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[WP] Every year, the richest person in America is declared the "Winner of Capitalism". They get a badge, and all of their wealth is donated to charity, so they have to start back up at $0. | A drop of sweat rolled down Gunther's temple.
Tuning into the annual Capitalist Awards, he sat alone in his office late into the evening. Mallmart had a good fiscal year, a little too good. In the past few years, the company had always coasted steadily into upper echelons of the Fortune 500, but they were far and away... | It was only the second week of philanthropic bidding. But Phillip had already burned through the allotted 20% that his accountant set aside in this “race to the bottom” that America’s wealthiest absolutely must play, once a year, or risk absolute destitution.
Phillip Stone, owner and current CEO of Americawide Insuran... | 2021-09-17T18:33:10 | 2021-09-17T16:08:22 | 70 | 11 |
[WP] We spread throughout the stars. But our enemies are not alien races, exterminator machines, or extradimensional invaders. No, our enemies are the gods, for humanity is the last, and only remaining mortal race in the universe. | Verstivus turned to Dael, a curious expression written across his face, “Dael… I’ve discovered something most peculiar on the body of a dead mortal on the battlefield.”
Dael made a sound of disapproval, “Ves, we’ve talked about this…”
“No, this time it’s different,” Vestivus took outa small orb.
Da... | An evacuation shuttle. On a slowly imploding planet. And a meteor heading towards the spaceport, for good measure. The heavens work in mysterious ways. Or perhaps not.
"This is some next-level Matrix bullshit," Evelyn muttered, half to herself, half to her crew as she strapped herself into the navigator's seat, scanni... | 2022-05-09T07:25:23 | 2022-05-09T06:41:48 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] When you die, instead of going to the afterlife, you have the option of being reincarnated in a world, fictional or real, as any creature. The downside is the incredibly long line of people waiting to be reincarnated. | Jeremy let out a frightened yell as he frantically checked his surrounding only to be met with confusion. He found himself standing in a long corridor of carpeted floor and walls, seemingly stretching forever to both sides.
Strange, he thought, because he could've swore the last thing he remembered was two giant head... | I have waited about 13 months.
I only have about 10 minutes until I get to reincarnate.
With 13 months to decide, I had plenty of time to think of the ultimate choice.
The way this reincarnation thing works is a but complicated, but I’ll try to make it nice and simple.
Instead of going to the afterife (which I hear... | 2022-01-10T02:19:56 | 2022-01-09T22:18:38 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] Every night in your sleep you meet a successful-looking future you who tells you what you should do the next day. So far your life has gone well indeed, but one day you fall asleep during the daytime. You meet a tired, disheveled version of yourself who begs you not to listen to the other. | “Don’t do it.”
For years I had been receiving visions. Visions of a brighter future. A future where the worries of today; famine, war, poverty, were nightmares relegated to obscurity. A world where every man, woman and child could live out their lives in peace and harmony, free from the uncertainty that plagued them, ... | Every night when I fall asleep nothing happens, but tonight something happened. I met a man in my sleep who told me that he was future me and told me what I should do tomorrow, it didn’t seem dangerous so I did what he said. While walking around the corner that he told me to walk around I found $100.
everything was go... | 2017-04-01T06:47:09 | 2017-04-01T03:58:44 | 317 | 12 |
[WP] Every new year the priests sacrifice whoever finds the stone bean in their meal to bring the clan good fortune in the months to come. It's supposed to be random, but you get suspicious when you notice the priests watching you carefully as you sit down to eat. | The heat of the holy men’s gazes is piercing as I take my place at the far end of the feasting hall. The space, which is usually loud and full of mirth, is uncharacteristically quiet on this grim occasion, the tension in the air filling the silence with a deafening hum. Amidst the tension, are the quiet murmurs of the ... | I noticed the priest stare at me out of the corner of my eye. Every year the priests put a carved stone bean in a persons soup, during the feast celebrating the end of the harvest season.
I know that the bean is supposed to be scooped randomly, but I think it might have been put in my soup, I never was notably popula... | 2021-12-31T22:11:39 | 2021-12-31T19:43:04 | 54 | 35 |
[WP] You live in a small village that is dominated by an omnipotent god that resides in an overarching temple. Everything is decreed by the god's law. No one is allowed inside the temple. You commit the gravest taboo and enter... only to find a mountain sized celestial corpse rotting on a throne. | Anum, the supreme god of all, was dead. His massive body lay on the stone throne, skin shrunken against his holy skeleton. I stood in the holy temple Duranki for what felt like hours, but was most likely only minutes. Once I had regained control of my limbs, I turned on my sandaled feet and left the Ziggurat.
Outside... | The door creaked open as you entered the temple and a wind of dusty air rushes outside. You tremble and your heart races knowing you are not allowed in such a sacred place but something drew you in. The door slams behind you and flames light up the path that let to a throne. The last set of flames roared to life and sa... | 2022-06-16T07:43:25 | 2022-06-16T01:23:00 | 20 | 14 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | Growing up, I had always been an outcast. Everybody else in my class had amazing gifts: pyrokinesis, super strength, flight, laser eyes, invisibility, even the kid who could freely manipulate cloth. They were all praised and fawned over because of their gifts. But I was not.
My power is called "Roots." I can grow ... | Herbert Johnson, on his 80th birthday snapped. It was bad enough to have a super power that only brings you ridicule, in a world full of powers that inspire admiration. These super powered fools, now, used their great powers to crash an old man's birthday party.
Herbert Johnson, the master of gas, unleashed his ultim... | 2017-06-12T09:33:04 | 2017-06-12T08:36:12 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You are in a serious car accident and are in a coma in a hospital bed. You wake up after a brief time without anyone in the room. As far as you can tell you are fine and your memory is clear but you decide to act like you have total amnesia. | I woke up under a ceiling I didn't recognize. White square panels, fluorescent lights, a blue curtain hanging from it. I only needed to turn my head towards the machine I was connected to to confirm my suspicions. "A hospital?", I though. "What am I doing here? Come on, Murphy, think..."
In an instant, the realization... | I went to sleep every night hoping I don't wake up. I royally messed this life up and I am out of fixes. There are no solutions on the horizon and even after praying with all my might it does not seem like God is in favor of allowing me a redo. Or so I thought.
This has to be divine intervention or some cosmic and kar... | 2020-06-29T20:09:10 | 2020-06-29T17:38:34 | 454 | 26 |
[WP] You're a sniper, but your gun fires... unconventional ammo. | My breath was steady. The desert breeze was kicking up sand, making it hard to see. Through the haze, though, I could make out the silhouettes of three figures in the town center. One of them was Al Abshar Salid. He'd been evading the efforts of Israeli special operations forces for months now, so they called me. There... | Some people think a T-shirt canon is a poor choice of weapon, but it's a necicary one for the enemy I fight. Every moment these damned animals prance around exposed is one moment too many. There could be children around for goodness sakes.
Sure *normal* people will say "just don't visit a nude beach if it makes you un... | 2017-09-09T12:04:03 | 2017-09-09T11:40:33 | 495 | 62 |
[WP] You are a sci-fi writer famous for your scientific accuracy. You constantly go extra mile, up to an including creating fake scientific articles and schematics. Now you are being hunted down by reporters and government officials after people realize your 'fictional' technology actually works. | I had been hilariously drunk when I had written down the basic summary of the Jusi-Kar method of indoctrination. Like seriously, a method of indoctrination that turns ordinary people into unbidden sleeper agents? That’s the sort of outlandish, poorly written fiction that had been responsible for my poor finances of lat... | We do not intervene.
But we found precedent in thought.
We never did get it right.
Our greatest works turned poison. But onward we labored, so long as some fragment clung. Growing their ethos.
To feel a future beyond their own - existence longer, more strange and yet just as human; makes real that next moment beyon... | 2022-02-07T03:11:15 | 2022-02-07T01:35:17 | 124 | 11 |
[WP] You rush into a church to stop the love of your life from marrying the wrong person. Not paying attention you barge in yelling "I OBJECT" only to realize it's a funeral. The deceased immediately rises in perfect health. All eyes turn to you | The crunch of my boots on the snow was the sole sound present as I jogged up the hill towards Heathbarrow's only church. Each tree and stone was cloaked in white, almost as if Mother Nature herself had donned a bridal veil in celebration of my lover's marriage to another woman. The splendor made me sick.
By the time ... | I barged through the seemingly weightless doors of the church and before anyone had even noticed my presence, I shouted: “I object!”
Only, I had not noticed a very important fact either. This had not been Jessie’s wedding. This had been a funeral. I must have gone to the wrong church… Although it had to have been this... | 2018-03-17T13:55:47 | 2018-03-17T06:59:32 | 455 | 303 |
[WP] A crippled god is isolated within their only remaining temple. Having lost all their power after their patrons abandoned them, the only thing keeping them alive for the past few years is the unwavering devotion of a single dog. | *"In a world plagued by war, anguish, violence, and betrayal what use is a God of Kindness?"*, Kalos lamented, seeing the world uselessly from the eyes of his last remaining statue.
Sitting alone on a marble throne covered in moss inside the ruin of the Temple of Kalos-- the once haven for the people of the first civ... | “I’m sorry friend, I don’t believe there’s anything I can offer you. You should move on, find a new home.” Athima felt the wet nose of his companion nudge against his broken legs. He pitied the animal; how foolish it was to be loyal to a broken god like him. If only it had the same sense as his other worshippers and le... | 2022-01-07T00:28:25 | 2022-01-06T23:06:29 | 160 | 50 |
[WP] By Wizard Law, in order to learn a new skill, wizards are required to be apprenticed to a more experienced master. You, a barely trained journeyman fire mage, just took on an apprentice: a two-hundred-year-old Grandmaster Water Magic Lord. | Sam stared through the glass door at his new student, Lola Yismane. His new, 350-years-old, grandmaster of water magic, greatest healer in the known world, student, Lola Yismane.
Oh, he so couldn't do this.
But he had to--the position was literally forced upon him by the grand council, as he was the only non-apprenti... | Voulrin, the Lord of Water. Even though I was far out of my element, that name still swirled around my mind’s eye as one of the world’s foremost mages.
In person, the sense of awe did not evaporate. Deep lines carved out weathered trenches in his face, though clear blue eyes stared at me with the intensity of a starve... | 2022-05-30T16:12:40 | 2022-05-30T11:33:51 | 31 | 22 |
[WP]What if we lived in a world where whatever you did to other people, it happened to you. If you kissed someone’s cheek, you felt the kiss too. If you shot someone, the same damage would occur to you. Imagine where the saying “Only do unto other’s only what you would do unto you” was the reality.
What if we lived in... | "GET OUT!" My wife yelled. I had never seen her so upset. She had every right to be. I could feel the pain I caused her. Every tear that she cried I could see it and feel the emotional scar that was forming.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to —" I started.
"To what? Hurt me? Well you did!" Her anger was justified.
... | "Violence"
The concept was so foreign. The idea of causing pain to others. Even, causing someone to die? No matter how hard I tried to understand it, it didn't reach me. I took an another perspective to it.
Imagine a world, where a people would be treated like animals; killed to eat, cut to pieces for meat and bones.... | 2014-12-14T16:03:38 | 2014-12-14T15:32:53 | 53 | 11 |
[WP]Humanity had grown complacent. No more war, no more crime, no more suffering. After thousands of years of technological advancement and peace humanity is forced into a war with an alien super power which brings out thousands of years of pent up blood lust. | *“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve...”*-Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto-1941
________
Humanity had finally conquered it’s demons, the stars and their abundance had calmed their baser instincts.
For the first time in Human history, virtually all conflict... | We didn’t know what we were starting. We were only expanding our civilization and reaching for resources. Our empire of a thousand systems just adding another like any other day, seemed like business as usual.
There were four inhabited planets and several moons in this particular system. All populated by a primitive ... | 2020-05-05T07:59:38 | 2020-05-05T04:44:32 | 41 | 24 |
[WP] You are the result of a high school girl being given 3 wishes. She wished for the perfect boyfriend, so you were magically created. Now she’s trying to erase you because the boy next door loved her all along. She’s literally trying to kill you because “You never existed in the first place!”…… | You always loved romance.
The grand, sweeping gestures, the bouquets, the picturesque songs.
I knew you loved them. How could I not? I knew everything about you, all your dreams, your goals, your desires, your little niggling imperfections.
That’s the way you made me.
Perfect.
Other people looked at me in that way... | I watched her with a sense of understanding to her actions that she couldn't fathom. She clenched hunting knife from her dad's collection in her hand, outstretched with trembling fingers. I saw the pain in her eyes, the understanding of what she was willing to do. Even though she said the words, the act of causing anot... | 2021-01-07T02:19:01 | 2021-01-07T01:57:04 | 362 | 68 |
[WP] Dave is the first human convict to arrive in the intergalactic prison. | Dave looked at his cellmate - tall, dark and with five heads - and settled into his bunkbed. It bore some similarities to prison on Earth. Grey, graffiti on the walls, cramped spaces. Except this prison occupied an entire planet. And the graffiti was rather more creative and covered a few more languages.
"So, you're... | The airlock hissed and opened and out stepped a man flanked by 20 of the prisons most elite guards. The prisoners stared at this new arrival and began muttering amongst themselves. This was a human, no human had ever arrived at the prison before. Bets started flying over what the man had done. Theft, Assault and smuggl... | 2016-08-23T09:06:18 | 2016-08-23T08:52:42 | 27 | 13 |
[WP] The news were shocking. In one week, a gigantic meteor was going to hit the Earth and obliterate it. Chaos ensues. Anarchy breaks out. Governments fall. A week later, everyone braces as they see the meteor… miss the Earth, barely. Things get awkward. | “It’s all gone,” said Jeb tossing his cigarette to the ground to stamp it out.
“Sure, is pretty, isn’t it,” said Jared.
“What?”
Jared and Jeb. Johnson and Johnson were what was written on their military name tapes. A common name, no blood between them, one stood there, and the other sat, both of th... | The world had come to a standstill. The news said a meteor was coming. Astrologists world-wide agreed that this would be catastrophic and completely unavoidable. We had only a matter of days to sort our things before the end of things. As expected, the world fell into mass pandemonium, anarchy at its worst. No law and ... | 2022-06-15T10:47:39 | 2022-06-15T09:32:30 | 114 | 47 |
[WP] The aliens have arrived however they are not here for war. Instead after reading our broadcast of the United States Constitution they want to join as the 51 state and have brought a small planetoid into orbit to serve as the 51 state. | Its been six years since the aliens arrived.
I always thought it was a bit arrogant that all the movies portrayed aliens making first contact with the United States but when the Argditheans sent down a convoy, the US is where they came. The government tried to restrict what the media could cover but many cameras caug... | "So we just add seats to the House of Representatives."
"How many seats? According to the census the Americonians did at our request they have almost twice the population of the rest of the states combined."
"Ok, fair point, so all we have to do is-"
"An Americonian is running for president."
"I'm not sure I heard ... | 2016-06-06T10:07:56 | 2016-06-06T09:19:06 | 42 | 24 |
[WP] A Supervillain who disappeared years ago has suddenly shown up again; when the heroes go to confront him/her, they find out that he's/she's quite pleasantly normal now. | NeuroBolt sat on the sofa with his PDA in one hand and his multi-tool in the other. Although, now, he realized it seemed kind of pointless to bring the multi-tool. Or even come dressed as his superhero identity. He wondered if this was all some kind of ruse, the high ceilings, the beautiful architecture, the priceless ... | For over 70 years, He had toiled, in his quiet shack in the middle of frozen Russia. Basically rejected by Hell, and remanded by Heaven he was cursed to live on earth for his punishment for crimes and sins committed against humanity and it's kin.
The small, 1 room cottage in the far north was hardly adequate, as... | 2016-08-28T11:11:22 | 2016-08-28T10:41:50 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] You are Keith, the best wingman in the history of wingmans. After you die the Grim Reaper offers you an arrangement. If you could hook up Grim with the girl of his dreams he will let your soul go to Heaven | (part of this may be NSFW)
"I want Kim."
I sat up on the street, the horn still blaring in my ear, and I looked down at my lifeless body splayed in a sickening angle on the asphalt. When I looked up, I saw my friends running out of the bar. Three couples whom I had brought together, and who were now married. John and... | Now, I was never all that good at settling - settling down, settling for, settling on - you name it, I was ambivalent about it. So I had a lot of ideas in my head about what I'd expect to happen when I died.
I tell you what I didn't expect. I did not expect the first words I heard to be:
"Oh my gosh, I'm a *huge* fa... | 2016-09-21T21:01:05 | 2016-09-21T18:48:28 | 460 | 32 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | The Humans are a strange species.
They found my people in ancient times, when the wheel and fire were still cutting edge technology. They built an station in orbit around our world, as was their way, and observed our development. They did not interfere with our development too much. When our home was threatened by an ... | Old Earth Year, 4289, the 7th of March. Post-Light Year 434.
Humans, despite their continual infighting and petty squabbles over planets, asteroid belts, and orbital stations, had gained a solid reputation as the greatest traders to exist. They were, in comparison to the others of the known Galaxy, by far the most equ... | 2017-03-26T08:23:17 | 2017-03-26T06:55:32 | 497 | 93 |
[WP] All space-faring species use different methods of interstellar travel. Magic, prayer, even sheer willpower. Humans were the only ones impure and insane enough to use controlled explosives. | Project Orion, they called it. A crackpot idea dug up from the old files from when NASA still used Nazi scientists. It blindsided everyone how fast the development went, after a few scientists went against the grain of countless fusion-powered point-thrust craft projects that had been devouring funding for decades. The... | Bulwhop wheezed on all eight on the floor while Schitlth struggled to stay on his stool. Meanwhile, Zuweev was barely visible because he was losing his concentration on materializing.
“So.... a... are you telling us you blow yourself up into space? HAHAHAHAHAHA. No wonder why you look so charred.” Said Bulwhop after... | 2020-08-07T20:02:23 | 2020-08-07T19:33:24 | 115 | 57 |
[WP] You’ve just realized that you are not a human, but rather a parasite controlling someone. | "Well, Mike - the good news is that we have a name for it: *Macrocordyceps acutus*," the doctor had told me.
"The bad news is, well, everything else. You asked me to be frank with you, so I will be. It's not well understood, particularly in humans. We know that it's a kind of parasite that affects behaviour in mammals... | "They're always told that they have five senses. I never fully understood why society undermines the mind, which surely is the sixth sense.
Their entire being is projected through the mind. All other five senses merge into what the mind interprets them as.
If they are to acknowledge the mind, then they would hold... | 2017-12-21T00:57:15 | 2017-12-20T23:47:17 | 3,420 | 48 |
[WP] The Magical Girls were defeated, but before their capture, they released their instrument-weapons. Formerly, they always landed in the hands of either J-pop, or K-pop girl bands but this time -for some reason- the weapons choose a Finnish Death-Metal boyband. They were PAINFULLY efficient. | It always happened, eventually. Such was the fate of the warriors on the side of light- they were granted powers, but they were mortal. They would age and they would pass their tools and duties onwards.
Not this time.
The monster sent to them was a living nightmare, and an old one at that. It ... | (Disclaimer, i got the names from some list of Finnish boy names, i have no clue how accurate any of them are)
The Magical Microphone usually allowed it's user, generally the leader of the group, to sing uplifting songs increasing everyone's power, in Aalto's hands it created sonic shockwaves capable of terraforming t... | 2022-08-15T11:07:33 | 2022-08-15T08:51:20 | 1,486 | 221 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | Most people lost their sight waking up on the morning of the first day, as the event started in the middle of the night. The change only occurred as one slept, so others attempted to remain awake to retain their vision for longer. This effort proved to be pointless, as the effects took hold the moment they closed their... | I had seen those words. All those years ago. "Don't tell them you can see." They covered everything and I had ignored them, but only on my deathbed.
I had thought that it did not matter. In an act of defiance when dieing of cancer I had told them.
I was a fool. I have learned long ago that people don't need to die.... | 2022-10-08T20:12:12 | 2019-08-26T10:47:46 | 810 | 11 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | I drummed my fingers against the gas station counter soundlessly, eyeing the different flavors of trident and orbit gum next to the registers. Usually the only real option for me was spearmint, but I'd gotten an energy drink, and nothing sounded quite so disgusting as a minty gum mixed with Monster. So I went for the m... | I pant, my lungs on the verge of collapsing. Looking round the corner, I saw no one. Perhaps, I've lost her.
Lee. These three alphabets remain a daily reminder of an inescapable fate. Carved onto my forehead since birth, I bear the burden of having to spend eternity with a certain Ms Lee out there.
The 'foreheads' ... | 2015-08-08T13:50:34 | 2015-08-08T10:27:35 | 56 | 10 |
[WP] "So what happens if I press this button?" I asked. "Nothing." She replied. I pushed the button in, grinning. "It's when you let go that things get nasty." | FADE IN:
INT. AN EMPTY ROOM
*A young man sits in what appears to be a completely white cell. This is DAVE. The only furnishings in the space are two white chairs and a white table, on top of which is a red button. Dave's finger is holding the button down, and the experience seems to be emotionally draining him.*
**D... | ######[](#dropcap)
Hilary Flint grinned despite himself.
"*Clever girl...* So happens next?"
The red-haired Fae smiled and bent down to peck him on the cheek. "Now I go and you stay. That trigger is connected enough Gelignite to blow you and everything around you for twenty paces into ashes. Think well of me, love.... | 2017-01-05T10:18:01 | 2017-01-05T10:11:42 | 2,579 | 13 |
[WP] Write a really great story that ends so anticlimatically that I hate you. | James found something very interesting on his thirteenth birthday. He had come upon a magnificent golden watch which glittered like a thousand stars, lying in the street. He looked round to see if anyone had dropped it, but if anyone had, they were long gone. Besides, the watch looked to be worth as much as the sum of ... | After weeks of making phone calls we finally found someone that could open the safe. They arrived around 9am and by 7 that evening the doors started to move. The lock had finally freed but the hinges were off balance and the doors would not open more than a inch. The locksmith went to his truck to get his pry-bar. Sudd... | 2014-12-21T18:36:37 | 2014-12-21T18:01:37 | 41 | 13 |
[WP]everyone has a sigil on their body that represents powers that were bestowed onto humanity after the rapture of the Milky Way. The bullies at school always pick on you because you never used your power, but you’ve had enough. Now they are going to find out why your sigil is a plain old circle | It was time for combat training, sounds harsher than it truly is. It just gives us a chance to use our sigils in a controlled environment. Personally, I always tried to come up with a reason not to participate, because unlike everyone else with their flame, skulls, bones, etc. My sigil was a plain circle, boring, unima... | Din isn’t normal. He knows it. Everybody knows it. He doesn’t talk. He never does anything without instruction. He doesn’t fight back. That makes him an easy target, of course.
“Hey! Nobrain! That’s what your empty circle means right?” Barley’s gang ripples with laughter. Din doesn’t reply. He rarely does.
“Hey!” Th... | 2020-02-26T08:28:41 | 2020-02-26T07:59:42 | 42 | 19 |
[WP] Superman announces on the news that he is going to kill each person on earth, one by one, until humanity is wiped out, in alphabetical order.
What would happen? What would happen from a local to a worldwide level? | "I'm not sure why you are helping me with this, Bruce, you know I'll have to kill you eventually too." Superman said, hovering above the supercomputer in the bat cave. A very aged batman sat in front of it, typing at a rapid speed.
"I understand why you're doing it. Maybe it will shock the world out of their re... | "I'm sorry, but Mr. Mxyzptlk wants to be the first in line at the DMV. If I don't do this, the entire planet is at risk" The Man of Steel shrugs apologetically to Aaron Abner, the first on his kill list.
"Wuh-What about Aaron Aardvark?" Aaron pleaded "Or, or, I bet there's some Swedish guy out there with three A's, th... | 2015-07-12T23:51:26 | 2015-07-12T21:12:47 | 295 | 80 |
[WP] The end of the world is at hand. Everyone starts to tick off their bucket list, doing crazy things because they know it won't matter in the long run. In an odd twist of fate, the crisis is averted. Now everyone has to live with the repercussions of what they did. | “Todd!... Todd!...Todd!”
Todd’s eyes opened slowly. Todd let out a groan. As he fixed his glasses on his face. He almost forgot where he was.
“Wake up.” It was Ms. Stewart, his history teacher.
“And stop drooling on yourself nerd” Carson, the school bully who seemed to only be happy when he was beating on Todd, call... | The end of the world is one of them things that most people have trouble dealing with. It is...what's the word...inevitable, I've always felt. At some point in time in someone's life, the planet Earth will no longer exist. That is an undeniable and inescapable fact. It could happen one hundred years from now when some ... | 2017-11-29T09:49:15 | 2017-11-29T09:21:30 | 22 | 14 |
[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. | Breathe in... breathe out. Slowly, steadily, quietly, so as to not startle the prey-a mature aurochs, lost and separated from the rest of its herd. It would feed the village well for a few weeks. It was the least I could do for them, I reflected as I gathered holy energy in my palm-they had been the ones to save me, af... | “Why are you here? You’ve done enough already.” I turned my back to him and began to prepare the doe for skinning.
“Oh, I don’t know. Maybe you should go farther away from the capital,” he said, his tone full of ridicule.
“You killed my son, my lover, and my closest friends. You chased my people back into that barren... | 2021-11-03T16:18:51 | 2021-11-03T15:13:26 | 190 | 85 |
[WP] You're a prisoner in a special facility for violent criminals. Today the latest prisoner arrived - a little girl. "That's cruel," you tell the guard. "I agree," he says. "Guess no one cares what happens to the rest of you." | **Day 3**
I sat down at one end of the long, metal table in the dining hall, close to the wall. Even though it was lunch time, there was noone else around. The other inmates had quickly learnt the health value of staying hungry now and again. I opened my juice box and looked carefully at the girl across from me.
"H... | Oh my god.
It's been three days. Three days. I'm no hardened killer, but I'm not ashamed to say I've thrown up every hour on the hour. Not cause of the usual prison slop, mind you. This is about what I've seen, what I've heard.
I got lucky. Started a fight in courtyard, got the hole for three days. Hate the hole. Ho... | 2018-02-12T01:22:40 | 2018-02-11T22:17:27 | 162 | 95 |
[WP] You wake up after experiencing a vivid, heart-pounding dream. You tell your partner, only to discover they’ve had the exact same dream. Your phone vibrates with a CNN notification-“The world is panicking: millions report experiencing the same sensational dream.” The dream identical to yours. | # Abort/Retry/Fail?
Brian jerked awake so hard he fell out of the chair and into the dog food bowl. Kibble went everywhere across the kitchen floor. "Well son of a-!"
The clatter of a falling chair on tile almost covered urgent footsteps on the stairs. "Brian? Was that you?" A moment later Shelly pushed open the base... | He stumbles through the city, steam rising from the sewer-vents melding into the clouds giving the world a smokey aura of mystery. Through the fog, the neon sign of the 'Heart O The City' hotel appears, piercing the night with its vibrant colors. He stops, lost. As he stands a flock of sheep wanders past, its shepherd ... | 2020-05-01T17:13:23 | 2020-05-01T16:34:50 | 178 | 11 |
[WP] A Necromancer falls in love with the hero of the land, and does their best to win them over, but the macabre nature of their magic makes every attempt end in horrific failure. Tell me the story of the nec-romancer. | ######[](#dropcap)
Rina knocked on the door, feeling her heart bubble over with excitement. He would like this gift; she was sure of it. She had spent three days getting the spell just right. Her fingers were covered in sores and blisters from failed attempts, but she couldn't feel the pain. Hearing no answer, she kno... | Time and time again, my advances were ignored, denied, rejected.
It was as it was supposed to be. Her standing high upon her pedestal, far above the littered bones that would have dared sully her radiant beauty. My world was a place of shadows, while she stood above it all, standing in the light of the sun. I could on... | 2018-03-27T04:08:40 | 2018-03-27T03:32:15 | 78 | 11 |
[WP] you are the lawyer in charge of getting every single GTA character out of jail with no repercussions. | Jason leaned back into the sofa, placing his x-box controller on his lap. This new "GTA: The Courts" expansion game was proving a lot less boring than he'd expected. He'd already bribed the jurors, assassinated the prosecution team and found blackmailing material on the judge. Now, with a simple press of the button, he... | "Today, my dear family, we give thanks. We give thanks and praise for all of our blessings." The stocky, clean-shaven man with a strawberry blonde ivy-league cut panned his eyes and glass of bordeaux from side to side, brushing off the mini-herd of children that engulfed him as they ran to the newly opened dessert tabl... | 2015-11-12T07:45:28 | 2015-11-12T07:33:38 | 136 | 22 |
[WP] There is one Ironclad rule in the world: If you have powers, you are probably going to be a Hero or Villain. You have some extremely powerful abilities, but you said you never wanted to be a Hero. Now everybody is convinced you want to be a Villain, and won't stop trying to "save you from evil" | “Stop it, asshole!” I screamed, my right arm cradling my pained left, as I backed away from my attacker. “The hell is wrong with you? Why are you chasing me?”
The terrifyingly beautiful figure in front of me frowned softly. She levitated in the air, graceful and untouched by the world, and she slowly edged closer. A c... | I love the idea that absolute psychopaths and megalomaniacs end up being heroes, while sane and well adjusted people who just want to live a normal life get assaulted then arrested by egocentric, power-mad, ideological fanatics high on inflicting violence and destruction as nothing more than state sanctioned vigilantis... | 2022-10-04T23:02:06 | 2022-10-04T22:30:46 | 75 | 49 |
[WP]: "I'm not special at all just average," you said. The scientist scans you and replied: "You don't understand, there is no record of you in any other multiverse. All the choices you have made are the only choices available to you." | "The only choices available to me?" I asked the scientist, who just told me that I am one of a kind in the multiverse, and that all the choices I've made are completely unique.
"Well, this is unprecedented. Everyone has multiple branches of butterfly effects, living and dying, creating and destroying. But the patterns... | “I could choose to punch you in the face right now, but I decided not to,” I replied.
“On the contrary,” said the scientist, “you see, what you think of as decisions are really the result of electro-chemical processes that take place in your brain, so while you may think about different things that your body is physic... | 2021-01-08T21:47:59 | 2021-01-08T21:01:34 | 2,244 | 24 |
[WP] When people die they can choose whether they go to Heaven or Hell, you are the first in 1000 years to choose Hell. | The Choice was made known to the world by those who had died but were revived. They all told the same story; when you died, you could choose either Heaven or Hell. Knowledge of The Choice changed the world, but not for the better. What did it matter what you did in life if you could just choose where you went in the en... | I smirked. Now wasn't this ironic. After finally falling to the demons from hell, I get to choose whether to finally take my eternal rest, or continue to *Rip and Tear*
Now why the hell would i go to heaven.
The Doom Slayer walked in through the gates of hell.
The second slayer's testament would begin to be penned t... | 2018-08-13T09:16:06 | 2018-08-13T09:08:57 | 341 | 82 |
[WP] After a 1000 year slumber, the ancient dragons emerge once more... and find that they really like the modern world. | Flaerus rolled over in the warm sand, getting it into all the little crevices between his scales and perfectly scratching that itch right where his wing met his shoulder. He let out a contented bellow of relief, so relaxed that he accidentally torched a nearby palm tree that hung low over the bay. With all of his itche... | Ignis sighed expelling a stream of sapphire flame as the automated buffers polished her scales. Mmm, it was so much easier than having to find a cavern full of diamonds to scrape the crushed gemstones and precious metals off.
In this modern world, one could also simply order forty cattle brought to one's cavern and le... | 2016-02-25T07:26:46 | 2016-02-25T05:29:14 | 263 | 20 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen a lot of tens. It's scary, really, how quickly people can go from six or even five to ten. Other people don't realize how much danger surrounds them every day. It takes so little...
No, the tens aren't the ones that stay with you. Not for long, anyway. No, the one that will always be in my mind was somethin... | Every since I can remember, there were numbers in my head.
Everyone had a number, a three for the boy who pushed me down the slide, a seven for those murderer's on TV, a four for my mother, etc... I had never met a ten, nor a nine, and eights were only in other countries.
Until I met *him*.
He was beautiful.
He wa... | 2014-11-29T14:12:40 | 2014-11-29T12:02:03 | 714 | 498 |
[WP] A villain is horrified when the hero undergoes a transformation that gets rid of their humanity. | "huh, well I guess that's it then."
Nihilator blinked. He hadn't been entirely sure how Exemplar would react to losing his lover, but dull surprise was... off. was he in denial? shock? that damn mask hid everything but his infuriatingly compassionate eyes, it made him surprisingly hard to read for such a naive fool.
... | "Surprise, bitch," said Harry Potter, "I bet you thought you heard the last of me."
Voldermort started. Then sputtered. "Wha-why-Harry-*how*?"
"Well," said Harry calmly, twirling his Elder wand around his fingers, "It seems that I, too, have found a friend in death."
"What did you do?" He snarled.
"I learned a les... | 2017-03-09T23:21:40 | 2017-03-09T21:56:48 | 39 | 20 |
[WP] You are faceblind, and also the only person in the city who could recognises superheroes going about their daily lives. How? They only seem to care about wearing a mask, and don’t disguise anything else about themselves. | #####**Lying.**
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"I've been lying to you." My wife fiddles with her silverware and my heart sinks. I can see guilt wreak havoc across her beautiful features. She's hardly touched her food even though I'd spent all evening making sure it delicious.
"What is it?" I casually pretend to be nonchalant, but my hand trem... | I like sitting in the square and watching the world go by. Everyone you see has a story. So many million decisions led everyone I see here, here. People grow so reliant on one’s face, they completely ignore body language. That girl, holding a sheet, is ecstatic and relieved about a test or perhaps a report. How do I kn... | 2022-08-31T14:17:40 | 2022-08-31T09:42:30 | 63 | 21 |
[WP] You are a normal citizen in a relatively unimportant country. One day the goverment starts to act crazy, changing ideology overnight, drafting people for the army and antagonizing their neighbours. The player controlling your country in a strategy game has just begun their world conquest run. | Dear Diary,
Here I sit, a normal citizen. I'm 20 and previously unemployed. I'm a German national, and Hitler has been revitalizing German industry. Faster than ought to be rightly possible. We're making tanks and planes and guns in the thousands a day. In the space of a week, the Rhineland was remilitarized, Austria ... | One month after our nation seemed to have gone mad, retooling our entire economy and declaring war on our closest ally, a package arrived at my door. Inside was a sword and armor in a style completely different from our regular military uniforms, yet accompanied by a note declaring me to be drafted.
I arrived wearing ... | 2019-03-10T12:18:53 | 2019-03-10T11:09:05 | 48 | 22 |
[WP] “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
A Quote from the Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss | The sails stopped billowing and the ship sat still, on a sea as dark as wine. Christian touched a finger to his tongue, and held it out into the night. Nothing. Not even the slightest breeze.
"The calm before..." he heard one of his men murmur. The moon was bright and stars were scattered over the sky like flowers spr... | The man, about 30 years of age, stood in the midst of the group, a young girl at his side, attempting to hide from the arc of people jeering and laughing at her appearance.
"Please, everybody, this is not right," the man said calmly, "There is no need to treat a young girl like this!"
"You call that a girl with that... | 2017-04-14T00:57:36 | 2017-04-13T23:33:18 | 79 | 38 |
[WP] “You’re not allowed to die, okay?” She makes you promise, tears still flowing down her face. That was 200 years ago now. You don’t know what she did but your promise still holds strong. | Connor woke to pitch blackness and the sound of a woman humming, echoing with a metallic sort of ring against the walls of his makeshift bed. He sat up - and immediately regretted it as his head banged against the low, hard metal roof directly above him. He laid back down, swearing loudly.
From outside his little cham... | Why the fuck am I still alive?
I made that promise. That's why.
But then I lost her.
I lost everyone.
Why am I still alive?
Maybe I don't have to be.
Hopefully not much longer.
I can just barely grasp the gun.
I can just barely pull the trigger.
And, just for a moment...
I can see her face. | 2018-01-05T15:15:02 | 2018-01-05T14:07:04 | 1,055 | 16 |
[WP] A person's eye colour correlates to what superpower they have, activated at age 18. You are the first person to be born with totally black eyes. | I awoke to the sound of my dog scratching at the door. Groaning and stretching, I got out of my bed and let my dog out into the harsh winter. I checked the calendar; Only a few hours until my solitude was broken. How long had it been? Almost 6 years?
Perhaps I should explain, in my world, people are born with their so... | Everyone in my world had different eye colours.Each representing a different element.I was one of them.However,i was one of the unusual ones.
Ever since i was born,i had completely black eyes.My parents were shocked.The doctors couldn't explain anything,not even The Institute of Magic could.No one ever had complete... | 2015-11-15T09:36:11 | 2015-11-15T07:24:41 | 36 | 22 |
[WP] You have the ability to grant three wishes after someone says your name three times in the bathroom mirror. Except, every time you show up, they all run away screaming. You are the rejected genie. The mirror maiden. You are Bloody Mary. | She never asked to be birthed into legend this way, but legends have a tricky way of distorting over the test of time. Some of the genies thought she had it easy.
*If only my masters would just run away instead of asking for foolish selfish wishes.* They would all say.
Indeed. It may have been simple and easy, but it... | “No! NOOO!” - yelled the genie as he saw Megan terrified attempting to run out of the bathroom.
“Don’t run away Megan, I’m here for you”
“Bu, but, I said Bloody Mary, and you showed up, I’m drunk and this is scary”- said Megan fearfully as her mascara ran down her eyes and her breathing got more intense.
“I know, th... | 2019-03-15T01:35:23 | 2019-03-14T22:26:33 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] All doctors must carry a staff. The staff must be hand carved by the doctor, and for every patient a doctor can't treat they lose an inch off their staff. When a staff is gone, so is their license.
X-post from /r/crazyideas and /u/BrassDidgeStrings | Adriona took the tiny, almost pathetic little bundle and held it in her arms as she stared down the glimmering, pristine street of concrete so white it almost looked like marble. Her ragtag shoes stood out against the sterile pavement, mirroring the polished buildings of the medical district of the city. Sick and inju... | The idea was always there. Records have always been kept you know. Hospitals and fellowships and what not always wants to know who's the best and who's the rest. So it's not like the idea is anything new. Before, or after the institution of the staff, doctors always avoided failure.
But I guess the visible mark of "fa... | 2015-11-12T22:41:40 | 2015-11-12T21:26:25 | 81 | 24 |
[WP] Foreshadow the character's death so subtly that I still don't see it coming even though I requested it. | Hello /r/writingprompts reader. I don’t do many of these foreshadowing prompts, but hopefully I can surprise you with this one. I’m a bit concerned the foreshadowing is a bit subtle, but if you read closely to the end, you should catch it.
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Sarah had a weakness for chocolate. So even though she was trying to los... | Rain trickled down the windowpane, making rivulets in the already wet surface. Kieran watched them, a tinny pounding in his ears the last remnant of the concert he'd just got in from. The streetlights were lit and the house was dark as he had unlocked the front door. The hallway was just as messy as it had been as he l... | 2015-06-03T07:02:17 | 2015-06-03T05:56:40 | 100 | 35 |
[WP] A law is enacted making trial by combat the only legal tool available to anyone for any dispute. An arms race for mercenary fighters heats up between Corporations, celebrities, and governments. You fight for Wendys. | I showed up for work and headed immediately to grab the mop. Some kid had peed in the playpen again.
I was making my way back to the front when my manager tapped me on the shoulder.
“Clint can grab the pee, I need to talk to you in the office first.” she said.
I groaned. I owed way too much money to get fired now. ... | "Hotdogs! Hotdogs here!"
Weary combatants staggered over for the third day in a row. The numbers were thinning and everyone left was clearly exhausted.
"Mustard?"
"Thanks. I'm so sorry you have to do this but we all thank you."
They looked terrible. Ruined.
"The water! It's free. Christ. For all of you, it's free ... | 2017-06-09T07:27:14 | 2017-06-09T07:18:39 | 279 | 12 |
[WP] We “knew” humans were weak as they avoided every war with diplomacy. We never imagined they’d be this ruthless & how seemingly overnight they went from peaceful beings to a state they call “TOTAL WAR”. War is in their blood & soul. They thrive on it, mostly when the odds are against them | The expansion into the Sol system was supposed to be the latest iteration in a pattern I had repeated dozens of times across my career. for civilisations falling just below type I, we would initiate first contact, and demand vassalisation. seventy five percent of all civilisations we encountered stopped at this step, i... | “Greetings, my fellow human comrade, you do not know me, but I know you.
We once thought ourselves as alone in this universe as a species, and when the others made themselves known to us, we had little choice but to acknowledge them as superiors.
And now these superiors have made a terrible choice - we never chose to... | 2022-08-05T21:12:29 | 2022-08-05T16:09:25 | 21 | 14 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | The few people who are in the know want to ask me how I didn't know my roommate was a Gemini. Sorry. Autocorrect. Given I. Dammit. Gemini. Ginie. Finite. Fuck. DJINN.
Just settle for that. Which is the right spelling, apparently.
Well what I want to ask them is this: "How do you know your roommate isn't one?"
Ther... | After a long tiring day in college, I headed for my room in the apartment I had recently moved into with a close buddy of mine. I throw my backpack on the floor, lie down on my bed and quickly note the time - it was 6:45 pm.
As I was staring at the ceiling, I remembered the lamp my roommate Ashkan had showed me a co... | 2014-08-19T14:38:36 | 2014-08-19T10:17:13 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] Anyone holding a world record is immortal as long as he holds the record. You are the oldest person alive. | Most of the “immortals” on our planet only hold one world record. Naturally, this makes them nervous, and dooms them to spend their immortality tediously improving their skill to make their record harder to break. The more ambitious “immortals” will forego the usual record padding in an attempt to set a second world re... | "Impossible..." the man's eyes stared at me wildly, his two hands still on the blade plunged deep within my heart.
"Surprised?" I asked coldly, before removing my hand from my pockets. A loud bang echoed against the walls, followed by a thud on the floor. The man groaned loudly in pain from the bullet I had put throug... | 2016-12-14T05:20:39 | 2016-12-14T05:02:19 | 2,767 | 46 |
[WP] From the point of view of dogs, humans are like elves, benvolent beings with incredibly long lives enjoying pastimes too intricate and complex to understand. | Pale, tall, strangely hairless, with hard flashing eyes and sharp tongues... they are the elder race, privy to the arcane secrets and mysteries of the universe.
And they have accepted a chosen few of us into their pack.
When they arrived, most packs saw them as prey. They were soft, they lacked tooth and claw a... | The fireplace crackled quietly as it always did, casting a warm and familiar glow around the room. I laid on the floor, like I always did, full and content, on the small rug laid out between the fire and the chairs. The lady of the house sat in her rocking chair, like she always did, watching that magical box on the wa... | 2021-06-25T13:54:14 | 2021-06-25T12:31:30 | 2,077 | 158 |
[WP] You are a fresh junior researcher at NASA. While out for drinks with your new boss, you jokingly ask her why NASA hasn't explored the ocean with its resources. She turns pale and leans in close, then whispers, "We have. Why do you think we want to leave the planet so badly?" | Part 1
I had been recruited right out of school just as I wrapped up my doctorate in computer science. My dissertation in artificial intelligence had attracted the attention of a NASA team developing a series of rovers and autonomous workers for construction of a Mars station while the first human exploration mission... | She turned pale, leaned in closer, and then whispered, "We have. Why do you think we want to leave the planet so badly?"
Time slowed momentarily as I took in the gravity of her words, the noise in the bar fading suddenly into the background as I attempted to process this new information. Even the harsh clinking of gla... | 2019-08-07T22:01:31 | 2019-08-07T18:19:58 | 31 | 16 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen a lot of tens. It's scary, really, how quickly people can go from six or even five to ten. Other people don't realize how much danger surrounds them every day. It takes so little...
No, the tens aren't the ones that stay with you. Not for long, anyway. No, the one that will always be in my mind was somethin... | “I had no idea what the numbers meant at first, but everyone had one. The highest I had seen, before I knew what they were, was my uncle, a Vietnam veteran, five. I learned what they really meant two years ago, walking home after my first day of middle school, a passing car swerving all over the road, had to be going a... | 2014-11-29T14:12:40 | 2014-11-29T12:35:37 | 714 | 199 |
[WP] A world class contract killer finds an envelope at his dead drop. Inside are $23.42 in small change and a letter hand-written by a 9-year-old girl. | "You don't have to enjoy it," she said. "No one ever really enjoys it."
"But you have to do it," she cocked the gun. "It's hard, I know. Sympathy is the only thing keeping us from following through. Some people say we're tough, that we don't ever feel anything for anyone else. But I'm not tough. You're not tough eithe... | This was something new. I had never gotten any letters from illiterate kids before.
"Hey dath,
Plese come bak to us. I and Mom is mising yu.
Love Sara
PS: I hop this enough mony for a plain ticket"
Cant really blame the post service, that this ended up here either. Maybe i should tell her, that her dad wont ever c... | 2017-02-16T11:23:34 | 2017-02-16T11:18:26 | 130 | 26 |
[WP] The Reapers come every 50 thousand years to wipe out organic life that has reached the stars however this time, this time they arrive at the heaviest resistance they have every encountered. In the grim darkness of the future they find 40k. | Harbinger slowly drifted towards the busy world on the edge of the galaxy. Previous scans showed a promising level of biomass and activity, perfect for an initial pool of pawns for the coming salvation. The rest of the fleet was not far behind and needed to move quickly due to the apparent size of this cycle. Harbinger... | Eternity. Immortality. Forever.
They had no clue what these words truly meant. To see these pathetic creatures spreading their message of dreamless peace across the galaxy is an insult to all of existence. They called themselves Reapers. Their ships moved faster than any imperial or chaos ship by magnitudes, their we... | 2017-08-27T08:45:06 | 2017-08-27T08:33:00 | 2,784 | 335 |
[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 Pops,
You were a real fucking piece of work you know that? I don't think I've hated anyone quite as much as I hated you. You called me lazy, good for nothing, useless. Made me spend my youth being the mule in your construction business instead of spending summers with my friends. You absolutely hated the fact... | Hello,
I will never forget you or what you have done. You took my trust and shattered it into millions of pieces, like taking a hammer to a piece of glass. I thought we were friends, but friends don't do what you've done. I thought that I could trust you, but I was wrong.
I read all of the guides about how to avoid... | 2015-12-05T17:35:16 | 2015-12-05T16:08:23 | 182 | 11 |
[WP] Dragons are extinct in the wild, but the royal house still has a brood pair that has had a clutch every twenty-one years for several centuries. Each hatchling imprints on a member of the royal bloodline; and only on royals. When the latest clutch hatched, the littlest one chose you. A commoner. | When the crowd starts screaming, I know they've been spotted. The cacophany of voices gets louder and louder, and I shove myself through until I reach the barrier. There! I hold up my phone and take a picture through the fence. Standing on the steps of the palace is the royal family. It must be a nightmare for so many ... | ***Taken from Scribe Roluas' Records***
The year is 1543, in the name of our Goddess and Protector, Hylia, in the Year of the Three, and ever since two years ago, after the defeat of Calamity, the Kingdom of Hyrule has prospered.
For record keeping purposes, the date today, is Faroresday, the 12th, of the year 154... | 2019-01-12T22:09:49 | 2019-01-12T20:38:45 | 21 | 11 |
[WP] You wake up in Hell. You look around, you can't see anybody, it's just fire and brimstone going on forever. Eventually the Devil walks over and says "Finally, you're the first to arrive, so tell me, who are you? what did you do? and how did you die?" | At first, I thought the overwhelming red in my vision was a side effect of the initial lethargy of waking up. But when that didn't clear off in time, I starting getting suspicious.
Where on Earth was I? Why would there be so many raging fires and lava lakes and... brimstone? (Thank goodness for Geology classes.) Was I... | I look at that son of a bitch right in the eyes and say "don't you remember? Georgia" he tried to think. "I took that bet and I ended up regretting it because you're the best there's ever been." He smirks and says "ohhhhh yesssss Johnny how have you been?" | 2015-04-09T07:51:23 | 2015-04-09T07:21:59 | 779 | 102 |
[WP] Magic suddenly becomes a thing. While governments are scrambling to establish regulations, people defiantly flock to reddit to share new discoveries and crack more “overpowered” spells. Write about a trending post that, for good or ill, is making authorities furious. | “The anti-teleportation zone has been established, Sir.” A slender young man with sharp features, dressed in full business attire, stood outside the central vault of Golden Apex Bank to deliver the report.
“Thank you, Mr. Freeman.” Mr. Sullivan, the CEO of Golden Apex Bank, rubbed his temples as he dismissed Freeman. ... | I love gullible people on Reddit! Recently, I saw this post:
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*Redditors, help! My son just cast ‘The Spell of Understanding!’ and I am shocked by what I’ve learnt!*
*I thought he was excited about construction and that he was going to be an architect. I heard him shout ‘Khalifa’ in his room so many time... | 2019-07-11T14:12:51 | 2019-07-11T13:02:47 | 89 | 27 |
[Wp] Write a story with a secret message hidden inside
Edit: If any readers figure out the answer or if you, the writer, wish to let the reader know, please include the answer (or assumed answer) in the comments as a spoiler. | Nine years. But it felt like forever. John sighed as he walked out the metal gates leading to the road, unsure of what to expect. No one bothered to contact him during his time in prison. For all he knew, he was dead to people he knew.
The guards handed over his possession at the checkout booth, things they took away ... | Tom looked into his fathers study. It still smelt of stale cigar smoke. He stood on the threshold, waiting to be beckoned in. All that sat there though was an empty chair. Tom sighed, fondly remembering when his dad had sat him on his lap, while he worked the family finances.
The whole house was silent, save for the ... | 2017-06-23T09:14:33 | 2017-06-23T08:25:56 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] You go to work one day and notice your cubicle is in a completely different location. You ask about it and everyone thinks you're joking; it's always been in that spot. The next day your office is a block down from where it used to be. Reality alters everyday. You're the only one who notices.
Hope you guys can ma... | Last week, my route home from work took seventeen minutes. Now it takes four, and conveniently passes the grocery store. My office, which I once shared with seven other frustrated mid-lifers, now just contains my desk and the nice banzai tree our boss Susan bought for the office during her I’m-one-of-you phase. Nobody ... | "Anita, where has my office gone?"
"Your office? What are you talking about?"
"My office? The place I spend 8 hours a day in?"
"Mr Johnson? Your not making any sense again. Would you like to explain to me what you think is going on?"
"Now now woman, how am I not making any sense. I am being perfectly reasonable and... | 2015-12-04T07:42:01 | 2015-12-04T07:01:12 | 83 | 60 |
[WP]: Rule of thumb: If you see something on a foreign planet that has all the outward traits of an apex predator, but no obvious and apparent way to kill you - run. The methods in which they kill aren't something you want to see. | I groan as I sit up, it had been quite the rough landing after our encounter with the Witch of Droll. I run my hand through my hair and try to wrest away the knife of pain that has landed between my eyes to no avail. Time to take stock, both arms and legs and head still attached as well as Ryce, Brollan, and Jared also... | Much like Johnny Depp in the 2000s, the sky was overcast. Morose and grey, with just a hint of precipitation, behind which lurked a vague threat that could result in anything from a sudden deluge, to a violent storm of thunder, screaming winds, and flying debris. Like breaking up with your psycho ex all over again. Chr... | 2021-01-25T09:09:21 | 2021-01-25T08:39:48 | 64 | 25 |
[WP] After witnessing a death, a young girl falls in love with the Grim Reaper. She becomes a serial killer just to see him more often. | Maria was only eleven when she first crossed paths with him.
It was a shooting. A drunk, fueled by rage and too much bad alcohol, had burst into a theater. What should have been a humorous showing of the year's latest animated comedy had quickly turned into a nightmare.
Maria sat with her arms around her knees, cry... | After a while he quit showing up.
She knew he loved her back. She also knew that they could never truly be together, no matter how many people she sent to the reaping.
It had started with those already on their way, she had just given them an extra shove in the right direction. Nursing homes became the setting for t... | 2017-06-07T19:52:22 | 2017-06-07T19:30:33 | 58 | 19 |
[WP] Everyone receives a letter when they turn 18 stating how they will die. You've just received your letter, and it's blank. | Twins, they say, are the luckiest. Normally when you go to the Bureau on your 18th birthday, you go alone. You open the black envelope by yourself, and until you get home you deal with its life-changing contents by yourself.
Not me and Jon. We turn 18 on the same day, of course, so we'll make the walk from our comfor... | My rough callused hands shook slightly as I took out an old letter. One from the day I was eighteen. It seems an eternity ago, and technically it was. I grew up an engineer, dabbling in physics and working with a team to improve space travel. We stumbled upon new methods, methods that would allow travel at light speed ... | 2017-01-17T14:52:16 | 2017-01-17T13:31:18 | 563 | 23 |
[WP] scientists have invented a serum that allows animals to speak. Your dog was recently given the serum, but it appears the treatment has not worked. Your cousin, whom you haven't seen since your youth, comes to town to visit. As the door opens, your dog suddenly whispers in your ear: "run." | I was disappointed, there really is no way around it. When I gave my dog the injection I was so looking forward to him speaking. I could imagine me telling him to fetch things for me and he would actually understand what I was saying. Just like the commercials said, but the stupid dog never said a word to me. The veter... | Run, run, run
You've got to run
Bow, bow, son
You've got to run.
Your cousin is here
yeah, the weird one
Just keep running
He's got a gun.
Bow, bow, son
I'm warning you
Get to running
before he kills you.
It's as natural to him
as drinking mountain dew.
Bow, son, run,
He's got a gun.
| 2016-09-01T01:04:25 | 2016-08-31T22:41:54 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] All races are judged by their affinity to cast magic. The humans, being the only living creature who can't use magic, was banished. After many years, they achieved high technological progress, invented "Guns" that is far stronger than any magic. Fearing revenge, a spy elf warns the other races. | "He says he's here on a diplomatic mission," said the attendant, softly. "He has no verification documents, but claims it is of absolute vital importance that he reaches King Taraj."
"I will meet him," Khadash announced, grabbing the jewel-encrusted blade on the table and snapping it into place at his side. "Go inform... | Hank signaled Clay to move ahead, to cross the clearing and run towards the next giant tree. This forest always seemed to have a next giant tree. Clay always complained about all the bugs that made the trees their homes and that would come out at night to harass honest working stiffs. Hank always retorted that witho... | 2020-04-16T12:39:07 | 2020-04-16T11:54:17 | 155 | 24 |
[WP] [Harry Potter] You are a non-famous muggle biologist that keeps discovering magical creatures, and right before you announce your discoveries, get your memory erased by the ministry of magic. Then your daughter gets her letter from Hogwarts, and you learn you're famous in the magical world. | Professor Theodore Waxburn had worked in Oxford's biology program for fifteen years but wasn't quite able to show he had been *doing* much of anything. He remembered working. He had years and years of scribbled notes in his file folders that could prove it. But his major papers seemed to come in spurts; he could only h... | What would you do, if you happen to find out that all the misery in your life, that you thought were the product of your own incompetence, is just a sick prank of a sick group of people? People, who for some twisted reason, thought it is completely justifiable to destroy a man's life, or maybe countless others, just to... | 2017-07-16T08:02:51 | 2017-07-16T08:00:19 | 3,320 | 200 |
[WP] The date is April 1st 2020. Your town is deftly quiet for a Wednesday, but that’s because this time last year there came an April Fools prank that got so far out of hand that the town had to outlaw April Fools Day. That prank was yours and this is your confession. | “Admit it. It was you, we already know you did it.”
“That’s strange, I thought I was brought here for questioning, am I under arrest?”
The detective sat in his chair with a smug smirk that made his mustache a bushy check mark. “You think you’re so smart. I’ve dealt with so many punks like you it’s not even funny. Whe... | A thin layer of fog covers the horizon. The sound of cars zoomed by. An immense forest opened up on one side of the road. The fog twisted within, the light being absorbed into the darkness itself. Above it lay the sky. Today it was so blue, unnaturally blue.
You see, that's because it was. The sky couldn't be that sha... | 2019-04-02T19:43:14 | 2019-04-02T19:30:25 | 394 | 123 |
[WP]Everyone on earth gets the same message on their phone telling them to go to a specific address. People everywhere are talking about and wondering if they should go. However after talking to some people about it, you realize that the address you were given is different than everyone else's. | At first, it was called, 'The Miracle of the Modern Age'. Some talk show host must have decided that was too long, so it was changed to, 'The Modern Miracle'. That was too long as well, (and probably too on-the-nose) so it was changed to 'The Sign'. Or 'The Message.' That was probably more appropriate. Grandmaster Flas... | A notification.
Chinese, japanese, portuguese, american, italian.. everyone. Latitude: 37° 14' 3.60" N
Longitude: -115° 48' 23.99" W, September 20th . That's all that it sent. Nobody knew who sent it, because the sender had no name. Some tried to track the localization of the sender, but nothing worked. People were sca... | 2019-09-09T12:30:38 | 2019-09-09T10:42:35 | 1,909 | 39 |
[WP] You are a thief in a magical world and have snuck into the castle. You make your way to the Prince’s chambers and try on his clothing and crown. Suddenly, several men bust into the room and mistakenly take you hostage. You wake up in the back of a wagon beside your long time crush, the Princess | In hindsight, I really should've accounted for evil overlord invasions when planning to break into the royal castle and steal the prince's clothing.
I was in the middle of putting one of the prince's garments when the dark army began invading. Now, one would think that stealing the prince's clothing in general would ... | The wagon shook and rattled violently. Lancer sat on a stiff wood frame, stuffed between two muscular soldiers. He imagined they were well paid mercenaries, defectors. Likely paid a king’s ransom to kidnap the prince and princess.
The princess sat across the way, stuffed between two soldiers of her own. Their chain ma... | 2019-03-03T19:10:17 | 2019-03-03T16:59:30 | 24 | 12 |
[WP] "100% of people who drink water will die" sounds like a dumb statistic, but you are 900 years old and very thirsty. | If history outlives me, I'm sure that I'll be remembered as pragmatic, forward thinking, hell, maybe even lucky. The truth of the matter though, I'm just lazy. Sometimes I think I'm just too lazy to die, a perpetual life fueled by an insatiable apathy.
Eat your vegetables, make sure you exercise, drink water, take yo... | As John laid there, on the cold cement floor trying to forget the pain, he noticed something. A water bottle... laying around on the floor. John mustered his last remaining energy to crawl to the water bottle. As he got there he reached for the bottle, his vision was now blurry, his arms shaking uncontrollably, his hea... | 2017-04-18T09:00:10 | 2017-04-18T06:41:35 | 274 | 61 |
[WP] You're thinking of asking out that girl in your Religious Studies class. Also, you're pretty sure she's a God. | All things considered, I probably should have figured it out sooner.
It was all in the little details-- the way she agreed to go out with me before I even asked her, how lit candles and burning incense just seemed to magically appear wherever we'd go on dates, or even the way she'd convulsed with laughter when I calle... | To be fair, I'm always a little intimidated to talk to any kind of stranger, let alone a girl with long brown hair and deep green eyes and a propensity for wearing low-cut shirts. This feeling is familiar -- my heart is in my throat, the adrenaline is surging, I can barely breathe let alone think let alone keep my thro... | 2016-02-23T18:52:21 | 2016-02-23T16:57:02 | 52 | 31 |
[WP] Humans have always been the friendliest and the most peaceful species in the galaxy. When one of the most ruthless empires decides to wipe out the pathetic humans and their diplomacy, they discover that humans have something that no one in the galaxy has ever seen. Nuclear weapons. | "You may have thought us pathetic and frail for our friendship and pacifism," related the calm voice that came over the monitor.
The Glorthon admiral, Tee'et Lorcor, stared with horror as two more dreadnought class battle cruisers under his commanders were obliterated by a single missile strike each. The fleet was on ... | Drifting endlessly and peacefully through this void, I gazed upon the great blue sphere. Its skies swirling with white ink. The low rumbling of our ship had my brethren in a deep sleep.
A great white plain, frozen and still, is where we made our temporary home. A small elderly woman made her way out of that dark and s... | 2020-02-07T14:35:31 | 2020-02-07T12:50:43 | 97 | 41 |
[WP] Your father leaves the house to buy milk, 50 years later he comes back with milk in hand and hasn't aged a bit. | No way.
Anger, sadness, and confusion rolled into a giant emotion in my heart.
"Hey... What's going on here?" I squeaked. My voice betrayed me.
He looked me up and down. Confused. His mouth slung open; just like all those years ago, sitting in front of the TV watching in disbelief as the enemy football players run a... | I stared at my father in disbelief as he stood in the kitchen’s entryway. He looked so much younger than I do but there’s no mistaking it - this is my father. He smiled at me as if he’s been doing this for the last 50 years.
“How’s it going, son? I finally got that milk.” he said, the same warm voice I took comfort i... | 2017-11-19T17:13:23 | 2017-11-19T17:03:27 | 60 | 19 |
[WP] When you sleep, instead of dreaming, you see a list of tips and tricks that will help you the next day. One night, you only see one tip, “Always aim for the head”. | ######[](#dropcap)
Heather's eyes popped open. She pressed a finger to her forehead, saying a silent spell to ease her migraine. Her dreams were always accompanied by an aura, and yesterday night's left her feeling like a freezing hand had crawled up her back while she was sleeping. She bit her lip. It definitely wasn... | I was surprised to say the least when I only had one tip even more so when I read it 'always aim for the head' I'm a teacher so I wanted to believe that if I taught one kid something it would help down the line, I didn't really believe it there'd be a shooting I was sure of it.
And so I packed a handgun I wouldn't be ... | 2018-11-20T13:55:53 | 2018-11-20T12:16:20 | 482 | 55 |
[WP] a woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She’s unaware that she’s actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who’s fallen for her, and is certain he’s going to get it right this time.
Horror story or romantic comedy? | "Raul," crooned Raul in a very suspicious French accent, as he took the lady's hand and graced his eager lips on it. "Let me guess," he continued, releasing his grip and pulling a chair out from the table. "Sit, please. Let me guess, you're a Mari- no, no, you're a Cassandra? I'm right, am I not?"
*Suave.* Yes, that ... | "Hey, are you okay?"
Maria wiped the tears from her cheeks. She sniffled, looking anywhere but the man standing next to her. She'd gone to the pier to be alone not have random strangers approach her.
"I-I'm fine," Maria looked out toward the ocean, watching as the whitecaps broke and wove over each other, and how the... | 2022-08-24T03:20:20 | 2018-02-14T09:37:57 | 1,353 | 231 |
[WP] Reincarnation is real, unknown to all, but the gods. Most beings live out multiple lives cyclically as humans or other life-forms and are always random. But these two souls are always human, always find each other, and are always romantically exclusive upon discovery. The gods take interest. | “Beauty is what stops people in their tracks. No matter what they are doing, if they having the best day or worst day of their life, if they are in love, if they are in pain, they will stop to look at beauty.”
“But beauty fades, mother,” Cupid said, his eyes still burning with that youthful fire, the idealism that wou... | "Hey, John, come and take a look at this for a second."
"Hmmm, what is it?"
"See these two ID's? 571024 and 1130426?"
"Yep, they're certainly numbers, alright."
"See how they're romantically attached? Well, I saw them together last sim too."
"Yeah, that's probably just a coincidence, Christina. Too much staring at... | 2019-07-21T23:08:41 | 2019-07-21T22:43:44 | 197 | 48 |
[WP]You have the gift of seeing angels. Two things to note: one, they look more monstrous than “angelic,” and two; they gush all over us because they think we are the cutest beings ever. | Fifty-five Fahrenheit, sunny, low breeze.
She hovered just over my shoulder, her bony, sinew-draped wings casting no shadow in the broad daylight. I took my last deep breath of fresh air before being having a soldering iron glued to my hands all day.
The doorbell rung as I stepped into the shop.
"Heyo, Marc. I got ... | I always pretended not to notice them, even as the disgusting creatures floated around me, their translucent skin pulsing with the beat of each of their organs, looking at them was like watching some detailed science demonstration, getting to see each part of their body do its job, the sight always leaving me a little ... | 2020-02-19T20:26:39 | 2020-02-19T18:01:15 | 52 | 27 |
[WP] "This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM and 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable. Good luck." | “This is an Emergency Alert. Barricade all entries to your house. Do not go outside after sundown. Restrict contact with others. Do not enter tunnels during daytime. Do not make any light or noise between 6PM or 8AM. Stay inside your homes until dawn. Military aid is unavailable.”
I was stunned, a spoonful of ramen h... | Looking at the decaying poster plastered across the alleyway, the man paused for a moment, lost in memories.
Nobody knew where it started, and nobody had time to care. Within weeks of the first sighting, the vamps had swept across Europe, and the United States Quarantine Zone barely lasted a week. It was hard to figu... | 2018-04-18T11:27:41 | 2018-04-18T09:53:12 | 91 | 66 |
[WP] At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.
Best friend* sorry. | My name is Frederick Johnson. I am officially regarded as the seventh-strongest man in the world.
And I really, really hate my stupid power.
...
"Hey, Fred! How ya been, slick?"
I spun, throwing out my hands, and called out to my childhood friend. "Geoff! I'll get you for that one!"
He hooked an arm around my n... | Well, this is amusing. James and Emma cornered you in the International Heroing Association office, congratulating you and demanding answers about how you went from the bottom rankings to the top 10. It’s safe to say that 2 years ago, you wouldn’t have imagined anything lie this happening.
When your power first mani... | 2017-12-17T19:23:36 | 2017-12-17T19:17:32 | 398 | 120 |
[WP] "Captain... the human didn't put on it's anti-warp gear before we jumped." "Sad to hear, prepare the coffin and jettison it." "No, sir. The human... nothing's happened to it. It didn't go insane from seeing infinity in the stars." | Both Captain Zula and systems engineer Wuolloki stood in silence, contemplating the magnitude of what they had just said and heard.
"Bring me the human," the Captain ordered. Wuolloki saluted curtly, turned, and left the room.
Captain Zula was rubbing her head now. She moved over to her secret stash of alcohol, wonde... | My name is Supply Sergeant Marcus Grant of the Terran Armada’s third support unit. I have been in a secure isolation cell in a wing of an Intragalactic Transport Centre hospital for the last 3 weeks, or maybe it’s more. The days have begun to run together.
The doctors here have told me that I have gone mad. Or that,... | 2020-07-13T23:19:17 | 2020-07-13T22:38:35 | 186 | 74 |
[WP] The bad guys won and the world was conquered by the villain's armies decades ago. You and your spouse are worried as you suspect your child may be suffering from Chosen Oneness or perhaps an acute case of Prophetic Heroism. | When the boy was born with one eye purple and a shock of white hair already crowning his little head, they suspected.
When he toddled into the forest one day and came back atop a wolf, riding upon the beast as if it were a common puppy, they worried.
But it was the dragon that made Mr. and Mrs. Plotpoint truly concer... | "Look at his hair for crying out loud!" John shouted to Marie - his wife -, pointing towards his new-born son. "He was born 3 weeks ago and he's got red spiky hair!"
"I mean, maybe it's just a mutation or something..." she responded, glancing towards the baby.
"Marie..." John sighed "He jumped out of the crib, and fa... | 2016-11-26T06:21:20 | 2016-11-26T05:58:02 | 78 | 29 |
[WP] 1 in every 1000 can remember their past life. Due to this there are strict laws regarding inheritance and reclaiming one's property. Your job is to weed out the scammers from the real deal. | When the third richest person in the country dies without an heir or any close family, you can be sure there will be scammers. Now that it's been 18 years and no one has been able to prove any direct relation, its time to look into the reincarnation claims. Anyone who would've been reincarnated would be of legal age no... | Mr. Franz Bertolli:
The Card and Feather law practice has received your letter regarding your property reclamation appeal. Ms. Julia Card has run a background check on you, and the person you claim to have been in your past, Richard Attenborough. Due to the fact that Mr. Attenborough was one of our previous clients in... | 2021-02-11T07:46:51 | 2021-02-11T06:35:07 | 115 | 19 |
[WP] Your parents have kept it secret long enough; they can no longer stand your misery. They decide to change your life's difficulty from "Expert" to "Novice". | Personally, I would have been happier with a compromise. I wasn't skilled enough for the higher difficulties, but "Novice" just felt like an insult. Work had been miserable the past few months, and I had broken down, calling my mother crying. She had congratulated me for how long I had been operating on Expert, telling... | *You know, I think they keep moving the goalposts on me. I used to be the dumbest kid in class and no one even noticed. Then I started caring, I put a ton of effort into middle school, almost got to skip a grade. I graduated salutatorian from high school, my dad asked me what I did wrong.*
*I loathed college, I hated ... | 2018-01-09T07:41:58 | 2018-01-09T06:52:59 | 1,757 | 118 |
[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. | "Was that transmitted... in English?" Captain Skerritt asked loudly to the all but empty cabin of the Sol.
The Sol was named for the original star around which humanity began it's existence. Though the original planet had long since been abandoned for a more lush environment, it still held deep meaning for humans. The... | **May 8th, 2530**
Marissa scowled as she heard another wet plop behind her. Looking would make her day worse, but she inevitably lowered her laser drill and looked anyway. Lying behind her on atop a pile of excavated rocks was a tiny mass of flesh the size of a fist. The creature had bright green skin, webbed feet, a ... | 2019-05-08T15:10:49 | 2019-05-08T14:37:30 | 278 | 44 |
[WP] God created humans specifically for war. Every 30 years he checks back to see how humanity is fighting. Somehow humanity went from bloodshed to flaming over the internet. | God sighed with contentment. Today, like most days, was a good day to be the almighty creator. He reclined back in his celestial armchair and, with a nonchalant wave of his hand, a golden bowl filled with plump grapes appeared and hovered within arm’s length. He popped one into his mouth and, as he savoured its sweet f... | GENETIC ORDINANCE DEPARTMENT MEMO
I'm sending this information in a broad memo since I think its important that we are all the same page.
As many of you know, the "Human" project has made an alarming evolution in a very short period of time. This rapid change has impacted the Human expression of violence, which is ... | 2017-01-23T08:42:27 | 2017-01-23T08:38:20 | 517 | 44 |
[WP] "You'll never rest", they said. "Eventually, you will come to hate your eternal curse", they warned. 6 billion years, 3 intergalactic voyages, and more planets than you can count later, and you're still skipping along, having the time of your life with your 'cursed' existence. | I guess you could call it my chamber of solitude. Thousands of archives and artifacts are devoted to simple pleasures, quiet and violent romances, and grand adventures to resurrect dying worlds. You haven't lived until you've saved ten solar systems by having sex with a squid-like empress who commands the star crusher.... | I spent much of the first couple billion years wondering what would possibly turn me to hate my curse. I stopped wondering when I became lost in my happy task. I committed to new levels of creativity. I made a world of what I call "meat things" after I became bored with simple mineral and chemical creatures. Eventually... | 2020-10-25T10:37:57 | 2020-10-25T10:32:06 | 208 | 50 |
[WP] Everyone is born with dice that they need to roll before attempting anything major. The super powered are those born with more than a 20 sided dice allowing them to do feats beyond human. An ordinary human usually has a six sided dice. Despite being born with a coin you still want to be a hero. |
"It's okay, everyone has a streak of bad luck every once in a while."
I looked up from where I'd sat on the grass at the man that stood before me. My eyes stung. It was the sweat getting into them. Just the sweat. I wiped it off with the back of my arm.
We could both feel the oppressive weight of what went unsaid.... | 5 year old Dustin was watching his morning cartoons and eating a bowl of Lucky Charms when his parents walked into the room. He could tell they were being super serious by the looks on their face, and they only offered slight smiles when he beamed at them with his crooked smile. The tooth fairy had taken a whole bunch ... | 2020-08-13T04:25:47 | 2020-08-13T04:14:48 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] Your Uber passenger was a little odd, but you still gave them the usual farewell: “If you enjoyed the ride, make sure you say thanks with five stars!” A few days later, you receive a nicely worded thank you letter in the mail along with a deed to the entire constellation of Cassiopeia. | I received a letter, from someone called John Smith.
It was a big, yellow envelope, the paper reassuringly thick to the touch: the sort you see in offices.
Now, two things. One, no one sends letters. And two, John Smith was such an obviously fake name.
I brought the letter, with all the bills and promotional mail th... | Jessica didn't think of her part time job as something worth glorifying. But once in a while, she indulged her fantasies. She dreamt that maybe she would be a cabbie in London, who actually knows the streets, and can occasionally out perform a navigation app. Or maybe she'd be some taxi driver caught in the Hollywood s... | 2021-12-07T20:28:48 | 2021-12-07T19:40:58 | 192 | 54 |
[WP] When Earth discovers FTL travel, the world never unifies into one government. When new species make contact, they are surprised to learn that the twenty strongest empires in the galaxy have their capitals on the same planet. | Four-ten seven spores. No. Four-ten eight. Four-ten eight.
I must stop counting them. They will not multiply. They will not increase.
Four-ten eight spores. The last four-ten eight in the galaxy. Maybe the last that will ever be. If I don't find them stable land...a saline pool...the proper nutrients...
This ship ... | The next twenty seconds were some of the longest Agrutu ever experienced.
"Fire back at them, damn it! I'm bringing intel to you!" he yelled into the crackling communicator, as he dodged the latest barrage of pulsar shots from the Chinese starships hot on his tail. Agrutu felt his skipper shudder under his tentacles.... | 2017-05-21T20:18:54 | 2017-05-21T18:00:10 | 2,630 | 978 |
[WP] Before academy enrollment each parent must purchase a familiar to protect their child. The rich can afford gryphons and dragons. But being poor forced you to seek out the local mad magician who has offered you a new affordable familiar dubbed the “pet rock” instead. | Mad Hank, the oldest magician in Jill’s town. His origins are unknown to any of the folks, older than anyone remembers. At best some families might have heard stories passed down from their great-great grandparents about the man, but none could be proven. Some stories getting rather outrageously superficial, like the o... | Every student at St. Clair's Academy for the Magically Gifted is required to have some creature to serve as personal protection in the school. Most have traditional animals, but the only one I can afford is the "pet rock" the old wizard in the pawn shop offered me for 5 bits yesterday.
I can't help but to feel bad for... | 2021-01-06T07:16:08 | 2021-01-06T06:59:52 | 267 | 161 |
[WP] After death you find out you've just finished serving your time in hell. Before reincarnation you get to pick which species you want to be. Human isn't available, because it's a hell-exclusive. | "So this is what I can choose? These are the species that exist?" I look at the insanely thick book before me. I'm not even sure I could lift it off it's pedestal if I tried. "Wellll, sort of, it's all the species that have ever existed, we'll place you in a time period appropriate to your decision and you'll get t... | ”So... I can’t be a human again?” I ask, staring at the demon standing at the pedestal.
”No,” It growls with its scratchy voice, “Human isss a Hell exclussssive.”
”I got that,” I say, frowning, “I can be anything then?”
The demon rolls its beady red eyes, “Yessssss, arrrrre you a foolll? Youuu can be anythinggg.”
I... | 2021-03-06T17:34:25 | 2021-03-06T15:30:56 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] The Dark Arts are fair: for a terrible, personal price, they offer raw power. And lots of it. Self-centered villains typically renege on the contract and thus their powers fail them at a crucial moment. Now, for the first time, the heroes face someone who paid in full. The powers are all theirs | When I was younger, I could never understand the villainy of greed. The villains I read about were motivated by many reasons and philosophies. Rage, lust, pride, these were the reasons that compelled me to love the villains of the story. Standing alone among the common motivations of evil was greed. He did all this for... | As I killed the last of the heroes I laughed. It was an accident.
I had found the old book because I thought Darcy would enjoy it. We could laugh about it together. I decided to go home early to show her. While walking, I thumbed through the book.
At first I thought the words were in some foreign script, but I bl... | 2021-06-27T21:16:41 | 2021-06-27T20:28:30 | 102 | 25 |
[WP] In a different age, Aliens invaded and were defeated by Cavemen, as a result they prepared for a second battle thousands of years in the future, when they expected humanity to be the most fearsome beings in the universe, they return to find society as it is now
EDIT: August 8th, 2014 @ 2:35PM:
Wow, /r/WritingPro... | The General sat in his command vehicle. He surveyed the displays of his armies. He smiled as a father smiles at his children. He zoomed in on Battallion A. The troops were arrayed in battle uniforms. Their faces calm and focused inside their battle helmets. He switched to Battallion B. The infantry arrayed in front of ... | The commander stood impressively on the pillars of Hexus beside the naturally formed wormhole of Xarxel. His scarred trunk pointed a Heva bone trident as his troops listening to their final invasion instructions.
"Four temlons since our defeat! We have no idea how the hairless have prepared since then. Their clubs... | 2014-08-07T08:11:21 | 2014-08-07T07:07:37 | 43 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone is born with blond hair. A person's hair turns brown when they lose their innocence.
Edit: Loving all of these takes, guys! Definitely a lot darker than I expected! | "Honey?"
Susan's voice shook a little bit. She was in the doorway of Hannah's room, chewing her nails. Brown hair spilled down her back in waves. Hers had been brown for years, like mine. But the little girl, curled up in bed under the blankets, had blonde curls that spread over the pillow. She was only six. Susan fol... | And now! A word from our sponsors.
I'm Catherine Harris from "the wind that blows". Everyone knows me as the truest blonde in Hollywood but truth is even I get a hint of brown. That is until I found Genuine by Kriz Montz. It's difficult enough finding a good man but nothing ruins a great first date like a dark str... | 2014-05-10T17:48:04 | 2014-05-10T17:36:43 | 59 | 23 |
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