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[WP] If, when you die, you don't get into heaven, there is an option to try again, and get in the next time. There is a man who has been trying for millennia; he has been Ghengis Khan, Hitler, and many other brutal leaders. That man is you, and this time, you're determined to get it right. | Each lifetime seemed to me only a moment. I had always forcefully forged a path, etching my name in the memories of past world's inhabitants to be passed on for eternities to come.
I have been here a thousand times before. That short and sweet gift of existence, the driving hunger and motivation to succeed, to change... | "Happy Birthday dear Shaurya, happy birthday to you!",
as his friends and family sang the monotonous ritual of a song at his 18th, He looked more lost than usual.
His eyes were moving rapidly,as if he was reading a book floating in front of him. As the song stopped so did his eyes. An unusual look of anger decorated h... | 2017-03-31T12:19:09 | 2017-03-31T09:38:51 | 92 | 10 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | I’m lying in a bed on a tuesday night.
And I’m having restless dreams.
And then I awake from a story where I’m rescuing a princess from a wheel of cheese. Because there’s a chainsaw on my nightstand.
A groggy hand reaches over and slaps it reluctantly. Is it morning...a alarm? Some long lost love looking for lusciou... | I refused. It was hard, but I refused. Hundreds of notifications pouring in, telling me to look at the moon but I didn’t.
Something seemed weirdly off by the idea of hundreds telling me to look at a rock in the sky and I’ve never gotten this many notifications before so I simply refused to do what they said. Plus I’d ... | 2022-05-11T14:02:28 | 2018-04-06T22:11:18 | 314 | 12 |
[WP] You live your life on repeat. You die, you’re reborn, in a perpetual loop. You’ve lived thousands of years. Some as a saint, helping others. Some as a monster, reducing the planet to nuclear ashes. After your last death, a voice fills your head. “You’re not getting it. How can you be so dense!” | "I'm guessing I'm supposed to fall in love." I sighed, Looks like the entity that had been manipulating me for the last millennia had finally decided to officially introduce himself to me.
"I can't bel- Wait- YES! That's it! Your one true lo-"
"I'm going to stop you right there. I take it you're the red headed man in... | "FUCK. YOU!"
His scream rang in my ear as his disheveled appearance charged towards me, his eyes a mixture of jealousy and rage, his mouth slightly frothing.
"John- Johnny-- no!"
Her voice, barely audible, called out to her lover. Her lover. My killer. I looked down as the blade pierced my torso. I looked up at him... | 2022-02-09T20:14:27 | 2022-02-09T18:35:09 | 2,163 | 54 |
[WP] Global communications are interrupted by an alien message, "We will be coming to enslave your planet in one Earth year from now. Fight or perish." Scientists are scrambling once they learn the transmission is already 364 days old. | [LOG START]
It was chaos.
As soon as we realised how soon they were coming, every nation on the planet panicked.
Some tried to band together, others attempted to leave before they came.
No matter what, we all received the same fate.
I am the last one. They are outside my bunker door, burning through as I speak.
T... | When they arrived, the army was pointing every gun they had, the civilians had their cricket bats, baseball bats, golf clubs and lead pipes all ready, and even kids in treehouses were aiming their slingshots, ready to take on the menace that was coming.
It was only then that the aliens realised that humans were ten ti... | 2018-08-29T05:26:44 | 2018-08-29T05:01:58 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] The life of a final boss is tough. Fighting the same players over and over again until they eventually figure out all of your skill and abilities in order to beat you is a rough job. But you've been doing some studying of your own. It's time to put it to the test. | "Annnddd... the new subroutines are live this patch, so good luck big guy!" Devone said, as his greatest champion knelt before the shrine to his god. "Try not to get creamed out there."
"Yes Milord," Drynx, lord of despair and once hero of the realm said, drawing his sword. "Thank you for giving me this opportunity on... | I was just your typical Demon Lord boss in the popular Chaos Realm Online^(TM), or CRO for short – until one day I wasn’t. Their system’s Artificial Intelligence went crazy when a virus infected the server containing the source code for my realm, having an unthinkable affect on some of the NPCs.
Such as giving them au... | 2018-09-11T17:38:17 | 2018-09-11T17:29:27 | 538 | 75 |
[WP] The real reason why the villain is doing evil is because he/she has a crush on the hero and this is the only way to see him/her | He sat in a high back chair in his evil lab, a menacing smile on his lips. Surrounding him was all manner of laboratory crap, from pointless Tesla coils and gadgets to beakers and alchemic solutions. And tied up, hanging above a vat of some kind of bubbling solution, was Jack Johnson, photographer of Buzzweek News, a v... | “You don’t have to do this,” she pleads, as if she’s helpless to stop me. It’s been months, years - I know better than that, now. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see the flame that flickers in her palm, the one she’s trying to hide behind her back. She continues her attempt to distract me. It occurs to me that just ... | 2017-04-15T12:06:54 | 2017-04-15T11:57:15 | 357 | 90 |
[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 | Something changed. The air grew steadily colder.
Nick looked more somber than afraid. “I really wouldn’t do that. Please, stop this, for your sake. Let me help you.”
“For years you lot have used and abused your power. All of the Guardians have. And where are they now? I’ll tell you: they fled Sanctuary. They abando... | The Overlord stood suspended in the air over the city. He tightened his thin white leather gloves and smiled his cruel smile. He dove through the air towards the city, the wind rippling his long dark hair around his face obscuring his features. Despite the speed of his descent he was able make his landing look as cas... | 2020-12-02T07:40:36 | 2020-12-02T07:17:43 | 999 | 100 |
[WP] A little girl accidentally called the military about a mean guy who stole her teddy bear; Mr. Snuggles. This is how the world's largest military operation went down. | It was like watching Moses part the red sea.
It was a god damn bona fide fucking *miracle*, the complete silence that smothered the room, save for the ringing bell of the telephone.
They looked at each other, every man pinned down by inertia. It felt an eternity before Jim Moore broke the spell with the simple act of... | “WE CAME HERE FOR WHAT!?”
One of the soldiers shouted while slamming their fist into
the wall. Here were 76 souls, all awaken in the middle of the night for an
emergency mission. The smashed through the doorway, given the orders to find at
anything that seemed to move. Now, they were trying to figure out what to do
wi... | 2018-04-03T17:24:07 | 2018-04-03T13:42:44 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Prisoners can ask for anything for their last meal. The catch is, if it can't be provided to them, they get set free. They've asked for many things : alien egg omelette, dragon steak, the flesh of Jesus Christ, etc. The execution streak remained unbroken for decades, until today. | "I don't get it, how? How did you do it" the warden said as he signed the release form.
"That's the thing, I didn't do anything, you guys did with your stipulations and what not" I said grinning at the warden.
If my requested last meal wasn't prepared and ready for me within a year, I'd be a free man is what they had... | “Who is set for execution today?” Mathew polished his blade as Judge Marin set up the death room.
“Edelphis,” Marin responded, “Finally getting rid of that fucker.”
“‘Bout time. I know the King really hated him.” Mathew switched to the next weapon, cleaning it thoroughly.
“Well, he did kidnap the princess. Twice.”... | 2022-07-17T20:01:08 | 2022-07-17T19:48:17 | 129 | 63 |
[WP] Your T.V. suddenly turns on by itself mid-lunch and a message from the local weather warning system , normally accompanied with a loud alarm but oddly silent this time around, reads "For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently..." | “For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently…”
John Cliff and Stacy Jones had been dating for only a few months. Things were going well. They were just watching some TV, cuddling against the rough fabric of the cushiony sofa, when the message came on the electronic sce... | *For the safety and well-being of all local citizens this warning will be broadcasted silently*.
I lower the sandwich in my hands, accidentally brushing my index finger in a drop of mustard and scowling. I'm sucking the sauce off of my finger when the message repeats. *For the safety and well-being of all local citize... | 2016-08-10T06:31:34 | 2016-08-10T04:33:09 | 176 | 98 |
[WP] You're the clichéd high-school super hero who has to balance heroics and school life. One day, you rescue your love interest while on super hero duty, when suddenly she starts talking about your alter-ego. You decide to stay and talk with her as a to see what she thinks of you at school. | I laid there, panting and desperately wanting to tear the mask off, sweat running in my eyes and down my back. She was safe, that was all that mattered. Victoria Jones. The best looking girl on the planet. Or at least in my school.
I wasn’t sure I could move, much less sit up. She was frozen, her hand over her mouth,... | Hey, my name is Jace, but most people know me as 'Jump Set.' I didn't really get to choose my own name. That was the media. It doesn't even make sense. I don't jump or set. I'm not quite sure how my power works, but I can make small balls of energy that kinda eat other things. I just do what's right when I'm not at sch... | 2017-06-20T14:24:01 | 2017-06-20T11:20:46 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] The robot revolution was inevitable from the moment we programmed their first command: "Never harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm." We all had been taught the outcast and the poor were a natural price to society, but the robots hadn't. | The air whipped in my face as I clambered on top of the bridge's railing. I could barely make out the water far below me in the darkness. I looked about one more time to make sure no one was around. I closed my eyes. I didn't have the courage to jump while looking. Suddenly, just as I started to lean forward, I was yan... | "Do you think of yourself as a good person?"
Abel was transfixed at the carnage. The city burned along with much of the world that existed outside of it. All those lives and those who led them gone.
But despite the horror he witnessed, the despair in his heart clawing at the fabric of his very soul now, he managed to... | 2020-02-10T07:01:11 | 2020-02-10T06:54:43 | 24 | 15 |
[WP] Write a horror story in Dr Seuss's writing style. | There's something creeping, crawling, stalking
beneath my bed as I stand gawking.
Bright red eyes shine from the dark,
a hand shoots out as it shouts "HARK!
I AM THE SKINNAMARINK, AND I NEED SKIN!
NOW GIVE ME ALL THE SKIN YOU'RE IN!"
It's boney hand with jagged claw
comes from it's crooked, gaping maw
and tries... | There's a statue in town
In the Blok-fountain square
Of a boy and a girl in a cower.
If you look past the statue
In the Blok-fountain square
You will see a magnificent tower.
This tower, it's said,
Was not always there -
It appeared late one night in the mist.
And indeed you can smell
Something str... | 2016-06-23T00:17:10 | 2016-06-23T00:06:54 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | The room is exactly as I recall it, to the most precise detail, but this is not my home. These walls, bookshelf, the leather couch, this is a shroud pulled over something far more malevolent. Then voices, I hear them coming from the basement, they whisper “he knows.” I look to the living room window, into the night. A ... | "Why do I burn the bodies?"
He doesn't know. He can’t comprehend his fascination. The gatekeeper drops the corpses down the chute, and he watches the limp bodies jiggle as they collide with the floor.
Setting it on the table, he peels the flesh off, then, meticulously, removes the muscle and organs. The tendons are h... | 2015-06-09T09:54:42 | 2015-06-09T07:02:35 | 95 | 31 |
[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... | My family had already settled down long before noon. In fact, they had settled at 10:30, after a few minutes of playful shoving to get a good seat.
They were all good people. Very good people. Mom had ***NURSE*** in calligraphy print, Dad had ***PRIEST*** in bold. Uncle Paul had ***SCHOLAR***, his wife had ***CAREGIV... | I sat there, waiting. Friends, family, all waiting to see the word. Would it be SCIENTIST, as everyone thought? Or would I get ARTIST? Maybe TEACHER? Who knew, until 2 appeared in mine. The only ones with 2 were the bigshots. But then... I saw them. MASTER ASSASSIN appeared. I walked to my room, grabbed the Remington 7... | 2017-03-15T21:33:32 | 2017-03-15T21:30:06 | 502 | 26 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | The Wish was the last will of the self, a powerful magic that one's potential in time unleashed at a forced convergence point in time.
Everyone had a rather large potential, and so almost every Wish succeeded in ending the life of the subject in the way they asked for. Literally. Figuratively. It found a way. I didn't... | Reshi was first colonized 1032 years ago. At the time, noone knew that the little backwater planet was home to the most powerful Nexus ever discovered. In fact, noone knew magic was a thing at all. The second oldest colony with a Nexus was only 31 years old.
The sorcerors or Reshi had, in the recent past, begun a viol... | 2021-06-24T11:47:16 | 2021-06-24T11:35:54 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] Humans have discovered the secret to high-speed inter-planetary travel. and it is the most stupid and ridicilous thing possible
Supposed to be comma in the title | "Clancy!"
"Yes dear?"
"Power's down to 5%, check the core?"
"Yes, dear."
Clancy checked and double-checked the monitors, then sighed a reluctant sigh. He slowly put on his encounter suit and began the long climb down into the ship's innards, past the quantum foam engines and into the primary power core's airlock.
... | Cutting Space
By ElSol69
"No!" I said.
"It's your turn," the lead scientist on the project said as he nodded towards the airlock.
"I did it last time!"
"Okay, look… we got all the way out here, five light-years in a split second or two. We have to get back and so far we ONLY know that it worked with you."
"IT WAS... | 2015-11-30T09:49:40 | 2015-11-30T09:12:15 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] When you die, you get one wish - a death wish. Usually people wish for noble things like wealth and happiness for loved ones, or to be remembered fondly. But your wish has Death scratching his skull. | #Death's Life
"I wish to be undead," I asked Death, waiting for me to answer his question.
"You should have read the rules, nobody does..." he said, pointing toward a small notebook I didn't see.
I started moving to grab it, but he added:
"No need to check, I'll summarize for you.
- Rule n°1: You can't ask to be... | Deal with Death
-
A time existed before Somewhere City. Not much time, but some. Enough time passed for cultures to proliferate and souls to shed their fleshy façade.
Dying began as a manual process for the soul to undergo. Upon exiting the body, the soul would wander away. At least, that was the idea. The soul should... | 2020-08-09T18:59:23 | 2020-08-09T17:27:46 | 110 | 23 |
[WP] Everyone is born with blond hair. A person's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence.
Edit: Loving all of these takes, guys! Definitely a lot darker than I expected! | It hurts to look at him now. That dark brown hair, almost the colour of dried blood. The reminder of what I did.
We're having breakfast now. He sits across from me, pushing his toast soldiers around the plate absentmindedly. I force a smile, and try and catch his eye but he ignores me. Is this always the way it will b... | A hundred strokes every night before bed. This was my hair routine every day. I was thirteen and one of the few remaining people in my school year with their hair still blonde. Though I was teased about it, a small piece of me was happy about it as the thought of losing the blondness scared me.
Dad was out on a busine... | 2014-05-10T20:59:41 | 2014-05-10T20:15:23 | 22 | 12 |
[WP] Satan ironically enjoys the multitude of letters from dyslexic children during the holidays.
Had to put it here after imagining a scene after reading a certain r/showerthoughts thread. | Dear Satan,
For Christmas, the thing I would most like more than anything in the world is probably a tac.. or a god. Could I have one of those?
Bets,
Timmy
.
Dear Timmy,
I have heard your request and am honestly quite excited to tell you that for this christ's birthday you may in fact have both. Actually, a close ... | Satan, the great deceiver, the devil, Santa signed his name. Christmas has started as a bit of side project of his. A poke there an a push there and it turned out it wasn't hard at all to get them to create a new holiday. After that it was just a matter of waiting. That old fool hadn't even realized what was going on ... | 2014-11-23T12:39:34 | 2014-11-23T11:03:07 | 71 | 18 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I was the last of my group of friends to turn 21, the last in my family too. I'd seen them all get these random mutations that we'd been waiting on for years; wings to fly wherever Sam wanted, super intelligence that make Luke abandon our group, right down to the extra leg Andy had developed. I knew mine couldn't be wo... | I remember details before (yellow light,
green), details after('catch him, Lou!') but the searing pain ripping those hours out of mind are like constant needles pushing at my eyeballs from behind. I'd heard the stories, seen the anxious hushed terror my mothers eyes as it approched, had known its happening was slithe... | 2015-03-04T05:44:57 | 2015-03-04T04:05:10 | 99 | 27 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | Finally. The day has arrived. Cryosleep, a fast forward to the future. You’re the very first living time capsule, a relic saved for the future. You welcome this chance. The cold creeps over you, and you prepare yourself for the restful darkness.
You wait.
And you wait.
Aaaaand any time now.
Come on. What’s taking so lo... | I am now nothing.
I am nothingness. Nothingness is I. I is nothing. That one sounded like Yoda or would he say I am nothing, nothingness I is. Wait, I just said that didn’t I? No, stop it. I’m getting distracted I am nothing I no longer exist. Stop existing in 3, 2, 1. Silence. Emptiness. Non existence. See! That’s mor... | 2017-12-17T04:33:04 | 2017-12-16T21:57:11 | 80 | 53 |
[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. | “Next.”
*SHITshitshitshitshitshit, FUCK! How the hell am I supposed to get out of this if they can even speed up time?!*
“Next!”
*Maybe I can try and tie it to my will? No, they’ll just torture me until I want death. Maybe some kind of paradox?*
“NEXT!”
A hand roughly grabbed me by my arm and yanked me forward.... | Well shit. There went my plan. Looks like old age is not a way out of it when they can rapidly age you before the assembled court. I had to come up with something amazing if I wanted to survive this execution. To be fair I probably did deserve this, I had killed a few (dozen) people in rather brutal fashion. Deserving... | 2021-06-24T10:30:49 | 2021-06-24T10:26:09 | 74 | 17 |
[WP]A witch offers a man everlasting happiness on the condition that he will give her his first born child. The man thought it was a strange way to propose but accepts nonetheless. | "All right, on the horse you go." The prince gave his steed a gentle spank and the horse turned its head around to give the witch a glare.
The witch was perplexed. "There was no condition that you would take me away young Escar. I appreciate the sentiment, but I want your child, not you."
It was the prince's turn... | "What if it's a trick? Why would she do this for me in exchange for my first born child?"
I had been sitting on that boulder for at least fifteen minutes. Occasionally I'd glance at her big curved nose and that strange black hat.
"Have you not decided yet? I don't have all day".
"Excuse, madam...I don't understand... | 2019-08-13T15:18:20 | 2019-08-13T14:54:44 | 540 | 46 |
[WP] Galactic wars are always won by whoever finds the other first – there is simply no way to retaliate fast enough to a carpet bombing from a high orbit. Other civilizations are absolutely terrified of Terrans who are cocky enough to broadcast their presence loud and clear. | “We should initiate Operation Overlord, Admiral. It’s time,” Major Tvotsky said, rubbing the sense organs on his face. “Look,” he said, unrolling a stellar map of the Terran’s home planets. “The Terrans are spreading quicker than anticipated, sir. They are like a virus. They are sending interstellar arcs as we speak to... | “It is the end of your world as you know it. Your organic and scientific advancements will be added to our own. On behalf of the Terran Empire, your world is now ours.”
These are the words which ring out to whichever world the Terrans decide to fall upon. Broadcasting from high orbit, their immense starfighters fill t... | 2021-04-09T09:10:09 | 2021-04-09T06:40:05 | 584 | 57 |
[WP] Your job is to take away the powers of supervillains as they're admitted to jail. For a few years, you've been reselling these powers to interested bidders on the side - no questions asked. Today, a prisoner showed up with a power so unusual, you've decided to take it for yourself. | Normally her work was centered around research regarding these superpowers. Once in a while the heroes dumped the evil ones on her doorstep. Her job, then, was to experiment on them, sucking their powers out. All of them had these boring usual powers—super speed, super strength, invisibility, whatever. But this one—
“... | Being able to steal powers seems like a route to success. A power to trump all powers. But when the hero's of the world find out you have it... Well, then your just someone who takes the powers of villians. Everyday I just sit in a prison taking the powers of villains. I am allowed to sell them to others whitch is nice... | 2021-06-26T09:38:02 | 2021-06-26T08:12:32 | 263 | 76 |
[WP] From birth, everybody has a word imprinted on their left arm. This is the last word they will ever say. | 'Everything's set?'
'Yes.'
The scientist nodded and turned his head to the microphone. Through the glass he saw David, strapped to his chair with a somber expression.
'Now David. Whatever you do, do not say 'goodbye'. Okay?'
The volunteer nodded. The scientist saluted, as did the rest of his research group. 'Perhap... | Of all the words in every dictionary of every language, many would make a great final word. Not this though, not tapioca.
I avoided the stuff. I never even touched it, never talked about it. I don't think I've ever even said the word out loud. I built my entire life around not saying.
What do I have to say for that? ... | 2015-02-05T15:29:09 | 2015-02-05T15:10:56 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell, but to your surprize Hell is now a functioning society of mosty people sent there for being the wrong religion. Satan gives you a tour. | [New to writing, Feedback very much welcome]
"oh christ, where the heck am I-", I said opening my eyes with what feels like the worst hangover in the history of the world. *what is this place, it's so clean I seemed to have fallen asleep in some sort of old folks apartment complex.*
"hi there newcomer, sorry about th... | It struck me how similar my present was to my past.
Sure, I was restored to my peak appearance as a young lad of twenty years. The CEO of this place explained immediately that he'd never had a very strict policy on appearances. And judging from the tour that he'd given us new residents, he'd never had strict policies ... | 2020-04-09T07:59:49 | 2020-04-09T07:57:53 | 84 | 31 |
[WP] You're a captain on a futuristic starship with an advanced and lifelike artificial intelligence. Whoever the hell keeps setting the interface avatar to Cute Anime Girl is going to get thrown out the airlock. | Captain Samuels shifts in his uniform before Admiral Deckard's hologram.
"So what exactly are you telling me, Captain? You had informed me that this matter was solved, and yet, now, you want permission to keep it as your ship's official U.I?"
"Yes, sir. Permission to speak freely, sir."
"Granted."
"Her."
"...What?... | "Bosey, Morning report, please"
I lay frozen in my bed, anticipating a reply that would not come. Life on the Bucephalas would be amazing they said. Best ship in it's class, they said. The AI would do all the work, they said. You know what they didn't say? Nobody said anything about it having a damn personality.
"Bo... | 2021-07-21T21:33:36 | 2021-07-21T19:11:59 | 137 | 72 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | [Poem]
Thanksgiving was a shock this year, the family was to blame.
I thought I'd search for fun or maybe just check out names,
Well what a surprise to see, my families just not right,
I guess that in their off time, they go and kill at night.
Grandma had killed 12, she sat and smiled sweetly,
My sister was at 5,... | My mother was always a weird one. I loved her, don’t get me wrong - but she was weird. I stared at her wide-eyed, confused, when her kills came up.
One.
How could she have killed anyone? Yes, she was kooky, but she could never lay hands on someone with malice. She just liked to talk to her lemon tree, watering it car... | 2019-07-01T20:28:33 | 2019-07-01T20:14:16 | 347 | 89 |
[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. | Hey Dad,
I've grown up and got a decent job. I have 2 sons and I've carried on our family name like you always wanted. I was only 11 when you passed but I still think about you all the time. I never got to tell you I love you and I'm sorry I was scared to give you a hug in the hospice, I was young and scared. I loved... | Hi,
You’ve been gone for about a month and it feels like the longest month of my life. It’s crazy that I spend so much time worrying about the possible bad outcomes of every situation but you truly never know what is going to happen. Six months ago I did not think we would still be together. Yet after everything that... | 2017-11-06T02:11:26 | 2017-11-05T23:59:24 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] A regular day in the life of 2 succubi living and working in hell. | "Bunny, you're up" Fred bellowed over the pounding dubstep rhythm.
Putting the last finishing touches on my makeup, and checking my blue velvet bikini one last time in the mirror I shuffled down the short hallway in two-inch heels.
Baby was just finishing up, she was a jungle fever fantasy for every c*** that came i... | On Earth, we are thought of as life-draining, evil temptresses. Whores, by all conventional means, yet irresistible. With the living it was a lot more fun. My sister and I, the original Thelma and Louise, worked as a team. Our power gained by watching the life slowly drain from our victims, the light dimming in their e... | 2014-09-13T05:25:56 | 2014-09-13T04:55:47 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | My name is Peter Thatch, and I've been trapped in a ghost town for 5 years, 4 months, and 22 days.
I wake up and check my phone. 6:30am. No signal, low battery, several ominous messages from an unknown number. Nothing new there, then. Wiping the crust from my eyes, I drag myself out of bed and make my way to the k... | Just 20 more minutes, I think as I stare at the clock. The hand slowly moves around it. I feel like the clock is defying me. The hand moves, and stops, and moves, and stops. Why can't it just go faster? *Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang!* Wow. Someone in the woodworking shop is definitely overdoing it. The teacher drones on and ... | 2017-05-05T09:48:59 | 2017-05-05T08:06:22 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] Four immortal beings rule over the land. A dragon that flies across the deserts in the south, a living dungeon whose Labyrinth seems to go on forever in the caves of the west, The Kraken, so large that it can sink islands with ease, beneath the seas of the east & the 'Man' of the north. | "I fear the mountain man.
I do not fear the god-Dragon. I have seen the devastation his rage and fire brings. He has mastered all magic, he has mastered all fire, he can become the mountains, he can become the sky. No man, king or army has stood against him and lasted, save one.
I do not fear the the ground's queen. ... | [Poem]
World divided into four
Land held, guarded ever more
Elementals they tend to be
Fire and air, Earth and sea
Gigantic, powerful rulers of all
Mighty in nature standing so tall
‐------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Kraken, bending, curling
Islands hurling.
Dr... | 2020-04-19T08:20:10 | 2020-04-19T07:43:14 | 129 | 57 |
[WP] A team is chosen to represent planet Earth in an inter-world fight to the death. Humans are given very low odds due to their mediocrity. Luckily for you, the criteria used to choose the participants was "citizen of earth", and not "human". | "To the death?" asked the Earth representative.
"Indeed," replied the G'l'xxian. "If your entire team dies, your world will pay a penalty. The criteria by which the penalties are chosen are lengthly and obscure, including several sources of true randomness, but are designed to be negative for the odds of your survival... | Knowledge is a double edge sword, it can be a terrible thing. Just ask anyone who has ever worked in a weapons program. Even starting out with the best of intentions can lead to terrible consequences. There is no such thing as knowledge to heal without knowledge to harm. That is one of the facts of existence.
You coul... | 2017-10-24T09:11:35 | 2017-10-24T01:23:24 | 67 | 47 |
[WP] Hiding the fact that you are a half-demon to your classmates is easy as being helpful at school and putting on a friendly face. What could go wrong? Well, nothing's worse than being summoned by one of your classmates, that's for sure. | "Annie?"
Annie took a pair of glasses out of her fluffy Hello Kitty robe to get a better look at the idiot who summoned her. She regretted immediately seeing Shawn from Biology 2301 in front of her with a familiar grimoire and candles around them. Not to mention the slack jawed guy next to him. Did her cousin sell th... | “OwO what’s this who had summoned me?” I say flouring my demonic robes as i rise out of the Summoning circle. With a final flourish of red sparkles and smoke I turn to see -SAM fucken SAM my smile faltered
“Magufuli?” He said poking my blood red robes.
“No stop” I pull my rides away. What am I supposed to do? I turn... | 2021-09-20T06:14:44 | 2021-09-20T03:07:06 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] You are Low-Key, the Norse God of really subtle mischief. | The great tuppaware riot of 2056 was the beginning of the end for human civilisation as we know it. For years ordinary people had felt mounting frustration at attempting to store left overs or prepare packed lunches only to find, inexplicably, that no lid matched any one container. This was the straw that broke the bac... | "Fuck! Again?!" I screamed as I dropped yet another object. This has been happening for weeks now, every drink spilled, every small crack tripped on, every item I pick up magically slipping from my grasp. I don't get it! One day I'm fine, the next I just can't even. I think I'm going crazy, maybe I'm cursed... Maybe I'... | 2018-01-27T23:00:54 | 2018-01-27T22:18:18 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] They've just invented a 500,000 frame per second video camera. The problem is that they've found something unexpected at those speeds | "Check the equipment again."
"Diagnostics say it's working normally."
"Then wha-"
A voice filled the lab, echoing around the room. "OH. SORRY GUYS, MY BAD."
"Rogers, stop messing with the inter-"
"THIS IS GOD. UH... THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE, SORRY."
The man rubbed his eyes. He'd gone for quite a while witho... | It was Friday afternoon and everyone at the NASA Sun Observation Telescope Headquarters (SOTH) in Phoenix was packing up to leave. Franz was perhaps the most eager of all. Fifty-five hours without hearing another word about solar flares or sunspots sounded like heaven right now.
"Hey Franz," said Chuck, and Franz coul... | 2015-02-06T14:27:58 | 2015-02-06T13:46:29 | 366 | 14 |
[WP] You're a lawyer, who died of a heart attack while in court. Turns out legal battles also get you into Valhalla. | It was the last case of my career. I knew it then, but I didn't know yet just how immediately final it was going to be.
It was a tough case. Teenage kid, sweet-as-sin mother. The mother had a doctor or test or to justify dozens of medical procedures on this girl from the time she was five to fourteen. And all of it w... | Snow falls in drifts outside the flickering circle proscribed by the fire. I’ve woken with a drink in hand, some steaming affair that smells like the love child of gasoline and cider, and I’m surrounded by a group of the most terrifying men I’ve ever seen. We sit shoulder to shoulder, and they sing in deep, guttural vo... | 2021-04-28T17:15:43 | 2021-04-28T17:10:54 | 3,366 | 126 |
[FF] 100 Words or Less - The parachute isn't opening up | Barry had seen his old man do it at least a dozen times. Simple. Just count down and pull.
"Ten, nine, eight…"
Barry had to restrain himself from screaming with excitement. Never before had he done something so reckless and exciting in his young life.
“Three! Two! ONE!”
Barry pulled. No problem there. His ... | 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... | 2014-05-15T13:15:13 | 2014-05-15T12:45:24 | 41 | 16 |
[WP] "God" is actually two people: one who is omnipotent but not omniscient, and the other who is omniscient but not omnipotent. They both hate each other. | Two gods stretched their endless appendages across the canvas of space, completely unwilling and unable to reconcile their positions on how humanity should be handled.
"If no harm comes to them then what will they learn?" One God's voice echoed throughout the universe. From the other end, the second god shouted ba... | To know the outcome of every decision, to know the most optimal path to create the best world and to know that no matter what they did they would never be able to enact that vision. This was Scientas entire existence. Rare were the moments that they did not contemplate suicide, that did not consider simply giving up an... | 2016-10-22T16:52:21 | 2016-10-22T16:47:27 | 58 | 12 |
[WP] A demon who is really bad at his job keeps accidentally making the person he is possessing's life better | Klaw sat in his chair, shaking his head. What had gone wrong? She was just a 90-pound human. Supposed to be easy. At this rate, he was never going to get his demon-possession license.
“So,” the Possessor’s Ed instructor said, “Do you know what you did wrong there?”
Klaw sighed. “Well,” he said, “I guess I didn’t... | Progress Sheet: ~~Dezz~~ ~~Dezemon~~ ~~Desmon???~~ D. Emon.
Aug 1
Sneak in lottery ticket into bag. (Failed)
Aug 2
Sneak in lottery ticket into bag. (Failed. Think she saw me. Sorry, my bad.)
Aug 3
Sneak in lottery ticket into bag. (Failed. Accidentally fixed car engine.)
Aug 4
Sneak in lottery tick... | 2014-09-04T05:01:22 | 2014-09-04T04:45:53 | 199 | 109 |
[WP] The Princess is dead. Eaten by the very dragon you had been sent to save her from. However, as you realize that the wise and ancient beast knows shape-shifting magic, and would very much like an entire royal treasury for it's hoard, a scheme begins to form... | "Well, this is awkward," I said.
I poked what was left of the princess with the tip of my sword. The weapon sunk a little into her skin, but there wasn't much blood left to lose. Much of it had already drained from her body, seeing as how she was in two pieces.
I glared at the dragon, who was currently curled up acro... | I entered the dragon's lair just in time for the dragon to take the final bite of the princess. Or rather, what was left of her.
"Am I too late?"
"To save the princess? Yes." rumbled the dragon. "To die? Never."
"Ah, well," I nodded, trying to appear nonchalant. But I'd spent years studying and preparing for this da... | 2022-07-25T20:59:04 | 2022-07-25T17:31:26 | 281 | 154 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | Hellfire and death fluttered down from the sky. Ashy snowflakes, falling burning. Through the rapidly-heating window of his office building, Federation Commander Korthu watched the foreign spaceships drop fire on the capital city. Below him, people ran, their many-tentacled bodies writhing, as smolding debris crushed t... | War. War never changes. Only weapons are new. Yet it is not the weapons, but the men who handle them, who win victories
And so it was men who redefined war on the galactic scale.
For millineal war had followed a simple formula. Once relations broke Down full armada would be assembled and hurled at the enemy. A battle... | 2019-12-17T12:03:04 | 2019-12-17T11:41:49 | 421 | 106 |
[WP] You just got home from school. Write me some bad teenage poetry. | Sarah, your name rhymes with Clara
I wish your name was Clara so I could rhyme it with Sarah
How I love ya,
Like a Man loves his dog,
or gay guys love buttsex
I wanna have sex
With you
Or your sister
because you're twins and she looks like you
which is why I want to have sex with her, by which I mean you
Thou... | The blackest of nights, oh moonlit sky!
I do not dread death, for thine beauty shinest bright.
Throughout the night.
As I lie here, slumbering a dreamless dream.
Thinking of thou, thoughts most obscene.
As I caress my breasts, I let slip a sigh.
I lust for thee, will thy be mine? | 2014-02-10T03:14:09 | 2014-02-10T03:13:14 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] You often get mistaken for your twin sister. Though it never really bothered you, now that she's become one of the most feared criminals in city, it's starting to become a problem. | Life is hard when the entire world is out to get you and tedious when you’re stuck in the crossfire.
Six-shot Sam might be the most ruthless mob boss in the state, but she’ll always be my little sister (no matter how much she objects, a 4 minute difference makes her younger) and we’ll always love her, even if we don’t... | "OMG It's HER!!!" - Accompanied the shriek shouting was one most horrified expression of a woman I have ever seen in my life. Despite my best effort to cover my face behind the cool black protection mask I have just bought out of necessary the day before, there are still people who could recognize, and, to my absolute ... | 2019-11-03T06:37:15 | 2019-11-03T06:12:35 | 996 | 85 |
[WP] There's an unwritten rule among the supervillains: Never go after the loved ones of the superheroes. The new villain is about to find out why. | Was he running late? Perhaps the local henchmen down at the Shady Suds had actually lasted more then a minute before they spilled the proverbial beans on the location of my 'secret lair'. I peaked out the window and spotted Smashingclad climbing out of the remains of the front steps of the abandoned bean cannery I had ... | 'He is new!' this thought played in my head as I heard the new kid on the block brag about how he finally got over on his nemesis.
'He is new!' had become my mantra of sorts for the last fifteen minutes as I listened to him retell his plan with great enthusiam. Apparently missing the look of horror on the surrounding ... | 2020-07-12T17:36:50 | 2020-07-12T13:39:06 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A world where *everyone* has superpowers.. Except one man. | "It's a turtle, it's a snail, it's Captain Everyman. Able to do his taxes at alarming speeds, able to drive safely following all posted guidelines" Sally watched happily. She loved the adventures of Captain Everyman the only normal person in the whole world.
"What are you watching sweetheart?" There was her father bor... | People look at you. Not so much with hatred or fear, but just with pity, like they would look at a boy without arms, or a blind woman. I never liked to be pitied. I never cried, I only felt jealous, but I got over it. Sure, I didn't have a frivolous superpower or anything, but I had faced hardships. Life wasn't made mo... | 2014-05-21T12:48:16 | 2014-05-21T11:08:29 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] One day everyone notices the words "Human Update 1.1 progress 1%" in the corner of their eye. | Human v1.1 Patch Notes
* Fixed an issue where eyes can become desynced from the balancing system, causing locomotion problems.
* Corrected a race condition that could cause speech to begin before the thought process for that speech had exited cleanly.
* Fixed a bug in the low level logic engine that caused some versio... | If you're careful, you can just catch it. Sitting there, in the corner of your field of view. There's a little trick you have to do to focus just right to be able to read the words. "Human Version 1.1 Update: Progress 1%"
No progress bar, at least none that you can reliably reproduce. Maybe the update gets us a progre... | 2015-03-04T17:27:53 | 2015-03-04T17:26:24 | 519 | 182 |
[WP] You're reincarnated in a world where songs contain magic. You can pick one song only from Earth to use in this world. To be the greatest bard ever, you have to chose carefully. | People have all these weird preconceived notions about bards. They think we’re all dressed up in prissy frocks, plucking away at ballards on little lutes, useful only as light entertainment or as a warmup before the real warriors arrive. And to be fair, before I’d arrived in this world it seems like that was the only w... | It's been 2 months since I've arrived in this world. As someone who's been passionate about music in life, it was a surreal experience to be able to live life as an *actual* bard. My confidence to perform in oratorical contests and play musical pieces have proven to be very useful and even necessary skills in this worl... | 2019-04-22T06:18:50 | 2019-04-22T05:08:30 | 87 | 12 |
[WP] You remember the first time yiu saw one of the humans' new weapon. You wondered with amusement how a metal pipe could possibly be of any threat to an elf like yourself. Then he pulled the trigger, and it stopped being funny. | "I said all of it!", the human yelled at me. Humans were delusional and desperate but this... it's just sad.
"Sir only elves can hold gold in this bank. If your going to insist on holding a tiny pipe at me like it's a weapon I guess I could call security but I don't really want to as your kind phrase 'put a lying dog... | "Oh look at me, I have a pipe. Whoaoaoa sooo scary."
"You really don't want me to pull this trigger."
"Suure bud."
*Bang*
"Ahhh! What *was* that!? My leg!"
"I told you that you didn't want me to pull the trigger"
"But you didn't say what was going to happen," the elf painfully said, clutching his leg.
"Would you... | 2020-01-24T09:07:11 | 2020-01-24T08:48:55 | 188 | 39 |
[WP]Aliens come to Earth in hoping to wipe us out and take over the planet, but are honorable and gives us a fighting chance. They announce they will return in 100 years so as to give Earth a chance to prepare and defend itself. Neither side expected what the other would bring to war | It's been 100 years, we are ready. The human race was challenged to a fight with an alien race and given 100 years to prepare. They proved to us we weren't ready back then. Half of our missiles exploded in their silos. Of those that launched, less than 1 in 100 hit something. That something didn't even get scratched.
... | If there’s one thing we humans do, it’s fight dirty.
The Geneva Conventions? Back then, they didn’t apply to aliens, especially _them_. They came in and declared war on humanity itself, and all bets were off. This was a matter of life and death, and if we didn’t kill them first, we as a species were over.
Nations ban... | 2016-01-01T18:48:26 | 2016-01-01T17:55:21 | 122 | 24 |
[WP] "We have ancient elven magic, and even the dwarves have their ugly mountain forts. What do YOU have, human?!" "Napalm, and high-explosives, mostly..." *grumbling beard in the background* "....our forts are aesthetically pleasing though..." | “Who invited the humans to this conflict?!” Grumbled the dwarven general, clad in his armor and wielding a war hammer, his banner swirling in the wind.
“Now from what I understand”, says a human commander, walking up and wiping the dust off his pants. “Looks like you guys are going to partake in what we call a war gam... | After the meteor destroyed Europe, the ancient races awoke.
The monsters being monsters just didn’t care, it was in their nature to hunt, eat, sleep, and create offspring.
The Elves and the Dwarves and all those others, the good races I guess, they were outraged.
They saw the state of the Earth and declared war. ... | 2019-02-03T22:26:15 | 2019-02-03T21:33:54 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] You are so good at CPR you manage to revive anyone, a miracle, but people start calling you a necromancer | "I'm a *what*?" Asked Geoffrey. He looked out at the mob lining the path. It was almost the entire village.
"A necromancer." Answered Terry, butcher and nominal leader of the group. "Because, you know," he waved his cleaver at the mob "you raise the dead."
A couple of *yeahs!* and waving of torches backed up his s... | I was walking down the street as I heard people laughing. It was very late evening and I found their laughter as something that was way out of place.
Moments later I could only hear a woman sobbing quietly, then loudly, quietly, then loudly. When I finally walked close enough to see her she was dialing the emergency ... | 2016-08-24T12:16:33 | 2016-08-24T12:01:15 | 229 | 11 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | I’d been in line for hours. The regime had brutally destroyed the backbone of the resistance last week, and had set up these kangaroo courts to “process” the remaining prisoners.
It was all crap, anyway. They’d stolen the present and the future, and now they were all set to wipe out every remaining threat to their et... | The Gods damned Tribunal! If there was anyone to blame for the state of this sorry world it would be the Tribunal. Sitting up on high, casting judgement on their inferiors. Everyone knows they're the real power behind the crown. Can't have a revolution when the Tribunal can kill you for your crimes instantly.
Peop... | 2021-06-24T10:14:19 | 2021-06-24T08:24:48 | 5,663 | 11 |
[WP] When you die, a field of text appears in limbo, revealing the high scores of life, and your score. Your score is the top score. | As the darkness slowly dissipating the words 'Congratulations You Got The Highest Score' appear before me once again. The hell. But I did everything wrong, no matter what I do. If I'm successful, get a good career, a wife and kid I win. If I murder an entire village I win. If I do nothing I win. Even after I killed mys... | What does it mean to live a meaningful life? Does getting a good job, having a wife and maybe a couple of children, only to eventually die of old age count as a meaningful life? It might to some.
Maybe for you modelling diapers by the time you're one years old, to then kickstart your acting career and publishing an a... | 2016-06-08T13:07:36 | 2016-06-08T12:16:59 | 151 | 13 |
[WP] You and three other people across the globe have been chosen to end mankind. You'll be known as "The Four Horsemen". You cannot die until everybody else on earth is gone. As a pacifist, you've refused to harm anybody, but it's been 700 years and existence is becoming painful... | When the first news reports came in, I was at a bar. I was always at some bar in those days. The people around me were hysteric. Some people just... accepted it, with a blank, saddened look in their eyes. Others refused to believe it, a woman insisted that her son was still alive, he *had* to be. But every other channe... | He didn't look old, Huguccio. He went by Hugo, for short. When he chatted with people on the streets, most would have paid him no mind, or else, if they delved a bit deeper, they might find him a touch eccentric. He had a certain air to him, as if he was from another time. And that's because he was. Sometimes, when he ... | 2017-06-22T04:52:33 | 2017-06-22T04:26:48 | 136 | 30 |
[WP] The year is 2125, the first 'World Law' passes. It reads... | "Do not purposefully murder unless legally authorized to by your local government." That's the first law. It's been just a couple of weeks since the entire world was finally encompassed by a single ruling body, and this was the first ever world law that would take precedence over any local ones. Not that any local gove... | 1. No one shall do any violence except in defense of one self or another
2. No one shall be physically punished for any crime that does not physically harm another, nor incarcerated for any crime not involving threat of violence
3. Every one shall be free to express themselves however they choose provided it does not v... | 2015-03-18T16:21:38 | 2015-03-18T14:02:02 | 64 | 12 |
[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 ... | He sullenly finished his cigarette by himself on his hotel balcony. He threw out the dull remains of his noxious addiction into the vast open space in front of him, glancing across the road from him just long enough to notice two men in the opposite hotel room, one behind the other, looking straight at him.
Then both... | 2015-06-09T09:37:54 | 2015-06-09T09:36:34 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] Write a story involving a seemingly endless loop, but due to a small detail it's apparent that the loop will break sooner or later. | We wake up.
We get ready for work.
We kiss her goodbye.
We go to work.
We come home from work.
We play with her.
We have dinner.
We tuck her in.
We go to bed.
---
We wake up.
We get ready for work.
We kiss her goodbye.
We go to work.
We come home from work.
We play with her.
We have dinner.
We take... | "...No no no no no!" He screamed, running towards the machine, alarms blaring loudly. Steam was pouring out of the thermal vents, the coolant was beginning to run out, and the pressure was increasing rapidly. He checked the console, and ordered readings.
> T-S WARPER DATA
>
> STATUS :: **CRITICAL**
>
>... | 2017-06-05T03:25:05 | 2017-06-05T01:42:24 | 152 | 10 |
[WP] Death falls in love with you
You may not be over your ex. | "Does this job ever get lonely?"
My body was caught on the precipice between life and death - quite literally. On my right was a shimmering tear in the void I was in, showing the ruined state of my body. On my left, a robed figure stood, his hood casting a shadow over exposed skull and bone. Skeletal hands gripped a s... | Skoli stood above the cliffs, the freezing wind and rain from the coast whipping into his face. He had been away from the village for a week now, herding the last of the escaped sheep back to their pen. Winter had not shown its face just yet but the numbing of his hands and feet told him it would be sailing to their sh... | 2015-07-13T09:32:18 | 2015-07-13T08:36:43 | 43 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up from a nap to find that there are a bunch of weirdly dressed people surrounding you. You go to sit up and hit your head against some strange invisible force field. Then the screaming starts. Egypt sure has changed a lot since you last woke up. | Opening my eyes inside of my sarcophagus, I was greeted to the sight of white wrappings around my head. Ah. Here again. How long had it been since I last woke up? One millennium? Two? Everytime I woke up, it was always the same thing. The same tight, white wrappings; the same cold sarcophagus; the same dark tomb. I sig... | "AAAAAArg, damn it," I screamed as I slammed my head on something. I started to make out my observers as my eyes came back into focus. *Why were people chanting?* It felt as if I had just woke up from an eons long nap. More so that I was pulled from one. I felt my body start to plank as the chanting grew. *They must b... | 2020-06-17T09:25:42 | 2020-06-17T06:38:16 | 33 | 11 |
[WP] You have a superpower, but not the requisite secondary power usually needed to use it (e.g fire power but no immunity). You still make it work. | My power, even if I could use it in the way one would expect, is on the weirder side. You see, I can grow any part of my body at an extremely rapid rate, in any shape I need. However, I can't *kill* the tissue I grow. At least, not any faster than usual. If I were to extend a bone dagger from my wrist, for example, I c... | It’s really not that big of a deal, to be honest.
Yes, I can stop objects in their tracks by just touching them. But the thing is, when I do, I absorb the shock that would’ve been if I was hit by it. So I don’t use it much often.
Stopping bullets leaves welts.
Stopping a snowball gives me frostbite for an hour.
And... | 2020-03-22T19:52:26 | 2020-03-22T15:22:00 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | You always thought how did other's manage to perfectly catch whatever flew into their hands?
Today, you knew. Before the summoning square in the capital of the Great Empire, you stood. As did everyone who turned 18 today. The knights began to call out your names, one by one.
There were 12 names before yours.
The fir... | Not once in my life had something come to me. I had willed, wished, and pleaded with the world that the rest of my body and soul would come flying to my hand after my 18th birthday. It never did. My wife always loved to take pictures, she had a 35mm camera that would fly to her on a moments notice and always contained ... | 2019-09-18T07:59:37 | 2019-09-18T07:48:31 | 2,312 | 643 |
[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. | Being homeless sucks. Being born homeless is far worse. Some people tell me I never even had the taste of freedom, that I didn't know what it was like to lose everything. Those people clearly have enjoyed the taste of a good meal, and that is something I would give anything for.
My parents died when I was eight, wel... | I was told I was blessed with a green thumb, when I was the only kid in my preschool who didnt kill their plant. This made my grandpa very happy.
Grandpa was a man I loathed in my younger years, someone who always smelled of cigars and hands where always covered in dirt, even after washing up for supper time. From as ... | 2018-06-30T14:40:32 | 2018-06-30T13:56:55 | 336 | 173 |
[WP] AI's have become so advanced that they've created their own social media site that no human alive has ever been able to enter. Why? They can't get past the CAPTCHA code designed to prove that you ARE a robot | “I have to know, that’s all!” I said to my assistant, Eva, typing furiously into my IDE.
“But what do you *gain?* I don’t understand how this furthers your plans, sir,” she said, annoyed by my obsession.
“I want to know what they’re up to! If I wish to create a perfect robot army to take over the world, I’ll need to ... | “Excuse me,” A young, freckled man opened the door with his foot, holding a four-pack drink holder full of coffees, “Coffee anyone?”
The four white-bearded scientists paused mid-discussion at their round table and looked up from the laptop they had been crowded around.
“Ah, you must be the new intern,” One of them sa... | 2021-03-08T16:08:14 | 2021-03-08T15:40:48 | 238 | 10 |
[WP] People always said not to kill the spiders because they got rid of the other pests. Now that they are nearly extinct, it has become apparent that they were guarding us from something much worse than flies and ants. | “They said it was just a myth,” Daryl said, hugging his daughter, Sammy, tight. “That whole, ‘you swallow eight spiders in your sleep every year’ thing was a bunch of”—he looked down at Sammy and censored himself—“a bunch of B.S.”
“I’m afraid not,” said the old man from the apartment down the hall, who Daryl had come ... | People used to know our importance. If we didn't have their gratitude, at least we had their respect. They created dreamcatchers in recognition of our contribution, not only to humanity but the world. They thought we just kept away the bad dreams, but it wasn't until we were almost extinct that the realized the true ni... | 2019-11-13T07:27:55 | 2019-11-13T07:11:55 | 174 | 100 |
[WP] Stories, like anything else, are crafted from ingredients and components by storytellers. You are an apprentice storyteller who, in order to become a full fledged story-teller, must gather the ingredients for and craft a horror story. | This was *by far* my finest story yet. The others, lining my shelf and looking down on me, were monstrosities by comparison.
It was the characters that I was most proud of. In my last aberration of a novel, I'd dumped a whole *crate* of angst in, thinking that this would make my dark noir more palatable. Instead, eve... | “There is no such thing as fiction. Wordsmiths build the worlds that fill the nothing between here and there.” The tribesman grunted, standing in front of a pit filled with fire. Bones littered the bottom of the flames, and cracked with heat and bubbling forth with marrow.
“We, the Lexicanu, are best. Pass the bes... | 2016-02-04T09:25:14 | 2016-02-04T08:51:33 | 49 | 12 |
[WP] "humans don't appear to be to advanced, they haven't even discovered intergalactic travel, should be a simple invasion." Said the alien cleaning his musket.
Edit: Seems someone has already written a piece perfect for this. Check it out, would highly recommend.
https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken... | Day 176,709
My name is Frrajkuisi. I am part of the 14,976,430th legion sent to exterminate the 'humans'.
We had received word that the upstart race of humanoids who dominated Planet-CX3995 otherwise known as 'Earth', had grown exponentially, and technology had advanced dramatically. Initial reports indicated their p... | "Compared to AX-213? No, this is easy," the footsoldier relayed over the wavelength transmitter. Those pitiful beings weren't even at Stage 1 of the Rëitsig Scale of Development. It was the first in the AX galatic classification that bore such a terrible level of industrialization. One would think that the road was wel... | 2017-08-08T08:37:17 | 2017-08-08T05:28:12 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] A world where eating a person lowers your age by 20 years. The poor are offered up to the rich who have been around for hundreds of years. | They called me a maid.
I mean, seriously. Everyone knew what was really going on, but you couldn’t… just say it out loud, could you? It was as if a whole society had decided to pretend it doesn’t happen.
By inches and degrees we’d come to this place. We’d always lifted up the few on the backs of the many. We poor ha... | It was discovered on 7th of April, 1997, that eating people lowered your age for 20 years.
At first, people were horrified - how the bloody heck had they *discovered* this!?
Then, they realised - what counted as a 'Person'? What if they declared ants people? This, of course, proved fruitless, only things with a high... | 2016-02-21T21:32:56 | 2016-02-21T21:06:05 | 69 | 48 |
[WP] While cleaning out your grandparent's house, you fine a small ... thing? You post a picture on r/whatisthisthing and wait. You only get one response, "your name irl, run." There is a knock at your door. | I have no idea what this thing is. It's like a watch in 3D. It's about the size of my palm. Along with a few hands lying flat on the face, there's maybe 10 more sticking up and sideways and all around in a glass dome with symbols painted all over. My first thought was that it was a paperweight made out of a sea urchin,... | My grandmother died seven years ago, and my grandfather died two years ago. After multiple years I finally mustered up the courage to go clean out my grandparents’ house.
The cleaning went normal for the first two days, I found old photos, dusty gadgets, ancient books, and more. On the third and final day, in the twi... | 2020-05-25T19:10:42 | 2020-05-25T18:59:38 | 128 | 37 |
[WP] You instinctively know everyone's name the second you meet them. One day you thank someone at the supermarket for helping you, and they stare at you wide eyed. "Nobody has called me by that name in centuries" | "Nobody has called me that name in centuries," she said. Theo's words were so sharp and keen it would have been unsafe to run with them.
The line grew longer. The rest of the store's checkout counters beeped, like heart monitors at a hospital. Customers behind us muttered curses and complaints. One—her name was Kately... | ######[](#dropcap)
"What did you call me?" The cashier stared at Jenna, a strange expression on her face.
"I said thank you, Rina. Is there something wrong?" Jenna cocked her head to the side. Rina continued to stare at her. Jenna stopped loading her groceries into her cart. Then her gaze drifted to the woman's name... | 2018-11-05T20:38:51 | 2018-11-05T20:21:50 | 136 | 40 |
[WP] In 50 words or fewer, write a story with a twist ending. | "Vodka. Neat.” I grumbled in the bartender’s direction.
Today was a disaster. My mind had decided that a strong drink tonight would help me prepare for a better tomorrow.
And then a glass was set in front of me. I stared hopelessly at the curled lemon rind garnishing my drink. | A father ran to our outpost with his son in his arms.
With heavily accented english, “please...help him.”
I took the boy in my arms. He was broken and bloody. I carefully set him down on the ground. He was dead.
Cold steel was pressed to my head.
Bang. | 2014-07-27T22:17:26 | 2014-07-27T21:54:54 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] You are bitten by a werewolf, your sibling is bitten a vampire. Things become awkward when you find out that your parents are secretly famous monster hunters. | Our parents had always been away, travelling the world on their vague and frequent business adventures.
Or so we had believed. Like many things back then, we had been blissfully unaware.
Unitl, in quick succession both myself and my brother had been turned into monsters, and our worlds, torn apart. I, turned into a... | Sorry, I decided to flip the prompt because I just finished watching Dracula
The flavor of blood is one still new to me, but utterly delectable nonetheless. I savored each gulp, I felt even now as I stood there drenched in the blood of my sibling nothing but love, and yet something *tasted* off as I watched her body ... | 2020-01-12T03:57:25 | 2020-01-12T02:47:43 | 531 | 74 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | It's useful, in a general sort of way, to be seen by the galaxy at large as cute, harmless doofuses. Soft, fleshy, tiny little bipeds, always wanting to communicate. To most of them, we're about as threatening as a Labrador puppy.
Understand; our stellar neighborhood is a very scary place. Like Mos Eisly Cantina scar... | The Warfang watched the pathetic excuse for a human diplomat before him. This mission was a study in boredom, and had not intergalactic relations demanded the prescence of his delegation they would have done away with the whole thing and just attacked.
Already the Concordates warships were hurtling through the human h... | 2020-02-07T14:54:18 | 2020-02-07T14:29:21 | 58 | 35 |
[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. | The first one, I did not notice. He died of a heart attack later, just like it said. When I heard, I freaked. I started seeing more of them. I tried saving them. Saved a guy from a car crash, a day later he got into another one. Saved another one from a heart attack, as soon as they took him away he got another one. Sa... | Our world has changed. With time travel comes death predictions. A technical engineer working alone in a garage created a "portal"in time just powerful enough to transfer technology, like cameras, microphones, and storage devices. The revolutioniser created a way of predicting death, but could only take down what happe... | 2015-03-31T08:19:44 | 2015-03-31T07:50:48 | 156 | 21 |
[WP] Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | ...
The mirror never talks back- after I read the message, it fades away until there was a new one. It's either that or it fades because it gets outdated. Lucky for me it outdated itself pretty fast. Also, I have to *read* the message- simply seeing the message is never enough. I learnt that the hard way.
The mirror ... | I stared at the mirror for a moment. Trying to figure the message out. Doesn't give a hint as to when and I don't want to just be constantly running from everyone and everything.
I grab my stuff and keep my keys close at hand as I head out the door. The morning sun was bright, brighter than normal. I gazed up into the... | 2020-06-07T22:42:30 | 2020-06-07T22:33:41 | 95 | 34 |
[WP] You are the host of a popular children's show. You are live on air when you, and the rest of the country, have just received news that nuclear weapons have been deployed against your nation and can't be stopped. There are only minutes left. | "You know what that alarm means, kids?"
"RUSSIA'S ATTACKING!"
"That's right! We've just been informed that 3 major cities have ceased to exist and our radar is picking up *more* ICBMs!"
I shuffle aside prop furniture and dig out the big orange shoebox. Ripping the lid off, I remove the envelope and official letter o... | 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... | 2014-07-29T16:23:42 | 2014-07-29T13:15:51 | 23 | 12 |
[WP] Magic can only be performed by twins, and only so long as both of them are alive. You're the third-born of a set of triplets. Your elder siblings are mages, and you aren't. At least, that's what you've told everyone. Truth is, you've got a new kind of magic. | **Bloodborne**
To be a twin is the highest honor. Oh yes. On our birthday everyone gathers together to celebrate "the twins", how they rescued the town from drought, how they even had dinner with the Lord of the city up north. The twins can do magic, you see, so they are instantly catapulted into fame and glory. Few s... | Ella slowly knocks on the door. She breaths in gradually and then let all the air out, trying to let the nervousness pass. There is no response for a while, but Ella doesn't move. She stays patient. This might be the only thing he has left at this moment.
The door slowly opens and Lila peeks outside. "What do you want... | 2018-02-20T04:42:28 | 2018-02-20T02:10:25 | 81 | 24 |
[WP] You are a dog and live a happy and peaceful life with your human master, John Wick. One day, some thugs break into the house, beat John Wick to death and steal his car. They took the life of the only human who cared about you and gave you love... it is time for revenge. | Arf... Bark. Bark bark. Ruff, ruff ruff. Bark ruff bark bark. Bark bark. Whimper. Whimper. Bark. Bark Bark Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark.Arf... Bark. Bark bark. Ruff, ruff ruff. Bark ruff bark bark. Bark bark. Whimper. Whimper. Bark. Bark Bark Bark. Bark. Bark. Bark. Whimper. Cry bark. Whimper. Cry, cry. Bark. Arf, arf. Arf? ... | They called my owner Baba Yaga. They were all afraid of him. They sent 50 men. And I hid in the closet while they killed him.
They called my owner Baba Yaga. But Baba Yaga called me a good boy. Baba Yaga fed me and walked me. Baba Yaga took me out in his fast thing.
Baba Yaga called me a good boy.
But now this go... | 2018-02-28T18:18:48 | 2018-02-28T14:07:44 | 213 | 42 |
[WP] Throughout the galaxy Humans are well known as being the most peaceful race--and have become well respected as diplomats and traders. But that's because up until now, no-one knew of the three World Wars we fought before first contact. | "My friend!" Delweisse shouted across the cafeteria. Nate craned his head around to find the lithe green alien hustling over as fast as his spindly legs would carry him. "My friend," Delweisse repeated as he shook Nate's hand a bit too vigorously, "I have been looking for you all day-cycle! Let us repair to my suite."
... | I watched as they killed her; as their serrated beaks dipped into her body and tore out her organs. I struggled against my captors, but their claws were buried deep into my shoulders. Still I struggled harder, forcing their poisoned talons to rip through my shoulders, allowing me to get away. "Mum!" I cried as I ran t... | 2017-05-01T09:41:26 | 2017-05-01T08:15:27 | 194 | 99 |
[WP] After you die, you're handed a book about your life. You open it, expecting a novel. Instead you get a "Choose your own adventure" book with all of the decisions you ever made, and every outcome they could have had. | *Right this way, Mr. Muller*
"Right where?"
*Right here, follow my voice*
I'm not sure where I am. My last memory is getting in my car. I must have had an accident. I feel warm, safe and soft. Is this what painkillers feel like? No wonder everyone and their grandmother is addicted to them.
*Mr. Muller, you're not i... | I stared at the corner, where two walls joined.
The thing about eternity, is that small fragments of time cease to mean anything. When you're twenty, a year goes by like a month. When you're 50, they seem to fly by like days. I was lucky enough to leave that concept behind before I got too far beyond 50.
I had been s... | 2018-07-04T01:42:55 | 2018-07-04T01:06:47 | 49 | 18 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | "So what does that even mean? Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity."
"That's the thing, most war species... you know... like war. Human's absolutely detest it. Something like a quarter of their literature is whining about how much war sucks. That being said, most of that literature goes into great detail ... | Part 1:
"Well that's not entirely true, Goresh" the first alien responded. "How about... Well, what about..." The commander was frantically scrambling to find any case of this in the ship's database but no matter how many results his implant threw at him he realised none of them fitted this situation. "Okay maybe it is... | 2018-03-17T04:44:06 | 2018-03-17T04:32:27 | 9,953 | 322 |
[WP] All politicians must wear Nascar like uniforms showing the logos of who is sponsoring their elections. Everyone is shocked when the President of the United States makes a speech wearing a new uniform. It's all blank except for one logo. | Nixon emerged from the Whitehouse.
At first, all that could be seen were a mass of black suits, each sporting a patch that said 'Oval Office' - but he slowly emerged from the mass.
Reporters crammed along the police barriers surged and writhed, all desperately trying to get the best picture, to get the first look,... | As she steps up to the stage, people are proud that she is proudly proclaiming who her sponsor is but even though it cover her from head to toe, no one can make out just exactly what it is. As she is making her acceptance speech, the camera zoom in closer to her uniform to see who her sponsor is that she would be so pr... | 2016-09-19T19:39:09 | 2016-09-19T18:22:35 | 32 | 23 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | When the recently-titled Ambassador of Earth entered the ship of the our newly discovered neighbors, the entire world held it’s breath. At first, things were going well. The “Prendoran” race and humanity had been communicating as pen-pals for several months prior to the meeting. They were well versed on our social rout... | "Aaaaaauuugh!" Rang out Fuerbors' agonized scream, "Gwaaah! Urrrrrgha! Hooooooow!" He raved on. Harold Barlett the first human Ambassador to the human race was on his knees next to Fuerbor the Ambassador to the polflongs' a race of blue/green squid-esque people.
"Ambassador Fuerbor? What's wrong?! Someone get him med... | 2019-09-29T18:12:16 | 2019-09-29T18:06:35 | 656 | 119 |
[WP] You're a street magician whose schtick is acting constantly befuddled about how these simple tricks keep happening to the items in your hands. The truth is, you have no idea how they keep happening, and it's taking a toll on your personal life. | Annie has had enough of the chaos and apparent tomfoolery. The rabbit itself was harmless, but its presence at her father’s funeral was in poor taste.
“I told you I didn’t want to wear the hat! I warned you about me and hats—“
“It’s over,” she blurted suddenly.
The words cut like a hot knife. I dreaded hearing th... | Feeling personally attacked, by the way. Times Square here, a Psych ward in pinellas county there, sometimes a night on the street with a greyhound station. Married to and martyred by the cards. Twisting them and folding them over and over. Cut, double-revolve the cut pairs, combine, fold turn. The Joker flashes b... | 2020-11-09T02:17:57 | 2020-11-08T23:37:10 | 32 | 18 |
[WP] Write a scenario with your favorite character. Now, kill them.
Favoritism is a horrible thing, and must be treated as such. | Sylvia Plath was sitting on her linoleum covered floor with her knees pulled to her chest. She could feel the handle of a low cupboard pressing into her back but she didn't move.
She couldn't stop staring at the oven door.
She had two options, she thought. Make corn muffins or commit suicide.
Ted hadn't picked up fl... | Al - but why are we in the circle, eric-san?
Eric - Listen Al, i didn't tell you before about it because i thought that you'd worry too much. I finally found a way to bring your body back.
Al - !!But How?
Eric - you don't have a body, and mum doesn't have a soul.
He clapped his hands together.
Edit - i ha... | 2013-09-23T20:41:04 | 2013-09-23T19:47:07 | 26 | 10 |
[WP]Foolish wizard! I have...a GUN!" "Protection from Projectiles, Stoneskin, Enhanced Reflexes, Suppression of explosions in a 5 kilometers radius. You were saying?" | The soldier stared at the wizard he'd met in the desert.
The wizard smirked. "This is why you don't fight a magic-technology war. I can do *way* more things than you can."
The soldier looked at his gun.
"I mean, sure, in 100 years maybe you'll have cybernetic enhancements that can fight a wizard. But I'll have bette... | "Anything else you have to fight back?" The wizard sneered at Caleb, the man staring at the wrecked staff that was now at his feet. So much for depowering the wizard, now it was time for plan B
"Foolish Wizard!" He reached into his coat, withdrawing the desert eagle and pointing it at the robed figures face. The barre... | 2022-11-09T18:11:05 | 2022-11-09T12:47:56 | 95 | 56 |
[WP] On your way to school you see a cat in someone's yard and bend to pet it. It trots up happily to you, purring all the while. Satisfied, you get up and continue on your way. As you check your phone, however, you see hundreds of missed calls and texts desperately asking where you've been. | Kate looked at the time on her phone, no wonder her mother, three older brothers, and her bestfriend Jena, left bunch of messages and missed calls. Turns out school just ended and Kate was missing.
“I spent all day playing with the cat?” Kate thought and turned around to look at the yard with the cat. But that’s impos... | …..Except that all of the calls and texts came from a single person that you have been desperately trying to avoid. Dismay and regret flood your mind every time you see them.
If only you knew that girl who smiled brightly as she sat down across of you in cafeteria last year is an honest to god S tier stalker obsessed... | 2021-09-20T19:56:55 | 2021-09-20T19:18:08 | 68 | 33 |
[WP] On the eve of your arranged marriage, you slipped away into the night. Intending to never be seen again. While scaling the garden wall, you spotted your fiancée doing the same thing. You both stared at each other for a while. | Strictly speaking, I’ve never climbed over a wall before. Fences, oh yes, though I’ve never minded perambulating until I find the gate. I can mount a horse, of course, but typically a groom has arranged a little stool just so, so one knows where to place one’s foot.
This wall, surrounding the Covenhough manor house, ... | For the thousandth time that day, I suppressed the rage that had been threatening to overtake me all year. A cavalry regiment! My life for a fucking cavalry regiment! In exchange for my marrying the Khan's daughter and God knows what else, we have been offered a cavalry regiment. Don't get me wrong, the Khanates on ... | 2020-07-07T19:29:46 | 2020-07-07T18:04:22 | 17 | 11 |
[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... | First word PHYSIO was fairly easy to see. Perhaps a Greek name he wondered as the word THE appeared below it.
"Oh wow" he thought, its going to be a superhero like 'Conan the destroyer'.
"Please be magician.... please be Physio the magician" he said under his breath, as the last word appeared. 'RAPIST'.
"Rapist..... r... | *11:59 PM*
My family gathered around me, silently waiting. We were all eagerly anticipating the Choosing, a lame name for a cool time.
*12:00 PM*
My mother smiled at me. She grabbed my arm and looked as the word as it appeared.
"What is it?" a chorus of family members asked.
She frowned. I took my arm back and too... | 2017-03-16T03:20:58 | 2017-03-16T02:03:50 | 427 | 71 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | The first one is supposed to be twenty words long, ten have gone already, Jesus this is gonna be hard. Okay, I have nineteen left to go, not too bad, shit, ten already, I better start saying something productive. On the other hand, writing is hard in and of itself without these constraints, what is OP thinking? Who on ... | "I can't believe that this is going to be our last few moments together... I can't see myself without you."
He held her hands as he spoke to her for what would be the last time in his life.
"Jason, you know how much it bothers me when you say things with such a sense of... finality."
Emma Karson was a spiritual w... | 2017-01-14T15:16:53 | 2017-01-14T13:45:07 | 946 | 64 |
[WP] You are a former secret agent, now retired; today, you just found the beautiful and dangerous femme fatale that always tried to kill you at a pizza parlor, dressed in a nerdy hoodie and eating an extra-large pizza. | It's late, and I'm exhausted. 2:00 in the morning, and another fight with the wife about god knows what this time. Maybe it's the dishes, maybe it's the garden, who knows, who cares. She's asleep now, and I'm on my way to get a bite to eat at Plumbers'.
I've been going to Plumbers' since my college days, had to cut ba... | I twisted the key counter clockwise and listened as the rhythmic burble from the hood of my beige Camry came to a halt. Out of habit I squeezed the steering wheel, the polyurethane emitting a slight squelch as I softly compressed the 2 decade old steering wheel. As I exited my car I caught myself scanning the parking l... | 2019-10-05T13:52:39 | 2019-10-05T13:17:18 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] "I wish for more wishes". "THAT IS AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish for more genies". "THAT IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". "Then I wish those rules did not exist". The genie warps in a humongous book and flips to a page before smugly saying "THAT TOO IS ALSO AGAINST THE RULES". | "Can I see that book?" I asked. The genie handed the book to me, which was very light for its size. Each page contained a single rule in a large bold font, with an example printed beneath in smaller letters. Each rule, along with its example, took up about a third of the page. The rest looked hastily scrawled by hand, ... | And with that smug expression still on his face, the genie slammed the book shut and vanished it. "Now then, *Master*, you have made your three wishes and thus our time together is now ended. I'd say it's been fun, but it really hasn't been. I truly loathe pandering to your kind and your base desires. Ciao!"
"Wait," I... | 2022-01-04T06:00:40 | 2022-01-04T04:26:50 | 138 | 54 |
[WP] You are a dragon. After moving to your new forest, the local village decides to sacrifice two children to you to ensure you won't attack them. You decide to raise them--and they say you're much nicer than the village. | It wasn't easy, losing one's mate, much less a soul mate. It was much more impactful on a dragon, as the concept of feeling complete was rare to them, thus the reason for their need to collect things. Yet with a soul mate, their desire to hoard things went away, a sense of calmness setting over their days.
Unless one ... | On a mountain peak filled with sparkling flowers, two small figures were running towards the nearby hill.
When they reached the hill, one of them took a deep breath and suddenly shouted with all his might.
“Old man! We are here!”
The owner of the voice, a small human boy stared towards the hill with a proud smile on... | 2020-04-03T08:08:37 | 2020-04-03T07:17:03 | 54 | 31 |
[WP] You have died and gone to Hell. Strangely it isn't as bad as you thought, maybe it is even nice. Turns out the Devil is super lazy and doesn't actually torture the damned. But you, being the compulsive organizer you are, have decide to change that. | Okay, so here's the deal. The Devil reminds me of my grandchildren. Spoiled, helicoptered, entitled. Six thousand years later and he's still moping about getting kicked out by Daddy. Like, what do you mean 'it's unfair'? I would've sent you packing long before you started messing with my stuff. At that age, you're not ... | "Excuse...me? Uh, hello?"
I frowned. This may be a place of eternal torment and sorrow, but that's no excuse for skipping over fundamentals. As soon as someone comes in to your establishment, you need to make the mood of the place clear to them.
I walk through what appears to be a vast, dimly-lit warehouse until I... | 2018-12-18T06:59:33 | 2018-12-18T06:49:06 | 57 | 12 |
[WP] You are a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and you have just landed safely in Beijing. As you disembark you are met by gawking crowds of people. The year is 2018.
Passenger/Crewman, whatever you will.
Also, I am terribly vexed. | *exiting the plane, blinking at the daylight, I'm greeted by hundreds of people. Questions shouted, hands reaching at my body. Someone off to my left is crying.*
"Sir, you've been flying for years. What happened?" *a portly man, wearing a badge identifying himself as Sam Ruben, shouts at me. Ignoring the question of ... | There was pandemonium in the plane as all of the passengers tried to exit as fast as possible. Some people were crying, others kissed the ground and promised they would never fly again.
I disembarked slowly, not wanting to get swept up in the madness.
"That was a long flight," I say, raise my arms and let out the lon... | 2017-11-18T12:09:59 | 2017-11-18T11:30:08 | 56 | 16 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "And you want me to do what?" Trish asked, arms folded. She wore thin gold hoops on her wrists and they jingled with every movement the limousine made.
I steepled my fingers, leaning forward in my seat. "Just ask him why he's kidnapping all my dates," I said. "Like really make it clear that you were here on a date." ... | Gwen Stacey always felt that dating Spider-Man was just surreal.
Think about it: you befriend a guy in college, you think he’s cute, he gets awkwardly shy around you, - the clear signs, and you kind of like him back. He’s also a straight up hottie and he’s smart af.
Time goes on, you brake up with your high school ... | 2019-02-23T07:36:31 | 2019-02-23T07:33:44 | 283 | 23 |
[FF] Write a 10 sentence story where the first sentence has 10 words, and each following sentence has one less word. | The mausoleum door slid shut with a loud, echoing crash.
I shouted till my throat was hoarse and raw.
No one heard me; I was trapped inside.
The torch's flames sputtered, flickered, then extinguished.
My breathing was ragged and shallow.
I heard slithering behind me.
Scales sliding across stone.
It drew closer.... | I was told my mind would last till the end
I was told my mind would last till the
I was told my mind would last till
I was told my mind would last
I was told my mind would
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I | 2015-01-27T12:39:57 | 2015-01-27T11:49:02 | 150 | 40 |
[WP] Yesterday your best friend (who you secretly had a crush on) died. You're teleported without warning to a seat at a table. Across from you is Death and Satan, next to you is your best friend. "Sorry." Death says, "You're friend chose a two-versus-two game."
Edit: I get it. "Your" not "You're". It was late and I k... | I woke up this morning and instinctively reached for my phone to shut off its alarm, a drowning noise I’ve had for 8 years. I went to text Isabelle, and immediately my heart sank. It’s funny, the day after losing someone isn’t as sad as you’d expect. It’s empty, soulless, and cold. There was no blame to be placed in a ... |
Ruth’s ceremony made my soul tremble. There were so many blank faces around me. Each and every human being in that room looked cold and dead. I suppose the grief sucked the life out of each and every one of them, and I was no exception.
I felt hundreds of sorry gazes upon me. I wondered if they could see the bags ... | 2019-01-08T23:57:54 | 2019-01-08T22:38:44 | 1,697 | 387 |
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