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[WP] You're a multi billionaire with severe god delusions. You have several small children kidnapped and leave them on an island with resources and carefully placed 'evidence' suggesting at your divinity. Ten years later, you arrive at the island...
Edit: Sweet, frontpage | *As I lay on the scorched grass, bleeding out, I tried to figure out how things had gone so horribly wrong.*
Ten years ago. Nine children.
Saving them was easy. I had money and everybody at the hospital knew who I was. The matron took me to the ward so I could pick them out, all of them practically newborns, already ... | What happened here?
As I alighted onto the cobble helipad, I noticed the hellish remnants of what I imagined would have been a flourishing society.
"You sure you want me to leave you here, Doctor Robert?" the pilot yelled over the whip-whip-whip of the propeller.
"I'll be fine. This is my world after all."
It re... | 2015-11-27T09:35:23 | 2015-11-27T09:10:34 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] Another boring day at work when you receive a call from your coworker and good friend, Gabe. "Pretend you're talking to a customer. Everyone is in incredible danger. You need to act fast. Go to the desk on your right, grab the gun strapped under it, and shoot Larry from customer service." | "Electronic security, this is Claire."
"Claire, it's Gabe."
"Hey, what's up!" Claire's face broke into a wide smile, the first of the day. Gabe was a good friend, and one of the few things that made working here worth it.
"Claire, listen carefully. Pretend you're talking to a customer. Everyone is in incredible dang... | I looked at the computer screen with utter loathing. Everywhere keyboards taped, mouses clicked, the constant hum of fluorescent lights buzzed in my ears and some asshole just microwaved fish in the staff break room.
My cell buzzed, I looked at the screen, “Gabe” was calling. I tapped my wireless headphones.
“This h... | 2021-08-13T18:42:53 | 2021-08-13T15:22:32 | 67 | 32 |
[WP] After turning on the worlds most advanced intuitive AI, it is asked: "What is the biggest threat for humanity?" The answer is something completely unexpected. | "They're coming."
The Scientist stared at the screen. The government wanted to ask the first question of course. The Machine could be used for a thousand scientific questions later, they had the time. The government wanted to what the biggest threat was right away though. He had expected the usual answers from the AI;... | “It has to be wrong. I don’t care how advanced she is, she cannot know these things.” Project Director, Alfonso Lola closed the door behind him, raising his voice now he was sure the rest of the team couldn’t hear. “It was supposed to be a fucking joke, not the end of existence.”
“Technically, she says we never existe... | 2017-03-24T13:46:54 | 2017-03-24T09:29:04 | 73 | 53 |
[WP] You are an elite member of the royal guard. You have recently been fired from your position because of the new king. Little does he know, there was a reason why the previous king kept you in his service for so long.
Edit: Holy crap this blew up! Thank you all! | My thoughts raced, matching the speed of my footsteps as they pounded down the corridor. Was it my perspective that made the hall so dark and dingy? Was it the sense of impending doom, or had the usurper beheaded the housekeepers in his takeover?
Thirty years, I have served this kingdom. I suppose now it's "had," past... | *An interview with Commander Juan dola Cruz, former Captain-General of King Ferdinand. He provided unique valuable insights on the demise of the Mad king. After my interview with him, I can't help but think that one wrong decision lead to the fall of a dynasty lasting 300 years*
The day the kingdom fell was the day I ... | 2021-02-28T03:15:28 | 2021-02-28T02:31:53 | 173 | 107 |
[WP] At age 15 you told the gf you were "in love" with that you'd always be there when she was in need. Aphrodite heard you and made it a reality, whenever your gf was in need you appear at her side. Problem is, you and the girl broke up after 3 weeks but you still appear even now..10 years later | "I'll have the buffalo burger--medium rare--please," Alan said, before looking over at his date and smiling. She met his eyes and nodded. "and the same for her. Thank you." The waiter collected the menu and left the two alone. Decorations adorned the restaurant he'd chosen for this first date. Lots of pink hearts of al... | It seems like every time I ran into Amelia Fowler she was in the middle of some kind of catastrophe. Just last week she had a flat tire at two in the morning twenty miles out of town, with no one around but cows and cotton. A month ago it was in line at the grocery store with a shopping cart the contents of which almos... | 2017-03-22T15:14:52 | 2017-03-22T13:26:15 | 286 | 21 |
[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 | Jessie's job was working for the city, cleaning up roadkill.
I can't help but see irony in his death.
He probably looked like a deer in headlights.
Which is what he was cleaning up.
That SUV didn't even see him.
Flattened him out real good.
It was road kill.
Leaving him, well.
You know.
Roadkill. | The very air hung heavy with the weight of anticipation.
The sun gleamed off of the white, hot metal.
A sudden, bright flash erupted from the earth.
An excited buzz swept through the crowd.
Deafening silence heralded the deafening roar.
A pillar of fire rose.
It climbed into heaven.
The crowd rose.
They waved... | 2015-01-05T21:54:55 | 2015-01-05T21:35:07 | 122 | 54 |
[WP] A janitor working at Area 51 for 20 years is suddenly killed. Investigators search the janitors home and uncover a video. They hit play... | ...and the janitor's face covers the screen. He begins to speak, although the laptop's sound is broken and Officer Ryan lost the department's last pair of headphones last week; they have to resort to trying to lip-read while they wait for the other laptop to become usable.
Another man walks into the room on-screen. He... | “This appears to be pornography,” Investigator Uno said.
“Yes,” Investigator Dos agreed.
The two men stared blankly at the screen, watching the sex act.
“I wonder,” Investigator Dos said, “If this film holds any clues as to why that guy with 20 years of janitorial experience was suddenly killed while mopping up the ... | 2014-12-18T00:10:33 | 2014-12-17T23:55:24 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] While searching the Papal archives to determine why God has been absent from man for so long, an old priest discovers that the Black Death of the middle ages was actually the Rapture. | "Father, why don't miracles happen anymore?"
*That* question. I'd struggled with it my whole life, until the day I found the answer staring at me in the Papal archives. I smiled at the junior priest. "Well, what do you think?" I said.
He gulped before continuing. "Maybe – maybe there never were any miracles. Maybe th... | He always felt like we didn't belong, as if the way humanity had progressed since the industrial revolution wasn't quite up par with God's plan. And how could he? It was sickening. The lengths we had come to.
An uncontrollable population of 7 billion, using compressed dinosaur bones to fly hunks of metal through the ... | 2015-04-19T10:44:34 | 2015-04-19T08:07:21 | 584 | 74 |
[WP] You are an average Joe who is challenged by a random super hero every week. Your record is 337-0. | You know, almost 68% of the world's population has some sort of superpower these days, many of which are combat-oriented. Most of them don't use theirs for much, content to live their lives out peacefully. However, not everyone's so sane.
Me? I'm just your average Joe. I don't go running around in tights, beating up ... | I felt a rush of endorphins as hero number 337 fell by my side, defeated and in agonizing pain. He was visibly aching, tightly clutching his now broken ribcage and my boot was atop his neck.
"You guys are making this *too* easy," I said as I removed my foot from the hero and helped him back up to his feet. "Don't you ... | 2016-11-19T17:28:10 | 2016-11-19T16:56:25 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | They told me I was lucky. My whole life they said that the stat assessment showed I was one of the luckiest people alive with a score of 100. I swore it wasn’t true. If I had been lucky, why was I born to a poor family? I never got to play games of chance, since those were forbidden to luck score 100s.
Then the revol... | What irony. Perfect marks in school without trying. I never really studied, but somehow once I put pen to paper it was like the answers just flowed out of my brain and to my hand. I was quarterback too. Every time I flung that ball into the air, it spiraled spectacularly into the receivers hands. I always knew I was a ... | 2018-06-29T12:50:06 | 2018-06-29T11:33:48 | 41 | 17 |
[WP] you wake up in medieval-fantasy world. You have no past. You choose the name you will go by and what your living will be before stepping out into the world after being started off by a grizzled retired adventurer who gives you some gear to get you going. | I wake and find myself facing a mirror. I am bald, featureless, wearing nothing but a white loincloth. Before me, there is a huge wardrobe filled with outfits. I try each one on, before narrowing my choice to a grey ranger’s tunic with matching cloak or a barbarian’s leather armour. I try each outfit a dozen times befo... | "Mister? Mister! Get out of the hay mister."
I woke up when a squire tried to feed the hay i had been using for a bed, to a horse. "Are you okay?" the squire said as i looked for my goggles in the hay. "You got quite the beating in there mister." "In there?" I replied, sore for some reason. "Yeah, inside Sleeping Figh... | 2015-05-06T02:01:03 | 2015-05-06T02:00:46 | 64 | 10 |
[WP] The website appeared suddenly one day, with no announcement. Anyone, anywhere could type in the url and access it. The content was simple: A homepage, a search bar, and the full name, a list of timestamped sins and the years to be spent in hell of every living human. | Jared comes home. He had been living with his sister Tabitha and her husband David since Jared's husband passed away. His sister is in front of the computer. She's surrounded by tissues. The house is a bit of a mess.
"Traffic was crazy," he said "It's like it's the end of the world out there."
"That's not funny," she... | It wasn’t as though the internet hadn’t been abused before like this. There was always the odd website floating around, a ‘love tester’ here, a ‘spell caster’ there. This one, though, seemed different. It just seemed to be more special in a way.
Waking up one morning, I sighed. Just another day of complete boredom. I... | 2020-03-01T02:02:12 | 2020-02-29T23:36:55 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] For the first time ever, a person is born with a genuine superpower. They proceed to live out their entire life without noticing or realizing it. | It was not the pain that truly scared him, unbearable as it may be. It was not the throngs of people shaking their fist, practically frothing at the mouth, that shook him.
The skies will part for man and beast alike, and today they darken. Fear grips a slowly beating heart as he wades into childhood and the smell of ... | In a black lacquer box, preserved neatly and cleanly, there is an ancient scroll. On it, an ancient prophecy foretells the arrival of a man of great supernatural power. He would be born with the ability to speak to all the mystical animals of Japan. His arrival would bring a return of Japan to a more natural, harmoniou... | 2014-08-08T08:33:54 | 2014-08-08T08:12:35 | 52 | 29 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | "I couldn't ask for a better birthday," she said. "Beautiful weather, lush countryside and best of all, a picnic with the man I love."
"Here," he said, as he offered her a scotch egg.
"Wow - homemade?"
He nodded enthusiastically. "Go on, try it."
She bit into the soft layer of breadcrumbs, through the meat and into... | I have to say, that this isn't so bad.
Yeah, it's a bit cramped, and the lighting's is too dim, but I'm a fan of the rustic life.
Of course, I preferred living in my Dad's mansion, making all my money off of my job at his firm, but that's all gone now, and all I have is this dingy apartment.
It took some doing too.... | 2017-05-31T06:46:24 | 2017-05-31T02:40:54 | 1,067 | 548 |
[WP] everyone in the world has a number over their head, but nobody knows why. You have just figured if out. | "You can't tell *anyone.*"
"To be honest, I'm not sure they'd even believe me..." He shook his head. "Sinks?"
"That's what I fucking said." The younger man was extremely agitated. The older man had a large 0 floating above his head--the younger man had a 97. "This can't get out. It can't. I'd--I'd never get hired aga... | It had been years since the great accident. Millions fell. Billions rose. The world was at a chaos, until a man came to save us.
His name was Micha. He proclaimed himself as a peace-maker and chains of the world. He did just that. His negotiation skills were unmatched, countless of otherwise terrifying wars were brou... | 2014-06-04T17:50:00 | 2014-06-04T09:38:52 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] As a summoned demon, you are a brought into the aftermath of what looks like the cultists that were summoning you and the forces trying to stop them. No one survived and your summon circle is broken. The situation has led to you being summoned completely free with no constraints. | I swept across the room, searching for any form of life. I was really upset by the fact no one was there to listen to my opening statement, much less cower in fear. I landed back in the center of the circle and thought about the situation. No summoner meant no order. No order meant no contract. No contract to complete ... | I can't help but laugh. I laugh for a long, long time, but it feels like nothing compared the boundless eternities I've suffered in the lower realms. Nothing at all. Risus dolore vota facere liberum est confringetur quod imp. I tear a flaming pike from the fabric of this reality pick up a cultist from the ground in fro... | 2019-10-19T22:18:17 | 2019-10-19T20:58:49 | 41 | 14 |
[WP] "Every 5000 years, the Dark Lord comes to destroy the world, and only you, the Chosen One can stop him." -said the priest. "So, do I need to get a magic sword from the Lady of the Lake?" - I asked "No, just press this button please, everything else has already been taken care of" | "LETHAL INJECTION ADMINISTERED," came the automated voice from just underneath the button.
I blinked. Was that it?
"Wait, hold on," I paused and turned towards the priest, "You meant I just spent the last 18 years of my life training for the ultimate showdown just so the greatest evil in the universe could be killed ... | Never in all my life would I have been able to guess what the button could controlled. It had to be modern I assumed. It was a big, red, rubber button. It looked like an emergency stop button you would see on a piece of standard machinery. I expected to hear mechanical noises or targeting systems spring to life when I ... | 2020-11-09T12:50:41 | 2020-11-09T12:15:45 | 949 | 126 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear old friend,
I saw something that made me think of you the other day. And sometimes I think of you for no reason at all.
I want to talk to you, but I know there’d be no point. I wonder what you’re up to, but I don’t ask.
Because we have both changed so much since then, or maybe we haven’t changed at all. But so... | We cannot sea each other, and perhaps that is for the best.
What we had was a kind of love, a kind of lust, intertwined with hatred.
When I hate, you love. When I miss, you go far. Our connection seems to be a hurting ever interesting scar.
I sometimes see you in the city center, and already the old wounds begin to... | 2017-11-06T03:25:39 | 2017-11-06T02:39:07 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] Write a murder from the perspective of a cheerful inanimate object
The object could also be the murder weapon or cause of death itself.
**E1:** *[Didn't expect this many responses, great writing everyone!](http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070623144510/uncyclopedia/images/2/2f/Cowbell2.gif)*
**E2:** *Holy pr... | It's so dark in here. Then again, it always has been. At least I have my friends with me. They feel the same way as I do. It's just strange being cooped up together constantly but oh well. I think I'm at the top now. Some of us disappear in a flash of light and we think they've gone to a better place but we can never b... | The years have been hard on me, but I don't mind. I've been with her forever and she has been here for me. I remember when she was little she would stay up and watch TV at night, falling asleep on my arm. Flecks of shiny color mark were she went through her nailpolish phase. Patches and duct tape are my badges of honor... | 2014-05-27T05:46:50 | 2014-05-27T05:25:27 | 211 | 38 |
[WP] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday. You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with. | The clock ticked over and chimed.
I was 18...
My grandmother spontaneously dropped her tea and splashed my foot. The burn caused me to shriek. "Well..", I said as I wiped my foot, "I can still feel pain..."
The rest of my family politely chuckled and waited.
"I don't know... I didn't feel anything. How do I know? W... | I sat in a large room with bleached white walls. It was always too cold, goosebumps ran along my arms and legs. A large mirror covered the wall to my left and I tried to pretend I couldn't feel the many people watching me from behind it. I was late. My birthday was November 20th at 1:17pm but when I first came here, no... | 2015-03-28T09:14:46 | 2015-03-28T09:14:23 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] A person's eye colour correlates to what superpower they have, activated at age 18. You are the first person to be born with totally black eyes. | I still never understood how I became such a media sensation. All my life I had been studied, analyzed Psychoanalyzed. I was just a normal kid growing up. well as normal as can be expected when you have this media circus slowly building. But lets start at the beginning.
November 6th, 1989. I'm brought into this world ... | Everyone in my world had different eye colours.Each representing a different element.I was one of them.However,i was one of the unusual ones.
Ever since i was born,i had completely black eyes.My parents were shocked.The doctors couldn't explain anything,not even The Institute of Magic could.No one ever had complete... | 2015-11-15T07:27:55 | 2015-11-15T07:24:41 | 217 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity was the first species to discover space and conquer it creating their self sustaining tech designed to always obey a human over any other species. A frozen caveman has been found and just brought back to life aeons after humanity vanished. | We called them gods.
It might seem ludicrious now, but we had called them gods for Aeons. Even after our science advanced to the point where we could understand their machines were machines, that they were just lifeforms that predated us, we still thought of them as gods. From the delicate nanowebs they had woven thro... | \*\*\*begin transcript\*\*\*
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sent message DST-892: HS2.1 to awake at Singapore General, t-minus sixty seconds.
received message DST-892: Initializing fission reactors for Pan-Asian and New American continents. Exploratory shuttle at Angkor Center cleared for launch. United Orbital Station prepared to re... | 2018-10-01T07:52:48 | 2018-10-01T07:34:18 | 58 | 13 |
[WP] Robots are everywhere and do most manual tasks for humans. They can't speak, but you apologize when you bump into them, say thank you, and treat them well. One morning, you wake up and look outside to see chaos and destruction everywhere, and only your house and front yard are in pristine shape | Joe spent a long minute staring down with his breakfast. Wiping the sleep crust from his eyes didn't change things. He took a picture of the toast and sent it to Teresa.
-Message undeliverable- his phone declared once he selected the image. "Huh."
Maybe he was just crazy but a day off wouldn't be so bad. The boss's p... | Always been a fan of the robots, they don’t do much, but when they do do stuff, it’s nice. Sometimes I tip the robots, I don’t know what they’ll do with money, or even if they know how to use money, but it’s a fun gesture. Recently, some dickhead decided to knock a robot down, when they left, I made it stand up again s... | 2022-09-30T20:08:29 | 2022-09-30T19:50:25 | 1,360 | 83 |
[WP] You are a Norse god of alcohol. A man challenges you, claiming he can go shot-for-shot with you until you pass out. He calls himself... ‘The Machine’
[Context](https://youtu.be/paG1-lPtIXA) | As the night wore on, it was becoming more clear that Harold could *not* handle his alcohol. After jabbing himself in the eye with the back of a spoon, Harold had deemed himself 'Brodin', the god of alcohol. Among his list of accomplishments were: urinating in the sink, reading dvd covers to his cat, and setting his to... | As drink after drink goes down the Machine continued to chug his beers. It wasn't until the 9th keg that I started to worry that I might not win this challenge. Thankfully at that moment the Machine said he needed to drain himself and so I pointed him to the bathroom and as his mechanical pistons begun tomove him I sai... | 2018-09-23T21:03:13 | 2018-09-23T19:16:19 | 54 | 16 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | My finger froze on top of the button. "What do you mean things get nasty? What happens when I let go?"
The desk vibrated as her phone rang. "I'm so sorry, I have to take this."
"What's goi-"
"Anita Hayes, Senior VP of Human Resources" as her name tag had read, stood up from behind the desk and curtly exited the room... | The screen turned on as Glen stepped into the final room. "Congratulations," the robot droned in her robotic voice. "You have reached the final room." She paused for a moment. He looked around the room. It was blank, with white walls matching his clothing in their plainness. A red button sat on the wall. "Please... | 2017-01-05T11:43:41 | 2017-01-05T11:28:44 | 231 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story with what appears to be a completely likable and relatable protagonist, then make him a villain in the last paragraph. | 1:30 AM.
The simple white clock hung on the wall. Perched below it, an equally simple placard with a single, inspirational reminder,
"Everything has a cure."
The sign's words, like the clock's numbers, were getting hazy and hard to read. He'd been at this for 11 straight hours already. Looking back and forth fro... | Now I fucking got him. This asshole thinks he can harass my family and get away with every day. He puts his hands on my sister, and touches my mother, and thinks that I was just going to take it?! No, no, no, not today. Today is the day I stop him.
I sat silently as I watched him walk up the street. I had been prepari... | 2017-07-26T12:22:01 | 2017-07-26T10:43:32 | 80 | 26 |
[WP][NSFW]When someone masturbates,the person they masturbate to feels it as well. | It's weird. As we have evolved as humans, our capacity for empathy continued to increase, until eventually we could feel each other's emotional responses as they were happening. Despite the years of mandatory training, there is still the occasional story of a man or woman dying shortly after feeling the death of their ... | In spite of his years in the oncology department, arguably one of the most humbling and readying rites of passage into the world of truth there are, nothing had quite prepared Dr. Callender to tell Chloë Grace Moretz's parents that she wasn't having seizures nor epileptic fits of any kind, let alone dying. Dread mutate... | 2016-03-12T07:49:14 | 2016-03-12T07:00:34 | 83 | 21 |
[WP] The Evil Overlord is confronted in his throne room by the heroes' party. When the heroes call him out on his tyrannical rule, he counters with the rapidly dropping unemployment rate, the robust economy, and the dozens of peace accords and trade deals signed under his regime. | Newly conquered lands always have headaches. Though sifting through them was a requirement if you wanted to truly rise to the title of Empress of an entire world.
This world, Terra, was going to go differently. I'd already found a way to genetically enhance the local populace so they could better serve in my armies.... | **Part 1**
The throne room of Laure wasn't overly elaborate, nor was it particularly warm. The Kingdom of Callow never had the knack for the fine artisans of Procer, nor the intricate sorceries of Praes, and instead had, in their years of poverty, settled on rough form rather than hollow function. Yet Nullan had not s... | 2020-03-07T21:44:53 | 2020-03-07T19:09:59 | 50 | 33 |
[WP] You're a KGB double agent the CIA sent to infiltrate the FBI who got you join the Mafia who got you a position to sabotage the Yakuza, who placed you in a corporate job to spy on the CEO who wants you to pretend to be the Prime Minister's aide. But they don't know who you really work for. | What had it been, ten years or eleven? I was to bound to mess up sometime. Even the best agents only last a decade out in the field before getting busted and I hadn't even been numero uno in my graduating class, never mind the rest of the department. Still, they had placed me in this role for a reason. I had tried my b... | Sasha grabbed the orange and black 3 inchers out of her closet. Mr. Blaisemore had given them to her as a gift. They were Italian and horribly expensive. They also looked like pumpkins. Sasha hated them. They'd do just fine. Walking to the kitchen, she took the left shoe and smashed it heel-first across the counter. Th... | 2016-10-26T21:45:42 | 2016-10-26T20:48:46 | 1,607 | 83 |
[WP] While you are touring China, you enter an ancient temple that supposedly blocks out evil spirits. When you enter you feel a sharp pain and a weight lift off your shoulders. | "Mr. President we can leave now. Xi is waiting for you outside," the aide was pointing frantically at his watch.
Donald felt lighter like he had in the 80s. The reserve of energy was there again. His back wasn't hurting.
"So this place is supposed to ward off evil spirits huh," Donald spoke to the translator who the... | "Everything hurts," I said.
"Shut up," said Jackson.
I was the pack mule. I didn't really *have* a choice and I knew it. If I had wanted a choice, they told me over and over, I should have said "no" back in Cambodia before I signed up for the Tour. I grumbled about this to myself, and my companion to my right grinned... | 2017-12-01T21:47:48 | 2017-12-01T21:46:04 | 82 | 13 |
[WP] A person dies in the first sentence. Build a character we mourn for in the story, but make me hate them with the last sentence. | She finally fell, colliding with asphalt and crunching sickeningly.
Twenty years earlier, she had been one of the brightest girls in her school. Intuitive, quiet, always the last to speak. Because of that patience, even at such a young age, people held her with a certain level of respect.
Of course, that quietness k... | I made my final peace with the world, and I couldn't help but smile as I pressed the trigger.
I don’t know how I came to this, probably inevitable. I hadn’t known my parents. My mother, from what I was told, a common street whore. My father, well I suppose it could be any number of a thousand different men who had the... | 2015-01-29T13:03:42 | 2015-01-29T13:01:52 | 36 | 17 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | How to impress a woman if you don't have money
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[WP] It's the year 3000, and Galactic civilization has fallen. Kings rule vast kingdoms. Knights charge into battle on horseback. But the starships still work, those were built to last.
Edit: Apparently I'm not the first one to think of this concept. | "I'm dying Kala. I've been dying for the last thousand years."
Kala could feel the grief within him. He had fought for a score of years, more than any man had the right to survive and now, as he sat on his throne, he turned to the one constant in his life to find out she was leaving him. It wasn't right. He was on his... | "*I WANT a hero: an uncommon want,*
*When every eon pass'd sends forth a new one,*
*Till, after cloying the planettes with cant,*
*The age discovers he is not the true one;*
*Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,*
*I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Jaden--*
*We all have seen him, in the pantomim... | 2015-10-03T07:42:07 | 2015-10-03T07:37:52 | 487 | 51 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | What was so unsettling was the *detail*.
He scribbled down the woman's death in his battered little book.
"Blunt forced trauma: Swelling of the cranial tissues: Lack of oxygen to the brain. Death."
Medication did nothing. His doctors informed him it was quite an unusual delusion. He'd asked how they were always righ... | It stopped bothering me after I hit thirty.
After a while, you just do what you can to help them avoid their fate, and it becomes second nature.
Woman with the death sentence
> CHOKES TO DEATH DRINKING A VODKA AND COKE
while drinking a vodka and coke
Will have her drink stolen, smashed on the floor, and then ... | 2015-03-31T11:46:09 | 2015-03-31T11:33:24 | 71 | 18 |
[WP] You are a B-list superhero on the verge of losing your job. During a battle with a villain, you accidentally end up killing one of the most prolific superheros of your time. That's when you realize that with your niché power that was useless as a hero, you could be an A-list supervillain. | I'm a lucky guy.
No, seriously, I have a superpower that makes me lucky. How do you define luck? If I had to put it vaguely, it has to do with causality. I can only put it vaguely. There's no scientifically concrete way to explain it. The cosmos, luck, the force, divine intervention. However you want to describe it, ... | "Watch out!" Perry said, tackling Gaseous to the ground. A red sedan skipped across the bridge, brushing past Perry's feet and into the water below.
Two bulky feet landed next to them. Perry looked up to see a tan bodybuilder holding a section of pavement above her head. Rock sediment bounced off her bald head while ... | 2021-04-14T07:33:00 | 2021-04-14T05:26:13 | 367 | 88 |
[WP]You’re a human stranded on an alien planet. The locals are sapient, but have a lifespan of only about six months. After dozens of generations (about a decade), you’ve managed to make quite a name for yourself.L | "Grok nyr Krevassi, doryn yi"
I am The Chronicle, and time is not my master.
But really, I'm just Larry. It's been what seems another man's lifetime since I was just Larry, with luck against me and hopes running thin when my ship went down & I crash landed on this strange little rock. I was just a maintenan... | 14 years... 14 God damn years I've been stuck here! For whatever reason these things only live for roughly 6 months then die. They've been astounded by me since I crashed here after I lost control from that space prick Callhoun. I thankfully haven't seen on in years because I've been in hiding. Hopefully for them it me... | 2019-04-22T08:13:09 | 2019-04-22T06:41:10 | 88 | 66 |
[WP] Time freezes for everyone around you each time your life is in danger, leaving only you able to move until you are no longer in danger. One day time freezes, but you can't figure out why, until..
I hope its not too vague, first writing prompt ^^ enjoy
Thank you all so much for the responses it's so much fun to r... | Hmm.
 
Okay, so there's danger nearby.
 
Bollocks, I was really wanting to hear the end of that story. Now mother just looks like a special needs child with her jaw wide open.
 
Well, lets figure out what it is this time. A quick scan of the cafe and no one here seems threatening. It's... | It has happened your entire life. You first noticed the time stops while riding your bike at 13. Trying to impress the cute girl in school you had tried riding down the locally imfamous "suicide hill" which crossed over a fairly busy road at the end. You noticed the semi truck to late and before you knew what happened ... | 2017-06-21T08:47:55 | 2017-06-21T07:56:10 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | "There goes the neighborhood," I muttered, packing up my few belongings as the land-squid construction workers flattened the section of forest I'd been living in for nigh on eight thousand years. I'd known they were going to be trouble ever since they crawled their way out of the ocean some two million or so years ago,... | A tale as old as time, for tales and time had by the humans been invented. A legend as legendary as any, if not more, for it had been the object of the ramblings of many of them.
As soon as the human was dumb enough to think it became numbingly aware of it’s own fragility, and with that foolishness came the nonstop se... | 2021-05-14T22:06:26 | 2021-05-14T20:47:48 | 34 | 12 |
[WP] in a feudal world, every warrior's skill is reflected in their blade, the bigger the blade, the less skilled, one day you meet someone carrying just a hilt | The stranger smiled, broken teeth and wear from a long and weary life on the road. His clothes were dusty and patched, the soles of his boots had to be as worn as the rest of him. The man with just a hilt stared deeply at me, the maniac grin on his face one that struck fear into my heart. I'd fought many men, hell, eve... | I am Fuma, I live with my sword. It is not the largest of them, and that is good. I remember the time I yearned to get a narrower blade. It took my sweat and blood under years of training deep within the mountains. For this I got up at the break of dawn and slept only when the animals of the night went silent as well. ... | 2015-02-25T11:44:56 | 2015-02-25T11:33:09 | 483 | 34 |
[WP] It is tradition that on your 18th birthday you are joined by a small magical creature, much like a familiar, to aid you in the rest of your life. When you wake on your 18th birthday and find yours sitting by you on the bed, you are.... disappointed, to say the least. | I expected something... else.
Darv, the hunter next door got a direwolf, one that helped him track game day after day in the forest. Sis got a pixie, helping her knit yarn together into product.
Come to think of it, everyone's familiar helped them with what they did.
Maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
Mother certainly... | When they said "small magical creature" , I cleraly dodn't expected this. Bit now, all things considered, I could get something much, much worse. Also, I don't know how will this help me in my life, but now I have it.
Well, my little friend, from now on you will be Remi, Remi the Spider familiar. | 2018-07-24T03:53:52 | 2018-07-23T23:14:22 | 80 | 13 |
[WP] You look into the mirror but you see no one. You panic but then you see yourself still sitting down, reading. Your reflection then notices you. "Ah dammit!" She hastily goes to match you but she knows it's futile. "Uhm. Just forget about that okay?" she asks. | ..Huh?
I blink. Still no one. I blink again. Okay, this is getting stupid. I pinch my nose shut and try to breathe through it. Doesn't work. Okay, not a dream either. I consider every possibiltiy but can come to no logical conclusion as to why the man in the mirror is-
Wait. Is that me? In the mirror? Sitting on my m... | [Inspired by a game called "The Splitting", discussing mirror worlds.]
Samantha couldn't believe her eyes. She blinked once, twice, yet her reflection didn't move. Instead, she pulled a piece of paper from inside her jacket, and Samantha found herself searching the jacket for the paper. Between her fingers was now a s... | 2021-06-02T13:13:22 | 2021-06-02T10:44:01 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] Write a story about something completely mundane. DON'T make it interesting. No plot twists. NO alien attacks, viruses, divine intervention, nothing. Just totally normal. Please, nothing ridiculous | Hello, you may know me as John Doe. I'm the guy who actually is the protagonist for Reddit writing prompts. I live with my wife Jane. What you write, I live. First of all, thanks for this prompt, I lead a busy life and it's good to have a break. Secondly, coffee is hot. That was my day today. Thank you so much.
So, th... | John lowered the boat into the water and pushed off as the morning sun rose over the lake. It wasn't a very hot morning, nor was it very cold, and John was fine with that. He was mildly interested in going fishing, after the worst week of his life. But that was a story for another time.
John chose a #2 Aberdeen hook ... | 2016-05-23T17:28:45 | 2016-05-23T14:26:04 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] A soldier on the front dies in the middle of writing a letter home. It is finished and sent by the man who killed him. | Dear Mom,
I love you and I miss you dearly. I want to be home. I don't want to be here anymore. It is unspeakably terrifying in this trench. We are shelled at random times of the day. There is never any peace. We can never be at ease.
There is 400 meters between us and the enemy, and we are at a stand still. Neithe... | To my Love,
I don't know if you're still getting this, or if the post keeps on messing it up, but I want you to know that I'm doing this for you. The past few weeks have been hell, but thinking of you helps me to push forward. Speaking of which, how's our little man doing? I hope you went with Thomas. I've always like... | 2015-02-03T13:25:34 | 2015-02-03T13:14:11 | 67 | 14 |
[WP] Aliens have invaded to conquer and enslave humanity, however "slavery" to them involves only working the equivalent of 12 hours a week while having healthy food, shelter, and means of entertainment taken care of so the human resistance is having trouble with defectors preferring to be slaves. | "Why?"
I had learned fairly quickly that they understood our language. But the real trick was to get your questions down to as few words as possible. They seemed to have some telepathic abilities, so even broad questions like - well, 'Why?' - still had their nuance.
It also seemed like speed was a necessity in their ... | Part 1.
I bit down hard on the leather strap, felt a sharp edge press into my gums, but still a whelp escaped my lips as the scalpel slid through the flesh on my buttock and tongs were pressed into the wound. The barb was all the way in, I could tell by how deep they were going, I'd been hit real bad this time. The so... | 2020-11-22T11:57:35 | 2020-11-22T11:32:53 | 2,086 | 92 |
[WP] As a child, you and your best friend made a pact to go on an real fantasy adventure. After growing up, starting your separate lives and families, and losing touch, one day he/she bursts into your office, throwing you a sword and insists you accompany them. | "Don't you remember our deal?"
Jack thrusts a sword into my lap, its blade nearly missing my shoulder.
"The adventure thing? Jack, it's been years; I'm married now, I have two kids."
"Adam, you promised! I've been waiting for this for years! Put on the armor I sent you for christmas, and let's go!"
"I can't! I have... | Gregory jumps up on my table and sticks the sword right in there, through my papers. Where on earth did he get a real sword?
"Kathleen the great, you are my knight in arms and together we shall embark on a journey to free the less fortunate from the great Tower. Together we shall conquer the world!" He shouts. He's we... | 2015-01-28T06:48:27 | 2015-01-28T06:36:01 | 130 | 35 |
[WP] Your supervillain nemesis is little more than goofy comedy relief, always coming up with clunky machines and insane, nonsensical schemes. When a new dangerous villain appeared, your nemesis utterly destroyed them, and then continued on like nothing happened. | Ultraman listened with a slight smile as Über Destructo Gigadeath ranted about his last evil scheme that would see all ice cream flavours turn to licorice.
It was, to be fair, one of the eviler schemes the young man had come up with.
Licorice. Brr.
Anyway, Destructo was perhaps the most harmless of villains in Centr... | People ask me why I go after Basketcase with such ferocity. Why I would dedicate so much of my time to thwarting a villain whose only means of attack is to control fruit? Why tarnish my reputation by holding long and elaborate battles a villain who wouldn’t even take a full episode of a Saturday morning cartoon to defe... | 2022-10-13T20:53:30 | 2022-10-13T20:43:03 | 167 | 68 |
[WP] You are the CEO of a successful energy company. You’re invited to a business dinner, and if the deal goes well, it could revolutionize energy as we know it. Only one problem. Garlic’s in the food, utensils are silver and it’s held in an old chapel. And you’re a vampire. | "It's a chapel!" he yelled at me. "It wouldn't be too good for the company if its CEO died, would it?"
"Answer." He went silent for a few seconds.
"IT'S A DARN CHAPEL!"
"It used to be," I said. "They lose their effect over the years. For this one, hundreds. I will be fine."
"You may come out alive, but if t... | "This sounds like a great opportunity..."
"Certainly does, boss. Think you can handle it?"
I ponder my options. Vampires are always portrayed as evil, but really it's just a select few individuals that enjoy targeting humans - most of us are content on sucking on the blood of animals, similar to vampire *bats*. Still... | 2022-08-21T08:13:41 | 2022-08-21T04:21:32 | 751 | 66 |
[WP] You discover you're an immortal of a rather peculiar breed...a soap opera character. Whenever you die, you always come back to life due to the most ludicrous reason possible. | The first time I died, the emergency room crew tried hard to revive me. When they finally gave up, everybody stood back and looked sad, and then exactly ten seconds later, my heart started, I sputtered and coughed, and sat up.
The attending physician said, "This is *total* bullshit," and walked out.
The second time... | Ok, why the fuck am I still here?" This was getting old. The first time I was reincarnated from a car accident I was told I was actually untouchable by objects because of a special power. That bore some semblance of reality? But a *dinosaur* saving me from a suicide attempt? Could they not come up with a better reason?... | 2017-07-03T09:22:04 | 2017-07-03T05:39:52 | 111 | 31 |
[WP] You can taste lies. One day your friend is comforting you after a tough night and you almost vomit at the foul taste as you hear her say "After all, you're only human." | So it turns out I'm not human. To be frank, I wasn't surprised when upon that fateful day my friend's words turned to ashes in my mouth, almost choking me with their utmost falseness. After all, humans can't taste lies, so the obvious answer was that I wasn't human. Still it wasn't exactly the most comforting thing to ... | I was shocked. How could it be? After all this time.....I didn’t know what to do so I ran. What else could I do? I ran as far as I could and ended up in some hell forsaken forest. I just needed time to think. I sat on the edge of a broken and twisted tree, trying to regain my thoughts. Then it hit me, I need to ... | 2018-05-12T05:25:13 | 2018-05-12T05:15:18 | 1,793 | 11 |
[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. | Of all the little joys in life, one that sticks out the most for me is being the little spoon for my husband, and feeling his warm breath on my neck. He knows I love the affection of snuggling, and continues to nestle in with me even though he frequently gasps on my long brown hair. The greatest stage of sleep for me i... | It was a beautiful night for urban exploring. This part of the town was intensely silent. The warehouses used to bustle with tobacco, textiles, and workers and businessman. But times had changed, and the businesses had gone overseas. Now they were simply beautiful old shells, filled with old machines and boxes of never... | 2017-05-31T08:09:16 | 2017-05-31T07:25:11 | 34 | 20 |
[FF] 100 Words or Less - The parachute isn't opening up | 7 long years I've waiting for this. We jump from the plane. If my math is correct, I have about about a minute and change. I talk the second we exit. Thank God we have a radio.
"I know who are you. And I know what you did." I'm much calmer than I expected to be.
"What?" he shouts back.
"My name is John Kessler. It'... | Jason was a veteran now. Over one thousand jumps, every one going off without a hitch. Today he hadn’t packed his own chute. He had been late and Tony had done it for him. He skipped his usual ritual and just jumped on the plane, flinging the lethal parachute over his shoulder. The ground is approaching now, but it’s i... | 2014-05-15T12:57:00 | 2014-05-15T12:45:24 | 51 | 16 |
[WP] You are a dark god. The police raided your temple, arrested your cultists, and ate the pb&j sandwich that your youngest worshiper left on your altar | I sat in the deep, dark recesses of the world. The cracks, crypts, and caverns where others dared not go. It was in this silence that I thrived. This new world had not been kind to me. Most of my worshippers had died or abandoned me long ago. Only one shrine remained, a pathetic excuse for a temple, a place for lost so... | **WARNING: SEMI ADULT CONTENT**
The ever-pervading darkness, the One Who turns Blood to Ice, the monster under every child's bed
*Lame*, I thought. These were the titles they had crafted for me?
I was fine with having a dark cult- yeah, pretty much *deserved* one after all the shit I had pulled off during my mortal ... | 2020-05-19T20:16:38 | 2020-05-19T19:50:23 | 3,429 | 224 |
[WP] Your middle school librarian has never failed on a book request. As a prank, you request a copy of the Necronomicon. Ten minutes later, the librarian returns, slightly scorched, ancient book in hand, saying, "Due back in 3 weeks." | We stood there with our mouths and eyes wide open. Al continued to stand there with the book in his hand, his clothes still smoking and eyebrows missing. "I said, it's due back in 3 weeks." He shoved the heavy tome into my hands and began limping back to his desk.
Howard was the first to speak. "Don't open it," he sa... | I stepped into the Walden Library. It was a strange Building. Only four stories high, plus a basement, but it seemed to tower over you. The architect had wanted to make a building in a strange shape with no right angles so as to help the occupants not feel "Boxed in" but in reality this just made the inside of the buil... | 2016-09-08T20:47:45 | 2016-09-08T20:41:53 | 1,198 | 149 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Captain’s Log: 2437.04.08
The human, the one that calls itself ‘Cassandra’ (I hope I’m spelling that right), never ceases to amaze me. Ever since we picked it up from that freighter, I feel like we’re learning something new about it.
Just today, one of our crew dropped the ball and forgot to inform it that we’d be w... | "This joke is either in poor taste or incredibly poor taste, Grane." Grane quickly shook his head to indicate the negative, misting his superior's face with unevaporated dampening fluid in the process. The inner lid of captain Vestan's right eye twitched, but she did not repeat herself. If he'd only so recently gotte... | 2020-07-14T03:55:51 | 2020-07-14T02:57:54 | 61 | 41 |
[WP] The rules are simple: Do not be outside on October 31st. Ignore the figured in the fog, appearing like children dressed in costumes. Do not answer the door, no matter how they beg for candy or sound like your own children. And do not tell them your name. | They say time heals all wounds. Well, whoever *they* are, they're wrong. Some wounds fester, burst open and worsen.
It's been six years since the final Halloween. Apparently, the disappearance of a billion children in a single night can kill any festivity normally associated with that day.
Alone, that would have b... | When they told me not to go out I always thought it was bullshit. What else, who else could be the monster that roamed the nights than the humans of this city. After all, they looked identical to a person, fluid motions only replicable by a living being.
So I wondered. Why would they not let me out. I sat slumped by ... | 2021-10-31T18:46:25 | 2021-10-31T14:36:37 | 113 | 38 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Phil was tired.
Granted, Phil had spent a hundreds of years in Hell, slowly grinding his way up the infernal bureaucratic ladder. He had started at the bottom rung, not even allowed to speak. Now, he was a rhymer. Not a higher-up, but it was definite progress. He was reflecting when his intercom buzzed.
"Sir? We have... | "This is complete torture." Klatch said oblivious to the irony in his words.
Every second spent not punishing filthy heathens felt like a millennia. Yet here he was pacing back and forth with no one to release his frustrations on.
"Um... I'm really sorry sir, I bet this is my fault some how." she stares at Klatchs ho... | 2013-11-26T16:23:25 | 2013-11-26T15:52:45 | 220 | 11 |
[WP] You've always dreamed of becoming a supervillain when you got your powers, and just because you were bestowed the power of healing doesn't change anything | It's true, I was very discouraged at first. I have always wanted to rule the world and crush any resistance with my powers. All that seemed impossible when my power turned out to be healing. Weeks I spent ignoring my abilities. Hiding at home, playing video games and slowly giving into despair. In retrospect of course,... | What is good and what is evil? The answer has been redefined with every new philosopher trying to make a name for him- or herself.
Since the first super powers manifested, two fractions were made: The first would help people in need, curb natural disasters and help fight crime. The second fractions would do none of th... | 2019-01-30T04:46:58 | 2019-01-30T04:02:21 | 51 | 29 |
[WP] You were first exposed to r/WritingPrompts when it became a default subreddit. Infuriated by its potential to develop young writers who could compete with yourself, you set out to sabotage it by submitting endless prompts about Batman, the Devil, and Time Travel. | Their writing's improving,
I notice, with dread.
They're refining their talent,
All I see is red.
 
I cannot allow it,
no, this cannot be.
I can't have these writers
writing better than me!
 
But how can I stop them?
Oh aye, there's the rub.
The prompts, they keep coming...
Ah. Yes. Make ... | I, Batman, have seen too much. With a heart in pieces like the ruins of Gotham I activated my time machine. Powered by the sacrificed soul of the Joker, it hurled me back to before this madness, to when I still had time...but the Joker's madness cast me back too far! I found myself standing on a cloud, being yelled at ... | 2015-04-05T10:14:58 | 2015-04-05T09:22:07 | 234 | 26 |
[WP] Adam and Eve were the first and only children of Angels and Demons interbreeding. God feared them. That is why they were sent to be bound on Earth, by the most powerful of seals. Gravity.
Edit: for those people not liking the gravity being the seal: go fu.. Na just kidding, you can just think of something else be... | "They did WHAT?"
The booming shout actually shook the room and sent a shiver down Gabriel's spine and up his wings. There's nothing quite as terrifying as raising the ire of the almighty, and Gabriel had just delivered some particularly devastating news. Yahweh had never been a subscriber to the idea of not shooting ... | It had started suddenly at dawn. There was a prompting from the fish or the dogs, thats what the cobras had assured us of, they said that those were the two to blame. We, for some stupid reason, believed them. The lambs, the sheep, they agreed as well. That should have been the warning to us, those two had some sort of... | 2019-06-24T07:36:59 | 2019-06-24T06:30:39 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] You have an ability to hear a ‘Ding’ sound to know if someone’s speaking the truth. One day, your childhood friend of 17 years says “I swear, I’ll kill you one day.” You both laugh but then you heard a ‘Ding’. Scared, you asked if it’s true. “No” they replied. Silence. | “I’ll be the death of you one day!” She said, with a toothy smile and her eyes enraptured.
*ding*
“You wouldn’t kill me!” I retorted, a mixture of joking and surprise.
“Naw.” She said, turning back to her book again.
With that, we said our goodbyes and I went home with my dad - maintaining an overwhelming sense of... | The strange concoction burns my throat on its way down; searing my insides as it searches for the pit of my despair. Everything around me is starting to blur now; the gray, stormy skies and the moon are a blur before we make our descent on to the top of the structure looming in front of us.
"Get him, now!" I mumble to... | 2019-05-27T05:44:42 | 2019-05-27T04:24:14 | 338 | 251 |
[WP]Every intelligent, skilled or rich human has been evacuated from the Earth to avoid the alien invasion. This leaves the dregs, criminals and the poor behind on Earth to fend for themselves. Centuries later, the other return to "liberate" Earth only to find that they have won and prospered. | For all the scans of the planet's surface and drone inspections showing the state of all former major cities - now desolate wastelands overgrown with moss, grass and towering trees - nothing could have prepared Camille and her crew for what lay beyond her ship.
They hadn't expected to be stopped at checkpoints along t... | The Secretary for Defence looked out of the flagship's bridge. Formerly from the Navy, he had seen and read about how the human defence forces had evolved quickly over a matter of centuries. Space was the ocean in which they sailed, not water. The Air Force no longer primarily flew in the air, though atmospheric operat... | 2018-09-29T04:26:58 | 2018-09-29T03:35:21 | 115 | 51 |
[WP] Since my dad went mute I started learning sign language secretly to surprise him. When I was somewhat fluent with it, I realized that his blessings at the dinner table actually meant "Threatened with death if talk, please go to police". | Emily waited until she and her father were alone. Then, she messaged him in sign language: "Dad, do you want me to call the police?"
Daniel stared at his daughter in shock and then began frantically signing to his daughter as his hands shook: "Emily, you need to contact the police. Your mom is completely fucking batsh... | In sheer disbelief, I gawked at Dad. He simply gestured: “took you long enough, eh.” Okay, okay; he didn’t add ‘eh’, but it was certainly implied. I immediately surged from my chair, but Dad’s stare was more than sufficient to make it adamantly clear I was ought to sit down. and serve food first. With one brief gesture... | 2022-07-21T09:34:00 | 2022-07-21T08:18:57 | 146 | 80 |
[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... | “HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?”
Liam considered. More carefully than he ever had in his life, which is probably why he was standing where he was at the moment, waiting for execution. The withered husk that preceded him was dragged off into a narrow steel corridor. The one he would himself be dragged off to in just a f... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T06:47:00 | 803 | 172 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice: once when their body dies, and once when their name is spoken for the last time. One must wander the earth as a ghost until their name is spoken for the last time; only then can they pass into the afterlife. It's been over 3000 years, and you're still here. | I have always been drawn to battle. To glory. It was my passion in my time when I was alive and from my inherent superiority, I drew much pride.
However, my battle ended more than 3 millenia ago and my pride has tempered. Even my passion left an ember. Yet I am still drawn to where the fighting is fiercest. My sandals... | It is now 2016 AD as they say. Well actually, they started with this AD/BC stuff over 1000 years ago so I probably shouldn't put it this way. Never thought it would catch on to be honest. The birth of Our Lord and Savior never seemed like such a significant event. At least at the time. I actually met the guy (Jesus) af... | 2016-01-17T16:23:56 | 2016-01-17T15:49:31 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Every person is born with a specific goal in mind. Until their goal is completed, they can't die. You are homo erectus in the Stone Age, nearly two million years ago, and you don't understand what "intergalactic space travel" even means. | **The Story of Rog the Space Pioneer**
Rog look sky. Rog be part of sky, Rog born with higher goal.
Rog look around, tribe strong, tribe working.
They have goal too. But they goal simple, can’t understand Rog goal.
Rog can’t understand Rog goal, but Rog never give up.
Rog see familiy age, see father be old, hair g... | Grug received his meal last and sat away from the other families in the village. He set his leaf with his chunks of meat and greens on his stone table before sitting on his tree stump chair. He picked up bits and pieces of his brethren's conversation, and, closing his eyes, imagined himself sitting among them, enjoying... | 2022-11-17T10:44:10 | 2022-11-17T10:10:41 | 1,820 | 139 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | "Fuck me in the ass."
My thick dragon eyebrows furrowed in confusion. I coughed. The fire that was waiting to roast the bastard quelled in my throat.
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me Dragon - stick your big fat dragon dick, up my ass."
I didn't feel amused. It'd been a millennium since my mating season. And this man wa... | The dragon's eyes narrowed, his long neck twisting downwards to better see the coin. It was unlike any he'd ever seen, and that was saying something. Small, perfectly round, made of a strange metal - it resembled copper, but pure, more pure than all the plates in the king's castle. Intrigued, the dragon turned his eyes... | 2015-10-13T22:32:10 | 2015-10-13T17:45:50 | 91 | 16 |
[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. | "It.. how? You..."
"I told you," Jack said to God flatly.
The white-bearded deity shifted uncomfortably on his sandals. "What did you do?" His messy room where everything was just where he wanted it was clean and tidy.
"What you were supposed to do but never did. I fixed the Earth. I fixed the whole universe, in fac... | "How? He says to me. How, after so little time?"
I looked at him, his radiant gaze not blinding me as it did when we first spoke. I could tell that he wanted me to say it, to realize what it was that had finally brought all of this together, what it was that had facilitated such a change in the world below. I co... | 2017-03-05T03:10:18 | 2017-03-05T01:52:13 | 1,634 | 359 |
[WP] With the hero tied up to the death trap, the villain starts their monologue. Just then, a henchman trips over a cord and triggers the trap, killing the hero. "Oh crap, this wasn't a part of the plan," says the alarmed villain. | "Ivan, you know how much it took us to catch Austin, right?", uttered Borsh.
"Y-yes, sir, I helped you disarm him at the quarry."
**Borsh was replaying the scene in his head. Shots, screams, the whistles of stray bullets, the grenades chattering on the ground before exploding, Austin shooting the Gatling until ... | Beads of perspiration slowly fell down the hero’s paralyzed face. It was frozen in fear and horror. Dr. Bridge had a cruel smile. This was it. His moment. After a long and grueling battle Dr. Bridge had finally been able to snag on to the hero’s cape midair. He had used his rope blaster to finally put an end to the scu... | 2019-12-25T21:51:11 | 2019-12-25T19:33:20 | 35 | 22 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 46 | 17 |
[WP] You are an immortal who was caught and encased in concrete, forgotten. Your body's regeneration kept your alive, while your mind remained active. Your prison has finally eroded away, freeing you. | Stasis. Apnea. Frozen for eternity.
Syljir slowly flexed his biceps, wincing at the pain caused by a millennia of disuse. He relished the pain. It let him know that he was alive. And free.
The chamber in which he had awoken was large and cavernous, the smell of wet earth revealing it to be deep underground. He had no... | After the crack in the concrete, the light seeped in. Had I been able to laugh like a manic, I would've done it, for the imagine of the expanding slit of light felt like being born once again. Salutations to my millenniums since deceased mother.
Once the opening was wide enough and the concrete was little and brittle ... | 2018-08-31T08:10:39 | 2018-08-31T07:49:30 | 249 | 84 |
[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. | I hit the wall as I turn the corner, but my churning legs prevent myself from falling as I stumble.
I resist the urge to look back, knowing that I need every ounce of speed that I can muster.
She’s coming for me, and the only thought in my mind is that I don’t dare get caught.
My chest burns with effort, but I pus... | I’ve been asked to write a short story which permits me to use exactly twenty words in the first sentence.
After that one, follows a sentence which has only nineteen words are permitted to be used within the sentence.
The next sentence is allowed to have one less word, that means this sentence has eighteen words with... | 2019-02-19T11:40:05 | 2019-02-19T11:14:00 | 531 | 19 |
[WP] After decades of hard work, you finished 99 of the 100 tasks needed to get to the status of God. But the last one isn't like any other : You have to successfully explain the concept of the multiverse to a 7 year old. | Most of the tasks were the work of years, and luck on top of that. Impossibility after impossibility. Randomized, no too lists ever looked the same, and few ever completed everything. Most who made the attempt started with the easy things and gave up somewhere after 20, or 50, or 70. I pushed through. What else was I ... | I stared down at the child of Baharut who I had taken in after successfully slaying him. My hands trembled from excitement, but I knew this task would last much longer than the drumming of my heart. It had taken me a few days to read the book that explained the multiverse. I had only 11 months left to succeed in teachi... | 2022-06-09T13:37:49 | 2022-06-09T12:14:33 | 297 | 40 |
[WP]- Make me absolutely hate a character, and then make me fall in love with them at the last moment. | I had been thinking about her all day, before I killed her. Her inexplicable attraction to me, and to me alone. All those nights she came to me, though I had never had a desire to see her. Her desperate attempts to grow close to me.
My friends all knew about her. How I complained about her, and vented, and seethed. T... | I kicked the kitten. I didn't feel guilt.
It was young. It still squirmed, and mewed, and wiggled and cried. And I kicked it. Its tiny body flew across the room at the force of my kick, and thudded against the wall. I didn't feel guilt.
I threw back my head and I laughed. It'd move in a minute, I thought. It was, at ... | 2013-10-21T22:10:55 | 2013-10-21T21:20:55 | 134 | 12 |
[WP] “I always wanted to beat you.” said the super villain to the tombstone. “But not like this.” Tears left wet trails down their face. “Not like this.” | She slid down the tombstone and onto the ground, her fingers curling into the freshly dug up earth. She'd never bothered going to a graveyard before, but this one was special.
"I always wanted to beat you," she said, looking back at the engraving. She held a paper bag with one hand. The other came up to wipe a tear t... | The explosion had been terrific. Gorgeous, really, but too powerful. Obviously he expected it to destroy half of the city but he didn't realize that the radiation had stripped Captain Justice of his powers, that the blast from his laser beam would burn a hole straight through his heart, that his arch nemesis wasn't abl... | 2019-01-05T22:08:27 | 2019-01-05T21:15:23 | 79 | 17 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Well, it all started when I visited ole Londontown," Dex started to explain while I fitted on his old blue and grey striped sweater. I was still flabbergasted that the miniature dachshund was talking to me, but really, it was just a relief to see him again. "Man, I really missed this sweater. Your Grandmom really knew... | It was an average Tuesday morning. Wife had already left for work and the kids were at school. It was just me, my coffee, and the morning news.
Suddenly, there's a knock on the door. Salesman maybe? Or girl scouts? It was that time of year after all.
I slowly get up, leaving my coffee on the table and pause the tv... | 2017-03-31T15:08:06 | 2017-03-31T09:26:29 | 60 | 27 |
[WP] Alien travelers stopped at Earth to refuel and consult humans in exchange. An allien consulting an astronomer finds a picture of a black hole on her computer. "Oh, you also scare your children with this tale haha". "No, it's a recent photo" she replies. Alien is visibly freaking out. | The visitor folded inward in a motion that was thoroughly, for lack of a better word, alien. Dr. Braun turned to the 'liaison' that had brought Klurrt and been acting as translator and cultural advisor. She was surprised to see the man frowning with wide eyes, an expression of deep distaste on his face.
"I'm sorry,"... | Have been reading WP for a while. This is my first attempt at writing something for here. Feel free to critique as it is the only way I will improve.
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"It's what" the alien said surprised
"It's the most recent image taken of a Black Hole" the astronomer replied.
"How did you get this, Our best scientists hav... | 2021-12-24T06:14:38 | 2021-12-24T04:49:03 | 2,278 | 564 |
[WP]: Everyone got a tiny, mundane blessing when they were born. Usually they are so small that people don't even notice them - always hitting the green light in traffic, etc. Yours would be virtually useless, but you figured out a creative loophole that allowed you to rise to the top of the world. | Police helicopters roared overhead the densely packed apartment complex. In one of the tiny apartments below, I sat at a dingy kitchen table. Across from me, a man sat slumped in his chair, his hands cuffed behind him. A frustrated scowl etched on his face. "You couldn't have possibly traced the explosives", he said pe... | Nobody expected much of me.
I was the youngest child of four, the "oopsie" if you will. All my siblings had awesome blessings. One could read any book, put it down, and pick it back up years later and still remember exactly which page they were on. Another could play any instrument of the same material once one was le... | 2018-06-30T18:35:57 | 2018-06-30T16:59:29 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] You're a lesser demon from actual hell who has taken a part-time job because the supernatural world has been cutting salaries. You suspect your coworker is secretly an angel in the same position. You're both appalled at the brazen evil of your human employers. | “They cut ‘em again, bloody bastards,” I crushed my fork and tossed it into the hearth. My reptilian skin sizzled, its scales turning over, the gaps between glowing with fiery cinders. “Humans- those insects, they’ve turned agonistic. Atheist. Bullshit, really. If Satan hadn’t been banished, we wouldn’t be in stuck in ... | Now that Hell City was making pay cuts I had to find a job in the human world. I took the Hells Express subway which transported demons up to the overworld which was known as Earth. I knew I could find a job since my old job was surveillance on human diplomats. As I made it through the rift, my form began to morph into... | 2020-08-25T01:14:00 | 2020-08-25T00:45:40 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] On a whim, you decide to take a trip down memory lane and revisit your childhood hometown. But when you look it up for directions-- Nothing. No mapped location, no news articles, no records, not even a Wikipedia article. It's like the place where you were born and raised...doesn't exist. | Alright, so thats... weird, you think, staring at the results on Google Maps. Weird, but maybe not so surprising, the town was so small. There's a chance that it could have become unincorporated county land in the last year and Google just hadn't caught up. Its been a strange year.
You really had no reason to visit yo... | I was lost in a memory, overcome with emotions. I recalled the way the heat registers cranked in the silence of the night, and the way the bottom step into the family room creaked. I remembered the smell of my favorite childhood meal, and the scent of my mother’s perfume. It all came back in a rush of flooding memories... | 2021-05-23T05:48:17 | 2021-05-22T22:53:06 | 80 | 40 |
[WP] You’ve been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You think you have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. You’re up next. | Humankind is not meant to live many hundreds of years. Or thousands. I should know; I'm somewhere in my teen-hundreds. Calendars have come and gone in my centuries of desiccation. My skin smells of dust and mites, the oils that lubricate it long forgotten. My stomach churns at the sound of my bones grinding together, t... | \[The Magistrate's Death Sentence\] (Non-canon)
Hehe... I had them beat. these inmates, they think small, like a baby chick, but me? I like to think big. Bigger than any of these damnable mages could ever pull off. I may be a criminal, but a being like me knows a trick or two to get them to slip, like an Olympic runne... | 2022-11-18T20:35:55 | 2022-11-18T19:26:21 | 155 | 51 |
[WP] Finally dead, you wait quietly at the train station of the afterlife. As you watch everyone leave off to face their judgement, you eventually sit alone… waiting. You watch as a scythe-wielding hooded figure starts approaching, and he… sighs? “Aw man… why’d it have to be you?” | "Aw man... why'd it have to be you?" The figure said blocking the mid morning sun from my face.
"It was a beautiful day out. I told her I'd meet her one fine day. Seemed like as good a day as any." I couldn't look up. Well, wouldn't. I couldn't bring myself to look at another person or being at this moment.
"You wer... | "Let's face it, Death comes for us all." I said with a wink.
"Look, I was drunk.... lonely. It was a on time thing." The skull clacked, not blushing only because it had no skin.
"It was very much NOT a one time thing." I cackled a little.
Death fumed a little. "Just because you embarrass me does not mean I'll let... | 2022-03-05T17:44:43 | 2022-03-05T15:59:58 | 325 | 70 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | Ever since I can remember I had a gift. A gift of knowing how "dangerous" a person might be. I measure people on a scale of 1 -10, people in comas are a 1 while dictators and supreme leaders hit a 10.
I've never seen anyone hit a ten in my life until I turned on the t.v. and saw a democratic candidate running for p... | Numbers taste funny. Nines bud into fires on my tongue, their spent embers resembling something akin to zeros. Ones bleed blue like melting ice or my nurse's cerulean eyes. Fives dissolve like Wonderbread and feel like cotton in my ears. When I went to school with other children, they tasted like loaves of stale white ... | 2014-11-29T14:44:07 | 2014-11-29T13:27:21 | 140 | 86 |
[WP] It's Halloween, the anniversary of when everyone became the costume they were wearing. Those who skipped Trick-or-treating or don't celebrate were lucky, but now they must live with friends and family who became "the cursed". | Ah, Halloween. My favourite time of year. I love seeing all the little ghouls and goblins running around, enjoying themselves. The world has changed a lot in the one year since "The Curse". Different countries handled it differently; Russia and China cracked down on those that were changed very quickly, many of them di... | It is 1 am. The orange street lights illuminate the empty urban streets in the late night. Howls can be heard from afar, and the a few creatures of the night prowl about. Meanwhile, I am sitting in my house to my lonesome while worrying about my girlfriend. She is out for a Halloween party with her friends and I trust ... | 2021-10-06T01:18:22 | 2021-10-05T23:49:49 | 54 | 30 |
[WP] Your boss discovered that you are a demon. Now you can no longer skip work because he could just draw a pentagram in blood and summon your ass to the office, then bind it to the desk for the next 10 hours. It was truly Hell. | "Dude! What in the actual?" I said, dripping suburban water all over what might, at one time and in just the right light, be charitably called a carpet. "I was in the shower."
Dani looked embarrassed for about a picosecond, then snerked. "Clearly," she said, as I shook the water off and materialized some clothing. "N... | I laughed manically as I appeared at my desk.
“Did you really think that’s going to work, Mr President? Summoning me with blood and binding me to the desk? It only lasts through the first command you issued which was ‘hold this folder for me’ And even then the cheap-ass chicken blood you used only borrows fifteen min... | 2019-09-24T08:19:10 | 2019-09-24T07:18:48 | 48 | 32 |
[WP] You are God, after a couple thousand years of people thinking you don't answer their prayers, you realise you've had yourself on mute on the celestial microphone you use to talk to humans.
Edit: Wow, I never expected this to blow up, Thank you for the silver, it was my first ever award!
Edit 2: GOOOLD! Thank you ... | "Well, fuck!" boomed a deep voice from the sky.
At first, the only ones startled were the few people who absolutely, positively knew they were nowhere within reach of a P/A system.
"Peter, can you believe this mute button? Could it be any more hidden?" rang the heavens.
Panic began to set in.
Multicultural friends... | "My love"
"Yes Hlödyn my dear?"
"What are you doing?"
"Same old same old. Trying to get these deaf mortals to listen to my wisdom for once. I gave up a me-damned eye for said wisdom and helvete fucking damn it I will use it."
"Dear...I now know why Thor is so irritated with you. That microphone was on _mute_ you ol... | 2019-06-03T09:40:22 | 2019-06-03T08:58:04 | 111 | 77 |
[WP] Reincarnation exists. You wish it didn't. All conscious minds are simply feeding appendages of an extra dimensional parasitic being which consumes meaning from its host universe. Upon death everything you have experienced and all that you are is stripped from you. You vow to poison the beast. | Building a world is challenging. But building a whole universe is extraordinarily difficult. The simulation you currently reside in took me more time to construct than a human can fathom. Yet, it was all worth it. Your universe was perfect, everything was set in motion as I intended, all with my preconceived plan. Like... | “How long has it been?” I wondered to myself. “How many times have I...been.” The questions echoed in my mind, indicating that this was far from the first time I’d asked them. I never really fully understood the entirety of my, nay, our, dilemma. While I’d always had suspicions, theories, and conjecture, they’d always ... | 2021-02-09T06:53:07 | 2021-02-09T03:57:23 | 400 | 47 |
[WP] Making the body immortal does not mean the mind becomes immortal as well. Today, the mindless bodies of the wealthy from centuries ago haunt civilization. | We watched the Immy walk into a wall.
"Who was he?"
"Someone wealthy, maybe someone important, maybe just a celebrity. they used to keep records on them, but eventually they just stopped".
"Seems like a cold thing to do".
"They're just twitching meat at this point. No way to kill them, but they have no real sentien... | The easiest way to tell Old Money from New Money is to ask the twenty-something with the tailored outfit and the vacant stare one simple question: “What time it is?”
If they can answer you with a reasonable degree of accuracy, they’re New Money. If they shamble onwards, utterly ignorant to your existence, they’re Old ... | 2022-02-17T07:45:34 | 2022-02-17T07:20:44 | 23 | 17 |
[WP] Every person has two deaths. One when their heart stops beating and another when their name is spoken for the last time. To enter Heaven you must experience both deaths. | "I just don't understand it," John said.
His eyes stung with the threat of tears as his last living relative passed through the pearly gates into heaven. As Saint Peter welcomed the elderly man into the golden sunlight of heaven, the years fell from his shoulders and he bounded spryly off towards the horizon, vanishin... | We are the in-between. The not-truly-dead. Cast adrift in time and space.
I don't even know why I'm here. I died over a century ago, and yet my name still echos, somewhere, my legacy remembered. There is a blessing to it, and a curse.
I have spoken with the greatest, and the worst of human history. From Julius Caesar... | 2016-01-05T17:40:05 | 2016-01-05T12:05:07 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Steven's grandmother knits. Not because she likes to, but because she has to.
Hanging by a thread. | He swallowed to keep his heart from lurching out of his body.
The doorknob turned heavily under his small hand, like a planet revolving around it's axis. With both hands, he pushed to open the door faster, but it seemed to swing at it's own momentum.
"Hello?" Steven called into the gloomy darkness. There was no answ... | Day after day, Ethel Peaworthy knits. The surveillant eyes of The Man in Black watches her ever so intently. Her hobby that she used to love and enjoy has now become a tiresome bore. Unfortunately, it's necessary for her to stay alive. Ethel can hardly remember the days before her confinement in the so-called Knittory... | 2015-10-01T08:58:21 | 2015-10-01T08:34:52 | 29 | 11 |
[WP] Ever since turning 17 you've been hearing a voice saying "Get out of my head". After having had enough, you get an MRI scan revealing what the doctors think is a tumor and they want to remove it. Then you realize, that's you. You're a parasite. | It realized it was not in control, nor had it ever been. It was just a slave in Julian's mind, a tumor attached to the sensory part of his brain. All of its memories, its hopes and dreams - all someone else's. But there was no doubt that it could still feel, that it could still think.
And above all, it knew that it d... | *Oh right, I've read about myself,* I thought as the revelation dawned. I remember recoiling at the sight of the aftermath of my kind, especially the so called 'zombie ants.' The way their eyes looked so helpless as they succumb to their fate as living shells made me feel ill, as though a great injustice had taken plac... | 2020-05-14T21:26:39 | 2020-05-14T20:30:26 | 438 | 150 |
[WP] The year is 2082. Queen Elizabeth is 156 years old. people are starting to get suspicious. | "Your majesty another of your grandchildren passed away this evening" spoke her lady in waiting her voice trembling in fear.
"William is gone now too? We shall see him off properly, Buckland Abbey seems like a suiting place this time" replied the queen in a somber voice.
"But your majesty the populace is concerned, t... | "Fool," the man in white mumbled to himself. His perch found itself rapidly abandoned, light steps gliding on and off of houses lit by orange streetlamps. Significance of the job notwithstanding, that apprentice of his entered hot waters nearly every time.
The heroically clad man - who in most circumstances would b... | 2020-05-19T23:25:47 | 2020-05-19T16:33:12 | 527 | 55 |
[WP] You wake up in King Arthur's court with only the clothes on your back. Merlin hands you a box about the size of a pumpkin and tells you it will wish into existence any object from your age, once per day. Camelot will be attacked and destroyed one week from now. Help us, future-man. | OK, this is a quick jokey short.
"This box will give me one thing per day from my time, and Camelot will be attacked in one week?"
Merlin eyed me a little incredulously, "that is what I have just said, yes."
"OK then. For my first item..." I said, reaching into the box, "paperclips."
"Paperclips? Pray tell, what... | "So an army is coming, the castle will fall and everyone inside will be killed. And I have 7 days and 7 items smaller than this box to stop this? Any items at all?"
"Yes lord."
"Stop calling me that, I am no one's lord, just call me Jack. To stop an unstoppable army. With seven items and seven days...let me think.... | 2016-11-28T05:24:59 | 2016-11-28T04:27:18 | 147 | 11 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | The wheel was pressed too far into her ribs and every breath, no matter how shallow, radiated waves of agony from deep inside her chest.
She could see, but the light was wrong. The noise of rushing, bubbling water muted other sounds. She couldn’t feel her feet, but she registered the water that was rising up past her ... | I 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... | 2015-06-09T09:37:54 | 2015-06-09T09:01:47 | 24 | 14 |
[WP]There exist five universes, each one tentatively connected to the others. Each universe is defined by the ABSENCE of one of the five elements; Earth, Water, Air, Fire & Magic. Our universe is the one without magic. | First, there came the oceans. Each planet layers upon layers of cool darkness, with cores of ice and fire. In the worlds without Earth, creatures larger than the planets themselves wander in the darkness between galaxies, and the smaller ones live upon the clouds or deep beneath the surface of the water.
In the place ... | I flipped the switch, and took a deep breath. As expected, a portal appeared in the center of the room, labeled with the number 3. I knew that the five universes each lacked one of the five elements. We were universe 5, and we lacked magic. The others were missing earth, water, fire, and air, respectively. Everyone in ... | 2017-04-30T09:06:32 | 2017-04-30T08:52:54 | 234 | 39 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | A man in a heavy trench coat with a thick beard approached the door. The number over his head, 1517. "Well, that's over 21" I thought. On his way through he tripped over the step and two dwarves toppled out of the coat. Their number were 15 and 17. "Nice try" I said, "no filthy dwarves in my good elvish bar." | >14:00
>Fourteen hours?
"Uh Ma'am you can't bring your baby in here"
"Fuck you cunt! You sound like one of them fucking doctors cunt! I need a fucking drink. I've had five kids and know my body better than them. It's just a bit a bleeding"
>I don't get paid enough for this shit
| 2017-09-01T22:32:16 | 2017-09-01T21:44:55 | 1,408 | 70 |
[WP]Tell me an emotional story about a man, using only what he would type into Google search | Great pregnancy foods
How to make wife happier during pregnancy
Are cats okay to be around pregnant women?
Local shelters
Price of spay/neuter in area
Best hospitals for delivery in area
Cost of child birth
Cheapest hospitals for delivery in area
Do men have to do anything during the birth
Keeping placenta?
B... | - Online dating sites
- First date ideas
- How much do you tip
- What clothes do you wear to a fancy restaurant
- Ways to save money
- How to get proposal ring in secret
- What is a good price for a ring
- Resort honeymoon suite cost
- How to save a lot of money
- First class tickets to Hawaii
- Coach ticket... | 2015-02-04T18:24:30 | 2015-02-04T17:35:01 | 672 | 161 |
[WP] You're a detective with a 100% solve rate mainly because you can read minds and because of this you mess with people by saying stuff like "I knew he killed his wife with the butcher knife that he hid under the stairs at 5:50 a.m. Tuesday because as soon as I walked in he had breathed 3 times" | It's a normal Tuesday afternoon. The clock on the wall is ticking by idle hours, a hazy sunlight lazes through the single window, a corpse stares up at the ceiling with empty eyes. A normal Tuesday afternoon. I sit cross legged by the body, head tilted to one side.
"Well?"
DCI Banbury sounds annoyed. I can hear his... | Detective Andy walked into the interrogation room and asked one question, not even vaguely related to the murder of those kids. "Sir, what's your favorite type of soup?" The man seemed baffled.
"Umm, Chicken Noodle, I guess." The man stammered.
Andy stood up and slid his seat in. "Murder weapon is a rusty pipe, 13cm in... | 2019-02-22T01:39:01 | 2019-02-22T01:33:50 | 58 | 39 |
[WP] "Oh, don't mind those mage protestors. They're just pissed that our technology is advanced enough to emulate their spells."
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur C. Clarke | "Yes, but WHY is that happening? I know our technology is improving, but shouldn't their magic be improving as well? Shouldn't they be busy learning new and upgraded ways to turn their control of the elements into practical or more powerful versions? I admit I'm not the most intelligent man here, but the mages claim... | "Oh, don't mind those mages. They don't get it yet. They don't understand true power."
"And what is that? You yourself admitted that your technology is 'emulating' the spells. Every bit of knowledge necessary to emulate that came from somebody. All of that knowledge and power in these trinkets, that's what you're... | 2018-01-04T09:04:11 | 2018-01-04T06:16:21 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You are reincarnated 10,000 years into the future. You come across an ancient artifact on display in the Museum of History, where you work. Little is known about it, not even where it was uncovered. Upon touching it, you realize it was yours. | “Finally, the Museum of History,” he said. “Not like there’s a couple thousand,” he added under his breath.
The wastefulness of the 23rd century had left behind lots of junk, as did the 27th and 28th. All had a strange obsession with emulating previous centuries, sort of like a come-back of the Romans (in some cases).... | As I entered the exhibit, I laid eyes on the thing. Something seemed familiar about it, but I just couldn't put my finger on it. I pushed the thought to the back of my mind, and continued on with the tour group, yet still, it bothered me. That feeling of knowing something that you just can't bring yourself to remember.... | 2019-09-23T19:52:09 | 2019-09-23T18:10:27 | 35 | 13 |
[WP] The first human spaceship capable of FTL flight reaches deep space and makes the most terrifying discovery in the history of mankind... | "You brought back pictures?"
"Pictures, etchings, full immersion simulations, things that provide experiences which we don't even have names for, and an orb that somehow influences your dreams."
"And these things were everywhere?"
"Yes, sir. Hyperspace was chock full of them. There's still plenty stuck to the hull... | We had done it a century earlier. We had taken to the stars beyond our own solar system. We visited countless planets, moons, systems, stars.
We saw sights no one on Earth has ever imagined. Our colonies flourished. Our people spread throughout the galaxy. Overcrowding on Earth became a thing of the past.
For years... | 2015-02-03T08:51:31 | 2015-02-03T08:32:01 | 219 | 60 |
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