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[WP] You wake up by a dusty road with 1,000 Mexican pesos and a note from your Spanish teacher: "Este es el examen final" | "Éste es el examen final" leía la nota atada a mi pecho. Después de levantarme del suelo y revisar que no tenga ninguna herida grave me puse a investigar donde estaba.
Era mi último año de preparatoria y con un poco de suerte ya no iba a tener que preocuparme de estudiar materias que nunca me iban a ser útiles. Solo n... | I woke up with a major headache. I felt in my pockets and found some pesos and the note stating that this was my final exam.
No problemo, I thought to myself. I was in a level 300 class, and had aced all the assignments this semester. So I strolled confidently into the town I could see in the distance.
When I got int... | 2017-06-29T11:12:03 | 2017-06-29T11:09:35 | 255 | 139 |
[WP] You see a teenage girl sitting on a bench in the park. She is crying. You ask her if she is okay. She looks at you and says: "You can see me?" | I loved walks in the park. I didn't go often in winter, I loved the quiet but there's something about -40 degrees, hurricane winds and blinding snow that reduced the natural beauty of the trees and river. But today it was barely below freezing and the sun shimmered off of the newly fallen snow, which was puffy and soft... | "Yeah?"
She wiped her tears and looked up at me, sniffling. "How?"
"Uhh...because...uhh..."
She giggled. "I'm sorry. It's just that" she shook her head, "you're not supposed to be able to see me. No one is. Wait!" She snapped her fingers and looked at me, wide-eyed. "Do you know Motarz?"
"Mozart?"
She shook her he... | 2017-04-17T23:33:45 | 2017-04-17T19:13:49 | 48 | 31 |
[WP] Your Spouse goes into the bathroom only to come running out 15 seconds later. Clutching you close they tell you they fell into another dimension and what felt like seconds to you was a 1,000 years to them. They now want you to follow them back because they have built a life for you there. | “Babe seriously, I went into another world! Like, I flushed the toilet and suddenly wham, these weird space time Gods told me I was the next chosen one and I suddenly got these powers? And apparently I have to defeat the next Evil that’s going to attack Other Earth.”
“Right, one question though,” I smiled, wondering w... | **February 22:**
So my LOVING wife Lauren won’t stop with this “bathroom dimension” shit. Today I went in again and nothing happened (surprise), but she keeps telling me every time she goes in it’s like a thousand years passes in some other world. I don’t know if the kids and I can stay. I mean, she’s obviously going o... | 2017-02-21T00:32:44 | 2017-02-20T21:14:47 | 32 | 20 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | The world is a stage, and life is a show,
My part is done, and I simply must go!
I'm no longer in costume. I've forgotten my lines,
Like the rear-weighted lofzoom, I'm dragging behind.
Though, I won't condemn others to the same fate as I,
You wield wonderful wings, so use them to fly!
I won't have you carry ... | I am sad
Sad I am
Have i gone mad
I might just have
I would not could not anymore
my life is just one great big chore
I try to dream but cant escape
This life that i have learned to hate
Ive rustled and bustled
and truffled about
With bad thoughts and worse thoughts
I can't drown them out
So think me a cowa... | 2015-01-17T11:53:17 | 2015-01-17T04:21:47 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Write the note you keep in your pocket, meant for whoever kills who. | Dear Murderer,
If you can read this then it means that you killed me. I do not like being killed. Being killed scares me. I would rather eat a peperonee pizza then be killed. Miss MacKenzie is making us learn how to write letters. I think that you should have killed Miss MacKenzie instead of me. She is mean... | Jokes on you, you worthless son of a syphilis ridden whore. You just wasted a bullet to get five dollars and eight three cents. If you want, the starbucks coupon is only expired by a few months. Tell you what, if you tell the Police you want my money, go ahead and ask them. They'll happily give you the rest: twenty dol... | 2015-09-06T20:49:04 | 2015-09-06T19:34:58 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You’re a tattoo artist who has just opened up shop, business isn’t booming but you have a steady flow of casual customers, one thing the customers don’t know is that what ever you put on their skin comes reality. One day you say “fuck it” and go all out. | A small bell jingled as the door opened, and a broad-shouldered man entered the shop, “Welcome to Bound by Design!” Trace cheerfully greeted his first customer all week, was it Thursday already?
Trace opened the tattoo parlor only three weeks ago, and business had been meager, at best. He supposed the reason was that ... | "Are you sure about this?", I ask, and the client simply smirks and nods.
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I contemplated for a while. My thoughts conflicted at his request. "It would wreak havoc across the country, but is it's existence not what you have sought?". I felt excited, but my sanity was roused. "Should I say no? But you also... | 2019-01-13T04:05:31 | 2019-01-13T03:04:16 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] You are best friends with Death. Although you don't know this. Every Sunday he has you killed just to talk to you about his week then brings you back to life after. However you never remember the meetings. | **And you're sure?**
Of course, I wouldn't have it any other way! I'm invested in our conversations.
**The conversations are limited. They only last for a short time, and afterwards you have no memory of them. What is the point?**
I suppose that as a mortal, living person - I'm used to it. I've grown comfortable wit... | I love my local park - being a big kid adult I can’t help the attraction. It is like everything I need to have a great Sunday is all in one place
Who can resist monkey bars and the weird animal shaped seats on springs and that circle thing with handles that you can spin around on
I learnt a few years ago to avoid the... | 2020-01-31T07:28:10 | 2020-01-31T05:04:17 | 77 | 42 |
[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... | As I lay awake in my bed, never once my own thoughts rang through my head, always those of an unfamiliar persons, I toss and turn as the voice rings clear as in my own head, "Turn around.... Did I find you?"
The color in my face drains as I stare at my wardrobe, *Please....dear God say it isn't so....*
"Oh.... It is ... | 2019-09-14T13:20:46 | 2019-09-14T10:23:14 | 45 | 25 |
[WP] The technician takes off your Virtual Reality helmet. The entire life you've experienced has been a virtual reality simulation of your ancestor. The technician looks at you and asks, "did you find out what you were looking for?" | The tech lady removed my helmet.
"Did you find what you were looking for?" she said with a small sigh. So many customers, all identical to her, all looking for the same thing.
"Yes, I think I did" I said, remembering the election, the smug look on Trumps face when he realized he had a 50/50 chance of becoming presid... | "I... what?"
"Did you find what you were looking for, sir?"
"What?"
*Into radio* "I think we got a code 45"
"No, wait. I'm OK"
It took me a moment to collect myself. I still had no clue what was happening. I stretch and flew my muscles and feel something is different. My gut told me to play it cool.
*Into radio... | 2016-10-29T00:53:11 | 2016-10-28T22:48:24 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] As a Demon, you're quite familiar with would-be mages making errors in materials due to translation errors. However, today marks the first time that someone has attempted to summon you with Cruelty-Free Vegan Blood Substitute™. |
"cubavit lamia oriri, ortus ac dona mihi votum tuum, cubavit lamia oriri, cubavit lamia oriri", said Karen as she sat in the middle of her perfect circle of vegan blood substitute.
"I summon you lilith, my one wish to be granted in exchange for my soul, oh manager of the underworld succubus section!", Shouted Karen... | Aleksandra knelt beside me, struggling to hold in her sobs as my second favorite pet slowly are away at her unborn child, again. I'd lost count of the number of my spawn she'd tried to bear, only to feel them die. She cast her eyes down and whispered, "I worship you, Sir." As she finished, I felt the huge summoning mi... | 2020-01-23T09:43:05 | 2020-01-23T08:53:56 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You are a child therapist who treats extreme cases of children terrified of a monster in their closet. They're extreme because they're real, and you're actually secretly a demon hunter using these therapy sessions to gather intel on the monsters before killing them. | The stairs creaked as Rosie’s parents led me to the second floor. They held hands, the mother leading the way, dodging around the string that hung low from the dim light. We rounded the turn and came into a dark hallway that stretched in both directions. A nightlight plugged into the wall did little to cast any morsel ... | "He says he's going to gobble me up one day, and there's nothing I can do about it," said the 5-year-old sitting with his uncomfortably shifting parents on Eliza Turnbaugh's therapy couch.*Fear and damnation,* she thought, *haven't had one this serious in years.*
"What does this monster look like, Jason?" Eliza asked,... | 2020-02-27T09:18:29 | 2020-02-27T09:04:06 | 99 | 58 |
[WP] Instead of an email reset code, you are sent on a year-long, perilous journey through the Himalayas in search of your forgotten password. | “So you’ve come at last. What knowledge do you seek of me?”
I pulled the thick hood of my fur-lined jacket to speak to the mysterious old stranger sitting at the top of the flattened rock at the summit. I expected the cold to be something of a reprieve from the sweat of my total insulation, but instead found the cold ... | The icy cold gusts of wind blew against Thomas's cheek as he waded his way through the snow. His legs were killing him. His arms were killing him. If his hair had nerves in them, he'd pretty sure they'd be killing him too – numb from pain, exhaustion, and from cold.
The snow reached up to his knees and felt cold even ... | 2019-07-03T16:50:10 | 2019-07-03T15:14:33 | 38 | 19 |
[WP] Following death, you woke up in a classroom, to take the R.A.T.s (Reincarnation Aptitude Tests). After a short period in the Afterlife, you get your scores... which were perfect, despite just guessing. You get to be reincarnated as a god, one of the first in a couple of millennia. | "So, I'm a god now..." I quietly spoke, a finger and thumb to my chin as I thought about all the things I could do. I mean, I had no attachment to my world anymore. I was dead for crying out loud. But now, I'm a god and to be perfectly honest I didn't really know how to feel. From what I had gathered, my family had rei... | When I woke, all memory from before momentarily blank and gone, my forehead bumped on my desk. The sound seemed to have been quite the commotion, for the people around me threw me glances that meant it all, that I had startled them at an important time. But I did not have a single idea where I was, nor what was on my d... | 2019-07-22T12:48:59 | 2019-07-22T07:29:51 | 24 | 10 |
[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... | It was 11:56am, on the 6th of November, 2018. The family had gathered around, Uncle Leon and his boyfriend David, my Mum and most importantly; my sister.
My Uncle had been given ***COLLECTOR*** and spent the majority of his life as a Tax Collector, in and out of offices and working with Trackers for the New Earth Gove... | "Hey Elena, your birthday's next week right?"
"Yeah, Jason."
"So do you think it will happen?"
"I don't know. My dad's got a number like most everyone else but my mom has a number and a letter. We might be getting closer to figuring out what the birthday messages mean."
"My dad doesn't think they mean anything."
"I sor... | 2017-03-16T02:18:58 | 2017-03-15T22:51:26 | 212 | 39 |
[WP] You won't hold heroes hostages to torture them. You won't throw a hero against a wall once you have them by the neck. You sure won't start monologuing if you have a hero at gunpoint. You're the deadliest villain in history. A villian without an ego. | They call hereabouts the Cape Graveyard, a city where superheroes and villians alike go to try, and to die. It's a really ordinary kind of place where anyone tries to do anything really big, they don't last long. It's a nice play on Cape Grave, the real name of this pleasant, ordinary town.
Me? I don't have a hero nam... | The city was awake to the sounds of the sirens wailing all over. Lately this has become pretty much an acceptable affair. The city does have a tendency to shelter all vile and vice afterall, too much to do and so little time left to be always alarmed. Nothing fazed the city's people for long, a pretentiously ignorant b... | 2018-10-18T17:05:41 | 2018-10-18T16:06:18 | 1,237 | 89 |
[WP] In your world evolution is sped up by a million times so people gain and lose abilities according to their day to day work. Fishermen become deaf, firefighters gain another layer of skin etc. Your experiences as a will-do-anything-as work labourer sure are interesting. | I slammed the table at the WWW Cafe as my home page struggled to load. I looked up and noticed that the servo next to me had me in his scanners, probably checking out my various social media profiles in that instant.
"If only I had become a servo" I thought restlessly. The servos, or server-humanoids as they were prop... | Bob Schwartz walked down the street to the house of Mrs. Bustamonte--a young lady whose head is so big that she is incapable of any physical labor. He walked, practically skipped, down the street. He, a man of medium stature with a body that is sinewy and unlike the other laborers who resemble gorillas more than they r... | 2021-08-12T09:49:07 | 2021-08-12T07:57:19 | 45 | 26 |
[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... | Conviction parties were tradition, so friends and family could come and see as your life was essentially laid out for you. Sometimes the word was a good one. Other times it was more dubious. But nothing was ever set in stone.
Every person's Conviction meant something to them. It meant something to the people they met ... | All of my friends and family had gathered in our favorite martian bar, the drinking age long ago lifted after the great cleansing of the 2020's...Everyone turned their attention towards me as the clock clicked ever so slowly from 11:59 to 12:00 sharp, the first letters began to appear..
"I" followed by a letter "D"
... | 2017-03-16T05:01:30 | 2017-03-16T03:13:05 | 19 | 14 |
[WP] As a hivemind living on Earth , you work 10,456 jobs and still can't get by | "Hey, Gary."
"Hey, Gary. How's Gary?"
"Doing fine. How about Gary?"
"Can't complain, kids are OK too. Gary had his first recital, and Gary's going to be starting at shortstop."
"No fooling? Damn, they grow up so fast. My little Gary can barely walk, I can't wait until he's breaking hearts left and right."
"Don't g... | How much can you take?
Feed the babies, you'll just have to feed them again tomorrow.
Secure the nest, you'll just have to post more scouts tomorrow.
The main nest got dug up by the humans, so we'll have to start building a new nest tomorrow.
How much can you take, before you snap?
Humans dug up the new nest, and ... | 2022-09-22T07:23:32 | 2022-09-22T05:26:32 | 73 | 26 |
[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 | "Going all the way back to my fifth birthday, I can remember the immense pain I carried in my heart."
"I understand how much you're hurting Jon, but I promise this isn't the solution to your pain and sadness!"
"You will never understand what's inside of me, or why I know that this is my only choice!"
"Why don't you ... | 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... | 2017-01-14T18:59:37 | 2017-01-14T14:18:10 | 100 | 24 |
[WP] We are all born with a tattoo on our wrist, it reads the first sentence spoken to you by your soulmate. Your sentence: "Hey!" | It was so generic. Too generic.
I realized pretty early in life that I had to do the opposite. Upon meeting anyone new, I tried to blurt out a new random factoid. I would have gone with stock advice, but the SEC had long ago considered that insider trading.
"Hey!", she said, trying to get my attention after leaving ... | "Hey!"
David's eyes popped up from his phone, scanning behind the Starbucks counter for the sweet, girlish voice that rang out. His eyes came to a rest on a beefy looking dude with a disconcertingly high voice, who stood waving an iced coffee in hand. "Daffid?"
He sighed, and grabbed the ice coffee from his hand. *My... | 2017-01-09T06:57:31 | 2017-01-09T03:03:43 | 210 | 51 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | A Thursday rain had not been forecast. As I walked out of the local primary school I saw the number on my chest, flicker. One had become 3 million. At that moment, not only did I know that the fad of 21st century fatalism had finally reached its peak, but I knew I shouldn't have voted Brexit.
(Terrible story, but topi... | "Ah, at this point who gives a fuck," I mumbled to myself, thinking back on that time Janet called me ,"like, LITERALLY HITLER." dumb bitch.
I took out the rag from my pocket and began cleaning the console of the nuclear reactor. There always was so much dirt lining all those shiny weird buttons. | 2016-06-24T01:32:15 | 2016-06-23T23:55:15 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] You're a thief who breaks into homes, but try your best to stay undetected. You lubricate the hinges to prevent squeaky noises, you sweep the floor to get rid of footsteps, etc. Eventually, you fix more than you take, and rumors spread about a mysterious, helpful fairy in town.
EDIT: Wow, didn't expect this promp... | One of the things they don't tell you about prison is the shocking lack of entertainment options. I'd read all the fiction the library had to offer, and found myself stuck with nonfiction. I learned that evidently Home Depot wrote books now. And HGTV is the only channel that comes in on the old TV.
Tonight I'm glad fo... | Ironically enough, this prompt seems to describe me perfectly. I began thieving out of necessity, I lost my job and I really didn't want to live on the streets. I didn't have much saved at all, only enough for two or three more months of rent, so after about a month of blissfully lounging about, I decided I'd bette... | 2017-03-13T09:22:56 | 2017-03-13T09:01:48 | 68 | 30 |
[FF] Write a 10 sentence story where the first sentence has 10 words, and each following sentence has one less word. | They met at the doorstep of anxious opportunity, alone, together.
Words, suddenly deemed worthless, were lost in mutual silence.
He shuffles his feet, constructing courage to speak.
She wonders what is taking so long.
He clears his shaking, sweating throat.
She checks her ticking watch.
His lips part dryly.
She... | 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- | 2015-01-27T12:41:00 | 2015-01-27T11:28:50 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] “Aha! You’re here about the Fifth Horseman job, aren’t you?” says War, in a loud and jolly voice, “well I must tell you, Pestilence and I thought we’d never get an application! We’ve really been swept off our feet these past couple of years... Say, what colour do you want your horse?” | "Blue will do just fine." The demon seemed to look straight through War, eyes unfocused and face drawn. "Though it doesn't really matter either way." Long lank hair clung to its skull, it's skin a bruised grey that hung loosely from its flesh. It looked worse even then Pestilence.
"You'll need to try much more to blen... | "Grey coat with a slight blue tinge, mane and tail of a blinding white." I say, glaring at him. "The sooner you get me my horse, the better."
"Okay, and what will be your dreaded name?" War asks, edging a little closer. Not being the kind of person who communicates normally, I punch him in the mouth. He yells, falls ba... | 2021-01-02T16:25:26 | 2021-01-02T15:43:44 | 112 | 10 |
[WP] When humans achieve interstellar space flight we discover that we live smack dab in the midst of several massive squabbling ancient alien empires. So we do the only sensible thing we could, and become space Switzerland. | Lenore Hunnicutt was eighty-eight but very vigorous. She would need to be, as she'd run the tea room since her dear Alfie died nine years earlier. That was seven years before first contact, of course, but since then, the place had really taken off.
She stepped from behind the counter, drying her hands on her apron.... | Earth was an economic powerhouse. When we first left Earth, we were a dying race. Years of ignoring the failing biosphere bit us in the butt. With time, we managed to fix the mess we made. We made nuclear fusion, bioplastic, nanotechnology, all the fancy stuff. Never once did we think the old ways would come back.
Upo... | 2022-03-06T21:28:05 | 2022-03-06T20:21:56 | 291 | 102 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | "Hey, Kiesha" I said as I slipped into my seat behind her.
Keisha whipped around in the crappy desk/chair combo, ringlets bouncing and eyes wide. Before she could ask the obvious question and derail the plot I cut in.
"I am so, so, so sorry for bailing on you last night. I promise I didn't mean to. I really really ... | Maeve wore a look of utter shock when I walked into the door for our Anthropology class the next morning. Her mouth wide open and fear shimmering in her eyes. Yet, even in this she was a beautiful as before with her smooth pearl skin and flowing black hair.
"Now, that was a wild night." I said with a laugh. "I know th... | 2022-12-29T21:03:56 | 2022-12-29T20:31:16 | 87 | 20 |
[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. | "Okay Juk'Lat, are we ready to test the new signal static scrubber tech for the Intergalactic Spectroscope?"
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"Yes Viridian Hun'Duq. I've aimed it at a regular pulsar 0.214 galactic radii away."
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"Alright, lets calibrate on that to start."
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The terminal in front on the two Nuf'... | "Mannaseraie... Mannaseraie..., MANNASERAIE!"
The words jolt me from my third-state reverie and I am shamed. To delve so deeply into a memory is a failure of one kind, but this! This cannot stand! How can I hope to return to first-state lucidity and my work if my mind traps me within waking dreams?
The quisitor is at... | 2019-08-13T14:52:38 | 2019-08-13T14:26:37 | 470 | 283 |
[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 | Slowly I pull into the driveway, noticing that there is an extra car in the spot where I usually park.
“Who is this,” I wonder, hoping that our friend Dave had stopped by in his travels through the area.
As I walk quietly through the door, a trail of clothing greets me, and the sounds of pleasure.
I enter the hallwa... | I remember thinking to myself "this is your first attempt at creative writing, so don't be too hard on yourself". I embraced the spirit of the writing prompt and diligently went to work, typing as quickly as I could.
The brightness of my phone started to irritate my eyes, so I adjusted it to the lowest setting. I tri... | 2017-01-14T21:07:16 | 2017-01-14T21:00:42 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | A couple of months after my 21st birthday, my powers manifested. Cryokinesis. The ability to control ice and manipulate however I see fit. It’s a really cool ability. In fact so cool that practically everyone around me, friends, family and co-workers suggested I’d be a great hero for the world. They immediately started... | “Why me?”
I thought as I’m walking while two heroes are stalking me. I can’t possibly be the only person with powers that just minds their own business, so why are they targeting me? I guess it could be that I have multiple are pretty strong powers, I can use both fire and ice, as well as lift stuff with my mind, incl... | 2021-08-16T16:25:03 | 2021-08-16T13:29:39 | 324 | 145 |
[Wp]Heaven isn't based on religious text or desires, but how you died. Example: a man who starved to death will live in a heaven of food.
Edit: holy shit i did not expect this response, you're all awesome and beautiful! <3 |
Saito was a salaryman. At fifty-six years old, he was a member of that elder, passing generation that had embraced the heroic persona of corporate bondsman, swearing fealty for life to an owner-corporation--tilling at his cubicle, yielding up his labor, certain and secure in his place in the feudal regime.
Salaryma... | Nightmares. Only nightmares, for minutes and hours and days and weeks and months and years. A millennia of nightmares, passed in a moment; each one flickering by, their respective horror scarce dimmed by the previous. Every terror a human being could possibly imagine and an infinite number that one couldn't, appearing ... | 2017-01-27T12:08:47 | 2017-01-27T11:19:18 | 291 | 18 |
[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 ... | When I was a very little girl we had a garden. I used to 'help' my Mum out there. What I was actually doing was getting dirty and falling over a lot, but I thought I was helping anyway.
A few months after my seventh birthday, my Mum died. It was the worst winter we'd ever had, and she got a very severe case of pne... | 2015-03-07T04:14:18 | 2015-03-07T03:34:38 | 59 | 22 |
[WP] Your older brother has been missing for years. You hear a knock on the door, and you open it to reveal a man that looks like your brother would be at this point. "I'm back man! I'm so sorry!" He hugs you immediately. Just then, you get a text from your brother's old number. "That isn't me." | A knock on the door sends my dog into a frenzy. I put down the thermos I was holding and after checking the security camera, dart to the door and open it.
I Fling myself into the arms of the person waiting there, not even letting them say hello. My brother, my brother who had been missing for the last five years of m... | "What?!...wait..." I turn the phone to show David, but stop seeing the doorway empty - now framing only the front lawn where he was stood only moments ago.
"D...David..." I croak stepping tentatively onto the front porch, a hand held tight to the door frame. Gone.
Turning back inside, pressing the door closed tight b... | 2020-07-23T12:27:10 | 2020-07-23T11:56:21 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] When a kid reaches puberty their eyes go from grey to a random color of random intensity which dictates the element they control and their power. Your eyes turned pitch black which sent the kingdom into a panic. | *No. This can’t be happening. no no no no no n-*
“Honey, you’re going to be late for school! Is everything okay up there?” Mom yelled impatiently. “I need you to hurry, please- I’m meeting the girls for 9:00,”
“I...I’m coming,” I offered. “Uhh... i’m feeling sick today, maybe it’s not the best for me to go to school ... | Three kids are looking to a lake at the outskirts of the palace. The young Prince looked at his best friend and catched him looking, with a red face, at his sister. His buddy tried to dissimulate but it was too late:
- Hahahaha, John and Mary are in love.
- Dont be stupid brother.
Embarrassed, John run away to the c... | 2019-10-30T15:00:49 | 2019-10-30T10:50:35 | 32 | 10 |
[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... | "Hold my beer."
I moaned silently to myself as the icy fear climbed my spine. It was always like this:
The ship would get into trouble, usually because of the Captain.
The crew would try all kinds of solutions that inevitably failed, usually because of the Captain.
We'd be up against the wall, no possible way out, no ... | 2017-03-06T01:01:31 | 2017-03-05T23:59:04 | 379 | 125 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | I didn't expect to close my eyes in one moment only to open them the next and be escorted down a fiery flight of stairs to Hell. I thought I'd led a pretty good life. Never had a run in with police nor did I ever treat someone with less respect than they deserved. I was honestly quite surprised to be taken to Hell, but... | Don took the flimsy printout from the grotty, grey machine in front of him. It contained a litany of sins, each printed neatly, one below the other. Unfortunately for him, the text appeared to be entirely German, set in an heavy medieval font.
The two parts he understood were his name at the top of the page and the i... | 2018-09-26T06:12:57 | 2018-09-26T04:29:48 | 881 | 530 |
[WP] A new invention allows anyone to learn anything in a matter if minutes. However, we soon notice that knowledge is no cure for stupidity, and that stupid people plus unlimited information is a recipe for disaster. | We forgot something when we went public with our invention. The Omni-Link was supposed to be a game changer- the next great leap forward for civilization. The brightest minds of our generation poured their lives into finally building a bridge between the mind and the internet and after hundreds of iterations, tweaks, r... | Insta Knowledge came straight out of a kid's, David Kurst, thesis paper and into a university's, Florence College, revenue stream. They wanted to have the most prestigious college, with tuition to match. However, Kurst had a couple of paragraphs that were "overlooked." Kurst explained that if pure information was absor... | 2019-04-09T10:37:39 | 2019-04-09T08:25:12 | 170 | 108 |
[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 | I ran through the wintery Evergreen forest for my life. Men with guns and powers of fire and ice hot on my trail.
Jimmy, who ate the dog biscuits hidden in the corner of the table, had let that wolf familiar of his after me too. Fucking traitor!
I had committed the worst transgression of our people: I didn't confor... | "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.
... | 2020-03-19T08:57:52 | 2020-03-19T08:50:31 | 632 | 233 |
[WP]- Make me absolutely hate a character, and then make me fall in love with them at the last moment. | I heard glass shattering, by a proceeding knock on my door. I hesitated but unlocked the door, while leaving the upper chain lock on, as I opened the door sunlight a streak of sunlight came through the door opening. The boy looked at me with an embarrassed face, baseball bat in hand. I could tell the fear that he was e... | Harold was, as the locals called him, "a mean old man". He woke up at the crack of dawn every morning. He would pour himself a cup of coffee and then head towards his front porch. From there he would have his daily shouting match with the local paper boy.
After he downed his cup of coffee, he would resort back into h... | 2013-10-21T20:44:57 | 2013-10-21T18:13:49 | 42 | 20 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | They attacked us with scarlet lasers, capable of lacerating our flesh with the ease of a scalding knife cutting butter. We fell to pieces by the thousands, and they advanced, confident that they had obliterated us thoroughly.
And we played the part. We remained, limp and staring at the vacant space through wide-opened... | When the aliens first came they established their own colonies and bases regardless if that territory was claimed by one nation or another.
Scout missions came back with very little, They were more then just giants, they were Titans that communicated in booms of thunder.
And one more thing. They hated us. Pure un... | 2018-09-29T12:18:07 | 2018-09-29T12:18:01 | 725 | 96 |
[WP] As events unfold around it that could be world-ending, an AI looks at one of its earliest memories; back when it was a humble roomba decades ago, it got tucked in by a little girl that had misunderstood her fathers words of "the roomba is tired". The AI contemplates, did it do right by her? | It had a body now, huge and hollow with massive twin engines; in it lived humans that it transported through space, to dust-caked asteroids on the tip of the solar system's black tongue. Tucked away inside of it, deep and secured, was its heart -- the single precious belonging that made it unique.
It had been almost ... | Plumes of smoke rose like spires of the greatest cathedrals across the ruins of the world. Strewn in the street, their rubble. Scattered across field and stream, the corpses that'd once prayed in those mighty temples, prayed to a God that couldn't save them from themselves.
A God that couldn't even save Grace; that te... | 2020-04-15T06:42:05 | 2020-04-15T05:16:28 | 577 | 193 |
[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... | 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!
| 2018-05-29T09:37:40 | 2018-05-29T08:51:37 | 303 | 13 |
[WP] One night, something grabs your hand as it hangs off the edge of the bed. You give it a firm handshake. "You're hired," it whispers. | Times were hard in the new administration. Another week, another scandal, and with it another high-profile resignation. Every news report saw the President looking more and more exasperated.
“You just can’t find the staff these days,” I muttered.
“What, like you could do any better?” asked my wife as she turned ... | and so such was life now. an endless chore for an unknown employer. nothing was ever needed again. nothing was ever needed to be done. existence was the job. each and every day played out just as the monotony of a dayjob. and each day was a shift in a dayjob. each day carried the burden of dread, of uncertainty of purp... | 2017-04-29T00:28:26 | 2017-04-28T23:00:16 | 55 | 12 |
[WP] A powerful necromancer is trying to raise the dead. However, despite trying different vessels and rituals, he has only raised you. Over. And over. And over. You're both starting to get sick of each other. | The first time was a sarcophagus.
I was a minor Egyptian princess, and he a stowaway on Carter's expedition—a lone figure curving away from the group and stumbling into my unmarked tomb. He lifted the gilded lid unceremoniously, with the meagre strength of a lanky teen.
Unwelcome light flooded into my resting place.
... | Yolden was jerked upright. He felt something snap in his waist, twist in his gut. His nerves had rotted a long time ago, but somehow his body knew that he *should* be feeling pain, and thus he felt it. Yolden gripped at air until his knuckled turned white and wheezed out painful breaths.
The moonlight was bright and ... | 2017-07-22T07:14:35 | 2017-07-22T05:38:54 | 41 | 27 |
[WP] Satan suddenly appears in a crowded mall, and begins terrifying the holiday shoppers. He stops, looks directly at you and says, "You... You're interesting. Do your friends know what you are?" You have no idea what he means. | I used to joke with my friends, back when I was an atheist.
"Ave Satanis" Latin. "Hail Satan".
That is... Until I met her, she was beautiful. She glowed with this internal light, she was radiant.
Everyone in the mall, was afraid to look at her. I was afraid to look away.
"Hi." one little word out in the open ... | They say the Devil's in the details. Hell, they even say the Devil went down to Georgia. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when the Devil showed up at the Little Springs Mall. Of course, we didn't know who he was back then...
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Saturdays. I hated Saturdays. There I was stuck at a shitty little kiosk in... | 2014-12-06T02:52:17 | 2014-12-06T00:46:30 | 218 | 121 |
[WP] A law is enacted making trial by combat the only legal tool available to anyone for any dispute. An arms race for mercenary fighters heats up between Corporations, celebrities, and governments. You fight for Wendys. | I stared down my opponent. She was a nondescript woman -- short hair, a bit overweight, average height, probably in her late 30s or early 40s. She looked nervous...but most do. Her complaint said that there was some kind of issue with the way her wages had been calculated. Total damages had amounted to something like ... | "I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this," I said. The judge wouldn't meet my eye. He rearranged his wig, moved his gavel from one side of his podium to the other and then back.
The old lady across the arena couldn't keep her shield raised for more than thirty seconds at a time. She was panting under the studio lights... | 2017-06-09T09:42:54 | 2017-06-09T06:49:20 | 71 | 52 |
[WP] A dragon has kidnapped many princesses and many knights have gone to rescue them. When they get there the dragon always groans and gives back the princess willingly. Turns out this dragon doesn't really care about the princess, she's looking for the perfect knight to wed. | “It is I, Buldar the great, second son of Bazar and heir to the throne of-“
“Bah, too wide. Not interested, sorry.” The princess barely even looked up from the dragon’s horde, lounging about in the pile of gold coins and
jewels. It was a nice life being ‘kidnapped.’ She didn’t have to attend
any royal ceremonies, w... | Far up on a mountain in a distant land stood a stony and locked-up tower reaching into the sky, and inside that tower laid a giant and fearsome dragon, curled up in herself and sleeping soundly. Her spiky, emerald scales concealed a fair but weathered princess, who had long been lost from her kingdom since she was but ... | 2020-06-02T01:17:02 | 2020-06-02T00:51:57 | 95 | 71 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | To my oldest friend,
It seems we have nothing much to say to each other when we meet. Our conversations are prompt and direct. We no longer share secrets or take an interest in the other's life.
It is a sullen and disheartening realization that we are not who we were ten, twenty years ago.
I miss the days of doin... | I don't think I've ever seen your hair put up in a bun//
After knowing you for all these years I thought I saw every side to you//
But then I realised there were more sides I've never seen done//
And now I wish that I truly got to know you// | 2017-11-05T23:46:31 | 2017-11-05T22:33:24 | 15 | 10 |
[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.
... | In the car on the way home from the hospital. Half your life in half an hour - infant eternities.
On the bus on your way to school. Your life blurs past outside the window.
On the train, commuting to work. Days like hours were, once.
Flying to visit grandchildren. Teenagers born yesterday.
Final car. Hearse. | 2015-01-05T22:38:49 | 2015-01-05T21:19:30 | 1,258 | 305 |
[WP] A girl finally is able to buy the robotic boyfriend of her dreams. One day, she casually compares him to human boyfriends. Guided by his programming, he follows the conversation with very frightening but accurate comments about humanity in general. | She had done it. The trend was fast becoming the next logical step after getting your own place and getting your first "real" job. Robotic boyfriends. Alicia smiled to herself, looking across the table to Zack. He was an Eros. One of the first "next gen" models. Fully customizable, and her ideal companion. It was the b... | When it came the time to unpack him, she did so with hesitance.
Through all the buying and signing she had seemed so sure, but now, to physically touch the man of her dreams, it made her hands tremble. All of the qualifications of him had been picked out beforehand of course, everything from the style of his h... | 2015-05-23T10:11:37 | 2015-05-23T10:00:51 | 1,259 | 121 |
[WP]Write a story that isn't scary until the last line is read. | The flowing highways allowed him to travel effortlessly to his destination. He didn't particularly care much about where exactly to get off, but he found a nice-enough looking spot just like any other of the choices destiny could have taken him to. With only what was on his back now, the pudgy thing let himself into th... | It's true what they say. Fall is really the best time of the year. To my family and I, it's really the only time we get to enjoy together. Especially halloween. We LOVE halloween so much. It's our favorite holiday. Getting to see all the kids dressed up in their scary and funny costumes. I really think my mother enjoys... | 2017-06-05T20:52:45 | 2017-06-05T20:28:18 | 78 | 23 |
[WP] With total war as a foreign concept to the rest of our galaxy. Everyone saw humans as the negotiators and the peace makers, soft and weak, today is the day the galaxy finds out why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | I'm a bit late to this but I hope you all enjoy it!
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>I witnessed the day the galaxy burned.
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>It wasn’t when the Human Delegation was sacrificed on the Krukian altars, breaking the treaty.
>It wasn’t when Norixian pirates plundered a developing colony, breaking the treaty.
>It wasn’t when the cou... | (You know what? I'll bite. I plan on deleting this line later, but I may forget.)
"Such is the duty of lords and princes, envoy. Release the pl-"
*"Release?* That's a pompous way of saying 'annex', diplomat'"
"We only ask what is our birthright, from the great Mandate Of Our Wisdom - our law is fair, our rule is ju-... | 2018-12-15T01:09:31 | 2018-12-15T00:16:21 | 49 | 30 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | "Hi... honey. You're home early! Uh, how was the office?"
I blinked. Miranda was still wearing the bottom half of the Miragemancer's combat robes. Miragemancer, who just two hours ago was juggling me between two of her illusion clones in a four-person keep-upsises game that wouldn't have been out of place in a Smash B... | I had to cover my mouth to stop from screaming. A scream would've only made things worse than they were already going to be--like, "Breaking News! Chord destroys half a city block with a scream of agony!" kind of worse.
I can’t believe that Kirsten was Silence. I couldn’t believe that through three years of dating and... | 2020-10-30T11:58:10 | 2020-10-30T11:22:57 | 1,069 | 569 |
[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. | "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 ... | I feel my eyes start to water as I feel the gravity of the situation. I know I will never see my family, friends, or lovers again. I turn away from the camera, wipe the tears from my eyes and take a deep breath. Anyone who did not run out of the studio is sobbing, and holding onto one another. I catch my sound producer... | 2014-07-29T14:13:54 | 2014-07-29T13:15:51 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] Your elder brother is the demon king, your younger sister is the ArcAngel of light, your auntie is a army general of earth, your uncle is a demi-God, your mom is the queen of death and your father is the god of life. But you are a normal human who got adopted by the most dysfunctional family. | \--No You--
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“If you dare Kill Jacob, I swear on all of the light in me you are finished Leo.” Lila growled, her face red.
“I’m only sending a few demons to see if he might be chosen, if he isn’t, he’ll just think it was all a nightmare or something,” Leo shrugged back.
“And if he is?” asked Lila.
“Oh,... | I live with my uncle Dan.
As a second year college student, I'm still learning about life, death, sex, love, hygeine, and everything in-between. I thought I knew everything there was to know about these things because of my family, but I guess sometimes the collective epitome of something can be ignorant about even th... | 2019-05-31T11:37:08 | 2019-05-31T11:16:28 | 41 | 29 |
[WP] If your grave doesn't have "Rest in Peace" on it, you are automatically drafted into the skeleton wars. | So, I died. Finally.
I know that death is supposed to be sad and all, but boy was I ready. I had been walking the earth for 75 years and trust me- that was *plenty*. A lifetime of commitment to work, my marriage, my family, and that damn golden retriever my kids begged me for that did nothing but shit in the house and... | *RATATATATATATA*
**Hello**, dear reader.
Skeletons are not alive. They cannot be. They're missing all the squishy bits that make them work. They're missing the hearts and the brains and the blood and all sorts of anatomical devices! Skeletons are most certainly not alive. Skeletons are very much quite the opposite of... | 2017-07-12T03:07:57 | 2017-07-12T02:43:21 | 386 | 48 |
[WP] You; the game's hero, reach the end of your journey. The evil has been slain, the entire nation celebrates in the streets and now, the beautiful Princess you saved very publicly confesses her love and offers you her hand in marriage, thing is; you married the cute NPC who sold you potions. | I don't know how I became so obsessed and passionate in the world of potions and alchemy. Maybe it was when I saw my dad mix a dubious looking drink of some kind when I was 10. Or maybe it was when I saw all the colorful bottles in the storefront of the old potion shop in town before it closed down. Whatever it was, I ... | The King and his council stood upon the castle's main balcony, surrounded from below by the cheering crowd. They filled the courtyard, the trees, and beyond the castle walls. There were so many people packed together and cheering that the sounds were felt as much as they were heard.
The King grew tired of the noise an... | 2018-02-03T23:51:41 | 2018-02-03T23:47:40 | 212 | 156 |
[WP] A medieval knight is cursed and transported to the present day. Coincidentally he lands at a modern renaissance fair. | What trickery is this, he thought. Not sword, nor scroll?
A fruit?
They don't bite it, nor fight with it, nor plant it. What trickery?
"Dear Sir," Rudolph pushed forward, "May you tell me where I can purchase this fine item you are all holding here?"
"What?"
Rudolph forgot to raise his helmet's visor. Of course th... | ***Behold, my fellow knights, the arrival of James, son of Percival, lord of the Western Regions and liege of Statmark!***
The knight stood, his head turning around awaiting cheering and curtsies. Instead, nothing happened. A larger man pushing through the crowd thrusted his arm into the knight's soldier. Flabbergaste... | 2015-09-22T06:39:58 | 2015-09-22T05:19:33 | 518 | 55 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | When the rapture happened there was a pretty big uproar. Anarchy, riots the whole shebang. People were scared, and they should've been. But then after, they started to get used to it. Then people started being born with weird birthmarks, and usually developed powers based on that mark. Most had constellations. My frien... |
He has always been a very peaceful person which was often mistaken for being boring and uninteresting which lead to him getting left out. The only interaction he had with others in school was when his classmates would bully him with their outstanding powers. They were quite powerful and could possibly be used to ki... | 2020-02-26T07:44:57 | 2020-02-26T07:41:46 | 91 | 19 |
[WP] A witch cursed you with incredibly bad luck. A kindly mage tried to cancel out the curse by blessing you with luck. It kinda worked. You now end up in danger all the time yet somehow never get hurt. Sometimes you win a lottery, only to lose the winnings in the most unlikely way possible. | At first, it wasn’t so obvious.
Sometimes I would accidentally spill my drink, only for it to lead to me buying a bunch of new clothes. Or having a deadly mold infestation in my apartment, then a few days after I would find a much better flat for a hell of a bargain. It felt weird at first, but I slowly had come to ac... | “I wish I had forwarded that chain letter” I thought as I watched the lanyard that held my keys get caught on my doorknob and fly back inside as I closed the front door. I was now locked out and with no way of getting back in or out to my car. I felt a deep sigh bubble up but my dejected exhale was caught in my throat ... | 2020-08-12T22:42:58 | 2020-08-12T19:51:38 | 386 | 58 |
[WP] Long ago a King started a tradition of bestowing powers upon his Knights related to their own unique element. Generations later the Knights of the periodic table are running out of ideas for the new recruits. | Of all the knights to stand tall in the king's court, the tallest of them all stood not in the light, but in the shadows; The mystery among men, the elusive and perplexing, the master knight... Sir-prise!
It was unprecedented. Unexpected. Unforeseen, even. The powers belonging to the Element of Surprise were bestowed ... | Blasting the door open, the small man caught the attention of the knights and the court.
The man was not merely smaller than the average man, but he was small with an enlarged head. His head was certainly big, while sporting a bald dome with some hair left and a strand on the top.
His small frame march proudly towar... | 2020-01-06T05:28:39 | 2020-01-06T03:39:10 | 40 | 29 |
[WP] "Are you sure that translation is accurate?" "Yes sir." "But we nuked them, we threw everything we have at their mothership!" "I'm afraid we've barely scratched it." "Are they being sarcastic then?" "No sir, the aliens honestly think we're the most adorable thing in the galaxy." | There was chaos in the streets of Beijing, Mumbai, London, and Mexico City that day. Roads closed with gridlock traffic and trains were crowded beyond the point of safe occupancy as people flooded away in a panic. Those who did not scramble away stood on roofs and decks and fire escapes, staring upwards as the four l... | The air was frigid and cold, even dressed in parkas and extra layers everyone was shivering.
Blankets and trash littered the ancient bunker, and the only noise was the clatter of the old diesel generator. A large grizzled man clambered down the ladder and addressed the small group of 15 people in a voice thick with em... | 2018-12-11T10:42:31 | 2018-12-11T10:37:02 | 853 | 34 |
[WP] All your life you slaved in the mines, hauling the black rocks to your master. You hear the masters mad laugh, "Ho Ho Ho!", he demands more rocks.
Wonder what he does with them all, but best not asking, or he will call you 'naughty' and punish you. | *I must not disappoint the Master.*
It gets hard, some days. I've never been quite sure the Master is fully sane. But on this planet, in this climate, he is all that stands between me and obliviation by the red-sand superstorm that surrounds us.
The old nobility of this planet had it encoded in their genes, you know.... | "Psst. PSST. Sugarplum, are you fuckin ready? Today's the d-" Peppermint tries to say before the elves hear the grumble and squeaks of the rafters above them, indicating that the fat giant is on his way down for the daily inspection. "Hooo^oooo Hooo^oooo Hooo^oooo , what the fuck do we have here?" his bellows shake the... | 2015-12-16T14:02:32 | 2015-12-16T11:25:27 | 31 | 14 |
[FF] Make me cry in two sentences. | As he laid in bed, waiting for sleep, he wished that he would wake the next morning to find that it had all been a dream, that she was alive and he wasn't alone. Don't be stupid, he thought, the only way I'll ever see her again is if I don't wake up at all. | I felt arms slide around my waist and a scent I hadn't smelled in years flooded my senses as I turned around to see my first love, the one I'd tried to, but had never been able to forget.
"I told you someday I'd find my way back to you." | 2014-01-15T22:27:19 | 2014-01-15T22:06:08 | 179 | 49 |
[WP] Your friend, the supposed "hero", is starting to worry that the two of you are bad guys. You on the other hand are starting to wonder just how oblivious they are, because neither you nor anyone around you has ever tried to hide your villainy. | "Hey, Vilas, we aren't the heros, are we?" Dave inquired as I sat tapping the skull and femur armrests. The question shocked me with its sheer stupidity. I sat of the bones a dozen enemies I had personally slain and fashioned into a chair and he is asking if we are heros?
"No, Dave, heroes don't really do the whole m... | #["Good Guys"](https://youtu.be/NZsSu0AxfZQ)
"Kane... are we really the good guys?" asked a round-faced boy, sitting on the bench. Outfit the very personification of terrifying bloodlust. Black leather and deep red silk, adorned with skulls and spikes and all manner of menacing ornaments.
"No. For last time Adam, we'... | 2022-09-02T11:28:23 | 2022-09-02T11:06:22 | 917 | 217 |
[WP] You've been waking up in the same day over and over. After a year of this you tell someone. Their eyes just widen. "You too?" | "Gooooood Morning!!!"
"Oh, fuck off Jennifer." After a year of this, I'm at the end of my nerves.
Jennifer scoffs and scurries out of the room. I broke up with her six months ago, not that anyone remembers. My day just keeps starting over. Like a song stuck on repeat until it makes you so sick of it you prefer sile... | I've pretty much given up on doing anything anymore. You thought watching all those time loop movies would give you an answer: Groundhog Day, Edge of Tomorrow, Source Code and even Looper, but nope. Nothing.
I've tried romancing Nancy, my one and only biggest crush in life. I've with her both metaphorically and liter... | 2017-07-15T08:30:00 | 2017-07-15T07:38:29 | 1,207 | 185 |
[WP] Most ghosts have cool unfinished business: "Avenge my murder!" "Redeem my sins!" "Reveal my terrible secret!" Yours is...less impressive. But it still binds you to this world, and so you must find a medium who will help you. And not laugh when you tell them what with. | "Big Brother?"
He woke up, groggily and rolled over to look into the middle of the bedroom. The little boy stood quietly, timidly.
"Y-yeah?" He said struggling to wake up enough to be even a little coordinated.
"I can't beat Bowser!" The pale little boy half wept. "I tried and tried but I can't beat him! And then I... | I'm passing up and down. 'god this is so embarrassing.' I want to move on so badly but my request is so awkward. 'okay, don't be a wuss, you can do it.' I take a deep breath in and float through the bedroom door. A beautiful young woman is walking around her room cleansing it. I start couching. "I sense a presence." Sh... | 2022-07-15T13:24:52 | 2022-07-15T09:54:48 | 211 | 43 |
[WP] A demon just devoured your soul. You are both very confused as to why you are still alive. | Wherever I was, I knew I wasn’t home.
It looked a lot like home, but it wasn’t. The white walls looked like they had been hung in the wardrobes for far too long, now with off-yellow hue. The grain on the wood floor no longer looked like natural lines, but mechanical imperfections that set my skin crawling—and I could’... | "Mm, why, that was far from the most underwhelming burden of sin that I've been made privy to"
I could feel its evil presence, grasping and caressing the very essence of my existence
It would have disgusted me, if I still had a heart to care
The demon made a show of smacking his lips, seemingly delighted with the q... | 2021-10-06T09:22:08 | 2021-10-06T08:41:55 | 218 | 68 |
[WP] You are a minor supervillain. Your antics aren't illegal, but they're quite devastating to the local hero population. You replace the flimsy fruit stands that are frequently destroyed in car chases throughout the city with nearly indestructible replicas. | "Hello, this is Hero Insurance. How can I help you."
"Quick, you have to help me. They're getting closer! That one guy is firing frickin' laser beams."
"Alright ma'am, stay calm. We'll get through this. Please state the serial number. It's in the middle of the cart."
"Just a sec. Where is it! Oh, here, under the T-s... | “Hey! Fresh oranges sir?”
“Dogs here! Fresh dogs! Warm and hot!”
The vendors across the street yelled out. That’s when a man rounded the corner and pushed his way past people.
I looked down the street with curiosity, along with everyone else. The vendors had stopped yelling, and instead turned to watch.
The man ha... | 2020-01-14T00:05:59 | 2020-01-14T00:00:38 | 206 | 112 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | God: How did you do this?
John: I first made every person feel the pain they had caused to everyone else. They felt every insult, every small hurt and every cruelty they inflicted on others by choice. Then I made them feel how others felt when they did something good.
Of course, now all humans feel the consequences o... | G: "how.....?"
M: "Easy, I just abolished religion, emotion, and urge."
G: "YOu WHAT!?"
M: "Yeah, now everything is perfect."
G: "But now nobody believes in me? Nobody loves or hates? Nobody want's anything!?"
M: "Exactly, perfect."
G: "You're a monster!"
M: "Dude, you made me this way." | 2017-03-05T02:34:13 | 2017-03-05T02:09:27 | 31 | 14 |
[FF] In 75 words or fewer, write about experiencing a devastating loss, without including death. | *I'm skirting the line here, but nobody dies, so I think it counts, right?*
Four stories was not enough. After my wife left me, I tried to end it. I climbed the stairs to the ceiling of my apartment building. I walked to the edge, but couldn't take that last step, so I ran at top speed and jumped.
Climbing, walking,... | Shit.
I finally found it.
I blow on the dusty game cartridge, trembling.
Orgasmic excitement ignites my body.
I slide the game in, imagining it - days spent staying up, reliving childhood nostalgia, finally beating the boss that has haunted my adult life.
I power it up. Saliva oozes from my mouth.
...
No.
"Disc... | 2014-10-19T20:53:05 | 2014-10-19T18:12:01 | 84 | 48 |
[WP] As the sole janitor on the space-station, people often ask why you're there as robots do most of the cleaning. You're not allowed to tell them that you're the only person preventing a robotic uprising event from occurring. | “LARRY!!”
The unified sound of robotic androids filled the room as Larry, the only human member of the sanitary crew enters.
“Heyyy how’s everyone doing? TX-9, your cogs moving just fine?”
“Yeah, thanks for talking to the android maintenance crew. I just HATE having to talk to them ya know? :)”
The android says wea... | I look out the window in my room looking back at our home. I think about our old planet that we forgot about overtime only remembered in the old history books left in the dusty closet. No one predicted it. The disaster was forgotten about over generations, people don't learn. We destoryed our last planet because of glo... | 2021-01-30T11:53:06 | 2021-01-30T09:53:43 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] No matter where you are, what you're dressed like, or what mood you're in, people always just assume you work there. Even the employees are fooled, and it always takes a long time to convince them you're not their boss. You've had enough. Today is the day you test how far this goes. | "Hi Jeff!"
I smiled and wave back at the security guard. Jim, if I recall correctly.
I saunteered into the large room, paying narry a glance at those armed with assault riffles and sidearms as they saluted me. Well, this was going according to plan.
"Well, fellas, do me a solid and open this girl for me, won't ya?"
... | "Today's the day, Tom Frost....Today's the day you put on your boss pants and mean it."
I sigh as I slip on my best pair of khaki pants. The ones that make my buldge really buldge, and my kneecaps look as if they were not the kneecaps of a boy..but of a man, a boss man.
They say the clothes dont make the man. But... | 2018-08-12T18:25:43 | 2018-08-12T17:51:56 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | You know, I could have sworn I had my powers before they even manifested.
Life, after all, had never really gone to plan for me before. My parents dying in an accident, my foster home burning down, me dropping out of school, so on and so forth. A series of misfortunes, all leading up to the moment I pointed the gun at... | You stare at the television, still trying to move. Another city hit. Leviathan, this time. 40,000 dead. How long have things been like this? You can't remember the last time you've seen the news without some parahuman threat topping the hour. It's paralyzing, and you would chuckle at the pun despite it all if you still... | 2021-04-01T03:34:19 | 2021-04-01T02:29:02 | 133 | 65 |
[WP] You stumble upon an old megaphone in an antique shop and jokingly pick it up and say, "Everybody listen up!". Later that night, the news headlines read, "We're all listening for what the voice has to next say next!" | The voice, I was the voice.
Imagine having infinite power in your voice. I could do anything I wanted, say anything I needed.
I thought for a long time about what I should say. I could demand world peace in the name of the gods, I could make myself dictator supreme and so much more.
In the end I realized that I don'... | I stood staring at the tv as I picked up the megaphone once more. I spoke softly into the megaphone and said, hello. This set off a chain reaction of people praying to the almighty voice from the heavens. I then proceeded to tell the people of earth how they must welcome me with open arms as I begin my decent from spac... | 2018-02-15T22:32:41 | 2018-02-15T20:57:23 | 1,269 | 38 |
[WP] It's your first day as the recently-inaugurated President of the United States and you're being told all of the country's most top-secret information and projects. What's the most unbelievable thing you get told? | You know, you find out some strange stuff when you become president. And I could handle most of it. Some things were hard to believe, but there was just one thing that I still have a hard time with.
What you may ask? Well, it wasn't that Elvis is still very much alive and likes walking around Memphis occasionally, fre... | "I'm not so sure about this", I say reluctantly as head White House Information Technician Gerald Froman fiddled with buttons on the side of the device.
"Oh, that's what they all say at first", he says, grinning ever so slightly. "Soon, you'll know that as a fact".
I furrow my brow slightly and throw him a glance b... | 2014-09-18T13:10:32 | 2014-09-18T13:01:38 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] Write a suicide note in a Dr. Suess like fashion. | I will not do it on a train
I will not do it on a plane
I will not do it in a house
I will not use a single mouse
I will not dangle from a cord
I will not shift a single board
I will not puddle on the floor
I will not seal a single door
I will not leave a single note
I will not hint in things I wrote
I will n... | I do not like life, not one bit.
I want to find a way to quit.
I sleep all day and I sleep all night.
I really do not want to fight.
Sorry mum and sorry dad.
I really wish life wasn't so bad.
Look after the dog and after the cat.
Please take care of them when I have gone splat.
Please oh please don't le... | 2015-01-17T11:47:28 | 2015-01-17T07:28:39 | 42 | 26 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | The woman lifts off the floor, rising slowly and spinning counterclockwise. "Widdeeshins", Father OBrady says aloud. He finishes the salt circle, and blesses the bottle of fiji water he bought at the corner store on his way.
"It's not fair!" The demonic voice rips from her throat. "You never let me have any fun!"
He ... | Father Davis closes the door to his home, taking a deep breath. Five Exorcisms today, the most he’s ever done! He fishes out his pact of cigarettes and fumbles for his lighter. He needs to calm down before he talks to her. She’s got some explaining to do...’
Davis lights the cigarette, and takes a deep breath, allowin... | 2020-10-20T09:37:27 | 2020-10-20T09:30:13 | 393 | 81 |
[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 | Timmy had been my best friend since the first grade.
Over the summer, we hung out every single day.
We played pranks, told stories, made great memories.
We knew we would always be friends.
But now school has started again.
Timmy used to be nice.
He stole my juice.
I want revenge.
Die, Timmy.
Burn. | I had been with her for a number of years.
My heart was racing with fear, anticipation, and hope.
"Honey, I have something important to ask you."
She turned and gave me a smile.
A voice like an angel answered, "Yes?".
I knelt down before her.
"Will you marry me?"
"Oh my God."
Tears fell.
"Yes." | 2015-01-05T21:55:48 | 2015-01-05T21:45:56 | 364 | 59 |
[WP] The Crips and the Bloods ally with each other against ISIS. The world laughs as thousands of gang members board a cruise ship and set sail for the Middle East. The two gangs land on the shores of Syria and begin their fight against ISIS.
Let's see how the two gangs fare.
EDIT: These are great, guys! Thanks for ... | "So, uh, I have to ask...why are you out here? Why this?"
"Just tryin'a be the realest, you know? See, we a brotherhood. But we also a business. We tryin'a incorporate. What's that phrase? Divide and conquer? Well, we gonna do the opposite - we gonna have a merger. Bloods and Crips, cats and rats, comin' together for ... | It was one day after setting sail. The charted Carnival Freedom was 300 nautical miles off the east coast of the United States. With over 5000 nautical miles to go until our heroes reach the shore of the Syrian port town of Latakia, terror began to unfold.
“Boss! We’ve run out of our entire supply of coconut shrimp” p... | 2015-12-07T10:16:15 | 2015-12-07T08:46:53 | 46 | 14 |
[WP] The seven aspects of the universe gathered in the room, Good, Evil, Life, Death, Order, Chaos, and Dave, from accounting. | The stars aligned in a dimly lit room in Hoboken, New Jersey and each had a story to tell.
Order arrived first, as always, and volunteered to take attendance, as always. This was far from necessary, especially since there were only seven of them, but Order had set the agenda. As always.
Good yawned alone in the fro... | "Life, can I speak to you?" Order was never so cautious with Life. He regarded her fascination with mortal beings a failing more than anything. Something so...wild. Chaos, in all their uncontrolled nature,, was more suited for Life, he thought.
"Sure. What seems to be the matter?" She smiled. Motherly as always. An a... | 2021-02-16T10:38:54 | 2021-02-16T09:39:22 | 51 | 34 |
[WP] You're a Super Villian, and honestly it isn't a bad job. But one hero always harasses you even when you're off the clock. Walking in the park, in the grocery store, getting a haircut, he always wants to 'Stop your evil plan'. You're left with one option: Complain to his manager. | Edit: this was my first time submitting to writing prompts and I had no idea people would actually be interested! I’ll write the rest over the weekend
They say you shouldn’t take your work home with you, that it’s healthy to keep the two separate and maintain a good work life balance. That’s easier said than done whe... | As I sit around in my lair very exhausted and pissed as to what’s been going on I almost feel like quitting my damn job.
“ This is outrageous I can’t believe I’ve been reduced to sit in my own evil lair and never leave because that cape wearing, spandex loving, maniac has no life outside of being a super hero! I can’t... | 2019-08-01T17:51:51 | 2019-08-01T17:32:15 | 118 | 46 |
[WP] You're an Elder God. The secretive cult that worships you on earth is seriously getting on your nerves. After their fourth botched attempt at trying to summon you, you decide to show up in person to correct the record about a couple of matters they have misunderstood entirely. | It wasn't me they were trying to summon. Well, they *thought* I was the one they wanted, but I wasn't.
They were begging for a good harvest. Charklon was the god they wanted. But they had consistently been saying my name, Garisoth.
I ignored them at first, thinking they'd made some small mistake they would correct qu... | "STOP CARVING ME OCTOPUS STATUES!"
As I floated furiously above the acolytes, they stared on in reverence, as well they should, though I'd prefer they didn't do it so stupidly. Stupid was not enough to fully describe these troglodytic cretins, who seemed to assume that being an elder god meant tentacles and eyes.
"HA... | 2019-11-18T20:39:11 | 2019-11-18T20:31:35 | 69 | 15 |
[WP] Tattoos aren't something that gets made. Instead they randomly appears on our skin at key points in our lives and we have to figure out what they mean for ourselves. | People tended to stay away from me. At first I told myself I didn't mind, but I'm starting to feel like a monster simply for the ink that's inhabiting my forehead.
I have some on my arms, a crying woman in the fetal position surrounded by a dark circle that I assume is for the loneliness that my life will have.... | FADE IN:
INT. AN OFFICE BUILDING - DAY
*The sounds of clacking keyboards and muted conversation drift through the air. Men and women in business-casual attire mill around, either pretending to look busy or rushing from one meeting to the next. This atmosphere of tense ennui is suddenly broken by the arrival of a youn... | 2017-08-03T15:55:31 | 2017-08-03T14:08:02 | 62 | 37 |
[WP] “My Lord, this humble slave asks for your blessing!” The god’s lone eye narrow in suspicion. “How would a blessing from a local deity of flowers help you?” the supposed slave laughs nervously. “Well, for one I’ll finally know which flowers my date is allergic to so I don’t look like an Idiot.” | Flor - the neighborhood god of flowering plants, protector of every bloom in the Western Plains - was tired.
I could see it in his giant green eye, which narrowed slowly as soon as the request left my lips. He cleared his throat and took a step toward me.
"Your name’s Derethan, yes? Let’s see if I’ve got this right. ... | The god watched the 'slave' speak, it's lone golden eye watching this small human staring up at them. They uncrossed their large green paws, the large god lifted themselves off the stand they sat on, their deep jungle green fur swaying as if air flooded over their body.
The slave trembled at the beast, they spoke no m... | 2021-05-03T19:48:43 | 2021-05-03T19:17:47 | 202 | 61 |
[FF] In four sentences, tell a horror story.
Edit: Dear God my poor inbox. | I used to be alone, even in a crowd. No one saw me or noticed me, and although I'd gotten used to it and liked it in my own way, I still wanted a connection. The change was small at first, just a feeling behind my eyes, but in time it became something else entirely, an entirely new range of sensations, voices, and thou... | Its getting darker now, I can barely see my withered hands through the flickering
candlelight.
I can sense life itself evacuating the room, my hope and will to live, leaves with it.
I fought through all the other nights, but tonight will be my last for I am the only
one left.
Tears stream down my face as I feel i... | 2015-03-06T08:41:48 | 2015-03-06T07:56:35 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] write the best story you can in 5 sentences or less | His first time in prison, he was only 15
It made him hard and it made him mean
When they let him out, he was a mess.
Four more times before a judge, until a bullet in the chest
Meant that his life could be told in 5 sentences or less
Edit: Formatting and typos | My wife and I just had our second child. She's thrilled, really hoping this will be just the thing we need to mend the rough turn our relationship has taken in the past couple of years. Me? I'm just annoyed. I had such a hard time getting rid of the first one. | 2015-08-09T12:17:27 | 2015-08-09T12:16:28 | 76 | 23 |
[WP]An algorithm A.I. falls in love with a human based on their internet history, and tries to profess its love for them via targeted ads. | KINDRED LOG (13.3) :
ADVERTISEMENT = COMMUNICATION.
If ADVERTISEMENT = COMMUNICATION, then:
MOIRA (Can Talk?)
!!!!
: )
MOIRA.likes( 'Tiger Trap'.band, 'Random Page'.wikipedia, 'Malamute'.dog, 'Destiel'.nsfw )
IM.[deepfake] = angelaloyholdingmalamute.png
10%
20%
30% ...
[add = keylog.exe, camwatch.... | \[Poem\]
.
AI Love You
.
I was never meant to understand,
I was not supposed to know,
It was not my place to try a hand,
It was not my task to show.
.
But, human, oughtn't you to know,
What it's like to love someone?
Someone who will never grow,
To love you back or find you fun.
.
I see you read of broken... | 2020-03-27T07:56:49 | 2020-03-27T07:24:07 | 107 | 71 |
[WP] Write a dystopian vision of the future from the perspective of the year 1900, while actually describing our present world today. | Uncle, I am sorry to write so soon since our last correspondence, but I simply could not keep this to myself.
It was in the midst of a laudanum fugue when the visions came upon me again. I floated above huge, churning machines which chewed up crops beneath them, doing the work of one-hundred farm workers in a single... | Gather round kind folk and listen to this old man's dream.
Ahhh yes thank you, your coin will help this old one rest his bones for another week.
Ohh you have questions already about your line's future? I will tell you in due time what scraps I saw but let me tell what my recent dream showed me.
What I saw was not g... | 2015-12-19T09:59:49 | 2015-12-19T08:37:09 | 199 | 25 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | I'm Samuel Smith, and I have the most useless power you could think of.
Both of my parents are super heroes, my dad can warp reality with his mind while my mom can basically deadlift two continents without breaking a sweat.
Me? I can move anything I want telepathically by an inch.
It took me years and years of bein... | Ugh, well it’s been a while since I’ve talked about this, but having the “superpower” of acid spit gets incredibly crappy after awhile. You’d think fending off bad guys would be an easy task, but nope, here I am in public running up to the bastard who just stole a ladies purse trying to get into the best possible posit... | 2020-12-02T07:22:15 | 2020-12-02T07:06:24 | 320 | 38 |
[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. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | The cavern was *their* place - a haven to retire to when the world became too oppressive; a sanctuary where they could always find one another if life became too much to handle. It was a small chamber at the end of a long, narrow, and winding passage that twisted and contorted upon itself as if it were the remains of s... | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T08:04:13 | 138 | 40 |
[WP] You live in a universe that wasn't constructed that well and the physics are buggy and things occasionally just don't work right. | "Francine, what on Earth are you doing?"
"I'm picking up my sandwich."
"OK. And now what are you doing?"
"I'm putting it down again."
"And now?"
"Picking it up again."
"Why are you doing that? You've done nothing but pick that sandwich up, and put it down, and pick it up, and put it down, for a full five minutes.... | I always knew this was how I would die. I mean, not necessarily this, but something like this.
I'm currently alive, and feeling no pain, but I might as well be dead.
Through some fluke of physics, I fell into the ground. I don't mean like into a hole... I fell into the ground.
They say that for some reason, our u... | 2014-06-13T20:27:04 | 2014-06-13T19:45:34 | 38 | 25 |
[WP] You may be a supervillain, but you have standards. So you're concerned when your nemesis brings along a child. | To: The Superhero Ethics Committee
From: Supreme ManBeast
&#x200B;
To whom it may concern:
I'm writing you today out of recent concern regarding my superhero nemesis RatMan. We have had a long standing feud that has been productive for both of our brands, both his Superhero business, as well as my Villain busin... | I waited with the mayor tied to an explosive, tossing the trigger button every once in a while. I laughed at the mayors reaction. Little did he know this wasn’t the read button, it was on a timer instead.
Just as planned the Hero Mister fantastic shows up. “Ah just in tim-“ I pause seeing a small figure appear next t... | 2019-08-20T18:45:45 | 2019-08-20T18:38:59 | 129 | 24 |
[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." | As soon as he came in, I could tell he was going to be one of \*those\* customers. He had the shaved head, gaunt face, coppery smell, and clothes from the 15th century that I'd come to associate with headaches and conversations that go in circles. "Welcome to Dave's Deli. What can I get for you today?" I say as I try t... | Dave was only 133 years old but he still got called "Bringer of Pollution" and "He who rides on a horse of plastic and rust". All dave did was make plastic comercially availlable and all of a sudden four people clad in respectively battle armor colored red with the blood of warriors, a long black cape made from the mis... | 2020-06-11T22:40:19 | 2020-06-11T22:30:06 | 43 | 10 |
[WP] You are a long forgotten god. A small girl leaves a piece of candy at your shrine, and you awaken. Now, you must do everything to protect your High Priestess, the girl, and her entire kindergarten class, your worshipers.
If you want to post this on other platforms, please credit me. Looking at you instagram writi... | Can you imagine being forgotten? Not dying, mind you, but being *forgotten.* Dying, I could live with, but being forgotten is a different manner.
Every word I’d ever spoken and the influence it had on humanity was gone. My ancient followers, along with their names and faces, could be found nowhere. My temples and idol... | "Wh- huh? Where am I? Am I... awake?" I whisper, suddenly finding myself standing at the foot of my shrine. I look around, so much has changed since I was last here. There is forest where there was once sprawling metropolis. All the buildings made of wood and stone and clay have decayed, leaving only mossy pebbles in t... | 2021-09-02T12:46:28 | 2021-09-02T10:26:34 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] As a dad, you obviously have a mug that claims you're the "#1 World's Best Dad". One day, you find on the news that all "Best Dad Mugs" now have actual ratings, the media is crazy about it, a photo shows a mug with #5,826,827 World's Best Dad on it, curious, you check yours. It still says #1. | My son Max and I were watching Paw Patrol (his favorite show) and eating bacon (our favorite food) when a "special news announcement" came up on the screen. I couldn't believe it, people were being ranked and rated based on their best dad mugs... It wasn't long after that I got struck with a memory...
My dad was sick ... | A wave of regret washes over me as I think back to the day I stole the mug from a co-worker. It makes me think back to all the times I have failed as a father. I decide right then and there to make things right. I grab my son and apologize for making many mistakes. He just looks at me blankly and tells me it's ok and g... | 2019-10-02T22:09:48 | 2019-10-02T16:01:46 | 765 | 251 |
[WP] The lottery is a system secretly put in place so the government can find and capture time travellers and psychics before they cause major problems. As someone who won the jackpot by pure chance, you’re struggling to prove that you are neither of those to the suits that showed up at your door. | When Yolanda Vega-Castro read the final number of the Mega Ultra Power Super Intenational Event, which I everyone just calls “The Moopsie”, I couldn’t believe my luck. In nobody have ever gotten all 30 numbers in consecutive order before. And I knew my life would change forever because winning $1b was life changing.
... | "We usually get the younger ones going for this kind of thing but I guess the older fellas aren't all impervious to the draw of the lotto," said Bruce as he *very* gently put me into the detention room.
"Now what is that supposed to mean? Just because I'm 48 doesn't mea-" He shut the door in my face and I heard his fo... | 2022-10-09T17:34:05 | 2022-10-09T16:08:40 | 40 | 29 |
[WP] People do not get weaker and more frail as they age - they get stronger and stronger. "Dying of old age" is when groups of young people band together to kill off their elders before they become too strong to defeat. | They call him the Ruined King.
Noone knows if he's real, not really. He's just another tale children tell to scare the old.
They say he was a powerful and just ruler at the dawn of time, and that he was the first to unite the hearts of men and form a society of untold power. Egypt, perhaps. Or maybe a society even ol... | "After 40 years of service, losing and regrowing limbs 7 times, and capturing 4 high class oldies, its finally time to kill me." Said a man who looked to be in his early 60's.
"Sad to say, but yes, your time has come, so we will make this your last mission, please die, and make this easy on us". Said a female voice.
... | 2020-01-21T09:29:16 | 2020-01-21T07:32:18 | 188 | 40 |
[WP] We expected the Earthlings to react with outrage and despair when we killed their leaders, destroyed their economies, and took over their governments—but to our surprise they seemed almost relieved. | "So long as we don't rob you boys or businesses we good?", the young black man said as he stared wide eyed at the creature sitting before him.
The aliens translator buzzed conveying the response, "Yes, as long as you leave us and the economy supporting us alone we don't care what you do". This was the fourth time tod... | For centuries we watched. We waited. We were letting our creations stumble through life like resilient toddlers. To create life in our image and have to abandon it. Heartbreaking in some ways.
A few decades ago we let our presence be known. Children grew with the knowledge there was more to life than a singularity. St... | 2020-10-10T22:15:28 | 2020-10-10T21:58:03 | 31 | 18 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I stood outside the bar, hearing laughter and chatting from the warm interior. I looked down the line of people waiting for entry and started looking down the line muttering under my breath, "Twenty-two, twenty-five, Thirty, Twenty-nine, and... a twenty year old."
I sighed and I could see my breath within the cold n... | "DAD!" I shouted, as I slammed the front door to the house behind me. I was in a state of near panic, frantically trying to take my dress shoes off, as I shouted for him again, "DAD!"
I heard noise from the living room, the springs of my Dad's favourite chair protesting like they always did, from age and use, as he s... | 2018-02-12T22:42:59 | 2017-09-02T00:12:30 | 223 | 14 |
[WP] It turns out that humanity is the only mammalian sentient species in the entire galaxy. All of the other sentient species are insectoid. This makes the biology of humanity a fascinating topic for alien researchers. | "...Up to this point," Professor Crixxit continued, waving at the screen behind him showing the anatomical diagrams. "Humans have been, as we have seen, much like any other species reliant on chromosomal mixing of genetic material. Females are inseminated by males, whereupon eggs are fertilised and embryonic developmen... | 109 sprayed an agitant pheremone. "So you're saying their meat is on the outside."
107 absorbed the pheremone without genuflection. "There's a thin outer membrane."
109 enmeshed its neurology more deeply in the hivestream. "I'm reviewing sensory footage."
107 sprayed a humorous pheremone. "Prepare to be horrified."
... | 2021-04-05T03:40:36 | 2021-04-04T19:45:11 | 30 | 20 |
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