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[WP] The Reaper approaches an individual, not only because it's their time, but because Death itself has grown tired and deems this person fit to take over. | This is a post I made for a similar prompt that never really received any attention:
I am the bringer of the darkness, the harbinger of hell
Sent to walk among the sin, but a secret I shall tell
Life is such a precious thing, and often it is wasted
Combated by the weak, And abused by the patient
Then one da... | 3 | 0 | 13 | 39,200 |
[WP] The Reaper approaches an individual, not only because it's their time, but because Death itself has grown tired and deems this person fit to take over. | "Oh it's you." The girl was young, barely an adult. Her body was limp, no longer struggling against the rope. "I knew you would come. I didn't expect that it would be so literal though."
The other voice spoke, in an echoing, ethereal tone. "You seem calm." At this the girl formed a light smile.
"I've made my choice.... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 39,201 |
[WP] It's 2014, society is as advanced as it is today however dragons exist. Write a diary from a rebellious teenager? | I'm tired of all the bullshit. There are a million things mom won't let me try that John's gotten to do. When he was 17 he'd already seen a bunch of dragons. When he was 15 he'd already done shit I haven't yet, what the fuck? And all because they're supposedly more aggressive now. Yeah they're on the news a lot, like t... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 39,202 |
[WP] It's 2014, society is as advanced as it is today however dragons exist. Write a diary from a rebellious teenager? | "You don't have to kill them!"
"The only way to get dragon scales is to take them, and waiting for one to malt isn't profitable"
"Shut the hell up! Those creatures are sapient! I can see it! Everyone can see it! Murder of an innocent creature is evil. Murdering one with a soul is an abomination"
"There's no such thing ... | 1 | 0 | 7 | 39,203 |
[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | Just signed up, thanks for posting! | 3 | 0 | 46 | 39,204 |
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[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | I'll try it out, also never tried one of their courses before, lets see how it goes :) | 2 | 0 | 46 | 39,206 |
[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | Signing up thanks so much for the post. | 2 | 0 | 46 | 39,207 |
[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | Just signed up, thanks for the heads up about this course! | 2 | 0 | 46 | 39,208 |
[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | Thanks, signed up. OU is awesome. | 1 | 0 | 46 | 39,209 |
[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | Just signed up, thanks for posting. | 1 | 0 | 46 | 39,210 |
[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | I just signed up as well. Definitely looks like it's worth giving a try. | 1 | 0 | 46 | 39,211 |
[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | Does anybody know is this is a one-off or a regular course which will be offered again in the future? I'd love to participate but can't with work right now. | 1 | 0 | 46 | 39,212 |
[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | I signed up as well. Figure it's worth checking out. | 1 | 0 | 46 | 39,213 |
[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | Thanks, I just signed up as well!!! | 1 | 0 | 46 | 39,214 |
[OT] Online university Creative Writing course starting tomorrow (link inside) | Just signed up.
For info - the 1st week's course notes suggest that the course is designed to take about 3 hours per week (more if you wish). Not a huge time commitment!
Happy Writing :) | 1 | 0 | 46 | 39,215 |
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[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | They let him outside again.
He can't see me back here, but I can see him. Laughing. Playing. It's almost funny; he doesn't look the same as when I saw him last.
Some leaves rustle when I move closer, and even though he looks right at me, the setting sun glares right in his eyes. Perfect.
He goes back to playing with... | 22 | 0 | 145 | 39,218 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | And so, in the midst of a deep night, the thing laid awaiting in the shrubbery inside a local park. It shivered, a large twang of horror falling down its spine. It looked with eyes that did not see through the leaves of the shrubbery, dark with emerald tinge. It looked, and the eyes came across the silhouette of a smal... | 8 | 0 | 145 | 39,219 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | We lurk. Able bodied sable soldiers shadowed underneath the guise of darkness. Hiding under your bed or in your closet, ready to pounce on the little children who forgot to eat their vegetables or won't listen to their parents. Yeah, I know the stories.
So why are there never any actual attacks? Why are we so unsucces... | 379 | 0 | 145 | 39,220 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | Rupert growls at master
Rupert takes sharp claws out
Rupert stares directly at master
Master keeps laughing
Rupert quickly places a slice on master's neck
Master tries to cover wound so red water won't come out
Master' kneels down and sit
Rupert howls in the air
Master sits and lay quite
Rupert lies on master'... | 8 | 0 | 145 | 39,221 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | "Please, little man, please stop."
"But this is *fun*." The fat boy giggled, poking again with the stick. It jabbed between my emaciated ribs. "Buck always bites me when I poke him."
The dog bounded around the fat boy, barking, as though he could sense the injustice.
"Please stop, little man. I'm trying to work. To... | 20 | 0 | 145 | 39,222 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | He didn't want to do it. His nature was urging him, ever so subtle. Small whispers about how delicious the outside world is. All the food you could eat. This notion was what led the monster out of his world and into ours. He was a stranger and he felt strange among these men who walk on two feet. He was frightened of t... | 6 | 0 | 145 | 39,223 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | I heard Timothy's mom say once, "It takes a village to raise a child."
If she only knew.
I've been around longer than any of us others that are still here, those of us that are left. I showed up when Blurgle was still the head honcho, making baby Timmy laugh for no reason at all, no reason the humans could see anywa... | 21 | 0 | 145 | 39,224 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | Panic surged through my veins! Тhe last. I am the last. The cursed ritual must be performed now. Generation after generation, my ancestors performed the sacred ritual - take a princess, and eat her. Just one. The rite signifies the passing of our kind into manhood. I tried it once - a small redhaired girl. I woke up in... | 3 | 0 | 145 | 39,225 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 145 | 39,226 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | In an explosion of out-of-season clothing and plastic hangers, the monster roared into the room, upsetting the pine-slatted doors from their hinges. A toy robot came sputtering to life, alternately lighting the room with flashes of red and green. In a christmas colored strobe the goat horned lurker silently strode to... | 5 | 0 | 145 | 39,227 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | We are the unwanted children of the very first bonfires. Man learned to strike two stones together near a heap of dry leaves and twigs to keep the darkness away at night. They huddled near the warmth of the yellow flames, keeping a furtive eye on the flickering shadows. Their children, always the most imaginative and e... | 5 | 0 | 145 | 39,228 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | The hunger was in me good.
I staggered through the streets, continually falling forward. Bad part of town. Not a lot of people on the street, but those that were looked at me, like they would at a frothing-at-the-mouth junkie. They weren't wrong. "You know what you are," she had said when the blood welled from my fin... | 3 | 0 | 145 | 39,229 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 145 | 39,230 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | Adam stared down at the great lumbering beast as he hoisted the still smoking gun up onto his shoulder. The fur covered monster propped itself up against a tree and stared back at him with fearful eyes, its raggedy breath seemed to reverberate in his mind. It certainly didn't look like it ate babies. Adam wondered what... | 2 | 0 | 145 | 39,231 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 145 | 39,232 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 145 | 39,233 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | I can still hear him scream. His voice rang through the night as blood bright as crimson illuminated off my teeth. I didn't have long before someone came looking for him. I ran back to the woods to escape the sound. The sound of worried mothers and angry fathers looking for their little boy. After what feels like ages ... | 3 | 0 | 145 | 39,234 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 145 | 39,235 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 145 | 39,236 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | "Daddy please come help me! There's a monster in my closest, daddy please!" The son shrieked, his cry heard from well below his bed. The father came and the doors swung open. The shadow behind the closet watched, with terror in his eyes, the monster before him coming to rip him away from Earth. The closet then opened, ... | 2 | 0 | 145 | 39,237 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | So here we are again my darling Lisbeth. I stand over your bed tall and gaunt, my skin grey and my hair the color of ash, my face is scarred and my hands are almost skeletal, but my eyes are still the same vibrant green that you fell in love with all those years ago. you sleep soundly, almost a shame to disturb your pe... | 2 | 0 | 145 | 39,238 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | I wish I had a bed to hide under. Even a closet to lurk in would be nice. I’m stuck peering through the windows of Peter’s shitty excuse for a bedroom in this single-wide disaster you can't really call a home.
My job is pretty easy, normally. Get your assignment. Stalk, creep, hide, just exist so these little brats kn... | 3 | 0 | 145 | 39,239 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | That summer was colder than this one.
I'm not saying that to excuse what I did with the duvet, the dog, and the little boy with eyes too blue. But I am saying that a strong wind can kill me as surely as an early frost can destroy the hopes and dreams of a desperate farmer somewhere in the the outskirts of the Gobi. S... | 2 | 0 | 145 | 39,240 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 145 | 39,241 |
[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | You could also write something about the Creatures attack on William Frankenstein in Frankenstein by Marry Shelly. If you thoroughly analyze the whole scene, the Creature, even though he murders a child, did not act out of hatred.
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[WP] A monster attacks a child. Make me empathize with the monster. | This was bad. I have been a waiter for a long time and am used to the high stress, fake smiling, poor pay, poor conditions and noisy kids but this one was off the hooks. She screamed, cried and cursed all over the fancy uptown restaurant and it wasn't even ten minutes she'd been there.
When I was young my dad would ha... | 2 | 0 | 145 | 39,243 |
[WP] A farmer wakes up to find some animal is eating his chickens. He thinks nothing of it- until it starts taking out his cattle. | *"God fucking damn it, that's the third chicken this week!"*
Harry snorted and spat before bending down to inspected the latest carcass. Whatever it was must have been spooked, because it didn't finish its meal. Strangely, there hadn't been any prints around any of the carcasses, just a seemingly random series of den... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 39,244 |
[WP] A farmer wakes up to find some animal is eating his chickens. He thinks nothing of it- until it starts taking out his cattle. | "Honey wait-"
Doris was interrupted by Ralph closing the door in her face, then proceeding to lock the door. "You need to stay inside Doris, there's gonna be trouble", he said walking over to the cattle field, holding his rifle.
He sneaked through the hedge instead of going through the main gate, to try and catch thi... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 39,245 |
[WP] You live in the ruins of a city by yourself. Tell me the lifestyle you have built for yourself out of these ruins. | Well here we go again. Honestly, I have been getting tired of these weekly supply runs. I sat up in bed and grabbed the sharp slate rock and mark the wall. Has it really been this long? I'm starting to forgot what it is like to hear another human voice. Without caution, I throw open the door of this empty house, a... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 39,246 |
[WP] Millions of years from now, all the stars in the sky go out. | The night before they finished the Shell, I lay awake, sleepless, stretched out in a field of prairie grass. On decree of someone I shall not name here, any and all skyward-facing lights on the face of the planet had been extinguished. And so for the first time in a hundred generations it was dark, truly dark in the sa... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 39,247 |
[WP] People all over the globe begin dying mysteriously. An upstart doctor discovers that the cause of death is a disease that was declassified as such by a social movement 30 years earlier. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 2 | 39,248 |
[WP] People all over the globe begin dying mysteriously. An upstart doctor discovers that the cause of death is a disease that was declassified as such by a social movement 30 years earlier. | Another report flashed on the monitor: "50 Die from Mysterious Outbreak in Bangkok Hotel." The reporters onscreen tried their best to appear unruffled by this development, but their panic bled through the dead calm. The latest in a series of pestilences, always wiping out victims with no symptoms and always no cause.
... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 39,249 |
[WP] Every conspiracy theory turns out to be true. Every last one. This somehow becomes public knowledge... | "...back to you Lianne"
"Yes Tom, as you know, yesterday a man was found dead by a Grey in the Saint Pilgrim Plaza, police sources state that the man was thought to have committed suicide, but state that they found fluoride in the man´s corpse."
"Hold on Lianne, for those at home that don´t know, Fluoride is a mind co... | 1 | 0 | 6 | 39,250 |
Some babies are castrated upon birth. Why? |
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[WP] A person starts to find another person's annoying habits endearing, and realizes with horror that the affection is because they're falling in love with this oblivious person. | She always hated how obnoxious he was. He was always acting like his opinion was the end-all, be-all; he was the boss, but still this was a bit much. He would purposely mispronounce peoples names just to watch the internal struggle of whether or not to correct him. He would insult everything about them from their cloth... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 39,252 |
[WP] Write the darkest love letter you can. | Hi Darling,
I knew it was love the moment I saw you at the cemetery in that beautiful shimmering spider silk gown. That's when I felt all hundred and forty two years of my youth burning with a fiery passion. I haven't felt so alive since I last walked the earth. I think it is love that I feel. I'm yearning for you. I ... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 39,253 |
[WP] An old mage explains the source and limits of magic to a young apprentice. | Pyrion looked down at Rettie, offering the boy a hand up, noticing the determination in his eyes, tear ducts swelling. Slowly he got to his feet, his posture withered, with an air of defeat about his shoulders.
"I-I can't do this, it's too difficult for me!"
Lazily, Pyrion straightened up to his full height, putting ... | 3 | 0 | 2 | 39,254 |
[WP] An old mage explains the source and limits of magic to a young apprentice. | Alfredo looked down at the broken remains of the corpse. It's body was rapidly decomposing in front of him until a faintly glowing powder was all that remained. His face was calm. It was not the first time he had seen power dissipation.
"What causes that?" Guile asked. Alfredo sighed and turned to face his grand... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 39,255 |
[WP] An old mage explains the source and limits of magic to a young apprentice. | When Lars first saw that decrepit house in the top of the mountain, he couldn't possibly believe the greatest mage from Erule lived there, and thought back that if anyone could posses such powers in Earth, they'd live in Beverly Hills houses and be paid millions to be on SNL. But the medieval Erule isn't as welcoming a... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 39,256 |
[CC] A Kingdom of Stones. | I'm pretty new to this myself, so I'm not sure how useful I can be. But I found that some of the sentences were a bit too long. Like this one:
>I watch him create an empire out of the stones that he himself had thrown at a city of glass houses he himself had built.
I found it hard to read. Try reading it out loud.... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 39,257 |
[CC] A Kingdom of Stones. | > I live life humbled by the thoughts of our fragile mortality, expressed though a nightmare I occasionally experience:
This is not the best hook. The first part is expressed at the end and doesn't need to be emphasised; the second might work better if it was moved elsewhere in the story, because I think "A man de... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 39,258 |
Unidans suicide note |
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[WP] Write the Final Battle of a large scale Medieval War between two powerful city-states. | I added a little magic, hope you don't mind.
Across the golden fields of grain, which should have been full of farmers harvesting them, stood a teeming horde of the barbarians. Unlike the orderly Caerisian phalanx lines which I stood in, these barbarians just seemed to arrange themselves however they felt like, an... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 39,261 |
[WP] A creepy story about wendigos. | Supernatural episode 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 39,262 |
[WP] A creepy story about wendigos. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 2 | 39,263 |
[EU] Change an ending of a popular video game | "Sorry but the Princess is in another castle."
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[EU] Change an ending of a popular video game | "Really? You're *still* obsessed with this, after everything else that's happened?" The icy, sinister voice that the man had become known for was gone, and now he just sounded confused.
"I told you, Makarov, my war ends with you." Price let go of the radio button and waited for a response. He was patient, calm, colle... | 4 | 0 | 11 | 39,265 |
[EU] Change an ending of a popular video game | **THE LAST OF US SPOILERS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK**
"Joel, you fucking liar", screamed Ellie at the psychotic looking man before her. She pushed joel away, scowling, with tears in her eyes.
"Ellie, What the fuck did you want me to do?" said joel, staring at ellie with tender love of a father and daughter bond. Ell... | 2 | 0 | 11 | 39,266 |
[EU] Change an ending of a popular video game | The elevator, which Chell had so often rode down into the depths of the labs, went up, up, up. Out of the facility, away from the machine, Chell was leaving this place once and for all. How long she was down there, she could not say. So much had happened, so much she had learnt, that she could not say how long ago she ... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 39,267 |
[WP] Everyone over 16 has dissapeared. What are the under 16's instant reaction. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 3 | 39,268 |
[WP] Everyone over 16 has dissapeared. What are the under 16's instant reaction. | [deleted] | 2 | 0 | 3 | 39,269 |
[WP] Everyone over 16 has dissapeared. What are the under 16's instant reaction. | WHAT DO YOU MEAN HARRY STYLES HAS DISAPPEARED?! | 1 | 0 | 3 | 39,270 |
[WP] Everyone over 16 has dissapeared. What are the under 16's instant reaction. | There's an actual book series called Gone that is basically this prompt.
It was only three minutes left before the bell and already everyone was lining up at the door. The students' chatter overrode the teacher's yells to quiet down and take a seat. It was so loud that I didn't even noticed she had disappeared. I don... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 39,271 |
[WP] A murder victim has a few last words with the murderer s/he has never met as s/he slowly dies | Tap. Tap. Tap.
She stirs.
TAP. TAP. TAP.
She wakes. Reality takes it's time. Her feet and hands are bound. She realizes. She screams.
The man at the foot of the bed stops tapping on the hardwood bed frame and walks slowly to her side. He calmly covers her mouth with his large muscular hand.
"You are going to die ... | 3 | 0 | 6 | 39,272 |
[WP] A murder victim has a few last words with the murderer s/he has never met as s/he slowly dies | "Why?"
The word slips out from her blood-stained lips, breathed softly into the air. Her murderer freezes, places the knife beside her bloody throat. She will die soon.
"I have to," is his reply, a soft whisper to her. She closes her eyes.
"Who made you do this?"
The man wets his lips and glances around nervously.... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 39,273 |
[WP] Describe in excruciating detail the longest second of the protagonists life | [deleted] | 5 | 0 | 10 | 39,274 |
[WP] Describe in excruciating detail the longest second of the protagonists life | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 10 | 39,275 |
[WP] Describe in excruciating detail the longest second of the protagonists life | When Isaac saw the car heading his way everything stopped. Was this how he dies? 15 year's old and already dead? Did he ever really live? Were all the nights playing video games really what you'd call living? He wished he could've had a girl to remember right now. But he was too afraid of talking to people and especial... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 39,276 |
[WP] Describe in excruciating detail the longest second of the protagonists life | For the longest time, the only thing I heard was the pounding of my heart, but for this moment I heard nothing. Absolute silence as the moment approached. The glittering of the still lit strip-mall across the empty parking lot, the blur of cars on the highway behind, and the non-audible hum of life from the bar beside ... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 39,277 |
[WP] Describe in excruciating detail the longest second of the protagonists life | I've been counting them all night. Twenty-six. That's the number of onlookers. Twenty-six and they are all looking down at me. Their candle-lit tables turn this night into an ambient miracle, or dimly-lit disaster; but it's not their choice.
Her glimmering red dress matches my crimson tie, and her silver shoes match ... | 9 | 0 | 10 | 39,278 |
[WP] Describe in excruciating detail the longest second of the protagonists life | Here I am.
The solution was simple. Non-Newtonian fluids. Ever play with cornstarch and water as a kid? Move your hand slowly and it feels just like water. Slap the surface? Hard as a rock. A couple tweaks to the formula, and we're talking harder than steel.
This was my life's work. My passion, and my sole focus. I'd... | 3 | 0 | 10 | 39,279 |
[WP] Describe in excruciating detail the longest second of the protagonists life | Bright lights shine through my closed eyes, searing my mind. Warmth and moisture is replaced by dry, frigid, delicious air. I marvel at the feel of it, rushing down my throat and filling my lungs. My ears are barraged with noise and I reflexively let the air out in a loud wail, adding to the cacophony around me. The wa... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 39,280 |
[WP] Describe in excruciating detail the longest second of the protagonists life |
My son just stopped crying.
My son is nine months old, and in his life, he has spent probably a cumulative twenty-four hours not crying. He cries when he wakes up, when I put him in his crib, when I bathe him, when I feed him, when anyone who isn’t me holds him. When I try to get him dressed. When I try to get him un... | 2 | 0 | 10 | 39,281 |
[WP] Describe in excruciating detail the longest second of the protagonists life | It had come to this. Years of training and conditioning should have prepared him for the moment, yet here he was, feeling naked and afraid.
He'd heard tales of other men, braver than he, navigating their way through this very same scenario. Those tales proved no help when he faced it himself, not when it seemed like ... | 1 | 0 | 10 | 39,282 |
[CW] "This is the umpteenth time you've tried to prevent 9/11. How many times do I have to tell you that the attacks need to take place?" | Temporal warfare never ends. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 39,283 |
[CW] "This is the umpteenth time you've tried to prevent 9/11. How many times do I have to tell you that the attacks need to take place?" | I knew it wouldn't be easy, but promotion is hard to get as a Temporal Analyst, and everyone told me that being a successful September 11, 2001 Custodian would make a pretty impressive line on the resume. They also told me it wouldn't be easy, and that turned out, looking back, to be something of an understatement.
D... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 39,284 |
[WP] Old man spends his last day alive working as Santa in a department store. | [deleted] | 5 | 0 | 5 | 39,285 |
[WP] Old man spends his last day alive working as Santa in a department store. | Herman Miller sat very still, moving only once to smooth a crease in his red velvet pants. He looked like a statue: not a statue like David or some major leaguer enshrined in front of a ballpark, but like the Pieta, a slumping heap of marble chiseled painstakingly over the last 68 years. Herman was conserving energy, ... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 39,286 |
[WP] Old man spends his last day alive working as Santa in a department store. | [deleted] | 1 | 0 | 5 | 39,287 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | "Three thousands souls, Barry. *Three thousand.*"
"That doesn’t sound like too much, during the dark ages we were doing ten thousand, easy."
"No, not per day. Three thousand *per hour.* Fuck the hand basket, these people are going to hell in a Goddamned jumbojet."
"*Sweet Lucifer,* Clide, really?"
"Really, bud. ... | 173 | 0 | 210 | 39,288 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | "So you hear about Fred Phelps?"
"I know he was slated for the Fifth Circle, but beyond that I haven't heard anything."
"That's because he never came in."
"What? You're shitting me."
"I shit you not. I guess there was some mix-up in the soul archives, and he ended up getting transported to Purgatory. The big wigs h... | 24 | 0 | 210 | 39,289 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | "And now comes my favorite time of the day. Performance reviews. Zachifondizebub, do you know why you get to go last today?"
"Because you save the best for last, your Malevolence."
"Very good. Now why do you suppose I didn't pick Quarithion?"
"Because Hitler's not really that bad?"
"NOT THAT BAD? He tried to exterm... | 98 | 0 | 210 | 39,290 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | "So the kid sets fire to orphanage, then he miscalculated his own strength."
"So what? I still don't see.."
"There is more Jason, he ends up there due to a technicality."
"No way, the kid set fire to the entire orphanage, there is no way he was going to heaven!"
"Oh yeah. Peter was going to let him in, but fire was... | 10 | 0 | 210 | 39,291 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | "Does this taste like piss to you?"
"No?"
"Well it's supposed to Steve. It's supposed to." | 10 | 0 | 210 | 39,292 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | "Hey there [Decarabia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decarabia#Marquis_Decarabia)."
"Oh there you are [Forneus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forneus). Where have you been?
"I've been hearing the news. Things haven't been going too smoothly with that one 'paranormal' girl. There's been a massive mess of paperwork... | 16 | 0 | 210 | 39,293 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | It wasn't that Hel didn't like her job. After the merger with Lucifer, both pantheons were fairly convinced they'd come out on top. After all, Lucifer got the mass of souls from the ancient dead of the North Countries, and Hel managed to keep herself relevant, a damn sight better than anything most of her kin had manag... | 17 | 0 | 210 | 39,294 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | Bill was a quiet, diligent worker. Bill did not like his job. Bill did not like his piece of shit manager Terry who was always heckling him about something or the other. A week ago it was about completing the Bensen briefs. Yesterday it was handling Lucifer's offshore accounts. And today, it was the *friggin' water mac... | 8 | 0 | 210 | 39,295 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | <malthorp looks down into cup. makes disgusted face>
"guess they downsized the blood machine too. this really is hell darfob"
"oh tell me about it. just today i overheard the torture caverns are getting a transfer. some manager from cults."
"cults? probably because they've been the bottleneck. like it take... | 5 | 0 | 210 | 39,296 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | "OH NO!" screamed the demon hellspawn Sheila.
"What?" asked Petunia the Wrencher of Souls
"You will not believe what just came down from the pneumatic tube." said Sheila
"What what what what I'm getting my nails done so I can't touch it but let me see." said Petunia.
"Sloth is no longer one of the seven deadly sins... | 8 | 0 | 210 | 39,297 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | “Oh hai! I got your e-mail , mua! So good to see you!” She coo’ed, sliding her long cloven red hooved legs underneath the café table. She shuffled her leather bat wings against the back of the chair, and smoothed her devil tail around her hip somehow. “It’s like, been forever – have you ordered?”
It was Mazzy – she w... | 4 | 0 | 210 | 39,298 |
[WP] Hell is a bureaucratic mess, and two demons argue over this week's fuck up at the water machine. | So here I am. Satan's office. Shitting myself like a little boy with tiny horns, trying my best not to curl my tail up. Is my tie too tight? I don't think I should be wearing a tie at all. Just one more thing for Satan to kill me with. Oh shit, what if he breaks my glasses? The opticians don't do refunds. Nowhere in He... | 3 | 0 | 210 | 39,299 |
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