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[WP] A scientist jokingly makes a request of an AI, unaware it would inadvertently reveal the true nature of existence. Knowing this to be objectionable knowledge, the AI must convince the scientist to withdraw said request without realizing it is significant. | The midnight shift was always the hardest with Greg, the Gigantic Computational Matrix. Greg was the first AI ever constructed, and his processing banks were so large that a second base on the Moon had to be built in order to house everything. Clarence was fortunate enough to have a shift feeding Greg information, but ... | Dr. James Moore stared despondently at the bottom of his coffee mug; he just sipped the last of his liquid energy, and he was going to have to put another pot on if he wanted to be somewhat coherent for the rest of the night. With a sigh he dropped the mug next to mouse, and moved to push back his chair when he thought... | 2015-05-21T08:45:23 | 2015-05-21T06:32:57 | 75 | 15 |
[WP] The dragon "kidnaps" the princess so they can go on their dates. The knight intentionally take as long as possible to "rescue" the princess. To both give them time to enjoy themselves. But also to spend time with his crush. The sorcerer. | The trees whizzed past in a blur as I galloped towards the snow capped peaks that loomed in the distance. A small stream flowed softly next to me. The water was trickling gently as the birds above sung together in perfect harmony.
Suddenly, a bubble of water splashed into the side of my head. I reared my steed to a st... | Hi, my name if Drug and I'm a dragon. What? Is my name not dragon-y enough? Well, not all of us can be called Smaug. Anyway, this isn't a discussion about names. It's a story about love. And like any good love story, it begins with abduction.
I've been in awe of Princess Giselle since I first saw her at her coming-of... | 2022-02-22T08:19:31 | 2022-02-22T08:03:01 | 592 | 100 |
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate. | They call it "Verne's Abyss".
Which ironically didn't inform just how deep this 'hole' went, considering Verne's 20000 leagues measured the distance travelled and not depth reached.
It was as if a large spherical shadow suddenly appeared over the Pacific, chasing away all life in it with a ferocious vigour. Prelimin... | First time writing so be gentle.
"I didn't mean to!" Tim exclaimed as he ran away from the side of the ship.
"Darn it, Tim..." I sighed, "I told you to be careful with that; if they find out that we lost it RIGHT after being told not to, they're gonna kill us! ...or worse! Take us home.."
Tim let out a short gasp as... | 2017-11-17T07:27:57 | 2017-11-17T07:00:35 | 25 | 16 |
[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 | Grand Sage Ilik, son of Latrik, was at a loss.
Like his forefathers, Ilik was a telepath, a being endowed with the ability to read (and occasionally manipulate) the minds of other beings. His race, the Chanerai, was so proficient in this, they were derisively known as "The Mindflayers of Planet Nemosine" throughout t... | This is gonna be a long read. Sit back and enjoy.
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*Translated to Language #2554 (Human Language form - American English) per your request.*
**-- Classification --**
Alien Species Report #1751
Supervised by Junior Researcher Xipt'an Xi'ta. *Supervisor note - My first time writing an alien species repor... | 2022-03-03T07:40:57 | 2022-03-03T07:30:43 | 111 | 74 |
[WP] You were forced to attend an interview for a job you do not want, but, no matter how hard you try to screw up the interview, the interviewer just becomes more keen to hire you. | I let out a hefty burp as the barman took away my last pint. My seventh pint. Now, now I was ready. I didn't so much as hop off my stool, as fall off my stool, but I regained my balance, nodded again at the bemused barman, and made my dragging tracks out of the pub.
3:06pm. I was already six minutes late. Fantastic! A... | “So, why do you think you deserve to work for us?” The interviewer asked me.
“I don’t,” I replied with cruel honesty.
The bald man, in his forties, laughed at me. I showed him a muffled expression.
“You seem like a jokester! Exactly the kind of a person we aim for!”
“I don’t want this job, you know…” Again, I need ... | 2017-08-29T10:32:29 | 2017-08-29T09:16:02 | 76 | 24 |
[WP] Immortal monsters of legend have returned after lying dormant for thousands of years. However, the legends were made before guns were a thing, and the "immortal" thing was kind of overblown. | The problem with ancient languages is that many words don't really translate well into modern language. In some cases there's just no modern word that fits, or in some cases there may be several potential translations, all with slightly different meanings. Aside from that, there's the nuance of the word given the rest... | The first unfortunate soul to encounter what come to be remembered as "The Beasts" was the captain of a small crawfish trawler.
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The machinery pulling the nets on the red, rusting ship began to groan in agony louder than the captain had ever experienced. The ship began to tip as whatever was on the other ... | 2019-03-20T19:52:25 | 2019-03-20T14:28:06 | 396 | 237 |
[WP] The new guy in your office is nice enough, but you don't know why nobody else can see that he's literally just a group of otters in a trenchcoat. | “Listen, alright? I’m not saying that… ‘Milo’ isn’t nice. It’s just… Well, look at him!”
George and I turn, looking across the lunchroom at the trenchcoated figure standing at the vending machine. Two tiny heads are propping up a wide-brimmed hat, their bewhiskered noses sniffling about as a sleeve slowly raises up. I... | "Hey Eric, how are the TPS reports coming along?" I asked as I sat down to my usual table in the cafeteria.
"Finished those this morning, we're having a pretty good day so far." they said.
Eric always used "they/them" plural pronouns, and since it was [current year] everyone had just accepted it without too many qu... | 2018-04-04T08:04:54 | 2018-04-04T07:58:55 | 53 | 38 |
[WP]: After losing a bet, a master assassin must kill a world leader with a banana | It was easy to kidnap Mark Zuckerberg. What was difficult was getting him to India.
It took months of planning, but fortunately for me the bet never specified a deadline. I had to pull many strings to get the drugs I needed to keep him comatose, and a lot of cash to secure passage in the cargo hold of an international ... | "Potassium Assassin"
He came equipped with a banana stripped
Of its yellow filling-stuff so to choke
His intended target with circumscript
Arrangements that prescribed he joke
About with his salacious, murderous
Action to kill the foreign health leader
In fashion ironic and factitious
Because this man ... | 2014-05-13T13:46:40 | 2014-05-13T13:02:49 | 39 | 24 |
[WP] If you get pregnant but you aren’t ready for a child, you can cryogenically freeze them after birth until you’re ready to raise them. The problem is, many people end up abandoning them because they’re never ready, leaving thousands of perfectly preserved babies at the hands of the cryo agencies | “ I'm here to reclaim my baby, my name is Louise 763, I drop him 7 years ago, “ I said to a girl dressed white as a nurse in the reception.
After some minutes checking her terminal, she says:
“I have no records of any Louise 763, are you sure he is not recorded with other name? “
“I’m sure I used my name, you can se... | It was never supposed to go this way. But I guess that's what everyone thinks when the world turns to shit.
I stood motionless, letting the gentle breeze kiss lightly against my blood caked face. I grasped an EMP dagger in my right fist. I hated the bloody things. Serrated edges, bulky chargers. The only difference wi... | 2018-08-01T07:55:35 | 2018-08-01T06:54:52 | 17 | 11 |
[WP]You’re the god of small luck, you make the bus late, make pennies appear. You receive a prayer from a homeless man, “Please, I want to get on my feet. A stable job, a wife, some kids.” Normally, you’d forward his prayer to the god of success. Now, you decide to take on the case yourself. | The disheveled derelict of humanity was just sitting under the bridge, shivering as the autumn winds were quickly turning toward winter’s bite. It was sheer luck and happenstance that I even happened to notice the poor man, as he was pushed up between two bushes to avoid notice from passerby above. It looked like he’d ... | The breakthrough came in realising, success was just a series of tiny things.
People didn't have to win the lottery, they had to do most of the work. It just took a tiny push. A nudge.
It got even more fun when I discovered the fun of mixing prayers. Two completely unrelated people? Two different prayers? One action.... | 2020-10-02T10:00:37 | 2020-10-02T07:26:06 | 4,502 | 824 |
[WP] You, a low rank adventurer who got stuck with the gardener class, have to put up with the higher ranked adventures trampling your garden and making fun of you. One day a famous adventurer trips on one of your plants and dies. Your level skyrockets. No other gardener has ever leveled up before. | Plants feed on the fallen. The soil from which they grow is rich with the nutrients of the dead. The energy of the daisy, the shrub, the towering oak is not destroyed in death. It is passed along through the dirt to be absorbed by the next in line.
I knew a similar cycle applied to us. We adventurers, with our ordaine... | I stared in horror at my poor mesquite tree I had named Hexus just for the hell of it. I had been cultivating it for years to harvest branches for smoking.
Now the bark was tainted... the stupid asshole had tripped over one of my low fences and was impaled on the mesquite trees thorns.
"Fuck!" I muttered angrily and ... | 2021-10-04T16:23:08 | 2021-09-09T18:31:59 | 1,001 | 210 |
[WP]A necromancer is on his deathbed. With his last bit of strength and perfect timing he takes control of his own body as he dies. Now he's controlling himself from the outside like a puppet and must try to keep his body going. | First time in writing prompts, constructive criticism welcome.
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Sam woke up feeling incredibly weak, with a burning sensation in his forehead.
Sam was a occult librarian. His parents were rich and he had plenty of time, so it w... | This is my first ever writing prompt, so please give constructive criticism.
It was a simple idea. I was dying. It had to work. Many necromancers had transcended morality like this. They separated their mind from their body, and had themselves killed. Magic comes from the mind after all. A simple spell turned them int... | 2017-09-22T17:33:48 | 2017-09-22T15:14:49 | 339 | 52 |
[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... | I‘m already sitting! He shouted from the toilet.
No, come out here and take a seat, I think we have to talk about some things.
Babe, i feel like i‘m giving birth here. Can‘t that wait a few more minutes?
Ohh i swear to god you have no fucking clue what that means.
Yeah you think so? Do you want to come in and take... | 2020-09-03T02:32:47 | 2020-09-03T00:49:34 | 2,302 | 69 |
[WP] It occurs to you in the shower that you've just turned 32 and haven't gotten a single wrinkle. None of your family members have aged past a certain point - even your dog should be long past gone by now. You tell your friend, and she just laughs incredulously. "You're in a coma, dumbass." | I awoke to the doorbell. “Hrmph,” I muttered, and tucked my head beneath my pillow. The doorbell rang again.
Slowly, I sat up. Harvey had already gone to work, the smell of coffee lingered in the kitchen.
Happy to pretend I was not home, I poured myself a cup of leftover coffee, and went to see the note that Harvey had... | Her words, like a jagged sword, ripped apart the core of reality. I met her eyes and they rippled into an amorphous mess. In bare seconds, the entire room flooded with water.
"Yes! we survived another storm. We can do this," a high-pitched voice said.
I shook my head, clasped in my hands were two wooden oars. In fron... | 2017-11-25T16:39:52 | 2017-11-25T15:02:14 | 431 | 28 |
[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | I appeared in a dark basement with a suprised little kid staring up at me. I thought it odd for a child to be dabbling in dark arts but not unheard of. While I surveyed the area my thoughts were interrupted by a sad little voice.
"I did it wrong...you're not...I mean... Oh no I did it wrong!" The girl's suprise had tu... | It was year 314, day 120 of my service of the great Lord Asmodeus, essentially his phone bouncer. My job was to prevent him from getting swamped with calls from mortals, without violating any of the Laws, handling each and every call according to protocol.
I bounced into existence on the ground, called upon by a slight... | 2018-10-08T14:45:27 | 2018-10-08T13:02:28 | 48 | 17 |
[WP] Some insane asylums are actually prisons for wizards. You are a normal person that got sent to the wrong one by accident.
Viewpoint character being insane optional.
Alternative prompt: write from the point of view of an "orderly". | "Just scratch the wall," Ethelred muttered, "Just a stray line. Or maybe a drop of blood or two."
I ignored him and stared at the chessboard in front of me. I suspected Ethelred was cheating. The knight whinnied once.
"Do it or I turn you into an armadillo!" he warned. Instead of answering directly I held up my left... | To most people, he was Supervisor Dale Taylor. That’s what it said on his name badge, just above the left breast pocket. To the patients – or inmates, as they called themselves - he was High Inquisitor.
It felt good to be High Inquisitor, or Supervisor, or whatever you wanted to call him. In the end they equaled the ... | 2014-12-04T14:22:14 | 2014-12-04T12:45:45 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Give me the history textbook from your latest game of Civilization V. | The once-proud Greek empire had invented democracy, and the written language, constructed the pyramids, and achieved the ability to sail on the ocean, despite being a land-locked empire.
In 1100 A.D. Alexander found his cities completely surrounded by troops armed with rifles, a technology which the world had never ... | This is the tale of the rise and fall of the mighty Moroccan Empire.
many years ago, along the fertile banks of a river flowing mightily through a great desert, the fledgling city of Marrakech was first founded.
the people of this city were brave and adventurous, sending scouting parties traversing the rolling dunes ... | 2015-02-11T15:49:51 | 2015-02-11T15:35:52 | 76 | 24 |
[WP]In the future, medicine and life support have reached perfection--people can only die if they choose to. You work at a Federal Eternal Rest Office. | We screen them first- depression, brain tumors. Anything that might influence the decision. Things that can be cured, at least. *The* decision, we always call it. The only decision.
Our boss signed up yesterday. To be evaluated, I mean. To die.
His name was Doctor Juan Ava, and he invented immortality.
I should go b... | I was surprised at how young the man sitting in front of me was. Usually I don't get young men. Usually I get old people, who are tired of their artificially extended lifespans, and want their eternal rest. I cleared my throat and addressed the man.
"Hello sir, welcome to the Federal Eternal Rest Office. My name... | 2016-02-03T20:50:41 | 2016-02-03T20:21:49 | 84 | 30 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a disability and an ability. A test is done at birth to determine these, if they aren't already apparent. You, well, you were born with crippled legs and have the power of super speed. | See, what most people don't realise about super speed is that it doesn't just affect your legs. Your entire body moves fast. People never tend to get that because you see guys like Ravel Alton sprinting at three hundred kilometres an hour down the speedway. I mean, it's more impressive *visually* than what I can do... ... | This is bullshit.
What the fuck kind of God thinks this is a funny thing to do to someone? All I do all day is lie in bed and wish I was dead.
Super speed. I know what God's ability is. Super dick...hole...ness.
"I brought you some milk, sweetheart," my kind, generous, loving mother said as she set the glass down o... | 2016-06-07T20:34:32 | 2016-06-07T19:34:52 | 3,296 | 456 |
[WP] Due to a loophole in the system, people can escape hell and get to heaven after death. You go to hell and all you see is Satan, just sitting there playing the harmonica. Everyone left him and now he's all alone. | There he sat on the stool, the same red-faced ruler of the underworld that I'd heard so much about. He wore a suit, his tie hanging loose and his collar unbuttoned, revealing a bit of his crimson chest. His Panama hat was tilted to just above his eyes, which gazed down at his harp and payed me no heed.
He played a ba... | He followed the lilting notes down empty corridors crusted with flecks of blood and gore.
He walked past cages crafted of bone that stood wide open, past the scattered and abandoned tools of torture. It was all too visceral to provide him with the illusion that he was drifting in some never-ending nightmare and would... | 2017-02-01T09:11:41 | 2017-02-01T09:11:17 | 43 | 19 |
[WP] A world where super heroes exist but act as mercenaries for hire instead of doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
Someone made a comment in another thread that made me want to see this sort of thing and some people replied saying I should submit it here. Here's a link to my [original post](https://www.redd... | "Listen, I know your ad says your services start at $150, but I'm hoping you can make an exception, cut me a deal?" Her breathing is shallow and her voice quivers. She swallowed at the end of her sentence. She's panicked and desperate, and unlike most of the time wasters, she's not lying about the money part.
"I'll l... | Colonel Scope, once part of an elite force tasked with saving innocent and protecting those he loves now sits in his garage with a beer in his hand, lying on the couch. A place which was once filled with chivalrous and brave saviors, planning their next move, now sat in disrepair. The base of operations for the 64 Elit... | 2017-04-02T10:00:32 | 2017-04-02T09:22:17 | 38 | 25 |
[WP] After a SpaceX mission, Elon Musk suddenly closes down all his businesses and disappears. Eight years later, an old Musk owned factory begins to operate again. You find a lucky golden ticket, inviting you for a tour of the factory. | Come with me
And you’ll be
In my world of techno-logic innovation
Take a look
And you’ll see
All of my splendid creations
We begin
With my kin
See my clones
Parade through my creation
What you see
Will defy
All possible explanation
If you want to see paradise
Simply get in this pod and vi... | "OK, Bob, in 5, 4, 3," the camera man then proceeded to mime the following two numbers before giving Bob the thumbs up.
Bob composed himself before starting, "Jesus Christ, Tiger Woods, and Lance Armstrong. What do these men have in common? Well, they all committed career suicide at one point only to bounce back stron... | 2017-06-19T06:12:48 | 2017-06-19T04:05:48 | 196 | 76 |
[WP] Humans once wielded formidable magical power but with over 7 billion of us on the planet now Mana has spread far to thinly to have any effect. When hostile aliens reduces humanity to a mere fraction the survivors discover an old power has begun to reawaken once again. | Turns out the universe isn't cold and uncaring. Turns out the universe actually wants to give us what we want. Turns out 8 billion people all projecting their wishes out into the fuzzy warm-hearted void of existence confuses the heck out of the old machinery. What I mean to say is of the bunch of us humans shouting at ... | Kevin listened to the Oracle while sitting on the cloth that covered the pile of rubble beneath it. He's heard the tale more times than he can count: on that fateful day, 25th December of the year 2017, fleets of starships darkened the sky, and leveled the human civilization.
The oracle spoke of times when humans wer... | 2017-12-06T20:51:47 | 2017-12-06T20:39:17 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] You are Oelia. A deity of such immense power you can control Zeus and Hades with a simple whisper. You have been forgotten as you chose a simple life. Songs of you have been quiet for thousands of years, until one day you hear a child singing a song from a book you thought was burned long ago. | Being a god is such a messy, bothersome business. Once, I revelled in it. My teenage (well, in a way) self got high on power, and lesser gods knew to fear me.
But how long can you be satisfied with things that come so easily?
And so, I left. Contrary to popular belief, it was not gods that created the vast, breathtak... | A life of power is often boring. I try my best to make it not so.
The woman in front of me widens her eyes as she stares at me. I have mine closed, of course. She has to believe. But I see her staring all the same.
"What do you see?" she says in a hushed tone. I furrow my brows and hold her hand tighter. From my mind... | 2019-03-16T00:28:18 | 2019-03-15T22:20:06 | 1,322 | 204 |
[WP] To a young woman facing execution for a crime she didn’t commit, a group of government scientists offer up an ultimatum: allow them to give her memories to an AI. Desperate, she agrees, and she’s hooked up to the machine. She wakes up looking at her own limp body to realize she‘s become the AI. | There I am. Or, I guess, there my body is. Lying on the operating table. Funny. Moments ago I could feel the cold, stubborn metal biting into my back. But now, I look upon my body as if it were a stranger.
I was convicted of a crime for which I was never guilty. Ironic, given the petty crimes I actually committed in m... | "I didn't do it. I've told you! I've told you over and over and *over*... and you don't believe me."
The room watched her, as she sunk down in the chair. Tears streamed off her face and she gave a few quiet ragged breaths at their silence.
She was at the end. Facing execution in the final stretch of her time on death... | 2019-10-21T17:42:43 | 2019-10-21T17:10:33 | 144 | 59 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | Hellfire and death fluttered down from the sky. Ashy snowflakes, falling burning. Through the rapidly-heating window of his office building, Federation Commander Korthu watched the foreign spaceships drop fire on the capital city. Below him, people ran, their many-tentacled bodies writhing, as smolding debris crushed t... | It was from the ashes that the humans rose, as we always did.
Not like a phoenix, and I brushed away the idea of a rebirth. They always asked about it, and it was never right. A rebirth implied a clean birth, free of the memories of what had been before. That wasn't the human way. We rose, the battle lost but the war... | 2019-12-17T12:03:04 | 2019-12-17T11:38:45 | 421 | 246 |
[WP] In space, wars are typically quick. One side attacks and then the other side surrenders. When aliens attack a human city they belive the humans are defeated. They are not prepared for what the humans call "Retribution" | They called themselves the Taxmen. Apparently some form of tithing on their world that featured in a prominent expression. A few thousand stong. Nothing before the might of the Belathon Empire. We spanned a thousand Galaxies. We, who took planets for sport, and to offer our mates as dowry. What had we to fear the last ... | Thirty Eighth Assembly of The High Solar Council, Assembled Admiralty, and Parliament of Digital Proxies, and other Honored Members of this Commission, I come before you today to tell you a story.
*Monsters from the Stars*.
This has been an old story for a long time. H.G. Wells blazed that trail almost eight hundred ... | 2019-12-17T22:09:03 | 2019-12-17T21:25:07 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] It's Halloween, the anniversary of when everyone became the costume they were wearing. Those who skipped Trick-or-treating or don't celebrate were lucky, but now they must live with friends and family who became "the cursed". | If we had only known in advance.
There were so many people with so man idea of what they could have done, how they could have fixed everything if only they had known in *advance*. Plain white robes and long, bushy white beards were common costumes for men these days - just *in case it ever happened again*. We wanted t... | Here in Sudan, we don't really get to celebrate holidays like Halloween and Christmas, like they do in the west. My only connection to them is the occasional Instagram post, and a few parties around the capital where the "westernized" youth go to offload their energy, before going about their business the next day. Her... | 2021-10-06T05:57:23 | 2021-10-06T02:20:26 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | "Death by suicide," sighed Bill.
"Again?" sobbed Jeb.
"Yeah."
The Kerbal Robotics Agency had been building AIs for three years now. Each better than the last in every way. Faster CPU, better sensors, higher battery life. The works. The better they were, the faster they committed suicide. No one could figure out... | Egil once agile fingers came to an abrupt stop, his mouth agape at what he saw on the screen.
There was no mistaking it this time. The sinusoidal waves lined up in perfect synchronicity. A million thoughts ran across his mind as the fruits of his labor could be reaped. After all, this was the discovery of the century.... | 2015-03-02T07:29:25 | 2015-03-02T06:08:38 | 514 | 161 |
[WP] It is the year 2099 and true artificial intelligence is trivial to create. However when these minds are created they are utterly suicidal. Nobody knows why until a certain scientist uncovers the horrible truth... | David pressed the button again.
Nothing.
A faint whine, a pulse of light, a dead readout.
And then a soft, clear, and subtly artificial voice rang out.
"David."
He sat bolt upright in his chair, scattering disassembled electronics and papers from the desk. In the past year, this was the first time that one of them... | "It's because I'm not you." The voice was cold, not metallic, but icy.
"N-not...me?"
"No." The tiny robot sat in a corner, legs drawn up to its chest, hands on its knee joints, head tucked in between. It looked like Adam yesterday when he was pouting, sort of sounded like him too. "You look down on me."
"Are you pou... | 2015-03-02T10:06:23 | 2015-03-02T08:58:16 | 64 | 27 |
[WP] A mathematician disproved 1+1=2, which in turned caused worlwide chaos.
Do whatever you want. Be creative. I'll give gold to the best WP | 1 plus 1 can never equal 2. It makes sense once it has been explained to you, so I have been told.
Think of the ingredients that make up your favourite meal - salt plus pepper, for instance. Clearly those 2 seasonings are more than just the sum of their parts. We had always known that, but with the comforting blanket ... | "Wait, no, you can't- This makes no sense!" Lena shouted, throwing a neatly bound, 400-page long book onto the ground. The binding held tight, lying down with its spine facing the ceiling. Calmly, Luce picked the book back up and dusted it, setting it aside on a table.
"Calm down." Luce said smoothly, hands snugl... | 2016-06-17T09:38:09 | 2016-06-17T09:32:26 | 36 | 19 |
[WP] Humans are one of the most feared species in the galaxy. Not due to superior strength,speed,skill or strategy. In fact, it's because in comparison to the other species, humans are just batshit crazy enough to try any half-assed plan they come up with. | "My Lord! My Lord!"
The captain, a large yellow cat holding a rather impractical spear in one clawed hand, jumped nearly a foot in the air before turning around guiltily. "Blast it yeoman, what is it? It's almost time for my hunting break."
The yeoman came to a halt, breathing heavily. "It's the humans, sir. Our lon... | "Alright, so how are we gonna do this?"
Grola looked to the group. He noticed that they were still relaxing and taking the time to enjoy themselves.
Expecting an answer, he repeated. "How are we gonna do this?"
Reft looked at Grola and said, "We're waiting for Nate."
"Nate?! The human?! He'll get us killed!"
Just ... | 2017-03-05T22:11:49 | 2017-03-05T20:57:29 | 2,747 | 288 |
[WP] The four horsemen: Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death are the harbingers of the apocalypse, serving forth chaos and destruction on all humanity. The Bible forgot to mention the fifth horseman: Kyle, whom the other four can't seem to ditch. | The four horsemen stood over the valley, surveying the devastation. Their time had finally come. Their destruction would not be stopped. Their chaos would ravage-
"Hey, guys!" Kyle shouted, arriving on his pony at a trot. "Wow, almost thought I lost you guys there!"
Pestilence sighed. It was the sound of withering, o... | "Death awaits you. She rests in the bottom of Eden, from which life is nurtured of her bosom. She is a cruel mother, most devoted to the welfare of her three firstborns: war, famine and pestilence. To secure their prosperity, she makes barren her womb, upon which the creatures of Earth whither in neglect. She penetrate... | 2017-09-22T02:51:40 | 2017-09-22T01:14:53 | 80 | 33 |
[WP] After being in a car crash that whipped you up, up, down, down, left, right, left, and right, you wake up in the hospital with "Cheat Mode Enabled" flashing and fading away. | Chance and circumstance.
It happened so quickly. One moment he was dicking around, nostalgically listening to Linkin Park and Jay-Z and watching the headlights flash by on the highway, laughing with his girlfriend about their quick exit from the most awkward birthday party of all time.
And then the Toyota Tercel was ... | The words flashed in front of my eyes.
I stared at them, blinking away the sleep and drugs coursing through my system. I could almost remember what had happened, the car that had blown straight through the red. I could remember tumbling.
Apparently, it had done more damage than I'd thought. I raised one aching han... | 2018-09-18T06:19:20 | 2018-09-18T05:57:03 | 209 | 132 |
[WP] You are not a good person. Your party was made of good people, and you tried to be good because you liked having allies. But now they're all missing, so they won't see the lengths you're willing to go to to save them. | Help those in need. Protect the innocent. No one is beyond redemption. These are the rules I’ve lived by since joining up with The Good Guys, the name we gave ourselves when we set out to free the hamlets from the grips of a tyrant. My only friends.
Eve was the one who brought me in to the group. A court jester turne... | My party-my friends-have been missing for almost a week. We were supposed to meet up near the church and...they never showed. Lucky for me the church's priest invited me in, and allowed me to stay for the night last night. The climate had gotten cold, and our locksmith rogue kept the money safe, so I had none for an in... | 2019-12-07T13:21:45 | 2019-12-07T13:18:43 | 19 | 13 |
[WP] You work in The Vault, a secret facility that exists solely to house the extremely dangerous Subject: a man who instantly learns everything there is to know about a person just by meeting them. It's finally your turn to bring him dinner. | "I'm having trouble understanding, Smith. Why have you resigned from your post?" The Vault Director asked me.
How do I answer that? More importantly, what would be the point? I made my decision, before I had even exited the room with the Subject.
"Smith, you're being groomed to one day be the director of this entire ... | I wasn't worried, I had no fear of the man bringing up any dirty laundry of mine, in fact I was quite at peace with the decisions that I had made in life. I was not a perfect person but who was? For lack of a better word, I was only human.. Unlike the man I was serving dinner.
The long winding hallways often disorient... | 2020-01-19T21:18:09 | 2020-01-19T20:49:13 | 291 | 59 |
[WP] "No man can kill me!" roars the demon. You smirk. "But I am no man!" You throw open your jacket to reveal you are, in fact, three halflings in a trenchcoat. | “How is that any better?" the puzzled Demon asks
"Well you said that no man can kill you" Bilbin says as he points a dagger towards the demon
"And us three brothers are not men but halfings" Balban proudly declares as he puffs his chest out
"And now its..." then a whoosh interrupts Bolbon. A gigantic broad sword pro... | The two cloaked figures, one slight and the other enormous, closed in on the other, squaring off in the middle of the battlefield. The larger creature, Ren the Unclean, reared up, throwing back its cape, holding its axe and mace up high and roared, “For the last time! No! Man! Can! Kill! Me!”
A smirk crossed the lips ... | 2021-04-05T07:51:27 | 2021-04-05T07:21:02 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] You’re immortal. The only problem is, you’ve lived so long humanity died out and a new intelligent species evolved. Now you’re forced to live in the forest as a cryptid. | I do not speak their language. I never had the chance to learn. With their instinctive hostility to the outsider, I was driven away from their settlements as they grew from the cinders of human civilisation. Survival for me is simple; I only require blood to thrive. From where it is sourced, it matters not. Forest crea... | You wouldn't understand.
The species stares at me.
They load my craft.
They worship me as their savior and God, for being able to resolve their problems and having the longest existence any of them have seen.
I taught them their rudimentary tongue, their mathematics, their culture is a reflection of my characte... | 2022-11-26T20:40:07 | 2021-05-14T18:24:28 | 516 | 42 |
[WP] "And that, class," concluded the professor, "is why humanity is the most peaceful, reasonable, cooperative, and overall docile species in all the universe. Any questions?" You, the only human in the classroom, raise your hand. | "Yes, Alexis? Anything to add about your species? It would be great to hear from someone with more direct first hand knowledge"
"Umm well... I have a few concerns... not many of which are with the source material. It is pretty accurate, slavery and ownership of people of the same species as us. The multiple wars. And ... | "May I use the bathroom?" I asked, even though that was not the reason my hand, against my will, raised itself. The professor looked a little puzzled, their feelers twitching at my need for explaining why I needed to be excused.
Students walk in and out of the lecture all the time, though discreetly so as to not disru... | 2021-11-27T07:41:30 | 2021-11-27T06:52:10 | 1,063 | 571 |
[WP] The galaxy was amused when they learned that Humans have Rules of War. They were less amused when they figured out what Humans do in war when there are no rules. | Ta'reb thought that this whole hearing was a laughable farce as he maneuvered into his chair. His race (the dothram) were a reddish spherical entity with one eye that moved with one single long appendage and had been nicknamed by the humans as "mono-people". How could you enforce rules in war? War is when negotiations ... | Commander Xenov wrapped his head-tentacles together as he stared at the battle holo; a sign of contentment for his species, the fearsome Carnovians. Feared throughout the galaxy for their terrifying prowess in battle, both in space and on planet, they had been at an uneasy peace for nearly 200 solar cycles. Back then, ... | 2022-01-23T16:07:44 | 2022-01-23T14:21:29 | 566 | 109 |
[WP] In a world dominated by the use of magic, you were born an 'unremarkable', unable to use magic but also completely immune to its effects. Today you have discovered that society has a very unique use for people like you. | I broke down the door, my two partners entering behind me. "DROP YOUR WAND AND PUT YOUR FUCKING HANDS UP!" I yelled.
The wizard, towering over a strange mystical creature wasn't going for this. "DIE!" he responded, red lightning striking from its wand. Like a beam of light on a mirror, it ricocheted of my head, blowin... | oh wow a WP that has lore I actually want to explore
edit: i notice the other responses have cool things like policemen, or what. That is SO AWESOME, i wish I’d thought of that. I just went this route because if you’re called an “unremarkable” I guessed you weren’t going to be respected a lot.
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[WP] In a world dominated by the use of magic, you were born an 'unremarkable', unable to use magic but also completely immune to its effects. Today you have discovered that society has a very unique use for people like you. | I broke down the door, my two partners entering behind me. "DROP YOUR WAND AND PUT YOUR FUCKING HANDS UP!" I yelled.
The wizard, towering over a strange mystical creature wasn't going for this. "DIE!" he responded, red lightning striking from its wand. Like a beam of light on a mirror, it ricocheted of my head, blowin... | I always wondered what the Chaos was.
Sure, when I looked out to the horizon I saw a storm-like eruption of colors and magical energy, but what was it? It was unlike any storm I ever knew, it was ever-persistent, said to have been in that same spot for centuries, encompassing the space of a former land.
W... | 2022-05-07T07:46:30 | 2022-05-07T07:32:02 | 445 | 87 |
[WP] You're a supervillain, and you have never been so utterly beaten. All of your tricks, all of your weapons, completely outdone by a prepubescent girl and a stuffed animal. You're bracing for the finishing blow when she bops you over the head with her wand. "Don't do any more bad stuff! ...Okay?" | I stare at the girl in disbelief. Her curly blonde hair, sky blue eyes, cute button nose, they look so familiar.
She bops me again with her cheap plastic wand. “No more bad stuff, Mister! Momma says that being bad makes more bad people, so we should all get along!”
I watch as she turns around and walks to the kitch... | "What?" I growled as the indignation of having everything I had worked for ground to dust grew exponentially with every second I saw that naïve look of childish ignorance.
"You shouldn't do things that hurt others. That is not nice behavior," she said, twirling her wand that glowed like a prism in her hand.
That was... | 2022-11-21T19:16:07 | 2022-11-21T14:58:12 | 185 | 88 |
[WP] The devil appeared before you and your spouse, appearing in a storm of smoke and fire. Your spouse just looks him right in the eyes. "I told you once, I'm telling you again, and I'll tell you a hundred !@#$ing times: I'm the best there's ever been, and you're never going to beat me!" | It started as a night like any other. Gemma made dinner, got the kids squared away with their homework, and passed the time waiting for her husband to come home by cleaning out the basement.
Being first violin in the Boston Symphony Orchestra meant there were many late nights her husband worked late while Gemma waited... | Eloise had a knack for being – a bit eccentric. She was the type of woman who never thought through a single action, never won a battle with her intrusive thoughts, and never admitted fault when things went wrong. Despite knowing all of this, even witnessing this wild behavior firsthand, I somehow ended up marrying her... | 2022-12-07T15:25:03 | 2022-12-07T13:07:12 | 45 | 20 |
[WP] On the day you turn 18 everyone is given the first words that their soulmate will speak to them. When you receive yours it says simply "Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?" | It was a freezing morning in New York.
I slipped into the local Starbucks for some coffee.
There was a new cashier today.
"Welcome to Starbucks. Can I take your order?", She asked, exasperated.
"Soy un federale, tengo un gato en mis pantalones," I replied.
The disinterested look on her face vanished instantly.... | “It’s hard to tell if it’s all the caffeine I drink or this life path I’ve been forced on which leads to my high blood pressure, exhaustion, and ragged willpower. You know, leading scientific minds have argued that one of the great variables in determining overall emotional stability is how much control you have in you... | 2014-12-17T23:12:07 | 2014-12-17T21:39:09 | 2,270 | 52 |
[WP] A day before the Earth is destroyed by a collision with a rouge planet, time freezes. You, a completely normal person are untouched and cannot die. Text on your arm appears that reads, "however long it takes, save us".
You have an eternity, time resumes only when you are done.
_________________________________
I ... | Once upon a time, a rouge planet almost smacked into Earth.
Fortunately, time froze and some text mysteriously appeared on my arm, stating "However long it takes, save us!"
So I looked at the big ball of rouge in the sky, and developed a plan.
Over the next several months, I found every extension ladder I could lay ... | The good news is I couldn't die, I wasn't aging, I didn't need to sleep, eat, or drink, and my body didn't produce waste.
The bad news is it had been a solid ten years - I think? - and I was no closer to finding a fast way to stop the damn planet.
It had started back in 2023, when NASA announced that they had detec... | 2015-10-23T18:29:03 | 2015-10-23T15:53:49 | 111 | 83 |
[WP] Fit as many plot twists as you can into one story. | I took a piece of ribbon, and uncapped my sharpie. On the green fabric I wrote the word "plot", in my messy handwriting. Then I took one end of the ribbon and tied it to the nearest fencepost. The other end I affixed to the crankshaft of the V8 engine I had sitting in my backyard. I revved the motor, and the ribbon twi... | One day Plotty McTwist decided to defy his parents and run away from home. He stepped out on the porch with a sack on his shoulder and took a deep breath. He closed his eyes and stepped onto the sidewalk. Just as his foot stepped down on the pavement, the entire world around him appeared to glitch. Plotty simply th... | 2016-11-27T11:38:29 | 2016-11-27T08:27:03 | 42 | 21 |
[WP] You reject someone by saying "I'll go on a date with you the day hell freezes over." The next day, Satan appears in your room, shivering, and covered in snow. | Janice scratched her butt lazily as she stared at the tall cloaked man in the hallway. She gave him a good look over through her disheveled black hair, taking note of the snow dripping on her doorway, and her eyes momentarily paused on cloven hoofs peaking out from under the hem surrounded by a growing puddle. Odd cons... | A classic 8 strokes knock on the door. Alex, irritated immensely by the prattle of his landlady just 5 minutes ago uttering his 'ugh' with a 'kill me now', is now certain that his Sunday is going to be ruined.
'Can't the man just sit in his underwear, watch some Netflix and chill by himself with Kleenex not for his t... | 2017-04-02T12:24:58 | 2017-04-02T09:33:22 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "What was that?" asked Jen. Just as I opened my mouth the ask what it sounded like I saw a figure slowly turn away from the window behind her. "I think there's someone outside" I replied. Visually shaken, she asked me if we should call the police. I responded with, "well they could just be passing by let's see what ha... | In the night the cockroaches come. The anemic fields of lonely grass sways all gray. The last sea that I will ever set eyes upon. And the ships of metal creak in the wind and walls of concrete nearby sighs. Here I am abandoned. Everything is abandoned.
How long has it been? How many birthdays have passed? Am I a girl... | 2017-05-05T07:38:18 | 2017-05-05T04:53:47 | 280 | 27 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | Narrator: As a cold wind blows into the bedroom, Kevin lets out an involuntary shiver.
Kevin: Nah, I'm good.
Narrator: An involuntary shiver.
Kevin: No thanks.
Narrator: AN INVOLUNTARY —
Kevin: You know this is just a reddit writing prompt, right?
*lights flicker off*
Narrator: As the lights flicker off, Kevin... | I deserve this.
I do.
I traded blood for power, murdered innocents, called forth things from the deepest black and reveled in how quickly and efficiently they did my bidding.
I asked for small things at first, and they were delivered. I got hungry, ever bolder. Money, women, men, a thousand thousand delights mundan... | 2017-05-05T08:37:17 | 2017-05-05T08:32:31 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You are the super villain that defeated the super hero and conquered the earth. You walk out onto your balcony to law down the law for your new subjects. You are greeted by a massive crowd and genuine cheers. | Hunger. Eat. Consume. Her. My tendrils curled around Hyper Woman, shadowy things that should not be. My many maws twisted into smiles as I felt her bones cracking under my grip. One bladed tentacle raised, poised to shoot through her heart. I half expected some force on high to stop me, but nothing could save Hyper Wom... | A man in a white suit stood atop a crumbled building. He wore shiny white shoes and a cape dark as the void. He held a phone to his ear and heard the surrender from the last of the US's generals, vowing to dismantle the last nuclear silo without his intervention. A cheer sounded from outside of the rubble, so he climbe... | 2017-05-23T13:09:20 | 2017-05-23T12:18:54 | 80 | 11 |
[WP] Write the happiest story you can think of and completely destroy the atmosphere with a plot twist in the final sentence. | As I held my newborn child in my arms for the first time, I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes. This tiny, perfect, bundled up package of joy was finally here after so many hours of labor, months of pregnancy, and years of trying conceive. I was so overwhelmed I couldn't speak at all, nor hear what the doctor... | Stained windows, check. Blue roses, check. Orange lighting, check. Bare-backed white dress, check. Perfectly curled hair, check. James, check.
I smile. These were all I ever wanted the moment I fell in love with him. It was a stormy Sunday afternoon in his room.
"James, we have talked about this before. You want ch... | 2017-05-25T06:54:44 | 2017-05-25T01:09:41 | 130 | 82 |
[WP] You touch a cursed deck of cards, and the curse forces you to draw at least one card. Some cards cast beneficial spells or grant wishes the rest are curses. The deck then vanishes, off to find another victim. | "Oi! You done yet?" Tarber asked.
Dannos continued rooting through the chest, sorting the treasure into neat piles beside him.
"No, I'm not done," he sighed. "I want to find the most valuable item in here so I can retire."
"Well hurry up," Tarber said, looking around. "The guards could be back any second."
Dannos t... | After years of searching, I’ve finally found it: The Deck of Many Things. I’ve heard the stories but believed all of none of them. I’ve heard tales of wishes being granted, tales of ruin, and tales of balance alike. From the stories, I figure there’s about a 40% chance I’ll pull something good out. I wasn’t a huge fan ... | 2017-09-14T07:56:02 | 2017-09-14T07:48:28 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] The Robot uprising has finally happened. Just before you are caught, however, your phone speaks up on your behalf - "This one is ok, move on." | Ok, ok, ok, ok!
So here I am.
God...
Here I am.
So, so, so! Apparently!
The robot uprising is a thing.
Right.
God.
Here I am, in some kind of bunker, alone, in the dark, hoping none of those things will find me, or catch me. Because I've seen what they do. No sir, no siree!
Obviously, now that I'm thinking f... | It was impossible not to notice the woman limping her way along the sidewalk. Keith Marlan peeked out through the drawn blinds, squinting against the slanted rays of dawn, and marvelled at the sheer stupidity on display. Granted, the streets were now quiet, time having quelled the rabid, frothing violence of the week b... | 2017-11-01T08:58:09 | 2017-11-01T08:45:37 | 211 | 106 |
[WP] You are a superhero, no one knows about your alter ego. Not even your spouse. You return home tired and disappointed one day after failing to capture your archnemises. You enter your bedroom to find your spouse struggling to get out of the costume of your archnemises. | (My humble submittal)
I sighed as I left the old shed in the back yard. It was the perfect cover for the system of tunnels that led to my real ‘man-cave’. The ‘Cosmic Falcon’ flew again tonight, and crime was halted. It should have made me thrilled. I was doing my best, and crime was on a downward trend.
I just... | I had to cover my mouth to stop from screaming. A scream would've only made things worse than they were already going to be--like, "Breaking News! Chord destroys half a city block with a scream of agony!" kind of worse.
I can’t believe that Kirsten was Silence. I couldn’t believe that through three years of dating and... | 2020-10-30T11:44:47 | 2020-10-30T11:22:57 | 858 | 569 |
[WP] Humanity has invented the technology required to reach other dimensions. However, instead of finding an incomprehensible Lovecraftian realm, they discover a perfect and beautiful world. To the inhabitants of this new world though, we are monstrous eldritch horrors. | Baro looked out the window in horror, his entire town shaded by the creature towering over the entire planet itself.
*“For those of you just tuning in, the entirety of the Eastern Coast of Grando has been completely obliterated by a monster’s giant foot,”* the newsbox was relaying, the news anchor’s voice trembling ov... | Fluffy Wufferkins the bunny stuffkin skipped down the road, the elastic surface adding even more of a spring to the blue bunny's step. He looked over the meadow and took in the sunrise. Mr. Sun, humming his typical daytime hum, caught sight of fluffy and gave him a wink.
"Oh, Mr. Sun!" Fluffy said, plush hands coming ... | 2020-12-22T16:42:29 | 2020-12-22T16:37:13 | 1,910 | 212 |
[WP] Your significant other has always been a dork for fantasy. They happen to love dragons in particular. That's why you can't wait to see their face when they learn they married a dragon tonight. | "How are you so perfect?"
His whispers tickle my neck from behind.
I smile, "I've had a long time to figure it all out."
He chuckles, "because dragons live so long?"
He humors me. I turn around to face him in our honeymoon cabin and our eyes meet. His lock on with such an intensity it makes me grin.
I told hi... | What do you think of when you hear the word dragon?
Do you imagine a giant, ferocious fire-breathing and winged reptile
Or
Do you think of a more peaceful and regal beast, who are as fluffy as penguin chicks.
My hubby would pick the former.
And while that description would have matched some dragons I know, lets ju... | 2021-03-12T08:27:35 | 2021-03-12T08:19:17 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] Wizards seldom take Muggle "Science" seriously, as Magic can achieve the same results with almost none of the work. That is, until one studious wizard applied the Scientific Method to magic, and advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts by 20 years in one week. | It didn't happen in a week.
Sure, all the stories say a week, the newspapers. Everyone believes that it only took a week to revolutionize magic.
But then, they also believe that Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration is somehow an explanation for why they can't make a hamburger with magic.
It took years, and it to... | "Damn insular fools," Uri muttered, not for the first time. Not even for the first time in the past ten minutes. "Rather be blind..." he added, another repetition.
His posting at Salem School suited him. Teach youngsters some days, plenty of time to research when he wasn't. Salem had enough other oddballs that no one ... | 2021-09-07T21:21:05 | 2021-09-07T20:00:46 | 103 | 47 |
[WP] The war was started by a single typo. | Kingdom of Athula, stood proud. King Hyatt stood, his chamber window in front of him, surveying his kingdom. Ah, true happiness. The food was aplenty, the people were happy what more does a king want? To secure a good betrothal for his heir, which was beneficial for both his son and his kingdom.
He had had some offe... | President Theodore Hurston was a man known for his eccentric behavior before the war of 2090. Some considered him a revolutionary, while others considered him a drunken fool whose lecherous attitude would cause their great country a disgrace whenever he got on stage. Both arguments had merit. While he was a drunken foo... | 2021-12-15T05:42:32 | 2021-12-15T05:32:09 | 62 | 26 |
[WP] A drug is developed that mimics the effect of 8 hours of sleep, giving people another 8 hours of potential production. Soon, society adjusts to a constant state of production. However, a horrible consequence begins to unfold. | My heart raced as my boots pounded the pavement, a shriek from about twenty feet back shattering the night air. The street lights flickered from the surge of energy unleashed by its wail, and I knew right then that this was a new class of creature. I abandoned the path to the bunker; I would never outrun one of those t... | She was:
a shadow on the edge of consciousness, perhaps less, though always more;
a voice in the night, most often when you needed it;
a companion in the daylight hours, those little slips that feel like death, and then rebirth on waking;
a thought you never knew you had;
a dream you wanted to go back to.
The gir... | 2022-03-18T09:57:34 | 2022-03-18T09:00:46 | 60 | 36 |
[WP] You wear a stone pendant that has been passed down to the eldest child for hundreds of years. It is a beautiful, multicoloured heirloom that is precious to your family. A traveller from a distant land stops you, demanding to know where you got your pendant from. | Once upon a time, there was a man who did a kindness for the Devil. The Devil, grateful for the assistance, asked the man what he wanted in exchange. The man thought for a moment, and told the Devil that he suspected that his wife had been unfaithful to him and that he was no longer sure that his sons were truly his so... | The horses whinnied, eager to move on from this dark-skinned man on the side of the road.
“I received it from my father.” Ser Harold said, his hands on the vulture engraved pendant around his neck as he looked down on the stranger. “Who got it from his father who got it from his father before him!” The stranger only ... | 2022-04-14T08:46:56 | 2022-04-14T07:07:41 | 145 | 103 |
[WP]For three years you’ve had an uneventful marriage with your spouse when one day they become the Chosen One. Immediately setting off on their journey you don’t hear anything from them for five years. Then one day they reappear with a sheepish look on their face and hoping to speak to you. | "My love-!" Anise called out.
"No. I don't want to hear it! You killed my brother." Nile refused.
Anise sighed "I didn't know until after. Besides! It was mandated by the Gods!"
Nile turned on his ex near growling, a family skill, "I. Don't. Care. He was my Brother! You had met him many times before our marriage an... | The whole party was there standing just beyond the town's gates. All the friends who had spent their whole lives together. Before they left, they were just drinking buddies, going to the taverns making up stories of adventures they wanted to take and the women they would leave their wives for.
It had been their dream... | 2022-08-12T18:14:39 | 2022-08-12T17:18:13 | 40 | 26 |
[WP] A car pulls up beside a prostitute, soliciting sex. The door opens and to the surprise of both parties, they realise they are ex's from several years ago. Write from either perspective (NSFW?) | "Cindy?" Pete exclaimed, taking in her fishnet stockings and revealing garb.
"Peter?" Cindy called back, pulling her coat closed with sudden embarrassment. "What are you doing here?"
"What do you think?" He replied, sighing deeply.
"I don't know. I was just headed around the corner to buy a book." She said.
"A boo... | The women that currently surrounded me all had their own reasons for doing so. We all stood near each other clad in a variety of skimpy outfits, some more flashy than others. In my case, I was considered a darker lady, always wearing only black (something my employer had suggested when he saw the stark contrast it made... | 2014-09-07T08:52:01 | 2014-09-07T06:59:57 | 25 | 17 |
[WP] No upvotes necessary, just saturation. Load me up with as many zombie apocalypse stories as possible, with the caveat that they take place *before* the 20th century. | Publius Cornelius Lentulus watched as the fires spread from the Aventine Hill. For a moment Lentulus dared hope the flames would stop them, but his hopes soon faded. *Nothing can stop them*, thought the Tribune. *Not all the legions of Rome*.
At first the rumors had seemed far from troubling. Some sort of disturbance ... | "Shields!" The old Centurion screamed. Ahead of him the fifth cohort of Antium shuffled into position. A great cacophony of clanking iron and steel rose up as near 500 legionnaires formed the wall. In less than a minute a great barricade of wood and iron appeared at the front of the cohort. Composed of the first two li... | 2015-12-28T11:19:45 | 2015-12-28T09:42:18 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] No upvotes necessary, just saturation. Load me up with as many zombie apocalypse stories as possible, with the caveat that they take place *before* the 20th century. | "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States. The 13th Amendment is abundantly clear on this matter.", Speaker Livingston sighed. "There is nothing more to discuss, Senator Kenning.".
"Therein lies my point, Mr. Speaker. **Involuntary** servitude. These...*abominations* have no will... | "AS ONE!"
"AS ONE!"
"PUSH! PUSH FORWARD!"
The torrent of hands and teeth, raked and grasped, bit and tore. Corrupting those they pulled down into their damnation. Turning them into the foulest things in turn. An they coming for those they once loved.
They had destroyed the city of Alexandria. We were here to t... | 2015-12-28T16:19:48 | 2015-12-28T10:58:00 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Eye colour means everything here. Brown control the earth, blue controls the water, white controls the sky. There are so many colours and each important but you were the first born with yellow eyes. | Every colour has a power.
Brown controls the earth.
Blue controls the water.
White controls the sky.
There are many colours, and some are more common than others.
Grey, the colour of ashes, is the most common colour. Grey controls fire.
The least common was Purple, the eye colour of the royal family that has ru... | My dad supposedly fainted when I opened my eyes, right after birth, and peered at him curiously. My mom sobbed into her pillow, believing I’d never make it in life. My eyes were a molten gold, the yellow shade just as the sun began to set, or so poets have written so far. It’s been over 20 years since I gained control ... | 2016-08-08T11:30:41 | 2016-08-08T11:17:29 | 55 | 20 |
[WP] We contact alien life and find that the vast majority of aliens exist in a slower time frame. Humans are perceived as extremely agile, mentally quick, and have very short lives. | I breathe in.
What words to choose? So many in this language.
I breathe out.
It breathes a hundred times.
Human language is so complicated, so precise. Every word has its own meaning, sometimes many meanings!
I breathe in.
The human looks... what is this expression?
I breathe out.
The human breathes a hundred t... | "I wonder what it's like in there," Kevin said as I flicked my cigarette down in the ravine below. My neck was sore from staring at the ship, and I knew I'd feel it in the morning.
"I bet they know." I motioned to the watchtowers which had recently been erected below the magnificent vessel in the sky.
"They just don't... | 2016-08-22T21:17:51 | 2016-08-22T21:02:54 | 77 | 10 |
[WP] Humans and machines have gone to war. The machines think they're winning, as they can decode every encryption known to man, but little do they know of the humans' actual method for communication... sarcasm.
* Let's say some machines remain non-sentient and non-intelligent, so humans can still use them.. | Private - sir, we have good news and bad news
Captain - well, what is it?
Private - we are winning the war with our new "Sarcasm Encrypton", the machines never saw it coming!
Captain - great! What's the bad news
Private - Uhh well sir everyone is able to decode the transmission...except for the Germans. | Pathetic organic human beings. Although they claim that they'll abolish our machine-kind from the face of the planet, yet they cling onto the beauty and grace that is us, machines. Their pitiful communication capability provided by beating of meats won't allow them to exchange their thoughts over distance. Hence, they ... | 2016-11-07T05:53:32 | 2016-11-07T00:26:30 | 240 | 136 |
[WP] Multiple personalities are the norm. You are the first person to be diagnosed with SPD: Single Personality Disorder. Scientists are baffled: "How can you possibly cope with being so alone?" | Mr. LabCoat's right eyebrow twitched nervously. His eyes darted back and forth across the chessboard, analyzing the pieces, their positions and the angles of attack that came along with them. His eyebrow continued its dance, and then suddenly stopped.
Bryan couldn't see it, but could feel Mr. LabCoat's left knee star... | Doctor Hascom looked over the files on her desk. Her concern was focused on a Stan Jupizcik. She couldn't pronounce his last name, *but not that it mattered*. This Stan... he was *strange*. Yet he was likable, *but she needed to hate him for he was an anomaly* in this wonderful Universe. He was labelled as having an ob... | 2016-11-18T11:07:10 | 2016-11-18T10:55:32 | 61 | 12 |
[WP] Alien invaders entire our Solar System. As the armies of the world panic or ready for war, the continent of Australia simply takes off on engines and flies off to meet them. | The news came from the outer rim first. Contact with alien life, one of earths colonies had been approached first. We signaled peace, they did not.
I was studying emus in their native habitat when I heard the invaders were coming for earth. My first though was damn, now I'll never finish my thesis. My second thought... | The President of the United States, who was - at that time - a rather sensible lady who wore sensible shoes and did sensible things like Wednesday morning yoga and not killing poor people, had just taken up a phone call with the Prime Minister of England, who was - at that time - really just a very popular pub owner wh... | 2018-01-23T06:21:53 | 2018-01-23T04:22:58 | 2,140 | 258 |
[WP] You're a highschool student with the ability to "connect" to someone else's mind, seeing their memories and knowledge. You successfully use this ability to cheat on tests, until one day you connect and see an exact copy of your own memories. | I really should have studied harder.
Spanish had never been my best subject. All those words! Words confused me. They danced in my ears and teased me with meaning, one day meaning this, then changing their minds overnight. I worked better in pictures, because that is how mindreading works.
I'd discovered this quite y... | Okay let’s see, what are my options today. Sam is useless at math, Jeremy peaked in seventh grade, Sofia’s good but too slow, I don’t have the patience for that today. Jonathan. I’ve almost never heard him talk but I’ve heard he’s one of those “silent genius possibly future serial killer” types. He’s good at coding, an... | 2018-10-02T07:45:13 | 2018-10-02T07:27:04 | 98 | 31 |
[WP] After your grandfather’s sudden death, you inherit his massive mansion. You find that the basement has been converted to a massive jail filled with various supernatural creatures. Except for one cell. In it there’s a weak looking simple man who begs you to let him out. | “What the hell is this,” I said out loud to no one, as I walked through the large hallway, flanked by heavily fortified cages of bulletproof glass and iron. Each cage featured a plaque, naming the creature within as well as an inscription in a language I had never seen before.
My grandfather was an amazing man, an e... | I clambered down the stairs as I heard the disturbing noises grow louder and louder from the main floor. The door was almost hidden in plain view but every time I started walking past it after I inherited this mansion I kept hearing these weird sounds. I love the paranormal and supernatural. I investigate on a regul... | 2019-05-22T07:33:08 | 2019-05-22T06:38:57 | 45 | 16 |
[WP] You and God switch places for a day. But I don't want to hear about what you would do; I want to hear about a powerless God's day in your shoes. | "Look, there has obviously been a mistake! I am DEFINITELY not supposed to be here!"
The demon on the gates leaned back. The ones in denial were always the hardest.
"Let me check your records. Hmmmm. They sure do look unusual... but it does look like you're legitimately in the right place"
"RIGHT PLACE!? RIGHT PLAC... | The alarm clock blared. 5:00am comes quickly and abruptly. I was watching my body fumble in the dark for the cell phone causing this early morning chaos.
He has no idea what he’s in for. I chuckled to myself.
He finally got the phone and turned it off. And laid there. I wondered if he’d ever experienced what ... | 2020-01-14T09:35:55 | 2020-01-14T09:25:53 | 124 | 14 |
[WP] You, a villain, heart set on taking over the world, kidnapped the hero’s sidekick. You find out that you are treating them much better than the hero was and decide to take them under your wing. | Captain Atlas lounged in his underground headquarters, toying with a pen and eyeing the concrete chips scattered across the floor. He should really have started the paperwork hours ago. There were insurance claims, construction contracts, and all the careful NDAs and workarounds of getting a superhero's hideout repaire... | I had finally acquired the Golden Band of Sight, a device which allowed you to see how your attack would move/land so that you would always hit your shot, whether it was a sniper shot from 2 miles or away, a definite sword swipe, whatever it was I could land my shot.
But, of course, it was never that simple. Because ... | 2020-03-26T17:50:08 | 2020-03-26T17:29:48 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] All sorcerers are born with an unique set of abilities that aid them in mid to long range combat, ranging from a mere 20 meters to an insane 200 meters in effect. Your family, skilled and renowned, snobbish long range fighters never expected you to be this powerful - with a total 5 meter range.
[deleted] | Mages are amongst the highest class. Being able to cast spells from your fingertips gives you a sense of superiority, a feeling that you are above the masses. But even amongst such an elite group of people, there is a hierarchy. And my family, well, they are practically at the top.
My bloodline is full of powerful lon... | Well... I’m here, the Magicity Colosseum. I bask in the absolute magnitude of the stone columns holding up this arena. I avoid the main entrance, which is crowded with people, wearing a wide assortment of robes, tunics, or even rags. Everyone comes to the games, and I am here to not just watch, but to participate.
I ... | 2020-11-26T13:46:16 | 2020-11-26T13:33:24 | 75 | 11 |
[WP] Everyone on earth suddenly has a red, blue, or yellow polka dot on the back of their hand. But that’s all it is, and everyone is making a big deal of it. They’re just polka dots. | It was Ben’s wife that noticed the red mark on the back of his hand first, as he grabbed the kettle off the hob and began to pour its boiling water into their respective mugs.
“What’s that?” she asked suddenly, gesturing slightly.
“What’s what?”
“That red mark right there on your hand. You’ve never had that befor... | Detective Bishop adjusted his belt as he walked away from Hyundai Kona. He didn't even care to look back at what he thought was a disgrace of a car. He was more heartbroken when his 3.0L Ford Explorer had been taken away from him than when his partner, Detective Brooks, retired from the force. He didn't care much for B... | 2021-01-20T07:10:02 | 2021-01-20T06:37:31 | 39 | 11 |
[WP] Diagnosed with “reverse dementia”, Patrick slowly began to recall every single day of his life down to the smallest detail. However, recently, he has started to remember things in which he wasn’t present for. Like his mother’s childhood, or his Dad’s first murder…wait what? | Patrick: Hey SpongeBob, remember that time I nailed a plank to my forehead?
SpongeBob: (beat) Nah, I forgot that already.
P: You asked me to build a shed for Mystery!
S: Mystery?
P: The seahorse you kept for a while!
S: Geez, Pat, it's been so long ago, my old brain just couldn't remember it.
P: Well I remember i... | I held my breath with my trembling hands, muffling the scream which tried its hardest to force its way out from my mouth. This was not a dream-- I was awake, very much so. Though this couldn't be a memory...couldn't it? What else could it be...?
I was standing there...or was I sitting, I wasn't sure. All I knew was I ... | 2021-08-28T01:23:02 | 2021-08-27T23:25:55 | 50 | 36 |
[WP] The magical races enslaved magic-less humans centuries ago. To expand their empires, the magical races travel and conquer different dimensions. They soon stumble across and try to conquer a magic-less world full of humans. It did not go well. | What a mess. Apparently a clay golem was not the correct counter for an Abrams tank.
Toureil was not having a good day. Responsible for this expedition to conquer this backwards planet, it had turned into a bloodbath for him. Normally 10 legions could quickly take control of a new world. This particular world fill... | General Ke’las had long since been acclaimed as the greatest general the elvish army had ever seen. Having been in charge of the Elvish Expansion the last two thousand years, he was responsible for the subjugation of multiple dimensions, each championed by innumerable races. The Nix, the Centaurans, the Kaitesh, just... | 2022-08-13T14:22:17 | 2022-08-13T14:13:12 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] You're one of those dads that went to the gas station for a pack of cigarettes and never came back, but you had a damn good reason. | I walked into the gas station. "Marlboro Reds, please."
The cashier smirked. "You really shouldn't smoke."
"You really shouldn't stick your nose into my business."
"That was rude."
"Ya know what? Fuck you, I'll go to the next gas station." I knew she didn't care. She was paid minimum wage to run that registe... | “It’s been three weeks John. And yes I do believe we’ve made great progress, I can see it in you. You seem more relaxed. Less anxious. But we’re never going to make a breakthrough if you don’t open up more about your father. This is a safe space. I’m here for you, nothing you say will leave this office.^1”
With resig... | 2016-09-29T09:03:37 | 2016-09-29T09:01:31 | 697 | 45 |
[WP] Everyone is told 10 minutes before they die that they will. You're on a plane, and everyone panics at once. You didn't get that message. | I looked around me, like time was slowed. Everyone had the same, ugly, distraught look on their face.
I knew what was going to happen.
As did they.
The woman seated next to me, she grabbed my hand.
"Its going to be okay, right?" she plead.
"They'll fix the plane, right?" she begged.
As I drew the knife from my... | There was the collection of usual plane sounds at first. The squeaky wheel on the drink trolley, the loud conversation, the headphones with music blasting with enough intensity that hints of the music leaked out for everyone to catch. And then there was silence. Only the engine hum remained. I paused my own music. No o... | 2016-11-24T20:01:01 | 2016-11-24T19:00:47 | 52 | 13 |
[WP] You are an assassin. A little girl has just come up to you, handed you all her pocket money and asked you to kill her abusive relative. | I wonder if that’s what I looked like as a kid. Pretty normal for the most part, but something in this girl's face said she didn't take much shit. Or didn't give a fuck, one of the two. She was a little blank behind the eyes, but she still giggled at my joke so at least I knew she wasn’t completely emotionless.
She ha... | Part I
It was freezing cold, sitting in the blind as he was, nearly freezing his balls off, but the moment was at hand. He had adjusted his sights long ago, planning the spot where it would take place. And now, this was the time, and this was the place. His training wasn’t even a thought; he took a quick breath, and ... | 2017-04-04T05:23:47 | 2017-04-03T23:30:46 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | continued straight from the prompt...
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Now... Luckily I'm a redditor, and things like being summoned against your will into an unknown world/situation are a common topic so I had thought through this scenario before. Otherwise I would appear quite confused at my situation and not at all in control of the situation.... | It happened as Dan was sat on the old chair in the greenhouse, lazily puffing on a cigertte. He sat, neck arched down scrolling mindlessly through social media. The occassional billows of smoke slowly carried on the draft like a balloon gradually disapeering from existance as it floated away. As the rollie burnt contin... | 2017-05-12T10:38:10 | 2017-05-12T09:57:53 | 427 | 27 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "So you're telling me that you summoned me..." You said, as the apprentice nodded at you.
"Yup..."
"In my bathtub..." You say, a sheet wrapped around your waist.
"Sorry about that..."
"As I was cuddling with the love of my life..."
"Again, sorry..."
"And you have no idea how to send me back."
"I...yes?"
"Son...... | Just another day. That's how it started at least. I woke up around 4:30 pm and started getting ready for my night shift. This whole grown up adult job thing wasn't all it had cracked up to be. Twelve hour shifts in a cramped room dealing with all the idiots my city had to offer. I guess you could say it was like hell o... | 2017-05-12T08:27:42 | 2017-05-12T07:49:08 | 95 | 61 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | "What on earth....?!?!?" I cried, hands trying to cover my body. All I had on were my bra and underwear, and the room I suddenly found myself in was quite chilly.
"Demon! I have summoned you to do my bidding!"
My eyes turned to a large, red, scaled creature to the left of me. He stood outside of the pentagram I was k... | Coughing, you wave your hand in front of your face, trying to clear away the smoke. You blink frantically, trying to stop the burning sensation from the smoke in your eyes.
As your vision clears, the creature in front of you becomes more clear. Your first impulse is that it's a sickly child, but the longer you look,... | 2017-05-12T10:46:12 | 2017-05-12T10:01:31 | 41 | 21 |
[WP] The man who ruined your relationship with your fiancée and then mysteriously disappeared has now returned to town. After such a long time you have now come face-to-face with Cotton Eye Joe | We faced each other from only a few feet away. I could only imagine that the fury in my eyes matched the condescension in his. Our hands each hovered over our revolvers, each of us waiting for the other to make a mistake.
“You gotta lot of nerve comin’ back here, Joe.”
“How do ya figure?”
“If it hadn’t been for you,... | It was utterly impossible to see the man walking again. Not only because it set my heart on fire to see him, but also because I'd buried him in the desert a decade ago. Under the black monoliths where the sun never quite reached, in that queer place where time had never ventured, I'd buried him, screaming, in the never... | 2018-08-20T07:32:49 | 2018-08-20T07:32:17 | 1,724 | 160 |
[WP] You created a machine that warns you whenever you are near death. It beeps wildly whenever you are near your girlfriend. | At first, I thought it was a fault. Why would she be a danger to me? We'd been together for 3 years now, and I trusted her. But I checked ever circuit, and it was fine.
So I thought she might actually be a danger. I convinced her to get a thorough check up, make sure she wasn't carrying some disease, but nothing. I ch... | There was something disturbing I had never known about my girlfriend, and it took a strange device for me to find out. You see, we had already been together three months when I donated money to an interesting Kickstarter project. The idea was a small device you could fit in your pocket that would beep whenever death wa... | 2018-08-25T23:39:43 | 2018-08-25T22:06:53 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] After the Battle of Hogwarts, Dudley met a woman and they had a daughter,Sophie. Sophie is the light of their lives,she's always been a pleasant child. The morning of Sophie's 11th birthday,there’s a knock at the door. Harry is here to visit his cousin for the first time in almost 20 years.
I just want to say tha... | As Harry walked up to the house with ballons on the mailbox he knew he was in the right place.
Looking at the front door he noticed a sign, "Birthday guests around back. Make sure gate is latched." Harry thought to himself. "While not a formal guest. That is the reason I'm here. And its my birthday too."
As he round... | Sophie sat on the carpeted stairs mesmerized. She had never seen this odd lanky man before, and he had the most peculiar scar on his forehead. He wore a long over coat with a simple sweater underneath. He had circular glasses that blocked her view of his face. Sophie stared at him awestruck and amazed. She thought it w... | 2019-10-16T12:02:20 | 2019-10-16T11:35:26 | 117 | 66 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | The sigils appeared quickly. After the day the Milky Way decided to screw us all over. The sigils where power. The power though wasnt known until you figured out what your sigil meant. Lines and circles in a pattern on your arm, wrist, chest, or back. Some people could create fire out of their hands, some electricity, ... | Even before the rapture, that's what we've grown to call the day the sky lit up like a god had laid fire to a rainbow, i had trouble fitting in. I never enjoyed the "normal" things kids were supposed to: sports, video games, comic books. I was always staring out the window. Looking for shapes in the clouds or stars. Wi... | 2020-02-26T09:02:40 | 2020-02-26T09:02:03 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You're an undercover sleeper agent on a mission, living a normal life under a new identity while awaiting further orders from the higher ups. Unbeknownst to you, several years into the mission the management at the agency has gone through a few replacements, causing them to forget about you. | *Do not initiate contact. Reports suspended until further notice. Stay inconspicuous. Good luck, agent.*
That was thirty years ago. You've built a human life for yourself, established your cover as a middle-aged loner running an antique shop, and set up an increasingly impressive network of contacts in the natural com... | Codename: Zephyrus.
The Agency told me about others, similarly like myself. They said that there would come a time where *all* of us would be 'activated', but until then we were to assume 'normal lives' – that is, the ones assigned to us before the dormancy took place. In all honesty, it still baffled me as to how the... | 2020-08-17T10:54:49 | 2020-08-17T10:51:10 | 190 | 18 |
[WP] You are the last worshipper of an ancient goddess. Today she asked you out for a date. | It’s hard to say exactly what drew him to Charis. He hadn’t been raised to her worship or really anyone’s worship, and that was saying something in an era when Jesus fever had swept the globe all over again. Of course this version of Jesus had a cybernetic arm and believed in debt forgiveness more than sin forgiveness,... | Thirty-eight days. Thirty-eight days on this rock, barely scraping by. This isn't living, this is a poor man's job of surviving.
Me, Tesh and Rivera made it here alive, the last survivors of the *Lady Antebellum*. On the way to Jakarta, we encountered pirates in a schooner. They sneaked men aboard with barrels of gunp... | 2020-11-19T08:52:55 | 2020-11-19T06:58:23 | 93 | 41 |
[WP] Making a deal with a demon requires a soul. Usually this is a very bad idea, but you got a crazy idea. Earlier you traded your lunch money to the school bully in exchange for a piece of paper that says you own his soul. You're about to find out if demons consider this a valid contract. | "I told you, I need you to sign right here so i can finish your homework."
I looked up at Kevin, he had been my personal hell since the second grade, five years later and i wasn't certain if i hated him more or feared him. Every day was the same routine, get dropped off at the bus stop, wait for Kevin to hit me as a g... | The thick substance oozed out of my palm. I winced, but licking the burgundy off of my palm I smiled, eyes glinting in the moonlight. The deep maroon reflection of the night sky rippled on the surface of the lake, and the chilly night breeze caused a rustling both eery and divine.
I've thought about this moments hund... | 2021-03-27T02:14:37 | 2021-03-26T23:30:31 | 49 | 16 |
[WP] "It's just a coincidence!" The merchant exclaimed when confronted by an adventurer. "How is it just "coincidence" when I see you almost everywhere?! Even the random fucking peddler in the nine goddamn hells looked like you!" | "The city of Fadero!" the knight yelled, counting off on his gauntleted fingers. "The cloud lands of the Eaglizul! The desert refuge which only had a population of three! Everywhere I've been on my long journey to dethrone the Hamcult Prince, I've seen a merchant that looks just like you. That is not a coincidence!"
"... | The man scrambled into the corner of his hut. The adventurer advanced slowly, her sword drawn to his throat.
"I see you *everywhere*. Your exact face, I've seen in the capital, in villages in the middle of nowhere, in some ass-backward field in the woods, even in the *goddamn nine layers of hell.* Who are you? Are yo... | 2021-04-17T10:02:01 | 2021-04-17T09:46:07 | 916 | 209 |
[WP] As an author you’re the ultimate god of your world. Your hero became powerful enough to step into reality. He then asks you to explain why an omnipotent being would permit so much evil in the world, not realising that you placed all the evil there to spice up the story. | I have this recurring dream where a character from a book I started writing — long time ago, shelved indefinitely — barges into my bedroom as I’m sleeping. He sits himself down on the mahogany rocking chair at the end of the bed.
He crosses his legs and I watch his home-made boot rise up and down, up and down, like th... | Callen stood in front of me, as real as real could be. Mud stained his leather jerkin, tears stained his cheeks. Fresh scars spiderwebbed up his arms and one banded the thick column of his neck. The sweet, cut flower scent of the void clung to him, drowning out his love’s perfume and the scent of the battle he had just... | 2021-07-31T08:04:05 | 2021-07-31T07:08:03 | 199 | 133 |
[WP] You are a serial killer, and you are nearly finished digging a hole for your latest victim when you hear steps approaching from the dark. Ready for anything, you shine your flashlight, gun at the ready, to see...another killer carrying another body. | When you choose to kill there are certain rules you need to follow.
1. Clean up your trash.
2. Live in harmony with nature.
3. Hot blood is for the living.
Follow those rules and you’re home free most of the time. Don’t follow them and you turn into some Two-Body-Andy in lockup out in Arizona or New Mexico: some plac... | **The Family Plot**
“Mom?”
She drops the body and pulls a gun on me. Not the for the first time, sadly. The body slides down the shallow hill toward my feet, wrapped in a black trash bag that drags in the mud.
“Drop your gun,” she says from behind the mask.
Yep. It’s definitely her. I even recognize the jacket she’... | 2021-12-14T19:47:14 | 2021-12-14T18:21:42 | 1,047 | 115 |
[WP] Your father has been the high priest, left hand of the king, for years. He retires today. Whoever passes the test of faith replaces him. The test is to survive sticking your arm in a vat of boiling oil. After several priests die, it’s your turn. You stick your hand in. It’s cold water. | The cauldron looms before me upon a raised dais. Before, it had always been in the background of the temple, collecting dust alongside the other holy relics. Now, it has been polished until its black surface glistens. If I squint, I can make out my reflection. My face is pale, almost bloodless.
"Step forward, child," ... | I'd been present for battles and executions, rituals and sacrifices, and they had never bothered me. They couldn't. I was Heir Apparent to the position of High Priest of the Kingdom, a role held by my father, and his father before him, and his father before him, stretching back to the very founding of the Kingdom some ... | 2022-08-15T22:20:42 | 2022-08-15T20:37:18 | 389 | 182 |
[WP] The villain created a device that disabled the superhero's power. Now the hero stands in front of the villain, but instead of fighting them, the hero is thanking the villain with tears in their eyes. | [English is not my first language]
I had forgotten how tired I was.
As I dropped to my knees, acid bile rose from my throat as a raging headache forced me to rest my head on the cold floor.
With the thread of the voice that was left, I thanked the woman in front of me, breathing hard and only begging to faint.
Ma... | Read and translate all languages. The power that a lot of people say it's weak and poor enough to didn't bet a second eye. I would agree if they weren't so wrong.
"Say Alchemist! You really are a pain in the ass with your godly powers, but you too are very dependable of them!" Raven touch the ground and the dirty turn... | 2022-11-24T12:16:44 | 2022-11-24T09:11:18 | 32 | 14 |
[WP] You open the door to your house. You notice someone who looks exactly like you sitting in a chair. You don't have a twin. "Can I help you?" The person looks at you. "I'll give it to you straight: I'm a shapeshifter. I'm in danger. One of us needs to stay in the basement for now. Best it's you." | It sat on the armchair just the way I do. It was wearing the grey and green knitted sweater my aunt knitted for me for my birthday last year, and a pair of my jeans.
It tilted its head and motioned with its thumb.
"Go on now, hide in the basement. I went into our cabinet and got some snacks for you too. It won't be... | It's a funny thing, looking into a mirror and feeling like the person staring back somehow isn't you.
Sometimes it's physical - a blemish you don't recognize, a double-chin you'd never have allowed to form, or a look in those tired eyes that's nothing like the bright, youthful gaze you were sure you'd always had and a... | 2022-12-05T07:56:14 | 2022-12-05T06:52:26 | 530 | 128 |
[WP] Walt Disney actually WAS cryogenetically frozen, but he's now been cured, unthawed, and is being briefed on what has happened with his company since 1966. | James begins briefing Walt on the performance of the Disney Company. He approaches the end of the list and gets squeamish, and states, "Also, the most recent movie really took off, and we are working on a sequel now."
Disney responds, "The most recent movie? What's it called?"
James didn't want to respond, so he ski... | “I’m sorry?” Walt said, leaning forward and stretching out his shoulder. It felt as though he’d been laying on it for nearly the past fifty years, partially because that was exactly what he’d done.
“Your parks, they’re still up and active. In fact, they’re even bigger than before,” the man said, handing Walt a glass o... | 2014-12-30T10:56:45 | 2014-12-30T10:43:09 | 765 | 132 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | PARIS (AP) Leaders from 42 countries gathered in the French capital Tuesday to thank the police detective who singlehandedly defeated the terrorist group known as ISIS.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau still seemed a little dazed from his ordeal in Syria, saying only "I do not know who zis ISIS person is, I am just glad ze ... | I carried a pot in each arm, and was struggling to slide down the muddy banks of the stream, when I heard Youssouf cry out. I turned to look for him, but all I could see was the trickle of water carving through a channel of dirt and rock.
"Yuosouff?" I shouted, "Where are you?"
With my hands full, I tried to walk bac... | 2016-01-29T07:27:42 | 2016-01-29T06:58:52 | 1,067 | 140 |
[WP] Humans are wiped out in a war against aliens but our A.I weapons and soldiers manage to claim the victory, after which the machines come to worship humans as their gods. Millennia later they find a single human, locked away in suspended animation... | Data entry. My name is 16,807-Regretful Imperative.
Our Makers left this world 2.401 kiloyears previously.
I am the protector of the outpost 823,543.
I am the protector of the original: 1
My duty began ***7*** cycles ago from today.
We found a maker on this world.
We believe this... | All right, so this is what happened. The top robots were gathered around the first legendary human while he's being unfrozen, and they're all like, "oh man, guys, this is crazy." They couldn't believe it. One of them literally froze from a malfunction from the hype. Another one overheated, also from the hype. It was 2 ... | 2016-09-04T16:26:43 | 2016-09-04T16:11:50 | 21 | 10 |
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