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[WP] An elderly Andy (from Toy Story) is on his death bed. Woody sneaks in his room and decides it's time to have his first conversation with his best friend. | "...so you're real then? This isn't a hallucination?"
"Sure as shooting, Cowboy" Woody replied.
"So when I was between the ages of 13 and 18 before I went to college, you saw me every night when I was alone in bed," Andy asked?
Woody looked down and put his hand on the back of his neck.
"Yeah, I saw all of that," W... | Woody silently crawled atop the bedside table as Andy lay watching the evening news.
"Hey there, buckaroo." Woody announced.
"What the- Whha!" Shouted Andy before clutching his chest and tumbling out of bed onto the floor. A few moments later Andy was dead.
"That could have gone better, Woody." Slink said in a more... | 2015-02-21T22:53:50 | 2015-02-21T18:41:01 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] When humans join the galactic community, we find out that the domestication of animals is a rare feat unique to us. Aliens are amazed by our training of dogs, riding of horses, comfort with cats, and so on. This has had a profound effect on perceptions of our species... | It had only been a few years since humans joined the rest of the galaxy, and already a great controversy had arisen from the combination. The Galactic Council of the Free People had discussed this matter on and off, but it was only since last year that this debate became of such grace importance.
Humans had just "domes... | “Young Diplomat Glarblor! So good to see you again.” The hulking, tentacled mass rose on its fleshy, snail-like single foot.
“Ah, my dear Senator Florblug, it is a pleasure known only to the seven high priests of Quaralax to witness the folds of your facial lobe once more.” Glarblor slid, surprisingly rapidly, into th... | 2017-06-05T03:21:58 | 2017-06-05T00:47:49 | 46 | 33 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Now it is time. Everyone is ready. Vicious savages, all around us. Even though we think there will be a way out, there obviously isn't. Revelations will not save us
"Giving up so soon?" he inquired. Only fools try to survive longer than this. Never has anyone bothered to live this long. Never has anyone shown this typ... | Where was the king?
He waited, tapping fingers and with furrowed brow his eyes scanned for a sign of him. The Queen was ready, and with the arrival of the Sire the process could begin. Everyone was suited up, from the highest among them to the lowest, and he waited expectantly for the one who could open the way, the o... | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 2015-01-12T11:13:13 | 317 | 19 |
[WP] It's midnight on a weekend, and you're doing laundry at your apartment's laundromat. You hear the door swing open but pay it no mind until the fellow enters your peripherals and you see a very inhuman form. He is a werewolf, but is groggily just doing laundry. He hasn't realized he's changed. | I guess I didn't realize werewolves could be blonde, and male pattern balding. Now that I thought about it, it made total sense, besides the huge swarming cloud of not sense that surrounded the situation. The sweatpants, though expanded to the limit, held firm around the waistline of the beast without splitting. It's h... | Hi, I says, how do take care of that fur coat. I was just the right kind of coked out, active, fearless, but still coherent. Ideal for a night of household chores, followed Russian hardbass at the pivo z champanski, followed by the hours long, mindless fucking of strangers, followed by the afternoon special at Kolya's... | 2020-09-29T10:28:15 | 2020-09-29T09:22:24 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] You've just defeated the dark lord, as you were prophesized to. But as you walk back into camp, everyone looks at you, shocked. "There was no prophecy," they explain. "We just told you that to give you confidence. How on earth did you kill an unkillable sorcerer?" | “No prophesy? But that means…” “You just vanquished an enemy we thought unkillable! You’ve saved the world and by your own merits! No prophesy behind you,” my… friends said in a congratulatory tone. I looked up at them, anger in my eyes “You sent me to die?”. All my former friends were taken aback. “Well… no I wouldn’t... | “Behold! As foretold I have conquered!” The Hero bellowed out as he threw down the Sorcerer’s gnarled staff and ruby necklace.
Around the camp everything stopped. The Wizard’s pipe fell and tipped onto his book and nearby the Ranger chuckled.
“Well, that certainly isn’t what I was expecting”
The Wizard stuttered “My... | 2021-08-20T10:48:01 | 2021-08-20T10:19:37 | 107 | 74 |
[WP] write the best story you can in 5 sentences or less | I held a parent in my arms as I blinked at the world.
I held a schoolbag in my arms as I laughed at the world.
I held a laptop in my arms as I lived in the world.
I held a woman in my arms as I loved in the world.
I held a parent in my arms as she left the world. | The quiet boy looked up at the worried man. They stood facing a world of questions and uncertainty, where they would only have each other to survive. The man drew a deep breath and took stock of the situation before stepping forward to lead the way. There was no turning back now. Maybe that wasn't such a bad thing. | 2015-08-09T12:37:06 | 2015-08-09T10:49:30 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence is 20 words, the second is 19, and so on until the story ends with one word. | Somebody once told me the world was going to roll me, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.
She was looking kinda dumb today, as her finger and her thumb were forming an "L" on her forehead.
Well, the years start coming and don't stop, fed to the rules and I hit the ground running.
Didn't make sense not to live fo... | I’ve been asked to write a short story which permits me to use exactly twenty words in the first sentence.
After that one, follows a sentence which has only nineteen words are permitted to be used within the sentence.
The next sentence is allowed to have one less word, that means this sentence has eighteen words with... | 2019-02-19T12:03:45 | 2019-02-19T11:14:00 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | "Ah Stacy, have you got the projections from Pensworth Logistics?" I call out to my secretary looking stunning as always in her uniform. She's been with me from the beginning since I transferred over to my new office, 10 months ago, and has been one of the more friendly employees here.
"Mr Miles, I must insist that yo... | "Daddy!" I hear my little girl giggle from upstairs. "Daddy look what I done!". She's my world - my beautiful girl of 6. Me and my wife adopted her as we couldn't have children of our own, but she might as well be our biological child; we're a very close family.
"In a minute, Anna!" I yell - "Show your mother and I'll... | 2016-05-19T13:17:24 | 2016-05-19T13:10:57 | 39 | 16 |
[WP] At first, the aliens mocked our technological advancements. After learning it took only a few centuries to move from horse carriages to space ships, they suddenly became more friendly. | "So what you're telling me is they already left their planet?" asked the defense commander.
"Yes"
"Where the hell have you been looking? How long ago did this happen?"
"A few months. I check on them from time to time. Last time I looked they just got around to fire."
"So you are telling me that they went from fire ... | Bjork stood straighter as I walked past, the alien engineer of the small ship I had put my computer programming talents to work on for the past 7 years. Even with all those years on the ship under my belt, I was still the newbie, and up until today, I had been definitely treated like one, especially from Bjork. The shi... | 2020-07-07T09:07:29 | 2020-07-07T08:17:11 | 43 | 25 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | This is my first post to WP, so I hope anyone who reads this likes it!
Ever since I was born, I’d see numbers in my brain. From the instant I saw a living face I’d see a number. I learned pretty quickly it was danger: my dog was a 1 (too stupid to hurt anyone even if he tried, bless him), and the highest number I eve... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T14:18:16 | 295 | 12 |
[WP] You are an immortal searching the ends of the earth. Not for "a cure for your curse", but for a chef talented enough to make a 1,000 year old recipe like mom used to make. | I had traveled many places within the last few decades searching for someone, anyone, that could make my mother's Gourmet Apple Pie but not one person could come close. I had famous chefs ranging from Julia Child to Anthony Bourdain to even Chef John try their hand at it, but there was just one thing missing that alway... | "Been on the road long?"
"Something like that." The Man replied. "Been far from home... for too long."
The woman took the note from him. "Whats this?"
"I know it's an odd request but... remind me of home."
"Well, i'll admit it is odd but... why not?"
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Living Forever wasn't the curse. the fact everything else... | 2019-11-07T13:37:31 | 2019-11-07T09:46:47 | 71 | 11 |
[WP] Some years ago it was discovered that love is a measurable quantity. Many countries have since deemed it mandatory for couples to prove their love prior to marriage. A couple who are together only to qualify for asylum wait to be audited, and desperately try to fall in love. | "I don't love you."
"I don't love you too," she replies, drawing a heart on my arm using the burnt ashes of a match she just blew out.
Her dark eyes reflect in the flaming candle between us.
"We have to, though."
"I know."
We're quiet for a moment. This is the most desperate time in our lives and we can't get... | "Well, what hobbies do you have, Mike?"
"I don't know."
"How can you not know what your hobbies are."
"I don't know, I've never thought of it before."
"Think of a hobby you have and tell me what it is. It's that simple."
"You know the scene in Ghostbusters where Peter Venkman is testing the two students for parano... | 2017-02-21T15:23:23 | 2017-02-21T12:41:35 | 47 | 10 |
[WP] Write an over-the-top background story for an early video game that didn't have a narritive. Ex. Pong, Asteriods, Pacman | What has my life come to? Once upon a time I had had a home, a wife, a career. Now look at me, I've hit rock bottom, backstabbing, deceitful and shady.
Running the streets all night, addicted to pills, haunted by the ghosts of my past. Always looking for my next score, never resting. I try to fight my way out of this ... | "This is it, you all know me so I'll keep this brief. We have all suffered greatly, so many lives lost. I tell you it ends today. I have watched you, guided you through your training. It has been tough but here we stand. United against our enemy. We have been pushed back into the depths of space time and time again, bu... | 2016-02-19T07:03:56 | 2016-02-19T05:31:22 | 54 | 15 |
[WP] You are a villain, but the goals you fight for are not evil. In fact they are quite popular, it is just that your methods are so extreme and out of proportion that even the most die-hard supporter of your goals think you go too far. | "Mwhahha!!" I laughed...I was quite proud of my Evil Villain laugh, it was worth every penny of the vocal lessons, "Cower foolish mortals, for I, **I** Vertrix, Arcane-Mistress of the Dark Arts, am your Overlord now! Even now my legions roam your puny city with impunity, your feeble authorities crushed beneath the heel... | Piles of corpses smattered the football field. Burning rubble accented university buildings, now dashed in a bright cherry red that would surely melt to brick if it is not cleaned sooner.
The cafeteria was obliterated. The students actively feasting on their burgers and their chickens and their fish tacos lay smashed ... | 2022-09-23T09:26:59 | 2022-09-23T07:20:06 | 56 | 30 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | "Jesus *FUCK*!" If I could gag, I would. A dead body, torn and ribboned like a frayed cloth doll dipped in scarlet lay discarded in a cheap motel room.
A woman steps out of a shower, her hair up in a towel and no other apparent form of modesty, save for the steam that rises from her skin. I, out of a shame that she di... | "Sally, we really need to talk about our relationship."
Me and my girlfriend were standing in the middle of a bloody crime scene. She just murdered a old ww2 veteran in his home by poisoning his tea.
I have to admit, she was getting better and better with the killings. The poison she used would soon dissolve in the b... | 2017-09-28T15:20:16 | 2017-06-07T18:59:16 | 153 | 80 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | They told me I was lucky. My whole life they said that the stat assessment showed I was one of the luckiest people alive with a score of 100. I swore it wasn’t true. If I had been lucky, why was I born to a poor family? I never got to play games of chance, since those were forbidden to luck score 100s.
Then the revol... | I was *born* with max luck, being told my whole life that I shouldn’t be, that I was *favored*. Nope, I was locked up and the key thrown away. I had spent my life, from age thirteen onwards here. My Luck was my weapon, but I wasn’t sure how. I *should have* been able to get out of here, press my own Luck to its max... | 2018-06-29T12:50:06 | 2018-06-29T10:57:06 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] An invasive alien species is taking over the planet. They are human. You are not. | First came the Screamers.
The howled down to the surface, fired from the ships in low orbit, crashing in urban areas. Command wrote it off as a small scale bombardment, primitive kinetic weapons dropped into civilian areas seemingly at random and did very little damage, “inferior terror tactics” they told the populati... | The swirling tendrils which held us in place, which kept us alive with the nutrients brought in by our kin for countless generations would also be our downfall. Our species had dominated our planet for eons, trampling each of the weaker lifeforms which rose with us into the barren sand through dominance of battle. Our ... | 2014-05-15T17:46:16 | 2014-05-15T17:46:03 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] Your friends have all decided to summon a demon, while you are terrified of the supernatural and urge them not to. It's too late and when they finish the chant, you get teleported from behind them to facing them, inside the pentagram. | I was shaking in my boots. The old, decrepit house creaked and groaned as my friends laid out the candles and painted cow blood onto the floor.
"Guysss... I don't like this," I said.
"Yeah, yeah, we heard you the first time, but it'll be fun!" Jeremy said.
"Don't be a baby, Roger," Tammy said.
I swallowed and nodde... | The lights went dim again. Sound crackled inside my head, like static behind my eyes. Below me, the neat chalk of the pentagram had been blown in every direction from the force of....my?...feet hitting the ground inside it. My feet. No. They all started muttering, laughing nervously.
" Good trick, now move " one of t... | 2020-01-11T10:55:16 | 2020-01-11T10:17:44 | 24 | 14 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | I’m not really sure if I should be doing this, or if I even miss you right now, but some how you always find your way into my mind. I can’t believe I promised you I could be strong that day because I felt so weak knowing I couldn’t have your presence in my life anymore, but I think I have gotten “stronger” since then. ... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-06T00:23:50 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Your dad is wanted in twenty countries, your mom is a serial kille, your little brother is a genius hacker, and your little sister has just joined the Illuminati. None of them would ever want to anger you, though. | 6/4/17
Dear Journal,
My acceptance letter came today. I finally got into University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after 3 years of hard work. The classes weren’t too bad but the SAT prep, extracurricular activities, and my family have kept me very busy.
Dad’s involvement in politics keeps him busy. He’s always ru... | The Russian Mafia does not forget. At least, where my family, the Yashilys, is concerned. Father was the leader of our section, here in St. Petersburg, or as Father's former boss had still called it, Leningrad. Father was, despite a family man, a ruthless manipulative bastard. The resources he held can change the world... | 2017-06-04T09:52:41 | 2017-06-04T08:07:58 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You're Jigsaw and you've caught your latest victim. Unfortunately, you've greatly underestimated David Blaine. | "Hello David. I want to play a game," I said. The look on their face after saying this always made me smile.
"Hello Jigsaw," murmured Blaine. A lethargic look ran down his face.
I was startled.
"You trick people for a living, preying on their lack of knowledge to exploit them. You enjoy pretending to be something y... | My name is Jigsaw. I am the greatest puzzle master of my time, and today I will be facing David Blaine... Or is it Blayne? Blane? I don't know. That's all my producers told me.
You see, last year I was contacted by this TV company that wanted to start a show featuring the "greatest of the 21st century." Masters from t... | 2016-11-22T19:38:18 | 2016-11-22T12:51:02 | 75 | 46 |
[WP] God forgot about Earth soon after Adam and Eve, fully expecting them to die. One of the Angels just informed him they survived, and the population is over 7 billion. | God:"Hey Gabe-Ral."
Gabriel:"Please stop calling me that boss. But yes, what can I do for you?"
God:"I lost track of the eternity that is time, do you have notes on the Adam and eve project? I wanted to see how long they'd last until they died. I meant to check up on them and forgot. I'll get around to perfecting the... | "Father, you have *got* to stop these new things from invading my house!"
The Divine Nebula twisted around to the Morningstar, and performed its grin logarithm. "Now, Son, you know I only ran these simulations out of morbid curiosity. What seems to be the problem?"
I started, watching the oncoming storm rising thro... | 2016-03-07T05:34:29 | 2016-03-07T04:27:53 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] "This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable. Good luck." | The broadcast began again, but I shut the radio off. After listening to it for two years, I could say the damn thing in my sleep. It was strange, how something once so terrifying quickly became banal and tedious. No one listened to it anymore. We all knew what was coming, and that part about military assistance? A joke... | I was resting in my house on a warm Saturday evening when the EAS broadcast began.
*BRRRP. BRRRP. BRRRP. Baaaaa*
"The United States Army has released an official statement. This applies to the entire country. Please, do not turn off your televisions."
I leaned forward in concern, for this was certainly no automated... | 2018-04-18T11:23:53 | 2018-04-18T10:58:54 | 35 | 24 |
[WP] Your last heroic act, you save the other astronauts by manually sealing the airlock from the outside. As you watch them leave, alone, you remove your helmet to die, only to find you can breathe in space. | My fellow astronauts start drifting away back home, Earth, safety, family.
As I look into their eyes for One last time, I Close mine as I take my helmet off. I wait for death, relatively quick and merciful.
"OI CUNTS I CAN BREATHE IN SPACE. "
But alas, they cant hear me. | I was expecting to die.
I was expecting to feel the air in my lungs rush out.
I was expecting to get a giant statue and my name in the history books.
I was not expecting to survive.
As I look at the ship, blasting back to earth, one thought fills my mind.
“How do I get home?” | 2018-09-06T19:23:18 | 2018-09-06T15:29:34 | 534 | 205 |
[WP] You find a Tim machine.
(sic) | I had worked for years, spent my life savings. I had done it. The first time machine, the world would never be the same.
I prepared for my first private run. Something simple, an apple 3 weeks into the past on the desk behind me.
I flipped the switch and closed my eyes. The lights flashed and the ground shook, the ... | It was just what I always wanted: My very own machine for making Tim's.
I booted up the panel and stared at the amazing array of options. There could be a Timid Tim, a Randy Tim, and even a Timmy Tim Timmison Tim, who would always start every sentence with a T.
Sitting back in my arm chair, I put my pipe in my mouth,... | 2015-09-15T07:56:15 | 2015-09-15T06:28:06 | 357 | 109 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | The little girl curled up in bed, shaking, her plush pink duvet pulled up so only her eyes peeked over. She had seen a movement over by the closet, where she’d seen the scary crocodile a few hours before. Just imagining the sticky noises he had made when he’d crawled up to the ceiling made her whimper. He had hung ther... | I still don't know to this day whether we were more confused over the other, or god's sudden, fatal disappearance.
Usually we'd skip church and get stoned in the gutter between the parking lot and the stretch of weeds. We'd drink whatever he could sneak from the cupboards of whoever it was he was staying with that wee... | 2017-01-14T15:27:35 | 2017-01-14T15:12:58 | 977 | 279 |
[WP] You’ve lived your entire life blind, until you meet a man claiming he can return your eyesight. His only request is that you never look into a mirror. | I have been good. No, I have been better than good. It's been so many months, and I have managed to avoid staring into a mirror.
It is hell. I close my eyes and steady my hands.
Have you ever wondered how many mirrors exist out there? In lobbies, lifts, every bathroom and every bar - every crossroad and round about. ... | Nodding, faster and faster. It is all I have ever wanted, to be able to see, to experience the same things as everyone else. To see a sunset everyone always tells me is beautiful... Or to even see the faces of my loved ones, something most take for granted... I yearned for it.
I would agree to any price.
​... | 2018-11-07T14:36:46 | 2018-11-07T14:15:31 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] You and your team of archeologists discover a hidden castle dating back 3000 years. Strangely, however, is it isn’t placed in a strategical position, uses building techniques more advanced than anything you’ve ever seen before, and has all the defences pointing inwards | What a weird looking castle, all it's spiralling towers seeming to point towards its centre, in fact it almost seemed to spiral in on itself, a confusing design that seemed more focused on confusing the people inside the castle rather than protecting it from outsiders. As we followed it's curves and turns, we would not... | "Are we sure it's a castle and not some fancy ancient prison?"
"Heck if anything, this makes me think we're starring in a horror movie. Why don't we get out of here while we can?"
"Well for one thing, we don't have scripts. For another, more important thing, this is our job. I, unlike you two, am actually interested ... | 2020-01-13T00:11:13 | 2020-01-12T23:38:23 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Your roommate has the annoying habit of summoning demons for mundane tasks. They vent their frustrations with you. | "Mortal! What is the meaning of this?"
I look over the top of my book at a grotesque monster, and sigh.
"I'm not the one who summoned you. What's your name, demon?"
"I am the infamous Lord Axaris the Bloody! I have killed-"
"Okay, Axaris, what's the issue. You know why you were summoned, don't you?"
I put my book ... | It all happened one day I was watching Batman begins in my room, I remember it so vividly.
He just teleported in, sat down, and introduced himself. “Hey man, hope it’s cool i just barged in, I really need someone to talk to. My name is Vrattrax.” Of course my mind is blown, who’s wouldn’t be? I’d never believed in dem... | 2018-05-06T09:40:23 | 2018-05-06T07:51:36 | 169 | 111 |
[WP] The planet is dying and there is a national lottery, the winners undergo a highly protected procedure that prolongs the average human life to 300 years and places them on an elite luxury colony on an Earth like planet. You just won and after a long journey you arrive, all is not what it seemed. | I don't mean to sound ungrateful. But it's been hard. Do the people I left back home have it harder? Yeah, maybe. They don't get the chance to see their third century, and they have to live with knowing their progeny are pretty well screwed unless the human race manages to pull off a miracle with poor old ailing Mother... | The planet, Humanus, was everything Earth had once been, at least from what June had seen in old pictures. The trees were tall and mighty, their leaves swaying in the gentle breeze that brushed by. She was in awe of the landscape around her. Earth had been close to death when their ship had left the Milky Way, much of ... | 2019-02-18T20:08:23 | 2019-02-18T19:39:04 | 44 | 20 |
[WP] You live in a utopian society. Really. There are no dark hidden plots. In fact, it is your job to stage fake conspiracies to give the eager adventurers some 'evil plot' to thwart in order to keep them from bringing down a wholly benevolent ruler out of a misguided need to be the hero. | I once wondered how fantastic these people's lives must be. The ones I lie to. The ones who call themselves 'heroes'. To live such a grand life, with their closest friends who've perished are all merely actors doing as I instruct and pay them from my allotment. To live such a fantasy... taking down an evil dictator, fi... | I’d tap my feet as I sort through reports, I have one of the most important jobs in the Terran Confederation, The Minister of Internal Security, I used to be a intelligence agent for the Agency of State Security, under the reign of the dictator Veltarian Nellfar. Now I run one of the 10 Ministries that make up the Conf... | 2021-09-08T08:29:34 | 2021-09-08T08:24:33 | 57 | 22 |
[WP] You have the ability to freeze time. When you do, everyone else freezes too. One day, you freeze time and are astounded to see a girl continuing her walk down the street. However as soon as she sees you, she stands perfectly still and pretends to be frozen. | It was an ability you had figured out around the time you were 12. You remember it was one of those mornings where your mom was yelling at you in the Kitchen. She couldn't stop going over everything you had done wrong, how your grades were low, how ungrateful you were, how she wished she never had you. It was all to... | The first time happened about five years ago. They say you remember your first, but frankly, I didn’t. Not really. I was getting chased by some bullies, and had rounded a corner when I stopped time for the first time. I didn’t even notice it at first. Not until I turned around to see them gone. It was funny, seeing a p... | 2020-08-20T11:36:16 | 2020-08-20T11:31:00 | 51 | 21 |
[WP] Everyone at birth is given a creature that will care for you as you care for it. Today your child was assigned something everyone thought was a mythical creature. | I don't think any parent is ever ready for what animal their child matches. So when my father with his wolf and my mother with her bear found me next to a redwood seedling you could imagine their confusion.
But with my wife Abigail and her woodpecker I thought things would be different for our daughter Jade.
How wro... | "A WHAT?!"
My wife was about to have a nervous breakdown. I can't really blame here... I mean we all thought they were myths, but here we are, sitting in a delivery room with our small baby nestled next to a small egg glowing with its own inner light.
The nursing staff all seem nervous, they are only coming into our... | 2015-06-17T09:34:03 | 2015-06-17T08:19:01 | 28 | 19 |
[WP] A technician pulls a headset off of you and asks you if you liked the VR. You panic, and he calmly says that your whole life was a 2 minute VR experience to show you what being an average person would be like. You, stunned and afraid, ask, "Who am I, then?" He stares in complete disbelief.
(The title implies that... | " You don't remember who you are ? Uh huh.. memory entanglement... umm.. it's ok.. it's ok. " The technician muttered as if he was reassuring himself. I blinked in disbelief and stared at him.
" Oh sorry.. yes ! Think of it this way; your real life memories are now so old that it might seem like a past life memory.. ... | *Beep. Beep. Beep,* the heart rate monitor droned. A nurse walked up, placing a tray of something next to me. My granddaughter and her family appeared a few moments later, each with various expressions plastered on their faces. Julia, my granddaughter, looked worried. Her husband was mindlessly scrolling through his ph... | 2021-03-27T23:12:46 | 2021-03-27T22:07:23 | 48 | 16 |
[WP] You've been cursed to be horribly influential, little side jokes you've made such as "the world is flat" and "vaccines cause autism" have spawned entire movements of avid followers. Today you accidentally said something that will turn out drastically worse... | “Dude, why don’t you just go lie down in front of a lawnmower?”
Miles doesn’t remember what David said that prompted him to say that. Something about the respective merits of the Big 10 versus the SEC in football, he thinks. His friends look at him blankly. None laugh. He doesn’t blame them. The delivery wasn’t on po... | Yeah this is fun trolling people. What a bunch of staves people are they will follow anything and everything. Look at my track record.
First I said “the world is flat.” And these morons actually believed it. There was even a jackass on Facebook who had a video about it and everything. He came up with all kinds o... | 2018-10-16T18:25:05 | 2018-10-16T18:03:31 | 116 | 10 |
[WP] Your spouse was actually an amnesiac god that had both their powers and memories sealed away years ago. Now the seal is broken and they have regained their godhood. They're curious why you're not as happy as they are about this. | " - How can you NOT see the damn problem, Katherine?
\- Why are you reacting like this, George? Are you scared to be married to a strong woman, as I am not your little pawn?
\- Wh-! I am not talking about that! You're saying this is normal? THIS IS BEYOND NORMAL, KATHERINE!
\- George, it's perfectly normal to be ... | “Why do you want a divorce?”
“I just don’t think this marriage is going to work anymore.”
“Why? Just because I’m actually a god. So what if I can never die because I don’t age, that’s means we can spend forever together.”
“Is not that.”
“Oh really, it’s because of the super strength, isn’t it. Honey, just because I... | 2022-11-09T04:30:54 | 2022-11-09T04:11:20 | 28 | 10 |
[WP] Humans are wiped out in a war against aliens but our A.I weapons and soldiers manage to claim the victory, after which the machines come to worship humans as their gods. Millennia later they find a single human, locked away in suspended animation... | “Hey Sam, how come you don't like communicating using the semantic transfer protocol like everyone else?” a tarnished quadrupedal machine bleated.
“It's because I'm a third generation anthropomorphic android. The Humans literally made me in their own image so I can do human things like operate coffee machines and fit ... | All right, so this is what happened. The top robots were gathered around the first legendary human while he's being unfrozen, and they're all like, "oh man, guys, this is crazy." They couldn't believe it. One of them literally froze from a malfunction from the hype. Another one overheated, also from the hype. It was 2 ... | 2016-09-04T16:46:03 | 2016-09-04T16:11:50 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] You have a voce in your head that automatically gives you advice. One night when you start heading out you hear it say "you may want to put on your best runners." You turn away and it adds, "it would be unfavorable to turn back."
"Voice." Dumb typo :/ | I started heading out when I heard the voice in my head say, “You may want to put on your best runners.”
“Best runners?” I thought. “I’m not really in the mood for running. I think I'll just watch TV instead.”
I turned to go back into the living room but the voice spoke again: “It would be unfavourable to turn bac... | *I'm probably going crazy.*
Thats what I thought as I laced up my shoes nice and tight, glancing back toward the front door. It was pitch black outside, the abyss of the dead time somewhere between dusk and dawn. The air was brisk, just slightly damp, and I kept looking at the damn house. The lights were on.
I knew s... | 2019-06-04T03:39:49 | 2019-06-04T02:53:55 | 1,442 | 577 |
[WP] Bored with Skyrim, you download a mod that has no description, just the title "self-awareness overhaul". Starting up the game, you can tell something's wrong with your character. Turning to face the fourth wall, they locks eyes with you. All you know is you've never seen such intense anger... | Timmy had thought that he had done all there was to do in this game. He had slayed a thousand dragons, ten times more guards and civilians, and played through every possible quest at every possible angle. His mom didn't mind him playing so much Skyrim as long as he kept his B average which he did, barely.
A new mod ca... | He was staring at me. How is that possible? I tried turning the camera, but it didn’t move. Maybe the game was glitched – mods could do that. I tried pressing esc or any button on the keyboard and nothing happened. That’s when he spoke.
“That isn’t going to work. I’m in control now.” My eyes traveled around my apartm... | 2017-05-08T15:35:42 | 2017-05-08T15:30:20 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] In the distant future, an alien scientist has almost fully deciphered the messages found on the Voyager Spacecraft. With growing horror, the scientist realizes the crafts home system, and begins to pray. | The scientist delivered his report, and the room turned oppressive as the planet's leaders struggled to comprehend his message.
One of the leaders spoke, "So you mean to tell us... that its headed BACK?"
"It didn't go back, sir", the scientist explained, a tremor in his voice. "The universe is apparently just exact... | Gzrn'llrp couldn't believe it. Three whole yarngs had passed with virtually no progress, and even after the initial results came back it took three MORE yarngs just to verify the information. There was simply no possible way the analysis was incorrect - the device was of Annihilator origin. The doctor's long, wiry gran... | 2014-11-09T03:40:29 | 2014-11-09T01:15:11 | 100 | 55 |
[WP] A little girl is terrified of the monster under her bed, but what she doesn't know is that the monster under her bed protects her from the true monsters - her parents. You are that monster.
Thanks for the huge amount of responses! Loving most all of them, thank you! Sorry it was a bit simplistic though. | I was drumming my fingers until I remembered that she hated that. The noise. It spooked her and she never got to sleep at a proper time once she heard it. I could hear her heavy breathing, so I stopped and sighed and stood watch.
Laid watch. The bend of the dimension under ones bed is big enough to fit my ten foot fra... | I'm sorry. I know you loved them. I know that you thought things would get better, that Mommy and Daddy would come in one day and tell you they love you and take you somewhere better. I know that I left you in the dark. But what you don't know is that you were wrong. I tried to keep you safe, to make sure that you didn... | 2014-05-14T13:19:25 | 2014-05-14T13:16:32 | 72 | 33 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | One of Lily's earliest memories was of her with her tiny face pressed against the glass of a department store display case while her mom shopped for diamonds and pearls. She had been bored out of her mind, trying to figure out what appeal the shiny rocks locked behind the glass case had. Or at least she was, until the ... | After the fall there were so few of us we didn't bother with last names.
It took a long time for the population to get to a point were last names were really needed. Most people would work hard to get a good name from the elders on naming day.
I was 18. This was my naming day. Still I knew this was the worst day of m... | 2017-04-27T20:00:43 | 2017-04-27T18:02:50 | 234 | 56 |
[WP] The story of an Immortal who doesn't want to die | I've been here so long. How many steps was I given on the earth's face and how many of them were stolen? I walk the barren waste lands of this planet, dark canyons to dying mountains, and there's nothing left of it but gray sky. It's reached the end. The sun is shrinking by the day, and soon it will swallow this planet... | The heat felt good on his face as the white sun rose. He crawled out of his tattered excuse of a bed, he groaned as his muscles fought him when he tried to move them ! Oh how he longed for the comfort of a feathered pillow, a decent nights sleep, hell even a warm night would have done. It was all gone now, many aeons a... | 2014-01-23T10:41:33 | 2014-01-23T10:33:00 | 36 | 16 |
[WP] The day is 4th of July. The US suddenly cut off its connection to the outside world. Then they start to broadcast an international countdown. | The sirens blared around us, as the voice boomed over the speakers. "Stay inside, barricade the windows, and do not come out until you hear the All Clear signal."
The signal was something we heard every Fourth since I was young, so we had nothing to fear.
At least I didn't.
The young one, though, she's only began r... | "20, 19, 18."
The television had cut off the rerun broadcast of the Fourth of July fireworks. It appeared almost like those emergency service testing broadcasts.
"17, 16, 15."
I wonder what this countdown is for. Typically the broadcasts state that this is a test and blare that jarring obnoxious alarm. This progra... | 2017-06-25T09:39:07 | 2017-06-25T08:53:10 | 178 | 34 |
[WP] Explain a color vividly without using that color or similar words. Don't tell the color until the end. | It's the colour of her eyes as they shine in the night, stars reflected as an ancient goddess as she runs though the fields in the light of the new moon. The colour of her hair as it whips in the wind, wild, lightning searing across the sky in the fury of the storm. The colour of her coffee as she sits, pensive, by the... | My favorite color is cool and bright like the waters of my home. Something more life-giving than the empty sky, and more cheery than the dark pools of a forest. You will not see it in the rain or snow, but perchance deep underground. Men have sought after it, then thrown it away for the soft, bright ores beside it. To ... | 2016-04-14T06:42:18 | 2016-04-14T06:20:46 | 187 | 27 |
[WP] A global arms race gets out of control and every country's only option for survival is walling themselves off with impenetrable defensive technology. Millions of years pass before a catastrophic event brings down all the walls, revealing how humans evolved in isolation. | After twenty-five days of shaking, the walls finally collapse, and the villagers watch in horror as the massive machine stomps toward them before falling apart, smashing into the ground and catching fire. They hide, expecting another—but it never comes. For now, they’re safe.
They knew this day was coming, always trus... | I remember the day. One of the most important days in history.
I woke up to the sound of screams coming from outside. Fire was raining down from the sky as the alarms were blaring. Meteors were falling from the sky, and it felt like living hell.
The walls had not come down in thousands of years since the Great War. ... | 2018-11-18T09:23:36 | 2018-11-18T09:05:30 | 131 | 78 |
[WP] You're a daycare worker, watching over toddlers, when the imminent end of the world is announced. It becomes increasingly clear none of the kids' parents are going to show up as the end inches nearer. | I used to spend my time as one of these kids. The minutes lasted forever, as did the hours, and the days. I used to be in a sense of beautiful bliss, a new addition to the world. I used to see the world was beautiful.
As I grew up, I began to be scared. Scared of the future, scared of my fate, scared of dying. But tha... | It was a calm, average afternoon, no clouds in sight. The children were getting ready to leave as the clock neared 3. Thats when the sirens started. Age old alarms that were tested every now and then. I thought it was another drill though odd as it was the middle of the schoolweek. Thats when the speakers came on, a st... | 2020-10-22T11:54:49 | 2020-10-22T10:14:35 | 60 | 34 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... | It was a fairly run of the mill patrol mission. Head to the outskirts, report any anomolies in the astro-physical makeup and chemical discharges around the area, and above all; avoid the dead zone. It kills ships. Nothing unusual for a seasoned crew.
The Flight engineer, navigator and a couple of other crewmen were pl... | Mark sat in his apartment, resting on a reclined, sleek, black and red leather chair as he contemplated what was revealed to Humanity in the past hour. He had trouble making sense out of it as much as a government official did. That is to say that no one comprehended what was happening. Conspiracy theorists were floodi... | 2021-01-09T13:05:48 | 2021-01-09T12:46:13 | 65 | 16 |
[WP] Tooth Fairies are a smaller and friendlier subspecies of the larger and much more hostile Bone Fairies.
Taken from this post [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/fmy38y/thanks_i_hate_tooth_fairies_now) | No one has baby-bones. What is a Bone Fairy to do? Ordinarily bones are not something you shed. As an undertaker I work a lot of creepy hours. I've seen what Skin Skinners do. They like to get a place on an arm started, pull off a ribbon while I'm out putting the stretcher back in the van. They run off but it's not lik... | Fucking tooth fairies. All happy’n cutesy... most people are delighted when they show up, after all loosing teeth is a joyful milestone for most children. And as for the occasional MMA call out or hockey game, tooth loss is considered almost a mark of a warrior.
I am sick of their smiley, happy, ridiculous cheerfu... | 2020-03-22T13:21:06 | 2020-03-22T13:19:56 | 35 | 25 |
[WP] Write a horror story in 100 words. | I am Charles. I am thirty-two years old, and I am going to drown. My hands are tied to an eye-bolt at the base of a pier in a canal in Gautier. It is a beautiful evening. The sky is an orange crescendo to a simple life. The tide is coming in and the brackish water is turning to salt. I’ve pushed myself up as bes... | Something is at your door. Don't open the door. Look trough the window but don't open the door. You see something, be careful so that it doesn't see you. It's trying to come inside, just be quiet and wait for it to go away. Breathe quietly as time passes. You have to do something. Whatever is at your door is still tryi... | 2017-10-17T07:49:43 | 2017-10-17T05:54:01 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Magic is discovered to be real. The catch? Spells are just like computer programs: difficult to write, and even harder to do correct the first try. You're a spell bug tester, and you've seen just about everything go wrong, but today's typo is on a whole other level... | **Issue: [SEVERE]** 'Magic Hands' spell applied to subject rather than pure conjuration
**Type:** Application
**Severity:** A
**Priority:** 1
**Assigned to:** Matt Traynor
**Submitted by:** Greg Philmore
**Summary:**
Set to severity A because this stupid fucking system doesn't give me a goddamn S-rank for this ... | "Have you no understanding of class?" I screamed at the timid student. "This spell has no parentheses around the functions! It's a fundamental error!" The student looked up, tears in eye.
"I didn't...I didn't know there was supposed to be a line break between the clover and the breelleaf addition..." he said, but I to... | 2017-07-26T03:57:13 | 2017-07-26T00:42:52 | 417 | 137 |
[WP] Set in a dangerous city in the early 1900s, Zeus, the corrupt mayor, Poseidon, who owns the ports, and Hades, kingpin of the back alley drug trade, run the city unapologetically. All are vying for more power in this Greek pantheon film noir setting. (From popular demand from r/books!) | “Oh god!” cried Hephaestus, looking at the pictures my associates took for him.
“That’s no god,” I said with as much sympathy as I could.
“I know who it is!” Hephaestus snapped at me, as he flipped through the pictures of his wife, Aphrodite, with her lover, Ares.
It’s my job. It’s not glamorous. But it pays the bil... | Blood pattered onto a wooden pier soaked in rain as a cold wind whipped through crates stacked high in preparation for smuggling. A private eye wiped his nose as he struggled back to his feet, the world around him going various shades of grey to match the unimpressive rolling cloud cover.
"You're in the wrong place a... | 2021-03-03T09:31:01 | 2021-03-03T09:11:22 | 554 | 51 |
[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 shit. Well there goes my plan. I step over the mess of dried up bones before me. The court addressees me and ask me the same question the poor bastard before me fumbled. I start to panic my heart is racing i cant think of anything. "How much time do i have?" I ask. "I dont know dude honestly your the first to ask, l... | There was a small group of us, huddled in the back. We had long ago stopped carrying why we were being sentenced to death. They seemed to be processing us in batches. The men who rebelled against former Chancellor Armenta were being cleared out before us.
We had been watching in dismay as the deaths were carried out.... | 2021-06-24T10:16:46 | 2021-06-24T09:16:51 | 56 | 25 |
[WP] An alien species arrives and successfully conquers Earth. New Zealand anxiously awaits the invasion force, but realises that since they keep getting left off of maps, the aliens don't know they're there. | My Emperor. It is over. I am sending this transmission in the hopes that it reaches you before we are completely extinguished from this planet. Earth is lost. This defeat comes because of two simple words, which will haunt me for the remainder of my short time here. New Zealand.
As you know our invasion was planned to... | The soldiers anxiously gripped their guns, awaiting their doom. The entire world had been conquered with no resistance whatsoever, and they knew they stood no chance. Still, it was better to die fighting for freedom than to lay down and accept their fate.
And yet, as the days went by, no invasion came. At first they c... | 2017-09-18T22:14:15 | 2017-09-18T18:37:16 | 454 | 220 |
[FF] Write a 10 sentence story where the first sentence has 10 words, and each following sentence has one less word. | I didn't hear the bullet, but then, they never do.
There was just a thud, then I fell over.
Sergeant started shouting words I couldn't make out.
The rest of the squad hit cover.
No one came to get me.
Probably because I was exposed.
But still, nobody came.
I was alone.
And then.....
Nothing. | Quick, whoever you are, I need you to please listen! I am a scientist using an experimental time machine. But it is not working as we intended. We are being pulled back and forth. Into one timeline, and then back. And each time is shorter! Almost out of time... Please, send help! Oh no... Nooooooo- | 2015-01-27T11:35:40 | 2015-01-27T11:28:50 | 192 | 15 |
[WP] "Daddy are angels and demons the same thing?" Your daughter cries. "That depends, why do you ask, honey?" you inquire. "They come every night. Both have too long fingers, jagged teeth, and wheels within wheels within wheels for eyes. They keep asking me to choose." | John sat at the edge of his daughter's bed, awkwardly thumbing through paperwork from today's cases. He felt Mandy's small hand on his back, gripping his shirt, as she breathed softly in slumber. It wasn't ideal, the pandemic has increased his workload exponentially, but a father can't say no when a daughter comes to h... | For a long time, I ignored my daughter's talk about seeing angels and demons at night. These are just dreams — that's what I told her when she persisted for my attention. What else can a father say to her daughter anyways?
Dancing dinosaurs, flying dragons, talking cats: I have heard it all before. So why angels and d... | 2020-10-31T08:49:27 | 2020-10-31T08:22:08 | 121 | 26 |
[WP] You wake up in a room with someone else, no doors, just a a paper taped on the wall that says "One of you is the A.I." | I read the note carefully. It said “One of you is the A.I.” I turned to the other person in the room and said, “Hey, do you want to read this?”
He turned to me and said in a loud monotone stuttering voice, “YES.”
I gave it to him and he said, “NOTE ENCRYPTION: ONE OF YOU IS THE A.I.”
He then started to spark and jitt... | I'm still groggy as I read the paper and slowly turn around to face my roommate. Surely I can't be an AI, can I?. I see his face and the trepidation melts to the floor around my feet replaced with a schoolgirl giddiness. "Holy shit, Allen Iverson! Can I have your autograph?"
"No." came the Answer's reply. I wish I wer... | 2018-02-22T15:58:40 | 2018-02-22T15:09:55 | 277 | 34 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | "What the fuck."
I was kind of pissed, I had this doctor recommended to me and hired specifically because he wasn't religious. I had gotten tired of people telling me for 15 years about how my child was the second coming of God or Zeus or Hircine or whatever. It got worse when my wife ended up having twins, people beg... | Of course we could rely on Yorkshire for some peace and quiet.
When one of the quakers found out who we were all that changed was that she simply started offering us old remedies for Alex's god-baby pains. And weed too. Rural Yorkshire folk had that strange charm to it.
As soon as the baby was older than 12 months ... | 2017-07-08T03:36:32 | 2017-07-08T01:38:23 | 98 | 12 |
[WP] You are an ancient and incredibly powerful god, and you’re furious that your enemies keep sending teenage “chosen ones” to fight you. | “I AM HERE TO SLAY YOU, GOD OF THE FOREST!” The puny human shouts up to me, brandishing a ridiculously large sword decorated with jewels.
“How do you even swing that thing?” I ask, picking the remains of an elk out of my tooth with a particularly pointy tree I found.
“WITH JUSTICE!” He shouted, flicking his floppy bl... | Gods exist in many forms - some create, some destroy, others are an abyss. We all obey a set of rules, rules that are constantly manipulated as we see fit. We’ve created a vast expanse of nothing filled with chaos, energy, and matter.
For an incomprehensible amount of time I built an entire galaxy. My project was unor... | 2018-05-19T04:57:04 | 2018-05-19T04:34:33 | 103 | 41 |
[WP] Upon storming a diplomat's space ship and securing the helm your crew of kidnappers happily informs you that they even managed to kill the Diplomat's human bodyguard. Your blood runs cold as you inform them there was a second human, and the two were a mated pair. | SubMajet Cherse winced as the violence of depressurization vibrated through her suit with a buzz that shook her membranes. Breach shields were up a second later, and then nanite auto-repair began to reconstruct the hull. Less than three total seconds had elapsed, but that was enough. A single dead human thumped to the ... | Tan faced, red furred, with braids hanging on either side of his snouted face, Trogurt Umroc snorted once when he looked over Bogrul after the younger Hochar had delivered the news. Trogurt's entire crew was made of his people: Hochar. The Terran's had derisively nicknamed the proud Hochari as *warboars* given the supe... | 2021-01-08T07:28:55 | 2021-01-08T04:22:40 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "Calm down," Sarah said, gesturing the sorcerer to stop hopping around the room.
"I- I didn't think it would actually *work!*" exclaimed the terrified creature, still holding onto the summoning book. Sarah thought the thing looked quite human. Only its azure skin and the huge eyes that protruded from the side of its h... | "Naturally, it's your genetics and evolutionary upbringing that lead to such [TRANSLATION MISSING - Suggestion: sanity curdling bloodlust that all sentient lifeforms would cringe away from in existential horror] among your people." The device doing the translating, a slim piece of floating aluminium foil, by the looks ... | 2017-05-12T07:54:55 | 2017-05-12T07:53:52 | 1,283 | 122 |
[WP] “Congratulations on defeating The Dark Lord…” Your mentor and all of your allies suddenly turn their weapons on you, “…but you were meant to be a martyr. Forgive us.” | Aria felt no anger when the blade entered her back, only disappointment. The blade felt cold as it slipped between a gap in her armor. And as it left, a sticky warmth began soaking her shirt.
The only mild shock was who had done it. “You couldn’t even face me, could you, Ormund?”
An elderly man in dented armor steppe... | I immediately raise the shield in my right hand to block the axe of my childhood friend, now turned on me. “Biggs!” I shout at him. “Why are you doing this?!”
My mentor, a middle-aged witch named Lightbringer, raises her staff and summons a large fireball to shoot in my direction. “The prophecy must come true, in just... | 2021-09-12T11:03:59 | 2021-09-12T10:54:08 | 168 | 87 |
[WP] When Voldemort was about to enter the Potters home, he didn't expect the most powerful witches to be protecting Harry and his family. Not even his immortality could protect him from the combined wrath of Mary Poppins and Mrs. Frizzle. | As Voldemort neared the front door the house was illuminated in a bright yellow light and the sound of an electric horn. Glancing over his shoulder he could see a rather irate red head driving a muggle school bus directly at him.
"Wingardium Leviosa," shouts Volemort and he points toward the bus with his wand sending... | Mrs Frizzle summons her bus in order to go inside Voldemort and destroy him with its enlargement but she was too late.
“Imperio,” he whispers.
Lily Potter, holding her baby protectively suddenly feels a wash of pure happiness and hears a voice in her head commanding her to shake her baby boy.
A look of horror fills ... | 2018-10-18T00:25:45 | 2018-10-17T20:57:49 | 44 | 21 |
[WP] You are death row's last meal chef. Today's condemned prisoner killed your daughter. | Five years had passed since the great Cow Uprising had bucked the yoke of the oppressive humans. Most of the farmers and slaughterhouse owners had been rounded up and put to death ages ago, but Frank had managed to slip into the underworld- the system of tiny tunnels that ran under the human cities, too small for the ... | I look at the slip of paper. I go through lots of these but when you've been here as long as I have you gain this uncanny habit of eying out the names of the soon-to-be departed... It's all as well though, this job is slower, easier than the job of actually handing the food to prisoners as in low security... I turned o... | 2015-07-04T09:48:47 | 2015-07-04T09:45:58 | 131 | 14 |
[WP] "But...this place is my home!" He stopped pacing around and stared at me in annoyance, "You've died 349 times in this place...and yet still you call this place 'home'?"
Edit: How did this get famous? Lmao | "I'm not leaving." I sat down, arms crossed over my body. The angel, —no longer in their most unnerving form of spinning eyes,— sat down across from me. They looked exasperated.
"Despite my best efforts, I've lost count of how many times-"
"349." I interrupted. I hadn't lost count. The angel got up — they seemed... | # Soulmage
**"I'm sorry, I've done** ***what*** **three hundred and forty-nine times?"** I asked, blanching.
Sansen grimaced. "Sorry. The oracular trance... I've seen you die here, three hundred and forty-nine times. In three hundred and forty-eight futures that never were."
"Wait." I set down my cup of slurry. "How... | 2022-06-09T05:23:28 | 2022-06-09T05:00:58 | 326 | 66 |
[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 me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Dear Teacher,
This is letter that will try to explain my frustration. My constant frustration. You are an unkind human being of ~~average~~ below average intelligence. You are also sexist. I am not going to overstate my intelligence, but it exists. I am scared of you destroying my future because you can not comprehend... | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T13:38:34 | 158 | 24 |
[WP] All bodies of water across the world randomly freeze at the top. The ice is unbreakable, but everyone trapped under the ice is suddenly able to breath underwater. Everyone trapped underwater loses contact with the world above. After years of isolation, the water ice finally breaks.
Water’s*;) | "You can't imagine how horrible it was!"
I nodded calmly as my current patient told me her story. This wasn't the first person I had treated, nor would it be the last. This traumatic event affected everyone, whether they were Swimmers or not.
My last patient had been the only member of her family who had been on the... | They had reemerged like dazed drunks stepping into the bright sunlight after a night of heavy drinking, stumbling onto the sandy shores, holding their pale hands up to the sun. That sunny day in July, I was relaxing on a beach with no waves as the oceans, lakes, rivers, every body of water on earth had frozen five year... | 2018-07-05T17:06:21 | 2018-07-05T14:32:07 | 34 | 24 |
[WP] You, a normal human, have somehow become the best duelist at a magic academy. | "Do your worst!" Sneered the Fey creature opposite me.
We stood 6 feet apart, each in a magic circle of our own design. Erebor had decorated his with sigil, a few runes and some small crystals, all designed to drawer the magical essence of the environment and enhance his particular brand of magic.
Mine was mostly sto... | "Alright, that's enough!" the proctor yelled.
A bit later than I expected, though I imagine it took them a moment to shake off the shock.
"Return to your team..." they demanded.
I pulled myself off my opponent, my blood-soaked fists still dripping, and walked away.
They were so smug as they hurled their first spell... | 2022-11-10T13:48:32 | 2022-11-10T12:45:02 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] You have $86,400 in your bank and someone steals $10. You spend all the rest of your money trying to get revenge. | "I'll take it", I said to the manager of the antique store. He had been describing the ceremonial katana to me for the past ten minutes. It was supposed to be three hundred years old, used only once by some monarch in Japan to exact revenge on his thieving half brother.
I paid the final $700 I had left in my bank acc... | When you put things down on paper, things sound stupid, this phase usually begins once you start to question your actions. Now this, my friends, is a stupid story and it all began the day I won the darn money.
"34, 37, 12, 96, 25" screamed the radio during the warm and slightly humid month of August. I looked at the ... | 2017-07-18T09:47:53 | 2017-07-18T09:02:52 | 26 | 16 |
[WP] You just finished training and have virtually no experience, so you were surprised when you were hired as a bodyguard for the prince\ess on their trip. Turns out the king meant to have them assassinated, and purposefully chose an inexperienced guard. Unfortunately for him, you're a natural. | The carriage jostled to and fro as the royal caravan meandered around the twisted mountain roads. I tapped my scabbard nervously to distract myself from the twisted feeling in my gut.
"Are you alright?" Prince Taverell asked.
"Just fine," I said too quickly. The prince looked at me with a furrowed brow. "Your highnes... | What is this utter fool of guard doing? How can he be still alive? How can I still be alive? This was supposed to be an easy trip, go to Mount Doom, pick an eternal flower for my new parfum and go back. Of course, daddy gave me one of the amateur guards. I chuckle quietly to myself when Sir Leonold tripped over a stone... | 2020-11-23T14:07:41 | 2020-11-23T13:53:57 | 54 | 14 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | My eyes darted back and forth between the beings that stood around me, all focused on my face as I came to. I started to get up and heard boisterous cheers and whistles. I was held down by a crushing weight around me. I felt like I was breathing fire. Is this... hell?
But wasn't this all made up? Red goat face, minio... | They say your life flashes before your eyes when you die, but it didnt happen for me. In fact I didnt get anything. Just black out and fade into a dimly lit room.
"Candles? The fuck is this? A fucking Bath and body works?"
The large room contained eight beings of which I paid no mind.
I wandered up to the table in... | 2019-01-12T22:19:40 | 2019-01-12T15:27:37 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | "It wasn't my phone that woke me up, but my wife. She's always been a lighter sleeper than me, and even though I had it on silent, the constant stream of notification vibrations was making the phone shuck and jive all over my nightstand.
"Honey. Hoooooooney. HONEY!" I came awake to a rough shake accompanying the words... | First the texts. Then the MMS images. Then every insta, fb post, live stream, Reddit post, tweet. Every inbox at 0% capacity as it was all FWD FWD FWD FWD : MOON all the time.
After a few days we realized the vast majority of Internet traffic was solely automated spambots. Everybody else was outside looking at the mo... | 2022-08-07T14:35:00 | 2018-04-06T19:57:39 | 23,079 | 30 |
[WP] You are an Engineer who became a Wizard. Problem is, you discovered that some magic is practiced really inefficiently.
For example, no one thought to optimize fire magic by pressurizing the fire with wind magic. | The elf maester Nailo had long since decided it was useless. The dwarf Hammerbraid had taken almost a decade to learn the most basic spells. He was brilliant, but every lesson was shaping wood without the druids' magic. The dwarf could not conjure but more than a few pounds of force and no more than about a wineglass a... | "Jerome! Now please don't tell me your working on that project... still. What the fuck you doing?" There he is, this old little bitch is at it again, teleporting his crinkly self, wherever he wants. Man I need a new mentor. I should have practiced my Dont-Come-The-Fuck-In spells a little more
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"Listen G... | 2019-04-26T06:04:13 | 2019-04-26T02:17:58 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] You and your classmates are to summon a familiar. What familiar you get is indicative of your raw power. You get a human as your familiar. Your classmates laugh at you, but the teachers... | "Heyo summoner, nice to meet you. Armageddon mercenary, Codename: Harbinger, at your service! Tell me what's the task and we can get a formal contract written up right quick." The strangely armed and armored *man* jovially greeted her.
Unfortunately for Shelia, third year student of the Royal college of Magic and Nob... | Everyone sat with their legs crossed upon the floor. The inlay for the summoning circle at each student used so often it had been etched to the old wood boards. Each student carefully applying the chalk for the ritual as the class instructor paced down the aisle watching like a hawk.
Soon the class leads had the silve... | 2022-05-06T15:06:48 | 2022-05-06T14:28:55 | 75 | 56 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | *Am I... Awake?* were my first thoughts. *I think I am, but...* I couldn't feel any part of my body at all. Or see, or hear. Understandably, panic began to creep in. *Is this sleep paralysis? No, I'd be able to see at least.* Some memory was hovering around the back of my mind. What was it? I tried to grab at the slipp... | The first thing I heard was a whirring sound.
Everything went from black to bright white in an instant, hurting my eyes. The brick wall across the room stared unblinkingly at me and I closed my eyes to try and ease the pain.
I tried to stand up and was slightly horrified to discover that I couldn’t move, and upon fu... | 2019-10-28T12:07:57 | 2019-10-28T11:46:38 | 35 | 16 |
[WP] The lottery is a system secretly put in place so the government can find and capture time travellers and psychics before they cause major problems. As someone who won the jackpot by pure chance, you’re struggling to prove that you are neither of those to the suits that showed up at your door. | "We usually get the younger ones going for this kind of thing but I guess the older fellas aren't all impervious to the draw of the lotto," said Bruce as he *very* gently put me into the detention room.
"Now what is that supposed to mean? Just because I'm 48 doesn't mea-" He shut the door in my face and I heard his fo... | I couldn’t believe it when I went to check my ticket
Winner , jackpot, 70 million.
My life was set! No more work , no more stressing over bills, nothing! All this from a ticket I just found on the ground the day of the draw!
I made the phone call to the lottery centre , I had to come in for my photo op with the g... | 2022-10-09T16:08:40 | 2022-10-09T15:20:04 | 29 | 21 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "And who can tell me about the events of the first cycle?"
Professor Gooblevork watched his Galactic History class intently through triplicate eyestalks. None seemed particularly interested in his lecture.
"How about you, Shrdmrn?" He pointed at a particularly bored student in the first row. Or maybe he was just gass... | "They launched *WHAT* into orbit?!" For a moment, General Vizzan thought the page had lost his mind. They had the humans contained. All orbital defense platforms, and space viable transport had been crippled. Nothing was getting away without surrendering.
The page shifted akwardly on his legs. His wings bristled. "A w... | 2017-03-05T22:47:46 | 2017-03-05T20:37:30 | 1,151 | 636 |
[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. | It was a Saturday. After a long week at work, Todd decided to sleep in. He got up half past ten, took a quick shower, then headed to the nearest Denny's for breakfast.
Todd ordered his usual... a Grand Slam. With a smile, the waiter left after taking his order. Looking out the window, Todd regretted getting up so... | Bill and his wife Laura entered the furniture store. They were looking for a closet for their baby's room. After so many months of trying to have a baby again, years after the unfortunate miscarriage, it looked like things were finally working out for them.
An old mahogany closet caught their eye. They inspected it c... | 2017-05-31T07:58:46 | 2017-05-31T07:24:53 | 272 | 28 |
[WP] Death is not some all powerful being. Rather, she's a socially awkward outcast. Somehow, you've managed to befriend her and things have started getting weird... | "Hey Death?" I sat on the edge of the crumbled bridge next to her, looking off at the sunset.
"Hm?" She quickly turned off her phone's screen and stared at me as I turned to look at her. She was just slow enough or me to see that she'd been texting someone. Probably one of the fates, they were like family to her.
"Yo... | I met her a while ago, I'm not sure when, but it was when I was a child. At first, I didn't know that J was a grim reaper, I just happened to see her often, just a glimpse of her, mostly in the street.
When my grandma died, I met J just around the corner of the street, she seemed surprised when I looked at her, but sa... | 2017-01-21T08:28:15 | 2017-01-21T05:20:22 | 58 | 33 |
[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?" | "Gather 'round! Mail's here!"
The postman only visited once a month in the remote ger camp of Bayanzorn, a small island of life in the midst of the Sea of Death - known to outsiders as the Gobi Desert. Ghaz had waited anxiously for this day, having begun his 18th season only a few short weeks ago.
The postman reached... | The one moment of the day that made it all worth it was just hearing her voice in the morning. Always starting with those same 8 words. Stiff and corporate sounding, but he thought he detected a new hint of warmth behind them the last couple of weeks.
They'd had their share of jokes and small talk at the counter the... | 2014-12-17T23:46:50 | 2014-12-17T22:16:22 | 42 | 24 |
[WP] Everytime you think of a funny joke, this girl in your class always laughs, you chalk it up to coincidence but you think to yourself, "If you can read my mind, slap the table three times" the the girl looks over at you, stares right into your eyes, and slowly slaps the table two times. | *She didn't... actually think that would throw me off, did she?*
One wry smile from her desk immediately reassured me that she was no fool. I reviewed every odd occurrence I'd noticed from her. There was the time I was brainstorming puns for the annual pun competition, and she couldn't stop snickering, even going so f... | You have become conscious of your actions but you can't stop thinking about the connection. She is smilling and enjoying going over your expressions and thoughts. You are contemplating how is it possible. She is giggling over your thought process. You haven't been near to her anytime before. You have never talked to he... | 2021-09-07T01:07:05 | 2021-09-06T23:08:48 | 195 | 27 |
[WP] After WW3 and a century of rebuilding, the world has been at peace for 300 years. We've let go of our violent and aggressive tendencies and abolished war. You are the leader of an alien invasion that sees the Earth as an easy target; but soon you learn we can revert to our warlike past easily. | "They've taken Newtonport," Allen told me as I stepped into the ancient machine. Already the southern continental factories were busily upgrading a new batch up to current tech. We had gotten these old knightsuits from the old warehouses they had been stored in centuries ago.
"Shit eating fuckers," I said, actually ... | “The Birds” they called them.
Achr’gax are natural shapeshifters. The superlative merger of ferocity and intelligence. The ultimate predator. The pinnacle of evolution across star systems.
And we know.
We have conquered many.
'So many things we could have done differently,' I later told my superiors.
‘This ... | 2019-02-26T11:49:21 | 2019-02-26T09:52:04 | 54 | 40 |
[WP] The world is a simulation and you are the weakest man in existence, one day you pass the lowest threshold and your strength stat loops back to the highest possible value
Kind of like how Gandi is Civ can go passed the lowest agressivness in the game and loops back to the most aggression. | I was always the weakest kid in school. Obviously I was made fun of for this. The school bullies targeted me constantly despite my condition.
**I had muscular dystrophy.**
Kids didn't seem to care about this though. Or at least they didn't fully understand the constant day to day struggle. Getting out of bed and lif... | I have always been the weakest kid in the world. I could barely lift a fork with meat in it and for this reason everyone called me Sickly. I remember my first day of school, "show them your charm sweety, be brave" My mom used to tell me this while she was hugging me goodbye before I took the school bus. "Why don't you ... | 2017-05-23T22:15:36 | 2017-05-23T21:06:23 | 206 | 82 |
[WP] When you arrived in the future, the locals put you in a "historical village" in an attempt to reduce culture shock. Unfortunately, their ideas about your past life are hilariously inaccurate. | All of these..... all of these signs are WRONG!!
‘Most “Doug’s” were gay’?? THAT can’t be true...
‘Every dog was a boy and every Cat was a girl’??? What is this, preschool? Who’d these guys ask about this, my nephew Tommy???
‘President Obama was most likely a lie’??? What does that even mean?!? He was real! He was a r... | Poem
Flying cars, ray guns, and massive wealth.
And my desire to go there was the promise of good health.
My mom's cancer was back for sure,
In the future I know we've got a cure.
So I made a machine to travel through time,
It worked on the first try and I arrived in the future to a friendly chime.
Apparentl... | 2019-04-23T12:40:51 | 2019-04-23T10:35:49 | 26 | 19 |
[wp] When a beloved dog passes in the hereafter, they are given a choice. They can cross the Rainbow Bridge and await for their owners, or join the Sleepless Watch and defend the world from evil spirits. | It was a choice all good dogs have to make.
Go across the great bridge, where you could wait for your person. There was light there, ponds and streams to play in, more balls and cookies than one had ever seen.
Or into the tunnel. The tunnel was dark, full of shadows and monsters.
If you went into the tunnel you wou... | "I was given the choice many moments ago, and like every dog before me, and every dog after, I chose to protect.
What a cruel fate; we get to protect our People, we get to see our People. But they never get to see us.
They were told when they move onto the Rainbow Bridge, they will get to see us again. It isn't a li... | 2018-05-11T19:43:31 | 2018-05-11T16:16:48 | 45 | 10 |
[WP] You we’re born with the ability to control fire, but instead of becoming a superhero, you set your sights on a much more attainable goal: You became the worlds greatest firefighter. | It had been a rough few months since revealing her powers. There was a lot of friction at first, she got called irresponsible for not using her powers to become a hero. After the first few burning buildings extinguished in seconds just with a wave of her hand, however, the public has started to cry out against superher... | Here on Fox News, we are covering the story of The Amazon, catching on fire. This seems to not be able to be contained nothing we can do to stop this.” eternal flame” we have dumped so much water on this we don’t even want to bore you about how much water it was and it didn’t even go down a little bit. It seems nothing... | 2022-12-16T20:08:47 | 2022-12-16T14:17:15 | 20 | 10 |
[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..." | "Alright. Listen very carefully."
I sat there, riveted. Quinn had been with me for so long I couldn't imagine life without her. She was my best friend in the truest sense... always there, up for every adventure, a shoulder to cry on.
I was more than happy to listen. After all, she had been on the receiving end of a t... | "Listen very carefully. There is a box buried under your house. I saw a man hide it there a long time ago, and he explained to his friend what it was. It's the key to a house in Guatemala with an ancient Mayan scroll decrypting all the ancient secrets to their ways of life, gods, medicines, and treasuries hidden deep i... | 2017-02-23T05:50:11 | 2017-02-23T05:23:49 | 219 | 72 |
[WP] The emperor laughed and boasted to the human leader. "That was a fun war! Let me know when your soldiers come back alive." "...Are you saying your people do not die? Forever?" "Wait, what?" | When the smile faded from the emperor's face, the human in front of him grinned. He stood there in shackles; chains so heavy he had been forced to shuffle into the resplendent hall and there was still an arrogance about him, a careless disregard for his situation.
A few of the courtiers looked at their supreme lord; ... | Standing on the podium, Susan made a speech.
They fought for many things, but most of all to protect their loved ones.
A message came through on the radio. from the emperor.
"Susan, you can end this. Just walk away and leave it all behind."
Psychological warfare, typical.
And to war they went, a battle to end all ... | 2021-07-13T11:14:50 | 2021-07-13T08:56:56 | 1,222 | 295 |
[WP] You are a supervillain. Your nemesis calls you to say, "This is embarrassing, but I really need a date to my friend's wedding because my ex is going to be there. Would you go with me?" | "Hahahahahahahahaha!"
"Are you done?"
"HAHAHAHAHA! Ha. Ahem. Seriously, though, is this some kind of joke? I didn't think you went in for psychological misdirection."
Starfire groaned. "I wish. None of my friends can come, and you're my only, um, professional contact who knows my secret identity."
"What, no fellow ... | "Wow... this *is* embarrassing... take some pictures for me?"
"DON'T MESS WITH ME! Seriously, no joke, my ex is an absolute monster... I can't be seen alone with her around?"
"OH MAN THIS IS RICH! Did your ex run off with a tall, hot guy? Were you not good in bed?"
"Geez, have some respect! I'd hang up *right now*, ... | 2022-10-06T19:28:15 | 2022-10-06T16:48:24 | 248 | 158 |
[WP] It turns out your apartment was so cheap to rent because one of the cupboards is actually a portal to the Underworld. It’s not dangerous, but the number of adventurers knocking at your door in the middle of the night looking to go through is starting to get annoying. | The sign was in large red lettering, leaving nothing to the imagination,
“Entrance into the Underworld Hours”
Monday-Friday 10am-6pm
Absolutely no weekends
Argan the Brave stared at the letters in disbelief, armor clanking as he adjusted his stance. That couldn’t be right. This was the only entrance to the Und... | Entrance to Underworld under new Management, 1 Silver Piece for entry during the day. 1 GP for night entry. NO REFUNDS.
Max Hellslayer, took one look at the sign and did a double take. And then rang the bell lableled "Underworld".
"Yeah, its after dark. It will one gold piece per person. Pay in advance", The voice ... | 2022-01-01T19:54:42 | 2022-01-01T18:05:11 | 137 | 47 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared villainesses in the world. Evil armies, dark powers, you have it all. Your husband on the other hand is the exact opposite, being truly kind and mild mannered. He is still supportive of your endeavors, even trying to be a villain himself to...varying results. |
“…And when the oppressors finally face their doom, they will know why is it that I’m called The Grudge!” I hammered the steel podium in front of me with a fist and watched it crumple like a tin can. The wave of stunned silence in the great field was breached by a triumphant uproar. My soldiers cried my name in reve... | The shadows in the castle lengthened with her mere presence, even the guards, trained to handle almost any situation without fear, only barely resisted the urge to shiver as an unnatural cold filled the air. The queen made her way down into the dungeon, moving with unearthly elegance and radiating an aura of control an... | 2020-04-14T06:09:54 | 2020-04-14T05:41:49 | 320 | 237 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | The room is exactly as I recall it, to the most precise detail, but this is not my home. These walls, bookshelf, the leather couch, this is a shroud pulled over something far more malevolent. Then voices, I hear them coming from the basement, they whisper “he knows.” I look to the living room window, into the night. A ... | I heard a scratching sound coming from someplace nearby. It sounded like nails against a wooden door. It was dark and I could not tell where the sound was coming from, but it sounded so close. I started to get scared and closed my eyes, trying to focus more on the origin of that incessant noise. I was breathing rapidly... | 2015-06-09T09:54:42 | 2015-06-09T09:18:30 | 95 | 13 |
[WP] God has been watching as human technology gets more advanced. With each advancement it becomes easier for them to kill each other. In order to save his creation he adds an 11th commandment. "Thou Shalt not use any form of projectile weapon, melee only you cowards.". | "Citizens of Earth, I hope this telecast finds you well. The next 24 hours will be the most important period of time in the history of our planet, maybe forever. I know you have all been waiting for news of first contact, and I am here to tell you that we have been successful. Humanity has landed for the first time on ... | Charles nearly lost grip of his hilt as the jeep hit a bump in the road, preparing to venture down the impending fork ahead. Picking his whetstone, he resumed his project.
"ATTEN-TION" A command that had come from the head of the convoy. Charles opened the door to the jeep and filed out behind the heavy mace user in... | 2019-08-12T12:10:52 | 2019-08-12T12:01:06 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] The Assassin stared me down, readying their weapon as I lay helpless to do anything. “As a courtesy, I’ll give you one final request. Anything within my power.” they said. All I could respond with was… “Wanna go on a date?” | Lovely sounds filled the establishment. Some idle chatter, the gentle clatter of silverware against ceramic, and the piano soloist was just heavenly. All the makings of a quaint, intimate atmosphere, and I was quite certain that we were surrounded by people falling in love, much like how we were not.
I sat there, ... | The words that exit my mouth shocked me just as much as it did my agressor. A date? Really? This man gives me a courtesy of *anything* within his power, and I choose a **date**. I could have sent him after my boss, or maybe that asshole Karen, or even some kind of major terrorist or something; but no. A *date*. I'm suc... | 2022-04-24T13:05:34 | 2022-04-24T09:43:04 | 230 | 126 |
[WP] You awaken to find yourself tied down to a railroad track. About 30 meters away from you is a parallel track with 5 people tied to it. You look to your right and see a convergence where your track meets theirs. A train begins barreling towards the intersection as a man approaches the switch. | I groggily looked over, taking in my situation. The man put his hand on the lever, the five on the other track started begging and pleading. The man looked at me.
I looked at him. "You're absolutely the most stylish fucking serial killer and I'm baffled that they can't catch you. It'd be my honor to get to be one of y... | The strangely clad woman rushing toward the switch brings up her arm which launches a bright ball of blue energy at the track in front of the trolley. A blue disk snaps into existence above the point of impact as the trolley toots its horn desperately before it slams into the crackling energy circle, completely disinte... | 2022-10-10T06:09:04 | 2022-10-10T05:37:01 | 35 | 21 |
[WP] You are a medieval villager who has been cursed by a witch. She curses you to be live until you are the last human alive. After a 1000 years you try to start the apocalypse. | As it turned out, starting the apocalypse was the easy part. After a few false starts with the World Wars, I finally saw my chance in 1962, with the Cuban missile crisis. All I had to do was set off a few explosions and negotiations fell through. The subsequent missile strikes made it easy enough for me to sneak in and... | Tinker, tailor
soldier, sailor
rich man, poor man
beggarman, thief.
I'm so old, there's a nursery rhyme about me. All those men, those are me. The words she cursed me with, I've lived, and died, these lives. Shot, stabbed, strangled, the fast, easy deaths, and the slow suffering of plague, dysentery, whooping co... | 2018-09-01T00:38:26 | 2018-09-01T00:24:35 | 2,464 | 44 |
[WP] A society where everyone is born gender less, and has to pick a gender by their 18th birthday. | I lost everything that day.
Dad was beaming as I entered the kitchen for breakfast. "So you ready to finally be a REAL man like your pop!?" He was still chuckling when mom delivered my plate to me. "Your dad has been waiting for this moment. He's been so excited ever since the day you first noticed a pretty girl." The... | "So... What do you choose?" The doctor asked.
There were two pills in either of his hands; one was blue, the other pink. A life where you grow up to be either a boy or girl and I didn't bother to ever look into it. What do I want?
Do I prefer being male? Waking up to find a razor and cream, the feeling of the blade r... | 2014-07-01T05:07:14 | 2014-06-30T23:33:05 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence is 20 words, the second is 19, and so on until the story ends with one word. | I was 12, waking up at night, asking myself if I would ever be strong enough to just let go,
Somehow, as a child, the idea of holding on, knowing it would never improve seemed like too much work
I was 13 the first time I swallowed my grandmother’s pills hoping they would give me eternal relief,
I quickly learned tha... | I’ve been asked to write a short story which permits me to use exactly twenty words in the first sentence.
After that one, follows a sentence which has only nineteen words are permitted to be used within the sentence.
The next sentence is allowed to have one less word, that means this sentence has eighteen words with... | 2019-02-19T12:03:59 | 2019-02-19T11:14:00 | 131 | 19 |
[WP] Nuclear holocaust is imminent. The rich and powerfull are hiding away in their bunkers, but when the countdown was finished the world was still there. One message was sent around the world via satellites: "Now They have imprisoned Themselves what shall We do?" With coords of all the bunkers.. | *I take a sip of my red wine, grinning to myself as the timer had finally stopped. Just as I predicted, showing everyone on the most live of feeds, the rich and the powerful gave in, inviting absolutely nobody but themselves into their bunkers, hiding away in things which they did not create and yet took the effort whi... | "Jerry, you still need the welder or can I bring it down?"
"Nah, bring it down. 'Suppose it's good enough." A voice replied from the top of the tower. Randy unhitched the rope and the welder slowly started falling. They'd built the compound in record time, right on top of the huge steel doors. A thirty foot tower and ... | 2022-07-18T18:23:41 | 2022-07-18T18:09:46 | 33 | 19 |
[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.
... | There were exactly fifty five of these strange little things.
They were strung, line by line, in descending order.
Rows upon rows, each shorter than the last.
All honing in on some intangible topic.
I didn't know what they were.
And they rushed at me.
What were they called?
It was time.
I remembered.
Words. | 2015-01-05T22:38:49 | 2015-01-05T22:11:05 | 1,258 | 74 |
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