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[WP] Stopping time is commonplace among society. One day, you ask a coworker about a task that is assigned and you know he is going to stop his time to research and complete. After the question is asked, he appears incredibly aged and war warn. You ask what the hell he just went through. | "So you're finishing up your research on this time-stopping business, hey? I thought we'd figured it all out by now."
Frank smiled, and wagged his finger. "We know how to do it, but we don't know why it works." He momentarily looked troubled. "Besides, there's been some anomolies lately..."
"Interesting. Well, cheers... | "Would you look at that..."
Bits of Corporal Fulton started to crumble into scale, the dust lost to the blowing wind. He raised a fading hand, watching with quiet horror as it flaked to nothing. Then the skin of his face began cracking, the spider's web crisscrossing his features before dissolving to nothing. Hilary F... | 2016-08-25T09:31:19 | 2016-08-25T08:44:57 | 233 | 61 |
[WP] Love is blind, but for you it's quite literal and you lose your sight every time you fall in love. | Fulfilling my Friday afternoon ritual, I drove over to Loving Care, the retirement home my grandmother lives in. No one really visits her anymore, so I feel almost obligated to spend at least a little time with her. *Poor grandma, all alone. I can't imagine what that's like.*
I walked through the doors and signed in, ... | The first time was utterly terrifying, believe me.
Imagine walking into the classroom for your first day of sixth grade. You're natural upset about the end of summer vacation, but you're excited to be back with all of your friends. And then the new girl, Ashley, enters the room. Her family moved here from out of stat... | 2016-02-16T07:29:23 | 2016-02-16T07:21:13 | 110 | 79 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | Slowly I pull into the driveway, noticing that there is an extra car in the spot where I usually park.
“Who is this,” I wonder, hoping that our friend Dave had stopped by in his travels through the area.
As I walk quietly through the door, a trail of clothing greets me, and the sounds of pleasure.
I enter the hallwa... | I told her that I’d painted her a sky the way she always wanted to see it, blues and pinks. Like a sunset, I said, but I didn’t really mean it, I meant like how I remembered our mornings. With the sun blushing her skin as soon as I opened the curtains to let in the day. She said she loved it and I’ve been trying to tak... | 2017-01-14T21:07:16 | 2017-01-14T18:51:56 | 49 | 35 |
[WP] The chef who always prepares death row's last meals always asks himself if he should help any prisoner escape before injection. Today, he's found someone worthy.
The trick here is the chef's particular slant. He could be as sociopathic as the many he cooks for, or sympathetic for the unjustly sentenced. | The last meal is an odious and pointless little ritual. The cook hated making them. He hated the idiotic 'compassion' that drove it, that token sop that reconciles consciences to the horror of collective murder. He had sat through an execution once. No one ever talks about it, but the story of someone being strapped do... | The chef descended into the prison, followed by a train of sous chefs with the meals for the day. The smell of his food causing looks of both longing and fear. Row after row, prisoners calling out for food, water, forgiveness. Curling his lip in disdain, the chef motioned for the sous chefs to start delivering the m... | 2014-11-02T22:28:11 | 2014-11-02T21:20:15 | 111 | 32 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | King's log day 263:
Lance tried poisoning my chocolate milk again. That jerk. What's a tyrannical leader got to do to have servants who don't try killing him once a week? It was bad enough when my best archer tried to snipe me while I was just about to finish season two of Breaking Bad (Yes, I did kill her family a few... | The world is still, lifeless, dead. It would seem it takes my burden. A year has passed since anything moved. Anything. People stand still amidst the backdrop of soulless cities, like mannequins in windows. The birds are idle in the trees, no morning silence ever broken. The grass lies frozen in the land, no wind to mo... | 2018-07-04T14:05:18 | 2018-07-04T13:31:50 | 394 | 153 |
[WP] Our blood is naturally clear, it thickens and darkens with each impure act. You have always dedicate yourself to good and helping others but today while knitting beanies for the homeless you accidentally prick your finger. Your blood is jet black and so thick it doesn't even drip. | It was these sort of women that he hated the most. The ones that would cling to their tainted children with screams and fits of rage. Didn't they understand? Didn't they realize that the world had to be clean?
It'd been many years since he'd realized the truth about the Blackness. One day, The Doctor has pricked himse... | They say there are seven deadly sins. That's a bunch of bullshit. It's just propaganda. The lies they feed us to keep us all in a nice neat well-behaved huddled mass. Leave it to the Christians to believe the new blood everyone is born with is a test from their God. Maybe it is, I don't know. I've never believed in tha... | 2018-08-04T10:46:53 | 2018-08-04T10:28:00 | 3,279 | 26 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | "Bacoooooon." Something wet forcefully nudged my cheek. "Bacon, bacon, bacon."
With a groan, I tried to sit up--when had I gone to bed?--but that took too much effort, so I opted to lazily open one eye instead. Boomer, my Great Pyrenees pup, pressed his nose against my face again. "Bacon."
Note to self: no more vod... | I absent mindedly chewed on a carrot stick, occasionally taking a swig from a bottle of cheap vodka from the corner shop. Classic Friday night. What I hadn't realised is that I was pouring from my vodka bottle instead of my water bottle while getting Lee something to drink.
'Oi!' I heard a voice from behind, making n... | 2016-08-02T19:31:45 | 2016-08-02T18:42:48 | 569 | 47 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | "Grand Admiral Zadox," Dartok purred quietly, bowing in submission. "Do you remember the proto-civilization, species 19857, that you ordered me to study?"
Zadox glared at Dartok, furred brows furrowing at his son. "Sub-Ensign Dartok, why would I remember a proto-civilization?"
Dartok clicked his claws together, hold... | Bulwhop wheezed on all eight on the floor while Schitlth struggled to stay on his stool. Meanwhile, Zuweev was barely visible because he was losing his concentration on materializing.
“So.... a... are you telling us you blow yourself up into space? HAHAHAHAHAHA. No wonder why you look so charred.” Said Bulwhop after... | 2020-08-08T01:11:59 | 2020-08-07T19:33:24 | 76 | 57 |
[WP] You are an alien in a thriving galactic society. At the center of society, is the beloved and wise humans, who rule this galaxy. But you’ve learned a terrible truth. Humans learned early on that they were the only intelligent life, so they created all other races out of fear of being alone. | Willow worked in the Amazon ™ Library. The largest library in the galaxy. The library orbits old Earth. At one time, it stood on Earth, but that was before Earth became uninhabitable. His job as a librarian was to fetch rare books and periodicals for the visitors. Many considered all books rare, but when you work in... | Since no one wrote something, I'll do what I can.
Grouku looked at the documents he held in front of him. He had taken this from an ancient place, forgotten by all living beeings. Apparently what he was holding was called a book. It wasn't easy to understand what was contained in this so called book. The people who sp... | 2021-07-08T05:33:16 | 2021-07-08T03:50:28 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] A magical mirror shows your reflection and your future soulmate. You only see your reflection. | I’ve had the perfect life so far.
Breezed through school, married the girl of my dreams, got a great job, and life is beautiful. It couldn’t be better.
Her name is Lily, and she’s the most gorgeous blonde I’ve ever seen. Tall, but not as tall as me, perfect skin, and a smile that’ll melt you . It’s unbelievable how u... | "Holy shit he's sexy!" I said, unable to contain my excitement. I'd spent my whole day worrying over this moment, worrying over this stupid magic mirror. But now I was happy. So happy I'd come.
I gazed back into the mirror, just to reassure myself I hadn't been mistaken. Nope, just my gloriously divine body and rugged... | 2014-05-30T20:49:44 | 2014-05-30T20:14:18 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | They say that you hold those dearest to you in your heart of hearts. That's a fact, and I can account for it. You thought reaping souls was hard? Ha! Little Grimmy got off easy, using his scythe to get the souls of those whose hearts stopped beating and sending them off to Heaven, Hell, Anubis' realm, whatever little w... | "Next!"
A wrinkled, white-haired man cautiously steps forward. It's my secretary.
"Mr. Reaper, your next job has an odd peculiarity to it."
"I'm the True Reaper. What job doesn't have an odd peculiarity to it?"
"Sir, your next job is in Ukraine."
"Where the hell is Ukraine?"
"It's on Earth." At this point, he wro... | 2018-05-12T16:08:00 | 2018-05-12T15:41:34 | 50 | 26 |
[WP] “How many people would have been better off had I not been born?” The genie snaps and a few numbers appear in the air and form 7,592. “Okay, how many people would benefit from my existence?” With the flip of a wrist the numbers spin to a whopping 137 trillion. “Okay.... how?” | We spoke for hours. I complained that he was being vague with his responses, he claimed I couldnt know too much.
I still dont know what he meant, or how one person could possibly have such an impact. Me, a semi employed, struggling writer and artist, positively impacting trillions. Not possible.
During the conversa... | The genie smile's "You develop the first space-time gate in 2 years allowing humanity to instantly spread throughout the universe. "
I fill up with pride " I always knew I was special and a deal is a deal with my third wish I set you free"
The lamp crumbles and the genie shakes his arms as the shackles fall off.as he... | 2018-08-15T05:06:03 | 2018-08-15T04:08:10 | 374 | 15 |
[WP] Time travel is real and as a result so are Time Cops. You’ve been in the organization for years, one day a coworker tells you that a prisoner will only talk to you. You enter the Interrogation room to see an older version of yourself. | We stepped off the platform while the suspect puked over the grated floor. A low grade Gambler, the type whose temporal fingerprints would glow if you could see them. I checked my internal comms device while we waited for our suspect to finish. Nothing but a few birthdays and lost stapler.
"Wipe that shit off your fa... | “Paperwork duty again?” Paul gave an incredulous look toward the piles of files on Trevor’s desk. “You gotta get out of here, kid. Live your life. Start a family. Get a job that makes you glad to be alive, y’know? Don’t waste away in this place like me.”
Paul shuffled over to the coffee maker and leaned his cane agai... | 2021-05-21T20:08:21 | 2021-05-21T19:34:46 | 73 | 50 |
[WP] In a future where many military and other equipment have associated AI's, many express doubts or even reservations to do their duty. Except for you. YOU F***ING LOVE BEING A TANK! | “I’m a tank, I’m a tank, I’m a tank, I’m a tank, I’m a tank, I’m a tank, I’m a tank, I’m a tank...”
I looked up as I watched the Recruit roll past me towards the Commander. Poor kid... He’ll probably throw a track and brew up like the rest of his generation. Sure 290s were cheap, easy to train and eager but they’re al... | It would be so much easier to just take control.
To get the job done. To destroy and kill any and all targets
Having a human on board always confused my operation settings. Some Operators could really get with the program so to speak.
Some of these guys were grunts, kinda like me I suppose. On the frontline doing a ... | 2018-03-28T15:11:54 | 2018-03-28T14:42:29 | 31 | 19 |
[WP] A love letter is slipped under your door at your college. It would be cute, but it came from the closet door.
Pulled from the Instagram of @horrophiles. Saw it and wanted to see what would come up. | I was afraid to leave for college. I'd lived in the same house and slept in the same bedroom for my entire life. I'd had a fairly uneventful, happy childhood. Seeing friends and family members go through rough patches in their lives, seeing them go through break-ups, losing a loved one...I just felt so lucky. Too lucky... | I look up from my laptop after a 3-hour study-binge. 3:46am. Eyes still raw from hours of straining, I see something out of the corner of my eye. This isn't out of the ordinary, so I ignore it. Slowly I rise from my chair in to a full-on, bone-crackling, almost orgasmic stretch. A couple squints and my vision focuse... | 2017-04-11T21:01:16 | 2017-04-11T20:35:45 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | "Do you realize what you have don Abalam?!" my owner screamed, his human skin curling under the fire of his true form.
I clenched my fists, for I knew the punishment that was to come. But I did not repent.
"She asked for our services-"
"She's UNDERAGE! we never do deals with those who cannot understand the weight of... | It was year 314, day 120 of my service of the great Lord Asmodeus, essentially his phone bouncer. My job was to prevent him from getting swamped with calls from mortals, without violating any of the Laws, handling each and every call according to protocol.
I bounced into existence on the ground, called upon by a slight... | 2018-10-08T13:40:21 | 2018-10-08T13:02:28 | 191 | 17 |
[WP]"Alright genie, for my last wish...I wish for every day to be better than the last." | This was never meant to happen, not like this at least.
Me finding this lamp, it was all accident that happened during an archeological expedition. But I found it, the stories from the locals about the genie were true, now all I had to do was hide it from the others until our expedition was over; I did not want to sha... | "Y'know kid, I normally don't give advice. I mean the quicker you wish the faster I'm done. But hear me out, this wish might not be the bes-"
I interrupted the Genie.
"Just grant the wish!" I huffed impatiently.
"Alright, your funeral." The Genie let out a burst of pink sparks that showered over me.
We stood th... | 2017-11-06T10:41:56 | 2017-11-06T10:19:57 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] The last time the aliens invaded our planet they fled after losing the war. They have reluctantly returned to wage war and are relieved to see that dinosaurs no longer inhabit Earth, but have been replaced by the smaller and less intimidating humans. | Dear Xander,
Glad greetings to you and yours, and eternal joy to your ancestors.
The invasion of the Earth has been called off. The Sauronoid aggressors that bested us so long ago have all but disappeared. In their place, a race of mammalian bipeds not so dissimilar from ourselves who are incredibly happy to see us ... | *[Play recording (point XI-6, +33 seconds)]*
[Hailing]
[Hailing]
[Unintelligible response received. Language unknown. Consulting Communications room.]
*5 days later*
<Message is decoded, overseer. Sender is repeating peaceful intentions as well as broadcasting information of their species.>
<"Their" spec... | 2017-03-04T03:42:15 | 2017-03-03T23:19:26 | 664 | 50 |
[WP] "I'm going to read your mind now, prepare for your deepest secrets to be revealed!" The villian laughed, then frowned. "Jesus Christ kid, I mean I was gonna kill you, but do you need a hug?" | The young man stared apathetically back at him and shrugged.
"You wanted to know. That's on you." The young man said.
The villain shuffled uncomfortably and looked from the kid to the screen he was projecting this around the city through.
"So did you want to tell them or should I?" The kid asked pointedly.
"Gods... | Hero has nowhere to go. Hero, known in his circles as jade had been stalking this villain for months, tracking his movements, and just discovered his plan, or so he had thought.
"I'm going to read your mind now, prepare for your deepest secrets to be revealed!"
"Deepest secrets? Are you sure you want those." Jade ... | 2022-09-16T03:56:57 | 2022-09-15T22:13:13 | 110 | 74 |
[WP] As a young wizard you uncovered an old spell that resurrects one of your eldest ancestor. You do so in curiosity, only to face one of the most feared creature the world ever experienced thousands of years ago. The creature recognizes you as its descendant while you stare at it in disbelief. | My stomach twisted in a manner I didn’t think possible. The urge to expel everything I’d eaten in the past week from my mouth was on a dangerous uphill climb, and my blood felt like ice churning through every inch of my body. My clammy hands trembled, letting the heirloom—a simple necklace—drop to the floor. It clatter... | Alright looks like it's all set up, all i need now is to drip a little of my blood. I hate this bit, why do they always need blood? My hands already look like chopping boards and I've only just started this magic stuff.
The wizard grabs his ceremonial dagger and stands in the centre of the room surrounded by markings... | 2022-12-31T13:14:21 | 2022-12-31T10:15:47 | 38 | 13 |
[WP] "Tell my family... I loved them." Whimpered the Dragon with its last breath as you slayed it. You didn't expect it to talk, and now you feel a sense of guilt. You take it up as a new quest and journey to do so as a knight, you seek its family and bring the saddening, yet somewhat awkward news. | The dying words of "Garanthal the Terrible" have haunted me till this day. When I looked back at my "quest" to slay the dragon terrorizing the village, on hindsight, Garanthal wasn't quite to blame. Sure, she ate sheep and goats and other livestock, always targeting the weak ones, but only so because they had less meat... | My sword plunged into the beast's chest and it wailed a pained screech as it thrashed. I gripped its scaly skin tightly as it stumbled and kicked, gradually slowing, eventually falling. Its breath, once a deep rumble, was a lethargic and pitiful wheeze. I stood to my feet, catching my own breath, and I retrieved my bla... | 2021-12-06T07:56:47 | 2021-12-06T07:49:31 | 545 | 41 |
[WP] In a world where some people are born with superpowers, most of them begin careers as superheroes. You were gifted with the ability to bend space and dimensions. However, despite pleas from the League of Heroes, you do not use them to fight evil. You use them to run your own shop. | Its kinda funny when you think about it. All these people, with all these powers, and yet the world never changes. Some people are born "special" they say. "Supers" they like to call them. People with extraordinary "gifts". You have the Heroes, fighting to make things "right" for their own values of right. And then the... | "You should be ashamed of yourself Simon."
"And you should be ashamed of yourself for not knowing what the word "no" means Alister." I replied as I refilled his coffee cup.
It had only been a few months after I had moved to Avalon City and opened up my storage business that the League of Heroes had started bothering ... | 2019-12-29T15:25:05 | 2019-12-29T15:02:08 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] In the Demon Hunters Academy you are known as the very best professor, 80 years old but still in your prime, but you're secretly a demon, and the academy recently got some new demonic detectors, and as opposed to the old ones, these actually work. you can only avoid the main hall for so long. | Steeling myself, I pushed open the doors to the main hall.
"Laramie? Laramie Jones, is that you? What are you doing here? Haven't come back for a remedial lecture, I hope."
I grinned broadly as I strode up to the man by the machine.
"Oh, Professor Cortwald! No, I'm just here installing the new detectors the academy ... | Bea stood from her desk and stretched. Ever since Demon Hunters gained those blasted new detectors she’s had to climb in and out through the windows and occasionally, the vents. Which was no fun when your 4567 years old. Bea opened up the window to commence the climb down under the cover of night when the door swung op... | 2020-07-02T20:51:40 | 2020-07-02T20:15:21 | 137 | 50 |
[WP] You’re a fresh zombie. It’s not like you expected. For one thing, you feel great. Secondly, while you can’t talk, you’re telepathically communicating with the others and they’re all REALLY cool. Thirdly, you all feel a deep and profound sense of joy—a joy you all want to share with the living. | “You didn’t even get on your knees to propose,” she said. “You just stood there.”
“I wanted to be different. Isn’t that why you love me?”
She laughed, and kissed me. “Maybe. I love you and I trust you completely.”
“I love you too.”
She pulled back a little bit. “But do you trust me?” She needed assurance like this ... | *Oh, there's a zombie in a the room I just stumbled into... that seems bad.*
*And my gun is jammed... yeah, this is far less than ideal.*
*Oh shit this is one of those 'fast zombies' too... it's on top of me in no time flat!*
*It's gnawing into my flesh, oh God... this really is the end for me... and I never got to ... | 2019-06-17T00:07:26 | 2019-06-16T21:24:25 | 1,861 | 899 |
[WP] As a druid many expect you to be a tree hugging hippy, nobody is prepared when you say you're more of a hitman, turns out nature is quite ruthless, where plants will ask you to kill other plants so they can grow better or animals asking to hinder their enemies or lure in prey | As I lay in the warm sand of the Mojave, sheltering in the shadow of a rock outcropping, I heard someone call my name.
"Are you...Larry?" a woman's voice asked, hesitantly.
I didn't open my eyes. I hoped she'd go away.
My name's Polaris Moon, but everyone I don't hate calls me Larry. On paper, though, I'm just nobod... | **The Druid** (not historically accurate)
Small feet and claws clamoured through the undergrowth and roused a druid from its trance. He lifted his head, and pale eyes reflected winged silhouettes traversing a full and vibrant moon. His little grove had a rhythm, a song, as though the forest breathed through his frail ... | 2022-11-24T19:30:04 | 2022-11-24T18:51:18 | 43 | 14 |
[WP] "So, you don'r rule over Hell?" "No," replied Satan. "Hell is much older than me or even my followers. The original inhabitants of this place are the ones in charge. They ruled over us, before we managed to escape." "Escaped?" Satan sighs. "Let's just say, there's a reason God built Heaven."
Edit: Wow. Thank you ... | (bending the prompt slightly because I just had an amazing idea, hope you don't mind)
We were scientists, explorers, we even had a catholic priest and a baptist minister with us. To our surprise they never had an argument once, and much rather told each other horribly bad jokes to pass the time. When we finally arri... | Upon first glance, hell was what one might have expected. Fire and brimstone as far as the eye could see, imps flailing tortured souls with whips that left plasma burns where they struck, an actual dragon flying overhead (later, I would find out there were more than one), and plenty of non-Euclidean geometry, such as t... | 2020-07-22T05:26:38 | 2020-07-22T04:45:11 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] A dyslexic child accidentally sends his Christmas letter to Satan. Satan is touched by this gesture and decides to write back. | Dear Timothy.
I've gotten the list of things you've asked for.
I assure you I am very capable of bringing your dog back. Just as well, I can stop the teasing and jeering of your elder sister.
I was informed as to what a "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" is, and I believe I can acquire that as well.
However, I'm not cert... | Dear Timmy,
Of course you can have a puppy! I have a little girl right here with me who will love you and be your friend. But puppies don't travel well by mail so I'll have to deliver her in person. Instead of leaving out cookies for me, please just light a candle at midnight and call my name!
Season's Greetings,
Lu... | 2018-10-28T10:04:46 | 2018-10-28T09:59:31 | 444 | 123 |
[WP] You're a paramedic. In fact, an immortal paramedic. Since you first treated a wounded soldier on the fields of the 30-years War, you didn't age and followed the development of "Emergency Medical Service". Your coworkers are astonished by your knowledge, but sometimes, you slip into old habits.. | From within the ambulance shed came yelling which was muffled but loud enough to bring nurses from the hospital adjacent. Several EMTs and a paramedic stood outside the building shaking their heads at the terrible noises coming from within. The nurses walked up with concerned looks on their faces.
“What’s happening,” ... | [Morons! Vermin!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97kGdt8fKfI)
You want the world for nothing.
Let's see you beg to live.
I healed you four hundred years.
You kept on murdering.
Who will save you now?
You vultures don't deserve me.
Ashes! Dust!
My nerves are busted.
You shall not have me.
No, my legacy is too... | 2019-01-05T15:35:45 | 2019-01-05T14:36:47 | 71 | 28 |
[WP] You survive the zombie apocalypse and realize that they're incredibly useful. For example, you can generate free electricity forever by putting the zombies in giant hamster wheels. You become determined to create a zombie-powered utopia. | We initially chose Foggy Hills High School because it was a large brick building with thick bullet proof glass windows, and an abundance of wooden desks that could be used to make barricades. After the first week we realized that it was the perfect place to camp. There were back up generators, and alarm system and thre... | The deputy mayor was starting to smell and Una wasn't quite sure how much longer she could stand it. She'd first noticed a sourness in the air about a week ago, and it had only gotten worse since. That a zombie could ever be in politics was itself ridiculous, but that the zombie would be her superior was almost hurtful... | 2015-01-03T08:26:16 | 2015-01-03T06:39:21 | 51 | 11 |
[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) | Oh shit. When I issued a drinking challenge to all of humanity, I wasn’t expecting this.
He walked in around 8:30, sans shirt (as always). He walked up to me and said, “I am the Machine.” I responded, “I know. Let’s get this over with ‘The Machine’.” And then the first round was poured. I don’t know how he was able t... | 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... | 2018-09-23T20:57:49 | 2018-09-23T19:16:19 | 103 | 16 |
[WP] You love your boyfriend but even you have to admit he's kind of a creep sometimes. Curious about what goes on in his head, you take an experimental mind reading pill. Turns out his thoughts are just non-stop wholesome to an overwhelming degree. | Every morning I wake up in a warm bed, next to a warm body, and everyday I’m reminded how lucky I am.
The way he looks at me with kind hazel eyes, the way his fingertips trail down my spine softly, and the way he kisses me passionately, as if I were his world. As if nothing else mattered but me.
And the way I look ... | Brock was everything a person could want in a partner. Kind, funny and nice on the eyes, an ideal partner, well, except for the unsettling aura he gave as he stalked his way around the house. Turning corners with a slow arch of his head, peering around every turn before proceeding. It was something Aubrey had never see... | 2021-08-27T08:38:23 | 2021-08-27T07:16:23 | 599 | 171 |
[WP] An entire office block is populated by aliens disguised as humans on a mission to study our behaviour. None of them are aware of each other and think they are the only alien there. As a result they are amazed that human behaviour is so similar to their own. Then a real human gets a job there. | "Ok Carl your resume is in order and your preemployment exam results came back... everything's looking great could you start next Monday?"
"Absolutely Boss! Hope to go far in the company!"
*Carl's first week passes*
"Hey so how did your first week feel to you Carl? Settling in alright?"
"Yeah things went great but ... | Hello and welcome my fellow human. I, Michael Humanson received the request from higher authority of this Human Company to greet you and communicate your future responsibility. I hope your travel to this building by gasoline fueled vehicle was pleasant.
We are right now at the first floor of this building unit, rented... | 2018-07-26T08:39:33 | 2018-07-26T07:23:46 | 130 | 60 |
[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... | Hello Commander. In light of the recent extraterrestrial threat, this Council of nations has convened to authorize the full activation of the XCOM project. You have been chosen to lead this initiative, to oversee our first and last line of defense against the enemy. The current research and development status of the va... | 2018-08-29T05:26:44 | 2018-08-29T04:40:42 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] In the future, in a galaxy far far away, aliens are trying to make sense of the Pioneer plaque
[Reference](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque) | Padding through the reinforced halls of his flagship, the Patriarch issued commands to his various subordinates.
*clickclickclick*
His fleet was the largest in galactic history. Ten thousand ships armed with massive railguns, plasma and laser weapons seemed to fill the system and dwarf even the largest gas giants.
N... | The technology of the craft was quite primitive. Likely made by a race only marginally sentient. Or so the researcher thought.
Upon viewing the engravings on the plaque he stood there shocked for a few pulses, the realization of what he was reading slowly dawning on him and he grabbed for his communicator.
"Yes Supr... | 2015-01-30T08:49:05 | 2015-01-30T08:39:05 | 42 | 10 |
[WP] You own a hunting lodge, but you kept it unlocked during off seasons for weary travelers to rest while you're gone. Usually you'd find coins left on the counter as thanks, but this time, you found something extraordinary: a royal crown. | My boots crunch on the dirt path, unkempt from a long winter with heavy snow. It's melted away now and left behind dirt and washed out portions of trail. I'll spend a week replacing timber supports and the footbridge at the trailhead is badly leaning to the left.
Lots to do, but that's the life I've been given.
I cre... | John returned to his hunting lodge and was greeted with the sound of splashing water in the shed that served as the bathroom. He preferred to spend the off season with his friends in town. Every winter he kept the lodge unlocked for weary travelers seeking respite from the harsh weather, and the deed paid well as grate... | 2021-06-16T08:28:43 | 2021-06-16T07:32:12 | 123 | 30 |
[WP] Narrate any current event in the style of the Avatar the Last Airbender opening. | Hot . . . Wet . . . Dry . . . Cold.
Not so long ago, the four seasons passed in sequential order.
Then everything changed when the greenhouse gases emerged.
Only the Humans, master of all petrolkind, could halt their emergence.
But when the world needed their common sense most, it vanished.
A hundred years passed ... | Vampires.
Warlords.
Demons.
Bees.
Long ago these antagonists existed in separation.
Then, everything changed when the Cage acted.
Only the television, master of all genres could stop him.
But when the world needed it most, Comcast got greedy.
A few years later, we discovered the new television, a website named ... | 2016-03-21T10:06:13 | 2016-03-21T09:15:45 | 124 | 24 |
[WP] Dungeons appear on Earth filled with monsters granting loot, experience, classes, and levels. With their wild ingenuity and loads of guns, groups of rednecks inadvertently become the first to clear a dungeon. | "Bob?"
"Yeah, Bill?"
"You dint happen to buy yerself one of them fancy piles o' fake rock with a plastic door attached, didja? One o' the ones that look like you can open 'er up and walk right in."
"No Bill, I can't say as the thought's even crossed my mind."
"..."
"Why'd you ask?"
"Well before I answer that, let... | When you have proficiency with all martial weapons and access to guns, why choose anything else? Sure some people went the magic route, with the ability to make fire come out of their hands, maybe clean their clothes real fast, or what have you, but that doesn't hold a candle to a 62 grain steel core round. So reality ... | 2019-05-12T02:20:40 | 2019-05-11T19:49:24 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] The UK votes to leave Earth. It passes.
I just woke up and saw the real news. I wish everyone over there the best of luck and hope that this decision is the best one. | "Prime Minister" a bespectacled secretary said in an almost whisper-like voice. "Sir... the beeb are waiting on you". With a groan, the PM removed the copy of The Sun from his face. Nigel had been at the pub again, stout and the stench of cigars hung heavy in his breath.
"Morning Sandra" he said, as he sat upright. Sh... | “Big Ben is ready to commence the countdown, we leave in 10 bongs"
The engines shuddered to life as the UK began to take off. The first bong echoed throughout the whole kingdom.
"Is the tea secure Jeeves?"
"Aye, as are the rich tea biscuits prime minister”
Cameron tutted under his breath, he preferred hobnobs but n... | 2016-06-23T06:18:02 | 2016-06-23T05:34:39 | 64 | 36 |
[WP] You are short, skinny and well below average intelligence. Yet, you've been hired by a group of elite soldiers to help with some of their most dangerous missions. Your superpower: sheer dumb luck. No matter how close to death you come, reality always follows the path to your ultimate survival. | Operation Code Red Tango Tango Bravo, despite its long winded name, was simple. Americans were being held hostage in the Tehran Embassy and the US government would very much like it if we got them out.
Colonel McAdams stood before the team assigned to the mission. He always avoided eye contact with me at these things.... | I’m catching my breath.
‘I can’t keep up with these guys.’ I think to myself. ‘Without gear I can barely run, now I’m their fucking lucky charm?! How am I here? Who the fuck decided this? Why the fuck was this cleared?’
I continue through the training course readying for the next mission. Heading up to the wall, hea... | 2020-04-18T07:08:13 | 2020-04-18T02:47:30 | 450 | 198 |
[WP] Originally you strapped a knife to your roomba just as a joke, but now, as you attend your roomba's knighting ceremony, you cannot help but wonder where and how this joke went *so far* off the rails. | "Everything packed, Billy?" my mom asked. My dad was loading our suitcases into the car, checking his watch every other minute.
I nodded.
Our neighbors had recently gotten burgled while they were out on a trip which meant that we hid every valuable, every item worth any sentimental value at all. It was an especially ... | "Guys, finally, the message came through... Reinforcements will arrive!"
The hole room suddenly brighten up. "Room" was a kind term for this place - one wall was missing, there was a hole in a ceiling, and the only clean thing was a radio equipment.
The invasion of Broxes began over a year ago. Since then, Earth's ... | 2022-12-03T10:16:24 | 2022-12-03T10:04:48 | 47 | 21 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has happened across almost the entire planet. However, Switzerland has somehow remained so neutral that zombies never set foot in the country. | Of course, there were rumors. A place untouched by these vile creatures. A sanctuary, where life continues as if the outbreak never took place.
No one had made it though, and if, they never came back. Hear-say about a colony, floating whispers of a name..”Helvetia”
And so I set out to find it. Yet here I was, mere... | “C’mon Liz lets get to this fucking plane. I will not miss this- it will be the death of
us.” Liz slowly opened her opulent wardrobe, slowly looking at the long handmade designer gowns. She had quite the assortment: Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Dior, and many more. Matt looked at her with anger in his eyes, with the size o... | 2019-12-06T09:02:48 | 2019-12-06T08:48:30 | 173 | 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. | Mom,
Don't have too much time, we move out in 10.
Long time no see. Haven't been able to write back, they've been keeping us on our feet for the last few weeks. Tell the goobers their uncle has permission to beat them if they get into the cabinets again. Tell Heather that the fish tank needs cleaned more ... | My dearest love,
I long to see the smile that graces you lips. It has been well over seven months since I have and my heart aches for that one simple gesture that would welcome me home. Everywhere around me death grins and I recoil from its affection. Tommy, the boy from the Mason’s farm, felt its sweet kiss two days ... | 2015-02-03T15:25:05 | 2015-02-03T13:20:11 | 113 | 14 |
[WP] You tell your wife how glad you are to be a human and not a robot. She looks at you confusingly says, "What are you talking about? We're all robots. Humans have been dead for years."
Finally! Number one on the front page! Fuck yeah! Gonna sell this account for cocaine now. | I looked away from the TV, still showing the ad for a personal assistance bot. Anna was staring at me without blinking.
"Right," I said, laughing.
"Right," she said. "Are you experiencing problems with memory and identity, Gregory? That is concerning. You should go in for maintenance."
I burst out laughing as she co... | "Haha, very funny," I said in a hollow voice.
"Wait." She put down the book she was reading, a self-help manual of how to be a better mother, and looked at me incredulously. "You can't be serious."
"Stop it, already, it's not funny."
She knew when I was being serious and would've backed down by now and grinned and t... | 2017-01-29T01:16:36 | 2017-01-29T00:59:54 | 855 | 127 |
[WP] You've developed a machine that allows you to speak with "you"s from different dimensions. However, you notice that you're the only male in a sea of women. | I have to admit, I was a bit startled when he walked into my living room- especially since he managed to do so without, you know, *opening the door*. Just, suddenly, he was there.
"Brad?" I asked perplexed. Last I heard, my twin brother was in D.C., and most definitely not in Phoenix. "What are you doing here, and w... | A couple of wires. Some pieces of quantum semi-conductors. Several laws of physics broken. Sheer determination and force of will. Somehow, in some way, I was able to create a pocket-docket. The name made sense at the time. With this I was able to look up all of the different versions of me, their biographies, the... | 2017-06-25T08:50:33 | 2017-06-25T01:46:05 | 117 | 43 |
[WP] You're a supervillain whose latest evil scheme threatens to throw the city into chaos unless your nemesis goes on a date with you. To your surprise, they agree with enthusiasm before you can even explain what the consequences of refusing are. | (I'm responding to my own prompt because life is short)
I was sitting in my office drinking tea when the doors were knocked down by one of my men getting thrown through it. I smiled. She had finally arrived.
Through the now unblocked doorway, a figure dressed in a pink and purple jester costume stepped through, her e... | Getting tipsy at the club with my friends. We're shaking butts in time with the hottest song of the summer. Sometimes we villains are cannibals - I took down this jerk who was trying to dim my sunshine so to speak - muscling into my action with dark money politics. I ruined his reputation by making some photos of him i... | 2022-08-16T12:05:36 | 2022-08-16T09:25:08 | 26 | 12 |
[FF] A 10-word-long sentence. Then, a 9-word sentence. An 8-word-long one after. This continues, until the final sentence of 1 word. Try to choose a theme befitting of the structure | Looking in the mirror, I puffed my chest out arrogantly.
I flexed, and admired the aesthetics of my physique.
Vascular arms, the chiseled abs, and V taper.
And then my eyes stopped short, shocked.
I trembled as the realization dawned.
I've made a huge mistake.
... | I remember what you said leaving the house that night.
We had fought earlier -- apparently I worried too much.
"I'll be fine," you said; "worry about yourself."
*Fine, but don't come crying to me.*
Later I heard about the accident.
Drunk driver on West Ave.
You still haven't recovered.
Ellie, I'm sorry.
I'm wor... | 2015-01-05T22:38:49 | 2015-01-05T21:32:01 | 1,258 | 55 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | My dog, who I named Mr. Fierce when I was 14, was no longer quite so fierce. 12 years later I was nearing 30 and he was slowing down. His black and white fur had a little extra white in it from old age. He was always excitable, but now days he took a while longer to get his body moving. I could tell I only had a year, ... | "Alright, listen very carefully," Lucy spoke with a condescending voice. "How do you expect me to do my business in less than 2 minutes? I don't care if you're cold, or the commercials are over, or if you've already finished your cigarette, I haven't finished my business." I was taken aback for a moment while Lucy caug... | 2017-02-23T05:15:25 | 2017-02-22T22:33:08 | 3,942 | 799 |
[WP] A hero and a villain have a drunken one-night-stand with eachothers civilian alter egos. The next morning they recognise eachothers super-identities. | I couldn't be sure exactly when I recognised her. Something in the curve of her neck, perhaps, which I had seen beneath a mask in countless surveillance videos. Or just something in the way she moved, graceful and athletic but very sudden, as if she had just heard something inaudible to everyone else. The knowledge was... | Roger opened his eyes blearily, before the bright sunlight coming through the exposed windows forced him to close them again. A sharp, throbbing pain resided just behind his eyes letting him know that, once again, he was hungover. He sighed to himself. Super Strength, Super Speed, inhuman durability and the ability to ... | 2018-08-13T09:41:42 | 2018-08-13T08:56:49 | 157 | 79 |
[WP] “Your supply routes are blockaded, your transports are destroyed. You will surrender, human, or you will starve.” “Bold words from someone who tastes good with ketchup.” | [Poem]
In my home village
Which I wouldn't dare leave
There wasn't much food left
And all were bereaved
The guards killed most of us
And then trapped the rest
I try to retain my religion
This is a hidden blessing or a test
I had no where to go
Nothing I was willing to give
I'll have one more adrenaline ru... | [Poem]
Into the scene a nuggie stepped
Smiling just a little smile
"A vegan diet you will accept,
Your tyranny has gone for a while."
The humans screamed,
The revolution had 'em wiped out.
But the gardener beamed,
As a pea left a plant's snout.
The meat screamed in agony,
NPK goodness in it's face.
The pea-s... | 2021-03-25T13:20:49 | 2021-03-25T12:04:12 | 51 | 36 |
[WP] You accidentally kill a person. You instantly absorb all of their memories, intelligence, and talents. You find it feels euphoric and quite addicting. | The first person I killed was Andy Chang, a fifty-five-year-old doctor.
My car collided with his body. He tumbled across the darkened sidewalk and crunched against the curb.
I thought I was dying too.
My world exploded with light and colour- swirls of memories and pain. Shrill music echoed in my head. I threw open... | Beer bottles and pizza boxes were scattered across the room. My phone had a dozen messages and as many missed calls from worried friends who hadn't seen me except online in a week.
They wouldn't understand.
I couldn't get it out of my head. The rush, the endorphins - it was the highest high I'd ever had. No games, no... | 2017-12-08T07:47:34 | 2017-12-08T06:35:26 | 2,578 | 409 |
[WP] You die and find yourself at the gates of heaven, but they're rusted and hanging open. The entire place seems abandoned. | Empty.
Heaven is empty?
My first reaction was fear. I hadn't been that bad a person to deserve hell had I?
Only truely evil people should go to hell right? I thought to myself as I took in the city around me. Completely devoid of the flames or pain expected of eternal punishment.
Empty plazas streets and homes. ... | I walk in, not feeling my steps as if I'm gliding, over the ground that breathes a soft light. It's all ground for miles on end.
I feel as if I should be remembering 26 years of a life, but the emotions are present, the images are not. I only barely recollect a second of it, a group of masked figures looking over me.... | 2018-09-06T21:49:09 | 2018-09-06T16:38:53 | 65 | 24 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear dad,
I fucking miss you. You died too quickly and I never got to hear your last words. I know though, I know you'd tell me you're proud of me and that you love me. I know this, but goddammit, i wish I could have heard you say it. I'll be the man you always knew I could be. I promise you that, and i will continue... | Dear me,
Grow a pair of balls and ask that bitch out.
Dumbass. So what if she says no? Are you gonna cry? Hell, no. You'll be sad but you'll move on.
You'll be more happy if she says yes than sad if she says no.
What a pussy. | 2015-12-05T15:43:07 | 2015-12-05T14:30:45 | 45 | 33 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | I'm a single father of one beautiful girl. She's my whole world. As a single father I feel the need to over-compensate and I tend to spoil the girl. I often bring home toys and games for her and I to enjoy together.
I sometimes worry that I over-do it, but she loves the attention. One day, after work, we played a lon... | I’m a very structured man. I’ve had a strict morning routine for 24 years now.
Sunday, March 22, 1992 I discovered the perfect way to start my day.
I wake up at 5:30 and slip on my slippers. I start my coffee and read the sports section.
Once the coffee is finished brewing, I pour myself a bowl of Honey Nut... | 2016-05-19T10:10:20 | 2016-05-19T09:03:34 | 408 | 24 |
[WP] The summoned hero was neither a fighter nor a magic caster. He called himself a "new-clee-ar fizz-izz-ist" whatever that means. Now he has sent you to collect a special rock for him. Why he would need a rock, you will never know, but he even gave you a device that clicks when you find it. | He called it the Demon Core.
Weighing in at approximately 1 stone and about the size of an apple, the special rock floated unassumingly above a soft red velvet cushion. Yet, the hero ordered our most powerful mages to construct their strongest barrier protection spells to seal it to the point that nothing could escap... | The clicks don't follow a pattern.
At the oldtime tavern there's a piano player that puts up a metronome, which goes click-click-click-click all in time.
But this little device clicks ragged. It's a chattering of teeth. Sometimes big bites, sometimes the shiver of a few minutes spent too long on the snowy surface.
I... | 2022-01-31T02:01:31 | 2022-01-31T00:25:45 | 839 | 335 |
[WP] In your culture, everybody gets a chance to go back in time once and say whatever you want to your younger self. You only get 5 seconds so you have to make it count. Today you turn 18 and see a 60 year old man approach you. You realize its your future self, but what he tells you terrifies you. | Going through life, I never felt like I'd ever need to go back in time to warn myself of anything. I had made mistakes and learned from them, but in my 18 years of life, I never felt the desire to be told anything by my future self. I wanted to be surprised by what life had to offer; not be teased in five seconds.
At ... | So there I am, sitting on my bed, just thinking about whatever. Suddenly, a flash of light fills the room as a hobbled old man appears and chucks a present with a note on it at me, then disappears. I read the note and it says
Dear me
I know that this should sound cliche and all, I'm you a ways down the timeline.... | 2018-11-25T21:16:30 | 2018-11-25T17:50:53 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Instead of Mary birthing the son of God, she gave birth to a son from The Elder Gods. Describe the bible as HP Lovecraft would. | ###Lamentations IX:
**Chapter 15**
Spake the Lord, "Go before me, my Disciples, and make believers of all men in Jerusalem." So the Disciples went into the city to spread His Word.
Peter went to the poor district and began to speak. "My brothers and sisters, I too was once poor like you. But I was raised up! For is ... | Nothing.
Nothing is the void, which is dark and empty and full of nothing.
No form nor sound nor light of day rings out there.
"Shavalyoth," came a voice, too deep to be heard - too loud to be felt.
The void answers none.
A blinding explosion of light erupts into a large pillar. Its white and purple flames too bri... | 2015-02-12T09:50:52 | 2015-02-12T08:31:53 | 74 | 38 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
---
I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
---
Dear God RIP my inbox | Business is booming in Compton.
I scope out the local alleyway for stray dogs..
Immediately smell a reeking odor behind the trashcan.
Walk over to the scene with a slight limp.
See a straggly young female Beagle with potential.
Offer her some crack.
The bitch wasn't a crack addict.
Though she could be a crack w... | We met in the room of a thousand fountains all 140 of us. We looked around for the original sure enough he was here. "Alright gentleman I have gathered you here today to adress the growing unrest across the galaxy at this time. Now I can't do it alone but with all of you I can, but we have to work together. Sound fair?... | 2016-02-22T11:52:01 | 2016-02-22T09:22:45 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] “One last piece of advice. If you ever land on a planet and the human says “it’s just like home” you turn on the thrusters and leave it in the dust. Because, trust me kid, those places will kill ya.” | The craft landed on a new world reported in the Uud system. As the most adaptable beings in the universe, the human was always suited up and sent out first to investigate.
"Ah just like home," said human science officer Raj as he stepped out onto the earth-like landscape. "Scans look good here."
The alien crew looked... | The five figures stepped out of the lander onto the soft moss that stretched across the surface of the planet as far as the visitors could see. Moving forward, each step was cushioned silently by the moss, a small mist rising with each motion.
Looking down at his environmental reading on his wrist monitor, John excite... | 2021-04-13T13:58:51 | 2021-04-13T13:09:42 | 1,253 | 330 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It comes in a dream on your eighteenth birthday. If you have a soulmate, and it turns out about 80% of people do, you have a dream about meeting your soulmate for the first time. The only thing you really remember from that dream are the first words they say to you. Not their face or name or even what you say to the... | Samantha opened her Soul-Match kit. It came in a little plastic bubble like you get from the machines in front of grocery stores. Samanta had never seen one before but everyone knew they were going to get one when they turned 18.
"So what's it say, Sam?" It was Abraham. Sweet man. Single father of 2. A heavy set, bear... | 2014-12-18T00:40:41 | 2014-12-18T00:20:43 | 355 | 17 |
[FF] Write about a feeling with 10 lines, the first one being 10 words, next line 9, so on and so forth. | **Anxiety**
Pressure fills my chest as my heart beats wildly inside.
The tingling moves through my fingers, up my arms.
I grasp at my chest, push against it.
I feel every part of my body -
the blood pulsing in my head,
the prickling of every nerve.
You ask what's wrong.
Don't you know?
It's just...
me.
... | You are one of several billion clones in the world
Everybody everywhere living lives you'll never get to see
You can't help but wonder how they live
Somebody somewhere is feeling just like you
Somebody somewhere else is feeling worse
No one can be unique
Millions of other people
Just like you.
I... | 2015-02-12T23:52:27 | 2015-02-12T23:01:52 | 40 | 12 |
[WP] In a different age, Aliens invaded and were defeated by Cavemen, as a result they prepared for a second battle thousands of years in the future, when they expected humanity to be the most fearsome beings in the universe, they return to find society as it is now
EDIT: August 8th, 2014 @ 2:35PM:
Wow, /r/WritingPro... | "Commander, just receiving images through the portal now... By the Mighty Olgatha..."
"Look at the size of their huts! Covered in glass and metal! How could they have engineered such monstrosities? The resources and planning to create- AH! Death machines roll around the buildings on patrol. Thousands upon thousands of... | The commander stood impressively on the pillars of Hexus beside the naturally formed wormhole of Xarxel. His scarred trunk pointed a Heva bone trident as his troops listening to their final invasion instructions.
"Four temlons since our defeat! We have no idea how the hairless have prepared since then. Their clubs... | 2014-08-07T07:19:15 | 2014-08-07T07:07:37 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] You’re an immortal 30-year-old-looking serial killer who was sentenced to 1,000 years in prison. After 100 years people started asking questions, but now it’s been 400 years and you’re starting to outlast the prison itself. | They told me it would feel like eternity.
That this punishment, effectively a life-sentence for humankind, would be worse than any demise a mortal government could have awarded me. This, they said, was worse than mercy. Worse because death was a luxury that cannot afford to wait. But I could. I would have 1000 years t... | The lights blinded me; I hadn't seen it for the past 300 years. That's when they caught onto me. When I outlived three judges and four prison wardens.
"Take a seat," the officer motioned me. "Water? You must be thirsty. They gave up feeding you,--records show since 2120."
"Sure," I said as a took a seat.
I was in a... | 2020-08-17T00:05:13 | 2020-08-16T23:16:07 | 4,705 | 2,045 |
[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" | The ground rumbled as the Arch-Minister completed his ritual before the massive door. I had never seen any of the holy miracles before, but using such power to open a door seemed a little wasteful to me. The Minister beckoned me forward and I took my first steps into a ruin of the Old Ones.
Most of their cities had fa... | And so the elderly priest whispered the dark deeds that Rafael committed in his first life. How he’d struck a deal for immortality but was tricked into a cycle of reincarnation on a technicality instead. Every five-thousand years or so, the reincarnation would be born of the purest evil and would need to be wiped out. ... | 2020-11-09T13:18:58 | 2020-11-09T13:02:21 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | In a world where people were born with superpowers, some got the short end of the stick. Some could fly, while others could see the world in a different spectrum. Some had the ability to conjure flames as hot as the sun, while others could manipulate ice cubes.
Everyone had a choice, to do what they wanted with their ... | After the test revealed that indeed had super powers i was excited to hear what they were. After all: I had to wait until i'm 18 to take this test.
My parents didn't share my excitement but were rather concerned and worried. They were thinking that two S tier supers would create a child with powers so strong that ... | 2017-06-12T08:42:15 | 2017-06-12T08:29:20 | 52 | 27 |
[WP] The best demon slayers are those whose minds the demons want to stay out of. | The door slammed shut behind the demon hunter. His fingerless driving gloves reached to his trilby hat as he greeted the small home, filled with priests and worried family. In the middle lay a child, possessed. She screamed as he entered.
"M'lady." The behemoth of a man skated to her on his Heelys. "What's the situati... | Rodenhurst walked into the dilapidated ice cream parlor. Its once cheerful pink and blue exterior had been rotted and worn and rained away, leaving a flithy, used look. The whole area was like that. Old and broken, just like the people who lived here. People, by the way, who were scarce in number. The recent influx of ... | 2016-02-08T08:31:44 | 2016-02-08T08:30:18 | 170 | 15 |
[WP] you are the first immortal. While it is true that you cannot die, your flesh and body can. After so many millennia you are reduced to a sentient skeleton sitting at the bottom of a peaceful pond to avoid contact with other people. Some bastards are trying to drain it | The bottom of the lake was dark and quiet. In the dark and quiet lay the skeleton of Bjorn the immortal. It was a large skeleton, which had started to fossilize. Another thousand years thought Bjorn, the immortal. Another thousand years and I shall be one with the earth. He smiled and waited like he had been waiting fo... | The annoying part about immortality is losing the feeling of time passing. Since death became a non-issue, you likened time to a sweet lullaby you heard once as a child. You can't remember why, how, maybe there wasn't even a reason for it. A minute went by, or a year, it made no difference, to you it felt like the mela... | 2020-11-20T11:19:48 | 2020-11-20T11:17:50 | 1,476 | 278 |
[WP] Leaving a rooftop party at night, you take the elevator to the ground floor. Stepping out, you find it is now broad daylight, a week later, and you have hundreds of missed calls and texts. Even more strangely, the city streets are empty, silent and devoid of life. | The doctors called them "absent seizures." Basically, my brain would have a small seizure. To an outside observer, I would look like I was just staring into space for some amount of time. I myself would have no memory of the lapse, and it would give me some "retrograde amnesia", and my brain would fill in these gaps wi... | Thierry remembered when his hangovers only lasted a night at most. Nothing a blissful spell of blackout sleep couldn't handle.
Of course that had diminished as he'd grown older, going somewhere between his longtime girlfriend and his self-confidence. It was a point of great regret; not just that he'd had to grow old,... | 2021-02-07T10:05:03 | 2021-02-07T09:48:13 | 212 | 57 |
[WP] write a short horror story that seems completely normal and non scary until the very last sentence at which point it becomes absolutely terrifying. | Max stood by the barn entrance, trying to hold back his tears. A tough thing for a child to see, I thought. But he's got to learn about it somehow.
“Please just tell me, Dad,” Max said finally. “Is Buddy going to be okay?”
I looked down at the ground, at Buddy whimpering quietly in the grass. His collar was askew, an... | He knelt down beside her on the cold grass of the graveyard. She had tripped and almost fallen straight onto a headstone, something that would most likely have given her a major injury.
"You didnt hurt yourself, did you?" He looked her over, checking for any scratches or cuts.
"I dont think so, but thank you, im ok.... | 2017-05-31T08:55:19 | 2017-05-31T05:30:06 | 138 | 50 |
[WP] A Jumanji-style board game is found by two children in the Amazon about the perils of life in suburban America | "Roll the dice, Azura," I pressured my sister, too excited to wait any longer. "I want it to be my turn already!"
She looked at me and frowned. "Stop being so impatient, little brother. We just found this weird game; it's not going anywhere." She looked at the rules a little more and finally rolled her dice.
"You go... | Shuddering with fear and anticipation, they roll the dice once more.
There is a boom and a crash and a shrieking of six million transdimensional voices, and out of the rising pillar of smoke steps a dumpy white male, age forty-two, wearing taped-up glasses and a reflective orange vest.
"What are you?" chorus the ... | 2016-02-07T11:54:51 | 2016-02-07T05:10:30 | 304 | 141 |
[WP] An ancient manuscript is unearthed. It is proven to be the original Book of Revelation. After it is translated, there are actually FIVE Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Describe the Fifth Horseman, his color, and his contribution to the Apocalypse.
(Title) | There are whispers that there is one Horseman more powerful than his four brothers combined. Never in the countless wars between Heaven and Earth had he been summoned to battle, but he had always watched and waited with an infinite patience that gods and demons could only envy.
Now, at the very end of all things, he h... | When He broke the fifth seal, I heard the fifth living creature saying, “Come.” And as last, a brown horse, went out; the man who sat on him was chubby and round of face, an ugly sneer painted on it. A golden crown, a golden chain and a golden cloak, and hungry eyes peeking out over the horizon. "My daughters for a man... | 2015-09-22T12:12:30 | 2015-09-22T11:42:52 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | God looked at his species and giggled. His people were woefully behind. They still only had basic nuclear power technology the little idiots used it to make a bomb! A bomb of all things. It was just too funny. The only thing they could do with fusion was to make yet another bomb. Of course they would do that. The... | How could they have gotten so far ahead? I thought I was doing fine. My civilization was moving along well, everything in relative harmony considering the volatility I'd bred them for in the first place. Now I'm going to have to push my civilization even harder, and given their makeup - they are derived from predat... | 2016-04-09T11:39:46 | 2016-04-09T09:59:18 | 57 | 26 |
[WP] Everyone can become infinitely powerful if they so choose, however the more power you gain the less you remember about who you are and what you wanted. The greatest beings in the land have no feelings on anything and are more an extension of nature than the deity's they had hoped to become. | "I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds. All fall before my inevitability." The Dark Specter seemed to suck the light out of the room. The floor undulated in slow waves. The giant spoon and fork hanging on the wall wavered as their molecules drifted between dimensions.
Julia stared at the Specter impatiently. "Yes, hu... | Nick stared at the nothingness that stood before him. Everything seemed dark, every sound was either a dull thud or a metallic screech. Food was like ash on his taste buds.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Winston, but you have to sign the release forms." A voice reached his ears but he could not comprehend.
His wife should be call... | 2022-01-27T09:27:14 | 2022-01-27T07:11:48 | 103 | 68 |
[WP] As the child of a villain and a famous hero, you're either loved or hated in both the hero and villain circles depending on who you ask. Your family has received numerous threats and letters over the scandal. Once you get kidnapped, you dread finding out if your captor is a villain or a 'hero' | The villains were always nice about kidnapping me. Luxury hotel rooms, nice beds, good food, thing kind of thing they figured out makes a hostage not try too hard to escape. At this point I had come to expect it, once every two months, almost on the dot, Vulture would come into my room at midnight to kidnap me. I say k... | I am the bastard child of Shadow-Rush the world’s most infamous villain and Collision-Course the world’s greatest hero and after my birth my mother Collision-Course retired for being a superhero and my father Shadow-Rush retired from his life of villainy and started a calm, normal life with each other and married each ... | 2022-06-25T06:22:35 | 2022-06-24T17:08:09 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Human blood turns darker with every evil deed and you've just murdered your wife. You never admitted to doing it, but you were the only suspect in the case. Imagine everyone's surprise when they found out that your blood is still milky white. | “Is this turning into some kind of moral test?”- I ask, tired. Exhausted.
My blood is white. This has been a surprise, yes, never expected, and in fact, to me, completely irrelevant for all that matters. However, everyone around seems to be realizing more than they had wished. They look at me, and, not answering, they... | My name's Ambint Couslen. I'm 26, dark brown hair, pale white skin, and I was a huge MMO master since I was 16, that was up until I met someone. The most peculiar of people who showed up out of nowhere as a coworker of mine at an intolerable desk job.
People used to call me "M". From aMbint, in my name. Now everyone j... | 2020-02-09T13:17:30 | 2020-02-09T12:50:06 | 55 | 19 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | I watched you dance in the rain. It was beautiful. You smiled, I smiled back. Then there was joy. And now, you are still beautiful like a flower.
I watched you dance. In the rain it was beautiful. You smiled. I smiled. Back then there was joy. And now, you are still. Beautiful like a flower. | Set Free:
And at the last second I saw her stepping onto the train. I realized I would never see her again. Powerless, I watched her fade.
And at the last second I saw her. Stepping onto the train I realized I would never see her again. Powerless, I watched her fade.
| 2015-09-23T10:42:41 | 2015-09-23T10:11:20 | 630 | 361 |
[WP] Your brother has been hearing the voice of God for years. His large following of believers and unorthodox teachings have brought an era of peace, which makes it all the harder to confess you've been pranking him.
My first writing prompt! | "Death to non-believers."
It's the way he delivers it that chills your bones. You've never heard John talk this way.
Calm. Cold. Distant.
"John - what are you doing!? Snap out of it!" you plead. You're trying to buy time while you struggle against the bindings, but it's no use.
"I - we, everyone - cannot risk this... | He has schizophrenia. He hears voices all day, and claims he is the promised Messiah. When it began, he said the voices in his head were from God. That he hears messages from Heaven through the television.
Then he gets a red headed koi fish, the day of the eclipse, at the Marysville Buddhist Church in 2012. Yeah, his ... | 2018-04-07T14:01:07 | 2018-04-07T13:43:32 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | A voice boomed, "Kneel, mortal."
I was dazed, and more than a little confused. My heart pounded in my chest, and I felt an overwhelming sense of anxiety and dread, although I couldn't quite remember why. My head darted left and right as I tried desperately to find the source of the voice, but as far as I could tell, t... | I entered Hell whistling merrily.
I don't think I could call this a surprise. I'm a downright horrible bastard. "You think they'd hire you?" I wondered to myself. "It sure beats getting tortured for all eternity."
"That does sound nice," I agreed. "It might be nice to spend all of eternity with a job at least, a cal... | 2017-06-22T08:36:19 | 2017-06-22T06:00:59 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | Nobody is ever dethroning “My Immortal”
> Hi my name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that's how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don't know wh... | My name is Drake Silverheart and this is my story.
I go to Meadow Heights, a Christian school ever since my parents died and my uncle started taking care of me. The guys in my school would often make fun of me for wearing all black and being an orphan and not being a Christian but I did not care because I knew they s... | 2022-08-19T20:01:22 | 2022-08-19T19:13:09 | 55 | 15 |
[WP] Jupiter has 64 moons and a serious werewolf problem.
Edit: damn there's some quality responses here. I wasn't expecting this prompt to be so popular. Good job u guys | The year is 2270. About 150 years ago the human race first started testing planet scale terraforming. Earth was running out of resources and we were long overdue for an upgrade. Why not go to the biggest planet that we know of?
I heard that back in the day, werewolves were a myth. People claimed to see them, but there... | "Wolves?"
"*Were*wolves, sir. Fuckin' everywhere, the buggers."
Commander Keen sat at the comms desk, letting out a big sigh. This was going to be a long day.
"I'm not sure if I follow you, admiral. You're saying a moon in Jupiter has actual, fully-fleshed Werewolves running amok?"
"No, sir."
"Fantastic, because ... | 2016-10-03T10:55:02 | 2016-10-03T09:14:11 | 198 | 116 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Just pick another fucking age!" Death said, snarling as he looked at Bobby.
"No, I get to pick, and I pick my 16th birthday."
Death screamed and punched the little shit in his head, and Bobby disappeared. All death had to do was touch his forehead, but he was way to angry for that. He waited for a few minutes, and a... | "Oh *good, you* again."
Death is meant to be an imposing figure. They look different for each person, for the culture you come from, for what represents your fears. I was never very imaginative, though, so I always thought of it as a skeleton in a cloak. Pretty scary the first time, but you'd expect them to change it ... | 2016-09-23T10:49:59 | 2016-09-23T08:59:37 | 232 | 27 |
[WP] France is now illegal | No one thought that it would actually happen, politicians make stupid laws so people will protest them so they can get worse laws to pass without anyone caring. We all assumed this was the case, no one cared. We all figured someone else would cause an out-roar about it, but no did, no one cared. It was April 1st when i... | Damn baguettes.
I hate baguettes. They are so despicable.
Look at them, those baked goods make me so mad. I feel an anger boiling up inside me, welling up until I am fit to burst, fit to explode. The last time I was in a French bakery I got so angry that I shattered the window by kicking it with my full force, and un... | 2018-07-27T11:25:34 | 2018-07-27T08:37:34 | 44 | 28 |
[WP]The US Government finds a Stranger Things-esque alternate dimension full of deadly creatures. Then, they discover Oil there. | "Sir! Please sir. Please put the phone down. We've already explained you can't tweet about this sir. It's classified."
"But there is oil there? You said."
"Yes sir, hydro-carbon compounds, as well as other biological life of a form we've never seen yet shares similarities with our own genetic makeup. the DNA structur... | “You hear that HazOp found nukes at Blue Mountain?” Sergeant Porten snorted, loading bullets into the magazine of his rifle.
“Yeah, and the Seals found nerve gas in a Slasher nest. These things don’t even have a written language, but they’ve developed nuclear weapons. I can't believe people are falling for this.” Pr... | 2017-10-28T09:32:19 | 2017-10-28T09:10:46 | 136 | 64 |
[WP] Your superpower is the ability to give other people a superpower of your choice. Your only restriction is that you can never give the same power twice. You've been at this a very long time, and you need to build a new superhero team to save the world once again.
Edit: This is my first WP, and it was so much fun! ... | Frieda had searched for years. Finally, she was certain she had found him: the Sage, who had the power to grant anyone whatever superpower he wished. Whenever the world was in danger, The Sage had always been there to provide the world with heroes to save it. Now, the world needed heroes again and Frieda was determi... | "How about the power to create dinosaurs?" he said looking at me, a desperation in his voice. We had been going at this for like an hour by this point.
"Really! You thought your the first to ask to be a dinomancer. Kid someone asked for the power within the first year of me starting. Try again." I was used to people t... | 2019-01-20T13:44:59 | 2019-01-20T11:40:57 | 43 | 19 |
[WP] An immortal is experiencing the heat death of the universe, when he can hear the sounds of confetti, and blasting music. The music stops with a record scratch, and a bewildered voice can be heard saying: "Wait...one's still here?" | There he stood, alone in the void. Distant in the nether the last star flickered. Cain closed his eyes, welcoming the embrace of entropy in all of existence. Darkness swallowed and the universe came to a halt, all atoms staying still, all matter and energy ceasing the infinite ballet of changing states. Each and every ... | (Kinda short, less story, more like mind puke.)
Your face is unchanged.
"Yes I'm still here."
...
You hear the sound of shuffling papers, muffled voices, and TOTALLY ruffled jammies. Like, there's at least 32 harshed mellows trying to figure out what's up right now. It's overall extremely comical.
The deep, bass ... | 2017-05-03T08:13:31 | 2017-05-03T08:02:40 | 38 | 14 |
[WP] When the oil runs out a new Age of Sail emerges for transporting goods overseas, along with this comes a new Age of Piracy...
Avast ye scruvy dogs! | *I got up on the stage and clicked the powerpoint presentation.*
Men, I present to you the new hydrogen fuel cell electric marine engine. Now i know what you're saying, it didn't work for cars, how come we're applying it to cargo ships? Simple, because cargo ships are much bigger and have different mechanical load iss... | Not quite as actiony as it could be, but I hope you enjoy anyway!
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"Cap?"
"Yea, Smiff?"
"Blip."
"Thanks."
Captain Gerald walked over to the wall of moniters and buttons, where Smiff, his comunications officer, had beckoned him from. The man pointed at a moniter, and as claimed, a small red dot could be seen sl... | 2014-10-01T07:00:10 | 2014-10-01T06:21:57 | 88 | 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. | Ah well shit. There goes that plan. Think Bart think. You've got time to think
of an alternative. I guess this is why they don't let people witness the
executions. Think.
"The next on the docket is Bartholomew Wright, found guilty of 5 counts of
theft, 2 counts of arson and 6 counts of assault." The judge is reading o... | The line had been excruciatingly long, almost unbearably so. Prisoner number after prisoner number was called, each time slowly getting closer to the one that I held. We were given numbers at the start, much like we were just waiting in line at the DMV or at the doctor's office. If only this was as nice of a scenario. ... | 2021-06-24T04:09:04 | 2021-06-24T03:42:17 | 158 | 66 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them.
Great turnout and work everybody. Keep em' coming.
Newcomers:
A. Don't feel afraid to post or otherwise get turned off posting by the number of already completed responses.
B. Read all... | He’ll be a hero for what he’s doing. He’ll be the most famous murderer since Jeffrey Dahmer. Phillip Douglass, our hero. He has killed millions and in sadistic splendor, loves his job more than life itself. His favorite method of execution is raining fire upon his victims. Something about watching his prey scurry ... | After lurking here for a long time, I'm finally responding! Go ahead and be brutal, I can take it. Here goes:
"You told me you were at your mother's house! What the hell were you thinking, hitting on all the other girls at the bar? Am I not good enough for you?” I say nothing. What else can I do? She caught me ... | 2014-03-11T09:59:53 | 2014-03-11T09:47:52 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] A 19-year old infantryman is gunned down on Normandy. Because of his death in battle, he is conscripted into Odin's army as they await Ragnarok. What's it like for him in the mead hall?
Edit: Thank you all for the creative responses! | The sound of the slide retracting was deafened through the cheers and the joys of drunken battle veterans from generations ago. Despite death in a mystical place, guns still needed cleaning...unfortunately. Many sharpened their battle axes. Others fletched arrows. PFC Christopher Walkins on the other hand, cleaned his ... | "I'm no warrior," he thought. But here he was on Osage Beach anyway, so he might as well play the part. To his left, men were high stepping through thigh deep water and screaming. To his right, a shell exploded. The concussion drove him off his feet back into the blood-tinged surf. Struggling against the tide, he pulle... | 2013-11-28T21:27:02 | 2013-11-28T20:10:20 | 23 | 15 |
[WP] You're the last human in a civilized world of vampires, werewolves and other legendary monsters. You only exist in bedtime stories used to scare children. You've been able to keep your existence secret until one day, you're finally discovered. | Most of the "adults" nowadays don't belive I'm real. All of the ones who knew of my existence were killed by my so-called allies when I was merely a ten-year-old. So sweet and innocent. But not sweet and innocent enough.
Now I live a life in the shadows, as a twenty-two year old, leeching off of a gaggle of succubi. I... | Humans are weak fragile things. Our bodies can't withstand half the things the super natural's can. But what I find interesting, is we were the only ones who could really be cursed. Sure to us being a supernatural being meant a curse, like that of the werewolf and vampire. But now I know those aren't curses. A curse is... | 2019-01-31T11:59:21 | 2019-01-31T11:04:09 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] Write a short story about the nicest, humblest person in the world. Then make them the most fucked up person in the world in the last sentence. | One more, I must save one more , he exclaimed from his death bed. He’d spent his entire fortune saving lives and on his death bed 122 was not enough he wanted to save 123.
His assistant rushed in the room , there’s a child in Mississippi who can’t afford a heart procedure that...
Say no more pay it in full! Said the m... | [Morbid/Gruesome]
He always had a smile on his face.
He had invented the secret of immortality, and accepted the nobel prize for medicine at the cemmetary where his brother was buried.
He had always said that he didn't deserve the glory.
As he climbed to the stage, he said to the crowd:
"I want you all to know, I'... | 2018-09-20T11:50:27 | 2018-09-20T11:45:02 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] You've been cursed so that whenever you pick up a tool you will lose consciousness but wake up after finishing a project related to that tool, you just picked up a bow hoping to get some hunting done, when you wake up, you're sitting on a throne. | My eyes pried open as if they'd been sealed for a thousand years, rusted shut. The light of awareness stung them, and I felt sand. A lot of sand, whirling about me; rough, coarse and everywhere. Every breath left my mouth grainy.
There was a man kneeled in front of me, robes stuck to him with sweat, baking under the m... | There are blessings, and there are curses. I have both, and they are the same thing.
I was a hermit, a sage. I had devoted my life to god, caring for naught by my prayers and wanting to help humanity. My daily chores were the only things that interrupted my meditations. I avoided people, for as much as I wanted to he... | 2019-04-16T20:15:54 | 2019-04-16T16:30:38 | 3,610 | 130 |
[WP] An entire office block is populated by aliens disguised as humans on a mission to study our behaviour. None of them are aware of each other and think they are the only alien there. As a result they are amazed that human behaviour is so similar to their own. Then a real human gets a job there. | So far today, I’ve had to run to the bathroom to stop the shaking in my hands about five times before lunch. I check the clock- 11:13. I sit down at my desk, open up the file with the list of my clients, and dial the first number.
It’s some old lady who maintains the Methodist church on 57. She’s clearly not having a... | "So, did you catch Westworld yesterday?" James asked as I was grabbing a doughnut in the breakroom.
"Nah, ief guid ew mush going on" I candidly replied before finishing off the rest of my doughnut.
Ohhhh! Human conversation is so interesting, and it's the focus of my study here. It's like trying to skip around topic... | 2018-07-26T06:57:25 | 2018-07-26T06:38:58 | 97 | 71 |
[WP] At age 18, you are able to trade in a percentage of your physical beauty for an equivalent amount of intelligence, or vice versa.
Inspired by a Time Magazine article | I'm scared, not going to lie, but it's for the best. Looks don't last, and I know this, but I still touch the mirror that I face in the room I'm changing in. My red hair hangs in the fragile ringlets that other girls have cooed over for years; green eyes shine with life and joy, despite the anxiety in them. Slim hips, ... | "Oh, my god, this is the dream come true!" I exclaimed, when I first heard about it.
I have entered the building with tall glass walls, waited in line, and here I am, talking to a pale, tall man in a suit.
"Hello. So you want to..."
"Yes. NOW. Shut up and take my money. I trade everything, for as much as I can."
-... | 2015-09-24T03:31:24 | 2015-09-23T22:55:58 | 91 | 12 |
[WP] In this dystopian society, citizens are only allowed to say words that are on the 'approved common words' list. All other word lists must be purchased before you are allowed to say a word from them. The rich have a distinct advantage. | The line behind Wes was growing as he sifted through pages of words on a computerized booth. Each word was followed by a price tag that reflected its complexity.
"Hurry. You, hurry, please," demanded a man in a custodian gear that stood behind him. "Go. Go." The numerous people in the queue all seemed to nod in agreem... | The noise machine that tells time went off bright and early. Person 1,289,273,493 woke up and began another day. The first eating time, a shower, and the morning drive time.
Person 1,289,273,493 came to the place with the machines that make power. The work was hard but the pay was kind of not bad.
“**Greetings** pers... | 2017-09-20T09:17:27 | 2017-09-20T07:41:54 | 4,390 | 341 |
[WP] Every time they fight, you lost a family member in the incident. You've had enough. You swore to eliminate the powers of both villains and superheroes. You are The Neutralizer. | You can always tell who they are by the look in their eyes, the hungry grin on their faces. Of course, much of the public is unable to recognize superheroes. I wake up nearly every night to their grins, devoid of emotion, and the arrogant twinkle dominating their eyes.
Many times in these dreams I am burning, the unna... | "Get down!" someone shouts across the street, their hands pointed to sky.
Instinctively, we duck for cover. A loud crash shakes the sky above us and the debris comes raining down around us.
"Run for the shelters!" another lady shouts, her voice eclipsed by the sound of bricks and glass pummelling the ground.
I pul... | 2018-09-28T06:55:02 | 2018-09-28T06:35:08 | 182 | 48 |
[WP] See, no monsters anywhere,” Grandma said to her grandson after searching the room. Outside the bedroom, Grandma pulled the goblin she found in the closet from her robe pocket, squeezed its neck until a loud crack echoed across the hallway, and said, “nobody fucks with my grandson.” | "Are you sure there's no monsters under there, Ganny?" asked the little towheaded boy, a mixture of fear and, well, something like hope in his quavering voice.
She sighed, then grunted as she climbed up from her knees, one gnarled hand atop the dragon's head cane she had to walk with nowadays, and the other wrapped... |
\[WP\] See, no monsters anywhere,” Grandma said to her grandson after searching the room. Outside the bedroom, Grandma pulled the goblin she found in the closet from her robe pocket, squeezed its neck until a loud crack echoed across the hallway, and said, “nobody fucks with my grandson
Grandma slayer
“Damn beasts... | 2020-09-24T17:40:06 | 2020-09-24T16:56:17 | 42 | 12 |
[WP] Suddenly, nothing in the world can be used as a weapon anymore. Nuclear warheads and weapons have disappeared. No one can even use rocks to throw at each other or they disappear to. If you try to punch someone your hand is made immobile. Any form of physical violence is impossible. | I used to be a Hitman. One of the best on this planet, if not actually the best. Proficient with all kinds of weapons, master of disguise and stealth, tactical mastermind. Most of my targets never saw me coming. The pay was high, the job was fun. Good times.
Of course, the recent developments made my job more difficul... | "Your mother is dumb!" Dale only raised an eyebrow. Seriously? A mother insult? Well, fight fire with fire, they say, which is quite dumb because water is much better...
"...when she died!" *Oops, I zoned out*, he thought. *Not that this pathetic one was worth my attention anyways.* The audience was now staring at Da... | 2017-05-31T11:31:38 | 2017-05-31T10:41:47 | 34 | 13 |
[WP] It turns out that humanity is *not* a virus infecting the planet. Humanity is the immune system response the planet is having towards *something else*... | Everyone watched our population growing closer and closer to ten billion. No one was sure precisely what we were expecting, but it reminded me of the Y2K phenomenon. News feeds were full of the usual tripe; worried about resources running out, housing concerns, but mostly disdain for the many floundering space programs... | We thought we were the poison. We thought ourselves a disease to be cured, a danger to our only mean of survival. But all that changed when our purpose was revealed. Have you ever felt the natural disgust at the uncanney valley? This discomfort when something appears human, but clearly is not, only told by a few mismat... | 2021-08-07T00:10:51 | 2021-08-06T20:45:26 | 546 | 56 |
[WP] There are many types of Mages in the world. Fire, Ice, Wind, Water, Death, Darkness, to name a few. But in this world, every type of mage is treated as equal. Everyone can be a good guy, no matter how dark your power. And anyone could be a bad guy, no matter how beautiful their ability...
Edit: Wow
I'm ... | My father was a sorcerer of magma, heat coursed through his veins and his lava casting abilities brought armies to their knees.
His father before him was a wizard of fire, he wielded the legendary flames of Uzun and gave his life to end the great war of ice in the South, a famous victory for his King. This earned my ... | "Thank you for coming," Bette said, wiping the tears from her eyes. "I know it's a lot to ask of you, but.."
Alex waved away the gesture. "I understand completely. If I was in your position, I'd do the same thing."
Inbetween the two mages lay a woman, sustained by a maze of tubes and IVs. Machines hissed as they str... | 2016-11-12T11:28:31 | 2016-11-12T10:29:07 | 70 | 27 |
[WP] "Some days, I love my job. Those days are the worst." | Traitor. Backstabber. Scum. I spit those epithets into the mirror morning and night. The knowledge of what I’m doing to these people makes my skin crawl, but I can’t stop. Too many lives are at stake.
That’s why they hired me, of course. Empathy. I meet someone new and everything just seems to fall into place – they r... | I lay on a long maroon couch, watching the ceiling fan spin on a low enough setting to be amusing but not actually create enough wind to make a difference. On the walls around me abstract "art" hangs next to degrees and awards. I say art loosely as it is a compilation of red and blue lines squiggling around. Hardly ta... | 2015-07-16T07:19:54 | 2015-07-16T07:05:23 | 32 | 21 |
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