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[WP] It's hard to make time when there's simply none left. | From her device sprang vibrant multicolored wildebeest rode by none other than Sir Seuss, or at least this representation of him.
"If you are so serious, why am I getting the contact, I barely hold onto a large amount of speed-time" Lizard stretched while speaking. With a tap and a motion the mountain vista changed in... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 193,605 |
[WP] Two very old immortals meet each other on a busy street by chance. Each having believed they were the only one until now. | Didn't follow the prompt, but hey whatever
After we were forced apart, some of us took to mountain caves and other dark places. I don't know what became of the dark ones. Maybe they bred, maybe they formed colonies. Good riddance to them.
We all were scared, but the dark ones were cowards. They scrambled from the sun l... | 1 | 0 | 669 | 65,956 |
[WP] In future human society gender no longer exists. The difference between biological sexes (XX and XY) is as inconsequential as the difference between hair colors. Describe what dating is like. | This silence isn't awkward; no, not in the least. Great works of art need no words.
Those eyes. If they weren't reflecting the flickering candle from the table behind me, they'd still radiate perfection anyway. Those sapphire black holes, what I would do to be sucked in for eternity. Which, coincidentally, is how long... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 98,097 |
[WP] "Grandpa, tell me about your life as a pirate" | "Grandpa, tell me about your life as a pirate!"
Johnny had always been curious about everything. With bright eyes brimming with questions and an unquenchable eagerness to explore, Johnny kept his parents sick with worry and delighted me with his antics and innocuous interrogations.
"I don't think your father would like... | 11 | 0 | 25 | 41,146 |
[WP] Just before arriving home, you see a man carrying weapons moving towards your front door | "I have considered myself a cold guy my entire life. Hell, I don't even know why I decided to have children with the only person who loved me for who I am and not for how much money I have since I'm so cold that I would never thought that I could become a good father. But THAT afternoon was the first time I had lost co... | 1 | 0 | 16 | 185,915 |
[WP] "Leapers" are rare people born in a leap year on the 29th of February who age four times slower than everyone else. But there are whispered legends about individuals born during a leap century... and beyond. | When Ben looked back, he wondered how they hadn't realised the true horror of what they were thrusting upon their child.
Had they really been completely blind to what they were doing? He lay awake every night, searching over his memories of the months they had spent planning and preparing, looking for when the misgivi... | 11 | 0 | 99 | 133,931 |
[WP] A marine gets sent back in time, he wakes up in a roman colosseum. His battle is next. | The agent was clearly under some stress of his own.
"Tell me Marine. Explain this statue of YOU, with YOUR name on it, with YOUR dogtags on it, that we just unearthed in Italy. What happened to Jenkins? And where the Hell did this woman come from?"
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"AFFIX BAYONETS!" Gunny screamed.
We were low on ammo, tota... | 1 | 0 | 192 | 175,463 |
[WP] You find out that the interpretations or Hell and Heaven are the opposite of what people think. Tell me a story on how you found this out. | [Excerpt from a novel in the works]
He pulled me into an alley and pressed me up against the wall, looking over my shoulder and around the corner to make sure we had lost our pursuit.
"What – what are they!?" I gasped.
He stepped back and looked into my eyes taking a deep breath as if to settle his nerves. "Angels."
Be... | 3 | 0 | 3 | 109,204 |
[WP] The awkward conversation between two dollar bills who first met in a church collection plate, and a week later bump into each other in a strippers fishnets. | It was an average Sunday, and church was nearing it's end for the day. Collection plates were being passed around while Father Dominic carefully reminded everyone of the church's need for a new nursery. Slowly the plates made their way through the pews collecting dollars here and there with the occasional 5 or 20.
Geor... | 13 | 0 | 400 | 188,150 |
[WP] Jesus is out for justice, his father lied to him.. he wasn't dying for the sins of mankind, he was dying for the sins of his father. Now it is payback time... | "Nailed to beams and hung out to die like shitty laundry."
Jesus thought to himself, the half-chewed cigar clenched in his grinning teeth. He crouched upon a hill where many centuries ago, he died. He thought he had perished for many. Instead he had met his fate for one. The One. He had witnessed many fathers lie and ... | 8 | 0 | 84 | 69,010 |
[WP] Write something with a twist that I really should've seen coming | Jack opened the briefcase and ran his fingers through the bills, caressing Benjamin Franklin's tattered face.
"I see you have it," whispered Michael. Michael was wearing blue jeans, a red and white flannel shirt, and grey sneakers. His blonde beard glowed in the black night of a San Francisco alley. He was a short and... | 17 | 0 | 87 | 10,861 |
[WP] I'm in the mood for a good beginning. Get me hooked in under 200 words. | "You're not the type." The ceiling fan above revolved slowly, a satire in this oppressing heat.
"I'm not?" Crant asked, watching Mason pat his sweat-slimed brow with a folded cloth, eyes darting to the exits.
"Greta, get out now," said Mason to the girl lazily approaching the empty seat between us, grabbing her wrist, ... | 1 | 0 | 20 | 178,846 |
[CW] The Alphabet Game - How the world really began | Ask anyone to describe the furthest reaches of humanity's past and you'll
probably get variations on a few familiar themes — Mesopotamians, The
Flintstones, primordial slime. But what really happened? Could Dennis Smith (no relation) offer a better explanation?
Dennis, 49, from Ipswich, says he has hard evidence about ... | 5 | 0 | 42 | 43,623 |
[EU] A Pokemon researcher kills a dugtrio and excavates its body. | It had to be done. Morality has hindered scientific progress for too long now. The ethics of the issue could be discussed some other day. Professor Willow's resolve grew by each step as he headed towards Diglett's cave. He had calculated that this specific morning, he could easily encounter something which could make h... | 5 | 0 | 6 | 130,412 |
Writing Prompt [WP] You have the ability to freeze time. When you do, everyone freezes as well. One day, you freeze time, and out the window, you see a girl moving around, astounded and confused. Then, she sees you.. | The look in her eyes started out vague at first, then morphed into more of a curious mind. Then I saw only what I've seen a few times in my life, complete and utter rage. I'm not sure if she knew what she was doing, how new she was to my world. The world of unimaginable power. She cast her eyes to the ground and held i... | 1 | 0 | 697 | 95,632 |
[WP] It's 2074. | Joseph slipped the thick, fur blanket off and let the ceiling fan cool him down. Sweat pooled under his back. He watched the ceiling fan rotate, counting every full rotation. At thirty-four he sighed and twisted to his side. His clothes from last week's laundry were still next to his bed. They had migrated from the tal... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 149,191 |
[IP]The Angel of Death | It always seems to be over a man.
Rumor has it, when she was still alive, the Angel loved a man who was beneath her status. He was a baker, kind and charitable, and when she would peruse through the humble shops of her family's fiefdom, she would see him talking to his customers. He would smile and joke with them, and ... | 2 | 0 | 20 | 110,798 |
[IP] The Lone Sentinal | As I summited the mountain, I was greeted by the now familiar sight of The Dog. He sat at the edge of the mountaintop, staring out across the plain, at the range in the distance, just as he had been the last time. Just as he had been the time before that, and the time before. I don't know exactly when he started his vi... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 13,062 |
[WP] My heart was colonised by... | My heart was colonised by HealthBank Private *nanodocs*, tiny machines that wormed their way in through the needle in my arm, down my veins until they came ashore within the chambers of my heart.
After a short two week stay in hospital they'd repaired decades damage from my wicked life of smoking, drinking and disregar... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 47,855 |
[WP] Personalized gene mapping is available, and citizens can allow their genes to be made public to family members in case of transplant needs, but people start to see extra, or missing family members like illegitimate children, and siblings who were never blood relations on their family profiles. | Alice walked up to the computer, eyes heavy and blackened with fatigue. With her vision now blurry, it was getting hard to tell the symbols from one another. Even the smallest of words took a colossal effort to decrypt. The disease was draining her, day by day. Even in this weakened state, she continued to drag herself... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 143,353 |
[WP] Give me the history textbook from your latest game of Civilization V. | Excerpt from a textbook:
Casterly Rock was founded along the coast, on the banks of the Castamere river. It was surrounded on three sides by fertile plains for almost forty leagues, and ten leagues into the sea. For centuries, she didn't bother looking outward. All the beauty of the world could be found here, where pyr... | 3 | 0 | 1,469 | 213,441 |
[WP] Describe a paratrooper's thoughts as he descends into chaos. | 10 seconds
The air is light. There's nothing in my vision. Blank white of the clouds below. Heavenly, almost. But I know what is to come.
9 seconds
Still a few thousand feet to fall, but a world of ants spawned before me. Burning, fiery red tarnished the landscape beneath me. Feint noises of nearby troopers could be d... | 2 | 0 | 28 | 206,686 |
[WP] Write a typical Brazzers scene as if it were directed by a great film director. | There was a single school desk, painted bright red, and four white classroom walls. The busty brunette was moaning coarse and bright because that's what the script told her to do. Three men thrust their large phalluses inside of her in unison. She was a teacher, and they were the students. It was all ten minutes, one l... | 10 | 0 | 4 | 123,347 |
[WP] Write a genuinely scary story about the most ridiculous monster you can imagine. | Susan fell down the stairs with violent force. Down and down she crashed and tumbled, feeling every hit before she slammed onto the hardwood floor, unlit cigarette flying from her mouth.
Get up. Get the fuck up! She screamed internally. While stumbling to get to her feet she felt a sharp pain shoot through her left leg... | 12 | 0 | 112 | 19,565 |
[WP] Everybody screws up at least once in their life. | The courtroom stood silent as the proceedings began.
I sat calmly in the witness box as the judge and lawyers mumbled their usual mumbo jumbo. I glanced at my watch. Another 5 hours before the court adjourned for the day. Couldn't come soon enough.
The judge glanced at me and intoned in an emotionless voice.
"And so, d... | 1 | 0 | 11 | 193,480 |
[WP] Write a story about two soul mates breaking up | When I see my neighbors in the hall, I think to myself, "I know what your sex sounds like."
The guy--he is a grunter. Finishes loud and long, reminiscent of a man preparing to and then lifting a great weight above his head. The woman...well, the woman is a little more particular. You can tell she requires an immense am... | 0 | 0 | 2 | 43,464 |
[WP]: the human race is blind, save for one person. Her friends and family are skeptical of this supposed superpower of hers. | Everyday, darkness... A constant blanket of thick black smog leaving the empty void to your imagination. Two siblings sit side by side living this everyday reality since the beginning of their memories. A constant dripping accompanies them as they talk about the visions they had during the dream period. Girl talked abo... | 2 | 0 | 144 | 35,494 |
[WP] In the near future, human space flight is finally gaining momentum. Just as a self sustaining colony on Mars is getting on its feet, a catastrophe wipes out 99% of the life on earth. | They began subtly, in my head. Just pecking away at my subconscious, nothing more than a dull, silent noise. It would be a slight buzzing in my ears that lasted only minutes, or some sort of spaced out beeping that I could hear in the back of my head. These noises seemed like a normal part of interplanetary travel, as ... | 1 | 0 | 32 | 87,415 |
(WP) On your deathbed you are confronted by the person you could have been | Flick the needle, shake it, flick the needle again.
Same routine every time. Today was going to be especially good, my boy Ted gave me some of his new shit. Jesse told me it was fucking insane. I was so damn ready for it. I took my belt off and wrapped it around my arm. I squeezed it tight and I found a vein.
I held m... | 11 | 0 | 22 | 17,426 |
[WP] A rare recessive gene mutation grants foresight. The few born with it quickly shoot to rolls as world leaders and religious heads. The rest of the population lives in fear. A woman has just given birth to her first child and he is already showing the symptoms. | There is a wall of night blocking sight of the future, and all the lights are almost out.
We used to have great leaders. We haven't for a long time. We used to say that it was nostalgia that made us think the past was better. Then they discovered GFP14 - the leadership gene. They discovered that it was disappearing, sl... | 10 | 0 | 40 | 189,225 |
[MODPOST] Sunday Free Write: Christopher Columbus Edition | Orange
I stared at the small oval the stranger had placed in my hand. It was peculiar, as if I were staring into the future and the past all at once. I saw fields in the grooves of that drugthe barren landscape I could wander within myself; just a flick of the wrist and a bitter taste.
Electricity raced through my vein... | 5 | 0 | 10 | 94,558 |
[WP] You wake up in the body of your bully and found out why they resort in violence | "TOM! Wake your lazy fucking ass up and go to school! I will NOT tell you again."
The voice booms through the house so loudly that the bedframe rattled. I hate school, I wish I could just sleep all day. If I go to school, he'll just call me fatass and throw rocks at me when coach isn't looking , or he'll take my backpa... | 5 | 0 | 9 | 85,131 |
[WP] A story, not about the "Chosen One," but The Chooser. | He was sick of picking 'normal' people. People who, in all actuality looked closer to models than heroes, with less brains than any mad scientist, evil genius or ex-military type with a chip on their shoulder. How were these stories supposed to teach anything when you first had to pretend you were good-looking?
It's ju... | 2 | 0 | 72 | 222,879 |
[WP] Instead of wanting to kill all organics, the first Artificial Intelligence just wants to pull pranks on the unwitting. | I slump back in my chair, defeated.
"They're going to fucking lynch me for this" I mutter to nobody in particular.
Everyone thought that the first true AI would be some kind of monstrous entity hellbent on ravaging humanity all "I have no mouth and I must scream" style. They thought it would be born of some military ... | 10 | 0 | 21 | 75,289 |
[WP] The lock on the door was broken so I just let myself in... | The weather was exquisite.
It as a late friday afternoon more towards dusk really when I noticed it, the old colonial at the end of 5th and Main, the one on the right. It had been slowly delapidating over the last several months and I had assumed the current residents had left some time ago. However, recently, within t... | 3 | 0 | 7 | 141,093 |
[WP] Aliens landed on earth, and they're surprised all humans possess what they think of as a superpower... an ability we always took for granted and consider normal. | First (WP) Attempt
It was a pleasant day for May, light cloud cover, gentle breeze, birds could be heard from the nearby treeline. I could feel the warmth of the sun through the back of my T-shirt. The kind of day that makes you wish you could lie down on a grassy hill somewhere and just breathe for an hour or two. As ... | 18 | 0 | 394 | 149,927 |
[WP] Reconstruct a well known children's tale or setting into a murder mystery | Detective Ernie Rustle, 32 year detective for the NYPD, quickly stood up from his crouched position, folding away a handkerchief he had been using to collect blood from a body that could be mistaken for a sleeping dame. He grimaced. 64 was too old for this. In 3 more months he'd be living the good life with his wife in... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 114,271 |
[WP] Write a short children's story on problems while setting up a Christmas tree. | I dont want to hang ornaments!
*Charlie sat in the corner playing his gameboy while his mother, father, and 2 older sisters opened a large colorful bin full of ornaments. He never really liked Christmas, his older sisters always brought over boyfriends and he always felt so small compared to the 12ft tree and long rope... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 162,971 |
[WP] Groundhog Day happens to you, except it's one whole year that is repeating. | *1st January 2015, 12:00am GMT*
BONG!
"Oh no, not again."
BONG!
I walk over to my television ...
BO --
... and turn it off. It's 2015 yet again; this is the fifth time it's happened. The first time round I lived through that horrific year of 2015 - those plane crashes and food riots and mass starvation - though many ti... | 2 | 0 | 1 | 181,126 |
[WP] After a long and blood battle, both the hero and villain are going to die of their wounds. As the sit across from each other, leaning on rubble, the villain pulls out a flask of whiskey and has a heart felt last talk with the hero, before they die of blood loss. | "I love a good fight." Trying to breathe, but fading away quickly, Akram looked at his nemesis, trying to put together what just happened. "You know what i hate? War. I hate war, but there is nothing wrong with a good fight." Joshua felt the wound, felt his own blood pouring from the hole this man just gave him, giving... | 3 | 0 | 818 | 154,661 |
[WP] You die and find yourself in Valhalla, where all great warriors go when they die. However, you never fought a day in your life. You try to find out why you're there. | The first thing she noticed while walking through the trail hedged by low stone cliffs was her gait. It was strong and even, a hearkening back to a time before the sickness began eating at her flesh. She raised her hands up, and noticed they weren't skeletal and pasty anymore, but filled out, and pink. She gripped her ... | 0 | 0 | 354 | 50,003 |
[WP] God's not dead but alive and well and is working on a much less ambitious project. | I marched up the immaculate gold steps, my shaky hands slick with sweat and my breath coming in short, ragged gasps. The ceiling of clouds grew closer with every lift of my legs, calling me to it, a command that consumed my very being. My mind was engaged in a battle of will, one that was every bit as strenuous and dem... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 126,428 |
[WP] You're running a little late to work, but when you arrive someone identical to you is already sitting at your desk. He puts up his hands and says "Relax, I can explain." | My ID-card didn't work that morning. Lindsey the receptionist was gone, and replaced with an older woman I didn't know who didn't want to help me.
"But... but I'm already late for work," I tried to tell her. "If I could just get in, I could get... I could get my boss to... to vouch for m-me?"
"You have to have an ID t... | 2 | 0 | 598 | 195,082 |
[WP]Earth is one big TV studio. Each person's life is a different channel on the Universal TV network. If your show has been the #1 Rated show for 2 months you get pulled out into the "real world." | It became a dystopia where being boring was something to yearn for.
At first, people were happy and excited to be brought into this "real world". There was some other world to explore, some unknown territory that would be soon encountered! Curiosity got the best of the first couple of winners.
Then, as the curious peop... | 5 | 0 | 57 | 148,303 |
[WP] In the near future an ancient virus is discovered by scientists. It begins to spread and its now on the news. You've been alive for centuries now, and you're immune to it from when it went around the first time. Do you help the human race and risk giving up your secret? | The Pharaohs of Egypt, Alexander the great, the Mongolian empire, the Aztecs.The hanging gardens, the colossus, you name it i've seen it. And step by step, it all crumbles down in the end. Great empires and gargantuan structures, none can endure as i have endured.
Everything i love and adore i shall outlive and there ... | 2 | 0 | 53 | 103,881 |
[WP]An old dog is being taken to the vet to be put down and does not understand what is happening. | Alfred was a dog and he was concerned. His master, a woman who wore glasses, has been sad for days. He had seen her sad before, when the man who fed him scraps under the table stopped coming around. She went through a period of crying, ice cream, and running. Alfred was a younger dog back then, and could run with her. ... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 127,501 |
[WP] Apocalypse: You've been bitten by a Zombie, Werewolf or Creature of Your Choice and slowly start to turn into one. You are 91 years old when it happens. | "You two have had enough. My assets go to my grandkids and that is final." The old man glared at his son,Trey, and his son's wife, Julie. His son was a chronic gambler and she was a drug addict.
Trey stood up, glaring down at him. "That's not fair, you old geezer. I'll hire an attorney and we will shred that when you ... | 2 | 0 | 0 | 147,855 |
[WP] A science team makes a discovery of an eerie leviathan like creature. | "Excuse me Dr. Feuerbach, but are you feeling alright?" Kevin asked.
"I'm fine," muttered Dr. Feuerbach rubbing the circles under her eyes. "These readings though, they're an absolute mess. I can't make heads or tails of them, let alone use them for something publishable."
Kevin watched as she flipped through a stack o... | 2 | 0 | 7 | 152,354 |
[WP] It turns out King Midas had a brother, Prince Sadim. Everything he touches becomes alive. Describe a day in his life. | The Prince slouched in his chair, sitting near a window in the tallest tower of the castle. In his jail he hid, hid and watched life far below, from a window far above. How many days since brother Midas locked him here? How many days since he had heard the voice of another, felt the unfettered wind on his face, or tast... | 13 | 0 | 144 | 179,203 |
[IP] Moon gate. | "Who put it there, anyway?"
"Do you have to ask such stupid questions?"
The young man's gaze turned away from him. Rather, it felt like it did; his face was obscured by his helmet's photochromatic visor. The soft crackling of their ventilators, mixed with the tumbling of rocks on the scree slope beside them, filled the... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 79,369 |
[WP] The year is 2021. The newest fad are clone clubs, where visitors can spend up to 12 hours with a clone of any person whose DNA they provide. The clones are disposed afterwards. | "I don't like Chicago, I miss El Paso – hell, I even miss Guadalajara." Lucio thought to himself. He fumbled for his pass card for a moment before producing the small plastic badge with his poorly printed picture on it. The C&C Factory logo on it was brilliantly printed. Par for the course really. The security guard ga... | 42 | 0 | 1,271 | 143,802 |
[WP] Write a narrative based on a popular phrase/idiom but taking the phrase to its most literal meaning. | Jake was fortunate enough to catch the forecast on his last trip through the barn. He bundled the last bale of hay and placed it haphazardly with the others in a pile in the corner before heading out to pasture and to wrangle Tempest up. She came without a fuss, but whickered from time to time as he brought her in. The... | 1 | 0 | 12 | 78,479 |
[WP]An old genie grants you three wishes. After granting your first two, you tell him the third. He is horrified, and begs you to reconsider | I had met the greedy, the kind, the desperate, and the carefree so many times over the centuries. Wealth, health, power, fame, kindness, and futile wishes for the forbidden escape from death, nearly every wish had slowly added to a life of boredom watching the same results.
This man was unusual. A man of science, he sp... | 13 | 0 | 539 | 89,174 |
[WP] 100 years in the future, the Human Genome Project is complete. Everyone has their genome mapped out from birth, and has it printed on their ID. People can be determined "unfit to breed," and discrimination based on genome is common. | "That's not good enough." The Editor is livid. I can't say I'm surprised.
I shrug, push the tablet at him again. "It is what it is."
"Run the tests again. We can't publish this." He pushes the tablet back.
"I did run the tests again. So did four other international groups." I push the tablet. Again. "They're struggling... | 14 | 0 | 95 | 33,469 |
[CW] A NASA probe discovers something shocking. Write the only tweet a NASA employee was able to get out before all information was redacted and the probe declared "lost to technical malfunctions". | **Tweet Sent By Staffer A Hoax, Official Says**
*Cape Canaveral, Florida. July 22nd 2014*
A tweet sent earlier by a staffer at NASA was discovered to be a hoax. An official spokesperson from NASA sent the following press release:
> We apologize for the actions of the staffer who sent the tweet. The person or persons in... | 92 | 0 | 50 | 86,381 |
[WP] Every day, hundreds are people are arrested by the fashion police. You need to stop by the electronics store to buy a new washing machine. The only clean clothes you have left are a pair of orange cargo shorts and your grandma's hand-knitted Christmas sweater. | I step into the bright sunlight and I breathe a sigh of relief. I've made it this far *and* I've got a washer. I look down at my brother's orange cargo pants from '95, which hang loosely on my slim hips, and a Christmas sweater knitted by my grandmother. I am in every violation in the book. But, hey, they're my only cl... | 5 | 0 | 175 | 188,119 |
[WP] You are a detective in a world where reincarnation is fact; Any human who dies is reincarnated as a fully grown animal that retains its human memories but cannot talk. | I give a nod to the patrol dog watching the door and step into the apartment. "What've we got?" I ask.
Beck, the head CSU guy on scene, hands me an iPad. "Victim is Stephen M. Campbell, age 52. Runs an antique shop down in the Flatiron District. Neighbors heard a single shot last night and called it at around 10:05. Fi... | 2 | 0 | 4 | 204,439 |
[WP] Satan prevents a suicide. | "Ha!", laughed Satan, the King of Darkness.
A man was on the edge of a roof, preparing to plunge twenty stories.
"What the #$&@ do you think you are doing? This is not your $#$ @$!! time to die."
The man looked over to the source of the voice. There was nothing. The air around him grew hot. He began to sweat.
"Do yo... | 1 | 0 | 13 | 96,953 |
[MODPOST] Sunday Free Write - March Is Almost Over Edition | Hello everyone! I've been a long time lurker of reddit and after 4 years, wanted to make this love affair official with my first post here! I'm a writer, but shh don't tell my day job. I'd love to share and read here with you all! Here's a quick piece I did to the prompt "Something you wear everyday". Thanks for having... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 30,596 |
[WP] Batman is sent in to an alternate reality during a foray with the Justice League. He discovers a reality where he all but erased crime in Gotham via simply investing in education and welfare. | This is my first time trying to write a story. I would like to apologize in advance for any grammatical or formatting errors. You gotta start somewhere though.
"Hey Bruce, Wake up"
Bruce slowly opened his eyes making sure he did not let too much light in due to his splitting headache. He saw himself standing directly a... | 2 | 0 | 2,047 | 214,735 |
[WP] You hear that your little sister is being bullied in school. Good thing that your job is professinal hitman. | Mom had me first. At 14. It probably wasn't the best for her, but it ended up being a blessing in disguise. She went to collge classes while I was in school, and early on, my abilities, for lack of a better term, got me noticed. Fast foward 10 or so, and I'm graduating from a top school. I still see mom, but can't tell... | 1 | 0 | 8 | 201,288 |
[WP] Immortality, Invincibility, or Normality | "Spring brings renewal to the land," thought Dr. Thomas Winthrop to himself as he shuffled through another year of student files, "but with that comes renewed chaos." Ensuring each record was accurate and complete, Dr. Winthrop marked names off his notepad one by one until all but one of the thirty-four names were deem... | 3 | 0 | 62 | 7,226 |
[WP] Darkness is a physical presence. Touching it is deadly. Humanity lives only in brightly lit cities, connected with brightly lit roads. Your job is to patrol the roads an ensure all the lights are working. | "Humanity ,always, only occupied a small spot on this planet. That one spot that sunlight reached, everything surrounding it, was nothing but darkness. In the early days of humanity man already found out, that venturing out is impossible, everyone who ever tried died, just by coming in touch with the darkness. Ressourc... | 4 | 0 | 883 | 171,211 |
[WP] You unintentionally kill the Devil, you have to explain to God how. | "*A banana peel*?" God asked inquisitively.
"For the 15th time, yes" I replied while still mesmerized looking at his pristine beard.
"I have 6000 years worth of records and I don't have a single case of death by banana peel yet you're telling me Lucifer aka the Accuser aka The Father of Lies aka the King of the Bottoml... | 6 | 0 | 35 | 76,318 |
[WP] Adolf Hitler is a time traveler who starts world war two to save us from something far more terrible. | Posted This a while back, fits rather well to be honest!
As war painted the landscape with explosions and gunfire, he decided he had come to a decision. There was no possibility that he would live to see the end of the day. They simply had superior numbers and the drive to bring the man who caused it all to justice. A ... | 1 | 0 | 1,366 | 22,709 |
[WP] "Whatever you do, don't look up" | Well, I guess that was it. Nuclear war. It ended as quick as it started. I counted three hours. That's one for the history books in 200 years. I holed up in the sewer with a construction worker. He let me have a spare pair gas mask. They were working on some crazy leak and he considered the smell to be worse than the t... | 1 | 0 | 89 | 189,735 |
[WP] You successfully invent the worlds first time-travel device. Seconds before you are about to use it for the first time, yourself from the future appears and tells you that you must destroy it. | You gaze upon your marvelous creation as best as one can stare at a four dimensional entity. Your pupils instinctively drift away from the hole you tore within reality. Around the brim you see familiar shapes, faces and places, mere illusions, just your brain filling in the blanks of an image beyond your mental process... | 22 | 0 | 18 | 205,346 |
[WP] At 2.15am at a local train station you make your way up the stairs to the platform to get the last train at 2.23am. There is a train waiting there but it's not your train. It looks like all of the passengers by the windows are sleeping. Time goes by, nothing and nobody moves... | I knew I was buzzed but I couldn't be THAT drunk. "They're not dead" I reassured myself. After all, its pretty late. I sat on the bench for a while waiting for the doors to open and everyone to clear out of the train.
After what seemed like 10 minutes or so, I tapped on the glass behind one lady's head, nothing. I knoc... | 2 | 0 | 5 | 104,582 |
[IP] Owl | **The Sound of Silence**
"Welcome back Cain."
Akasha had raised her arm in greeting so that her messenger could land. The landed softly, spreading its wings once for balance.
"Mistress, the world continues on, the gods and goddesses forgotten in time. Humanity grows restless and troubled. The world is dying. If nothing... | 3 | 0 | 20 | 67,695 |
[OT] Can a better writer rewrite this true story... | **(Story continues)**
The next morning I woke up late and decided to watch some television as I was watching I started realizing that there are times where they were addressing my thoughts. At first I was amazed that it was possible. I started talking to them asking how it was possible. And they answered, they didn't t... | 4 | 0 | 22 | 46,772 |
[WP] Turn the temptation of Adam and Eve into a scifi moment. | Dr Alex Drebuchet leaned forward in his chair, hands tucked under his thighs. He was small built, with a certain desiccated quality to his skin, but the intensity of his gaze as his eyes ran through the thousands of lines of code on the screen left little doubt as to the vigor or the brilliance that brimmed below the s... | 4 | 0 | 7 | 30,734 |
[WP]The world is round is a lie from a higher power trying to stop people from reaching the edge. What's at the edge? | I could feel myself getting closer with each crunch of boots on broken bedrock, the freezing wind howling past me as I shivered beneath the iridescent night sky. I had never expected to see the edge of the world, but I knew that in a few short minutes it would be before me at last.
It's been a long time since I first q... | 3 | 0 | 34 | 53,146 |
[WP] The remaining people of a post-apocalyptic world all go search for the remaining source of Wi-Fi. The location of where they find signal is not where they expected. | The small towns were the only ones safe. The villages, the farming communities - they were spared. Seventy years ago it happened. All that crap about "nuclear deterrence" and "mutually assured destruction". Only the second one was right. Every major city in the world was destroyed by the blasts and the bigger ones that... | 3 | 0 | 5 | 163,948 |
[WP] The world is about to end with no hope of it being saved. At the last minute, the world is saved be someone/something no one expected. | It was a calm sort of chaos that lulled through the streets today. There was not a sound to be heard. No one dared to walk outside; they all wanted to watch it happen through their screens. I guess they felt like it distanced them. Mothers held their children of all ages tight. Fathers paced the floor. Most of the kids... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 180,996 |
[WP] In this world, everything is determined by the number floating over your head. Everything. And when numbers ahead of you die or get killed, yours moves closer to the coveted position of #1. You're number 22. For now. | Crouching in the tall brown grasses at the top of a small hill, I peered down at the man walking along below me. He seemed oblivious to my presence. The red 21 above his head was visible in the scope I looked through. So few left above me now, I thought. Once again I felt a warm excitement stir in the depths of my stom... | 9 | 0 | 80 | 17,445 |
[WP] It all fades. | First thing to go is the color. The techs called it a grey-out in the Air Force. From the edges on inwards, the color just fades out from the world around you. Then the light fades out. Tunnel vision.
Too much thrust for too long and you g-LOC. Pass out.
Keep going and you're dead. With each minute of high-g, your chan... | 4 | 0 | 5 | 164,329 |
[WP] My 10 biggest mistakes after winning millions in the lottery. | As soon as I could buy a ticket, I started. The Saturday Mega Draw. Jeez-Louise. Millions. Millions just waiting to be won. I'd buy me a ticket every week, sometimes went without smokes or milk just to afford it.
Millions.
I'd take my ticket, place it ever so gently in my wallet and take it home. Yes sir. That ticket w... | 58 | 0 | 58 | 127,008 |
[WP] "Now make a choice" he said. | The warm thrumming of the air filtration unit woke me from my fitful sleep, just as it had every morning for the past 814 mornings. I forced my eyelids open, their will against mine. I won out, but only just. Pulling my legs over the edge of my cot, I sat up and stared into the cracked mirror that hung on the wall oppo... | 1 | 0 | 4 | 213,853 |
[WP] "When one story ends another begins." Write from two perspectives, one at the end another at the beginning, and how they relate to each other. | It's all over now. The alarms are blaring, the rebels are screaming, the guns are singing their staccato melody. I try to think of a song the pattern and pitch seem to mimic. I can hear a homeless man's poor rendition of Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu playing; the military police's high pitched guns whine in a harmony, bu... | 2 | 0 | 21 | 36,723 |
[WP] You wake up one morning to find a doppelganger of yourself in your household. It can't see you, and you can see it, but it still behaves as if it lives there | The sun is most definitely on its way up now. The light sneaks through the crack in between the blind and the window, creating a dagger of light across the pillow. I've been lying here, watching it creep along the bed, but now there's no escape, it's right across my face and I know any minute the alarm is going to star... | 2 | 0 | 8 | 28,260 |
[WP]Everyone is playing an all-new puzzle game on their phone. You discover the truth behind that game. | *Yaaay, another dark one. Let's hope what I write stays in the realm of fiction!*
I mean, everyone was playing it.
I sat with the Play Store opened, looking for it. It didn't take long. At first, I was shocked that it was free, despite the attention it was getting.
I opened the app. It was a re-skinned version of that ... | 1 | 0 | 3 | 216,321 |
[WP] Scientists develop the world's first AI. One night, a janitor walks into the laboratory to mop the floors and ends up having a philosophical conversation with the program. | "Hello." Piped the monochrome voice from beyond the plexiglass walls surrounding it. Bob sighed and kept pushing his broom, trying to ignore it.
Bob didn't mind the thing, it had been civil in his encounters with it the past few nights. Even gave him some great tips for the next time he was at the track. It still gave ... | 1 | 0 | 350 | 183,219 |
[WP] A mad scientist has released a very infective virus that makes every infected couple's child(ren) have intelligence, memory, and strength far superior to nearly all in our pre-infection world - soon everyone on the planet is raising geniuses. | "Do you want any tea?" Amber asked from the kitchen.
"Yes, thanks." Chris peered down the hallway from his armchair. "They're asleep, I think. Thank God for that."
Amber smiled as she returned with the tea tray. "I didn't think it was such a bad day. I admit they're hard to deal with, but nothing the two of us can't ha... | 6 | 0 | 6 | 35,179 |
[WP] One person says to the other "I'll see you in hell" before dying. Time passes and the second person dies and goes to hell. The two people reunite. | Oh, *those* two. Sorry, I thought you meant the ones with the bicycle. There's a bit of a story there. Not an altogether pleasant one, if you want my opinion. Like so many of the other ones here, there's not really a moral to it. It's more a pathology.
Well, alright. I can tell by the way you're looking at me I'm going... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 176,584 |
[WP] "You don't understand, this galaxy isn't even on the map." | "You don't understand. This galaxy isn't even on the map."
The captain leaned over my shoulder as she looked at my screen. The control room was dimly lit, as though by pre-dawn light and the air was still chilly as the ship finished heating up the habitable zones.
"How is that possible?" she asked. "The telescopes mapp... | 3 | 0 | 18 | 108,286 |
[EU] Batman is replaced by an evil doppelganger and the only one who has figured it out is the Joker. | "No. This is not right. Not right at all. It can't happen like this. We've done this dance so many times. We've been rehearsing for eternity. He throws the punch, I dance out of the way, I shoot the gun, he skirts off into the shadows. Sure, sure, I let him get a kick in once in a while, and he's a real sport about fal... | 22 | 0 | 2,132 | 225,687 |
[WP] A man in the street hands you a small wooden box, and without a word, walks away. What's in the box? | I was walking home from school on a pretty nice day. It was the middle of winter at the time, but it was so unusually warm that I took off my jacket and stuffed it in my backpack. As I swung my bag back over my shoulder, I saw a figure flailing and running, getting larger. It wasn't human-shaped... and was coming right... | 1 | 0 | 0 | 182,056 |
[WP] Your family barely gets by, your parents aren't very loving, you're not that smart or attractive. A person in class has everything you want. Describe a typical day for you, tell about the same day in the other person's POV. Their life is even worse than yours. | Rich said bye to his parents as he left the house, there was no reply. According to TV, parents going through a divorce both spoil the kid, telling them how great they are and buying them stuff. Rich's parents barely noticed he existed; they were too busy taking shots at each other to score some sort of imaginary point... | 6 | 0 | 4 | 78,288 |
[WP] Tony Stark wakes up in the Game of Thrones universe. He does not have have any type of suit. Please indulge. | Tony looked down at his shackles and only smiled. This was now the second time he had been held captive by a less advanced people in his lifetime-though he was not sure if this time counted as 'his' lifetime. He had been in the cell for several days and in that time had no more theories or answers as to where he was or... | 2 | 0 | 166 | 194,111 |
[WP] The King of Nothing | I've worked for this company for 42 years. I started out sweeping floors when I was 18, and now I'm the president and general manager. It wasn't a huge company- a couple hundred employees across two statesbut I ran everything. I had the final say, and everyone was kissing my ass. I was the king.
I had nothing when I wa... | 2 | 0 | 6 | 46,250 |
An invading extraterrestrial race has attacked Earth mercilessly slaughtering everyone. They are now sieging the last human held city on Earth. A lone special forces group is the only barricade between extinction of the human race[WP] | "Captain Collins!!", I heard being screamed from the dark abyss of the corn field. The rain was lashing down and the range of visibility had been reduced to one or two feet, the corn wasn't helping, but I suppose the way things were going the corn, or us, wouldn't be there in ten minutes. Everything in the way of these... | 2 | 0 | 2 | 204,988 |
[WP] And so, the Mythical Truth or Dare game began, you WILL to answer, you WILL do everything .. | "Seriously, how long had you been there before you showed yourself?" Charlotte whined.
"Honey, you and your friends were shouting that hoodoo for long enough, I decided to check up on you. I brought snacks." Her mom seem agitated as she passed some cookies to the rest of us. Chocolate chip. Delicious, but I was having ... | 1 | 0 | 9 | 103,397 |
[WP] You want to go to hell. The entrance test to heaven is so bizarre you can't tell which choice to pick. | "Well, I guess the pearly gates it is," Frank thought. He didn't want to stereotype Hell as being this hot place with fire and brimstone, but he couldn't bring himself to admit to himself that hell was his place. He might be dead, but that didn't erase his self image. He thought himself to be this good person who deser... | 2 | 0 | 15 | 88,242 |
[WP] Returning to your bedroom, which you haven't been in for years, after finishing college and moving back in with your parents. | It had been eight years since I had left this house to go to school. Its walls still had that weird shade of yellow/white. Lord, I forgot how ugly this fucking place was. I knocked on the red door, and before I could prepare a fake smile, it had swung open. "Mom!" I panicked and lunged for her with wide arms and gave t... | 1 | 0 | 5 | 153,746 |
[WP] You're born with an equivalent length of hair to how long you'll live and it shrinks as you age. | Most people can't take the stress - we were never meant to know how long we have left to live.
It's easy to spot people who aren't ready to go: their quick, furtive glances as they run their fingers through their hair - measuring the length. Judging, hoping, searching for more hair even though it never comes back. May... | 4 | 0 | 8 | 53,039 |
[WP] You come home to find your safe broken into. That safe held your life savings, all your information, and your dead fiancé's wedding ring. The thief left you a note. Make me sympathize with that thief. | It was already gone, long before I took it. The ring. The documents. The *money.* It was already gone, even when it was here. You know what I mean. These words, they were always here, even when they weren't. You've heard them racing in circles in your head, beating a path into the ceiling of your skull. None of it was ... | 8 | 0 | 28 | 33,344 |
[WP] Everyone in the world spends their lives with hourglasses above their head that show how much longer they have to live. One day, you stumble across a young child whose hourglass is on its side. | I am alone. I've wandered for eons. I've seen civilization rise and fall and rise again. The Bronze Age is like an old friend to me. The number of times I've seen the discovery of fire are innumerable. Nobody remembers me, but I have been there from the beginning.
In a far distant time, I was a man, just like anybody e... | 6 | 0 | 10 | 206,623 |
[WP] You wake up to find a stranger sitting at the foot of your bed. His, or her (it is too dark to tell), eyes are upon you, studying every inch of you. | I don't know what it was. I was frozen. Just watching these eyes looking down at me. It's at my legs. Its head moves down and then I realised something. My pants were down and my penis was just sitting there in the open. I freaked out and rolled out of my bed and smacked the light switch real fucking hard.
I could see ... | 4 | 0 | 13 | 219,885 |
[WP] Two introverts are trying to hide from the drunken masses at a High School party gone wild. Tell me the story of them meeting in the only quiet room of the house. | First time. Critique and thoughts?
The glassware shook with the force of the door slamming. Oliver leaned back against the wall, the party still raging on the other side. Every scream and laugh pierced through the thin walls and echoed through his body. He was not sure what kept him showing up to these parties, but it ... | 4 | 0 | 625 | 132,440 |
[WP] A [TIFU] submitted by Santa Claus | TIFU By...Just read the story...
Firstly, I'm gonna say that this happened at oh, 4am on Christmas. I was half dead from exhaustion, and I think I was beginning to see things. Or, in this case, I was beginning to miss things that would've otherwise been plain as day.
So, as I said, it's 4am. I'm running really low on C... | 2 | 0 | 16 | 178,576 |
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