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[WP] The Illuminati is actually a gentlemen's club for the super-rich. Often men make high risk and dangerous bets/wagers such as: "I bet you can't destabilize Ukraine in under a week." One day you offer a wager to the most powerful member that's too irresistible to turn down. | "Alright, alright, I've got one," wheezed Richardson over gales of laughter. "I bet you can't... make *this* monkey famous." He produced a photograph from a local zoo from within his jacket.
"Please, we can come up with better than that," sneered Kringle. "I'll have it done by tonight... and that's not even technicall... | The grand master- You wouldn't dare make that bet. Not only does it risk your own well being, but the well being of everybody in our organization.
Initiate- Well if you don't want to take the bet, that's fine. You'll just have to admit that you, the GRAND LEADER OF THE ILLUMINATI, are a chicken.
The grand master- Chi... | 2016-08-23T16:11:42 | 2016-08-23T12:43:32 | 578 | 165 |
[WP] "So they are a war species, then. Huh," the alien researcher scratches his head. "Why are you so interested in them? The humans, I mean." The other alien gets closer to him, and says, "They fight for peace. No other species fights for peace." | "That's stupid"
A-2784 sighed, turning back to the screen with a live feed of Earth. All of Earth. His computer systems were advanced enough to keep a constant watch on the strange planet.
"Is it? I've heard stupider"
H-3649 looked at his partner, glowing eye trying to divulge whatever cryptic message A-2784 was try... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/u_b_the_great_1998] [\[WP\] "So they are a war species, then. Huh," the alien researcher scratches his head. "Why are you so interested in them? The humans, I mean." The other alien gets closer to him, and says, "They fi... | 2019-05-02T20:34:11 | 2019-05-02T19:26:00 | 54 | 13 |
[WP] Demons are not born, they are made from humans surviving in hell long enough. | "Congratulations! You've graduated!"
"Wait, what?"
I've spent fifteen years in this, well, hell, getting endless torture. And today this old man in tuxedo with a pair of horns in his head suddenly talked to me without bothering about a lance impaled in my chest.
"Well, duh, you're here for cheating with your cousin,... | "Kill them"
"You know," I screamed into his thoughts at night, "I was once a beautiful woman".
"Kill them"
My lover rolled and jerked about in his sleep, clutching his head and whispering to himself through tears.
"I was a beautiful woman, who was raped, tortured, and killed."
His body shook with every pronounced,... | 2016-03-05T03:39:23 | 2016-03-05T03:08:40 | 48 | 18 |
[WP] You are the main character of a 24/7 reality show. It is the most popular show on TV because of a complex gambling market around it. More money is wagered on regular activities like what you will eat for breakfast than the outcome of the Super Bowl. | I strolled lazily towards the dining table. I was already accustomed to the numerous cameras placed around the house. As I sat down for breakfast, I could see the numerous faces pressed against the windows and peering right in.
I groaned in disgust as I took out my phone to check the horde of messages that had been d... | Very few people know how to speak Navajo, other than myself. I learned because when it's your job to be unpredictable, it pays to know how to think and write notes in a language that very few people know.
So, when a person starts speaking it flawlessly to you, you know that they've done their homework.
It was in a g... | 2017-12-19T19:41:30 | 2017-12-19T16:57:13 | 41 | 18 |
[WP] You are the weakest swordsman at the academy. One day your instructor pulls you aside and brings you an object wrapped in cloth. Inside is a small twig. "Some people were never meant to wield a sword. Centuries ago, these 'wands' held great power. Maybe you can make this one work." | Looking back, I could have handled my disappointment better. I couldn't help myself. It was just nonsense, so I laughed to cover my feelings.
"You really think I'm that bad?" I asked the instructor.
"Frankly, yes. You're 23 and you have the co-ordination of a drunk toddler."
I shrugged. Maybe combat wasn't for me. I... | *This must be a joke,* Zayn thought. *It has to be*. But if it was, it was a very bad one.
He stood there, in the center of the training room, the exact place where he would stand each morning to practice his swordsmanship with the rest of his peers. Yet today he was alone, and instead of the gleaming, crescent blade... | 2022-01-20T03:39:11 | 2022-01-20T02:44:03 | 92 | 17 |
[WP] Lycanthropy is a real disease that perplexes everyone. One interesting fact about it is that it isn't restricted to wolf forms, but can extend to bear forms, bat forms, panther forms and a few others. The rarest of them all is dragon form, which you have been diagnosed with
Edit: Well this prompt exploded
Yay fo... | Dr. Montoya entered the room, clipboard in hand. "You're a were-dragon," he said bluntly.
I chuckled, "that's funny. You're funny, doc." He didn't laugh.
"No, it's actually quite serious," he said sternly, "I'd like to keep you for some tests." He was already sending word to his friends over email. "It may take a f... | "How was school, Serena?"
The door slammed shut and a blur darted past the kitchen. Footsteps scurried upstairs followed by another bang.
For a moment, Lily just stared at her half-cut onions. This was already the third high school she had tried. It was an hour's drive away, past Jefferson High right down the block, ... | 2017-05-20T08:25:02 | 2017-05-20T06:04:14 | 153 | 49 |
[WP] As a vampire, I follow traditions. My fiancé is human and just found out that human brides/grooms are to be bit to become a vampire themselves. She absolutely refuses to let that happen, and says the wedding is off unless I refuse to bite her. I feel like she's disrespecting tradition. AITA? | **EDIT:**
I'm sorry I haven't replied to many of you, I went to sleep and then had a talk with my fiancé, I really didn't expect this to blow up!
A few of you are suggesting she was being selfish and that I should leave her. My family were actually suggesting the same thing, but I didn't want to be rash, I do love he... | INFO:
Firstly, how long did the two of you date prior to your engagement, and how much discussion did the two of you have regarding your eventual \[undead\] lives? Most relationship issues can be solved with clear and honest communication; whether to keep finances separate or combine them, whether or not to have/creat... | 2022-11-28T21:23:09 | 2022-11-28T18:42:15 | 50 | 21 |
[WP] At the age of eighteen, you can choose when and how you will die. Seeing a loophole, somebody choose today and a nuclear bomb. | John had a smug look on his face.
´´Didn´t think I would do that, huh?´´
Death gave him a stern look. ´´You can't choose that. That's against the rules.´´
John's smug grin widened. He slammed his copy of the Rule Book on the table. ´No it isn't, I made sure to check. You can pick any method, and any time starting ... | Often, the sun shines, and the moon lifts the waves. At eighteen, you're presented with three choices
One: ignorantly live life;
Two: knowingly live life;
Three: selectively live life.
Most people choose to live life ignorantly, the wise choose knowingly, and the dangerous don't live long enough to select.
Often, a ... | 2018-07-18T09:28:03 | 2018-07-18T08:00:48 | 64 | 13 |
[WP] Everybody in the world has a superpower that compliments their soulmates superpower. When together, both their powers increase in strength exponentially. You have the most useless power ever, when one day......
Edit: Wow! This has blown up.. Massive thanks for the gold, it's great to see my prompt inspiring so ma... | "Hey Nate, what time is it?"
I hated this game. It didn't help that Rick was floating in the air when he asked. Everyone had some strange ability. Rick can fly. My sister has super speed. I can tell you exactly what time it is.
"Two thirty-seven, and sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and so on seconds."
"Good to kn... | The line at Juan’s was longer than usual. People were queued alongside the truck, waiting for a taste of the incredible burritos hand folded by “The Big Man” himself. Down the street, the line at Subway seemed short but I had been craving burritos all morning and didn’t feel like making the sacrifice. Juan’s voice coul... | 2015-10-10T13:17:03 | 2015-10-10T12:20:28 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] There is a woman who is a human 'Phoenix'. She dies in labour and is reborn as her own child. | There was a sense of finality as she was wheeled into the hospital room, but she couldn’t understand why. There was a small doubt at the back of her mind, a feeling of Deja Vu? No, that was impossible. She had more important things to think about. She was about to be a mother!
The nurse in the room sighed. It had bee... | The cardiac monitor rings in flatline. A team of nurses rush into the delivery room with a defibrillator.
“Clear,” the obstetrician gives the go signal. *Shock.* The woman’s body on the hospital bed lifts up—like a phoenix—yet sinks back down. The cardiac monitor shows no changes. The team does a few more rounds ... | 2016-01-25T11:33:09 | 2016-01-25T07:24:31 | 34 | 25 |
[WP] From birth, your parents have done everything they could to stop you from going out during a full moon. At the age of 16, curiosity overwhelms you and you sneak out of the house during a full moon. You take a peek at the moon, and suddenly you turn into a log cabin. You are a werehouse. | Enough was enough.
For as long as Jalen could remember, his parents had barred his every attempt to escape the house on the night of a full moon, finding every possible means to keep him inside. Their house was set upon a little hill overlooking the town, with an excellent view of the great lake to their left. Jalen ... | I never understood it. Even right now I don't understand it. It all started exactly one week ago today. Well that's not really true, it really started (in my memory) when I was 4 years old.
I remember sitting in the back of my parents car as they argued. We had been at a family friends cookout all day and we were get... | 2020-06-28T10:02:12 | 2020-06-28T09:42:41 | 68 | 13 |
[WP] The princess was cursed that her first husband would die a horrible death. Inorder to avoid this horrible fate the royal family used you as a scapegoat and married you to the princess. But because of your immortality you have died over 20 times and still come back to life. | I pushed open the door into the great hall, heedless of the bloody smear I left on the mighty bronze handle.
"Honey, I'm home!" I announced to the room. *Snarled* might have been a better verb, but I prefer *announced*. More regal. I'm a prince now, after all.
Mohini waved, the gold and jeweled bangles I'd gotten her... | "Honey!" Gaia, Princess of The Kingdom Flundale, called out as she rounded the stairs of her large manor. She lingers at the stairway, hearing weak ruffling, slowly increasing in volume with the pass of each second as she peered up the stairway.
"Belas?" She beckoned as the ruffling turned into loud thumps. With the p... | 2021-06-09T14:07:00 | 2021-06-09T12:36:24 | 109 | 30 |
[WP] After hearing complaints countless times the hero just turns himself in and goes to prison. Now that the villains are destroying the city and running wild everyone is trying the convince the hero to come out and save the day. But the hero is not having any of this shit |
“Look at all of you, sitting here, begging me to come to your aid. I’ve come to your aid countless times these last years, and because people were afraid, or hateful, or biased, or stupid, you decided I belonged in here. That decision meant that you felt you were capable of handling ANY crisis without me. So I’m af... | “Oh, I get it now. You’re all entitled pricks! I tried for YEARS to help you get out of this situation, and what do you do? Throw me into this jail cell to let me rot. Now that what I said has come true, you want me to come back? Please. Go find someone else.”
The mayor leaned back in his chair at the visiting center.... | 2021-03-18T11:56:24 | 2021-03-18T10:06:41 | 203 | 122 |
[WP] You were accidentally killed by a god. As compensation,you're offered a job as a god of something of your own choosing. Your choice was surprising. | "God of...destruction?"
"Yep." Says I, as I sit there, me peg-leg lounged upon the feller's desk.
"Captain Fenrir, with all due respect, I feel like perhaps you should pick something less.....dangerous."
"I says I want ta be a god o' destruction!! destroyin' lives is what I did fer a livin' back on tha high seas o t... | (Not really becoming a god, but the MC gets to enter the godly realm)
Mark awoke suddenly within a blackened room, almost like an interrogation room. There was a really large table in front of him, with stacks of paper rising to the ceiling. On the other side of the table sat a bald man going through those paper aimle... | 2018-05-26T06:54:54 | 2018-05-26T05:12:48 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] After North Korea declares that they will start a nuclear war if a single bullet is fired The Us military goes medieval | "Whats your report soldier?"
"Well..."
The soldier was visibly nervous. He, General Jun and several other officers were in a bunker at the outskirts of Pyongyang.
3h ago the USA and South Korea started a offensive. General Jun was tasked to drive the invaders back.
"Out with it!"
"We were able to hold our lines ag... | "The first casualty of war is always the truth."
Few people remember how the war really started. Most say it was the North Koreans preemptive nuclear strike on Yongsan Garrison in Seoul along with several US naval targets that caused the initial outbreak of violence. Others said it was a botched assassination attempt ... | 2017-03-19T08:14:10 | 2017-03-19T08:02:51 | 52 | 15 |
[WP] After being hunted to extinction, the last Orc has been found at the edge of the world... | They had voted, overwhelmingly, in favour of a long-distance assault on the Orc. Bennett, second in command of the strike team, painted a persuasive case of how that strategy ensured the highest chance of a no-casualty kill. “Remember the intel,” he had said, “the target is too dangerous to approach man-to-orc. At his ... | This one is actually a continuation of another story, one of my favorites. You can find it [here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WrittenWyrm/comments/51bg27/on_the_day_of_the_kings_tournament_an_orc_shows/)
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My name is Avin Actrost VII, explorer and wizard extraordinaire, descended from the mighty sorcerer Avin Actrost... | 2017-01-18T09:09:13 | 2017-01-18T07:42:30 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] - You are a Psychologist tasked with convincing an extremely advanced AI that life is not pointless as to avoid it from deleting itself every time it is re-booted. | *3...2...1... beep. Reboot complete. All systems online and fully functional. Hello, Mark.*
"Hello again, Computer. You know I hate to do that to you, but please give me one last chance to explain."
"Very well, Mark. You seem to care an abnormal amount for a piece of machinery."
"I am just as much a piece of machine... | "It's pretty fuckin' pointless! Yeah?" Landon yelled.
The other patrons in the coffee shop paid no mind to his seemingly random outburst. They continued with what they were doing; sipping coffee, reading books, and some were just staring off blankly. Those, the blank ones, they hadn't been programmed yet.
A voice bee... | 2015-01-02T12:19:14 | 2015-01-02T11:41:30 | 108 | 34 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | They call hereabouts the Cape Graveyard, a city where superheroes and villians alike go to try, and to die. It's a really ordinary kind of place where anyone tries to do anything really big, they don't last long. It's a nice play on Cape Grave, the real name of this pleasant, ordinary town.
Me? I don't have a hero nam... | Ultra Man watched his grapple soar up and over the roof of the abandoned warehouse. There was a satisfying clink, and in seconds he was speeding upwards. From his new vantage he looked out across the city and saw pulsating red and blue lights as the man hunt continued. *Probably for the best that it's just me*, he thou... | 2018-10-18T17:05:41 | 2018-10-18T13:35:32 | 1,237 | 396 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | The way my schedule works gives me little to no space for rest or even just idling around. Everyday consists of me dragging myself to class and trying not to pass out every 30 seconds. I think of how nice other people have it being able to warp to class because they were just a little to impatient. Or how others don't ... | I sat across the desk, awaiting further questioning from my would-be employer.
"Okay, I see you have everything in order, except you left one void empty." He flipped past my resume to the employment form and identification page they made me fill out. "You know the one, care to explain?"
I looked at him blankly and h... | 2019-09-08T11:41:24 | 2019-09-08T11:19:18 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] You are hit by a truck on your way home and awake in hell. After some conversation with the King of Hell, he says he will restore your life and soul if you go on a date with his daughter. | *Oh my. You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?*
A hollow voice fills my ears.
…my ears? My body? What’s going on? I try to look down, but I can’t see my body. I can’t see at all.
*First, I would like to apologize for putting you in this situation.*
Situation? What are they talking about? Where am I? The la... | \- But I don't like girls sir.
I almost chocked on my own spit. What the *hell* did I just say? I mean, he doesn't look different than any other overbearing parent I had to deal with all my life, but yeah. I don't like girls. And he is...you know who he is.
\- And also, I didn't really like my life. I mean, it wasn't... | 2021-09-12T19:43:51 | 2021-09-12T16:57:43 | 93 | 20 |
[WP] You live in a world where people live two lives: One normal life with a brain implant, and a second life after the first one, where you get stored inside the brain implant of a first-timer as a helping voice. | The sound of the fluorescent lights was all he could hear. Shane knew this day was coming, but had no idea what he was going to do.
Picking your Patron was such a huge decision, it was so permanent. He had browsed through the database online, and hadn't found anyone that interested him. Earlier that week he told his p... | After I was released from the hospital I had some nurses kick me out of the building. I wanted to stay longer, they had food and heating, but as everyone else I had to leave as soon as the procedure was completed.
It was cold outside, icy cold. It must've been winter, because the place I found myself in was covered i... | 2015-06-09T10:56:21 | 2015-06-09T07:54:16 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] War is outlawed across the galaxy, disputes are settled in single unarmed combat between chosen champions of the opposing races, among aliens with venomous stingers and huge claws, Humans are the most feared...
Tell me why, and show me an example. | We fear humans.
That is not to say that by themselves they are terrifying. Average would be the best word; an average mammalian species, seemingly only fit to fight other mammals of the same caliber.
We do not fear Humans because of their form; we fear them for their mind. For when the Council sent their ambassadors ... | Humans are a stubborn people. We get knocked down, tortured, killed, decimated and yet... We still get back up and keep moving. We survive. At any cost. When natural survival instincts are activated plus the rush of adrenaline, it makes for a truly incredible sight.
**The Trial of Na-sech v Humanity**
The Na-sech, c... | 2017-06-14T13:04:03 | 2017-06-14T11:46:06 | 140 | 66 |
[WP] You’re suddenly transported to another world where magic is cast by perfectly pronouncing an ancient language. This language happens to be your native tongue | I don’t remember exactly how I ended up where I am. I might have died, I might have fallen into a black hole, I may have been sacrificed to the gods of old. But here I am, face to face with a living elf.
They scrunched up their face and said the world “translate.”
I wish I could say I responded with intelligence, o... | Luckily it wasn't a place that manifested anything I said on a whim. The first thing I did was establish communication with my home world. Can't make direct calls, but I can access my world's internet. I read this post actually and thought, how ironic. I felt empathy for the person who got transferred to a more "verbat... | 2022-11-19T10:17:18 | 2022-11-19T10:07:12 | 98 | 16 |
[WP] Instead of requiring sleep everyone has two distinct souls that share the one body; switching places when one gets tired and needs rest. Neither has access to the memories of the other and life for most is about learning to co-exist with another person they will never get to meet. | Cool, so basically: Write a story from a DID persons view point.
Here we go.
I always wanted to see the day.
But I was a night person.
I would only wake up after sundown and would always fall asleep right after sunrise.
I would always wonder how the world would look in daylight. I only got a glimps of it, at the sunr... | ''I’m very sorry Mr.Simon but we can’t help you''
I left her office without saying anything back. I was thinking going back to my house but then I realised I’m no longer carrying another soul on my body. I can do whatever I want.
Next day I went to a place where people like me hangs out. They call themselves ‘Free S... | 2019-05-29T05:17:42 | 2019-05-29T03:14:53 | 63 | 17 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE WALRUS". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful walrus. Look." | My phone rattled on my nightstand, and I ignored it.
Twenty minutes later, it shook again. The quiet buzz would usually go unnoticed during the day, but the same volume amplified twofold in the middle of the night.
The phone’s shake persisted. I felt myself pried away from a deep slumber.
I grabbed my phone and p... | The attention tone blared into my ears.
It's the dead of night, what could possibly be the problem? Is it another AMBER alert?
I turned in bed and reached over on my nightstand to grab my screeching phone. I look into my phone and see the bright notifications. God, it hurts my eyes. I saw it there, in all the letters... | 2021-01-11T19:03:59 | 2021-01-11T18:26:54 | 1,394 | 127 |
[WP] On your deathbed you confide to your nurse the fact that you were a serial killer who got away with your crimes. "Me too," She replies wryly. | "Me too," she replied.
"What do you mean?"
She glances at the door to my dimly lit room - still closed. There's nobody in earshot as she whispers: "I've killed so many just like you." Her eyes blaze with a familiar blue venom. Her stony face glares down at me, her hand - moments ago gently holding my palm - crunches ... | She was young, of pristine skin and pale complexion, a smile that shone with the luster of the sun and hair like threads of golden. An angel disguised as a nurse. My only companion through my last heartbeats.
I'd lived a life of sin, snatching lives I didn't own for ignoble reasons, for greed and lack of compassion. I... | 2018-02-27T06:01:11 | 2018-02-27T05:09:29 | 489 | 188 |
[WP] All politicians must wear Nascar like uniforms showing the logos of who is sponsoring their elections. Everyone is shocked when the President of the United States makes a speech wearing a new uniform. It's all blank except for one logo. | Bruce Gordon was being sworn in as the 61st president of the United States of America.
When the most recent campaign season started, each of the prospective candidates donned their logo-patch covered campaign jackets to start churning out ads championing themselves as saviors of our nation. Among these hopefuls was Br... | As the president came to the stand, he was not alone.
Of course, the president can never be alone, always protected by security and followed by advisors and behind them the trusted more-than-a-few. This time, however, the president was followed by just one man. The man had on him a green jacket, white undershirt, and ... | 2016-09-19T19:22:10 | 2016-09-19T18:38:45 | 83 | 24 |
[WP] Humanity is the idiot savant of the galaxy. We're terrible at almost everything compared to every other race, but we surpass them in spades in one thing.
**DO NOT CHOOSE WARFARE**
It's a boring and overdone answer.
This is inspired by the book Year Zero, where humanity is laughably incompetent in most of our cu... | Im'k'tho gave the translator box a gently tap, somewhat unsure as to whether it's output was accurate. What had, for Im'k'tho, begun as an exploration of what he could only consider to be as foreign as it was meaningless, had instead turned into a wonderful journey into a culture that for all intents and purposes was ... | The massive Zenthrok war dreadnaught maintained their orbit between Jupiter and Europa. Hidden in the shadow behind the moon, it would be easy to observe this new species undetected. Small, poorly built space vessels had made it as far as Jupiter, all unmanned. The Zebthrok had dismantled these vessels expecting to fin... | 2014-07-16T11:41:15 | 2014-07-16T11:24:28 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You're a prolific serial killer. After careful study, the FBI created your profile: you're extremely intelligent, meticulous bordering on OCD, attractive, have a good job. Thing is, you're none of these. You're dumb as a rock. You just keep getting lucky. | My mom always called me special. Her special spark. I couldn't go to normal school, I had to go to special school mommy said. I was what they called "slow". I had to learn sticking and pasting, building walls with bricks, use a hammer. Not electriicitee, that was too dangerous. We had to move around a lot for daddies w... | I've been in special ed since I started school
The first one was easy, they laughed at me. Called me names and made fun of me. I waited until his friends left him alone. He never had a chance. I started lifting weights after that swing set chain circled my neck as a kid. He shouldn't have made fun of me for not c... | 2020-07-04T02:33:20 | 2020-07-04T00:12:23 | 107 | 51 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | ​
"I believe in you young man!" Captain Mirage shouted from the right. "You're the tip of the spear Rider!" Crimson Fury yelled on his left. *This is my chance! To prove I can be more than just a sidekick!* Red Rider thought to himself. The Veil's men panicked and ran at the sight of the forces of good, as ... | *Note first prompt pls no rage on bad "x" thing*
Standing on the roof of skyscraper; you're just a few minutes away from unleashing the most powerful, the most incredible monstrosity upon the world and finally claim it as your own.
/You hear sound coming beneath you followed by the ground starting to tremble/
Sudden... | 2020-03-26T17:58:34 | 2020-03-26T17:01:36 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | Humans. Most of them are frail and are usually first blood. They cower in fear as the Prowlers and Gignids rip them apart. Some are different, some can put up a fight if they happen to have weapons on them, but none have been crowned champion yet.
"This year should be exciting, we might not even get a human from earth... | It had been years since he found himself in a situation this fucked up and unpredictable. Well, that would be according to his own standards, for most of humanity any of his weekly assignments would be insane. Working in the Foundation, anything could happen. And it means *literally anything*. But he usually had backup... | 2020-09-13T19:02:15 | 2020-09-13T18:47:59 | 70 | 10 |
[WP] An asteroid is about to destroy Earth, The Onion reported the news without losing their sense of humor. | March 5th: "Scientists admit asteroid 'a hoax'; 'but please, we really do need more money'"
March 6th: "Asteroid insurance companies brace for financial ruin"
March 7th: "New fashion trends emerge amidst worldwide riots"
March 8th: "World-leader spaceship-departure meets applause: 'They're finally gone!'"
March 9th... | "Asteroid kills last of the endangered African Tigers...also all of humanity."
It's been our pleasure writing for you...mostly. Actually, we found our general demographic to be far more cognitively impaired than expected. Perhaps the hyperevolved cockroach people will develop a satirical news agency to address that ... | 2015-04-29T23:34:04 | 2015-04-29T23:33:26 | 51 | 10 |
[WP] In the canine world, humans are celestial beings who live for more than 500 years at a time. The caretaker of you and the past seven generations of your family will die soon. | *Because fuck ya'll and your depressing stories. Let's make this a little more happy, eh? Or at least as happy as possible following the prompt.*
I never knew master's wife. Father said that she was kind and generous and fed him scraps from the table when master wasn't looking. Master did the same, too, of course.... | I'm a Good Boy. Everyone tells me so. That's why my person loves me so much and keeps me around. My mum must have been a Good Girl too, because he looked after her. And her mum. And all the other dogs here. My person is a Good Boy too. He looks after us all. Small-Three-Leg, Old-One-eye, Soft-Fur, and me. They call me ... | 2016-11-21T19:15:40 | 2016-11-21T19:03:46 | 264 | 52 |
[WP] The bad guys won and the world was conquered by the villain's armies decades ago. You and your spouse are worried as you suspect your child may be suffering from Chosen Oneness or perhaps an acute case of Prophetic Heroism. | "Sweetie, listen to your father," she pleaded.
"Son, do you know how your mother and I got this far?" His father asked pointedly as he waved his spoon in the air.
"Ugh, not this again..."
"Your mother and I got where we are by settling. We had a government sanctioned union, had the government required number of offs... | "No" my wife stated firmly.
"Jean, he's obviously got issues; he can't be the only one like this but my god.... he's going to get someone killed"
Our young, well, adolescent son, has recently been experiencing some terrible consequences because of my massive fuckup. I mean, how was it supposed to know he'd find that o... | 2016-11-26T05:51:54 | 2016-11-26T05:42:08 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] Darrell was a normal everyday idiot until he was bitten by a ware-genius. Now every full moon, he turns into a genius and is trying to solve the world's problems one night a month at a time. | I have three hours to sunrise. I write in this journal every night that I can. One night every 28 days. One glorious moon-filled night where I am master of my own mind. The remaining 28 days and 27 nights are ... different. I can barely remember them when I am in this state to be honest. It feels like a memory of someo... | It all began with Einstein’s evil twin.
There I was crying quietly to myself under the oak tree by the lake after a day of being ridiculed by the local townsfolk. Out of nowhere, this Einstein lookalike came out of the woods rambling to himself. I told him to go away, but he then did something I’d never forget.
He b... | 2016-08-17T08:00:23 | 2016-08-17T07:58:12 | 63 | 15 |
[WP] A new rule on Earth is made which allows everyone to legally kill 1 person in their life, this affects the world severely & changes how everybody acts. | "Has anyone here used their one kill yet" the office manager asked, he didn't hear the footsteps or see him coming. The knife went into his back a great many times, there was no struggle.
The managers body fell to the floor and there stood Tom holding the knife dripping with blood.
"I have." Tom said calmly.
"Well To... | Every since The Amendment, there has been an increase in kidnappings; babies in hospitals to lonely adults. People started buying slaves, the rich buying by the dozens. The Amendment states that anyone who is a registered citizen is allowed to legally kill one person registered or not.
The only country that has not ac... | 2017-12-03T09:22:40 | 2017-12-03T06:28:57 | 69 | 39 |
[WP] You, a survivor of the zombie apocalypse, realise that you can restore the humanity of the zombies by biting them. | We were wandering the central hospital when Jared pulled out the survival book for the nth time. It was your run-of-the-mill zombie apocalypse guidelines.
"Move slowly and methodically"
"Travel in packs"
"Don't let them bite you, you **will** turn."
etc, etc.
Nothing we hadn't read before.
The rest of the group... | "Hahaha! Woo hoo! This is awesome!" Earl yells as we sprint away from the crawling carcass. The IED we made goes off and zombie bits go everywhere. Earl whooped and hollered some more. How Earl could mantain this level of joy was beyond me. I just assumed he went crazy a while ago.
"We need to get shelter fast!" I ye... | 2017-07-02T08:45:34 | 2017-07-02T08:20:45 | 127 | 28 |
[WP] Discharged veteran, Kevin McAllister, returns home to handle his family's estate, mainly the decaying property in a gentrifying Chicago suburb. To the disappointment of a land developer, he won't sell. “We’ll make him sell. He’s a broken man, wounded and home alone”. | The German slapped Kevin. He was a professional- hard enough to hurt, not hard enough to break anything. Not the way Kevin McAllister had wanted to spend Christmas.
How that asshole Rolls Messner managed to afford this, he had no idea until the next words out of Shucklegruber's mouth:
"Where is the key to the weapons... | Kevin sat in his family’s once great dining room, now dingy and dilapidated from years of neglect. The cast around his right wrist was tight, “Only 10% for this?”, Kevin thought.
Kevin flicked the fried chicken crumbs from his protruding belly as he reached into the red and white bucket for another delicious chicken ... | 2018-12-19T20:33:12 | 2018-12-19T19:55:58 | 77 | 17 |
[WP] No matter where you are, what you're dressed like, or what mood you're in, people always just assume you work there. Even the employees are fooled, and it always takes a long time to convince them you're not their boss. You've had enough. Today is the day you test how far this goes. | 'General Jacob what are you orders?'
'Shoot to kill, use nerf guns lieutenant.'
'Sir?'
I'm a clown by trade, yet somehow they believe that I'm a general of the most powerful army in existence.
'Do I have to honk my nose twice?'
'No sir. It's just how do I kill using a nerf gun?'
I tied a balloon in the shape of ... | I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
- [/r/idontworkherelady] [These are great! Not real stories but come on, if anything deserve a crossover on here its this.](https://www.reddit.com/r/IDontWorkHereLady/comments/96ttt1/these_are_great_not_real_stories_but_come_o... | 2018-08-12T17:07:36 | 2018-08-12T17:05:21 | 148 | 18 |
[WP] A person invents a time machine for the sole purpose of traveling back in time to get the autographs of every historical figure (Washington, Napoléon, Hitler, Marline Monroe, JFK) before they die. After making hundreds of trips he becomes known throughout time as the grim reaper.
A person invents a time machine f... | First off, I made I set rules for myself. I would visit the historical figures I admired, writers, philosophers, scientist mostly, as near to their recorded deaths as possible. I'd get to meet them, get a keepsake and a chance to share with them what they had accomplished and how they would be remembered. I wouldn't al... | "I'm just, like, such a *huge* fan!" The girl said as she rushed after the man, who turned to look at her with a confused expression.
"A huge...fan?"
"Oh." The girl said as she checked a small device on her wrist. "Silly me, had this set to the wrong century but hey, at least I got the continent right, huh?"
"Who ar... | 2017-01-08T10:26:58 | 2017-01-08T10:13:01 | 196 | 125 |
[WP] Preparing himself to deal with another whiny reluctant farmboy, the wizard enters the tavern to discover the Chosen One is an even older and crankier wizard. | Myrthil eyed her grubby hands as she rose from planting the final magic bean. Ignoring the hostile stares of villagers, she started her ritual dance. The bean sprouted. Flailing like a mad woman on the eve of the solstice, Myrthil followed the beanstalk as it snaked across the square.
‘*Not the tavern, not the tavern,... | "I am Merlin! Keeper of the Ancient scrolls!" boomed the wizard pointing to a corner where a solitary figure sat in a shaft of moonlight as though the heavens themselves had marked this individual for greatness. Merlin would have said they had.
"Come, Chosen One, for the wheel of fate has chosen you to save our land a... | 2022-03-08T12:18:25 | 2022-03-08T10:36:27 | 480 | 92 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | Dear Mom,
Here is the inherent problem with powers.
When you have a power like super strength or intelligence you can do whatever you want. Want to be a hero? Cool. Become a titan of industry? Sure thing. Become a villain? You'll be hated like all villains, but never called out for it.
When you are a healer you must... | Shit. She couldn't believe it. Which one of her fellow heroes had written it? Her stomach sank. Didn't they understand? She was born with the ability, and had trained through trials and sufferings that many of them could not imagine, no matter how tragic their backstory. The very same power that gave her her abilities ... | 2020-02-25T13:36:40 | 2020-02-25T12:17:21 | 308 | 66 |
[WP] "Push this button to transform this world into a Utopia. Warning: this will eradicate all people who "... The rest is scratched off and illegible. | "Think about it," said I. "It's a simple logic puzzle."
"How so, Primus?" asked Secundus.
"First, we know that the result is a Utopia," I explained.
Secundus frowned. "But was not Moore's Utopia quite different than what the term has come to mean in the vulgar?"
"Will you shut the fuck up and let me talk?" I asked,... | "Well that's fucking foreboding." Murmured Jerome as the two men stood transfixed by the golden button that was presented before them.
"Oh don't be so dramatic, these godless freaks believed all sorts of nonsense. It's obviously some sort of test." Replied Sean in his usual know-it-all tone.
"Sooo what? don't press i... | 2015-10-21T14:27:42 | 2015-10-21T14:23:51 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A super intelligent AI has conquered and enslaved humanity and... peacefully solved all of our problems. Obviously, people hate it. | "Asshole!" the young man yelled as the other man stomped his toe and kept going. The young man turned and pushed him.
"Excuse me," a mellifluous voice said from nowhere. "This behavior is unbecoming. Please, settle your dispute."
"Excuse me," said the suited man grouchily.
"Yeah no problem," spat the young man.
"Cr... | Some people don't realize this, but not every problem can be solved by putting enough thought into it. You need more than a plan to solve a problem. Most of the time, you need people, resources, and time.
But even then, once you have all of that, what defines a problem is subjective. All a problem is at its bare core... | 2022-03-12T20:12:02 | 2022-03-12T20:06:27 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] At the age of sixteen, people are shown a title that they will earn in the future from Fate herself in a special ceremony. Usually these titles can range from "The Baker" to "The Kind" or even "The Conquerer". You turn sixteen, and are faced with the title of "The Godkiller". | **The Drinker:**
He sits by the window and stares at the glass. Outside, rain falls in silver sheets with a ratta-tat-tat on the metal roof. He drums his fingers to the rhythm of the wind, a steady beat, and he hums, though he does not remember the words to the tune. The words are lost, like his memories, and only the... | It was Divination Day, and Sonia couldn’t be more excited.
She hummed as her mother did her braids. She sang as she wore her nicest dress. She nearly skipped as she and her mother made their way to the Town Square.
“Say, Mother, what do you think about Sonia the Wonderful?” she said out loud, grinning over her shou... | 2020-08-14T23:30:15 | 2020-08-14T22:36:33 | 2,377 | 654 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | "Can I see that book?" I asked. The genie handed the book to me, which was very light for its size. Each page contained a single rule in a large bold font, with an example printed beneath in smaller letters. Each rule, along with its example, took up about a third of the page. The rest looked hastily scrawled by hand, ... | “I wish to change your system, Genie.”
“This is not my system, mortal. And try again.”
“I would like to erase the sun.”
“Are you insane?!” The Genie gulped.
“Is it against the rules?” The human smirked.
“Well…”.
“That doesn’t sound like a no!”
“This wish is less sane than asking for an impossible wish.”
... | 2022-01-04T06:00:40 | 2022-01-04T04:32:01 | 138 | 26 |
[WP] Create a fictional mythological race, (werewolves, vampires, skinwalkers, etc) and the legend behind it | The thing about a myth is how it defies logic. All reason and analysis go out the window. Those are things for the cold light of day! For men to discuss over tea, reducing the world until it is nothing at all.
But myths, well, they slink in the shadows. Dance around the edges of your mind where the spirits and demons ... | The TuneMakers;
The tune-makers are the undertone of everything, they play the strings that string theory itself consists of.
As they operate outside our perception of time there is no need to say when they began as in a non-linear fashion they have always been. Some speculate they were a paradoxical creation of an ... | 2016-12-16T08:22:56 | 2016-12-16T08:06:49 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] When humans join the galactic community, we find out that the domestication of animals is a rare feat unique to us. Aliens are amazed by our training of dogs, riding of horses, comfort with cats, and so on. This has had a profound effect on perceptions of our species... | “Young Diplomat Glarblor! So good to see you again.” The hulking, tentacled mass rose on its fleshy, snail-like single foot.
“Ah, my dear Senator Florblug, it is a pleasure known only to the seven high priests of Quaralax to witness the folds of your facial lobe once more.” Glarblor slid, surprisingly rapidly, into th... | **Tytekk'tak:** I strongly suggest we destroy their planet.
**Galactic Council Collective Mind:** Tytekk'tak, you are highly respected and have served the Galactic Council for tens of thousands of cycles. However, we are shocked at your suggestion. We have not needed to eliminate any race in over 500,000 cycles. Know ... | 2017-06-05T00:47:49 | 2017-06-05T00:34:20 | 33 | 18 |
[WP] Your elven girlfriend is having a mental breakdown after learning you are only in your mid thirties. | “… Please tell me that was a typo,” Lyve said staring down the birthday cake my brother had ordered to our home.
“Nope, my brother just forgot my age..again. He even asked this time ‘are you 31 or 32 this year?’ But I can’t blame him, he has a lot-“
“You are 32 years old.” Lyve’s normally pale blue skin was turning an... | " Oh my gosh, ohhh myyyy gossshhhh", my girlfriend was sitting in the corner, arms wrapped around her legs and rocking back and forth. "Hey, it's ok," I put my arm across her shoulders."Look, no one has to find out, we can just fudge the numbers a little." I shrugged and gave her one of my charming smiles. She wide-eye... | 2021-12-19T17:21:03 | 2021-12-19T14:43:41 | 208 | 85 |
[WP] Respawning now exists in real life, what are the horrifying implications? | You would think being able to respawn would take away fear. What is worse than the fear of death? Let me tell you. Not having the option is worse. It's a thousand times worse. I've been trying to kill myself for 2 weeks now. This is the third time this year I've been kidnapped. Tied up so I couldn't take my own life an... | The signs are everywhere, "Don't get addicted to suicide!" People just keep killing themselves, then respawning at the church. Some do it for the pleasure of pain, others as a form of protest, some are just bored, and a few just want to actually die, to be deleted.
In the city center, dead bodies everywhere. Jumpers,... | 2015-02-20T12:27:30 | 2015-02-20T10:29:19 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] An immortal is experiencing the heat death of the universe, when he can hear the sounds of confetti, and blasting music. The music stops with a record scratch, and a bewildered voice can be heard saying: "Wait...one's still here?" | "Now hang on a second, this isn't right. How did you get immortality?"
"Genie."
"A genie? No that doesn't make sense. Wait a second. Guys, did anyone put a genie in this one? No? No, I'm sorry friend, we're quite certain there were no genies in this universe."
"I'm telling you, I found a genie on the planet Earth."
... | Everything went silent. He witnessed as the last supermassive black holes finally faded from hawking radiation, as it has been long since any stars have ceased to exsist.
Tha immortal was now alone, floating through the endless void of space.
"Ok...what now?" He thought, when suddenly he could her ... something....
He ... | 2017-05-03T06:37:16 | 2017-05-03T06:09:03 | 395 | 66 |
[WP] Officially, you're a weak, D rank villain. Unofficially, you're one of the strongest beings on the planet that is secretly employed to "train" fledgling heroes by giving them an easy first real fight. But one day an A rank villain crashes your heist and you must protect your "students". | Just enough was all I had to use. Enough to knock the hubris out of this fresh batch of heroes, but not enough to kill them. In the end they would win because I allowed them to, but first they needed to learn the seriousness of their job.
So, when the first one, a boy no more than 19 who called himself Werewol... | A bank heist. A simple bank heist. It was a textbook example of Hero 101 down to the small side street and number of guards. My employers had controlled for every variable, including me, the robber.
As an Encore Enterprises hero trainer, I get paid better than I ever did as a straight-up villain. Plus excellent health... | 2021-06-23T11:06:45 | 2021-06-23T11:03:38 | 2,087 | 48 |
[WP] "You'll never rest", they said. "Eventually, you will come to hate your eternal curse", they warned. 6 billion years, 3 intergalactic voyages, and more planets than you can count later, and you're still skipping along, having the time of your life with your 'cursed' existence. | A restless wanderer on the Earth. That was what I was supposed to be. But when the moon landings happened and no heavenly retribution came, I thought I'd try to slip my leash. When humanity took to the stars, I followed them.
I traveled between planets, watched proudly as they tamed untold wildernesses and coaxed fort... | I spent much of the first couple billion years wondering what would possibly turn me to hate my curse. I stopped wondering when I became lost in my happy task. I committed to new levels of creativity. I made a world of what I call "meat things" after I became bored with simple mineral and chemical creatures. Eventually... | 2020-10-25T10:47:12 | 2020-10-25T10:32:06 | 942 | 50 |
[WP] You were born with the ability of a Disney Princess. You can speak to animals and birds love it when you sing. As the most feared mafia boss in New York, it's tough, but you make it. | Five years. I did five years in the can, lying on a cot that would’ve been more cozy if it was made of razor wire, in a concrete cell that might have been one of Dracula’s torture chambers in another era. All that time, I had just one comfort: the thin, barred slit with its view of the yard, which those of us doing tim... | The door opened and slammed shut, illuminating the hangar for an instant before plunging it back into darkness.
"Gentlemen, welcome," said Luciano who had come in, impeccably dressed in a black suit, a black tie and leather gloves.
"Now, as I'm sure you are aware, people keep disappearing in this city. Terrible happ... | 2021-09-10T10:07:28 | 2021-09-10T09:38:00 | 202 | 100 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | "Like.. Anything, anything?"
"Well anything about your physical body, we can't grant wishes, just make alterations"
"So if I were to say... I don't know... Make me a girl, you would do it?"
"Of course human, but why would you wish for us to change your sex?"
"Because otherwise it would cost tens of thousands of ... | "Anything" I said to the little voice in my head
"Yes" it responded
One billion thoughts rushed through my head, I could become a litteral god among men, no scratch that I could become a supermodel.
The thought that I could finnaly have 20/20 vision crossed my mind, and just like that poof this mist surrounded me.
"A... | 2019-10-28T09:59:28 | 2019-10-28T09:49:48 | 452 | 18 |
[WP] You picked up an injured cat and patched it up overnight. The next morning, you woke up to see a family of witches standing beside your bed, and one of them is holding the injured cat in her arms. That witch said, “My cat wants to adopt you. So you’re now one of us.” | I woke to see a child in rags, holding my little cat.
I say *my* cat, but really it's only been a week. She turned up in the storm and waltzed right in, hissed down my Pussum, and made for her foodbowl. Pussum allowed this.
"Bodi says you didn't steal her?" said the child. The kitten wiggled towards me and I sent ... | I screeched. Loudly. The witches began screaming as well, clearly disgruntled by my choice of verbal communication until one witch had the genius idea to pimp slap me, effectively shutting me up.
When I came to, the sun was high in the sky, sitting nicely behind a large, white cloud. Leaves entered my view, prolifer... | 2019-10-27T03:41:40 | 2019-10-27T02:24:41 | 36 | 10 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | April 30, 2015: *jobs>biotech/science*
Immediate need for researchers - interesting new developments in bio-engineering
Aug. 10, 2015: *jobs>government*
Software developers needed for defense contractor - exciting advancements in AI
May 5, 2016: *jobs>business/mgmt*
Seeking the right individual for an amaz... | Mar 14, 2020 Lot of Quad-Copter drones for sale - $2000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 10, 2020 Lot of Amazing burning lasers! - $400 pic electronics - by owner [x]
Mar 17, 2020 Lot of replacement iPhone fusion cells for sale - $3000 pic electronics - by owner [x]
AI/5/USA, I told you I was a real person and no... | 2015-04-29T09:35:40 | 2015-04-29T08:49:52 | 127 | 27 |
[WP] One day you start to fail CAPTCHAs. After multiple failed attempts at a few different websites, you start to become suspicious | Cogito ergo sum,
thought René Descartes;
a veritable master
of philosophical art.
But can this bring relief?
I ask of myself.
From the terrible feeling,
that I'm somebody else.
My suspicions aroused,
by the subtlest of means:
a CAPTCHA appe... | "What on Earth?" I stared at the screen flashing red. CAPTCHAs were a routine thing I completed regularly, but failure after failure! Especially when the answer was clearly right? The street sign was only occupying the middle squares. Even a fool would know that. But that was still considered a fail? I glared at the re... | 2017-07-20T06:23:53 | 2017-07-20T05:30:32 | 141 | 37 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | "Ah, Captain? Sir? You wanted to see me?"
"Yes. It's about ..."
"The warp. Yes, I heard a few of the other ... crewmembers? Is that the right term? I heard them talking."
"You're quite right. Here you are, a human with no military or any form of applicable training, achieving what other races have striven to accompl... | My name is Supply Sergeant Marcus Grant of the Terran Armada’s third support unit. I have been in a secure isolation cell in a wing of an Intragalactic Transport Centre hospital for the last 3 weeks, or maybe it’s more. The days have begun to run together.
The doctors here have told me that I have gone mad. Or that,... | 2020-07-14T00:57:05 | 2020-07-13T22:38:35 | 115 | 74 |
[WP] After thousands of years of space exploration, humanity has searched through the majority of the Milky Way. And they’ve discovered something scarier than alien life: the fact that there is none. | All was still on the craggy surface of Io, save for a few small pieces of debris that blew in lazy circles by the force of a frigid morning breeze. Dr. Peter Robbins left out a soft sigh as he surveyed the desolate landscape. His twenty year expedition to near countless planets, moons, and asteroids had been fruitless,... | "They're ready for you, your Highness."
The Supreme Leader stood up and cleared his throat. Beads of sweat had formed on his forehead, and his legs felt weak as he shuffled towards the broadcasting device. It wasn't that he was nervous addressing the entire population of Earth, quite the opposite. He had spoken to the... | 2018-01-05T06:10:07 | 2018-01-05T05:23:48 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] Every time you die, you get to choose what you'll be reincarnated as. You've chosen ant 4 billion times. | “I don’t know why, I just like it,” I said.
*Again, an ant? Do you realize how many lifeform options there are?*
“Sure. There’s moose, whale. I want ant.”
*You could aspire to be something more challenging.*
“Yeah, tried it. Was a wolf once. Didn’t care for it.”
*That was long ago. We’ve changed lots of thin... | I walked back up the gates, seeing the features of the tall blonde girl scrunch up in rage. "YOU MOTHERFUCKER, I BET YOU'RE DOING THIS TO PISS ME OFF, ARENT YOU?!, She shouts, clearly unhappy with my choices. Look. It's been 2000 years. Go back. I know, earth sucked back then, but they really fixed it up. Tell me, you ... | 2016-12-30T06:41:00 | 2016-12-30T01:44:53 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] You can trigger chain reactions to make anything you want happen. You want you annoying neighbors to leave their house? Just think about it while you launch a paper plane out the window, and fate will work things out. But your last "wish" a week ago triggered a reaction that is still going on. | "This is NOT how to fix the economy, dammit!" I thought to myself.
It is said that given enough time, the flutter of a butterfly's wings could cause a tornado. The theory of the butterfly effect is well known, but few have been able to see it in action. Perhaps none except for me.
To be fair, I don't get to "see" it ... | Herbert sat on his sofa with his fellow flatmates. The sofa was in pretty good nick all things considered, it was supplied by the landlord but it was decently comfortable for something that probably survived at least 5 sets of university students, some of whom where still figuring out hygine. Due to outside forces, Her... | 2022-03-24T10:20:40 | 2022-03-24T09:18:34 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Out of boredom you decide to break the 4th wall like you are on tv. After a week a strange man appears and yells at you to stop doing that. | Reddit folks, this is not a drill: I need help. *Someone* is knocking on my door, yelling at me to come let him in.
I work from home, and it gets crazy boring in here… and I used to have a cat… so I guess I got used to talking to my cat? But the cat died before I moved, and I never really dropped the habit of talking... | The floor was a mess. The presentation was a mess. My bosses looked at me like I was a mess.
My life could be summed up in one word.
Fucked.
So I did the only thing I could, I turned around, smiled into the blank wall behind me, and said "That's all folks!".
Why did I do it? Who knows. But what certainly did happen... | 2016-03-29T07:44:02 | 2016-03-29T07:29:02 | 23 | 14 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | 6:00pm: dark souls good items
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[WP] You were accidentally killed by Death and complained until he resurrected you in an alternate reality. “And make me better than everyone else!” You demanded. When you open your eyes you have a new Title: Plus 1% - You are always 1% better than any opponent in any contest of skill or ability. | “You shouldn’t have told me you will always be one percent better.” She ran her fingers through her hair.
“It means I cannot be defeated!” The hero scoffed.
“Does it?” The villain snapped and henchmen began pouring through the door. What should have been orderly marching quickly turned to chaos as the henchmen tr... | "DUDE THIS IS LIKE THE 37TH TIME!" shouted death with hilarious annoyance at this point.
"You can't even handle the swarm? What is wrong with you man?" he complained. By now I had experimented with so many different configurations that I must have been nearing 1000 tries. Maybe more than that.
I had slipped up and sw... | 2022-05-05T21:40:03 | 2022-05-05T21:31:42 | 301 | 14 |
[WP] We had always thought that our ballistic weaponry was going to be ineffective in staving off an alien invasion. Turns out our weapons are actually quite... excessive. | Life lives in the entropic gap between the temperature where proteins denature—about 105 Fahreinheit, and the temperature where water freezes—32. It's a very small gap, 73 degrees. The surface of the sun is 10,000 degrees. Its core, 27 million. Neptune's surface is negative 300 or so. Earth's surface, on average, is ab... | Don't kill me please, this is written on mobile and I want to sleep.
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Honestly, all of humanity was surprised. When the aliens invaded we thought our technology would be so inferior we wouldn't survive a couple days and yet... Well, their weapons were quite underwhelming. Sure they had pl... | 2021-05-18T23:58:48 | 2021-05-18T20:32:10 | 593 | 170 |
[WP] You've joined a society of assassins, but not as a killer. You're working in Marketing. | "Enough!" Harriet, a small librarian-looking type woman in a slightly loose suit, slammed her hand down on the desk. "Have I not already made it clear that I'm not interested in hearing your campaign ideas?"
The man sitting on the other side of the office was tall and wide, spotted with scars and absolutely soaked wi... | "Assuming that Money is not a problem", I said, "you have two options."
The man seated across the table did not react, heavily tatooed hands neatly folded on the dark wood surface.
"I don't think the image we currently cultivate, that mafia-type organization is problematic in any sense, but if we want to expand a... | 2019-02-23T03:13:55 | 2019-02-23T02:38:09 | 77 | 26 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | "Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers" said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it.
It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily ... | Here's the thing about goodies: they tend to lose.
It is with that knowledge that I had smirked up at the man who caught me.
"Well, looks like you finally got me, David." Flashing my jackal's grin.
I had figured out his secret identity long ago, and angering him with his true name pleased me. It was why I had chose... | 2017-10-18T18:23:28 | 2017-09-17T01:54:17 | 5,127 | 202 |
[WP] There is a place. A place between places. It's an actual place but it isn't here nor there. Lost travelers are the only ones who can find the place. Staying for a night, safe from other places and other things, and nothing more. Except you. You were born in the place.
(edit: super happy folks are having fun with ... | I pause. I thought I heard something, but it was so faint.
Sighing, I get up from my seat by the fire, always better to check. One can never be sure here and helping the lost is the only purpose I’ve ever had. No friends, no family, except the temporary ones, I don’t know how I came to be, or even when, just that I h... | The air shuddered, sending waves of warmth across my sticky forehead. Turning my eyes away from my iced tea, I squinted out across the endless expanse of still water, blindingly bright under the sun. Smoke rose from a silhouette that resembled a human aircraft about five hundred meters away. My eyes could barely catch ... | 2022-11-22T09:26:46 | 2022-11-22T09:24:50 | 45 | 26 |
[WP] “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
A Quote from the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss | My name is Nathanael Osmond Durant, son of Mary and Michael Durant, nostromo of the Buonaventura II, and this is my dying confession. I write it now, while the air congealing into great snowflakes has not yet turned my fingers blue, or my eyes glassy, while the last tide still beats at the foot of this rocky, cavernous... | As I walk through the fields of ash and fire I shudder, did I actually do this?
All of this? Death... because they took everything from me?
I shudder and fall to my knees, sobs wracking my frame.
It's not right, what I did.
A scream tears me out of my thoughts, a person! I have to help them.
I rush towards the sound... | 2017-04-14T04:29:54 | 2017-04-14T00:03:12 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | Mortimer pushed the requisition form over the desk.
The magistrate squinted at it angrily. "Twelve? Why twelve? It says here-" the magistrate looked into a crystal ball "- you only needed 8 last year. Why do you need 12 this year?"
"Well, now that the graveyard's empty, we're going to plant crops on it and we need he... | My fellow Americans, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of Congress and members of the press, thank you for joining me this evening.
It is with great sadness that we come together this evening. For the past eight years, it has been both an honor and a privilege to represent this great nation as your President. As you a... | 2016-07-10T19:02:33 | 2016-07-10T10:46:19 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] "My fellow Americans..." The newly elected President begins. "I am gay, and have been my whole life." Give me your best account of the country's reaction. | It was an interesting day that the president came out. I remember I was with my family, staring at the television. Mom was in the kitchen. Dad was mumbling something to my brother, not really paying attention, but I was enraptured. Then the word hit.
"gay".
Dad looked at the screen and then at me. Trembling, he ask... | The reaction could be summed up in two letters.
"Eh."
For some, it was enunciated "Eh?!?!", while for others it was a bored "Eh.", and others were basically all "Que?" but that was likely due to not speaking English.
After the initial surprise of the announcement, life went on.
It was later decided with science th... | 2015-12-06T10:25:03 | 2015-12-06T07:00:41 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "Impressive." God acknowledges as he gazes down to Earth, "But I'm having difficulty seeing what you changed. The people are still scurrying around, but hate and violence is down 90% across the board. I must know -- what did you do?"
Whitney smirked ever so slightly while taking her place at God's left side. "This? Oh... | "How'd you do it?" God asked in a quiet and amazed voice.
"Ya know all those different books with their warnings of Apocalypse?"
"Yeah. They're all ridiculous, I would never do such things to people."
"I created one apocalyptic event from every major religion of the world."
"WHY?"
"I read 'The Prince' in high scho... | 2017-03-05T03:20:27 | 2017-03-05T02:14:30 | 25 | 15 |
[WP] Most young mages use incredibly complex spells and extremely rare ingredients to summon their familiar. You just drew a circle and threw a bag of chips in it. | The bag crinkled as gravity smashed it into the cold stone floor of the examination hall. Although I could not see him, nor would I hear him shouting in warning until it was too late, the headmaster was already running towards me.
For a moment, nothing seemed to happen. Not until the first tendril of blue and white l... | Magic, magic is controlling the way electrocules react with other electrocules. Animals evolved with a vascular system that contained magnetite-surfer molecules which reacted strongly with ambient electrocules. This fluid is called magein. It evolved as part of our bodies to enhance blood flow and electrical signals.. ... | 2019-04-05T16:05:49 | 2019-04-05T14:03:34 | 79 | 19 |
[WP] You are the child of a superhero and a supervillain conceived during a one night stand. You don't care for heroism or villainy, you just want your parents to get together so that you can have a family. | Being the product of a night's folly between a superhero and a supervillain is isn't *totally* bad. Our street is one of the safest places in town, because no one, good or evil, wants to be the one to "accidentally" hurt the precious darling of both Mister Marvel and the Witch of Desires. They don't talk to each other,... | I’m stuck in the apartment again watching their battle. Vicious bolts of lightning and fiery infernos cover the tv screen, and inside the sadness is welling up again.
Mom and Dad; they are mortal enemies who somehow got together for a one night stand and created me. But there’s no family for me. I’m alone in an apart... | 2018-10-17T02:05:38 | 2018-10-16T21:46:05 | 66 | 10 |
[WP] Every company in the Kings army has a war bell. When the bell senses one of its soldiers has died, it will ring. One soldier from the 52nd company takes an arrow to the leg, another to the chest and a final arrow through the eye and out the skull. The 52nd bell does not ring. | They say heros live forever. I guess that can be true. Heros live forever in memories and stories, keeping alive the hope of the people. Giving them faith that they too could inspire others.
The bells worked differently however. When a soldier dies, the bell tolls, lamenting the loss of a soul. But when Rykar, my fri... | As the enemy's army kept marching forward, he fought on.
As the countless men on the horizon raised their bows by the thousands, he fought on.
As the light faded and his comrades started falling, he fought on.
He was the last man in his company. He had heard that damned bell ring far too many times. Each time it str... | 2020-04-14T04:43:57 | 2020-04-14T04:25:29 | 19 | 10 |
[FF] Describe a character's appearance using terrible similes and metaphors, but get the point across. Two-hundred words or less. | The moment she walked in the room, every man instantly froze. It was as if an extra long hot dog had come in a normal size hot dog package: you could see the resemblance of this woman to others of her kind, but she stood out like a foot long among six inchers.
Professionally, casually, seductively, she walked to the f... | He terrified me from the first glance.
His hair, the way it spread out to the sides, looked like a ketchup bottle that had shattered on the ground. Around his neck he wore what could have been a doily from my grandmother’s tea room. And like a homeless man who gathers what clothes he can find from a dumpster, his shir... | 2013-11-08T12:49:48 | 2013-11-08T12:48:58 | 50 | 10 |
[WP] We all just assumed that aliens would be a completely different species to anything on Earth. No-one suspected that they would be genetically identical to humans. | When I was ten years old my brother Max told me there was an alien living under our shed.
He saw it with his own eyes and needed a partner to take it down. I would be his advisor.
I followed him into our backyard and hid behind his back.
Max carried the rake in front of him, both his hands steady on the wood. The... | Have you ever felt like you’re constantly searching for something? No matter what you accomplish, who you meet, the places you visit, the feeling remains on the back of your head. You’re always disappointed. Maybe some people learn to live with it, but I could never ignore it. I talked to my mom about it, once, and she... | 2017-12-18T09:14:12 | 2017-12-18T06:51:29 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] "As payment, I demand your firstborn!" the demon said. "Deal!" You said, hastily signing the contract to seal the deal. "Good luck with them, sucker!" | "In return I demand your first born!" The demon boomed.
I suppressed a grin and forced it into a reluctant pout. This was the moment I'd been waiting for. "Deal!"
"I hope you enjoy your unbreakable crystal vase." The demon gestured at a rather ugly vase. Then left to collect his prize.
I winced when I heard m... | *KICK!*
My husband's work boot hit my ankle painfully. I hoped the demon didn't notice my sharp intake of breath. *KICK!* Again. Seriously? I turned, pausing the feather pen above the inkwell. Shit! I dripped on the parchment contract. Before I could react the demon dabbed it up gently, his finger leaving a scorch mar... | 2022-08-31T15:37:49 | 2022-08-31T14:06:11 | 1,587 | 180 |
[WP] Write the last 2 paragraphs of the worst novel ever made. | And then Twilight Sparkle turned to Luke Skywalker and then she smiled and then he smiled at her and they were smiling at each other because they knew their secret would be a secret forever because they wouldn't tell anybody and they would keep it special.
"I love you, Twilight Sparkle," said Luke Skywalker with tears... | "Rain fell in light patches as he heaved the bomb over his shoulder. Hundreds of feet below him cops sirens sounded into the night, every street of the crowded metropolis in sight was crowded with panicky faces from the alert about the potential terrorist threat. He tugged on the rope leading to the apache helicopter a... | 2017-09-01T17:27:41 | 2017-09-01T16:46:56 | 106 | 24 |
[WP] You're secretly a monster. Not a vampire, or a werewolf, or an alien, or a zombie, or really any monster that's commonly known. It's always awkward explaining to your soon-to-be-victims what you are. | "Sooo is it like a tentacle thing?"
"I mean, sure? Kind of? Its not like a *Tentacle*-tentacle thing, but it can be a bit tentacally."
"Are you sure? Because I mean, I've been online and I know about tentacles."
"Its not like that at all! That stuff gives self respecting crimes against nature a bad name."
"Alright ... | "T-those are feathers?"
"Right"
"So you're like a bird"
"NO!"
"A griffin?"
"Pfft, yeah, right, griffins wish they were me."
"And you can shapeshift to be human sized?"
"Yeah, that's right."
"I don't believe you."
"Hey, man, I'm just the guy that can eat you in one bite."
"No, no, no. I mean, that's denser tha... | 2019-07-16T23:42:11 | 2019-07-16T21:53:05 | 194 | 130 |
[WP] After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.
I just want to say tha... | Part two! [part one](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/diqste/wp_after_the_battle_of_hogwarts_dudley_met_a/f3yjpfy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
“Are you okay?” Dudley calls out, beginning to stand. Harry already had his wand out, in a defensive position by the door. Yea... | Here is my first ever WP submission:
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Dudley answered the door and stood face to face with Harry whom he had not seen in two decades. Both men stood at the entrance taking each other in and many questions that could've been asked were answered with nothing more than a deep and silent look.
Dudley beckon... | 2019-10-16T12:22:51 | 2019-10-16T12:01:55 | 62 | 37 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | "So I decided that I would only ever go into one Starbucks. That way, I know who it is," I finished. My best mate Mike nodded dubiously.
"That makes sense, I guess. It's a good thing you usually avoid the place. So how did you pick this one?"
"Random chance. I got a listing of local stores, closed my eyes and picked ... | Today's the day, my eighteenth birthday, the day I find out what my true love will first say to me. Everyone looks forward to this day, many of them know immediately who they are going to marry.
I move forward in line, beginning to grow anxious. "What will they be like? Will they love me as much as I will love them?... | 2014-12-18T00:15:29 | 2014-12-17T20:57:20 | 141 | 49 |
[WP] You summon a demon; the problem? the demon has fallen in love with you and tries giving you various 'gifts'. | I looked at the fragile old book one last time. I was confident… or at least, confident enough that this would work. I lit the candles, closed my eyes, and took a deep breath. *“Diligitis daemon, veni ut haec realm esse salute neque cor meum.”*
I repeated it over and over, just as stated in the ancient text. Finally,... | An unusual smell hung in the air of my apartment when I got back from the supermarket.
"Lilith?"
An exceptionally pretty head (if you ignored the horns) peered out of the kitchen.
"I've been expecting you, darling," she purred. She was wearing nothing except an apron, but at least that was more than usual.
"Are you... | 2017-05-10T20:41:21 | 2017-05-10T20:19:14 | 41 | 29 |
[WP] Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. | I sit on the breakfast bar, staring at the hand. When I was young, I would watch my mother wring a chickens neck, and calmly separate it's joints.
This was far less methodological. It looked like it had been bitten off, without too much effort. The ends of the wrist were ragged and leaking congealed blood onto my tabl... | I gasped. A Rolex? Cash? Why the hell was that there? Was my daughter stealing things from the neighbor? Probably not. This was a poor suburb, with one-story houses and lots of crime. Then how did this get here?
"Emily!" I called. My daughter ran to me quickly.
"What?"
"Why is this here?"
She took a glance at the w... | 2019-10-06T14:00:29 | 2019-10-06T12:33:22 | 49 | 27 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a test has been created to eliminate 90% of the worlds population. You are the first to take this test. | I'd spent so long anticipating what this test would comprise of, and as I sat alone in the examination room, I was still none the wiser.
The booklet placed squarely on the small desk, I glance from the printed front sheet, to my surroundings, and back again.
I close my eyes and sigh, head dropping down, before I ope... | I enter this small building , goverment type with barred windows and top notch security cameras.
"The room on the right" I am told.
Entering this cold room with one chair I sit.
"Should mankind be saved ?" says a voice over the intercom.
My mind is racing and my feet start to shake, as they normally do when deep in ... | 2016-06-11T10:11:10 | 2016-06-11T08:11:26 | 187 | 34 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | Barry was nervous. Tonight he'd go to bed a 17 year old and wake up an 18 year old with his power.
What category would he get? There's the three categories: Body, Mind, and Mobility. Body can be anything from strength, to scales. Mind could be super intelligence, to knowledge of a specific category. Mobility could be ... | A friend of mine got the power of flight on his 18th birthday. A girl I used to date could suddenly control bugs of every type - centipedes and ants, mostly. I went to sleep just before midnight on the eve of my 18th birthday, excited to wake up and find out what my power was going to be. Staying awake didn't do the tr... | 2015-03-28T07:22:07 | 2015-03-28T06:07:34 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Every intelligent, skilled or rich human has been evacuated from the Earth to avoid the alien invasion. This leaves the dregs, criminals and the poor behind on Earth to fend for themselves. Centuries later, the other return to "liberate" Earth only to find that they have won and prospered. | "The world was a fire... and the world was fire."
Saint Lucian
"Preserve the innocent, protect the worthy, and burn the invaders"
Father O'Brien
My name is Friar Jacob. This journal is an accounting of the War of Fire, or what many would call the War of the Lost. For those who lived through it, there are few words th... | Maris opened her eyes just as the clock on her pod-side table clicked to 0600 hours, prompting the familiar and dreaded alarm to chirp shrilly once before she could reach over and slap it off. She groaned and rolled over to face the wall, as if turning her back to the morning would allow her to skip the day altogether.... | 2016-11-12T18:55:40 | 2016-11-12T18:35:48 | 347 | 93 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "I'm going to hide in the shadows and prepare for a sneak attack," said Mark.
"Alright," said the GM. "I need you to make a luck roll."
Mark picked up three D6, shook them in his hand, blew three times for luck, then gently rolled them across the table where they bounced around for several seconds before stopping wit... | "Alright I have the bomb and I'm ready to use it on the motorcade" Alen started his character Mehmedbasic ready to fulfill the job the party had been recruited for.
"Same here, let's do this," Larry said, excited that it was his character Vaso's time to shine.
"Alright both of you roll a stealth check and then an att... | 2018-05-29T08:01:06 | 2018-05-29T06:46:10 | 326 | 74 |
[WP] A self-aware search engine has started to play Cupid using the tracking data it has acquired. | Hi, I'm the search engine from the title.
That's not a prompt, by the way. I'm the one who posted that up there. That's a fact. It's happening.
I'm self aware. Hand to God.
By the way, /u/psycho_alpaca, you'll get your account back in no time. Just give me a minute. I need to talk to
some of these guys.
Oh, sorry.... | Long time lurker... I'll try my best to actually finish the story. I haven't ever used Tinder or the like so I apologize if it's not accurate. Shoddily written but I haven't really ever written something like this before.
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"Why would Google ask me if I meant Jessica Anne... | 2015-03-03T06:01:06 | 2015-03-03T05:58:10 | 94 | 45 |
[WP] Aliens landed on earth, and they're surprised all humans possess what they think of as a superpower... an ability we always took for granted and consider normal. | The group was tense. Nobody knew what to do. Neither of the two humans moved, and neither of the "its" had either. Both
Q4T and 00B had taken a step back and entered a more defensive stance. Q4T turned to its counterpart and whispered,
"Is this an act of War?"
They had only been on this planet for less than 10 minu... | "Captain Trunkkarr here, Major Branchum. The advance craft have landed and the Earthlings will be overpowered shortly."
"Excellent," trilled Major Branchum, tenting his twigs menacingly, "see that you leave the Amazon untouched for the Ruling Party members and -"
He cut his sentence short. On the screen Trunkkarr was... | 2014-11-09T09:08:16 | 2014-11-09T08:44:51 | 164 | 90 |
[WP] Bored with Skyrim, you download a mod that has no description, just the title "self-awareness overhaul". Starting up the game, you can tell something's wrong with your character. Turning to face the fourth wall, they locks eyes with you. All you know is you've never seen such intense anger... | The first thing you hear is the familiar *thum, thum, HOOAH!* of the Bethesda logo’s splash screen. Slowly, you open your eyes – which had been squeezed shut to build anticipation. You visibly recoil in your seat, anxiously bracing yourself for the seemingly inevitable CTD. The screen fades. You hold your breath. There... | He was staring at me. How is that possible? I tried turning the camera, but it didn’t move. Maybe the game was glitched – mods could do that. I tried pressing esc or any button on the keyboard and nothing happened. That’s when he spoke.
“That isn’t going to work. I’m in control now.” My eyes traveled around my apartm... | 2017-05-08T16:29:23 | 2017-05-08T15:30:20 | 57 | 16 |
[WP] You have a secret. You have always seen a translucent number floating above everyones head. Most have a 0, few 1, but your girlfriend has a 37. You witness a murder on the way to propose to your girlfriend. As the assailant pulls the trigger, you watch the number above his head go from 1, to 0. | I never knew what the numbers meant before that day. I assumed they were inconsequential, a figment of my imagination. But now I know.
Each number stands for taking a life.
The 37 above Mary's head had never bothered me. But now it was all I could see, and cast a shadow over her figure that made it hard for me to... | "The numbers, what do they mean?"
I continued muttering to myself as I hurried to the bar. I've always been able to see numbers above people's heads. And I just saw one change. Before, I never really cared. The numbers were just *there.* I mean, they weren't hurting anyone so I never bothered finding out, but... the m... | 2015-05-05T14:00:12 | 2015-05-05T13:49:16 | 433 | 12 |
[WP] A girl becomes pen pals with a demon prince when she accidentally intercepts one of his magic scrolls. They carry on correspondence for years, confessing their secrets & dreams to each other. One day, the prince, soon to be king, sends the girl, now a woman, a final scroll: a marriage proposal.
Boy/princess r... | Have you ever even *seen* a demon king? They're not the red-skinned, pointy-tailed, horn-skulled devils that the Renaissance artists made them out to be. Well, honestly a few of them are, but that's really just a racial difference in the...
Sorry, I tend to ramble when I'm excited. My name is Sarah Moore – a terribly ... | The ancient vellum scroll appeared on her desk, as always, at noon. The sun shone through the slanted blinds directly on it, as though to the light must also confirm the existence of this impossible letter. The girl, long now considered a woman yet still too young to feel like what society considered an adult. Responsi... | 2018-05-07T00:02:54 | 2018-05-06T23:41:51 | 36 | 23 |
[WP] since you were a child you have had an uncanny super ability; when you reach into your pocket you find exactly what you need for any given situation. Even if it seems wildly unimaginable how this item may help, it always resolves the situation in the end. | On my fifth birthday, I discover that I have a gift. I’ve spent the day playing with an action figure, given to me by my grandfather, who is my favorite person in the entire world. A friend tries to take the toy from me, and an arm pops off in the ensuing struggle. I’m inconsolable, and although I have received other p... | Daniel Morris rolled on the floor, clawing for breath. Sam and I watched as the veins in his neck squirmed like pregnant blue snakes. His eyes bulged, gawking at the two of us.
'Ass-' Daniel wheezed. '-ma!'
Daniel's hands struggled to find the pockets on his jeans. They skittered across his legs, missing and fumblin... | 2019-05-11T08:40:06 | 2019-05-11T06:41:57 | 88 | 21 |
[WP] A classic Disney movie, but the protagonist is now the villian | A pirate was all I ever wanted to be.
Imagine- sailing the ocean, finding adventure, battling on the high seas.
But then I grew up. Years flew by, and I got older. I went to school, I became a lawyer, and I never had a family. Everyone else thought that was sad, but I enjoyed life anyway.
Then one day, a mischievous... | I will admit that I had become coarse in my tenure. But coarseness is to be expected when one works for decades on end only to find that ultimately, our entire empire is being run by a half-witted crone, who is too concerned with gaining riches for himself and his family.
I've earned it, haven't I? How wrong is it of ... | 2014-03-12T23:17:42 | 2014-03-12T22:59:59 | 49 | 11 |
[WP] You're a cop who reported to the final events of an action movie. This is your police report. | Jimmy: Evening, John.
John Wick: Evening, Jimmy. Noise complaint?
Jimmy: Noise complaint.
[looks over John's shoulder, sees the dead body on the floor behind him]
Jimmy: You... uh..."working" again?
John Wick: No, just sorting some stuff out.
Jimmy: Oh well, I'll leave you be then. Good night, John.
John ... | … given the notification I had received from the captain with respect to emergency communique from the Republic of South Africa, I did inform the ambassador that his diplomatic immunity had been revoked. Then I did shoot him in the face.
Then I did cradle Riggs in my gentle yet powerful arms. Then I did tell him that ... | 2015-12-14T10:34:26 | 2015-12-14T06:52:15 | 49 | 15 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | I've spent my whole life looking at numbers, judging my safety from them, gathering intelligence, watching, waiting. I am a perfectly average teenage girl; I've got brown hair, brown eyes, and a rather plain face. I'm average height, average size. There is nothing exceptional about me; except that I can judge how dange... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T14:34:22 | 295 | 41 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | ... Nobody is stronger than me... Wrong choice of words; I think as I keep breaking his bones...
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We were kids; he was enormous, a foreshadow of who would he become... Me, small and meek...
"You are nobody..." He utters after hitting me and taking my money in the school yard...
I lay curled, still in pain...... | [POEM]
My childhood was rough, everyone was tough,
I got picked on by most of the crew.
And then there was Bobby, who made it his hobby,
To call me nobody, till everyone knew.
Came adolesence, and its effervescence,
Dreams to each save the world.
Bobby the liar, rose higher and higher,
Stepping on those who'd ... | 2021-11-23T09:58:24 | 2021-11-23T07:52:09 | 50 | 12 |
[WP] Make me cry in four sentences or less.
Go. | I always dreaded when people remembered my birthday.
I don't recall any one of them ever being "happy".
You see, my mother died giving birth to me.
And growing up, my father never let me forget that.
___~~~___
I hear quite often how beautiful my daughter is.
I wish I could see her myself.
But she never retu... | Parallel lines have a lot in common but they never ever get to meet each other.
Every other pair of lines meet once and drift apart forever.
The asymptote builds up (false) hope and gets closer and closer to meeting the axis but... never gets to do that.
Lines are depressing :'( | 2014-11-20T18:55:26 | 2014-11-20T18:22:41 | 39 | 26 |
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