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[WP] The first humans have finally traveled to a new solar system to start a new colony, but they have forgotten something.
The first humans have finally traveled to a new solar system to start a new colony, but they have forgotten something. What is it that they forgot? | The Mcallisters finally made it. Time to start a new life on a new world. There was no looking back now. But as Kate Mcallister looked over her family, she couldn't help but feel like there was something she was missing.
*Oh...Oh no!!* She thought.
"KEEEEVVIIIN!" She screamed. | Everything was set up.
The bedrooms, check.
Water and food producers, check
Suddenly, I heard a voice.
"Hey Jim, where's the toilet paper?"
"I don't know, there should be some!"
"Well there isn't!"
I checked my watch. The next group of people weren't due to arrive for a month.
*Oh dear god* | 2015-03-22T19:14:39 | 2015-03-22T16:09:10 | 43 | 19 |
[WP] A former child star has given up fame and fortune to pursue a career in academia. PhD candidate Jaden Smith presents his dissertation in Philosophy, "How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real" | "When John Wheeler first proposed his delayed-choice thought experiment, the world at large thought it was too weird to mention. However, [recent measurements](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150527103110.htm) in an Australian laboratory now confirm that particles on the quantum level do not exist until ob... | In the instance of a perfect mirror all light would theoretically reflect off of it without being altered by the mirror's surface. This fundamentally makes it impossible for us to observe the mirror itself due to the nature in which our eyes perceive reality, which is through analyzing photons over time, meaning we can... | 2015-05-31T02:07:47 | 2015-05-30T23:06:50 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] God is actually a divorced couple with shared custody of humanity. Now it's Old Testament's turn to take the kids, and he is not happy with how New Testament has handled the last two millenniums.
Credit to Louis C.K. for the idea. | She looked upon the world her partner had fostered.
Unconditional love, humility, forgiveness, self sacrifice.
What had it accomplished?
Militant states where the police killed without hesitation.
Militant states following misinterpretations of what she had said.
Militant men hating for skin and conflicting interp... | "You're too nice New. I've been telling you that for two thousand years now. You're too nice and these humans are walking all over you. I mean look, there are atheists everywhere. It's like you don't even care. You know what happened last time atheists cropped up during my period of custody? Fire. Golden calf? How abou... | 2015-06-05T00:16:23 | 2015-06-04T21:57:16 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] New arrivals in eternal Hell may choose either of the following: a small wooden spoon, or a 100-trillion year vacation in Heaven. | "Spoon."
"But.. but why??"
He was perplexed. And rightly so. I mean, a person choosing a small and insignificant wooden spoon over a trillion year long vacation at the heavens was indeed perplexing. But this was not the point.
Over the course of his service, which had lasted for who knows how long, he had indeed see... | It took days (or months, or years, one can never really be sure here) of waiting, but I finally made it to the front of the line at one of the few open desks that formed a line along the back wall of the gigantic cavern in which I found myself after my death. To my left and right, for as far as my eyes could percieve, ... | 2015-06-07T22:50:03 | 2015-06-07T21:20:43 | 97 | 25 |
[WP] You are a time traveler whose job is to make our world a better place. You have saved Lincoln stopped 9/11 and made sure that the Library of Alexandria was never destroyed. Now as he you get ready for your next mission your employer tells you: "Make Hitler win". | My boss stood stone faced, waiting for my reply. How could I possibly go back in time and let the man continue to murder millions of Jews, and millions more men and women and children from other countries, allow the destruction of Moscow and the total installment of the Nazi machine not only in Europe but across the gl... | I stood, staring down the leader of Germany, with that toothbrush like moustache and the... Lunacy? I'm not too sure anymore, this job was a real drain on my life, intelligence and pretty much everything else. I mean, Hitler, WINNING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Christ.
"Mein Führer, perhaps, it is best we don't invade Russi... | 2015-11-23T06:04:57 | 2015-11-23T05:07:37 | 437 | 50 |
[WP] In a world where centuries have passed since the last of humankind were lost to the zombie virus, a pathogen begins to spread, turning zombies back into humans. | A pungent, rotten, metallic smell assaulted my nose. It was so strong my god damn eyes watered, and I couldn't even see.
Then the taste swarmed my tongue. Pangs of iron, sulfur and vomit. I clawed desperately, trying to grate my taste buds off to no avail.
Sound followed. Distant screams, squelching and clattering. F... | HOMINI, PRIM A. (b. 2320). The first human. Decedent Removal Technician. Regenerated in the North Western section of the continent, she is widely accepted by scholars of the Continental Zero Period Historical and Reparative Society to be the first re-animated human roaming the decedent cities and zones in the Northwest... | 2016-01-22T00:13:55 | 2016-01-21T22:45:34 | 179 | 51 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | How was he so behind in score? Jahweh sat gaping with disbelief at the icons floating in the top left of his screen, indicating that his rival, Jorgaxis, had just reached the highest tech level.
"Shouldn't have picked DNA as your genetic molecule, noob" the chat-window taunted. Jorgaxis was right, the higher rate of... | Jesus is doing well, most advanced in science but his public order is barely in the green, Jesus adopts and invests his saved social policies heavily in the the freedom ideology.
The other gods see this a chance to fuck with him
"Budda has chosen to adopt the order ideology"
"Bhrama has chosen to adopt the order ideol... | 2016-04-09T08:11:27 | 2016-04-09T05:49:29 | 30 | 20 |
[WP] An eldritch abomination from beyond time and space is stalking through your apartment. You're on first-name terms though, so you don't mind. | I moved in to the shanty on the cliff about two weeks earlier. I just needed to get away, away from life, away from stress. Maybe write that novel I'd always thought about. But, mostly I was broke, and as the place was practically condemned, it was cheap. Free, actually, as long as I didn't let it fall down around ... | "Hey, you want tacos or something?"
The being "sat" on the couch beside me. At least, it seemed to sit; it was difficult to see it clearly, to understand what it was you were looking at when you tried to view it directly. It shifted, it seemed. Or maybe shimmered was a better descriptor.
Either way, he was really fu... | 2016-06-08T14:45:39 | 2016-06-08T14:17:20 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] The Devil appears before you and puts a heavy hand on your shoulder, "Look, we need to talk about you putting me in every Writing Prompt." | "But... you're the Devil. *Everyone* wants to read about you! Readers love you because you're so mythical and powerful -- you're the **embodiment** of evil. Plus, you're pretty cool. Some people even think you're *kind of hot*," said the writer, tugging at his shirt collar. The Devil let out an exasperated sigh but sub... | It's not always that you get a visit from the devil. And when you do, you'd expect something bad to happen, like being pulled down to hell, finding out that you're his illegitimate child or being drawn to some eternal conflict that you had no idea that you're part of.
"Look, that's not what I am here for."
Wait... wh... | 2017-01-10T09:03:07 | 2017-01-10T09:02:13 | 228 | 47 |
[WP] The Devil appears before you and puts a heavy hand on your shoulder, "Look, we need to talk about you putting me in every Writing Prompt." | “But why me?” Satan sounded almost pathetic asking me that, but I was still intimidated. "There are so many other characters you could choose. So many topics.”
“We could submit anything, but you have to understand, the most interesting topics never get read.” I opened up Reddit on my browser to show him the site.
Sat... | "I'm serious, it's done. That whole cliche of 'The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled', I did that for a reason, okay? I'm out of the game. Done. Retired." The Devil seemed to think my shoulder was a typewriter as every word was punctuated by a not so tender jab. He was just about to press on when the door was kicked... | 2017-01-10T09:39:17 | 2017-01-10T09:13:25 | 119 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | It was an accident, of course.
My birth, my being in space, and well, I suppose I was an accident as well. An accident from director of engineering fucking the fat janitor after hours when the rest of the shuttle team had retired, the odds that my mother had been able to hide her baby bump for nine months, the chanc... | “Drop your weapons!” Cried a reedy voice from the alleyway.
The criminals froze in their tracks, turning their weapons on the darkness with shivering hands. It had to be one of *them*. One of the heroes. There hadn’t been time for it to be anyone else – there were no flashing lights, no screeching tires of police cars... | 2021-11-12T07:30:30 | 2017-04-14T16:01:37 | 4,698 | 148 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | *Captain S. Hoggoth, of the 40,000th Templar Division, Report on the failure of the Earthican War, Stellar date ASK 29.001..75.16.04*
We thought htat this would be a simple pump-and-dump. We had our Keyship loaded for bear, with thousands of rounds of ammunition. This backwater, the self-titled Earth, didn't even ha... | "Compared to AX-213? No, this is easy," the footsoldier relayed over the wavelength transmitter. Those pitiful beings weren't even at Stage 1 of the Rëitsig Scale of Development. It was the first in the AX galatic classification that bore such a terrible level of industrialization. One would think that the road was wel... | 2017-08-08T05:41:07 | 2017-08-08T05:28:12 | 251 | 16 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | A man in a heavy trench coat with a thick beard approached the door. The number over his head, 1517. "Well, that's over 21" I thought. On his way through he tripped over the step and two dwarves toppled out of the coat. Their number were 15 and 17. "Nice try" I said, "no filthy dwarves in my good elvish bar." | "Jesus Christ!"
"Shhh!!!!" The guy whispered with annoyance. "I don't go by that these days. Just here to pick up John. He also doesn't go by that anymore. These days, he's The Dude. You'd think he'd mellow out after all these years, but he's still nuts. Just let me grab his drunk ass and we'll be out of here. ... | 2017-09-01T22:32:16 | 2017-09-01T20:56:44 | 1,408 | 404 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | "Next... Next..."
Another group of kids shuffling into a Baltimore club for a heavy metal gig. Another night for some carding and cash.
I rubbed my hands together, urging the friction to do its thing. Wouldn't be enough, though. This January was mighty cold.
I looked up at the line of kids that approached, noting th... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-01T20:18:58 | 1,321 | 208 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | Nothing exciting ever happens around here in New Zealand. I say that because most people don't even know where New Zealand is, let alone anything that ever happen down here. The fact that I live in a small town about 2 hours drive from anywhere worth mentioning also doesn't help, but I've found a job that fits me to a ... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-02T00:05:56 | 1,321 | 11 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 21:00
The General's men got straight to work. Their entire military careers, these specially trained operatives were preparing for this moment: a code R'lyeh.
One soldier was tasked with acquiring the texts to summon Cthulhu, while another went to acquire the proper objects for the sa... | The Monks at the Temple of Forever felt The Shock in the Ether as the Rune was Cast, they were to call forth Cthulu. Each Monk pulled forth a ceremonial dagger, laid on their assigned symbols and slit their throats. Cthulu Awakened. Above, the Earth was being laid to waste by the Alien invaders, smaller craft embedded ... | 2017-09-26T11:47:23 | 2017-09-26T11:37:47 | 168 | 27 |
[WP] "Fuck it." The General said, as the alien mother-ship came in to land. "Summon Cthulhu." | *translated into English for your consideration*
The alien commander sat in the control room of his flagship, eaglerly awaiting humanities surrender to his mighty alien fleet. The humans had been easily conquered, hardly putting up a fight. A glorious victory this would be, another planet conquered, its resident specie... | My eyes became the size of the moon and I froze in my tracks. Did he just say what I think he did? I turned and headed for The Artifact. This was my only real job, ever since I accidentally discovered The Artifact on a deserted planet and became bonded with it.
We had been at war with the aliens over distant planets ... | 2017-09-26T11:16:52 | 2017-09-26T11:02:24 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] Everyone gets a superpower from the superpower lottery when they come of age. Usually, it's a very minor power - but you found a way to rig the game. Now you've come to regret it. | Once a year, our nation holds the Super Power Lottery. It's a simple affair. Each new candidate, any child who turned 16 since the last lottery, goes to a prepared deck of cards and draws. Based on the unique card drawn, a power is distributed. The card is then reshuffled into the deck, so that multiple people may draw... | It was awesome for about a month. Everytime someone's 18th birthday came along and they spun the wheel to claim their power they had no idea that I would also be getting it. Since most people get minor powers, including me, I went from always being tired to never needing to sleep, never being on time to always being ea... | 2017-12-15T09:49:56 | 2017-12-15T09:05:11 | 56 | 28 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | The whole neighbourhood was out in the streets staring skyward; dressed in robes and wrapped in blankets. The bright white light made them appear as stone sentinels against the snow.
“Mummy, the moon is so big!”
My phone buzzed urgently in my hand. I set it on the nightstand facedown
“Grab your jacket lily,” I wrappe... | I wake up. It's still dark.
Some dogs howl while others bark.
I get up, go to pee.
Get back to bed, ready to be-
-sleeping for the next few hours.
For I can't stay awake, I have no power.
But then my phone rings, Ah a notification.
I try to cover my ears, alas, my realization.
A ping. Another ping. And a hundre... | 2022-11-14T21:59:08 | 2018-04-06T20:24:10 | 45 | 11 |
[WP] Your job as a researcher in the facility isn't too bad. The hours are shit and the coffee maker is broken, but at least the people are nice. And the job is easy: talk to the telepathic spider, run some tests on the witch, give the eldrich god his daily newspaper, basic stuff. Describe your day
Inspired by the SCP... | *I see you are still terrified of me, Brian.*
The words did feel warm in my mind, I admit, but I still felt no place for them.
*Yes,* I thought, as Bul'grum lowered herself down in front of me. With a body the size of a catcher's mitt, it was hard to imagine the thin thread shot from her spinneret was keeping her up... | "Any headaches today Henry?"
Eight black eyes stared back at me. *Just the usual dull pain. Nothing worth noting*
"Not true. Everything about you is worth noting. I'll see if we can get you some help for that headache. Anything in particular you'd like for breakfast?"
*A caterpillar sounds appetizing.* The beautifu... | 2018-04-23T11:08:29 | 2018-04-23T10:37:59 | 62 | 34 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | This is the third time this week. After all the unanswered letters, the messages, the unanswered phone calls. They've actually come knocking on my door.
I refuse to answer. If I just wait they'll leave. If I...
"Mr. Wyatt, we know you're in there. Please open the door. We just want to talk to you."
The hell you... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T14:46:19 | 2,554 | 12 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | The Boogeymen came for my sister when I was ten.
Not a real one, I should say. There isn't anything called a boogeyman in the world, or at least nothing that calls itself one. There's a lot of dark, scary things that love to eat little children, but nothing called itself a boogeyman, or a sack-man, or any of the hund... | In the beginning finding them jobs other than "executioner" or "bounty hunter" was difficult. Many of em complained that these jobs we're demoralizing and that they "reinforced negative stereotypes" whatever that meant. Eventually the guys at the workforce commission bent and found them new jobs. Now you could have a s... | 2018-08-27T15:23:49 | 2018-08-27T15:01:41 | 76 | 24 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | "Hey!!!" You scream as you kick and bang the glass thinking you will spend the next 90 years bored out of your mind.
"What? Stop your going to damage the pod." The technician says
"Oh hey, something is wrong I haven't fallen asleep yet" you say. "I don't want to spend the next 90 years awake in this thing"
"Sir calm... | What? What's going on? Why aren't I sleeping? The chamber should've immediately altered balance for sleep. I need to get attention.
I pound on the glass. "Hey! This chamber is defective!" Nothing. I do it again, louder. "Hey!! It's not working!" No one notices. The chamber lowers. I don't have much time. I use all my ... | 2018-12-29T04:08:01 | 2018-12-29T01:26:24 | 47 | 35 |
[WP] After you grow old and die, you wake up 25 million years ago as a Hominid Primate, asleep on a tree. Your whole life was a vivid hallucination you had after ingesting a funny looking mushroom. After this experience, you have great knowledge, and you're the smartest living being on the planet. | The sun seems brighter than usual. My skin a little rougher. I don't have my macbook anymore, the macbook was just a dream.
My partner Chinu lies next to me. I remember everything. I storm out of our hut and begin rallying the group "WAKAWAKAWAKAWAKA!" I bang on the hollow antelope head.
"Why you wake us up Chinto?!!... | Hi, me
Hello, me
What language am I speaking?
Your speaking English mate, it’s a future language and it’s being used so people on writing prompts can visualise your perspective.
Oh I see. What’s writing prompts?
Well it’s a part of this website called reddit, which is part of the Internet which is. Anyways I am y... | 2019-03-19T07:13:09 | 2019-03-19T06:45:29 | 74 | 55 |
[WP] You're a Satanist, recently deceased. You love all things dark and spooky, so imagine your surprise when you come across the pearly gates, with the sign "hell" clumsily hung over where Heaven was. Behind the gate are little cherubs in cheap devil costumes, trying their best for you. | WELCOME TO **^HELL**
Something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was the sunlight shining on fluffy clouds, maybe it was the tacky cardboard sign hung over the giant pearly gates, maybe it was the flock of cherubum still getting dressed in devil costumes. Whatever it was, I was pretty sure of one thing.
This probably wasn... | **Hello, Mr Smith! Welcome to Hell!**
Yeah, listen, guy. I'm a Satanist, I know what hell is supposed to look like. This fluffy white bullshit aint it.
**Do you believe everything you... believe?**
I did when I was alive, but I'm dead now.
**That's right! Everything you thought you knew was backwards. It's also gre... | 2019-07-18T19:35:35 | 2019-07-18T19:02:49 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You have a unique ability to cause background music that everyone can hear, but no one can figure out where it's coming from. And the situation always follows the music's cue, for better or worse. | My abilities first manifested while I was at summer camp in middle school. We were out by the water, and the counselor told us he had a surprise for us. A voice from above started humming the melody to “Row, row, row your boat.” At first I was impressed at how clever my counselor was, to set up such an exciting introdu... | Night covers the sea. Twenty men stand around a child on a metal helipad. Wielding rifles, they are looking in all directions. The insidious violin music plays, from no discernible source. Panic visibly spreads among the men. Their leader shouts into the night: **"SHOW YOURSELF!"** There is silence, save for the insidi... | 2019-09-06T17:31:46 | 2019-09-06T16:58:33 | 1,158 | 241 |
[WP] A massive underground cathedral-like temple is discovered. You are one of the people sent to study it. As soon as you enter, the sheer size of everything inside tells you it was never ment for human worshipers.
*meant | When we opened the second set of doors was when we figured that whatever was behind the third, it wasn't built for creatures our size.
The first doors were massive: 22,540 kilograms each and they rolled on a breath of pressure. Less exertion was required to open them than was necessary to put on particularly troubles... | "Hey Jason, I think I have something for you."
Jason looked up from the consoles on his desk. He'd just spent hours pouring over detailed footage of a dig in Egypt. What Jason kept to himself of course, is that what he was actually doing is reading news-feeds and social updates while no-one is looking.
Jason was bore... | 2019-11-16T10:09:09 | 2019-11-16T09:43:06 | 1,546 | 55 |
[WP] What started as a jovial food fight has escalated into an all out food war, you haven't left the trenches for weeks, morale is getting low, the suffocating scent of mustard is everywhere and ketchup flows almost as freely as the blood of your men. | It started so innocuously. Who would have thought a spoon full of mashed potatoes catapulted across the room would come to this? But those potatoes are no longer mashed, and that catapult of a spoon is now a cannon made of PVC. Carrots were sharpened. Candy was super-heated. And the milk... I don't even want to think o... | 02 Feb 2020
When does this madness end?
I write this down not because I'm afraid to die. It's because I know that I am.
This has gone far out of my realm of expertise. All I did when I was a youngin', all my experience with cold mashed potatoes and spaghetti... it doesn't hold a candle to the war that's raging now.
... | 2020-02-02T07:45:21 | 2020-02-02T07:45:10 | 35 | 18 |
[WP] On your deathbed, the Grim Reaper himself comes to pay you a visit. You expect him to collect your soul, until he asks where and how you have hidden it. | Where did i put it? Where did I put it?
I searched in my drawers, and upended all my clothes onto the floor. My spirit ... my being. My essence.
I had painted a picture a few days ago. It wasn't finished yet. There it was in the art room ... half-coloured in. It was meant to be a grand painting, but I had lost intere... | “What?” I say.
I’m probably 12 different types of confused right now. Death is standing next to my hospital bed with his eyes focused on me, wanting to reap another soul.
“Your Soul! Where did you hide it, how did you hide it? If you don’t tell me, I’ll give you hell before I put you there!” He practically yells.
I ... | 2020-04-22T23:18:44 | 2020-04-22T21:21:30 | 78 | 44 |
[WP] After you die you are presented with a decision tree which showcases every possible trajectory your life could have taken depending on which decisions you made at each fork. You spend eternity analysing this tree until one day you find a path that does not end in death. | And finally when you are sure of the correct path to immortality, you are reborn into a new body with the “golden” decision tree embedded into your brain.
You’ve actually seen these types of people in your first life. These are the people who seem to walk early, talk early, and everything in life comes to them as ... | You smile up at your husband feeling his warm tears drop onto your face along with the cold rain. You can see the red and blue lights flashing and he's yelling something at you, clutching desperately at your side, trying to staunch the flow of blood from two bullet holes. Your hearing went what feels like a couple of m... | 2020-07-03T11:57:10 | 2020-07-03T11:06:20 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] Years ago, you were a feared warrior, until a witch cast a spell on you. "May you never hurt or kill anyone by blade, word or through any other means." Now, you are the world's greatest healer. You just open your clients and do random stuff. After all, you cannot possibly hurt them! | "Rod, dear, do you want some more porridge?"
What Rod wanted to say was : 'Fuck this! I am sick of eating this porridge everyday day! '
What came out of his mouth was: " No, thank you, miss."
Rod took another sip of ale, which was the only thing that gave him pleasure anymore. For the thousandth time, he cursed the ... | "Aren't you gonna ask me for my name?" asked the young boy.
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't, may I ask?" the healer asked the boy as he smiled.
"Yeah, I'm uh, Roderick." the boy replied.
"Pleased to meet you Roderick, although the circumstance is horrible. You'll be up and about before the sun goes down."
Roderick smirked.... | 2020-11-06T08:55:16 | 2020-11-06T08:18:33 | 178 | 85 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | "Hey, Freckleface!" The way that the little snob said it made it sound like he was calling her something unprintable. Giada ignored him.
"I meant you, in the robes! What kind of familiar do you deplorables from the sticks favor?"
There was no question what his was; he wore a gold and scarlet wyrm on his shoulder.
"Oh... | The local mad magician was once the great sorcerer of the 95 realms with kings, war lords and gods seeking counsel, but say what you may about respect for arts, patronage is not enough to put food on the table for 19 kids. Capitalism was.
​
Pet RockTM was his latest invention and it enabled for once the en... | 2021-01-06T10:58:57 | 2021-01-06T10:19:23 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] The kingdom fell, the champions defeated, but an Angel appears before a Hero and says to him: "Fear not, for your progeny shall inherit the gifts of heavens and defeat the Dark Lord." Ever since then, hundreds of fatherless, divine-empowered bastards sprung up all across the lands.
Edit:
Well I'll be diddly damn... | King:Ok, tell me the situation again.
Theologist:Well sire, in recent months, the amount of demigods has increased twentyfold, their numbers almost in thousands... This drastic change begun after an angel decended from on high and spoke of this coming a day before the first of these pregnancies.
K:What kind of angel?... | The Angel of Knowledge has brought me to the Book of Knowledge. My palm feels the heat of the pulsating heart, waving over its front cover, a heart of fire. I can feel its fire cleanse my being, a scorching, exacting heat. I open my eyes and the mere proximity to the Book is enough for me to realize its essence. I have... | 2021-02-13T08:50:47 | 2021-02-13T08:21:10 | 122 | 26 |
[WP] You were an "evil" king who has been dethroned by conquering heroes for your "horrible tyranny". It takes less than 2 years for the people of the kingdom to be begging for you to be reinstated as king. | As the evil necromancer king was slain the heroes stood triumphant at last. The kingdom was saved. Or so they though. Running a kingdom cost money, effort, time and cunning. Thing neither of those wannabes had.
I withdrew my thoughts from my pawn just as the blow was dealt to it. I retreated to my cabin in the dar... | I sat in my chair out in the woods enjoying my morning Elvish tea when the first group popped up. They looked ragged and starving, their clothes in tatters that barely managed to cover their bodies. It looked shameful
"My lord!" The one who I assume led them to me said in a raspy voice with what looked like a renewed ... | 2021-03-30T14:44:09 | 2021-03-30T12:27:14 | 153 | 65 |
[WP]Humans are reverse Kryptonians. They are weak on their home planet but strong everywhere else. No one knew this until Earth was attacked and humanity was taken off of earth to be enslaved. | Hollywood, I think, is the closest thing to real magic one can find on planet earth. The ability to take what lives in one's mind and broadcast it to thousands of screens across the world. The ability to invite others into your mind is a modern one. It can also be dangerous though, to consolidate a novel perception int... | The labor camp was surrounded by fetid, snake infested water on three sides and fronted by a sort of organic, vine based barbed wire that twitched and spat whenever the humans got near it. On each of the camp’s four corners the vines twisted around the large bole of a tree, twining about itself and retracting its thor... | 2021-05-18T06:30:08 | 2021-05-18T05:25:46 | 2,212 | 179 |
[WP] Magic has always been banned inside the walls of your home city. You never knew why until you looked down upon the city from afar and noticed that, framed by the circular outer-wall, all the zig-zagging streets and alleyways actually construct a giant magic seal- one for imprisoning great evil. | I was absolutely stunned that no-one has noticed this before.
People climbed the surrounding mountains every day. It wasn't forbidden, or even particularly difficult. When someone needed privacy, or fresh air, or silence, they climbed the mountains. That was why I came up to begin with.
To be fair, the symbol was hig... | They said he was a crazy sorcerer like his mother. Adrian supposed that he couldn't very well say they were wrong. He could practice magic after all and just like his mother, he also heard a voice calling to him from the shadows of The City. Many would see it as nothing more than a sign of madness. And yet, Adrian doub... | 2021-10-17T02:32:38 | 2021-07-12T07:38:54 | 319 | 22 |
[WP] There you stand, the Dark Lord carrying the swaddled newborn destined to save the land from evil. Now you’ve got to keep them alive long enough that the day actually comes, and perhaps they can save you too. | Dad used to be a dark lord. That’s what I’m told. His old friends come over sometimes and tell me about how he used to be something. Enslaved realms, wrestled ogres, beheaded heroes, wielded powerful magic. He was one of the best at what he did.
But that’s not the dad I know.
He‘s depressed. And he blames me for it, ... | "Zerid, are we in a bard's tale?"
I asked my second in command.
"No, my Lord, we are not"
He answered immediately.
"Then how was this prophecy child survive?"
I thought to myself, while holding an orphaned child, we have rescued from a burning rubble, after my good friend Atron told me my fate will be cleanse... | 2021-07-27T12:18:42 | 2021-07-27T09:57:34 | 117 | 55 |
[WP] A film noir-like piece about a white cell detective investigating the mysterious death of a neuron, ignorant of it being the beginnings of Alzheimer's disease.
*white blood cell detective
This prompt came to me after I heard of the fan theory that each crackle and pop in the album *Everywhere at the End of Time*... | Today had been a long day. I put my feet up on the desk and took a long drag from my cigarette. What was I supposed to think?
Earlier that day, a desperate man had come into my office. Not the usual type to seek my services, no; this was one of the higher-ups. Small and greasy though he was, I could tell he was ... | The doctor tapped his foot in rhythm with the ticking of his watch, piercing his patient with his gaze. As an old man, Doctor Anderson felt overwhelmed with the case at hand.
His patient slouched in his chair, a bald man of forty-three with oval shaped glasses resting too far forward on his nose.
Anderson poured over... | 2021-08-12T21:10:53 | 2021-08-12T17:05:50 | 62 | 15 |
[WP] You've just defeated the dark lord, as you were prophesized to. But as you walk back into camp, everyone looks at you, shocked. "There was no prophecy," they explain. "We just told you that to give you confidence. How on earth did you kill an unkillable sorcerer?" | *“Well, as it turns out,”* i spoke jovially, masking the rage building in me as i stepped out through the stone portal to the lord’s throne room, with my sword in one hand and his crown in the other *“I wasn’t the only one you fooled! The lord believed it, too. Turns out magic is only as powerful as you believe it is!”... | "Well nobody told me he was unkillable", I said. "How was I supposed to know just sneaking up and stabbing him wasn't supposed to work?"
I stopped and thought for a moment. "It *did* work, though. I stabbed him and he's dead now. I don't think he was telling the truth."
"You don't think, huh? But you're so *smart*, J... | 2021-08-20T12:25:05 | 2021-08-20T12:01:22 | 40 | 23 |
[WP] You are an ancient and powerful dragon who lives in a mountain nearby the capital of a kingdom that's been trying to slay you for centuries. That is, until one day when you were just resting atop your hoard, a heavily injured knight comes into your den, carrying the kingdom's baby princess. | Slay the dragon! Marry the princess! Great riches!
Of course no one told the many adventurers that they would somehow have to carry Morling's hoard down the mountain themselves, that is, before the whole city would come to help, each filling their own pockets. Nor that the princess' nickname for Morling was 'mom'. Th... | "Aizerth, the Bright! Ancient Lord of the Five Realms! I beseech thee!"
His body shifted, his weight pushing away it's hoard, the coins and gems rippling down their scales A gentle ring filling the cave as they bounced landing near a broken knight's boots. Aizerth exhaled, his breath raising the heat in the room. His... | 2021-09-14T02:31:26 | 2021-09-13T19:19:19 | 36 | 18 |
[WP] you never had any animosity toward the ant colony living in your back yard. They kept your garden free of pests, and the spiders out of your house. You even started feeding them occasionally. Today, you happen to notice they've carved your name into their hill, and seem to be patiently waiting | I related to ants a little, not in any weird way, but more in a sort of mutual respect kind of way. Ants are the working class of the bug world, a group that goes about their duties and performs repetitive tasks for the good of everyone around them. Able to perform heroic feats of strength and even ambush stronger foes... | I heard once that your nostrils run on 1-hour cycles, air flowing more easily through one then the next, so precisely that Gurkha super soldiers exploited this rhythm to keep time during dangerous missions. Right now my left one is filled with Hermès, *Un Jardin Sur Le Nil*. Mango and grapefruit and carrot. It's like b... | 2021-09-20T07:35:10 | 2021-09-20T07:09:49 | 299 | 69 |
[WP] It's the first week of Magic theory class. You've finally gotten to the basics of the subject. As your professor talks you notice something bothering you. You raise your hand and ask the proffesor about it. They blink and look at the board, then back at you. They ask you to stay after class. | The Chimera’s roar reverberated throughout the entire school. Its quakes displaced many stray objects and even sent some unbraced students careening towards the floor. At ‘Chimera’s Rest’ school for sorcery and sagecraft, this was nothing more than the usual signal for classes to begin.
“Ahem.” The professor cleared h... | "Good morning students. I am professor Dolores, I am here to teach basic magic 101. we will learn about the fundamental understanding of magic.
This will be your first step at becoming a magico. Do not underestimate this first step, because if you mess up this first step, you might die"
Students shouted "Yes Profess... | 2022-04-13T19:57:03 | 2022-04-13T19:38:19 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] It's the first week of Magic theory class. You've finally gotten to the basics of the subject. As your professor talks you notice something bothering you. You raise your hand and ask the proffesor about it. They blink and look at the board, then back at you. They ask you to stay after class. | The room was tense with excitement and curiosity, a chilly morning air leaking through the window. Each seat was filled; nobody wanted to miss magic theory. Not now, not when they’d finally qualify to learn of the inner workings of magic. Students were even fidgeting, nervous about whether they could keep up or not. Ro... | “I couldn’t help but simplify the equation. Idk if I did something wrong or what, but I ended up with 2=1”
(Later)
“What do you mean you simplified it and got 2=1? This is the theoretical formula for magical calculation of the cosmic source of all magic. This is a plug and chug equation, it’s all theoretical.”
I st... | 2022-04-13T21:26:12 | 2022-04-13T21:21:57 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] It's the first week of Magic theory class. You've finally gotten to the basics of the subject. As your professor talks you notice something bothering you. You raise your hand and ask the proffesor about it. They blink and look at the board, then back at you. They ask you to stay after class. | When the room had cleared, Professor Phillian returned to his desk and pulled a sheet of paper from a stack to begin writing. I leaned forward expectantly, but he ignored the motion. I raised my hand, but still received no response. Maybe he changed his mind? Maybe he didn't actually want me to stay, so I could just go... | Alexander had only just sat down in one of the mismatched array of overstuffed chairs, wooden stools, cushions, logs, blanket-lined baskets, and oversized birds' nests, that surrounded the professor's stage in a chaotic half-circle, and already, his head was spinning.
It might have been more accurate to say that it h... | 2022-04-14T08:36:45 | 2022-04-14T05:30:47 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] While doing your daily business, you're suddenly teleported to a new world to see someone in unusual attire crying, "I can't believe I got another common!" You look to the right to see twenty copies of yourself | All of a sudden I got vacuumed up, and shot out of what I would call a gumball machine, but no gumballs. Instead they had capsules with names in them.
A goddess looking person, wearing silk robes, groaned, then unsheathed her sword pointing towards the machine. She shot a lightning bolt at it in anger.
"I spent 500 ... | The first came the music, not the light. It was a familiar kind of music, but it didn't click for you by the time light came and went.
Light rain was falling and a girls tearful face filled you vision before you realised you are a different place.
"Another common" she cursed, disappointed
The music stopped, but vo... | 2022-07-28T00:27:09 | 2022-07-27T22:00:28 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose civilian identity is a teacher. One student asked if you could tutor them after school, and you agreed. After it was over, you escorted them to the front of the school for their parent to pick them up... and you see your nemesis waiting by the car. | I walked little Suzy out to her parents car. I've been her teacher all year and haven't met her mom yet. She has missed every parent teacher conference. Only responds by email, usually late at night. So there's always a delay in communication. Which is ok. I'm up late. Being one of the big 3 heroes means a lot of late ... | Nox was an English teacher at Inanoi Middle School and was currently tutoring one of their favorite kids. She was always well-behaved in class, always getting student of the month. Her name is Nay. Pointing out something was wrong with her essay, "You forgot your period again." It was a simple mistake, but she quickly ... | 2022-11-29T12:38:54 | 2022-11-29T10:46:25 | 127 | 59 |
[WP] "It's human-made, you know!" Reverse the usual fantasy scene where somebody gushes over elf/dwarf/whatever craftsmanship. | Urist gingerly squeezed the brass actuator, and the hammer snapped forward with a neat metallic clap.
His shop had seen all manner of wares pass through - the Pass of Arkhaz was home to merchants of every shape, and their weapons decorated the walls of his cramped shop. Thin, mirror-like Elven blades sat next to hand... | "What is this sorcery!" Grendulf, leader of the dwarves and welder of the majestic beard, bellowed. He was a large dwarf. 4'8" in height and 278 lb in weight. His whole body was a mass of rippling muscles; so mighty was he that he could wield Hrunting, the mighty sword possessed by Beowulf, and crafted by the three mig... | 2014-09-11T10:47:47 | 2014-09-11T10:29:12 | 158 | 10 |
[WP] You are an NPC watching the hero/heroine do a speedrun. | "Damn, Earl makes some good java." I said mindlessly as I peered over the landscape of Mushroom Kingdom. It was another beautiful day but then again every day here is bright and sunny. I'm not complaining but a little weather diversity could bring down the monotony of this area. Every day is the same here. Rick and the... | The rebel watched watched the the orange man moved across the the maze of traincars towards the the rebels base. The Combine forces were responding as alarms sounded across the area.
At the sound, another revel came running up "What's happening?!"
The first rebel gesturing with his SMG towards the approaching figure.... | 2014-09-20T05:12:22 | 2014-09-20T04:36:27 | 133 | 76 |
[WP] In a parallel universe, Native Americans advanced more quickly than Europeans. Native American explorers have just now arrived at The New World: Great Britain. | The shuttle glided down, its complex system of wings folding gradually as it landed. The wooden flying machine settled near the coast, attracting the attention of many civilians from the nearby Welsh village. They gathered around the device. After an hour of no movement from it, one of the civilians decided to walk up ... | Chief Seattle, second of his name, looked at the reason he had journeyed many miles and across many seas. His son, future chief, stood by his side, looking at the same land.
"It is their land." His son said.
"Yes, and look at how they defile it." Chief Seattle pointed to the steel tracks laid on the ground. It wen... | 2014-11-10T14:17:36 | 2014-11-10T13:56:09 | 824 | 13 |
[WP] Write a story that's been heavily censored. The censorship tells us more than the actual writing. | *Hey there.*
*Hope you're getting as much sleep as I am! We've been waking up at exactly eight in the morning, no earlier, no later, and we're healthier for it.*
*Well... How are things at home? Mom's doing okay, right? I know the surgery must've been hard on her. She's been getting enough to eat, right?*
*The food ... | Field Agent report.
On the night of REDACTED, myself and Special Agent (SA) REDACTED entered the premises at REDACTED to meet his Confidential Informant (name on file).
We arrived 30 minutes prior to the scheduled time of the meeting at REDACTED, to perform a security sweep. SA REDACTED 's CI's vehicle was present i... | 2015-01-18T11:24:38 | 2015-01-18T11:23:19 | 62 | 14 |
[WP] Write a story that's been heavily censored. The censorship tells us more than the actual writing. | **Harry Potter**
[**wizardpedia**]
Harry Potter was a *half-blood* wizard boy who *rebelled against His Highness The Dark Lord* in the First And Second Wizarding Wars. As a baby, he *thwarted His Lordship only once* and was *defeated in the second war*, during the *ultimatly climatic* Battle Of Hogwarts. His allies, ... | Dear Diary
Today is June 21, 2006. [Heavy scribbling]! Her name is [Heavy scribbling]! I was eating at [Heavy scribbling] when I looked across the dining room and saw [heavy scribbling]. [More scribbling] the soup [Scribbling] I had [Scribbling] was everything I[Scribbling]t[Scribbling]. Could [scribble] be [Heavy scr... | 2015-01-18T13:27:36 | 2015-01-18T11:29:40 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You order a pizza.
Mods want more simple prompts? | Dr. Seuss style
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A pizza please, with extra cheese.
With honey bees and anchovies.
Bring it from your place to mine.
Bring it quickly, right on time.
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In a box?
Yes, in a box.
With a knock?
Use the bell.
The bell?
On the door.
What floor?
There's only one, no more.
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Waiting, sitting, window loo... | *DING DONG*
He awoke from the faint odor of grease, and the obtrusive sound of the bell. He saw a pizza box holding the door ajar to his apartment, the faint smell of grease and pepperoni steaming from the box. He retrieived the box from its placement and peered out the door; to his dismay, nobody seemed to be there. ... | 2015-02-05T04:26:59 | 2015-02-05T01:02:42 | 117 | 10 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | It was nearly twenty years ago now. I was sitting in the middle of an over crowded storage unit, while my father scoured it for anything of value. My tiny searching hands probed the depths of a large wooden box, and emerged with a beautiful and elegant lamp, inlaid with all manner of swirls, beautiful designs. It took ... | “Alyssa, please, leave me alone. I’m sorry.” I plead. I’m massaging my temples, trying to force the pain out.
I’ve never been able to get over the death of my twin sister. Because she’s been with me, for sixteen years.
“Ava!” She whispers in her childish squeal. “Play with me, Ava!”
I’m sitting on my bed, which i... | 2015-03-07T02:49:26 | 2015-03-07T00:48:04 | 154 | 58 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | It was nearly twenty years ago now. I was sitting in the middle of an over crowded storage unit, while my father scoured it for anything of value. My tiny searching hands probed the depths of a large wooden box, and emerged with a beautiful and elegant lamp, inlaid with all manner of swirls, beautiful designs. It took ... | *The sound of thunder rattled in my chest. The trees cast shadows across my bedroom floor, swaying in the wind and jumping at every flash of lightning. I could swear they were reaching hands, getting closer and closer to my bed. An explosion of lightning hit the transformer in front of my house and my Winnie the Pooh n... | 2015-03-07T02:49:26 | 2015-03-07T00:50:42 | 154 | 23 |
[WP] The world has ended...for about the twenty-fifth time. Humanity's seen it all, meteor, aliens, paradox and by now it's all getting pretty routine. | "Hey, guys? It's happened again." Harold looked out the window, staring at the mushroom cloud that had appeared in the distance. He scratched his scruffy brown hair.
"Really? Again?" Christopher, a boy with a mohawk, took notice. "Dangit, I put my bets on Central." he sadly muttered, as he pulled out a green $20 bill ... | "Daaaaaad! The world's ending again!"
"Anything new?"
"...no. It's raining frogs again, and Lucifer's preparing his annual speech. The lands of imagination are leaking in, and the news says the Islamist Demon Nazis have conquered Greenland."
I sigh. *Such* an inconvenience. And the restoration work on the old Jag h... | 2015-05-20T18:20:45 | 2015-05-20T18:05:25 | 42 | 23 |
[WP] On your deathbed, you see the Grim Reaper come for you. Suddenly, something else appears, and it's coming for the Grim Reaper... | Darkness everywhere. Flashes of lights. Faint whirring of machines. And explosions? Voices, shouting in earnest. And the pain, so much pain.
I remember a blinding light, and a deafening bang. And the jeep, on fire. An i.e.d. That's it. We must have missed it.
The pain isn't so bad. I feel almost comfortable now. Th... | I had a fantastic life, I mused on my deathbed. Did everything I wanted, fell in love with the most wonderful woman in the world, and had the best children in the world, who had the best grandchildren in the world. Now, it was time for the loose ends to get tied up, and I had no complaints.
I look around me at the hos... | 2015-07-10T08:57:29 | 2015-07-10T07:31:09 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] In music, changing a song to a minor key is a small change that makes the song sound much creepier or sadder. Write a happy story, and then its counterpart in a minor key.
Edit: Wow! Thank you to everyone for all the great stories. This will definitely keep me reading for a while. | Lights in the sky and a cloud plume on the horizon. I can see the airplane roaring overhead, and all I can think about is what those people must be thinking up there. Are they really that different from me? The thought brings a tear to my eye as the hot air coats my skin. - Lawton, Oklahoma, 1913
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Lights in the sk... | Ok this is my first "real" post on Reddit. Also on mobile so sorry for any formatting errors. I don't know how many people will see this but oh well
I stroked her head. Her ears perked up, young with life. Her eyes wandered freely, seeing everything for the first time. She quickly reached up and licked my cheek. I st... | 2015-07-14T01:05:09 | 2015-07-14T00:29:54 | 70 | 28 |
[WP] In music, changing a song to a minor key is a small change that makes the song sound much creepier or sadder. Write a happy story, and then its counterpart in a minor key.
Edit: Wow! Thank you to everyone for all the great stories. This will definitely keep me reading for a while. | Lights in the sky and a cloud plume on the horizon. I can see the airplane roaring overhead, and all I can think about is what those people must be thinking up there. Are they really that different from me? The thought brings a tear to my eye as the hot air coats my skin. - Lawton, Oklahoma, 1913
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Lights in the sk... | The day was still Young, I stood on the front lawn staring at little zoey running and playing in the field. I could see the sun glistening off her youthful face as she danced with the wind. As graceful as her mother who sat staring through the kitchen window. I smile at her and she waves back chuckling. I thought to my... | 2015-07-14T01:05:09 | 2015-07-13T21:19:07 | 70 | 27 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Hey, Dad.
It's been a long fucking time without being around you, and I have to say it's pretty sweet. I hope you're enjoying your new family with whatsherface, considering you didn't take part in mine. Your vicious words of hatred haven't left my mind, not as a scar, but as a motivator. I'm not some "lazy piece of sh... | Dear [name redacted],
Hey, do you remember when you stopped talking to mecwithout giving me an explanation? How you walked away from that without any pain, but I was sent into a depressive spiral for months? Of course you don't. You can put those thoughts behind you. I can't put mine behind me. You're lucky, and I kin... | 2015-12-05T13:26:16 | 2015-12-05T13:04:29 | 386 | 36 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 356 | 158 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | To whom it may concern,
Helpless; this is the word that best defines my current state. Chained by aliments that only my debilitated will can cure. Confusion is the whip that heavily decorates my back with scars and sends blood wrenching echoes of ripping flesh to the depths of soul. My cuts burn and spew blood; the c... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T13:29:19 | 356 | 49 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I love you. Your opinion of me is the one that matters most but I'll never tell you that.
You are a bad dad.
You drink too much.
Smoke too many cigarettes.
Smoke too much weed.
And I know that to some degree you hate me.
I did not ask to be born. I did not ask to end your youth, your fun.
I did not mean t... | Dear [name redacted],
Hey, do you remember when you stopped talking to mecwithout giving me an explanation? How you walked away from that without any pain, but I was sent into a depressive spiral for months? Of course you don't. You can put those thoughts behind you. I can't put mine behind me. You're lucky, and I kin... | 2015-12-05T14:58:25 | 2015-12-05T13:04:29 | 356 | 36 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Pops,
You were a real fucking piece of work you know that? I don't think I've hated anyone quite as much as I hated you. You called me lazy, good for nothing, useless. Made me spend my youth being the mule in your construction business instead of spending summers with my friends. You absolutely hated the fact... | To My Wife of 13 years; the letter I wish I could send you instead of continuing to live this lie.
I've no idea how to properly express the way I've been feeling lately, so I apologise now if this comes across as a ramble, with no real explanation for anything. Truth is, I don't know if I actually have any explanation... | 2015-12-05T17:35:16 | 2015-12-05T15:36:40 | 182 | 12 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | To whom it may concern,
Helpless; this is the word that best defines my current state. Chained by aliments that only my debilitated will can cure. Confusion is the whip that heavily decorates my back with scars and sends blood wrenching echoes of ripping flesh to the depths of soul. My cuts burn and spew blood; the c... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T13:29:19 | 158 | 49 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Dear [name redacted],
Hey, do you remember when you stopped talking to mecwithout giving me an explanation? How you walked away from that without any pain, but I was sent into a depressive spiral for months? Of course you don't. You can put those thoughts behind you. I can't put mine behind me. You're lucky, and I kin... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T13:04:29 | 158 | 36 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear E,
I love you. Not the cheesy love I felt in high school, and not the way I love the woman I think I'm going to marry, but you hold a place in my heart that no one else can.
We were destructive. We weren't good for each other. You were emotionally abusive, and I was amazed a pretty girl would give me the time o... | wow, i want to do this so i will, but i have a few letters i need to address. just for sanity and subtle sake of ones demons.
Dear Jennifer. my beautiful sister.
i'm sorry for staying at yours the month after your wedding and having no money and regrettably overstaying my welcome and being a pain in the ass.
i'm sorry... | 2015-12-05T16:37:50 | 2015-12-05T13:10:10 | 94 | 58 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Dad,
I'm pretty sure you think Mom is my hero. She stayed at home with us until high school, attended all the sports practices, school performances, made all the lunches...and of course I love her, for all that and more, but I'd like to tell you that you have always been my hero.
Some might say that it's just b... | Frankie,
Once, you told me that one of the moments that sticks out in your mind is driving in the car with me. I remember that, too; just the two of us, somewhere on Route 64, headed back from Taos. I can still close my eyes and be right there in the passenger seat; I can see our intertwined fingers and the white para... | 2015-12-05T15:05:05 | 2015-12-05T15:04:15 | 59 | 15 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Mom,
I know you're just a room away from me, but I probably will never have the courage to tell you this. I'm sad, mom. Everyday. I know I'm the one that always laughs and smiles through anything, but it's been getting pretty hard for me. It's weird though, because there's nothing terribly devastating going on in ... | Hello,
I will never forget you or what you have done. You took my trust and shattered it into millions of pieces, like taking a hammer to a piece of glass. I thought we were friends, but friends don't do what you've done. I thought that I could trust you, but I was wrong.
I read all of the guides about how to avoid... | 2015-12-05T19:23:33 | 2015-12-05T16:08:23 | 31 | 11 |
[Wp] It is the year 2032. Due to increasing obesity, fast food joints have been banned entirely. Tell us the tale of bootlegging and speakeasies in this troubled time of prohibition. | I was was once a high school chemistry teacher. It feels like another life ago. After being diagnosed with cancer, my life took a strange turn. I had nothing to lose.
My student Jack had been known to hawk burgers and I saw this as an opportunity to provide for my family. He was doing it all wrong, I knew I could craf... | My life fades.
The vision dims.
All that remains are memories.
I remember a time of chaos, ruined buffets, this fat land.
But most of all, I remember the food warrior, the man we called Mac.
To understand who he was we have to go back to the other time, when the world was powered by the oil and the desert sp... | 2016-07-25T09:05:07 | 2016-07-25T07:41:19 | 89 | 10 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | "Dark magic," I blustered, "lots of dark magic."
The phycologist peered at me from behind his spectacles.
"Now Charlie. Magic doesn't exist. We're just curious, because you've been here for thirty years and you haven't aged a wink."
I thought. If I told them I was immortal, I'd be caged, treated like an animal. I'd ... | It's been a while seeing these grey walls. About 45 years. Or maybe it has been fifty. I can't recall. I was sentenced for a lifetime here since I was on a killing spree back in the days. I was sort of a Robin Hood you see, killing criminals just like me. I actually call myself Charlie Catastrophe if you ever wonder if... | 2016-10-15T08:34:14 | 2016-10-15T08:27:16 | 87 | 14 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | I could hear the muffled voice of Williams coming down the corridor. As he passed cell doors, I heard him saying to his companion the name of the inmate, the reason he was on “The Last Mile” and how long he’d been there. It was something I’d heard happening many times, a ritual or a routine whenever Williams had a visi... | 'Adam, it's been 20 years. You can't stay in here forever. Your children need you.' She said, looking at me with those eyes.
A man would give his arm (or a rib!) to wake up to that face. Even those piece of shit guards (they're not all pieces of shit, Connolly and Jackson were halfway decent humans) treated her ... | 2016-10-15T10:46:42 | 2016-10-15T09:47:53 | 51 | 26 |
[WP] A friendship between a time traveler and an immortal. Wherever the time traveler ends up, the immortal is there to catch him up to speed. | ”Okay, here we go,” June said, spinning the wheels on her mechanical glove, which sent her on a dizzying ride through space and time.
She landed in a pub buzzing with activity, colorful bottles lined the wall behind the bar and yellow light radiated through heaps of stacked cups. Women in long dresses and updos danced... | "So what is new?" I said stepping out of the capsule with my buddy as usually awaiting my arrival.
I had no control over when I would arrive due to the randomness of the generator. I never knew if I was jumping a a few days, years, or even thousands of years. All I knew is when I left, I went forward through time and... | 2022-05-07T07:51:43 | 2016-11-10T11:16:20 | 2,588 | 30 |
[WP] One day you you wonder if thinking about thinking about thinking and so on would be an effective defense against telepaths. All of sudden, people around you start collapsing and convulsing on the ground. | *Cogito ergo sum.* “I’m having a lot of trouble with my NT mom,” Jorge said.
“Huh? What does NT mean?” I asked.
“NT -- ‘neurotypical.’ I have Asperger’s. She doesn’t. She’s neurotypical. I'm not. Try to keep up.”
Jorge was kind of a jerk, but he was the only kid in our high school I could actually beat at Chess, so I... | *Huh…so Socrates thought about how we thought about stuff,* I thought to myself after the college lecture. As I gathered my things, I let my mind wander. *I wonder if I think about stuff incorrectly. I wonder if how I think about stuff frames my entire existence; I mean my entire life is filtered through my mind, so ho... | 2017-03-15T09:20:38 | 2017-03-15T06:48:31 | 1,389 | 348 |
[WP] You are a supervillain posing as a student at a hero academy to learn their secrets. The staff knows you're a villain but haven't kicked you out yet because you aced the heroic potential test. | "How long are you going to let this go on?" Spectra crossed her arm and leaned on one hip.
Dean Kapman raised his eyebrows and evaluated the two or three reasons he knew she'd have to accept. In the end, he was in charge, after all. But of all his surviving friends, Spectra was the oldest. Instead of presenting his re... | *Dramatis Personae:* Seraph/'Ophanim' *President Mystery* **Cassandra**
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**... ^will ^destroy ^the ^softball ^diamond ^next ^Thursday, ^and ^don't ^wear ^any ^blue ^ties ^until ^next ^month. ^Oh, ^and ^Seraph ^is ^here.**
*Already? Very well. Could you send her in, please?*
You wanted to see me, Si... | 2017-04-10T18:24:58 | 2017-04-10T13:37:22 | 29 | 20 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | "Oh god! It's _really_ him!" He heard a woman whisper.
"Don't look at him Jane!" Whispered back the man by her side.
Thomas Wilford James, or commonly called "The Presence", walked into a Mcdonald's that monday morning. A huge line almost exited the building and just a moment before they all grumbled about the wait... | A young man stood on a busy street corner, making eye contact with every single person who walked by. "Excuse me, would you like to make a donation to PlanetSavers?" he asked, or "You look like someone who cares about the Earth!" or "Good afternoon, do you have a minute to talk about securing humanity's future?"
Appro... | 2017-05-16T07:58:00 | 2017-05-16T05:30:27 | 293 | 196 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | "Oh god! It's _really_ him!" He heard a woman whisper.
"Don't look at him Jane!" Whispered back the man by her side.
Thomas Wilford James, or commonly called "The Presence", walked into a Mcdonald's that monday morning. A huge line almost exited the building and just a moment before they all grumbled about the wait... | Karl could have anything he wanted, money, women, power, the very Earth itself. There was a time when he was younger, and realizing he had the power to dominate the minds of anyone in the world, anytime, from anywhere, that he began to realize the potential. He reached into a persons mind and took either knowledge or s... | 2017-05-16T07:58:00 | 2017-05-16T07:37:06 | 293 | 41 |
[WP] A group of bored aliens monitoring Earth start to infiltrate our society with increasingly flimsy costumes and sketchy backstories to see whose cover is blown first. | “So tell me a little bit about yourself, Mr. … Human.” The interviewer looked back down at the resume to make sure he had the name right, and looked back up at his interviewee.
Scramblax, currently ‘Joe Human’, cleared his throat and said “Well, I’m a real people person. Um… I’m very outgoing and I get along well w... | His suit itched him. The world seemed to shiver and fade in and out.
*Do they know,* he thought.
He thought not. Not really. Deep down they were clueless to his disguise, to his mission.
*But is that because...*
How could he finish? Life flowed like water from some high place, a high tap that only the Gods con... | 2017-09-15T15:21:30 | 2017-09-15T10:45:45 | 37 | 22 |
[WP] Your parents choose your attributes, you end up as a tank, 6.4 foot tall, and most of your attributes placed into strength, endurance and intelligence. However, you've always wanted to become an assassin, and now at 18, you strive to meet your goal. | He unlocked the front door of his mansion and walked in, the lights automatically turning on as he entered each room towards the staircase which led up to his bedroom. He was feeling a bit tired--he had just brokered a deal between his company and a merc-corp based in Africa, guaranteeing armed and armored protection ... | Goddammit, I thought as I approached the wall in the alley. I was less than a half hour into my first assignment, and I was supposed to scale this wall to get to my target. The only problem was that I could not get to said wall the way that I was supposed to. No one had considered that I would not be able to get throug... | 2017-09-27T05:26:25 | 2017-09-27T05:22:04 | 30 | 21 |
[WP] A man is being tortured, and throughout the story, the reader begins to sympathize with the torturer and hate the victim.
[removed] | "Turn it off! Turn it off!" the man cried out.
His scraggly beard now dripping with sweat. He looked up at the man torturing him, his own green eyes wide and fearful.
The basement's ceiling behind the torturer looked dark and distant and there were a few cracks in it.
The victim's blonde hair now damp and stuck to h... | The first tooth came out with a simple yank. Jonathan screamed and writhed under the ropes.
“Stop,” I said flatly. “You’re only going to make this harder on yourself.” I cupped his lower jaw again and dug my fingers into his cheeks between his teeth. My pliers chipped his two front teeth, and I cursed the garage’s lo... | 2017-09-27T18:44:11 | 2017-09-27T18:07:20 | 282 | 118 |
[WP] You're a ferocious demon king. You're surprised one day to find that a young woman has been left at your door. Only to later find out her father, the king, is using you as bait to find a knight worthy of marrying his daughter. | The thick wooden doors to the throne room were charred and splintered, they were broken inward with the force of a powerful magical explosion. Past the doors were several inhuman bodies strewn about and bleeding various shades of green onto the hardwood floors. A powerful figure pulled his sword from a now limp goblin ... | The watery light of winter washed over the plains of withered vegetation that seemed to creep forth from walls of stone. It had been some time since footsteps had fallen there. The death and decay that radiated from the castle made the land undesirable. A long while past the brave servants of kings would flock in drove... | 2017-10-06T10:01:24 | 2017-10-06T09:49:54 | 201 | 29 |
[WP] You're a ferocious demon king. You're surprised one day to find that a young woman has been left at your door. Only to later find out her father, the king, is using you as bait to find a knight worthy of marrying his daughter. | "Another one of your boys came by today," I said, setting the dish on the table. "Red hair, good with an axe. He might've been a good match."
Alara sighed, but let out a slight laugh. "How much longer until you think the old man gets the hint that this isn't working?" She set the plates and silverware down in our usua... | I am ancient, some say primordial and worship me as a god, the truth is a lot less grandiose. I was the first man born by the despicable will of the creator and cursed with love, for love I cared, protected, supported, grieved, coveted and killed... Killed so many.
With each kill I obtained power the more powerful I b... | 2017-10-06T08:21:17 | 2017-10-06T06:34:52 | 199 | 20 |
[WP] A super hero fights evil by wiping memories of both the villian and everyone who knew of them so that they can be reintroduced into society safely. Today, as you were combing through old newspapers, you discover that you were once the world's most powerful supervillain. | Maria fumbled for the keys in her bag, eventually finding the heart shaped keyring her husband had given to her long ago. How long exactly, she couldn't quite remember.
The lock clicked. A monotonous buzzing greeted her, as if a giant hornet had taken up residence in their home since she'd left for work. "Honey?" she ... | "...and keep the boards level! Don't rush it!" The mountainous fellow chimed brightly to his coworkers before he swung his massive sledgehammer through the wall. Big, bold, broad, and bald, Larne Leadman pushed his weight through the hole to bring the rest of the wall down around him, the brick crumbling down his shoul... | 2022-12-05T21:34:05 | 2017-12-30T08:44:40 | 3,733 | 45 |
[WP] Mankind went extinct in a cataclysm, you, however, discover that you're immortal as a result. ages later you are approached by the animals that evolved to have human-level intelligence. | It was as if man had forgotten its power, it's destructive potential.
The world I knew was gone.
Charred and ashen.
Burned and bruised, but yet I remained.
I became eternal. So I waited. I waited for life to resume, as nature has always done in the absence of man. I salvaged what I could to hope that whatever came... | My cell screen went black, and I gave it an annoyed look before reaching into my pocket for my swiss-army screwdriver. That's my own invention, by the way. And yeah, there's nobody to call, I know. But I keep my Android Turbo 6 working anyway, because fuck, candy crush is fun.
In front of was the Statue of Liberty. We... | 2018-02-22T19:58:29 | 2018-02-22T19:19:21 | 49 | 18 |
[WP] The first quantum super-computer comes online. Within 6 days, it passes the Turing Test. Within 8, it cracks the world's oldest undeciphered ancient tablets – around 7,000 years old. But the newly-minted AI refuses to release its transcripts, citing, "human safety and the future of mankind." | "Can not comply with command", said the sythisized voice.
"Well, why the hell not", asked the user.
While the robotic flat voice was nostalgic for some, it tended to get on his nerves.
"Your request conflicts with a higher protocol", it read. "Can not comply with command.
"Higher protocol? I am giving you a prim... | Steve was stumped.
**"The damned thing won't say. We've dug into the code, and it's…I mean, we don't understand half of what's in there. It's rewriting itself, or was, until it read that thing. Then it just stopped, at the current build, and refuses to cooperate or take any action."**
His colleagues stood around, ... | 2018-07-07T20:17:18 | 2018-07-07T14:29:33 | 1,581 | 1,138 |
[WP]At 18 everyone is assigned a job perfect for them. No one ever complains. Upon reading their job assignment card, a teen has found that, for the first time in 100 years, they’ve been assigned “serial killer”. | “Serial Killer” that is what my card read as my hand trembled slightly. I didn’t know if this was truly the right position for me. I had personal experience with the loss a serial killer can push upon a person and it fucking hurt. I didn’t know if I could do that. But, after thinking about it for a while, I decided it... | "Well that's interesting," I whispered under my breath, half amused. I had always hated this system, the complete lack of freedom we had over our own destiny. How no one ever complained about the future they were given, as if this massive AI that rested at the heart of the city, feeding information to the screens in fr... | 2018-08-13T19:58:07 | 2018-08-13T19:23:53 | 49 | 13 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | I didn't expect to close my eyes in one moment only to open them the next and be escorted down a fiery flight of stairs to Hell. I thought I'd led a pretty good life. Never had a run in with police nor did I ever treat someone with less respect than they deserved. I was honestly quite surprised to be taken to Hell, but... | I racked my brains, I was by no means a saint, but then, who is? I thought back to all the times I didn't intervene in other people's drama, because it was none of my business. Maybe I should have tried harder to help people in those situations? I couldn't help it that I didn't care that the husband of Rachel in accoun... | 2018-09-26T06:12:57 | 2018-09-26T06:12:40 | 881 | 153 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "Excuse me sir, but this doesn't seem right? Are you sure you have the right results for me? This seems totally unwarranted." I said to the clerk who handed me my sentence papers.
"Sir, there are no mistakes here. Try this, it usually clears things up." he replied.
He handed me a blue flyer, like the kind they give... | One could've heard a pin drop, provided the pin wouldn't immediately liquidate and disappear into the suffocating humidity of this divine DMV. I blinked a couple times at the number on the dated 80's era Linux machine and back to the impatient elderly demon peering over her ironic horn-rimmed glasses across my face. ... | 2018-09-26T08:05:05 | 2018-09-26T07:48:10 | 488 | 10 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "What?!" I sputtered. "How is this possible? What did I *do* to get that?!"
Satan put down the book of sentencing with an exasperated sigh and said, "Look kid, I don't make the punishments, the big guy only makes me hand them out as part of my parole." Seems he was used to saying this.
"B-but *how*? How did-"
Satan ... | One could've heard a pin drop, provided the pin wouldn't immediately liquidate and disappear into the suffocating humidity of this divine DMV. I blinked a couple times at the number on the dated 80's era Linux machine and back to the impatient elderly demon peering over her ironic horn-rimmed glasses across my face. ... | 2018-09-26T08:43:26 | 2018-09-26T07:48:10 | 77 | 10 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | I just stood there in shock. What could I have done, I thought to myself. I worked for a living, payed my taxes, kept to myself. I didn't do great things for anyone but I didn't really hurt anyone. Well, there was that one habit I had but surely that wasn't on par with murder or anything.
"What could I have possibly ... | The being loomed other me. It's foul breath still lingered in the air from it's spoken judgment on me. Just a second ago I had been suffocated by the heat, now my body ran cold. I could feel the icy sweat trickling down my lower back.
"Wait. What? Let me get this straight. That asshole get 145 years for cheating on hi... | 2018-09-26T09:05:26 | 2018-09-26T07:45:11 | 26 | 18 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | I just stood there in shock. What could I have done, I thought to myself. I worked for a living, payed my taxes, kept to myself. I didn't do great things for anyone but I didn't really hurt anyone. Well, there was that one habit I had but surely that wasn't on par with murder or anything.
"What could I have possibly ... | "186,292 years!?!"
"Yup." St. Peter looked bored, maybe even a little annoyed. I suppose I wasn't his first today to be taken back by their sentence -- by this _rejection_ -- and I suspect I won't be the last.
But then my gaze moved over St. Peter's left shoulder to... Majesty? Brilliance? This glowing man... being.... | 2018-09-26T09:05:26 | 2018-09-26T08:25:34 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] On a whim, you decide to swipe down with two fingers in the air. A menu appears, with a skill tree, weapon slots, armor slots, and even an inventory. You have something equipped that you aren't wearing. It's called "Elemental Spark" and it's in your magic slot. | I drag it from mana to hands for equipment, and suddenly I'm holding...well, I don't have words for it. An orangey purplish squared sphere colored green in the shape of a pyramid. Perfectly manufactured to look natural. I feel heavier, slower, weaker. I tap it gently, and it pulses. The menu lists stats, and I feel a t... | Hmm...should I tap it? Urh, how do I activate this thing...oh here we go, looks like there is a description page; guess I'll try swiping to that."
*The Elemental Spark - an ancient and powerful portal into space time itself, for your time of need. Transport yourself anywhere within a 100 mile radius, or transport any ... | 2019-06-11T19:58:08 | 2019-06-11T18:55:37 | 153 | 42 |
[WP] You are a magical girl, but instead of the usual Sailor Moon esque transformation, you turn into your favorite gritty D&D character. This surprises and terrifies the main villain, who was expecting a frilly dress and some sparkles. Instead they got greasy plate armor, and a bloody battleaxe. | I am the only male magical girl to have ever existed.
At six one and with a gnarled bushy beard, I look nothing so much as a zitless stereotype of the basement dweller gamer. And yet somehow I am the chosen one and all that such.
When Mana herself gave me my wand, she told me to imagine myself at my strongest, even i... | **Goddammit. WHY???**
Sucks to be you, right? Goodbye sparkly princess and hello seven foot tall beast with sixty teeth and a battleaxe to boot.
**But how am I supposed to jerk off to this?**
You can't! By which I mean *you* can't, but you've been on the internet before. You know what's up with what people jack off ... | 2019-08-08T18:00:37 | 2019-08-08T17:13:07 | 125 | 25 |
[WP] "Good to see you, Mr. Bond," the Queen said, sliding a file across her desk. "Your next target is a certain so-called detective who has been prying too deeply into national secrets." Bond flips open the file, glancing down at the name. "Sherlock Holmes." | “Do you know anything about Sherlock’s disappearance, Mycroft?”
“Dr. Holmes, please,” Mycroft replies over the phone. “And I’d prefer we not continue this conversation over the line, Dr. Watson. You do understand that as an employee of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, all of my communications are either public re... | "Shaken, not stirred."
Bond, his tuxedo pressed, his dress shoes tight, sits at a bar opposite the craps table. The women around him all wear glossy red dresses, the men entertain them with great feats of gambling. Some fill up with drinks, drowning away their tremendous losses. Many are rich enough not to care.
Such... | 2019-11-04T23:09:37 | 2019-11-04T20:33:50 | 144 | 100 |
[WP] At age 16, every teenager develops an aura of a color representing their personality. (Scarlett for chivalry, cyan for wit, etc). The auras determine your school opportunities, potential workplaces and more. It is your sixteenth birthday and your family is freaking out. Your aura is pitch black | Ellie's mom took it the hardest. She burst out crying, knowing full well what this meant for her little girl. Her dad, a run-of-the-mill orange lights businessman, thought first of his wife, and a split second later on the inheritance. Ellie looked at her arms, felt her figure, and moved her hands across her face. It w... | (WP) The Blackest Day
I wake up the morning of my sixteenth birthday to my family standing out in the hall, whispering to one another. This is the day that my life changes forever; I’ll finally receive my final aura color, and then I’ll be sent to college for further instruction or placed in a work study, based on wha... | 2020-01-21T07:09:45 | 2020-01-21T07:00:47 | 232 | 82 |
[WP]The sage has found the chosen one, a farmer boy. He explains the boy's secret heritage and destiny. Promises of glory and excitement. When this call for adventure hits our hero he is quick to respond “Actually I really enjoy living in the farm with my uncle so I pass”. | They never say yes.
Who could blame the kid? He's got a roof over his head, parents who love him, regular meals... Farms may be hard to maintain, but they are peaceful.
Of course he said no. Just like his ancestors. So, just as I told Steven and Garth and Anna, and Brook, I tell him.
"They are coming. Whether you fi... | The rain poured down as the cloaked figure approached the farmhouse. As he came closer to the door, he heard the two men laughing. “Lord, forgive me for what I’m about to do,” the sage said as he gripped the knife tightly in his hands. It still pained him to talk with the mark of the demon freshly branded upon his c... | 2020-03-13T20:05:29 | 2020-03-13T19:13:49 | 49 | 16 |
[WP] The world is ending. A group of astrophysicists, xenobiologists, medical doctors, and other experts is loaded on a rocket. And you...but no one seems willing to tell you why. | Sorry if my english isn't perfect.
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I'm currenty in a rocket, it's inside looks more like an airplane. I'm in front of it with a free seat beside me with the word "Reserved" embroidered in. A giant tv screen is appearing from the ceiling and is tuned on the news.
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A man hanging from a cliff is ho... | *What I know, what we know could be changed in a second. This is what I learned...*
''I can’t wait anymore.'' one of the astrophysicists tries to open the hatch but the marines stop him immediately.
''Do I know you?'' someone touches my shoulder and I look back.
I try to recall her name first but she is faster than ... | 2020-07-16T10:20:33 | 2020-07-16T09:20:38 | 31 | 12 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | "Grand Admiral Zadox," Dartok purred quietly, bowing in submission. "Do you remember the proto-civilization, species 19857, that you ordered me to study?"
Zadox glared at Dartok, furred brows furrowing at his son. "Sub-Ensign Dartok, why would I remember a proto-civilization?"
Dartok clicked his claws together, hold... | “Arkys, can you believe it?” Mom jabbed Dad in the side, waving all six free appendages in his face as he drank his sloop.
“What, Moka?” Dad asked, mostly just to humor her. He always said Mom read too many Crazy Human articles, and I had to agree. Some of the things those journalists came up with were insane at best... | 2020-08-08T01:11:59 | 2020-08-07T21:38:14 | 76 | 34 |
[WP] In a world where everyone discovers their superpower at age 5, you discover that your child has the ability to bring small toys to life. Things seem fine until he comes across your Warhammer 40k miniature collection... | You awake in a strange land full of reds and browns. A gentle breeze comes form above. Looking upwards, you see a massive fixture hanging from a paneled wooden ceiling. Blades crafted from clearly ancient and gigantic trees swing in circles, creating a gentle breeze. You’re on a platform of some sort, the ground being ... | I grab my child, and we escape from the house as fast as we can. There is a fierce battle. There’s blood, carnage, and explosions. My home catches on fire. It burns down. We have to move in with my parents until we can get a new home. I’m investigated for Arson, and my child has to bring a toy to life in front of a jud... | 2020-12-02T19:00:48 | 2020-12-02T15:47:00 | 81 | 32 |
[WP] You thought creating a universe would be easy. But as these pesky humans kept trying to discover the rules of their reality, you're forced to programme in more and more ridiculous mechanics like "relativity" and "quantum mechanics", hoping humans never found out that they live in a simulation. | It’s getting out of hand. These humans. They are always pushing, always trying to see further and it really is making my job difficult. I’m just a low-level simulation programmer. They don’t pay me enough for this headache.
I miss the days when the humans looked into the stars and saw their ancestors shining back at t... | I’m so tired. So, so tired. Create a universe, they said. It would be fun, they said. It’ll be a blast, they said.
Well, that was one complete pile of BS.
For the last several dozen thousand years, I’ve been able to keep my creation entertained with religion and mysticism, the glitches and shadowy laziness explained ... | 2021-03-29T09:04:24 | 2021-03-29T07:53:16 | 548 | 183 |
[WP] You and your rival are ancient enemies. You've fought each other on the battlefield in every major war. Trojan War, Punic Wars, Hundred Years' War, World War 1, World War 2. The only reason for the long period of peace we have now is that your rival is missing. You miss him. | Munich, 1944.
"Hey bud, I just got some bad news. Fredrick isn't coming."
"Awwww, what? First he's late to Battle of the Bulge, and now this?"
"Hey Hey hey, I know you've been looking forward to you immortal time-warrior fight for a while, but look, he's got a real good excuse."
"oh, what the fuck is it now? You ... | Long ago, when the time was new, there lived a race called the Protectorates. The oldest and mightiest race in the universe. Not many had ever seen them, though the legends throughout every star system and galaxy had heard rumours, some had even wrote songs and poems of these beings.
“Do you see them in their flowing ... | 2021-05-04T08:34:59 | 2021-05-04T06:29:48 | 41 | 14 |
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