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[FF] A 10-word-long sentence. Then, a 9-word sentence. An 8-word-long one after. This continues, until the final sentence of 1 word. Try to choose a theme befitting of the structure | Looking in the mirror, I puffed my chest out arrogantly.
I flexed, and admired the aesthetics of my physique.
Vascular arms, the chiseled abs, and V taper.
And then my eyes stopped short, shocked.
I trembled as the realization dawned.
I've made a huge mistake.
... | Jessie's job was working for the city, cleaning up roadkill.
I can't help but see irony in his death.
He probably looked like a deer in headlights.
Which is what he was cleaning up.
That SUV didn't even see him.
Flattened him out real good.
It was road kill.
Leaving him, well.
You know.
Roadkill. | 2015-01-05T22:38:49 | 2015-01-05T21:54:55 | 1,258 | 122 |
[WP]The zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Humanity has survived and prospered, but with the virus still inside every single human. Centuries in the future, we are at war with an alien race, and they are horrified to learn that we don't stay dead easily. | All species strive to survive above all else. We adapt, evolve, become immune to diseases, and are willing to travel great distances to find habitats suited to sustaining life.
I’m sure that those who experienced the horrors of the zombie plague outbreak centuries ago couldn’t even begin to process how the rise of vio... | Even centuries later the human race had not recovered. Seven billion people culled down to just a few million takes a long recovery.
The biggest loss was that of the scientific community. With so few people many modern commodities disappeared. And as humanity grew back, they grew back without such needs. Digital tech... | 2019-08-28T11:04:09 | 2019-08-28T10:30:44 | 1,598 | 671 |
[WP] "I don't wanna fight you, low-level bandit." Says the Lv.100 Hero, who killed the embodiment of space-time. "I wouldn't want to fight me, neither." Says the low-level bandit. | “Yeah I wouldn’t want to fight me either,” the bandit said, but not full of the usual bravado I came to expect from bandits.
I looked at him puzzled, “and why wouldn’t you want to fight yourself?” I asked condescendingly.
“Because nobody wants anything to do with me!” He spat with a fervor that caught me off guard,... | I sighed at the bandit. He wore simple leather armour, sporting a well used sword. His long brown hair was a wild mop on his head, clearly untended to. His sharp face was set in a determined expression, though I could see a seed of doubt in his mind.
I shifted my balance, ready for him to make his inevitable swing. M... | 2022-08-11T16:32:00 | 2022-08-11T14:53:24 | 467 | 198 |
[WP] As it turns out, humans are not the generic, good guy, center of the galaxy type species. Humans are a specialist species, and the rest of the galaxy only cares about one thing when it comes to humanity. Our explosives. | There were over 100 Alien species in the grand council of zerekas, the largest weaponry and technology showcase in the known universe, the Imperium of Pretoria had just received a standing ovation from the members, after showing that their newest creation of indestructible living sculptures had successfully eliminated ... | “These humans,” said Aedyn. “They have an expression. ‘Easy as taking candy from a baby.’ How ironic.” Aedyn’s purple skin wrinkled around his mouth from trying to hide a smirk.
“How did these undeserving humans acquire such an abundance of radioactive isotopes?” Uh’ylh asked. “How much more do they have?”
“They have... | 2018-07-16T04:52:58 | 2018-07-15T22:57:34 | 161 | 64 |
[WP] Turns out humanity was alone in the universe because they were way too early to the party. Now, billions of years later aliens find a strange planet, Earth, and begin to unveil the secrets of the first intelligent species. | The monument was smaller than T'rakkar had expected. It was less than ten meters in height, a simple laser-etched plaque in granite. In the first few years it had been built, when the remains of the First World had been discovered, there had been a rush of tourists to the site. The wonders of economics had, within a mo... | "So where did you find those spheres?" governor Prlax asked his chief humanologist.
"We found some in the oceans, in what we figure must have been deserts back then, on mountains and many other places." Dr. Dr. Hum. Dvlup replied, "but mostly we found them in big heaps next to former cities, in what we assume were nat... | 2019-08-13T15:04:00 | 2019-08-13T14:45:56 | 858 | 156 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously.
Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him?
The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ... | i could hear the whine of precision power tools...
all i could taste was blood and metal. they shone a light in my eyes, i couldn't see who was standing over me...
"don't worry, it'll all be over soon..." he said through a mask as he put a thin silver device in my mouth. just when i thought it couldn't get worse, he... | 2022-09-15T12:44:53 | 2015-01-12T11:14:34 | 1,493 | 28 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Hey Moose,
We had a good run. 16 years is good for a dog that somebody else starved in their back yard for a while.
You did really good. You remembered all those tricks somebody else taught you, showed the cats/birds love, and learned to stop being scared over food. You gave the best hugs on the planet.
I'm sorry th... | Dear J,
Hey J, it's me. For the sake of your privacy I'm going to omit your name like I always do when I mention you. But, I miss you. And I really fucking hate that I miss you. When I was with you, I felt like somebody, I felt like someone who had a(in my mind) foreseeable future. I haven't found anybody like you an... | 2017-11-06T00:29:00 | 2017-11-05T22:17:00 | 235 | 16 |
[WP] All humans go automatically to hell when they die. You can gain access to a heaven though, but only if the animals you interacted with while living vouch for you. | *This story is dedicated to my dad. Hopefully, it will be years before it is realized. Only his name was changed.*
Mark hated animals. Actually that's not fair. Mark loved his family, and his family loved animals, so Mark tolerated animals. He had to, didn't he? While his girls were growing up, they had two dogs, two ... | "Hello PT."
There was a faint red glow surrounding me as I opened my eyes, blurry at first, the room I was in came in to focus. If you could call it a room; it became apparent that it was more of a large cavern than anything. As I looked around I saw thousands of animals, some perched on jagged cliff outcrops, others... | 2016-03-24T17:54:41 | 2016-03-24T13:50:00 | 59 | 36 |
[WP]Everyone can bend a single element just like in avatar.However these are actual elements like Argon.Most powerful individuals bend metals or flammable materials.But not you you bend carbon.You bend the carbon in people’s bodies. | "Send in the next patient, Dolores," I said, as the door of my office swung closed.
"Will do, Mr. Penn," she said. In walked one of my repeat customers: famed industrialist "Iron James" Smith.
James was one of a dying breed, and a bit of a curiosity, back from the days before the Laws. He was an ironbender, and he'... | (I'm kind of new at this, but let's try)
"God fucking dammit" Was the last thing I heard before my walkie-talkie was scrunched up in my hand. Around me, various other steel objects were also forcibly crushed by seemingly nothingness. I remembered what my officer told me, "take Kevlar over Riot Gear", she told me, if I... | 2018-05-08T06:07:42 | 2018-05-08T06:03:47 | 95 | 22 |
[WP] An AITA post in an established fictional universe | **AITA for telling my younger son he should have gone on a quest?**
I (89, male) have two sons: B (41, male) and F (30? 35? Does it really matter?, male). B is everything a father could hope for. Strong, brave, heroic. He would be a perfect ruler.
Now, F on the other hand... He is an utter disappointmen... | AITA for throwing my kid off of Stark Tower???
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Hey guys, so my (29F) husband (30M) is pretty mad at me, and I don't really see why... Anyway last night my husband and I were at Tony Starks party. I brought my 8 month old with me, because I'm not one of those moms who's going to let childbirth get in the ... | 2022-12-06T17:08:09 | 2022-12-06T10:53:14 | 53 | 24 |
[FF] In three sentences, kill as many people as possible. No firearms, no natural disasters, no explosives, no WMDs. | I don't know why I made that wish, it was so spiteful and childish and I never actually thought anything would come of it. When she told me she'd cheated I just wanted her, and everyone like her, to suffer. The other couple million people in the world who spontaneously combusted didn't need to die for what she did. | Sampson flexed, straining his muscles, and the pillars began to visibly bow outward. The royal court and the harem and the visiting dignitaries and guests were too shocked to flee. When the pillars broke and the ceiling collapsed upon them, nearly all of them were killed.
.
*(Aprox. 200-250 dead)* | 2014-08-04T22:16:58 | 2014-08-04T21:55:55 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | Tick tock
I had hoped, at one time, that my number would be big. After all who would want to be one of those poor kids, they who turn 18 and find their actual age written between beneath their thumb. Can you imagine the parents as they count down the days, not knowing when it will come, just that it will hang over the... | "Hey Elena, your birthday's next week right?"
"Yeah, Jason."
"So do you think it will happen?"
"I don't know. My dad's got a number like most everyone else but my mom has a number and a letter. We might be getting closer to figuring out what the birthday messages mean."
"My dad doesn't think they mean anything."
"I sor... | 2017-03-16T00:57:55 | 2017-03-15T22:51:26 | 63 | 39 |
[WP]You're the last vampire left. You've been alive since 2000bc. Tell us your life story and why is your kind almost extinct | The sun is a bitch.
I get up from my bed, wiping the dust from my eyes. I take a sniff, and smell something burning. It's my arm.
"Ah fuck, fucking shit. Ow ow ow ow". There was a tiny crack in the ceiling, and a ray of sunlight was poking through. "Drac, you stupid shit" I say to myself as i submerge my forearm in w... | I furrow my brow as I wake, the darkness of night calling to me, the sun had set recently, the air was hot in my lungs. I sat up, looking around my strange little home, upon a hill far from any humans, though, not too far of course, I do still need a meal from time to time.
I had a visitor, while I was asleep, they kn... | 2015-06-21T08:59:20 | 2015-06-21T08:11:20 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] What if Noah's "ark" was planet Earth itself? What, then, did God flood, and who was Noah? | The Lost Scriptures, excerpts from The Book of Noah:
Noah 4:26 And then the Lord said, "Noah, will you shape a planet near this star? You are my best sculptor."
Noah 4:27 And so I set to work on Earth, humbled by the Lord's praise.
Noah 4:28 When my work was done, the Lord said, "Noah, you did not disappoint. Now ... | Quick note: excellent shower thought.
Altair IV had been the cradle of life for all of eternity, or at least as far as God knew. God was a lesser deity, only in control of 2 galaxies, but he could tell that there were greater beings who'd torn apart their realms and chose to destroy all of creation with great supernov... | 2015-01-07T19:00:29 | 2015-01-07T18:50:14 | 935 | 43 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "So...*uh*...nice throne?"
***THANK YOU IT IS MADE OF SKULLS HONORED TO BE BUILT INTO MY SKULL THRONE!!!***
"Got a nice view of that red, steaming lake there, I see."
***YES THE LAKE OF BLOOD MADE FROM THE BLOOD DRAWN AND SHED BY MY FAITHFUL BERZERKERS IS QUITE POSSIBLY MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT MY REALM!!!***
"Neat.... | "Hell? I died and I went to hell? I mean, what the hell man?!"
Death stared down at John. For a moment he stayed silent and just stood there watching from a faceless empty beneath his pitch-black hood.
"When you leave the living world, you enter the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, ... | 2016-03-07T17:04:48 | 2016-03-07T14:03:46 | 469 | 197 |
[WP] On the eve of your arranged marriage, you slipped away into the night. Intending to never be seen again. While scaling the garden wall, you spotted your fiancée doing the same thing. You both stared at each other for a while. | The possibility of an arranged marriage is something Jonah’s parents and mine had joked about in the past. Never would have thought they’d go through with it though. Yet, here I am. Climbing up this rickety ladder over our garden wall to escape the night before my wedding. To my right there’s some ruffling and what lo... | When i was little, all I wanted was to be a dragon. A dragon, or a knight. My parents forced me into clothing that didn't fit, forced me down and restrained me. All while gushing about how handsome of a husband I would get.
I noticed something was wrong not long after my thirteenth birthday. I was hormonal, at the st... | 2020-07-07T19:24:04 | 2020-07-07T14:51:38 | 30 | 17 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | The woman wakes to the sounds of screams, horrible inhuman sounds. And around her, heat and flames.
How had she got here? She remembers a pain in her chest and then...But why is she here? This must be a mistake. She spots a dark figure, he seems to suck all the light from the fires in, leaving just a black space, like ... | "Hell? I died and I went to hell? I mean, what the hell man?!"
Death stared down at John. For a moment he stayed silent and just stood there watching from a faceless empty beneath his pitch-black hood.
"When you leave the living world, you enter the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, ... | 2016-03-07T14:25:07 | 2016-03-07T14:03:46 | 334 | 197 |
[WP] Magic - once a real and potent force but as the world population grew from millions to billions the shared mana per person is now negligible. A group of astronauts helplessly watching the Earth perish experience something... unexpected.
**Edit:** Wow, this prompt really blew up! Some really outstanding prose here... | Rick sat down on the bench next to me and handed me a beer. I opened the bottle; the cap fell slowly to the metal floor with a *chink*. We sipped in silence, watching the world burn below us.
Why? Who really knows. The triggerman is almost 100% certainly dead by now, so no one will ever know for sure. Our station was ... | "Look, Jason", Igor says, and fire wraps around his open hands, burning as if from nowhere. "It's getting stronger."
It didn't take long for us to figure out what was going on, after it started to happen.
What with the pandemic going on down on Earth, and with us being scientists and such... We figured out the
propo... | 2015-02-06T06:11:36 | 2015-02-06T05:18:51 | 819 | 166 |
[WP] The invisible Man had been dating a blind woman for awhile with no need to bring up his "problem", but tonight, he's meeting her parents. | I hate my friends.
When you're an invisible dude, it's not exactly easy to make friends. I happened to run into three idiots over the course of my life who didn't seem to mind and I genuinely thought I hit a jackpot with them.
My friend Jake, who unironically likes police procedural shows, I grew up with. For the f... | “I’ve got to tell you something, sweetheart.”
“Yeah? What is it?”
“I’m...” He thought paused and thought hard about the next words about to spill from his mouth. “Afraid... of old people.”
“Oh? Well I thought everyone was.” She replied.
“Dammit,” He said under his breath.
“Dammit what?”
“It’s nothing. Hey wait wa... | 2018-05-20T09:29:16 | 2018-05-20T08:47:26 | 113 | 45 |
[WP] Write a poem to make me uncomfortable. | I'm all packed
With heavy bags
And yet my luggage
Has no tags
My ticket small
and silver-lined
It's coolest touch
Is on my mind
Exhilaration
now takes hold
Never normal
No fitting mold
Departure time
Is very near
Peace and calm
No hint of fear
Leaving now
With no regret
No goodbyes
or looming... | Skipping high happy and gay;
Oh goodness me, what a glorious day!;
I bring her along, tailing by hand;
We journey far and wide across the Unknown Land;
The sights and the stares she brings to our point;
They cannot believe our mysterious joint!;
No one has seen us before, but we've seen them all;
No one loves he... | 2016-06-15T07:02:58 | 2016-06-15T06:46:51 | 20 | 15 |
[WP] You've had a dashcam for years. One day you get into an accident and play it back. You hear another voice in ALL of the recordings talking to you that you've never heard before. | "JOHN!!!"
John awoke, fear grasping his heart. He sat up in bed momentarily somewhere else, somewhere he hated going. It took a few seconds for the pain from his brown to meet his brain. His hand moved to forehead. He traced the stitches above his right eye slowly, remembering waking up in that white bed for the secon... | “There! Right There! Did you hear that?” Dan turns up the volume on his computer speakers. On the screen is a clip of a dash cam pointing inward. We can see half of Dan’s face in the driver seat. We also see the empty passenger seat, all of the backseat, and out the back window into the hazy tree-lined mountain highway... | 2018-10-05T09:26:21 | 2018-10-05T09:12:55 | 59 | 16 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James and Amanda where watching the news when they heard about it.
"I wonder which number I got", James said and went to the kitchen.
A couple years ago, his son Andrew made him such a cup.
As a handmade cup, it was clearly distinguishable from all the others.
James quickly found it.
"That is strange", he said and show... | Sitting at the kitchen table Jacob stared out of the window and sipped a coffee from his "1# Dad" mug.
Suddenly there was a fizzing and spluttering sound and the #1 Dad appeared to melt from his mug revealing a #2,045,834 Dad behind.
He stared for a moment then said.
"Well shit... That's not bad at all." Then he gra... | 2017-06-11T10:05:38 | 2017-06-11T09:19:40 | 45 | 17 |
[WP] you are a demon call responder. The devil can’t answer every summon, so you go in his place. One day you get a summon and the summoner is way below age limit; you are about to leave, but you hear her drunk dad coming downstairs screaming. | The rules must be followed.
As the girl's drunken father stumbled down the stairs into the living room, I couldn't help but reflect with amusement at the circumstances. I had just been talking with a fellow demon about this *very scenario* last week, and here it was, manifesting itself in reality.
It isn't very often... | “Ugh...” I groaned looking at the blue spectral flames that had risen in the goblet. A summoning.
Everyone on earth thought that when you did a summoning ritual you summoned the big guy, Satan himself. But he was to busy ruling hell to answer petty calls from earth. No demons like myself took care of those calls.
I... | 2018-10-08T13:02:02 | 2018-10-08T12:43:35 | 144 | 89 |
[WP] You are a demon that has had several failed attempts on your life by demon hunters. No matter how they use their holy powers they cannot harm you and as a result they consider you extremely powerful. In truth, the holy powers don't harm you for the simple reason that you aren't actually evil. | You don't know exactly when you became what you are now. You used to be better at your job. You were there in the beginning, smoke and shadow and sin, and you were terrible - they called you Lord, once, down below. But you haven't been home in a long time. They likely wouldn't recognise you now if you went back.
The s... | Let me tell you of Dark Lord Lyons. None quite know where this planar knight of death and despair comes from but he serves Baba Yaga though some say she sent him here for fear of his power.
He commands an army of halfbreed monsters! An army of dragonmen, vile centaurs, and other malformed things! His wife is the worst... | 2021-02-22T16:29:42 | 2021-02-22T16:23:39 | 257 | 39 |
[WP] A teenage boy finally builds up the courage to ask out his crush but when he pops the question her face darkens as she utters to him “you’re not supposed to be able to see me” | "I know" I answer the boy. " No one sees me either"
He makes a questioning noise before actually looking at me more closely. As realization hits him, his eyes start to shine, making him look even mire beautiful
"You... You are like me" he stammers "You are also not in the same place as them"
I nod, and glance at all... | "W-what?!"
"I have been dead for years..." The girl replies.
Now that he thinks of it, no one has ever interacted with her for as long as he remembers.
"I-i dont understand...what do you mean 'your dead'?"
"I mean, dumbass, that I'm dead. God, mortals are so stupid!" She whispered the last part under her breath, o... | 2021-08-21T17:27:54 | 2021-08-21T17:13:00 | 55 | 24 |
[WP] Your little daughter have imaginary friends. One day, she asked if her friends can sleep in her room. You jokingly told her that they can stay as long as they want, as long as they help with the rent. The next morning, you found a hand wearing a Rolex and a roll of cash by the sink. | “Cassy, it’s time for bed!”
“Ok Daddy, I just have to pick up!”
Crashing and thumping proceeded to radiate up the stairs, soon followed by Cassy colliding up the stairs.
“Well that was fast. How’d you manage it? You had quite a mess down there.”
“Oh Daddy,” she smiled like the answer was obvious. “Clyde and Clara ... | Your bowl of Fruit Rings clatter to the ground. As the cheap plastic bowl bounces around, the generic cereal spills all over the vinyl flooring. The barely expired milk is seeping into your Fruit of the Loom socks but you barely notice. All you see is the severed hand on your sink and almost as importantly, the gold Ro... | 2019-10-06T14:24:01 | 2019-10-06T12:32:40 | 1,268 | 211 |
[WP] You wake up in a room with someone else, no doors, just a a paper taped on the wall that says "One of you is the A.I." | They shut down the test not long after...
"One of you is the A.I." The note on the wall said.
Three days we spent in that room.
I was so sure. Bit my tongue and bled you see.
When, after 72 hours, no instruction was given I decided to prove I was not the AI.
They dragged me out of the room with horrified expressio... | I'm still groggy as I read the paper and slowly turn around to face my roommate. Surely I can't be an AI, can I?. I see his face and the trepidation melts to the floor around my feet replaced with a schoolgirl giddiness. "Holy shit, Allen Iverson! Can I have your autograph?"
"No." came the Answer's reply. I wish I wer... | 2018-02-22T16:39:39 | 2018-02-22T15:09:55 | 89 | 34 |
[WP] You have died. While waiting to be judged, you are offered the chance to clear one entry from your file before the decision is made.
Let me add: apologies for the cliché of judgement after death. I just want to see how you guys play this one out. | "Welcome, my son," the voice said with a smile;
"You're dead, I'm God, and this might take a while."
"You have lived and you've loved, you've won and you've lost;
But now that you're dead, there's one more line to be crossed!"
"Look at this list," he said, and produced a sheet
Of items so long that it hung down to hi... | "Choose" said the voice.
This was my chance. For the last 50 years of my life I had resigned myself to hell, it's what I deserved anyways. Yet here I am, able to erase the one mistake I made so long ago.
I laughed. Even a disgusting wretch like me could get into heaven. And I know I will. Besides that one mistake... | 2014-06-20T13:09:21 | 2014-06-20T12:19:33 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] A mage's magical power and abilities are determined by tattoos that are only visible to other mages. You have not encountered another mage for years, but today someone compliments you on your ink. | The wizard was not what I was expecting. I was ready for robes, a beard, a staff, maybe a pointy hat. But the man sitting in front of me was so *normal* looking. Like the owner of a car dealership. Snazzy striped black suit, black hair cut short and swept to the side, a nice watch around his wrist. He sat across from m... | "Ooo, lovely tattoos you have there!"
Nihil stopped. There was no one around her. She turned around in confusion, about to ask who this guy was talking to-
The words died in her throat as she stared at the calligraphy plastered over this man's body.
Anyone else would have waved it off as abstract nonsense, but she kn... | 2022-07-05T10:49:10 | 2022-07-05T10:40:01 | 43 | 20 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Dear self, I hate you. I hate what we've become. When did we change, when did we grow so old and angry, and when did we decide to be alone? I know that we did not always act like this. I know we used to laugh, and let other people get close. Remember when we had so many friends? remember when we go to other people's ho... | Dear Jeremy.
I'm sorry I didn't call.
I don't remember if I was busy, or tired, or anything else that could be considered an excuse. I felt like it was all my fault. I could have stopped it. When I met your family and found out you had been living with this all your life, I almost gave up.
I should have called. I h... | 2017-11-05T19:56:15 | 2017-11-05T19:17:09 | 799 | 508 |
[WP] Satan is tired of losing countless guitar and fiddle duels, and is now challenging people with obscure instruments.
Wow guys! My first front page on writingprompts :D Thanks for a wonderful surprise! | Well the Devil went to Seattle
He was feelin' a little down
After fiddlin' a bunch, he was havin' a hunch
He'd lost the right to his crown
*In the Emerald City,* he thought,
*there are no southerners or jews.*
*There may be a chance to change my stance*
*Try an instrument I can't lose.*
He wandered 'round P... | I stood at the crossroads. I looked up one road and then down the other. Nothing coming or going.
He appeared before me. Red, eight feet tall, cloven feet and horns. The whole nine yards.
“I hear you’re looking for something,” he said.
I nodded. “I’m looking to make a deal.”
He smiled. “With me.”
“Exactly.”
“And ... | 2015-01-31T22:04:27 | 2015-01-31T21:09:56 | 1,639 | 31 |
[WP] When aliens invaded earth, they expected humanity to reach for nuclear weapons. They had experience in this, they knew how to deal with a few warheads. What they were not prepared for was the quantity possessed by humanity. | The raid alarm was blaring as General Ra'Kesh entered his command center. "Corporal, have the humans taken the bait?" he asked.
"Yes." came the somewhat unprofessional reply. This put Ra'Kesh on edge. He'd never known Corporal Naiak to be anything other than efficient and professional. But what really worried him was... | The vacuum of space, for only a moment, bloomed a brilliant shade of gold. The light saturated the interior of Mu war ship. The commander of this vessel, Commander, starred at the imploding explosion of the war head they had just neutralized and were now molding into an energy core. She thought to herself of the resour... | 2022-11-10T11:28:54 | 2022-11-10T09:37:08 | 66 | 37 |
[WP] A supervillain kidnaps a civilian and keeps them hostage, taunting on live television for the superhero to come find them. Unbeknownst to the villain, the kidnapped civilian is the superhero.
Did I butcher the title or what?
This is blowing up! All the responses have been diverse and really cool!
| Ravenclaw had been reminded by Vortex Man, time and again, that this was truly the last resort. Well, Ravenclaw thought, surely this mess counts for it. With a graceful swing through the air, he brought the Staff of Power to heel, spoke the magic words, and summoned Tornado Guy.
Energy crackled through the air as the ... | **G:** Hey Dave, look! I've found us a super cool new writing prompt to do today! It's all about superheroes and supervillains and supe-
**D:** *Really Greg? Of all the pages and pages of high quality, well written submissions - we're going with this? A three-line title with half the plot of Megamind scrolled over it?... | 2017-01-28T08:39:33 | 2017-01-28T08:01:15 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] Someone murders another person for a motive that sounds extremely petty at first but makes total sense by the end of the excerpt.
The motives cannot have anything to do with drugs (i.e. he was an alcoholic beating his kids so his wife had to put a stop to it), cannot be political, and cannot be committed in an em... | He couldn't remember my name.
He could never remember my name.
I had no choice but to do it.
When I started with the company, I remember, he shook my hand and looked at me with a semi-confused smile, he eyed me and said, "I'm sure I've met you somewhere before, what was your name?"
I just chuckled and said that I... | "Why did you kill him?"
"His had nice shoes." I said, cradling the dead man's shoes.
"Shoes, really?" I was sitting in an interrogation room, facing this stranger. This stranger tried to take the shoes away from me, but I fought, tooth and nail. I wondered how many other strangers sat in this room, and how legitimate... | 2013-11-18T16:08:33 | 2013-11-18T15:34:00 | 30 | 19 |
[WP] Write the script and dialogue for two separate first date scenarios. One that goes well, and one that goes poorly. HOWEVER, they must both have the same exact dialogue in both stories. | "Travelled far this evening?" Steve pulled out Helen's chair and waited until she dropped into it gracefully. She adjusted her blonde hair over her shoulder and grinned at him across the table.
"You know I haven't," she replied. Her gaze dropped to the tablecloth as she shyly returned his smile.
"Would you like ch... | “Oh, God.”
She was beautiful, but the restaurant I’d chosen was clearly garbage. I never should have trusted just one review on Yelp.
I sat down in the chair at our table, trying to ignore the layers of caked-on rust near the legs. She was staring at her phone, her nose crinkled. Perhaps it was pre-emptive disgust.
... | 2016-07-06T08:37:55 | 2016-07-06T08:37:32 | 130 | 61 |
[WP] After you die, you reach purgatory to be seated in an audience of all human souls. God and Satan announce their retirement and are individually interviewing all humans present to choose their replacement. Most people want to replace God, you want to replace Satan. | Finally youve gotten to the front of the line. You were sick of standing next to those goth-emo-whatever wanna be satanists. When the black stone doors open before you and you enter the gloomy red hall, you think this place could really use a make over. It looks far too stereotypical even for the devil himself.
**"Hel... | "Hmmm? Excuse me, ma'am, are you lost?"
Before Satan, there stood a little old lady, dressed in her Sunday church clothes. She gave off a grandmotherly aura as she slowly made her way towards the podium, her walking cane clacking against the floor of the cavern. She peered up at Satan through a pair of glasses as thic... | 2021-03-31T15:57:25 | 2021-03-31T15:56:26 | 23 | 13 |
[FF] In 75 words or fewer, write about experiencing a devastating loss, without including death. | *I'm skirting the line here, but nobody dies, so I think it counts, right?*
Four stories was not enough. After my wife left me, I tried to end it. I climbed the stairs to the ceiling of my apartment building. I walked to the edge, but couldn't take that last step, so I ran at top speed and jumped.
Climbing, walking,... | "Damn it all, where is it?" he said, as he scoured the room for the lost item.
He had to find it.
The ring was his only reminder of the better times. Of when he was happy. Of when THEY were happy. Together.
Before she had changed and found somebody else. Before the heartache, the loneliness.
Before the endl... | 2014-10-19T20:53:05 | 2014-10-19T20:26:59 | 84 | 10 |
[FF] A 10-word-long sentence. Then, a 9-word sentence. An 8-word-long one after. This continues, until the final sentence of 1 word. Try to choose a theme befitting of the structure | Jessie's job was working for the city, cleaning up roadkill.
I can't help but see irony in his death.
He probably looked like a deer in headlights.
Which is what he was cleaning up.
That SUV didn't even see him.
Flattened him out real good.
It was road kill.
Leaving him, well.
You know.
Roadkill. | I had been with her for a number of years.
My heart was racing with fear, anticipation, and hope.
"Honey, I have something important to ask you."
She turned and gave me a smile.
A voice like an angel answered, "Yes?".
I knelt down before her.
"Will you marry me?"
"Oh my God."
Tears fell.
"Yes." | 2015-01-05T21:54:55 | 2015-01-05T21:45:56 | 122 | 59 |
[WP] In most of the galaxy wars are often just shows of strength with fighting as a last resort. As such weapons are designed to be elaborate and flashy. Turns out humans, whose weapons are built with efficiency in mind, have a different understanding of war. | The People's fleet was massive. Over 250 ships, the smallest of them the size of the human flagship. As they approached weapons range, the fleet deployed their fins, glittering and illuminated with messages of victory and warnings of dire retribution for any foolish enough to attack. The first meeting with the humans h... | Montana's always had clear skies, used to love lookin up at night and watchin the stars. Not anymore though, those bastards changed that. I was out chasin down a cow that got loose one night when I saw them.
Those ugly things came right down, like a fireball from heaven. Apparently they were after the same thing I was... | 2020-03-21T13:52:29 | 2020-03-21T11:39:12 | 18 | 13 |
[WP] A blind-man on his death bed asks you describe color to him.
This should be fun :) | "Any regrets?" I asked.
"Yeah. Wish I could have see what you've seen." Issac laughed, his blind eyes staring off into oblivion. "I dearly wish I could have seen color. My world was always so dark and featureless."
"Any color in particular?" I asked.
"Blue. I've always heard people talk about the color blue. They se... | "Yellow," he says.
Turning away from the window, I furrow my brows. "Uncle?" I haven't spoken in so many hours, the word comes cracked out of my dry throat. The tiny, frail little man in the bed raised me after mom and dad died. Raised me, in spite of, you know. Being blind. I don't know, maybe we raised each ot... | 2013-12-29T07:25:46 | 2013-12-29T06:55:18 | 37 | 10 |
[WP] You have drunkenly been discussing the Dark Lord with other tavern patrons, insulting him to no end. When someone storms up demanding you stop as he is one of the Dark Lords students. Strange thing is you don’t remember teaching this kid. | I was lounging in a chair, just minding my business, insulting the Dark Lord as I tend to do here, and took another swig of my sparkling cider as I strongly despise alcohol.
"And I swear on my name, the guy has warts up the wazoo! He musta touched a lotta frogs to get *that* ugly!" I say as some of the other patrons ... | The air was heavy with the scent of vomit on the sawdust packed floors. My companions guzzled their ale as the wind blew through the opening windows, causing the candles to flicker in the dimly lit room. This is where I thrived, I thought, as I emptied another tankard and set it on the the edge of the table. The dark,... | 2022-01-14T16:47:02 | 2022-01-14T15:49:14 | 84 | 56 |
[WP] You're the owner of a cafe frequently visited by vigilantes and anti-heroes who absolutely adore your sweetness and acceptance of who they are. One day, though, a particularly rude customer comes in and trashes the place. Your friends aren't too happy to hear about that. | It all started, really, with a small act.
​
But isn't that the way of it? One small act leads to another, leads to another.
​
Pool Shark assures me that it was no small act though. But who could ignore a man trying to casually staunch a huge side wound as he hid in the corner booth? He obvious... | "Busy crowd tonight" a hooded man says drinking his third cup of coffee, three espressos, with a touch of hazelnut creamer.
I know better than to ask questions to my customers. "Yeah, its not too bad. Business keeps the lights on." I reply, starting up the grinder.
"Ya know," he said between sips "we *could* all pitc... | 2018-10-20T20:33:32 | 2018-10-20T20:26:10 | 643 | 434 |
[WP] Germany is actually predestined to lose every world war it participates in. The sixteenth world war is now being fought, and Germany has taken over all of Europe. Make them lose the war in the most ridiculous way possible. | General Beck burst into the mess hall and swept his gaze across the startled soldiers. They had been drinking, celebrating the surrender of France, and the apparent end of the war. But they didn't know about the curse. Few but the inner circle did. Germany must fall.
The men quickly stood at attention, as well as the... | "Wait so if this is the only the third World War why was it called the Sixteenth World War?"
"Well Timmy, that's because a company called Microsoft, notorious for being terrible at naming things, had won a government contract to name the war, and it stuck. We're lucky they didn't rename World War One World War 360!"... | 2017-08-18T05:03:51 | 2017-08-18T04:28:36 | 1,294 | 102 |
[WP] In the year 2022, we discovered that the sword in the stone was real. The scientists that discovered it found that attempting to pull the sword from the stone with a machine generated an infinite amount of counter force. The first infinite energy engine was born. | The politicians gathered around the podium, unable to contain their excitement. The clicking of camera shutters were all but deafening. The pre-announcement had been released a mere two hours prior with only two single bullet points:
* The Sword in the Stone is Real
* We Have Identified a Source of Limitless Energy
... | This excited me as well as filled me with crippling dread. If this sword existed then the Arthurian Legends are real. My mind raced as if I found the necronomicon but I have to stay focused. This must be kept secret, if Project Merlin was found out, not even all of the USA could help us. Merlin the impossible wizard. B... | 2021-08-12T04:33:48 | 2021-08-12T03:49:42 | 28 | 17 |
[WP] You’re a child psychologist and, to your horror, you discover that your patients all have the same imaginary friend. | Laurie Mathers knew that the closed study door was Daniel's way of saying that he wanted to be left alone. But he had been so restless, so unsettled ever since he returned from work this evening, that Laurie figured it would be better to be safe than sorry. People always thought that child psychologists had it easy, bu... | "Thanks doc, you've been a great listener. A real friend to all of us. But, I'm leaving now, and you know I'm the one that got the other kids to talk to you. I don't think they will after I'm gone." Benny said as we left my office. Well, the office I shared with Dr. Davis. Who was barely here at all and wasn't much of ... | 2017-10-05T18:23:38 | 2017-10-05T17:07:23 | 2,996 | 127 |
[WP] The lottery is a system secretly put in place so the government can find and capture time travellers and psychics before they cause major problems. As someone who won the jackpot by pure chance, you’re struggling to prove that you are neither of those to the suits that showed up at your door. | When Yolanda Vega-Castro read the final number of the Mega Ultra Power Super Intenational Event, which I everyone just calls “The Moopsie”, I couldn’t believe my luck. In nobody have ever gotten all 30 numbers in consecutive order before. And I knew my life would change forever because winning $1b was life changing.
... | I couldn’t believe it when I went to check my ticket
Winner , jackpot, 70 million.
My life was set! No more work , no more stressing over bills, nothing! All this from a ticket I just found on the ground the day of the draw!
I made the phone call to the lottery centre , I had to come in for my photo op with the g... | 2022-10-09T17:34:05 | 2022-10-09T15:20:04 | 40 | 21 |
[WP] In order to create a more intelligent society the government executes students if they fail a course in school | At first it seemed like a great idea. The wording of the law made it sound like it would create a perfect utopia. When Law 388 passed, it was revolutionary. Anyone with an IQ less then 40 would be shot on site. Testing would begin at 10 and you would be retested every 5 years until death. In a few years, population was... | John, you have to admit there's a problem. We have 7 students in our entering class.
And those 7 are the absolute best.
The university's going to shut down. We have to relax our grading scale. Get a bit more lenient.
That is not what the University of Chicago stands for.
MIT doesn't even give anything lower th... | 2014-03-25T19:45:07 | 2014-03-25T19:32:15 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] You are playing video games one day when an in-game item suddenly grants you all the abilities of the character you play in the game. With these abilities in real life, you decide to take care of business. | Soon. SOON! Oh yes, world, soon you will all know me, and all fear me!
You laughed at me while I played games all day. Well, while I played games all *night* but still, there was laughing. You mocked me when all I wanted to talk about was video games, when all I wrote about was video games, when all I thought abou... | Of course. It was the game.
Suddenly everything made sense. Why I can't sleep, not unless I write those strange letterings, the codes, on my diary. Always the same: 19012205. Why I keep going forward and never going back. Why, after so many years, my reflection never changed.
I bolted. My feet never made a sound, nev... | 2018-03-26T07:50:50 | 2018-03-26T04:42:16 | 29 | 15 |
[WP] Thousands of years in the future, a lazy anthropology student put off his "Mating Rituals of Ancient Civilizations" project until the last minute | Based on contemporary magnetic films made of Mating Rituals, Ritual often initiates with the male presenting himself at the door of the female's dwelling, and presenting an offering of flat-bread based foods or metal phallic totems (A "Screew-driveer", figure 1). The female, often wearing loose attire (A "Toweel", figu... | Axstone wakes with a krokodil and red bull hang over that could power a tesla hover board. Upon looking at his calendar he sees Friday Saturday and Sunday all with big a X dismissing the day. Underneath the stickers for the 1100 annual Greek games. For a split second his headache subsides and realizes he will forever... | 2014-09-12T10:13:23 | 2014-09-12T10:05:16 | 337 | 18 |
[FF] What's on the tape?
(Inspired by seeing the trailer for the movie V/H/S)
Your character(s) find a VHS tape. What is on it? Where did they find it?
WORD COUNT MAX: 200 WORDS. (As always - http://www.wordcounttool.com if you need a counter.) | Veronica stretched out lazily on her grandmother’s couch. Upstairs, the rest of the family were happily chatting away. Veronica sighed. She hated the insincerity of family events. Her parents called her discontent a ‘teenage phase’, but she hated how her family could only express their feelings in food. Her parents had... | Roslyn stepped down the ladder facing forward and the box caught on the attic floor. She caught it with her left hand. Lugging the box to the TV, she flipped off the lid and grabbed the un-labled white VHS tape. She clicked the old Zenith TV on and slid in the mystery tape.
“Hello, ladies. My name is Robert. First, ... | 2012-08-08T09:08:56 | 2012-08-08T08:57:01 | 63 | 27 |
[WP] Your adopted teenager doesn't seem to age, it's getting suspicious after a decade. | "Hey kitten, can I talk to you?" Sabrina looked up at me from where she was lounging on the couch. "Sweetie," I said, sitting next to her. "It's been ten years since I adopted you. Do you remember?" She opened her mouth, but I continued before she could make a sound. "You were sixteen. I thought it was so sad, how gett... | The morning started like every other. It was just me and Daisy sitting next to each other at the table. I didn't even have to wake her up anymore; she was always sitting there waiting for me to make her breakfast.
It used to be a struggle getting her out of bed before her mother died. Well, not a struggle for me. ... | 2015-12-13T11:12:50 | 2015-12-13T10:23:08 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You're a killer dumping your latest victim into the river. Just as you're about to be done, you spot another person. Doing exactly the same thing. And they've just spotted you, too. | There are some situations where despite sharing an experience, you just don't talk to people. When a man walks up to a urinal next to another man because that's the only open one, both men are aware of what the other is doing, but neither one mentions it. When a man is holding a bag of diapers in the only open cashie... | I waved with my left hand. He waved back.
*Goddamnit, I thought to myself.* There was a bridge a mile up the river. I chucked the body into the river, a small sploosh behind me as the shadow across the river did the same. Tucking my gloves into my back pocket, I fingered the small switchblade into my front left poc... | 2017-10-12T20:59:09 | 2017-10-12T20:12:28 | 34 | 17 |
[WP]"I told you it's an artifact of incredible might and power and THAT'S where you decide to hide it?!" | Arko shook the small white and red Igloo cooler, and Edris winced as she heard the contents jumble about inside. A small dust devil kicked up outside of the abandoned building, sand and small pebbles rasping against the glass windows.
"Stop! Stop it!" Edris held up her hands. "I told you it's an artifact of incredible... | I yelled “LOOK THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH PUTTING IT IN MY LOCKER, DO YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF I KEEP IT AT HOME.”
He yelled back “YOUR RICH CANT YOU JUST LIKE PUT IT IN A VAULT OR SOMETHING?”
“ALL OF OUR VAULTS ARE FULL OF STUFF THAT BELONG TO MY FAMILY , IF THEY SEE IT THEY’LL ASK QUESTIONS, I CANT KEEP IT A... | 2021-06-28T08:38:18 | 2021-06-28T07:20:27 | 31 | 11 |
[WP] Spaghetti is now illegal.
[deleted] | As the law passed, they never thought of specifying what type of spaghetti is illegal.
If it was about the food, fixing this was easy. They just removed spaghetti from all the stores and stopped the production.
For me, however, my job became the most dangerous -- yet important -- job in the world. At least, that is h... | Karen gasped. ''Is this for real?''
''I'm afraid so.''
''But...why?''
''Enough wealthy donors supported it.''
''On what grounds?''
Lindy sighed. ''Religious grounds.''
''You don't mean-''
''I do.''
''The Flying Spaghetti Monster?!''
''The church has rapidly gained followers over the past years. I guess the est... | 2018-03-19T15:17:56 | 2018-03-19T14:57:45 | 37 | 20 |
[FF] In 75 words or fewer, write about experiencing a devastating loss, without including death. | The mirror hadn't been cleaned. She sighed and began scrubbing. When she had finished, she made her way towards the kitchen and heard snippets of conversation.
"Your grandmammy... Her Alzheimer's is getting worse. She's not the nice old lady you used to know..."
She wondered who they were talking about for a moment b... |
When I stepped out of the bathroom and made my way back to my table, I found it barren. Where there was once a ribeye, there was nothing. My precious ribeye and side of ribs was gone, and when the waiter returned, he raised a brow. "I had assumed you left."
I merely wept, my mind wash with the steak that could have b... | 2014-10-19T18:33:46 | 2014-10-19T17:54:43 | 254 | 179 |
[WP] At the age of 18, everyone picks an unlikely life event. They will be reborn at 18 every time they die until that event happens. After that, death is permanent.
Example - Winning a lottery jackpot. Statistically, they would die in 22 plane crashes in a row before winning the Mega Millions jackpot. | See, most people try to live forever, but that ends one of two ways: they don't or they wish they didn't. Rob Herman was a famous example of the first, Rob chose his Event to be “Winning the lottery and getting struck by lightning.” It was a great choice, the chance of getting struck on any given day was 1 in 245,000,0... | The blade hurt every time. Some people went by pills, some by accident, some were forced, and some just waited until they woke up young again. I've taken the blade 6 times now. Each time I sit on my bed knowing it will hurt, but knowing the other side will be so much better. 97 years ago I made the worst decision of my... | 2014-11-11T21:52:28 | 2014-11-11T16:38:23 | 912 | 316 |
[WP] You are a children's television show superhero by day, but a real superhero by night. Your mannerisms do not change. | "Come on! Get the money in the truck! We've only got a few minutes until the poli-"
The overhead skylight exploded, sending glass raining into the bank lobby. "Fuck it's the SWAT! Get your wea-" The words froze in his throat when he noticed what had just landed atop the statue in the center of the lobby.
"Stealing i... | I look at my gloved hands. Red gloves, latex, perfect for the cameras. Real heroes don't wear gloves.
A flickering.
A spotlight.
A body on the ground.
"ACTION!"
I quickly analyse the scene of the crime. I see fingerprints on the man's belt that coincide with my memorized fingerprints database for a Warner Tucker -... | 2016-10-28T09:09:53 | 2016-10-28T07:57:21 | 104 | 18 |
[WP] You’ve traveled a great distance to finally court the princess. Many others have tried and failed. Why? At the end of a week with her, you must duel her to the death. She is the greatest sword fighter in the land, so your only hope is to convince her to call off the fight. | Many princes of the land had come to try their hand against the princess. None of them would succeed. She had more control over her sword than anyone Id seen. I had something they didnt though. I was the only girl there. No one knew it though. I kept my hood up and my hair short. I didnt have a chance when it came down... | “Princess, there is one last contestant who wishes to face you in trial!”
The princess looked up, carelessly tossing aside the bloodied rag she had been using to clean her blade. Behind her, a wooden cart dragging away the remains of the previous combatant. She gave the stranger a curious look, then shrugged it off, s... | 2020-09-20T21:10:55 | 2020-09-20T20:45:52 | 34 | 21 |
[WP] Write a seemingly normal story, except for the last sentence, which makes the entire story creepy | What a day. My boss has never been in such a bad mood. On top of the proposal due next week, I now have a rushed budget to get out by Friday. I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this up. Every morning I dread getting out of bed, and every night I dread the next morning. I put on the smile for my colleagues, I smile... | My skin feels so dry. I've bought a what must be hundreds of dollars worth of moisturizing creams, but nothing seems to work for this complexion. I felt so beautiful earlier this week, but I guess it has something to do with summer coming early because now I just feel gross. A few friends of mine recommended looking on... | 2016-05-19T13:16:11 | 2016-05-19T11:52:03 | 25 | 17 |
[FF] A 10-word-long sentence. Then, a 9-word sentence. An 8-word-long one after. This continues, until the final sentence of 1 word. Try to choose a theme befitting of the structure | Looking in the mirror, I puffed my chest out arrogantly.
I flexed, and admired the aesthetics of my physique.
Vascular arms, the chiseled abs, and V taper.
And then my eyes stopped short, shocked.
I trembled as the realization dawned.
I've made a huge mistake.
... | I had been with her for a number of years.
My heart was racing with fear, anticipation, and hope.
"Honey, I have something important to ask you."
She turned and gave me a smile.
A voice like an angel answered, "Yes?".
I knelt down before her.
"Will you marry me?"
"Oh my God."
Tears fell.
"Yes." | 2015-01-05T22:38:49 | 2015-01-05T21:45:56 | 1,258 | 59 |
[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. | I always thought I would die from being stabbed in the back by a dirty, dull knife. Some sort of poetic justice, if you will, at least regarding the stabbing. My knives were always sharp.
When they brought me to court, they told me that it was magic--out of the realms of a simpleton rogue like me. They waved a wand at... | I get to choose how I die? I thought to myself. Well that's easy enough, I'll just wish to die of old age on a bountiful island with my 18 smoking hot wives. What a blessing! If I knew about this I'd have turned myself in years ago!
A guard comes to my cell and unlocks my cell door.
"Your time of reckoning has come Al... | 2021-06-24T09:55:49 | 2021-06-24T05:58:59 | 803 | 45 |
[WP] A villain is horrified when the hero undergoes a transformation that gets rid of their humanity. | "huh, well I guess that's it then."
Nihilator blinked. He hadn't been entirely sure how Exemplar would react to losing his lover, but dull surprise was... off. was he in denial? shock? that damn mask hid everything but his infuriatingly compassionate eyes, it made him surprisingly hard to read for such a naive fool.
... | No one conquered the Choapa—not the Incas, they lacked the strength, and not the Spainards, for back then, the Choapa had no love for gold. But when the Nazis fled for South America, bringing stolen gold back to its birthplace, the Choapa mind had changed. Prison is a state of mind. They allowed their own subjugation. ... | 2017-03-09T23:21:40 | 2017-03-09T22:26:24 | 39 | 13 |
[WP] Everyone in the world is able to choose exactly one superpower. The catch: the more people select a certain power, the weaker it becomes.
Example: if many people choose telekinesis, they'll only be able to move small, light objects. If many people choose time travel, they'll only be able to go back a few seconds. | 'It' happened on a playground, and it was madness. Imagine a bunch of eight year olds running around with Superman's powers. They caused half a trillion dollars worth of damage and killed thirty million people in about twenty minutes. Turns out any idle wish for a special ability immediately comes true. In that chaos, ... | I was so excited, so damned excited, when my day finally came. You know what I'm talking about. THE day. That day, yeah exactly, when finally you're deemed old enough to pick your power, talent whatever the hell you want to call it.
We've all been there, those of us at the age of choice and above, at any rate. You kno... | 2015-05-05T07:48:28 | 2015-05-05T03:08:45 | 152 | 105 |
[WP] As a vampire, I follow traditions. My fiancé is human and just found out that human brides/grooms are to be bit to become a vampire themselves. She absolutely refuses to let that happen, and says the wedding is off unless I refuse to bite her. I feel like she's disrespecting tradition. AITA? | **EDIT:**
I'm sorry I haven't replied to many of you, I went to sleep and then had a talk with my fiancé, I really didn't expect this to blow up!
A few of you are suggesting she was being selfish and that I should leave her. My family were actually suggesting the same thing, but I didn't want to be rash, I do love he... | NTA
Honestly, your fiancé sounds like a piece of work. I am not a vampire but I did grow up in a Japanese household and my parents made sure that I was raised with Japanese culture and customs in mind. They ingrained in me the importance of my heritage and that it important for the world to accept not only our culture... | 2022-11-28T21:23:09 | 2022-11-28T19:14:11 | 50 | 35 |
[WP] A man is determined to make a PB&J sandwich. However, everything seems to be conspiring against him. | As Jim laid the slice of organic white bread carefully on his carefully selected paper towel for the 83rd time, he could feel it happening again. He continued his mission, only this time he went out to the garage and retrieved the knife from his wife's China set.
The peanut butter was spread very slowly in a swirling... | Life was hard for Albert.
Albert was just like any other boy, with toys and smiles and an insatiable desire to fly helicopters. Except, that is, for one thing. Albert was deathly afraid of anything white and fluffy.
And this included bread.
The predicament, however, is Albert always wanted to be a chef. It was hi... | 2016-02-21T10:07:32 | 2016-02-21T09:01:06 | 239 | 37 |
[WP] In terms of powers you are world class, easily one of the next up and coming top-tier super-heroes in the world. But you deliberately downplay your abilities, pretending to have only minor talents so you can stick with your team of underdogs whose leader you have been crushing on for years. | "You all know the plan?" His eyes, each a swimming pool of green, flickered in the soft white light of the shop lights we had set up outside the dungeon. His heavily chiseled cheek bones seemed to slash into my soul as he met my eyes, smiling at me with his perfect teeth. The basso rumble of his voice seemed to fill me... | Sarah's favorite flowers are Himalayan poppy.
I want to give her flowers. I want to braid them into her hair and tell her she looks perfect, even if she can't see so herself. I want to gift her a bouquet and watch as she inhales them in gratitude. She will smile, laughing a bit, not afraid of showing her lips, before ... | 2021-04-12T12:56:40 | 2021-04-12T11:09:04 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] A photographer and a sniper meet in a bar. Neither is aware of the other's occupation. They talk about "how to take the perfect shot". | *Making sure the check clears.*
That's always the tricky part, right?
*Timing.*
Of course. And lighting.
*I suppose lighting is important. You've gotta have the right equipment.*
Absolutely. And finding the right subject.
*Ha. Yes. We have to be careful which jobs we take on. I won't do old people anymore. ... | **Photographer's Spirit, Sniper's Soul**
I was a mess. Fighting had been going on in the city for a week. My hair was full of dust from various explosions and powdered concrete, blood smeared my cheek where a road rash on by face had bled. I sipped at the beer, the first I'd been able to find in weeks.
"Took some ... | 2017-08-31T11:25:38 | 2017-08-31T11:15:15 | 123 | 15 |
[WP] It’s been weeks since your friend returned with godlike powers, unwilling to explain how. She is however getting increasingly frustrated by you not noticing her making the move on you. | The drive to Beth’s house had gone smoothly, as it had ever since she returned. The lights all changed green, cars zipped along in neat rows. I watched as she tracked on oncoming car and held her hand up, slowing it just enough so that it did not hit the truck that had pulled up short at the light. This commute used to... | They sit in a french cafe, outdoors. The warm air‘s perfumed by lilacs and peonies. Passerby tip their hats or wave meek, reverent hands at the girl. In the distance, the Eiffel tower yawns up, stirs the occasional cloud.
“You haven’t touched your cappuccino,” she says.
The boy looks down. ”Oh.” He swirls the drink w... | 2022-02-24T08:09:43 | 2022-02-24T07:57:51 | 1,610 | 271 |
[WP] A portal to Hell is discovered. Mankind invades. | Rough men stood at the gates of the damned, expecting to be met with rough enemies. But no demons, no ghouls, no cerebus or satan met them. The gates weren't even locked. So they pushed aside the corroded bars, and hundreds of thousands of living men willingly shuffled into the vast deserts of the dead. They marched fo... | Not if I can stop it...
thought the gaurdian of the gate.
And yet the fools!
to think invading hell was a simple thing.
the city wreathing of flame squelched its evil stench. its tall spires reaching up into its cavernous abyss.
To think that they could somehow takeover the damned.
They've seen war, yes they have... | 2014-06-15T23:49:36 | 2014-06-15T21:48:30 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] Superman is mentally handicapped. That's why he thinks nobody can pick up the Clark Kent=Superman thing, and everyone plays along in an effort to keep him from throwing a tantrum. The comics are his idea of what is going on. What does a day in Metropolis actually look like? | "The last 5 months have been really hard for us. The Daily Planet only made Clark a junior reporter as a feel good story but they had to stop letting him in when they caught him using his "x-ray vision" in the women's bathroom.
I love Clark and I want the best for him but I can't help to wonder what my life could be ... | *"We HAVE to give him the Reporter of the Year Award, Harold!"*
*"Again? How many times are we going to do this? Look, I am grateful to Superman. He is the savior of the city and protector of humanity, but Clark Kent is a fucking hack reporter. I don't owe that guy a thing."*
*"Let me make this clear to you. We're n... | 2016-03-04T09:43:03 | 2016-03-04T08:43:31 | 27 | 11 |
[WP]Four years ago, your dog and best friend disappeared. Today, your dog appears at your doorstep. You dog says, "I have been many places and seen many things, human. Its time we had a chat."
"you" dog heh | "Human? You can speak but you don't know my name? I raised you! Are you so ungrateful?"
Milo backed down.
"Sorry..." His face took on that sad look that melts my heart.
"It's OK Milo. I love you. Where have you been? We've missed you so much!" Tears welled up in my eyes.
"Well... At first I ran. For days I chased t... | It was an average Tuesday morning. Wife had already left for work and the kids were at school. It was just me, my coffee, and the morning news.
Suddenly, there's a knock on the door. Salesman maybe? Or girl scouts? It was that time of year after all.
I slowly get up, leaving my coffee on the table and pause the tv... | 2017-03-31T10:35:58 | 2017-03-31T09:26:29 | 70 | 27 |
[WP] Priests came to your home and performed an exorcism on your mother. After it was over you learned the terrible truth. The demon is the one who raised and loved you. And the possessed woman cared nothing for you. You now search for your true Mother. | The woman I knew all my life, woman I called mother was here, but it was not her anymore.
My mother always called me her sweetest child.
That nickname would flow from her lips lovingly every day more times than I can count. It would make me smile, although I would say to her that am not a child anymore.
She would l... | I stood outside the front door, contemplating what I already dreaded was happening. I had received the phone call from the Priest a few hours earlier.
*My Mother was Possessed.*
They were going through with an exorcism and I wanted to see it. I knew I wasn't going to like what I saw, but I needed to see it. Almost as... | 2020-11-12T03:59:31 | 2020-11-12T02:25:21 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] A short Horror story. Something to chill the bones in one hundred words or less. | The room is exactly as I recall it, to the most precise detail, but this is not my home. These walls, bookshelf, the leather couch, this is a shroud pulled over something far more malevolent. Then voices, I hear them coming from the basement, they whisper “he knows.” I look to the living room window, into the night. A ... | Something is missing, I thought, something doesn't seem right. I blinked. Something is definitely not right, even more not right than a moment ago. I squeeze my eyes shut and took a deep breath... *okay, I'm just imagining things*... and opened my eyes - something seems more wrong now than ever.
"Are you OK?" my frien... | 2015-06-09T09:54:42 | 2015-06-09T09:42:52 | 95 | 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. | You'd think this would throw me off. You'd think I'd be disoriented. But I've always been a fast learner and I've played *a lot* of D&D. Like *weeks*. I channeled my annoyance at being interrupted into the first thing that popped into my head.
"WHO SUMMONS THE ALL-PURPOSE NERD?" I boomed. I stand straight and tall... | It felt like I had tripped up some stairs. For a second I thought I had, and immediately froze. The plate in my hand still held the Reuben, but the surface beneath.....
My head snapped up, and I noticed the darkness first. Second were the candles, placed carefully around me in hexagons expanding away from me. Low-leve... | 2017-05-12T09:26:05 | 2017-05-12T08:05:41 | 68 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a utopian society. Really. There are no dark hidden plots. In fact, it is your job to stage fake conspiracies to give the eager adventurers some 'evil plot' to thwart in order to keep them from bringing down a wholly benevolent ruler out of a misguided need to be the hero. | I once wondered how fantastic these people's lives must be. The ones I lie to. The ones who call themselves 'heroes'. To live such a grand life, with their closest friends who've perished are all merely actors doing as I instruct and pay them from my allotment. To live such a fantasy... taking down an evil dictator, fi... | "So you understand your job?"
"No..." I paused a moment, "I understand the words you just told me, sure, however, I am not sure, WHY you would want to do this?"
"Okay, so, our society is just, well, amazing, right? " I nodded and Madam Presidente continued, "So, One of the things we learned early after we cured can... | 2021-09-08T08:29:34 | 2021-09-08T08:25:25 | 57 | 34 |
[WP] In 1,000 years, fantasy stories will be set in this era. Write a fantasy story set in the 21st century from the viewpoint of someone living 1,000 years from now.
Based on a post on r/showerthoughts | The world was different then. It was a brutal and magical place. Before the unification, before simulink, even before the great colonisation, there was a world of chaos and wonder. There was a world where great wizards still spoke in the language of machines, where the dark lords could pay to have their voice spoken fr... | Aaliyah hitched her shorts, purse tucked beneath her arm, carefully making her way over the rough gravel roads. A beautiful raced past, with a gaping sunroof and windows glinting in the sunlight. A magnificent beast stood arched on the hood. Aaliyah sighed; sometimes she dreamed of that. She was but a simple girl, atte... | 2018-12-25T04:05:20 | 2018-12-25T03:19:47 | 120 | 43 |
[WP] At the age of 18, people summon an animal that perfectly fits their personality to be their Guardian Spirit.
The animal would probably not be of the user's choice.
Just putting that out there. | *ritual soon omg cant w8 u onli summon once so #yolo #yoso #spirittime*
*@kaseters omg excitd wat do u tink ure gettg*
*@cutecheekbuttswag i dunno prob sth kool lyk a jaguar for mi inner beeyatch lol or sth random lyk a penguin or eggsotic lyk a peacock*
*@kaseters wat if it's #uknowat*
*@cutecheekbuttswag ill kill... | "Happy Birthday, Adam!" Adam's parents cheered loudly in his ear, laying out a large white ice cream cake before him.
Adam suppressed a smile and aimlessly stared at the balloons drifting against the ceiling. He glanced down at the cake, which spelled out the words **Congratulations!!** in big red gooey letters, surr... | 2014-06-26T02:25:59 | 2014-06-26T01:48:49 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] As a joke you were buried with "respawn in 9..." Your grandkids visit the graveyard 100 years later. A scraping sound startles them as the nine transforms into an eight.
Credit to
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/54qoa5/what_do_you_want_your_tombstone_to_say/d849ucs
For the prompt | Dying wouldn't be so bad.
I get that impression every time we visit this graveyard. I mean you don't have to eat, deal with heartburn, or fight off leg cramps as you try and wipe yourself. The only requirement is that you sleep in a dirt hole all day.
And with the number of times I've rolled off the bed, I'm alread... | I hate memorial day. The colors red, white and blue flooding the streets with people screaming "Merica!" from their gas guzzling F-350 Super Charge. It's like they actually think America has ever done something for them. Sorry to burst your bubble people, but this country has never done jack shit for you. I learned tha... | 2016-09-27T15:23:59 | 2016-09-27T14:47:43 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] The Moon is now habitable and millionaires are purchasing the best land there. You can’t afford anything like that, but after going through your inheritance, you find documents from the early 2000s that your great-great-great-grandfather had indicating that he owned grade-A Moon land. | I was ready to finally move onto the moon. I had saved up over the past twenty years on a measly doctor's salary and have secured myself a small plot of land near the borders of the dark side. Twenty years of toiling away seeing the less fortunate patients who could not afford MedBot's. Twenty years of frugality, cheap... | Aiden looked at the documents in disbelief... He thought about it, but there was no way it was true. It was almost impossible to own land at the time. He sat in the large dusty storage room of the courthouse looking at nothing. No... The sky. The moon. He knew he'd have a nice luxurious life on the moon. It was going t... | 2019-11-29T12:08:18 | 2019-11-29T11:47:48 | 305 | 21 |
[WP] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word.
[CW] Write a short story where the first sentence has 20 words, 2nd sentence has 19, 3rd has 18 etc. Story ends with a single word | Slowly I pull into the driveway, noticing that there is an extra car in the spot where I usually park.
“Who is this,” I wonder, hoping that our friend Dave had stopped by in his travels through the area.
As I walk quietly through the door, a trail of clothing greets me, and the sounds of pleasure.
I enter the hallwa... | The brand of cough syrup John bought was not right, not for dulling down the day to a drooling stupor. Fun intoxicants were there no doubt, but so were other toxic chemicals that could quite easliy corrode the liver. Down the hatch it went, and have you ever felt a gust of wind smack with extra force? That is John's ca... | 2017-01-14T21:07:16 | 2017-01-14T14:18:10 | 49 | 24 |
[WP] You're abducted by aliens & soon realize it's more of an adoption than an abduction. You're now a pet for a loving alien family. They can't understand you but they seem to understand your body language & have basic knowledge of what humans need to live and entertain themselves when they're busy | Life here in the human zoo isn't too bad. We have nice houses that we live in and we can come and go in our enclosure as we please. We wave at the children when they wave back at us. We are supplied with regular food, although I don't think the aliens get the need for clothing. We started to fashion blankets into make ... | It all started last week, or maybe less, I’ve lost track of time. Another normal day in the books just like any other mundane Monday at work. I had plans to visit my grandparents afterward and drop off some late birthday gifts I’d been holding onto due to the top brass leaving our section undermanned for the past week.... | 2019-05-09T18:00:38 | 2019-05-09T16:13:32 | 26 | 10 |
[WP] Skills level up in real life through use, much like in RPGs. One day, you keep getting notifications that one of your skills is leveling, over and over, even though you're not doing anything. | A slight vibration in my ear alerts me to what I already know, I am taking a dump. Still I gaze up and to the right to see my augmenter display, “defecation has received +1 XP.”
I shuffle my way past the sink and into the hallway, another vibration, “sanitation -2 XP.” I sigh, “fucking nanny state.”
I was told that ... | ... and at this hour we'll be shifting our news coverage on the Award Ceremony for Skilled Experts. Tim, how is that going over there?"
"Oh boy Jim! The crowd here is so pumped, you can just feel the sheer enthusiasm from them as they scream with that passionate energy. In fact, the response seems so big that they're ... | 2018-04-26T15:53:56 | 2018-04-26T14:39:23 | 50 | 17 |
[WP] A new President is elected, only to resign within minutes of being sworn in.
Why? What is the country's reaction to such an event? What happens next? | It was a cold day in January, with an additional chill of foretelling in the air. There were thousands people in attendance to watch the most popular politician get sworn in and billions watching it on Television. The air was electric and filled with history as it was being made.
" I John Abraham do solemnly swear to... | It was the first time in the history of Washington, D.C. that a politician had kept his word.
President Franklin Sharpton had gone to the Oval Office, picked up a single piece of paper and a pen, wrote a short statement, then rose from his chair and walked out.
The Vice President watched as the most-powerful man in t... | 2014-12-08T21:36:26 | 2014-12-08T20:03:10 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] The universe has ended and nothing is left. Nothing except all the damn immortals created by the many Writing Prompts all standing around wondering what to do. | Here am I. Mostly nothingness surrounds me. I see a few beings, here and there. They seem lost, without purpose. But I have a purpose.
I've been on this trail for untold years. I've lost track how long it's been. Countless eons. But I'm still here, still going. I've fought my way through many obstacles on my journey, ... | Immortals marching one by one
Along the æther plane
And though the other things are done
They really can't complain
---
One thinks he's God
One's been impaled!
One's wish has gone awry
One thinks he's in an RPG
One cannot tell a lie
---
They sit on reddit all day long
Recycling Writing Prompts
And in the r... | 2018-03-09T15:56:57 | 2018-03-09T14:50:36 | 251 | 112 |
[WP] Tell me the story of how the world ends - but told entirely in Craigslist ads | Researcher/Tijuana area, seeking two strong men to dig a hole, open air, must provide own equipment and security. Have transportation, will pick up.
Researcher/Tijuana area, seeking someone who can do some onsite translations of classical Nahuatl, security provided. Have transportation, will pick up.
Researcher/Tij... | In search for survivers In the greater New York area, hell anywhere really. I am, well I was a sandhog and was underground working on the new water way in Manhatten when the Russians dropped the bomb. Never have I emerged from underground to such horror. Everything in ruins and no one in sight. I walked around for a bi... | 2015-04-29T10:17:00 | 2015-04-29T07:28:18 | 29 | 10 |
[WP] Your name is Dave. People keep trying to call you other things, like "The Scourge of Seven Worlds," or "The Dread One," or "The Fifth Horseman." It's all very annoying. You just want to be called "Dave." | As soon as he came in, I could tell he was going to be one of \*those\* customers. He had the shaved head, gaunt face, coppery smell, and clothes from the 15th century that I'd come to associate with headaches and conversations that go in circles. "Welcome to Dave's Deli. What can I get for you today?" I say as I try t... | Hi! It's me, Dave?
Sorry, it was an old photo on my dating profile. Before the flames. Yeah, that's my bad.
Anyway, so you say you're into...look, stop screaming. What's wrong?
Well, Susan, I'm sorry about the demons, but I've ruled this world for a while now, I thought you'd be used to them.
No, I think things ar... | 2020-06-11T22:40:19 | 2020-06-11T21:46:56 | 43 | 23 |
[WP]You make a wish on a shooting star to be what your crush considers perfect. You wake up the opposite gender because it turns out your crush is gay. | I walked to Nick's house that night a new man. It turns out that what Nick had wanted was a young man, about 6'3, with a charming smile and chiseled abs. What he saw as perfect was courage, and intelligence, and grace, and athleticism, and all those qualities I thought I lacked when I was the old me. But now I had them... | Hillary had always been a beacon of light in school. Even though we never hung out with the same people, she was always nice to me.
I asked her out once, to the homecoming dance. Her brow furrowed, and she gave me the most pitying look... biting at her bottom lip. "I'm uh. Going with some friends..." her voice traile... | 2015-11-10T17:08:05 | 2015-11-10T12:32:02 | 1,209 | 247 |
[WP] You're a human trader for the intergalactic slave market. Advertise to buyers why they should buy human instead of another species. | Alright look, I'm not gonna lie to you: Humans are tricky. They're weak, slow, and for all that's holy they love to complain - but that's not why you want one of my stock.
You want *my* stock, because they're fucking clever - and they love a challenge. Analysis and problem solving, that's where the Human's shine. Each... | "So why in the hell would I buy a weak little human huh?" The fat Canidae merchant asked with a grunt. "Why sir they are the most clever species I have in stock. Twice as smart as an U'Tharian elder, as hard working as a Kimotite, and can learn at the speed of an adult Yitori." S-918 said with a wide smile on his liqui... | 2014-11-22T09:04:18 | 2014-11-22T06:06:52 | 242 | 24 |
[WP] Suddenly, all disorders and diseases are turned into superpowers. Blind people have x-ray vision, astmathic people have endless lungcapacity, and so on. You have cancer. | Superman's cape hung mid-air, perpetually blown by an inexistent wind behind his back. The red paint was flaky,
the plastic old. The toy's face was barely visible. The eyes hollow.
It was an old action figure, and Sammy put it in the box with the others.
He looked around the room. He paused. He let out a sigh, half... | "Stay back!" The chubby man known only as Zeke warned me.
I took another step closer. Zeke flinched as two other copies of himself, dressed in the same outfits just different colors, appeared next to him. They each exchanged worried glances and then turned back to face me. I made sure to sneer at all three of them as... | 2017-05-21T09:24:04 | 2017-05-21T08:54:19 | 134 | 50 |
[WP] On your deathbed, the Grim Reaper himself comes to pay you a visit. You expect him to collect your soul, until he asks where and how you have hidden it. | “Hidden it? Is this some kind of cruel joke”
My voice shakes with age, a croak. Barely audible, but clearly enough for death himself. The voice of death is not a pleasant one. The hiss is slow and uncomfortable. It sounds like air escaping
“Yes. Your soul is not where is should be and thus must have been hidden. So ... | I lie in bed and waiting for my last breath
And for a reaper to come take my soul
He will lead me away after my death
He'll take me up to heaven; my great goal
​
And when the reaper Grim came here to meet
I know my death had made something go wrong
He says, "Your soul is gone. It's what I seek.
Retu... | 2020-04-22T22:09:49 | 2020-04-22T21:37:30 | 102 | 47 |
[WP] Highschool Never Ends. The morning after you gradute highschool you wake up to the first day of freshman year. At forst it was unbelievable, but by now you have lost track of how many times it has happened
Death just resets to the morning of Freshman year. You have all your memories and relatively fitness level ... | Edit: words
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I've tried out a lot of things.
The first time I thought I had gone insane, ended up being diagnosed with a severe unclassified psyc... | He waved off the first day as a very detailed dream.
The second day, he began to get concerned.
By the third day, he was outright panicking.
High school. Why did it have to be high school? And not just any time, but back to the beginning. Back to the beginning of hell. He had just finished climbing out of that dark ... | 2015-12-08T16:14:54 | 2015-12-08T14:35:31 | 134 | 21 |
[WP] You're a renowned author who's still going to school. Annoyingly, your English teacher is reading way too deeply into your books. | I can't understand why our English teacher reads my books sooo much. It's not that good anyway.
But coming from the beginning, I think I started writing first when I was about 13 and at first it was just poems. Cringe, without rhyme, written during somewhat of depression poems, to be exact. They were just an outlet to... | The class was almost over, yet the tension in the room only seemed to intensify. As I packed my books away, I heard her voice behind me, as measured and crisp as a spring morning.
"I have a theory," she said, her dark eyes inquisitive. I stopped in my tracks, my heart racing. What had I said or done to conjure such i... | 2022-12-02T12:03:57 | 2022-12-01T22:22:00 | 71 | 21 |
[WP] Write a letter to someone you miss
It's been a rough week. Everyone has someone they wish were still with them. Write to them and tell them how you feel. Pour your heart out. No judging. Even if they never see it, someone will. And thank you. It's tough to be alone. | Elizabeth
I never really knew you, but I'll never forget you. I see your face every time I'm alone in my car, and it always brings me to tears. I want you to know that I tried so hard to save you. I tried everything I could. I'm sorry your parents had to see what we did to you. I'm sorry they had to see the tubes stic... | Dear self.
I’m sorry for what I’ve become. A lowly clingy piece of trash just barely surviving. If you could see me 10 years ago, what would you think? Maybe I was happy before. Maybe I had friends who truly cared for me.
Now I hide. I’m broken. I’ve lost my will to live. I can’t function on my own. I cry myself to s... | 2017-11-06T02:41:21 | 2017-11-05T23:37:29 | 27 | 12 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | Look at them all, filthy pink blobs of flesh ploughing their fields and planting their corn. Bah ! Ignorant fools! Little do they know, that I, Adolf Hitler have been reincarnated as a cow.
I sit here day after day eating my weight in grass, mooing every so often but all the while planning. When I was alive I believe... | Mooooooooooooo, moo. Moooo! Eat grass. Chew, chew. Other cows all around. Grass to chew. Fart. Moooo. Hello cow friend. Hello baby cow. Moo! Take a few steps. More moo. More grass. Chew and eat. Fly on my butt. Tail swat. Fart. Moooooo! Mooooo! Hot sun in the sky. Drink of water. Lay under a tree. Moo. Hot sun going do... | 2017-10-02T07:43:53 | 2017-10-02T06:04:28 | 50 | 17 |
[WP] You decide to order the everything bagel. All seems to be fine, except... Oh no. They really did put everything on it. | I watch in horror as the short man behind the counter keeps reaching into a box of apparently infinite capacity.
Everytime he draws his hand out of the mysterious box, another completely new object is within his grasp, seemingly at random.
He looks only mildly perturbed.
"Gotta say, making these Everything Bagels rea... | Garlic. Onion. Sesame. Poppy. Black sesame. Ginger. Baked beans. Coffee. Cilantro. Rhubarb. Eggplant. Twix. Every ingredient in trail mix. Ice cream. Salad. Guacamole. Candy canes. Champagne. Ravioli. Chicken. Earthworms. Pancakes. Slippers. Pencils. Sunglasses. Chocolate. Zippers. Umbrellas. Sidewalks. A shovel. Loose... | 2021-06-12T23:13:26 | 2021-06-12T22:15:36 | 23 | 14 |
[WP] From birth, your parents have done everything they could to stop you from going out during a full moon. At the age of 16, curiosity overwhelms you and you sneak out of the house during a full moon. You take a peek at the moon, and suddenly you turn into a log cabin. You are a werehouse. | Gregor grinned to himself as the full moon shone in the sky above him. The three fat townspeople that he had been chasing through the forest had finally stopped running. They were hiding inside some sort of cabin, praying and weeping in fear. Gregor snickered to himself. Did they really think they would be safe in ther... | I never understood it. Even right now I don't understand it. It all started exactly one week ago today. Well that's not really true, it really started (in my memory) when I was 4 years old.
I remember sitting in the back of my parents car as they argued. We had been at a family friends cookout all day and we were get... | 2020-06-28T10:19:22 | 2020-06-28T09:42:41 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] An immortal human has lived , in secret, among humans. Now evolution has progressed enough that he no longer fits the normal appearance of a human being. | I used to love the forest. Now I've grown to hate it. I guess a steady diet of anything loses its appeal eventually. How long have I been alive? Countless years. My children and grandchildren are long dead and unremembered except by me. The others have all changed to the point where I am a monster by comparison. ... | They knocked down the door using their power suits; without them their skinny androgynous bodies wouldn't have had the strength. They entered the room quickly, and their tall thin frames made creepy silhouettes against the hallway as thick tobacco smoke flowed out to meet them.
"Freeze!" yelled the leading security s... | 2014-04-06T20:47:32 | 2014-04-06T16:23:29 | 69 | 23 |
[FF] 100 words to make me hate a character. 100 words to make me come to love them. 100 words to crush my soul as you kill them.
Great turnout and work everybody. Keep em' coming.
Newcomers:
A. Don't feel afraid to post or otherwise get turned off posting by the number of already completed responses.
B. Read all... | He’ll be a hero for what he’s doing. He’ll be the most famous murderer since Jeffrey Dahmer. Phillip Douglass, our hero. He has killed millions and in sadistic splendor, loves his job more than life itself. His favorite method of execution is raining fire upon his victims. Something about watching his prey scurry ... | I'll give it a shot.
He sneered at the beggars, the druggies, and the homeless. He flashed angry glares as he drove past the ghettos. Whenever an elderly person walked by him, past him, or in front of him, he nearly succumbed to the urge to cuss and swear. He kicked at the stray old dogs that wandered by his house. He... | 2014-03-11T09:59:53 | 2014-03-11T07:12:46 | 33 | 22 |
[WP] A human is the deadliest species in the galaxy. It has redundant organs and can lose all of its limbs and not die. Human skin is tough, can absorb forms of kinetic attack, and rated to withstand both cold and heat extremes. Their bites are deadly. They irradiate and poison themselves for fun. | We were losing the war. Our colonies had fallen. Our homeworld would surely be next.
We were cornered. We were desperate.
And so, we did the unthinkable: we broke the treaty. We broke the one treaty that we and our enemies had been willing to sign.
No, not *we. I.* I was the captain on the ship that did the deed. I... | When Greyvak had heard tale of the new "Houmanz" he had paid it no mind. Just another race in the long and ever growing list. Each one came with their own tales of strengths and weaknesses. These Houmanz were apparently small, squishy things. At first thought to be weak and nearly cute, much like the Krevlovians. They ... | 2019-01-15T18:11:03 | 2019-01-15T15:40:09 | 195 | 96 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | 17 years, 364 days, 23 hours, and 56 minutes since I was born. The day is May 15th, 2007. The time is 4:40am. Despite the early hour, the whole house is lit up. My family had breakfast ready and coffee brewed by 4:30. We believe that destiny chooses your career through the summoning, and it is tradition to have a celeb... | *"There are two types of people in this world - the living and the dead. Those who have found their purpose and received their divine gift are those who we count among the living. So weep not for those who passed young, for they were already among the dead."*
Angry. That was the only way I have felt my entire life ... | 2019-09-18T09:23:25 | 2019-09-18T07:55:38 | 123 | 37 |
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