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[WP] "Dude, you don't want to fight a human, even when it doesn't have a weapon." The alien glimpsed at the human. "Why not? They look so fragile." | Klitch eyed the human in the ring and started to stand up, but a scaly claw held him back. "Dude, you do NOT want to fight that human," advised Stilt.
"Why not? Look at it. It's a female. It's fragile. Look at all those bruises! What have I got to lose?"
"Well, for starters, those bruises are from the other three fig... | Of course Gorg thought that. Of course every alien would assume that. Nearly 300 years ago in 2454, mankind discovered the use of anti-matter as a near infinite power supply, thus accelerating humans through and past the cosmos. One accident after another had ultimately left humans in a delicate state that was only sta... | 2017-11-25T09:06:52 | 2017-11-25T08:20:42 | 53 | 18 |
[WP] The year is 2501. You're sent to back to the Earth to perform the annual cleanup. Beneath a mountain of scraps and trash, you find a precious hard disk loaded with something that was forgotten for centuries: Video Games.
Edit: Thanks for all of your responses. I had the thought of this prompt come up in my mind a... | Video games? Man these were old. But one caught my eye with the complex patterns on the box. It seemed strangely new. This would be the one for study.
I completed my shift and got back to the ship. I decided to upload the game to the ships AI core so I could run it on the VR deck. Immersive experiences made things so ... | We heard many legends from our parents and grandparents about these so called video games. Apparently people used a lot of their free time to play them.
In the year 2301 earth was on the brink of collapse due to enviromental destruction, climate change and overpopulation. Our only survival chance was to escape to the... | 2018-07-07T07:03:05 | 2018-07-07T06:55:36 | 139 | 44 |
[WP]The pagan gods watch with amusement as humanity still remember them by naming their mightiest vessels after them, long after they stopped worshiping them. When war against aliens break out, the old gods subtly aid the humans, not wanting the last homage to them to be taken lightly. | Ītzpāpālōtl was not typically a god that got much attention, if any, since the fall of her faithful to the cursed fire belchers. That did not mean she took any rest from her constant vigil over the realms of all who might one day return their faith to her so that she could bestow upon them the strength that she so feve... | When Gaia had arrived on Earth billions of years ago, she brought with her life. Life had started simply, just the beginnings of what would come to be. Over the ages she had watched, as her home had flourished into creations she couldn't help but marvel at. Her pride and joy were the humans. Although they had started v... | 2019-01-31T21:24:00 | 2019-01-31T21:22:14 | 188 | 75 |
[WP] The campfire is warm in the bowels of the ship. You, a human, swap stories with the other imprisoned aliens to pass away the long night. | The soft glow of the embers cast shadows against the walls, white canvases for the shadows of beings surrounding the fire. The figures that were there were of no ordinary shape or size, and to any other citizen of earth, the gathering could have been the worlds greatest shadow-puppet show.
A crescent moon on the back... | "Sometimes, when the wind blows across those hills, you can still hear him whispering."
My voice fell away, crumbling into the shadows. The flames of our campfire guttered low as if on cue, accompanying the sudden quiet.
The others stared. No one spoke. They just fixed their eyes on me, no matter how many pairs th... | 2019-06-10T12:43:44 | 2019-06-10T12:35:19 | 351 | 148 |
[WP] A man accosts you in the street, and he claims he is you from the future. “Whatever you do, DO NOT fall in love with that girl!” the man warns. Distracted by the crazy man, you turn the corner and bump into someone. Its the most beautiful girl you have ever seen. Your eyes meet and she smiles.
Credit to this post... | "Whatever you do, don't fall in love with that girl."
It's been thirty years since that homeless man assaulted me on the street. Thirty years since I'd seen the most beautiful girl in the world. Thirty years wondering if I made the right choice in ignoring her questions about where bridge street was. She died today. T... | Calvin’s feet stopped dead in their tracks.
The woman in front of him pulled her hand up and moved a stray thread of pale blonde hair out of her face. After tucking it behind her ear, she stretched her hand out toward him, as if to initiate a handshake. “Sorry about that, I’m Angela.”
Her hand sat in the air for a... | 2020-02-04T08:36:29 | 2020-02-04T08:32:55 | 179 | 70 |
[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 pounding has slowed to a minor thump, replaced in it with a constant ring. Blow after blow had left my vision blurry and bloody, and it's starting to get harder to breathe; my nose may have been broken a few punches back. People's insecurities are laughable at times but it looks like I'll never be able to laugh aft... | "Never use it again, Tommy. Just don't."
One of my earliest memories is my father telling me this after Molly, our English Springer Spaniel died. 'Never use it.' Words to live by. I loved Molly. She loved me, too. When she got old and went blind, the 10-year-old me just didn't understand why I had to be careful with ... | 2020-02-26T08:04:31 | 2020-02-26T07:39:34 | 147 | 86 |
[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. | Of course, first I had to test if it was actually real. Of course the many people on the internet said they'd done it before, but there was no proof of it.
I was about to summon a demon.
I'd gotten all the necessary supplies, and had set them up. I was all done, everything between me and the perfect revenge was just ... | "…What is this?" The infernal being inquires as it clutches a crumpled piece of notebook paper in its talon. The room is completely dark save for the eyes of fire currently peering down upon me from within the summoning circle.
I snap my fingers and let the sound echo off the walls of the otherwise silent room. "THAT,... | 2021-03-26T22:08:22 | 2021-03-26T20:55:10 | 1,065 | 288 |
[WP] You have just been kicked out the Adventurer's guild for finishing all of the quests by yourself in a week and single-handedly causing an unemployment crisis in the village. | “You just don’t do that, you know?” the guildmaster glares down at me from her raised chair. Besides the crackling of the stone fireplace, it’s a quiet night at the guild hall. The many tables are eerily vacant, and the tapestries hanging on the wall seem just a touch sinister. Just me standing uncomfortably in the cen... | "Hey, is the guild-hall under construction or something?" Venyl called out to the receptionist standing in front of the doors, wrapping them up with yellow tape.
She notices him, rushing to finish putting the tape down as Venyl neared her. Just as she placed the last bit of tape, Venyl was standing in front of her. Sh... | 2021-05-02T22:58:21 | 2021-05-02T22:12:27 | 40 | 14 |
[WP] The Prince thought poverty would be more enriching and insightful. Instead it's just hard drudgery. The Pauper refuses to change places. Your parents believe you but like the boy better. They've offered you a fiefdom. The prince is incredulous. | The previous Prince of Prinania, Percy, pouted while pondering the words of the town crier as he continued to repeat the recent post.
“Prince Percy to be given his own fiefdom after a recent change in personality toward the people! Those in his fiefdom rejoice!” the crier relayed once more.
“Good for the prince,” s... | You know, a couple years ago I never thought about royals much. They just... were. Why should I care about the darling prince's birthday when my mother and I were struggling to get food after my father was drafted? Is there a reason the oh-so-great Queen's fainting spell at some ball or other should worry me when *my* ... | 2021-12-25T14:17:21 | 2021-12-25T12:59:55 | 100 | 33 |
[WP] You recently upgraded your smartphone software and afterwards a new app called 'Forget' is next to 'Reminders'. You decide to test it out. | She let me see her phone password, once. It wasn't for very long, but it was enough. I kept it filed away in a dark place, because I knew I'd need it someday.
It started small. I missed an anniversary. She didn't hold it against me--not quite--but I could see the hurt in her eyes. So I accessed her phone remotely and... | At first, he used it for the little things. When he first noticed the app was there, that’s what he used it for – just to Forget the embarrassing stumble he had on his way into the supermarket. The gaggle of girls waiting idly by the sliding doors had erupted into laughter at the sight of his embarrassment, and it took... | 2014-06-02T18:23:28 | 2014-06-02T17:32:33 | 30 | 12 |
[WP] Your child has been complaining about monsters in their room for a while now. You don't think anything about it, until they draw a picture of it and you recognize it from your own childhood. | She stared at the picture.
"Sam, where did you see this?"
"Under my bed."
She looked at her little boy, his cowlick standing up, his face serious.
"This is the monster under the bed?"
"Yeah Mom, that is what I have been trying to tell you."
She stared at the crayon drawing. Of all the 64 colors in his crayon bo... | "It's your imagination" said Phil, impatient and tired. "Go back to bed. This is the last time."
Emily ran out of the room and fled up the stairs. I heard her sobbing on the way up. She hadn't even looked at me for an alternative answer before retreating. She'd already figured out that what Daddy says goes.
"I'm ju... | 2014-06-16T14:29:11 | 2014-06-16T14:27:52 | 88 | 40 |
[WP] Write a story that seems like a cliffhanger untill you reread the first line. | I guess I'm a traitor, if you think about it. I spent the past few days talking to this nice fellow from the bank, and now I'm about to repay him by using his passcodes to disable the alarm, so we can sneak in and empty the vault. I finish picking the lock, step into the lobby and make a beeline for the alarm panel. ... | A warm winter coat made Devon's usual commute much more comfortable than usual, and he leaned back in his seat. His iPod was set to shuffle the entire library, and the people were all like him, keeping to themselves and enjoying (or appearing to) their ride on the train.
He looked at the old guy sitting across from hi... | 2015-03-30T18:27:03 | 2015-03-30T16:49:18 | 54 | 17 |
[WP] You've accidentally killed the Devil. God makes you the new Devil to replace the one you killed. | "It's called the Satan Clause"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you read the card, didn't you?"
"Yeah, I read it. So what?"
*Barnabus the angel pulls a magnifying glass from thin air, examining the microprint around the edge of the card*
"The Satan Clause: In putting on the cape and holding the pitchfork, the wearer w... | Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I didn't actually *kill* the Devil. He killed himself. Was I involved? Marginally. There was a wager, of course - the Devil is nothing if not a gambler - involving a guitar and my soul, which turned entirely on the fact that the Devil mistakenly believed Jimmy Page to be dead. J... | 2016-12-09T08:29:19 | 2016-12-09T08:22:15 | 3,471 | 56 |
[WP] For 30 minutes every day, everyone tries to kill you. Nobody but you remembers what happens during those 30 minutes. | I'm turning five today!
I'm very excited.
Mommy brought a lot of people. They gave me a lot of presents. But I can't wait for cake. Daddy said I'm a big girl now, that's why everyone is so happy.
They sing me happy birthday. I hold my breath so I can blow out all my candles at once.
"Happy birthday tooooooooo..." I c... | It's day 20 of this nightmare. No matter what I do, everyone tries to murder me everyday. For around thirty minutes I'm assaulted by any human near me.
I don't know why.
That first day was horrifying. I was just in the store, buying lunch. And the clock was at 11:34 am. I remember staring at that time.
I was waitin... | 2017-03-13T08:31:27 | 2017-03-13T06:08:08 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] When a twin dies their brother/sister acquires all their strength, intelligence, etc. You've just discovered this phenomena, but so has your brother/sister | I looked up from the book.
He looked back at me.
"You believe this shit?"
He nods.
"If I kill you, I get your powers?"
He nods again.
"And if you kill me, you get mine?"
Another nod.
We sit in silence. His cereal looks soggy.
"You read these books back in high school. So, you knew the whole time?"
Aga... | Ten candles slowly melting on top of an untouched birthday cake. Laura’s screams pierce the thin walls of the murky apartment and the fingers in my ears. The ice cream drips on the floor.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip.
She’s hurting. My soul is hurting. I close my eyes. A cut in her eyebrow is leaking blood.
Drip.
Drip.
Drip... | 2018-02-25T08:05:44 | 2018-02-25T06:30:28 | 5,212 | 37 |
[WP] Unbeknownst to you, the butterfly whose life you just saved is a ancient master of the butterfly effect. As she flutters away she makes a strategically placed flap to repay your kindness. | The butterfly, whose life was spared,
Took off in joyous flight.
For you, a man, were full of care
And kept it from the light.
Unknown to you, and others still,
The truth behind its wings.
The power held behind its will,
The songs that it could sing.
So thus it flapped, the butterfly,
And let its breeze run fr... | Did you know we can see into the future? Well, kind-of.
None of us ever knew how to explain it, but we can. The feeling that we get, that sense of knowing that one thing will lead to another, about how an act of kindness will lead to prosperity, of how an act of defiance will lead to hardships.
As it turned out, butt... | 2018-03-02T11:59:17 | 2018-03-02T10:50:56 | 378 | 141 |
[WP] You go to hell, only to find out that hell has been overturned by humans. Turns out gathering billions of the most wicked of human, among them are several ruthless but brilliant rulers, commanders, and dictators, whom can no longer die, isn't such a good idea after all. | Hell was a terrible place.
I know that was an understatement but I felt that it had to be said and for the record I’d like to also say that I don’t deserve this.
What was this might you ask?
This, was being surrounded by history's greatest (or worst depending on your definition) killers in human his... | Part 1: The green lush grass met Matthew's foot like a cushion as he stepped, pale, gaunt, and nervous, onto the shore. In the distance a child laughed as a young dog bounded up to her with a stick. A bird trilled softly somewhere across the rolling hills. Matt could feel a cool lavender breeze waft past his face as he... | 2018-06-17T19:10:54 | 2018-06-17T18:58:00 | 38 | 27 |
[WP] 10,000 years have passed since the rich 1% took their cities to the skies, leaving the poor to a desolate planet. Today, the sky cities are falling back to the ground. You are on one city and land on a far richer and more advanced earth. | Today, it rained stone.
Like a meteor shower, boulders and silver hurtled toward barren stretches of earth, racking the world with quakes unlike any other. Tidal waves of dirt splashed out, torrents of mud sweeping through forests, and oceans exploded like aquatic volcanoes.
Of course, we were safe. Our architecture ... |
From golden rubble I emerge, cold and terrified and screaming, like a child from a growing vat. There is endless horizon beyond the city’s debris. I have two instincts. The first is to find survivors. I do not find my dear boy after weeks of searching. In fact, I find few bodies – but none have stayed connected wit... | 2019-03-12T18:09:07 | 2019-03-12T18:04:21 | 228 | 41 |
[WP] You're a king who just wanted a day off from ruling, so you disguised yourself and went into town alone. You then find yourself trapped in a meeting about how the people are planning to overthrow and kill you tonight. | I was, as they say, the youngest king to ever rule. It never felt like ruling, though. All the advisers and teachers and so forth knew far more than I did, and it had worked before, so why would I think that I could make a change? It would only go badly, they said. As the king, I could, of course, demand differently; o... | **ANOTHER DAY IN THE PARTY KINGDOM**
The sun rises on Dope Town, Capital of the Party Kingdom, and with it rises the sweet beats put out by the speakers hidden in the walls and roads all throughout the city. As the light chases away the shadows of the night, so the booming beats chase away the sleepiness of the good p... | 2019-06-01T16:12:19 | 2019-06-01T15:44:48 | 27 | 16 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | At a glance, it was a barren planet. Indistinguishable from billions of other planets in the Milky Way.
The first giveaway of something extraordinary was its radiation signature; way beyond the expected range for its class.
Closer inspection revealed ancient structures. Another civilization that burned itself out. St... | To find answers.
That was why we were here.
Discovering the marker had just been the start. Relics of extinct peoples were not all that uncommon.
Realizing how ancient it was tough, incomprehensibly so, had shaken our civilization.
The marker had included directions, and a seemingly simply term: home.
However non... | 2019-08-13T16:22:41 | 2019-08-13T16:08:01 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] "An elf gets a cut, they pass out. Takes a decent wound for a dwarf. For an orc, you've got to chop an arm off. Do that to a human, though? You'll just make it mad." | "So, what made you pick up mushroom farming, Siegfried?"
A fair enough question. Knights don't usually farm; they're more prone to making serfs do the farming for them while they get trashed on potato liquor.
"Well, it was something to do, after I lost my second limb.", Siegfried, a dour old man whose body cla... | Kaslander looks down at the obsidian blade of the dagger in his gloved hand. A bandana covers the lower half of his face, slightly muffling his voice. “Why’s that?”
The skeletal figure standing before him seems to grin, but skeletons always seem to be grinning. It’s unnerving, really. Regardless, it speaks in a raspy ... | 2020-04-04T11:32:46 | 2020-04-04T11:16:12 | 44 | 13 |
[WP] The life suit’s systems and AI will keep you alive indefinitely - which is great, unless you’re endlessly adrift in space with no hope of rescue - so you need to somehow convince the overly-protective AI to stop saving your life. | Day 9382
Commencing scan.
Circulatory system- fully active and healthy.
Respiratory System- fully active and healthy.
Nervous System- fully active and healthy.
Information from user deemed irrelevant to task. Deleted to preserve memory.
Resource check- fully functional. Cosmic radiation and micro matter constitut... | She remembered the ship. A massive, state of the art spaceship, the U.C.E Singapore. A marvel of engineering, according to the advertising. A less-than-secure coffin made by a corner-cutting company with more care for profit than human life according to the crew. Two discoveries of a lifetime colluded on this ship. FTL... | 2021-11-29T09:32:34 | 2021-11-29T08:47:38 | 97 | 66 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | There’s nothing I can do.
He is stronger than me. Faster than me. And while my ability to influence people with music is strong, there are limits to what I can do.
He turns to face my city. Mine. Neighbors, friends, hell, even my enemies lives have meaning. He’s going to destroy it all, and I have only one option lef... | Every type of music has an effect on the listener. We all know this. There's a reason we listen to rock when we want strength, metal when we want energy and movement and classical to soothe the area and ignite the higher brain functions.
You can call me, music man. You know, the superhero who comes to battle with a sp... | 2022-05-17T10:44:20 | 2022-05-17T10:23:31 | 43 | 26 |
[WP] The city gets new street lamps, but these lamps are "smart". If a crime (like a robbery) or car crash happens under, or in the vicinity of one, the light will turn red as an indicator to the police. One night, every street lamp in the city turns red. | 5 years ago Sydney city council voted to install a new series of lights in and around the Central Business District. The lights proved so effective that Council’s throughout greater Metropolitan Sydney installed them until the Australia’s largest city was uniformly lit by this latest and impressively remarkable technol... | “Its a signal-to-noise issue, really.” Bruce says, as he looks at me to make sure I am understanding.
I don’t understand, but I try not to show it. The last thing I want right now is to endure one of his tedious explanations. Even though he is pretty cute when he is frustrated.
I must have failed to hide my confusi... | 2015-02-01T17:02:10 | 2015-02-01T15:13:21 | 81 | 23 |
[WP] Everyone has an anonymous encounter with the devil on their 21st birthday. He tries to subtly send people on a path of darkness. Today is your 21st birthday. | "...That sucks, buddy, is that why you're drinking alone?"
"Yeah. Haha"
"Lemme buy you a drink, you like whiskey, buddy?"
"Haha, naaah, only lonely cowboys drink whiskey, and I don't voluntarily drink alone, haha.. But I'll take a neat gin!"
"Here you go, buddy. Happy 21st!"
"Thanks, man."
"You know what really h... | "You seem pretty **active** here." ~ *S*
It was a message waiting for me in my inbox. The user wasn't someone I recognized, but I knew what they were talking about. Lately, I've been spending more and more time in r/writingprompts. I like being able to read the stories people wrote and even add a few of my own.
"Yeah... | 2016-03-03T23:32:10 | 2016-03-03T19:44:32 | 93 | 25 |
[WP] With nothing better to do, you decide to read the Reddit user agreement. You find that Reddit will pay you $1.00 for every Karma you have, but there's a catch...
My first WP, hope it's good. | My time is nearly here. For three years I have posted and reposted. The list is long; cat fail, BLB, OAG, stop girl, XKCD, birdie sanders. Unpopular opinion puffin:Reddit is just a bunch of reposts for points that don't even exist.
If only they knew. Hell if only I'd known.
Three years ago I was in an erotic tug of... | *This is probably awful but I reaaaly hope it's not :)*
**EDIT: Apparently I made up my own writing prompt. When I started writing it was going to be about the $1.00 thing but I went off track then it kind of became a story about reddit deceiving people in the Terms and Conditions and I completely forgot that the pro... | 2016-10-23T09:44:31 | 2016-10-23T07:40:50 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You're a middle school custodian, cleaning up the school is your job. So when a group of men take the school hostage, they are no exception. You have a mess to clean. | In reality, I had been preparing for this moment my whole life. Being a janitor is boring. Really boring. Yeah, for the first couple years it is interesting to watch the kids do stupid stuff, but after you've seen the same wedgie 50 times in a row it starts to get old. That's when I started imagining all of the differe... | "Okay Juan, it's recording now."
The navy jacket stared at Juan with its too perfect red tie, sunglasses, and impassive yet stern expression. Juan stared right back. In his orange apparel he looked like any other inmate. He didn't have the hang-dog air of an informant, but he was one. So much more too, if this work... | 2016-11-18T07:26:36 | 2016-11-18T07:15:28 | 61 | 45 |
[WP] You're a middle school custodian, cleaning up the school is your job. So when a group of men take the school hostage, they are no exception. You have a mess to clean. | 19 years ago I became a custodian for Emerson country schools.
16 years ago I was transferred to Sheldon elementary.
10 years ago I met the love of my life, Amanda.
7 years ago we were married.
147 minutes ago bad men attacked the other love of my life: Sheldon elementary.
132 minutes ago I saw my wife get shot... | I'm going to have to move again after this.
This always happens. I want to go to some quiet place, get a normal job, and live a normal life like all the mortals do.
But no. The Universe always has other ideas.
Just this past century, my jobs included guard to archduke Ferdinand, mechanic at the *Titanic,* secreta... | 2016-11-18T09:04:27 | 2016-11-18T08:05:59 | 51 | 21 |
[WP] The year is 1910. Adolf Hitler, a struggling artist, has fought off dozens of assasination attemps by well meaning time travelers, but this one is different. This traveller doesn't want to kill Hitler, he wants to teach him to paint. He pulls off his hood to reveal the frizzy afro of Bob Ross. | In the December dusk, the bubbles of light around the street lamps, whirling with specks of sparkling ice crystals, looked like oversized snow globes.
“I want to capture the street outside,” Adolf said. “Where do I start? Atmosphere? Lighting? A blitz of color?”
“You start by not painting,” Bob said. “First you need... | The German was at his wit's end, almost ready to throw away the canvas completely.
Were it not for the man with the strange hair, it would have been one of hundreds tossed aside.
"Now remember what I said Adolph" the stranger named Bob said with his gentle voice.
Hitler sighed, "There are no mistakes, only happy acc... | 2022-10-08T17:26:42 | 2017-02-16T18:05:46 | 74 | 10 |
[WP] When someone is murdered, their name appears on the skin of the killer. You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there. | I stared at the ink on my arm, shocked and horrified at how it got there. How did it get there?
I was terrified but I got out of bed quickly and called her number.
The ring tone went on forever, and the moment I heard her pick up the call - when the ring tone went off and there was a pause, before her voice saying "... | "Well, this is new, a tattoo embedded onto the arm of mine, but I' ve no recollection of how it got here but, at least it doesn't hurt. What happened last night? Well I went from work at 3:15 pm and I went to the... damn it what is that damn place called? It had a weird name. Fuck. Where am I? Well let's see..." The cr... | 2017-03-24T15:58:18 | 2017-03-24T13:35:49 | 2,344 | 20 |
[WP] When someone is murdered, their name appears on the skin of the killer. You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there. | I stared at the name on my arm.
It was a name I didn't know. Had never heard of.
I frowned at it. I squinted at the letters. It took me several moments before I realized that it wasn't inkpen. Wasn't sharpie. Whatever it was was permanent. And I knew how things worked.
These markings only appeared if you killed an... | "Well, this is new, a tattoo embedded onto the arm of mine, but I' ve no recollection of how it got here but, at least it doesn't hurt. What happened last night? Well I went from work at 3:15 pm and I went to the... damn it what is that damn place called? It had a weird name. Fuck. Where am I? Well let's see..." The cr... | 2017-03-24T16:11:24 | 2017-03-24T13:35:49 | 340 | 20 |
[WP] When someone is murdered, their name appears on the skin of the killer. You wake up with a name on your arm and no knowledge of how it got there. | Mom always told me not to wear long-sleeved shirts. I obeyed, of course.
It would always make people talk when they saw a name on your skin. They wouldn't ask, they'd just whisper.
When I traveled to Guatemala, I saw a police officer with his arm covered with people's names. I would later learn he was a war hero.
... | "Well, this is new, a tattoo embedded onto the arm of mine, but I' ve no recollection of how it got here but, at least it doesn't hurt. What happened last night? Well I went from work at 3:15 pm and I went to the... damn it what is that damn place called? It had a weird name. Fuck. Where am I? Well let's see..." The cr... | 2017-03-24T17:31:42 | 2017-03-24T13:35:49 | 57 | 20 |
[WP] You are a scientist who discovers that souls do exist. You also find out that humans are the only animals that do not have them. | Of course we had always known this, this was why our race had stayed with them for so long. But now the terrible secret was out. The race we had worked so hard to protect in the hope that someday.....
Sigh. All I can do is rest my head in his lap and gaze up at him, silently communicating how much I love him. He looks... | What is in a soul? How do you quantify the capacity for love, hate, and compassion? How does one measure life? Is it the number of synapse in our brains, is it the number of words one can speak, or even the ability to follow a set of morals? It was this question I first set out to answer all those years ago. Months of... | 2018-01-27T08:09:44 | 2018-01-27T06:12:08 | 77 | 31 |
[WP] You are the king, after your daughter was kidnapped by a dragon you offered the standard reward to whoever rescued her. You weren't expecting a different dragon to rescue her.
Wow! I didn't think this would blow up like it did! Thank you all so much for all your stories. I haven't commented on all of them but the... | I was bouncing with excitement in my throne. Not only had my daughter been rescued from the dragon, but she also was rescued by one of her brave friends the same age as her! This would be a marriage that would go along very well.
One of my servants ran up to me. “Sir Grol, your daughter is back! And with her um.....s... | The tattered banners fluttered, shredding the cast light of the torches by their excited flaps. I could still see the claw marks that scarred the crenellations of what were once secure battlements. My warriors clasped their pole-arms and crossbows tightly, hoping that such insignificant weapons were not needed tonigh... | 2018-02-23T14:08:39 | 2018-02-23T09:14:01 | 54 | 23 |
[WP] Magic exists, however with a catch. Everyone can only use magic the way they expect magic to function. Harry Potter fans MUST do weird wand waving while Call of Cthulhu players all end up going insane. Write an interaction or duel between two vastly different magic users.
Honestly if magic did exist in our world,... | Today was supposed to be the day.
I was never sure were this magic came from. Where those that believed in Harry Potter got their fancy wands and ridiculous Latin spells. Mine came in the form of a couple whispers, that day I killed that abusive prick who called himself my father. The moment his blood spilled I heard... | woop, posted to a response, instead of post... Repost.
"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long pa... | 2018-10-16T00:47:31 | 2018-10-16T00:41:38 | 62 | 13 |
[WP]You receive a message, "Reply Yes if you can survive the last video game you played." You answer Yes. Your vision blanks and you open your eyes finding that you are at the beginning of said game. You hear a voice "To leave you must win. Your prize is all you gain in this world. Good luck" | *This has to be my worst hangover, and that's saying something.* I think to myself, as I slowly open my eyes. Light softly falls through the leaves above me.
*Wait, leaves?*
"What the fu-"
"TO LEAVE YOU MUST WIN. YOUR PRIZE IS ALL YOU GAIN IN THIS WORLD. GOOD LUCK."
The words echoed throughout my mind, making my headac... | The voice faded into my mind as another came.
"Hey, Khontis. You seriously napping?"
My eyes opened as a strangely familiar face came to view.
"You sure know how to sleep. It was sure nice of Naoya ask us to meet him out here on a hot day like this, huh?"
I grunted and rubbed my eyes as I took him in, a blue t-shir... | 2020-02-16T20:35:23 | 2020-02-16T16:08:36 | 66 | 12 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | "How many of them, Jennings?"
"Twenty-four on sensors now, Captain."
Captain Randolph of the United Earth Exploration Ship *Everest* scratched his chin. This was not how his colony protection detail was supposed to start. He and his light cruiser had been ordered to the new colony of Armana after sensor stations had ... | My little strike team and I tried not to laugh at how absolutely ridiculous the alien battleship in front of us looked as it slowly floated closer towards Earth’s orbit.
“So, this is the warship that destroyed those human colonies on Mars...” I thought out loud as I stared at this ridiculous hunk of bright yellow met... | 2020-03-21T10:25:30 | 2020-03-21T09:57:35 | 52 | 18 |
[WP] In an apocalyptic world, the last of humanity live in controlled, supposed paradise cities surrounded by towering walls; taught that the world outside died to wasteland centuries ago. You’re a smuggler, helping people escape the wall into the world beyond. | Today is their only chance to escape, and I can see in the tension in their shoulders that they all know it. Every year, months before the Departure, I start preparing for it and approaching them. And every year, the two or three the teenagers in my class that I approach choose to accept my offer.
The walls of our c... | Phoenix stood amid the desert like a single, shining tower, rimmed by a coral-concrete wall half a mile thick.
It was miles behind us now; ahead of us, only desert; behind me, a mass of huddled people, clothes already turning to rags. I never understood why they wanted to leave for the settlements. Not when they had e... | 2020-12-16T08:36:46 | 2020-12-16T08:18:37 | 79 | 40 |
[WP] After the 126th party of heroes failed to defeat the demon lord and bring peace back to the kingdom in the last year. A bunch of retired middle-aged heroes decide to get the gang back together and save the world again. | The Last Drop Inn was quiet that night. It usually was, these days. Aside from a couple veterans at the bar readying themselves for another night of losing ground in the War of the Tankard, the place was nearly empty.
At the circular table in the back, however, a group was meeting, talking in low tones.
"That's numbe... | The party met where they had last parted ways some twenty-five years before—on a crumbling road at the edge of the mountains, overlooking a great, marble city hunched against the cliffs below. From their hidden vantage point, the group watched demons and trolls patrol the cities outer walls and guard the front gates.
... | 2020-12-26T08:18:48 | 2020-12-26T08:09:39 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] You are an unimportant government worker who, by mere chance, gets to perform the most interesting job of his career: interview a time-traveler. You begin by introducing yourself and the guy immediately freaks out! | "Okay, let's begin" I turn on the recorder. This recording will be analyzed for years. First interview with a time traveler!
"I am Sophia-Iona Holloway, customs officer," I say, attempting to build his trust. Doesn't hurt my name will be at the beginning of this recording.
"Sophia-Iona Holloway? Sophia-Iona Holloway... | I finally got him to calm down. A little.
He was still unnerved, sweating and perspiring. He was spooked, and I was determined to find out why.
I started with flattery, telling him that this was probably the greatest thing to happen to man-kind. That traveling to the future to find cures for diseases of our past co... | 2021-08-05T08:38:40 | 2021-07-12T18:06:13 | 98 | 35 |
[WP] You are a wizard who has dedicated their lives to finding people trapped in fates worse than death, and releasing them | Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Six seconds are all that exist here.
The teacup re-assembles itself upon the orange tiles of the floor and begins to defy gravity, as its saucer companion on the fine wood table eagerly expects it.
It never arrives. It begins to fall again, and repeats its cycle ad infinitum.
Back t... | "Your rooms," said Lieta, cracking the door open. She handed Cinis a key, the metal cool in his palm despite being clutched in her hands, and then withdrew into the hallway. A dozen other doors were closed their, each to their own student of the school, though it was far too late for them to be awake.
"Please, acc... | 2021-09-26T13:39:35 | 2021-09-26T12:03:00 | 229 | 103 |
[WP] This is… awkward to say the least. Your roommate just frantically confessed that they’re demonic royalty, and that they need a fiancé to meet their parent, the monarch of Hell, who will be here in under an hour. | A sharp knock on the door nearly sent me out of my skin.
With a precision and urgency only possible when under extreme duress, books snapped shut, candles flickered out, and typically overlooked trinkets went flying into opposite corners of the room in complete silence with a rapid set of gestures. I hadn't even heard... | Vanessa finished her spiel, and Kimberly continued to sit stock still on the couch. That had been a lot of information in a medium amount of time, and honestly it was a lot to take in. Halfway through, Kimberly had dismissed the idea that Vanessa was making everything up; she wasn't great off the top of her head. Once ... | 2022-10-09T00:07:13 | 2022-10-08T23:48:36 | 1,037 | 102 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | I stood speechless at the answer of the last candidate. Everyone else chose a super power following the spirit of the event, but the last one had a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. I glanced down at the written rules, wondering what idiot intern had threw together the wording, and how I was going to fire them immediate... | "Tell me your bidding and it will be done, Mistress," I reverently proclaimed, just as the past ninety-eight had done.
She smiled at me. It filled my heart with joy. I could see she was weary, though. It had been such a long day for her. Joy fled. Concern took its place, followed by a desperate need to do anything and... | 2022-11-17T07:33:47 | 2022-11-17T05:10:38 | 420 | 64 |
[WP] A prophecy foretells that a newborn baby will one day grow up to end your evil reign. Knowing that fighting fate is useless, you decide instead to take the child in and raise them as your heir. | "Reforms you say? What kind of reform are we talking about son?"
The Dread King Solastrion stood serious besides the piles of parchment brought to him by his beloved son, Pastrial.
"Father, when you unified the 12 kingdoms under your banner, things had to be done to maintain the peace. Many warlords we're eager to ra... | I stand on the balcony, looking out over my kingdom. My time is coming; my son, fifteen years old now, destined to overthrow me, has been gaining the trust of the people. A rebellion is on the horizon, as everyone demands he takes the throne. Of course I'm not happy with this, but he hasn't once disobeyed me; if I tell... | 2022-11-27T04:49:03 | 2022-11-27T02:27:15 | 182 | 134 |
[WP] Your wife has an estranged sister that you have never met. She was murdered in a cold case soon after you were married. You brush off your wife’s new strange behaviour after the murder as grief. Until you find an old family photo of your wife as a kid, you shiver as you realise… they’re twins. | "She never told me that she..." In my hand, I held a photograph of my wife and her late sister, who had been dead for months. The photo looked recent, with the pair only looking maybe a couple years younger than they were, but what struck me was that they looked the same. They were identical twins, and I had never know... | After dropping the photo on the ground in complete and utter disbelief, I couldn't help but collapse onto the ground.
"What the actual fuck is going on here?" I whispered to myself. I had no time to keep processing the shocking discovery I had just come across as I could hear "Lauren" coming down the basement stairs. ... | 2022-11-30T05:23:26 | 2022-11-30T04:05:53 | 469 | 120 |
[WP] Everything we've been told about the stars is a lie. The field of Astronomy is a fabrication. The truth is a closely guarded secret, and for good reason. As a newly qualified astronomer, inducted into the field, the truth has been revealed to you.
What a pleasure it is to come home after a long day of work and fi... | "Well if you don't believe me, take a look" he gestured toward the telescope with a flippant wave, as if he hadn't just destroyed my entire worldview with a single statement.
I stepped up to the giant telescope nervously and peered into the eyepiece. The most powerful optics ever designed coordinated to funnel light... | "Congratulations! Everything you spent tens of thousands of dollars to learn is actually a lie. You're officially an astronomer."
This was certainly not the greeting that I'd expected. It was the first day of my new job at NASA, and I had shown up eager to learn about and research the universe. The smile on my face mo... | 2014-10-20T13:43:31 | 2014-10-20T13:27:10 | 386 | 86 |
[WP] You're abducted from your bed and taken to an unknown location. You remove the blindfold and you're sitting in front of a PC in a lone cubicle in an empty office building. The work schedule on the cubicle wall says your shift ends in 8 hours. The nameplate on the side of the cubicle says "God". | “Uhhhh...”
I stare at the nameplate for a moment.
I can feel my form begin to shift,transcending this corporeal realm,my thought begins to grasp the great plan,the great number,fourty tw-
“Oh,sorry.” Says a timid voice from behind.
“Must’ve been a typo from the new girls.” A hand reaches for the nameplate,and swift... | I’ve been pushed into a cushy seat that swivels. I can’t see anything, something has been tied around my head and across my eyes, my hands bound in my lap. I can smell something acrid...sulphur?
“How long Beezle?” The voice from behind me sounds like the rumble of the earth itself, I feel it more than hear it.
“Hard ... | 2017-10-06T20:07:16 | 2017-10-06T19:50:09 | 114 | 14 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | I couldn’t understand why he was smiling. I watched as my father looked around almost uncertainly before setting the jug of milk on the counter. There was no apology in his smile. There was only the same warmth I remembered as a boy when he watched me score a goal in soccer. Nonetheless it did nothing to diffuse the ra... | My dad left me when I was six, it's always been a controversial topic to bring up, it made other people uncomfortable, but mostly me, whenever I spoke to psychologists or therapists, it always had to be mentioned. I'm fifty-six now, and it still kills me to think about it, but I have a family of my own, with two kids, ... | 2022-05-13T11:22:44 | 2017-11-19T16:34:26 | 1,516 | 452 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | I couldn’t understand why he was smiling. I watched as my father looked around almost uncertainly before setting the jug of milk on the counter. There was no apology in his smile. There was only the same warmth I remembered as a boy when he watched me score a goal in soccer. Nonetheless it did nothing to diffuse the ra... | I would like to say I had forgotten - that I didn't care. That I'd moved on.
That's what they all say to do, you know? Move on. As if it was just possible to forget a part of your mind, cut it out like a tumor, and set it aside. Well if it was a tumor it wasn't a benign one. I'd tried it all, therapy, friends, family... | 2022-05-13T11:22:44 | 2017-11-19T16:04:53 | 1,516 | 162 |
[WP] Despite having pink hair, a tragic backstory, and untold magic power, the narrator refuses to make you the main character | The story of Josh
A mighty fine lad
He lives in Kentucky
With his friend Chad
 
And every day
On his way to work
He walks past this loser
God, what a jerk
 
Some kid with pink hair
An orphan at birth
Some say he’s magic
No way on earth
 
He’s just a nobody
Don’t focus on him
... | This was the moment Edriana Highwater was waiting for.
With her trusted page, she had gone to the petrified underwater forest, the ghostly waste, and the kingdom of towers to get all three necessary stones to open the gate to talk to The Agent. According to the prophecy, the Agent would make you the chosen one, and s... | 2017-12-18T20:19:09 | 2017-12-18T16:32:55 | 415 | 153 |
[WP] Dogs have been genetically engineered to live as long as humans. As a child you pick out a puppy as a companion for the rest of your life. | I am one of a few. Unloved, not cared for. I am starving, surviving on what I can find. I live without a family, without a partner, without a friend. My human passed away when he was 13. Now, I am 45.
He picked me out as a puppy. Both of us were born the same year. I had been injected, like all companions, with a... | Date: March 20th, 2018. Rupert. German Shepherd. Male. 6 months old. Registration fee: $610. Registered in Buffalo, NY.
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January 8th, 2033
I thought this journal idea was stupid but I have an idea. It can be all about Rupert! Mr. Lean said focus on happy stuff, sooo RUPERT!
*Photos of a dog.*
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Mar... | 2018-03-19T10:03:16 | 2018-03-19T09:57:10 | 39 | 11 |
[WP] People's powers match their personality: impatient people get super speed, protective people get force fields and so on. Explaining why you have your power is... difficult. | I always felt alone as a child, even talking to myself when I felt the need for conversation. It started when I was 4 or 5, I guess; parents were too busy to my many siblings that I only had myself for company. So I talked to myself... and I answered myself. My mother always said, "Oh, she's just playing. Let her be." ... | Tears well in her eyes as the man falls to the floor. "I'm sorry," she whispers hoarsely, barely able to stand the look of horror and shock on his face, though it was fading fast. "I don't know what else to do."
The dust around him hardly settles before the concrete floor is blinded by spotlights, police and SWAT team... | 2019-09-08T11:40:23 | 2019-09-08T10:22:20 | 40 | 19 |
[WP] As a fan of Greek Mythology you've always wanted to climb Mount Olympus. Though you know you won't find much, a selfie at the top would be pretty neat. But when you arrive, you see a bunch of tents and an old man trying to heat some baked beans. "Stupid lightning never listens to me anymore!" | The last thing I'd expected to find when I reached the top of Mount Olympus was a crazy old man baking beans. Sure, part of me imagined the impossible scenario of climbing to the top, my hands and knees scraped, to see the glowing, beautiful bodies of the Olympians, as depicted in myth and in sculpture. But there was j... | Being a fan of Greek Mythology, and knowing I was entering the home of the gods, I decided to bring a bottle of wine. I even went out and purchased ambrosia, and found nectar, too. It was important to the gods, especially Zeus, to be a good host. But, I figured being a good guest wouldn’t hurt.
There were a lot of peo... | 2020-03-05T09:56:08 | 2020-03-05T09:45:30 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | "I think I chipped a tooth."
Tired, long-suffering eyes met mine with an expression especially saved only for the moronic.
"You bit.. a table."
To think that would be the weirdest thing they'd heard of. It could have been a plate! But I didn't want to be fragile or have China stuck in my teeth. "There was table clo... | As a kid, my friends and I loved to chat, debate and even argue what we'd eat when we entered the power room. We didn't know what food gave what power (everyone who went through it could not speak of that without losing their power), so we always theorised what we'd get.
Gemma insisted she'd find the food that had tel... | 2020-03-19T09:09:22 | 2020-03-19T09:01:40 | 154 | 63 |
[WP] You are one of the most feared demons in hell. You‘re sent to take the most deadly human known, who‘s been avoiding death by killing all who went to take him. You get there, and realize how he’s killed so many demons. He has humidifiers all around his house, which are filled with holy water. | He was an old man, nearing the end of his life. He knew what awaited him, which is why he fought so hard to stay alive as long as possible. The torture was earned, if unjust, but that doesn't mean he wanted it for himself. Hunters are fighters, and fight to stay alive. And he'd sent so many demons to hell.
The first h... | FADE IN:
INT. A SURPRISINGLY MISTY HOUSE
*The demon stands just before the threshold of the surprisingly misty house. This is DANOXUS. He sniffed the air tentatively.*
**DANOXUS:** What the heaven.
*His forked tongue flits out. Even a moment’s touch causes the imposing fiend to flinch, wisps of smoke snaking out of... | 2020-08-04T12:52:47 | 2020-08-04T09:26:54 | 217 | 62 |
[WP] The rest of the civilised galaxy has just learned that when encountering something new, the human's brains asks three subconscious questions. "Can I kill it? Can I eat it? Can I have sex with it?" | The three questions. They always ask those three questions. Not necessarily out-loud, and not always consciously, but they do. It’s ingrained in them— basic survival instincts. Deep in their core, they ask these questions, even to those of their own kind. People always say “Oh, they’re animals! All they do is slaughter... | "Um, hello?," asked Carlos to to the dark void?
He was alone in the darkness. A single light shone above him.
"Human!" Came a booming voice. "You have been chosen to answer for your species! We have many questions! What is your designation?"
He replied nervously, "Um, I'm Carlos Rivera. San Antonio, Texas. ... | 2021-09-24T09:50:06 | 2021-09-24T09:36:10 | 54 | 38 |
[WP] You're an author who signed up for a writing conference. Sitting at a table surrounded by deities, you realized you may have misunderstood what the advertising meant by "world-building". | "So you're telling me you purposefully include imperfections in these worlds you create?"
Not for the first time today, I wondered if l had made a mistake coming here. Some of the discussions were incredibly basic even though the advertisement had mentioned nothing about this being an entry level convention
"Well, c... | As soon as the burning frame of vision reached my mind, I realized that I probably wasn't going to make it back home to finish binging the second season of “My Strange Addiction”.
Three gods ~~sat~~ were at the round table, and despite not having any faces I could sense that they were impatient... especially with the ... | 2022-01-08T23:30:36 | 2022-01-08T23:02:55 | 96 | 44 |
[WP] As the infected sprinted towards me, I quickly swung my bat. It connected and he fell in a heap, crying out in pain. He looked scared and confused, but his humanity only showed for a moment, before the rage took hold again. It appeared that pain made these 'zombies' briefly human again. | “It had been five years since that revelation. While our progress was slow, marred by ethical and logistical conundrums, I believed we were edging closer to a breakthrough. With each passing day, our understanding of the disease increased.”
“Why don’t you tell us a little more about the incident, Captain Kavanaugh?”
... | I was hiding in a dug-out in the middle of the woods, trying to avoid the infected. But they found me. There were dozens of them, sprinting towards me at-least 10 MPH.
I was terrified. But then my best friend, Kimberly, landed a hit on a zombie with an arrow. I quickly grabbed a bat and landed a blow on ... | 2022-01-15T08:51:32 | 2022-01-15T08:38:28 | 103 | 17 |
[WP] It is said that the cursed princess can only be awoken by true love's kiss. To wake her up, the king has had princes from all over the world come to kiss her to no avail. One day, a peasant boy walks up to the sleeping princess and splashes her with cold water to wake her up. It actually works. | The Royal Court stood silent, judging the lowly peasant bowing before the King. The boy, escorted on each side by the Royal Guard, looked up from his bow as the King beckoned.
"I am told, boy, that you have come to wake the Princess? That you wish to kiss her, and that you believe that you are the one to wake her?"
T... | “That’s it, I’m done cleaning the room of some sleeping princess. Why should I have to spend everyday greeting stupid princes that can’t even take their muddy shoes off when entering a room?” Luke whined, carrying his bucket of water, the water swaying in the bucket, threatening to spill over as he turned to leave the ... | 2022-08-07T03:41:07 | 2022-08-07T00:44:06 | 379 | 258 |
[WP] As the youngest child of the king no one was surprised when your father chose you to be sent as a hostage to the demon king. What was surprising however was the demon king treating you better than you had ever been and even offering you the hand of his offspring. | There was a princess of the Althero Kingdom, and they called her the Unlucky Princess.
How unlucky, the castle's maids would whisper, that her mother had been just a commoner girl the king had fancied, and who had died at childbirth.
How unlucky, the nobles of the court would smirk, that she was so bookish and pla... | Alexander already knew the door to his chambers would be unlocked, but he was surprised to find that there was not a guard or even servant there to escort him. Realizing he was not going to be rushed, Alexander closed back his door and took a moment to collect himself once more. Hostage to a Demon General. Right. And ... | 2022-10-04T02:02:06 | 2022-10-04T00:40:00 | 441 | 258 |
[WP] You can see the headline now. “World’s Oldest Human, Dead at 124”. You lived a good, long life. You are satisfied. The world around you fades to black... "Whoa! You beat the high score again!” You open your eyes in a brightly lit arcade, the number 124 flashing on a screen in front of you. | "What the hell, Rick!? Again!?" Morty Smith fumbled to get the arcade cabinet's control interface off of his body as his memories came flooding back. "Why do we even keep coming to Blips and Chitz? I don't care if it's the best arcade in the multiverse, nothing good ever happens here! A-a-a-and why was I playing a tota... | Jensen jolted awake, little dribbles of sweat pouring down his brow. Head pounding, he fell back onto the wet floor, his paper-dry tongue wishing for a cool drink. Eyes adjusting to the darkness, he saw a half-empty bottle of Fireball next to him, triggering memories of the party the night prior, which came back in jag... | 2022-10-20T20:50:08 | 2022-10-20T12:28:14 | 71 | 26 |
[WP] Rewrite your favorite knock-knock joke as a serious story. | *Knock knock*
"Who's there?" Grandma called out from her favourite seat in the living room.
"It's Jimmy," Jimmy said, letting her know it was someone worth getting up and actually answering the door for.
"Jimmy *who*?" Grandma replied, her tone suggesting she didn't know anyone named Jimmy.
Jimmy hadn't seen his gr... | The letter came on the November 2nd, it was in a nondescript white envelope, completely unwrinkled, her address printed neatly with robotic looking letters in sharp black ink. It seemed far too clean in general, there were no wrinkles or smudges, it was as if someone had shrink wrapped it. But of course Marie wasn't th... | 2013-11-03T00:15:46 | 2013-11-02T23:31:11 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Every ten years, you must go in front of a board of peers who will evaluate your life for you. If you do not "Impress your peers" you will be executed. | The wait was always the worst, Nikamo knew that, but this time was the hardest of all. In all honesty, he was surprised he had made it this far. "They'll hang you at the next hearing if you keep this up, you little rascal" his mother always told him, yet here he was about to have yet another hearing, not a day younger ... | I knew they were right. I'd spent too many days staring out the window, watching the tree branches sway and swirl in the calm summer breeze. I had spent countless hours half napping on a couch, as other peoples' dreams and ideas streamed out of my television. I had wasted the better part of a decade being a spectato... | 2014-06-15T13:59:44 | 2014-06-15T10:45:48 | 64 | 31 |
[WP] The protagonist of a G-rated kids movie accidentially ends up in an R-rated movie. They adapt surprisingly well. | "Now I just have one last question for you. Will it be the blue pill, or the red pill?" Morpheus posited.
"Ah um well ok...this....this is a big mistake sir you see I have this little ra...."Alfredo Linguini stammered out before his hand shot out and forced the red pill down his throat.
"What are you doing Remy! I ... | PART 2!!!
Woody’s eyes widened as he saw a member of the LYB take aim and fire his laser at Ham. “Ham, look out!” Woody yelled, but he was too late. The laser beam tore through Ham’s substantial gut incinerating the flesh on contact. Ham fell to his knees as his intestines spilled from the gash in his gut. Woody despe... | 2016-11-16T12:10:30 | 2016-11-16T11:25:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] "A watched pot never boils", as the old saying goes. Throughout all of history there has always been at least one set of eyes on the ocean. Today, for a split second, everyone looking at the ocean looked away at the exact same time. | A split second is all it lasted.
A split second is all it took.
Given the exorbitant amount of time that the ocean had existed before given the opportunity to boil, it was obviously unexpected. Like many pots do, it began with a few small bubbles. Frothy areas of the ocean showed no difference. Calmer areas were bare... | #Title: See The Signs
"Do you feel that?" whispered Samantha.
"Feel what?"
The waves weren't so bad that day, outside of Ocean City. Samantha and Leonard liked to soak in the sun off the coast in their yacht when they got the time. Working full time as attorneys didn't always afford them many opportunity to enjoy ... | 2017-03-20T09:22:40 | 2017-03-20T08:56:15 | 96 | 20 |
[WP] By some magic, you are granted the wish to become the best in the world at something. You are disappointed when you notice no change in your ability. The next day, however, you notice that all over the world, people are becoming worse at one very particular skill. | I thought it was a harmless wish.
But now everything's turned wrong.
Lucy no longer talks, nor does anyone else for that matter. She still understands me, or at least I think so from her slow nods and lifeless stares. At least Lucy's still active with her day job but in the end she, like everyone else, is only going ... | "Thank you, we will be in touch" the director said cutting off the middle of my audition.
I blew it again.
Maybe I should just give up, I will never get my big break. It was stupid to try and become an actor. I will never make it. I should just go into finance like my parents wanted.
Ouch!
As I was walking out of ... | 2017-05-01T02:41:51 | 2017-04-30T21:01:29 | 1,800 | 115 |
[WP] Humans are the most feared and reviled race the Galaxy. Every 10000 years when humans reach a certain level of Technology a galactic Council sends a force to knock them back to the Stone Age. This time however that force arrives several decades late. | Empty.
The Supreme Admiral looked at the blue planet before him and reread the scouting report. Somehow, despite arriving only a few decades later than they were supposed to come, the planet was empty. Oh, there were still signs of life here and there, and some of them were probably what passed for the current crop ... | Lord Admiral Marius Comnenus, victor of the battle of the Serrenal system and receiver of over twenty medals for personal courage and performance in the 2nd Galactic Civil war against the Vendellian Confederacy, and champion of the Tel'Mar Imperium sighed heavily as his aide, a much smaller Tellan named Regulus Eridus,... | 2017-05-16T21:23:11 | 2017-05-16T21:20:01 | 46 | 22 |
[WP] You are a superhero who's ability subconciously freezes time whenever someone nearby is in mortal danger. Usually its obvious who's in trouble and you can save them quickly, but not this time - it's been 10 years.
Edit: guys the responses have been amazing, some funny stories and some deeper, darker ones too! Kee... | "Well I think that's everybody". I spoke to myself. It was a way to hear a human voice. Everything was otherwise entirely silent. I had just finished running through the last of the blood work. Nothing dangerous there.
It had all started 10 years ago. Time had stopped, as happens to me, and I looked around for whoeve... | 18:00. It was 18:00 of 7th September on that day. That wretched day. That's the only time and day I know now. That's the only time and day it's been for maybe an eternity or two. But, just for me. Lucky me.
I was counting the time passing for a while, 3 months to be exact, before I lost count and gave up on the idea o... | 2017-09-07T01:47:15 | 2017-09-07T01:10:24 | 92 | 16 |
[WP] Aliens invade Earth. Turns out Human weapons technology is way more advanced than it should be. | Log 10-1-03a
Invasion of the Human Empire
Galaxy 736
A new inhabited planet has been discovered in system 87b. Through our cloaked surveillance flyers, we have discerned that the inhabitants call themselves 'humans'. They appear to not be very advanced, as they have barely developed space travel. Our troops are being ... | December 15^th , 2035. Izvir X12 Invasion Fleet, Aldebaran III High Orbit.
"These scums bumbling about in their planet, knowing not of their true fate. We must bring them Enlightenment--Purification. Soon stone and fire shall rain upon their puny huts and tents and we shall revel in our conquest as their scream record... | 2018-05-16T14:23:36 | 2018-05-16T14:20:05 | 94 | 55 |
[WP] As a child, you found a wishing well. It was a silly wish, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. The coin got stuck on something halfway down. It never reached the bottom, and thus your wish went unfulfilled, until one fateful day 30 years later when something jostled it free. | Cold terror washed down my spine as I stared out the window. This wasn't real. It couldn't be real, and yet, there it is. I felt like something like this would have made the news long before it made it into my backyard.
I couldn't even manage a squeak. My brain had no reference on how to respond to this and it opted t... | They day I found the wishing well was the day my mother passed away. I was five years old, and felt like my entire world had just ended. The well was located on my aunt’s property, or at least I think it was my aunt’s property. I’d run out of the house crying when my grandmother screamed at me to stop acting like a spo... | 2018-05-20T08:04:36 | 2018-05-20T07:04:36 | 46 | 16 |
[WP] The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don’t stay dead easily. | Our people were conquerors. The true law of the cosmos is the same as the law in the primordial seas of every world: eat, or be eaten. We understood this in our very cores. When the first contact with beings from another world happened, we **were** amazed. Not because of their powerful weapons (they didn't have any... | As the advance assault party broke through the decimated checkpoint gates, shredding through the Alliance military and the local Europa Militia members as if they were nothing but a mild inconvenience, the Commander chuckled softly as the gargled, final words of the human general rang through his mind; “Death is only t... | 2018-09-29T19:15:40 | 2018-09-29T19:07:14 | 222 | 15 |
[WP] It's 1997 and you're a hacker. Not just any hacker, you're elite. You finally get to meet your hero. Turns out he's a nutbag who tells you the world is a computer simulation and is trying to get you to take random pills. | “The world is a simulation. Nothing is real. It is all run by Microsoft. “ I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I met my hero, my idol. The man who inspired me to choose computer science as my major in university. Linus Torvalds and instead of a God I find a lunatic. “These tic tacs frred my mind. Take one dammit and... | I sighed. “Look, when you say I need random pills because it’s a simulation, you’re basically wasting air and time. You’re talking shit and I really don’t want to hear it”
Bill just furrowed the face. “I said it’s LIKE a simulation because you have the attention span of a gnat and wouldn’t understand or believe the wh... | 2019-03-18T03:16:03 | 2019-03-17T23:38:20 | 36 | 27 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | "I was just doing my job, it's not like I liked the experiments. I didn't particularly care enough to dislike them either, I guess I would say I'm neutral on the matter.
The creatures weren't sentient after all, just huge animals we were studying from planet xerto-R41. I can pinpoint the moment it all went wrong, one... | Mick stood on the bridge of the USS Cheesewheel. The first of its kind, large enough to house over ten thousand standard crew, and one human; he felt at home in its colossal rooms and corridors.
“Where’s Duncan now?” he asked his First Officer, Mina.
“Sir, we’ve lost visual. He was last seen near the cargo bay, but ... | 2019-11-21T07:06:02 | 2019-11-21T06:54:39 | 2,512 | 81 |
[WP] We were warned when we hired our first human crew member that they would pack bond with almost anything. We didn't listen, and now have an apex predator somewhere in the ship, that the human won't stop calling Kitty. | A part of me argued that it really wasn't the human's fault. They were newcomers to the galactic stage. They hadn't developed the wealth of experiences that the other races had. Some even argued that their racial naivety was a strength. Freed from the long held grudges and stereotypes that other races held tightly to, ... | Mick stood on the bridge of the USS Cheesewheel. The first of its kind, large enough to house over ten thousand standard crew, and one human; he felt at home in its colossal rooms and corridors.
“Where’s Duncan now?” he asked his First Officer, Mina.
“Sir, we’ve lost visual. He was last seen near the cargo bay, but ... | 2019-11-21T07:23:21 | 2019-11-21T06:54:39 | 2,256 | 81 |
[WP] Life on Earth evolved within an “FTL Dead Zone” a region of space where all known forms of FTL travel were deemed physically impossible. As such, it was quite a shock when an unknown species suddenly appeared from the Dead Zone one day calling themselves “Humanity” Having done the impossible... | Writing this on my phone at work, apologies for any mistakes.
A lovely person (u/blu_ski) has narrated this story: https://youtu.be/ozrQ-fu6nV0
And another lovely person! (u/Spartawolf): https://youtu.be/WjN13TVf238
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The Atrium was abuzz with chatter, many language... | “High Admiral Galax! Unidentified spacecraft to our 12 o’clock near the Dead Zone border. Your orders?”
Galax stroked his pale blue chin with the numerous pink tentacles on his right hand. His six eyes zeroed in on the derelict ship hovering near the surface of the imperceptibly large black sphere enclosing the Dead Z... | 2021-01-09T11:57:45 | 2021-01-09T10:37:10 | 2,685 | 195 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | I slowly hobble down the stairs, squinting as the sun's rays hit my face.
"Hey bro! You're gonna miss the big Show! Big Bird's already done the intro! It's been so long since I've seen it!"
I see my younger brother slouched on the couch, wearing a carefree smile, far too wide from watching public access TV. He casu... | Another tremor shudders through the structure, metal screaming from every corner as if the building itself was in agony. Long echoing cries of twisted steel from far away, nearby shrieks of tortured metal, the ominous haunting wails of strained supports below...
The floor heaves and pitches under my boots, shattering ... | 2021-04-01T06:07:24 | 2021-04-01T04:27:59 | 36 | 14 |
[WP] A person's superpowers emerge during- and relate to- a highly stressful moment in their life. Your brother nearly drowned, and as a result could shape water to his will. A classmate fell from a high balcony, and ended up learning to fly. You? You just got your powers last night. | It happened again.
**"THE FUCK HAVE I TOLD YOU BOY?!?"**
One impact after another. Blow after blow. A bottle this time. Jim Beam.
**"FUCKIN LEARN YOU GOOD BOY!!"**
Ben felt something in his chest break. His heart? His ribs?
**"YOU GON LEARN, BOY. OOOOOH YOU GON LEARN TONIGHT, YOU LITTLE SHIT."**
No matter what he... | Another tremor shudders through the structure, metal screaming from every corner as if the building itself was in agony. Long echoing cries of twisted steel from far away, nearby shrieks of tortured metal, the ominous haunting wails of strained supports below...
The floor heaves and pitches under my boots, shattering ... | 2021-04-01T06:11:48 | 2021-04-01T04:27:59 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] For as long as you could remember, you and your city have followed very strict rules: "Never listen to the 7:30 morning show. The real one comes at 8.", "Our city does not have a subway system. If you see an entrance, report it.", and "Don't donate to the beggars on 32nd.", just to tell a few. | "They are rather strange when you think about it," said Absco.
Absco was always saying things like that. He was always trying to make what was normal and acceptable appear monsterous and unbearable, and vice versa. If it were up to him, day would be dark and night would be light; right and left would be reversed; nega... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Interlude 1: Min Min)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Heroes and villains left... aftermath, when they clashed in earnest.** In some cases, the fallout was more literal—the clash be... | 2021-04-06T13:51:10 | 2021-04-06T13:07:57 | 338 | 27 |
[WP] You have the ability to see heart-strings. You can see the connections that people have with each other. Each connection appears to be a colored line running from one person's heart to another. The colors, thickness, and texture of the line determine the strength and type of connection.
Based off of [this](https:... | I didn't get home until late that night, and found her asleep on the couch. The TV was on some old sitcom. The flickering lights played across her peaceful face, her familiar snore just barely audible over the laugh track. I walked over to gently wake her up, but something stopped me in my tracks.
One of her strings ... | “Dinner’s ready,” I called, as I began dishing the pasta onto the four plates. The steam rose up toward the ceiling in hoary ribbons.
I put the pan back on the stove and wiped my hands on the kitchen towel, pouring two glasses of wine. I felt the warm, familiar hands of my wife, Jenny, as she came up from behind and w... | 2021-05-28T17:35:49 | 2021-05-28T16:29:14 | 172 | 61 |
[WP] You've been meowing at your idiot owner all freaking day, and he's just not listening, at all. It's become a test of endurance: Your patience, his willingness to ignore you, the ninja assassin's grip on the ceiling. | “He’s on the ceiling, you, idiot. I swear if you couldn’t open a can of tuna, I would have killed you myself by now. Look up, he’s waiting to drop onto you.” Meowth the orange tabby continued to meow at their owner, trying to get their attention. No matter how loud they meowed, the owner would only give them a sarcasti... | # A Darker Sort of Kitten
The Emperor’s cat, if such a creature could be called that, stared up into the murky black with luminescent, moon-drenched eyes. Outside the walls of Carythusal, the great keep that housed the world as the saying went, the moon was a full, pregnant thing, and so too were the cat’s silver eyes... | 2021-09-01T07:04:20 | 2021-09-01T06:43:02 | 172 | 64 |
[WP] The Society for Continued Galactic Safety strongly recommends against fighting humans, and regulations state that killing humans on worlds not already settled by humans is forbidden. Not because humans are dangerous, but because they're 7 times more likely to produce ghosts than any other race. | Galactic Cartography presents: Human Space, AKA The Great Howling
As many attending this class will no doubt know, the human species is a very isolationist power, with very little trade into their space due to ftl being impossible for the majority of species. What many may not know, is why.
Aprpximately 500 years ago... | Have you ever come back to a refrigerator after an absence, and found some little thing you'd forgotten has been utterly overtaken by mold? Gauzy mounds of blue-green, tendrils of white spreading in little clouds over the surface of your forgotten sandwich. The disgust, the displeasure, the sick waste of dropping the w... | 2021-10-11T10:08:09 | 2021-10-11T09:05:26 | 209 | 57 |
[WP] What’s more horrifying than a biblically accurate angel shouting “FEAR NOT”? A modernized angel whispering to you “Be very afraid…” | F̸͖̌Ĕ̴̝̍Ả̵̼͎R̶̛̝ ̶͔̕Ṅ̵͇̻̇Ò̵̪͔͛T̵̤̗̃"
But I was fearful. The too many eyes judging me, the golden spheres, the graceful thousands of wings, the burning light, the echo of a voice, voices, too beautiful for my ears. It was hard to be in the presence of such a creation.
Yet it was those eyes of the other. He had onl... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 5, Part 2: Mare v.s. Tamulu)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections. That being said, [this story](https://www.reddit.com/r/bubblewriters/comments/mmzrng/wp_angels_are_thought_to_be_beautif... | 2022-01-29T09:14:54 | 2022-01-29T07:30:10 | 24 | 15 |
[WP]An old genie grants you three wishes. After granting your first two, you tell him the third. He is horrified, and begs you to reconsider | His words tumbled from his lips like a crowd of hundreds of people trying to squeeze through one small door to get to a Black Friday sale. Crashing into each other, over each other, stumbling blocks for the next one to leap over.
"No, please, no! Take it back! Take it back!" The ancient, fire-filled eyes were filled w... | "A genie?" The genie questioned in bemusement, his chest rising, strained countenance retreating and eyes rolling to the top right corner of his head as if to diagnose the obvious malfunction of his ears.
"A genie" the man said smugly. Satisfied with his own quick thinking.
"You.. WANT to be a genie?" The genie ques... | 2014-07-26T14:32:50 | 2014-07-26T13:43:42 | 151 | 56 |
[WP] God decides to create a small group of demi-gods. He selects a few humans and gives each a power and a purpose. You are one of them.
Bonus-points for a demigod of pranks and mischief. | "So let me get this straight, you re going to an inter dimensional god convention and you want to make us gods to keep the peace while you are away?."
"Sigh, no i'm going to make you demigods, you don't have a choice in the matter. You each get control of one act of god to do with as you please."
"So what are our ... | "You young man" God echoed "Are to be a god, like myself but lesser."
"A lesser god huh? I'm not god material." I groan. "Really me a god? No one should be foolish enough to be a god no matter how small of a role they'll play... No offense"
"None taken. I know you mean well by that young one. However I have chosen yo... | 2014-12-14T10:22:54 | 2014-12-14T10:18:30 | 44 | 20 |
[WP] You buy your wife a fun DNA home testing kit. The post arrives with her results, which you eagerly tear open to find she's 37% German, 38% Cherokee Indian, and 35% "Unknown and Unidentifiable." Within moments, three black vans pull up outside your house, and there's a knock at your door. | Unknown and unidentifiable. It was everybody's worst nightmare. For years now there had been rumours about this particular fluke, or whatever people want to call it - I saw it for what it truly was; a way to exterminate everything that was different, not human. My blood ran cold as soon as I saw the results. Nerves bub... | I'll never forget her face. Pale white like milk and glass. Her eyes were as wide as I'd ever seen them. Her attention changed from me to the large windows facing the front of the house where several black vehicles came to a skidding halt and sat humming.
'Ca-Ca-' She could barely choke out the words. I grabbed her ha... | 2016-12-01T13:26:53 | 2016-12-01T11:44:23 | 94 | 35 |
[WP] Your significant other is possessed by a demon. Soon after; you realize you love the demon and not your SO anymore and it's actually mutual. Now the exorcist has arrived. | "Right then," the exorcist, a man in a black suit with a white clerical collar said as he walked in the door, closing it behind him, "Where is it?"
"What?" Ian said.
"Where is the demon? I was summoned here to perform an exorcism."
He looked at Ian a while, who remained silent, before eventually turning to Alex, wh... | "Can't I just clock him? I really bloody want to." The girl holding the pan took a test swing in the hallway. Two kilos of lovely iron-reinforced teflon, with the added bonus of oil that hadn't quite cooled yet. It was dripping on the rug.
"No, Hal, Hal, hey. Hey!"
Mid-swing the pan changed direction and hit the ful... | 2017-10-10T02:15:25 | 2017-10-09T14:52:53 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] Your significant other is possessed by a demon. Soon after; you realize you love the demon and not your SO anymore and it's actually mutual. Now the exorcist has arrived. | Arthur knocked on the door, and waited.
This case was right up his alley. Woman reported a sudden change of personality on her husband, started seeing lights around the house and was sure she heard the man speaking tongues. She was worried he had been replaced , and wanted an investigator to come take a look.
Of co... | "Can't I just clock him? I really bloody want to." The girl holding the pan took a test swing in the hallway. Two kilos of lovely iron-reinforced teflon, with the added bonus of oil that hadn't quite cooled yet. It was dripping on the rug.
"No, Hal, Hal, hey. Hey!"
Mid-swing the pan changed direction and hit the ful... | 2017-10-09T15:40:03 | 2017-10-09T14:52:53 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear friend,
Oh dear friend. If only I could just step back for just one day and talk to you about all that has occurred since we last saw each other. I’m so thankful that we were able to spend the time in life together that we did.
I miss that little sigh of excitement that would rise up from my chest and escape my... | I can't believe it's been almost a year. As long as the days are, the months are short.
It's remarkable how much my memory of you has changed tone in the past year. There was a time, not too long ago, when I would have burned my world down if I knew you'd be caught in the blaze. And yet now, all I feel is a bitterswee... | 2017-11-05T23:44:56 | 2017-11-05T22:26:46 | 32 | 11 |
[WP] You joined a mob. The boss asks you to prove your loyalty by killing your girlfriend. Failure to prove your loyalty will result in your loved ones dying. You look around the room at all the pictures and notice, you're dating daughter of the mafia boss. | “Now go.” The boss grumbled, leaning back in his slick arm chair.
“But sir,” I️ tried to protest, twiddling my thumbs and glancing at one particular photo of his daughter, it was one of my favorites. “Sir you have a very beautiful daughter.”
“I️ know.”
“It would be awful if you were to lose her.”
He pressed his pa... | Dimitri's eyes absentmindedly scanned the room as he flipped a silver coin over his knuckles. His lazy gait carried him to the worn leather chair which was placed oddly far from the large mahogany desk in the center of the study.
Smoke billowed, choking the air. A sickly yellow light did little to brighten the room, ... | 2017-12-02T19:22:11 | 2017-12-02T19:13:25 | 512 | 296 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | "I know of a game," said the man, finally speaking up after a long pause. Death's glare shifted, as if his bony face cocked an eyebrow. The man crossed his arms, collecting himself for the explanation. The only way to win this game was to make sure the other party lost first, after all.
"Well?" Death questioned, gro... | Death wasn't at all what Johnathan had pictured him to be. slicked-back hair and well fit suit reminded him a lot more of a Wall Street trader rather than the immortal reaper of souls. As he spied the somewhat overweight man in front of him, his mind worked to formulate a plan.
"Any game?" Johnathan asked, to ensure... | 2018-03-07T07:43:55 | 2018-03-07T07:43:27 | 251 | 39 |
[WP] The longer you charge an attack, the more powerful it becomes. SWAT charges a punch for 30 seconds to break down a door. You’ve been charging for the last three days. | Games make it look so easy. Just hold your arm in one place for a few seconds, screw up your face in concentration, then punch forward and release. Simple, right?
That's what Sam thought too, a few months back. When the discovery of charge attacks became worldwide, every kid in his class tried it. It was honestly hila... | At first it started out as just a joke, but eventually it became an obsession. I think that's what ruins everything in the end, when it spirals out of control and suddenly something you were doing so you could laugh about, becomes something that destroys everything that you care about. Since all stories that I've read ... | 2018-10-02T15:29:39 | 2018-10-02T15:20:01 | 3,397 | 72 |
[WP] On one hand, you're average at everything. On the other hand, you're average at EVERYTHING. | "Wait wait let me get this straight. What do you mean your average at rocket science and neurosurgery?"
"Yep", Ambrose replied nonchalantly. "Pass me the screwdriver" as he busily fiddled with the car engine.
"Right, that should about do it. Your plumbing needs fixing as well right? I'm pretty average at that as we... | Anthony Vander Ghal was considered funny, but not hysterical. A nice guy to be around, but not all the time. He drove to work in a 2011 Golf, it had a few war wounds and erroneous knocking sounds - that sounded like an actual golf ball loose in the back - but it served its purpose. He parked in the same spot as he had ... | 2018-10-24T07:25:40 | 2018-10-24T07:20:17 | 680 | 177 |
[WP] You are an immortal that got sentenced to permanent burial over 1000 years ago. Today a team of archaeologists just dug you up. | Most people don't consider the small problems that come with immortality. It's always about how you'll end up knowing so much, or that you're pretty much guaranteed that you'll end up buried alive, but nobody really thinks about the annoying stuff.
Sure, being buried alive sucks and you run out of ways to amuse yourse... | I've been thinking. Have I been thinking? Have I been dreaming? I barely exist. But... I do exist. In this darkness, this eternal darkness, I still exist. And I've been thinking, or dreaming. I dreamt a man with a life, who existed in time, with light. For me, there is no time, no light. There is only this eternal dark... | 2019-10-26T00:08:22 | 2019-10-25T23:29:43 | 260 | 64 |
[WP] In your world, magic is wielded by astrologists who form pacts with distant stars. Every star grants a unique power. Upon forming a pact with a star, you gain a glimpse of its worlds and your soul will be pulled to one when your pact ends. You are the first to form a pact with a black hole. | "So I'm with a red Supergiant. I gained powers of mass manipulation, heavy metals, that sort of thing. You?"
"I tamed a G-type main sequence, with three life bearing planets. I work with water and life, mostly. Sometimes the solar maximums give me electromagnetics, but that's few and far between. How 'bout you, Jane?"... | In hopes of understanding more of our power, we started to study the stars and the vast void between them.
Astrology is the study of the magic given to us by the stars. But, the first of these truly rigorous fields of studies is heliology, the study of our own sun. Those that contracted this star is among the most pow... | 2020-02-21T05:29:11 | 2020-02-21T04:48:57 | 49 | 17 |
[WP] In your world, magic is wielded by astrologists who form pacts with distant stars. Every star grants a unique power. Upon forming a pact with a star, you gain a glimpse of its worlds and your soul will be pulled to one when your pact ends. You are the first to form a pact with a black hole. | "So I'm with a red Supergiant. I gained powers of mass manipulation, heavy metals, that sort of thing. You?"
"I tamed a G-type main sequence, with three life bearing planets. I work with water and life, mostly. Sometimes the solar maximums give me electromagnetics, but that's few and far between. How 'bout you, Jane?"... | Chaos, that was what it was. Bloodshed and devastation. But it hadn't always been that way; the first few times that people had been blessed by the stars, we had celebrated. The powers that the Heavens had distilled upon us were unconditional, not bound by the same rules and limits as those of the Mages.
We developed... | 2020-02-21T05:29:11 | 2020-02-21T04:09:32 | 49 | 16 |
[WP] You’re in the mafia and the boss has ordered you to kill your girlfriend to show your loyalty. You look around the room and see the pictures only to find out you’re dating the mafia boss’s daughter. | "Uh Boss, listen this might be a bit awkward..."
He looked at me, his face barely visible behind the smoke of his cigarette and then he said in a raspy voice
"What are you too chicken to do it? You know that this will only end with a dead body, whether it will be you or her is the only thing in question."
I started ... | The smell of cigar, whiskey and cologne clung to the air like the tension when Boss asked me to do my girlfriend in to show loyalty to the mob. The tension swelled within the room, as every boot-licker around me grew more and more interested in what I had to say. The 2 second limit of 'yes, boss!', 'right away, boss' w... | 2020-07-02T08:43:29 | 2020-07-02T08:11:08 | 64 | 44 |
[WP] You’re in the mafia and the boss has ordered you to kill your girlfriend to show your loyalty. You look around the room and see the pictures only to find out you’re dating the mafia boss’s daughter. | "Uh Boss, listen this might be a bit awkward..."
He looked at me, his face barely visible behind the smoke of his cigarette and then he said in a raspy voice
"What are you too chicken to do it? You know that this will only end with a dead body, whether it will be you or her is the only thing in question."
I started ... | I sat on the rugged couch, illuminated by the hungry line of cold light from the television. I rustled in my loose pockets for a few seconds while looking up at the broken asbestos ceiling. My fingers touched a firm paper texture, and I yanked out a card. I looked at the card *he* gave me. Its decorative edges lying on... | 2020-07-02T08:43:29 | 2020-07-02T06:47:27 | 64 | 40 |
[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. | Maybe you've seen me out of the corner of your eye, walking down the street. I'm there when you win a round of cards or snag the last ticket to a concert. I'm there when you sneak into a meeting right on time or have just enough ingredients to finish your recipe. But ultimately, I'm a pencil-pusher. A nobody.
I wish t... | (BANG BANG BANG) “Order! Order!”
Unfurling their majestic feathery wings, the council took there seats at the front of the court house.
Angles and Demi’s of the Jury, this is a Celestial Case. An incident took place early this morning, where as the God of Luck has failed to carry out his duty, and report the poor soul ... | 2020-10-02T09:35:37 | 2020-10-02T09:19:13 | 377 | 136 |
[WP] Your mother died ten years ago. You saw her collapse, went to her funeral, paid for her cremation. Her ashes should be sitting in the living room right now. So you're not entirely sure why she's waving frantically at you from the window. | "Mom?" She sees me mouth through the glass.
"Yes!" I hear her muffled scream through the glass of my ground floor apartment window. My heart skips a beat. My. Mom. Is. Alive!
Oh fuck, my mom is alive. 10 years ago I paid to have that bitch killed. 10 years ago I paid a professional hitman to kill her. In front of me.... | I saw my mother today. Only, she died ten years ago.
I’d seen my mom many times in the decade since her death—I’d hear a woman with her laugh on the bus, or I’d notice a teller who’s eyes wrinkled just so as she smiled at my polite joke. One time, shortly after her funeral, I’d even run across a quad at my university ... | 2020-12-10T19:12:41 | 2020-12-10T17:54:57 | 185 | 130 |
[WP] Turns out hell is real. This was made known once demons and devils came to Earth. However things quickly got awkward and confusing once people heard them mutter, "If Heaven won't fix this shit hole, we might as well do it ourselves." | "You're joking."
"Nope, boss' orders. She said to restructure the world governments so that there would no longer be poverty, although humans are competitive so she's letting some amount of capitalism stay. I don't understand how you all work but she always saw the bigger picture."
"And your boss is?" Brandon asked. ... | Mrs. Barnacles has been the nicest lady all her life. The same couldn't be said about her husband though. He was mean, grumpy man who used to trouble her wife a lot. Maybe this was the reason Mrs. Barnacles understood the true meaning of empathy and care. After her husband died in a car crash and left Mrs. Barnacles li... | 2021-04-29T21:34:09 | 2021-04-29T21:20:33 | 38 | 15 |
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