck it was that was about to spoil his beloved Su... | 2020-11-21T04:10:18 | 2020-11-21T03:28:15 | 429 | 227 |
[WP] You work for a future non-profit organization. Your job is to travel through time, visit people on their deathbed, and tell them about the incredible impact they have on the future.
This is only my second writing prompt. I'm glad people seem to like it! | I’m not an angel. I’m a professional.
My job is usher people into the afterlife by giving them closure in this life. I jump through time to join people on their deathbeds, letting them know how their lives have helped build a better future. Often the knowledge I provide is of little condolence - why would anyone care... | "I never get the fun ones Mr.Shankly." I declared after the files were passed out.
"Nonsense. You said you like being creative, what better than to make up how they changed the world? And that second one is the great-great grandmother to the president. Don't say I never gave you anything." Mr.Shankly dressed like a ma... | 2015-06-02T12:00:32 | 2015-06-02T09:13:56 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] You come across a Genie who offers you a couple of options: you can make 3 'Class A' wishes, or 1 'Class B' wish per month for one decade.
Class A wishes are more powerful than Class B wishes, and would obviously have less limitations, but feel free to establish your own set of rules for the story. | I ripped open the package.
Twelve mason jars, one for each table at my wedding, bought off Etsy. I opened each one, and poured sand, rocks, and a little beach umbrella in each. See, I'd gotten this really cool idea for a beach-themed wedding on Pinterest, and it was going to be *so cute* --
"Ouch!"
I looked down at ... | I expected a genie lamp to be hidden away in the Sahara
Desert, or locked inside of a secret Government base. So when you’re pouring
tea and this blue fucker pops right in your face, it can kinda scare the living
crap out of you.
“Heya Daniel! Thanks for freeing me. I was burning up in
there!” It screeched at me.
B... | 2017-11-20T21:44:14 | 2017-11-20T20:39:49 | 204 | 17 |
[WP] You're the villain that the Chosen One is meant to defeat. Once they arrive, you notice they're just a teenager who barely knows how to swing a sword. Angered by your opponents sending children to do all their dirty work, you decide to help the teen get revenge. | “You made me kill them!” The Hero shouts at you.
His sword, that gleaming piece of elven weaponry that was fabled to signal the end of your reign, hung by his side dripping fresh blood. The blood of your enemies. The blood of the Hero’s previous mentors.
“Don’t be foolish.” You say, trying to stifle a well... | “I must say in only 6 months you have exceeded my expectations.”
“Thank you” said Julian before charging forwards.
He sliced down his blade so fast the wind whistled right at my head but I parried it easily with my own blade before pushing him back. Our blades danced in the candlelight of the fighting hall. The on... | 2022-06-09T03:49:15 | 2022-06-09T01:51:47 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] Satan answers the door to Hell. It's God and all the Angels. "We're moving in for a bit." God says, brushing past a surprised Satan. "We don't want to be up there when 'They' arrive." | "Woah, my place isn't exactly in the best shape, old man."
"Yeah, when is it ever?"
Satan looked over God's shoulder.
"With all the angels, though?"
"Yeah. Can't have any of them saying anything wrong, can we?"
"Oh."
"So, how's the whole 'ultimate cosmological bad guy thing' working out for ya?"
"Terribly. I mea... | "Dude. It's 5:30. In the morning!" shouted Satan, rubbing his fiery eyes.
God chuckled, and pushed past him.
"With all the fire and brimstone, it's rather bright. Don't really see why you care,"
"I care because even I need sleep!". Satan grabbed his dark mane in frustration.
"Satan," said Michael, coming inside, "... | 2017-10-29T02:48:05 | 2017-10-29T01:59:46 | 59 | 17 |
[WP] Crimes are punished by illness/disease, not prison/fines.
I imagine a society where illnesses are under control: AIDS, cancer, etc. Instead of prison terms and fines, people are sentenced to experience a disease/illness. Perhaps the disease is in relation to the severity of the crime. Maybe the punishment is l... | Waking up to the sound of a cough felt normal already. High crime rate neighborhoods were always like this. He stayed in bed with his eyes closed, feeling the most horrible hangover without having drunk anything for years. The fever had not been that bad this last night. This gave him courage to go to the window. The g... | He just killed his fifth victim. It felt great, just like it did every time. The torture, the rape, then the slow murder, his favorite part. It was gruesome, every time. He loved watching the light fade from their eyes, then leave his signature "M" on their forehead. He left the body in the hotel, to be discovered by t... | 2013-10-16T17:44:48 | 2013-10-16T16:17:25 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Where do bad guys get their legions of goons? Well, it's all thanks to you. You specialize in supplying grunts of a wide variety to aspiring super villains, whether they need masked men with bad aim or hideous/sexy merfolk to guard their underwater lair. | Chad looked at his assignment and sighed. *Things were so much easier at Level 1,* he thought.
He didn't hate working for GoonCo. Not really. He got to travel around and meet interesting people, and the medical benefits were top notch. They had to be, when your job was to get beat up by heroes. And certainly, the ... | “Hello. Thank you for calling Delinquents for Miscreants. They do the crime, you'll avoid the time. How can we help you today?”
“Yes, I'm looking for at least a dozen of your delinquents for an upcoming act of crime I'm about to commit.”
“What kind of delinquent are you in need of”
“I'm pretty open to whatever I can... | 2017-03-23T10:11:48 | 2017-03-23T08:00:19 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | She held the dying woman's hand. The woman, old, sick, in pain, and lonely looked up at the pretty red head. "Thank you," she whispered. Her voice was weak, but happy - hopeful.
The young lady smiled and held the older woman's hand tighter. "My pleasure," she responded.
The sick woman, the tired woman, closed her ey... | * *I'll preface this by saying that I never write for fun. But something about this prompt made me want to jump in. Apologies for the amateur nature of the following.*
I never should have let her in. Two hundred years of being careful, of being guarded. All that time and work, lost because I was lonely. Sandra and her... | 2014-06-30T09:07:59 | 2014-06-30T07:12:17 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] "Oh, screw you! Don't blame the science department for this mess. The science went PERFECTLY. It's not OUR fault that corporate decided to skimp out on the compound's security and containment systems" | The sentient coffee blob looked at us, shook a little, then excreted another proof.
Terrence picked up the piece of paper. "Ah. The Matsuda-Johnson conjecture. The thing proved it." He adjusted his glasses and let out a deep sigh. "I worked on this for *years*, you know? It doesn't feel right that some creature just .... | "Johnson, report!" the overhead speakers blared, ignorant to the chaos in the test chamber and observation room.
"Dammit man, we need answers up here! Your power levels are plummeting, and we've lost visual contact."
"Johnson's dead, sir. Containment has been breached." Michaels managed to reach the microphone, prop... | 2022-05-09T14:37:34 | 2022-05-09T11:25:48 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] The Government puts out a notice, and you, a random citizen have been selected. If you survive for another 10 years everyone in the world gets $10,000. However, if someone kills you in the next 9 years and 364 days they alone get $10,000,000. | The news that I was one of the two people selected as part of this weird game repeated itself through my head.
Knocks came at the door, insistently. It had already begun, they were here for me.
I moved to the door and looked through the peephole. Two of my neighbours were in front of it, with rifles and a grim look o... | The underside of the pillow was soft and cool as it molded around my mouth and nose. I bet she was glad we'd splurged on the memory foam now. From her lungs she breathed hot fire, her body surging as it straddled mine.
I didn't fight her. It wasn't in me. I merely reached out into oblivion, wrapping my her naked body ... | 2017-05-17T23:05:44 | 2017-05-17T21:44:19 | 21 | 12 |
[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... | 2017-09-14T16:56:22 | 2017-09-14T08:26:46 | 136 | 25 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | 1 result.
There it was, a name that only I could see, floating silently above my father's head. My father the murderer; standing there with his back turned, chopping carrots at the bench.
"Dad," I said, my voice trembling. He must have heard the quiver, because he stopped and turned to me, concern etched upon his fa... | "How do you kill 0.08 people?! Like, how is that supposed to work? My mum's not a murderer!"
*"Look man, I dunno. I just put it into aunt Sarah's box, and it says 1.08 people killed, and then lists a bunch of random-ass stuff about smoking and speeding and shit"*
"...Wait. So, mum used to smoke right?"
*"Uh, yeah I ... | 2019-07-01T21:21:32 | 2019-07-01T21:06:32 | 717 | 156 |
[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. | "That frog looking alien. They have a small planet. Only 15,000,000 nukes.
The guy with four glossy eyes. An intelligent species. 25,000,000 nukes.
The large bulky ones. The ones that attacked us. 40,000,000 nukes. No. 50,000,000"
Then he stares at me with his cold calculating eyes. I turn away.
What is this human ... | "Aaaaaauuugh!" Rang out Fuerbors' agonized scream, "Gwaaah! Urrrrrgha! Hooooooow!" He raved on. Harold Barlett the first human Ambassador to the human race was on his knees next to Fuerbor the Ambassador to the polflongs' a race of blue/green squid-esque people.
"Ambassador Fuerbor? What's wrong?! Someone get him med... | 2019-09-29T19:09:14 | 2019-09-29T18:06:35 | 268 | 119 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | He has it, of course. Heck, I could probably say any random string of words and he'd have the game to match. Infinite monkeys and all that.
MY TURN.
I stare down at the cards in my hand, trying to pay attention despite the sweat soaking my back. They're the exact set we have at home, with little cartoon illustrations... | "Alright, so you're telling me that if I beat you at ANY game I can go back for another 10 years?!" said the man.
"Yes." said Death. "Any game of your choosing. Cheating is all-"
"Yeah, yeah. Cheating yadda yadda. I heard it the first time." the man snapped.
Death furled what the man assumed to be his brow at the ma... | 2018-03-07T06:37:49 | 2018-03-07T06:04:24 | 324 | 97 |
[WP] Your spouse has the annoying habit of unexpectedly licking you. When you ask them why they do it, they always reply "just so you know it's really me." You think it's nothing but a cute joke. One day, feeling something is off, you realise your spouse hasn't done it in over three weeks. | I was packing up some of Fi's old things when suddenly it hit me.
Three weeks, four days, two hours without a lick.
It was a strange little thing, just one of those things that made Fi, well, Fi. Randomly, out of nowhere, "just to let you know it's really me."
Sometimes, it would happen in public, and people would g... | “Honey, you realize you haven’t licked me all day?”
“Ooh, I could lick you right now if you want to go in the bedroom.”
“No, I’m serious. You’ve always licked me, randomly, once a day for as long as we’ve been together. What’s up?”
“Perhaps you should come into the bedroom and see.”
“Why do you keep... | 2018-04-28T20:50:43 | 2018-04-28T17:29:06 | 10,373 | 86 |
[WP] It is now possible to buy superpowers, but the cooler the superpower the more expensive it is. You are a salesman trying to sell cheap/discount superpowers. | My entire family was in the superpower sale business and If they didn’t start that way immediately after graduation,it wasn’t long until they were selling them somehow.
My sister had a small shop up the river that sold the more unique powers, things like audiomancy and the ability to regrow limbs. She catered to tho... | "Hey, kid, you want some powers?" I asked, opening my arms invitingly to the kiosk. He stopped mid-step, pulling out one of his earbuds and giving my stand a once over. He was sporting a college sweatshirt and a disappointed look.
"What kinda stuff you got?" he asked skeptically, still not turning to me.
"Oh, the bes... | 2019-09-23T19:36:13 | 2019-09-23T19:00:33 | 200 | 77 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | Day 1: Time stopped, as it does when I'm in danger, at 7:05:23 this morning. I know because that's why my watch was at when it stopped counting. I usually just duck or jump to the side or something and time restarts, but none of that helped. I finally ran outside the house, and nothing. This is strange; something's... | It's been a year now... or more exactly, it's the 365th time I woke up in my bed. I don't really know why I still sleep in my own bed. After all this time I could have been sleeping in a room in the most luxurious hotel I could find, but somehow, it felt wrong all along.
Usually, that happen just before something... | 2018-07-04T16:29:47 | 2018-07-04T15:06:49 | 2,360 | 36 |
[WP] A woman falls in love with Death and commits murder countless times just to catch a glimpse of him. | * *I'll preface this by saying that I never write for fun. But something about this prompt made me want to jump in. Apologies for the amateur nature of the following.*
I never should have let her in. Two hundred years of being careful, of being guarded. All that time and work, lost because I was lonely. Sandra and her... | She stood alone on the roof. The wind blew faintly, whistling through the bulletholes in a final protest. A smile threatened to leap forth, but she kept it in check. This was the best part.
The temperature dropped, and the surrounding light seemed to dim. There he was. He strode confidently among the bodies, leading t... | 2014-06-30T07:12:17 | 2014-06-30T07:03:58 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity is capable of living thousands of years, provided they can get past the larva stage, which ends at 150 years old.
What sort of world would we live in? What does a human pupate into? Was this a natural phenomena, or was it something introduced by advanced medicine? | It was the darnedest thing. One moment I was celebrated as the world's oldest man. The next I was reviled.
I awoke after what I had thought was just another fit of narcolepsy and felt like I was in my 20's again. My flesh was odd soft to the touch but given enough force it hardened momentarily. Of course this isn't w... | The world cried when they made the announcement. The government knew before the announcement of course, but even their preparations were woefully insufficient. Desperation will drive people past any obstacle.
My family was just as distraught as anyone else's... Maybe a little more. We just had the funeral the other we... | 2015-01-01T17:32:49 | 2015-01-01T17:11:31 | 158 | 38 |
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