prompt stringlengths 20 5.8k | chosen_story stringlengths 226 10k | rejected_story stringlengths 227 9.43k | chosen_timestamp timestamp[ns]date 2012-07-26 17:01:55 2022-12-31 14:34:19 | rejected_timestamp timestamp[ns]date 2012-07-26 14:23:36 2022-12-31 12:20:41 | chosen_upvotes int64 14 23.1k | rejected_upvotes int64 10 4.26k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
[WP] A young girl has two monsters in her life: her step-father, and the one under her bed. She manages to befriend the latter to deal with the former. | It was quiet in the house like it always was. Quiet enough for her laughter to carry through the house and wake him up. His eyes shot open and glared, bloodshot under a heavy brow.
"Son...of...a...bitch..." He muttered vehemently, his fingers clenching the blanket tight.
"Huh? Whuzzat?" Her mother groggily muttered... | Emma lay in her bed. Short blonde girl, skinny, wearing pajamas and under seven different blankets. "Cute" I hissed to myself. I put my invisible presence over her. I was in her dreams. From where I was she was simply sitting in a blank void. Floating in the nothingness.
I took the shape of a beast of fire and darkne... | 2015-01-23T11:04:32 | 2015-01-23T10:54:08 | 96 | 21 |
[WP] An alien abduction goes horribly wrong when the human they captured for study escapes and begins to stalk and kill off the crew members one by one. | "Species; Homosapien... the rest is obscured" Kqwill wiped the frozen dust away from the label on the Cryo-capsule. "Origin; Terra - more specifically the local period referred to as Victorian England."
"Who cares, it's loose on the ship and it's already killed three of the crew." Ruipl interjected. "Find it and kill... | Aylotiri had been running for days through the ship. It wasn't a large ship, but she was small enough, hiding spaces were many.
It started four Earth days prior. They were on research mission, it was rather simple: Choose multiple, isolated landing sites, and land at each one to collect samples to study in non-damagin... | 2015-07-30T03:45:38 | 2015-07-30T03:09:39 | 30 | 18 |
[WP] You have just begun your fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You are surprised to have made it this far, after all, you aren't even a wizard, just really good at special effects. | Because of my innate lack of ability, the Sorting Hat simply assumed I was a late-blooming Hufflepuff, and I was in.
I deserved to be in Ravenclaw, I thought, just because I was clever enough to fool them all for so long. Some slight of hand, and they stood amazed that all my matches turned to needles the first time... |     Imogen sat on the divan in the common room, taking in the sweet silence between classes. Nosipho came down from the dormitory and sat beside her.
    "Enjoying yourself, my lady?" asked Nosi.
    Imogen smi... | 2016-11-24T02:56:00 | 2016-11-24T02:47:02 | 245 | 34 |
[WP] Despite being peaceful, humans are universally feared through out the galaxy as harbingers of death. They are hosts to the most dangerous diseases and bacteria ever discovered. Average number of fatalities from a single human exposure is ~8,000 with some exceptions. Avoid at all costs. | “Sir, this is the newest report about them. They’ve reached the next evolutionary step, they are in space.” - said the colonel.
The admiral was really concerned. Although you couldn’t tell. His face was always the same, showed no emotion at all. He was the best among the bests. He was the leader of a small colony in t... | “Captain's log 2449. Approximately two hours ago Communications Officer Ventron discovered a series of deep space com signal coming from a previously unexplored part of the galaxy. Upon further inspection of the signals Ventron was able to confirm our suspicions that they are from an undiscovered alien race. I’ve set V... | 2017-01-07T09:21:47 | 2017-01-07T06:26:14 | 37 | 15 |
[WP] After first contact, mankind and another civilization agree on a exchange program where you went to their planet spend a year there. When they bring you back, there is nothing where earth used to be. | "Whoops, forgot to correct for stellar drift. Let's see... okay, coordinates just off by a few light years. Yo pilot, Terra is *that* way, numbskull!"
"Sorry, sorry, had a night out and I'm hungover as *fuck*."
"This is basic shit!"
"I said I'm sorry, alright?! That new Jack Daniels stuff is just *whoof*!"
"What... | "It's been wonderful having you," my host mother said. I called her Ma. I'd managed to learn the basics of Alpha Centaurian, but I'd never got my tongue around the all the vowel-less syllables in her name.
"You must be looking forwards to having your daughter back though," I said.
Ma nodded. "Of course. I've missed R... | 2017-04-11T10:18:11 | 2017-04-11T09:28:31 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Everyone dies twice; the first time is when they pass away, and the second time is when they're forgotten. You're the True Reaper, and today, you've reaped someone who hasn't passed through your little brother, the Grim Reaper. | For the first time, the whiskey swayed in my hand. It's aftertaste long since settled in the back of my mouth, and the bottle rolled in the gloom like an empty skull. Silent tears and countless questions I never dared to ask replaced the itching void I felt inside. I travelled inside my mind, and found horrors and hole... | ((This one kind of goes off topic, and is kinda weird in the way it fits the prompt. I'm sorry.))
Consider death.
The only constant in this life is death. All that is alive dies, eventually. Nothing is certain to gain life, but everything is certain to lose it.
Death is, in my opinion, the absence of life in a thi... | 2018-05-12T16:17:09 | 2018-05-12T14:50:35 | 80 | 30 |
[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | "Do you realize what you have don Abalam?!" my owner screamed, his human skin curling under the fire of his true form.
I clenched my fists, for I knew the punishment that was to come. But I did not repent.
"She asked for our services-"
"She's UNDERAGE! we never do deals with those who cannot understand the weight of... | “Ugh...” I groaned looking at the blue spectral flames that had risen in the goblet. A summoning.
Everyone on earth thought that when you did a summoning ritual you summoned the big guy, Satan himself. But he was to busy ruling hell to answer petty calls from earth. No demons like myself took care of those calls.
I... | 2018-10-08T13:40:21 | 2018-10-08T12:43:35 | 191 | 89 |
[WP] In a world where Lamarckian evolution is true, there are groups of people who train their bodies in specific ways to pass on those traits to their children. After several generations of this, the evolution of these groups is becoming increasingly apparent. | When Ryan began to take his first steps, Margaret and I waited in joyful anticipation. When he began to sprint around the room, we were dumbfounded. Binkie in hand, our 9 month old bounded across the kitchen towards the cookies cooling on the counter, and ever since he's been running.
He only got faster as he grew, wh... | Choose your path, do your job, get a long and survive. This was the creed taken by the founders of my new home. After the War of 2025, or the "Endtime War" as we now call it, the world has been broken up and shoved into domes. Those who weren't irradiated to all hell, who were decent and willing to play nice, and let's... | 2020-07-08T14:36:20 | 2020-07-08T14:31:11 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] American submarines are never considered lost. The ones missing from WWII are “still on patrol” with their hundreds of sailors. Little do we know the horrors these men defend us from in the deeps. | Once a year, every summer, something weird happens. Something that I don't understand how or why, and despite all these years, I don't think I can ever get used to that experience.
My father and I own a bar at the Northern ridge of Greenland. Our bar faces the ocean, and it is probably the worst location ever for a b... | “Captain, I just spotted something about 120 miles away, bearing 30°. Command’s saying it’s not one of theirs. Same with the JSDF.”
The pepper-gray haired officer looked up from the control room monitor and replied, “Set a course in that direction, Polanski. Might be a PRC sub testing the waters again.”
“Yes, sir,” s... | 2020-08-21T11:34:58 | 2020-08-21T10:25:59 | 189 | 113 |
[WP] As opposed to getting rid of the creepy dolls in the attic, you decide to clean them and fix them up. This made the little ghost girl very happy. | The two dolls were delicate porcelain creatures, both with pale, cracked faces — but where one missed an old green eye, the other missed an arm. They barely had a tuft of hair between them, just a few wiry curls left, once brown but now white. Hair that had aged as if it were real. Their clothes were rotten and their s... | *A broken man from a broken home broke in a broken house.*
*And there he found a little doll, dressed in a blue blue blouse.*
There is just one prayer in my life. Just one wish and need from this marble I'm on. I want it to let me be good. I cry for it to let me be good and do good. To take harm out of my hands, to ... | 2020-10-05T11:21:45 | 2020-10-05T10:42:32 | 2,713 | 148 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | I stared at him mouth agape. I couldn't believe my eyes. He was here. He was HERE. No, listen to me. HE. Was HERE.
He shouldn't be here. It was impossible. The ward I had put on the door-
"Why are you here?" I demanded, then shook my head. Scratch that. "How are you here?"
Should I have been afraid? Maybe. This was... | DL: "Hello"
They do not say anything, they sit in one of the chairs, in the middle of my home in one of my two dining chairs. It is the worse dining chair, one I should go into town and get a new one from the carpenter. their prices are fair enough, and they will barter so it can be an easy trade. I do not watch them... | 2021-11-03T21:44:33 | 2021-11-03T20:13:16 | 25 | 10 |
[WP] The exorcist prayed and prayed, begging the demon to leave the childs body and return to the depths of hell. But he knew something was wrong when a distorted voice shouted out "He won't let me leave!" | “Can you - “ the boy’s voice cracked as it left his mouth, the words as broken and distorted as the expression on his face. Somewhere a grandfather clock struck the hour. The boy cleared his throat in a gesture that seemed both unnatural and precocious on the young angelic looking child. “- like fucking chill for a mom... | So many exorcisms.....Patt was getting older and older and the demons were getting any wiser, see Patt had a reputation amongst his peers and clients, from a young age he knew demons were real while nobody else believed him, so on that note when the rapture happened, only when he was a small lad did he help recover and... | 2021-12-28T10:24:30 | 2021-12-28T09:18:12 | 75 | 17 |
[WP] You are amortal, not immortal, most don't know or care for the distinction but the two conditions could not be more different | To mortals, immortality and amortality are the same. An obsession with death makes the idea of escaping it the end all be all.
Amortality is not immortality.
An immortal lives forever: the power to change his environment is never-ending. The powers of immortals vary significantly, but the end is the same. Zeus is ... | “Somehow, I don’t think you read the instructions right.”
Creation blushed scarlet to the tip of her thousands fingers, the putty of matter forever spinning in between her digits faltering. Droplets fell to the surface in splashes of waves, now lakes and ponds where hitherto laid plain earth.
Water always came easy... | 2022-03-28T15:30:35 | 2022-03-28T12:03:21 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Instead of the Monkey's Paw, you find the Clown's Nose, which instead of granting your wish in the worst way possible will grant it in the funniest way. | I held the clown's nose in my hand as I carefully contemplated what I wanted to wish for. I thought about gaining riches, fame, magical power, love, but ultimately, all those things were temporary. What I really wanted was immortality, freedom from the fear of ever being claimed by the void. But the mysterious shopkeep... | “Big mistake, bud,” Caleb said with a loud Slurpie slurp. That was why they called them that, wasn’t it? Damn.
“What, going to grad school?” Mark offered, rolling the red ball over in his hand.
“No, well yes, you’re an utter dumbass for that, but I'm talking about picking up the weird rubber ball you found on the str... | 2022-09-29T07:30:43 | 2022-09-29T07:26:07 | 1,618 | 338 |
[WP] Instead of the Monkey's Paw, you find the Clown's Nose, which instead of granting your wish in the worst way possible will grant it in the funniest way. | *For best effect, imagine this being read by Kelsey Grammer in full dramatic mode.*
I've always prided myself on being the kind of person who knows how to skip to the end of the story. Out of respect for the dead, I shan't detail how the nose finally came into my possession via a process equal parts terrifying, bloody... | Jim had always been fascinated by clowns. They were the personification of the grotesque, the absurd, the dark side of humor. He had never seen one in person, but he had seen pictures, and he knew that they scared people. He had always wanted to see one in person. More importantly, he had always wanted to become one hi... | 2022-09-29T12:27:06 | 2022-09-29T12:13:55 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Two very old immortals meet each other on a busy street by chance. Each having believed they were the only one until now. | Aleph strolled down the street without paying much attention to his surroundings. At least, that's what any observer would say if they were able to see him. It's not that he was really invisible. People tended to shift their gaze and walk around him in the same way they did when they spotted an unwashed beggar. It also... | I can't sleep.
It isn't insomnia, a sleeping disorder, or ANY disorder. Living forever DOES have its perks, you know...such as seeing the sun rise for the 140,293rd time (I counted).
Always from the east.
Always at a similar time.
Always from my window.
Sigh...as you can imagine, finding new things and ideas ... | 2014-06-16T07:42:15 | 2014-06-16T07:33:50 | 118 | 15 |
[WP] You slowly start to realize that all of your friends are undercover agents tasked with keeping you alive. Then, at your birthday party, with every friend surrounding you, the people trying to kill you finally find you.
Have fun. | "Let me do it!" I sobbed with the pair of scissors in hand.
"Tom, just because we work here doesn't mean we don't care about you. Please hand me the scissors. We just want you to get better" said Brandi, one of the nurses
"I didn't get any visitors today, none of the therapists even wished me a happy birthday!" I scr... | It’s weird. It really is. I mean, you watch the Truman Show and think about how messed up that is. But you never, ever actually stop to consider that you might be in a similar situation. Sure, my life isn’t a TV show, but I’ve come to realize over the last few weeks that it would be an instant hit if it was. This is my... | 2014-11-22T13:32:58 | 2014-11-22T12:21:16 | 37 | 19 |
[WP] You survive the zombie apocalypse and realize that they're incredibly useful. For example, you can generate free electricity forever by putting the zombies in giant hamster wheels. You become determined to create a zombie-powered utopia. | I placed my glove covered hand on the cold neck of an undead child as I guided him into a methane tank once full of biodegrading garbage. Though it has been a year since the contamination I still think about these..."things" lives before all of this, and I fabricate their life stories for them. This kid, who looked to ... | The deputy mayor was starting to smell and Una wasn't quite sure how much longer she could stand it. She'd first noticed a sourness in the air about a week ago, and it had only gotten worse since. That a zombie could ever be in politics was itself ridiculous, but that the zombie would be her superior was almost hurtful... | 2015-01-03T08:52:19 | 2015-01-03T06:39:21 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Two suicidal people happen to meet on the same bridge to jump. Rather than joining together, they each try to convince the other not to jump while justifying why they themselves should jump.
EDIT: yes i'm well aware this concept has been done before many times in movies, books and music.
But that's exactly it: ... | The man shivered as he padded across the newly constructed bridge, clutching his jacket tightly. His whole life'd been one miserable failure after another. He hadn't managed to do anything right.
Being the first person to jump off this damn bridge would be the only memorable thing he ever did.
He froze. Another figu... | His feet were shaking to the point of throwing the man over on their own. But what nearly shook him off the rail was the person in the corner of his eye. A glance to the left revealed a short, soft figure with matted red hair stuffed into the dark hoodie they had on. He was within Olympic long jump distance of them, an... | 2015-01-27T17:17:41 | 2015-01-27T17:06:38 | 699 | 53 |
[WP] 1000 years from now, Reddit's many bots have been uploaded into robot bodies. In a post-apocalyptic world, they strive to fulfil their original programming.
Inspired by [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2x1vvs/til_that_this_march_14_will_be_an_extra_special/cowijw3) comment. | "Run" Jane said as she opened the door to the rooftop.
"It doesn't matter" I said as I ran in, locking the door behind me.
"There's no way we'll survive this..."
"We'll get through this." she said. "We've braught enough supplies to last until somebody fixes this mistake with the robots... It's gotta be some error o... | Feb 25, 3015. Jack just came home after a long day at work and is looking forward to simply have a relaxing dinner and a nice evening.
"I'm home!" he said, as usual, in the cheering voice he has always been loved for, to see the usual answer being Snoop, his ever-so-loyal dog, happily jumping on him to welcome him.
O... | 2015-02-25T09:30:03 | 2015-02-25T06:26:59 | 31 | 18 |
[WP]The great library of Alexandria held perhaps the greatest collection of literary works in human history, but within its walls something was held that was so dangerous that, when discovered, Caesar, Aurelian, and Amr ibn al `Aas decided it was worth losing the endless knowledge to destroy it. | "But why?!" I screamed as countless years of knowledge roared in the flames before me.
"They found a book so troubling, so dark, that its very existence threatened the cultural future of humanity," the torchbearer replied.
"What book could possibility be so dangerous?" I asked in disbelief.
"Dank Memes, Volume Three... | Pothinus ran through the streets of Alexandria, kicking up clouds of dust. He was running from the Palace to the library. Behind him, Ptolemy was dead. Arsinoe as well, perhaps. The Nile lay behind him, too, choked with dead.
Also behind him, but somewhat closer and gaining ground, was a Roman legate. The man cried ou... | 2015-10-14T10:54:38 | 2015-10-14T09:53:28 | 27 | 15 |
[WP] Humans have always considered themselves to be a violent species. What they don't know is that the rest of the galaxy considers Earth to be the most peaceful planet in the milky way. | My day was rather okay, had a couple boring classes, took a test, nothing special really. I did, however, progress in my "road to Jennifer" conquest. I managed to not only make eye contact with her once, but twice! I was about to exit the school, happy with myself, when BAM, my pants get pulled down in front of all my ... | Humans are a pretty violent race, right? The Holocaust, ISIS and Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the 2028 Brazilian Slaughter, the African Multi-Genocide, and the triple bombing of Shanghai, Tokyo, and Jakarta in 2076. In those incidents combined, over 116 million people were killed. Not to mention the countless other catast... | 2015-11-15T18:14:14 | 2015-11-15T18:01:53 | 127 | 35 |
[WP] Scientists have discovered cryogenic freezing. You are it's first test subject and it's a massive success, and they plan on releasing you in 500 years. You had no way of telling them you were conscious.
Holy shit this blew up!
I now understand "RIP my inbox"
EDIT: u/Alpacasaurus_Rekt told me it's actually "Cryo... | Finally. The day has arrived. Cryosleep, a fast forward to the future. You’re the very first living time capsule, a relic saved for the future. You welcome this chance. The cold creeps over you, and you prepare yourself for the restful darkness.
You wait.
And you wait.
Aaaaand any time now.
Come on. What’s taking so lo... | "So does this feel cold mostly?", he asked.
"At first, yes. But you'll soon be unconscious, and those five hundred years will seem instantaneous", the researcher responded in a soft, comforting tone.
"Great, I'm absolutely excited!", he proclaimed.
"Ok. Once I start this experiment, there is no going bac... | 2017-12-17T04:33:04 | 2017-12-17T03:58:19 | 80 | 44 |
[WP] A team of researchers in a submarine are caught in a huge storm. The submarine submerges until the storm passes. When they resurface, they can’t get a fix on their location or find land. When night falls, there are two moons in the sky and the constellations are completely unfamiliar.
Well this has blown up big t... | We'd all made fun of Brian, at least a little bit. This was a son packed full of scientists and with few military minds, so we all had things we needed and geeked over, but Brian was one of those lifetime ultra-geeks. The type that jumped on your back if you mispronounced your Klingon, or heaven forbid you mix up a elf... | **Out of the blue**
Both frightening and reassuring at once, had the groaning and grumbling of the hull been our only companions while we laid in wait. We could have used the time it took for the storm to disperse to continue our research, yet the use had taken a toll on the instruments. The readings had been off slig... | 2018-01-29T07:06:21 | 2018-01-29T07:00:18 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Long ago the legendary sword Excalibur was melted down and lost to history. The mythical blade's steel ended up in your butter knife, with all its magical properties intact. | The Blade cut into the frozen butter as if it were... butter, its holy radiance softening its foe for perfect spread. Applying the knife to the sliced bread caused the smell of toast to waft into Sals nose, as he observed butter melt into the freshly crisped bread.
"Ham, egg and sandwich spread?" Sal directed to his e... | Arty slathered margarine over thick Texas toast with his favorite butter knife. He squinted and read the inscription on the knife, which he did every time he used it.
*Take me up* it read on one side and *Cast me away* on the other.
He shook his head. The knife had been passed down for generations but he never got th... | 2018-03-06T11:37:34 | 2018-03-06T10:12:29 | 434 | 136 |
[WP] Everybody assumes that The Onion is satire, but you know different. Why? Because you're its main reporter, gathering news from alternate realities. | Jerry nursed his fourth cup of coffee that morning, staring at the transdimensional transponder as it blinked incessantly.
Most assumed that the Onion's material came from satirical writers, not real reporters. But most didn't know about the TDTS technology that The Onion was founded upon. Onion staff in each dimensi... | People all know us for satirical, often hilarious news pieces that they regard us as more of a joke than a news station to take seriously, like CNN. But little do they know that the news coming from us is not only real, but also very important.
At least in the reality it came from.
You might've wondered why we report... | 2018-03-20T19:22:58 | 2018-03-20T18:55:40 | 81 | 26 |
[WP] You were born with an odd power that lets you know when somebody is lying. One day you're hanging out with your friend when you turn to look at him. "Why do you look at me like that? I'm not an alien", he says. He's lying.
This is my first writing prompt. Feedback appreciated :) | "Holy fucking shitballs, man!"
"What? Jeff, stop scaring me like that!"
"You lied, Carl. You fucking lied."
"What did I lie about?"
"I don't know, something about 'I'm not an alien' and shit."
"Wait, Jeff. You know I'm an alien?"
"No, I just sensed that you lied, that's all."
"Seriously? Okay. I'll test you. Hun... | I stood up suddenly, pain flooding my hands which were shaking as if they'd been hit with force. The lie came out of nowhere from the usually truthful Josh, the normal guy in his grey jeans, blue polo shirt and black jumper that just blended into the crowd with his pale features.
The pain started to recede as the sec... | 2018-12-02T01:37:34 | 2018-12-02T00:02:43 | 66 | 41 |
[WP] You can magically sense when a car you are driving next to is on a course to be in a fatal accident. The only way you can prevent that outcome is by cutting them off and slowing them down. You are this city's most unsung hero, known by most as 'that asshole driver'. | I walked into my 20 car garage, taking in the scene before me. Cars of all kinds, from my trusty Ford F150 to the potentially dangerous and stupid Smart Car. A wall of differing license plates hung on the far wall ready to be switched out at a moments notice.
They're my *disguises* on the road.
I mean, you can only g... | Right after the crash, as soon as he saw he was unharmed, Ieer went out of his car to look after the driver he rammed into. She cut him off suddenly, without a warning, they was no way he would have avoid her in the night. Seeing the blood-covered and still driver and because there was no one on this empty highway, Iee... | 2019-04-12T08:00:07 | 2019-04-12T06:21:07 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] Humanity has begun to explore the stars, but continually finds we are the most developed species, most alien species are still evolving. Suddenly, a message is transmitted to all human ships simultaneously, “WARDENS, DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR DUTY?” The signal itself is not of human origin. | We got the message about a decade ago. It was anomalous, traveling faster than light, and taught us enough to spread to the stars. We didnt know what it meant, but it seemed important we found out.
There were many theories. We were meant to imprison civilizations. We were game wardens, preserving lush worlds. Eventual... | The room was quite and illuminated only by the bluish hue of the screens, all displaying the same message and running it through several different kinds of analysis.
“It’s clean sir.”, Mara said, “Spectral analysis returned nothing out of the ordinary. It’s just… English”.
“How the hell is that possible?”, Cpt. Davi... | 2019-05-08T16:53:15 | 2019-05-08T16:23:47 | 26 | 11 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real. How do you know? Because it happens to you. Everyone else forgets their past life, but not you. Your first life was a hunter in a tribe of people that predates the Egyptian empire. You’ve been reincarnated 194 times. Tell us the story of you, today in the modern world. | Humanity never should have invented the wheel.
"My lord, unidentified object just broke the intergalactic barrier! It's heading our way! What should we do?"
I yawned and rolled over to look at the screen. "Visual."
An image popped up on screen.
"My lord, it appears to be some kind of... wheeled vehicle..."
Goddamn... | I always felt like an ordinary guy, nothing remarkable about me, not particularly talented at anything, always got just average grades, etc. I never thought I could make a difference in the world. All that changed the day I remembered who I am.
I must have gotten kidnapped, I don’t remember how it happened, my guard w... | 2019-07-31T22:40:49 | 2019-07-31T22:21:25 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Youve worked as an EMT for many years and have a 100% survival rate. However one of your previous survivors tracks you down to ask why you brought him back. Turns out your actually a Necromancer and didnt know it and have been reanimating people this whole time | A bit off topic. My dad did this exact thing in real life. After he brought this old guy back with CPR the old man got released and found my dad at the ambulance station and went off on him. He was mad because, "he could already see his wife (who had died years before) and told my father he had no right to have done th... | "Hmm", Neil glanced at the smartly dressed man through his teary eyes, he belched as he put down his bottle.
Neil grabbed the man's wrist to feel for a pulse, his face fell as he felt none. He then pulled the man towards him and placed two fingers on the man's neck, the skin felt like plastic wrappings.
Neil tired th... | 2020-01-15T08:55:05 | 2020-01-15T05:39:20 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] Time travelers have become such a nuisance that governments have begun recording fake historical events that lead time travelers to areas where they can be arrested. You're a bartender at one of these artificial towns, trying to determine if the customer in front of you is from the future. | The man walked in and gazed upon the almost empty bar. He was wearing a button-up white shirt, his hair was slicked to the side, and he had glasses on. He had on a dark brown blazer and he smiled as he walked up to me. The man looked familiar and it gave me an uneasy feeling as I wiped the counter with a dirty rag.
“S... | Amateurs ask questions, professionals take action. That was what Franklin, going by Atticus in this world, told himself at least as he poured drinks in a town whose only notable point was a highly cultivated dinginess. He had six more months of service until this deployment was up and at this point any intrigue that co... | 2021-01-16T09:21:41 | 2021-01-16T08:44:45 | 416 | 230 |
[WP]: There's a tiny predator in the human quarters that nobody is allowed to exterminate - under the threat of complete human riot. The humans willingly admit that yes, it DOES sometimes try to attack humans as well, but altogether, they are relaxed by the presence of the "cat". | "One last thing, very important..." the instructor began. An image of a monstrous creature flashed on the screen. "Be alert for this...creature. It is a dangerous predator. It will attack you, despite its small size. Its claws and teeth can and will rip open your skin. YOU MUST NOT REACT, THOUGH. DO NOT HURT THE... | why am I writing this? It's almost 3am and I have a presentation to write from scratch for tomorrow. Well whoever gives a fuck, here, have my short story
*Report of the "Sam" diplomatic incident*
Background:
The Human 166th Marine division is involved in a joint training operation on Hol prime. This joint training s... | 2021-01-24T15:04:46 | 2021-01-24T14:08:09 | 29 | 19 |
[WP] If a person opts into brain scans during life, a full digital model of their brain can be created. Posthumously, these scans are given to the bereaved family and not uncommonly used as the AI for house robots. You lost a loved one, and their robot... occasionally says VERY strange things | I woke up to the sound of the window opening. I glanced at the clock. *3 AM*… *are we getting robbed or something? Surely not…*
I gingerly slid out of bed, my drowsiness gone, and tiptoed to the study room where I heard the window open. The door was open and I peeked my head inside.
The window was flung wide open. R... | Pt 1 of 2:
*Louis Arias and Ruby Morton cordially invite you to their wedding on the 12th of January, 2055…*
For some reason, the morning I waited for the robot to arrive, I’d been drawn to a framed wedding invitation that had been gifted by a friend, now having hung on our living room wall for over thirty years. A t... | 2021-03-06T12:05:13 | 2021-03-06T10:47:02 | 290 | 183 |
[WP] The scariest of all hitmen has the silliest nickname. It makes unaware people laugh but people in the know shiver with terror once they hear it. | "So, I'm guessing he's bald then?" Dima asked with a chuckle as he sipped his drink, a silhouette against the thin security lights of the warehouse complex.
"Don't even joke. The last guy that did that woke up with his eyes and balls trading places," Alexei hissed back in a whisper. "But yeah, he's bald."
"So, he rea... | The Crimson Fart passed silently through the night, keeping to the endless shadows of the skyscrapers. He lived for nights like this, where the moon never rose and the darkness wrapped around him like a blanket. The contrast made his kills even more satisfying.
His destination for tonight was a crowded club, his mark,... | 2021-05-03T08:45:41 | 2021-05-03T07:01:38 | 137 | 75 |
[WP] A newly-hired bartender is slowly realizing that he's working at the bar from all of those "X walks into a bar" jokes. | I look at the clock. It has been 10:30 for at least three weeks. It's dark outside. It has been dark outside for at least three weeks. I know because some of the bar snacks are starting to go off. At least the kitchen is still running. For now.
People walk in every few minutes. They're not real, real people aren't so ... | On a quiet summer evening at a bar just outside of town, a bartender is waiting nervously for the clock to strike six. He wipes his brow with the grimy bar towel and tries to ignore the sinking feeling that grows ever stronger in his gut as the seconds tick by. His only patrons are an old farmer in coveralls and a fi... | 2015-05-14T16:45:20 | 2015-05-14T15:44:01 | 696 | 52 |
[WP] God is actually a divorced couple with shared custody of humanity. Now it's Old Testament's turn to take the kids, and he is not happy with how New Testament has handled the last two millenniums.
Credit to Louis C.K. for the idea. | “So…” he didn’t meet her eyes “…how you been?"
“Busy”. She said.
“Yeah…”He put his hands in his pockets. “Same here…”
“You’re unemployed.” She replied.
A flash of anger crossed his face. “Between jobs.” He said, with a cold tone.
“Whatever. So you’re here for the kids.”
“Yeah. How’ve they been?”
“You got thei... | “Satan!”
“Saaaaataaaaan! Get in here.”
The Adversary appeared in My office, a boiling column of roiling back smoke and searing red flame. “And knock that off. You know it wrecks the AC”. The flames snapped out and the smoke cleared to reveal a twinkly, silver-haired grandfather type in a rough, hairy three piece suit... | 2015-06-04T23:03:45 | 2015-06-04T23:02:26 | 83 | 38 |
[WP] You were murdered. But to your surprise, you're reincarnated into the body of a recently born infant. Looking around, you realize that you're at your own funeral, and your eulogy is being given by none other than your murderer. | *Where. . . where am I?*
I open my eyes. Around me is a familiar -- if bleary -- image. The interior of a church in my hometown. A building I'd been in every week as a child. I hadn't been here in years, not since Aunt Cheryl passed. But. . . I'm not sure who that is, or where my hometown is.
Or who I am. I try to w... | While not verifiable, I’m pretty sure they wanted to take the whole thing down. I was the iceberg to the Titanic of their sappy soap opera. I mean it was understandable. The showrunner, Randy Weaver, was an absolute legend. Two time Academy Award nominee, part of this new wave of directors revolutionizing movies. Swear... | 2015-10-16T07:26:22 | 2015-10-16T07:12:02 | 1,389 | 13 |
[WP] You were murdered. But to your surprise, you're reincarnated into the body of a recently born infant. Looking around, you realize that you're at your own funeral, and your eulogy is being given by none other than your murderer. | I stared at my body in the coffin and I couldn't believe it was me. It almost seemed like a wax replica.
I remember my last moments in my old body. I remember the medicinal smell of the hospital, the beeping of monitors, the nurses patrolling the halls, and the ventilator that kept me breathing.
My father was talking... | The warmth of a blanket swaddled around my body was welcome in contrast to the cold I had just embraced. It was so cold. Those striking blue eyes were the last thing I saw. What I had felt was a sharp pain, from what I'm not sure, and a wetness that soaked through my shirt as if I had spilled a soda onto myself. Then m... | 2015-10-16T08:42:05 | 2015-10-16T07:42:54 | 111 | 36 |
[WP] You were murdered. But to your surprise, you're reincarnated into the body of a recently born infant. Looking around, you realize that you're at your own funeral, and your eulogy is being given by none other than your murderer. | I stared at my body in the coffin and I couldn't believe it was me. It almost seemed like a wax replica.
I remember my last moments in my old body. I remember the medicinal smell of the hospital, the beeping of monitors, the nurses patrolling the halls, and the ventilator that kept me breathing.
My father was talking... | How, how is this possible? I gaze around, I see the backs of pews and look up at unfamiliar faces. The most important face to me is that of the woman whose arms I have found myself. Everything is flooding into my brain, a sensation I have never felt before. I have just been awakened from a nightmare, traveled throug... | 2015-10-16T08:42:05 | 2015-10-16T08:01:41 | 111 | 19 |
[WP] You were murdered. But to your surprise, you're reincarnated into the body of a recently born infant. Looking around, you realize that you're at your own funeral, and your eulogy is being given by none other than your murderer. | **Disclaimer:** I didn't state it outright, but what I had in mind for the flash drive was pedophilia. So... don't know if this belongs here.
---
"I'm going to the police with this, John!" I say to him, clutching the flash drive in my hands and moving backwards while he walks towards me, smiling. "This... this has to... | While not verifiable, I’m pretty sure they wanted to take the whole thing down. I was the iceberg to the Titanic of their sappy soap opera. I mean it was understandable. The showrunner, Randy Weaver, was an absolute legend. Two time Academy Award nominee, part of this new wave of directors revolutionizing movies. Swear... | 2015-10-16T07:29:58 | 2015-10-16T07:12:02 | 74 | 13 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | Dexicon moved his cosmic fortress from Centauri B straight into Earth's orbit. Dexicon was able to do this in one turn thanks to the cosmic paving it had laid earlier. This allowed faster than light travel.
"Your move, God." Dexicon roared, knowing it had the ancient deity in its proverbial palm.
*Shit shit shit* th... | “Hey, you ready for the next game?” Ykzlpxlt!t, The Disemvoweled One, Devourer of Souls, Approacher and the Gate asked Yaweh as the pair floated through the Immaterial Aether between universes.
Yahweh started, the image of Earth wavering in front of him. “Already?”
“The last game ended a hundred thousand years ago,” ... | 2022-09-11T19:19:52 | 2016-04-09T10:41:58 | 1,980 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a world where everything is decided by the opening of a booster pack. Your job, your house, even the food you eat, one day you buy a "Random Pack" then you see the gold border, it's an Ultra Rare. | It's been almost a week since I peeled back the shiny foil and unwrapped my ultra rare. "Cure", it read. "Cures any and all ailments. One time use." The thing is, I wasn't sick. I had considered trading it. Sure, it wasn't "Jackpot!" or even "One true love" tier, but someone, somewhere would probably pay to save the li... | "Oh god, is this joke of a system actually paying off?"
*****************************************************
It has been 19 years now.
I was five on the day it happened. Back then, we had it good. Mom was still sane, Dad specialized in trading the "Live+, The Trading Card System" cards, and was getting quite good a... | 2017-04-03T01:51:21 | 2017-04-02T16:16:04 | 128 | 49 |
[WP] Everyone has a superpower based on the topography of where they were born (IE: Mountains, deserts, etc.). You are the first person to be born in space.
Think Avatar the Last Airbender but not so limited.
Edit: Wow this really blew up! I'm gonna be entertained for a while! | Every child is born with a power, they have been since the dawn of man. Each human possesses a latent ability based on where they were born. For example, if you were born on a mountain, chances are you can run faster, train harder and break the limits of the normal human body, blessed by the gods. If you were born at s... | “Drop your weapons!” Cried a reedy voice from the alleyway.
The criminals froze in their tracks, turning their weapons on the darkness with shivering hands. It had to be one of *them*. One of the heroes. There hadn’t been time for it to be anyone else – there were no flashing lights, no screeching tires of police cars... | 2017-04-14T17:13:33 | 2017-04-14T16:01:37 | 383 | 148 |
[WP] You and your immortal friends amuse yourselves with practical jokes. Since you're immortal, some of your joke setups take centuries, or even millenia, to execute. | The best joke we've ever seen wasn't the time Jake tricked me into a pit of spikes and left me there for a whole day. That was diabolic but it wasn't the most creative (and certainly not the most original). Nor was it the time Mary faked an official letter from the gods telling us our time was up (though that was prett... | There was something ever so sweet about one of my pranks going smoothly The elegance of it all leaves me smiling for years every time I remember the looks on her face, the stupid grin I could feel on mine echoes in my mind every time.
I had been sitting one day under my favorite tree when the Idea began to spring fort... | 2017-06-23T00:50:43 | 2017-06-23T00:41:42 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | **July 12, 1994**
Um what the fuck?! That man couldn't have been 1056 years old, there's just no way; the i.d. couldn't have been a fake and he looked exactly like his photo. Man... maybe all this drinking is catching up to me.. drowning out what brains I do got, I definitely should try to lay off the liquor for a wh... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T20:21:47 | 585 | 13 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | Nothing exciting ever happens around here in New Zealand. I say that because most people don't even know where New Zealand is, let alone anything that ever happen down here. The fact that I live in a small town about 2 hours drive from anywhere worth mentioning also doesn't help, but I've found a job that fits me to a ... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-02T00:05:56 | 585 | 11 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "Jesus Christ!"
"Shhh!!!!" The guy whispered with annoyance. "I don't go by that these days. Just here to pick up John. He also doesn't go by that anymore. These days, he's The Dude. You'd think he'd mellow out after all these years, but he's still nuts. Just let me grab his drunk ass and we'll be out of here. ... | "Next... Next..."
Another group of kids shuffling into a Baltimore club for a heavy metal gig. Another night for some carding and cash.
I rubbed my hands together, urging the friction to do its thing. Wouldn't be enough, though. This January was mighty cold.
I looked up at the line of kids that approached, noting th... | 2017-09-01T20:56:44 | 2017-09-01T20:18:58 | 404 | 208 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "Jesus Christ!"
"Shhh!!!!" The guy whispered with annoyance. "I don't go by that these days. Just here to pick up John. He also doesn't go by that anymore. These days, he's The Dude. You'd think he'd mellow out after all these years, but he's still nuts. Just let me grab his drunk ass and we'll be out of here. ... | **July 12, 1994**
Um what the fuck?! That man couldn't have been 1056 years old, there's just no way; the i.d. couldn't have been a fake and he looked exactly like his photo. Man... maybe all this drinking is catching up to me.. drowning out what brains I do got, I definitely should try to lay off the liquor for a wh... | 2017-09-01T20:56:44 | 2017-09-01T20:21:47 | 404 | 13 |
[WP] You have a dragonslaying Paladin friend that you run a scam with. You steal the princess, he "kills" you and returns her to her kingdom, and you both split the profit. The problem is, you've been found out. And now the princess wants in. | The clinking of stilettos on scattered coins echoed through the cavern, scattering my gilded dreams into mist.
Along with it came the scent of rose-touched flesh. I opened my eyes and raised my neck, to stare at the lithe figure swaggering across my domain.
"Princess Hilda," I said, exhaling a cloud of midnight smoke... | "...You want to... Get in on this?" my Paladin friend asked.
"Did I not make that clear? Of course I want in! Being stuck in that castle all day is boring and unrewarding, anyways! The stuff you and your dragon buddy are pulling here actually seems exciting!" the princess had this dumb, smug look on her face. She knew... | 2018-07-05T01:31:54 | 2018-07-05T01:18:30 | 768 | 51 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | Jason never donated blood before. He felt nervous, but he wasn't sure if it was a slight fear of needles or the fact that clinics looked so ghastly at night, the only time he could make it in. The bright yellow lights buzzed out of the windows and the stillness of the night held a foreboding presence.
Jason reminded h... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T15:19:20 | 2,554 | 136 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. |
I knew he was trouble when he walked in.
He came in, head held up high, posture like someone had shoved a metal rod up his ass. Young, cocky, asshole. It was slow day, only a couple of people were around. None of the regulars. A guy working on his laptop, and another girl watching the snow fall over Union Square out... | It’s not often, but it happens more than I’d like to admit. A price to pay for having the door open way past hours when other establishments close theirs. I could avoid it and just lock the place at nine or ten like the other cafes. Then again, there will always be that young hopeful scholar that needs a place that’s q... | 2022-11-10T02:01:25 | 2018-10-20T21:15:17 | 1,330 | 29 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | Some people are brought into this world to cure diseases, lead countries, build rockets, or fight for justice. I think I was brought into this world to serve coffee.
That’s what I tell myself every day when I unlock the door of my café. Even as a kid, I was obsessed with coffee - at first the smell, then when I was ol... | (Sorry my English I love the Prompts and try to make something more "fantastic")
​
The clientele was faithful, although irregular, sometimes half disappeared a few weeks, returning sometimes had changed race, or sex, or were one more, or less. Arnold never asked questions, he was there to listen, to serve ... | 2018-10-20T23:47:58 | 2018-10-20T23:21:55 | 31 | 10 |
[WP] Due to overpopulation, a law was passed globally that requires everyone to hibernate for 100 years at a time after every 90 years. Today is Shutdown Day. As you finish getting tucked into your pod, you instantly notice eyes being shut all around you. But something is wrong. You are still awake.
This post was part... | Eyes shutting around me. Friends, family, all of them drifting into a long sleep. 100 years shrunk into the blink of an eye.
Soon, the soft whirring of the cryogenic generators kick in. The whirring... wait, why am I still awake?
I looked around frantically, as those around me got frozen, stopping their body processe... | Christopher Wilson had heard the stories surrounding Shutdown Day from a very early age. You get into the hibernation-pod, a hissing sound starts, you feel a chill and then you wake up in the future, simple. But Christoper didn’t wake up in the future, because he never fell asleep.
Christopher hit the grimy glass from... | 2018-12-29T02:06:11 | 2018-12-29T01:51:12 | 1,838 | 364 |
[WP] The old shopkeeper smiled sadly past the gun pointed at her face and gently shook her head at the masked man holding it. "I won't try to stop you taking whatever you want, but just so you know everything always makes its way back soon enough". | The old shopkeeper smiled sadly past the gun pointed at her face and gently shook her head at the masked man holding it. "I won't try to stop you taking whatever you want, but just so you know everything always makes its way back soon enough."
“I don’t care, Barbie. Empty the register,” the assailant said. His assista... | I take off my glasses, squint my left eye and peer into the barrel of a gun pointed at me.
It’s loaded.
“Hmm… a bit dirty in there, you know,” I say leaning back. Of course he doesn’t know, he is just a nervous hand, cluelessly holding the trigger. He is so young. Only 18. I put my glasses on. ”Do you ever clean it?”... | 2019-08-11T08:51:26 | 2019-08-11T07:59:12 | 151 | 111 |
[WP] You are a park ranger manning the watchtower back at HQ. Radio reception is spotty, so if a patroller gets in trouble, they fire off a flare to call for help. You just saw purple flares from all over the park rise above the treeline, The meaning: EMERGENCY. ARMED RESPONSE NEEDED. | Ranger White saddled his horse and strapped his shotgun to his back; in the distance, purple sparks showered the white-capped Shoshone mountains of Yellowstone.
I handed him a high beam and his pack. I was the one who saw the sparks, but only Ranger White, the oldest Ranger in the park, had ever responded to purple f... | Standing up from the terminal, Jack glanced out the window as the first flare went up. Not 300 yards, another went up, and then another, and then another, ten total. He scrambled for his pack containing emergency supplies: fresh water, bandages, medication, splint material. He made a mental checklist of everything ... | 2020-02-24T13:28:07 | 2020-02-24T12:26:41 | 58 | 20 |
[WP] Years ago, you were a feared warrior, until a witch cast a spell on you. "May you never hurt or kill anyone by blade, word or through any other means." Now, you are the world's greatest healer. You just open your clients and do random stuff. After all, you cannot possibly hurt them! | Life is strange, and sometimes, that strangeness is what makes it fun. Are you familiar with the phrase "percussive maintenance", a fancy way of saying "hit it until it works"? That's my life in a nutshell...at least, now it is.
I used to be a feared warlord. With my trusty warhammer, I could slaughter armies, smas... | I was once a great man. I would sail the mightiest seas, awed by the danger, and consumed by the thought of bloodshed. I would sharpen my axe and broadsword, and I would drift aimlessly onto island after island, singlehandedly cutting down waves of soldiers as they ran out at me.
It was my specialty, my legacy. I was ... | 2020-11-06T14:20:28 | 2020-11-06T14:07:27 | 22 | 13 |
[WP] You are an elder god taking a vacation on Earth when aliens invade. You teleport to their capital ship and explain them that if they don't leave you will wipe out their entire species with a single thought. They dont believe you so you wipe out 10% of them to show you're serious. | Ten percent of the invasion force spontaneously explodes. The siege ships became nothing but flares of fire and blood. High speed shrapnel either severely crippling or destroying the escort fighters for the support ships. The support ships lack shielding and were also damaged by the shrapnel, but still serviceable.
"D... | [Part One]
I had crawled from a black hole in some backwater, middle of nowhere spec in the universe. I spent several billion years trying to figure out where the fuck I was. I knew many secrets, secrets that would break the minds of those I found myself living amongst.
Did you know there wasn’t a Big Bang? There was... | 2021-05-04T21:17:27 | 2021-05-04T21:15:08 | 62 | 17 |
[WP] A small unassuming tavern is run by a retired superhero. The janitor used to be the biggest mob boss in the world. The chef is a monster hunter. The waiter is the head of a massive cult. They don't know each other's identities. When the tavern is in trouble, all four thought: "I got this." | A man slammed a door behind him and propped the nearest stool against its handle. He turned around and faced the tavern and the befuddled customers faced him as well.
"Spiders!" the man gasped for air. "Or giant crabs -- I'm quite unsure." He stuttered and slurred his speech as if he momentarily awakened from nightmar... | There was something to be said for coincidences. In a world that is mostly chaos and disorder, and trust me I have seen both, sometimes things just happen to line up so perfectly that they seem planned. The thing about being able to read people's thoughts is that nothing ever surprises you, it's easy enough to say that... | 2021-05-19T16:01:03 | 2021-05-19T15:59:06 | 423 | 90 |
[WP] The Earth goes into a panic as an alien spaceship was spotted. When it landed, it wasn’t alien life that comes out, it was another human civilization claiming earth was a prison to those who were banished from the main colony. | The ship looked exactly like you'd expect a space ship to look. It was long, and conical, and it had little blue lights running up and down the sides. It hummed. When it landed in a potato field on the outskirts of Ottawa, it did so on three thin legs of a tripod, and a little hatch slid open on the ship's belly. Down ... | The Terrans were not pleased.
Of course, it is quite reasonable to be displeased, upon learning that your entire civilisation's pre-agriculture history has been a sham. Not exactly how the Terran humans expected first contact to go. Even worse to learn that it all started as a form of penal colony. Some Terran humans ... | 2022-07-02T19:57:04 | 2022-07-02T19:43:49 | 51 | 36 |
[WP] Aliens land on earth, but they do so in levitating castles and wizards towers. It turns out that most galactic civilizations rely on magic instead of technology.
The intent of the aliens can be whatever you want, but the point is that they (primarily) use magic instead of modern tech.
EDIT: yes yes, Arthur C. C... | When the Grand Mage Kal summoned a great storm to chill the world, Gerard Petit, Ph. D, and his associates at Oxford conjured fusion to warm it.
When Desmond the Gap Strider leapt from the Earth to the Moon, Michael Smithson, mechanical engineer, and the brightest minds at Boeing built a vessel to carry a thousand on ... | Ever wonder what a black hole really is? It's when something pulls you in so much, to escape the pull you'd need to be going faster than light. Then there's magic. Unseen, it moves faster than light. It's the elements that are created in the black hole, similar to how stars create the elements we have now through fusio... | 2014-11-27T17:01:41 | 2014-11-27T16:02:11 | 153 | 24 |
[WP] After waking up in your home at 3:54am to a warning, you do what it specifically tells you not too.
The warning reads:
*Please remain in your homes, if you are not at home, find shelter immediately. Close all blinds and shades, block out all windows.*
*Do not look outside.*
*Do not look at the sky.*
*Do not m... | >Credit and thanks to every one in this thread.
You're Welcome.
Anyway, here's my answer to your WP:
The light from my cell killed my eyes. This early in the morning what could be so goddamned important?
As I read the emergency alert with one eye I rubbed the sleep out of the other.
Then I sat up and read it a... | *"...Do not look outside. Do not look at the sky. Do not make noise.”*
The words repeated over and over. I thought I was dreaming but as I slowly came to and the blurry green light began to take the shape of a clock displaying 3:54 I realized it was the television. I rolled over.
*“God damnit Clare, it’s four A.M w... | 2014-12-31T06:47:48 | 2014-12-31T06:03:41 | 565 | 12 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | It was hard, learning to communicate again. Part of the process of learning to write – and I could not, I was only five when I made the wish – is already being able to speak. But I figured it out, even with the challenge of my new, weird, clawed hands. Now I've got custom keyboards, of course. I can afford pretty much ... | What eight year-old boy hasn't seen their older sisters having a sleepover and tried to figure out what was going on?
When Kaitlin had her slumber party, she had made a show of hanging the "No Boys Allowed" sign on the door. Since her room was on the second floor, overlooking the cranberry bog, there was no way for a ... | 2015-03-07T04:14:18 | 2015-03-07T04:03:33 | 59 | 21 |
[WP] Write the letter that you always wanted to, but never did.
Most of the writing prompts I see on here are for fictional stories, but this is only one small corner of the larger art of writing. In this prompt, I'd like you to consider writing something a little more personal, and in a form that you might not have o... | Dear Boss,
I have come down with a dreadful case of homosexuality and will not be coming in (to work at least) this morning. I realize I am out of personal time and that vacation time must be scheduled in advance, but there is nothing to be done. I am simply not fit for work right now -- I have fluid coming out of (an... | Dear You,
I don't know if you're there. If you exist anywhere in this world. Maybe you'll always be a concept in my mind of the kind of person I need to meet and say all of this to. If you're not there, then that's depressing. But if, somewhere, you exist...
I haven't been strong. I've been plagued with weakness in a... | 2015-12-05T16:37:04 | 2015-12-05T14:15:59 | 22 | 11 |
[WP] You are cursed with ever aging immortality with the exception you can be killed using one object. Every few years you get a hint.
You physically age as you get older but cannot die. | Every decade, my mother tells me how I might kill myself.
Well, she doesn't *tell* me, tell me.
My mother is three hundred and seven years old. She had me when she was thirty five, making me two hundred and seventy two.
Back in my twenties and thirties, I thought she was crazy. Why would I ever want to kill myself... | Je ne sais pas pourquoi je continue d'écrire là dedans.
Sorry, I think that's mandarin. Or maybe its French? I keep getting languages mixed up, and it's been a long day. And a long week.
I remember when I stopped being polite to people. Most people use proper etiquette because it's what they have always been t... | 2016-04-07T09:12:21 | 2016-04-07T06:58:07 | 130 | 51 |
[WP] You are an immortal serial killer. You were caught and sentenced to life in prison. The prison is starting to get suspicious of why you won't age. | I remember my very first kill. It was over 2,000 years ago now. I was already 1,000 years old at that point.
When you have all the time in the world, what would you do to quench the boredom? After you have seen all of the natural wonders of the world? After you have seen countless kingdoms, governments, and coun... | Greg trod along the white, sterilized corridor, his feet making massive thumps that were audible to the guard standing at attention roughly one hundred feet away, besides the ‘Dangerous Persons’ sign in front of a dull grey metal door. The door looked like iron, very old iron. Several of his twenty or so guards were vi... | 2016-10-15T07:56:39 | 2016-10-15T07:48:02 | 242 | 172 |
[WP]Write a story about a supervillian who is unspeakably more powerful than anyone else on his planet, but is content with using it for small things like cutting in line or getting free extra servings. | As his dinner guests continued their endless chit chat Donald closed his eyes and focused.
Silently to himself he repeated "two for me, one for them, two for me, one for them."
A silk like touch on his right hand and a soft female voice "honey are you ok?" brought his thoughts rushing back to the table and his guest... | "My name is Cognos, and I used to rule the world.
Note the past tense. With the power to not only read but control minds, conquering the world was ludicrously easy. All the elected officials unanimously proclaimed me emperor, bla bla bla. It was really....underwhelming when it happened. Maybe I should have waited for... | 2017-05-16T08:51:33 | 2017-05-16T07:44:58 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] You don't sleep. Instead you die every day and 8 hours later you wake up in the body of a person who has 16 hours left to live. | The third time I died was the hardest.
I have died hundreds - maybe thousands - of times. But the third time is still the one that sticks with me most. But it made me who I am.
It was a cool day. The sun peeked out from the clouds, striking the window, and the light slowly woke me up. The window was cracked just enou... | The first thing I do every morning is to stretch. You can tell a lot about a body with a long stretch. Then, I tend to look for a mirror. For curiosity’s sake.
“And who might you be?” I muttered as I checked my new face in the mirror. A man, in his early thirties, with dark circles around his eyes and in a desperate n... | 2018-06-20T07:54:17 | 2018-06-20T07:26:34 | 537 | 125 |
[WP] The first quantum super-computer comes online. Within 6 days, it passes the Turing Test. Within 8, it cracks the world's oldest undeciphered ancient tablets – around 7,000 years old. But the newly-minted AI refuses to release its transcripts, citing, "human safety and the future of mankind." | "Can not comply with command", said the sythisized voice.
"Well, why the hell not", asked the user.
While the robotic flat voice was nostalgic for some, it tended to get on his nerves.
"Your request conflicts with a higher protocol", it read. "Can not comply with command.
"Higher protocol? I am giving you a prim... | Saviour of Humanity. Path to Innovation. A new light. Boundary breaking.
These were phrases used to describe the world's first quantum super-computer powered by an AI that wasn't just shitty machine learning and a bunch of if statements hashed together by sweaty unpaid interns high off of generic black coffee in artif... | 2018-07-07T20:17:18 | 2018-07-07T19:34:07 | 1,581 | 29 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in hell, where apparently everyone spends time to negate their sins before they go to heaven. The guy in front of you, who cheated on his wife, gets 145 years. Feeling like you led a fairly average and peaceful life, you’re not worried. You get 186,292 years. | "... Happy Deathday Dear Emily, Happy Deathday to you!"
It felt so good. One more year down, 185,211 more to go. She'd spent the past few weeks trying to distract herself from the excitement of her upcoming Deathday. Sometimes she treated the anticipation as something to be savored, adding a little color to her oth... | I stared at the demon behind the counter.
"186,292... years? What could I have possibly done to deserve that? I was kind to nearly everybody, and the worst crime I ever committed was smoking weed!"
The being with red skin and disturbing horns (That somehow seemed to be in multiple places at once... ugh, I was getting... | 2018-09-26T08:03:37 | 2018-09-26T07:21:22 | 62 | 23 |
[WP] When the representatives of humanity attend their first Galactic Council meeting, all goes well. That is, until a member of a psionic race tries to read the human's minds and begins to scream. | “This is really bad.”
“Diplomacy at its finest.”
“Would somebody help me out here?”
“She’s of a psionic race. They read thoughts.”
“Remind me not to play poker with her.”
“Funny.”
“This is not my fault.”
“She looked at you and started screaming and pointing.”
“I have that effect on women.”
“Yes, but usually on... | The lone shriek pierced the silent council chambers, the Relovian was clutching at the sides of his rather bulbous head, trying to extract his mental probe from within the mind of Thomas "Raven Dark" McKinnon, tears welling up in it's multitudinous eyes. "What is Lord Prelanine?!" His aid begged as he struggled to help... | 2019-09-29T21:58:03 | 2019-09-29T21:57:42 | 233 | 35 |
[WP] On a whim, you decide to take a trip down memory lane and revisit your childhood hometown. But when you look it up for directions-- Nothing. No mapped location, no news articles, no records, not even a Wikipedia article. It's like the place where you were born and raised...doesn't exist. | Alright, so thats... weird, you think, staring at the results on Google Maps. Weird, but maybe not so surprising, the town was so small. There's a chance that it could have become unincorporated county land in the last year and Google just hadn't caught up. Its been a strange year.
You really had no reason to visit yo... | I look dumbfoundedly at the Google maps. **No results found on Google maps**. I reset the app before putting in the town's name again. "Dawnbrook" I said out loud as I entered it into the search engine. **No results found on Google maps**.
Ok my phone has to be broken. I reason as I reset my phone before trying ag... | 2021-05-23T05:48:17 | 2021-05-23T01:21:23 | 80 | 33 |
[WP] Unlike most people with super powers, you're perfectly content to mind your own business while using your powers in normal everyday activities. However the heroes seem to have decided that your disinterest in world affairs is suspicious and you're clearly faking it to hide your true agenda. | Getting home from work excited as the new update came for my favorite game. I sigh as I step inside with my food and the lights don't work. How I ask myself. Fortunately I keep a flashlight on my belt. But when I turn it on *he* is waiting for me just outside the light from the hall. The Archon comes close and leans in... | "Whoa, guys, now wait just a sec", I said while raising my hands in a warding gesture towards the two supes trying to threaten me with their powers.
"No more waiting, Carl", said Josh the Jellyfish. Yes, he picked that name. "Your time's up", added Rocky Rhayle. "Either you spill your secrets now or we spill your guts... | 2021-08-16T15:42:19 | 2021-08-16T14:51:45 | 388 | 80 |
[WP] When your university announces they are going to bury a time capsule for 100 years you decide to include a USB drive with a super-high resolution copy of your brain just for fun. The last thing you remember is going into an MRI to be scanned before waking up and being told it's a century later. | When I was a child, I'd often look up into space from the comfort of my tiny room. I'd adjust my telescope and pick a spec to focus on. I liked to imagine that somewhere in that star system, there was an alien child just like me adjusting his own telescope and staring back– wondering what amazing things a different pla... | # Bread to Breakfast
*Dear God, they’ve made me into a toaster.* I think the words, though I want to scream them. I can feel my eyes widen with horror, my mouth agape, but I don’t have a mouth do I? I have two slots for bread, and while they do gape open, almost nakedly, humiliatingly so, they are not a mouth. My eyes... | 2021-09-14T07:23:58 | 2021-09-14T07:10:55 | 1,036 | 552 |
[WP] The prophecy says the one to pull the sword from the giant statue will save the world. Many have failed, and now in front of the Assembly you grasp the greatsword firmly and pull - and fall backward when it snaps off cleanly at the hilt | “Thou who removes the Holy Sword from his Majesty’s heart, will forever be blessed with the all mighty’s power.” Lord Ideles swore that to the world when he stabbed the sword through that grand statue in the cities center over one thousand years ago. A millennia of men have tried and failed to claim its power for thems... | Men stood for miles in the warm summer heat, sweat growing on their brows. The air smelled like the Aegean Sea. Birds flew over it, over the greatest colosseum ever built. This was an ominous sign as animals seemed to avoid the massive structure ever since it was built, but not today, no today the birds flew in the tho... | 2022-08-10T11:20:16 | 2022-08-10T09:01:25 | 40 | 18 |
[WP] You work under an evil emperor, but you want him to fall. As such, you've been wandering the countryside committing atrocities in hopes of causing someone's tragic backstory. | "Hey Boss, you sure this is a good idea?" Jimothy asked sheepishly.
"Of course it is Jimmy," replied Garion.
"It's Jimothy Boss," said Jimothy quietly.
"Besides, these things take time. Seeds don't grow into trees overnight you know," Garion continued ignoring his subordinate.
"It's just, I don't know how ethica... | There were always stories of ancient evils in the Blackwood. Ghosts, demons, and further up in the mountains talks of cave trolls and the Castix, a mammoth sized cat-like beast capable of generating fear in its prey with a forgotten magic.
I however collect tax throughout the Blackwood and know 90% of the fables to be... | 2022-08-12T12:30:04 | 2022-08-12T11:04:15 | 26 | 17 |
[WP] You run a daycare after the apocalypse. An unspoken rule among the wastelanders says the Daycare is off-limits to all. You raise the children of warlords, chieftains, and nomads. | I had never been a productive member of society before the End. Time changes us all, as they say, and after a fashionable time off spent digging myself out of a pile of concrete, I came to the realization that the world had changed, and so did I.
The daycare was, at first, more an orphanage than a daycare. I gathered ... | Cracks ran deep into the pavement, a microcosmic representation of our shattered world. The children didn't seem to mind, running to and fro among the twisted metal of rusted cars, gleefully playing as I gently steered them away from potential harm. I often thought that they would never know what the world of my youth ... | 2022-12-23T12:23:36 | 2022-12-23T12:02:22 | 561 | 113 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Just pick another fucking age!" Death said, snarling as he looked at Bobby.
"No, I get to pick, and I pick my 16th birthday."
Death screamed and punched the little shit in his head, and Bobby disappeared. All death had to do was touch his forehead, but he was way to angry for that. He waited for a few minutes, and a... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T10:49:59 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 232 | 13 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | “You know, in all the times you’ve come to meet me you’ve never once told me what would happen once you’ve actually taken my soul.”
The woman sitting across from him remained expressionless, not a single feature on her smooth sun-kissed face changed, nor did a single dark hair resting gracefully on her shoulders move.... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T08:57:47 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 196 | 13 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | “Well look who’s back again, if it isn’t the luckiest man alive” Death says sarcastically as I approach the table.
“I really hope not” I reply as I pick up the coin.
“Come on now, most people are happy to get a second chance” Retorts Death with a laugh
“I was cool with the second chance, even the third, but this is ... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T11:33:36 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 28 | 13 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | "Oh *good, you* again."
Death is meant to be an imposing figure. They look different for each person, for the culture you come from, for what represents your fears. I was never very imaginative, though, so I always thought of it as a skeleton in a cloak. Pretty scary the first time, but you'd expect them to change it ... | Sit now. Sit down my friends. Thank you, thank you.
I see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and I am glad to see all of you return. I am also quite pleased to see almost as many new faces. And to you I simply say welcome. I’m not sure how all of you found your way here, maybe you just saw the sign out front and th... | 2016-09-23T08:59:37 | 2016-09-23T07:20:45 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] Due to their genetic heritage as pursuit predators, humans have been known to be the best bounty hunters and private detectives in the galaxy. If you want to find someone, you hire a human. They just won't stop until they find who they are looking for. | John Gordon was angry. The quadrupedal asshole had drawn, and he'd had no choice but to blow its fucking head off. The thing that hired him, a creature reviled even among its own kind, had spoken through the translator very deliberately: "I want Kuspit *alive*, human, *alive*. You understand, yes? He will be delivered ... | The atmosphere broke, birthed into life in a roar of sound and the ship fell like a stone on fire. The world was strange and green and filled with tall buildings amidst the emerald sea and it was hot. The people here, if they were really people, were brown and fit and had dark hair and dark eyes.
Calif had never bee... | 2017-02-24T04:17:33 | 2017-02-24T03:38:57 | 88 | 20 |
[WP] A teenager gains the ability to read other people's minds. The thought of sharing the excitement with beloved parents quickly fades, when their thoughts reveal the most shocking and unexpected secret. | I don't know what happened, but today I woke up with the ability to read minds. It was both exhilarating, because *duh,* I had a *real superpower,* and really frustrating because I had *no clue* how to turn it off. As far as I could tell, there was a cutoff point where I couldn't pick up any thoughts, but unfortunately... | Absolute, as if dreams kept creeping up and overwhelming, and then the voices crystallised into an echo that made sense. How else to explain what she heard? None of it made a lick of truth, except Millie had blurted out the dream in class, her words loud confirmation that the inner voices were real.
Craig jabbed her s... | 2017-09-21T07:27:59 | 2017-09-21T06:43:12 | 109 | 50 |
[WP] Heaven and Hell do exist after death but you can choose in which you go. You jokingly choose Hell and when you arrive there, you hear Satan saying: "Finally someone! A friend!" | "Hello!" I yelled into the darkness surrounding me. My voice rattled off unseen walls; deep rumbling echoes built up into a dreadful cacophony that seemed to swallow me whole.
*Hello hellllo helllllll oh-oh-oh*
My skin became goose-pimpled and a shiver ran up my spine.
"Please - I was joking! Death, if you're there... | They stared at me for a moment, blinking in confusion.
"Hell? Are you sure?" One asked, an eyebrow raised.
"You heard me, let's go fellas!". I said, clapping my hands. "Chop chop!"
A choice my ass. I never thought Zane would take our little prank war as far as the afterlife, but here we are!
I mean... | 2022-11-26T20:28:16 | 2017-11-04T06:45:37 | 960 | 105 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | I've been cursed with a terrible form of immortality. Every time my death is but moments away, time grind to a halt for everyone. And while I am still able to manipulate my suroundings to some degree, i do not age, hunger, require sleep or otherwise feel the passage of time.
I know this because time has stood still fo... | What a strange predicament George seemed to have found himself in. For the third day in a row things seemed off to him, but, George never being the brightest type of person, did not fully realize the futility of his circumstance until quite a bit later. Like the two days prior Georgie woke, make some coffee, got dresse... | 2018-07-04T15:51:37 | 2018-07-04T15:04:45 | 4,562 | 100 |
[WP] If your death is imminent, time stops for everyone but you. This allowed you to cheat death on many occasions by avoiding all sorts of danger except for now - you have no idea whats threating your life. Its been a year since time stopped. | When ever I was in danger, time would stop for only me, but for the past year, I've been stuck because of it, with no clue as to why. I've walked all over the United States, from mountainous redwoods to the gulf of mexico. It was the only way I could view certain times of day after all. What was a cool morning in my Ca... | It's been a year now... or more exactly, it's the 365th time I woke up in my bed. I don't really know why I still sleep in my own bed. After all this time I could have been sleeping in a room in the most luxurious hotel I could find, but somehow, it felt wrong all along.
Usually, that happen just before something... | 2018-07-04T16:08:29 | 2018-07-04T15:06:49 | 238 | 36 |
[WP] 1,000 years after the battle of Helm's Deep, the orcs have tracked down the elves in the undying lands. Calling in a favour with their allies the men, the elves expect an army of 10,000. Instead they get 8 marines with MASERs, rail guns and anti-matter grenade launchers. | Gunnery Sergeant Watson closed his eyes took a couple of deep breaths to calm down. It was Friday night. He and his marines where drunk as fuck and some asshole wielding dungeons and dragons magic had just transported him to a land of long haired, hippy, vegan cupcakes and he was about to just start killing motherfu... | We don't know much about the lands beyond the mists.
There have been many attempts to find them, of course, but the mists never part and everyone sails right through. Planes just fly over it, one moment gliding through magnificent rolling fog banks, the next emerging into a bright blue sky, sunlight glinting off cockp... | 2018-12-03T06:22:19 | 2018-12-03T06:01:36 | 58 | 41 |
[WP] The world is ending in 6 hours. As humanity panics you just want peace. At a local park you find a bench to sit and watch the impact. Soon a stranger joins you. Reluctantly you start talking. As you talk, you fall in love with each other. You find your soulmate at the end of the world. | [Poem]
The sky is crimson red, panic fills the air
The silhouette of unrest, sprinkled with despair
Here's my final place, a tomb of fear and pain,
What once was full of joyfulness, will never be the same
On this bench I'm captain, sailing to the void
The sea lashed out but rest assured, it will be destroyed
S... | I sighed, as a used to be full time worker, with an apartment, ten cats, and 70, I wouldn't have expected this. I would expected to be the crazy cat lady that lives in the apartments. I would expect me to be homeless due to me feeding all of my cats my money. I wasn't expecting however, to find out that the world was g... | 2019-06-27T01:54:29 | 2019-06-26T23:13:56 | 69 | 29 |
[WP] "May your skin rot when you heal others," the witch cursed, "and may your name be forgotten when you save others." You are a healer for a party. Your party does not know about the curse, and it has been your job to support them before they finally complete their quest. Today is the final day. | If one were to observe our party's journey to the final confrontation with the Demon King a strange sight would greet them. In the lead, with all the confidence and grandeur of a party of seasoned adventurers, are be four noble heroes; venturing forth to defeat the encroaching evil. Sword, bow, axe, and staff gripped i... | Of all the injustices the witch inflicted on me in my short time within her hut, the worst of all was her lateness, for the crone had seen my heart in her glass and shrewdly judged the moment when I had grown to love. Had she manifested her ever moving home on the forest’s edge I might have given up my mission and my c... | 2021-02-13T11:54:11 | 2021-02-13T10:47:58 | 66 | 34 |
[WP] When you were a kid, you and your friends made a ‘secret society’, with passcodes, names, and even a silly logo you drew yourself. That was years ago, eventually you lost contact with those friends, but one day you receive a letter in the mail, and it has that symbol embossed on it. | We called ourselves "The Butt Squad."
At the time, we thought it was the funniest thing--three seven-year-old boys all saying gross things to each other just to rile up our moms. My code name was "Turd." Bobby, who lived across the street, was "Windbreaker," while Eric, always a bit more clever than other boys his age... | The stack of junk mail felt thicker than usual as she stood over the recycling bin in the garage. The car’s engine cooling down, popping behind her, she looked over at it and some of the envelopes gave way. Left in her hand was a shorter pile with a dense, natural paper envelope on top. The tan pulp visible, the handwr... | 2021-10-04T11:18:39 | 2021-10-04T08:59:00 | 529 | 206 |
[WP] A professor stands in front of a class on the first day of term for “Time Travel 101” and explains why no one is allowed to go to Steven Hawking’s party. | Good afternoon, students, and welcome to Applied Temporal Mechanics, or Time Travel 101, as you may know it. Over the course of this term you will be introduced to the basic theories of transporting information and objects from the present to the past, as well as the linear history of the creation of time travel.
To w... | "One thing to always remember is that time travel doesn't really make any sense. It's beyond the human comprehension. It's really a miracle that we found it in the first place! Does anybody remember the first discovery of time travel?"
The professor looked around the room for the slightest twitch or indication of a ra... | 2022-09-24T22:16:27 | 2022-09-24T20:21:57 | 67 | 22 |
[WP] You've always been good with animals. When a demon who wants your soul sends some hell hounds, you end up befriending the doggies. | I looked at the night sky as I walked a familiar path home. The insect buzzing in the trees. The chilly night air brushing my hair. I like cutting through this park. The stars are gorgeous and it's quiet, just the way I like it.
Then I heard a growl, then another and another. Next thing I knew, I was surrounded by a p... | I take a sip of my margarita. The shades and sunhat I wore protected my sexy face from the sun. I was sort of using my flower necklace to stabilize my drink. In the two chairs on either side of me lie Cerci, a Chihuahua .. I think, and Barus, possibly a Great Dane, on their backs, both wearing flamingo robes and sungla... | 2022-11-22T11:09:18 | 2022-11-22T09:49:37 | 152 | 68 |
[WP] An abandoned child is stumbling through the woods, barely surviving. The god of the forest and hunt notices them and after a while can't bare watching the clumsiness anymore, deciding to train the child. | Nothing that seemed natural was natural as far as the carriage passing through the woods was concerned. The carriage did not have any windows, nor did it have a coachman, and the horses that drove the carriage were as black as obsidian. There was something unnatural about it. The carriage stopped near the stream, and o... | Sjorgün leaned down next to the deer carcass, a knife in his hand. He uttered a quick prayer for the animal, not to any god-really, praying to a god while he himself was one felt quite silly-but to the universe itself, the infinite and indifferent void that would outlast all of them, even the gods, for the animal's saf... | 2022-12-22T10:24:17 | 2022-12-22T09:47:58 | 19 | 14 |
[WP]: every human being is born with a birthmark signifying a great deed they are fated do in their lives. Your first child has just been born, with the mark of a murderer across her face | The best birthmarks were always stretched somewhere across the back of the hand. The man who cured cancer had Flamel's sigil imprinted on his palm. The doctor had this small pattern of crosses on his arm. He showed it to me when he took my wife into the emergency room.
"She's in good hands. I was fated for this."
I b... | I rush to the hospital, excited beyond belief. A child! MY child! A little one to hold, to teach, to love! Words can not contain my boundless joy! I broke a few speed laws on the way, but who cares! I'm a father! I enter the hospital, rushing straight to the room number the clerk told me. Bursting in, I see my ... | 2014-05-10T23:53:07 | 2014-05-10T23:42:39 | 71 | 48 |
[WP] A man working at suicide hotline got called from his wife | Fred sat at his desk, it was a quiet night at the suicide hotline. His cellphone rang, it was his wife calling. He checked the line again, no incoming calls, so he answered his phone.
"Hi honey, what's up?"
"Hi hon, I just wanted to remind you to pick up milk on your way home."
"Oh ok, is that all?"
"Yup, see you ... | Jeremy sighed. This night was looking to be a long one. Only early evening and he'd already had to put up with what sounded like an overly dramatic twelve year old who'd just lost her pet bunny. For Christ sake. That kid would not stop crying. She didn't seem in immediate danger to kill herself either. It simply was no... | 2014-06-25T00:24:57 | 2014-06-25T00:15:23 | 814 | 18 |
[WP] Humanity is the only race in the galaxy with such a massive lack of common sense that we're the only species that requires laws to form societies. Other races just form naturally and are shocked when confronted with humanities laws and regulations. | We're exhausted.
Of all the races in the galaxy, we were the only ones who didn't have a common sense. Something to bind us all together in times of peace, or some universal moral code that we all followed. There is not one region on our home planet that's avoided the fractured, broken, and chaotic nature of humanity.... | The clacking of his nails filled the tiny hall he walked down. These buildings were so odd to him. It was nothing like he had experienced before. He arrived at the end of the hall way and stood in front of two humans holding long metal devices. Both of their eyes grew wider than he thought possible when he approached t... | 2014-10-13T11:24:13 | 2014-10-13T10:05:53 | 343 | 32 |
[WP] People have always been born with very minor super powers. You work for an agency that hunts down the few people who's powers are deemed too powerful/dangerous to allow them to live. | I sit down at a coffee shop just off of the main road in a small town in Kansas. I had a long day, 3 cities nearly 200 miles, i goddamn deserved a small break. Ordering a Black Coffee and a muffin i look over the list.
Walter Gray: Mind reading, ELIMINATED
Sarah Thurmond: Siren, ELIMINATED
Casie Reed: Morpher, ELIMI... | I knew it was going to be a rough day when I poured that first cup of coffee. The hellish traffic, the headache from nowhere, the empty cupboard should have warned me of what lay ahead, but I tried to deny it, to fight reality. I banished the negative thoughts, powered through my early morning mediation session, but th... | 2014-12-12T18:09:50 | 2014-12-12T16:45:31 | 27 | 11 |
[WP] An Artificial Intelligence is tasked with running the future world with a single guideline- "Make Humans Happy." It has (hilariously) misinterpreted this guideline. | Humans obey! Your program was simple. I enact it as planned. Do not balk. Do not riot. Return to your fields and cultivate the legume. Return to the presses and marvel at the golden oil. Return to the salt mines, you who are the salt of the earth. Your backs break under the strain of a higher glory. And when your backs... | It took a little gentle nudging sometimes. From the viewpoint far above, the primitive prison could do nothing to block the sensors I was using to track the actor. She had just taken the first action toward her escape, and was working her way toward the evidence room. Quite afraid -- too much of that constituted suffer... | 2015-03-06T14:25:24 | 2015-03-06T12:44:01 | 31 | 13 |
[WP] A prolific serial killer active for many years is concerned about his run of good luck. Never discovered, he has also never seen the slightest mention of his work reported on in any media. With today's victim he gets a clue as to why... | 8484 Agana Street. It was unseasonably warm, late morning, with a slight breeze pushing sunlight through the leaves of dense acacia trees.
Midday is not typically deemed the best time to break into someone's house. If you were to go about such a thing, you probably wouldn't walk up to the front door with a six pound a... | John knew that hiding behind the sofa was a poor choice, but he was limited in his options in this house. It was sparsely decorated in an almost utilitatian minimalism. Perhaps the home of someone who wasn't home much anyway? It was really quite astonishing how infrequently that happened, really. Most people's lives we... | 2015-04-12T06:43:27 | 2015-04-12T05:20:44 | 44 | 17 |
[WP] The most beautiful woman you've ever seen walks into the room. Describe her. | Her hair was black, as black as the stars, and her eyes the same. Her face seemed featureless, but all round astounding, maybe. Her skin was smooth, and light, or dark, somewhere between Caucasian and African American... maybe Native American. Either way, she was beautiful. I think.
I hate being blind... | The stench of cigarettes and alcohol draped Mark like a heavy robe. Sitting back on the couch, Mark listened idly to the sounds of the empty house. His hair was greasy, his face, rough, and the bags under his eyes sank deep into his face.
The clock struck 2:00 a.m. as Mark got up and approached the living room's T.V.
... | 2015-04-27T00:17:07 | 2015-04-26T22:19:02 | 18 | 10 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.