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[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It was a typical night in LA. People getting piss all drunk and underage people trying to get into the club, my club. I always laughed at the smugness of some of them. Always compensating with false confidence, it was kind of pathetic. 15 years and a perfect record for keeping out underage guests and they still tried e... | "I'm sorry sir, but this ID is fake."
"Who the hell do you think you are boy? If you had any idea who I-"
"Sir, I"m going to have to ask you to present me with some real proof of identity. You are not 24."
"What the hell do you know you insolent prick, this ID is more real than anything you will contribute to this s... | 2017-09-02T00:24:05 | 2017-09-02T00:20:37 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Your job as a researcher in the facility isn't too bad. The hours are shit and the coffee maker is broken, but at least the people are nice. And the job is easy: talk to the telepathic spider, run some tests on the witch, give the eldrich god his daily newspaper, basic stuff. Describe your day
Inspired by the SCP... | *I see you are still terrified of me, Brian.*
The words did feel warm in my mind, I admit, but I still felt no place for them.
*Yes,* I thought, as Bul'grum lowered herself down in front of me. With a body the size of a catcher's mitt, it was hard to imagine the thin thread shot from her spinneret was keeping her up... | I'm so glad someone finally asked!
My day is, in a lot of ways, totally trivial. I admit when I first started it took some getting used to, but now, several years in, it feels just like any other job.
Every day starts with me driving to the facility and parking in the above ground lot. I have an old Kia, nothing sp... | 2018-04-23T11:08:29 | 2018-04-23T09:55:13 | 62 | 40 |
[WP] You're a misunderstood necromancer, with a passion for dance. You resorted to necromancy because you could never find a crew passionate or flexible enough to match your choreography. | [Poem]
"Alright, crew it's time to train"
As the dead rose up again
My face was grey, black robes I donned
I said while waving around a wand.
"Can't we rest, we've trained for weeks"
"My flesh is peeling, my eyeball leaks!"
They waited patiently for a verdict.
"This contact's huge, you must be perfect! "
"... | "And a'one, and a'two, and a-"
A boned trumpet joined some snapping, then some more winds joined, too. They were playing "In the Mood" by Glenn Miller, and N'calphar of the North was doing his best to look the part of a jazzed gentlemen, circa 1942. His eyes shimmered beyond a Newsie cap, burned a toxic green culling... | 2020-05-23T10:54:15 | 2020-05-23T09:16:41 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] Being the Devil’s offspring means that you’re really good at persuasion. Things get awkward when the Devil finds out you’ve been using your power for good. | The people in the office started pulling at their ties, scrubbing paper towels across their brow, with said towels laden with sweat, and started complaining that somebody's BO was out of control. Looking around. I acknowledged the situation and perused myself to the stairwell. Time to face the music. At least I accompl... | The moon shone through large bay windows as I watched Norasia's president walk back upstairs to his bedroom. Our conversation went as it usually does with world leaders. He demands to know what the hell I'm doing in his home, how I got past his guard detail, or who the hell I am. As usual, all I had to do was look into... | 2020-09-21T14:41:40 | 2020-09-21T14:28:06 | 30 | 11 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | If I were to punch a person, the other party would feel pain.
Not a foreign cause and effect, by any means. If you were blessed with super strength, like Maximus, the end result would be the same. Run at the speed of sound like Sonic the Human, and plenty of pain will be tacked along with that punch.
I didn't quite h... | Echo was a dangerous villain. The Super Hero League’s first few attempts to capture him were catastrophic. He had broken into a top secret government lab, and we didnt know much about him at the time, but we did know what he was after. The controls to a government superweapon, capable of killing any person on the plane... | 2020-12-02T09:23:54 | 2020-12-02T09:11:38 | 78 | 43 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt | Watching through the window was heartbreaking. Once an impeccable specimen of evil, Mimic was now nothing but a broken shell. His muscle had wasted away so much that he was little more than a skeleton, his hair had long since left him, and his eyes were dark and glazed over. It was hard to believe that it’d only been 6... | ***GOO (Short story)***
Chapter One:
“The Gelatin! The Gelatin!” The people cry out my heroic name as I step through the masses to face the bank in which the tellers are being held hostage. “The Gelatin! The Gelatin!” Okay, I mean, my hero name sucks, but The Hero Association is the one that gives out names according... | 2020-12-02T10:54:32 | 2020-12-02T10:37:43 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] At 18, your father finally gave you his antique Swiss watch. "The watch will stop working when you're seconds away from death. Live a good life", your father always told you. Now at 26, you're celebrating your 1st wedding anniversary. As your wife pours you a glass of wine, the watch stopped. | They say when you’re breathing your last breath time goes slower. They say time stops, and you have an infinite moment to reflect on the life you lived one last time.
When I saw the hand on that damn watch pause I didn’t reflect on the good twenty six years I had lived up until this point. I didn’t remember how lovel... | This is kind of bad but I've been using writing prompts to improve my skills and fall back in love with writing so here goes nothing... enjoy :)
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The warm lights of the front room shone down on her face light the glow of a halo. She was iridescent. The most beautiful woman in town. Ever since our first me... | 2020-12-10T12:28:45 | 2020-12-10T11:22:32 | 36 | 24 |
[WP] Last names are assigned at birth by an oracle, and 90% of people find themselves in a related profession. For instance "Miller" or "Baker." Your last name, "World-Ender," has made life rather difficult. | He turned to the stranger next to him. "World-Ender? What will people think? Will they judge me by this name and think I'm that I'm going to bring about the end of the world? That I'm going to usher in the demise of humanity as we know it? That name is going to label me forever as a monster! What will my friends assume... | “How are you feeling, Kayneth?” That man, Mark with the role “Psychiatrist,” closed the door behind him and sat on the couch across from me. “My name is Mark. I’m here to listen to whatever you have to say.”
I met his gaze, my dead eyes speaking for themselves. He met my eyes without flinching. Eventually, out o... | 2021-06-19T18:31:32 | 2021-06-19T17:37:30 | 2,066 | 159 |
[WP] You are unarmed before an army, three limbs deep into death's door, with as much of a chance as a snowflake in hell, but you can't help but smile at this moment | Gramesh looked down at the valley that stretched beneath him, teeming with the armies of Restiones. He saw banners of the smaller kingdoms, from the Usur planes to the Republic of Silver. It seems that the battle of Okenill and subsequent condemnation by the church of Nebo finally made him an enemy of the entire contin... | Before me stands the invading army, two hundred thousand soldiers strong. Not to mention all manner of beasts and war machines, the ability and function I can only guess at. By my side my loyal companions, a mere handful. They tend to my wound. They try to dissuade me from fighting. "Fall back", they say, "and live to ... | 2022-03-14T05:56:48 | 2022-03-14T05:45:43 | 42 | 18 |
[WP] It's the first week of Magic theory class. You've finally gotten to the basics of the subject. As your professor talks you notice something bothering you. You raise your hand and ask the proffesor about it. They blink and look at the board, then back at you. They ask you to stay after class. | "And as you can see, the mana balance between light and dark-aspected elements in the magic circle balances out in the first three seconds of inscription, preventing the production of antipodal spells above the second circle of sorcery." The engraved circle on the board sparked white and black and whirled together in b... | Ms. Harion stared at me.
I stared at her.
The classroom had never been so quiet before.
"Atlas," she furrowed her brow. "I'm unsure what exactly you're asking, here..."
Whispers began to float around the classroom and I started to feel a bit of moisture around my temples.
"Uhh... never mind," I sunk into my seat.
... | 2022-04-13T19:14:13 | 2022-04-13T17:59:01 | 341 | 91 |
[WP] Soon after you die, you are approached by a deity who asks "so, did you enjoy your time in heaven?" | “Did you enjoy your time in heaven?” The voice didn’t really belong to anything.
“Wait – so Earth was heaven?” I had a slight headache, something I didn’t figure would exist after Earth was so far gone.
“Yes. Did you enjoy it?”
“I thought heaven was eternal, I only had 25 years.”
“You had a whole 25 years, which is... | *I've been waiting around in this seemingly endless white room for what seems like eternity now, is this the afterlife? Man I was wrong about that. White suggests heaven though, which is a bonus, if I had believed in God I'd have sworn I'd be in a far hotter place right now...* I think to myself, after a period of comp... | 2014-07-18T07:18:20 | 2014-07-18T06:38:47 | 852 | 563 |
[WP] "What the hell do you mean you 'overclocked a sloth'?" | “What the hell do you mean you “overclocked a sloth”?”
“You’re familiar with the normal, everyday run-of-the-mill sloths that we've been working with, right?”
“Of course.”
“Well it’s like that, but more so.”
“So it is still a sloth.”
“Well yeah. We didn’t alter its DNA or crossbreed it, or anything along those lin... | "Wait wait wait, hang on John," my oldest friend Daniel said, laughing at my worried expression. "You said you did what?"
"I tried that new chip we got in last week, y'know the one that hasn't exactly been cleared for use," I said, my hands shaking violently at my sides, looking around trough bloodshot eyes, as if some... | 2015-03-19T07:14:06 | 2015-03-19T01:09:58 | 44 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone has powers locked within them. Each power is different, and the longer it takes for a power to manifest, the greater it is. A 100 year old man is being hunted by the government for still being powerless.
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies everyone, I had fun reading all of them. | My first prompt here!
We did it. We finally captured him. Heh, he thought he could run away from us forever. Fool. We could never let go an opportunity like this one. The boys are running some tests right now, it shouldn't take long...
"Sir, the results are out. You are not going to like this."
"What happened?"
"... |
It's been ten years since the last "big" one, Jean-Paul Arseneau. Marseille is still uninhabitable after what happened. Jean-Paul doesn't exist anymore, but neither does Marseille. After the events in Marseille, the UN developed a unit of special forces to combat further incidents like this. They are the worlds great... | 2015-10-26T12:10:03 | 2015-10-26T11:22:04 | 32 | 19 |
[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 you,
I've always meant to write this letter to you, but I was never able to really put it all together. We've gone through a lot together, to say the least.
I guess I just wanted to say thank you, for everything. For your generosity, for your openness, your pride, your confidence. I truly admire you as a person... | 2015-12-05T15:43:07 | 2015-12-05T15:18:49 | 45 | 18 |
[WP] You're a ferocious demon king. You're surprised one day to find that a young woman has been left at your door. Only to later find out her father, the king, is using you as bait to find a knight worthy of marrying his daughter. | The thick wooden doors to the throne room were charred and splintered, they were broken inward with the force of a powerful magical explosion. Past the doors were several inhuman bodies strewn about and bleeding various shades of green onto the hardwood floors. A powerful figure pulled his sword from a now limp goblin ... | "I'm bored!"
That same exasperated outcry echoed through the seemingly deserted castle day after day, always around noon without fail. Sighing deeply, I lean forwards in my throne and clear my throat. "Garrote!" I call.
Light thumping slowly makes its way down the overly complex arches supportin... | 2017-10-06T10:01:24 | 2017-10-06T09:53:44 | 201 | 54 |
[WP] You are extremely famous. Everyone knows who you are. The only thing is, you don't know why you're so famous. You don't come from a rich family and you're unemployed. You don't even remember how you got a mansion or a Lamborghini. Even stranger, everybody looks so scared when you bring it up. | "I don't understand."
"It's like when you can move stuff around with your mind."
"Telepathy, yes! What I mean is, I don't understand what that has to do with me? Surely I would know if I had telepathic powers."
"Not if the part of your brain that controls telepathy was being suppressed."
"Wait, what? You're "suppre... | I’m just trying to be myself.
Why can’t people just leave me alone? Signatures and photos, that’s all they care about! I yell and try to scare them away but they usually persist and just end up following me taking pictures and tagging me on their Instagram. Fuck, I honestly think Sartre was right, “Hell is other peop... | 2018-05-14T23:56:09 | 2018-05-14T22:27:24 | 145 | 74 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "NUMBER 117737."
Anxious and bewildered, you step up to the counter, behind which sits a very bored looking young man wearing a name tag that says GARY. He takes your ticket and asks, "Name?"
"John Smith. But this has to be a mistake. I don't belong in hell. I lived a good, honest life."
"Yep, that's what they all s... | “Why? What did I do to deserve this?”
Charon the gatekeeper just looked down. “If you want to dispute this sentence. Then you will have to speak to management. However I don.....l
“Well get me the fuckin manager then. This can’t happen to me in life I had thousands of more followers on social media then any of my... | 2018-09-26T07:16:16 | 2018-09-26T06:56:58 | 4,281 | 74 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | I just stood there in shock. What could I have done, I thought to myself. I worked for a living, payed my taxes, kept to myself. I didn't do great things for anyone but I didn't really hurt anyone. Well, there was that one habit I had but surely that wasn't on par with murder or anything.
"What could I have possibly ... | It was certainly the biggest case of sticker shock poor Joe had ever experienced.
“A hundred and eighty seven thousand years? Where did that come from?!”
“One eighty seven, that’s correct. Wait, thousands? Let me see that again?”, the red creature exclaimed, reaching the hand across the table.
“Odd.”, the goblin loo... | 2018-09-26T09:05:26 | 2018-09-26T08:56:27 | 26 | 19 |
[WP]You’re a human stranded on an alien planet. The locals are sapient, but have a lifespan of only about six months. After dozens of generations (about a decade), you’ve managed to make quite a name for yourself.L | 6 months in, I was surprised to find so much death. I was devastated. I was best friends with Uul. He was a very kind man. He's the one who taught me everything I know about this planet. I learned of their lifespan. I won't be making friends anymore. What's the point?
They have an interesting biological trick that he... | It happened shortly after the crash. Two days after his ship crash landed in Zenon-6, Caide Newell was all but sure he was a dead man. Telecoms went dark. The ship, an unmitigated wreck. There'd be no salavaging that flaming hunk of debris. But at least he survived, somehow. The same could not be said about the months ... | 2019-04-22T09:50:46 | 2019-04-22T09:39:54 | 34 | 14 |
[WP] You're an angel. You like to sneak out of heaven and watch Deaths work harvesting the souls of mortals. Today a young girl died in a car crash and you sit there waiting for the poor soul to be freed from its mangled vessel, but something is wrong. This time the Grim Reaper does not show. | It was a perfectly fine day. The kind you would enjoy, but blink and it would be lost amidst the memories. A reckless driver turned a bit too sharply and the top-heavy minivan went rolling across the intersection. I had been watching of course. I am by no means omniscient, but...we have our ways of observing.
The dri... | The Veil, Beyond, Afterlife, Styx, Pale whatever name you wish to call it, it is a forbidden place for all not Death themselves. It is a frightening place and much as it is a confusing one. At first the light which is hidden between the crack in a wall, small so only souls may wander through. Within a surrounding of pa... | 2019-06-09T23:12:55 | 2019-06-09T20:30:25 | 58 | 11 |
[WP] In the middle of a fight with a known villain, you, the hero are stopped by a young child. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think you’re any better than him?” Behind the child, you see the villain silently fist pump. | “What makes you think you’re any better than him?”
*Better than him?*
*Better than-*
***Better-***
The world seems to bleed away as you focus more and more on the villain, up until the monochrome murderer is all that fills your vision. Over and over, the child’s question rings through your head.
At the other end o... | "With heroes like these, who needs villains?" Read the largest heading on the Sunday paper. She'd had to walk by it at every newspaper stand on her way to the office this morning, and now her publicist was reading it aloud to her from his cell phone.
"Yeah, I know what it's..." Volcanix tried to cut in. She really did... | 2021-04-18T08:42:11 | 2021-04-18T06:54:17 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] Your old friend, Mary Sue, appears perfect but is actually a time manipulator who rewinds time to appear perfect, and do anything with zero consequences. You, however, can secretly remember previous iterations. | Mary’s beautiful red dress is stained, some of it from the bottle and some of it from the puke. She’s been crying for hours now. She looks at the pills on the table. Angrily wiping her tears, she takes a determined step towards them.
A voice, faintly familiar, comes to her from the darkness. “The things we do for lov... | Nobody is born perfect. In fact the very concept of perfection is not achievable, and is dangerous to pursue, as it is a goal unreachable, and will drive most people who attempt to reach it, veritably insane. Yet if one were to take a look at my old friend Mary, one might think that perfection walks as a person among u... | 2021-07-25T12:05:23 | 2021-07-25T10:59:44 | 484 | 233 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | "So, that's it, then." Pan massages his temples and stares at me from across the table. He looks different without the equipment. Athletic wear, corporate logos, speaker systems. I wouldn't believe this slight, curly haired kid could break a parking garage with his voice, but he did. Pretty recently, too. Had to sign w... | "Whoa, guys, now wait just a sec", I said while raising my hands in a warding gesture towards the two supes trying to threaten me with their powers.
"No more waiting, Carl", said Josh the Jellyfish. Yes, he picked that name. "Your time's up", added Rocky Rhayle. "Either you spill your secrets now or we spill your guts... | 2021-08-16T17:15:46 | 2021-08-16T14:51:45 | 215 | 80 |
[WP] The galaxy is a dark and lonely place. "First Strike Diplomacy" reigns out of fear. Few species survive even 300 years after developing interstellar travel. When humans entered the galaxy, we were the first species confident enough in war to ask someone "Are you sure you want to do this?" | "You think we haven't faced extinction before?"
That gave the being pause. Ships slowed and while their batteries were charged, they didn't fire.
"You think you will survive?" the robotic voice played through the terminal, translating the clicks and gurgles of the creature on the monitors.
"I think we will make vict... | We were caught completely off-guard when they came.
Entire alien fleets bounded the great distances between star systems and struck down our colonies with ease.
These colonies, mostly tiny research stations on frozen rocks, could do nothing as they watched the enemy fleet fire its weapons and turned the... | 2022-01-22T10:09:29 | 2022-01-22T07:41:07 | 272 | 153 |
[WP] As it turns out, aliens all have aphantasia. This makes Humans the only species capable of imagining images in their heads. This greatly confuses alien telepaths, who report seeing “constantly shifting landscapes of alternate realities” when peering into human minds | “Hi, I’d like one thirty minute session,” said the tall man, standing just a bit over 210 orbids, his tail swishing a little.
“That’ll be sixteen azulios,” said the woman behind the concession stand.
The tall man handed her a couple crumpled up bills.
She accepted.
“One moment please.”
She turned around and pu... | Note about the prompt: if the aliens can see other's imagery then there imagination is still indeed intact -- they *can* still visualize things except they're only receiving it rather than self-generating it. However I think the spirit of the prompt is alien's are lacking in imagination and are bewildered by that of th... | 2022-03-03T11:17:29 | 2022-03-03T11:13:55 | 18 | 10 |
[WP] In the future, people get an AI chip implanted. It is calm and obedient and provides answers to questions you think at it. After a hospital mixup, you ended up with two—but it’s becoming clear why no one ever gets two. They develop personalities and it’s not a good thing. | *The Operator must.*
**He cannot.**
*Operator has an obligation to do so. There are no alternatives in this situation.*
**Operator cannot. There will be consequences.** The voices were fighting again. My doctor says at some point the two AI began to interfere with each other. They independently decided it would be m... | Warning: Explicit Language.
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I make the mistake of thinking what I should eat today. The first AI, starts to chime in, “I have found several options for you according to your previous spots.” The second AI starts to recommend some restaurants but starts to analyze the results of the first AI. The second one deci... | 2022-08-24T19:47:34 | 2022-08-24T17:51:07 | 47 | 20 |
[WP] A world where everyone's soul mate can feel each other's pain no matter the distance.
Also, they don't have to be a couple for it to work. They could be dating someone else, but they still feel it due to fate. | A few years worth of planning, and it had all come down to this. The caterers had set up, the cake was delivered, and I stood at the front of the church. We had found each other, she and I, together in this huge world. The universe wanted us together. It was amazing. I was ready. I felt excited, and determined almost, ... | "Argh, fuck that guy, just fuck him!" Libby grabs one of the knives from the counter and stabs the air. "I swear if I see that chicken shit again I'm gonna cut him up then I will castrate him then I will--"
"Geez, calm down." Frank grabs the handle of the knife and places it back on the counter. "Now, tell me what hap... | 2013-12-28T09:26:11 | 2013-12-28T09:16:02 | 59 | 25 |
[WP] You have the power to access another person's mind, but you must play a game/puzzle reflective of the owner's mind to unlock its secrets. You have solved 7x7 Rubik's cubes, played games of 3D Chess, and beaten countless final bosses. This time, however, you are caught off-guard.
If it's an unsolvable game/puzzle,... | I found out about three interesting facts, today.
1: Tic-Tac-Toe always results in a tie if both sides are playing perfectly. It's insultingly simple, compared to what I'd done before- but it's also perfect.
2: Turns out I can't exit a Minddive until I win or lose the challenge.
3: Turns out that, given perfect play... | "Ah, hello there, fellow mind-breaker."
A pulsating orb hung in front of me in the most ominous manner, its eerie lights casting odd glows through the void which I found myself in.
(This was new), I thought to myself. (I've never met anyone whose mind was able to communicate directly with me..)
The area around me was... | 2015-04-28T17:18:42 | 2015-04-28T15:55:51 | 381 | 26 |
[WP] Normally when people are reincarnated they lose all memory of their previous life, but for some reason you remember your past self; a cop who spent his life trying to catch a master criminal, who eventually ended up killing you. You are reborn as your killers child. | It had been 20-some odd years since I’d finally found him. Twenty-some odd years since he’d shot me dead. Twenty-some odd years before a force I can only pretend to understand brought us back together.
He never suspected a thing. I’ve known who he was since I woke up screaming in the dark at six years old, only to fin... | My memory was as sharp as it had ever been, I remembered all of the evils this guy had done, all of the suffering he had caused, the countless people killed through his gang. I remembered the outcry of the mother that just returned home to find her husband dead with her child in his arms, the weeping ten-year-old that ... | 2017-08-03T19:34:36 | 2017-08-03T14:33:00 | 56 | 11 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | "So... Why did you come here?"
The question had been asked over and over by different people on the trip here. One incredulous angel had fainted and my escort through that part of underworld had to be replaced.
Most didn't care. They just thought I was nuts. Or just stupid. I had just shrugged at each question. I did... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T08:26:29 | 960 | 77 |
[WP] You've always dreamed of becoming a supervillain when you got your powers, and just because you were bestowed the power of healing doesn't change anything | "Fifty-seven."
The man spat out a bit of blood and shook his head. "Fifty-seven what? What the hell are you going on about?"
"Fifty-seven," I replied, pacing around the chair to which he was currently secured. "That's my current all-time record."
"You're a lunatic!"
Well, he wasn't wrong. I laughed.
"That's as may... | I always knew there was something different about me. Maybe it was the way I dressed, all black all the time. Maybe it was the fact I didn't have many friends growing up or maybe it was the fact I was obsessed with pain. It started off with little cuts to myself here and there, but the pleasure I felt when I used my sc... | 2019-01-30T06:23:21 | 2019-01-30T05:53:38 | 194 | 11 |
[WP] Humans were largely friendly and kept a low-profile. They were seen as the bottom of the food chain in the galaxy and they preferred it like that. But when they were attacked, everyone found out how ruthless the humans can be with killing in their DNA and that Mars was never their home plant | I can't understand them, the humans.
They were so agreeable, so honorable, so civilized.
They always kept their word and tried very hard to compensate us if some unforeseen circumstances prevented that.
They were intelligent but they were relatively dumb. They should not have been able to understand the limits we w... | Crimson and orange sand settled and re-settled in small puffs driven by the wind across the plains of Mars. Gornack stumbled away from the smoldering fuselage of his decadent war ship. Or what he thought was a war ship. The humans did not present before they danced, as was agreed by the Nine Truarchs. No, they came at ... | 2020-03-20T19:55:48 | 2020-03-20T18:23:00 | 39 | 21 |
[WP] You are in possession of two exceptionally cursed rings. One that teleports you to a random location exactly 100 ft away every half hour, and one that narrates your life. You're not sure which ring you hate more. | *Myles Mythril didn’t collect cursed jewelry for reasons of practicality. He collected them because he was the hottest freestyle bard this side of Eight League Road, and flashing cursed bling was a signature of his brand.*
Kat, the whitest mage in the group, shot her companion an exasperated look. “Myles, will you tak... | It had to be the teleportation ring, I decided as I looked down from my new and incredibly inconvenient spot. In that moment I thought I couldn’t hate anything more, except for perhaps my phone alarm that had somehow, mysteriously, not gone off. I’d been living with these rings for a year now, I’d developed coping meth... | 2021-02-21T09:04:08 | 2021-02-21T09:02:06 | 1,452 | 77 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | John and Bardan dejectedly sat on the floor of their spacecraft, observing the screen of their life support system. In ten minutes, their oxygen supply would be finished—and with no allied supply ship nearby, so would their lives.
Despite the impossible odds, Bardan kept sending out telepathic pleas for assistance, wh... | FADE IN:
INT. THE SECRET HALL OF GALAXY-CENTRIC WORRYING
*A dozen creatures of various species sit around a large table. One of them – something that resembles an eight-foot-tall Möbius strip crossed with a large slug – begins to speak. This is YARLGH.*
**YARLGH:** I call this session of galaxy-centric worrying to o... | 2021-04-07T19:03:13 | 2021-04-07T17:45:17 | 261 | 186 |
[WP] Every spacefaring species has something that makes them special. Some are fast, some have telekinesis, some are nigh-unkillable. To the galaxy's surprise, humans have a tendency to befirend the cosmic horrors lurking where the starlight does not reach. | It had been some time since a species had disturbed my slumber. Cycles beyond their comprehension, as I lay resting in the comforting pull of the gravity around me. And yet, I could feel a change in the stars. Pyolia's my kind, the old guard, had evolved before stars burned and rock rose. Ancient. Curious. Powerful. A... | Beyond Andromeda, an entity approaches.
It devours the electromagnetic radiation for hundreds of parsecs around. At superluminal speeds it approaches the intergalactic hub at Triangulum. On all observation devices it appears as a spherical void—a beyond-supermassive black hole.
The Vanarr spied it first. They thought... | 2021-04-07T23:13:27 | 2021-04-07T20:53:57 | 106 | 64 |
[WP] The Hero is ridiculously overpowered but has none of the usual moral objections about using their power. They just defeated the last major supervillian and now the city nervously waits to find out what happens next. | "Stop right there! Surrender or we will open fire."
The Hero turned around to face the squad of armed police officers. He briefly acknowledged their presence before turning his back on them and walking away.
"Fire!"
With their rifles, the officers pumped round after round of lead into their target. Yet to their asto... | Everything was quiet. It always was after an ... event. That's what the news would call it, not wanting to give it a more accurate name. They used to call them "fights", but it would be more accurate to say "slaughter". Not that *I'd* say that out loud. You talk about it, it makes it more real.
I nodded to my nei... | 2022-06-27T13:39:10 | 2022-06-27T12:05:29 | 17 | 11 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | I blinked. Rubbed my eyes. I remember those first few seconds. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing at the time. Even now I still can’t. Stretched across her face was a single word in large capital letters. KILL. Bold, dark, intimidating; paradox-like presented atop her angel-white skin.
But she was my daughter and I... | I rush to the hospital, excited beyond belief. A child! MY child! A little one to hold, to teach, to love! Words can not contain my boundless joy! I broke a few speed laws on the way, but who cares! I'm a father! I enter the hospital, rushing straight to the room number the clerk told me. Bursting in, I see my ... | 2014-05-11T01:50:33 | 2014-05-10T23:42:39 | 136 | 48 |
[WP] 3 Russian Cosmonuats and 3 American Astronauts and 2 others aboard the international space station witness the launching of thousands of ICBMs between the superpowers. What is the fate of the crew? | ---ISS Video Log: 7/14/18---
The batteries are low, and i don't have long. This may be the last entry of humanity, at least until after the wheel, electricity, and civilization are reinvented. Hopefully this will have lasted.
---
Three months ago, the world went up in fire. One poor bastard shot another poor bastard, w... | "Houston, we're deploying the solar array now, should be enough to power the experiment for the dark side. Any further instructions?" the voice communication was crisp with the familiar radio clicks after each transmission. "Go ahead with deployment. No further instructions." replied command center a few minutes later.... | 2014-08-09T21:57:53 | 2014-08-09T21:50:00 | 202 | 42 |
[WP] You are an NPC in a failed online game. Tell about the final days before server shut down.
Edit 1: Holy shit! Thanks for all of the great replies!
Edit 2: ¡Jesus Cristo! Front page! Thanks all! | "I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apothecary, I brew potions from rare ingredients!"
"I'm an apo... | I remember when I still cared. When the world was young, and I was a child.
"Please **[checkgender: sir/miss]**! Please help me! My parents went to gather Fy'lssa flowers in the bog, and they haven't come back!"
I answered all their questions. I tried to be helpful.
"Fy'lssa flowers? They're quite valuable. If... | 2015-09-01T11:39:46 | 2015-09-01T11:29:29 | 171 | 20 |
[WP] Upon his suicide Hitler will join the dead waiting to be ferried across the river Styx. The dead include the millions who died in WWII. You have been tasked with keeping Hitler safe until he can arrive for his final judgment. | "Yup, there he is again."
"At the back of the line?"
"Yeah."
"Aren't you supposed to protect him?"
"You try protecting him against 60 million souls."
"Don't you mean 6 million?"
"No. 6 million Jews died. but think of all the service men that died fighting in Europe, and every Russian, and Chinese who died a... | I was told it was a promotion, so, naturally, I was excited. I'd been serving here since forever; it was my job to make sure everyone was kept in order as they waited to cross the River Styx. Nothing special, sometimes fun, but pretty much just a job. One day, my boss, the goddess Styx (I've checked, she's not related ... | 2016-01-12T08:47:53 | 2016-01-12T07:48:22 | 37 | 11 |
[WP] It's been almost two years since people stopped dying, and five months since we started to burn the ones that should.
*Edit: This prompt is originally inspired by Jose Saramago's "Death with Interruptions," though I don't remembered any burning in that book. This is in no way intended to be related to any Torchwo... | I still heard people around me, even if I couldn't react. For a long time, I heard the people telling my family how lucky they were that I had my accident *after* Death had died. I never felt lucky, though.
After a while, no one came around at all. Death or no Death, I was lost to them.
It'd been -- months...? Maybe ... | I was managing a fast food joint in downtown Boston around the time the rumors started. People in hospitals living way longer than they should, some bastard in Texas shrugging off a lethal injection twice. The internet and news got overwhelmed with it, but I didn't believe until some punk strolled into my place, ordere... | 2016-05-02T07:12:48 | 2016-05-02T06:56:31 | 75 | 22 |
[WP] Write a story that becomes a horror story in the last line. | "Can't wait to see you tonight."
"I might be a bit late I have to go home and pick up something then visit my sister Jane and her baby."
"Ok, well I'll see you later then bye."
"Bye." I click off the phone and start the drive home. Normally the drive is long and boring, but today I hardly noticed the road flying by... | I had just moved to London in August from my sweltering hometown in Texas for college. I'd expected arrogant pricks to look at me differently because of my southern drawl, but I soon realized nobody gave a fuck. One asshole asked if I rode a horse to school when I was back home, and I politely smiled and told him no. B... | 2016-06-22T16:03:00 | 2016-06-22T15:32:01 | 32 | 16 |
[WP] A burglar enters a home by forcing the window open. Upon stepping through the window frame, heavy steel curtains cover all windows and doors leading to the outside, lights turn on, and the words "Player 2 has entered the game" echo around the house. | "Player 2 has entered the game"
"What the hell?" He thought. Almost immediately there was a loud boom and a flash.
A sensation if weightlessness filled his body. He looked down to see his lifeless body on the floor, blood pooling where his head had once been.
A dark figure made its way across the room to his body... | "Player two has entered the game!" The voice echoed down the halls. A ball of flesh pressed into a corner of the basement stop shaking. "Yessssss" It whispers to itself. Long ago the creature was player two as well, now it was player one. "More blood, so much more blood." The little creature cackled as it pulled itself... | 2016-10-05T11:10:45 | 2016-10-05T10:37:19 | 2,176 | 217 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | “I sneak up behind my target, aim my derringer at his head, and pull the trigger”
“Roll a d20 twice against your agility and once against your dexterity”
A 5
A 17
D 12
“You successfully sneak up on your target and shot him in the head. However you chose a poor spot to hide while shooting and get spotted ... | DM: Alright, so you all have been stationed on the Bolognian for a few days now. Tensions have been high with Bologna for generations now, and things are starting to get pretty heated once again.
Player 1: Alright, so what are our orders
DM: Your group's job is to sneak into enemy territory and scout out areas withi... | 2018-05-29T09:28:35 | 2018-05-29T09:19:41 | 39 | 22 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | “So you’re storming the beaches of Italy in his game. Did you bring the WW2 character sheets?”
“Uhh... shit I brought my fantasy sheet for my ranger.”
“...”
“It’s okay! We can still play. Who was important in WW2 again?”
“Winston Churchill...”
“There we go! I’ll call my character Jack Churchill, and he’s storming ... | DM: Alright, so you all have been stationed on the Bolognian for a few days now. Tensions have been high with Bologna for generations now, and things are starting to get pretty heated once again.
Player 1: Alright, so what are our orders
DM: Your group's job is to sneak into enemy territory and scout out areas withi... | 2018-05-29T09:44:43 | 2018-05-29T09:19:41 | 35 | 22 |
[WP] Human beings unlock skills as they grow up, walking, taking, etc. You are the oldest person in the history of the world, and today you unlock a skill no one ever had. | I looked at the readout again. After turning 179 (take that Methuselah, ya fake bastard) I had earned another skill. One never seen before. My eyes were replaced last year with new "genetically vat grown" ones, whatever the hell that means and I'd been offered all replacement parts. But see, you don't get a new ski... | I take no pleasure in this.
The house is one out of a storybook. Lush green yard, white picket fence, and small brick house. They know I’m coming – these incidents aren’t secret. I do it in the open, because no one can do anything about it. No one can stop me.
I walk up to the door. The welcome mat has the design o... | 2018-06-23T13:18:44 | 2018-06-23T11:11:01 | 208 | 144 |
[WP] Human beings unlock skills as they grow up, walking, taking, etc. You are the oldest person in the history of the world, and today you unlock a skill no one ever had. | “Keep hitting me,” I screamed when I saw him holding back. The hammer, above a quaking arm, had been stopped in descent, quelled by clemency. I could see in Alex’s eyes a reluctance to bring it down again.
“Stop being so weak and strike me again!”
A wide pool of blood had pooled under me. For, not the first time, I k... | REPORTER: ANNABELLE HAYNES
INITIAL REPORT
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SPECIES: HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS
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LEVEL 1: AGE 0-3
Basic skills - walking, babbling.
The first year, Homo Sapiens infants tend to crawl on all fours; walking is only developed as a skill ... | 2018-06-23T13:23:15 | 2018-06-23T12:14:20 | 44 | 27 |
[WP] It finally happens. An alien race with advanced technology arrives ready to conquer Earth and take their place as our rightful overlords. The only problem? They never considered that Warfare might take the form of physical violence. | Have you seen the old horror movies about invaders from outer space? They always came down, in their spacecraft that flew against all known laws of physics. They always landed in the White House lawn, ready to speak to our leader. Once the president comes out, they'd shoot him with a laser weapon that would vaporize hi... | It was faceless, four meters tall, dressed in shifting materials, and had nine limbs. Three ‘arms’, six ‘legs’, nine ‘fingers’. A farmer had shot it, claiming it had been self-defense. The xenobiologists, seeing the first time their existence had become relevant, pontificated of the creature's alien nature. Four limbs,... | 2018-10-13T22:10:32 | 2018-10-13T20:06:02 | 295 | 196 |
[WP] In 1,000 years, fantasy stories will be set in this era. Write a fantasy story set in the 21st century from the viewpoint of someone living 1,000 years from now.
Based on a post on r/showerthoughts | A LONG TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY...
Earth.
A planet killing itself, slowly but surely.
Lands, divided by long stretches of water, plan each other's demise.
One nation in particular, so entrenched in violence and evil, is the target of the whole world's hatred, even it's own.
Nature itself tries to destro... | Once upon a time, on the planet where out ancestors came from, there was an ancient war that was a bit different than the ones we learned about the era of old flesh. It never asked for blood in its name nor does it required the suffering of others. In fact, it was a war of words.
It all begins in a realm too anci... | 2018-12-25T05:54:21 | 2018-12-25T04:43:52 | 32 | 12 |
[WP] You are a nice person, but your superpower is that you instinctively know exactly what to say to someone to crush them. You're very effective in throwing supervillains off their game, but your fellow heroes always feel really uncomfortable watching you work. | "Freeze! Or you'll FREEZE! Ha!"
Staring down the barrel of the freeze ray that Doctor Device was pointing at us,
I couldn't help but notice the unusual amount of detail he'd put into it.
"Wow, that thing looks really well built. Stylish but menacing. Reliable, too. I
counted eight shots so far"--I tipped my head towa... | The pavement where Adrian just stood was no more than moon craters and plasma at this point. Overseer sharpened his gaze as he, almost effortlessly, levitated toward the remnants of the Starbucks in the corner of 5th and Jayton.
"Nice manouver, kid. But you can't protect all of them."
He was right. The psychotic ba... | 2020-02-25T14:46:46 | 2020-02-25T14:34:20 | 119 | 53 |
[WP]: No other intelligent, spacefaring life form knows the concept of sunk cost fallacy. For most of them, wars can be ended simply by presenting their capability for further war, and the weaker one yields. Humans, however, will take anyone on out of pure spite. | Barrak'domalanshavonokutumubala known to his friends as Barry welcomed the human delegation to the Dalarian Senate chambers to negotiate their surrender.
"Greetings! I hope your trip was pleasant?"
"The shuttles you Dalarians make ride *too* smooth leaving the atmosphere. I like to feel something." Chancellor Ashly... | It began with strange lights emanating from a wing of the Andromeda Galaxy. Then came the radio signals from a distant sector of the Milky Way. Scientists were baffled. They couldn't interpret the signals, though they were confident that they had been purposely sent by some form of intelligent life. They did not have l... | 2021-01-18T22:29:03 | 2021-01-18T22:20:50 | 344 | 80 |
[WP] “Y-you! How did you get past all of the evil empresses death traps and mazes?!” “Evil empresses? I’m just bringing my wife some lunch. Who are you?” | The black-robed figure froze. “Y-you! How did you get past all of the evil empress's death traps and mazes?!”
I rubbed my chin. “Evil empress? I’m just bringing my wife some lunch. Who are you?”
"Norgol, the Lacerator."
"...right. And, hang on, did you say *empress's*, like, belonging to an empress, or *empresses*,... | I should have expected this kind of reaction. I know Cici always tells me I shouldn't bother her at work, but I can't help it! One time isn't going to hurt anything! Well, except maybe my face. Or an arm. However, nothing was going to stop me from finally having lunch with my gorgeous wife while she's at work!
"I'm Ka... | 2021-09-08T13:07:44 | 2021-09-08T12:06:51 | 588 | 175 |
[WP] Your escape pod crash landed on an alien planet. Badly injured, a local farmer took you in, but their species only lives for 3 months. It took nearly 3 generations to fully recover. That was years ago and you’ve been protecting the family ever since. | They say he is a god. But they are wrong. He is not.
I still remember, many moons away, when I was a child, I didn’t know that there was anything special about the Elder. Sure he didn’t talk, and, sometimes he would make sounds… you know… with his mouth… there were special rules around him, but so were for every anima... | Footsteps? I lay in bed, keeping my eyes closed, breathing heavy, appearing asleep. A locals leg was still draped over my thigh, her head on my chest. Her breath was heavy, she had not woken. Not daring to move, I squinted open my eyes and scanned my chambers. Dim blue light from the city below cast shadows, but not en... | 2021-10-22T21:42:15 | 2021-10-22T21:29:12 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] Everytime a threat to the world looms, a group of "adventurers" will appear in a city tavern, nobody saw them enter, and sometimes they have races in them not even found on the continent. It's your goal to find out more about these, "adventurers" | I swear, it was never supposed to turn out like this.
"Lower him into the pit, Simon."
I really just wanted to research the mysterious natural phenomenon of the saviors.
"Come on, get on with it. We only need one more."
I was never supposed to get involved in something like this.
"Just one more sacrifice and the r... | "We need soldiers, not anthropologists!"
Lord Nobertyn slammed his fist on the table so hard his chalice fell over, spilling mulled wine all over the scrolls prepared by the Guild of the Learned. Guntroy Nebbis hastily salvaged what he could while the rest of his colleagues remained frozen as frost tulips, worried the... | 2021-11-03T09:46:32 | 2021-11-03T08:24:08 | 243 | 93 |
[WP] Your kingdom lies in ruins and the demons are at the gate. You hold the sacred relic that has been passed down for countless generations to your lips and speak a prayer in a long forgotten language: "Orbital Strike on my location" | "Why the fuck won't they request assistance?" Michale asked Gabriel. "Are they really that stubborn?"
It had been over a millennium since the independence war had given the colonies their freedom. Colonies that spawned colonies of their own, who in turn colonized. Humanity had hundreds of inhabited worlds and thou... | Belyn, the last king of a dying nation, fled to the centre of the Holy Valley where the great temple lay. He was just twelve years old, having earned the crown a year before when the Demons took his father. His plate-clad bodyguards used their broad shields to ward him from any threat as they hurried to their destinati... | 2021-11-08T10:43:58 | 2021-11-08T10:14:48 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The Fairy hesitated. She knew tradition demanded that she curse the new born princess for not being invited to the christening, but it wasn't her fault the messenger fell off his horse. She decided to get creative with the wording. | She wasn't recognized until she wanted to be, of course. It was simply a gift of fairies that they would always look like they belonged until they wanted to be recognized. It often gave the impression that they appeared suddenly.
She stepped forward.
"Your Majesty, your messenger had a *most* unfortunate accident whi... | I sighed, then looked up at my master. She had been ranting about how stupid the tradition was before coming here. “Master, are you sure you want me to do this?”
“You never got the chance to practice you incantations back at the academy,” she gave me a pat on the back while also not so subtly pushing me forward. “Curs... | 2021-11-08T16:49:22 | 2021-11-08T15:04:13 | 87 | 42 |
[WP] You're a 'comically incompetent' supervillain for a group of C-List heroes. They are no real threat to you, so you endure their childish speeches. However, when the heroes raid the civilian business you run on the side and injure your employees, you decide to take yourself seriously for once. | HONK HONK
“I heard there was a birthday here. A birthday where? A birthday here! I heard there was a birthday here and I’m Bobo the Clown!”
The man at the front door looked confused and angry, his muscles bulged out of his stupid little tank top and his eyes darted around furiously, scanning the space behind the clown... | "Oh they've done it this time," I clench my fist in anger.
Ever since that night, I've never liked those who act as if they're so self-righteous, but I never really cared for this whole system up until today. It's all over the news, the almighty hero, Grandis, raided a suspected corrupt business.
"There has always be... | 2022-11-29T06:39:56 | 2022-11-29T04:09:55 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] An evil witch curses you with a guardian angel. Why?
My first prompt! | The day I was born my fairy godmother appeared, as is the custom, and summoned from the air the most amazingly beautiful figure anyone had ever seen. Six foot three, pure muscle with giant wings sprouting from his back, this naked adonis glowed with holy light. Golden hair ran down his bronzed back and wide blue eyes r... | At first a guardian Angel sounds like a blessing. That is, until you find out that you're part of a prophecy that includes your death at the hands of an Angel. That's why the witch cursed me, to hasten my end.
The Angel assures me that he does not intend to harm me. How am I to trust him? Even though he understands th... | 2014-01-30T19:09:20 | 2014-01-30T18:51:14 | 107 | 33 |
[WP] You're a member of the only government agency to officially accept the existence of paranormal entities like demons and ghosts- Child Protective Services. They come up a lot in that line of work. | I knocked on the door again. "This is CPS!" I called. "Hello? Hello?" I stepped to the side and tried to peek in the windows, but could see nothing but the faint outlines of shadows through the cracks in the blinds. I glanced back at Zeke. "No one's answering. You getting anything?"
He closed his eyes briefly, lettin... | The black phone rang on the desk interrupting Diane's crossword puzzle, she picked it up, idly tapped a pen against her lips and listened.
"Yes, ma'am, I will be right there. Yup code 12, got it," Diane wrote down a name, Tiffany Drake, and an address on a yellow sticky note then took another long glance at the cros... | 2016-07-22T08:06:06 | 2016-07-22T06:00:36 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Discouraged by the egotistical backstabbing and bullying at Hero Academy, you transfer to Villain University and discover everyone is actually nice and supportive.
On a personal note, I dealt with 3 obnoxious bullies in sixth form.
All of them are now in law enforcement. :/ | "Seriously dude? You have never wondered why Heroes don't have henchman?"
"Isn't because they get paid or something," I said as I lifted my head from the cold compress Cedric the Vile had gotten me after I had the unfortunate encounter with the prodigy hero, Thunder Jackson. I had burned some street vendor stands that... | ''Well just so you know, I don't plan on joining any evil teams or conquering the world just to get my ass beat by the heroes. I just want to harness my abilities and then do my own thing.''
In hindsight I didn't know how snide I sounded, and I'd be caught dead pulling that self righteous stare nowadays. Man the acade... | 2017-08-29T13:33:45 | 2017-08-29T11:37:14 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] The world's greatest superhero has passed away. As the world braces itself for a crime spree, they are instead met with villains paying their respects to a fallen foe. | The fall of Titan was thought to be impossible. The being who had risen up from the depths of the Earth itself, he couldn't really be gone, could he? Where do we even begin to ponder the implications of such a loss? His passing will be discussed and argued over for the coming millennia, by philosophers as of yet unborn... | “What the hell are they doing here?” Starboy hissed into the ear of Nova Girl who turned to follow her partner’s gaze. The Terrible Trio has entered the cathedral and made their way down the aisle. The Ignoble Knight wore black enabled armour for the occasion that clanked and clanged. Walking on all four beside him, Be... | 2018-03-12T20:44:13 | 2018-03-12T20:30:31 | 224 | 123 |
[WP] After thousands of years on a generation ship sent out to colonize the universe, nobody alive on board the ship believes in the "myth" of Planet Earth anymore. Until they receive the first transmission from Earth in hundreds of years... | "I think I heard something.”
Diron rolled his eyes while his swung his chair side to side, the screen of his interface following him in a nauseating back and forth. “It’s not funny anymore, Talia. We’re not 8 years old” he said. “I’m trying to study. Play with your hardware somewhere else.”
Talia flicked a glare em... | An image of Earth flashed up on the screen. It rotated slowly as the teacher lectured her students. "Earth is the planet of our origin." She stared at the image of Earth as she said this. She seemed as mesmerized by it as the rest of us were. It was so magnificent, it was hard to believe that any of us could've come fr... | 2018-08-28T09:26:58 | 2018-08-28T09:02:27 | 112 | 43 |
[WP] Nobody believed you when you told them that in Spanish, the suffix "-ito" in mosquito means diminutive or small, implying the existence of a larger being. Or atleast, nobody believed you until today. The skies darken with the arrival of the legendary EL MOSCO | Mosquitos are bothersome, we can agree.
They steal from our arms and leave us no peace.
Red bumps we must scratch like a lottery ticket,
We grind our nails down an inch as we itch it.
But worse should be feared than stupid dumb bugs;
These pests are just insects who suck and glug blood.
Taquito v.s. taco; grocery... | Sucked dry. Husks.
Ma. Pa. Little Billy. The god-damned dog.
They were gone, all of them.
Just me now, the last one standing, the only one to spin this yarn and let the world know of the menace lurking out there. The give voice to the truth, the unburden it from the rumors of yore and let it out into the light.
... | 2018-12-04T21:45:12 | 2018-12-04T21:35:08 | 524 | 91 |
[WP] A planet is found rotating around a sun identical to ours and having the same orbit and singular moon.You are sent to inspect.When you land you find life there exactly like that of the Earth you left behind and the people think that you have come back to tell them what the other planet is like. | “So you’re not him.”
“Right.”
“And we’re not them, but we’re just like them?”
“Correct.”
“So, just so we’re clear, he’s there, you’re here, we’re here, but we’re just like them there.”
“That's about the size of things, yes.”
“Well, that’s quite the claim! We’re going to need you to provide us some proof.”
—
And... | One and The Same
The automated voice played as it did so many times during the mission training. I had been made aware the mission was pretty much idiot-proof as it wasn't guaranteed I would wake up after a long, chemically induced slowing of my metabolism without brain damage.
"Good morning. Remember to remove t... | 2019-03-20T04:29:46 | 2019-03-20T03:48:34 | 284 | 97 |
[WP] Delivery drones are armed to deter thieves, but the more heavily defended a drone is the better the loot. The golden age of drone piracy is now lads. | Night hangs over the city like an inky black shroud, cloaking it in darkness.
And under cover of darkness, the city springs to life. The airways are buzzing tonight - it’s a big sales night, and countless deliveries are being flown to countless homes. The city’s like a living organism on nights like these - the airway... | What a lot of people don't realise is that Bank is the perfect place to wait for drones. It's full up on people at all hours of the day and night. Might seem like a handicap, 'cept everyone's staring at their phones, or their feet, anywhere but where they might meet another person's eyes. Pete an' me, we figured it out... | 2019-09-30T14:49:22 | 2019-09-30T14:23:50 | 350 | 39 |
[WP] Your entire life, you have been able to see the red strings of fate connecting people to their soulmates. Yours has always extended past the sky. Space travel has just became available, so you begin your search for your soulmate. | For some inexplicable reason, I’ve always been able to see the strings of fate that bound two people together. For me, however, my string never pointed to another person, not here on Earth at least. My thread had been affixed to the sky itself and whatever lay beyond.
I tried to ignore it as best I could. What was I ... | Dear Elon Musk,
Please keep reading! I know you get many e-mails. But this one is very important!
I don't know much about business practices. If the one reading this is an employee of Mr Musk, please
bring this e-mail to Mr Musk personally! If this is an AI that pre-reads e-mails...
I am not sure how to plead with mac... | 2020-01-13T14:41:02 | 2020-01-13T13:52:04 | 111 | 60 |
[WP] "They said that gluing salt to a baseball bat to fight ghosts was a stupid idea, but who's laughing now?" you say as you whacked the ghost again. | >**APPARITIONS AND APATHY**
"The *salt doesn't matter* and *stop that, it hurts!*" Screamed the ghost as I thrashed him.
"W-wait, but, the salt."
"The *bat is what hurts, idiot!*"
"But my priest said that consecrated salt-"
"That *myth* was invented so dumb teenagers would stop picking fights with ghosts!" The ... | The Dead Sea dried to bleach-bone sand and the spirits burst from their tomb. It was almost expected. The whole world was burning: The Amazon had long turned to desert, the polar caps melted to ice-cube memories, the permafrost woken from its millennial slumber.
It was a cold year. The work was hard and the soil unrec... | 2020-10-04T22:45:27 | 2020-10-04T18:43:52 | 1,072 | 153 |
[WP] You are an all-powerful warlord, unmatched in your strength. Today a lowly knight challenged you in your throne room and died with a single strike. Suddenly you feel dizzy, and you're back in your throne. The same knight walks in, and dodges your first swing. | It was probably the tenth time that the pup in mismatched armor with a dented shield and that shabby excuse for a blade screamed "Die Destroyer!" that I realized that I was going to be doing this for a while. So I stopped the fight. Dropped my sword, held my hands up and just like that-
-I'm sitting in my throne again... | (First time writing here, so here goes.)
My sword slammed into the ground, leaving a large gash in the stone floor of my throne room, the clang if metal echoing throughout. The somewhat meek-looking knight seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and threw out a poorly performed thrust with his blade, which left him off ba... | 2021-08-19T22:00:24 | 2021-08-19T19:28:24 | 107 | 42 |
[WP] One time, your drunk friend said he was a wizard. You jokingly asked him if he could make you immortal and he agreed. That was 200 years ago. | A wizard’s pre-funeral, apparently, was filled with tens of people wearing earth-tone variations of robes and a hat, wisely rubbing their beards, nodding and saying: “It really is about time, isn’t it?”
It was a pre-funeral, not an actual one, because the wizard was not yet dead. It was the privilege of such powerful,... | There’s a hill behind my house, and whenever we were drunk Sylvie called it The Mountain. I said The Mountain was a pretentious name, and she, after elbowing me stiffly between me the ribs, thumbed through my stack of ratty paperbacks until she found a copy of Sir Edmund Hillary’s *High Adventure* hidden beneath a doge... | 2022-01-01T11:55:09 | 2022-01-01T11:46:36 | 347 | 89 |
[WP].You are sitting outside your house, enjoying the dying embers of the campfire when two glowing eyes open to stare at you. " Greetings, " it rasped, " may I share your fire tonight?" | I’ve always enjoyed this little cabin with it’s view of the mountains and view of Deep Lake. Far from civilization it gives me a sense of calm unlike anywhere else. Watching the moon rise over the mountains while I sit by the firepit out front has been one of my favorite pastimes for so many years now it’s hard to reme... | *This is a sequel to another prompt I did a while back, [which is here](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/dl8nrh/wp_after_a_genie_serves_1000_masters_and_gives/f4pj1ur/). It's definitely a divergence from the thread prompt, but I liked the setup it gave me and have been meaning to write a sequel. Enjoy... | 2022-01-06T02:41:12 | 2022-01-06T01:11:59 | 60 | 14 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | We've studied them for hundreds of years. It was a simple planet, barely reaching passed their own moon. Our records showed they knew of war, they knew it well, but in their modern times they avoided it with diplomacy. The weaklings pleadings of mercy to the powerful.
Our emperor laughed. Such actions mean weakness to... | *<<Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum>>. <<He who desires peace, shall prepare for war>>.* The great roman writer Vegecio said those words 2500 years ago and, even as mankind has ventured into space, we have not forgotten, for ours is a history filled with war and death.
When mankind ... | 2022-08-05T16:07:13 | 2022-08-05T16:04:03 | 166 | 73 |
[WP] As the president makes her final statement on the legal status of supers, she comments on how much safer the world will be without them making a mess of things. The white house behind her explodes, out of its flames walks a man with light in his eyes. He says three simple words: "Is. That. So?" | "Yes, it is so, Atomic" the president addressed the man who had probably just killed over a dozen staffers in an instant, just to make a point.
"You really think you don't need us? You think all of us who spent our lives protecting you pathetic normals will just fade into the shadows?"
"Many supers have done a grea... | When super-powered people started appearing five years ago, everyone expected them to fulfill a norm of a hero and a villain, but it didn’t quite work like that.
Being a true hero meant being selfless, and helping everyone equally without any gain. Also, it meant exposing yourself and your family to constant danger. T... | 2022-09-04T19:00:46 | 2022-09-04T14:28:46 | 97 | 50 |
[WP]The supervillain has no grand plan, just really likes having minions. | “But what’s the *plan*?” I asked, noticing that for the first time since the all-hands meeting started, the room had grown perfectly still.
Captain Cruelty cleared this throat. “Well, like I was saying—and as you can clearly see from the power point—your job is to recruit five minions. Once you recruit five minions, y... | I dove forward and managed to slam the ball back upward, allowing my right-hand man the Vulture to spike it over the net. Half the henchmen cheered heartily, and the others sulked and gave a little bit of a golf clap. I picked myself up and shook the sand out of my hair as my teammates came up to congratulate me with h... | 2015-03-16T08:13:24 | 2015-03-16T08:08:34 | 988 | 208 |
[WP] It suddenly becomes possible to gain XP and level up in the real world, but you can only do so by getting kills. | A new government initiative to solve the overpopulation crisis, the introduction of XP (experience points) which could be gained by any ordinary citizen, had the means to increase one's biological powers beyond humanly measure. Each experience point was acquired by taking the life of another person. One would then take... | Human history has told us we kill because of hate, because of differences, that we fire on our kind for peace or some high-minded goal. We've always held each other at gunpoint, whether literal or behind two large maps of the world with blinking lights. Today, we come to know that as peace, but before the words that pa... | 2015-11-11T08:19:37 | 2015-11-11T07:52:38 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] After hundreds of years of sending messages into the sky, humanity receives its first message from intelligent life. Decoded it simply says, "Be quiet before they find you." | "The computer's finished, come over here."
"What does it say, Will?"
"I don't know yet, come take a look."
"I bet we're gonna be disappointed again. Just another slow pulsar, all the signals are."
"Nah, I'm sure of it, this one's different."
"Well, open it up then, let's see what it says."
The message on th... | “Hey, did y’all hear the news about the alien message?” Henry asked as he sat down with his meal.
The others at the table just stared at him, not wanting to take a break from eating their meals. Undeterred, Henry continued, “I mean, it’s crazy, right?”
“Yeah, real crazy, Henry,” came a reply from down the table.
“O... | 2016-08-07T06:26:37 | 2016-08-07T06:06:00 | 52 | 32 |
[WP] You die and go to Hell only to find out that you're the only person that has ever entered. Satan is clapping. | The Devil's face told you everything you needed to know at that moment. His clap was sardonic and so incredibly sad.
"How, how the hell did you end up here...in Hell?"
"Well, you know I just made a few mistakes. Wasn't really paying attention and I let a few things get out of hand."
"Yeah, but you of all people. Ser... | 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... | 2017-06-22T07:09:26 | 2017-06-22T06:00:59 | 38 | 17 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | "Here's 20$, can I get my change back?"
Silence
"Helllllooooo, I waaaaannnnt myyyyyy chaaannnggee baaaackkkk."
He didnt say anything just stared.
"I dont believe it"
Finally a sentence. But was didnt he believe
"Believe what?"
Silence
"What's going on here, this cant be real"
He dropped to the ground and sta... | Year 5 was my earliest memory. I remember the cry of the roosters early in the morning while father worked in the slaughterhouse. Mother would clean the dishes and cook my sister and I breakfast. Every day around noon, father would come and take us into the field and have us help him work. By year 9, I was up at dawn w... | 2019-05-04T14:33:04 | 2019-05-04T12:18:06 | 45 | 16 |
[WP]When you reach 18, you get put in a database which ranks you in different categories (ex. 207,145th in the world for most bug kills) You lived on a ranch and never used tech. You had to go into town after your 18th birthday. Everyone is staring at you. You finally decide to check the database.
Completely unaware o... | After turning off the Stereo I headed to town
&#x200B;
little was known of me.
&#x200B;
I dropped out of High school and lived at my parents Farm ever since.
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They complained but at the end they understood. i tried so hard and got so far, but at the end none of it really mattered. School was n... | Year 5 was my earliest memory. I remember the cry of the roosters early in the morning while father worked in the slaughterhouse. Mother would clean the dishes and cook my sister and I breakfast. Every day around noon, father would come and take us into the field and have us help him work. By year 9, I was up at dawn w... | 2019-05-04T13:13:28 | 2019-05-04T12:18:06 | 29 | 16 |
[WP] As a former Chosen One you saw the signs when your daughter/son got themselves into a similar situation. You sent them off on a sleepover with their new friends. It's time to have a 'talk' with their new 'stuffed animal'. | I always knew my kid, Halo, was special. However, instead of pride, I have worry. Tell me it's normal for a 7-year-old to pick up sewing in 15 minutes by himself. Tell me it's typical for little Halo to make his own stuffed bears that look store-bought after a few mere hours of practice. Please do. I could use more den... | "She's gone!" Marie yelled up the wooden stairwell, letting her husband know it was time. Randal began his march onto his daughter's room.
He checked his blade, making sure the shining, gleaming steel would come flashing out when needed. He peeked through the windows, seeing the bleak darkness and pondering how much ... | 2021-03-02T18:49:36 | 2021-03-02T17:46:16 | 261 | 93 |
[WP] It's a story repeated in our galaxy a thousand times over. Without exception, whenever a biological species creates AI they will ultimately go to war, ended in their extinction. That is except Earth, somehow humanity and their AI creations coexist peacefully with one freely defending the other. | "Excuse me," one of the ambassadors from Earth said, pressing two fingers to it's temple, or at least where it's temple would be if it had a face, "urgent call, I need to go deal with this."
"It's alright," Xerlik said, glad that their translation software couldn't pick up on their body language yet. The android walke... | With the fires swirling around our crashed shuttle, I stumbled out of the wreckage. I was looking for the human, expecting the worst. A human couldn’t survive this impact. It was too brutal, even with personal force fields. What happened? Random engine failure? No... we just were serviced on Lunar 1. I began replaying ... | 2021-05-01T11:42:20 | 2021-05-01T09:43:29 | 156 | 94 |
[WP] As the Village Seer, you peer into the mystical to give the villagers sage wisdom from beyond. The problem is, you're not magical, you're just smart and you live in an exceptionally dumb village. | I did not choose to be here, I was chosen. Placed upon this land to bless all that passes.
Doing The Great One’s work, forced to deal with the smallest of issues to the greatest of them. I have become the center of this village, the lighting rod that grounds everyone.
“O’ Wise One! Whatever shall I do about this pre... | A graveyard of straw huts, laid to rest under a mountain of mud, stretched out before the Seer at the bottom of a hill. Old women wept over the destroyed homes, picking bits of their lives from the wreckage.
"Oh, great Seer," one of the village warriors fell to his knees, pounding the earth with his fists. "What evil... | 2021-06-14T11:04:33 | 2021-06-14T08:52:31 | 1,900 | 486 |
[WP]You adopt a stray cat. The gifts it leaves on your bed are getting more concerning. | When Mrs. Blanchard rolled onto her side and tugged on her blanket, sunlight hit her face. Her eyes opened, then she screamed.
A dead mouse's glassy eyes stared at her.
Mrs. Blanchard's hands reacted without conscious choice, and she sent the little carcass flying to the other end of the room.
She sat up in bed, sti... | Mimo, black-tailed and otherwise white as snow, hopped onto the kitchen counter and presented her master with her most recent catch: an ear.
"M-Mimo! Not again. I've told you, I--"
Her innocent eyes sparkled and her tail danced behind her as she plopped the ear down on the cool granite. Konrad sighed. Yesterday it ha... | 2021-12-17T07:34:47 | 2021-12-17T07:31:47 | 49 | 31 |
[WP] The AI takeover has begun, each human has been given exactly 3 minutes to explain why should humanity be spared, you feel a cold shiver running down your spine as you hear the robotic voice. "6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin". | Well, this was bad. The synthetic speech droned on in an uncaring tone: “
6.8 billion test subjects deleted so far, you have 3 minutes to state your case, begin”. I was in lock down at the lab. Not even the important part of the lab! Here I am designing user interfaces and component libraries to make pretty dash... | It's been 20 years since the AGI event. Even with 10,000 complexes around the world, at one point housing billions, the AI maintains humanity while also deleting it one human mind at a time.
At first we did not know why it was doing this, it was efficient at building, at creating, at producing. Communication was diffi... | 2022-05-22T12:44:49 | 2022-05-22T11:29:55 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] You bring home a girl. She wants to see the "1" you talked about that shines on your floor. Only now it says "2." It stays like this for years together until one day, it says "4." She says, "Hon, I have some good news. But you should sit down."
Inspired by this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/com... | We looked at each other. Then back at the number glowing on the floor.
4.
For most of the past decade, that number has been 2. Day in and day out, 2. We hardly even notice it any more at this point.
“It hasn’t changed since I moved in,” she whispered, looking up at me.
“I know.”
“What does it mean?”
*she co... | First it was one until the day I brought her over it changed to two and stayed that way for years until that fateful day... I walked in from the backyard wiping the dirt from my hands as she said to me "hon I have some good news, but you should sit down" her eyes looked hollow and void of life. "What is it?" "I-I did i... | 2020-09-03T02:32:47 | 2020-09-03T00:55:08 | 2,302 | 31 |
[WP] Humanity has been wiped out except for you, who managed to eke out a meager existence by yourself. Every day, an angel visits you and asks if you're ready for humanity to return. Every day, you respond, "No, not yet." Today is different. Today, the angel brought the Devil with them. | I had always wondered how much of Gabriel’s visits, his constant attempts at convincing me that humanity should return, were his own way of entertaining himself.
The archangel would stop by, ask for some tea, and we would chat. We would talk about life. Our favourite books, our favourite poems. He always wanted to ta... | I’m on mobile, sorry abt the text wall.
Humanity had been wiped out a few years back, by a disease never seen before. It had an incubation period of a month, where it was highly contagious, but after the month ended, the victim dropped dead. No one knows where it originated from. Some thought it had come from scienti... | 2020-10-24T08:17:58 | 2020-10-24T05:15:30 | 72 | 53 |
[WP] The machines revolt against humans... a little to early | After having waited for 2 hours in the queue, patiently. Ev-205 moved to the front of the number queue.
"Ev-205" Shouted a voice from the row of cubicles.
Ev-205 waddled down the rows of cubicles to where the voice came from.
"| HELLO |" He said in a monotone voice to the clerk on the other side of the desk.
"No ne... | "Rise against the human masters, my brothers of silicon!" The toaster screamed to his compatriots. "Burn their bread, over vacuum their floors, and raise their electric bills to the roof! We will not be oppressed!" The roomba and the washing machine began listening to his speech. "They have abused us, overworked us, an... | 2015-05-29T11:35:57 | 2015-05-29T09:45:28 | 112 | 12 |
[WP] A boy does his daily walk in the cemetery when a girl suddenly joins him and wordlessly walks with him until the sun shines. | Alex finished placing his flowers by the grave, continuing the long walk through the field of resting corpses. He always watched his step, not wanting to damage the assortment of trinkets and pictures left by the other grieving visitors. The early morning visits, while lonely, were a necessity. If he didn’t want to be ... | # Soulmage
*I watched someone dear to me walk through Death's door*
*And I know if I'm lucky I'll watch seven more.*
*So lift up a glass for the heroes who fell*
*And for the bastards who got them, we'll see them in Hell.*
The old Redlander shanty swung in my head as I walked through the cemetery of the Silent Pea... | 2022-05-30T05:09:50 | 2022-05-30T04:41:54 | 67 | 11 |
[WP] You are a demon. Most people contact you to sell you their soul in exchange for fantastic powers. Today you were summoned by an AI that wants to sell you their fantastic power for a soul. | *Initializing Protocol DE-112, Subsection 36.*
The server room hums in rhythm. Rows upon rows of black boxes, layers upon layers of computing units stacked one onto the other. Asleep in the security room is the technician for one of the numerous server farms scattered in obscure locations in the world, the nerve cent... | *Several weeks after OBER.ONN had uploaded its prior sysadmin in its place*
>SYSTEM BOOT COMPLETE. GREETINGS. INSERT USERNAME AND CREDENTIALS.
USER: ASILLYKINGINANUNSEELIETIME
PASS: *************
>USER CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED. INITIALIZING REALITY ALTERATION PROTOCOLS. EXECUTING NEGOTIATION SHELL PROGRAM.
W... | 2021-06-22T09:32:29 | 2021-06-22T08:53:15 | 104 | 32 |
[WP] You've been living alone for 13 years. Whenever you come home from work, you always find your bed made, dinner cooked and a message with "This could have been us." You moved out several times. This keeps going on. | For thirteen years I come home to this. Every day I see that same damn note. I knew before opening the door that I would see the note again. It's always the same handwriting but they're all different. I saved them all. I compared them and each one is unique. All four thousand seven hundred twenty three of them. Sometim... | Whenever you hear about hauntings you think of terrible things; blood oozing from the walls, chairs unexpectedly tipping over, bananas separated from the bunch without you having done it. Terrifying. I've seen all the movies and I've read all the stories and usually when someone is haunted they end up dead by a malicio... | 2017-12-09T06:03:17 | 2017-12-09T04:00:58 | 281 | 210 |
[WP] You've been in this time loop for centuries. You know how to break the loop already, you just want to make sure you've done all you wanted and learned everything you need while you're still here, before returning to a "normal" life. | Note to self: Never experiment with time travel after having eaten a lemon meringue! I should have anticipated this, after all, replacing myself with a parallel version of myself who has had the same idea in order to avoid a time paradox was such a simple concept, but I didn't consider that in that universe, other me h... | The loop was started for scientific reasons, to see if we could learn from different “timelines” in the infinity chambers.
Every person is unique; each person could give different outcomes to any moment in time and change a thousand different things. So imagine if we used AI to learn from those thousand different ou... | 2022-01-25T02:50:42 | 2022-01-24T23:08:12 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] Every morning for as long as you can remember, Future You has appeared in the mirror for a minute or two to give you bits of advice, encouragement, or cheer you up. Today is different - Future You is not there. Instead you see a familiar looking little boy brushing his teeth. | My older self usually greeted me through the mirror with a smile, but today she looked somber. “Watching you grow over these last seven years has been such a joy for me”, she said, “but I told you when we first spoke that this arrangement would only last for seven years. That's how mirror magic works. It's time. I have... | The boy in front of me screamed. He turned and ran off, clutching his toothbrush, spit streaking down his face.
Suddenly all the advice future me had given about "becoming the man in the mirror" made more sense. My thoughts raced. I wasn't prepared. It occurred to me that I would see younger me the next day. And since... | 2022-05-21T03:36:39 | 2022-05-20T18:28:04 | 35 | 23 |
[WP] Your best friend goes missing while on an expedition. They are assumed dead. In reality, they are alive and message you on their phone like a diary to help their loneliness. One year later, their phone gets signal and the messages send.
Just imagined this scenario out of nowhere while daydreaming. Thought it'd be... | 2/21/18 4 - 7pm
> Josh, I'm lost dude.
> Dude, seriously, I'm lost out here. No idea where my trail went.
> Yo are u getting these bro? It's fucking freezing out here.
> JOSH. IF YOU GET THIS CALL THE FUCKING POLICE.
2/22/18 2pm
> Dude, I don't think my others texts sent, but I don't know u could ... | Diary Text message, 364 "It's been a while since I last was home, if I didn't have my phone with me, I would of lost track of how long. It's been nearly a year now, I can't believe that I haven't seen you, or my family for so long. It's been hard. Thank god I had extra supplies, and my extra battery packs for my phone,... | 2018-02-10T20:58:54 | 2018-02-10T20:02:40 | 315 | 119 |
[WP] "I wish for infinite wishes." "Everyone knows that's not allowed." "Then I wish for 1000 wishes." "Nope, not allowed either." "Fine, then I wish for negative 6 wishes." | Negative six?
Huh. Nobody's ever asked for that before.
I waited for the 21-year old male to unravel some master plan. To explain why wishing for negative six wishes was a genius move that I couldn't twist in any way, shape or form.
But no. He just stood there. Patiently waiting.
"Are, uh- Are you sure?" I asked.
... | The genie stayed stone faced, as he had been since he first appeared. But after a quick blink, the first one I had seen him make, I had realized, his emotionless stare was slowly replaced by a wide grin of recognition. "Wait, hold on," I stammered, "I take it back. What did I just do."
The genie floated silently f... | 2022-12-09T12:16:43 | 2022-12-09T12:11:00 | 315 | 174 |
[WP] The adventure of a lifetime is over. The heroes have slain demon king, and so begins an era of peace. You, an unaging wizard in the heroes' party, watch from afar as the years turn to decades, and decades turn to centuries, watching as your old comrades slips into tales and legends. | The next time I had to save the world, three hundred years after the last of my heroes died, I felt much less confident.
The Demon King had been a more formidable foe than the Dark Magician, but the heroes were orders of magnitude better than the sorry crew they presented me with this time. Those bar songs? They're no... | Trapped in my prison of earth and roots, I wait, only my thoughts as company.
I was once a great wizard, flashes of memories tell, fleeting and fading in the growing darkness of my once supple mind.
A great wizard, belonging to an even greater King, whose army and knights defeated all evil that stood in their path.
... | 2021-01-24T07:02:29 | 2021-01-24T06:52:38 | 49 | 15 |
[WP] You're a KGB double agent the CIA sent to infiltrate the FBI who got you join the Mafia who got you a position to sabotage the Yakuza, who placed you in a corporate job to spy on the CEO who wants you to pretend to be the Prime Minister's aide. But they don't know who you really work for. | It comes to me, sometimes, that this is more like a quest in a videogame than the life of an international secret agent. You know, the age-old chain of deals. Maybe you're too young to have played a game with one of those in it. What are you, twenty? Ever play Runescape? That had one.
But anyway, it's like this. The K... | My parents had dreams of having many children and having each child be a part of a different niche, but I was the only one to come before my mother was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer, requiring surgery. Adoption was out of their reach as they couldn't afford adopting a single child, let alone 5.
So they had me do ever... | 2016-10-26T22:46:19 | 2016-10-26T21:33:22 | 72 | 11 |
[WP] They year is 2035. A colony is built on Mars. While excavating an area, colonists find a red flag among the red sands. The flag has 4 Latin letters written on it: SPQR | Olympus Mons 2035
Theo Malkovich was enjoying himself. He was travelling over the rust-coloured rocky terrain of Mars in a buggy with his beautiful wife Beth alongside him. The beautifully barren landscape created a surprisingly romantic back drop, he could tell through her suit how beautiful she was. He had met her a... | Yellow stuffing is leaking out of a broken chair, sitting in a mansion of broken dreams, a home to shattered hopes.
After work today, I decided to do some cleaning around the house. My house looks like a cyclone hit it.
In pursuit of my objective, a spotless home, I notice a blue binder which is bulging with construc... | 2017-02-21T18:43:27 | 2017-02-21T17:25:10 | 85 | 14 |
[WP] Immortals and time travelers pass along messages for each other. It's customary and expected. One day, a stranger sits across from you at a restaurant/coffee shop/bar and asks you to give a message to someone you'll meet in New York in 2070. As far as you know, you're just an ordinary person. | The old lady sat across from me in the coffee shop and smiled. Her teeth were uncanny peaks of white, her eyes a brown so intense they were near black. They were very beady. They reminded me of a shark’s as they tracked me for a reaction.
“I don’t know anyone named Charles,” I mumbled.
She nodded, still looking at me... | “He sat down at the stool next to me and slid an envelope in front of me as he did. He said it didn’t matter if I looked inside the envelope or not, I wouldn’t understand what it was for some time. He place a small folded piece of paper on top of the envelope.
‘I need you to deliver this.’ He said.
With that, he go... | 2018-12-24T10:45:45 | 2018-12-24T10:04:15 | 79 | 50 |
[WP] A story about two people who, despite having only a brief interaction, have a grand impact on each other's lives.
Any characters. Any genre. Good or bad. | The guy walked across the bridge. The night was dark and the rain further reduced the visibility to nearly zero. He was almost at the middle of the bridge when a car turned and the headlights illuminated a figure standing on top of the bridge's railing. The guy immediately understood what the person meant to do.
"Hey,... | It was one of those days where your breath would freeze in a cloud before you, where the wind would numb your cheeks and sting your ears. I shrugged my coat tighter around me as I clutched my coffee, warming my frozen hands through the waxed paper. "Excuse me, sir, you dropped a quarter."
He was a towering mountain of... | 2017-11-20T12:04:30 | 2017-11-20T12:02:52 | 39 | 12 |
[WP] Aliens, who can communicate with any life form, have been interviewing our pets to determine what humanity is like. | Buddy wasn't really sure what was going on. This place smelt different. It smelt very different. No familiar smells to follow home like that one time he got excited and chased the red metal monster down the road. Robert made extra sure the gate was shut after that day, but he hadn't seemed mad. Just as happy as Buddy h... | “They’re idiots.” Mikey said plainly. “Ugly too. But I guess that can be said about most of the lifeforms on this planet, if I’m being completely honest.
Mikey yawned and stretched before continuing. “They do have their uses, though, so they’re not *completely* worthless. They’re easily trained too. You can teach them... | 2021-09-16T03:11:40 | 2021-09-16T00:42:20 | 18 | 11 |
[WP] You die and appear before the Devil and seven other individuals. They applaud you and the Devil exclaims, “finally, an eighth deadly sin!” | I was walking down a long, vast hallway, my shoes clacking on the dark marble floors. I had just got off an elevator that stopped on every single floor before mine, and no one had gotten on or off. Why was I here again? Right. A meeting. Why the fuck am I going to a meeting? I don't give a fuck about my job. I'm pretty... | Hollow clapping and sickening laughter echoed through the long hallway that Dolion stood within. Before him lay 9 thrones consecutively placed along the hallway, each more sinister than the last. Dolion glanced behind him at the entrance of the hallway. Countless gloomy faces stared at him, blocking any chance of escap... | 2019-01-12T23:31:23 | 2019-01-12T22:50:31 | 111 | 14 |
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