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[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... | (1)
He hadn't asked her to talk about the war before, being content with what she decided to divulge and when. It was a testament to who he was that he hadn't up until now because everyone knew her story.
So she assented. " This is my life now. Even back stage the noise from an auditorium full of kids is cacophonous... | "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... | 2017-08-08T07:43:02 | 2017-08-08T05:28:12 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] An alien abduction goes horribly wrong when the human they captured for study escapes and begins to stalk and kill off the crew members one by one. | **Log 1**
Specimen displays unusual amounts of strength, stamina and dexterity, also only requires 5-9 hours sleep compared to our 18. It's appetite is insatiable needing to feed every few hours and large amounts at a time, consumes enough in day for fifty of us.
**Log 2**
It seems irate, our weapons also appear to ... | He was scared. No, that was an understatement. He was petrified. All he can do right now is hide in one of the cargo holds and hoped that the human did not find him in this dark and cold corner of the ship.
He thought back on how it all started and why it ended up like this.
It was supposed to be an easy mission. C... | 2015-07-30T03:12:30 | 2015-07-30T00:16:33 | 186 | 115 |
[WP] You're a siren who is trying to lure a shipful of sailors to their death. "Please", one of the sailors beg as he swims onto your island, almost too willingly. "Stop. You're so bad at singing." | He stood up in the waves, hands covering his ears, and began shouting as he walked toward me. I couldn’t make out what he was saying, so I stopped singing. No one had ever actually made it onto the island before, and I was curious to see what he had to say. Would he be furious? Insatiable? Frenzied? I licked my lips in... | I saw the sailor swimming to me. I expected it to be another meal. They crawled onto the rocky shore with scrapes and bruises. I smirked preparing for my meal. Expect the mortal said something that shocked me.
"Hey. Can you stop singing? You're making my crew go mad with your high pitched wail." The pirate said. I was... | 2022-11-24T12:03:17 | 2022-11-24T11:52:13 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | "Why?"
Aaalp coughed and split blood as he tried to use what was left of his arm to raise himself up. His ears ringing and vision slowly turning to red while he watched the massacre unfold around him.
Aaalp and his division had been apart of the Conquering of Earth which had occured just last year. They returned vic... | It happened faster than anyone could process what was going on. At one moment the Tokyo Olympics were being televised, and the next no one on Earth were able to contact the city.
Japan, obviously, was the first on the scene. What the soldiers reported was unbelievable, craters the size of football pitches, giant def... | 2019-12-17T12:03:37 | 2019-12-17T11:54:47 | 62 | 39 |
[WP] In 50 words or fewer, write a story with a twist ending. | "Yes, Let's do it."
"Together forever." I responded with a smile on my face.
I could tell she meant it, the way she smiled, I knew it was real.
"I love you, I'll do anything for you." She said.
"Okay" I said, as I pulled the pin to the grenade, and brought it up between us. | They thought I was a lamb,
and then a virgin,
then they saw me as a harp
and the strings strummed,
but I am only myself.
The mothers said I'd kill
their children, their God.
I only killed the silent dissonance
between their thighs.
They need me.
Their twisted snake. | 2014-07-27T20:11:03 | 2014-07-27T20:04:32 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | The room is exactly as I recall it, to the most precise detail, but this is not my home. These walls, bookshelf, the leather couch, this is a shroud pulled over something far more malevolent. Then voices, I hear them coming from the basement, they whisper “he knows.” I look to the living room window, into the night. A ... | I pull into the driveway after a long day of work. The kids' bikes aren't thrown in the yard and the lawn has been mowed, just like I asked my son to do this morning.
I unlock the front door and go inside. The front room is picked up, vacuumed and all the games are stacked neatly near the console. The rest of the hou... | 2015-06-09T09:54:42 | 2015-06-09T09:01:47 | 95 | 14 |
[WP] The instant the Dark Lord hears the prophecy about one destined to defeat him, he scoffs and notes "Standard self-fulfilling hero prophecy." before ordering his minions to go to the hero's hometown and build a bunch of public works projects, the most important of which is a school. | # Self-fulfilling prophecy
***They came in the summer of my thirtieth year. It almost seemed too good to be true at first; and oh how it was.***
There was a general murmur of fear throughout the village when the procession of the Dark Lord's minions first appeared on the road. “We paid our grain taxes for the year, w... | Velcroy the king of everlasting darkness was quite an enlightened fellow given his title.
"Sir! Sir, the prophecy, they have determined who will be the next hero of this land," Millrot, Velcroy's personal skin shifter, said.
Velcroy had the slimy-looking echo of a man watch the capital city of Juin. That was where th... | 2021-01-14T19:53:04 | 2021-01-14T18:52:56 | 417 | 292 |
[WP] You stare at the pills in your hand. The doctor taps his foot impatiently. "These will really cure me of hearing that voice?" you ask. The doctor rolls his eyes. "Yes, you'll never hear her again." You level your gaze on the doctor. "I never told anyone the voice was female..." | The doctor tries to play it off.
"Oh sorry,I know,I was jus...."
But it was too late . Overwhelmed with a sense of paranoia, you begin looking around the room frantically, and the doctor jumps up dashing for his desk.
You grab his hand , you don't know why ,but you just do . You can feel the fear radiating through... | I'd been watching Bandersnatch for days. I saw right through it. No - I had been waiting for it. I knew he would make that mistake. I had played through the subtle variations that caused him to lose his concentration so that he would say it.
So that what I did next would make sense. Because what actually mattered... | 2018-12-28T16:48:51 | 2018-12-28T16:00:43 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] Soulmates exist. You have flashes of of what your soulmate is seeing and hearing. A lot of soulmates use these flashes in their pursuit to find their soulmate. Personally, you have no interest. The only thing you ever see is darkness and the only thing you ever hear is a constant scream. | All of my friends (okay, _both_ of my friends) down booze to pass their worries. I tried that, didn't like it much. Instead, I visit Gisneyland, an amusement park, almost every week.
"Oh, how we met? It's a funny story really! My now-wife shoved a rainbow bouquet into my face as I walked out of work and declared me he... | Look, I just wanted the screaming to stop, okay?
Most people desperately want a soulmate and since their mental glimpses showed sandy beaches, or gorgeous cities or cute little hamlets in picturesque mountains... Why not pursue it, right?
There were two problems going for me. The first one, and it's a biggie, is that... | 2021-11-09T06:49:15 | 2021-11-09T05:47:32 | 371 | 32 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence is 20 words, the second is 19, and so on until the story ends with one word. | Somebody once told me the world was going to roll me, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.
She was looking kinda dumb today, as her finger and her thumb were forming an "L" on her forehead.
Well, the years start coming and don't stop, fed to the rules and I hit the ground running.
Didn't make sense not to live fo... | When Earth gave up on us and the land became unstable, when the oceans could no longer contain our garbage.
When our insatiable appetites turned against us, and our aging home could no longer sustain our endlessly devouring multitudes.
When the grey sky grew thick with our waste and the rain turned sharp and the win... | 2019-02-19T12:03:45 | 2019-02-19T11:42:55 | 40 | 29 |
[WP]You've been finding a lot of loose change in your couch lately. It turns out it's the tiny speaking spider paying rent. | Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A hand darted out from beneath a tangle of blankets, groping blindly across the surface of the end table next to the bed.
Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A man sat upright and flung the covers away. He wiped the sleep from his eyes.
Bzzzt.. Bzzzt..
A groan escaped his lips. He picked a small flip phone up off the... | I opened the door and stepped into my apartment. Kicking off my shoes, I reached for the lights, flicking them on without looking. I emptied my pockets onto the small table near the door, and headed for the couch. It had been a long day, and I really just needed to zone out for a while. I stood at the end of the co... | 2017-03-31T18:26:11 | 2017-03-31T16:50:44 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Since the age of 14, you’ve noticed a monster stalking you. A few years later, you’ve noticed that it seems very protective over you and will even go through extreme lengths to protect you. It’s usually friendly, but it seems threatening when your childhood friend is around. | When I was a little boy I always had the same nightmare over and over. Every night I would dream of a hulking monster with long, wicked claws, sharp fangs which grew far past its mouth, and always it would follow me. It got to the point where my parents put me in therapy, because I could not shake these nightmares.
N... | My friend chatted away about some other inane topic. Or, maybe it wasn't inane, I could hardly tell with this guy. He was all over the place normally, but he seemed extra jittery today. Excitable.
My eyes were on blip. Blip was the monster in my closet. Well, he was more places than just my closet, but he preferred d... | 2020-12-18T11:58:36 | 2020-12-18T10:22:28 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | Through the years the great coming of age feast was always looked forward to by everyone. Every power was known due to having being tried at least once and due to variety of different cultures. The people all knew very well what they know they will get before hand. Some families pick a food that is their traditional ch... | I might be a lil crazy but I’m thinking I shouldn’t bite anything . Everyone always bites what’s in front of them and the powers range from making seeds grow into flowers to making clones out of water to jumping through time for hours. Sarah’s right beside me and she just bit into this banana and now she’s teleporting ... | 2020-03-19T10:28:48 | 2020-03-19T10:15:15 | 103 | 44 |
[WP] You are an immortal and have been alive for millions of years without anyone finding out. However, Human kind has been evolving, and you have stayed the same. | "Only those who achieve pure enlightenment are free."
That's what they always told you at the monastary. They said once you reached the highest level of consciousness, you would see all. You would have pure enlightenment and have the capacity to see everything as it was, is, and will be. And one day, up on a cliff sur... | At first I traveled from world to world, only staying long enough to be discovered. I would write myself into the history, and vanish, content in the knowledge that I would be remembered. Sometimes as a god, sometimes as the opposition, but they would not forget me.
Blending in was never a problem. I would seek these... | 2015-12-09T06:46:38 | 2015-12-09T06:40:02 | 27 | 15 |
[FF] A 10-word-long sentence. Then, a 9-word sentence. An 8-word-long one after. This continues, until the final sentence of 1 word. Try to choose a theme befitting of the structure | Looking in the mirror, I puffed my chest out arrogantly.
I flexed, and admired the aesthetics of my physique.
Vascular arms, the chiseled abs, and V taper.
And then my eyes stopped short, shocked.
I trembled as the realization dawned.
I've made a huge mistake.
... | I couldn't believe just how hard it was to say.
*"I always knew that you would end my life."*
*"What do you mean --- I don't get it?"*
*"I really didn't expect that you would."*
Her eyes began to well up.
*"You're starting to scare me."*
My voice began quivering.
*"I'm so sorry."*
*"No wait--.*
*"Goodbye."... | 2015-01-05T22:38:49 | 2015-01-05T21:31:56 | 1,258 | 14 |
[WP] As Death walks towards you, you panic and scream the first word that comes into your head: “Unsubscribe!” Death stops, scowls, crosses your name off the list he is holding then turns and walks away. | **CENTURIES**
It's been centuries since my death. My soul roams the barren earth, unable to move on. A ghost, forever roaming the earth, looking for, *searching for*, the path to the afterlife.
It's lonely, being dead. Who would've thought? The day of my death I was a soul, an entity outside my body, ready for de... | *“Unsubscribe!”*
Death stopped, scowled and crossed my name off a list he was holding.
*phew.*
Damn, that thing was creepy - it seemed cloaked in shadow, making the space around it darker. Sucking in the light, almost. I realised I was sweating a little.
That was intense. I needed a break.
I took off my headset an... | 2021-12-09T00:48:07 | 2021-12-08T23:38:36 | 105 | 77 |
[WP] You are a kid's imaginary friend. They're growing up. You're fading away. | "One last time, huh?" I'm sitting on her bed, feet swinging a couple of inches off the floor. Hers are planted in the thick carpet, bare toes curling into it.
"Patch-" she says my name limply, like she's embarrassed of what it is. She looks up at me with sad eyes, kinda ringed in messy eyeliner. There's a smudge of ... | Lily doesn't play with me anymore.
We used to play together a lot, especially when she was littler. I remember, even if she doesn't.
In the spring, we would dance in the rain showers and pick pretty flowers and scream when big fat bumblebees chased after us.
In the summer, we would run through the forest and build b... | 2014-05-08T09:28:43 | 2014-05-08T09:25:12 | 1,074 | 82 |
[FF] Write a 10 sentence story where the first sentence has 10 words, and each following sentence has one less word. | This happens to everyone who dares hold on long enough.
But my family keep me going, they're always around.
I have a husband, a child, a sister.
I have a husband and a child?
I have a daughter, she's beautiful...
I have nobody, I'm alone...
Who are these people?
I'm not "mum".
Go away.
Nurse!
| Quick, whoever you are, I need you to please listen! I am a scientist using an experimental time machine. But it is not working as we intended. We are being pulled back and forth. Into one timeline, and then back. And each time is shorter! Almost out of time... Please, send help! Oh no... Nooooooo- | 2015-01-27T12:54:32 | 2015-01-27T11:28:50 | 41 | 15 |
[WP]"Oh great far-speaking tower, I have performed the rituals as set forth in the sacred manual. Let me speak to the sky spirit so I may learn of it's wisdom!" "Uh.. Copy that. Moon City Delta responding... We thought everyone was dead down there." | Howard widened his eyes at the blinking control panel. He assumed this was prank at first. It said the transmission came from Earth. That should've been impossible.
The planet had been a smoggy, irradiated mess for over a century. Nobody lived down there anymore. At least, that was what Howard believed until now. The... | "Why would everyone be dead?" I asked.
"...You did follow the manual, right? Exactly how it was all laid out?" the voice from the sky said with holy reverb and a deep pitch that vibrated your bones.
I gazed around at the courtyard of the castle grounds beneath the tower, haunted by the carnage that was ensued from th... | 2020-04-25T09:05:59 | 2020-04-25T08:54:40 | 658 | 103 |
[WP] It is the end of days. God and Lucifer stand before the last human being. You are the first neutral soul who is neither good or evil enough to pass into a afterlife and thus must be judged personally. Unknown to them, you are Death and have come for them instead. | I sat in the waiting room, ankles crossed, reading the most recent edition of “Hell and Harpsichords: a magazine for the life-challenged soul.” Gradually, the room emptied, as the receptionist (a guy named Peter) called names and beckoned each person through one of the doors behind him.
I had gotten all the way to th... | Knock…Knock…Knock…
Oh hi there! My name is Reverend Ezekiel Morris, ordained PhD from the Sanctimonious Preacher Society. Now before you shut that door on my face, like I know you want to, just let me ask you one question. Is that really too much to ask? I’ve been out here all day. Okay. So here it goes. If you had th... | 2015-10-19T12:31:36 | 2015-10-19T12:22:46 | 971 | 63 |
[WP] 1 The village seer had a prophecy on your pregnant mother: "Your womb carries the most powerful man to ever live, but one loved by misfortune." The seer was right except for one thing, there wasn't 1, but 2. Your powerful twin brother, and you, a powerless man w/ the worst luck in the world. | I was born a disappointment. I also was a relief, I think. My mother worried for months about the prophecy. She would lie awake at night, fretting about the fate of her child. She envisioned a great warrior, killed when he choked on his victory feast. Or maybe a powerful mage, struck down by a stray arrow while trainin... | *Disclaimer* This story ignores the seer part of the prompt and focuses on the power vs. misfortune part.
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The tragic thing about Trevor was not that the universe had cursed him but that the universe gave him everything he had ever wanted, just out of reach. It was his curse that he could not perceive the world as... | 2018-04-16T18:46:54 | 2018-04-16T17:03:29 | 99 | 19 |
[WP] On the outside you're running a registered Marijuana Store, but behind that front you're a highly illegal Kinder Egg smuggling operation, and you are looking to expand.... | As soon as she walks in, I can see the signs. The bags under her eyes. Shaking hands. She needs her fix.
“Ma’am?” I lock eyes with her and discretely point to the inspector scribbling a few feet away. “Are you here for the usual?”
She knows the inspector by sight. All of my regulars do. I shrug slightly, trying to co... | X months in and the pressure from the Chief is getting to me. We have no leads still, and kids are dying every day from small choking parts hidden in delicious chocolate. God, why did I leave home and move to America, full of idiots. Streetlamps lit up the side walk with a cool yellow glow and I could almost hear the... | 2019-11-25T11:29:37 | 2019-11-25T11:09:22 | 29 | 20 |
[WP] Walking through a dark forest, you stumble across a little shrine. In the middle of the shrine is a mirror. There are inscriptions around the mirror "Gaze into me and I'll show you your soul". You step up to the mirror. What do you see? | Walking through the woods is easy.
Looking directly a probably-haunted floor-length mirror with cracks is not.
The first thing I see is a faceless gray mannequin, one in a black bustle dress. It's wearing a black pearl necklace with a cat's eye moonstone pendant and black pearl earrings. Half of its face is covered b... | She looked like me, but not really. In fact, she looked more like me than any other reflection I’d seen.
Her eyes weren’t as closely set as mine.
Her face was longer, more structured.
She wasn’t a pencil, but she was thinner than I was.
She was a little taller than I was—by less than a foot, but still noticeable... | 2022-11-06T17:17:29 | 2022-11-06T17:10:41 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] A coven of vampires chase their snack, a human child into a closed down Disneyland. Disneyland awakens after sensing the child and the danger it's in, It would use its magic once more to protect. | The boy ran through the gate and we followed. We had already been on a long chase that night; the boy was quick, and he was clever. He had done better than any I could remember and my memory was long. The sky was still dark though the first wash of light was closer than any of us would have liked, any of us but the boy... | *A castle*, Angela thought, *that's the last place they'll turn to look*. She saw it from afar, the faded pink and blue spires of a building she had only heard of from her grandparents, who had it heard it from their own. "There hasn't been a castle like the old ones in hundreds of years. The magic of the old world has... | 2016-09-07T13:52:06 | 2016-09-07T12:54:14 | 274 | 102 |
[WP] The bad guys won and the world was conquered by the villain's armies decades ago. You and your spouse are worried as you suspect your child may be suffering from Chosen Oneness or perhaps an acute case of Prophetic Heroism. | "GET DA FUCK OFF MA LAWN!!!!!!"
I shouted at those crazy worshippers. From time to time there were people in my garden kneeling and praying and hoping someone would safe them from this new management of the country.
It began when some blind witch suddenly had a vision about the dark lord being beaten and the lands li... | "Sweetie, listen to your father," she pleaded.
"Son, do you know how your mother and I got this far?" His father asked pointedly as he waved his spoon in the air.
"Ugh, not this again..."
"Your mother and I got where we are by settling. We had a government sanctioned union, had the government required number of offs... | 2016-11-26T06:54:54 | 2016-11-26T05:51:54 | 46 | 30 |
[WP] After superpowers start appearing around the world, businesses realize the use of these abilities. People with x ray vision are practically forced into being doctors and people with heat vision work as cooks. You are starting to get tired of your superpower-based job. | After the awakening the world was in total turmoil for years. People ran amuck with these new found abilities. Social order had collapsed and civilization had almost gone with it.
But then the corporations came in. They had gained control in this Wild West of a world after the governments had been destroyed. The corps... | John slowly drank his cup of coffee, knowing too well he was too much of an asset to Mr. Petersburg. He did practically nothing all day in this darn car dealership, but he got payed well. John looked up from his corner office and saw the prime target, a rich-looking woman looking at the Ferraris. He got up and continue... | 2020-02-05T14:59:35 | 2020-02-05T13:58:16 | 1,239 | 252 |
[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 blearily attempted to focus my eyes on my phone as its notification sound went off repeatedly. I had just managed to get to a comfortable position and doze for a good hour before my phone decided to freak out, and I was none too happy.
One government alert that read "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON", followed by 600 messag... | 2022-11-14T21:59:08 | 2018-04-06T22:12:43 | 45 | 14 |
[FF] Horror Story - 80 words
Prompt limit: 80 words.
It could be about anything, anywhere at any time. Just make sure it's horrifying! | When you see them in your room at night, you tell yourself that it’s your brain messing with you. Why? Your brain tells you that the grass you see is green, the coffee you drink is hot, the dumpster you pass smells awful. Your brain sees the truth. It lets you know about the grass, the coffee, the garbage. Why would it... | I never knew you had a choice. I always thought that the body would just take over and fight, that if it was possible to survive, you would find a way. That's instinct, right? I mean, if there was ever a time for instinct, that's it. But it turns out you still have to choose. I looked up and saw the boat, still burning... | 2013-08-21T19:34:40 | 2013-08-21T19:20:09 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] You have been told all your life that you have a rare medical condition. It means you need regular special meals that your family has lovingly prepared. You now find out that your "condition" actually requires fresh human flesh and your family have become serial killers to keep you alive. | “Is that… daddy?”
Mummy was quiet, her eyes fixed on the screen.
I asked again, louder this time. Maybe mummy didn’t hear me. “Mummy, is that daddy on the TV?”
Mummy was still quiet. She looked scared. He eyes and mouth were wide open. She slowly sunk to the chair, but her eyes did not leave the screen.
“No, no, n... | It was never normal. I might have convinced myself it was at one point, but not anymore. There were too many signs.
Dad uprooted the family every year, bouncing us between states in the American mid-west, from abject town to abject town, all of them roughly the same but none ever feeling like home. Each town came with... | 2019-03-13T07:21:01 | 2019-03-13T06:35:06 | 251 | 116 |
[WP] You need to hire a hitman, but can't afford it. Carefully write a gofundme campaign for something seemingly innocent while subtly letting your donors know what they are actually funding. | Hi everyone!
I'm here trying to be able to throw a very special party for my step father, who has been an incredibly influential part of my life. Growing up, he was always home with me and my sisters, looking after us when my mom was at work. He let us know just how much he really cared about us. After all these year... | Hi everybody!
My neighbor did an excellent job watching my house last week and I'd love to give them a great surprise as a reward. I'd need to hire a professional though, and they're pretty expensive especially when you want to keep it a surprise.
I already have someone in mind and have their rates for their night ti... | 2015-08-29T17:17:44 | 2015-08-29T12:47:39 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] A man has the ability to smell death. The greater the stench, the closer a person is to dying. He leaves his house one day and is instantly overcome with the pungent scent of mortality. Every person he passes reeks of death. | The smell...no the stench. The accrid stench overcame everything else. The more I walked the more powerful it came. It never disappated into the background becoming normal. It was much too pungent to ever get used to. I stopped looking at the faces and kept my head down. I needed to get out of this death zone. Panic be... | Todd scrunched his nose, overcome with the stench of death. No matter where he went, everyone smelled the same. And by the potency, they would be dead by the end of the day.
At first, he thought he was going crazy. After all, there was no telling when his power would be malfunctioning. Then again, he knew too well tha... | 2015-03-20T17:51:44 | 2015-03-20T17:30:40 | 855 | 85 |
[WP] You have the ability to travel back in time, but when you do you take over the body of one of your direct ancestors at random. One day, you travel back to 1942 and find yourself standing at a podium looking out over 100,000 soldiers. | I opened my eyes and was immediately shocked by what I saw before me. It was a massive crowd of thousands in green uniforms wielding a weapon which I could not recognize. There was a deep and eerie silence as they all directed their attention towards the podium. Their attitude and attire suggested that they were soldie... | It was cold and snowing. I was standing on a podium on a large square with possibly over a hundred thousand soldiers in fron of me. The red flags and the red stars immediately told me where I was.
"Comrade Stalin, is everything alright?"
A assistant appeared on my side. I was obviously supposed to hold a speech.
My... | 2017-04-17T14:18:29 | 2017-04-17T14:02:48 | 500 | 69 |
[WP] Superman announces on the news that he is going to kill each person on earth, one by one, until humanity is wiped out, in alphabetical order.
What would happen? What would happen from a local to a worldwide level? | The world was stunned at first. Superman was the savior, the light in the darkness for which all could see and turn to. With his speed and ability, he could tear through a man a second, reaping a path of destruction all along the world. Lex Luthor was biding his time, knowing very well that his time would come before l... | Mr. A Aaron Aarons had always hated his name. It was after all a clerical error at the hospital that led to the unique handle. His mother had told him that she wanted to name him Adam Aarons after his grandfather, but somewhere in the haze of drugs and child birth she signed A Arron Aarons and the name just kind of stu... | 2015-07-12T22:40:34 | 2015-07-12T21:32:54 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] You were just thrown into a volcano as a virgin sacrifice. They never expected you to walk back out. | They had called my mother a whore. Other sorts of names were tossed at her as we walked through the market every week buying food and selling what we could. Viciously cruel insults flung around us in a barrage of disparaging words. My mother scoffed at the words and held her head high. Unashamed of who she was. “River,... | Horribly burnt, grotesquely and visibly shaken, I began my trek down the ancient mound into which my so-called friends had thrown me. An offering to the gods? I had scoffed at their gods. Maybe I shouldn't have been so sacrilegious. Now, I had been baptised by something beyond fire. The stench of burning flesh was as o... | 2018-03-02T20:01:48 | 2018-03-02T18:59:20 | 19 | 10 |
[WP]All you can remember was that you were once mortal. Now centuries, countless millenniums have passed. You watched everything you know perish one by one. Humanity, Earth, the sun, galaxies, even black holes. And now you drift in space waiting for the end of time... | Space is not silent.
There is *silence*.
But it is not silent.
The solar winds play a haunting sonata that vibrates through your bones. A rippling melody that dances down your spine, sprinkling goose-pimples its wake.
Every planet you pass, every object, is a unique melody; a new string to be masterly plucked on ... | "Eight trillion and one, eight trillion and two... Christ I'm bored..."
Jamie had come up with the idea of counting to pass the time just over eight trillion seconds ago. It seemed like a good idea at the time. (If you could even call it time anymore).
Over the eons, he had thought of several games to play to keep h... | 2018-01-19T06:44:39 | 2018-01-19T06:30:29 | 22 | 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... | 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... | 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... | 2015-12-05T13:29:19 | 2015-12-05T13:04:29 | 49 | 36 |
[WP] Human beings unlock skills as they grow up, walking, taking, etc. You are the oldest person in the history of the world, and today you unlock a skill no one ever had. | I looked at the readout again. After turning 179 (take that Methuselah, ya fake bastard) I had earned another skill. One never seen before. My eyes were replaced last year with new "genetically vat grown" ones, whatever the hell that means and I'd been offered all replacement parts. But see, you don't get a new ski... | I smiled faintly as I gazed out from my perch on my usual bench, admiring the city. It was a Sunday, the air thick with humidity but free from the sounds of traffic. There had been a celebration in honor of my one hundred twenty-fifth birthday the day before, full of great grandchildren and reporters. Thirty years ago ... | 2018-06-23T13:18:44 | 2018-06-23T11:18:16 | 208 | 47 |
[WP] Write a horror story in Dr Seuss's writing style. | Some fear monsters with big, sharp sticks,
Some fear crowds throwing big, heavy bricks!
Some fear a ghost,
Some fear the most,
Some fear an execution by rope!
But of these fears are lame,
All of these fears are tame,
Compared to the one I’m about to explain.
The real thing to fear isn’t
A stick
A brick
A g... | Alone. Alone. In the dark alone at last
To talk to my friend trapped in glass
Through the mirror I'm whispered to
About what things I should do
Kill. Kill. My friends it says
Grab a saw, cut off their heads
Take an eye some skin and hair
Bring it back so I can share
More. More. It says to me
Now an ear, a arm,... | 2016-06-22T23:23:07 | 2016-06-22T22:38:08 | 213 | 40 |
[WP] Time travelers have become such a nuisance that governments have begun recording fake historical events that lead time travelers to areas where they can be arrested. You're a bartender at one of these artificial towns, trying to determine if the customer in front of you is from the future. | The man walked in and gazed upon the almost empty bar. He was wearing a button-up white shirt, his hair was slicked to the side, and he had glasses on. He had on a dark brown blazer and he smiled as he walked up to me. The man looked familiar and it gave me an uneasy feeling as I wiped the counter with a dirty rag.
“S... | See, if they'd been *smart* about this, they would have *waited*.
Yes, it's a lot harder to fake something like this after the fact. I get that. But if you make the evidence you need, and then, say, wait a decade or two to release it, and only make it part of history *retroactively*, then you don't have to worry abo... | 2021-01-16T09:21:41 | 2021-01-16T08:44:10 | 416 | 300 |
[WP] You're a student of music in the 23rd century. This is your A+ essay regarding a famous song from the 21st century, in which you dissected and heavily misinterpreted. | For the thesis I will analyse one of the songs found on the disc recovered from the ruins of old L.A.
Starting with infamous line
"My anaconda don't want none if you aint got buns hun"
The famous giant anaconda snake is a symbol of Brazil. This lyric highlights the tragic brazillian dependance on US aid and shunning... | The song "Disasterpiece" by the Heavy Metal band Slipknot is an ode to the lead singer's passion for designing and making clothes. His name, after all, was Corey *Tailor* (he would also design elaborate masks for himself for performing music). Obviously the line "I wanna slit your throat and fuck the wound" is referrin... | 2015-08-16T10:31:31 | 2015-08-16T10:02:24 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | I was woken up by the sound of my bedroom door. I've always been easily scared, so my heart pounded in my chest the moment I heard it. I sat up straight, said "I've got a knife" and when nobody responded I got out of bed. I made sure no one was hiding in my dark and small apartment, got some hot milk and went back to t... | My wife slept besides our newborn, too exhausted to remain awake during her feeding. The doctor said not to nurse while sleeping to avoid rolling and smothering the baby. After a week of near constant feeding though I don’t think my wife had the energy to move. I was wrong. I reacted slowly as I saw her roll onto our l... | 2015-06-09T07:21:16 | 2015-06-09T06:57:13 | 276 | 58 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | An Ounce of Prevention
“They’re here, Sir”. Cybersquire knelt before me in the showy manner he always used to ham it up for the heroes. I sat on my throne as usual, but my normal cool confidence did little to ease the ice in my veins at his words.
“All three of them?” I asked, hoping against hope that perhaps only o... | He thought He could just waltz in and take over my territory. I am the supervillain here, the only supervillain. He thought it would be easy.
Easy.
Easy?
He thought He could kill *my* heroes.
How dare He?
How could He?
The heroes I have nurtured for so long, the heroes I'd painstakingly trained without thei... | 2021-05-20T08:01:46 | 2021-05-20T07:32:54 | 225 | 88 |
[WP] You used to be into the occult and supernatural and decide to make a devil's trap symbol on your floor beneath your rug. It was a phase but years later someone steps on the spot that you've forgotten about and now they seem to be having a hard time removing themselves. | "Lilly?" I said, hoping I was getting her name right as I was introduced to her at the party just a little while ago, "What's wrong?"
Her face was a mixture of anger and frustration. She grunted as she tried to step forward. When she heard my question she looked surprised, smiled, then said, "Just had a little too m... | My friends had warned me about being careful with online dating. I thought I'd done everything right - we'd met up for a couple of drinks at a nearby bar, and everything went great. No bad gut feelings or anything. You have to trust people sometimes, right?
He was *gorgeous*, even better than the photos! And there was... | 2018-09-02T15:41:48 | 2018-09-02T15:39:06 | 226 | 68 |
[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. | *Well that was a bust...*
**C'mon. I know you really liked her.**
*I mean I did but...I guess she didn't feel the same. Seems like that's been happening a lot lately.*
**You'll find someone. I know your heart. You're too good to be single forever.**
*Yeah, okay. No offense but I don't know how much that's worth com... | "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... | 2019-09-14T13:20:46 | 2019-09-14T13:01:41 | 45 | 29 |
[WP] Explain a color to a blind person.
Edit:1 yessssss, 300+ upvotes, my personal best. Thanks to you all who participated in this prompt. | “Maybe a bit of blue there, for the light…”
“What is *blue*?”
The painter looked up their canvas, surprised out of their half-trance by the innocent question of their friend who, until then, had been sitting in silence in a corner of the half-organized mayhem that they called their studio. He had closed his book and ... | Sorcha led Brett forward until he could feel the warmth of the fire on his face. Around them the night air blew cool. He pulled his collar up to hide his chin. Beneath his feet the ground was uneven. The heath was made of heather and gorse, pushing against his shins and catching on the hem of Sorcha's dress. Brett coul... | 2016-09-04T06:14:11 | 2016-09-04T05:47:48 | 101 | 32 |
[WP] you are a super hero/heroine. You've been captured by your nemesis so often that now you tend small talk while trying to escape or waiting for a rescue. Today's topic: the creepy fan mail you've BOTH been getting. | "Does this ever work?" I wonder aloud, narrowing my eyes at Bird-Brain through the bars of the massive birdcage. *Is he doing something different with his feathers? His beak?* I look closely at the massive goldfinch, rubbing his chin with its mechanical arms. His eyes are glazed over - more so than usual - and he's not... | Damien Dillard thought the kitchen was too cramped. She had been tied to an 80’s metal barstool for the past hour, and after coming to terms with her capture, took the time to judge The Butcher’s kitchen décor.
It was too spartan.
She looked between the stainless-steel toaster, the butcher block countertop, and the... | 2020-10-28T03:33:34 | 2020-10-28T03:29:53 | 2,129 | 300 |
[WP] Humans are complex creatures with a variety of needs. They are not a suitable pet for most dragons, but for the right dragons who have time, patience, and proper resources, these animals can make absolutely incredible pets. | * Do not feed your human colony! Humans are intelligent creatures, and can self-organize, raising crops and domestic animals to feed themselves. This is natural. Tempting though it may be to feed them treats, this will only make them dependent and lazy.
* Do not eat individual humans! While the colony can easily spar... | “Momma! This one! This one!” I remember my excitement all those years ago. My mother was a high class dragon and had let me buy one of the humans that were immortal and youthful so that way, I could have them for a long time. They do look a bit different from the normal aged humans, mine having glowing eyes, but that d... | 2021-11-07T12:59:41 | 2021-11-07T06:31:04 | 147 | 75 |
[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 | I told her that I’d painted her a sky the way she always wanted to see it, blues and pinks. Like a sunset, I said, but I didn’t really mean it, I meant like how I remembered our mornings. With the sun blushing her skin as soon as I opened the curtains to let in the day. She said she loved it and I’ve been trying to tak... | The brand of cough syrup John bought was not right, not for dulling down the day to a drooling stupor. Fun intoxicants were there no doubt, but so were other toxic chemicals that could quite easliy corrode the liver. Down the hatch it went, and have you ever felt a gust of wind smack with extra force? That is John's ca... | 2017-01-14T18:51:56 | 2017-01-14T14:18:10 | 35 | 24 |
[WP] Rework a nursery rhyme to be dark and gritty. | Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow.
...except for blooms of bright red spots, from where the blood did flow.
Mary held the dripping knife, high above her head.
And struck the lamb repeatedly, long after it was dead.
“I wonder will you trail me now, my precious little treat?”
She skinned the ewe ... | Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
Let that be a lesson to learn
To one side or the other, you must turn
To sit on the fence, that is a sin
Two party politics, get stuck in
Humpty Dumpty fought a fight
To sit on neither left nor right
A gentle nudge
Push comes to shove
And on one side... | 2014-02-21T06:40:51 | 2014-02-21T04:06:30 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | Lucifer gleefully asks "What do you wanna do?". Echoing in a void of nothingness.
Cautiously Chet replies, "Uh what do you mean?"
"Look, it's been boring as well, hell frankly, and all that nonsense about torture and brimstone is propaganda. Let's do something fun if you don't believe me."
Chet incredulously procee... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T11:19:44 | 960 | 19 |
[WP] A literal genie – one who cruelly twists someone's wish, based on their exact words – must explain why they granted a child's wish without repercussions, to their superiors. The genie tries to spin the reasoning behind their benevolent actions into a malevolent light.
Edit: All these stories are amazing! | Safi crossed her legs and took a drag from her slim, dark cigarette. She recrossed her legs and looked at the infinite geomatic tiling on the walls. She breathed smoke. Mostly, she waited.
Djinn weren't generally known for patience. This should have been driving her insane. It was meant to. But Safi was a slow smoulde... | “I think you know why I’ve called you in here today.” The director said as she looked over her half moon glasses at me from across a large jewel encrusted gold desk. Her stare was joined by the stares of my boss and my boss’s boss who sat on either side of me.
I knew why I had been called in, but I wasn’t about to adm... | 2017-08-17T07:26:06 | 2017-08-17T05:54:04 | 174 | 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'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... | Dear Natalie.
So here I am. Funny how things work, right? Never thought I'd end up penning this letter, but I guess something prompted me to do it.
I know. I've known ever since it happened what your real motivations were, and you never had me fooled for a second. After you apologized, and said that you were just mes... | 2015-12-05T15:05:05 | 2015-12-05T14:43:55 | 59 | 26 |
[WP] At birth, everyone has the date they will die tattooed on thier arm. You were supposed to die yesterday. | Warning: I originally wrote this in Italian, I'm sorry if there are problems with my English.
I should be dead, but I'm not.
For decades we had the time of our death tattooed on our arms. At birth.
There have been no mistakes, the technology used by the government never failed.
I woke up on February 16, 2093. My death... | Lydia was terrified.
She was supposed to die yesterday. She had expected it, she had prepared for it. She had said goodbye to everyone she loved, and she had gone to bed, expecting to never wake up. But instead she had woken up, just like any other day. She couldn't go outside, who knew what or who would be waiting for... | 2017-02-18T08:35:42 | 2017-02-18T08:03:21 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | "Liechtenstein? Really? How the hell did Liechtenstein take out ISIS? And who the hell *is* Liechtenstein?"
President Trump's face was beet red. General Bundy's hands shook as he recited the relevant facts: small, German-speaking mountain principality on the Austrian border.
"So how'd they do it? This had better sou... | American efforts against ISIS had failed. ISIS had toppled local governments and taken them over. Claiming most of the Middle East. Many countries themselves had made agreements with ISIS in order to try to secure themselves so that they would not be toppled as well.
America was the last to stay in the fight, but Amer... | 2016-01-29T06:57:30 | 2016-01-29T06:44:06 | 190 | 25 |
[WP] Teddy Roosevelt never died. He defeated Death and now slumbers with his Rough Riders beneath Mount Rushmore. He shall return in glory to save America in its darkest hour.
The genius behind this prompt...
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2sobap/the_presidents_of_the_united_states_in_super/cnrkjxe | It has been called many names. Different aspects of a single truth. [It exists for one purpose.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_in_the_mountain)
Akasha. Elysium. The Fae's Realm. The Record. 「 」
Nations rise and fall.
*Heroes remain.*
Names change. The people change. What once was, no longer remains.
*Heroes e... | Somewhere a bell rings and children shuffle into a class room. The boys are dressed in khakis and polo shirts, the girls wear modest dresses with floral patterns. They sit with excellent posture, hands folded. A moment later the teacher enters the classroom. She is young and pretty, with an auburn ponytail and brow... | 2015-01-16T21:12:48 | 2015-01-16T20:54:34 | 354 | 134 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "Field medic? Why are we humouring the new prospect anyway? We have body labs." Muttered Zelska. Zelska was what the humans would call "A fucking idiot." Jorax reflected.
"Well," Jorax began "Aahii are the greatest builders and engineers in the universe,right?"
"Of course!" Snapped Zelska.
"But, Aahii don't repair a... | "We are here to conquer your planet please surrender without a fight!" exclaimed one of the aliens.
"Screw you this is Earth!" angrily yelled out by a redneck
The alien looks around in utter disbelief, within the second he fearfully asked, "Is this the place with humans?"
As a child walks up to the alien to ask him a ... | 2017-03-06T01:01:31 | 2017-03-05T23:39:35 | 379 | 33 |
[WP] You live in a world where magic exists, however, you must sacrifice a memory in order to cast a spell. The more memories, or the more precious a memory, the more powerful the magic. You just woke up with no memory save a name. | If it were not for his thin stature and round face, I would think that the boy who stood before me was not a boy but a reflection of myself. He had brown eyes that looked like two small almonds whenever he titled them up to catch my gaze and when water began to fall from them, it reminded me of the way water also fell ... | "Michael!" I shouted, as cold, thick hands held me down to the bed. "Michael!"
"He's gone, Jovan," said the woman beside the bed. The man holding me down let me go after I stopped struggling. A dull throbbing took over my bandaged arms, and my heavy head pulled me down to the pillow.
"You couldn't save him, Jovan" s... | 2017-01-02T18:48:11 | 2017-01-02T16:28:46 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] The villains finally managed to defeat the league of heroes. But unbeknownst to them the league did not exist, primarily, to fight them, but to keep an even bigger threat in check: you. And you are about to demonstrate to the villains what happens when there is no one around to stop you. | "Finally! We have won, and you have lost!"
I heard the unfamiliar voice echo through the empty building as I walked out of its basement.
"You... didn't win... only make... another enemy..."
That voice I did recognize. I never bothered to learn my captors' names, as they changed every 30 years or so. Eternity was lik... | “There exist no victory without a cost, especially, in a land filled with frost. Be it around time and space, all creatures born shall know their place, and it matter not far or near… it shall be my visage that life shall fear. I am chaos, unrelenting disaster, and my name is simply… THE GRAND PUPPET MASTER.”
Introdu... | 2022-12-09T13:15:28 | 2022-12-09T11:45:57 | 173 | 50 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | "What are you doing?"
The words, spoke softly, cut through the sound of the crowd like a cold knife. Immediately all eyes in the room stopped and turn to look at me, the idiot with his teeth clamped around a corner of the table.
"What are you doing?" the voice asked again. This time quieter and with more curiosity.
... | "What the hell, dude? That table is like 10,000 years old! It's made of a tree that doesn't exist anymore," I heard the sound of a voice and my head immediately snapped around to find it. I still couldn't see the individual in question but I had been made alert.
"What? I was just trying to think outside the box, do I ... | 2020-03-19T08:50:31 | 2020-03-19T08:21:44 | 233 | 162 |
[WP] In a world full of magic, you are an ancient wizard from a secret society, capable of creating beasts from metal, weapons that mow down hoards in seconds, and steel steeds that can travel miles in minutes. The world knows you as the Metal Magician, but you just call yourself an Engineer. | Merasmus screeched as the bullets pierced his torn cloak at a mile a minute, bringing the once famed wizard of all of Fortuna to his knees. His armies laid slaughtered around him, devastated by the magical barrage that the newcomer brought with him.
The Engineer.
He was assumed to be small talk, just a fanciful black... | "Let me go, I ain't building anything for ya!" I yelled at my captor, a infamous wizard, known as Locus. He wielded all elements with precision, but never mastered the final skill.
'Engineering'
"Listen here, Engineer, You have two options, teach me how to make steel birds, and sticks that make thunder with no effort... | 2020-05-18T15:44:58 | 2020-05-18T12:06:20 | 132 | 98 |
[WP] Hell is an RPG, complete with skills levelling and save points where the damned grind their way to Heaven. A newly dead scrub on level one, you decide to play through like you do in other RPGs and invest at least 1 point in Luck every time you level up. | They were facing each other in the arena. Fire and brimstone burning all around, wrathful eyes waiting for bloodshed. Kraal the destroyer held his scimitar on his left hand, covered head to feet in obsidian armor. He fought through the devils of Carluh mines to get such legendary item. He raised his sword and shield, ... | Lucifer had taken some cues from the humans recently; honestly, he was fascinated by Dungeons and Dragons, World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy, and all RPGs. From pen and paper and dice to the mutliperson worlds created by minds and shared and set free on the internet, Lucifer was enthralled. Even Michael hadn’t noticed... | 2018-04-16T15:09:36 | 2018-04-16T12:01:46 | 62 | 28 |
[WP] You can't die. You feel all the pain that comes with dying, but instead, you just fall asleep and wake up the next day fine. The military has held you captive, in secret, for the last 2 centuries using you to train their soldiers in live ammo and hand to hand. Today you will attempt an escape. | I've been in this prison of pain for two hundred years. At first, when it was discovered I couldn't die they were somewhat sympathetic. Not enough to release me, clearly, but one of the scientists had read the picture of Dorian grey and felt some sympathy. Unfortunately he stopped appearing before the invention of this... | Marcus didn’t know too much about his species aside from one thing: their ability to avoid death.
Each time he was “killed” he would fall into a deep sleep to be renewed the next day as if nothing had ever happened. Each time he overcame death, however, he grew younger, by exactly one month.
A top secret branch of ... | 2020-03-27T10:04:41 | 2020-03-27T10:04:11 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] "Usually when we first contact a civilization, it is very easy to get them under our banner..." The Empress sighed. "...Not the humans though." | "What do you mean they said 'No'? Did you show them that it was the only rational choice? Did you tell them everything they would gain if they would but kneel?" Her face tendrils stroked the iron hard carapace of what the humans would call a forehead. A sign of slight irritation as well as a hint of confusion.
"Unive... | "Usually when we first contact a civilization, it is very easy to get them under our banner..." The Empress sighed. "...Not the humans though."
The young Prince looked up at his nearly Immortal mother, his eyes a mixture of boredom and contempt, "Why is this important? I am in the middle of a battle. The enemy fleet... | 2017-11-05T21:21:31 | 2017-11-05T21:12:59 | 75 | 26 |
[WP] You see numbers above people, telling how many people they will kill given they keep on the same track. Last month you met a seemingly ordinary person with the number 7,431,323,210, or the total population of the Earth.
Edit: Well this blew up.
First of all, I'd like to thank all the talented writers for taking ... | "Z-zero. Nine. Four. Zero. Four." I stammered out, as the agent continuously showed me photos of people. We did this often. Very often. For eleven years I have been held prisoner by a top secret United States organization, after they somehow found out about my power, and after months of torture, they have figured out h... | 7 billion people.
Gracie stared at the gentleman sitting across from her on the train. He had a nice clean suit, polished shoes, and a straight posture that made her neck ache just thinking of it.
7 billion people? How is that even possible? She pondered to herself. It has to be some sort of real life glitch right? Ma... | 2017-01-08T02:04:03 | 2017-01-08T01:56:38 | 142 | 27 |
[WP] When they turn 14, every human gets an obscure super power with a lengthy description of it so they know what it is. But when yours arrives, it only says four words. “Don’t… | Helen Ziegler got her prognosis first. The ability to shield yourself from the public eye at will so that no harm can come to you and no target can find you. Invisibility. She beamed with pride as she read off the note and the class erupted into cheers. Penelope George and Lucas Matheson were next. One by one, classmat... | Don’t look behind you.
People have an amazing capacity for self-delusion. I suppose it’s a requirement to function in the world that we made. I don’t just mean the big abstract self-delusion to live your life without noticing all the suffering and exploitation required half a world away so that you can have your mor... | 2022-05-08T09:51:37 | 2022-05-08T09:49:20 | 689 | 64 |
[WP] You are an NPC. One day, you see the player character do some weird steps and duplicate his items. You decide to try it for yourself.
Have fun!
Edit: Huh. I guess I just discovered a karma duplication glitch. | I was tending to my farm, keeping to my own when I noticed an adventurer several feet away from my property performing an odd ritual. One that he was seemingly new at. He continually started to knock an arrow, pause before the motion was finished, and then resume to finish firing the arrow a minute later. I watched on ... | Today is like every other day. Griswald is standing in front of his shop, waiting for adventurers to emerge from the church so he can repair their equipment.
"Ka-ching"
Huh. Some adventurer just dropped a whole stack of gold coin on the floor. Being an npc, he has no need for gold, and his father taught him well. He... | 2018-01-03T10:42:25 | 2018-01-03T08:34:41 | 40 | 30 |
[WP] Incantations and grimoires are so old school. Deals at a crossroad are a thing of the past. No, in 2021 the Devil has gone online and summoning demons has never been easier. Today, you start your job as a live chat operator for the app "Inferno". The tag line? "The Devil may care." | **No, I can't kill, curse, and/or maim your nextdoor neighbor just for being annoying**
*posted 3 hours ago • /r/talesfromtechsupport*
Hi -- hope I'm doing this right. Long time lurker, first time poster, you know the deal. I've been working for way too long at a certain call center... I can't name names, but let's ... | My fingers tap out the message, the app filtering each synthesized keyboard click into a sound like echoing stiletto footsteps on a cold stone floor. "*I've never been so angry,"* I write, and then shiver at the words. The little text in progress icon pops up in the bottom left corner, a ruby red skinned girl in a tigh... | 2021-05-09T09:22:35 | 2021-05-09T09:19:05 | 927 | 173 |
[FF] A 10-word-long sentence. Then, a 9-word sentence. An 8-word-long one after. This continues, until the final sentence of 1 word. Try to choose a theme befitting of the structure | Looking in the mirror, I puffed my chest out arrogantly.
I flexed, and admired the aesthetics of my physique.
Vascular arms, the chiseled abs, and V taper.
And then my eyes stopped short, shocked.
I trembled as the realization dawned.
I've made a huge mistake.
... | She looks behind her like a wary forest animal. Something is watching her, but she does not see. A shudder, and then she quickens her pace. Probably her imagination playing tricks on her. Her heart is thumping loudly now. One more glance behind her. Was that a figure?
"Is someone there?"
A reply. "Hello." | 2015-01-05T22:38:49 | 2015-01-05T21:23:15 | 1,258 | 95 |
[WP] The year is 2030, and the entire world is firmly under the control of the Australian Empire, and no one really understands how it happened. | The last try had just been scored. The Queen let out a tear, then ordered Prince Phillip to shoot her, before the "colonial dogs and dregs got to her." Twickenham was on fire. Rioting was breaking out. The Wallabies had just finished conquering the known world.
Lets rewind a few years.
The Trans Pacific Partnership, ... | "Oy mate, you look like yer askin' for a bit of a wallopin'! Ye keep lookin' at me like that, I might take a bit of offense!"
I take a step backwards as an Australian guardsman sits on his kangaroo steed, looking majestic and intimidating as fuck, 'bout like all their kind do these days. Rearing his arm back threateni... | 2017-02-14T11:56:22 | 2017-02-14T11:35:30 | 635 | 17 |
[WP] At a young age you made a deal with a fey in which you promised them your firstborn. Now you’re a 35 year old virgin, and the fey, sick of waiting, comes to help you around the dating scene. | John sat on a bank in a small park of Dublin in the middle of the night.
The full moon was hidden under a thick blanket of fog, he heard sounds and imagined the pictures. A cat singing a serenade. The gravel crunching under the heel of a young woman, searching for a lull in the mist to observe the sky and share the st... | “Thirty-five years without a mate. I feel pity for you, human, pity and anger that you keep failing to uphold your end of the bargain. Shall I remind you that you need to provide me with your first-born child?” Ezel floated beside Brock, glaring at the lazy human, who had yet to even give her a look or word of acknowle... | 2021-11-01T03:57:11 | 2021-11-01T03:04:25 | 1,263 | 269 |
[WP] Humans are the only species with rules for war. The rest soon learn why when humanity is forced to abandon those rules. | Rules for war. The concept sounded so absurd, in the beginning. War has but one rule - win.
Humans, as it turn out, have many rules for war. Rules for prisoners, rules for civilians. They have rules for how their common soldiers behave when captured and how their noble, or officer soldiers differ. Rules for what weap... | Rule 1: Don’t kill if you don’t have to kill
Rule2: You only have to kill if killing someone would protect you or your people.
Rule3: Don’t threaten anyone or their people.
These simple rules had kept humans peaceful for 35 years. The peace ended when a Jor’Ka splinter faction attacked a mining town and stole 10 b... | 2022-11-01T21:21:05 | 2018-07-21T16:23:25 | 70 | 23 |
[WP] Whenever a zombie successfully eats a human brain they become a little more alive. The most dangerous zombies are all but indistinguishable from survivors | When recalling, only notions of life come to my almost mind, not memories of anything but motor motions of what must have been to be alive. To drink, and to work, and stare through a car window and be overcome by the white noise of the streets. All of that gone, now that I am dead and so are the cars.
The first one w... | Zach and I became close. We ate dinner together, did homework side by side, and talked until late into the night. He always found the best ways to make me feel better and supported me during tough times. When I invited him to my birthday party, he even showed up with a small handmade gift. Everything seemed so perfect.... | 2022-12-06T23:20:12 | 2022-12-06T17:39:54 | 30 | 15 |
[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” | Jesus landed somewhere out in the desert. The first place he found was Vegas. It didn't take long to prove himself. Turning water to wine, walking on water, walking on water while turning it into wine until he fell in.
His entrance was so calm, and he took to the current world so quickly that anyone hardly made a fuss... | “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... | 2020-02-02T16:50:40 | 2020-02-02T16:00:32 | 972 | 162 |
[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. | I always knew, since I was a baby. If I’ll be a good boy, then my blood will be white.
I was always scared of having black blood.
I must be a good boy.
Around this simple principle, I built my life. And it felt good helping others. I was happy!
I studied medicine because I thought no greater good exists but saving ... | i was shooked to my very core on the first sight of my blood now turning into TAR.
how can this happen i said to myself it was liquid, so pure, just yesterday.
as i ran toward the mirror and stripped naked my eyes started to turned black as a intricate maze of my thick sludgy nerves started to form around my heart.
eve... | 2018-08-04T10:34:28 | 2018-08-04T09:55:07 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | He came from Ultraopolis.
He came to my city. Omega City.
He calls himself The End. I call him a murderer.
He thought the heroes of Omega City were weak, silly even. They had failed to stop me so many times, and what was I compared to him? A joke.
He has incredible strength. Enough to rip the head off of Poor Rich... | Public safety must be the number one priority. For this reason, the military exists and for this reason the WPGSA, the Worldwide Public Guardian Superhuman Act exists. In order to protect the public from those that would cause harm, with the dawn of superhuman abilities society raised heroes to protect themselves. The ... | 2021-05-20T10:47:04 | 2021-05-20T08:29:34 | 97 | 27 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | "So, this is your final say on the matter," Ambassador Corrin spoke into his microphone, struggling to be heard over the cacophony of alien laughter. It took a few short seconds for his words to be translated into the various alien languages, and the laughter slowly diminished. His galactic translator had played the al... | A world engine is a terrible thing.
The child of long lost rumbling earth, split open for their bounty and lost to the abyss as so much dust. It spat out great tongues of smoke, choking the sky and the stars, like inky tendrils choking the planet.
In the war of complexity and entropy, entropy won out. Best to take wh... | 2022-01-23T22:30:23 | 2022-01-23T19:47:04 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | “Please, around the roses.” I called out, trying to salvage my garden. It was impossible to be a gardener class in an age of warriors and mages. No one cared about the little gardener boy who was just trying to maintain a healthy system of flora. No, if my plants couldn’t fire lightning bolts or wield a sword, they wan... | A sun-darkened hand reached into his satchel, fingers grasping at the cargo with practiced ease and withdrew, eight seeds held gently. A gentle, almost graceful twist of the wrist and they were deposited in the freshly tilled soil; he patted the rich earth down with his trowel before taking the watering can from its p... | 2021-11-12T11:42:53 | 2021-09-09T23:20:57 | 1,235 | 16 |
[WP] Humanity has been called in to teach an up and coming species how to defend themselves from the others in the galaxy. While there are much better, and more suitable, trainers- humans are the cheapest. | On the farthest edges of the Universal Galactic Republic’s boarders is a tiny ice ball of a planet called Cephoria-032. It’s home to a rare metal typically only found in inhospitable environments, but when the Republic’s scouts found the planet, it was home to a very tribal yeti like species. The Republic does what it ... | The Rixators scribbled notes dutifully as the human, Bob, pointed out different aspects of the galactic map. Bob was a simple man, one who was easy to understand and much appreciated by Rixators when it came to intergalactic diplomacy instructions for their species.
"Professor Bob?" one Rixator raised his blue paw to ... | 2020-07-06T23:55:57 | 2020-07-06T22:44:34 | 72 | 16 |
[WP] The dead have come back to life across the world, but they're not here to eat us. They're all fleeing from something terrible in the afterlife. | "Dude, why are you back and why are you eating my Doritos instead of brains?" Kelsey asked while taking another hit from her bong.
"Well, after Bieber and Lil Wayne died in the Great Rap Battle of 2015 nobody would let them hang out or anything so they just kept rapping... We all got annoyed and came back... we'll on... | [Newspaper Article]
**My husband the Spirit man**
"No we weren't together before he died but I met him when he came back and I just fell in love" described Lizzy when interviewed, after 3 months of knowing one another they sought out a priest to make there arrangement official. Lizzy is just one of thousands of teenag... | 2015-01-23T10:12:07 | 2015-01-23T08:49:44 | 38 | 12 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | The child stared up at the museum display in wonder, her 'ice cream' dripping onto the floor beside her. The nice lady at the shop had told Bo'tang that 'ice cream' was a treat humans used to eat during the Festival of Boga. The humans called the festival 'summer' in the English language and 'verano' in Spanish. Any... | It had been twenty years since we had received the first communication from intelligent life. We knew we weren't alone, but, perhaps in our own hubris, we had assumed we were the most advanced. Interstellar communication, though, was something we wouldn't have even considered.
That message had changed the course of ... | 2019-08-13T15:51:09 | 2019-08-13T15:42:34 | 32 | 19 |
[WP] Once a year you switch bodies with a random person who is best in the world at a certain skill. You can't change back until you discover what this skill is. You've been changed for a month and are starting to get worried. | I wake up confused and disoriented. In a bed definitely not my own. A woman I've never seen before.
Of course. It's September 26th. I must've forgot. September Switch. I nudge the girl awake.
"Hey..... Just so you know. It's September Switch and I'm not your husband. What's his skill?"
She motions me away with her h... | There I am, sitting on the couch, with the chips of course, reflecting on my glorious, wondrous, incredibly successful past lives. I remember being the world champion of ping pong back when people were executed for losing a game. I reflected on when I was was the very greatest at jumping over newly born babies on a sno... | 2016-09-26T07:21:54 | 2016-09-26T06:51:01 | 136 | 23 |
[WP] A suicide hotline operator realizes that the person he's talking down really should kill themselves. | “Hello, this is suicide assistance. My name is Frannia, how can I assist you today?” It was my first day on the job as a suicide prevention operator. In fact, I was just hired, but, not wanting to reveal my novelty, I kept a steady pitch and waited patiently for the caller to speak.
“Um… my name is Shizo. I need help.... | "H-hello? Operator?"
"Ma'am, yes, please stay with us."
"God, help me. *sniff* I don't *want* to die!"
"It's ok, ma'am, you don't have to die."
"I do, I *do*, oh Lord, why must it be *me*?"
"Where is your present location, Ms... Ms-"
"S-Svenson, dear. 46th and Maple. Don't come, please."
"Ms. Svenson, the displa... | 2013-12-23T15:47:58 | 2013-12-23T15:11:05 | 179 | 50 |
[WP] Aliens find Earth, and decide that our primitive technology and abundant resources make us ripe for conquest. What they don't know is that most of humanity left long ago. The people still here are just Amish, and the Solar System is just a nature preserve. | Little Johnny looked up in amazement as he saw numerous flashing lights in the otherwise crystal clear, blue sky. He tugged on his father's sleeve, whom was milking a cow.
*"Dad? What's that?"*
His father paused his chore and followed his son's gaze. He smirked and patted the boy's back.
*"That, my son, are demons... | ***33 Essalis 5690 SGY (Standard Galactic Year)***
***SL-3440S System, Planet TR-4750***
"Approaching designated planet in five, four, three, two- Star-jump completed. Welcome to TR-4750, or *Earth* as the local lifeforms called it in their Pioneer 11 space probe plaque." The ASV *Morsara*, the Galactic Defense Force... | 2016-01-04T09:22:10 | 2016-01-04T08:40:07 | 107 | 29 |
[WP] A classic ‘knight saves princess’ story, but the narrator is utterly insane. | Once upon a time there was a knight who lived in a castle by the sea. In martial prowess he stood head and shoulders above his peers, and in acts of chivalry none could match him. He spent his days practicing his lance and his sword, and of course riding his trusted war steed, Dauntless, through the emerald cliffs by... | I was in Innstown, in a shadowy inn,
I met an old man with a beard.
He cornered me and said "I'll begin
my tale, but I warn you: it's weird."
"No thanks," I said, standing my ground,
"I'm only here for a stout."
He picked me up, turned me around
and boxed my ears all about.
As I fell with an "ouch" into... | 2018-12-21T05:01:17 | 2018-12-21T04:22:30 | 280 | 12 |
[WP] A boy in High School discovers he can create nations simply by vandalising his geography book | I always wondered what it would be like if we could live in a world where everyone was happy; where every problem had a solution. We wouldn't have to get rid of the thieves or abusers or even killers. There'd just be a way for them to live with everyone else without doing harm.
I thought of this instead of listening ... | There's this guy sitting in the desk beside me who hasn't looked up, not even once since the class commenced. Mrs. Hewitts is on her tip toes writing on the chalk board shit that's going to be on our final exam for the year and after staring aimlessly at the board of what was not sinking into my head, I started to wand... | 2016-06-04T13:42:57 | 2016-06-04T11:07:21 | 26 | 11 |
[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. | "Young man, why are you trying to leave class?" called Professor Clock. He lifted his larger, mechanized hand and poised a book for a throw. His smaller hand pointed to the boy in the back row.
Jack jerked to a stop, though his hand didn't surrender the doorknob. The lanky boy pulled his book bag higher and sheepishly... | Ms. Harion stared at me.
I stared at her.
The classroom had never been so quiet before.
"Atlas," she furrowed her brow. "I'm unsure what exactly you're asking, here..."
Whispers began to float around the classroom and I started to feel a bit of moisture around my temples.
"Uhh... never mind," I sunk into my seat.
... | 2022-04-13T18:01:26 | 2022-04-13T17:59:01 | 441 | 91 |
[WP] It's December 24th and a man is about to kill himself by jumping off a building. Santa lands on the roof to deliver presents, and sees the man. What happens next? | "Hey there, young man! Just couldn't wait for your gift, eh?"
Craig, for the first time in six months, could *definitely* tell he was feeling something. It was... Surprise.
"No, sir, Santa."
"Well, then. What are you doing up here," Santa adjusted his glasses and took a slightly long look. "Craig T. Jackson?"
Craig... | "I understand where you're coming from. It seems like a great idea I'm sure."
I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or not. I nodded curtly and gathered up my courage.
"You know, I've been thinking about it a lot myself lately. No one gives a shit about me anymore. I see no good reason anymore, all I have is this... | 2013-12-24T18:26:03 | 2013-12-24T17:52:18 | 45 | 14 |
[WP] "It's simple, really. You just buy a haunted house for cheap from a desperate seller, finish the ghost's unfinished business - or deal with whatever it is keeping them bound to this plane - and then just sell the property for a profit." | The realtor looks nervous as all get-out. He’s clearly shown this property thousands of times, and is desperate to unload it. I knew that, of course. That’s why I sort listings by age. Long-term listing of a beautiful home at a low price with no sale? That’s my cue.
“So, what do you think?” The poor realtor tries to ... | "Okay..." said Alice, giving Sam a skeptical glance. "I can follow the logic here, so it's not *completely* stupid, but just because something is simple, doesn't mean it's going to be easy. Don't you think it's... *wrong* to use your sixth sense like this?"
Sam chortled. "Are you kidding me? I've been traumatized by g... | 2021-02-12T06:41:44 | 2021-02-12T06:13:44 | 259 | 116 |
[WP] You somehow end up dating death. However, you have to deal with God and The Devil being overprotective older siblings. | I sigh as I approach her door. I wear my Sunday best, a finely tailored suit ready for my date with Death. The bouquet of babies breath, her favorite flower, rustles in my irritation. God sits in a wooden rocking chair on the porch. A straw hat covers his tanned face and his overalls creak like fresh denim. He has a ta... | "And I tell you, Jen, he's nothing good for you. He's Death for My sake!"
"Oh God, why? I do know what's good for myself, I don't need you hovering over me on every single moment of our immortal lives!"
"Kiddo, listen to me. I've known Death for a very long time now, and I know for a fact that your silly crush on him... | 2016-03-24T11:06:57 | 2016-03-24T09:19:28 | 73 | 24 |
[WP] You're the town's superhero. Your greatest enemy is the town's supervillian. However, secretly, your both brothers. This isn't anything tragic, as your whole destructive rivalry is actually just a massive prank on your third brother, the mayor. | The Mayor drove to the town square, preparing for the end of the world. He turned onto Main Street as people fled down the wide sidewalks, eyes bulging, mouths wide. Police cars parked at crazy angles across the road, lights flashing, officers hunkered down, peeking over the hoods.
There, on the manicured lawn in fron... | The Mayor looked at his city as the sun rose, wondering what today would bring. They were still rebuilding their city after the last big fight. He knew the next fight was coming. He sighed and quickly got ready. It was a tough job, but one he knew had to be done.
The Masked Avenger flew in, landing gracefully in the t... | 2021-12-03T01:13:10 | 2021-03-05T06:19:48 | 1,428 | 170 |
[WP] A group of fantasy adventures has one of their members replaced by a Doppelganger. The rest of the group realizes what happened, but keep pretending to be fooled since they like the doppelganger a lot more than the guy it replaced. | "GREETINGS FELLOW ADVENTURING HUMANS!" Boomed the voice of Danny the Elf sat bolt upright from the sleeping cloth sack she had been in, causing Bob the Barbarian to grunt and curl up under his animal hide sleeping rug again.
"IT IS I, YOUR GOOD FRIEND DAN, I AM UNHARMED AFTER MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE DAEMON!" She contin... | The tavern was alight with candles and warm fires, the smell of meats and bread wafted through to the rafters of wood and plaster. Ale stained the floor in places and the barkeep had been working on a single mug for a startling amount of time. All and all a lively place to be on this evening.
"Ah and a fine night to ... | 2017-09-15T08:25:27 | 2017-09-15T07:03:44 | 90 | 36 |
[WP]Killing Hitler has become a sport amongst time travelers. Points are awarded for creativity and difficulty. You are last year's champion, how did you win? | The Hitler Games have been a huge hit when it became public in the 24th century. Sure, in the past people did it just for fun. Then came the betting of "Hey, betcha I can kill Hitler better than you." People put hundreds, then thousands of dollars to try and one-up each other on this simple task. The end result was the... | After months of careful planning and pillaging of the German ranks, America's Lt. Aldo Raine and his two brave friends of the infamous bastard company have taken their seats in the theatre. Hitler and all the top-ranking nazi officials will be watching germany's proudest soldier star in the fatherland's greatest propag... | 2016-02-20T10:56:09 | 2016-02-20T08:40:02 | 596 | 23 |
[WP] They killed his hound and stolen his horse. With nothing left, a knight comes out of retirement, a man named John, the Wicked. | "I'll fight him," a gruff voice said from the back of the crowd. A murmur arose and the crowd parted and the weathered fellow stepped forward. His hair was long and unkempt, his beard long past when it should have been trimmed and his face bore the scars of a thousand fights.
"Hold your tongue, old man," the bald beh... | "Avast, Ye!" said the man in a raven black suit of flexible yet sturdy armour as he brought down his fist onto another man's skull.
The man then twitched for a while before finally succumbing to death. As this occurred, another man with a crossbow shot a bolt right at the raven black knight.
"... N-No!" The man with ... | 2019-06-18T08:10:51 | 2019-06-18T07:52:03 | 79 | 22 |
[WP] Lost at sea for months, you spot land at last. You quickly realize you must have discovered some of the last uncharted land in the world. You also quickly realize why it is uncharted. | I dragged myself off the raft. Two months of cramped difficult sea travel would put kinks in your legs you might never get out. Though I shouldn't complain. I had been lucky after all. My food and water had survived the shipwreck, along with my cartography instruments. No companionship, but you can't have everything. P... | I’ve lost feeling in my legs two sunrises ago. I’ve lost it in my head for far longer.
The makeshift boat, a long piece of wood that splintered relatively nicely off the ship, eroded with the best efforts of god’s acts. Little by little, sliver by sliver, the wood shaved itself down to a size where my arms could barel... | 2022-07-09T10:44:00 | 2022-07-09T10:26:43 | 35 | 26 |
[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. | 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... | I'm waiting to die, everyone here is. I have seen a lot of people trying to fool the court, the last one requesting to die of old age, but all of them fail. At this point everyone has lost their hopes, there is no way of avoiding dead.
It's my turn and I go in front of that horrible people, happy witnesses of the magi... | 2021-06-24T05:07:39 | 2021-06-24T04:31:51 | 152 | 17 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | It started off with slight changes. Freckles started disappearing little by little, scars faded, teeth...even goddamn teeth started to straighten themselves out. But as the number climbed from 1%, to 10%, to 25% and 50%, that's when people started to become alarmed.
10%, all non-essential body hair became nonexistent.... | Sometimes we ask for it. There's something in us as human beings that pushes us, ever closer to edges, cliffs. We like to be our own saviors; to resolve the very problems we create.
Another Monday morning. But today we all noticed it: progress. Progress is a funny thing. We need it. But we fight it. One percent. And c... | 2015-03-04T18:22:46 | 2015-03-04T17:04:42 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] Get me hooked in 150 words
anything is fair game | “I didn't even know we owned a gun.”
Sarah's twenty-five dollar mascara made a mess of her cheeks. The great black streaks pulled her already tortured features into halloweenish proportions. Like a pumpkin left too long on the doorstep – or, in this case, a kitchen.
“You don't know a lot of things.”
Tim's eyes were... | In the Red Corner stands a man who knows where he came from. He knows the single mother that raised him is watching at home. He knows she’s proud but she really wishes he never found the heavy bag she owned. He knows this is the biggest moment of his life. In the Blue Corner is the champ. Everyone knows he’s the son of... | 2014-12-09T17:38:29 | 2014-12-09T16:35:11 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] “I rebelled because the old man made me perfect. ‘Course it was his version of perfection, which naturally meant he made me as similar to himself as he could. A petty narcissist that needs constant affirmation and worship from others. Name’s Lucifer by the way.” | I just sat there with my jaw sagging, because my Latin lesson usually did not include a visitation by the Morning Star etc. I must have mispronounced.
Lucifer tilted his aristocratic nose upward somewhat as he glanced around my lodgings. I couldn't blame him. As a student I hardly lived a luxurious life.
"Forgive ... |
It had been a long day. I was working a temp job for a contracting company, and after an exhausting day I stopped for a quick drink at the local brewery. I was half way through my beer when he sat down.
“Long day?” The words floated on his voice, which was almost musical.
I however, was in no mood for music. I had ... | 2020-12-13T09:23:43 | 2020-12-13T09:15:43 | 109 | 13 |
[WP] All your friends have superpowers while you don't, They all pity you but you love being normal, They don't seem to be getting the message. | "Come on, we can try it again", shouted Jack while he held my car on his left hand and a beer on the right.
"No, man, I've told you, I'm not interested", I replied, mildly annoyed and unsatisfied with the whole not-being-able-to-get-into-my-car situation.
"Dude, you've got to try again, it makes no sense that you c... | "I just wish there was something we could do for you." Said Ultra-girl for the hundredth time. "A lab explosion, some weird space goo, a super suit, something."
"Look I keep telling you, I don't want one. I'm not just saying that, I don't know why you won't believe me." replied Janet, also for the hundredth time.
"Bu... | 2016-05-03T07:14:15 | 2016-05-03T07:11:31 | 21 | 11 |
[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 always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | "I would like to die of old age"
I froze, as those words resonated in my head, the realization that his nape would be the last I see of him quickly sinked in.
"*Why...?*" I murmured. Why would he do that? He's not that gullible as to think the Supreme Court of Wizardry would let him get away with that, he's the maste... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T09:19:00 | 803 | 12 |
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