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[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Alex,
It has been 99 days since you left. 99 days. Some days are easier than the rest. There are days when I genuinely smile as I remember you. You left me with so many good memories; and I thank you for each and every one. I miss you. Every. Single. Day.
You said we'd be together for the rest of our lives - we just ... | Joyous.
You were the strongest woman I knew. You were the definition of Grace and poise and I wanted nothing more than to be better people together.
The sheer amount of inspiration you gave was unmeasurable.
I hate you so much for doing this....why didn't you pick up your phone....
I hate that you chose me. Why did... | 2017-11-05T21:44:07 | 2017-11-05T19:59:24 | 1,462 | 92 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | Hey Mom,
It’s been a few months since we’ve last talked. I miss you.
I’m still not quite sure why you decided to cut me out of your life. I’d always thought family wasn’t just blood relations, but those who matter to us. You’ve shown me otherwise.
I just can’t believe you threw me out like that. I watched as you sp... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T21:31:44 | 235 | 81 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | To you, whom I didn’t treat right, I’m sorry.
I’m sorry in a way that you may not even realize because it hurts me every day that I live I remember you. I remember not being the very best for you and that cracks me deep down, I don’t know how else to say it. I feel fractured because I wasn’t the best for you, and I wi... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T23:09:04 | 235 | 29 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | Hi,
You’ve been gone for about a month and it feels like the longest month of my life. It’s crazy that I spend so much time worrying about the possible bad outcomes of every situation but you truly never know what is going to happen. Six months ago I did not think we would still be together. Yet after everything that... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T23:59:24 | 235 | 11 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear friend,
Oh dear friend. If only I could just step back for just one day and talk to you about all that has occurred since we last saw each other. I’m so thankful that we were able to spend the time in life together that we did.
I miss that little sigh of excitement that would rise up from my chest and escape my... | Hey kiddo. It's been too long since I've seen you. It's crushing to carry this weight some time. I'm really trying to show you that you can grow up and accomplish anything but it's manifesting in me leaving you behind. Your mom and I weren't right. She will forever hate me for it but I needed to do this for my happines... | 2017-11-05T23:44:56 | 2017-11-05T22:18:21 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | To you, whom I didn’t treat right, I’m sorry.
I’m sorry in a way that you may not even realize because it hurts me every day that I live I remember you. I remember not being the very best for you and that cracks me deep down, I don’t know how else to say it. I feel fractured because I wasn’t the best for you, and I wi... | Hey kiddo. It's been too long since I've seen you. It's crushing to carry this weight some time. I'm really trying to show you that you can grow up and accomplish anything but it's manifesting in me leaving you behind. Your mom and I weren't right. She will forever hate me for it but I needed to do this for my happines... | 2017-11-05T23:09:04 | 2017-11-05T22:18:21 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | We cannot sea each other, and perhaps that is for the best.
What we had was a kind of love, a kind of lust, intertwined with hatred.
When I hate, you love. When I miss, you go far. Our connection seems to be a hurting ever interesting scar.
I sometimes see you in the city center, and already the old wounds begin to... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-06T02:39:07 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | Alex,
Its been nearly 15 years since I have seen you. While we were only kids then I think about you often. We were best friends, and even when we had so little and our families argued we still found a way to hang out. Be it play wrestling games in your room, or have grass fights...it was the highlight of my youth. I ... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-06T00:29:01 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | Dear J,
Hey J, it's me. For the sake of your privacy I'm going to omit your name like I always do when I mention you. But, I miss you. And I really fucking hate that I miss you. When I was with you, I felt like somebody, I felt like someone who had a(in my mind) foreseeable future. I haven't found anybody like you an... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-05T22:17:00 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | Emily,
I know this isn't where I should be writing this, and I know i should just tell you outright, but I think everything's just too fucked the way it is right now. Shit's complicated, and you found someone else who might be able to make you happy.
I've done a lot of wrong, both to you and everyone else I've loved... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-06T00:29:03 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Alex,
Its been nearly 15 years since I have seen you. While we were only kids then I think about you often. We were best friends, and even when we had so little and our families argued we still found a way to hang out. Be it play wrestling games in your room, or have grass fights...it was the highlight of my youth. I ... | Hi,
You’ve been gone for about a month and it feels like the longest month of my life. It’s crazy that I spend so much time worrying about the possible bad outcomes of every situation but you truly never know what is going to happen. Six months ago I did not think we would still be together. Yet after everything that... | 2017-11-06T00:29:01 | 2017-11-05T23:59:24 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You have died and you were not good enough to go to heaven or bad enough to go to hell. To decide where to go, you are sentenced to one year helping people cross over into heaven or hell. | **Jonathan:** Number 5,545,544. Please come to window 11.
**Sarah:** That's me! That's my ticket.
**Jonathan:** Welcome to purgatory, my name is Jonathan and I will be your savior/smiter today. I just need to ask you a few qu-
**Sarah:** Where am I? I was just driving my car a second ago and now I'm sitting in this... | 'I'm sorry to tell you this, but you are decidedly average,' said the angel, peering at me over the spectacles dangling precariously on the end of his long nose.
He was a short, potbellied man with a balding head. Like the other angels, he wore a flowing white toga. Large wings attached to his shoulder blades, and th... | 2018-02-08T17:24:20 | 2018-02-08T16:41:46 | 120 | 23 |
[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? | "I... admit that I am not familiar with that particular game," Death said, hesitantly. "What are the rules?"
He sat in his bed, smiling to himself. He had become an old man, but his spirit was alive and well. "Oh, nothing too complicated," he replied. "In order to set it up, we will need certain materials: a ball, som... |
Death throws rock, I throw rock.
Death throws paper, I throw paper.
Death throws scissors, I throw scissors.
"Its very clear that this will take a while"
Ten years of stalemate go by, finally Death throws paper and I scissors.
Underneath his dark hood, Death whispers "You win."
I blink and find myself alone in a stale... | 2018-03-07T08:28:53 | 2018-03-07T07:40:40 | 65 | 18 |
[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? | "...Do video games count?", I ask the death man. He actually looked like a very normal guy, just wearing black clothing.
"...Sure. Just nothing single player."
"Or, we could make our own game out of a game."
"...What?"
"We both get computers. We mod Skyrim with the same mods and same load order. We continuously pla... |
Death throws rock, I throw rock.
Death throws paper, I throw paper.
Death throws scissors, I throw scissors.
"Its very clear that this will take a while"
Ten years of stalemate go by, finally Death throws paper and I scissors.
Underneath his dark hood, Death whispers "You win."
I blink and find myself alone in a stale... | 2018-03-07T09:08:29 | 2018-03-07T07:40:40 | 39 | 18 |
[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? | Gasping awake, he's surrounded by a dark haze. He doesn't remember when he arrived or how he did so, but he has a burning ache to go home. He hears a sound, a voice? He isn't too sure as he whips around in a panic.
"Hello?" He calls out. The anxiety, trembling from his voice, "I think I'm lost," he is met with silence... | "Look, Gary, i am not saying that i don't enjoy our games, but how long have we been playing now?"
"oh, i don't know, it's been a while" said gary, smiling from the other side of the table.
"it's been nine years now, gary. Nine. years. Gary"
gary lifted his arms above his head and stretched, cracking his shoulders a... | 2018-03-07T08:38:23 | 2018-03-07T08:36:30 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You are given a writing prompt by your English Professor. You decide to post the writing prompt to r/writingprompts and get an amazing story. You decide to use that story as your own and turn it in as your assignment only to find out that your professor was the one who wrote the story. | "James, come in."
It was a spring morning when the boy walked into the tiny office of Professor deMorobin. James knew what he was in for. The e-mail sent to his account last night already alerted him of plagiarism on his recent English paper. But, nonetheless, the boy had walked in with a smile on his face and a skip ... | What’s the closest thing to underwater basket weaving.... you muse as you scroll through your college’s course catalog. You’re a second semester senior, you’ve already been accepted to your top choice law school, and the only academic requirements you have left to fill are electives. You see no reason to be sober betwe... | 2018-04-14T08:11:32 | 2018-04-14T07:28:05 | 44 | 28 |
[WP] An alien has kidnapped Matt Damon, not knowing what lengths humanity goes through to retrieve him whenever he goes missing. | They burned the stars from the sky. They tore worlds asunder. The great plague of man spread from system to system grinding the Seven Celestial Empires into dust. All for one man, The Damon.
The Korlanth found them on a backwater planet known as Earth. Foolish and headstrong as ever, their wisdom faltered against thei... | The apparent reason for the kidnapping was to fill the vacant role of (janitor) on the ship. As the Aliens know earth is the most fecund spot in the Milky Way for specimens to fill janitorial roles.
What the aliens on the ship hadn’t expected was when Matt started work on the ship, mopping floors, cleaning space shit,... | 2018-06-06T15:09:44 | 2018-06-06T14:10:50 | 96 | 11 |
[WP]You're a highly dangerous criminal who has been given 200 years in prison. It's been 200 years and you're still alive. The justice system did not foresee this.
​ | "Dangerous" I say, to the reporter sitting outside the cell,
"is the most subjective word Humanity has ever concocted." He wriggles in his seat, i can see the discomfort as clear as day on his face, as he seems to search deep for the next question. His previous had been,
"After the slaughter of a whole town, why ... | They said it was a record. Once I reached 25 years behind the bars I got my first. The parole board rejected me time and time again. It’s not like I expected to get out. 200 years is a hefty sentence. Maybe not for what I did, but hey, it had to be done. Once I got denied the 23rd time I just started telling them to go... | 2018-08-24T20:25:53 | 2018-08-24T19:56:15 | 167 | 69 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | Being average can be both a curse and a blessing. On one hand, you never really can experience prosperity. I learned this the hard way in highschool when I would wrestle. It never feels good to train your butt off to only come in 5th place in a tournament. After all... No one cares about 5th place. It's only the top th... | 'How...how is this possibe?'
The supervillain clutched at his broken arm and fell to the floor. He tried his best to back away from the advancing man, but he was spent. His workshop and maniacal contraptions burned around him. So much preparation, so much work. He was so certain his plan was going to work, now it ... | 2018-10-24T12:47:09 | 2018-10-24T08:09:35 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] You are eight years old when you fall into a coma. 70 years later, you unexpectedly awaken, a child in an elderly person’s body. Your parents are dead, and your relatives are nowhere to be found. Your only friend is the nurse who has watched over you for the last 30 years of her career. | Bristol, 2017
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Beatrice is telling them I'm asleep. "He will decline to appear on your morning television show, but thank you".
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London, 1940
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The howling starts low. The solo rotary siren is joined by another, and then another, blasting out sound waves at 2900 revolutions per ... | I'm at the carnival. It's one of my favorite episodes. That's what I call the different places. There are a lot of them. Sometimes they stop and vanish unexpectedly, and then another one begins. I don't know why.
"Come on, Tommy! Race you to the teacups!" a young boy with sandy brown hair and a missing tooth says to m... | 2018-11-03T11:18:24 | 2018-11-03T11:15:16 | 76 | 24 |
[WP] Your SO loves fun, risky situations like skydiving, while you always liked to play it safe. After a long, happy life together, you're reunited in the afterworld. Everybody has a number for how many times they SHOULD have died throughout their life. Your SO's is 3,300. Yours is 1,450,294.
Edit (1/27): Wow! This id... | “What in Hell does that mean, ‘should’ have died?” I demanded, staring at the number written on the scroll in divinely-luminous ink.
The angel holding the parchment roll sighed, shaking his? her? head in a glory of radiant locks. “Heaven. What in Heaven does that mean. Please show some gratitude for the grace you have... | "And you see, right here? The methane level in your flat was so high that you passed out. You told your mother it was a nap but you actually asphyxiated. Crazy huh!". His black robes shook at hs spoke. The thick hood cast a deep shadow along his skeletal face, leaving only the movement of a gleaming white jaw bone visi... | 2019-01-27T02:22:37 | 2019-01-27T02:18:27 | 184 | 41 |
[WP] You're an Evil Overlord who has ruled over you dominion for ages. Your secret? Social services are well funded, orphanages are places of love, the pediatric wings in hospitals are state of the art. Thanks to this no child has the tragic backstory necessary to become the hero that defeats you. | The upside of being evil, is that one's instincts are immune to surprise. After all, the world loves its heroes; and a good hero can come from anywhere.
As I sit on my throne, my eyes are fixed firmly upon the congregation of 30-odd men and women that have barged into the room. Dressed in full plate armour, they carry... | Another festival thrown in my honour. “I’m so evil they even praise me as a hero! My how I have fooled these peasants.” I made my way down to the town. My castle on the hill, looming, casting deep shadows over the next door valley. “Haha no one can ever enjoy that valley, how wonderful to be evil!” My long robes flowin... | 2019-05-27T06:14:09 | 2019-05-27T04:07:32 | 374 | 248 |
[WP] The current rulers of the galaxy exert their dominance by showing showing new races a glimpse of their terrifying nature inevitably either driving the unfortunate victims mad or causing them to retreat in fear. It does not work on humans however, they are used to it | Across a thousand worlds our form inspires fear, as is only right at the sight of perfect apex predators , naturally triggering terror in the lesser prey of the galaxy.
Teeth like knives, skin like scaled armor, claws that can rend flesh to the bone. We are majestic.
The species of most worlds bow down upon our arr... | The following transcription was recorded on July 27th, 2672 at approximately 11:43PM before Admiral Alabaster led the suicide charge in sector X34 against the still unidentified invading ship that entered our orbit approximately one week prior.
All lives were lost.
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>I want to make something very clear to yo... | 2019-06-11T07:56:44 | 2019-06-11T06:04:46 | 4,721 | 1,817 |
[WP] You are an immortal that got sentenced to permanent burial over 1000 years ago. Today a team of archaeologists just dug you up. | I high fived the archaeologist that dug up and opened my coffin. She was looking at me with a mouth open so wide it looked like she was having a hard time breathing.
"I've been there, girl. I ran out of oxygen nine hundred and ninety nine years, three hundred and sixty four day, and sixteen hours ago."
She screa... | **Professor!**
Yes, what is it, my student?
**I think I found something, but I can't quite tell what it is.**
Well, let's have a look here... Oh, my. This... this is interesting. Do you see these markings?
**Those odd squiggles?**
Yes. It's a language that has been dead for quite some time, but if I'm reading this... | 2019-10-25T23:42:25 | 2019-10-25T22:56:40 | 285 | 93 |
[WP] A fortune teller foretold that twins would be born where one was evil and the other was good. A year later, a woman gave birth to a boy with horns and bat wings, and a girl with angel wings and a halo. The boy was sent away, while she and her husband raised the girl. They kept the wrong one. | It starts with a family.
And a warning.
“Be wary” the oracle screams, swaying with the steam cascading from the vents of the cave.
“One of your children will bring evils to the nation of the likes we would never see, and one will bring it to heights we can only wish for. Use this warning wisely!”
The parents t... | There are two strange things about prophecies, that everyone seems to so very easily forget.
The first; That every prophecy glimpses upon the future, and in doing so, speaks of a world where that 'future' already exists.
The second: That prophecies are, nearly always, self-fulfilling.
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"The child born o... | 2020-05-07T13:27:35 | 2020-05-07T12:22:22 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You've just arrested a woman and are dragging her away from a bleeding corpse. "It's not my fault, the voices made me do it!", she yells. "Release her", you hear menacingly from somewhere within yourself, "or you shall become our new vessel." | "Will you leave her alone then? Will I then be your only vessel?"
"Yes, of course, why..."
"Then please do come in and make yourselves at home."
"What?!"
"Come in and stay in if you can. Can you? Maybe you can't? I don't have schizophrenia. Or any other mental illness. I am perfectly mentally and physically healthy... | I rolled my eyes and kept dragging the woman towards my cruiser.
“Very well human, your body is now ou- WTF?!?!”
I snigger as I open my cruisers door, just waiting for the show to truly begin. Should be any second now.
“You dare take what is already taken? Fools!”
“How is this possible? Who are you?!”
“We are this... | 2020-07-09T12:26:51 | 2020-07-09T09:48:21 | 152 | 86 |
[WP] Outside of your hometown you are known as an untouchable monster, someone who will never let any superheroes or villains come near his territory. The whole world fears you, but the smiles and support of the townsfolk as they thank you for keeping peace makes it all worth it. | There's something I read once. What is honorable is what maintains the status quo.
In the age of muscle-powered warfare, the wealthy and politically powerful were also the ones who could afford enough food to be physically powerful and enough time to be skilled in the art of combat. And so it was dishonorable for so... | The outside world is a scarier place, but I’m scarier.
Almost a century ago, the radiation started to kick in. As soon as it was discovered that this would in fact not kill us, the world rejoiced and realized that it was changing people. At first we were all scared. That is, until heroes started popping up. Suddenl... | 2020-10-01T11:20:18 | 2020-10-01T07:52:15 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] You are a warrior pledged to protect a chosen priestess on her quest to quell a great evil. What she finds at the end of her journey is not a dark god or towering beast. She now stands before an altar of sacrifice. You knew the truth the whole time, you just couldn't bear to tell her. | She has such strange eyes, this priestess. It's a sort of hazy light blue, as if diluted by clouds. And they hold a trust that burns me. Burns me to the bones, and I am glad that I wear armor. Glad that I have a helmet. A visor to hide behind should I want to.
I am not a cruel man. I am only doing what's best for this... | Daleline moved slowly towards the altar. I could see her shaking slightly. It wasn’t the weather or the warm breeze that caused her to shake. Her energy had been growing since we left the high castle. With each step she had grown in her own abilities from the meek young woman that had left the throne room to a confiden... | 2020-11-13T00:28:13 | 2020-11-12T23:50:14 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] You, the Immortal Villain, have broken free of your Icy Prison. Now it is time to subjugate Humanity once more. Except, you are surrounded by rot, and ruin. Humanity is nothing more than a fleeting memory. | "Processing..."
"Stasis failed..."
"Attempting to reb..."
"JKDNyhik789..."
Gladys blinked as her processes assumed control. She flexed her hand, marveling at it's form. It had worked. Her final memories were blurred, but she remembered initiating the transfer. A backup in one of the test-drones.
She was unable to ... | For years I've suffered. All my life I've only wished to bring humanity to its knees. All this time an ounce of hope gave me the strength to go on, the prison didn't stop me from thinking. I've always known that I'll be free some day, it was only a matter of time.
The chosen one failed, the world failed to keep me in ... | 2020-11-14T15:12:15 | 2020-11-14T13:05:42 | 72 | 17 |
[WP] A ghost has haunted your bathroom, a monster sleeps under your bed and a family of gnomes lives in your backyard. None of them are helping pay rent. A house meeting has been called. | “Gentlemen, this really is becoming an issue.”
Hollywood starlet Claudette Celine sat, ankles crossed, at the head of the table, looking every bit as glamorous as the magazines portrayed her.
“I cannot bring myself to excuse this behavior any longer. Now, I understand that you all are, quite frankly, unemployed but ... | “What’s this then?” Asked the ghost as he wandered into the living space of the small apartment. The gnomes shrugged and the hairy skull faced monster sat picking at the carpet. I was leaning on the wall in my hoodie waiting for them to assemble before I started. “I need you guys to pick up the slack! Your not paying r... | 2020-11-17T20:50:34 | 2020-11-17T17:57:56 | 77 | 28 |
[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. | Day 24: A guy ran past me going down the mountain today. Full business attire and muttering about TPS reports being late. I didn’t get a word in before he was too far for it to matter. High strangeness, but it’s best I forget about it.
Day 25: I found a tie in the snow. Same tie he had. I need to forget about him. Si... | "Hey wait for your turn assho...what?"
Now, I shouldn't be surprised at queue cutters on the top of the world.
For some people, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, something they can probably snap a selfie, tag #YOLO and garner thousands of like and followers to stem their insecurity of inadequacy.
And when yo... | 2021-02-01T02:24:57 | 2021-02-01T01:38:05 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Despite having pink hair, untold magic power and a tragic backstory, the narrator refuses to make you the main character. | Hi, I'm Cathy aka "not the main character"
My parents died when I was 3 so I've been tossed between foster homes, I've never gotten an award, I dyed my hair pink in the 8th grade, and I just found out I have magical powers.
Now roughly a week after that last event this weird voice, the "narrator" started to constant... | "Hey Superman" I say as I sit on the steps.
He smiles at me, and gives a wave "Good to see you too citizen, be safe out there today" and he walks into the Justice League Headquarters. Then batman follows, gives me a nod and keeps walking, Aquaman fists bumps me and tells me to keep up the good work social distancing. ... | 2021-07-04T12:16:49 | 2021-07-04T11:15:44 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] You were told your gift for light magic was a blessing. Your wit and talent could make you into a legendary healer. But you're not a gentle person. The charred corpses of your enemies can attest to that. | They say light magic is only good for healing. You could make a small light, just enough to read at night. Maybe a flash of light to blind your enemy, giving you a chance to run. Fighting with it would be foolish, stick to being on the back lines and healing.
Those fools can’t even comprehend the power of light. If th... | By light, they had assumed that it would be used for healing. For good, or what they called good. Lightbearers were supposed to be gentle and caring. Janus wasn't gentle. Or caring. Or even kind for that matter.
The man stood on the edge of the battlefield, the last bastion between the city. The seemingly insurmountab... | 2021-08-21T10:25:27 | 2021-08-21T08:09:29 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You're a character who can break the fourth wall but the truth is the fourth wall doesn't exist for you. So sometimes you go to your author's house, eat their food, use their bathroom and go back with a confused author left behind. | "How did I do it?"
"I haven't the faintest idea," I shrug.
"I mean -" he says. "I mean, if I could do this *deliberately* -"
"Then you'd write a good-looking young lady who thinks the world of you, yes, I know."
"How do you even *cross* the fourth wall, anyway?"
"I've told you. I don't know. It just doesn't *exist... | The *Bookstore of Horrors* was a small shop, lit only by a few select candles on the wall. The sparse sunlight that pierced through the tainted glass was soon blocked by black drapes over a rail. These drapes were the leftovers of a cursed ship with black sails that was swallowed whole by the kraken, then resurfaced af... | 2021-11-12T03:18:28 | 2021-11-12T02:37:03 | 138 | 29 |
[WP] You’re an obscure, ancient god who had resigned yourself to slowly fading away. One day, an inventor whose sibling is an archaeologist names a new type of tech after you. As the tech becomes wildly popular and ubiquitous, you find yourself growing in power vastly beyond what you had ever known. | Humans were lucky. Death often came quick for them. How many centuries have I been dying for? I lost count after the first few. My sight failed me two centuries ago, with my other senses slowly following. I fear I don’t even have a body anymore. If I do, I can no longer feel it.
Is there a heaven or a hell? Maybe, ... | A quiet woman in a loud world. A desperate darkness held on in the filthy corners where the neon couldn’t reach. Her name had been Eos long ago, she often wondered if it still was.
The world didn’t think so.
To the world, Eos was the force that lit the towers: so tall now that they crowded out the sun and split the w... | 2022-02-04T05:32:26 | 2022-02-04T04:14:16 | 443 | 227 |
[WP] You are born in a world where your status relied on power granted by the god who has chosen you at birth. No god has chosen you, for that you were shunned and placed in the lowest rung of society. In desperation you try to take your own life until an unknown elder god offers their mark to you. | I don't remember hitting the water, or any of the rocks below.
I fell into a sea of darkness. An inky black void extending in every direction. It felt cold and hazy, like when first waking from a deep sleep.
It was then I noticed I wasn't alone. Before me stood a human shape, wearing the swirling darkness as a ... | (WP) Desperation
In a world where one’s status are based on a god’s blessing at birth, she was unmarked, unchosen. And she was an outcast. In their small village, everyone avoided her; even her family wanted nothing to do with her.
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The moon shone on high like a god’s bright, pale eye, and she crept towa... | 2022-06-30T12:26:04 | 2022-06-30T09:18:35 | 25 | 15 |
[FF] Second Chance. (Contest)
**The results are in! [Check out the winner here](http://redd.it/1xbygk).**
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**The Prompt:**
> *You live in a world in which every person has the ability to go back in time 10 minutes, but can only do so once in their lives.*
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**The Guidelines:**
Submissions **must be le... | 10...
I opened my eyes to see myself standing in front of the Board of Supervisors for MindTree Inc. These businessmen were considering a partnership with my company, and my job was to convince them. I knew winning them over would catapult me up the corporate ladder and make me thousands. I was preparing that presenta... | "Want to go to the store with me?"
I had just opened up my laptop.
"Um.. Nah. You can go."
"You've been gone all day, John."
"Yeah, working."
She leaves without a word. Lately, it's been hard to keep things together. The slam of the car door lets me know that I might be in the doghouse later. Big surprise.
... | 2014-02-06T16:34:42 | 2014-02-06T15:58:56 | 21 | 10 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them.
Great turnout and work everybody. Keep em' coming.
Newcomers:
A. Don't feel afraid to post or otherwise get turned off posting by the number of already completed responses.
B. Read all... | “Ray, don’t go.”
“I’m not goin’ nowhere, Claire. I’m just stepping out.”
“I need you. We need you.”
“I’m just stepping out for a smoke,” Ray lied to his girl as she cradled their newborn child. “Just heading down to the car for a smoke. I’ll be right back.”
Ray let the door swing shut behind him. He didn’t need to ... | *Meta: Don't ask me what the hell is going on here, I honestly have no idea. I just wrote the thing.*
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I press the red button. The man walks into the room. I nod at the man as a single tear rolls down his cheek.
I pull the lever, the light flares up.
The light f... | 2014-03-11T09:37:45 | 2014-03-11T08:32:48 | 70 | 42 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them.
Great turnout and work everybody. Keep em' coming.
Newcomers:
A. Don't feel afraid to post or otherwise get turned off posting by the number of already completed responses.
B. Read all... | “Ray, don’t go.”
“I’m not goin’ nowhere, Claire. I’m just stepping out.”
“I need you. We need you.”
“I’m just stepping out for a smoke,” Ray lied to his girl as she cradled their newborn child. “Just heading down to the car for a smoke. I’ll be right back.”
Ray let the door swing shut behind him. He didn’t need to ... | I'll give it a shot.
He sneered at the beggars, the druggies, and the homeless. He flashed angry glares as he drove past the ghettos. Whenever an elderly person walked by him, past him, or in front of him, he nearly succumbed to the urge to cuss and swear. He kicked at the stray old dogs that wandered by his house. He... | 2014-03-11T09:37:45 | 2014-03-11T07:12:46 | 70 | 22 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them.
Great turnout and work everybody. Keep em' coming.
Newcomers:
A. Don't feel afraid to post or otherwise get turned off posting by the number of already completed responses.
B. Read all... | The restraint slipped tightly over my thumb, five straight minutes of struggling had nearly exhausted me. My knuckles bled as they piled against the rough leather cuffs. I refused to be beaten. My teeth clamped down so hard I was afraid they would shatter. I pulled tighter and tighter until with a quiet pop, my hand wa... | He’ll be a hero for what he’s doing. He’ll be the most famous murderer since Jeffrey Dahmer. Phillip Douglass, our hero. He has killed millions and in sadistic splendor, loves his job more than life itself. His favorite method of execution is raining fire upon his victims. Something about watching his prey scurry ... | 2014-03-11T12:41:36 | 2014-03-11T09:59:53 | 54 | 33 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them.
Great turnout and work everybody. Keep em' coming.
Newcomers:
A. Don't feel afraid to post or otherwise get turned off posting by the number of already completed responses.
B. Read all... | The restraint slipped tightly over my thumb, five straight minutes of struggling had nearly exhausted me. My knuckles bled as they piled against the rough leather cuffs. I refused to be beaten. My teeth clamped down so hard I was afraid they would shatter. I pulled tighter and tighter until with a quiet pop, my hand wa... | I'll give it a shot.
He sneered at the beggars, the druggies, and the homeless. He flashed angry glares as he drove past the ghettos. Whenever an elderly person walked by him, past him, or in front of him, he nearly succumbed to the urge to cuss and swear. He kicked at the stray old dogs that wandered by his house. He... | 2014-03-11T12:41:36 | 2014-03-11T07:12:46 | 54 | 22 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them.
Great turnout and work everybody. Keep em' coming.
Newcomers:
A. Don't feel afraid to post or otherwise get turned off posting by the number of already completed responses.
B. Read all... | The restraint slipped tightly over my thumb, five straight minutes of struggling had nearly exhausted me. My knuckles bled as they piled against the rough leather cuffs. I refused to be beaten. My teeth clamped down so hard I was afraid they would shatter. I pulled tighter and tighter until with a quiet pop, my hand wa... | After lurking here for a long time, I'm finally responding! Go ahead and be brutal, I can take it. Here goes:
"You told me you were at your mother's house! What the hell were you thinking, hitting on all the other girls at the bar? Am I not good enough for you?” I say nothing. What else can I do? She caught me ... | 2014-03-11T12:41:36 | 2014-03-11T09:47:52 | 54 | 22 |
[WP] Click 'Random Subreddit' and research the random one you found and write it down, but like a Victorian explorer writing in his journal. | Derest Joanne the third weak has serficed and begun anew and Summer is upon us. The Captain has told us the land of Reddit is not but tew dayz from shore and the dekhanz are having benjo in antisipashun of a port tavern aptly named /r/gonewild. I may get arfarfn'arfed with them shood ocashun arise.
Derest Joanne Red... | Day 45
The Arrival
There's a faint smell of electricity in the air, as if some machine is working furiously somewhere in the building. All the walls are a quaint indigo, as if for royalty; however the people seem to be quite the opposite. A man ran past me with the most queer expression on his face, and then another ... | 2014-06-03T01:23:22 | 2014-06-03T00:36:34 | 28 | 12 |
[WP] For the first time ever, a person is born with a genuine superpower. They proceed to live out their entire life without noticing or realizing it. | "Let me get this straight" St. Peter said, thumbing through the Book, "You had a superpower. An honest to God superpower. The kind of ability that would have brought peace to the world and you..."
"Never knew" said Jimmy.
"Never. Knew." repeated Peter.
"Well, it's not like I really had the chance to use it. I mean... | The woman spoke to the assembly, pausing now and then to look one particular person in the face, then another.
'...a hard worker, raising a business up from nothing, and a loving mother, helping to raise all of us and making time for us when she could. A generous and fun grandmother, that all of her grandchildren were... | 2014-08-08T08:28:08 | 2014-08-08T05:28:34 | 40 | 30 |
[WP] Write a letter to a fictional character who got you through a tough time in your life or greatly influenced you. | Dear Mr. Weasley,
You were like a father to me. I figured you already had all those Weasley children of yours running about, what was one more?
You taught me what a real father should be. You taught me two very important lessons : that a normal father figure does not hit their wife, and that laughter is the most im... | Dear Commander Shepard,
I Just want to say thank you. Not because you defeated the reapers, But because you gave me a reason. Before I met you I was rather listless and miserable; I was angry and lashed out.
I saw what you had. A purpose to kvetch for and a crew that was family. I admit, at first I was jealous, But t... | 2014-08-10T23:42:18 | 2014-08-10T22:11:32 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] Write a letter to a fictional character who got you through a tough time in your life or greatly influenced you. | Dear Mr. Weasley,
You were like a father to me. I figured you already had all those Weasley children of yours running about, what was one more?
You taught me what a real father should be. You taught me two very important lessons : that a normal father figure does not hit their wife, and that laughter is the most im... | Dear Matilda,
I'm glad you got out and found Ms Honey. I got out too. I live with my best friend now and I'm hoping you are still doing well now that you're older too.
I always wished I had powers like you so I could get them to stop, make them leave me alone. I read about you and watched the movie a billion times u... | 2014-08-10T23:42:18 | 2014-08-10T23:37:11 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] You're watching Bob Ross with your parents when you realize he's quite obviously painting a very NSFW oil on canvas of something. Your folks don't seem to notice, and Bob Ross continues describing things as though it's some magnificent landscape. (NSFW) | "Mmhmm, this is the part I love, when everything just... comes together." Said Bob, a dew of sweat on his brow.
I couldn't look away. His pallet consisted of every possibility of fleshtones from goth white to coffee brown, along with a smattering of pinks and whites.
"He makes it seem so easy, god, I wish I had aunt ... | My parents quietly watched the afro-clad man as he made the quick, deft brushstrokes. Each one adding to the image. "And with this, we get a nice, well-groomed bush." Something wasn't right. *A well-groomed bush...* If it was a bush, then why was it triangular and so well-situated in the middle of the canvas. I tu... | 2014-09-10T23:14:32 | 2014-09-10T23:02:17 | 52 | 24 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Sammy,
I know that I've been away from home for a long time now, and I'm sorry. My, you must be big now! You were just starting to crawl when I went away. I'm writing this letter so that you'll remember who I am once we are re-united. You make sure that your mom has a picture of me right over your bed so that you see ... | Hey Judy,
I know it's been a while since my last letter and I'm sorry. I honestly did try to write whenever I got the chance, but time gets away from you, you know? There's a lot I want to say and probably not a lot of time to say it.
First, I want you to know that I love you. Always have. From the moment I saw you ... | 2015-02-03T13:20:17 | 2015-02-03T12:59:38 | 202 | 20 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Mom,
Don't have too much time, we move out in 10.
Long time no see. Haven't been able to write back, they've been keeping us on our feet for the last few weeks. Tell the goobers their uncle has permission to beat them if they get into the cabinets again. Tell Heather that the fish tank needs cleaned more ... | My love,
I miss you and the child terribly. Life in the trenches is hard, but bearable, knowing that-
*A fold and several stains coat the paper.*
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To whom it may concern:
No words can express my sorrow for your loss. Gerard was a brave man - a good soldier, one who anyone could be proud of.
War is hell. Men w... | 2015-02-03T15:25:05 | 2015-02-03T13:02:09 | 113 | 48 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Mom,
Don't have too much time, we move out in 10.
Long time no see. Haven't been able to write back, they've been keeping us on our feet for the last few weeks. Tell the goobers their uncle has permission to beat them if they get into the cabinets again. Tell Heather that the fish tank needs cleaned more ... | Dear Josh
It's not easy writing this letter. Things are kind of getting out of hand over here. We're moving out to a new base. I'm in the truck right now. All I can hear is the engine and that shitty music Danny keeps on playing. I swear I'm going to kill that boy soon. I may not be back for another month or so. I kno... | 2015-02-03T15:25:05 | 2015-02-03T13:33:59 | 113 | 18 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Mom,
Don't have too much time, we move out in 10.
Long time no see. Haven't been able to write back, they've been keeping us on our feet for the last few weeks. Tell the goobers their uncle has permission to beat them if they get into the cabinets again. Tell Heather that the fish tank needs cleaned more ... | Sam-
I am, I fear, losing something. Perhaps it is lost.
Nights and days bleed together like the red mud underfoot and the sonic sludge of bugs and bullets whining and hunting for what the soil has yet to accept from us. I hardly notice it anymore. I don't know if I am glad for this.
You and Alex keep me going, I do... | 2015-02-03T15:25:05 | 2015-02-03T15:21:50 | 113 | 12 |
[WP] A crazy supervillain disables the birth control of all superheroes. | "Abortion Man To The Rescue!" called out the stranger in strange tights with a coat hanger symbol on his chest.
Powergirl almost jumped naked out of her bed. The man she was with, whom she picked up at a bar seemed to recognize this freak.
"You're too late abortion man!" said The Impregnator.
Powergirl wrappe... | Breaking into a Hero's home was easier than one might think. Their masks, secret identities, and their powers gives them a sense of security. Still, if one is trained to blend into a crowd, it is easy to tail someone even if they can hear your heartbeat a block away.
What did I do with this skill? Kill them in th... | 2015-05-28T10:18:24 | 2015-05-28T08:17:14 | 97 | 56 |
[WP] A crazy supervillain disables the birth control of all superheroes. | "Abortion Man To The Rescue!" called out the stranger in strange tights with a coat hanger symbol on his chest.
Powergirl almost jumped naked out of her bed. The man she was with, whom she picked up at a bar seemed to recognize this freak.
"You're too late abortion man!" said The Impregnator.
Powergirl wrappe... | As I step out of the Shadow and into the bathroom I pause to look around. The room was a bit on the small side for a master bath. The shower curtain caught my eye first, the very tacky Blue Bolt curtain matched the even tackier Blue Bolt towels and soap dispenser.
A fan? the real deal? I don't know and don't care. Th... | 2015-05-28T10:18:24 | 2015-05-28T10:01:31 | 97 | 15 |
[WP] Instead of a modern adaptation of a myth, write a mythic adaptation of a modern story. | As a young man in Delphi, Gouliélmos generally rushed through lessons with his tutors in order to run outside and wrestle and throw javelins and race chariots. As a result, his standing in the academy was low, but at sport he had few equals, and this gave him great confidence and arrogance.
One day, Dionysus and Herm... | Kimberly was a lower goddess, a dying breed oft forgotten in favor of the major gods.
Born from the loins of two once-powerful gods, she had hope in her heart that she would one day rise beyond even their fame. With her beauty, she believed she deserved something more. Something grand.
So she toiled, working undernea... | 2015-06-10T10:25:42 | 2015-06-10T07:06:32 | 730 | 158 |
[WP] You wake up in a locked room with only a book and a pen. The first page tells you that you now have the power to alter all reality outside the room by writing. However, the reality you create is the one you walk out to forever. You have an hour. | Surely this is just another test. After all of the mind games, Jack knew better than to fall for their tricks, but what was the right answer here? He didn't even know if he still wanted to be an operator for the agency, but he wasn't going to just give up. They all longed for an excuse to confront the USSR in conventio... | O man. What I'm doing in this room?
OK, I already know what it is about - I should write a new reality? Let's do this.
Drugs that don't kill. No mafias. Sex with emotions, love, a lot of love. I imagine the old lady that I saw crossing the street yesterday at the 6th avenue. Her red rock had the hole that discovered ... | 2015-06-21T13:20:47 | 2015-06-21T13:15:49 | 59 | 17 |
[WP] A man who has had no knowledge of religion meets both God and the Devil. He is the chosen one who decides whether God or the Devil inherits the Earth. The problem is, he cannot tell which is which. | ORDER *Freedom*
STABILITY *Change*
ETERNITY *Eternity*
YOU WOULD KILL A MOTHER TO SAVE A CHILD. *I wouldn't interfere.*
NO LAW, NO FOUNDATION, NO FAMILY.
*No oppression! No chains! No bonds!*
**The beings argued. Constantly. If words were solid man would suffocate in this tomb.**
I CREATED THEM. MADE THEM PERFEC... | I was running late again. This was the third time in a row. I didn't want people at the office to think I was making a habit of it, but I have been having a terrible time trying to sleep the past few days. Having dreams, or nightmares, that I can't remember. Waking up in cold sweats in my bed. I should probably look on... | 2015-08-05T19:29:31 | 2015-08-05T19:03:21 | 874 | 12 |
[WP][TT] It's almost your 16th birthday, and your parents congratulate you. But they warn you that you may have inherited something from the family line that may appear the moment you turn 16. If you do inherit, you have to continue a long family tradition. | Nothing happened on my birthday, aside from the usual festivities. Heck, for most of the year nothing happened. The family legacy, mysterious as it was, had apparently passed me by, or so I thought.
It was January of the next year, about two months before my 17th birthday, that something interesting finally happened... | Ever since I was 16, things have been strange. My family is... unique, I guess. They choose one child out of every couple that has children to bear the responsibility I have. They choose honest, loyal children for this gift. I was never able to lie, I always told the truth. I also never thought about betraying anyone. ... | 2015-11-28T08:37:04 | 2015-11-28T08:32:34 | 103 | 11 |
[WP] Human meat is considered a delicacy for the rich. You're a human in a farm | Apparently the place that we were at was called a farm. Of course, it seems a bit unappealing to be seen as nothing but a farm animal- but that's only what we look like to the unenlightened.
Believe it or not, all of us had chosen to be here, for one reason or another. John from across the way came from a poor family,... | Ascension is the highest goal.
*So it is taught: All who are born will ascend. None but God knows one's day of ascension. Those who ascended receive salvation and enjoy eternal happiness in the kingdom of heaven.*
Lucy was woken up at 7am just like every other day of her life since she was 4.
**groan** "Morning Dai... | 2015-12-20T15:38:08 | 2015-12-20T13:02:23 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Tell the story of a dog who lives in, but doesn't understand, the zombie apocalypse. | I'm a good dog. When the stinking men attacked my owner I pounced on him, straight for the throat. The most awful taste filled my mouth--like steak's blood but worse. It knocked him to the floor but he got up with half his throat in my mouth. Things aren't meant to do that.
But my owner is a good human, she knew what ... | I remember a time when I couldn't stand the smell of humans. They looked nice and all, so shiny and moist.
The smell though, it burned my eyes, my nostrils. Stuff would arrive in fancy glass bottles. The bottles would make the same sound as a cat. I didn't like that. *Hiss! Hiss!* followed by a noxious odor, filling ... | 2016-03-08T22:48:31 | 2016-03-08T21:40:47 | 91 | 26 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | Metal boxes were stacked haphazardly, their lights blinking and mechanical noises whirring. The room was dark and dank with the smell of body odor lying stagnant in the air and heavy breaths joining the tranquil symphony of computers.
70%. The icon continued to spin, as it had for the past 13 hours. 70%.
A lanky woma... | *Click*
*Clickclick*
Blueish light colored my face from the screen, the only source of illumination in my room aside from the orange glare of the streetlight from outside. Link after link fell away before my mouse, leading me deeper and deeper into the net. This was my hobby, of sorts: surfing the web like a professi... | 2016-07-02T20:45:26 | 2016-07-02T18:59:39 | 86 | 12 |
[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... | I had always wanted to be able to fly. My entire life I watched birds and wished I could be like them, so free, so majestic. Earlier today, I found some information on a forum. Apparently, you could copy the powers of others and torrent them through the Internet! It sounded too good to be true, but then I saw my friend... | 2016-07-02T21:01:01 | 2016-07-02T17:12:58 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] You declare to the heavens that you will never fall in love. Aphrodite herself took it as a challenge. | "It's been three years since I made the promise to never fall in love again. Three years since Melissa broke my heart. I uh... drank a lot. I slept a lot. And I thought about her. Sometimes. Well, no. I did that a lot, too." I paused, looking at the beautiful woman sipping coffee across the table from me. We were sitti... | I can't remember exactly when I decided I never wanted to fall in love. It might have been the third or fourth time my parents came to physical blows over something as stupid as who was supposed to feed the fish, or maybe it was when my older sister magically reappeared at our doorstep after running away six months pre... | 2016-08-06T22:56:10 | 2016-08-06T22:22:24 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | Eight hour work day. Come home via transport, play video games, make dinner. Go to sleep.
Wake up.
Rinse and repeat.
He wasn't the smartest person in high school. He got his diploma, he got out of there, out of the *system* that he had always detested, watched as the honours students all went to university.
He wor... | She didn’t like to talk to me, I could tell, and I wondered why she did it. I never asked her out loud of course, I didn’t want to mess it up. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.
We had lunch by ourselves and she told me of her life. It was an ironic thing, but she was quite active. She lived in a home... | 2016-10-01T22:22:50 | 2016-10-01T20:43:03 | 3,031 | 1,036 |
[WP] While walking, you notice everyone recoiling from a young woman. you speak to her to find out why. through her surprise, she explains she is death and everyone else sees a person based on how they feel about the concept of death. You've never seen a more beautiful or inviting person.
Please feel free to finesse t... | Eight hour work day. Come home via transport, play video games, make dinner. Go to sleep.
Wake up.
Rinse and repeat.
He wasn't the smartest person in high school. He got his diploma, he got out of there, out of the *system* that he had always detested, watched as the honours students all went to university.
He wor... | I like to get out and walk as often as I can.
The guy sitting at the front desk gives me the OK and I march through the automatic doors with as much gusto as I can conjure, taking a deep breath, letting the crisp air fill my lungs.
It's only a couple steps to get to the fountain. They stopped running it a few days a... | 2016-10-01T22:22:50 | 2016-10-01T21:36:04 | 3,031 | 203 |
[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'm getting really fucking sick of this!" Mitch shouted at Juniper, working quickly to untie the ropes that held her hands behind her back.
"Yeah, well I wish you never had to show up either. But here we are again." Juniper kept an eye on the door to her interrogation room, waiting for the foreign agents to return. ... | I was on my third date with a lovely woman when the tingling in my fingers started.
"No... Not now!"
"What's wrong?" Jennifer looked at me, baffled.
The tingling was creeping up my arms. More intense as it spread.
"Uh... So, I'm going to disappear for a bit. Not sure where I'm going or when I'll be back. Just kno... | 2017-03-22T12:46:53 | 2017-03-22T11:45:22 | 3,122 | 106 |
[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 | “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... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T14:43:57 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 47 | 21 |
[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | "What am I doing wrong?"
I said it out loud, but I knew he wouldn't answer. He just sat there and asked again,
"Give up? Or try again?".
His question echoed as if we were in a cave, but the room was about the size of a elevator. It would have terrified me if this was my first time. Tha... | "Happy Birthday dear Shaurya, happy birthday to you!",
as his friends and family sang the monotonous ritual of a song at his 18th, He looked more lost than usual.
His eyes were moving rapidly,as if he was reading a book floating in front of him. As the song stopped so did his eyes. An unusual look of anger decorated h... | 2017-03-31T12:40:36 | 2017-03-31T09:38:51 | 71 | 10 |
[WP] You join the military, you are placed in the gardeners program. You garden in exotic places where the military has done operations, each time they give special glasses and forbid spraying others. One day your glasses fall off and you see you are actually burning corpses with a flamethrower. | I took my glasses off for the first time in a long time... then I wiped them off with my shirt and put them back on. There was no time to waste, our team's engineer yelled out "SPY ZAPPIN' MAH SENTRY!" As the team's only pyro, I quickly ignited the enemy spy and took out my trusty homewrecker. With one clean swing the ... | "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Lieutenant Aldo Raine was my CO, everything in the company was his territory.
"Sir, I have the upmost respect for you, this battalion, and our great country. It's just that I don't feel comfortable devoting my life to a military that broke my one golden rule. Never deceive me."
... | 2017-06-20T04:00:15 | 2017-06-20T00:31:30 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] In the Order of the Magi, military ranks are gained and lost in duels. Being a Battlemaster, Damien is challenged hundreds of times a day by ambitious young recruits. He decides today to accept one challenge at random and show the recruits what a Battlemaster can do.
Order of Magi is totally not a name I chose ju... | My door was plastered in notes of challenge. The wood had been covered in a coat of hastily scrawled letters as thick as the door itself. As soon as I touched the handle of the door, dozens of taunts and wagers tumbled off of the pile and fluttered down to the ground.
The first few inches of my office had a welcome ma... | "Lord Damien, might I request a challenge?"
Damien stopped organizing his scrolls and turned his head to the recruit. A shadow elf. He stood almost a foot shorter than Damien with pale blue skin. He stood there, grinning ear to ear. Looking over his shoulder, Damien could see half of the initiate class behind him. It'... | 2017-09-05T11:45:40 | 2017-09-05T11:30:03 | 218 | 56 |
[WP] The aliens found you in hypersleep on your derelict ship and brought you onto theirs. You've awoken and escaped into their maintenance tunnels and the only thing you've found that you can eat is the aliens themselves. | They don't realize it yet. That I've gone. My captors have not been wise enough to recognize that the dark shape in my sleep pod is merely a dry husk. Dead shell of my old skin that I've outgrown. The walls of are full of them now. Three days in these tunnels, and already I can feel the walls getting smaller and smalle... | “You are very good, I am sure.”
I stand over the Xani, who is incapacitated. A maintenance worker within this rather lofty system of tunnels. It is well-lit, and a decent location for a light dinner.
I run my hands over his fleshy arms.
Oh, how good that would taste with a little parsley, garnishing of rosemary. Las... | 2018-07-30T08:12:50 | 2018-07-30T07:25:38 | 203 | 12 |
[WP] You are a princess that owns a pet dragon. You are getting tired of constantly having to defend your pet against knights attempting to "slay the dragon and rescue the princess". | April 5: I've finished digging the moat and the crocodiles have already moved in, fantastic.
4/6: me and Chico both had a good hard laugh when this suited up loser got devoured. all those dollars for armor but zero sense. I saddled up Chico and we flew to Halfordshire for some juicy lambs, dined and dashed because ... | Sitting quietly in her beautiful court yard Rae sat looking out over her kingdom. She watched the many marvels that happened there. The beauty of nature and woods surrounded her. A crystal water fell rushed to the forest floor not far off from her.
Rae shook her head as she saw the bright gleam of armor speeding her ... | 2019-01-09T11:44:13 | 2019-01-09T07:32:29 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] You pass away at 83 in a hospital room surrounded by your loved ones. You awake the next moment sitting at a table in a brightly lit room. A much younger version of yourself enters the room and sits across from you. “83 years, not bad, but it isn’t the record.” Says your younger self. | "83 years, not bad. But it isn't the record."
For a moment, there's shock. Then, the memories come rushing back. "Well, what do you expect? Cancer isn't something you can easily control," you say after a short sigh.
The reflection laughs. "Fair enough," it says with a shrug. "So, what would you like the next time 'r... | It took a while for the shock to wear off. Longer than I'd like to admit, although I don't know why. I didn't have any particularly set ideas about the afterlife, but I guess *this* was still way outside the range of considered possibilities.
"What, it's a contest now?" I asked. "How's that even fair? You know how muc... | 2019-02-19T07:58:52 | 2019-02-19T06:21:03 | 46 | 20 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "Personal journal: The sky on this planet was blue when we landed. I should have known that a blood-colored sky was a bad omen.
"Command had singled out this planet, a tiny garden world around an unremarkable star, as a good place to set up a frontier resupply depot. 'We've observed them through a probe for a hundred ... | We got the data. We got the intel. We knew of their past and how violent the the humans were. After continuing to watch the humans for the past 300 Earth years they become peaceful after their third global conflict. The casualties reached to 4 billion by the time it ended. The country in the western hemisphere known as... | 2019-02-26T07:33:05 | 2019-02-26T07:32:54 | 589 | 70 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "My brothers, I hope this message reaches you. We never should have come to this place. This...jewel of a planet, with simple creatures living simple lives. None of them followed the Ardok's Logic, 'the strong take through combat, and by taking they get stronger.' Our empire's founding principle, that has guided us thr... | “Hello internet!”
A large face of a female teenager filled the screen, her voice a tone of fake cheer that was so common in these videos. Especially as of late.
“Again, thank you sooooo much for all the subscribes and likes. This is a special video for my one million subscriber mark.” The view panned back, allowing t... | 2019-02-26T13:01:01 | 2019-02-26T12:17:05 | 75 | 26 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | Commander Siren had dismissed the rumors.
Humans are a proud race. Though new amongst the stars with barely a few ships to their name, they have worked hard to integrate, to learn, to join that blasted Republic and all its artists and scientists. Even though they’ve never seen an alien in person before, they’d sti... | “The Birds” they called them.
Achr’gax are natural shapeshifters. The superlative merger of ferocity and intelligence. The ultimate predator. The pinnacle of evolution across star systems.
And we know.
We have conquered many.
'So many things we could have done differently,' I later told my superiors.
‘This ... | 2019-02-26T12:17:07 | 2019-02-26T09:52:04 | 62 | 40 |
[WP] Everyone hates Stan. However, you are the new guy and no one will tell you why they hate Stan. You decide to talk to Stan. Its been 3 months and now you're telling the new guy why everyone hates Stan. | The new girl smiles apologetically, as she knocks on the open door to my office.
"Hey there! It's Frank, right? I asked you how to work the coffee maker on my first day, last week?"
I nod. Now that she mentions it, I remember that. The coffee maker is a real pain sometimes. Fucking Stan.
"I'm Jennifer, by the way. I... | Being an Avenger (no, not that kind) gets boring sometimes. I’ve learned, the best way to have fun at a job where the only fun part is hunting to consume the most unworthy of souls on Earth, is to talk shit. I got good at that recently. But mainly because my other demonic friends in my department taught me.
Like, I d... | 2019-03-13T22:42:04 | 2019-03-13T21:19:21 | 31 | 16 |
[WP]: Suddenly, everyone with tattoos gains powers related to the tattoo. Tattoos of flames, you control fire. A tattoo of a gecko, you can climb on walls. All dudes with "tribal" tattoos have strangely bonded together. | Crime rates exploded when the ink activated in our bodies. Those who didn’t have tattoos before tried getting one so they could have a power of their own, but it didn’t work; so they took to belittling us, making us all out to be criminals. And what did I do? I did what any sane person would do, I hid. But even years a... | After a month of The Inks being activated crime rates started to escalate. Everywhere people started to abuse the new powers they gained and some use it to defend others.
Due to the power that tattoos gave people who didn’t have tattoos when the activation occurred tried to ink their bodies, but they never received t... | 2019-05-07T07:52:07 | 2019-05-07T07:36:50 | 43 | 29 |
[WP] You've never noticed the (+) in the bottom right of your vision before. Today on your 23rd birthday however, you focus on it intently, as a skill tree pops up before your eyes with 23 points to allocate. | 'Huh.'
Just as you decide to go heavy on 'Leadership' after exploring some promising nodes down that line with a few points in 'Charm', 'Health', and 'Mathematics' to round it out a beachball appears and spins in front of a new popup.
"'Auto allocating based on playstyle'...what the...". you mumble.
'Allocation co... | (I'm not used to writing, forgive me.)
On my 23rd birthday, I finally noticed that + on the corner of my eye. I focused on it, and it opened the skill tree for me - with 23 points to use up. I probably wouldn't have figured it out for a couple minutes if I didn't play games a lot as a kid.
I didn't know how to use it... | 2019-08-21T02:20:32 | 2019-08-20T19:00:33 | 16 | 12 |
[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." | "I won't ask for much, but it would be amazing if you could make it so I had a better grasp of distance and pain. I'm always getting lost and I can't tell very well how far away things are. Pain is a weird one I know, but it's like I can only register four levels: Fine, ouch, I broke all my limbs, and just kill me now ... | "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."
"In....in terms of the... | 2019-10-28T10:19:14 | 2019-10-28T09:11:50 | 176 | 117 |
[WP] The hero was blessed with the power to bring people back to life, resurecting their companions to keep up the fight against the dark lord. Which is why it’s odd that they brought you, the dark lord that they fought against back to life. | As the darkness clears, Feldor is on his back and can feel the hard stone below him. Not great but far better than the sword he felt ripping through his chest last time he was breathing. He begins trying to piece things together before opening his eyes...and knows he was dead. Everything between then and now is a ga... | "What the hell?" You think to yourself as you regain consciousness. "Wasn't I just killed?" You look around you and realize that the battle that claimed your life is still in full swing all around you. The hero, who bested you is chanting incantations causing colorful bursts of light to erupt from his palms. The spells... | 2019-12-26T13:04:49 | 2019-12-26T12:35:43 | 244 | 103 |
[WP] The hero was blessed with the power to bring people back to life, resurecting their companions to keep up the fight against the dark lord. Which is why it’s odd that they brought you, the dark lord that they fought against back to life. | Evrail wanted to laugh... he really did. After a lifetime of conquest and destruction, after uniting the entirety of the world under his banner for 10 years, and finally squashing all rebel elements all he wanted to do was drink a cup of team and read a book in peace. He did want to laugh, but not at the four idiots th... | The battlefield was scorched and burnt. So many fallen... it would take weeks to revive them all. And those are the ones with bodies left to recover... the battle was, in fact, still raging. Archers loosing arrows, steel striking steel, and the shouts of military orders rang across the battlefield like funeral bells on... | 2019-12-26T15:13:31 | 2019-12-26T14:34:43 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] Earth finally manages to translate the first message sent to it from intelligent life elsewhere. It reads "Well, this is awkward. We didn't expect you guys to get this far." | Dr. Aiken Campbell rushed out of his office. He was half asleep when he recieved it. He checked the computers. Printed out were those words again. It wasn't a ruse, even the computers recognized words. 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 words. He checked where the transmission was sent from. "700 ligh- oh my god!" This wasn't a satellite ... | He was there, relaxing on his armchair, hand closed in a fist supporting his head, and his thoughts.
Suddenly a tall, skinny man rushes in, may he be the harbinger of the good news? His white lab gown wiggles behind him, while his smile gives hope beyond any imagination.
He coughs, bows and gives the man on the armch... | 2020-01-30T02:14:21 | 2020-01-30T02:11:02 | 51 | 35 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. |
“…And when the oppressors finally face their doom, they will know why is it that I’m called The Grudge!” I hammered the steel podium in front of me with a fist and watched it crumple like a tin can. The wave of stunned silence in the great field was breached by a triumphant uproar. My soldiers cried my name in reve... | She was an evil one. Real villainous through and through—the corruption of middle-aged priests and golden college boys alike. Dirty brown hair draped down in curls and rested just above her heart, black mascara flashing, ruby lipstick glistening. She was beautiful. They said she could keep a dead heart beating and stai... | 2020-04-14T06:09:54 | 2020-04-14T06:02:04 | 320 | 143 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. | My husband... Is an an interesting man. Not that bright, but truly kind, caring, and compassionate.
I am not.
They called me the Rose when I was a girl. Too beautiful for words, too graceful for a poem, too lovely for a song. I caught the eye of a King. He married me within weeks. He was dead within months.
I am amb... | He almost tripped up the steps. The laughter that may have come from the hordes in the audience chamber were choked off at the slightest glance from the woman standing off to the man's right side. A small polite \*ahem\* left the man's soft mouth, he nervously cracked his knuckles and waited uncomfortably while the sou... | 2020-04-14T08:29:24 | 2020-04-14T07:32:56 | 146 | 85 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | *Ring ring.*
"HELP! The zombies are right behind me and-"
"Good morning, Tracy speaking. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
"The-the what?"
"Your gun safety. Big black dial on the side of your rifle. Can't miss it."
"What? What dial?"
"You are holding a CCD rifle? If you are a customer of SurvivorLink I... | "Ma'am? Ma'am, please listen to me!"
The frantic shouting on the other end of the line seemed never-ending. I sighed silently to myself. Everyday I had to deal with hysterical people wondering what to do. I knew from the get-go that working in a call center was no picnic. I had done it before; two years for a tech fir... | 2020-05-12T07:25:12 | 2020-05-12T06:22:29 | 1,637 | 67 |
[WP] After a long journey, you finally reach the dark lord's lair. Then your companion, who you met shortly after starting your quest, opens the door and says: "It's nice to be at home again, come in I'll make some tea." | I had always expected a castle of dark stone or obsidian, with spires and gargoyles and monsters to guard the gates. Not this petite cottage, nestled in the woods outside an innocuous town. The same innocuous town I had grown up in. There was nothing particularly evil about the place, nothing suspicious about the town ... | Garrett would have liked to slice the door open and get this over with but that only worked when he first got this quest sent to him. He had been ordering a sandwich for lunch when his boss slid a letter over the table asking for help defeating a dark lord, with great compensation. Garrett was eager at the chance to sh... | 2020-06-17T13:42:00 | 2020-06-17T13:28:36 | 33 | 12 |
[WP] You're thought to be one of the world's most powerful magic users because of your massive collection of cursed items, none of which have affected you. In reality, you're completely magic deficient, but smart enough to put on a decent set of gloves before handling any them. | Mikhael slowly knelt down and placed his sword on the ground, sizing up the group of guards that surrounded him. *Decades of service, and* this *is what brings me to my knees!* *Caught off guard by the jealous King.* As soon as the sword left his hand, two guards behind him grabbed his arms roughly and forced him to kn... | On a grass field where cold wind breeze, 7 people are gathering.
Matios, the gravity wizard.
Luzad, the destruction wizard.
Tsurs, the time wizard.
Joslty, the elemental witch.
Drya, the witch of Life and Death.
Kresffutch, the divinity wizard.
Me, Hugh, the curse wizard.
Together we bond as Kings but today is ... | 2020-08-26T04:33:47 | 2020-08-26T03:00:03 | 147 | 23 |
[WP] Humanity has been wiped out except for you, who managed to eke out a meager existence by yourself. Every day, an angel visits you and asks if you're ready for humanity to return. Every day, you respond, "No, not yet." Today is different. Today, the angel brought the Devil with them. | Greetings stranger,
It has been 37 years since humanity ended, or perhaps it is better said it has been 5 hours since humanity started again. I managed to survive the original extinction, a relic from a forgotten age. It all started with heavy storms. Many weren't worried, but I was, and I took shelter in a safe place... | I’m on mobile, sorry abt the text wall.
Humanity had been wiped out a few years back, by a disease never seen before. It had an incubation period of a month, where it was highly contagious, but after the month ended, the victim dropped dead. No one knows where it originated from. Some thought it had come from scienti... | 2020-10-24T06:49:33 | 2020-10-24T05:15:30 | 160 | 53 |
[WP] Humanity has been wiped out except for you, who managed to eke out a meager existence by yourself. Every day, an angel visits you and asks if you're ready for humanity to return. Every day, you respond, "No, not yet." Today is different. Today, the angel brought the Devil with them. | I had always wondered how much of Gabriel’s visits, his constant attempts at convincing me that humanity should return, were his own way of entertaining himself.
The archangel would stop by, ask for some tea, and we would chat. We would talk about life. Our favourite books, our favourite poems. He always wanted to ta... |
I had long since realized that humanity could not organize themselves to save their lives. That is why I took it upon myself to do it for them. 30 years is how long it took for me to come into contact with an angel instead of a demon. There were several times beforehand when I believed I had contacted a benevolent d... | 2020-10-24T08:17:58 | 2020-10-24T07:25:25 | 72 | 33 |
[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." | SCP-9432 (Temporary ID/Awaiting Permanent Clasification)
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: A single copy of SCP-9432 is to be kept in a system of twenty four (24) computers isolated from any other devices capable of displaying a digital image. Each computer must automatically delete any file sent fr... | Insomnias a bitch, ask anyone that has it. Most assume that it’s just falling asleep that’s a hassle, for me, that’s the least of it. I often find myself scrolling through my phone in the early hours of the morning with little recollection of when I woke up. After all, insomnia is boring. When I look over and see the n... | 2021-01-11T19:42:35 | 2021-01-11T19:09:32 | 53 | 17 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | I couldn't help but sigh as I look at the castle far in the distance. Impatiently, I wait for my ship to depart and bring my family and me to the faraway lands. I need to leave this kingdom. Fast. It's already doomed. Did this "brat turned king" really think that his predecessor gone senile? He'd even threatened me wit... | Waves crashed as a pale individual gazed into the ocean, his face scrunched as he pondered. "Perhaps I should have taken the risk of documenting his father's actions regarding construction in this settlement, but there was no guarantee he would believe the truth before him." He sighed, walking away from the bustle of t... | 2021-02-28T05:08:55 | 2021-02-28T04:46:41 | 72 | 28 |
[WP] I'm sorry... You're telling me they drink water? One of the most dangerous liquids in the known universe and they just drink it??? | “Yes. They breathe Oxygen too, and their lifespan is only that of just under 100 years.”
“Are they idiots? Haven’t they seen the trees they help to keep alive live longer than they do using the elements they simply expel?”
“They don’t seem to notice, much like the animals they keep as pets tend not to question why t... | It had been a bad idea to venture into the crash site alone.
Alex, cursing his existence, was being observed a grey skinned skinny goblin, studying him and his possessions closely as he was tied up to a stretcher.
Suddenly, the goblin spoke up "What are you doing with this poison? Did you wish to attack us?"
Alex wa... | 2021-03-23T20:22:43 | 2021-03-23T16:03:35 | 153 | 93 |
[WP] Your father died and left you his destiny to save the world, which will cost you your life in the end. But a week before the final battle, you happen to run into... your father, who is definitely still alive and obviously scared you've found him. | My father did a good job at faking his death, I'll give him that. But not good enough. The grand, fated hero of prophecy doesn't just accidentally die early.
The first clue was the site of the battle itself. According to the aftermath that was left, a horde of the Dark Lord's zealots ambushed the camp in the night and... | “It will all be worth it in the end” James mumbles as he walks through the remains of his home town. It was destroyed by the that winged monstrosity three years earlier. The same day James’s father died. The day James took up his father’s flaming sword and swore that he would end this war at any cost. Even his own life... | 2021-06-06T22:19:20 | 2021-06-06T21:14:33 | 75 | 50 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | "The trappings of fame," thought the Dark Lord as he rode into town. "Wenda's ale is worth the trouble."
He placed a simple glamour over his face. He could handle any would be heroes, but he didn't care for the annoyance. Tonight he was again Todd, the traveling merchant.
Todd entered the tavern and was greeted w... | The air was heavy with the scent of vomit on the sawdust packed floors. My companions guzzled their ale as the wind blew through the opening windows, causing the candles to flicker in the dimly lit room. This is where I thrived, I thought, as I emptied another tankard and set it on the the edge of the table. The dark,... | 2022-01-14T17:41:26 | 2022-01-14T15:49:14 | 186 | 56 |
[WP] You found the book, did the ritual, and the demon came out of the portal you made- All according to plan! You even prepared a contract and everything! So... Why won't they take your soul?! | Arthur was both flummoxed and outraged. "I've summoned you here!" he said. "So, demon-"
"My name is Blünderthist, actually." interjected the infernal visitor.
"Bloonder-"
"No, a U with the two little dots above it. The umlaut."
"Blünderthist?" spoke our protagonist.
"Yep, you got it." said our good friend Helly-Th... | “The demon code prevents me from taking your soul,” the succubus said.
She’d materialized a shining black tome out of thin air and just finished flipping through its musty pages.
I let out a sigh and slumped over in disappointment.
“You’re a demon!” You’re supposed to take my soul! That’s just how this kind of thin... | 2022-01-30T04:04:01 | 2022-01-30T03:58:30 | 43 | 16 |
[WP] The colony ship arrived in orbit after a thousand year voyage. But the AI never woke the occupants. Millions of years pass, the planet below has formed life, intelligent life, and their scientists have just woken you, one of the colonists. | I was on the ship in my stasis chamber, IVs hooked in, breathing tube down my throat. This was what I had been made for. No attachment to the world I was leaving, full of hope, knowledge, and abilities that would help us build new civilization lifetimes of lightyears away.
There was the feeling of numbness traveling u... | Sleeping for eight hours or thousands of years felt the same, you closed your eyes and woke up, only the latter felt a litte bit more like waking up after a night of binge drinking. Steven rubbed his eyes letting them slowly adapt to the bright light coming from above.
“Knock it off, I am awake,” He exclaimed with a r... | 2022-09-21T08:37:40 | 2022-09-21T07:52:04 | 283 | 131 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people’s kill count on their head. You tell no one, managed to stay away from shady people and live a peaceful life. One day, your 5 years old kid’s number is not 0... | It wasn't real. I refused to believe that. No 5 year old should have blood on their fingers, and i refused to believe my daughter could have killed anyone. And yet, no matter how much i didn't want ut, the number was still there, floating above her forehead as if it was mocking me, daring me to do something about it.
... | Light streamed in from the window as your eyes opened. Panicked filled you. “Fuck!” You searched frantically for your phone, for the stupid alarm that blares every weekday at 6am. It shouldn’t be bright enough for you to see the sun, oh you’ll really lose your job now.
You stepped out of the open door, and make your w... | 2022-10-21T05:10:57 | 2022-10-21T04:56:58 | 2,234 | 281 |
[WP] The Multiverse didn't just make itself. After a person dies, they're assigned as the creator god of a new universe, to nurture and guide it. You recently died and are now going through the orientation day. | They weighed our hearts against a feather after we got off Charon's boat.
"Creator," a voice announced. "Enter the first door."
As I walked towards the first door, I could hear others being sorted. Solo... Pantheon... Pantheon leader... Another creator...
The door led to a small amphitheatre on a hillside. About a h... | This is interpreted as the speech the orientation person gives.
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Alright everybody. To start off, I want to say I'm sorry, but you're dead. I know shocker but that's just reality. Now, this probably isn't how you envisioned the afterlife, but you're going to be a creator of a new universe. Don't be scared... | 2022-11-02T10:53:39 | 2022-11-02T10:40:54 | 28 | 11 |
[WP]You believed the parasite that has latched onto your brain stem would kill you. Imagine your shock when it turns out said parasite actually straight up makes you physically better. | *It’s time to train.*
The lingering voice carried from the dream as Caleb woke, twisting ropes of metal replaced by the ceiling of his room. It was true, he admitted to himself as he struggled into a shirt. Sleeping didn’t help. He was going insane.
*We need to train.*
“Okay Mr. voice in my head, noted but I think I... | "Tic tac tic tac tic tac.
"Terrible noise, isn't it? Me counting down the seconds at the back of your head, the time gone since I made myself comfortable in your brain stem. Ample place in there, your grey and white matter are wonderful beds for me to sleep in.
"I slitter down your spine, stretch around your nerves, ... | 2022-11-17T05:58:10 | 2022-11-17T05:10:54 | 224 | 105 |
[WP] You’ve 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 think you have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. You’re up next. | Heat death of the universe.
"Excuse me?"
Heat death of the universe. *Let the chaos ensue.*
"Now hold on a second," *another council member says,* "what if the spell decided to cause it right now?"
"I beg your pardon? Who says it is going to do that?"
"Its the most logical conclusion! We give our prisoners a death... | I stepped before the court, the enchanted Allmetal chain dangling from the cuffs on my wrists. I never thought the name "Allmetal" particularly creative, almost like the name came from the creator on his lunch break (*cough*)
"Prisoner 23670, you have been found guilty for stealing your coworkers lunches out of the wo... | 2022-11-19T04:46:48 | 2022-11-19T04:32:37 | 19 | 12 |
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