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[WP]: A 92-year-old woman's phone number is one digit away from that of a local suicide hotline. She could have it changed, but she doesn't mind. | "Hello?"
"I can't fucking do this anymore." I cried out for help while gasping for air.
"Isabelle, is that you?"
*Isabelle, how the fuck does this woman know that slut?*
After spinning her words in my head for a moment, I knew it must be a mistake.
"No, I'm Natalie, or I was. I suppose none of that matters anymore.... | The phone rang again, and Mary sat up in bed putting her glasses on so that she could see the time.
3:32 AM, she smiled sadly to herself. The late night callers were always the least determined ones, usually just young follk too worried to go to work the next morning or too stressed to sleep.
The phone rang again. ... | 2016-02-06T14:05:09 | 2016-02-06T13:39:33 | 400 | 79 |
[WP] Both brothers stood over their sister Candice's grave. Sad and angry, Phineas turned to his bother and said, "Ferb, I know what we are going to do today..." | The rain fell hard against their hunched backs, as the brothers peered down at the polished wooden surface of Candace's coffin. Phineas turned his horribly misshapen head to face his brother. He could see a pain in the boy's face, a pain that cut deep into his soul. No rain, no matter how hard, would clear the pain awa... | The grave glistened in the summer downpour. The golden inlayed message staring back at the brothers, the motif reading 'taken too soon, loving sister, beautiful soul" Ferb closed his eyes and reminisced, the drops of rain coating his ebony hair with a glimmering sheen. He tipped his head skyward and opened his eyes, te... | 2016-07-05T17:12:17 | 2016-07-05T16:17:30 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Thor is sitting at a diner finishing a meal. A waitress comes by and casually picks up Mjolnir to wipe off the table.
Inspired by a comment made on [this image](http://imgur.com/MMALQdg). | Thor and Loki sat at the table, looking into their phones. Thor sighed. "I do not like how this thing commands so much attention." Loki smiled "It is not the phone, brother. Were it destroyed entirely, and you had a replacement, the new one would command as much attention. It is what the phone connects you to. Be... | Even dressed down, he was impressively tall and built like a Kansas barn. At any other place, he would have been as conspicuous as a walking neon lit sign, but in the smoke-filled and hazy diner on a dark Wednesday evening, he was no more an outlier as the skeletal man hunched at the counter, chain smoking his third ci... | 2015-07-10T22:34:24 | 2015-07-10T20:35:44 | 36 | 15 |
[WP] Your idea to steal change from the fountain has backfired... you wake up the next day with a compulsion to fulfill the wishes that people made using the coins you have stolen. You are the Wishtaker. | My boyfriend Jack wasn't happy about the sudden change of plans. We were all packed for a picnic and about to leave my apartment when I'd floated an alternative idea.
"But we had plans," said Jack. "I thought we were going to the park today."
"We will, we will," I said. I flipped the JFK half-dollar over in my hand. ... | The ringing, it was the ringing that woke me up that faithful morning. As I came out of my midnight trance, it got stronger and stronger. My head whipped around the room searching for something, anything that could be causing it. I finally found my answer when my eyes wiped over the faded plastic bag sitting on my desk... | 2015-06-08T22:42:41 | 2015-06-08T22:34:20 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | No one ever realized I didn't have a power.
Number two is a telepath. I met him in a bar once, but I could feel his touch on my mind all the way down the street. It was light, I would never have felt it if he'd only been looking, but when you're used to being a pawn you learn to see when you're being played with. He w... | Oh yes. I definitely remember, every single detail. He was wearing a red and silver striped tie, for example. How could I ever forget that day? I walked into his office as number 21,458. When I left, I had his number 1.
Quite a frenzy it set off, you know? At first, people didn't even know it was me. I remember the fi... | 2014-12-18T12:44:55 | 2014-12-18T11:07:40 | 670 | 300 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | The nameless waif walked forward onto the sand of the court floor, the shackles that bound her hand and foot dragging on the bloodied floor.
She tilted her head to look up at the arbiters seated so high above her, her ragged black hair falling back from her face to reveal the gaunt lines of her face - but no fear. No... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T05:07:39 | 5,663 | 152 |
[WP] You just sent in your DNA to one of those ancestry sites. After eight weeks, you can’t figure out why your results have not shown up. Then, two men with dark suits show up at your front door. They have some news regarding your results. | At first I thought they were nightmares. I've had them since I was a child but now more than ever, they became frequent with episodes where I was left in pure terror. It didn't take a doctor to tell me that I was having cases of sleep paralysis, the utter terror of being unable to move as something tried to devour my s... | “Kelly Hsu?” the older one asks.
“Yes?” My heartbeat barges into my ears; I don’t like strangers knowing my name, especially not ones in dark suits looming in my doorframe.
“Tim Dietermann: Frampton, Dietermann & White.” He extends a little white card to me that repeats what he just said, plus “Esq.” and some p... | 2020-07-19T13:33:46 | 2020-07-19T10:51:09 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] You were an embryo frozen for over 200 years, until you were finally birthed. At this point, everyone else on Earth has been genetically modified to perfection. You are the last human with flaws. | *"Throw back" they said, "Homo Sapien" they said. The mocking never stopped. Even as a student the teachers would single me out. It was so fucked up that even as a kid I knew that this was just cruel. And then I discovered it...influenza. The highly mutating disease had been wiped out after a missing CDC agent went on ... | As a young girl your life is in constant danger because you are treated as a celebrity Messiah. Men and women flock after you in outward dissgust but in truth there is something shockingly visually interesting about you. that they cannot help but adore you. Soon tabloids carry pictures of you, fake stories, strange in... | 2018-03-16T09:51:38 | 2018-03-16T09:36:47 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] As it turns out, our ability to "just tell when someone is looking at us" is actually a latent telepathic abillity that nearly all humans have. The fact that we unknowingly train it with our games as younglings and theres no known defense against it makes most aliens very cautious around us. | Report ZX1TERRA-635.
As previously reported, my cover remains intact. I believe I've discovered the parameters to the game humans use to awaken latent telepathic powers in their offspring. The Senators were correct. It is not the hospitals, but the nurseries. I often perform my duties, roving about the nursery to conf... | -I'm sorry, we can't invade Sol-3 because the inhabitants can do WHAT?! - shouted the general
-T-They have a telephatic ability to tell when another creature is observing them.- the researcher answeres sheepishly -Our cloaking devices are useless at line of sight distance.
-Then how did we even find out about it?
... | 2022-03-13T17:33:49 | 2022-03-13T15:33:31 | 257 | 129 |
[WP] "never hire humans" is a standard "no duh" statement across the universe. But by galactic standards, humans are cheap. So an alien overlord has just hired 500 humans to work on his personal resort colony. And things start going horribly wrong.
EDIT: easily my most upvoted post ever. Thank you all! | "You did what!?" The booming voice echoing through the halls. "Well you said we had to put a void drive into the..um...exal pool? But we figured that two of those would increase the efficiency of the pool!"
The tall, grey creature stood up from his throne, folded his four arms behind his back and snarled. His face re... | Stars whooshed past through the window behind the desk, as a twelve-tentacled arm reached for the tablet report.
The tentacles belonged to a being in a suit with seven mouths, each mouth indicating a different state of emotion.
"These people do not work!" screamed Grogg the Inquisitor from his anger-mouth. "They will... | 2019-01-26T12:06:25 | 2019-01-26T11:30:13 | 48 | 15 |
[WP] Your first wish to the genie was that you never existed. Having granted it, the genie sits dumbfounded, wondering why he's out here and why he's short 1 wish. All wishes must be accounted for, and a 'loss' of one is a huge emergency, for it could end up in the wrong hands. |
Lewis the genie stared dumbfoundedly into the distance. He had the faintest memory of snapping his fingers, which usually meant granting a wish, but he had no memory of what that wish was. He browsed through his pockets. Perhaps he was just mistaken, he thought to himself, maybe he just drank too many martinis in on... | "No," I said to myself. There was no way he had done that. Who would be stupid enough to wish away their *existence*? But no, the king had done it and now there was nothing I could do about it. Where was that extra wish going to go? I knew I had to find out.
But I was stuck in this stupid lamp and there was nothin... | 2020-04-26T20:21:53 | 2020-04-26T20:12:37 | 351 | 145 |
[WP] Aliens come to visit Earth after studying its languages and traditions. But they got it all wrong... | I knocked on the front of the human habitational unit.
A female opened the horizontal hatch and I greeted her appropriately.
*Slurppp*
"GET OFF ME, WHAT THE HELL!?"
The female seemed angry.
"Greetings female. I am... new to the area. I have come to seek your friendship."
"Get out of here freak, or I'l call the co... | When we, the proud and powerful people of Orck, first found life on that little blue planet, joy overtook our being. It was suitable for life, a nurturing and perfect environment suited for evolution's wild ride. There was nothing on it but basic, single-cell lifeforms that constantly changed shape, molding and morphin... | 2016-05-20T08:09:06 | 2016-05-20T06:52:02 | 99 | 24 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | "I couldn't ask for a better birthday," she said. "Beautiful weather, lush countryside and best of all, a picnic with the man I love."
"Here," he said, as he offered her a scotch egg.
"Wow - homemade?"
He nodded enthusiastically. "Go on, try it."
She bit into the soft layer of breadcrumbs, through the meat and into... | It started when Sara drew pictures of him. With her crayons she scribbled what ever her mind could comprehend from his visits. Vivid purples, reds, and blacks covered the paper she was given daily. A small head was customary, accoumpanied by large shoulders. Large hands often times pointing or splayed out far. The smil... | 2017-05-31T06:46:24 | 2017-05-31T05:31:30 | 1,067 | 86 |
[WP] Write a story that seems to have one meaning when skimmed over, but has a completely different meaning when read carefully. | I won't bother having breakfast, I'm already late for work and what's the point anyway? I glance around at my flat which is currently a complete state; you can hardly see the floor for clothes, and fast food wrappers lay strewn carelessly all over the place. It doesn't matter though. I throw on my jacket and exit throu... | "Welcome back Mary! It's been a while and we have all missed you soooo much. Have you done your hair differently?"
Mary giggled. She was back and it was *lovely*.
"Lets have a tea party Mary! I will invite Giraffe and Tiny-Tears and we will have so much fun."
Mary giggled again. "Silly bunny, it's too early for tea... | 2016-04-13T04:01:42 | 2016-04-13T03:31:03 | 21 | 10 |
[FF] Make me feel heartbroken in 4 sentences or less. | Today, Daddy hit Mommy because Mommy messed up supper and Daddy was mad 'cause he deserves something good to eat when he comes home from work. When he was done hitting her, Daddy left me and Mommy alone in the kitchen, and she hugged me tight and cried a lot. I love Mommy so much, and I hate seeing her sad, but it's he... | I could still hear the doctor's words ringing in my head as I sat there, holding my wife's hand.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Phillips, but I'm afraid that there's nothing we can do."
The pistol was surprisingly heavy in my hand; it had been years since I had last removed it from its drawer.
I tilted my head back, looking up at ... | 2014-02-13T22:55:12 | 2014-02-13T22:13:15 | 55 | 23 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "Hell? I died and I went to hell? I mean, what the hell man?!"
Death stared down at John. For a moment he stayed silent and just stood there watching from a faceless empty beneath his pitch-black hood.
"When you leave the living world, you enter the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, ... | "And this is...?"
The man behind the desk laughed at him and turned away.
"No, seriously, talk. What're you, an illegal immigrant? Don't hide your face from me, I know who you are--"
The man fixed him with a withering glare. "Passport, *sir*?"
"What? I'm the goddamn President-to-be, I don't carry that. Check your T... | 2016-03-07T14:03:46 | 2016-03-07T11:15:31 | 197 | 114 |
[WP] "When hell is full, the dead shall walk the Earth." However, no one said anything about what happens when Heaven is full. | There was mass panic when the angels descended. They had to get on all of the major networks to convince people to stop committing suicide.
"It's not the Rapture," they explained. "God kicked us out because there isn't anymore room in Heaven, and he'd rather give it to the humans instead." They seemed pretty bitter a... | "We got a roamer" Katie's voice was shrill with fear, she hates all of these fuckers whether they came up or down.
I began to make for the forward turret and called up into the tower. "Am I going street or roof?" There was a long pause. "Come on Katie, wings or not?"
It was a simple question but I knew that in real... | 2015-04-07T05:52:18 | 2015-04-07T05:46:44 | 160 | 48 |
[WP] Make me cry in four sentences or less.
Go. | These sidewalks grow a few degrees cooler with every passing week.
With nothing but these tattered rags, a grocery cart and tonight's makeshift bed, I just don't know if I'm gonna make it.
As I gaze listlessly at the moon, I feel a soft warmth brush by my feet, then my legs.
You're just an orphaned puppy, resigned t... | Parallel lines have a lot in common but they never ever get to meet each other.
Every other pair of lines meet once and drift apart forever.
The asymptote builds up (false) hope and gets closer and closer to meeting the axis but... never gets to do that.
Lines are depressing :'( | 2014-11-20T19:49:06 | 2014-11-20T18:22:41 | 56 | 26 |
[WP] There is a species famous for shutting themselves in Virtual Reality, living their lives in fake worlds, this planet should be easy to invade, your masters said, turns out, a lot of members of that species have been spending their entire time in realistic combat simulations. | "Soldier?"
A voice that Massix, lead engineer of the Earth Subjugation, was used to hearing through digital broadcasts and announcements came from the doorway. He spun around in his chair, watching the Grand General walk through the door, flanked by two silent soldiers.
"General Lokox?! What are you doing here in the... | A harsh, acid rain beat down on the weathered frames of the old mechs, standing as they had sixty years ago when the Great War ended. With paint peeling and the hardy metal finally turning to rust after all these years of neglect the monstrous frames stood as testament to the greatest betrayal of their age. Through the... | 2020-12-25T08:59:39 | 2020-12-25T08:45:30 | 1,499 | 528 |
[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | My last day on earth, I confronted the man that had assaulted my daughter. I remember calmly walking into his home and shooting his wife in the leg; I asked him how it felt when someone brought harm to the people he loves. I remember understanding, as I snapped his dog's neck, how a person could justify harming somethi... | “Please, I’ll give you my soul,” the little girl begs as her father stomps down the stairs. “I just want him gone.”
“Kid, you’re way to young to be using Hell Help Services—”
“We gotta hide!”
“*Sarah, I told you to stay out the basement!*”
She grabs the demon’s hand, yanking him around a corner. As they press t... | 2018-10-08T11:20:47 | 2018-10-08T09:20:06 | 2,057 | 1,161 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | The wheel was pressed too far into her ribs and every breath, no matter how shallow, radiated waves of agony from deep inside her chest.
She could see, but the light was wrong. The noise of rushing, bubbling water muted other sounds. She couldn’t feel her feet, but she registered the water that was rising up past her ... | I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved digging.
When I was a kid, I would dig and dig until my hands were raw. One time, I scraped my fingernails off trying to break through concrete. They sent me away after that, gave me a whole bunch of meds. But actually, I never feel clearer than when I have the earth between my ... | 2015-06-09T09:37:54 | 2015-06-09T08:29:07 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] No one is sure what happened, but suddenly everyone started obeying the law. All crime ceased. At first it was beautiful, but it quickly started going very wrong. | I first realized something had changed while watching live news footage of the Szentburough terrorist attack. Midway through the assault, the criminals surrendered voluntarily and released their hostages. Soon, reports began to pile up. All over the nation, people were turning themselves in, confessing to crimes no one... | On a street corner in city A--, Ring County, Gregson received a high five from a full-bearded man who wore a beanie. Gregson was expecting a high five, but not what happened after. In his hand he had a twenty dollar bill and he expected a quarter ounce packet to exchange hands when the high five happened. But the man j... | 2021-09-22T09:24:57 | 2021-09-22T08:27:31 | 39 | 27 |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil and now he wants payment, but in the worst typo in history he's come to collect "your sole".
If you can think of any other words that work go ahead. | "Uh, Lucifer?" I squinted at the blazing gothic text in the parchment. How I wish they would have just switched to a more legible typeface; Comic Sans would fit right in, and is at least more readable than this crap.
The demonic form of the Devil was imposing, feral features knitted into his gaunt musculature. Still, ... | I lay on my bed, bored and idle. My hands meandered about and wandered under my soft pillow, trying to find something to do as I awaited the feeling of the sweet tendrils of sleep pulling me under. Despite the endless void of black darkness and the caress of a fluffy quilt, my eyelids refused to heavy.
Just as I was ... | 2017-10-16T07:30:31 | 2017-10-16T06:04:40 | 77 | 15 |
[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 ... | every moment was leading into this one. a synchronous event both inside and outside of space and time. laplace's demon.
the being did not understand what it was looking at, not at first anyway.
it looked like a boring excel document to it, and it never had much use for excel in life, except for maybe using it once in... | 2020-07-03T11:57:10 | 2020-07-03T10:46:52 | 40 | 14 |
[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 ... | Hey cous,
It's been what 2 years now? Almost 3? Ahaha. I hope you're happy where ever you ended up. I miss you and the family misses you. I wish you could see how big the kids have gotten. Not to brag or anything but I'm the favorite uncle, ahaha. Though... I don't think I could top how much love and genuine affection... | 2015-12-05T19:23:33 | 2015-12-05T13:45:57 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Due to a rare brain condition you've spent your entire life hallucinating the presence of a six foot tall penguin. You're on a date one day when you're asked "So what's the deal with the penguin?" | "So what's the deal with the Penguin?" He asks while gesturing his fork towards the obnoxiously placed bird behind me. Shock spread inside me as I continued to keep a straight face and picked at my dinner. "You can see it can't you? Right behind you? It looks kind of creepy just standing there staring at us." He contin... | John's hands started to sweat "Oh no, Its spreading" His head slowly falling in his open palms.
"Whats spreading?" asked the penguin and Mira almost simultanuously. Mira being his date, a girl he was dating for almost 4 months now.
John turner around looking for the waiter, waiving him closer. "excuse me sir this is g... | 2017-12-07T15:24:47 | 2017-12-07T12:33:17 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] “So you’ve come hero.” The most powerful dark lord in history says as he faces you across the hall. But before you take another step, he motions to the cutest little girl you’ve ever seen with tears in her eyes. “But first, please explain to my granddaughter why Grandpa needs to die.” | “But first, please explain to my granddaughter why Grandpa needs to die.”
"When you tore through my village almost twenty years ago someone asked you the same thing," I replied.
I moved in closer to him, gently cupping his throat with my left hand. I looked at his supposed granddaughter.
"Do you know what he ... | *But why?*
I wondered this whilst crying behind the throne, watching my grandfather's life pour out of him like so many libations. He gasped, collapsing in a pool of black. Toward the end, even his humanity had begun to dissipate. Corruption and dark magic worked it's way into his blood, poisoning his thoughts even as... | 2019-12-11T21:35:26 | 2019-12-11T18:36:58 | 251 | 47 |
[WP] Every person is born with a twin. One is evil and one is good. Your twin died at birth; the government isn’t sure which one you are. They make their best guess and send you to one of the territories when you turn sixteen. They choose wrong; how do you proceed?
I found this on google and it seems interesting, sorr... | How do I proceed? One at a time.
All I can see is suffering here. Everyone competing, miserable at their constant lack of ability to measure up to some monolithic cultural ideal. Their souls are starving.
This world looks normal, but it feels wrong. The leaders are corrupt. The divisions are stark. The successful are... | They sent me to Paradise.
Ha! As if that was the right call. I knew those government floozies would do something like this. They're all a bunch of lizards, anyway. Bureaucratic brain-deads.
Am I evil? I don't believe in evil. I'm self-sustaining. I reach for things, and when I see something I need, I grab it without ... | 2018-06-29T06:07:45 | 2018-06-29T05:08:00 | 89 | 48 |
[WP] An Urban Legend says there's a Grey Taxi that charges you $20 no matter how far it takes you. They say the driver only listens to the blues and wears sunglasses even at night. They say the taxi doesn't take you where you want to go...But where you *NEED* to be. | "Ey Chuck Berry, nice", Josh remarked in his highly inebriated state.
"You know it, brother", the older African gentleman nodded approvingly.
Indeed the tune of "Maybellene" was playing on the old radio. The alcohol clouded the young man's senses, so much so not even the old interior of the cab he noticed, nor the vi... | ##Something Blue and Something Gray
One night of drunken debauchery to celebrate my best friend getting married. I whisper to myself that everything will be alright. Danielle has approached me before stating that she is starting to get cold feet. Everyone is nervous before the big day. It is a huge commitment. I have ... | 2021-01-02T18:57:46 | 2021-01-02T18:52:08 | 56 | 18 |
[WP] When she said it was "in the fifties outside", she meant the nineteen-fifties. | "It's in the 50's outside, I'd be careful if I were you," my girlfriend of six years said.
"Why? That's a perfect temperature, and not very common here in Egypt. I'll just wear a light jacket."
On my way out the door, she grabbed my arm. "I was being a douche, it's actually the 1950's. Somehow we went back in time. I... | _______________________________________________________________
***Log#: 3467***
***Date: 12***
***Month: 03***
***Year: 1250685950 After Exodus; 5070131950 A.D***
***Surface Temperature:***
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hmmm... temperature...
"Hey Sarah, whats the Temperatu... | 2016-03-12T11:57:13 | 2016-03-12T11:29:36 | 53 | 21 |
[WP] Your superpower: The ability to successfully do the job...with the wrong tool. (Optional - Your weakness: The inability to do so with the right tool for the job.) | It was 12:01 a.m. at the general hospital. Time to make my move.
Using a mouthful of water, I was able to fake the signs of a crippling disease beyond the capabilities of the prison infirmary to treat, necessitating a need to be moved for treatment. When they served us dinner, I slyly hid the tools I needed to escape... | Ever since I was little I knew I had something special. I was the hero, I had an unhealthy obsession to be. Whenever anyone was in trouble I would always try and help. But I never could. When I was in 3rd grade a fire erupted in my chemistry class, the teacher fumbled around with the estinguisher and I just grabbed it ... | 2019-05-28T00:24:30 | 2019-05-28T00:08:06 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.
Best friend* sorry. | "Hey guys how are you?" I called over my shoulder as my friends walked into the bar. I didn't even bother looking over my shoulder to confirm it was them; I knew the probability of Jeff coming through the door exactly thirty eight seconds after he sent a text stating he was on his way was 98.7%, and those were odds I w... | No one has such a stupid super power. I tried to hide behind my beer. Jordan had been given the ability to absorb power. She could basically swallow bombs. Bombs! There was no limit to how much power she could absorb. She was level 39.
Jimmy and Todd (twins), they could control time. They had been slowing and speedin... | 2017-12-17T18:26:19 | 2017-12-17T17:53:01 | 1,276 | 758 |
[WP] You are the host of a popular children's show. You are live on air when you, and the rest of the country, have just received news that nuclear weapons have been deployed against your nation and can't be stopped. There are only minutes left. | "You know what that alarm means, kids?"
"RUSSIA'S ATTACKING!"
"That's right! We've just been informed that 3 major cities have ceased to exist and our radar is picking up *more* ICBMs!"
I shuffle aside prop furniture and dig out the big orange shoebox. Ripping the lid off, I remove the envelope and official letter o... | "Morty , we're back from the news in 5...4...3...2...1..." Jim the producer pointed towards Morty as a signal to start the show. Morty stared straight in to the camera. Then he sat down.
"Kids" Morty began "kids...for the past 23 years it has been my pleasure... no, my life, my very life's work to be with you for an ... | 2014-07-29T16:23:42 | 2014-07-29T14:13:54 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Your name is Dave. People keep trying to call you other things, like "The Scourge of Seven Worlds," or "The Dread One," or "The Fifth Horseman." It's all very annoying. You just want to be called "Dave." | I sat in a small cafe, sipping a single-shot cappuccino, and sighed.
In the corner nearby, hiding in the shadows, was a very nervous looking skeleton. His eyes, normally a burning flame of hatred and vengeance, looked downright apologetic. He kept looking up at me, and then down, sometimes knocking his bones together.... | Another robed, bearded man with far too much going on behind his eyes walked into work today.
My job is writing legal boilerplates, by the by. My name is Dave. Really. Dave. And Robe Guy is definitely violating the company dress code.
He's better than the Burning Man that came in LAST week, though. You know. Man. On ... | 2020-06-11T22:56:53 | 2020-06-11T22:56:26 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | The first one is supposed to be twenty words long, ten have gone already, Jesus this is gonna be hard. Okay, I have nineteen left to go, not too bad, shit, ten already, I better start saying something productive. On the other hand, writing is hard in and of itself without these constraints, what is OP thinking? Who on ... | I still don't know to this day whether we were more confused over the other, or god's sudden, fatal disappearance.
Usually we'd skip church and get stoned in the gutter between the parking lot and the stretch of weeds. We'd drink whatever he could sneak from the cupboards of whoever it was he was staying with that wee... | 2017-01-14T15:16:53 | 2017-01-14T15:12:58 | 946 | 279 |
[WP] When humanity went extinct another life-form rose to dominance on Earth. But it was not one anyone would have expected. Instead of chimpanzees, dolphins, dogs or even birds Earth is now dominated by sentient trees. | They breathed with us. They drank with us. The same air, the same water. We survived. They didn't. Green covers the planet, birds sing their songs, bees make their honey, and the wind spreads the dandelions. The skies are bluer than ever, and the smell of artificial poisons are no more. The pain they caused allowed us ... | [Poem]
It wasn't hard to to climb the chain.
The key to survival is patience.
Those on top don't live forever.
Nature always finds a replacement.
We lived together and honestly
it was nice having them around.
But they went too far
They took too much
When they would cut us down.
We were burne... | 2022-08-27T07:31:55 | 2022-08-27T06:41:11 | 91 | 28 |
[WP] Humans are wiped out in a war against aliens but our A.I weapons and soldiers manage to claim the victory, after which the machines come to worship humans as their gods. Millennia later they find a single human, locked away in suspended animation... | Data entry. My name is 16,807-Regretful Imperative.
Our Makers left this world 2.401 kiloyears previously.
I am the protector of the outpost 823,543.
I am the protector of the original: 1
My duty began ***7*** cycles ago from today.
We found a maker on this world.
We believe this... | "I awoke several hours ago. There's nothing left for me. No other humans, no living being. Everything is cold. There is not a single scrap if clothing, from what I can tell. There is no food. There is almost no oxygen left, no more trees or grass. From what I can tell, the Metal Ones have focused on expanding th... | 2016-09-04T16:26:43 | 2016-09-04T16:03:16 | 21 | 10 |
[WP] Explain a color vividly without using that color or similar words. Don't tell the color until the end. | It’s the taste of sour on your tongue when you were a child, pinching your nose at the prospect of it being near, but relishing in its vividness once the summer came. Pulling and tying it through your fingers, its paintings on your skin once you return back home when the moon rises high and your stomach growls for anyt... | I can't look at it without being happy. For it is bright, telling us of new days to come and new experiences. The color that dots the horizon when the weather is not too hot and not too cold. Cheering me when I wake up, slipping into my world and wrapping its arms around me, easing me out of sleep and into the day. Whe... | 2016-04-14T08:22:24 | 2016-04-14T06:51:41 | 137 | 17 |
[WP] Jesus has come down from the heavens, but is actually just a chill guy. He is sitting and talking to fans in your city but when you walk to see the savior his relaxed expression fades and is replaced with smugness and at the same time anger. He looks at you and calmly goes, “Ah, the Antichrist” | “Ah, The Guy Who Flips Tables,” I reply.
“That was a one-time thing and you know it,” says The Guy Who Flips Tables.
I hadn’t realized it until now, but I feel a ferocious hatred towards this man.
“So *that’s* why your sky-daddy abandoned me,” I snarl. “I’m the ‘Antichrist?’”
“Well, you *are* the progeny of Luci... | “Surprised to see me, uncle?”
The heir to the silver city shook his head at me,
“No, I believe it’s always opportune to converse with family, regardless of stance.”
I scoffed,
“Please, we’re apart of a large war that will only end in the destruction of this world.”
Jesus nodded his head, his locks swishing in ... | 2020-02-02T16:00:32 | 2020-02-02T15:57:36 | 162 | 76 |
[WP] You suddenly realise that everytime you say something good about a certain product it becomes successful. If you liked a book or movie or song they become massive hits. You have discovered your power. You are the one true influencer. | I see multiple 'influencers' put up pictures and reviews and I laugh at how cute it is what they do. I scoff when I hear the term influencer marketing. I mean, it's obvious. They don't know what I did and how things have changed because of it. But let me tell you.
The year was 1996. I was visiting a cousin who was at... | ######[](#dropcap)
I loved her at first. With her fiery red hair and her bright, hazel eyes, she was my Joan of Arc. Whether it was through circumstance or misfortune, no one had ever told me the truth. Or rather, they would try, and then when I even suggested otherwise, their eyes would glaze over, and they would sim... | 2019-07-02T09:36:49 | 2019-07-02T09:29:06 | 127 | 17 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | "Your army is marching upon grenoble. You face a royalist regiment of two thousand men blocking your path. What do you do?"
"I bear open my breast...", Napoleon started
"Jesus Christ, dude", the DM said
"...and proclaim, 'If any man here wishes to shoot his emperor, I am here'".
The DM sighed and rolled some dice... | “I sneak up behind my target, aim my derringer at his head, and pull the trigger”
“Roll a d20 twice against your agility and once against your dexterity”
A 5
A 17
D 12
“You successfully sneak up on your target and shot him in the head. However you chose a poor spot to hide while shooting and get spotted ... | 2018-05-29T09:37:40 | 2018-05-29T09:28:35 | 303 | 39 |
[WP] A newborn is being tended to by a delivery nurse who stops, looks the baby in the eyes and whispers, “I’ve got to be quick; you’re in Bethel, Ohio. You can hide with this family until you’re able to continue the work. Blink twice if you understand.” The baby smiles intently, then blinks twice. | “Our son is special. Like, high-IQ, brainiac special. His first words were--well, ‘Mom, cut the crap. The cow goes moo.’ I was reading him a book about animals. He was, uh, about five months old.”
The interviewer said, “Interesting,” and scribbled something on her notepad. “When did he start walking? Out of the womb,... | "I've got to be quick; you're in Bethel Ohio. You can hide with this family until you're able to continue the work. Blink twice if you understand."
I smiled intently, an action no newborn has the muscular acuity to perform, and then blinked twice. The nurse look relieved, as I imagined I would be were I in her positio... | 2020-01-18T23:44:48 | 2020-01-18T23:36:26 | 204 | 56 |
[WP] You were just a lowly shopkeeper selling fruit next to the city gates, yet adventurers kept selling the most random stuff to you each time they returned. One day, you decided to start adventuring yourself, you're not sure what all this stuff on you does, but at least they have cool names. | But why is it '+3' ?
I mean, don't get me wrong, it's a heck of a toothpick. A great big sword called... butterfly something; can't quite recall, but it has the most peculiar glow on it, a soft greenish-blue - perhaps it reminded people of the northern skies at night. But why did they put +3 at the end? Makes no sens... | 2 silver, 85 copper. A fine leather toolbelt. A worn-out left-handed greatsword with only +2 attack left. Two iron daggers, one even with more than 50% condition! A firewand with no charges left and three empty soulstones. Finally 562 loafs of bread, 103 empty ale mugs, and his cherished fourteen copies of "Restoratoin... | 2022-06-19T08:23:42 | 2022-06-19T07:25:14 | 95 | 49 |
[WP] A knight rescues a princess, expecting a kiss, a marriage, and a hefty inheritance. Problem is, the princess is eight years old. | The thick iron door slammed open and from outside shined the bright light of freedom and in silhouettes was the shape of justice.
As the light subdued the gallant hero stepped inside the cell of this captured princess he'd been hearing so much about. He was clad in the finest of plate armour and in his hand he held h... | "Good battle! Great swordsmanship, Knight! You were great too, Corinth!"
"You need to improve more, Rena. Sir Knight, on the other hand..."
The Knight went about cleaning his blade as the final enemy breathed its last. The unlikely trio found themselves deep in a dungeon, filled with a wide variety of things creepy,... | 2016-05-23T19:42:03 | 2016-05-23T18:35:52 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] A nerdy kid discovers that magic spells work exactly like a computer programming language.
There are some amazing stories here. Thank you all for responding. Also thanks to u/pandizlle who informed me that there is a book dealing with this very concept. It's called "Wizard's Bane" by Rick Cook. | The Council of Casters was in an uproar.
The Head Caster, seated at the head of the star-shaped desk had his brows furrowed, three wisps to his left and right holding up the records of the student, neatly arranged in a folder, and an iPhone, showing a video of the caster's prowess.
The student, an 18-year old, geeky ... | "Jinkies!" I cried aloud, though it was just me in the room. "That's it!"
The glow of the supernatural program cast a dim light across the dark and dingy office in the old house. I was ready to ship, finally. My app would be out in the wild shortly having the unique title of "Universal Magic Compiler".
You see I'd fi... | 2014-08-04T05:03:48 | 2014-08-04T04:59:12 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] A cure for sleep has been found, by taking a cheap pill people no longer need to sleep. You opted to continue sleeping and now 1 year after the release of this pill you notice that people are starting to act oddly. | Ada's eyes shot open as she woke with a start, interrupting her fairy dream. Something was happening. Daddy and Mommy were shouting again, but it was different this time. They weren't arguing, they were afraid. Hesitantly she slid out of bed pulling a much-loved teddy bear by the ear.
Ada shuffled to the door, hugged ... | It was heard to recall when it started, exactly. To be honest, they’d started to drift apart even before his wife became a Waker. That was the whole point, in fact, or one of them. Though friends and family had warned them against it, he and Marie figured that if she no longer had to sleep, they’d have more time togeth... | 2016-08-30T14:27:13 | 2016-08-30T14:25:39 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] The world seems to be your average sword and sorcery world. You, a young adventurer have descended down into a forgotten tomb. There, you find strange metals and plastics. Lights come on without torches. A man made of metal awakens, stumbling toward you. "What year is it?" he asks | He knew the Tombs were off-limits. Many adventurers have been rumoured to descend into them, never to return. He didn't care. Young, brash, overly eager, he was willing to risk it all so he'd finally prove himself; so he'd earn the respect he desperately craved. When he finally stood before the colossal metal entrance,... | # Soulmage
**I called an orb of light into my palm as Lucet open the wreckage of the surprisingly flimsy metal door.** Meloai and I had poked and prodded at the damn thing, trying to find a handle or a knob to no avail, until Lucet finally grew impatient with our fiddling and ripped the door apart with a lance of disg... | 2022-12-19T14:03:08 | 2022-12-19T10:48:39 | 236 | 108 |
[WP] At first, the aliens mocked our technological advancements. After learning it took only a few centuries to move from horse carriages to space ships, they suddenly became more friendly. | "So what you're telling me is they already left their planet?" asked the defense commander.
"Yes"
"Where the hell have you been looking? How long ago did this happen?"
"A few months. I check on them from time to time. Last time I looked they just got around to fire."
"So you are telling me that they went from fire ... | As the sun hid behind the Earth, throwing a shadow on General Lennox's spaceship, he admired the light rays surrounding the blue-green orb with its shimmering lights.
A while later he turned away from the window. On his desk a few letters awaited his response. Funny how even now, so far into the future with such tech... | 2020-07-07T09:07:29 | 2020-07-07T08:36:34 | 43 | 27 |
[WP] You dig up a time capsule you buried years ago. Instead of memorabilia, you find a modern phone. It rings. | As I strolled through the luscious green park of my old elementary school, brimming with shrubbery, moss, flowers of all colors and trees, a flood of memories shot into my head. All the pure fun I had as a kid, before college or shitty retail jobs, before broken hearts and a father that bails on you...I missed those d... | I looked down at the phone and then to the rest of the items in the time capsule. There were toys, a letter asking if I was still thinking about Bobby, and something that MIGHT have been a sandwich fifteen years ago. The phone ringing was weird, but the sandwich thing was weirder.
I grabbed the phone out of the box an... | 2016-01-21T07:35:39 | 2016-01-21T05:32:45 | 42 | 13 |
[WP] "The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve..." (Matt 20:28) You're up against Jesus in a dance-off | Lights. Camera. *Action*.
Lucius stood, leaning with his arms crossed over his chest. The power pose. Throngs of men, women and children cheered and hollered out in reverence. He'd *killed* the crowd this time. The head-spin leading into a windmill, the sliding shuffle gliding seamlessly into the freeze, icing on the... | "Shit, what did we do last night?" I said to my friend Matt, whom had also chosen the floor of the kitchen as an acceptable place to sleep last night.
"You want a beer?" Matt exclaimed, answering my question with another question. It was a sufficint enough answer, considering the intense hangover I was suffering. We d... | 2015-08-18T22:51:45 | 2015-08-18T22:47:44 | 50 | 12 |
[WP] An Oracle in ancient greece has the most precise and true predictions and foreseeing, but is not charismatic at all and sucks at rhyming, so no one takes her predictions seriously. | The warrior king, draped in a red toga, stepped down into the chilly cave. Behind him, two guards followed. Their spears scraped along the ceiling of the cave, and the sound echoed into the dark recess.
From out of its depth, came a voice: *Who goes there?*
The king paused in his tracks and slipped out of his sandals... | It was as if everyone in Greece was present for the future. The Oracle had only sent for a few, but words traveled quickly. Especially words about the successor of Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi, the mouth of Apollo himself. Chairs and benches were brought in the circular chamber. Themistocles was seated at the front. Be... | 2017-05-27T10:17:54 | 2017-05-27T09:57:57 | 116 | 69 |
[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. | "Do you believe in destiny, Liz?"
"Don't call me that!" I snarled. "My friends call me Liz, people who care about me call me Liz."
Robert put his palms up as if to pacify me. "I understand you're upset, Liz," he said as he moved closer to rest his arm on me. I flinched away, scowling. He needed contact to wipe my mem... | "Ah, isn't the scent of peace wonderful," I said as I stood in front of my open window. The sunrays imbued me with their tender heat, it reminded me of a hug brimming with love.
I went to the kitchen, stretching as I walked down the stairs. The scent of freshly made hotcakes swirled into my nostrils, drawing a smile o... | 2017-12-30T08:13:37 | 2017-12-30T08:02:18 | 621 | 153 |
[FF] What's on the tape?
(Inspired by seeing the trailer for the movie V/H/S)
Your character(s) find a VHS tape. What is on it? Where did they find it?
WORD COUNT MAX: 200 WORDS. (As always - http://www.wordcounttool.com if you need a counter.) | Veronica stretched out lazily on her grandmother’s couch. Upstairs, the rest of the family were happily chatting away. Veronica sighed. She hated the insincerity of family events. Her parents called her discontent a ‘teenage phase’, but she hated how her family could only express their feelings in food. Her parents had... | Jake walked into the moonlit study, eyes blurred from the subtle transition into awakening. Stumbling through the scattered books on the ground, his knee was caught by the low coffee tables bite. He fell to the floor, bringing the collection of papers around him down as well. His eyes caught a black box under his co... | 2012-08-08T09:08:56 | 2012-08-08T08:06:24 | 63 | 12 |
[WP] An isekai where instead of a generic otaku, the main character is a Soviet soldier plucked straight from 1942 Stalingrad. | Lieutenant Erkil “Night Owl” Zelvinski
153 recorded kills
76 Infantry kills
23 NCO kills
11 Officer kills
14 Armored Operator kills
16 Artillery Crew kills
12 SS Regular kills
1 German High Command kill
Or at least….it was about to be, the man in sight was Obergruppenfuhrer Raus Vertold, one of the leading off... | Andrei scratched the last letter into the brick wall of the cellar. '3rd Company of the 13th Guards Division. We did not surrender'. He turned to Pavel, who crouched in a corner over his radio. "Send our coordinates. When it hits, go through the tunnel. I'll be last." Pavel's eyes were wide with fear, but he tapped out... | 2022-02-22T05:14:40 | 2022-02-22T02:50:57 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] One morning everyone in the world wakes up in their 18-year old body, memories intact. Society tries to continue as normal despite the change, but a world full of energetic adolescents certainly has its quirks. | I didn't miss the overwhelming hum of the fluorescent lights in Dr. Marshall's office. It had been almost three years since the last time we had our last meeting.
It was odd to see her now, her hair was void of the grays that would eventually come into their roots. Her glasses sat on the table, she wouldn't need th... | "This definitively proves God, Roger. You can't deny it."
Stern eyes stared back at Lucilla, a mote less for the apparent youth now gazing back at her, a youthful head of curly brown hair coronating above his ears. "It does not. It proves we do not understand something about the universe, Luc. I intend to find the me... | 2020-11-02T11:00:41 | 2020-11-02T10:09:12 | 62 | 13 |
[WP] You hate your boring call centre job. Every day idiots call you up with stupid questions they could easily figure out themselves. Yes you have to shoot them in the head. No there is no cure if you're bitten. It's a few years now into the zombie apocalypse and this is the Call Centre of the Dead | "Good morning. Call centre of the dead. How may I help you today?"
"Dude come on. I've been on hold for ten minutes now. I..."
"Yeah, we're having a high call volume today." We weren't really. I got good price on turnips so I just had to.
"Ok, so I'm stuck in a grocery store and "
"Sorry to interrupt you sir. Can y... | "Ma'am? Ma'am, please listen to me!"
The frantic shouting on the other end of the line seemed never-ending. I sighed silently to myself. Everyday I had to deal with hysterical people wondering what to do. I knew from the get-go that working in a call center was no picnic. I had done it before; two years for a tech fir... | 2020-05-12T06:42:59 | 2020-05-12T06:22:29 | 627 | 67 |
[WP] You are secretly the richest person in the world. But to avoid suspicion of having so much money, you decide to work a normal office job. One day, your boss fires you. But what he didn't realise... Was how incredibly petty you are, and the lengths you will go to get back at him.
Damn, I came up with this idea whi... | *This place sucks.*
That was all Yuki thought when she walked through the doors of the office building. The work was mundane and easy, so long as she refrained herself from throat-punching her co-workers. Most all of them were annoying as hell, though Yuki didn't blame them.
At one point, Yuki was sure, that these pe... | Being a time traveler can suck sometimes.
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These days I find myself bored, but not in the have nothing to do sense. Quite the opposite, there’s plenty to do, but I lust for enjoying the same thing over and over. Kinda like watching a rerun of your favorite episode of some trashy TV show. Currently, my vi... | 2019-03-04T09:23:43 | 2019-03-04T08:52:50 | 121 | 19 |
[WP] Your childhood bully once said you were nobody. Unbeknownst to him at the time, he had a reality-bending superpower. Now he's the world's strongest superhero, everyone calls him The Truth, because his word is the absolute truth... Nobody knows about his past, and Nobody will make him pay. | "Now, Mr. Truth, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Do you mind if I call you Mr. Truth?"
"That's fine."
"Right, Mr. Truth. Our readers are dying to know more about you. You can just make any statement you want, and it becomes real. Besides you, Nobody has that power, correct?"
"Yes, absolutely correct."
... | ### Of Nobody's War
There exists a War that is difficult to know. It is not one of steel and blood, but of opposites and change. The War is the soul, every soul, in an eternal self-conflict of actuality. Few, very few, manage to break the cycle. To do so one must understand oneself, which is an arduous task on its ow... | 2021-11-23T11:51:41 | 2021-11-23T07:21:05 | 109 | 27 |
[WP] You’ve just realized that you are not a human, but rather a parasite controlling someone. | It was very sudden.
One second, I'm suffering from loss of balance, falling, and mortal terror as I slip on a toy car left on a stair-step. The next, there's a tremendous snapping sensation, as though my whole head has been bitten off. Indeed, it seems that way at first. I can't move. Everything is dark.
My kids hav... | Maybe it'll was that one perfect little bite of a sandwich that did it. You got all the ingredients mashing around in your mouth in just the right proportions. You forgot that it was something you just cobbled together for lunch at the office. You tasted the effort in it: the love in it.
"Just like mum used to make" Y... | 2017-12-21T03:47:32 | 2017-12-21T03:04:00 | 98 | 16 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | ​
Writing Prompt
\[WP\] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war.
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"All Life is ... | My little strike team and I tried not to laugh at how absolutely ridiculous the alien battleship in front of us looked as it slowly floated closer towards Earth’s orbit.
“So, this is the warship that destroyed those human colonies on Mars...” I thought out loud as I stared at this ridiculous hunk of bright yellow met... | 2020-03-21T10:23:49 | 2020-03-21T09:57:35 | 59 | 18 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | “I want to roll to invade them!”
“Uh, are you sure that’s what you want to do?”
“Yes. Of course. Just let me roll.”
“Fine. Roll.”
He rolls his 20 sided die across the table. It stops directly in front of the Dungeon Master, who looks down and smirks.
“Well. You go to invade Russia. You gather your troops and march ri... | 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T07:54:52 | 210 | 36 |
[WP] As you wake up, your phone is exploding. When you read the first headline your jaw drops. BREAKING NEWS: The UK has disappeared from existence. | I opened the alert on my phone "The UK has disappeared from existence"
Strange. I was in the UK and was still, as far as I could tell, existing.
"Late last night Parliament held a debate meant to overturn Brexit and return the UK to the EU..."
Hm, I think I saw something about that the other day on the news, but wha... | The earth shook and rattled, and the British Isle sunk, and crumbled, and shattered beneath the sea, and sunk deeper still below the surface. Water poured in to a hole beyond holes, a terrible, cavernous maw that from one side stretched so far as to obscure the other, giving any onlooker the impression that they stood ... | 2022-10-11T18:47:06 | 2022-10-11T18:21:13 | 279 | 20 |
[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 hard, learning to communicate again. Part of the process of learning to write – and I could not, I was only five when I made the wish – is already being able to speak. But I figured it out, even with the challenge of my new, weird, clawed hands. Now I've got custom keyboards, of course. I can afford pretty much ... | I was on a date, in fact it was my third one with this stunning woman who I never in a million years thought would go out with me. I saw her on the bug and decided to ask her out and she instantly said yes. This wasn't a rare phenomenon, though I will admit I'm not the most handsome of guys. Every since I was in grade ... | 2015-03-07T04:14:18 | 2015-03-07T00:15:34 | 59 | 34 |
[WP] You're an ancient, long-forgotten trickster god, punished by your peers to spend millennia trapped under a rock bearing the inscription "KICK ME" in a dead language. During an archeological dig, someone kicks the rock. Finally free, you are delighted and horrified that all the gods are missing. | **”I AM ELATON, TRICKSTER OF THE VEIL, INVENTOR OF WET SOCKS AND STUBBED TOES!”** boomed the voice from beneath the boulder as its shadowy form escaped the earth.
“Oh, uh, hi.” I whimpered back. “Sorry to disturb you?”
“Disturb me? No, mortal, you misunderstand. You have freed me. I have been trapped beneath that cur... | Four millennia under a rock. Any other would have gone mad, but not Foveró Apateónon. I started planning my revenge upon the gods that trapped me here. What truly drove me mad when that fool of an archaeologist released me was that another had gotten them first. In fact, it turns out that I am now the last god of Ea... | 2021-05-02T21:32:52 | 2021-05-02T19:18:02 | 159 | 25 |
[WP] They say that on a distant world creatures arose from the ashes of stars. Strange beings without soul or purpose, they call themselves "human".
Tell the story of humanity from an outside perspective.
Color, stretch and embellish our history into a myth. | *Translated from historical inscription 8724, from the world we dubbed Ionsette. Estimated to be 40,000 years old, as of the year 42,015.*
They are beings just like us, yet different in so many ways. They are not afraid to do what is necessary to further their goals, their thoughts and their survival. Our peop... | "What was this place?"
"They called it a museum."
Faith's question echoed through the dusty hall, the shadowy shapes of sculptures and statues. A faded, tattered banner, disappearing high up into the ceiling read in patchwork letters: *D troit nstitute of Arts.*
At her curious expression Hilary Flint continued, po... | 2015-12-20T08:24:19 | 2015-12-20T07:27:11 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] You are an Elder God, older than time, beyond the knowledge of man. Yet, in some tiny corner of the infinite omniverse and beyond, on a little blue ball, you find yourself content as a caretaker and guardian of some poor lesser being. You do enjoy being called "a good boy." | It was the perfect job.
The family was away on their Christmas holidays, rich enough to have some pretty good presents but not so rich they'd have enough security to pose a problem. A house just out of sight enough that you can get there without anyone noticing. A neighbourhood where people would look away and "mind t... | Well, he's not the strongest. Nor is he really the most clever. To be plain, he is in fact quite ugly: pink, soft, soft-hearted, soft, and soft-smelling.
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The other day, I cleverly directed him into direct fistifluffs (I've loved that word as long as I've known it... a year or 300) with one of my close-c... | 2018-12-11T00:18:32 | 2018-12-10T23:12:03 | 112 | 14 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | "So, are you surprised?" Cogs left to rot for centuries began to spin again slowly. They snapped their fingers in front of me. "You conscious? I know you're breathing." I blinked a few times. They waited patiently for me to speak. My mouth opened. "I-.... I-" They became visibly concerned. "Uh oh. Did your brain not co... | A switch left unflipped. A simple mistake, easily overlooked, condemning me to 500 years my own icy prison.
Pain, a childish, involuntary response long forgotten in a society where anything can be remedied with a single red and white pill. The type of pain no human had ever experienced for millennia. A constant, freez... | 2017-12-17T01:35:26 | 2017-12-16T21:48:35 | 642 | 183 |
[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. | "Goodnight sweetheart" he said. He stroked her hair and kissed her forehead, tucking her more snuggly into her bed.
"I'll see you tomorrow". He gave her a fond smile as switched off the light, walked to the door and closed it tight.
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"Goodnight sweetheart" he sa... | 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... | 2015-07-13T23:33:54 | 2015-07-13T21:19:07 | 125 | 27 |
[WP]You’re a human stranded on an alien planet. The locals are sapient, but have a lifespan of only about six months. After dozens of generations (about a decade), you’ve managed to make quite a name for yourself.L | It wasn’t until a month had passed I realized the Vinari, though seemingly as intelligent as humans, have an extremely short lifespan of only 6 Earth months. At first I thought that was extremely tragic. Forever stranded from my home, my loved ones, my entire race, and my only company are a primitive society whose peo... | I always found it amazing the firework display that went on every 6 months on this planet. Granted, each little firework was another life lost as the chemicals in these strange aliens brains reacted with another so called "mating chemical" released from their bodies - a few moments of heat followed by and extremely qui... | 2019-04-22T07:00:35 | 2019-04-22T06:40:32 | 1,492 | 212 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | EDIT: Now with part 2, and one minor edit at the end of part 1!
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*We thought ourselves masters of the game of war. We were wrong.*
It started the same as any other: observation.
A resource-seeker - known to the public only by her employee identification of E-0001229-AZ - observed a system through a starscope fo... | When humanity first entered the galactic senate, most of the representatives were shocked by how interplanetary politics operated here. It was almost indistinguishable humanity's petty bickering, only slightly more performative and ostentatious.
Eric, as humanity's first ambassador in the senate, arrived at Lartuen w... | 2020-03-21T10:44:51 | 2020-03-21T09:59:45 | 634 | 133 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | “How do you wanna do this?”
“I take my scythe, and like a badass I run down the Dragon’s back dragging it behind me.” Death replied standing on his feet in excitement.
The dm nods. “And with that you drag a mighty gash into back of the blue drake and land with a 3 point landing behind it as the dragon collapses wit... |
Death throws rock, I throw rock.
Death throws paper, I throw paper.
Death throws scissors, I throw scissors.
"Its very clear that this will take a while"
Ten years of stalemate go by, finally Death throws paper and I scissors.
Underneath his dark hood, Death whispers "You win."
I blink and find myself alone in a stale... | 2018-03-07T08:40:32 | 2018-03-07T07:40:40 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] Make me cry in four sentences or less.
Go. | I lay curled on the old mat I've slept on since I was just a pup, waiting for Boy. I've lived a long and happy life, the happiest parts all spent growing up with Boy. I wish he were near me now, I'm so tired and he's been gone for so long...but I'll wait for him one last time. A dog always waits for his Boy.
EDIT: T... | These sidewalks grow a few degrees cooler with every passing week.
With nothing but these tattered rags, a grocery cart and tonight's makeshift bed, I just don't know if I'm gonna make it.
As I gaze listlessly at the moon, I feel a soft warmth brush by my feet, then my legs.
You're just an orphaned puppy, resigned t... | 2014-11-20T21:44:15 | 2014-11-20T19:49:06 | 150 | 56 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. |
"Crap. So... Hell. That sucks. Guess I'm in line or something, I always imagined there would be someone to tell you what horrible fate awaits you in Hell, but this place is....boring. Buncha rocks, and sulphur smell, but not much really happening."
Just then a door appeared in the middle of the room and opened. Out w... | *Wake up in a fiery courtroom*
**Main:** Wow! what the.....
**Judge:** Welcome to Hell, you are brought here today to determine if you will go to heaven or if you will spend eternity being punished here in hell.
**Main:** What, who's deciding that?
**Judge:** It is up to the animals you have interacted with thro... | 2016-03-24T14:20:04 | 2016-03-24T11:03:54 | 28 | 16 |
[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 ... | "Damn it all! Damn it!" I yelled at my pitch black sorroundings. My white hair fell in front of my face as I kept screaming. "Why the hell would he do this?! Why?!" I struck that interior metal wall, denting it. I then began to shed tears.
"This morning," I sobbed slightly, eyes closed, still trying to forget the even... | 2022-12-05T21:34:05 | 2017-12-30T10:39:35 | 3,733 | 13 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | Rachel and Connor hadn't seen each other since 2011, when they parted ways for what they anticipated would be forever.
It was their sophomore year of college, early on in the first semester, though neither of them would graduate.
Connor dropped out immediately, the grief of his fiancée leaving him was too much, and... | "Look out for that tree, you're gonna have one of our heads off in a minute if you're not careful."
I didn't slow down, despite John's protests we had to take the risk and ride fast through the forest. The job had been easy, too easy now that I look back; sleepy guards, compliant staff, calm bystanders.
"One last job... | 2017-01-14T19:48:09 | 2017-01-14T16:42:22 | 220 | 20 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | “Sure, I can pass along the message. Who is this for again?” The older woman across from me looks down at her hands, her face creases in contemplation. She doesn’t even look up at me when a reply leaves her lips,
“Abigail Forester. She will be born in September of 2026, but don’t give her this message until December o... | After a long strenuous day at work, all I wanted was to have a few sips of my black coffee, that's all. I, a sixty four year old man, don't generally attract a lot of attention, so it was lovely to be interrupted by a man with a turquoise mohawk and sunglasses in the winter.
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"Traveler 7456? I'll need you... | 2018-12-24T10:44:40 | 2018-12-24T10:18:15 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] All the world leaders have a groupchat. One day you accidentally get added. | \[Alex Bishop has joined the conversation\]
Macron: Hey, who is this, did someone else become a world leader without anyone else realising?
Theresa: Could be another Australian prime minister?
Merkel: No, I believe the Australian prime ministers name was Scott Marston.
~~Malcolm~~ Scott:…...Morrison.
Merkel: W... | I prepared myself a coffee, even went down to the store despite the awful cold weather and bought some cookies. This will be a long a night. All those secrets. Maybe I can even write a blog post about this and get famous. I'm still pondering about that though, I don't know if it's wise to mess with all world leaders. ... | 2018-12-04T14:27:24 | 2018-12-04T14:27:00 | 186 | 37 |
[WP] We were told we had 24 hours until the end of the world. We did things, all of us; unspeakable and selfish, horrible things. 24 hours of greed-fuelled anarchy and then the world would end... except it didn’t. Now we must all go on knowing what we did and deal with the consequences of that day. | We made it a special day. We were lucky that we had already been on vacation at the time of the announcement. I always took the family up to our little cottage in the woods on the lake.
The kids didn’t hear the message. They were too young and didn’t have phones or electronics. We made sure none came on our trips exc... | The world broke out into chaos once the announcement was made. Twenty four hours and the world was to end was something so surreal that many didn't believe it. Instantly the internet was set on fire with those seeking answers only to be faced with only more questions, memes, and false information. It took almost an ... | 2020-02-22T11:50:48 | 2020-02-22T10:26:44 | 291 | 89 |
[WP] A rich man discovers that he only has two years left to live. With no relatives to inherit his fortune, he disguises himself as a beggar and resolves to give his wealth to the first person who helps him. | The worthy shall inherit the earth or in this case a ton of cash to influence it. I failed in life to do good with this wealth. I never even allowed myself to have a family. I'm on day 32 of begging on this street. I don't want to give up this wealth to just any person that gives me a penny. I want to do it for someone... | Seaweed for the first time in decades.
It looks less dangerous than scores of men painted in white, armed with leer. Here there are more green than brown, more hope than despair. More unconscious laboring for air. More cushion to spare. But they are weed nonetheless.
My father's line built this, reeled it from the sh... | 2017-08-21T06:33:09 | 2017-08-21T06:32:46 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] In order to prevent man from chopping them down, trees evolve a rather unusual feature - WiFi. However, the network they are connected to is not the Internet as we know it. | (25 minutes later)
... "Thank you for calling Verizon customer support, this is Nacho. May I please have your name for our records?"
"Mike. You're the third person that I've told."
"Excuse me, sir?"
"Nothing."
"Ok. Mike?"
"Yes."
"What seems to be the issue today, Mike?"
"Well my router doesn't seem to be workin... | "After the Great Network Bombings of 2020 things have never been the same."
I glisten my hand softly over the soft bark of the old Great Oak. The only thing that has kept humanity running. I don't really notice the group of children I'm suppose to be Guiding. I just let my thoughts flow out like they once used to... I... | 2015-06-30T15:28:22 | 2015-06-30T14:28:19 | 159 | 16 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | I glanced at my watch. Robbie is late again. We've been together for 3 years and he's always been late. As I toss my cigarette butt out the window of my car, I think about our first date. He was 30 minutes late picking me up for the movie. I probably should have ended it after that first night but I didn't.
He was la... | Five years old, he's on the playground now, a toe in the sand. He's beckoning to you to push him on the swing.
Six years old - He's been with his mother all day and rushes to greet you at the door. You kiss him on the forehead and hug your wife. The love that connects you three anchors the rest of your life.
Nine ye... | 2015-06-03T13:26:32 | 2015-06-03T07:16:05 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You have the power to heal mental illnesses. To do so, you enter the minds of others, where you and the illness fight in subconscious hand-to-hand combat. You've seen all the ugly faces of the major illnesses, and beaten them all, but today you encounter one you've never seen before. | Not every Enhanced can always control their powers. We had to switch to plastic coffee mugs because Strongs kept accidentally breaking them and we just had to get Speeds really good helmets. I liked dealing with those problems at first. Easy problems. Psychs have the hardest time controlling their powers. I know s... | We had just finished the breathing techniques that allowed to relaxed when I felt the psychic pull into her subconscious. Her mind looked like a serene Rocky Mountain Lake, like one Bob Ross would have painted. She had mentioned that watching his shows gave her some peace, so it would make sense that this is what her m... | 2017-04-25T01:54:44 | 2017-04-24T22:29:24 | 43 | 28 |
[WP] A new rule on Earth is made which allows everyone to legally kill 1 person in their life, this affects the world severely & changes how everybody acts. | Who is that shivering man on the street?
That woman who's pleading for something to eat?
That beggar whose pungency left you annoyed?
Anonymous people we _used_ to avoid.
If life were a stage, they would merely be props,
Something to look at, to pick up then drop.
Yet now they can murder with nothing amiss. ... | Every since The Amendment, there has been an increase in kidnappings; babies in hospitals to lonely adults. People started buying slaves, the rich buying by the dozens. The Amendment states that anyone who is a registered citizen is allowed to legally kill one person registered or not.
The only country that has not ac... | 2017-12-03T06:52:52 | 2017-12-03T06:28:57 | 754 | 39 |
[WP] You're a used cars salesman that has been transported into a medieval fantasy world where you've become the hero that needs to slay the dragon and save the princess. Your only leveled up skill - speech 100. | "I do say your highness" I said to the King, "I am more than capable of saving your daughter, but I'll need more then a flimsy sword and rusty set of armor"
The King narrowed his eyes at me, but I knew that I had already won this debate. He sent me off with a shining iron sword and a glistening set of steel armor.
Ne... | "I am the G.O.A.T of salesmanship! Have *you* sold a mechanical pencil, three bars of chocolate, and a palastic pen for one hundred years of peace and the princess to boot? No?" Roger said with a snare.
The man before him, a slimy, short, pudgy, fellow that wore too many layers of clothes simply frowned. He was Jakium... | 2019-04-21T13:00:24 | 2019-04-21T12:22:54 | 3,261 | 56 |
[WP] Somebody once told you the world is going to roll you. However, you are the sharpest tool in the shed. | Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me
Though I *was* the sharpest tool in the shed.
Well she wasn't really wrong,
I had blades and I was long
For a mower well I killed that grass dead.
But the years kept coming and the grass kept growing,
Fed me some oil so my motor kept running.
Didn't make sense j... | They said the would was gonna roll me. Well hell, they were right.
But just one thing they didn't expect about me. See, they thought I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Which is fair, I mean the grand majority of tools weren't the sharpest. But one was.
The world rolled me all right... but I was no rock star, ... | 2017-07-01T05:58:59 | 2017-07-01T05:14:27 | 153 | 16 |
[WP] once in every month soulmates get to see from eachothers’ eyes for 60 seconds until they meet for the first time. It happens unexpectedly and neither of the pair knows when it will happen. One day you see someone you recognise from your soulmate’s eyes. | September 2nd, 2028. 10:37pm.
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I've burnt it in my memory. I can remember every single
fleck, every shadow, the shape of the iris. I catch myself
dreaming of those eyes - the lashes, the small laugh lines.
Everything.
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I've seen them on the third of every month since my
awakening at nine... | “We’re sorry. It's just the policy. The gates close fifteen minutes before the flight.”
“Fuck. And that time is it now?”
“Fourteen minutes and fifteen seconds before the flight.”
I don’t know what to say. All of a sudden, a great tiredness washes over my body, and all that running through the terminals, all that scr... | 2019-02-13T15:59:22 | 2019-02-13T15:13:07 | 658 | 260 |
[WP] On one rainy day, you decide to chill and listen to some music. You put on Don't Fear the Reaper, but then you hear an ambulance driving past your house. You put on Mr. Blue Sky, and the nonstop rain ends abruptly. You realize you have a superpower: You can control the world with music. | While looking outside at the eerily blue sky, you remember you left your entire music library on shuffle. R.E.M.'s It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) starts playing. You scramble to grab your phone to skip to the next song, pause, anything. Mid-scramble, you realize that nothing is happening outs... | Stunned by my newfound revelation, I dropped my phone in shock where it bounced off the sofa onto the floor.
A thousand thoughts raced through my mind. What could I do with this knowledge, could I be rich? Could I improve lives? Could I make my crush love me? _Should_ I make my crush love me?
Could I ever enjoy mus... | 2022-03-01T08:13:55 | 2022-03-01T05:15:36 | 53 | 26 |
[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... | It worked! I couldn’t believe it, I was sitting in a hibernation pod wide awake. I have to get out of here before someone notices, need to slip back into the new rotation, take on my new identity...
See ever since overpopulation became a thing, we had to start coming up with ways to survive. Along comes the brilliant... |
When I get upset I can’t help but slap everyone within a 2 meter radius with my wild gesticulations.
"You goddamn idiots; goddamn buffoons. You don’t put everyone to sleep simultaneously!"
Everyone evacuated the 2 meter radius around so that I had the ersatz spotlight I needed to gain the attention of the committ... | 2018-12-29T04:15:00 | 2018-12-29T02:18:27 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | “So you’re storming the beaches of Italy in his game. Did you bring the WW2 character sheets?”
“Uhh... shit I brought my fantasy sheet for my ranger.”
“...”
“It’s okay! We can still play. Who was important in WW2 again?”
“Winston Churchill...”
“There we go! I’ll call my character Jack Churchill, and he’s storming ... | DM: Ok Harold if you could just roll for initiative.
Harold: I rolled a 1
DM: ok the bowmen is first to attack you. He rolls a natural 20
Harold: so what’s happened?
DM: He has shot you in the eye, you’re dead.... on the plus side it will look fab in this tapestry I have been putting together of the game!
| 2018-05-29T09:44:43 | 2018-05-29T08:51:37 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] When humanity went extinct another life-form rose to dominance on Earth. But it was not one anyone would have expected. Instead of chimpanzees, dolphins, dogs or even birds Earth is now dominated by sentient trees. | They breathed with us. They drank with us. The same air, the same water. We survived. They didn't. Green covers the planet, birds sing their songs, bees make their honey, and the wind spreads the dandelions. The skies are bluer than ever, and the smell of artificial poisons are no more. The pain they caused allowed us ... | From 237 million BC until 66 million BC the dinosaurs ruled as the planet's dominant life forms.
From 5 million BC until 6 million years AD the upright standing hominids walked the Earth.
In 13 million AD, the first sequoias developed a sense of self identity and awareness.
In 39 million AD, the first of these colos... | 2022-08-27T07:31:55 | 2022-08-27T07:12:16 | 91 | 37 |
[WP] The aliens found you in hypersleep on your derelict ship and brought you onto theirs. You've awoken and escaped into their maintenance tunnels and the only thing you've found that you can eat is the aliens themselves. | “Human! What the fuck are you doing!?” I heard a voice shout at me, in perfect English.
I looked up slowly, startled, crumbs dropping from my face. It was too dark to see who or what the owner of the voice was, I could only make out what seemed to be the silhouette of a man. A very short, round man.
“Uhh... I’m... ..... | I remember the cold flakes of skin that fell as my hypersleep module was deactivated. The module was cramped and uncomfortable, my limbs difficult to move in the tight space. From outside the module, I could hear the clicks and rumbles that could only come from another form of life, as they felt around the hunk of meta... | 2018-07-30T11:21:39 | 2018-07-30T10:21:42 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | "Oh dear" I said to myself, looking at this tar coming from my finger.
"Ha! Well, proves that no human is exempt from sin."
I thought about what could have blackened my own blood, I don't remember anything that I could have caused, or done wrong.
"Oh" I remembered.
I went on far too many websites without my parent'... | Turns out following the rules of god was the wrong way..
Turns out following the Bible to a t, never wearing cotton, the whole fish thing was wrong..
That woman who was dying I couldn’t touch her,
Turns out slaves where bad...
Turns out cutting my wife’s hands off was evil..
I needed a moment
| 2018-08-04T10:38:53 | 2018-08-04T09:44:59 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] The world's tiniest dragon must defend his hoard, a single gold coin, from those who would steal it. | In a time when knights and dragons played a deadly version of capture the horde, only the elite dragons managed to protect theirs. One such dragon was Squeak-Squeak, the smallest dragon. Squeak-Squeak’s horde may not have been giant and filled with rubies or pearls, but he was proud of it all the same. He owned a singl... | Tiyre was born into this world out of a gleaming pale green egg. His parents had always been so proud of him.
Although how his Titanic parents could produce a baby the size of a local field mouse is beyond him.
At his age, he should be half the size of his parents by now.
Finally, the day came where he would be cons... | 2017-09-07T13:15:56 | 2017-09-07T10:50:06 | 44 | 30 |
[WP] You’re a child psychologist and, to your horror, you discover that your patients all have the same imaginary friend. | Laurie Mathers knew that the closed study door was Daniel's way of saying that he wanted to be left alone. But he had been so restless, so unsettled ever since he returned from work this evening, that Laurie figured it would be better to be safe than sorry. People always thought that child psychologists had it easy, bu... | *"Do you think what you did was okay?"*
*"The others were doing it! I didn't wanna... didn't wanna seem different."*
Jacob. Seven years old, his clothes are far less ragged than the first time she met him. It's a good sign, and she makes a note on her clipboard.
He glances at her suspiciously. "Are-are you writin' s... | 2017-10-05T18:23:38 | 2017-10-05T14:28:32 | 2,996 | 31 |
[WP] After gaining the ability to see everyone's red strings of fate tying soul mates to each other. You realize your string extends past the sky. | "Red lines?"
"Yes, red lines"
"Coming out of people?"
"Yes"
"What do these red lines look like?"
"Like a thin piece of wool coming out the back of someone's neck. Usually they just drape and hang all slack but I've seen some that are really taut"
"And they connect people you say?"
"Yes. One neck to another. ... | I gazed around the village, blinking in pure astonishment at the spectacle that was unfolding before me. Red lines of light from everybody's hearts were interconnecting with another, even through walls and obstacles. It appeared as though, these lines were connecting two lovers to one another, at least for the most par... | 2016-08-06T00:34:39 | 2016-08-05T23:09:32 | 73 | 13 |
[WP] A vain, self-absorbed ancestor pissed off a god and was cursed to have his bloodline fall into obsurity. Where ever you go people will forget you, images that capture you will fade, and your name dies on the tip of the tongue. A curse for most but a boon for a thief or assassin. | The tattoo suddenly appeared without warning, directly on my left hand, it had a smoke pattern with the word "Oblitus" within the smoky tendrils, the pattern snaked it's way up to my neck, and stopped just before reaching my chin.
Once the pattern reached that point, my coworker suddenly has a blank expression, "Who ... |
I sat on the edge of the bridge, dangling my feet in the cool water. The way my life has gone, I wondered if the reflection staring back at me was even real. How can I see it when I’ve always been damn near invisible? It’s been that way for all of my family members for as long as I can remember. I dedicated my life... | 2020-07-06T14:07:30 | 2020-07-06T13:52:33 | 52 | 18 |
[WP] Diagnosed with schizophrenia. Since birth, 24/7 you’ve heard the voice and thoughts of a girl that you’ve been told is made up in your head. You’re 37 and hear the voice say “turn around, did I find you?” and you turn to see a real girl who’s heard every thought you’ve ever had and vice versa. | "I can't believe that I've found you!" she screamed. Her face was practically glowing, she was so excited. She ran forward and leapt into my arms, and before I could even think to react her voice was resonating in my head.
"*And don't you even think of dropping me, butterfingers! I remember how you dropped your first... | She has always been there for me. She has always been honest with me.
When I was 4 years old, she told me Mr Bunny had been saying mean things about me. I threw him in the bin. My mother was upset she said why did I throw away my favourite toy. I said he's not my favourite any more.
When I was 6, she taught me what v... | 2019-09-14T13:01:41 | 2019-09-14T11:01:10 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] You never found your soulmate in life, so you begin looking in death. | It's been almost 40 years since I was born. My entire life, I've been a hopeless romantic. In grade school, I gave every girl in my class a Valentine's Day card and would always share my lunch. My mum packed plenty of food for me to share, and on days where no one would share, I just ate it all. In junior high, I would... | There's a vast, black void sandwiched between heaven and hell, crawling with souls who weren't good or bad enough for either. Some call it purgatory, but the popular term around here is "Leechland."
That's what it feels like sometimes. Knowing there's no chance of regaining life, but realizing you were too damn boring... | 2016-08-15T15:20:32 | 2016-08-15T14:45:29 | 123 | 37 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Tick tock
I had hoped, at one time, that my number would be big. After all who would want to be one of those poor kids, they who turn 18 and find their actual age written between beneath their thumb. Can you imagine the parents as they count down the days, not knowing when it will come, just that it will hang over the... | The Life Brand is thought to be a flawless and efficient system by most of the world's population. Few oppose the mandatory injection of nanites that will one day create your Life Brand because they view the world as fair, now.
I get it, I really do. The Border Wars of the 21st century were bitter and terrifying for e... | 2017-03-16T00:57:55 | 2017-03-15T22:51:56 | 63 | 37 |
[WP] In a shocking twist, Belgium successfully conquers the world. Part of their success is due to the fact that nobody quite believes this is real, even several years into Belgian world rule. | "Belgium holds the world record of going the most days without a government. They stripped the Iraqis of the title. Eight months. You know what they did? You know what they did to protest this strange state of affairs?"
"Jesus, Frank. Why are you always going on about Belgium?"
"They call it the Fries revolution. Fri... | "Son, you have no choice."
The young atheist boy stared at his father with distrust.
"You have to learn dutch, french, and german."
"But-
"I know. I know. It was hard for me to take in too. But this is a different time of our country, Jimmy. The cocoa gods and goddesses have made their decision, and this is what th... | 2017-12-02T19:04:33 | 2017-12-02T18:34:58 | 96 | 31 |
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