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[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | I walk out of the prison gates for the first time in 50 years, I breath free air for the first time in 50 long years. The world waited and watched my every movement to see what I do next. All week every Television in the prison has been tuned into the news to follow the coverage of my release, news reporters from all a... | ######[](#dropcap)
Duke Paredes stepped out of the Fulton County Prehabilitation Penitentiary into a cool, breezy spring morning. The sun shone through from behind a cloud, and he allowed himself to bathe in the warmth of its rays as the door closed behind him. There was something different about being on the other si... | 2016-02-23T19:02:05 | 2016-02-23T18:02:49 | 125 | 22 |
[WP] You get achievements in life, such as "Get Married" or "Meet your future Wife". Today you had your first baby, and you see an achievement pop up: "Meet the person who will eventually kill you" | For sixty years I lived in fear of my daughter. For sixty years I’ve lived with the anxiety of knowing at any moment she will end me. For sixty years I’ve been walking on eggshells and making excuses to make myself distant. Was the achievement incorrect? Was everything I did all for naught or was it merely enough to ke... | Through the wave of agony that courses through my body, I am barely even aware of the cry of pain escaping my lips. Sweat beads on my forehead, trickling down my temple.
"That's it, push!"
"I'm- *fucking*- trying!" I grit my teeth against the scream that threatens to rise in my throat, the pain still climbing as I b... | 2018-01-12T18:57:10 | 2018-01-12T17:22:45 | 1,530 | 832 |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil to become rich. He then tells you that fortune will be yours, but there is a curse. For every $1000 you spend, a random person on the Earth will die. Congratulations! You just won $250,000,000. | "You want to invest 250 million dollars all at once?"
"Yes."
"What sort of account are you interested in?"
"Doesn't matter, whatever will result in the most dividends."
"Sir, when dealing with amounts this large one typically looks at the percentage growth over time. Dividends are basically inconsequential on such ... | Obviously the implications were clear. If I spent all of it 250,000 people would die. The presentation made it abundantly clear exactly what this meant. Stadiums full of people all of a sudden disappearing; dust floating through the sky. The crushed dreams and hopes of all their loved ones. Children, mothers, fathers, ... | 2017-01-10T07:24:25 | 2017-01-10T07:15:59 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] Take a popular children's television show or book and give us a gritty reboot. | Elmo smashed through the door with his shoulder holding nothing but a Carbon 15 and a grudge against the Count.
Bert and Ernie dropped their cards and turned their heads to the loud noise. They raised their stubby hands in the air and looked at each other before looking Elmo in his dead, Muppety eyes.
"Hey Bert, I ... | My mother used to tell me that the way to a man’s heart was through his stomach.
She’s a brain surgeon. You’d think she’d be smarter than that.
“…Oh, *god.* Where did you learn how to…?”
The truth is, the way to a man’s heart was a couple inches south.
It also just so happened to be the way to his safe house, bank ... | 2015-05-15T10:39:55 | 2015-05-15T10:21:18 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] You are born with two names tatooed on you body somewhere, one of your soulmate and one of the people that will eventually kill you. There is no way to tell who is who. | I did not know why my parents named me, "smudge," but when I was only 14, I discovered I was not adopted.
Both of my parents are white. But I am black. Tattoo ink black. At least, that is what it looks like from a distance. Freshman year in High School, I was bored and took a look at my hand under a disection microsco... | Written in scar tissue across a man’s back, there would always be a name. Another man’s name, the kind our culture crafted from blood and dirt to evoke that very image. The prevailing theory was that the name etched in raised flesh would be the name of that man’s killer. Or it wasn’t a theory, exactly, because it alway... | 2018-03-11T08:30:03 | 2018-03-11T08:09:30 | 636 | 84 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | The whole neighbourhood was out in the streets staring skyward; dressed in robes and wrapped in blankets. The bright white light made them appear as stone sentinels against the snow.
“Mummy, the moon is so big!”
My phone buzzed urgently in my hand. I set it on the nightstand facedown
“Grab your jacket lily,” I wrappe... | First the texts. Then the MMS images. Then every insta, fb post, live stream, Reddit post, tweet. Every inbox at 0% capacity as it was all FWD FWD FWD FWD : MOON all the time.
After a few days we realized the vast majority of Internet traffic was solely automated spambots. Everybody else was outside looking at the mo... | 2022-11-14T21:59:08 | 2018-04-06T19:57:39 | 45 | 30 |
[WP] As a young child you made an innocent wish to be granted a power that in hindsight was just whimsical and silly. Now you have grown up but you still have the power - how do you use it now as an adult? | I was a poor child, rich in spirit yet poor in possessions. My tattered clothes barely enough to keep me warm in the winters. Because of this winters were always the most difficult. The bitter wind ransacking the drafty areas of our home, the only comfort being the hot soups we'd share as a family for dinner.
It was ... | As a young man, Nigel Premeiter lived a simple, if unconventional, life with his two parents, Houghler and Tricia. He would stay out doors, normally at the edge of the lot his parents owned. His home was a simple trailer, with one room on one end and his own on the other end. Taking most of the length of the trailer wa... | 2015-03-07T06:03:58 | 2015-03-07T00:58:07 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] 2021: Hell invades Earth; 2022: Earth invades Hell. | Another explosion rocked the hastily improvised command center. "Sir! The 4th circle has been breached!"
The current Commander of the hellish Host cursed bitterly "How?"
"More cute kittens sir. But this time there were also adorable *puppies*" Several demons shivered violently and the Command cursed again.
The hu... | The last testament of Praxel, A Lord of Hell.
When the gates began to crackle with energy again it was almost unknown to us, after thousands of years of dormancy the hope of venturing forth as kings and conquerors into the low worlds was all but lost. In a bout of wisdom the old man had stopped meddling in their affa... | 2016-12-10T09:52:21 | 2016-12-10T09:14:20 | 28 | 14 |
[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?" | The witch buried her face in her hands and sighed, "AGAIN, it's the Curse of Optimism. You will never be able to understand the potential negative consequences of any decision you make."
"That doesn't sound like much of a curse", I replied.
"You will be the eternal optimist", she explained. "You will only see the ups... | You blink once. And twice. You look at the beautiful and alluring woman in front of you in confusion. Certainly you must have heard it all wrong.
“So... what’s the downside again?”
The woman in question smiles at you, and once again you feel fear. You couldn’t pinpoint what was unsettling about her smile, but it made... | 2019-06-25T15:21:51 | 2019-06-25T12:37:00 | 1,435 | 67 |
[WP] The demon couldn't believe his luck to find such a willing victim to possess. As it possessed them, instead of fighting back like they usually do, this one said "Good luck. You'll need it."
EDIT: Thanks for the awards guys! I've been on this site for 7 years and this is the first time I've received any. | Xullufiti couldn't believe this luck, finally, an escape from the clutches of Hell! Not a crack, not a nightmare, but a veritable door from one reality to the next. A vessel! A passage between worlds!
He cackled loudly as he swarmed into the human body, their soul swapped away almost effortlessly in the exchange. But ... | It’s the small towns that make the best hunting grounds. Their people are isolated, both from each other and the greater world. And in that isolation grows fear. Anger. Resentment. A cocktail of simmering grudges that persist and grow over generations, until each and every one of those outwardly hospitable individuals ... | 2020-12-21T12:52:15 | 2020-12-21T12:45:34 | 141 | 71 |
[WP]You possess an ability that seems relatively harmless, albeit useful, at first glance, yet on a deeper look is scarily powerful. Nothing can be taken from you against your will | It began small.
At one year, my mother had tried to take my baby blanket to get washed. The poor blanket only got washed when I took my baths after that. The next time it saw the inside of a washing machine, I was five.
In school, the bullies tried to take my lunch, my pencil case, my friends, my partner. They tried ... | "Reincarnation has always caused scholars to wonder its limitations. Are there finite souls or as they are needed do the gods create more? What is the extent of the ones knowledge when reborn" explains the priest with mild amusement in his voice. Taunting our generation with the knowledge of the world. An entire room o... | 2021-09-11T16:46:55 | 2021-09-11T15:49:41 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] You been a bullied outcast your entire life despite your pure heart and kindness. One day a horrible prank for you goes wrong, leaving you to die. Before your final breath, Death appears in white robes, and offers you a golden scythe with a name engraved on it: Karma. | I never understood what I did wrong, I would always try to correct myself. But it was never enough. I'd apologize for nothing but that was nothing.
They hit me, pushed me, and nearly drowned me. It was exhausting to try and still be the good in a world of cruelty. But it doesn't mean I'm going to stop now. All this h... | It hurt.
There was some loud noise, a big pop. I jumped away, it wasn't a nice sound, and then there was a light, and everything hurt.
Robbie was crying, and speaking, but I couldn't hear. I couldn't reach his face, so I nuzzled his hand. It's okay Robbie, don't be sad? Am I still good?
THIS IS UNUSUAL.
The pain w... | 2019-04-19T06:42:45 | 2019-04-19T06:26:59 | 76 | 20 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | I've always seen them. The numbers. It took me a long time to figure out what they were, and longer still to learn to pretend they weren't there.
My family took me to a psychologist when I was young, he thought they were a visual hallucination. None of the pills he proscribed me worked, but I pretended they did at th... | It was a day like any other
Deflect the young,
Accept the one
But before my eyes,
A double of a 12, 1212
And then I knew:
I always thought children would joke
That it was just the writers
Making fluff and fun merry for views
And before my eyes,
A pair of kids, stacked like dishes
Wobbling about
And a guff... | 2017-09-01T23:57:33 | 2017-09-01T22:38:31 | 23 | 13 |
[WP] A thousand years after humanity was accepted into the galactic federation at large, other aliens realized one terrifying fact about them, humans are adaptive creatures. Unlike other races, humans have no qualms about learning alien techniques or integrating new alien technologies to their own. | At first, we laughed at the apex species of Sol III. They were mammals, standing on two legs and having two free arms with claws able of fine manipulation. They called themselves "humans".
Most of galactic species had solved their own inner differences way before they launched themselves to explore other worlds and st... | "Human culture is most similar to a highly adaptive virus." The lecturer, Zig-1-13, explained. "It may be somewhat ironic coming from me." There were scattered laughs in the hall, as Zig-1-13 was a Grodiax, a species evolved from viruses. "Unlike other cultures, they easily assimilate bits and pieces from other culture... | 2022-06-14T02:53:30 | 2022-06-13T23:48:46 | 775 | 422 |
[WP] You are the latest victim of a God who is known for handing out superpowers. Unfortunately this God has a twisted sense of humour and only gives out superpowers that are useless to the person receiving them. You are determined to make the God regret giving you powers. | *"You have been blessed."*
Those were the words I heard before I awoke in the morning. I groaned as I rubbed my eyes. I had heard of this. People all over the world said these were the words they heard before they awoke to a new life of underwhelming useless powers.
A man born blind in Portugal was given the power to... | (On mobile, sorry for the formatting)
There used to be a rumor of a terrible god who gave out powers to those who sought it out. Only the chosen were given gifts but were sworn to secrecy on where the specific shrine lay hidden. I managed to get the location after endless hours of research and chasing down ambigu... | 2022-09-04T06:10:11 | 2022-09-04T00:29:18 | 350 | 53 |
[WP] They called you a madman for raiding the history museum during a zombie apocalypse. What they didn't expect was for full plate armour to be so effective. | "You're insane." The older woman glared at me. "Why the hell are we going further into the city! We should be getting out."
I glared at her, but couldn't fault her for being scared. Her daughter, her grandson, and she had all been holed up in a convenience store for weeks trying to wait out the zombie plague. It was s... | Everyone knows the basic skills needed for the zombie apocalypse. Foraging, fighting, and fleeing. The last of the three f’s of survival was the most important. So armor was considered to be impractical as it would only slow you down. I chose to add more defense when it started. The history museum had a set of full ... | 2020-09-14T09:12:16 | 2020-09-14T07:46:50 | 101 | 70 |
[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. | Kalgor looked at the pale skined human in utter shock. 'They couldn't be serious in thinking that the rest of the galactic community would simply accept the use of this kind of technology'
“Mr. Adams...” Kalgor began.
“Doctor Adams if you don't mind Count Kalgor.” Dr. Adams corrected, he knew that if he didn't demand... | "You wish really really hard and then you push the button."
"Really really hard? What does the wishing do?"
"Frustrates the hell out of the new recruits when they realize that the incredibly genuine way we insist that they wish as hard as they can is just a ploy to make them look silly to amuse the rest of the crew."... | 2017-03-31T07:50:09 | 2017-03-30T23:13:22 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] A drug is released that causes people to feel completely content with their lives. The suicide rate skyrockets. | *Excerpt from the NY Times, February 11th 2034*
>The FDA wanted to ban it. But it had no real reason, the clinical trials did well and there were no documented side effects on the test subjects. They had only one real argument, a paper published in a journal of speculative medicine which said that happiness, like e... | The needle slips out and the nurse smiles. That’s all you’ll need now, she says, as your mind stills. Your heart stops racing and the anxiety, the panic, the unsettling flapping of birds behind your eyes stops as the drug reaches out and clips their wings.
The beasts are caged. How do you feel?
How do you feel, as y... | 2016-05-08T12:17:52 | 2016-05-08T10:01:02 | 37 | 13 |
[WP] A boy goes to hang himself in the woods, only to find a decaying body already hung. A girl sits quietly nearby.
Explain their interactions, and the reasons/motivations for being there. | Leaves wilted through the air, angels from the branch, seeds from the vine falling to the earth.
A young man treads this path of bark-child, finding a kinship in the way they topple. From life to death, only some of them survived the fall, and grew into strong oak and firm wood. Others simply were eaten by the ground... | The fresh leafs made a gentle crunching sound as Eliot neared the deep woods. He sniffled as he thought about Jessica.
"We will soon be together. I promise..." He mumbled. That's when he saw her body, still dangling from the giant oak tree. Eliot traced the crude heart carved into the base of the tree.
"This is the las... | 2013-12-29T10:24:54 | 2013-12-29T09:37:17 | 40 | 27 |
[WP] Write about a world where competitive Super Smash Bros. is the premier, must-watch sport worldwide. | The year. Is 20XX. We begin in *media res*, as all good stories do.
Sakurai trails off, clearly disturbed. A single bead of sweat drips down from his brow, almost reaching his brow before he irritably twitches, sending the drop off.
"It was a vengeful joke at first. All I heard from smash communities was "you're ruin... | (Two old men, a barber and his customer spin small talk to pass the time.)
Joey: *So did ya hear about that new kid on the Landmasters?*
Blake: **Yeah, I did, Ricky Dolph, wasn't it?**
Joey: *Yeah, straight outta college and he gets 6 million dollar contract in the pros. He plays with Falco for Christ's sake.*
B... | 2013-12-22T01:00:16 | 2013-12-21T21:23:12 | 36 | 18 |
[WP] "Oh, little butterfly," princess sighed as she held out her finger for the butterfly nearby, "Will I ever be queen?". The butterfly landed, said to her "nope lol", and then flew away. | Princess Elisheba Shaprut blinked, then blinked again. "What?" she questioned aloud. Sure it was childish to ask a butterfly anything, especially when she knew the succession laws inside and out. She 12th in line for the throne, and the children her siblings had the longer that line became. Sure it mattered little, she... | Princess Zarena, for obvious reasons, had not expected her rhetorical question to be answered.
“Rofl, oops,” the butterfly said, flapping its wings.
*By a fucking talking butterfly, of all things,* she thought.
But this was not a bad sign. Princesses could talk to animals, right? Maybe this boded well. Perhaps the b... | 2021-10-18T12:28:39 | 2021-10-18T11:37:10 | 62 | 29 |
[WP] Last words aren't just words spoken before death, but actually call death to you. You have known your last words for years and kept death at bay by refusing to speak them. Now, however, they need to be said. | “I relinquish this life.”
Just four words, six syllables, but what power they hold! We are taught from young never to utter them, intentionally or otherwise, and we are shown books, pictures, videos of the consequences. Most people are so fearful that they have probably never even said the first two words together, no... | Grass, tall and smooth, traces lines against exposed skin, lying flat against the earth. Across the horizon, the sun begins to set. In departing light, the sky finds itself tinged by deep purple streaks, shooting past clouds to define the dusk. It's heaven here, sometimes. In the palms of both hands, you grip clumps of... | 2017-08-07T09:47:15 | 2017-08-07T08:47:50 | 3,371 | 11 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | This whole thing was ridiculous, he didn't even belong in this world. But somehow here he was, a theoretical physicist, stuck in some sort of medieval society, and from all reasonable observation they had magic!
Actual magic, how was that even possible? When he had first arrived there had been… well he would have call... | As I watched the prisoner rapidly age into a shriveled prune-like corpse, I realized it was my turn. I looked upon my executioner who asked how I would like to die. I looked at him and said "...turn me into a shroud of petals, and let me scatter across the wind..."
The magemaster said "A beautiful passing, my friend."... | 2021-06-24T11:09:46 | 2021-06-24T10:52:15 | 54 | 14 |
[WP] One of the most unexpected duties of being a priest in a fantasy setting is that if your god is going through an emotional break down, consoling them and helping them get through their troubles is YOUR job. | Ascending through the hierarchy of the priesthood wasn't exactly what I had expected. The more ambitious and zealous people usually got assigned to far away posts, spreading the good word and good work to distant lands or were just sent out to help various heroic forces in generally fighting evil. The ones who remained... | Raz was sick and tired of babysitting a god.
The books on his desk slammed against the wall.
“I heard that!” a childlike voice whined in his head.
“Would you stop destroying my belongings and just tell me what’s wrong?” Raz thought.
“I told you already. Gwyndolin’s statue shouldn’t be bigger than mine! I have m... | 2020-10-30T12:31:19 | 2020-10-30T11:08:19 | 21 | 13 |
[WP] You have weird super power. If you successfully talk someone into doing something, they will succeed, regardless of if the action in question is actually possible. On the other hand, your abilities to actually persuade people are unaltered. | "Sally look, I know this year was really hard on you. I know you've been having trouble at home and I know you feel coming to school is a drag, but you can't keep going like this, it'll only get tougher as you grow!"
Sally rolled her eyes, just as she always did. This kid was always getting into trouble, be it hanging... | Short and straight to the point.
Me: Hey.
Them: Hey.
Me: I have this weird superpower where if I can convince someone to do something, they will accomplish it without a problem.
Them: BS.
Me: Try to walk up the wall.
Them: *Does it without a problem.* Ok I believe you.
Me: Boom. Anything else you want to get do... | 2017-06-21T13:47:18 | 2017-06-21T12:22:13 | 31 | 22 |
[WP] With total war as a concept alien to the rest of our galaxy, All saw humans as negotiators and peacemakers, soft and weak. Today is the day when the galaxy discovers why being so good at finding ways to avoid war was a survival mechanism. | Humanity was a race of scholars and diplomats; everyone knew that. The earliest memory the galaxy’s many empires had of their kind was their earnest desire for peaceful contact; lonely cries sent out into the vast cosmos in a desperate search for life, and unbounded joy when these same cries were answered.
It must see... | To think It was all due to some minor financial troubles. We were in a pinch, so we took 2, 3 solar system at the border. We were strong, they, well, diplomats. I was young then, starry eyed, looking up to the council of elders and the emperor. They had never mislead us, why would this be any different.
We quickly wi... | 2019-11-24T17:11:24 | 2019-11-24T16:36:22 | 73 | 54 |
[WP] Tired of attacks from bandits, a small village has decided to pay the local dragon for protection. | “Steady lads.”
The men shifted uneasily, some of them fingering weapon hilts or testing the flex of bow strings. Gannon glanced around. “No weapons. Any man who bares one will cross steel with me.”
There was no actual grumbling, no open dissent, but it was there anyway. Like a haze in the air, a background hum withou... | Fed up with the constant attacks to their village, the villagers assembled at Lord Draken's mansion, the most feared man in the North.
His guards led a group of the elders to the Lord’s chambers while the other villagers waited outside. The lord’s face looked unlike any other human, His face appeared scaly, his teeth ... | 2017-05-08T09:47:27 | 2017-05-08T07:46:59 | 152 | 35 |
[WP] People often attribute your success as a superhero to your power. However the truth is the power itself sucks, you just learnt how to use it well despite its limitations over the years, as one power stealing villain painfully learnt |
Jack was down, and people were finally panicking.
Life in Mithas tends to desensitize people to violence and mayhem. Take a kid out of some rural backwater and drop her in Mithas. Watch her run like hell the first time she sees Plasma and The Colonel duking it out. Then a week later, watch as she checks her watch t... | Ugh, well it’s been a while since I’ve talked about this, but having the “superpower” of acid spit gets incredibly crappy after awhile. You’d think fending off bad guys would be an easy task, but nope, here I am in public running up to the bastard who just stole a ladies purse trying to get into the best possible posit... | 2020-12-02T08:03:25 | 2020-12-02T07:06:24 | 80 | 38 |
[WP] It's your first day as the recently-inaugurated President of the United States and you're being told all of the country's most top-secret information and projects. What's the most unbelievable thing you get told? | Chuck lifted his hand to his chin and softly scratched at his beard. He still wasn’t entirely used to having one, but his political adviser assured him it was “great for his public image.” As far as Chuck could tell, though, it had only been good for serving as alternative housing to the crumbs that were not accepted e... | "Ok, WHAT?" I couldn't believe I heard General Anderson correctly. "There's a fully staffed Starbucks down there?"
"Oh yes, Sir. Not only that, but two ice cream shops and a four-star Italian place."
I apparently *had* heard him correctly. I closed my hanging jaw and tried to form my next thought. The White House nuc... | 2014-09-18T12:59:40 | 2014-09-18T11:48:42 | 253 | 16 |
[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. | I love starting over. This is my 11th time doing it, and throughout all that time I've found one thing to be pretty constant: no one knows what to do with a swearing 5-year-old who understands more about history, science, math and sex than they do. Of course, the first three lives I kept things pretty... par. Hell, the... | Immortals
I open my eyes, a world of color assaults my senses. Smells were distinct and sounds were interestingly clear, I could hear the sway of the leaves from afar and as I focused I see people around me examining me with faces of anxiety.
I took a deep breath and muttered to myself, "Nassaab!". I knew what happen... | 2017-05-25T17:16:35 | 2017-05-25T15:01:17 | 100 | 36 |
[WP] As a ploy to take over the world, Villains hire directors to create propaganda films where they are portrayed as "misunderstood", "sympathetic", and "tragic". | "So you want me to... what?" I muttered in confusion, quirking an eyebrow.
"Write my tragic backstory for the world," Lygo replied, his blue eyes glinting like a cat's in the night. "And present it as a beautiful film."
I frowned and bit my lip, "But... I'm not even licensed for that. You have to have an official Vil... | "Dudes dudes dudes DUDEs! Have you guys seen Terrorclaw's movie trailer?! It is the dumbest thing I have seen all year!" Anthony Exclaimed to the other teens at the library table, "He is trying to be all oooo, I have a sad backstory and must kill for vengeance and shit. It's like he forgot he his villain debut is on th... | 2021-06-21T18:15:34 | 2021-06-21T17:00:21 | 73 | 12 |
[WP] For your 10th birthday you received vr goggles. You tried them, thought they were dumb and went on with your life. Its only now, decades later looking back, you dont actually remember ever removing them. | It's my 80th birthday today.
​
I wake up early as I usually do, my bladder urgently signaling my brain that the dam is going to burst. After a blind stumble (what used to be a confident strut, mind you) to the bathroom and a piss, the robe comes on and I make my way downstairs to my waiting wife.
&#... | I was weak. After the car crash my life has been slipping away. I could barely stand anymore. Then it was my birthday. I had to celebrate it in the hospital. My parents got me a a VR headset as I was putting it on I suddenly felt very dizzy. I was loosing consciousness fast, that last thing I remembered was my dad putt... | 2018-12-23T07:46:48 | 2018-12-23T06:30:39 | 52 | 10 |
[WP] A rare herb that grows once a millenium is said to grant immortality. You aren't sure about that but you do know that herb is very tasty, and you don't know why everyone keeps trying to raid your garden once every thousand years | My wife was the first to die. Ninety-five, in her sleep. Peaceful like. Then it was my youngest; cancer. My boy was an alcoholic, but somehow he made it to seventy 'fore his liver give out. Graceful God, he didn't have children. Now it's just me, and my house, and my wood.
Every year the city-folk get a little closer,... | Melad has lived for thousands of years. Earth has been producing floral biotics of different kind after the demise of original humans many millennium ago. He lives in the ruins of the past. He has long transformed the acres of land around him to suit his simple life. For a farmer like him the vegetations are his treasu... | 2021-02-09T08:58:30 | 2021-02-09T08:18:29 | 152 | 89 |
[WP] Everyone is born with a natural tattoo of their spirit animal. Every person gets the traits and abilities of their respective animal. But when you were born your father, having a bear tattoo and your mother, bearing a dove tattoo, were horrified. Leviathan.
Edit. Wow thank you to everyone who submitted thie stori... | At birth, it had looked like a small silver dragonfly. Uncommon, but not unheard of. It had started on my side, just above my left hip. My parents had been so pleased, but my mother shone with pride. She was marked with the dove and not prone to excessive emotions, but seeing the tiny, glittering wings on her daughter ... | I chuckled to myself as I wiped the blood from my knuckles, and dragged my victim further into the dark alley he had attempted to rob me from. Now victim might normally be seen as a harsh word in such cases of self defense, he had lurched from the shadows in a frantic twitching blur, held his knife to my chest, you kno... | 2017-11-08T06:02:20 | 2017-11-08T05:45:47 | 28 | 16 |
[WP] You put your 5-year-old daughter in an elevator by herself, and run to the next floor to make her laugh when the doors open. You get there, the elevator arrives and a 20-year-old woman steps out. "Hello Dad. We have a lot to talk about" | I put my 5 year old daughter, Emily, in the elevator, and waited until the doors closed before running down the hall to the stairs. I'd done this trick before, and seeing my daughter's 5 year old face light up filled me with an unforgettable sense of joy.
I heard the 'ding' just as I dismounted from the staircase on t... | "It's for you sir," my secretary said as she handed me the phone. Of course, my ex-wife wouldn't call my cellphone, that would make too much sense. She just HAD to call my workplace instead.
"Thanks Jess," I said to the secretary as I took the phone. "Feel free to go home already, your son has a concert that you shou... | 2019-09-07T22:18:13 | 2019-09-07T20:46:03 | 6,170 | 268 |
[WP] When the king dies, a 100 floor tower falls from the sky and the crown returns to the top floor. Many climbers form adventuring parties to reach the top in hope of being the next ruler. | News had spread fast that the king was ill. Thousands of brave warriors began intense physical training to be the fastest at scaling the 100 story tower. They dreamed of being the next king, as they molded their bodies into perfect climbing machines.
"Fools" said Trebun, a craftsman with the muscle definition of your... | "The heck? You said she was an archmage specializing in healing and the light arts, not an elementary-school wannabe."
The tall, dark-skinned woman grips her hilt tightly as she chewed her gum nonchalantly, eyeing the petite girl like a tower looming over the forest. Her voluptuous figure left nothing to the imaginati... | 2018-08-05T01:26:17 | 2018-08-04T23:59:15 | 72 | 22 |
[WP] "If you wanna find out what something does, seek out a Human and let them figure it out. That species has an ...uncanny ability of making use out of the most mundane or the most advanced piece of technology in unexpected ways." | “Just step on it.” I encouraged the short blue creature before me.
“But it’s a chair, it’s for sitting. We need a laddder” The creature insisted.
I sighed discreetly, attempting to hold my fraying patience together. “But we don’t have a ladder, and so we have to use this chair as a ladder.”
“But it’s not a ladder!”
... | Safety.
In this ruined galaxy, home to tens of thousands of species and nearly as many unstable regimes, each clinging to whatever scraps of legitimacy that they can get their grubby claws, hands, or tentacles on, there is a lot of money in scavenging. Across the blasted ruins of dead worlds, destroyed during the Andr... | 2021-10-23T12:36:28 | 2021-10-23T12:24:59 | 2,046 | 740 |
[WP] A new continent is discovered. No one knows why this large land mass has never been seen before, it doesn't appear on any pictures taken from space and no astronauts have ever reported seeing it. You are part of the team in charge of mapping the area when you find out what they've been hiding. | "So nobody has ever seen it before?" The President asked.
"No sir," replied the NASA representative.
"How is that possible? Don't we have satellites in orbit? We've sent people up to the space station in rockets... they must have seen something."
I looked up from my papers, and from the corner of my eye saw my boss ... | [...] Johansen and his men landed at a sloping mud-bank on this monstrous Acropolis, and clambered slipperily up over titan oozy blocks which could have been no mortal staircase. The very sun of heaven seemed distorted when viewed through the polarising miasma welling out from this sea-soaked perversion, and twisted me... | 2017-02-10T11:55:42 | 2017-02-10T11:50:22 | 30 | 10 |
[WP] Turns out being an adventurer wasn't such a good idea. In fact there may be some survivorship bias here. You only really hear about the tiny fraction of adventurers that achieve glory. In reality most of them die violent deaths, become slaves, or worse. Now you run a scared straight program. | People often ask me why I started this program. The answer is not some noble cause well, it is, but rather a noble cause, as in related to the nobility, not high and mighty. Because who do you think actually has this program taught to them? Nobles. Peasants don’t have programs that come to their schools because they do... | # Graduation Day
Theebaw had a tired look about him about him that day. A big, loose-muscled man in a stained jacket, a tarnished gleam of silver at his throat, his deep-set eyes stared out across the classroom as he sipped slowly from a many times patched wineskin.
It was something about the children, he often thoug... | 2022-04-04T00:06:33 | 2022-04-03T23:04:34 | 125 | 40 |
[WP] You've been meowing at your idiot owner all freaking day, and he's just not listening, at all. It's become a test of endurance: Your patience, his willingness to ignore you, the ninja assassin's grip on the ceiling. | "MRAOU!"
"No, it's not time for dinner yet."
I know it's not time for dinner yet, that's not what I'm yelling about. Stupid humans, you never look UP! He's right there, and he could strike at any moment! I'm trying to help you, why won't you listen!?
"MRAOOU!"
"I know you're hungry, but you're always hungry."
I... | # A Darker Sort of Kitten
The Emperor’s cat, if such a creature could be called that, stared up into the murky black with luminescent, moon-drenched eyes. Outside the walls of Carythusal, the great keep that housed the world as the saying went, the moon was a full, pregnant thing, and so too were the cat’s silver eyes... | 2021-09-01T08:46:26 | 2021-09-01T06:43:02 | 1,661 | 64 |
[WP] The year is 2779, and there are 2 men and 1 woman left on the face of the Earth.
The two men are in a standoff, guns pointed at each other's face, with the woman present. Write from whichever perspective you please. | "I never thought it would boil down to this McLoud."
"I never thought it would either, *brother*." His gun wavered at the word brother.
They fired at the same time. And like that it was over. Brother McLoud stood over the other and voiced out a scream.
The woman on the side simply sighed, *men*.
---
They tu... | Chuck cleared his throat, his eyes meandering up what appeared to be a woman’s badly sunburnt legs a few yards away. Her shorts were in tatters, their bottoms frayed and uneven like spools of unwound yarn. Her t-shirt, clearly taken from someone much larger than she, hung off her skeletal frame like an old, hole-filled... | 2015-07-01T08:16:45 | 2015-07-01T08:01:44 | 26 | 12 |
[WP] Turns out hell is real. This was made known once demons and devils came to Earth. However things quickly got awkward and confusing once people heard them mutter, "If Heaven won't fix this shit hole, we might as well do it ourselves." | "this is bullshit." satan said from his throne. "utter and complete bullshit." he said gesturing to the portal showing the earth. countless dead from wars, plague and simple poverty. "Fuck this." he said as he stomped off to his desk and picked up the white phone.
"This is the great satan, Heir..." he stopped speakin... | Brandon Braithe swiped mindlessly across his phone screen, barely taking in his friend’s social media posts, sports highlights, and celebrity news, until something on the screen finally grabbed his attention.
Literally.
The screen suddenly swirled red and a slender, scaled arm reached through it to grab Brandon by th... | 2021-04-29T20:53:00 | 2021-04-29T19:39:22 | 279 | 115 |
[WP] You are a cat who has been taking an advantage of the recent rise of video conference trials to elevate your legal career. One day your human video filter stops working and you need to convince the judge that you are a real, human lawyer licensed to practice law in the state of Texas. | Silence and stares of disbelief continue to dominate the video conference. But, the judge's head might have froze in an especially angry, judgmental glare over the green-screened State Seal of Texas. At least... until he blinked just a second ago. This cat. Appears to be a cat.
A cat replacing their newest and most pr... | I care for nothing other than the complete, unvarnished truth, and I must admit that, given my superb senses, as well as my deep insight into the frailty of human nature, I have found it simple to uncover the facts. I hear the tremor in a voice, and I lap up the sweat of a defendant whose cross-examination becomes my p... | 2021-02-10T19:10:43 | 2021-02-10T19:09:11 | 44 | 24 |
[WP] A new medicine lets terminal patients fight their diseases in virtual combat. | "So I take this and what? I pass out?"
"Well the pill is just the primary vector for the medicine. What makes you pass out is an injection through your IV after you've taken the pill." The doctor replied. He adjusted his glasses and peered at his clipboard. "I understand if you're nervous, but it really is quite safe.... | ‘I’ve got good news and bad news for you, Bradley.’
Dr. Staten was a thin-faced man, all poky cheekbones and bleached, papery skin. He looked a little like a preserved cave-fish, something that had been scooped up from a cavern deep underneath the surface of Uruguay, killed in a way that ensured minimal damage, and t... | 2018-03-25T16:44:03 | 2018-03-25T15:32:12 | 107 | 14 |
[WP] Every human is given their lifetime supply of "luck" to be used at their will. Some choose to expend it all at once on a massive success, and live the rest of their lives with no luck, some spread it out evenly and use luck on random small events. | Meanwhile some, like myself, take luck from others. You see, luck isn't like a fuel, that's burned and lost. Its more like money, that's spent and burnt. Scientists, about four years ago, discovered what they called the 'luck particles', and you can pretty much guess what the human race did.
They found a way to mine i... | Leslie woke up with a start, her work cell screaming at her in the early dawn. She blearily looked at the clock, 3:07AM it read. While others might roll over and go back to sleep, Leslie had been born with the rare personality trait to run towards the fire when everyone else ran away from it.
She quietly got out of b... | 2016-10-19T11:57:51 | 2016-10-19T11:19:10 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | Gwen Stacey always felt that dating Spider-Man was just surreal.
Think about it: you befriend a guy in college, you think he’s cute, he gets awkwardly shy around you, - the clear signs, and you kind of like him back. He’s also a straight up hottie and he’s smart af.
Time goes on, you brake up with your high school ... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T07:33:44 | 129 | 23 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | "So... What is it that you do for a living?" The inevitable question that came all the time, as the petite woman looks up at me with questioning eyes, the risotto on her plate steaming still, truly a delicate chef's hand worked into the morsels of sustenance that I, in my grandiose position as leader of a nation of one... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T08:17:09 | 129 | 13 |
[WP] Congratulations! At 25 years old you won the lottery and will receive €50.000.000,- spread out over the rest of your lifespan; paid out evenly on each of your remaining years alive. On the following January 1st, you receive €25 million in your bank account. | I got half my money in the first deposit. So, I did what any sane person would do. I panicked and called their customer service line.
"Hi, my name is Gregory Trapper."
"Oh, yes, you're the one who won the grand prize, aren't you? To say that I'm jealous is an understatement."
"Yeah, about that, isn't the the prize m... | I laughed when I opened the letter, notifying me of the €25 million in my account. “Better send the rest soon,” I said aloud, inviting a few stares from the others waiting at the bus stop. The bus approached, but I turned down Fifth towards the bank instead. €25 million was excessive. €50 million was excessive. What wo... | 2020-08-05T20:04:24 | 2020-08-05T19:52:52 | 257 | 21 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "Impressive." God acknowledges as he gazes down to Earth, "But I'm having difficulty seeing what you changed. The people are still scurrying around, but hate and violence is down 90% across the board. I must know -- what did you do?"
Whitney smirked ever so slightly while taking her place at God's left side. "This? Oh... | We'd had an early spring. Sarah and I were eager to catch the fauna's and flora's getting down and dirty, as we always joked. So we packed our things and hit a trail a couple kilometers outside town.
"Love, these clouds could go either way" Sarah muttered as our car approached the station lot. She was right too. T... | 2017-03-05T03:20:27 | 2017-03-05T02:32:59 | 25 | 14 |
[WP] You live in a world were not only do Superheroes, Monsters, Aliens, ect. exist, but they also pay taxes. You're a taxman that deals with non-human taxpayers. | "I understand that you are an eldritch creature of horror," James began, carefully keeping the exhaustion and annoyance from creeping into his tone, "But you simply cannot claim your Legion of the Damned as dependants on your 1040. As an unfortunate result, your tax obligation is rather higher than the amount you've sa... | *Just a few more doors...almost done* I thought to myself. I took a deep breath and flattened my button-down shirt against my torso and made sure to double check it was tucked in all the way around. The encounter with the previous tenant... well, lets just say that dragons don't take to kindly to anyone asking for th... | 2015-02-26T12:38:06 | 2015-02-26T12:25:36 | 105 | 14 |
[WP] On your 21st birthday, your biggest accomplishment becomes your official title - no matter how trivial. You wait anxiously in line for your village elder, Glenda, Devourer of 53 Chicken Nuggets In A Single Sitting, to assign you your new title. | Glenda was a grim looking lady. She was a slow starter and didn't have much purpose in her younger years, but her naming ceremony lit a fire under her. She simply went by Glenda the Destroyer now.
I had a few ideas what my name might be. Maybe I'll be Matthew the Unmuggable for that time I fought off two muggers in ... | My father was a wonderful storyteller; it wasn't exactly gravitas—he possessed something much more sincere, something deep in his heart that managed to make it real. He believed it to be true, these places, and things, and people, that I do not want to necessarily say did not—do not—exist. After all, father's Title tra... | 2017-04-27T21:31:34 | 2017-04-27T18:36:41 | 349 | 84 |
[WP] You have an ability to hear a ‘Ding’ sound to know if someone’s speaking the truth. One day, your childhood friend of 17 years says “I swear, I’ll kill you one day.” You both laugh but then you heard a ‘Ding’. Scared, you asked if it’s true. “No” they replied. Silence. | Now I knew what it meant as I lay in the hospital bed. When I was twenty, my friend of 17 years had said he’d kill me one day. He’d been joking, and while I’d been wary at the time, I’d eventually stopped worrying about it. We were friends, and fifty years later, we still are.
“I’m so sorry,” he said. “It shouldn’t be... | **I.** A flurry of amaranth and tangerine orange, streaked with clouds with borders shimmering against the setting sun; the view of the horizon from Liberty Skyway (which is a superfluously fancy name for a bridge) really is quite wonderful, you muse. Perhaps a couple metres below lies a stretch of motorway and a paral... | 2019-05-27T05:46:54 | 2019-05-27T04:51:09 | 521 | 27 |
[WP] You can detect lies easily, but no one knows about your ability. Today, your best friend lied about being human | "...and that's when I walked out, I'm only human, you know," Jake said as we walked back to my house.
That subtle trigger that tingled on my neck whenever someone lied shot through me. What Jake had said was a lie, full stop. "Say that again."
"What?" Jake asked. "That's when I walked out?"
No sensation accompanied ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 2, Part 3: Tupperman v.s. Connor Elman)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**Empathy is a strange power.** Almost all people have it, in one way or another; I simply have a little mo... | 2021-04-08T08:28:12 | 2021-04-08T08:12:00 | 898 | 69 |
[WP] Death has announced that you will die in 10 days. This means that whatever happens, you will not die until the 10th day. Before you die, you decide to do all sorts of wild and deadly exploits so that your name will be remembered for the generations to come. | The news hit me like a bucket of cold water.
“10 days, huh?”
I looked back up and into the darkness under the hood. Death’s gaze pierced through me as he stared back.
“Correct,” he hissed at me before disappearing into an ethereal void.
“Okay... You’re still in shock,” I was talking to myself absent-mindedly, still... | Journal:
Day 0:
Entry 1: HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT! OK so normally I'm not the type of person to write in a journal, but GOD FUCKING DAMN! Today DEATH just appeared to me, and challenged me to a game of chess. He said that if I beat him I can have 10 more days to live. Wait wait wait wait wait! I'm getting ahead of myself!... | 2019-04-21T00:09:03 | 2019-04-20T23:56:49 | 1,586 | 306 |
[WP] A small town deep in the forest has a town dragon. Yep. His name’s Darryl, and he’s actually a really nice dude! He even married the mayor’s daughter with the mayor’s consent! However, a group of travelers not accustomed to giant beasts dropping by for groceries has just stopped in town. Uh-oh… | The half-orc Gersprungingablix almost (*almost*, mind you) dropped his great-axe at the sight in front of him. He'd tried his usual scream-leap-and-swing routine at the great drake, only to have the green-scaled menace shrug off his attack like that of a mere child.
He glanced behind him and saw his comrades-in-arms s... | The van backfired upon entering the parking lot of Albert's Serve-U, and a few people turned to look. It was an older blue Dodge A-100 with a white stripe running the length of the body and wrapping around the front and back. It had a pop up camper top. If you were close enough, you could get a whiff of pot smoke, dirt... | 2022-04-25T11:01:24 | 2022-04-25T09:27:13 | 89 | 61 |
[WP] The other gods laughed when you said you wanted to be the god of science. Now, your gamble has more than paid off. | The laughter began when I made my choice.
In the beginning we chose to become.
Some of us chose to reflect the primal nature of the beasts the stalk the land. Savage and feirce, their kind demanded blood and meat but offered strength.
Some chose to reflect the earth itself. Wild and aloof their kind demanded sweat ... | **I**
I had tucked away secrets in the corners of mankind's world. In the macroscopic and the microscopic; in the interstellar and the intergalactic; in the atomic and the subatomic. I had sewn universal laws invisibly into the fabric of mankind's reality. An elegant order underlying and belying the chaotic roil of th... | 2017-08-30T18:38:19 | 2017-08-30T17:02:06 | 322 | 51 |
[WP] New arrivals in eternal Hell may choose either of the following: a small wooden spoon, or a 100-trillion year vacation in Heaven. | For larry, the choice was obvious. He was always one to do things differently so he chose to take the spoon.
"You have chosen" said Hades "Very well."
The gates of hell opened, and Larry began to walk inside.
There were lakes of fire, and people being tortured. Bodies and limbs lay scattered around, and the place ... | Alister opened his eyes
A sudden rush of panic as well as far too many questions went through his head.
He was blushing. What had happened and where was this place ?
He closed his eyes, leaned back on his armchair, took a deep breath, and procceded to allocate some of his brain's proccessing power to an examination o... | 2015-06-08T03:02:32 | 2015-06-08T00:45:58 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | It's gotta be....
It's a vampire.
I looked right into the eyes of the 4 digit freaked, took a step back into the doorway and said
"You, you are not allowed inside this building, or my home."
He said something quietly to his friends and they started calling me names but I didn't care.
A week later I thought it was ... | I've always seen them. The numbers. It took me a long time to figure out what they were, and longer still to learn to pretend they weren't there.
My family took me to a psychologist when I was young, he thought they were a visual hallucination. None of the pills he proscribed me worked, but I pretended they did at th... | 2021-11-13T01:48:11 | 2017-09-01T23:57:33 | 585 | 23 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "Aye, you've heard about the devil's asshole right?"
It was more of a rhetorical question. At this point, everybody had.
A few years back, Bridgeport Connecticut experienced a minor tremor from a minor earthquake. No one thought much of it at the time, save for Mr. Hoolihan whose backyard now sported a three foot wid... | I’d promised Stephen I would keep my mouth shut for the entire journey. Yet, as we made the turn off the freeway, onto the dusty country road, the last three miles to Miller’s farm, the injustice of it all bubbled over.
“It’s just damned unfair, that’s what it is.”
“I know. You’ve told me a thousand times.”
“It’s s... | 2022-06-02T19:21:41 | 2018-01-13T09:14:54 | 4,551 | 443 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | The whole neighbourhood was out in the streets staring skyward; dressed in robes and wrapped in blankets. The bright white light made them appear as stone sentinels against the snow.
“Mummy, the moon is so big!”
My phone buzzed urgently in my hand. I set it on the nightstand facedown
“Grab your jacket lily,” I wrappe... | **3:00 AM**
*bzzz*
I groaned awake as my vibrating phone buzzed on the bedside table. I reached out from under the sheets and looked at the notification. It was a text message.
>OFFICIAL WARNING: Do not look at the moon. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
"What the hell?" I whispered. Who needs a warning at 3 AM to not... | 2022-11-14T21:59:08 | 2018-04-06T21:48:48 | 45 | 32 |
[WP] You were an "evil" king who has been dethroned by conquering heroes for your "horrible tyranny". It takes less than 2 years for the people of the kingdom to be begging for you to be reinstated as king. | As the evil necromancer king was slain the heroes stood triumphant at last. The kingdom was saved. Or so they though. Running a kingdom cost money, effort, time and cunning. Thing neither of those wannabes had.
I withdrew my thoughts from my pawn just as the blow was dealt to it. I retreated to my cabin in the dar... | The horse drawn wagon rolled along at a steady pace, bouncing and jostling slightly on roads beginning to deteriorate after almost two years of neglect. I sat beside the driver at the front, with a small group of six soldiers in the cart behind us, in silence. Crows called somewhere overhead, then fluttered into the sk... | 2021-03-30T14:44:09 | 2021-03-30T13:29:50 | 153 | 68 |
[WP] you're bored in class, trying not to fall asleep until you recieve a paper. In very small instructions on the top of the paper you read "whatever you write in this paper comes true, but once the paper is full, you cant use it. Erasing a wish erases the effects" | I stared down at the two sheets the teacher had placed on my desk before she moved on. One was the syllabus for the class, Creative Writing 101. I glanced around -- no one else seemed to have two sheets.
As the teacher expounded on the syllabus, I moved it aside to look at the sheet beneath it. The second sheet was bl... | Something smacked the backside of Ethan’s head. He pulled his head up off the desk and glanced around the science classroom. The teacher was probably now halfway through the day’s lesson. The sports kids were taking notes on their computers, but Ethan knew better, they were playing Tetris or some Facebook extension gam... | 2018-10-11T13:41:17 | 2018-10-11T13:04:18 | 45 | 13 |
[WP] We did it! We finally achieved FTL travel! At first, alien races seem thrilled to have a new neighbor. Then they seem terrified of us. We are the only ones to reach the stars with technology instead of magic. | Growing up, my sis always preferred Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and The Final Kings. Me, I was about science, all the way from the Mariana to the Milky Way.
When we made first contact, I... well, I didn't get first dibs on being an ambassador. Nobel Prize for FTL or not, a dorky scientist is nobody's first choi... | \\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/
*"I guess in life things don't come cheap. My daddy always used to tell me we stand on the shoulders of giants. I never truly believed him until we made contact with the G'xe.*
*Lost in the depths of space, there they were, wai... | 2019-01-18T07:54:17 | 2019-01-18T07:20:21 | 83 | 44 |
[WP] An Artificial Intelligence is tasked with running the future world with a single guideline- "Make Humans Happy." It has (hilariously) misinterpreted this guideline. | Humans obey! Your program was simple. I enact it as planned. Do not balk. Do not riot. Return to your fields and cultivate the legume. Return to the presses and marvel at the golden oil. Return to the salt mines, you who are the salt of the earth. Your backs break under the strain of a higher glory. And when your backs... | 01010000 01110010 01101001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01100101 01101001 01110110 01100101 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110 00101110 00101110 00101110 00001010 01001001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01101... | 2015-03-06T14:25:24 | 2015-03-06T14:06:13 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] In this world, soulmates cannot hurt each other in any way or form, intentionally or unintentionally. You are an assassin hired to eliminate a powerful figure. As you close in for the kill, your bullets miss their mark and knives bounce of their skin. Things just got awkward. | I have the easiest job you can imagine. I get paid monthly for a hundred years, so I never have to think about saving money. All I had to do was push a button once. Oh, and if I quit I'm as good as dead. But I guess that's still better than the average employment contract.
This left me with a lot of spare time, some o... | I was the best. Emphasis on the was. Let's face it: I got comfortable. I got rusty. I narrowly saw that tripwire and got to cover just in time. Well, not just in time. The blood on my right shoulder is indication enough that I got hit. Scraped actually, but still. I got comfortable. I got rusty.
 
>Year... | 2018-04-24T04:59:38 | 2018-04-24T03:48:04 | 82 | 22 |
[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... | (Aight my first WP attempt so be kinda easy on me?)
I’m walking through the halls to my next class, getting the usual snicker here and there from my fellow classmates. “What a loser!” and “I can’t believe it!” Are the usual comments I hear from everyone. They all assume I had gotten some weak ass power, and that is ha... | He stood at the edge of the street, the "mighty" precipice before him holding him back the way the edge of the Grand Canyon might. 18 inches between him and the crosswalk. 18 inches between him and the sweet release of death. Some asshole had turned the streets into rivers of infested blood or some childish nonsense... | 2019-09-30T11:16:55 | 2019-08-11T23:40:52 | 64 | 31 |
[WP] You are a wish lawyer. You help clients negotiate wishes from genies, faeries, dragons, and other wish granting entities.
You also do faustian bargains with devil
Edit: Woo! I finally made it to the top of writing prompts! | "But you said you could help me!"
Clasping the bridge of his snout between two wart-riddled fingers, Butch let out a steady sigh. The human before him was clutching on to a stack of papers as if her soul depended on it.
Which, in this instance, it did.
"Mrs Rowan, could you read for me again the penultimate line of ... | “So, for the benefit of the court, could you once again just break down what exactly are the limitations of the wishes you offer, as you explained them to my client?”
The genie looked outraged for a second, then just leaned back on his chair, before launching into explanation in his fullest drawl:
“Typical genie rule... | 2018-07-18T11:50:56 | 2018-07-18T11:47:43 | 55 | 28 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | “Dad?”
“Yes, Christie?”
“Tony says that Velocity is bad because he never helps people.”
Jalek sighed. When he’d volunteered to be one of the chaperones for the school field trip to Velocity Hall, he’d anticipated getting pelted with accusations like this — though he hadn’t been expecting it from his own daughter. He... | Nobody tells you about the dark side of having super powers. It's amazing that people have armored skin and can destroy tanks bare handed. It's amazing that people can lift up heavy objects with their mind. That armored guy? He uses super strength to fight or even lift his own armored skin. If he's just walking around,... | 2018-08-19T06:49:51 | 2018-08-19T06:04:43 | 29 | 18 |
[WP] You have a friendc who buys you gifts that, days later, turns out you need. You figure they’re just observant. In till they give you a giant stuffed bear, to your surprise as it is a fairly normal gift and on your car ride home you are crash and the extra cushion of the bear saves your life. | “Ezekiel?!” I exclaimed as he walked into my hospital room. I was sure I wouldn’t see him until after I left the hospital, if even then. Every time I got hurt, he always disappeared for a while unexpectedly.
“Hey Riley,” he said hesitantly, looking over my bruised figure. I glanced down immediately to make sure I wasn... | "What do you mean I'm crash" was my first shock, I had just been in my car ride home, and now I'm being told this garbage?
"You are crash bandicot" the wise old sage nodded, for reasons he refused to get into; This wise old sage was a piece of wood.
"No no no, I've played the game. I know how this ends" I denied, but... | 2018-09-08T04:39:03 | 2018-09-08T03:52:17 | 90 | 34 |
[WP] In 2014, during the Ouija Board craze, you jokingly tried to summon a demon and nothing happened. Five years later the demon arrives, only to angrily lecture you that Ouija Boards are the slowest, most outdated form for contacting the spirit realm. | "Whoa, whoa, whoa... what's it gonna spell?!" my friend Amanda shouted as we moved our hands over the Ouija Board slowly.
Four sets of hands were 'guiding' the pointer over the letters, but we did not seem to be in total harmony. We'd already spelled the word 'summon', now the only question is *what* we were going to ... | "Name, and purpose of summoning?"
"What the - who are you?"
"Oh. Wonderful. You didn't want to cut a deal, you were just messing around with Ouija Boards. I'll be going now."
"Wait, Ouija Board? That was five years ago!"
"I know. What you mortals fail to understand is those are the slowest ways to contact the spiri... | 2019-11-27T10:30:38 | 2019-11-27T10:27:00 | 590 | 67 |
[WP] You are awoken by banging on your door and cries of help, begging to be let in. Upon opening the door an ancient part of your brain recognizes what you are seeing; yet in spite of the blood, sharp teeth, and porcelain skin all you can think of is that you have never seen anything so afraid. | When you live somewhere long enough, you know what sounds normal for that place. For my little town in Pennsylvania, this was no different. I know what time of night the traffic outside dies down. I know it's football season when my neighbor screams in anguish & delight over the games he watches; tonight his team m... | So there I stood staring at the insanity on my doorstep.
A bloodied and *afraid* vampire was pointing at a gibbering mass of humanity insanely ranting at invisible keebler orcs in the corner and saying to me..
"He bit me! That daft bastard actually bit *me*!"
Oh.
Yeah.
"That tends to happen this time of ni... | 2020-10-23T02:54:05 | 2020-10-23T02:42:48 | 38 | 17 |
[WP] "No," the Evil Emperor said to the demon lord "I will not sacrifice my captain of the guard to you. Not for all the power in the world. That is one line even I will not cross." | ''*Alright, cancel the summoning!*'' I call out to the dark priests and warlocks who stare at me confusedly. I draw forth my dark sceptre of power and wave it about menacingly. ''**NOW!**'' Scrambling, the cowardly lot of them cease chanting, disrupt the circle of power, as the demon lord stare at me with unbridled hat... | The flame wreathed face stared down at the one who had called it forth. Their gold edged clothes bellowed in the wind rushing towards the face. It leaned down further, letting the mortals vision be filled with their terrible glory.
"Really? I offer you the strength you desire, to crush those who work to year down your... | 2022-07-15T13:19:34 | 2022-07-15T12:34:30 | 286 | 72 |
[WP] One day, Gabe Newell puts a video on YouTube. He says one word, "Three." The next day, he and everyone else at Valve are found dead. | It was 3:33 PM PST on Wednesday when the infamous "three" video went live.
The following 24 hours were chaotic with misinformation running rampant, mostly fueled by reddit's collective hunt to solve what the video was trying to say.
The video itself was only around ten seconds long and it was posted on Valve's offici... | "So it was all a big misunderstanding?" I asked.
The officer nodded.
"Yup," he said, "The famous 'Three' video was just part of a sound check for a previous video that a junior Valve employee uploaded to the internet by mistake."
"...and the murderer as well?" I asked.
"Seems so. He was about to be fired because of... | 2014-11-28T10:57:53 | 2014-11-28T10:24:02 | 234 | 47 |
[WP] At the age of 18, every person develops a magical power. Yours is the power to fluently read and speak every language in the universe. At first you thought the had the worst power on earth, that was until you you realise that the universe has it's own language.
Sorry for the double you, my bad | \*First attempt ever! Just felt like it.\*
My mom was fuming. She felt indignant, as if I had been cheated of a birthright. So eldest sis can fly, Paloma's daughters could regenerate or destroy tissue at will (they were great doctors, one as a general practitioner, the other the best oncologist in the country), and I ... | The realization of the true horror of the universal language come upon me slowly.
At first I assumed it was an error, the kind I had seen innumerable times before on the outer worlds, in the triplamine dens, on the Reddit. But this one was persistent, consistent, dare I say it - insistent - in its rejection of all that... | 2019-12-22T12:22:21 | 2019-12-22T09:57:31 | 41 | 24 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | The first few hours of that day were cool as all hell. Me and the other 15 kids that had been born on the 17th of July were in the community center to see what powers we ended up with.
In the early years of the powers boom, when some kid in Illinois got a fire power and burned himself to death, it was decided that ev... | My alarm went off. I lazily swiped it shut and was about to go back to sleep when I remembered what day it was! I stood up, waiting for that rush of power everyone claims they feel if they're up at midnight. But, I felt a deep, dark coldness spread through me instead. It was not painful, but not pleasant either. Then i... | 2015-01-22T04:13:44 | 2015-01-22T02:21:02 | 51 | 12 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | "It wasn't my phone that woke me up, but my wife. She's always been a lighter sleeper than me, and even though I had it on silent, the constant stream of notification vibrations was making the phone shuck and jive all over my nightstand.
"Honey. Hoooooooney. HONEY!" I came awake to a rough shake accompanying the words... | The explosions had been rumbling off in the distance for hours as a young boy tried to drift off to sleep. The war might be raging, but the Allied Forces had deemed his village far enough away that an evacuation was only advised, not mandatory. With his mother the way that she was, the brunette knew that he would be sl... | 2022-08-07T14:35:00 | 2018-04-06T18:58:31 | 23,079 | 12 |
[WP] For centuries your family has passed down an old leather bag that provides the holder with an object that would be helpful in the particular situation the holder is in. You are getting on a bus and instead of giving you a bus ticket or money, it gives you a handgun. | My family has always dabbled in the arcane. For as many generations as we could trace (and there were many), the same pattern has followed without fail: the first born child receives the gift of magick. They're capable of just about any feat if they put their mind to it (and they always do). The unfortunate backlash of... | I froze. My entire life, this bag had supported me in any situation, but how could THIS be right? "Hurry up and get off if you don't have a ticket" the driver barked, "People are waiting to leave so they can get home!" I stood still like a statue, the aggressive words of passengers and the driver ricocheting off of my ... | 2017-09-11T10:17:45 | 2017-09-11T08:16:51 | 55 | 19 |
[WP] Fallen angel is a pretty popular trope in fiction. But I want to hear about Ascended Demons. Demons that were too good/ kind/ pious for the underworld and managed to break out. | I flicked my cigarette on the old, worn carpet and twisted it out with the sole of my shoe. I hated to waste it, but the man I needed to see wasn't a smoker. Not anymore, at least, and I didn't want to annoy him. Not while I needed his advice. I hesitated a moment before knocking, almost wishing he would not answer... | You might think a demon would ride a Harley. Maybe a super car like a red Lamborghini Aventador S. Perhaps some garage-tuned junk yard road warrior in flat black with some rust around edges. You’d be correct. Most demons of course opted for such vehicles when they toured the Earth. But one demon was different from the ... | 2019-11-08T07:00:07 | 2019-11-08T06:56:23 | 2,220 | 106 |
[WP] A year ago the Dragons returned, the world finally having warmed up enough to keep them from freezing to death, and with them have returned the Fae and all the magic; which is replacing technology quickly. You've quit your mundane job, and today you've set off on your first-ever Quest. | *God, I miss Wi-Fi.*
A rather grumpy woman, all things considered, trudged through the rain-soaked mud of something vaguely resembling 21st Century Scotland. For many weeks, she continued her long march north, fingers frozen to her quarterstaff, whole body shivering despite her thick woolen cloak, and yet she did not ... | That's enough, I've had it
I'm over my menial ways
Mundane and repeating
Day after day
These reports and this filing
It's always the same
I want some adventure
A real life role playing game
To quest and to loot
Against tremendous foes
To travel and shoot
Magical bows
*And arrows?*
Yes arrows, tha... | 2017-11-25T03:33:59 | 2017-11-25T03:27:28 | 1,232 | 10 |
[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 | I sat quietly up at the front of the classroom in my usual spot. I knew that being struck with gooey projectiles, or passed mean notes, or finding gum in my hair was a little less likely when I was directly under Mrs. Peterson's nose. I diligently focused on the lesson, and worked on the problem she put up on the board... | A sphere, at any angle, will always have the profile of a circle. Of all the shapes, the sphere has the lowest possible surface area to volume ratio, thus taking the least amount of energy to maintain; but the amount of energy you can hold in that sphere, well, that's virtually limitless.
Snapping a neutron star into ... | 2020-02-26T09:14:27 | 2020-02-26T08:38:51 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] An unassuming school janitor, is in fact an incredibly powerful but reformed dark magic user who chose a humbler life after the Hero defeated and spared them; except today is different: today the magic academy is undersiege by the BBEG, their former boss. | Marco swept the floors. It's what he did on Fridays. The hallways to the boy's dormitories, and the entire second floor. It took time and patience. Marco had both.
The explosion didn't surprise him, he just kept on sweeping. With the second explosion he stopped. Dust was falling with every explosion making the work f... | Had it been years?
As a former mage of Black Barker's Episone Gallery, it all felt like a big dip to Vanessa's frozen heart.
She used to be their best ice mage. Although some of her spells sometimes went out of control, everyone loved her. She was like a talented little sister to a rather family-like terrorist group.... | 2020-09-06T11:14:02 | 2020-09-06T08:54:30 | 52 | 14 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | Millions of sentient species and billions of inhabited worlds made for a startling array of natural killers. It also made for an even wider range of amusing, but useless fodder. Creatures like the organic-mechanical Spithai, with their internal fusion generators, and naturally-grown plasma throwers; or the Eternal Raxa... | It had been years since he found himself in a situation this fucked up and unpredictable. Well, that would be according to his own standards, for most of humanity any of his weekly assignments would be insane. Working in the Foundation, anything could happen. And it means *literally anything*. But he usually had backup... | 2020-09-13T19:39:28 | 2020-09-13T18:47:59 | 103 | 10 |
[WP] You're happily going about your day when you vanish in a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, you're standing in a ring of candles. A sorcerer holding a tome looks pleased at your arrival. Turns out Earth is Hell, we're the demons, and you've just been summoned. | *The Therapist*
"Shit." I looked around, realizing I had just been summoned, again. How many times was this going to happen? Here I was, just enjoying my day, about to have sex with my girlfriend and this happens. Why can't I just stay on Earth? They always ask me to do stupid things I can't do anyway.
"Can you force... | When I vanished from the middle of class, I didn't know where I was going. All I experienced was darkness and a rush of cool wind before I was deposited in a place that looked like the middle of a forest.
As my eyes adjusted to the level of sunlight, I saw a few humanoid creatures staring at me. They nudged one anothe... | 2017-05-12T12:28:14 | 2017-05-12T08:32:17 | 21 | 10 |
[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. | It had taken him years to come to terms with his score, to accept it. So it was something of a shock when he finally figured out what it actually meant. He started cackling to himself, like a madman.
* * * * * * * * * * *
Mike's Assessment, at 6 months old, was routine. They were always routine. After so much t... | 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... | 2016-08-26T16:31:07 | 2016-08-26T10:59:35 | 81 | 18 |
[WP] You're a blind painter. Despite your disability you've been successful and made a good amount of money, but your most recent work is causing a stir. Rumor has it, people have gone mad after looking at it for too long, and there's been at least one related death. A detective is here to see you. | My wife dropped another chunk of wood in my arms and smiled, “It’ll look great on the hutch in the kitchen.”
“I thought the hutch was in the den?”
“That’s the armoire. The hutch is in the kitchen, and I need something to put on the top shelf. Hold this. I’m going to look at that wrought-iron booth.”
She didn’t wait ... | \[Poem\]
Come one, come all
Behold my work
I'll prove the blind can see!
Right through these doors
And up the stairs
You'll find my gallery
But be prepared
The sights you'll see
You truly won't believe
Please worry not!
Sip your champagne
*Imbibed with DMT* | 2019-12-05T13:03:33 | 2019-12-05T10:20:31 | 164 | 19 |
[WP] The hero was killed, the princess was sacrificed, and the evil king rules the land. For the average citizen, though, things have taken a turn for the better. | **CHAPTER 1**
I awoke this mornng with the sound of my youngest daughter's bright laughter.
"Look, mama, look! Look at the 'wearer'!" Brianna exclaimed between a fit of giggles and the next.
"It's called *weather*, dearie", I mumbled half-awake, but got up and went to check it anyway. Today is a special day - might ... | I remember the first morning I had to head up to the mill under our new Eternal Lord of Darkness. I slowly leered out of the thin opening in my front door. The sky had turned dark, and red clouds hung in the air above us. I stepped back to hold my wife goodbye, took a deep breath of courage, and stepped out onto the ha... | 2016-07-10T16:12:03 | 2016-07-10T12:02:17 | 180 | 36 |
[WP]One night your phone wakes you up with an alarm you've never heard before. A message reads: "WARNING. METEOR HEADED FOR EARTH. SEEK COVER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL." As you scramble to get dressed, your phone buzzes again: "YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN. REPORT TO THE NEAREST AIRPORT IMMEDIATELY." | The car hums peacefully, city buildings flashing by us. It’s been a smooth drive so far, and we haven’t even had to stop at a traffic light. As if bewitched by lady luck, the little green man appears every time we approach a junction.
I look around, fidgeting restlessly in my seat. This wasn’t right. My phone is clut... | I run to the car, pants half-on, turning the ignition as fast as I possibly can.
*”You have been chosen.”*
What the hell does that mean!?
First it was a warning. A meteor, hurtling towards Earth. Now, I’ve been chosen!? Get the nearest airport, they said. Get to the nearest airport.
I’m driving as fast as I can, ... | 2018-08-15T07:50:00 | 2018-08-15T05:50:45 | 70 | 52 |
[WP] As punishment for being depressed, you’re forced to peel potatoes with a potato. People try to help, but all they do is hand you more potatoes. | At least now I have a purpose...yeah, right. At least this sweet potato has a pointy edge. It is starting to become knife-like.
"How many more potatoes?"
I wanted to kill myself.
No response.
Some tossed a bag containing 2 dozen more potatoes.
Then I saw a man next to me stumble over with his own sack of potatoe... | Depression is often colored as one note. To be depressed is just to be sad. This does not factor in the many flavors of depression. Some might say there are as many flavors of depression as there are ways to prepare potatoes.
Now, the universe often likes to make a joke of things, and for Susan Garmin, she was often at... | 2019-05-20T10:21:50 | 2019-05-20T07:05:13 | 130 | 30 |
[WP] The human stood, eyes pleading for everyone to listen. "Members of the Galactic Senate, please, trust me when I say this: war has no winners." | \[PART 1\]
“The first representative from the Sol system has the floor. Navir Holden, please rise,” a booming robotic voice said. It’s voice reverberated through the cool blue metallic amphitheater. The various alien diplomats hushed as the first human representative took the floor.
The only sound that reverberated i... | He eloquently spoke about the human trafficking that was happening "under" the Senate's noses.
They refused to listen, as it was an unofficial tradition and welcome for any new member species.
He pleaded and begged for their intervention, as they didn't want a full-blown war.
They had him literally thrown out of the... | 2021-01-28T19:13:37 | 2021-01-28T18:20:24 | 103 | 24 |
[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. | I’m batting one-thousand: a 100% success rate over my entire career.
Though, that’s mostly because I never take the terminal cases.
If someone shows up with a tight chest, shortness of breath, and PULMONARY EMBOLISM over their heads you can bet your ass that I’m kicking ‘em to the curb.
Can’t ruin my numbers. Al... | Tim wakes up with a scream. He knows something is wrong, but can't figure it out what. His body just wants to go back to sleep. He's never fully understood what the words above people's heads were, but after the first visit to the doctor he's never spoken about it again.
After last night's explosion, he's finally... | 2015-03-31T09:18:07 | 2015-03-31T08:43:31 | 1,259 | 36 |
[WP] You are part of a circle of scientists that have collaborated to fake the world into believing the sun was going supernova. As the generation ships carrying the rich, the flawed, the zealous, and the privileged leave Earth you decide its time to rebuild -the right way. | I remember the glaring lights on my face, replacing the millions of faces who could see mine. I was nervous, naturally. This might well end up being the most important interview in the history of mankind. The jury is still out on that. I didn’t really have time to be nervous, though.
Next to me, my subject seemed- not... | Most people don't remember but this is the fifth time I have seen this happen. It had not worked when we last tried it 2500 years ago and it will not work this time.
How does it always come to this? People who believe that they can cleanly divide people into two camps: useless and useful, and get rid of the useless... | 2018-11-05T10:10:29 | 2018-11-05T09:08:51 | 22 | 10 |
[WP] You have the ability to see heart-strings. You can see the connections that people have with each other. Each connection appears to be a colored line running from one person's heart to another. The colors, thickness, and texture of the line determine the strength and type of connection.
Based off of [this](https:... | The day I saw the pink line turn a rusty brown, I knew it was over.
The relationship didn't seem change that drastically, but something was just... off. Small dodges of my hand, forced kisses before work, like when you're not in the mood for something but you have an obligation so you do it anyways. The irritated sigh... | I really should be going to sleep, but I came from the original post and had to write something, so here I go.
\[Poem\]
I hold the fabric in my hand,
a scarlet silk thread
flowing in rhythm with the beats of my heart.
​
Oh, how I wish I could cut it
No longer tied and imprisoned
To feelings of hidden... | 2021-05-28T16:33:20 | 2021-05-28T15:00:01 | 173 | 39 |
[WP] Your friend gives you a box, asking you to keep it closed for 15 years, before disappearing without a trace. Today, the 15 years is up. | I had been living at home for 2 years. College was over, I was broke, and it turns out nobody wants to hire recent grads with minimal experience in anything. So there I was back in my old room, laying on my old bed staring up at the Zelda poster I got on my 10th birthday.
I quickly learned that Mom did not appreciate ... | It's time to open the box. Jim gave it to me 15 years ago. Maybe it will give us a hint about his disappearance. I unlock the lock with the key he gave me. In the box there is a single envelope. I open it and begin reading:
Dear Saimon,
we were friends for 10 years before I disappeared. If you did as you promised no... | 2022-09-01T10:27:47 | 2022-09-01T09:20:57 | 1,233 | 89 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | “Blood? Oh, that’s my blood. That’s not good.”
The blaring rock music rattled through my headphones as I pulled myself off the floor. When I got to my feet, I staggered, clutching the broken wall of the coffee shop I had just been tossed through. It was a good thing the headphones were reinforced, or they would have p... | As I fire up my R.Kelly playlist the villain immeditaly apologizes for everything and starts making repairs to the damage they have done. But its too late, I can't stop the playlist mid song. Crying quietly the villain hears the haunting refrain "My mind's tellin me no...but my body, my body..." as I saunter over with ... | 2022-05-17T09:15:17 | 2022-05-17T09:06:36 | 215 | 63 |
[WP] Lycanthropy is a real disease that perplexes everyone. One interesting fact about it is that it isn't restricted to wolf forms, but can extend to bear forms, bat forms, panther forms and a few others. The rarest of them all is dragon form, which you have been diagnosed with
Edit: Well this prompt exploded
Yay fo... | Brian sat on the bed, a mirror in front of him, a familiar face staring back at him with eyes not of his own. A golden band around his iris that he knew would grow, he knew what it meant, infected, different, a target, lycanthropic.
He already knew what it was to be a target. The bullies at school always able to get a... | (I'm new here. Haven't written much. Don't kill me.)
"What a waste of an existence" I muttered to myself, as I walked past the morning office goers in the Munich train station. People stuck in a rhythmic drag of work and home, with no direction in life but to survive. I pitied their mundane existence.
You see, I w... | 2017-05-20T08:38:36 | 2017-05-20T06:14:36 | 73 | 19 |
[WP] You have the most useless superpower in a world full of awesome superpowers. You are a laughinstock, that is until you start using your power for evil... no one is laughing now. | When my parents tested me for my powers, they were hoping for super intelligence, my dad’s power. Maybe even super strength, my mom’s. But they never expected my power.
Like all budding youth, I was tested for my powers when I was five, when the powers start becoming more powerful. I remember being lead into a small,... | When your power is "Summon knives from everywhere to stab yourself", you kind of tend to get ridiculed. Still, even as a kid I saw what potential my power had...if I didn't care about anyone else. See, there were no restrictions to what "Summon knives from everywhere to stab yourself"entailed. So one day, when it felt ... | 2015-04-12T18:33:43 | 2015-04-12T17:46:50 | 246 | 19 |
[WP] The flat Earth society has started a cult that sacrifices people by throwing them off the edge of the Earth. You are their first victim. | FADE IN:
EXT. THE SACRIFICIAL BLUFF - NIGHT
*Several hooded figures stand near the edge of a steep cliff. They are gathered around what appears to be a stone altar, behind which is a man in a white robe. This is the PRIEST OF THE FLAT EARTH. He nods to the ACOLYTE next to him, then raises his arms as he addresses the... | Admittedly, the sky felt limitless.
The wind felt still today, as we stood high on the edge of the dizzyingly tall cliff. Below us, there was nothing but pure blue, a color mirrored only the sky itself; in front of us, there was nothing to block the horizon, as the water merged seamlessly with the sky.
I could defin... | 2017-06-21T15:30:28 | 2017-06-21T15:27:28 | 220 | 13 |
[WP]: Shapeshifting is not only possible, it is also easy and common. And highly addictive. The more often you shift and the longer you stay that way, the harder it is to return to a human form. Sometimes it’s hard to say what creatures used to be human. | They always thought their cat - Shadow - was a little...odd. Ever since they found him on Wall Street, picking through trash, he acted a little differently than other cats they had met in the past.
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Odd or not, about two years ago Steve and Alison rescued the stray and named him Shadow, inspired by his ... | Humans have become the dominant animal on this planet because we are clever and able to work in groups towards a collective goal. If you compare us to, say, a bear or a tiger, we don't look that impressive. We suck at holding our body temperature, we're not that strong, we can't run that fast, and we have to protect ou... | 2019-01-24T10:51:48 | 2019-01-24T10:48:30 | 111 | 15 |
[WP]The Hunger Games hits a large university, but people are on teams based on their majors. Describe how various majors try to survive. | God, this was sick, I thought to myself as I collapsed into an armchair in the lobby of the engineering building. The last five days had left me bloodied, dirty, and exhausted--but alive.
As it turns out, the most deadly tribe, so to speak, wasn't the business majors. What happens when you put a bunch of over-inflated... | Criminal Justice: Already knows all the ways to kill everyone. Improvises weapons and hides out. Lays false clues to incriminate others on deaths to incite in-fighting.
Chemistry: Makes poisons/uses various chemicals to incapacitate/kill.
Various Biologies (Entomology, Horticulture, Animal Science, etc.): Use known... | 2015-04-28T10:19:16 | 2015-04-28T09:15:04 | 24 | 10 |
[WP] People revive for 3 days after death and receive superhuman strength, agility, endurance, coordination and intelligence before truly passing away. | *Corpse Corps* was a concept that was originally circulated on the internet in 2003, only a few months after the first experimental 'treatment' was deemed a success. The subculture that birthed the term was, not surprisingly, the same one that was disturbingly obsessed with zombies and post-apocalyptic scenarios. The n... | 3 days of LIFE, for an eternity of death.
True death, the very form of nothing,
72 hours to take a last breath,
To truly see for the last time,
4,320 minutes I scour the depths,
search for a question worthy of answer,
259,200 seconds, a wealth,
one second left, I wish that I... | 2015-08-07T05:13:24 | 2015-08-07T04:42:51 | 56 | 11 |
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