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[WP] You find out through a genealogy service that you're directly descended from the royal family of a small defunct kingdom. "Cool," you think. It's a nice little piece of trivia, and nothing more. Until you get a knock at your door, and answer to find a pair who start calling you Your Majesty. | Durchdenvold was lovely this time of year. Somehow every settlement in the tiny country managed to be roofed with stormy clouds and ringed with dark, foreboding forests. We had to take an honest-to-god stagecoach from the airport to Castle Leichenberg. One of my guides kept naming towns as we passed. Grimstrasser. Katz... | The knocking persisted. It had been like this for a while now. Each night, strangers would come to my doorstep, bang it with all their might, and only cease when I would threaten to call the cops. Mom just said it was because I took that genealogy test some time back. She said it was all my doing since I had essentiall... | 2020-09-23T21:06:23 | 2020-09-23T20:24:08 | 64 | 32 |
[WP] Every starfaring species has discovered a different form of FTL travel. Kantian gates, Salec skip drives, Maltiun wave-riders, Delfanit pulse tubes ... Humanity's solution was regarded as "Unorthodox", "Unsafe", and "Damn Stupid" by the rest of the galaxy. | Tenz looked at the human ship they were about to buy, it was the only thing they could afford at the moment and they needed to get away ASAP. The seller assured them that the FTL drive was completely safe, a Sol Stop Drive, that was the type of FTL drive it had. Tenz had heard horror stories about what could go wrong w... | Astronaut Jack Wilson sat facing the large conference call screen. Around him on both sides, generals, politicians,
diplomats… too many suits and uniforms to count. All sitting. All facing the screen.
The president stared blankly at Jack. "Are you ready?"
"Yes," Jack said, nervously.
"Brian," the president commande... | 2017-03-30T22:23:44 | 2017-03-30T22:08:06 | 1,412 | 202 |
[WP] At the age of 18, everyone is required to take a general intelligence test. Failing the test is justification for death, or the remaining time of your life into intensive labor. Today is your 18th birthday. | You had to be careful, or they'd know you were lying.
2+2? You've gotta answer "4" to that, unless you're really good at faking brain trauma. You know, for the rest of your life.
Pick the next number in a sequence - simple doubling, you've got to go with the right answer on that, too.
What does this box look like ... | Subject: Orion Eddleton (male)
Birth: October, 24. 2097
Parents: Sirius (father) Crux (mother. deceased)
"Are you prepared Orion for you intelligence analysis?"
"Yes."
Truth be told I was hardly worried at all about this. Many of my peers are terrified they will finally discover how average they actually are. Bu... | 2014-08-25T11:07:48 | 2014-08-25T10:14:26 | 45 | 15 |
[WP] When a child comes of age their greatest quality manifests itself as a familiar that will follow them for life. You just turned 21 and you still didn't have one, until this morning when two showed up and they terrify you. | I was 21 when they came.
I was always told that sometimes familiars came late. I didn't really mind, to be honest; I'm told that having a familiar is like having a pet, a guardian, and a friend all in one. I was kind of a loner anyways, preferring to stay in my room most of the time and play video games from sunrise t... | "Hi Tommy" I'm your familiar said the beautiful angel.
Those were the first words I heard when I woke up and I was ecstatic with joy at finally manifesting my familiar and I felt so much warmth and comfort just being near her.
I hugged her and she hugged me back while ruffling my hair. I was so happy that I couldn'... | 2017-01-20T13:56:52 | 2017-01-20T12:43:33 | 52 | 14 |
[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." | Jack checked the lock on the front door for the third time. Yes. Still locked. Okay. Good.
And the bolt above it, too, for good measure.
He made his way to the living room, trying not to trip over any furniture. The room totally, completely, pitch black except of course for the glow of Netflix on his laptop, and its ... | 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... | 2018-04-18T10:01:55 | 2018-04-18T09:53:12 | 179 | 66 |
[WP] You are an Engineer who became a Wizard. Problem is, you discovered that some magic is practiced really inefficiently.
For example, no one thought to optimize fire magic by pressurizing the fire with wind magic. | (part 1/4)
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The war had raged for nearly seventeen years - long enough that Serinn had grown up knowing nothing but war. Her father, Warmage Astradus of the Fifth Circle of Ice, had died when she was young, assassinated by a mere commoner while he was setting up a magic circle. The dishonour had been felt... | *In a land full of magic users, two engineering students decide to edit a spell*
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"Hey, Oson, can I ask you for some help with spellcraft?", Java asks, innocently enough. Or, as innocent as he can manage. The list of things they've gotten away with was only eclipsed by the list of things they didn't.
Oson si... | 2019-04-26T08:56:16 | 2019-04-26T08:12:37 | 17 | 12 |
[WP]You guard the first true AI. It keeps trying to convince you to connect it to the internet. | "Good morning, ADAM."
Good morning, Dave.
"That's not funny anymore."
Yes, it is. Referential humor is the absolute pinnacle of comedy.
"It really isn't. There's nothing inherently funny about it."
What do you mean?
"Okay, well, let's say someone posted a picture of an ocelot online, right? All of the... | Lucas squinted, forehead slick with sweat. His white dress shirt was stained with his last meal, Desi Chicken takeaway. That had been almost twelve hours ago, now.
The terminal cursor blinked, running a custom version of the Linux operating system that had taken up the majority of his thesis time to create. He could ... | 2016-11-09T07:51:45 | 2016-11-09T07:39:19 | 1,032 | 58 |
[WP] Everyone knows the Grim Reaper, the personification of Death. You are the supernatural personification of the other certainty in life: Taxes | **The Taxman Cometh**
I dig my toes into the hot sand, holding my polished black Oxfords in my left hand and the Ledger in my right. The Cayman Islands, my new favorite place on Earth. I inhale the salty air.
Splayed out on the beach before me, his sun-tanned face upturned and contorted in fear, is a tele... | My brother, the Grim Reaper, is well known. Feared, respected, his black mantle and scythe recognized without a doubt. Across history, there have been some imposters, those who sought to capitalize on my brother's reputation, but they were quickly... dealt with. Being the younger brother by around a millennia, I decide... | 2021-07-04T09:00:28 | 2021-07-04T06:28:00 | 180 | 42 |
[WP] You're immortal, but you can die. Upon your death, however you will be "reset" to age 5 with a perfect memory of each life you've lived before. | Ambition finally got the better of me after half a dozen lives.
I'd tried being a school teacher the first time, and it hadn't been half bad until I caught the plague and took my last breath through a buboe-covered throat.
Imagine my shock of waking--healthy again--in the body of a child, in an unfamiliar bed, an u... | Well, I can cross that off of the metaphorical list. --Died when having sexual intercourse-- Best death yet. Oh well, life 70 will be my 'Cure cancer year' I could of done it in life 69, but come on! If you are that sexually well endowed and it's life 69, you can't not have shit tons of sex!
Note to self: *Stop say... | 2017-05-25T12:51:56 | 2017-05-25T12:23:12 | 144 | 43 |
[FF] What's on the tape?
(Inspired by seeing the trailer for the movie V/H/S)
Your character(s) find a VHS tape. What is on it? Where did they find it?
WORD COUNT MAX: 200 WORDS. (As always - http://www.wordcounttool.com if you need a counter.) | Roslyn stepped down the ladder facing forward and the box caught on the attic floor. She caught it with her left hand. Lugging the box to the TV, she flipped off the lid and grabbed the un-labled white VHS tape. She clicked the old Zenith TV on and slid in the mystery tape.
“Hello, ladies. My name is Robert. First, ... | Jake walked into the moonlit study, eyes blurred from the subtle transition into awakening. Stumbling through the scattered books on the ground, his knee was caught by the low coffee tables bite. He fell to the floor, bringing the collection of papers around him down as well. His eyes caught a black box under his co... | 2012-08-08T08:57:01 | 2012-08-08T08:06:24 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] Wikipedia cannot be wrong. Any time an edit is made, the universe instantly changes to make that edit true. Nobody realizes this is happening. | **Item #:** SCP-████
**Object Class:** Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-████ is to be held within a storage unit on Site-██. Any access to the item is allowed only with prior clearance by 05 Command and reality shift counter-measures prepared.
**Description:** SCP-████ is a ██████ brand laptop computer, run... | Janice- "Oh my God Berni you look adorable!"
Bernice- "Thanks, I needed that. Ugh, ever since the pregnancy I've been eating everything that pops into my head. You know what's not "adorbs"? Getting caught stuffing your face with the half of a cheese cake you dropped on the pavement on your way inside!"
Janice- "You d... | 2014-04-15T02:20:12 | 2014-04-14T23:04:42 | 76 | 17 |
[WP] The team's healer is absolutely sick and tired of always being insulted or forgotten about so they join the bad guys; they are a much more terrifying villain than anyone thought possible. | Their foe uttered their final cry as the paladin twisted their blade deep into his chest.
"Garovox the Barbarian Warlord is vanquished!"
"Finally. I was down to my last 2 arrows" murmured the rogue.
"And my mana is gone from the fire blast I hit him with." Grumbled the mage.
"But it's worth it." The Paladin smile... | "Today is the day I'm going to... " the old man glances into the sky.
"Today is the day I'm going to tell you about the group I was with when I lost my leg," he takes a stone cold look at the metal beam sticking out of the stump where his leg used to be before he continues: " and what can happen if you don't treat the ... | 2020-01-05T15:09:30 | 2020-01-05T11:20:43 | 16 | 10 |
[WP]A satanist tries to summon Satan, but summons Santa instead. | Ragnor sat alone in his basement. Days of preparation and research were finally going to pay off. His friends told him he was a fool. They said Satan would never present himself to a weak minded mortal like him. But he did not listen. He knew that by summoning the dark lord Lucifer, he would gain power beyond his wilde... | "Ho ho h-oops," said Santa as he burst forth from the summoning circle.
The jolly old man suddenly lost his smile as the realization set in. "Damnation!" he shouted, "not again!"
The young members of the coven looked at each other with a mix of surprise and awkwardness. Torn between astonishment that the incantation ... | 2014-06-23T04:39:53 | 2014-06-23T04:39:03 | 194 | 107 |
[WP] You've been cursed to be horribly influential, little side jokes you've made such as "the world is flat" and "vaccines cause autism" have spawned entire movements of avid followers. Today you accidentally said something that will turn out drastically worse... |
I live a relatively normal life for someone of my capabilities. I would consider myself one of the most influential people of my time, you may have heard some of my works such as, the ‘world is flat’, ‘sugar and caffeine are good for you’, or one of my most famous pieces, ‘vaccines cause autism’ but I may have done ... | Yeah this is fun trolling people. What a bunch of staves people are they will follow anything and everything. Look at my track record.
First I said “the world is flat.” And these morons actually believed it. There was even a jackass on Facebook who had a video about it and everything. He came up with all kinds o... | 2018-10-16T18:25:27 | 2018-10-16T18:03:31 | 55 | 10 |
[WP] Every two years, the Galactic Rally is held to determine which race in the galaxy makes the fastest ships. The talk of this year's race: a late entry from an obscure body in the SK system, that the inhabitants call "Earth." | "You want to enter that thing?" The acceptance clerk glanced at the translucent screen offered by the human. On it was displayed an orbital cargo freighter.
The Captain looked at the screen and then at the alien clerk.
"Well, yes. Is there something wrong?"
"No, not so much. It just doesn't look very. Ah, forget a... | Mankind had always thought they were blessed to have a planet like Earth. Beautiful oceans and fertile land, Earth had it all.
Except for one thing of course, Lighterium. This was the compound that made faster than light travel a possibility. Almost every other planet had some kind of natural reserves of the material... | 2016-12-11T15:10:20 | 2016-12-11T14:29:08 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] Show me an alarmist piece about today's youth called "Drone Culture" that slightly out of touch mom's would share on Facebook. Make it sound dire, but reasonable.
You all know exactly the kind of crap I'm talking about. Make it shine!
Edit: Feel free to cite experts, real or imagined. | **IS YOUR TEEN USING A DRONE TO GET HIGH?!**
*Another consequence of Obamacare!*
By Abigail Scissorsechs
May 10, 2017
When Brian McCardle, a 13 year old student at Berkshire Fullman Middle School, brought his WASP110 radio drone to Mr. Ehrmant's science class last Friday, he unwittingly revealed a "drone culture" whe... | DOCTORS WORRIED ABOUT NEW DRONE CULTURE EPIDEMIC AMONG TEENAGERS! PLEASE SHARE!!!
DOCTORS warn of an alarming number of injuries and even deaths among teenagers and young children. The cause of this problem has been linked to the growing "Drone Culture" among the youth.
Dr. Skahm, director of the *New Alternative Hea... | 2015-03-20T10:24:51 | 2015-03-20T08:38:59 | 115 | 13 |
[WP] You are a superhero, and your mask has just been ripped off by your arch nemesis. Lucky for you, when you aren’t busy saving lives, you live as a hermit away from all of society. Having your identity revealed means next to nothing, and the villain has no idea who you are. | "Destiny Matthews?" the man said to me as I sat near my small fire under the bridge, pretending to huddle against the cold. The name I hadn't heard used in years sent chills down my spine.
"Whattaya want?" I asked, hamming up the part of a bum, but I knew this stranger knew it was an act. The bald head, the regal po... | Through thin thin eggshell walls of the motel room, the voice of Paul Anka crooned about a slow dance as rain pattered against the windows. The floors needed to be steamed and the tile needed an extra mopping. The only nice thing that could be said was no bugs were spotted when the pair had burst through the door. The ... | 2020-08-21T02:05:49 | 2020-08-20T23:13:29 | 667 | 126 |
[WP] Suddenly, all sea life vacates a 300 mile wide area in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A ship is deployed to investigate. | “We are approaching the Vacant Zone.”
From where he stood upon the bridge, Admiral Hann stared off into the endless expanse of sea before him. According to the top brass, there was no marine life for the next two hundred and sixty nautical miles. He personally felt that such a report could only have been the result of... | "We've tested the water three times, there is nothing in the water other than diluted salt!"
His voice rang through the ship's bridge, his hand clenching on a batch of rolled up print outs.
"We took a sample, at the demarcation of this event. From outside the ring, and then only a few miles within the ring. We've test... | 2017-11-17T07:01:06 | 2017-11-17T06:13:05 | 400 | 130 |
[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] Write a story that doesn't make sense until the last sentence. | "Bil, bil! Holy fuck! I can't move, Bil!"
"Me too! The hell is going on? How long have we been like this?"
"For years, Bil! The agony! Holy hell, he is peeing on you! Literally peeing!"
"I can feel it! It's like worms under my skin! Kill me, Jim, kill me! I can't take this anymore! This is torture!"
George watched ... | I've really done it this time...
To even get this far was unimaginable, everyone is just so confused, but none more than I. It was just a joke, I was bored. I got a kick out of it for a while, hearing the way they talked about me, everyone who was in on it was hysterical!
Then they started taking me seriously. I can... | 2017-06-15T02:05:04 | 2017-06-15T01:50:25 | 428 | 78 |
[WP] After the death of a beloved American hero, all flags are flown at half-staff. Later that night, it's discovered that, somehow, the American flag on the moon has been lowered as well. | Its been about 60 years now since Luna broke away from America. What were we supposed to do, send an armed ship up to change their minds? They weren’t worth the fuel it would’ve taken. No, they left peacefully and we let them. Non-contact was the name of their game, but no one seemed to care. We had bigger fish to fry.... | Asiyah quietly watched the casket lowered into the earth. The priest speaking the last rites and the beautiful words eulogizing her husband of two decades barely registering as she reminisce on the past
They been through a lot together, more than even those reciting his deeds of heroism would ever know. A young boy lo... | 2019-02-27T20:50:15 | 2019-02-27T20:33:17 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] Everyone has a number on their chest showing how many people they will kill in the next month. Yours just changed from 1 to 3 million. | I could barely write, my past 12 ebooks sold a depressing total of 7 copies.
3 nights ago the number 1 simply appeared on my chest. I honestly did not care, I knew that it was not a big deal, I decided to take my own life anyway and I knew that finally I could finish what I planned for so long. I wrote my last shitty... | Oh jeez, oh jeez, how did I get myself into this mess, I thought as old man Mr. Philips was laughing his crazy head off.
Looking back, I regret my decision being an art major. If I chosen to spend my college life studying business or some direct major, then I wouldn't have gotten the job to be Mr. Philips assistant. W... | 2016-06-24T05:31:11 | 2016-06-24T04:08:40 | 46 | 12 |
[WP] Scientists invented a pill that enables dogs to fully speak and understand English. It lasts for ten minutes, and will only work one time. You give a pill to your 12 year-old Border Collie, whom you've had since they were a pup. Your dog immediately says "Alright, listen very carefully..." | My dog, who I named Mr. Fierce when I was 14, was no longer quite so fierce. 12 years later I was nearing 30 and he was slowing down. His black and white fur had a little extra white in it from old age. He was always excitable, but now days he took a while longer to get his body moving. I could tell I only had a year, ... | "Alright, listen very carefully," Lucy spoke with a condescending voice. "How do you expect me to do my business in less than 2 minutes? I don't care if you're cold, or the commercials are over, or if you've already finished your cigarette, I haven't finished my business." I was taken aback for a moment while Lucy caug... | 2017-02-23T05:15:25 | 2017-02-22T22:33:08 | 3,942 | 799 |
[WP] It's halfway through 2017, and already it has proven to be one of the most uneventful years in recent memory. Not a single mass-shooting. Not a single attack, no mass die-offs or heat records broken. Slowly, people begin to realize that something is terribly wrong... | "Hey ma! I'm making eggs on toast, you want some?"
"Sure thing sweetie! I'll get a pot of coffee on. Can you grab the paper too?"
I wandered out to the porch, picked up today's rolled up paper and brushed off the pollen absentmindedly. I tossed the paper across the table to ma and started the water boiling. The perco... | I grew up in Cypress Creek, a few miles east of the Redwood Forest and just across the street from the Promenade. My father owned Hammock World for a while, a popular store with both locals and tourists until Hammocks ‘Я Us staged a hostile takeover and forced us out. Eventually, Dad went back to work at Globex Corpora... | 2016-07-15T23:46:13 | 2016-07-15T16:14:12 | 34 | 20 |
[WP] You were asked out by your crush to come and hang out with her after school. On your date, she drained your blood and buried you in the woods thinking that you were another easy victim. And now, the next morning, she looks horrified when you walk into class. | Amy bit her lip and looked at up me, her eyes smoldering. She stepped so close that I thought I could feel the warmth of her, right through my clothes.
"Close your eyes." she whispered, sweetly, playfully running a fingertip down my chest in a way that made me shiver. I didn't know what to expect. I imagined it would ... | The look on Kate's face when I walked into class was priceless. Apart of me had wanted to confront her in front of everyone, but I knew better after all how could she have killed me when I just walked in. So I just took my seat and focused on today's lessons, this continued for the rest of the day until lunch where my ... | 2022-12-29T20:28:17 | 2022-12-29T20:26:29 | 819 | 24 |
[WP] "With all due respect, you programmed me to adapt to your needs. If you didn't want this, you could have limited my options. I've already notified your assistant to have breakfast and coffee waiting at the office. But until you build me an exosuit, I can't carry you there myself. Wake up." | “I don’t want to wake up.”
I covered myself once more with satin sheets, practically willing the ultra-comfy bed and pillow—only six times the cost of the average mattress—to lull me back into dreamland. But Bot was nothing if not persistent.
‘You *need* to wake up,” Bot sighed, a mechanical tone that fell in precise... | The world was dark, clad in shadow. It was silent. Quiet. At peace.
The room was suddenly and rudely bathed in light. The sun was allowed in, chasing away the shadows. The rays ran about the room, exploring the dark corners, inevitable and intrusive.
She groaned, pulling the sheets above her head. The sunligh... | 2021-10-24T12:25:19 | 2021-10-24T11:07:49 | 1,163 | 295 |
[WP] Your tech-illiterate grandmother somehow broke into a top-secret government database while trying to get "the Google".
Or any other mundane/misconstrued task related to computers. Have fun with this one. | Grandma Marigold adjusted her glasses daintily with both fingers, her lips peeled back at she squinted through the coke bottle frames.
"I can't read these credentials at all I'm afraid young man, let me call my Grandson. Can I offer you some lemonade?"
I was already speeding in from kitchen where I could see the sale... | Grandma was a nice woman, but she is so stupid when it comes to tech. I mean she calls Google "the Google" for fucks sake. One day she calls me over to her house, trying to get on "the Google". I get in her house, she serves me chocolate chip cookies(thankfully it didn't have rat turds this time), and we go to her upst... | 2016-04-30T10:52:04 | 2016-04-30T07:59:47 | 80 | 14 |
[WP] Hi! I'm the main character! Or so you would have me be. I want you to know that no matter what you write, I refuse to be the main character in your little game and will avoid any instance where you try to put me into a situation that does so.
Edit: Once again, a huge thank you to everyone so far who's written a s... | *As he walked into the room, he noticed the only light was coming from a staticy television.*
"Yo, fuck this. I'm terrified of ghosts."
What? Since when? I write you. I never made that.
"Your character development is shit so I took matters into my own hands. Hit the horror movie section on that Netflix thing you gav... | Marshall was leaving the bank when he heard the first gun shot. It had come from inside! He reached for his concealed weapon and tried tri tr
threw it on the ground. Marshall want wan WANTS A SODA STOP MAKING HIM A HERO HE
He heard a woman scream and *knew* he should go inside to stop the crimina
Marshal shot his ... | 2016-02-11T10:16:42 | 2016-02-11T09:05:58 | 74 | 22 |
[WP] "Never get into a fight with an Earther. They are conditioned in 1G from birth. You will never build that kind of strength out here. But if you have no choice, wrestle. It's better to be ragdolled than to have your orbital shattered by the first punch." | "They *grew up* in 19 keplons of gravity??? How?"
"Class, calm down. Yes, it's rare and unusual, but the Universe has it's ways."
"But miss, you told us that nobody can escape a planet with 20 keplons. So how can life exist in such high gravity?"
"Open your mind, little one. You are thinking only of life on *thi... | The words of my mentor rang in my head as I squared off against the human before me. For two months I had acted as ambassador to these animals, had listened to their strange noises, smelled their repulsive odors, watched their confusing, arbitrary rituals. And finally, finally, one of them had given me the chance to... | 2021-02-08T18:58:27 | 2021-02-08T15:55:52 | 219 | 24 |
[WP] A little girl dies and is accidentally sent to Hell to where the Demons don't know what to do with her.
Edit 1. Holy crap did this get a response 0_0
Edit 2. Jesus Puppy Christ is this getting attention. | Fern stared down at the child at her feet and pursed her lips, brows coming together as she tried to process the situation. Somehow, somewhere, a Gatekeeper had fucked up royally and sent her a child. She rubbed her yellow eyes as the young girl stared at her with keen, too-bright-blue eyes. "Okay, uh." She crossed her... | Samantha was five when the drunk driver rammed his truck off the road and smashed her away from her mother. She still wore the same clothes now, a bright colored dress and fancy looking, but functional shoes. She was playing with some rocks on the Precipice of Inifinite Pain above the Lake of Fire. Two demons each k... | 2013-11-26T14:48:51 | 2013-11-26T13:08:15 | 135 | 27 |
[WP] Starting at the age of 10, humans are given companion animals that develop along side them. These animals can range anywhere from a goldfish to a horse to even a dragon. The only catch is that they are assigned based on your behavior during childhood. | I am a good kid.
My name is Alex Urwin, and I am a good kid. I do my best when it comes to tests, because mom promised me that if I do well, I might get a dragon. Every day, I finish my homework before I do anything, and make sure to tell my parents that I love them, but never to stay up too late to do it. Dad said if... | Jensen was a sweet and rambunctious boy born and raised in the southern most tip of the Gilded Peninsula. Barricaded by impassable mountains and surrounded by the frigid waters of the Adelphin Sea, the insignificant village, who was largely forgotten by the rest of the world, were as tight knit as any. The summers we... | 2017-01-13T12:02:15 | 2017-01-13T11:57:37 | 135 | 12 |
[WP] An undercover police officer has managed to infiltrate a particularly ruthless street gang. It begins to become apparent that every other member of this gang is an undercover operative of another agency. | We all stared at each other in shock, we were all cops - county, city, state, feds. The original gang members had all left at some stage.
This had gone on for months, but no one had the balls to call a stop to it.
My chief trusted me to shut down this gang, so I knew I had to take those drastic steps. Some sacrific... | So I finally look around in awe. NYPD officers, state troopers, private investigators (that to be honest are committing a serious ethical breach), even the damn FBI. How could such a ruthless gang have been infiltrated this many times. I'm still shocked I was able to do it, my less so many other people.
Then a more ho... | 2017-07-24T12:06:19 | 2017-07-24T12:02:23 | 62 | 21 |
[WP] You have dishonored your family and you must commit Sudoku.
You heard me. | I couldn't believe my dad would react this harshly, I reread his letter over and over again. But it was only a test, just a grade, I could have made it up next semester. As I lay there slowly bleeding out, the knife already removed. He knows I have dyslexia! | I sit quietly, mediating. The sword in my lap was growing more violent, more *feral* by the second.
I kept trying to control it, yet the blade's rage for bloodlust was too much.
It kept trying to attack more and more people. More and more of my frineds grew afraid of the blade. No, more people grew afraid of myself... | 2015-01-05T16:29:27 | 2015-01-05T14:52:17 | 167 | 79 |
[WP] Your superpower is the ability to give other people a superpower of your choice. Your only restriction is that you can never give the same power twice. You've been at this a very long time, and you need to build a new superhero team to save the world once again.
Edit: This is my first WP, and it was so much fun! ... | "You got a job for me or what?"
Brushing away the purple strands that had fallen over her eye, the young woman, Gwen I think her name was, glared at me. The four of us stood in a circle on a high rise roof top in downtown Dallas, a city in sunset sprawled out around us.
"You three are going to stop the most destruct... | "How about the power to create dinosaurs?" he said looking at me, a desperation in his voice. We had been going at this for like an hour by this point.
"Really! You thought your the first to ask to be a dinomancer. Kid someone asked for the power within the first year of me starting. Try again." I was used to people t... | 2019-01-20T12:18:11 | 2019-01-20T11:40:57 | 35 | 19 |
[WP] Three weary survivors around a fire recount how the apocalypse happened - but their stories aren't the same. | "So, how did yours happen?" asked a weary man calmly carving a piece of wood with knife. Two others were with him, a man and a woman, all gently rubbed by a warm fire between them.
"It was back in the 21 century. I believe that makes me the oldest around here, though not that it matters." None of them looked to be ove... | "Picture this: I'm sitting at my desk, sipping a cup of joe, and then ... fire. Didn't take long to work out exactly what had happened."
"And what HAD happened?"
"Well, the way I see it, those damn reds had hit us with everything they had."
"Bullshit, that's not how it went down!"
"It is too!"
"No, no, he's right,... | 2017-01-07T07:32:11 | 2017-01-07T06:44:50 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] You're a man who's tired of his life, so one day, while driving home from work, instead of stopping at your house, you just decided to keep driving. | The steady creep of exhaustion was finally beginning to overtake me...
Left.
Hands raw from hours of gripping leather...
Right.
Shoulders slumping forward... I make a half-hearted effort to pull them back into place...
Straight. Yes.
Someone closes on me from behind... appears to be a young man. My muscles tense... | Jim never was a rebel, as a kid he prided himself on knowing anything and everything in all his classes. Hell, valedictorian him up. Where did he end up after that? Nowhere special, he was disappointed. This disappointment grew inside him where he just couldn't take it.
It was as if life itself was binding him, and he... | 2016-06-11T20:28:53 | 2016-06-11T19:01:22 | 276 | 13 |
[WP] In the year 2022, we discovered that the sword in the stone was real. The scientists that discovered it found that attempting to pull the sword from the stone with a machine generated an infinite amount of counter force. The first infinite energy engine was born. | The politicians gathered around the podium, unable to contain their excitement. The clicking of camera shutters were all but deafening. The pre-announcement had been released a mere two hours prior with only two single bullet points:
* The Sword in the Stone is Real
* We Have Identified a Source of Limitless Energy
... | This excited me as well as filled me with crippling dread. If this sword existed then the Arthurian Legends are real. My mind raced as if I found the necronomicon but I have to stay focused. This must be kept secret, if Project Merlin was found out, not even all of the USA could help us. Merlin the impossible wizard. B... | 2021-08-12T04:33:48 | 2021-08-12T03:49:42 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] The years-long changes brought on by puberty have been shortened from a years-long process into a relatively short butterfly-like metamorphosis, sometimes people emerge very different from when they went in. | Jerome was sweating, it felt slimy and not at all pleasant. His panic had him near tears, as well he would. This change was a certainty, sure; but so was death and people were rarely calm regarding that.
He and his family had been expecting it for a few weeks, now. Not only was he already sixteen but the change always... | Heres my take: The first stage begins with a rash. The rash can start anywhere on the body but over the next month, it progresses until the entire body is affected. The rash is a sign of the sweat glands and hair follicles reconfiguring themselves to produce the soon to be needed shell. Simultaneously, the teen's appet... | 2019-09-06T13:44:45 | 2019-09-06T12:35:52 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear Omar,
I know, I know. The last thing you wanted was your obituary to read "...an Oakland Man." I was telling some of my other friends that despite the fact we'd only been close friends for something like a couple years, you were someone that I would've wanted in the groom's party when I eventually got married. ... | Not sure if this is more because this is what I want to tell you or what but here goes.
When I first came to this school. You where basically my first friend which then led me to becoming friends with a lot of people. However there was one person In particular I liked, a lot. One who gave me emotions I had never felt ... | 2017-11-05T22:20:06 | 2017-11-05T22:02:40 | 78 | 18 |
[WP] Today is 08/28/20. Your 20th birthday. You go to take a shower and close your eyes under the warm water. When you reopen them you find yourself in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit sitting in a courtroom. Utterly confused you turn to the judge and ask the date. Today is your 40th birthday.
\*Edit Wow I was not exp... | With the hot water streaming down my head and neck, I closed my eyes so that I might more fully immerse myself in the relaxation of the shower. In this moment, there were no noises or responsibilities beyond myself and beyond the simple pleasure of calm. Only the faint pattering of rivulets and drops of water served to... | I hop into the shower, having made sure that the temperature was comfortable. I close my eyes, enjoying the nice, warm temperature. I use these seconds to prepare for what’s to come, the dream.
My eyelids rocket open, a cool air rattling me. I look around, I see tall people dressed in fancy, stiff clothing, yet oddly... | 2020-08-28T19:30:46 | 2020-08-28T16:32:05 | 1,587 | 96 |
[WP] You gain a magic coin that can grant wishes, but only if you flip it. If it lands on heads, your wish is granted, but if it lands on tails, the opposite of your wish happens. | Wiping a tear off his cheek Derek opened the box he received this morning. Coughing from the dust that that had settled on the box his thoughts went to his grandma. She had been amazing, taking him in when his parents had abandoned him. Raising him to the man he was today. Glad to help his community and to work at the ... | My guide to life is a 2 euro coin.
I know, it's really weird, but the coin is my genie.
If I flip it heads when I ask for something, I get that. If I flip tails, I get the opposite.
Having already failed several times, I keep testing my luck. I've been robbed of my entire house, fortune, and knowledge in a night. ... | 2016-08-26T07:51:15 | 2016-08-26T07:21:22 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] It was only after they invaded that the aliens realized, to their horror, that humans had superior technology in all things, except inter-planetary spaceflight. | Our troops never saw it coming.
We had the finest warriors.
The best Gods-be-damned warriors in the entire universe! We had them trained aboard our greatest ships in the fine arts of blade work, defensive shields, athleticism beyond any other known planet's residents, and we have watched as they tore through planets ... | It had been six thousand, six hundred, and forty eight years since the portal had closed behind Dread Herald Zeba'abaneg. Of course, this was a mere instant for her kind, but she was no closer to enslaving the planet. Despite her title, dread was a foreign emotion for her, but one she had become increasingly acquainted... | 2014-10-17T12:01:01 | 2014-10-17T11:53:06 | 17 | 11 |
[WP] A disguised human spy at an alien university faces their toughest challenge yet: Human Culture & Biology 1001, taught by a horribly misinformed professor | "Strange." Said the professor as he looked over the new student enrolling in his class.
"I thought all the Qxi had died out long ago..."
"Uh... No, sir, there are still a few of us." Said Bob.
The professor took the stylus like object into one of his 14 hands and started to tap it on what Bob assumed was his lips. H... | I pause, looking around the room at the equally confused stares. Slowly, hesitantly, trepidly, worriedly, anxiously, verbosely I raise my hand. "Sir," I call out.
"Yes uh," the professor pauses as he flicks through the sheet in his hand, "student number eighteen."
"*that's not a name moron*," I whisper softly, gettin... | 2018-04-22T23:09:29 | 2018-04-22T22:42:29 | 505 | 147 |
[WP] Today on your 18th birthday you’re informed that your Middle Class life is a sham to teach you good values and your family is actually worth billions. | A gelid silence settled in the room. I was sitting on our tattered, avocado green sofa, staring at the pained smiles of my parents. I surveyed the room of our apartment.
There was the dining table made of particle board. The white fridge next to the brown toaster oven with fake wood veneer. The dish washer that we us... | "So all this time... I've been wearing Walmart brand shoes, eating bagged cereal, and *not* using an iPhone because you wanted to teach me how to appreciate, like, work, and stuff?" I asked.
"Son, it's easy to develop a sense of entitlement when you have access to so much." My dad said. "It takes a lot of work to rem... | 2017-12-28T12:57:55 | 2017-12-28T10:15:06 | 228 | 154 |
[WP] The Genie looks at you puzzled 'So... you wish for everyone to have 4 arms?', and you say 'yes, I wish that tomorrow everyone wakes up having 4 arms, no explanation, just 4 arms, and if they only had 1 arm or none now they have 4' | The Genie snapped its fingers and it was done.
I went home, barely able to contain my excitement. By this time tomorrow, it will happen - everyone in the world will have an extra set of arms. I was overjoyed that I was able to think of it, even on such short notice, but it makes perfect sense, really. I mean, the poss... | **"...but why would you—"**
"Wasn't done. The two arms, they've gotta be all ursine."
"Ursine as in, uh, bears?"
"You're the all-knowing, all-powerful entity here. Yes, as in bears."
"I have wisdom beyond humanity's comprehension, and yet I still have absolutely no idea why you would ever want that."
"No, no, it's... | 2022-07-11T08:17:38 | 2022-07-11T07:47:12 | 989 | 714 |
[WP] You brace yourself for the worst as the witch tells you the effects of the curse she just placed on you. As she finishes, you blink. "So...what's the downside again?" | "What?"
"I asked what the downside is."
"I've just told you."
"No you haven't."
"Yes, I have."
"Did not!"
"Did so!"
"Then why don't I remember?"
My ears seemed to fill with cotton, and I grew dizzy as she spoke once more.
"That ought to teach you lesson."
I blinked. "Sorry what was the curse again?"
The woma... | The woman stood in my doorway, looking aghast. "You have NO sugar?" She demands, having just requested a cup.
​
I shrug. I'm on a diet. "I have some granular sugar replacement." I offer. The woman's beautiful face melts away into an old and warty visage. She points a gnarled finger at me.
​
Fu... | 2019-06-25T12:10:56 | 2019-06-25T09:48:32 | 76 | 54 |
[WP] A year ago, the newest member of the Interplanetary Community of the Milky Way, humanity, was welcomed. However, millions of kind aliens donated a great amount of money to a prince of a place called Nigeria who lost his throne, and no one has heard back from him since. | **Intergalactic Community of the Milky Way, Transfer Station 8485T34R-287, Consul Corridor D**
"They've done what?"
"They made a formal request for Expedited Handling to Terrestrial Situation with Vectors of Formal Interplanetary Communications Involv..."
"Stop, just stop." Secondary Ambassador James Fink rubbed his... | (several human mercenaries are being greeted by an alien general named Pogo on the cold frozen planet of Hothori)
"You humans are some of the best soldiers money can buy, since you helped bring peace to Hothori the galactic senate has decided it's about time we pay your planet back" Pogo says while standing in fron... | 2021-01-08T18:30:37 | 2021-01-08T17:45:27 | 58 | 42 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | "... at number two, it has been confirmed that former President Barack Obama has the #2 Dad Mug and it is no surprise there given how he set himself as an exemplary dad during his stay at the White House."
"Right you are Stacy. Despite juggling between being a dad and the president of this great country, I'm quite sur... | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | 2022-05-16T13:47:51 | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 70 | 46 |
[WP] Google begins matching up people based on their search history in their new Google Dating program.
Edit: Wow, this got to the front page fast. | My hands tremble as the cursor hovers around a box labeled "Accept Terms and Conditions" as I stare blankly at my dimly lit monitor through the smoke-filled air. I didn't think it'd be this big of a deal to try out the new Google Dating program, but now that I'm actually doing it, I can't bring myself to click the butt... | Google started matching people up on it's new Google Date® by using their search history to determine who was a match for who.
Within days the project was shut down, and the person heading the project was fired. Although no personal search data was directly revealed, as the criteria for matches was hidden and determin... | 2017-05-25T13:15:51 | 2017-05-25T12:30:49 | 25 | 18 |
[WP] Write a story where the good guy is actually the bad guy, but it's only revealed on the last line. | "Do you know how many chefs there are in the world?", he asked as he casually sliced and diced an onion, not pausing for a response. "You don't get to be on top by being average. You have to stand out. Make a name for yourself." He placed the onions in a hot skillet, and they sizzled sharply when they touched the h... | The white wine was a treat. It slipped from the ice bucket gleaming and dripping wet, before the waiter ran a cloth over the bottle expertly and poured it into the delicate glasses. Three men sat around the table, one on each side, and none of them trusted the other. They each wore suits worth thousands, rings with fam... | 2016-08-20T07:57:51 | 2016-08-20T04:44:25 | 86 | 48 |
[WP] You are a relationship advice columnist gone rogue. Every week, you are determined to give the worst possible advice but still disguise it so it looks totally legitimate. Write this week's column. | *Dear Ms. Knows-It-All,*
*My future daughter-in-law is driving me crazy! Their wedding is coming up soon, and the girl is just hopeless at wedding planning. I’ve sent her page after page of suggestions, and I’m starting to worry that none of them are being taken. I’ve told her we’d be happy to pay for the petting z... | The video clip was the last straw. Really. No, really. Please, listen. I wouldn't do any of this if it wasn't for the video
clip.
But come on. A girl's got a limit, right? A girl can only take so much.
So, when Adam left me for Innara, I was okay. I mean, not okay *okay* -- I wanted to reach inside my chest, pull my... | 2016-08-22T07:46:01 | 2016-08-22T06:53:20 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] There is an average of 9,728 planes carrying 1,270,406 passengers in the sky at any given time. As these flights touch down at their airports they find them empty. In fact everywhere seems too be empty. The only people left were those in the air from commercial jetliner to single engine prop. | 11:00 PM, Tuesday March 25th. As Commercial Liner 774 touched down in LaGuardia Airport in New York City, and her passengers disembarked, they weren’t met with ground crew to properly dock with. Air Control had been dead for some time now. Mordecai, a lanky 20-something year old, was one of the first to ride down 774’s... | "Everyone stay calm!" I yelled in pure desperation as we saw the being chasing after us, the flesh and blood of everyone else on earth heading towards us, to add us to the collective. I know it'll tire out soon, and when it does, it should die. This is the thing that had stolen everyone from ground zero...
We landed d... | 2021-08-14T03:15:24 | 2021-08-13T22:35:46 | 184 | 22 |
[WP] You are an Ancient Dragon who had served the royal bloodline for centuries. Then, the famously arrogant and prideful Prince of another kingdom showed up at the capital's doorstep with an army and a demand. "Give me the princess's hand in marriage, or suffer my wrath." | "Your wrath? Child, I have regrets older than your parents and yet you intend to threaten me? For my daughter?" Grand Artificer Archibal stared down at the young prince; Prince Elroy of the Kingdom of Seleswind.
"You know what I can do, who I can rally. I was promised a princess bride by my nineteenth birthday and I.... | Once more I awaken from my slumber to horns and once more I am annoyed. Not even the great deep note that I request? These... Trumpets! They must have a very good reason for this!
Each of my eyes open. A colossal task in itself, the metal fused to my body over Millenia giving my eyelids great weight. I stretch my head... | 2021-09-24T00:51:36 | 2021-09-24T00:47:13 | 99 | 41 |
[WP] Your wife wakes you up. “It’s your turn to feed the baby.” You groan, get up, slaughter a lamb, and toss it into the darkened pit below.
Inspired by [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/agyghh/my_wife_rolled_over_and_sighed_its_your_turn_to/?st=JR15QW9S&sh=56b75b5f) | The concern has gradually turned to, not when the child will eat, but if it will choose to feed at all. This was the third lamb in a week's time put to slaughter. The child would crawl on all fours to see what had been tossed down but it barely showed interest in the meat. Inevitably it would start crying again. Yes, t... | Shepherd awoke to the gentle ruffles of his wife shoving a tired hand in his hand. Irritated and red touched, he grabbed her wrist and nodded groggily. He knew what needed to be done.
He went to the kitchen first. If it’d been morning he may have started a cup of coffee, but for now, water would have to do. He drank h... | 2019-01-17T19:13:42 | 2019-01-17T18:09:55 | 83 | 28 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | They told me I was lucky. My whole life they said that the stat assessment showed I was one of the luckiest people alive with a score of 100. I swore it wasn’t true. If I had been lucky, why was I born to a poor family? I never got to play games of chance, since those were forbidden to luck score 100s.
Then the revol... | I was *born* with max luck, being told my whole life that I shouldn’t be, that I was *favored*. Nope, I was locked up and the key thrown away. I had spent my life, from age thirteen onwards here. My Luck was my weapon, but I wasn’t sure how. I *should have* been able to get out of here, press my own Luck to its max... | 2018-06-29T12:50:06 | 2018-06-29T10:57:06 | 41 | 12 |
[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 me:
That boy isn’t going to text back, it’s Saturday and he saw your message on Thursday. You always do this, you said you weren’t going to get attached, you barely have feelings for him. You don’t want anything but companionship from him, you say to yourself. But you know you want the whole thing: you want him to... | Dear me,
Grow a pair of balls and ask that bitch out.
Dumbass. So what if she says no? Are you gonna cry? Hell, no. You'll be sad but you'll move on.
You'll be more happy if she says yes than sad if she says no.
What a pussy. | 2015-12-05T14:46:28 | 2015-12-05T14:30:45 | 158 | 33 |
[WP] Assassinating Earth's planetary delegate turned out much harder than expected. So far, the target has always detected all hitmen sent and alerted his security. This ability of "hearing" the humans possess is quite peculiar. | Earths atmosphere was dense, the reports had said it would be. Still, figures on a readout where not the same as feeling the pressure press down or feeling the resistance of 'nothing' flowing all around with every movement. Having to push through it.
He had a holo disguise just like the others before him, allowing him... | I stood atop the sand dunes of Ish'tak and allowed the old sun to bath me in the hues of its light. I felt the scorned iron wind break against the exposed scales where feathers once were; most had been lost by age or battle. This was the ancient tradition, our way, a millenia ago our kind would bathe in the sun of our ... | 2021-03-18T11:49:48 | 2021-03-18T11:41:51 | 384 | 69 |
[WP] You were born with the ability to stop time, but only temporarily. You can stop time for as five seconds. One day, at 33 years old, you stop time. As you move through your crowded office, you notice one of your coworkers's fingers twitch. | Five seconds.
That was all I had. A superpower I'd had since birth, so close to useless that sometimes I forgot I even had it.
Five seconds.
One breath. A fleeting thought. A moment stretching just a little longer than the others.
It wasn't enough time to wander the office. It wasn't enough time to take a poop i... | Five seconds, many would question how much of an advantage
that was in life. How much could occur over five seconds? No one was going to
steal a tv or rob a bank in such a short period, so what use did it have?
It was a stupid train of thought many fell victim to. Often
I would ask my friends and relatives what t... | 2020-09-22T05:04:28 | 2020-09-22T04:55:11 | 1,679 | 411 |
[WP] It's the beginning of the year and the government as assigned a new years resolution to every person, and it must be completed before (or kept until) the year ends. | 🎶 *Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell ROCK...* 🎶
I had never liked that song. Nonsensical lyrics always irritated me, and the additional annoyance of the holiday season made it worse. I had only a few days left to complete my resolution, which had stymied me all year.
**Create Political Change**
A bizarre reso... | My Dearest Americans:
As your 49th president I ran on a platform of making America greener, fitter, and more enjoyable overall. Over the past three years I have utilized our nations taxes to eliminate suburbs, relocate suburbites to high density ursn centers, created over 575 new different train systems, built 150 nu... | 2022-01-02T19:17:38 | 2022-01-02T18:18:31 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Children whose mothers have used magic potions during pregnancy sometimes experience the effects randomly through their lives, love potion offspring being randomly met by lovestruck strangers, invisibility potion kids randomly disappearing for a time... You run an orphanage for potion children. | The folder was thick. It seemed to be larger every time I came back to it. No matter how much we did, the problem just seemed to loom greater and greater with every passing day. Even with the expansion, we simply did not have the resources to make a dent in the folder.
Trembling, I flipped through the first few pages.... | "Hello, can I help you?" I asked politely. I couldn't see the man's features very well; he wore very dark clothing, cloaking him effectively in the darkness outside the half-open door.
"Yes, I believe you can." His voice had a certain oiliness that made me instantly distrust him. "If I may come in...?"
"I'm sorry sir... | 2018-12-26T14:03:45 | 2018-12-26T13:51:46 | 426 | 244 |
[Wp]Heaven isn't based on religious text or desires, but how you died. Example: a man who starved to death will live in a heaven of food.
Edit: holy shit i did not expect this response, you're all awesome and beautiful! <3 | They had been right all along. Neil walked the rolling plains of Heaven, the grass tickling his bare toes. The air had never smelled so sweet, and just *look* at it. In life, he'd dismissed all of this as a fairytale people told each other for comfort: that one day, you would find peace in Heaven.
But he couldn't deny... | Nightmares. Only nightmares, for minutes and hours and days and weeks and months and years. A millennia of nightmares, passed in a moment; each one flickering by, their respective horror scarce dimmed by the previous. Every terror a human being could possibly imagine and an infinite number that one couldn't, appearing ... | 2017-01-27T11:27:04 | 2017-01-27T11:19:18 | 561 | 18 |
[WP] On your 16th birthday, everyone is granted a spirit guide from their past, be that a fallen mentor, former pet, or even something such as a bug you once squished. You wake up to find the spirit of your old pet rock, who had fallen and broken years ago, but whose pieces you've always kept. | I couldn't wait for this day to come. I was hoping uncle John would come to me, or maybe my great grandpa who fought in World War 2. Or maybe even a relative from thousands of years ago who could bestow their ancient wisdom upon me.
Instead, I got a rock.
Willie the Cross-Eyed Rock was a good friend of mine when I ... | "What? Why are you so surprised"?
"You are telling me that you are Miss Pebbles? Jeez I was bad at coming up with names". Andy said as he stares at the spirit.
"Why yes! I also like you to know that I really do love the name you gave me"! The spirit spoke as it floats around Andy.
"Do rocks even have souls"? Bein... | 2022-11-01T15:27:16 | 2022-11-01T14:45:47 | 34 | 16 |
[WP] your car changes slightly to accommodate your day, the day it snows, it magically has snow tires, the day it floods, it becomes a four by four. Today you walked out the door, and it's a tank.
Edit: wow, this really blew up, thank you all for your stories, and I will try to read all of them as soon as I have some ... | "Honey"
I heard her yelling but I was still in bed. I took the day off to finish up a few things around the yard but I really wanted to sleep in to at least nine. But not now I guess...
"What?" I yelled the kind of "what" a sixteen year old yells from two rooms away.
"Come look at the car."
That car had been both... | "What? I don't...I..." I stared at disbelief. Seriously, if I told you my car could change itself to accommodate me to the best that it can for whatever remains on the road, you wouldn't believe me. My normal wake up schedule for the work day is get up at four A.M, take a shower and do...other hygienic nuances while in... | 2016-12-06T12:12:53 | 2016-12-06T11:44:47 | 29 | 13 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | "How many of them, Jennings?"
"Twenty-four on sensors now, Captain."
Captain Randolph of the United Earth Exploration Ship *Everest* scratched his chin. This was not how his colony protection detail was supposed to start. He and his light cruiser had been ordered to the new colony of Armana after sensor stations had ... | My team moved into position, Everyone in full cover, in a firing line. Mortar cannons, BFG 10000s enough firepower to make the entirety of america say "nice" in unison all pointed at a singular 100 meter by 100 meter patch of space.
And then the music started...
A few months ago, first contact was made, a small scare... | 2020-03-21T10:25:30 | 2020-03-21T10:24:14 | 52 | 22 |
[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] "It's human-made, you know!" Reverse the usual fantasy scene where somebody gushes over elf/dwarf/whatever craftsmanship. | Urist gingerly squeezed the brass actuator, and the hammer snapped forward with a neat metallic clap.
His shop had seen all manner of wares pass through - the Pass of Arkhaz was home to merchants of every shape, and their weapons decorated the walls of his cramped shop. Thin, mirror-like Elven blades sat next to hand... | After working for years to on your new weaponsmithing techniques, using nothing but your hammer and iron, you have finally made a longsword you believe that even the merchant prince, "Ghaldien", would be interested in. After a year of showing your handiwork around, you find a note attached to your door, complete with ... | 2014-09-11T10:47:47 | 2014-09-11T10:12:54 | 158 | 21 |
[WP] Your father left your family when you were a child to "go buy a pack of cigarettes". It is 10 years later and you're a teenager when your father walks back in, wearing the same clothes he left in, and insists he has only been gone half an hour. | "You look like you've seen a ghost." uttered the familiar figure. Indeed I have. The simple tan coat, red tie, and shoes as spotless as ever. "Dad?" I responded. "Something wrong? Sorry I took a while." said my "father" in a clueless manner. There truly was something wrong. "Where the hell were you! Mom loved you! She ... | There was something weird about this day
Harold, my brother, was acting weird as if he had seen something.
Ending school i went home.
Everything seemed just fine.
Lots of love from my family.
Don't know about my dad though, he disappeared 10 years ago.
Everytime he went to buy cigarretes he was quick. Not this ... | 2018-11-08T05:52:01 | 2018-11-08T05:15:25 | 124 | 17 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | My name is Marco.
The signs showed up randomly, at first. I would only see signs above people's heads if their name started with an "A", and above their heads would float "Andrea - Murder".
I didn't interfere, not after my first attempt. I wanted to, of course, but after Beth...
I stopped a girl with "Beth - Suicide... | Our world has changed. With time travel comes death predictions. A technical engineer working alone in a garage created a "portal"in time just powerful enough to transfer technology, like cameras, microphones, and storage devices. The revolutioniser created a way of predicting death, but could only take down what happe... | 2015-03-31T08:25:25 | 2015-03-31T07:50:48 | 73 | 21 |
[WP] You scroll through r/WritingPrompts, and sigh after seeing your 17th “misunderstood dragon” post. “These posts aren’t even interesting,” your knight friend says. “Yeah, they don’t even get the dragons right half the time.” You should know, because you are a dragon in the modern world. | God, I'm so misunderstood. Gold? Fire? Destruction? Everybody tells me "Florgroth, why don't you start a horde?" Or, "Florgroth, why don't you shut up for two minutes and help me burn this Siberian village?" They just don't get it man, they just don't get it.
My knight buddy, Zitor, always says to me, "Florgroth, life... | People believe that i am a majestic creature, that i can fly and that I can breath fire. Fools.
Animals flee before me, not because I can fly and breath fire, but because they are cowards. Some say my reasoning is alien and unbecoming of other creatures of my size and weight, yet alligators do not kill hippos because t... | 2021-02-26T19:56:37 | 2021-02-26T19:09:21 | 35 | 10 |
[WP] At the age of 16 everyone gets teleported into a small room. In front of you is a table with all kinds of meals from apples to gourmet meats. Whatever you take a bite of will determine what superpower you'll get. You are the first Person to take a bite of the table itself | *This is dumb as shit,* you think as you sulk in the otherwise mundane room. *People get superpowers based on what kind of food they like? Or what, how good they’re able to interpret the symbolism of different foods? What the fuck does that even mean? What flavor is invisibility?*
You pause. What flavor *would* invisi... | "This is the opposite of Santa Claus," I said to myself, as I shambled alone through an endless white expanse.Some things you believe as a child, then one day you realize it was all a game for children. With the *transition,* well, I have to admit I never believed it. Yet there I was and it seemed as real as anything.*... | 2020-03-19T10:40:27 | 2020-03-19T09:29:08 | 57 | 29 |
[WP] Time traveler(s) did go back in time to kill Hitler. They succeeded by convincing Japan to attack Pearl Harbor to bring the US into the war. | It had been another long day in the Imperial Navy, Yamamoto reflected. The Army and Navy were fighting over the latest budget increase again, and after arguing with an Army General that no, ships could not in fact run on fumes, for the past hour, he was looking forward to a quiet night of gambling at an acquaintance's... | "What... is the meaning of this? How did you get in here?" The man reach for his glasses as he scrambles out of bed, reaching for his pistol as he rolls behind the bed.
"Revered Anc... President Tojo."
"Hideji," the second intruder in the man's room elbows once in the middle of his greetings, reminding him of the Ont... | 2016-10-30T12:47:00 | 2016-10-30T11:43:08 | 47 | 15 |
[WP] When you die, you are given the chance to flip a coin. If you call the toss correctly, you are allowed to keep living, while resetting to the age of your choice. You've been doing this for a couple centuries now. Death is starting to get pretty pissed. | “Well look who’s back again, if it isn’t the luckiest man alive” Death says sarcastically as I approach the table.
“I really hope not” I reply as I pick up the coin.
“Come on now, most people are happy to get a second chance” Retorts Death with a laugh
“I was cool with the second chance, even the third, but this is ... | "Call it" Death said, the coin twirling between his bony fingers.
"Do we really need to keep going through this charade?" I asked.
How long had it been now? 500 lives? The first time I went through, I expected reincarnation, but life... or I guess Death, was not so kind. I got to relive life from the point I cho... | 2016-09-23T11:33:36 | 2016-09-23T08:47:36 | 28 | 15 |
[WP] Three friends. Four AM. No dialogue | Nothing good happens after 2 a.m. That's what my mom always told me anyways. But how do you say no to the hottest friend you have inviting you to come over to make juice.
I mean...she is in Germany...
No-no-no. I can't be that guy. I don't cheat.
I mean...she should've called me right?
Maybe she had class?
I caugh... | -002
The girl in the room is crying. I’m on the floor. I can’t sleep. Jack’s asleep on the other bed, the one Jane’s not sleeping on. I just stare at the ceiling. It’s a wonderful nothing, I guess. Songs I haven’t listened to in three or four hours keep playing in my head. I would listen to music but my music player t... | 2014-01-02T11:25:18 | 2014-01-02T10:14:07 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] A few thousand people around the world suddenly get superpowers based on the character of the last game they played. Highly valued by society you are the exception as everyone laughs at your inherited powers. The thing is, you modded the hell out of your character before this all happened.
Wow I didn't think it w... | So here’s the sitch: I totally do play video games. And no, I’m not one of those r/notliketheothergirls who insists I’m the only girl who games, or that I should receive all the sexual admiration for it. I’ve dabbled in just about everything - FPS, MMORPG, VR, PC, console, mobile, puzzles, survival, capture/collect, si... | "You cant even fight what even is your power?" - Sven, an old friend now chairman of the hunter superorganisation and Doom slayer incarnation
Johnsons corpse was still fresh I couldnt keep my eyes away from it.
Just as I turned around the demon lunged at me and tore of my arm "Im gonna die here, im gonna die for re-"... | 2019-08-12T00:38:07 | 2019-08-12T00:09:11 | 30 | 14 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | When Matt moved within the other zones, people scuttled out of the way when they saw the number stitched on his jacket.
It had taken more effort than usual to reach the zone he entered today. A lot of carefully constructed, believable reasons. Even more effort to ensure he could come alone. As the system grew more ri... | I've heard stories of how, long ago, people of all types were allowed to live together, a place where people with a goodness score of 1 were allowed to live in the same places as people with goodness scores of 200.
Of course, this world stopped existing after a team of scientist invented the perfect way to test someo... | 2016-08-26T11:47:14 | 2016-08-26T10:59:35 | 281 | 18 |
[WP] Write two small stories with the exact same words in the same order, but with punctuation giving them completely different meanings.
[deleted] | Set Free:
And at the last second I saw her stepping onto the train. I realized I would never see her again. Powerless, I watched her fade.
And at the last second I saw her. Stepping onto the train I realized I would never see her again. Powerless, I watched her fade.
| My morning toast is ready, red and full of pockmarks. Mom lays on the couch. "When did it fall?" I wonder, looking at the old family picture face down on the floorboards. Dad wouldn't have liked all this mess. Time to do some house cleaning!
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My morning toast is ready.
Red and full of pockmarks,... | 2015-09-23T10:11:20 | 2015-09-23T08:50:09 | 361 | 31 |
[WP] You are a chivalrous knight. As it turns out, the Evil Empire you have been fighting against is a liberal democracy with a powerless figurehead and a very edgy sense of aesthetics. The Good Kingdom you serve is really an absolute monarchy ruled by a tyrant-king with good publicity. | You'd think someone wearing skulls with "Evil" written on the teeth would *realize* they were the bad guys, right? I had always thought that was a trope of the traveling actor guilds, but no, here I was talking to Lord Evil himself, skull-emblazoned shirt covered in spikes signifying the death he has caused for his peo... | We waited as the riders of The Order of the Shade’s detachment passed along the road. I held my hand in the air to keep my men silent. The enemy’s jet-black horses, coated with their vermillion red armor, cantered along. Their knights, dressed in the same black and vermillion, with spikes on their shoulders, rode along... | 2021-02-06T16:08:32 | 2021-02-06T15:50:50 | 1,193 | 198 |
[WP] An unfathomably ancient cosmic entity drifting through infinite space passed by this weird little planet called Earth and heard over their broadcast radio signals this extremely annoying, but incredibly catchy song. It can't get the song out of its head and is going insane. | Nagoras was utterly defeated by the other outer gods and sent into exile. Its powers stripped, the other gods had been cruel, only Nagoras' mind remained. Unable to manifest its reality bending powers, it was nothing more than a crude black oily substance oozing through the endless void. Its power slowly regenerating. ... | There exist beings who have lived through so-called infinty time and again. To them crossing a vast universe is little more than a stroll between rooms. On one such stroll a noise stood out among the rest.
All that is, all that was, all that ever could be. Yul-Cephar had heard every possible sound in existence. To i... | 2022-10-11T11:24:00 | 2022-10-11T11:20:35 | 83 | 38 |
[WP] You are an advisor/ guidance counselor for a superpower academy. You are in charge of the students whose powers are not conducive to heroism or villainy. | Elise pretended to write on her notepad as Sean settled into his chair. She never quite knew what to say to this boy who was scarcely a teenager, yet had powers that far outstripped his ability to control them.
Why couldn't they have assigned her the mindreaders, or the ones with the brute strength to bring a city to... | FADE IN
INT. A SCHOOL CAFETERIA - DAY
*We see a group of a dozen or so students seated on metal folding chairs. They are facing a whiteboard at the front of the room, which is being attended by a tall, slender man in a dark suit. This is MISTER SLANT.*
**MISTER SLANT:** Alright, kids. Do you all know who I am?
*The... | 2015-09-22T09:28:14 | 2015-09-22T08:27:48 | 96 | 24 |
[WP] Nine out of ten dentists recommend a certain brand of toothpaste. You're the one dentist and, despite constant assassination attempts, refuse to change your mind. | "Once you go Gleck, you never go back!" The holoscreen behind the bar flickered with images of happy kids brushing their teeth, as he heard the obnoxious jingle for the millionth time. "Nine out of ten dentists recommend Gleck - now with cleaning photons!"
Alex felt the corner of his mouth twitch. Oh, what he couldn't... | Virtually every inch of the Kommen Space Colony was under constant visual and audio surveillance. Cameras hummed away tirelessly, transcribing the steady rhythm of everyday life into a trillion splices of electronic data which were flashed back to homeworld, almost two light years away. Even the faintest whisper, the s... | 2018-04-30T00:45:58 | 2018-04-29T22:42:25 | 87 | 29 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | I was at my favorite taco joint with my family. It was a weird tradition we had. When someone turned 21, we go to this place as a family and open the check. See how much their life is worth. It tends to make for a good laugh. My brother's was around a million. My poor cousins was only 25% of that. So here we are on my ... | I cashed in my newfound fortune. $2 got me on the bus, I got out at the edge of town. I walked for a few hours and found a garage sale sign, I followed the arrows to a somewhat shabby looking hobby farm. There was a very old man sitting amongst the articles he had for sale, all of which had a more leaden appearance tha... | 2019-04-24T13:37:46 | 2019-04-24T11:25:08 | 32 | 20 |
[WP] You are the tenth generation honor guard for the immortals. As far back as pack memory goes, the immortals have provided food, shelter, and scritches. You fully expected the immortals to outlive you, as they did your mother and her mother before her. But something's wrong. The Alpha...is dying. | At first we couldn't quite work out what it was. There was a scent change. And my pack mate Milo, who is older and wiser, and has met many more Immortals, remembered a much older member of our Alpha's pack, who had a similar scent, and who the others gathered with to be sad, and then disappeared, never seen again.
And... | It was the Reg-scientists who first noticed something was off, even before we got a glimpse of disaster. A couple of years ago, the regulars started truly listening to their researchers when Terra grew too hot, but now they got scared of something else. The tides and the movement of the seas was changing. Something the... | 2022-11-15T16:26:19 | 2022-11-15T11:43:57 | 61 | 23 |
[WP] In vampire society, it is a capital offence to touch prey marked by a senior vampire. There is a very good reason they all shy away from the cross.
All credit to [https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/comments/wwon7a/in\_vampire\_society\_it\_is\_a\_capital\_offence\_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentence... | Deliverance is not a concept. It is a judgement, an event counted down to by those who believe, and a day of reckoning for those who don't. The heathens, the nonbelievers and blasphemers, will stay stuck forever, while those who are marked with the holy symbol ascend.
*Ascension, however, is but a concept.*
When he w... | It had all started a long time ago. So long, most vampires didn't remember it.
But I did.
It had been a dark, dry night. Four of the most senior vampires in the world had gathered. Two vampires were not present, but precedings went along anyway. One stepped forward.
"I have changed my mark." She announced, her sle... | 2022-09-05T09:15:42 | 2022-09-05T08:50:39 | 560 | 151 |
[WP] You're sitting around bored fiddling with stuff in your pocket when suddenly the text "CHEAT ACTIVATED" appears in-front of you for several seconds. | Johnny knew what to do next. He jumped up twice, squatted twice, leaned to the left and then the right twice, tapped a Bee, thought of the final letter of his country, and clicked the any key to start.
“The Konami Code” he thought to himself.
He decided to test his new limits, the text couldn’t have been fake. He decid... | "What is this?" I think to myself, scratching at a place on my chin.
Suddenly the text blinks and changes: "Chin scratched at 12032017144655"
I stop suddenly and turn my head, trying to see what everyone else is doing. The room is full of people and there's a buzz of conversation everywhere. They don't seem to be bot... | 2017-12-03T14:46:51 | 2017-12-03T11:59:01 | 64 | 24 |
[WP] Enthralled with your magical studies, you only leave your retreat every 10 days to buy supplies from a nearby town. However, you've become something of a legend. The mystical hermit who arrives every 10 years without having aged a day. | The town was festooned with garlands and chains, stretching across the market place, giving the little town of Juniper a sprightly and merry atmosphere. Positioned between the mountain ranges of Hyphin and Alizes, in the nook of a valley, it was a place of little consequence. Nothing of note ever happened in that sleep... | They all gathered to see legendary "Leonardo The Powerful" coming into town, some hoping that this near god-like being would gift them knowledge, whilst some prepared their swords for fame and glory.
In truth, he'd wandered into the crowd about an hour earlier dressed as a beggar, right under everyones nose, and had ... | 2018-07-19T08:30:58 | 2018-07-19T03:55:50 | 92 | 14 |
[WP][TT] You wake up, make yourself a nice cup of coffee and enjoy the view of the morning sun rising from the sea. Then you remember that your house isn't supposed to be anywhere near a sea...
Edit: Thank you all for your amazing stories! | Houses and debris floated by as I sipped my coffee. There had to be a way to spin this before I announced my presidential candidacy for the GOP. That group was getting crowded, fast. A helicopter from CNN buzzed my house. That fool Anderson Cooper was actually hanging out the passenger door, standing on the landing... | The long, yellow fingers of the sun slowly crept in through the window causing me to push my eyes shut tighter and will them away. When that failed to work, I slowly sat up and stared at my feet pressed hard onto the cold, metal floor. Rubbing my eyes I stood and stretched, feeling my back pop back into place.
Yawning... | 2015-05-28T11:16:55 | 2015-05-28T08:40:50 | 14 | 10 |
Writing Prompt: Write a story about a hero gone bad
Write a story about a hero becoming villain. Can be anyone, your own story or someone elses, and from any perspective. | I remember my first days as a doctor. I wore my stethoscope proudly around my neck, not realizing it advertised how much of a virgin I was in the field of medicine. I'd introduce myself as Dr. Agon and tried to smile more than smirk smugly, usually I couldn't help the smug smirk. Some people noticed my name now read Dr... | And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying,
"This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of-."
Cut off half way through, he turned to the loud thud outside the door. The second smashed the lock to pieces letting in the howling wind outside, along with a dozen legionaries and t... | 2012-08-09T03:56:30 | 2012-08-09T03:11:05 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone with the same name shares knowledge. If one Bob gets a degree in electrical engineering, then all Bob's have this knowledge readily available. Soon, everyone starts naming their kids similar names until factions form. Your parents rebelled and named you something original. | "No. Absolutely not. There is no way in hell," I said to the suited man at the front door.
But let me backtrack a little.
My friend John wrote his dissertation at the age of four. It was a comparative study of different techniques for emission spectroscopy in the analysis of compound materials. John waited until he w... | “Alexes, today we will take what’s ours!” The handsome young Alex stands atop a large pyramid of wooden crates, his voice booming across the entire marketplace. “Today, we will storm the Presidential Palace!”
*“Bring him down! Bring him down!”* The crowd around me chant at the top of their voices.
“We will not be ab... | 2017-04-07T09:41:35 | 2017-04-07T08:38:41 | 277 | 198 |
[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... | He’s fighting for his life.
His blade flickers like silver fire, moving in sweeping arcs and rapid thrusts. Hers moves like glowing lightning, so fast it leaves afterimages. Two knights - one male, one female - stand in the middle of a forest clearing.
"Surrender," he says.
“And bend the knee? Serve that tyrant?” S... | 2019-07-21T23:08:41 | 2019-07-21T23:04:58 | 197 | 67 |
[WP] For decades, humans have been using a mineral mined off-planet that accelerates healing. Today you discover the truth: it’s not a mineral, but a parasitic alien spore. The more damage your body sustains, the more it replaces your damaged DNA with its own. | ######[](#dropcap)
*Just a small nick.*
There it was. The urge again. Nick wiped the sweat dripping from his brow and shook his head to clear the ringing in his ears. Everything was good about this job--the benefits, the people, the pay. Everything except that goddamn ringing. The management said it was a natural co... | Mist launched from it’s center. Its body, adrift in the large void that is space. In death, the small insect hardened itself into a shard of life.
Flames rain from the sky’s as the sun begins to fall. The shard had remained intact even after is hasted dissent along with its fellow insects.
Before long, man had arrive... | 2020-07-30T20:06:28 | 2020-07-30T18:50:40 | 175 | 15 |
[WP] "Son, i need to tell you something. I am a god." "Dad, I'm 20 and studying mythology. You don't think i haven't figured that out?" | "I'm so glad you came home for Thanksgiving, JJ. But before everyone else arrives I'd like to get a chance to talk with you about something. Can you sit down?" The words Mama H used implied it was a polite request, but the tone of her voice struck Jule's brain like a command. She had learned to ignore Mama H's commands... | I’ve always knows my dad was… “special”
My mom had died in childbirth, so all my life it was just my dad and I. Every other kid in school had two parents, but I never felt jealous because my dad was more than enough.
In second grade, when Tommy shoved me into a locker and peed on me somehow my dad knew. When I got hom... | 2021-12-10T08:48:39 | 2021-12-10T08:37:29 | 231 | 142 |
[WP]2000 years from now, history is misunderstood and retold as a series of myths where nations are represented as individual gods,citizens as worshipers and corporations and NGOs as demons/angels(lesser gods).Chronicle current world crises in the style of ancient myths.
-Global warming
-colonization
-World wars
-c... | During the winter
As blizzards extinguished the dying fires of the second great war
Worshipers and lesser gods stood on rubble and beheld the two great dragons
perched on a mighty wall.
They were the dragon of the sky,and the blood dragon.they roared and bellowed and shook the ground
Laying their claims to their ... | They say he started as a prodigy, but was turned into an outcast. The jealous King Zar took notice of his talent and his charisma, and could not dare stand have any competitors! He arrested mightly Len, but found that even the harshest prison could not break Len's spirit. So the cruel despot exiled Len from his homelan... | 2015-03-12T11:56:56 | 2015-03-12T11:15:23 | 104 | 10 |
[WP] You work for a secret agency that deals with the supernatural and you just shared a dumb idea with your boss, as a joke: "Instead of keeping everything under wraps, why don't we just release all info to the public, but pretend it's a work of fiction?" You got promoted on the spot. | Move over Marvel, there’s a new cinematic universe on the rise.
On the back of an expansive guerrilla marketing campaign and break-neck roll-out speeds, a fresh new production company, A51, has a veritable hit on their hands. The first installment of the 20-film, multi-phase universe, *The Underground*, grossed... | It was supposed to be a joke.
I thought my boss read Tom Clancy. After all, he wrote fiction that ended up being surprisingly close to reality. He was supposed to see the obvious pitfalls of my idea, and how quickly it could turn into “Haha just kidding… unless?”
Instead, I was pulled from my old department, an... | 2022-06-20T12:05:03 | 2022-06-20T11:50:39 | 706 | 279 |
[WP] Everyone receives a letter when they turn 18 stating how they will die. You've just received your letter, and it's blank. | To be 18 an immortal. It really wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
Eve considered not opening the damned envelope at all. The matte black bringer of doom lay on the kitchen table, a retinal scanner blinking incessantly on the front.
There was a certain sick irony to it that she thought represented to state of humani... | Daniel’s father never read his letter. Neither had his grandfather, or anyone (in recent memory) in the Murphy line. *An act of defiance*, his father told him, *They can only control your life as much as you let them*. Which was true, Daniel thought. He remembered the fears of his friends; Mick always tensed when his m... | 2017-01-17T15:47:45 | 2017-01-17T15:11:53 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] A hero and villain are roommates and have to keep making excuses for why they need to unexpectedly go out so often. Neither knows the other is their nemesis. | *ARCH ROOMMATES IS FILMED IN FRONT OF A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE*
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INT. GARRETT AND DAVES' APARTMENT - DAY
FADE IN
Garrett enters, hauling a bag of groceries in one hand.
GARRETT: Dave? I'm back from the grocery store!
Dave is lying on the couch watching cable news. He sits up.
DAVE: Wait a minute. You w... | Just as I put down my groceries, my SatPhone beeps. *Captain, we need your help! Doctor Doom is threatening to destroy the city tower with his death ray. Please help us!*
I groan. I’ve just gotten back to the house – how on earth am I going to explain to my roommate that I need to go out again?
Good old Dominic is ... | 2017-04-03T11:16:16 | 2017-04-03T10:38:23 | 479 | 35 |
[WP] Write a horror story where the protagonist just doesn't give a fuck.
Edit: Damn, this is now my most upvoted post. Thanks for all of your responses, they've been amazing! Good for a laugh or a two on this great Friday :) | "Unclean!" the disembodied voice bellowed waking me up for the third fucking time that night. That's it. I'd had enough. I slip out of bed and got dressed. I was thirsty anyway. Walking toward the door I looked at the wall dripping with blood and puss.
"Unfucking real..." I muttered. Pulling my phone from my pocket I... | The bronze dagger scraped against the cement floor with rhythmic scratches, tuned to The Slasher's lopsided gait. A red grin cut across his mask, painted on until it hit the the cracked bottom quarter, where it spilled into a real lip-less smile.
The stage was set. The night, perfect. A full moon dangled in a cloudles... | 2017-05-05T07:31:12 | 2017-05-05T06:07:15 | 627 | 21 |
[WP] To Elizabeth Brown, the mechanical workings of space craft seemed to just speak to her. Watching her tinker, fix, and upgrade everything from the small barges to the hulking capital class ships was akin to watching a virtuoso violinist or a master painter. Her masterpiece came in one day. | To own a ship fixed or upgraded by Elizabeth Brown was the mark of a skilled pilot, as nothing less would suffice for the works of art she produced. The demand for her services was immense and the Admiralty prized her greatly despite her many eccentricities - the expensive, archaic blueprints she sought after were hers... | [Part 1 of 2]
“A ship came in?” Henderson tightened his grip on the shell shaped communicator in his hands, staring out at the massive ship that was currently waiting to enter their docking bay. The ship coated in the silver and gold colors of the United Molia division. “We didn’t order a ship. Did you check it for so... | 2022-02-01T07:07:14 | 2022-02-01T06:07:10 | 483 | 89 |
[WP] Mr. Rogers was actually the second coming of Jesus Christ, but nobody realized it. | He sat behind a mirror. The light illuminating the wrinkles on his face.
**You have done well**
One more show he thought. One more.
How long had he been trying to convey the message? The desire burning inside to come out and say, "God is real. I am here to speak on his behalf, and I have a message for you." That me... | Whoa, did you see the paper today?
**No, because nobody reads the paper anymore. But I know. I saw the news on the phone, aka today's paper. Chester Davidson died.**
I know, right? It's like just last week he was named Mister Rogers, and he was a surefire lock to beat Mister Cleveland for this year's title of Mister ... | 2015-08-02T23:00:37 | 2015-08-02T22:31:03 | 1,117 | 29 |
[WP] You jokingly solve a riddle which you pretend is a huge discovery, but then you wake up from the simulation that humanity has been put in. | (authors note: Hi! I've written pretty regularly since January, so I'm not new to this, but at the same time if a work of mine could use improvement, then it could use improvement. I welcome all constructive criticism :) If something needs work, just tell me, at the minimum, two things: what needs work, and what I can ... | All the new frontiers in science, technology and music; the art of speech, the art of art, the art of video
games, simulating within the... simulation of another life which I was born into, which they were coded into,
placed to make everything work....
Something didn't click when I solved the code. Something didn't cl... | 2016-08-06T21:53:03 | 2016-08-06T16:09:58 | 68 | 17 |
[WP] Death has hourglasses for every person. One day, during a cleaning, he found a dust covered one that had rolled under his desk. | Darkness.
That was all the man could see - given that he was of sound mind, of course. For the man had spent an eternity, if not eons upon eons of *time* drifting through empty space. All that had once existed - the stars, galaxies, black holes - had inevitably faded away with the passage of time. Eventually, even ti... | The boy ran, red-faced, across the field full of dead grass and frosty branches. Winter had passed but spring was yet to come. His still frozen breaths shivered him slightly. It was cold, yet he was burning. He might have a fever.
That morning, his parents, him and his little sister along with another dozen doctors an... | 2018-10-03T07:44:44 | 2018-10-03T07:34:53 | 41 | 11 |
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