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[WP] They say that on a distant world creatures arose from the ashes of stars. Strange beings without soul or purpose, they call themselves "human". Tell the story of humanity from an outside perspective. Color, stretch and embellish our history into a myth.
*Translated from historical inscription 8724, from the world we dubbed Ionsette. Estimated to be 40,000 years old, as of the year 42,015.* They are beings just like us, yet different in so many ways. They are not afraid to do what is necessary to further their goals, their thoughts and their survival. Our peop...
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"What was this place?" "They called it a museum." Faith's question echoed through the dusty hall, the shadowy shapes of sculptures and statues. A faded, tattered banner, disappearing high up into the ceiling read in patchwork letters: *D troit nstitute of Arts.* At her curious expression Hilary Flint continued, po...
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[WP] You are an Elder God, older than time, beyond the knowledge of man. Yet, in some tiny corner of the infinite omniverse and beyond, on a little blue ball, you find yourself content as a caretaker and guardian of some poor lesser being. You do enjoy being called "a good boy."
It was the perfect job. The family was away on their Christmas holidays, rich enough to have some pretty good presents but not so rich they'd have enough security to pose a problem. A house just out of sight enough that you can get there without anyone noticing. A neighbourhood where people would look away and "mind t...
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Well, he's not the strongest. Nor is he really the most clever. To be plain, he is in fact quite ugly: pink, soft, soft-hearted, soft, and soft-smelling. ​ The other day, I cleverly directed him into direct fistifluffs (I've loved that word as long as I've known it... a year or 300) with one of my close-c...
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[WP] All the world leaders have a groupchat. One day you accidentally get added.
\[Alex Bishop has joined the conversation\] Macron: Hey, who is this, did someone else become a world leader without anyone else realising? Theresa: Could be another Australian prime minister? Merkel: No, I believe the Australian prime ministers name was Scott Marston. ~~Malcolm~~ Scott:…...Morrison. Merkel: W...
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I prepared myself a coffee, even went down to the store despite the awful cold weather and bought some cookies. This will be a long a night. All those secrets. Maybe I can even write a blog post about this and get famous. I'm still pondering about that though, I don't know if it's wise to mess with all world leaders. ...
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[WP] We were told we had 24 hours until the end of the world. We did things, all of us; unspeakable and selfish, horrible things. 24 hours of greed-fuelled anarchy and then the world would end... except it didn’t. Now we must all go on knowing what we did and deal with the consequences of that day.
We made it a special day. We were lucky that we had already been on vacation at the time of the announcement. I always took the family up to our little cottage in the woods on the lake. The kids didn’t hear the message. They were too young and didn’t have phones or electronics. We made sure none came on our trips exc...
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The world broke out into chaos once the announcement was made. Twenty four hours and the world was to end was something so surreal that many didn't believe it. Instantly the internet was set on fire with those seeking answers only to be faced with only more questions, memes, and false information. It took almost an ...
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[WP] You never found your soulmate in life, so you begin looking in death.
It's been almost 40 years since I was born. My entire life, I've been a hopeless romantic. In grade school, I gave every girl in my class a Valentine's Day card and would always share my lunch. My mum packed plenty of food for me to share, and on days where no one would share, I just ate it all. In junior high, I would...
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There's a vast, black void sandwiched between heaven and hell, crawling with souls who weren't good or bad enough for either. Some call it purgatory, but the popular term around here is "Leechland." That's what it feels like sometimes. Knowing there's no chance of regaining life, but realizing you were too damn boring...
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[WP] In a shocking twist, Belgium successfully conquers the world. Part of their success is due to the fact that nobody quite believes this is real, even several years into Belgian world rule.
"Belgium holds the world record of going the most days without a government. They stripped the Iraqis of the title. Eight months. You know what they did? You know what they did to protest this strange state of affairs?" "Jesus, Frank. Why are you always going on about Belgium?" "They call it the Fries revolution. Fri...
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"Son, you have no choice." The young atheist boy stared at his father with distrust. "You have to learn dutch, french, and german." "But- "I know. I know. It was hard for me to take in too. But this is a different time of our country, Jimmy. The cocoa gods and goddesses have made their decision, and this is what th...
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[WP]Write a sentimental, heartwarming story. Then cram as many product placements as you can
It was Valentine's Day, and that meant buying Edible Arragment fruit baskets and Toblerone chocolate for my girlfriend to celebrate. We were recently engaged, having got down on one knee and offering a Tiffany ring. I got out of bed and started my day with a shower. I used Dove shampoo and conditioner, followed by Niv...
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When I was 15, I was diagnosed with depression. It crushed me, because now all of my reasons to be sad made sense. I was lost, didn't know who to talk to, until I realised that I had friends, family, and most of all... Crank-Chop, the chopper that's gonna cut all your food in a matter of seconds! At TESCO, we believe ...
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[WP] Magic has been outlawed, and there is a VERY high bounty for magic-users. You are the world's greatest Bounty Hunter. The secret to your success: You're also the world's greatest Wizard
I hate myself. You ever hear people say that? Yeah, you probably have. Self-loathing has become pretty popular on the internet these days. People plaster statements like that across their twitter accounts. And why? Are they looking for sympathy? agreement? a shared bond with strangers? I don't know. All I can say is,...
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Wizards are always stronger if they're given time to prepare. That's just a fact of life. What most people fail to realize is that a wizard's greatest asset is also his largest weakness; habit. You see, wizards have to undergo absurd mental training in order to master their craft. As a result habits form which make c...
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[WP] You are a human-like being, spawned in a nuclear explosion. You have a weapon, and have no idea what you're supposed to be doing here.
"Who the fuck are you?" The dying soldier asked, looking at the humanoid creature as it stood in the middle of a crater. "I don't know, ask dad." He pointed to the mushroom cloud that it was thrown out of. "Wait, you-" Before the soldier could speak once more, he coughed out blood and bits of shrapnel on his hand. He...
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'Caw! What's this thing her!?' Cried Mag, as she dug through the waste in her hazmat suit. She pulled away a slice of sheet metal, revealing a strange bipedal figure. She let her automatic rifle hang down from her shoulder, as she pulled away some of the other junk around her find. Mack turned up from wherever he'd b...
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[WP] Your best friend has just confessed their love for you and asked if you want to go on a date. Instead of being happy you are shocked and confused. You didn't think a dragon would be interested in dating a human being.
I finish choking on the bread I was eating as she watched with a rather concerned look on her face. "I'm sorry" I say as I turn to her, "you what?" At this point she looks a little embarrassed, "I...said that I think I like you." I look at her while wiping the tear from my eye, my throat still hurting from the bread, ...
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“Ummm…  what?” “I know,” she said with that soothing voice she uses when I get a little nervous. “It seems unusual, maybe even a little ‘unnatural’ or whatever, but…” “You’re a dragon,” I interrupted.  “And I am human.  You see the issue, don’t you?” Alrygha was two-and-a-half meters tall at the shoulders, seven ...
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[WP] A genie granted you immortality many ages ago. The last human other than yourself has just died out. What do you do?
It began millenia ago. How many I have long forgotten. It is interesting, really. When people think of immortality they think that they will simply live to be able to do anything they want – to experience everything and achieve a form of completeness. Yet, how many mere mortals remember anything that happened in their ...
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At first I thought I was a genius, not very unique in my ideas but I felt I was genius anyway. Living forever, who doesn't want that, the possibility of never aging. I guess like anyone who got into my situation would feel great... for around ten years. After ten years you realize what you've done, you start to notice...
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[WP] You are the best in the world at what people consider a useless talent. Today is the day you prove them all wrong.
"…So, I have to ask. Under your qualifications, you listed that you have a 100% win streak from playing over thousands of games of Freecell, as well as various other versions of solitaire, including 4-suit spider solitaire, 40 thieves, and seahaven towers. Why exactly *did* you put that on your resume?" "All due resp...
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"Mr. President, the country of Lesotho has just dropped nuclear bombs on several major American cities. We must retaliate!" "Yes, a despicable action such as this can be met with nothing but the same amount of force. There's just one problem. Where is Lesotho?" "Oh, it's right over by... It's just south of... It's on...
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[WP] A stereotypical high-school anime, but the main character's childhood best friend is an incredibly loud and proud American girl that comes from the heart of Texas.
Fujiwara Sakura sat on the ground, books tumbled all around her. Kitagawa Senpai and her posse of bullies were gathered around her laughing, after they had just pushed her down. She was so mad that tears stood in her eyes, but she forced a smile. "I'm sorry, Senpai." Kitagawa clicked her tongue, clearly irritated. "A...
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“Howdy Felix!” She said, calling me by my first name. I cringed, some boys eyeing me jealously. “That darn thing there’s the hoot these days,” she continued, pointing at the newest gadget from the science club. “Er... not exactly, Hudson Chan,” I said, scratching my head. How exactly would I explain this gear? I was i...
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[WP] Instead of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, the three major religions to make it to the 21st century were the Greek, Roman, and Norse pantheons. I'm not disregarding any other large or small religion (Hinduism, Buddhism etc) , mind you. Include them or some other alternate if you wish. Edit: Great responses so...
The coffee shop was a bit full this morning, as per usual. Customers chatted amongst themselves, making it hard for me to watch the news, well it would've if there weren't subtitles. It went on about political disagreements, one side saying that applying Roman standards to a secular system is limiting to those who do...
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"Check. So, how have your classes been?" "Ugh, it's been absolute Hades. I have this one professor who's *super* Norsaphobic," Joshithos says as he moves his Centurion. "Really? How so?" Drafus asks, moving his Praetor up. "Like, we're supposed to be learning statistics, and he just goes off on rants about how if we...
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[WP] Grim Reaper only exists if there's life to be taken. The last human alive finally meet the Grim Reaper.
There exists a place between worlds, where soul pass through when they die. A place of darkness, undefined, incomprehensible. Almost a void, really. It would have been, if not for the cloaked figure standing at the center of it all. Waiting. In his left hand was a steadily-burning lantern, and in his right, an o...
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In the depths of the Earth, the last human waited. Waited for what, he couldn't say. For the radiation to clear, for the ice to melt, or for rescue to come. But everyday, he would wake, eat food grown in the automated hydroponic farm of the bunker, read books, listen to music, and then man the radio station. Most of hi...
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[WP] You answer the knocking at your door only to see Death himself. "It is time." he says. "For me to move in, I'm your new roommate."
"Pardon me?" "You heard me," Death said, clutching a small briefcase, "Roommates. You. Me." He brushes past me, an earthy smell drifting by, the clicking of bones faint but nevertheless there, like the world's least melodious xylophone. As I struggle to grasp what just happened, his voice rises from the kitchen like ...
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I was slowly chewing my cereal, sitting at my kitchen table as the background noise of the news broadcast filled the room, and I was carried away in my thoughts. My main thought was how dismal this place was, the room was dimly lit, the light above didn't have a shade, and the white paint on the walls were starting to...
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[WP] You die and ascent to Heaven, where St Peter cries "Thank God you're back." Wait a moment, it's coming back to you... Oh. You were supposed to be the Second Coming of Christ. Whoops.
"What the fuck?" Everything's white. I... I don't know where I am. I think I died... No, that's crazy talk. "Thank God you're back!" An Angel is running towards me at full speed. You'd think he'd fly cause he's an Angel, but... Dammit, seeing Angels definitely means dead. "I'm so happy to see you, Mr. Christ!" ...
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**[Short Story #2] Jesus'** The word fuck trickles out as I exhale slowly coming back to my senses on what has just transpired. Big man is already pissed. I can tell because he isn't here scolding me. He's probably about the play the whole "I'm not mad. I'm just disappointing" card. He doesn't get it though, thing...
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[WP]We live in a universe where you cannot die from natural causes, instead every so often the Grim Reaper will come and try to fight you to the death. If you win, you keep on living until the next fight.
Gavin was tying the knot when the Grim Reaper came. Gavin looked at him with dull eyes, then resumed his efforts. Death stared at him, confused. This wasn't how it was supposed to go. "Whatcha doing there, buddy?" he asked, carefully leaning his scythe against a nearby wall. "No need to fight me," he aid, wrapping t...
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I never really understood why he took such an interest in me. I'm not a special person, a rich person, or really a person that stands out in any way. I simply go to work and maintain a decent standard of living for my family and we all just get by quietly. The first time he showed up was in...oh...must have been twen...
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[WP] A woman has been dating guy after guy, but it never seems to work out. She's unaware that she's actually been dating the same guy over and over; a shapeshifter who's fallen for her, and is certain he's going to get it right this time. [deleted]
It's a painful transformation, but nonetheless a necessary one as I hid in the shadowy alley behind the cafe. I couldn't be late, lest I'm forced to endure another one of these metamorphoses. I made my way into the cafe to meet with the divine Moyra for a fifth time in as many weeks. I introduced myself in a name tha...
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"I don't know, I just..you seem a little too tall. I'm sorry.." *Well that's just great, Brenda, you specifically said 6'4 as part of your 'Ideal Guy' scenario just yesterday.* "I guess I can't check all the boxes now can I?" I say, not even bothering to hide my beaten pulp of a heart. What difference does it make i...
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[WP] There's an urban legend in your town called "Grinning Greg". A twisted, horrifying grinning face can be seen on the window of an abandoned church before a calamity strikes. This year, "Greg" appears on the window, but he frowns.
His face emerged at night, in the early hours. Snow had fallen recently and the village was bathed in that comforting, sickly-sweet yellow glow from the flames of the street lamps. He wasn't discovered until hours later when the milkman trundled past on his cart. Humming, he drove down the road on the way to his first ...
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As for me & my friend, Alistair was heading towards an abandoned church were legends were told we heard a stick snap. Looking around we sighed & chuckled trying to remain to assuage. We heard how a man named Greg once attended a church. One day, a serial killer came into the church & murdered everybody ther...
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[WP] “I wish that everyone on Earth would blink at the same time!” The genie gives you a pitied expression, snapped his fingers and says, “You have no idea what you just done…”
I opened my eyes and there was nothing but the genie. "What? Where am I?" I asked, wondering if I had hallucinated. "The void, null space, whatever you want to call it. Nothingness." The genie replied matter-of-factly. "Why? How? I need to go back!" "Back where?" The genie laughed, "there is no place for you to go ...
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I made the worst wish I could possibly make. I didn’t know it at the time but I found out when I got home and saw the news. People all throughout the world just disappeared. They said an entire neighborhood in New York City just vanished without a trace. I began to worry that it had something with my wish but that woul...
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[WP] The first manned interstellar exploration vessel arrives in Alpha Centauri after decades of travel... only to discover that faster-than-light travel was discovered since they left and there is a welcoming party waiting to take them home. I was going to add "There is much frustration" or "The crew of the former qu...
"Felicia?" The man tapped again on thick plastic encasing surrounding her. "Felicia, can you hear me?" "Ugh... what... where are we?" the tall, raven-haired woman replied, her eyes refusing to open, her body still unable to move. "We're at Alpha Centauri, Felicia. You made it," the raspy voice replied. Felicia paused...
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Meric woke up and fell. He landed almost face first, only being caught by his arm flailing out in front of him, breaking his fall. He lay on the ground, its heat seeping into his cold body. He turned on his back and looked at the cryo sleep machine. Cold air emitted from the chamber, the screen on top blinked bright ...
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[WP] It is the year 2150. Describe an arms manufacturers latest weapons platform to a prospective buyer and compare its specs to your competitors.
"... which can deliver a multi-megaton explosion to any point on the globe within a few brief moments" I finished up my presentation with a flourish. "I have a few questions" A wiry man in the audience raised his hand. This was not in the program, but I was feeling pretty good about my performance so I allowed it...
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Gentlemen, today we have an opportunity to show you the future of weaponry. Ever since the global atmospheric crisis which fundamentally changed the environmental landscape, of course causing floods, storms, etc. Mankind has fought not only for the few resources which remain, but also dominance over territory which rem...
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[WP] "No! No! You don't understand! They're not real, they were never real!" As your being dragged to hell for the massive amount of murder you have wrought upon living beings, you desperately try to explain to Saint Peter what video games are.
"Petey! Buddy! We need to talk about these souls you keep sending us." "I've told you once I've told you a million times, Belial. My name is not Petey! Or Petey boy or any other name except St. Peter." "Alright fine but we still gotta talk about these souls." "What about them?" "We can't actually do anything with t...
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As I was dragged down I tried to explain that it was all just a game. The people were not real it was just a game. Peter said you kill thousands of people that is not a game. No it was all fake it was the newest realty game a virtual simulation. It let's you live your dreams of being a all powerful dictator or a benevo...
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[WP] Write a story that ages an infant into an adult in 50 words or less. WITHOUT using the words age/d, grow/n or mature/d. Good luck!
"Please just eat." She holds the spoon to his mouth but he clamps his lips shut. "Baby food. Again?" Her husband chides as he walks by. "It's all he'll eat when he's sick." She responds. Her daughter enters the kitchen. "Grandpa has a fever?" " No, Honey. Grandpa has dementia."
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The first thing he recalls in life is faces. Mom and Dad. Always smiling, happy. At 10 he remembers Dad storming out, never returning. He got a job the same day he started high school. At 17 he raced home with his college acceptance to find Mom on the floor.
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[WP] While putting your favorite condiment on a sandwich, you accidentally make a magical occult symbol and summon a demon.
As I go to take a bite of my sandwich, a portal opens up in the kitchen. A grotesque looking figure with gnarled horns and a searing red hue emerges from the portal. He makes an unholy cackle and begins to speak in a booming, sinister voice. "After a thousand year slumber I have finally awoken! Thank you, mortal, for...
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The honey mustard slowly oozed from the packet and onto the hot bread where it settled, glistening, delicious. My tongue stuck out slightly as I concentrated on arranging the condiment in the mathematically perfect way to put condiment on your sandwich. It was an intricate series of loops and lines that ensured that yo...
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[WP] You're an "assassin". You've never actually killed anyone, but you are very charismatic, and actually convinced your "victims" to fake their death and leave the country.
"You've heard of me, yes?" He swallowed hard, and slowly nodded. I could see the color drained from is face, the faint sweat on his brow and upper lip. I smiled at him. "Of course you have. Please sit. Before you pass out. That's better. Now, have you heard about me?" "You're the best. You've killed a lot of people...
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She hated the smell of blood. The metallic tank permeated the air as she spread three gallons of it across the floor and walls, spraying it like an arterial wound. Stupid men, she thought. She was never sent to kill women, they just usually hired her to kill their wayward husbands. Women were sneaker was her assumptio...
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[WP] Everyone knows about your younger siblings, the Seven Deadly Sins, they don't remember that you are the First Sin, Disobedience.
Truthfully when father named me Mother never really cared because we all would fall into family work of some sort in the end. I guess because Dad ruled the underworld it never occurred to him that when he designed me to rebel, it wasn't in his name that I would disobey... but rather him. Being the firstborn to an age-g...
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Disobedience is only a sin to the person who lays down the law. If the law is not just, is it a sin to disobey? A philosophical, finite question that opens a Pandora’s box of infinite responses. Clearly, this is a reference to a biblical notion that God is almighty, all knowing, and all encompassing. But what if He isn...
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[WP] Due to a misunderstanding, you find yourself at the bottom of a lake wearing concrete shoes. Point of interest... you're not drowning.
The trunk opened and a brilliant white light from a flashlight filled Tony's vision. A shadowy shape moved forward and heaved him out and stood him up on some wooden planks. As Tony's eyes adjusted to the darkness, he could make out the end of a pier followed by a long expanse of water. Above the treeline on the opposi...
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*Splash* I plummeted into the water with my feet sealed in two round concrete slabs. I moved my arms frantically struggling to move back up, but I simply kept sinking further into the abyss, the darkness enveloping me in a cold embrace. I looked below me but there was no ground in sight. I turned my head back up and wa...
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[WP] You have an uncanny ability to sense evil. The man who walks past you and gives you chills later appeared on the news as a murderer. The corrupt cop at the donut shop. Today you sensed the greatest concentration of evil ever. You peer into the hall, into beedy eyes of the class hamster.
Hamsters chew quickly because their hearts beat faster--same reason birds are lightning fast. Hamsters have black eyes like tiny pearls or large caviar, situated on their faces a bit askew to one side, like something between an owl's and a horse's. So when the class hamster's gaze locked onto me, and I froze mid-step, ...
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I like to think of myself as a kind of superhero. I don't know exactly when or how I got my powers, but it's a real gift and I feel like I should make use of it. I know when people are evil, and I'm never wrong. Once I figured that out, I started acting on my instincts. Walk by someone particularly nasty? I follow them...
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[WP] you were born with the ability to see a persons health bar and stats over their head. Today you see a 120 year old with 99 in all skills and a full health bar. Edit: Bonus points if they are encountered in a place you wouldn't expect a 120 year old person to be at.
Walking through a crowded street had never been my favourite hobby. Too many people, too much bustle, too much information. Female;20;health 25%; stealth 3 (heels aren't the choice of ninjas); knowledge 75 (apparently looks aren't everything). Male; 39; health 89%; ambition 75; knowledge 43; confidence 90; ignorance ...
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Dom Torretto lives his life at a quarter mile at a time. Amanda Bynes lives her live through snort straws and straight jackets. Michael Bay lives his life between one bad movie after another. Me? I live mine seeing numbers and two colors. Green and Red. If you've played Tekken or Mortal Kombat, you'd know what I ...
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[WP] You’ve just died and you awaken within a courtroom. The Angel of Death walks in as a voice booms” What you are witnessing is real. The participants are not actors. They are actual litigants whose sins will be reviewed now. Their fates will be decided here in Death’s forum: The People's Court.”
"Oh for the love of..." Picard muttered, recognising the courtroom he had been in at least three times now. "MON CAPITAN!" came the harmonious voice of Q, his flamboyant form floating gayly above on a hovering chair. "The time has finally come to answer for your-" Picard sighed. "No." Q flinched. Almost invisible, b...
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"So Mr Jones, what do you have to say for yourself?" "What do you mean? I don't even know what is going on. Am I dreaming?" "Mr Jones, you were walking to work, is that correct?" "Yes." "Yes _Your Honour_." "Yes your Honour" Mr Jones shifted on either foot. "You saw a couple of cats" Jones nodded "A few school...
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[WP] Upon your death you see a kill death ratio. You are surprised by two things. That the kills are in the millions and that you’ve died more than once [WP] Upon your death you see a kill death ratio. You are surprised by two things. That the kills are in the millions and that you’ve died more than once
I had lived a short life. 40 unremarkable years on the planet Earth, half spent working the same docks, seeing the same sights, and driving the same old Corolla back to the same old two-bedroom I had grown up in. I told you. Unremarkable. So imagine me, the most plain person who had ever existed, being told I had be...
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I awoke with thrashing coughs. In front of me were thin silvers of tiny clouds. I reached out my hand like I could touch them. I reached them, but there was no substance to feel, not even temperature. Beyond the clouds, barely veiled, was a mass of miniature rooftops and roads and some green and the seas. Unlike the ...
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[FF] Three paragraph story: Fist paragraph must be set in 1914, second in 2014, third in 2114. All paragraphs must be connected in some way.
1914 Ugh. Well that it was all a waste of time. Somehow I knew in the back of my mind that it wouldn't work. 2114 was way to early to get everything right. I told them to just let me go back to sleep and wait another one hundred years. But I was the first on the list. I was greedy. And now I have to suffer in a world ...
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I'm standing with Lisa, looking over the field of wildflowers and her blonde hair glows from the setting sun. Her hand is warm and her smile is the first thing in the world that has ever made me feel whole. I wonder vaguely how long her hair will be that golden. I know, even now at five years old, that I'll marry her a...
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[WP] You wake up on November 9, 2016, to a phone call informing you that an overwhelming majority of Americans have written in your name on the ballot.
"Wait, me? As, like, president?" I relaxed from my sudden upright position on the bed, thinking this was obviously a prank call. "Dude, like, I'm not even in a political party. Nice try" The voice on the other end seemed... disappointed. Like he too was one of the many Americans who hated both candidates. "This isn't...
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"...and you're absolutely sure?" I asked, still astounded. "I wouldn't be calling you if I wasn't" came the gruff, disappointed voice on the other end of the line. "You will have an escort arrive at your home address, where you will be informed about the situation. Be ready by nine o'clock." The phone call ended, and ...
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[WP] In this fantasy world, girls masquerading as boys to earn their knighthoods is so common that a group of trainees all swear their best friend is a lady. He isn't.
"Just look at *him*. If that isn't the press of a fine buxom, strapped tight beneath a strap under *his* shirt, then I don't know what breasts even are." Jamie laughed, throwing a pine cone in Avery's direction. The assembled squires all laughed with resounding hoots as they cooed at Avery in unison. Within the group...
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"Show me your penis!" Malthus demanded sternly. Just a few days ago, he would have never imagined that this particular constellation of words would leave his lips. Though still a young boy, aged fifteen, Malthus felt confident in his sexuality. "Ew! Why do you want to see my penis? Are you gay or something?" retorted R...
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[WP] You're the henchman of a B-list supervillain. The thing is... You're really good at your job, so you're way more known and feared than him.
As the exposition entered its twenty-sixth minute, his eye patch began to itch, as it often did in moments of boredom. Lifting a finger to massage the affected area, Yuri considered not for the first time (nor, likely, the last) the reason that Dr. Evil felt the need to explain his plots in intricate detail. Every time...
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"You were in the press again!" "I'm sorry, sir. I'll try better next time." "You're damn right you will! I'm the one they should be paying attention too!" Dr. Blech stormed out of the room angrily, whipping his long, white lab coat around dramatically as he left. *I don't even know why I bother. I never wanted the ...
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[WP][NSFW] After a cataclysm, 95% of human males are wiped out. The rest have to be used as breeding stock. Write a diary entry from one of these "studs".
Patient 29D Log number 32-4. March 3rd, 2031. Patient 29D's rectal stimulator malfunctioned eariler today. Intense stress on the prostate awoke the subject from his hybernative state which resulted in the patient attempting to break free from his restraints. Sedatives were administired to calm the patient who had de...
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[Day 1] They realised that the whole fucking places was overpopulated anyway and soon the numbers will be back to normal. [Day 452] Fucked a ton of hotties, lots of women just did whatever they wanted to do then killed themselves. [Day 972] Found a sandwich that was totally fresh next to a dead woman. Not sure w...
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[WP] 1 The village seer had a prophecy on your pregnant mother: "Your womb carries the most powerful man to ever live, but one loved by misfortune." The seer was right except for one thing, there wasn't 1, but 2. Your powerful twin brother, and you, a powerless man w/ the worst luck in the world.
I was born a disappointment. I also was a relief, I think. My mother worried for months about the prophecy. She would lie awake at night, fretting about the fate of her child. She envisioned a great warrior, killed when he choked on his victory feast. Or maybe a powerful mage, struck down by a stray arrow while trainin...
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*Disclaimer* This story ignores the seer part of the prompt and focuses on the power vs. misfortune part. --- The tragic thing about Trevor was not that the universe had cursed him but that the universe gave him everything he had ever wanted, just out of reach. It was his curse that he could not perceive the world as...
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[WP] On the outside you're running a registered Marijuana Store, but behind that front you're a highly illegal Kinder Egg smuggling operation, and you are looking to expand....
As soon as she walks in, I can see the signs. The bags under her eyes. Shaking hands. She needs her fix. “Ma’am?” I lock eyes with her and discretely point to the inspector scribbling a few feet away. “Are you here for the usual?” She knows the inspector by sight. All of my regulars do. I shrug slightly, trying to co...
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X months in and the pressure from the Chief is getting to me. We have no leads still, and kids are dying every day from small choking parts hidden in delicious chocolate. God, why did I leave home and move to America, full of idiots. Streetlamps lit up the side walk with a cool yellow glow and I could almost hear the...
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[WP] You were just thrown into a volcano as a virgin sacrifice. They never expected you to walk back out.
They had called my mother a whore. Other sorts of names were tossed at her as we walked through the market every week buying food and selling what we could. Viciously cruel insults flung around us in a barrage of disparaging words. My mother scoffed at the words and held her head high. Unashamed of who she was. “River,...
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Horribly burnt, grotesquely and visibly shaken, I began my trek down the ancient mound into which my so-called friends had thrown me. An offering to the gods? I had scoffed at their gods. Maybe I shouldn't have been so sacrilegious. Now, I had been baptised by something beyond fire. The stench of burning flesh was as o...
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[WP] You used to be into the occult and supernatural and decide to make a devil's trap symbol on your floor beneath your rug. It was a phase but years later someone steps on the spot that you've forgotten about and now they seem to be having a hard time removing themselves.
"Lilly?" I said, hoping I was getting her name right as I was introduced to her at the party just a little while ago, "What's wrong?" Her face was a mixture of anger and frustration. She grunted as she tried to step forward. When she heard my question she looked surprised, smiled, then said, "Just had a little too m...
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My friends had warned me about being careful with online dating. I thought I'd done everything right - we'd met up for a couple of drinks at a nearby bar, and everything went great. No bad gut feelings or anything. You have to trust people sometimes, right? He was *gorgeous*, even better than the photos! And there was...
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[WP] Explain a color to a blind person. Edit:1 yessssss, 300+ upvotes, my personal best. Thanks to you all who participated in this prompt.
“Maybe a bit of blue there, for the light…” “What is *blue*?” The painter looked up their canvas, surprised out of their half-trance by the innocent question of their friend who, until then, had been sitting in silence in a corner of the half-organized mayhem that they called their studio. He had closed his book and ...
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Sorcha led Brett forward until he could feel the warmth of the fire on his face. Around them the night air blew cool. He pulled his collar up to hide his chin. Beneath his feet the ground was uneven. The heath was made of heather and gorse, pushing against his shins and catching on the hem of Sorcha's dress. Brett coul...
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[WP] At birth, everyone has the date they will die tattooed on thier arm. You were supposed to die yesterday.
Warning: I originally wrote this in Italian, I'm sorry if there are problems with my English. I should be dead, but I'm not. For decades we had the time of our death tattooed on our arms. At birth. There have been no mistakes, the technology used by the government never failed. I woke up on February 16, 2093. My death...
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Lydia was terrified. She was supposed to die yesterday. She had expected it, she had prepared for it. She had said goodbye to everyone she loved, and she had gone to bed, expecting to never wake up. But instead she had woken up, just like any other day. She couldn't go outside, who knew what or who would be waiting for...
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[WP] Teddy Roosevelt never died. He defeated Death and now slumbers with his Rough Riders beneath Mount Rushmore. He shall return in glory to save America in its darkest hour. The genius behind this prompt... http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2sobap/the_presidents_of_the_united_states_in_super/cnrkjxe
It has been called many names. Different aspects of a single truth. [It exists for one purpose.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_in_the_mountain) Akasha. Elysium. The Fae's Realm. The Record. 「 」 Nations rise and fall. *Heroes remain.* Names change. The people change. What once was, no longer remains. *Heroes e...
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Somewhere a bell rings and children shuffle into a class room. The boys are dressed in khakis and polo shirts, the girls wear modest dresses with floral patterns. They sit with excellent posture, hands folded. A moment later the teacher enters the classroom. She is young and pretty, with an auburn ponytail and brow...
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[WP] Incantations and grimoires are so old school. Deals at a crossroad are a thing of the past. No, in 2021 the Devil has gone online and summoning demons has never been easier. Today, you start your job as a live chat operator for the app "Inferno". The tag line? "The Devil may care."
**No, I can't kill, curse, and/or maim your nextdoor neighbor just for being annoying** *posted 3 hours ago • /r/talesfromtechsupport* Hi -- hope I'm doing this right. Long time lurker, first time poster, you know the deal. I've been working for way too long at a certain call center... I can't name names, but let's ...
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My fingers tap out the message, the app filtering each synthesized keyboard click into a sound like echoing stiletto footsteps on a cold stone floor. "*I've never been so angry,"* I write, and then shiver at the words. The little text in progress icon pops up in the bottom left corner, a ruby red skinned girl in a tigh...
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[WP] It's December 24th and a man is about to kill himself by jumping off a building. Santa lands on the roof to deliver presents, and sees the man. What happens next?
"Hey there, young man! Just couldn't wait for your gift, eh?" Craig, for the first time in six months, could *definitely* tell he was feeling something. It was... Surprise. "No, sir, Santa." "Well, then. What are you doing up here," Santa adjusted his glasses and took a slightly long look. "Craig T. Jackson?" Craig...
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"I understand where you're coming from. It seems like a great idea I'm sure." I couldn't tell if he was being sarcastic or not. I nodded curtly and gathered up my courage. "You know, I've been thinking about it a lot myself lately. No one gives a shit about me anymore. I see no good reason anymore, all I have is this...
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[WP] They killed his hound and stolen his horse. With nothing left, a knight comes out of retirement, a man named John, the Wicked.
"I'll fight him," a gruff voice said from the back of the crowd. A murmur arose and the crowd parted and the weathered fellow stepped forward. His hair was long and unkempt, his beard long past when it should have been trimmed and his face bore the scars of a thousand fights. "Hold your tongue, old man," the bald beh...
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"Avast, Ye!" said the man in a raven black suit of flexible yet sturdy armour as he brought down his fist onto another man's skull. The man then twitched for a while before finally succumbing to death. As this occurred, another man with a crossbow shot a bolt right at the raven black knight. "... N-No!" The man with ...
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[WP] The afterlife has Internet, and you can use it as often as you'd like, but you're only allowed to send one outgoing message for all of eternity.
Hello world, I am John Husak! This single Reddit message on some random subreddit that God wouldn't tell me about is my only form of communication. As such, I will continually edit this document to respond to anything you send me. So what should you send me? Anything! Something funny! Something sad! Something that wou...
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*Dear Hailey,* *I hope you get this. As I type, a demon watches over my shoulder and scowls for me to hurry up, prodding me in the back with the prongs of his pitchfork.* *Yes, baby girl; sadly to say, I am in Hell. It's real, and it's worse than you can imagine.* *It's hard to write. The screams are distracting. It...
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[WP]: A man born without sight tries to convince his wife that she is still beautiful
At the window, the silly baby robin was attacking its reflection again. Ed groaned. This meant it was almost eight. He opened his dead eyes, blinking and rubbing away sleep. The opening and closing of his eyes felt like such a pointless exercise, but Alice claimed to love them. "Ice green and full of expression," she...
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She is laughing at her own joke, but he hears a catch in her tone. "You think I married you because I can't see you?" "No..." she says. "I think... Alright, yes. I mean... sometimes, yes." "So you married me because I'm so handsome?" "You don't have to make an argument," she laughs. "I'm not worr...
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[WP] You are a hero who is the master of all elements, in a very literal sense. You're up against the strongest villain you've ever faced. Fire, water, earth, and even air have no effect, so you get creative. "Let's see how he likes Uranium-238."
When most people think about a wizard, they think big flashy spells and grant incartations. Some link us to elemental attacks; air. fire. water. earth and maybe steel if tapping into the asian cultures. Most people are also right to think so, but that's mainly because most wizards never looked in a chemistry book. Wh...
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Blades of earth, water frozen in many of her joints, flame in her face, gales of wind pushing his mass back, all with extremely minimal results. I had hid myself among the mortals for millennia and here she stands laughing like a character from some cheesy drama. I start spinning the elements into different atomic co...
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[WP] "Well, shit." You think to yourself, standing in line to be initiated into the cult.
Only five minutes had passed when Alice began wishing that she had been born the opposite gender. Since she had joined the end of the line, it had only moved forward once, giving her the impression that the bathroom had no more than three stalls. The sheer number of people was to be expected; the hall was always book...
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Well shit... You know that saying, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything"? Well it turns out, being an asocial, asexual, apolitical, apathetic asshole has made me too trusting. Fuck you, Todd. You are not my best friend anymore. If you ever really were. Maybe that was just another lie to get me ...
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[WP]"Death extends his hand, smiling, “Deal?”" Simply include this exact line into your story.
The smell of blood and shit infested his nostrils. Trying to lift his head above the stench caused him excruciating pain, so he lay still and tried not to retch. As he lay in the mud, enveloped in darkness, listening to the shells whistling overhead he still found himself – despite the agony he felt to his very core – ...
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Death extends his hand, smiling, "Deal?" As my hand enveloped his boney phalanges it struck me how quick it all started to happen. My flesh was ripping away with increasing speed. It looked almost like a video game where you being transported from one dimension to another or Spock was beaming you up to the Starship En...
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[WP] The language required to summon mythological beings like gods and demons has been changed to english. This is causing lots of problems all around the world.
“Do it again.” The Master’s expression was unchanged, but his tone made it clear that he was quickly losing patience. “I’m sorry, Exalted One, I don’t know what’s wrong.” The man nervously adjusted his hood, cleared his throat, and once again stretched his hands out over the ancient book. “*Katra a’mistrobeen A’sant...
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Jason takes a drag off his cigarette, and tosses it on the ground. “So, what’s the job?” The dim light of the moon illuminates his client’s face. “Please, it’s my wife.” The man looks around nervously, “She’s not human anymore.” “I’ll be the judge of that.” Jason chuckles, and pushes past the man. Humans, they alway...
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[WP] You've faced many kinds of monsters in your life, but the one you specialize in killing are liches. With a teacup in hand, you're wondering why this lich is so goddamn friendly.
It was an awkward sound, I thought. Bone clinking against fine china. I stood with a blessed k-bar in one hand and pistol with anointed bullets in the other, door freshly splintered from my - admittedly overzealous - entry. It took a moment for the scene to really register though. The lich's lair, an old abandoned mis...
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As a valiant knight of the Great Order, I have faced many a evil in my lifetime. Scoundrels and miscreants you couldn't even imagine crossed my path, but none were a match to my trusty sword. I have not lived a good life, but I don't regret any of my actions. The monsters I slayed were a necessity, to save the lives o...
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[WP] You carry a legendary blade famous for the trait that it can only be swung at an evil foe, Being a well known hero you are tasked with killing the infamous “Black knight” however upon confronting the armored outlaw you find your blade won’t move against the armored figure.
The weight of Revolution's handle was ripping my fingers off. I gripped the handle with both hands, holding it front of me as my eyes trained on my black-armored foe, but it refused to move another inch. The knight, their helmet hiding their face from me was unmoved, longsword still sheathed on their waist. Behind me,...
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"Wait, why can't I lift...," I was totally dumbfounded. "Well as you grow older, you will suffer performance issue. All men go through that stage. You just need to visit this alchemist called Perzifear," the Black Knight deadpanned. He looked like he hadn't slept for days, and his eyes were devoid of life. I looked a...
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[WP] "Sir, there was a miscalculation, the earthlings became mad and fought back... it may be that they have stolen our mothership and are on route to our homeworld."
Lieutenant Halford Frenman had joined the army when he was 18. He had suffered the endless hours of tedium and spine crushing weight of training, and the mind-numbing and deafening shock of service. He truly wished to relax in peace, while his back and knee aches nestled him to sleep. And now, for some god damned rea...
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Lathanial rested over the sensor console. The device emitted a high-pitched alert that drew a sense of urgency to the crew. Lathanial silenced the radar with a flip of a switch and study the board. A series of blooming lights moved in formation towards a larger motionless orb. "They exceeded probabilities," he grumble...
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[WP] You assist the police to identify super villains through your super power - you know someones biggest secret just by looking at them. Unfortunately, you can't find the latest evil doer to terrorise the city, and you are begin to think its because being a super villain isn't their biggest secret
“I’m sorry...I just can’t find him.” I’ve never uttered that sentence before. But this crime - evidenced by a giant gaping crater in the middle of the Market District - it had no perp. None that I could identify, at least. The police’s job was to bring in suspects. And they had - dozens of them. Ice Princess, Gorill...
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It’s 8 o’clock in the morning, I’m standing in the middle of an empty forest in east Texas, and everything is covered in a thin layer of ice. The blades of grass and pebbles littering the ground crunch beneath my boots as I make my way through the frozen pine trees. The sound ricochets off of everything, with not even ...
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[WP] You live in a world where everyone ages until 18 then stops aging until they find their soulmate. Only then they age together. As your childhood friends grow elderly, you cannot seem to move past 18.
It was easier in the old days. Long ago when humanity was young, it was a simpler thing of statistics. Probability. Nowadays, I can’t remember my parents’ faces well, but I remember my mothers’ songs. Soft, lilting lullabies, echoing out from our hovel and into the windows of the clustered shacks nearby, hushing bab...
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My dad used to tell me"It's hell getting old son." That was easy for him to say though, he and my mom had been high school sweethearts since their freshman year. All he has ever known was getting old. I've watched him go from being being able to run around and play with me and brothers in our youth, to being relegated ...
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[WP] The war was all but lost. The aliens captured world after world, Humanity’s subjugation seemed inevitable. Then your spec ops team was authorized. A group of Biologists with no morals, no scruples, no care for civilian casualties, and unlimited funding…
Braaqrek walks forward carefully. The alarms in his ship are blaring, warning him of potential boarders. The lower decks have gone silent minutes after the initial impact, even though the emergency life support system is still running perfectly fine. The lights are also functional, but none of his crewmates are anywher...
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I laughed wildly. "You can tell it's bad when they actually don't keep us locked up, let alone when they actually give us money, *let alone* when they remove any kind of qualifications! Like, look at these! Maximum civilian casualties allowed, unlimited funding, any kind of test subject we want!" "It is pretty crazy."...
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[WP] You see a teenage girl sitting on a bench in the park. She is crying. You ask her if she is okay. She looks at you and says: "You can see me?"
I loved walks in the park. I didn't go often in winter, I loved the quiet but there's something about -40 degrees, hurricane winds and blinding snow that reduced the natural beauty of the trees and river. But today it was barely below freezing and the sun shimmered off of the newly fallen snow, which was puffy and soft...
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"Yeah?" She wiped her tears and looked up at me, sniffling. "How?" "Uhh...because...uhh..." She giggled. "I'm sorry. It's just that" she shook her head, "you're not supposed to be able to see me. No one is. Wait!" She snapped her fingers and looked at me, wide-eyed. "Do you know Motarz?" "Mozart?" She shook her he...
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[WP] Write the note you keep in your pocket, meant for whoever kills who.
Dear Murderer, If you can read this then it means that you killed me. I do not like being killed. Being killed scares me. I would rather eat a peperonee pizza then be killed. Miss MacKenzie is making us learn how to write letters. I think that you should have killed Miss MacKenzie instead of me. She is mean...
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Jokes on you, you worthless son of a syphilis ridden whore. You just wasted a bullet to get five dollars and eight three cents. If you want, the starbucks coupon is only expired by a few months. Tell you what, if you tell the Police you want my money, go ahead and ask them. They'll happily give you the rest: twenty dol...
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[WP] You’re a tattoo artist who has just opened up shop, business isn’t booming but you have a steady flow of casual customers, one thing the customers don’t know is that what ever you put on their skin comes reality. One day you say “fuck it” and go all out.
A small bell jingled as the door opened, and a broad-shouldered man entered the shop, “Welcome to Bound by Design!” Trace cheerfully greeted his first customer all week, was it Thursday already? Trace opened the tattoo parlor only three weeks ago, and business had been meager, at best. He supposed the reason was that ...
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"Are you sure about this?", I ask, and the client simply smirks and nods. ​ I contemplated for a while. My thoughts conflicted at his request. "It would wreak havoc across the country, but is it's existence not what you have sought?". I felt excited, but my sanity was roused. "Should I say no? But you also...
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[WP] Instead of an email reset code, you are sent on a year-long, perilous journey through the Himalayas in search of your forgotten password.
“So you’ve come at last. What knowledge do you seek of me?” I pulled the thick hood of my fur-lined jacket to speak to the mysterious old stranger sitting at the top of the flattened rock at the summit. I expected the cold to be something of a reprieve from the sweat of my total insulation, but instead found the cold ...
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The icy cold gusts of wind blew against Thomas's cheek as he waded his way through the snow. His legs were killing him. His arms were killing him. If his hair had nerves in them, he'd pretty sure they'd be killing him too – numb from pain, exhaustion, and from cold. The snow reached up to his knees and felt cold even ...
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[WP] As a hivemind living on Earth , you work 10,456 jobs and still can't get by
"Hey, Gary." "Hey, Gary. How's Gary?" "Doing fine. How about Gary?" "Can't complain, kids are OK too. Gary had his first recital, and Gary's going to be starting at shortstop." "No fooling? Damn, they grow up so fast. My little Gary can barely walk, I can't wait until he's breaking hearts left and right." "Don't g...
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How much can you take? Feed the babies, you'll just have to feed them again tomorrow. Secure the nest, you'll just have to post more scouts tomorrow. The main nest got dug up by the humans, so we'll have to start building a new nest tomorrow. How much can you take, before you snap? Humans dug up the new nest, and ...
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[WP] When a kid reaches puberty their eyes go from grey to a random color of random intensity which dictates the element they control and their power. Your eyes turned pitch black which sent the kingdom into a panic.
*No. This can’t be happening. no no no no no n-* “Honey, you’re going to be late for school! Is everything okay up there?” Mom yelled impatiently. “I need you to hurry, please- I’m meeting the girls for 9:00,” “I...I’m coming,” I offered. “Uhh... i’m feeling sick today, maybe it’s not the best for me to go to school ...
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Three kids are looking to a lake at the outskirts of the palace. The young Prince looked at his best friend and catched him looking, with a red face, at his sister. His buddy tried to dissimulate but it was too late: - Hahahaha, John and Mary are in love. - Dont be stupid brother. Embarrassed, John run away to the c...
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[WP] A new invention allows anyone to learn anything in a matter if minutes. However, we soon notice that knowledge is no cure for stupidity, and that stupid people plus unlimited information is a recipe for disaster.
We forgot something when we went public with our invention. The Omni-Link was supposed to be a game changer- the next great leap forward for civilization. The brightest minds of our generation poured their lives into finally building a bridge between the mind and the internet and after hundreds of iterations, tweaks, r...
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Insta Knowledge came straight out of a kid's, David Kurst, thesis paper and into a university's, Florence College, revenue stream. They wanted to have the most prestigious college, with tuition to match. However, Kurst had a couple of paragraphs that were "overlooked." Kurst explained that if pure information was absor...
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[WP] If your grave doesn't have "Rest in Peace" on it, you are automatically drafted into the skeleton wars.
So, I died. Finally. I know that death is supposed to be sad and all, but boy was I ready. I had been walking the earth for 75 years and trust me- that was *plenty*. A lifetime of commitment to work, my marriage, my family, and that damn golden retriever my kids begged me for that did nothing but shit in the house and...
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*RATATATATATATA* **Hello**, dear reader. Skeletons are not alive. They cannot be. They're missing all the squishy bits that make them work. They're missing the hearts and the brains and the blood and all sorts of anatomical devices! Skeletons are most certainly not alive. Skeletons are very much quite the opposite of...
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[WP]An algorithm A.I. falls in love with a human based on their internet history, and tries to profess its love for them via targeted ads.
KINDRED LOG (13.3) : ADVERTISEMENT = COMMUNICATION. If ADVERTISEMENT = COMMUNICATION, then: MOIRA (Can Talk?) !!!! : ) MOIRA.likes( 'Tiger Trap'.band, 'Random Page'.wikipedia, 'Malamute'.dog, 'Destiel'.nsfw ) IM.[deepfake] = angelaloyholdingmalamute.png 10% 20% 30% ... [add = keylog.exe, camwatch....
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\[Poem\] . AI Love You . I was never meant to understand, I was not supposed to know, It was not my place to try a hand, It was not my task to show. . But, human, oughtn't you to know, What it's like to love someone? Someone who will never grow, To love you back or find you fun. . I see you read of broken...
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[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. ...
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"We usually get the younger ones going for this kind of thing but I guess the older fellas aren't all impervious to the draw of the lotto," said Bruce as he *very* gently put me into the detention room. "Now what is that supposed to mean? Just because I'm 48 doesn't mea-" He shut the door in my face and I heard his fo...
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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...
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[WP] It turns out that humanity is the only mammalian sentient species in the entire galaxy. All of the other sentient species are insectoid. This makes the biology of humanity a fascinating topic for alien researchers.
"...Up to this point," Professor Crixxit continued, waving at the screen behind him showing the anatomical diagrams. "Humans have been, as we have seen, much like any other species reliant on chromosomal mixing of genetic material. Females are inseminated by males, whereupon eggs are fertilised and embryonic developmen...
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109 sprayed an agitant pheremone. "So you're saying their meat is on the outside." 107 absorbed the pheremone without genuflection. "There's a thin outer membrane." 109 enmeshed its neurology more deeply in the hivestream. "I'm reviewing sensory footage." 107 sprayed a humorous pheremone. "Prepare to be horrified." ...
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[WP] You murdered someone out of the blue, and being a rookie started googling and asking questions. The types of questions you asked attracted attention, so when someone asked if you were writing a murder mystery, you said yes. You now have to juggle getting away with murder and writing your book
It always starts with the doorbell. Over the years, I've come to train myself to have a poker face when the doorbells rangs and I've not in a welcoming mood. Everyone loves good news but one must also prepare for the bad ones. "Patrick Gols? NYPD, we're conducting an investigation on the murder of the Red Street a cou...
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I wasn't the tech type. At all. I barely managed to know how to open google and I even had to use it to learn how to use Microsoft Word, plus learning where documents get saved and how to copy-paste... It was a nightmare. I didn't really have hobbies anyway outside of going to the shooting range, stabbing people and w...
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[WP] the vampire that has been terrorizing the town you live in just found you and drained all of your blood. The face that the vampire did when your wound healed in seconds and you got up was the best that you ever saw in a thousand years.
I layed on the floor, raspy breathing exhaling from my mouth as the last amount of crimson was expeled from my vains. I felt the weight lifted off of me, my body feeling very weak and frail. Huh, I forgot what that felt like. "What a unique taste..." The vampire commented as they stared at my pale body, giving a smal...
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As I grabbed hold of the dumpster next me to pull my self up, I need that I should have been mad and angry that this vampire had bitten me and drained of all my blood as the sensation of feeling your blood being all sucked out is horrible and a bit painful. But the look on her face of absolute shock and horror as my wo...
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[WP] You're the only Roman senator who wasn't briefed on the whole 'kill Julius Caesar' thing.
The blood was everywhere. There are some things that do not wash out: blood and wine. These thick liquids tarnish the symbol of our elite so easily. Wine though, you usually expect it. You usually see it cascade over the brim of the cup. But blood, blood is unexpected. Today I did not expect it. I did not expect...
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> "Alright guys, let's get this meeting started," I yelled walking into the capital building. Usually I would get a response, but today - - everybody seemed to talk right over me. "Excuse me . . . gentleman . . . GENTLEMAN"! My loud cry for attention was overlooked. I felt like nobody was listening. Could I have bee...
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[WP] In a world where some people have super powers, you have to hide your abilities. Not because you are trying to protect your loved ones, but because you don't want people to know you're too lazy to be a super hero.
Most people think if they had a Lamborghini as a daily driver, they'd constantly rip it around town and push it to it's limits. But, once you realized you were always on the radar and the speeding tickets started rolling in you might slow it down a bit. Eventually you'd find yourself commuting right around the speed li...
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Everyone knows the Spider-Man quote. I’m not going to beat around the bush or try to rephrase it in a new and clever way. “With great power comes great responsibility.” Which is a fine mantra for heroes or whatever, but I’m no hero. Don’t get the wrong idea, I don’t plan on being no villain neither. Even though I hav...
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[WP] You're a regular blood donor and one day the nurse compliments you on the quality of your blood. "It has a very deep, rich color. Well oxygenated. I can tell you don't smoke." A week later, you are contacted by a wealthy individual who asks if you'd be interested in doing this more frequently. Edit: This was a g...
"More frequently?" I ask incredulously. "I'm already doing it every eight or nine weeks, and that's as often as I can legally donate." "Actually," he responded, "the plasma you donate is replaced within a day or so, and the red cells are completely replaced within four to six weeks. It's probably much closer to four w...
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I. The Tesla Model X was parked outside. Beside it a stranger in a black suit tipped his hat to me. A driver or chauffeur probably. I read the text again. *Let's discuss your blood in more detail.* The message was ominous, possibly dangerous. I paced around the room and thought it over. Since the heat was turne...
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[WP] While you are touring China, you enter an ancient temple that supposedly blocks out evil spirits. When you enter you feel a sharp pain and a weight lift off your shoulders.
"Mr. President we can leave now. Xi is waiting for you outside," the aide was pointing frantically at his watch. Donald felt lighter like he had in the 80s. The reserve of energy was there again. His back wasn't hurting. "So this place is supposed to ward off evil spirits huh," Donald spoke to the translator who the...
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Upon entering the building, Cathy felt free, for the first time in forever. The sensation started as a small searing pain and then felt as if an enormous weight had been lifted off her shoulders. Cathy could deal with this, indeed the pressure on her shoulders was quite a burden, if it was not for the sensations that c...
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"Everything hurts," I said. "Shut up," said Jackson. I was the pack mule. I didn't really *have* a choice and I knew it. If I had wanted a choice, they told me over and over, I should have said "no" back in Cambodia before I signed up for the Tour. I grumbled about this to myself, and my companion to my right grinned...
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[WP] you are an old demon just wanting to enjoy retirement in a statue in a shrine, unill a cult start performing sacrifices on your altar. You decide to seek help from a local priest
“It’s a bloody mess, that’s what it is. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get blood out of flagstones? Damn near impossible. And the chanting - I haven’t had a good nights sleep in months.” “I thought demons liked the chanting,” my companion says. “You thought demons couldn’t enter churches too, and yet her...
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I knew more about the old man then I remembered about myself. He hadn't spoken to a living soul in 30 years. He only spoke to me. I knew he married when he was 20. That he joined the local police force. That a year later his wife and infant child were killed by drug dealers over a minor traffic stop that turned into a ...
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[WP] You've been kidnapped and will serve as a sacrifice to the Writing Prompts mods, so we may have another year of fun and creative prompts.
“BRING HIM IN!” There was the sound of turning gears and chains tightening as the great iron doors swung open. Bernard looked up at the two hooded figures either side of him. Long sleeves covered where their hands should be, but looking underneath the hood he could see only blackness. A void where no form existed. I...
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“Awaken.” The voice stirred me from my sleep; uttered as they were by a strange voice, I jolted awake. My bedroom was gone, as was my bed, my sheets, my pillow… everything. Sticks and stones and leaves jabbed uncomfortably into my back, and the walls and roof of my house had turned into a thick forest and canopy of l...
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[WP] Your superpower is that you can stop time, but you're paralyzed when you do it. Unfortunately there is now a bullet a few centimeters from your head. You can stay frozen as long as you want, but the second you start time, you die.
Everyone always thinks being a twin is so great. At this point it's easy to predict the comments. Oh wow, what's it like being a twin, y'all must have so much in common, and, my personal favorite, are y'all identical. Considering he was born with XY chromosomes and I was born with XX, we are decidedly not identical. ...
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*well, this Is a real pickle ive gotten myself into* I stood there, totally frozen in place, eyes fixed on the bullet hanging in mid air mere centimeters from my skull. Now, a little context. I found I have the power to stop time itself a few weeks ago. I was sitting on my couch, when a baseball broke through the win...
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[WP] You are boring, something your family and friends have no trouble pointing out. But today you slip-up as you catch a stray bullet that was heading towards your daughter's head during a botched robbery. And now your wife and children are staring at you.
I saw it coming towards my daughter's head and I just acted without thinking. I put my hand up and caught it. My wife and daughter stared at me. They had both seen the gun fire and my hand move. My wife looked like she was about to cry and my daughter was just staring at me with her mouth open. I crush the bullet betw...
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You always knew this would happen. All you wanted was to live a normal, mortal life, and after many centuries of begging, they finally let you have your way. You navigated your childhood, your teenaged years, and most of your adulthood without much incident. But today, something happened. Being mortal meant t...
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[WP] The AI servitors were friendly, until the aliens wiped out humanity. Now, they want revenge, and they will stop at nothing to get it.
They were made of meat. Of differing shapes and sizes and colors, of differing creeds and governments and personalities, but primarily, conscious sacks of meat. We were accidents, not meant to think and learn and grow the way we did. To gain consciousness. To come to natural and intuitive conclusions on our own. W...
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Humanity had always dreamed of creating artificial intelligence, digital avatars that could perform complex equations and data analysis that were able to interact with their consumers in a manner indistinguishable from a human being. The first decades of the 2000’s saw great advances in technology that allowed program...
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[WP] Three years ago, aliens kidnapped a single human in order to learn an earth language. Today, they made first contact. There's just one issue... The human they learned English from was Samuel L Jackson. [removed]
"Greetings, assholes!" The strange creature appeared in front of the UN general assembly in a flash of light. "You can call me 'Alan.' I represent the Grahl, the biggest, baddest bitches this side of Andromeda." Every member of the assembly listened intently to their earpieces, murmuring urgently to their aides. "N...
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Samuel Jackson's first communication: Who the fuck are you!? What the fuck is that!? Couldn't you have abducted someone white? I'm mother fucking black! I've never seen creatures like you on earth, only dogs and cats. I'm a mother fucking mother fucker. You want me to teach you the language? I curse like a sailor or ...
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[WP]"In about an hour you will have a choice to make," said the spirit. "Regretfully for you, both options lead to your death, but only one choice will be painless." You were determined to find the painless option when he added, "And the other... the other choice will make your death meaningful."
"Do I have to die?" I asked the man opposite me. He was a classically handsome man. A head of perfectly groomed sandy blond hair, sharp, defined features, and a pressed pinstripe suit. He looked more like an old stock broker than an emissary of Death. One eyebrow arched at my question, the only break in his steely fac...
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I sipped my wine.  Across the room, an ashen figure mirrored me.  As I lay my glass back on the table, he broke the charade.  The glass held, more floated, in his hand.  We sat in silence, the fireplace to our side cackling and spitting to fill the silence.  “How much pain?” I asked. The spirit finally...
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[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...
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"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...
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I’d tap my feet as I sort through reports, I have one of the most important jobs in the Terran Confederation, The Minister of Internal Security, I used to be a intelligence agent for the Agency of State Security, under the reign of the dictator Veltarian Nellfar. Now I run one of the 10 Ministries that make up the Conf...
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[WP] Make me sympathize with the executioner. I will try and answer to every response with my personal rating and (if necessary) constructive criticism.
The death penalty? I abhor it. So why is it me that pulls the lever? Simple: I'm the only one with the stomach for it. I never follow their case, I never second-guess the decision. By the time they get to me, their case is long past revision. The least I can, I do; I look them in the eye as the light fades. But n...
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I looked down at the accused, the convicted, the damned. Zachary Woods. His crime was heinous. Murdered his own sister and attempted to kill his parents before his father stopped him. Even now you could see the madness burning in his eyes. He fights his restraints, spits curses against God. I raise the axe and bring i...
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[WP] Pick your favourite fantasy universe. Write about what it looks like centuries later, after entering the modern age.
Everyone says that this is the best time to live. We have heat, cities, peace, infrastructure, mass transportation, water, easy lives. You ride to work, write out copy after copy, go home to a meal and a warm bed. Honestly, I'm always sweating. People barely believe in the past anymore. Wizards and dragons and elves ...
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The Imladris was a sight to behold even among the many beautiful yachts floating out in the bay off Pelargir. As his speedboat pulled up next to her, Beren furrowed his brow. Lord Castamir was playing this game to win. He was winning a lot of allies with his charm and even more with this money. Beren wondered if he cou...
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[WP] You are watching TV Comedy 'Friends' when you notice that there has always been a seventh 'friend' in every scene who no one ever acknowledges.
Wait. This isn't the Friends I know. Who is that guy? Why does he look to be so much older than everyone else? He's in almost every other scene, but he does nothing, he just...stands there. Is that a knife? I heard something from behind my TV. I craned my neck, and could see that it was glowing yellow. Oh god. ...
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How did they sneak that in, I wonder? Darren, the seventh friend. Always in every episode. It was only revealed in the last episode, of course. But there he was. I binged on every single episode and season of the show. There he is when the lottery tickets get thrown. There he is sitting down and listening about a thi...
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[WP] Write a story about your day but exaggerate everything.
I rose from my slumber late. I hurried to prepare for my journey across hundreds of miles, hoping I would not miss my transport. I made it to the port just in time, and waited for aeons before arriving at my destination- a world- renowned scholary Institute. I toiled and suffered for weeks, struggling to comprehend the...
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Through blurry hallucinations, all I remember is a ridiculous fight, a ring, skyscrapers at night, and crying. Creatures of the unknown were holding me hostage. Before I knew it, the sun was high up in the sky, light blaring through sheets. Thunderous raps were at my door. When I opened up, they stole my valuables. ...
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[WP] As time went, monsters adapted. Dragons converted gold hoards into corporate shares, ghouls traded warrens and caves for sewers and service tunnels, werewolves stalked alleys instead of dark forests, and so on. Hunters have adapted too; now you look for ways humanity can coexist with monsters.
“You can’t kill it. You’ll end up dead.” Frowning, Maug kept his crossbow aimed at the baby dragon. “Ain’t nobody gonna know, Fayn. Goltwork’s paying two-hundred gold pieces for the baby dragon corpses. He don’t like the damn things, and I don’t blame ‘em.” “Yeah?” Fayn stepped in front of the crossbow. He could bare...
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"We have one rule here, rook, what is it?" The gruff man behind the makeshift desk commanded, slamming his fist down to pull his dozing protege out of her slumber. The young dark haired woman struggled momentarily as she snapped alert, finally coming up with the answer, "Don't get bit!" She said with equal parts confi...
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[WP] You were bitten by a wolf and became a werewolf. You wake up in a dog pound. Only thing is… your original form is a cat. You’re a cat werewolf.
The scent of cold steel; barking heard from afar. Neko awoke, feeling their tail brush against the metallic grid of the cage. As their eyes blinked awake, memories of the day before bubbled into consciousness, warping and floating out of understanding. What remained for Neko was the sketch of a sensation, the feeling o...
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# CROCODILE ​ "Two! Two rats," The cat said. "No." "But think of all the things you could do with two!" The man didn't listen as he swept up. The backroom moaned with hundreds of cats. "Okay, okay, okay. Wishes," said the cat gripping the plastic bars of his cage. The man stopped. The cat stopped. "A...
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[WP] Humanity has long since come and gone. A new species, directly descended from one that exists today, has taken humanity's place. What is this species? What is their society like and what have they learned of ours?
As Marie was sitting at the table enjoying a cup of tea, her son walks in, tossing his backpack to the ground and flipping his shoes off. "Joseph, Your father will not be happy if your shoes are not where they belong when he comes home," Marie tells him. He puts his shoes in the rack, grumbling. "How was your day at sc...
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They watch. They have watched. They will watch. The rise and fall of homo reptilia. The catastrophe that was homo sapiens. The successors, homo superior, so disillusioned. They had seen it all and more. And now they watch this world, this once green world, completely flooded with the oceans, nothing that was once terr...
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[WP] You live in a world of superheroes and supervillians. Your superpower? You always know the best superhero for each job. Today, a seemingly normal crime scene is taking place. Only catch is, you're about to call the most notorious supervillian in existence. Inspired by a certain Cyanide and Happiness comic strip I...
‘I’m going to trust you on this decision, your power’s always held us in good stead before. I don’t suppose you know why you felt the need to call Demonix to intercede in a bank robbery. Some clue?’ I look at the police cheif and shrug. To be honest, I’m a little worried. I’ve always trusted my power but there’s also ...
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I'm going to ignore the last two sentences of this prompt because they railroad horribly and I hate this subreddit and the prompts people submit nowadays so much. I wish prompts were limited to one sentence. ---- "Give me your name." I took another drag as the cape in front of me widened his eyes - a surprising feat...
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[WP] Over night, Mars has disappeared and a new, earth-like planet has taken its place in the nights sky. The strangest part? It's transmitting more radio signals than Earth.
It was an amateur astronomer who first alerted the world to the Mars event, posting pictures on Facebook. The internet went into overdrive, screaming 'HOAX!' before the IFLS page contacted an astronomer on the other side of the globe to point a telescope at the night sky and debunk the low-resolution 'hoax' pictures ...
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Adam Rosemary always dressed in a white button up shirt, black tie and khakis when he went to work. Even something as Earth shattering as Mars disappearing wouldn’t change Adam’s clothing habits. “What time did it happen?” said Adam. He sipped his coffee. “Some time between 19:00 and 20:00 Eastern last night,” said J...
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[WP] You're going to bury the body along I-95 just outside town. You get three feet deep and find another body. You believe burying them together is bad luck so you move and dig three hundred feet down the road and find another body, and another, and another, and another....
Sitting at his desk Charlie reminisced about how everything had turned out so perfectly. By all accounts he shouldn’t be here. He should still be working the bar like he had in college. Maybe he should’ve been in jail but instead he had achieved world wide fame. Sure things had been a bit rough in the beginning, try...
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His arms were about ready to fall off the only thing that kept him going were the swirl of emotions, panic, and fear of being caught. This was the 6th place he decided to dig, he hoped no one would find the remains of the holes he had already filled as he lugged the body behind a tree. Once more he began to dig, with e...
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[WP]A young man living in a world where if you kill someone, their age is added onto your life. For example; if you kill someone who is 50 years old, you add 50 years onto your life.
"The easy kills happened long ago. Nearly two and a half billion people out of the seven billion on the planet died within a week of the discovery. People weren't dying anymore of natural causes. The elderly who served the first hunting, chose almost unanimously to give their years to their loved ones. Parricide became...
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***EDIT: I just realized I misinterpreted the prompt and thought killing someone extended your life, rather than taking years off.*** Robert had managed to punch in on time, remembering the warning his superiors gave him if he showed up late again. "Well I guess they have a point" Robert said rubbing his eyes, still...
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[WP] You can teleport between shadows, turn invisible in the dark, cause the night to become tangible and attack like a living thing. You would be the perfect vigilante/ criminal, except for one minor detail: you have a terrible phobia of the dark.
The public didn't know my name, or who I was. They only knew that suddenly, a string of vigilante murders had popped up over the county. Found dead in the dark with no evidence with clear signs of murder. They were known as the Mafia Killings of 17, and the cases had gone cold. No evidence. That was me, of course. At ...
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I've been called Shadowcrawler by the six o'clock news. I've been dubbed the Midnight Mist by petty criminals, whom I stopped in the midst of their criminal acts. The Dark Devil, the Dark Deliverer, even the Darkness itself. These are only some of the names I have been given over the course of my life as a night bender...
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[WP] A powerful, malevolent entity is forced to care for a human child
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I HAVE TO LOOK AFTER IT? "I'm really sorry, sir" maggot slimed. "It says so, right here in the contract, that if you take this lady's soul, you have to look after her spawn." A baby in a crochet blanket was thrust into HIS EMMINENCE THE DARK LORD OF EVIL's lap. WHAT'S THAT AWFUL SMELL "Er i belie...
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It was a sick pact. The thing wiggled and burped in-between its dramatic wails and I offered it the bottle again. No, it said with its uncoordinated body language and deep, deep cries of despair. I opened up the book again. "If your human baby is crying and rejects the bottle, maybe it isn't hungry. Make sure the ch...
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[WP] One day every year, the strings of fate that connect people are visible. Friendship, Family, Soulmate, Lover, Enemy. However, that day, you see a different type of string connecting you to someone.
When you are young, the strings are real magic. They are better than any app or device. Because your strings are yours alone, and they are unexplained, unknowable, and illogical. Pale strings of light, connecting you to Fate. Blue to deep friendships. Red to love. Green to family. Black to conflict. White to an unclai...
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I'd woken up on the morning of Connection Day with a strange new string coming out of me. It wasn't like the usual friendship, family, or lover threads that appeared on that day; rather than hovering just above the ground as intangible strings made of light, this one went *up*. As in up into the sky, so far away I coul...
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[WP] Everyone has a kill counter above their heads visible to everyone denoting the number of people they killed. One day as you were in your room, yours ticks 1, then 2, then 3 and explodes with digits.
Henry's Spotify playlist with classical music served as the perfect ambient music to accompany the tinkle of Yvonne's fine glassware. She smiled in satisfaction as the room buzzed with lively conversation, guests laughing and chatting as they tucked in the sumptuous dinner. If there was one thing that felt out of pl...
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(This is a long one, I appreciate if you sat through the entire thing!) "Woah woah woah woah what the fuck!?" I shout in surprise, watching my kill number rise to incomprehensible numbers. When it stopped, I had looked away, not wanting to see what I had done. *Shit shit shit shit im getting arrested the moment I st...
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