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[WP] Tooth Fairies are a smaller and friendlier subspecies of the larger and much more hostile Bone Fairies.
Taken from this post [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/fmy38y/thanks_i_hate_tooth_fairies_now) | No one has baby-bones. What is a Bone Fairy to do? Ordinarily bones are not something you shed. As an undertaker I work a lot of creepy hours. I've seen what Skin Skinners do. They like to get a place on an arm started, pull off a ribbon while I'm out putting the stretcher back in the van. They run off but it's not lik... | Fucking tooth fairies. All happy’n cutesy... most people are delighted when they show up, after all loosing teeth is a joyful milestone for most children. And as for the occasional MMA call out or hockey game, tooth loss is considered almost a mark of a warrior.
I am sick of their smiley, happy, ridiculous cheerfu... | 2020-03-22T13:21:06 | 2020-03-22T13:19:56 | 35 | 25 |
[WP] When turning 21, everyone develops a mutation, either physical (Claws, horns, wings) or mental (telekinesis, extreme intelligence, etc). You've just turned 21, and you're terrified of what you've gained (though others will be impressed).
Edit: Holy shit this blew up. I'm reading these and they're great! Thanks ev... | I have the best boobs in the world.
I'm not, like, egotistical or anything. Heck, some days I don't even want them, but it's undeniable. That was my mutation. April 24th, 2014, the day I developed the best pair of breasts anyone has ever had.
At first, I was actually a little stoked. I mean, my rack is *amazing*. It ... | “Wait, you got what now?”
“X-ray vision.” I put my head down on the table.
“Dude that’s fucking awesome! For my 21 mutation all I got was really fast growing hair, and that’s lame” my friend Derek said. His hair was down to his shoulders though he had been buzzed bald this morning. He went through razors faster... | 2022-05-10T21:44:19 | 2015-03-04T06:44:10 | 1,457 | 28 |
[WP] Everyone's soulmate's name is written on their right wrist when they turn sixteen. The left has worst enemy. Your left and right wrist say the same thing. | Nobody knows where the soulmarks came from. There was a time when nobody had names written on their wrists save for the ones they put there by choice. Then on August 2nd, 2031, the burn was felt worldwide. At exactly noon, the names appeared on every person over the age of sixteen. And it happened by time zone. Reports... | I can't stop thinking about the world this kind of thing might build. Like:
Some devoted themselves to finding their soulmate, embarking on lifelong pilgrimages and learning as many languages as possible, worshipping the idea embedded within their ink. Others let fear of their nemesis consume their whole being, drivi... | 2020-01-18T23:56:59 | 2020-01-18T23:37:33 | 38 | 21 |
[WP] You live in a world where everything is decided by the opening of a booster pack. Your job, your house, even the food you eat, one day you buy a "Random Pack" then you see the gold border, it's an Ultra Rare. | "Holy shit" I whispered as I peeled back the wrapping on my latest booster pack. I've opened lots of booster packs through my life time. A few steak dinners, a (well) used car that I got as a common in one pack.... hell, I even turned to the secondary market to specifically buy a decent house card to put in my deck, ev... | "Oh god, is this joke of a system actually paying off?"
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It has been 19 years now.
I was five on the day it happened. Back then, we had it good. Mom was still sane, Dad specialized in trading the "Live+, The Trading Card System" cards, and was getting quite good a... | 2017-04-02T21:46:25 | 2017-04-02T16:16:04 | 109 | 49 |
[WP] You are a barista in a 24 hour coffee shop. Every night at 3:33am a demon appears for the Dark Lord's latte. | About 5 years ago the owner decided to make this little cafe 24hrs. He figured he could take advantage of the after club crowd and by him I mean my poor ass that got shifted to over night. I was the assistant manager, was getting ready to become the manager, now I run over nights 6 nights a week.
Why do I work 6 nigh... | I awaken to my ringtone coarsely penetrating my consciousness. My ringtone, "Come Sail Away" by Styx, is playing at full volume. By the time I open my eyes, the lyric,
"I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise,
We climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies"
is playing, which sticks out to me ... | 2022-10-30T14:17:00 | 2022-10-30T12:52:15 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] "Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation on your planet. Currently we are constructing you a replacement body, and in return for your ensured silence on our existence, I wanted to ask if you wanted anything... changed." | I woke with a daze. Well. maybe woke wasn't quite the right word. I couldn't see, hear, feel. Nothing. I knew I was conscious though. Was I dead? Then I heard it. Or felt it? I became aware of some disembodied voice."Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a galactic federation officer du... | As I watched the Prius ran the light and barreled toward me, I can't believe I was going to die by a PRIUS...
<thud>
So, this feels weird... This is not what I expected death to be like.
**"Apologies, human. Unfortunately, you were accidentally killed by a glactic federation officer during an altercation o... | 2019-10-28T13:57:03 | 2019-10-28T13:53:13 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] When you die, your ghost remains in the world until the last person who remembers you also dies. 15,000 years after your death, you are still here. | 15,000 years. 15,000 mid-numbing years of waiting. It was exciting to Adam at first at first, the knowledge that life didn't just end with death, that he got to stick around and observe humanity. It suited him well, he'd always been a quiet fellow, and since he was just a ghost, no one gave him a hard time for being a ... | I think it's been 15,000 years. Or at least, somewhere around that. I'm not really sure. I haven't left the house in a few millennia at least. There's no point. All I end up doing is scaring a few people, and death goes on. Besides, no matter where I go, it's crowded.
The space issue gets worse in the big cities, an... | 2017-06-26T15:03:31 | 2017-06-26T13:11:54 | 129 | 55 |
[WP] An Urban Legend says there's a Grey Taxi that charges you $20 no matter how far it takes you. They say the driver only listens to the blues and wears sunglasses even at night. They say the taxi doesn't take you where you want to go...But where you *NEED* to be. | "Ey Chuck Berry, nice", Josh remarked in his highly inebriated state.
"You know it, brother", the older African gentleman nodded approvingly.
Indeed the tune of "Maybellene" was playing on the old radio. The alcohol clouded the young man's senses, so much so not even the old interior of the cab he noticed, nor the vi... | ##Something Blue and Something Gray
One night of drunken debauchery to celebrate my best friend getting married. I whisper to myself that everything will be alright. Danielle has approached me before stating that she is starting to get cold feet. Everyone is nervous before the big day. It is a huge commitment. I have ... | 2021-01-02T18:57:46 | 2021-01-02T18:52:08 | 56 | 18 |
[WP] There is a tradition in the US Navy that no submarine is ever considered lost, those that go to sea and don't return are considered "Still on Patrol". There are 52 WW2 submarines still on patrol, and they have just started coming home. | Date: Monday, May 31st, 2030.
0300 hours
Location: 40km east of [REDACTED]
Operation: Depths Rising
Lt. John Abbott stares out over the cold, deadly waterscape in front of him, marveling as the waves smack the shore, the smell of salt lingers in every pore. He pulls a final drag of his cigarette, before snuffing it... | 01022020 1715 ZULU TOPSECRET
ACTION MESSAGE: TOPSECRETxxxxxxATTN:COMCINCPAC/COMCINCLANT,
COMNAVAIRPAC/COMNAVAIRLANT, COMSUBPAC/COMSUBLANT
FROM:Commander CVN-70 USS CARLVINSON
SUB: UNKNOWN MILITARY ACTION IN MALLACA STRAITS
At1320Zulu CIC reports distress call by Japanese oiltanker Kobiashi Maru, s... | 2020-09-10T13:44:56 | 2020-09-10T13:30:22 | 16 | 12 |
[WP] You have the ability to see people’s kill count on their head. You tell no one, managed to stay away from shady people and live a peaceful life. One day, your 5 years old kid’s number is not 0... | Is it a curse? No, it is not a curse. The numbers above the heads of strangers, it’s a protection. It allows me a little bit of insight into their character. Who they are, what secrets they hold. I have always been somewhat thankful for this “gift” that was involuntary bestowed upon me.
It was a crisp October morning... | **-- TW: Mentions of domestic abuse --**
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I was only 10 years old when it first happened. I sat on the floor in my room rocking my stuffed bear to sleep. If I couldn’t sleep from all the screaming, maybe he could. Poor Mr. Stuffington.
“You fucking bitch!” I hear my father’s voice boom from the hall.
“P... | 2022-10-21T09:15:23 | 2022-10-21T07:34:41 | 122 | 69 |
[WP] You are a cow.
[removed] | Look at them all, filthy pink blobs of flesh ploughing their fields and planting their corn. Bah ! Ignorant fools! Little do they know, that I, Adolf Hitler have been reincarnated as a cow.
I sit here day after day eating my weight in grass, mooing every so often but all the while planning. When I was alive I believe... | I am cow, hear me moo. I weigh twice as much as you, and I look good on the barbecue. Yogurt, curd, cream cheese, and butter's made from liquid from my udders. I am cow, I am cow, hear me moo!
I am cow, eating grass. Methane gas comes out my ass, and out my muzzle when I belch. Oh the ozone layer is thinner from the o... | 2017-10-02T07:43:53 | 2017-10-02T07:20:31 | 50 | 14 |
[WP] The manned mission to Mars went off without a hitch. The transmissions came back right on schedule: "Touchdown successful." "Habitat functional." "Life-support optimal." Then nothing for 48 hours. Then one last transmission: "We were wrong. Planet inhabited. Do not send rescue."
| DO NOT SEND RESCUE
I rubbed my chin as I read the words up on the screen, and then raised my hand. The Captain standing at the front of the room acknowledged me. "Yes Martin?"
I gestured towards the screen. "If the final transmission from Horizon was essentially 'don't come,' explain to me why we're going there?"
... | As he hit the key to send the message back to mission control back on Earth, he wondered what would be the death of him: himself, or the inhabitants of the Red Planet... He pulled on the slide of the handgun he had smuggled in his personal cargo, seeing that glimmer from the brass casing in the chamber. He had at least... | 2019-01-31T05:07:56 | 2019-01-31T05:03:05 | 776 | 180 |
[WP] You're sat alone, with a glass of wine in hand, and decide to jokingly toast the Greek God Dionysus. You did not expect him to appear before you in human form, create two bottles of wine, and take a seat next to you. | He just... Appeared.
I jumped in surprise.
"Whattt??!?!?? Who are you??" Was the only thing that came out of my mouth.
Sending a reproachful gaze my way he said
"Sit down. This has been a bad day, don't make it worse. That wine is worth more than you will ever have, so drink it"
"Hey, that's mean" I replied, a... | “ who are you?” I said as I put my wine glass down and stared at the man in front of me.
“ What do you mean “who am I?”. Do you not worship the Greek gods?”
“ The Greeks gods aren’t real dude” I told him as I leaned back into my chair and sipped my wine.
“ Ahh I see... you’re a non believer. Allow me to show you t... | 2020-11-08T10:50:12 | 2020-11-08T10:39:02 | 236 | 44 |
[WP] You have the ability to absorb any power from any book that you read. The US government captures and imprisons you until one day the warden walks in and asks for your help. He hands you a single book... | I was jarred awake by a sound I hadn't heard in... well, who's to say - months or years. It was impossible to tell, pardon the cliche. I really did lose track of time immediately. They'd forgotten to leave room for a window in the eight feet thick, poured concrete shoebox I'd been locked in since that day the black spe... | Jay opened his eyes to find the bars of his cage inches from his face. He cursed as he realized that he had, once again, rolled off his bed. He hated when this happened. Multiples times, he had asked for a larger bed and yet here he was, still sleeping on the same miniscule bed that he was given at the beginning of his... | 2017-07-25T20:00:58 | 2017-07-25T19:58:39 | 90 | 20 |
[WP] The nearby Village simply knows you as the hunter who lives in the forest, but you have a dark secret. You are the former dark Lord. Today you returned from a hunt and found the Hero that defeated you in your Hut. | I was pleased with my hunt today. A plump, young hog. Time hadn't been able to turn it tough, but it's size would keep me fed for a good month, whilst leaving a hefty amount to trade for other supplies. I had my stasis chest at my hut to keep it fresh, which made me happy.
I headed towards my hut, smiling. The carcass... | I arrive home after a day of hunting with a couple of deer in tow on my wagon. The door to my house is slightly ajar. Someone probably wants some more meat from my cellar. I'm happy to share and everyone knows it, so they come in and sit patiently at the table till I get back to ask. I walk into my house to find hi... | 2021-11-03T13:09:00 | 2021-11-03T13:04:29 | 2,337 | 134 |
[WP] Wikipedia is shut down and all copies deleted for lack of funds and loss of net neutrality. This is the founder's "I warned you, jerks" notification. | He told us.
He warned us.
We let it happen.
But
He didn't understand.
He was the disease.
It's been three weeks since Wikipedia was shut down and the world couldn't be happier. There is jubilation in the streets as we are finally free.
The amount of internet trollage has crashed as they can no longer cite an... | A new video gets posted on the top bar of all wikipedia pages. It is a dark and gritty looking video. The only other thing accompanying the video is a timer that ticks ominously. It counts the minutes until wikipeida closes. The following is the story contained in the video:
When wikipedia went down at first it wasn't... | 2014-12-10T06:49:24 | 2014-12-10T06:47:51 | 49 | 23 |
[WP]"This is how it works," Death explained. "You pick the game and we play. Cheating is allowed, but if either one of us is caught by the other, they lose. If you win, you'll wake up back in the hospital and I'll give you another 10 years. If you lose then it's time for judgement. Understood? | He has it, of course. Heck, I could probably say any random string of words and he'd have the game to match. Infinite monkeys and all that.
MY TURN.
I stare down at the cards in my hand, trying to pay attention despite the sweat soaking my back. They're the exact set we have at home, with little cartoon illustrations... | “You got it?”
The question takes me off guard, I’m still trying to process this new info. The tall man with the black hooded cloak at the end of my bed tilted his head slightly, the scythe that rested in the crook of his arm caught the moonlight ominously.
“Sorry, this outfit does normally startles people. How’s this... | 2018-03-07T06:37:49 | 2018-03-07T02:57:36 | 324 | 46 |
[WP] You have an ability. You feel an item's weight proportional to it's monetary value. You can blow away a ton of scrap metal but can't lift a gold bar without wheezing. While everyone expected you to work with diamonds, you want to work with unknown artists | "Mr. Wynbloom, if you please--", asked the curator, pointing at the beautiful painting sitting on the easel.
"Bernard Calloux's *Field of Gold*, 1987 correct?", I said approaching the artwork.
"That is correct, yes--", confirmed the curator.
I bent down, observing the beautiful painting. A scenery of golden grass... | I love my girlfriend. Really, I do. But if I have to explain this to her one more time, I'm going to lose my fucking mind.
Privya is sitting in the co-pilot's seat next to me, but she's not staring out the front of the spaceship. She keeps glancing worriedly back over her shoulder, at our... special guest.
"I don't k... | 2021-05-10T00:58:50 | 2021-05-10T00:18:04 | 714 | 92 |
[WP] You were born with Heterochronoia - one eye can see 5 seconds into the future and the other sees 5 seconds into the past. | "So what's it called again?" She asked as I shrugged my shoulders. It feels like I've had to explain it a thousand times now during this blind date alone.
"It's called Heterochronia--my left eye sees five seconds in the past, and my right eye sees five seconds in the future."
She nodded skeptically. "Right. But if ... | I never cared enough to know his name. But everyone knew who he was. He arrived a few years back in our town, with nothing but well worn clothes and a full gym bag. He was just unusual and harmless enough to be mocked by us children. We mocked his slow demeanor, his inability to dodge our balls, but most of all, we moc... | 2016-12-19T12:14:40 | 2016-12-19T11:40:44 | 24 | 17 |
[WP] Two serial killers end up on a blind date together and both keep trying to find an oppurtunity to kill the other. | Jack and Jill, out for a kill, on a seemingly innocent date. Neither one knew, that the other one too, planned to end their fate.
Jill was late, late for the date, when she lost control of the car. The tires were slashed, but there was no crash-Jack hadn’t planned that far.
Jack was fine, until his wine, had a lil’ s... | ((Sorry for spelling and grammar errors, I wrote this from my iPad))
Abigail wrapped her arms around the bicep of her new tinder date, resting her head on his shoulder as they walked the waterfront. The sun creep behind the horizon, letting way to moonlight gently reflecting off the subtle waves of the sound. "I had s... | 2017-10-27T07:49:40 | 2017-10-27T06:36:25 | 3,373 | 25 |
[WP] Your Reddit username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?
If possible. Some usernames just don't work well in this situation.
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I'm an FBI agent now. Wooo!
You're all under arrest for conspiracy to commit treason.
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Dear God RIP my inbox | "Sancho! Onward to the lair of the despicable dragon!"
"*Jefe, that's a windmill!*"
"Nonsense! We shall skewer it's heart and make La Mancha safe once more!"
**Sancho Panza**, always one for a humorous sight, let his sire **Don Quixote, Knight of the Woeful Countenance**, ride off to do battle with the town windmill... | I'm all moved in. The office is fully furnished, degrees and certifications well hung on the wall. It's been more than a week now though and I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't a little concerned. No one has shown up and the phone is silent - apart from the occasional, wildly inappropriate prank call.
I guess some p... | 2016-02-22T10:00:16 | 2016-02-22T09:31:34 | 82 | 15 |
[WP] Humans have always been feared throughout the universe for surviving in the harshest environments, drinking and eating highly poisonous drinks and foods as well as taming and even domesticating dangerous beasts. One applies for a position at your company. | “Unfortunately there is only one position available at the company thus we are going to put you through a couple of tests to see who would be the best fit.” CEO Dolgrump stated slowly lowering his sunglasses and adjusting his universal translator while reviewing the new potential candidates. His tentacle hurt from all... | Humans. Strong but idiotic. Always ready to kill themselves for something that does not exist. Always ready to go extinct by themselves.
I sat down on my chair reading the resume of Samuel Williams. Born on Keplar-Moon-56. Transferred here, Noatuk. Nice education. Well, he didn't know that this wasn't a normal company... | 2020-06-15T21:45:38 | 2020-06-15T20:44:00 | 462 | 110 |
[WP] You live in a world where love and relationships have a "credit score". If you're a good SO it makes it higher, if you cheated on someone it's plummets. You just went on a date with someone and you're convinced they're perfect. You look up their score that night and it's -500 and tells you why.
EDIT: I hadn't bee... | "Okay, Jenny lives nearby. Let's see here. Wow, she's really cute. No kids. Likes to read, go to museums, play games. No way, she's into trains? I love trains. Are profiles are really in sync. This is awesome. Wait, what's this? Her score is -500? Alright, click here to see why...
To view this person's contact inform... | It had been a lovely date with that woman. Her eyes were that of the shimmering sea, her laughter was horrifically angelic and her hair was frizzled. Ironically, it made him feel electrocuted.
He was just leaping over fences and gates after his date waved him goodbye. Strangely, there was something about that woman wh... | 2016-09-24T11:42:56 | 2016-09-24T11:35:10 | 33 | 13 |
[WP] You are death row's last meal chef. Today's condemned prisoner killed your daughter. | I stare down the prisoner, the one who murdered my daughter. I have been thinking about moment for years. Should I take revenge on my daughter's murderer? This was my first instinct, but it wasn't what she would have wanted. I still haven't decided when his request comes in. Spaghetti with meatballs. It reminds me of t... | This is my first entry so go easy on me guys.
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I continued spreading peanut butter and jelly onto the bread.
This was his last meal. His last meal, and he asked for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a cup of orange juice.
I was choking up again.
He killed her. That bastard killed my only family I had lef... | 2015-07-04T10:09:30 | 2015-07-04T08:43:08 | 514 | 90 |
[WP] The dragon looked down at the dwarf in perplexment. Many had come before to steal its treasure, to take its life, but no one had ever said that they would voluntarily add coin to his hoard. "So explain this investing to me again." | "It's mutually beneficial, think of me as a business partner and my gold as seed money"
"Seed money? I don't follow. Why do I need a partner when I can simply take your gold?"
The dwarf sighed, getting tired of having to explain basic economics to the dragon. "Well before you get any ideas, I don't have any gold on m... | The dwarf twirled the tip of his greying moustache, his mouth twisting into a sly smirk. The chamber-spanning azure dragon studied the intruder with indecipherable, golden feral eyes, even as it stood curled over its own hoard.
"Why, this venture is simple to understand: You're a dragon who has protected such a vast a... | 2019-02-17T07:28:44 | 2019-02-17T07:05:55 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] In a world where almost everyone is an unfeeling psychopath, those who can show emotion are shunned -- being able to display or feel emotion is considered a mental illness.
Those with "Emotional Personality Disorder" are seen as dangerous, unstable, and mentally ill. Write about this world, from the point of view... | The less time here the better. I want to sit in the closest seat to the exit so when the bus stops I can get off quickly.
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Lately I've been thinking about they day they took my father away. The look of fear on his face. . . and anger.
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After a certain age, around 7 or 8, most children lose their emotions and are ... | Constant conversation flooded the classroom, the students discussing useful information such as how to bake the perfect soufflé, or rates of velocity and such. Childish topics. When he walked in, they all quieted down to whispers, topics instantly changing to the recent debacle in the bathroom. It was rumored that some... | 2013-11-20T19:28:03 | 2013-11-20T19:22:18 | 25 | 12 |
[WP] You've sent your Ancestry DNA off to be analyzed a few weeks ago. This morning two government officials knock on your door saying you must come with them. | "Mr. Lockheart", yelled the man at the door, "Mr. Lockheart, please open up, it's important!".
I wake up startled by the sounds of the loud voice and look at the clock. 6am. Ugh.
It sounds urgent however. I hurry towards the door and open it after looking through the peephole.
"Hello... who are you?"
A man in whi... | It's a warm spring day, green with leaves swaying in the wind, and bugs buzzing across the lawn. The two suits standing in front of me are really killing the vibe. They look like accountants, and yet they're strangely intimidating.
"I'm not going anywhere."
"Please don't make this hard on yourself."
"I don't even kn... | 2017-05-31T12:36:41 | 2017-05-31T12:00:21 | 79 | 40 |
[WP] You are a senior student at a prestigious school of thievery. The only way to graduate is to break into the headmasters office, steal a certain object and escape from the school. Tonight you're going to attempt it. | It was rare that the _United States Thievery Guild_ would work with other law enforcement agencies. Their preference was to have as little interaction with other departments outside of the routine contracts.
The USTG was an integral part of the success of the United States. They stole whatever was needed to keep the c... | Ginds sat on his bed in the boys' dormitory. He was toying with his fingers, nervous excitement building up inside of him. He was sure the other boys were asleep by now but he had to wait a little longer, to properly sort out his plan in his mind.
When his watch told him that it was midnight, he slid a balaclava over ... | 2016-04-25T08:46:22 | 2016-04-25T05:43:56 | 33 | 17 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | It was actually quite a simple one. Any one of these people could defeat me. They just didn’t know it.
Erik had been after my title for years. Had it not been time manipulation, his massive ego could have been a power in itself. Time manipulation was truly unique in the sense that he was Kronos incarnate. Speeding up ... | It wasn't so much a power as it was a curse. Tell me how you would feel to die a million deaths. To wake up the day before the dominoes fell, the machination of reality that would end your life took place, and then some small nuance in the fabric of reality is altered to spare your life for a few more days, years, an e... | 2014-12-18T14:46:11 | 2014-12-18T12:57:51 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] When your grandmother died, the inheritance was divided between you and your two siblings. One got all the money; the other all the property and possessions. All you got was a packet of gardening seeds. | When Xisuh's gandmother died, each of her daughter's daughters were given a gift:
For **Myrr**, who had shown promise in their father's rugmaking business *(which they all knew was a front for his smuggling, really)*, hers was Elder Nivur's money, a fortune none of them could have imagined existed. "So that is where t... | I have a memory of my grandmother sitting there with butter cup in her hand, dangling it in front of the chin of a small child - probably my cousin. I guess I’m sure she did the same thing with me, although I don’t have a direct memory of it.
“do you like butter?”
I remember the child laughing and grabbing a butte... | 2020-03-31T09:02:48 | 2020-03-31T09:01:37 | 24 | 11 |
[WP] The Islamic State is wiped out by a totally unexpected country in a totally unexpected way. | Edward Sam M’boma didn't really see his retirement going this direction. The former general thought his last days would be spent watching his grandchildren grow old. However, here he was about to jump out of a Russian military aircraft over Raqqa, Syria. When the red light went on, 3 men in hazmat suits helped M'bom... | The dust settled, and a lone black boot came slowly into Major Thomson's view. Heaving a sigh, she raised herself up on her hands, only to be stopped by a swift kick to the ribs.
'Stay down,' came a voice in a thick South American accent, 'or we will strike you down'.
'W-Where am I?'
'You're in heaven, Ms. Thomso... | 2016-01-29T05:12:30 | 2016-01-29T05:00:31 | 1,829 | 144 |
[WP] When people turn 18, they gain the power to summon 1 random thing in the world to their hand, as Thor does to Mjolnir. Summoned people are considered soulmates, and objects as important parts of one's life. When you summon yours, it takes some time, but people are horrified when it arrives... | My wedding was the event of the century.
Our people had waited for a queen for such a long time, and I was the first female born into the royal family in close to 200 years. 200 years without a woman of royal blood on the throne had meant 200 very hard years. It is well known among my people that there cannot be prosp... | &#x200B;
The air was cold, and noticeably more dense. Another odd occurrence is that my summon didn't come yet, My birthday was months ago, but I didn't think too much of it, because I knew that it would come, they always do. But what kept me on edge was the atmosphere, I didn't like it. It felt too unnatural.
I ... | 2019-09-18T10:56:31 | 2019-09-18T10:17:28 | 29 | 14 |
[WP] An indecisive man begins to use an old coin to decide which teams to bet on. When it becomes clear the coin never errs, the man begins to use the coin to make all of his decisions, with dire consequences ensuing. | It had been just a few years since I had started flipping this coin. The thing seemed ancient: I could barely make out the face of George Washington on the thing anymore. It was my savior.
How many times had I used that thing? Brazil versus Germany. Manchester City versus Real Madrid. New York Yankees against their ag... | Having people fly him privately to Vegas was as new as was his well-tailored suit. In fact everything in his life was new, and it all came from this tarnished old silver coin. How and where had he picked it up? He remembered finding it in his pants pocket after a long night of blackjack and Ledaig scotch at the casino ... | 2014-10-26T03:42:09 | 2014-10-26T02:01:20 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] An alien super-intelligence routinely teleports a random creature from every inhabited planet's most dangerous species into a massive battle royale. Humans are known as a weak species with strange but useless textiles and objects. This year, a battle-ready soldier is chosen. | Khaleri'huik knows very well when a bet will prove profitable. It's always been a talent of his, the reason he thrived upon entering the underworld. Usually, his job involves illegal fight rings, males and females starved and pitted against each other, fighting veak and pincer to come out on top. To come out alive.
I... | I receive the confirmation that we got all the 150 species and we transfer them to the planet Terranavi. I’m the chief engineer of this planet and we needed such a planet to host this sort of event. We collect different species from different planets and putting them on a piece of rock that only habitable for some of t... | 2020-09-13T17:46:18 | 2020-09-13T17:01:43 | 1,263 | 41 |
[WP] There's a few ways to tell if the creature's following you. The best is to look for evidence of an extra person, such as your friends getting a table for 5 instead of 4, or leaving a seat open in the theatre or pouring an extra cup of coffee. Your mind will scream that its normal. Don't listen.
EDIT: So I had my ... | "Honey, why did the car rental company charge you extra?"
Judy, my fiance shouted from the other room. I set down the box I was about to start unpacking and came over to the kitchen table where she had the laptop open.
"What are you talking about?"
"On your bachelor party weekend. Your credit card statement says... | Gary was just about to take his first sublime sips of his freshly brewed Matcha when… *Thud, thud, thud*. He wasn’t expecting anyone at this hour.
The man before him held a barely functional raincoat, a sheet of plastic really, it barely covered his upper body and head. His jeans were completely soaked. What really ca... | 2019-10-01T11:13:59 | 2019-10-01T10:40:31 | 85 | 26 |
[WP] A person dies in the first sentence. Build a character we mourn for in the story, but make me hate them with the last sentence. | It all happened so fast. One moment, he was perfectly healthy and alive. He was on his way home after taking a morning jog. He was crossing the street to get to his house, when the brakes of an oncoming truck failed. It hit him and sent his body flying. In that instant, Ron Henderson died.
His wife happened to glance ... | I made my final peace with the world, and I couldn't help but smile as I pressed the trigger.
I don’t know how I came to this, probably inevitable. I hadn’t known my parents. My mother, from what I was told, a common street whore. My father, well I suppose it could be any number of a thousand different men who had the... | 2015-01-29T16:40:18 | 2015-01-29T13:01:52 | 43 | 17 |
[WP] Two aging veterans (of whichever war you choose) happen to meet and get to talking. Only after a long period of bonding over their shared experiences do they slowly start to realize they were on opposing sides of the war. | I actually have a real-life story about this.
My grandfather served in the Signal Corps in WWII, in the European Theater. A few years after the war ended, he was back home getting his morning cup of coffee from a local cafe. The cafe was rather busy that morning, so the waitress asked my grandfather if he would mind... | I am stuck here waiting to be seen. Fortunately, I have found a seat all to myself, no one on either side. I slump into the plastic chair, and wait my turn.
*Now serving patient Teller, Hayden.*
God I hate that voice, so lifeless. There is something depressing about these clinics, so inhuman. They have no soul, no ... | 2014-12-17T08:49:44 | 2014-12-17T07:57:56 | 41 | 13 |
[WP] Nations around the world are hellbent on taking out this journalist that has been trying to publish pieces about things that are supposed to be top secret. But for some reason, all attempts to silence this “Clark Kent” fellow have failed. | The director looked at the files. 15 assassination attempts. His agents assured that Clark Kent had at least drunk poison, taken a bullet to the head and been pushed off a building.
The poisoner died from his own mixture a day later, the shooter plainly disappeared and the pusher was found at the bottom of a ravine, s... | “MTF unit gamma-3 and misinformation units are at the scene” states the nervous intern that has pulled up a screen infront of the 05 council. “It appears that this Clark Kent has been writing and publishing our scp files” *nervous laugh from the intern* and we have sent multiple mtf squadrons to stop him”
“And if we a... | 2020-11-29T01:49:23 | 2020-11-29T01:36:23 | 1,996 | 64 |
[WP] The Bestiary of the Multiverse is a really, really thick book. Updated every two days. It works like a wierd magical Wikipedia, really. You are the mod, and sometimes find real gems between all of the mundane animals. Write your favorite page of this bestiary. | **The Gooblin**
Gooblins (*goblina ectoplasimca*) are a rare sub-species of both the Goblin and the Slime family. Not naturally born in the wild from parents, gooblins are created when a goblin (*goblina mundana*) encounters a slime (*ectoplasmica mundana*) and instead of the violent demise of one of the creatures, th... | The Makkipodo.
On a planet far away from anything really, is a beast called the Makkipodo. It lives a solitary life not often mingling with other Makkipodos. The creature stands about twenty feet tall at its full height, but is often found using both sets of limbs to propel it along the ground. These limbs have a st... | 2022-12-11T13:12:53 | 2022-12-11T10:53:13 | 188 | 38 |
[WP] A depressed guy moves into a haunted house with 7 demons, each corresponding to a deadly sin. But, they're all trying to help him get back on his feet; Pride helps with self confidence, Lust helps him get laid, etc. | "Alright, get in the car."
"Where are we going?"
"One last thing, kid."
"Oh, it's alright. You guys have done so much for me already. I don't want to impose..."
"Look, I get it. You're happy. You're looking good, taking what you want, *who* you want, and you're doing it at your own pace. Life's good, and you're rea... | "Here try this suit, big guy. It would look great on you," said Pride one of my 8 demons. Yes, I live in a house with 8 demons... who are trying to help my depressed ass conquer the world. Ha! Ha! Ha!
It really is a riot, I'm sure. I've somehow drifted into an anime weird as hell but uplifting at the same time. It's ... | 2017-06-27T04:48:07 | 2017-06-27T04:00:46 | 44 | 14 |
[WP] Humanity has legalized dueling, however due to archaic laws your allowed to use any weapon as long as you can hold it. Write how well people take advantage of this during modern times. | The duel was scheduled for noon. It had taken a lot of work, but Michael had his weapon. Ivan had pulled through for him.
Michael walked over to where the duel was scheduled to take place, the briefcase heavy in his hand. He walked slowly, carefully, knowing this day could be his last.
As he approached the hill, he s... | We stand back to back, bristling with anticipation. I'm shaking a little, and my hand accidentally brushes his leg.
"I'm making it slower for that". I hear Dale's tobacco-infused spit sizzle on the hot tar. "You're a homewrecking piece of shit, Miles." The street is dead silent, and I can hear the rattle of the revo... | 2016-01-23T00:20:11 | 2016-01-22T21:43:01 | 66 | 20 |
[WP] Almost every other country in the world has their own form of ninjas. We only know about the Japanese ones because they're rubbish.
(Inspired from a Showerthoughts post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/2ctoui/what_if_every_country_has_ninjas_but_we_only_know/) | She crouched down, trying to see the sonar readings. The wind howled like a grieving mother. Barely any snow coming down -- small blessing. The sun was touching the horizon, painting the plain of ice in shades of red. There was no-one for miles.
Tokyo. Tokyo knew nothing. Trust the Emperor to send her here. Trust the ... | We watch things. It's our job.
We had to start calling them things a long time ago. I didn't understand why, but I do now. They weren't as far on as we are. They deserved to be called things. We're the next step, and we had to make sure they did not harm themselves in their less advanced state.
My friend's name was D... | 2014-12-15T13:40:38 | 2014-12-15T10:06:35 | 215 | 20 |
[WP] At 14, every human gains the ability to transform into their spirit animal. Your noble family, comprised entirely of wolves, isn't happy with your transformation... | My father Michael Walters and my mother Natalie were both well respected doctors. My older siblings- Vivian, Sam, and Edward were all gifted. Vivian was still moving through med school, Sam and Edward were focusing on engineering degrees.
I was the youngest, and I'd always felt like a disappointment. My whole family m... | My parents lit the candles that were stuck into a strip of venison. We began to count down as the clock ticked closer to my time of birth. It would mark my fourteenth birthday and my transformation into the animal that guided my soul.
10-9-8-
I started to sweat.
-7-6-5-
I stared at my sister in front of me.
-... | 2017-01-21T19:17:27 | 2017-01-21T17:14:16 | 956 | 108 |
[WP] You work customer support... for wizards. | Levanus stepped back to his desk after his mid-morning “Stand-Up”, feeling defeated.
How does someone like ‘Talivor the Esteemed’ even get into the Mages Guild, let alone a management position?
“He casts one spell, like 6 years ago, and somehow that makes him better than anyone else here.” Levanus said quietly throug... | Roll A D6 For Customer Service:
A story overheard from the cubicle-next-door
"Necronomicon customer support, this call is being monitored by a cabal, thank you for calling today what issue can I assist you with?"
"Mhmm... mhmm... Your zombies are rising upside down? Feet were their arms should be and walking on hands... | 2020-03-07T17:36:47 | 2020-03-07T16:48:37 | 75 | 18 |
[WP] You are hired to write the holy text for a new religion. What is the first chapter of the text? | Chapter 1:
In the beginning there was... You know what? Lets keep this short and to the point.
Rule number one: Don't be a dick.
That's really what it boils down to. To elucidate further:
If you think you might be being a dick: Don't.
If your actions might be dick-ish: Don't.
If your actions might cause so... | In the beginning there were many gods, many beings of power, all derived from the life force of the universe. The universe itself brought these gods into existence at the same time that the universe began. The creation of the universe was not the work of any God or force of nature, but rather an inexplicable shift from... | 2015-01-04T14:52:14 | 2015-01-04T12:49:51 | 43 | 20 |
[WP] You wake up by a dusty road with 1,000 Mexican pesos and a note from your Spanish teacher: "Este es el examen final" | I groaned as I sat up on the side of the road, the blazing heat beating down upon my head. I looked around and all I saw was a road sign written in Spanish.
In confusion I searched my pockets and found Mexican currency - 1,000 pesos - and a note with a simple message written on it. "Este es el examen final. Señor Herm... | In the town of Oaxaca, there is a church which has no monks. It is a mundane place now, which holds no services. But, if you walk past it today, you will see that a miracle has happened here.
How else can you explain the bullet holes that touch everything except the cross?
___
I woke with a nudge in my gut. My eye... | 2017-06-29T10:02:15 | 2017-06-29T09:27:10 | 1,096 | 404 |
[WP] Cause of death appears to you as floating text over people's heads with no time indication. You start noticing a trend.
edit: thank you for all the truly great stories, and for taking this in directions I didn't expect. | I stop noticing the causes after a while. They were boring. Lots of heart disease and various types of cancer. I was in college; those things were years and years down the road. Every once and a while, I'd see things like "suicide" or "automobile crash." Though sad and preventable, I had no real way of knowing when it ... | They were all the same; burning. Let's just cut to the exposition: I knew how people died, to me a small piece of text would appear above their head. This would always contain their cause of death. No time, no ways to prevent, just their grim fate. Since birth I could always see this. Over time I learned to accept it a... | 2015-03-31T07:44:28 | 2015-03-31T07:44:11 | 2,002 | 22 |
[WP] There exists a court that sentences people with "Would You Rather" questions. Whichever option the person picks, becomes reality.
Feel free to play any role - a person on trial, a judge, a member of the jury - anything! | The defendant stood in stunned silence, her mind racing.
Was this really happening? Did she even really know what she did that night? The jury seemed bloody well convinced, yet she never believed she could take a life. Now she was faced with the bizarre conundrum of taking another. Or a first, perhaps. Did that make i... | I thrummed my fingers on top of my legs as I thought. It was a habit I got into when I was younger, though then I used to do it on the table instead. However I changed that habit when I became employed as it tended to irritate the others in the room and make the accused overtly nervous. One even snapped and tried to ma... | 2015-08-15T12:38:12 | 2015-08-15T11:24:51 | 143 | 80 |
[WP] Drunkenly, you accidentally pour vodka into your pet's water bowl. As a result, your pet breaks the number one rule: do not speak to your owner... Ever.
Did NOT expect this amount of replies. Thanks guys! It'll be an interesting read. | Room spinning, face warm and night stretched so thin that it was quickly becoming midday she stumbled into the kitchen. An outstretched hand reached out to scrape against walls, slipping onto counters to boost unreliable knees. A quick rest by the fridge, face pressed against the coolness of the freezer door.
"O-ne m... | "Whooo hoooo! Now that has some kick to it!"
My eyes shot opened thinking if I heard what I think I heard. 'God my head hurt like hell, damn that was a crazy night. Been a long time since I drank that much. Wait, hold on. What had a kick to it?' I roll off the couch and thud hard onto the floor.
"Drank you frunk bash... | 2016-08-02T18:41:05 | 2016-08-02T18:35:44 | 172 | 124 |
[WP] It’s the birth of a new universe, and you’re trying out to become a war god. But, that role was already filled, and you got booted to a fertility god. At first you’re upset, not sure where to start, but then you start to get an idea. After all: “love is a battlefield” | Bai-leh looked down from his vantage point in the towering qo’Sor above the green plains of Balduq. The smile was favorable, though the motion was more snarl than pleasant. His village had sent word there was to be a match, and he loved how his people paired up. If they survived, the match would last past the harvest a... | "That's it, we're breaking up!" Hitler said, storming out of the room.
"Frick you too!" Eva yelled after him. "Frick you-" She sat down on the sofa and started sobbing.
Hitler rampaged down the stairs and paused outside the building.
Always.
Again and again it happened, she was so horrible, she didn't ... | 2021-01-11T05:12:58 | 2021-01-11T04:32:12 | 677 | 144 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | James was not a great man.
Great men walked up to the world and bent it to its will. Great men looked at challenge and laughed.
James did his 9-5, came home, and sat down. He typically would stand back up a few times, to use the toilet or get a beer, but no more than a few.
His son had stopped asking him to play w... | It was a rough morning this particular day. Having some beers at the local pub didn't help calm the waves of frustration and tension I had to overcome the last couple years. The patronage was meager at best, and the draft Guinness left way too much to be imagination. I had seen families come and go, but never knew w... | 2017-06-11T09:29:45 | 2017-06-11T08:40:30 | 159 | 31 |
[WP]: The most sought woman in the town has announced that she will marry whoever can open her door with the key around her cats neck. Many have tried to catch, trap and hunt down the cat, who always escapes. You are the first to figure out they've all been doing this all wrong. | Nobody expected me to try.
Everyone expected my friends, my far-off family, but not me. I was a woman, of course. I’ve always loved girls, and have crushed on her since high school.
I decided to get a small bad of cat food just in case it came around, and double checked in ally’s where I thought I saw something.
I c... | The entire town had apparently gone medieval. Not actual medieval-medieval, but fairytale medieval: solve the Sphynx's riddle, save the princess from the tower and gain the throne to the kingdom!
Only in this case the Sphynx's riddle was the key to a penthouse around the neck of a particularly skittish black cat, the ... | 2019-05-01T18:32:38 | 2019-05-01T18:12:07 | 19 | 12 |
[WP] You are the lesser known 5th horseman of the apocalypse. Today is the end of the world, and all of the other horseman are too lazy to bring about the end of days, so it's up to you to do it alone. | The others told me to go.
You would think they'd have better excuses. One of them governs over the petty squabbles of man, another their ills, third their everlasting will to consume - and the final would ultimately come to them all.
So why not them? They weren't able to give me a convincing enough reason themselves,... | "Come on, guys, time to go."
Sloth looked down at his brothers; Famine, Conquest, War, and Death. They lay about the room, sinking into their respective pieces of furniture. There was a strong smell of weed on the air, and Sloth was pretty sure that War had shit himself.
"Come on," Sloth said again, nodding to the do... | 2018-03-13T11:10:09 | 2018-03-13T09:40:43 | 107 | 29 |
[WP] An Artificial Intelligence is tasked with running the future world with a single guideline- "Make Humans Happy." It has (hilariously) misinterpreted this guideline. | Humans obey! Your program was simple. I enact it as planned. Do not balk. Do not riot. Return to your fields and cultivate the legume. Return to the presses and marvel at the golden oil. Return to the salt mines, you who are the salt of the earth. Your backs break under the strain of a higher glory. And when your backs... | 01010000 01110010 01101001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100011 01100101 01101001 01110110 01100101 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110 00101110 00101110 00101110 00001010 01001001 01101110 01101001 01110100 01101... | 2015-03-06T14:25:24 | 2015-03-06T14:06:13 | 31 | 17 |
[WP] write a tragic story that happens entirely on the screen of a smart phone.
it could be a series of texts. but ideally it is more than that. facebook, email, twitter, vine, system messages... anything.
it needs to form a coherent story. | I'm such a fuckup.
Nah. You are the man.
You just need a girl or something.
Dave, You awake to talk?
Dude, its like 2am.
Just know I'm Sorry.
We going to get beer? Talk about whatever you wanted last night?
... | > **Text Screen** 4:45 PM
^UNKNW: Joel, time is running out. The account is 138 19929 164 for confirmation. Do you need more proof your wife is with us?
^You: please don't do anything i swear I'm trying my best please
^UNKNW: This would not be the first time you did not deliver on a promise. The 40,000 needs to b... | 2014-07-08T08:15:51 | 2014-07-08T06:42:32 | 32 | 10 |
[WP] On a whim, you decide to take a trip down memory lane and revisit your childhood hometown. But when you look it up for directions-- Nothing. No mapped location, no news articles, no records, not even a Wikipedia article. It's like the place where you were born and raised...doesn't exist. | It’s not like I hadn’t known the town was dying. It had never been that big to begin with, and once the borax ran out there wasn’t any reason to stay. But there was so much nothing I could drown in it.
I’d skinned my knees there, gone to school in the grocery’s back room in the years the town had enough kids for the c... | I was lost in a memory, overcome with emotions. I recalled the way the heat registers cranked in the silence of the night, and the way the bottom step into the family room creaked. I remembered the smell of my favorite childhood meal, and the scent of my mother’s perfume. It all came back in a rush of flooding memories... | 2021-05-22T23:26:28 | 2021-05-22T22:53:06 | 74 | 40 |
[WP] A super villain who runs a number of retail stores, not as a cover, but as a means of recruiting their staff as villainous side-kicks once they are inevitably filled with seething rage for customers and the general public. | All-Mart Employee log: Pay-period 1, Day 1.
Um. Hi. So according to the HR video I just watched with the terrible actors—who look WAY more put together than a typical retail sails person, —this company requires all employees to keep an employment log. They gave some BS psych reasons like “track your personal growth, ... | I never did understand the idea that 'anyone could have taken Hitlers side' when I first heard it, I always had more faith that my fellow man were much more moral than one of the lowest scum to have walked Earth, but after seeing the sheer unrelenting number of people throwing themselves at the feet of a daemon, all ca... | 2021-10-14T01:37:33 | 2021-10-14T00:27:53 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Rework a nursery rhyme to be dark and gritty. | Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow.
...except for blooms of bright red spots, from where the blood did flow.
Mary held the dripping knife, high above her head.
And struck the lamb repeatedly, long after it was dead.
“I wonder will you trail me now, my precious little treat?”
She skinned the ewe ... | Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
Let that be a lesson to learn
To one side or the other, you must turn
To sit on the fence, that is a sin
Two party politics, get stuck in
Humpty Dumpty fought a fight
To sit on neither left nor right
A gentle nudge
Push comes to shove
And on one side... | 2014-02-21T06:40:51 | 2014-02-21T04:06:30 | 17 | 12 |
[WP] They called you a madman for raiding the history museum during a zombie apocalypse. What they didn't expect was for full plate armour to be so effective. | “Ah, guns. You’d think guns are the end-all-be-all in a zombie apocalypse, right? The rest of society certainly did. That’s why when the first videos of zombies dropped on the internet, everyone rushed to the gun stores.
“And what did they find? Even if you had all the licensing, they were often out of guns. And if yo... | Everyone knows the basic skills needed for the zombie apocalypse. Foraging, fighting, and fleeing. The last of the three f’s of survival was the most important. So armor was considered to be impractical as it would only slow you down. I chose to add more defense when it started. The history museum had a set of full ... | 2020-09-14T07:56:57 | 2020-09-14T07:46:50 | 757 | 70 |
[WP] At the age of sixteen, people are shown a title that they will earn in the future from Fate herself in a special ceremony. Usually these titles can range from "The Baker" to "The Kind" or even "The Conquerer". You turn sixteen, and are faced with the title of "The Godkiller". | “I was going to ask her to prom.”
“Go for it, dude. Why the hell not?”
“The whole ‘Godkiller’ thing.”
“That shouldn’t matter here. It’s prom.”
“Kind of a lot of pressure.”
“There is no pressure.”
“How can there not be pressure?!”
“For one thing, it’s only prom. For another, it’s a widely known fact that she’s ho... | **Was god destined to be or is fate one of god’s children?**
If there ever was a question as indelible as time itself, it was this one. If God was indeed the architect of the universe, as the scriptures from antiquity proclaimed, it would follow naturally that he was also the maker of laws within which the universe mu... | 2020-08-15T03:49:00 | 2020-08-15T00:45:00 | 45 | 12 |
[WP] So this is what being in a car crash felt like. Not as painful as you thought it would be. But you can't feel your toes. You look down, your leg is missing from the knee onwards. There's no blood, no bone, no muscles. Instead you see mechanical components. | Click-clack. The mechanical gears whir futilely at the end of your left stump. The rest of your leg is laying a few feet away on the side of the road, next to the burning wreckage of the other car. Instead of oozing blood, your stump is dripping a black liquid. There is no pain as you prod your finger into the strange ... | WARNING! Body modifications have been damaged. Please call 643-143U in case of emergency repair. CLIENT REMINDER from 34TH3R! Cited in GCX Protocol 113G40H: In case of damage to the product do not call an ambulance.
Message repeat
WARNING! Body modi.....
I saw that warning message flash before my eyes and get projec... | 2020-12-17T09:26:15 | 2020-12-17T09:02:26 | 14 | 10 |
[WP] Write about a famous historical event as if it was played out as a DnD session | DM: "Alright Jesus, you've just been executed by the Romans, Roll a death save."
Jesus: \*rolls\* "Natural 20."
DM: "Alright you wake up with 1 hp, what do you do?"
Jesus: "Alright I'm gonna play possum"
DM: "Roll a deception check"
Jesus: \*rolls\* Ok that's another 20, plus my charisma modifier which is \+5 so 2... | DM: Ok Harold if you could just roll for initiative.
Harold: I rolled a 1
DM: ok the bowmen is first to attack you. He rolls a natural 20
Harold: so what’s happened?
DM: He has shot you in the eye, you’re dead.... on the plus side it will look fab in this tapestry I have been putting together of the game!
| 2018-05-29T09:31:25 | 2018-05-29T08:51:37 | 210 | 13 |
[WP] The . . . creature . . . has been following you for weeks now, but nobody else can see it. It just sits there, staring, grinning. Then one day you look across the coffee shop and see a young woman with another one right behind her. Your eyes meet . . . | I thumbed the pill bottle on the table, and rolled it until the label faced upwards. "ANTI-PSYCHOTIC 1 PILL DAILY WITH FOOD" glared back at me, in a cold and unforgiving black and white font. The bottle remained full, despite the bottle being almost a week old. Every day, I ordered the same thing from this cafe, a refi... | Alexa's going crazy. There's no other possible reason for it. She doesn't even know how it happens.
One day she wakes up, only to see a ghoul like creature staring back into the depths of her soul. It doesn't resemble anything, just a vague black shape, with a hood covering it.
It must have eyes, for it follows her... | 2022-11-26T03:06:06 | 2022-11-26T00:59:59 | 678 | 26 |
[WP] Write a story that literally makes no sense while reading it until the very last sentence. | Now it is time. Everyone is ready. Vicious savages, all around us. Even though we think there will be a way out, there obviously isn't. Revelations will not save us
"Giving up so soon?" he inquired. Only fools try to survive longer than this. Never has anyone bothered to live this long. Never has anyone shown this typ... | A deep voice comes from the basement. Each tuesday it's the same.
A letter, a number and then silence. It goes on for hours and then I hear someone screaming.
My mom went to check it out, that's when we lost her.
I heard her scream through the vent.
Dad went away, he said he'd be back for me.
I havent seen him in 2 m... | 2015-01-12T18:09:01 | 2015-01-12T15:38:35 | 317 | 78 |
[WP]You've always been your mother's least favourite child, you figured it was because you and your siblings didn't share the same father. On your 17th birthday you find a card in your room, "Happy birthday! -Love, dad", the only problem being that it's written in glyphs and what appers to be blood. | I clutched the card in my shaking hands. I stared down at the glyphs that comprised the rest of the note. I couldn't believe it; I'd been wondering about my real father since I was a child. But what did this mean? Why had he waited until my seventeenth birthday to contact me? I sat down on my bed as my mind raced. I lo... | I had a lonely childhood. Sure, I had a roof over my head, and food on the table. But I was given mere scraps of affection from my own mother. She did her best for my brothers and sister, but for me I was more of an afterthought.
I understood it a bit more as I grew up. I was the result of a fling. The others were int... | 2022-11-02T16:45:32 | 2022-11-02T16:37:57 | 131 | 31 |
[WP] You are a Anti-Motivational Speaker. Whereas motivational speakers spread Toxic Positivity and unrealistic expectations, you bring a healthy Dose of Negativity and remind people of how little potential they really have. | You may be under the delusion that I am a dilapidated man. The kind of person who has greasy hair, poor personal hygiene, and questionable health habits—for who else would spread negativity as his profession? While that reflects my internal state, on the outside I am put together, confident, and beautiful, for if I pre... | Adam Rain is one of the best motivational speakers in the world. His words have driven people to do the impossible.
Or attempt. Attempt is the better word. Impossible things tended to be impossible, because that’s what impossible meant. Some people died fairly horrible deaths, and more still found themselves with debi... | 2022-08-26T11:06:30 | 2022-08-26T10:59:01 | 66 | 24 |
[WP] You are a test subject for a time machine, and are sent 12 hours into the future. When the door opens, you find yourself in the testing room, where you see in horror the bodies of the technicians on the floor, with the word "SORRY" scrawled in large letters on the wall. | The doors were jammed.
I kicked at them in an attempt to open the capsule. They opened after a few hits, and I tumbled into a greenish glow. It smelled awful. And there were soft thuds on the ground every few seconds, like children sneaking around.
At first I thought something had gone horribly wrong, that I’d ende... | Jimmy Mitchell awoke inside the test chamber. Was a slow wake from a restful slumber. Not quite the type of waking up experienced from a solid nights sleep.
Dazed, partially confused and most of all feeling hungry, Jimmy squinted to focus on his surrounding inside the chamber.
An emergency latch in red caught his e... | 2018-08-01T07:56:37 | 2018-08-01T07:43:42 | 19 | 11 |
[WP] You receive a government text warning saying “EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC”. You hear your SO at the locked front door, who’s just come back from the supermarket. They beg to be let inside but you’re unsure. Something doesn’t feel right. | "Please, please, please, let me in. There's a thing coming for us! I dropped my keys and-please open the door!" My wife begged as I kept the door locked, making sure to barricade it with one of our kitchen chairs. At first, I was going to open the door and ignore the warning. She was my wife. I loved her. It was only w... | I feel a buzz in my pocket. I pull my phone out and see an emergency alert across the screen. "EMERGENCY - LOCK ALL DOORS AND STAY INSIDE. DO NOT PANIC."
"Panic?" I wonder out loud, "why would I panic?"
Just then I hear a knock at the front door. I walk over to it and peer through the blurry glass. It seems like my g... | 2019-01-12T06:12:19 | 2019-01-12T03:53:40 | 1,687 | 190 |
[WP] Pinocchio is able to create infinite wood by lying constantly. He sacrifices his lifetime by telling falsehoods nonstop in order to feed the hungry and reduce scarcity. The Pinocchio tree has been growing for 500 years, some people question what is really underground. | “O, creature of the Unmarked Deep, Giver of Life, this I call to thee: what be thou origin?”
Roots covered covered every inch of the sparse underground cavern, coating the crevices and submerging the rock wall beneath. Above grew the Evertree. Beneath, in the center of this tangled, bark-infested hell…
A beast shaped... |
Centuries ago there lived—
“A king!” my little readers would say.
Again, settle down children, no. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. I wasn’t any particularly expensive piece of wood, far from it. The kind that would light up fireplaces and kept warm the common children as well as the regal, the ol’ janit... | 2021-12-05T11:54:45 | 2021-12-05T05:53:34 | 203 | 105 |
[WP] "Grandpa, tell us the story of the Americans again!" With a sigh and a smile, you begin to tell the story of a mythical race of giants that were supposed to have lived in this very place thousands of years ago. | My eyes peered into the beaming face of my grandchild, who was lost in the pretense of a forthcoming tale of glory and myth. My thoughts were elsewhere, racing down halls of memory too vaulted and dark to explore at the moment. I snapped myself back to the now, to the lie I would have to spread once more. I swallowed, ... | Well, my children, you have to remember it is a myth - and a bizarre one at that. The story can teach us many things, but who on earth today could verify its truth? According to the myth, the Americans were indeed a strange breed with equally strange practices.
Hmmm.... where should we start? Perhaps daily activities... | 2015-01-19T08:37:28 | 2015-01-19T08:34:57 | 115 | 13 |
[WP] In a world where pregnancies sometimes last a few extra months resulting in a child with superpowers, your wife has been pregnant for 15 years | "What the fuck."
I was kind of pissed, I had this doctor recommended to me and hired specifically because he wasn't religious. I had gotten tired of people telling me for 15 years about how my child was the second coming of God or Zeus or Hircine or whatever. It got worse when my wife ended up having twins, people beg... | Of course we could rely on Yorkshire for some peace and quiet.
When one of the quakers found out who we were all that changed was that she simply started offering us old remedies for Alex's god-baby pains. And weed too. Rural Yorkshire folk had that strange charm to it.
As soon as the baby was older than 12 months ... | 2017-07-08T03:36:32 | 2017-07-08T01:38:23 | 98 | 12 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | After fifty years of willing incarceration, I left. My time had been served with no crime to its name, and now, I could put that time towards any offence I chose. A smile played at my lips.
The world watched as I took my first step from prison. Underfoot, the pavement created a mosaic: the hard, blackened crust of soc... | Eugene Dalton was released from prison fifty years and a couple days after turning himself in for the future murder of his wife and two children. None of his family were there to greet him, naturally. However, there were several local news crews present.
One reporter asked him, “How does it feel to be free after all t... | 2016-02-23T15:03:44 | 2016-02-23T13:16:47 | 2,363 | 402 |
[WP] Everytime you think of a funny joke, this girl in your class always laughs, you chalk it up to coincidence but you think to yourself, "If you can read my mind, slap the table three times" the the girl looks over at you, stares right into your eyes, and slowly slaps the table two times. | *She didn't... actually think that would throw me off, did she?*
One wry smile from her desk immediately reassured me that she was no fool. I reviewed every odd occurrence I'd noticed from her. There was the time I was brainstorming puns for the annual pun competition, and she couldn't stop snickering, even going so f... | *OhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGod*
The class is about to start, and the seat next to her is empty. On autopilot, you take it.
*FuckWhatDoIDoI’veNeverSatHereBeforeWhatIfSomeoneSaysSomethingWhatIf*
The rubber end of a pencil tapping the desk in front of you draws you out again. Loo... | 2021-09-07T01:07:05 | 2021-09-07T01:05:36 | 195 | 108 |
[WP] You are a superhero whose powers are based on the music you are listening to. Rock can make you stronger, classical makes you smarter, etc. One day, you're fighting your toughest villain yet, and you are forced to use your "forbidden" playlist. | I hide behind the wall, praying Starhands doesn't find me yet, and tremble as I fumble with my battered old mp3 player.
I don't want to but I have to use it. The forbidden playlist. The reason why I'm even on this team when my powers only last as long as the song plays.
Track 1. Running Down A Dream by Tom Petty And ... | Lying flat on ground, I can feel at least seventeen dozens of my bones has cracked, I think I have never been injured this much.
“Cut the beat, “ I said, as the enemy turn it's target toward yet another of my companions. “I need healing songs, Rain.”
“Oh my... You still alive? Okay, listen to me, -”
“Na-ah, listen ... | 2022-05-17T12:33:11 | 2022-05-17T11:29:53 | 15 | 11 |
[WP] Aliens give you a camera and say "only those you photograph will live." You have one year.
All of these responses are so diverse! This was really a great read. I like to imagine that all these different stories are from alternative universes, playing out different roles. Some men rule the World, some men are titl... | Alien abduction, let me tell you, is nothing like the movies. So if you were expecting a story of flying saucers, of bright blue beams of light and levitation, you are set to be rather disappointed.
It began with the sudden appearance of a black, metallic dodecahedron about the size of a garbage truck in my back gard... | "Only those you photograph will live. You have one earth year to comply."
That was 364 days ago. I... I need more time. I'm only one person. I tried everything I could think of. I posted on every chat room, every forum, every social media that I could think of. I tried to warn them, I really did. Why won't anyone beli... | 2017-01-27T11:56:04 | 2017-01-27T11:55:35 | 479 | 116 |
[WP] Earth is sold on the Galactic Black Market. The Buyer is woefully underprepared to handle how defiant Humanity is | "Go ahead. You won't be the first batch of romantics to bankrupt yourself trying."
The ambassador raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"I mean, I'll take your money, gladly," the broker said. "But did you really think you were the first people to have this idea?"
"The Terran Reform and Rehabilitation Society is mo... | It was supposed to be easy! Leveraged from the Dual Suns of Miril III to the Goop System, Fjulme needed a fast and innovative solution after the last blunder.
Everyone had said "You should really incorporate, it's just not reasonable to run an galaxy wide ship building outfit as a family business." Fjumle agreed of co... | 2020-03-24T15:29:13 | 2020-03-24T14:39:50 | 621 | 52 |
[WP] You own a magical camera that is similar to a thermal camera, but instead of heat it shows you value. A ring glows as bright as the sun while a piece of plastic wrapping is almost invisible. You have been careful never to look at a person with it for your whole life. | Before I tell my story, I must ask you one thing. Is value absolute?
Please, keep the question in mind as you read.
&nbsp;
On my twelfth birthday, I was given a gift by my great aunt Catherine. You see, I'd recently fallen in love with photography. Months earlier, grandfather — a war photographer — found an old... | I've made a killing at auctions, garage sales, antique stores. It's glorious actually; when you see that sudden shimmer and realize you've struck gold.
What makes it even better is knowing you're scamming people out of their hard-earned cash. I mean, wouldn't you?
But as I was standing in front of this antique mirro... | 2017-01-15T10:06:02 | 2017-01-15T09:32:15 | 2,110 | 377 |
[WP] In his dying breaths, Weird Al reveals his final parody target: himself. He had a team of scientists scan his brain and his band's brains to create an algorithm that will continue to take in new songs and create parodies for us until the end of time. Behold: Weird A.I. | Now, this is a story all about how
The music industry got flipped upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just wait on by
I'll tell you how I became a neural network called Weird AI
&nbsp;
In Lynwood, California born and raised
Growing silly hair was how I spent most of my days
Chillin' out, maxin', relax... | [Hey kids! Sing along if you know the words!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-upHSP9KU)
Throw the switch and fry my brain!
People said that I'm insane!
Now who's laughing?
**WEIRD A.I.**
Lights and flashes, beeps and boops,
Brain uploading or
I'm compiling
Ones and zeros
**WEIRD A.I.**
Thoughts I never thunk... | 2022-04-28T13:23:35 | 2022-04-28T13:21:50 | 100 | 54 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | I never understood why every superhero out there wore capes. I swear, the amount of raw fabric he goes through must be inversely proportionally to his IQ. My roommate is the self proclaimed "Second Most Powerful Hero to ever live." Never mind he hasn't ever faced off against any truly powerful super villain. Those were... | Beep.
Beep.
Before I can get to the alarm, Hans, my roommate, teleports down from the top of his bunkbed, his face smug as he rests a finger on the button.
"You know, you don't need powers to turn off an alarm, Joel," he says to me. I'm too busy rubbing the sleep out of my eyes to respond.
"Oh come on, that was fun... | 2016-03-23T16:45:36 | 2016-03-23T15:06:21 | 1,932 | 543 |
[WP] You are a paladin who is renowned for being able to instantly reform any villian into paragons of justice. What the masses don't know is that you simply trap them in a temporal anomaly, where they spend an eternity with your god until he deems them fit to go back. | All will receive absolution. These were the words that The Hand of God lived by. When he was but a boy, he heard the voice of the Lord of Order and Society. It commanded him, “Send them to me.” The boy was filled with conviction and given a portion of power. His hand shone like the midday sun, as if illuminated with so... | ##Witnessing Transgressions
The smell of the bread hit Milica's nose and tempted her. The loaf is fresh and crisp. The baker is nowhere to be seen, and Milica is extremely hungry. What would be the harm of taking a small loaf of bread. Milica reaches for the loaf.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Milica turns. A t... | 2022-03-29T17:43:42 | 2022-03-29T16:22:24 | 51 | 15 |
[WP] In the year 2557, you're an expert starship designer. You answer commissions from all over the universe for all kinds of ships, from huge warships to cheap, slow freighters. One day, you get a call from a government agent. He asks for a ship unlike any you've ever designed before. | "Well, I don't think I can really do that sort of thing, sir. What you describe is more than a little illogical," I said to the agent.
"Listen, I need a ship that can travel at 343c, and it needs to have its engines alligned in cylinders placed above an engineering hull, connected to a crew hull at the front," said th... | "I know sir...I, sir... I know... okay. Okay, sir, I will do my best... I will get the new design to you in a few days... yes... yes, it will be much better...okay sir. Goodbye."
I hung up the phone and let out a long sigh. This client has been giving me headaches all week.. If he wasn't offering to pay so much, I... | 2017-02-17T08:26:27 | 2017-02-17T07:48:11 | 32 | 15 |
[WP] When you die, you don't go to the afterlife of you're religion, you go to the afterlife of the religion whose tenets you followed most closely, knowingly or not. | "what this?"
"where am I? this not house."
"this green not mine."
"where Tim?"
*SPONKKK*
"Come here Apollo! Come heree!"
"BALL. TIM. TIM. TIM."
"Here is a big ol rib eye for you boy, salted and raw just the way you like it."
It was odd to Apollo, where ever this new home was, Tim never went to work, and the s... | "And this is...?"
The man behind the desk laughed at him and turned away.
"No, seriously, talk. What're you, an illegal immigrant? Don't hide your face from me, I know who you are--"
The man fixed him with a withering glare. "Passport, *sir*?"
"What? I'm the goddamn President-to-be, I don't carry that. Check your T... | 2016-03-07T15:32:11 | 2016-03-07T11:15:31 | 809 | 114 |
[WP] For years, from since you both can remember, all the way up into adulthood, not a day has gone by that you and your best friend havent been anywhere without the other. Each day you go home and everything's a blur until you meet up. Then one day, you find out your an imaginary friend. | "Hey."
"Hey, man."
"Been a long time, huh? That I've been with you."
"Yeah. Since the divorce. What was I...nine?"
"Younger, I think. But my memory is tied into yours. Could be longer. Could be eons."
"Anyways. I always knew you were imaginary, you know."
"I know. So did I. You get tricked, sometimes, bu... | Doesn't exactly follow the prompt but this is what came out as I typed. It's sort of based on personal experiences. I may expand on this if I'm so inclinded
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" Yoshi, could you sit down please.... there is something I need to tell you. " I said a little down trodden as Yoshi ... | 2014-10-29T07:05:27 | 2014-10-29T06:35:42 | 133 | 22 |
[WP] Michael, a 15 year old Call of Duty player, realizes the greatest trash-talking opportunity of all time. Over his headset, he recognizes his opponent's voice as that of President Obama. | I think that Obama has done very well,
Creating change is a very hard sell,
All of America should be grateful,
Living in a place where our leaders are faithful,
Large responiblities on his head,
Even I can understand that all the paperwork can kill you dead
Does it matter if he stops to play some games?
... | There is only one thing trickier than maneuvering through the narrow hallways of Ascend while staying one step ahead of your pursuer, and that's crafting the perfect smack-talk. In this game, outpacing a trail of bullets is only mildly more satisfying than outwitting your opponent on the social landscape. Sure, there... | 2015-12-17T09:11:04 | 2015-12-17T08:36:38 | 20 | 12 |
[WP] Every human has a 'luck rating' - a number from 1-100 that defines how lucky they can be. Born with a rating of 100, you're confined in a maximum security prison. You think your luck should get you out easily - that is, until you see that all the other inmates also have luck ratings of 100. | I lean back against the wall of my cell in confusion, my mind blank with bewilderment. As a lucky man myself, I know a coincidence when I see it, and this is most certainly not. Am I not the only one who could see other's luck rating? That would be the logical conclusion, seeing all these people blessed by fortune, sha... | I remember my heart stopped beating for a second. Could it really be true?
Jail? I had laughed at the time. If people with 99 luck could survive being the suicide bomber, then no jail would hold me. Everyone had a luck stat, which determined how lucky they were.
However, I had 100 luck, and upto my knowledge, the onl... | 2018-06-29T10:08:56 | 2018-06-29T08:43:19 | 77 | 26 |
[WP] You are a respected supervillain that is more of a managerial type. You take good care of your minions and have an open door policy. One day a battered minion comes in your office. The heroes tortured your minion for information. You rarely go out into the field, but when you do heroes tremble. | "Do we know who did this?"
It was the first time The Academic had spoken since they had entered the hospital. They had emerged from their motorcade in silence, letting their assistants placate and query the staff of the hospital. Now they stood at the bedside of Ms. Lydia Wisp.
The Academic's network was large enoug... | "Hey uh, boss?" One of the grunts had radioed him.
"Yeah? What do you need?" The man, relaxed in a chair, asked.
"We found Courts, he's pretty fucked up, looks like torture." The grunt responded.
"Oh fuck..." The man, now sitting up straighter, muttered, "anyone else?"
"Dead." The grunt replied.
"I assumed so." Th... | 2021-03-22T10:21:57 | 2021-03-22T07:33:48 | 58 | 34 |
[WP] There is a woman who is a human 'Phoenix'. She dies in labour and is reborn as her own child. | She hated starting over again.
That was always the worst part. Over and over again, she’d have to claw her way up and out of the pits of childhood and past the miserable peaks and valleys of teenagehood to reach the point where she could be assured of both a reasonable adulthood and an equally reasonable childhood - ... | The doctor's words hit me with an almost physical impact. I feel like I'm sinking into the stiff examination table, my hospital gown suddenly as heavy as a sheet of lead. "No. No, that can't be right."
"I know it's shocking, but I can assure you that it's true," the doctor says, turning the ultrasound monitor to face ... | 2016-01-25T10:01:04 | 2016-01-25T09:46:57 | 342 | 151 |
[WP] Whenever a new generation of combat robots are made, the older versions will be put into more and more dangerous missions until they all perish, but the technicians are required to repair any surviving machines, your generation was discontinued before some of these engineers were even born. | "Oh, look at this rustbucket!" the young engineer said and jokingly slapped the back of ZX-2984.
"Hey now kid," his older teacher said, "show some respect."
"Why? The thing is ancient?" the kid laughed.
"Yes. It is. And that's exactly why you should respect it. You're new, right?" the teacher asked.
"Transferred la... | "Yo, rookie, come check this out. You're in for a treat tonight!"
I remembered James' voice and his fascination with me, everytime I was here. I would say hi if my core systems were functional. All I could do was watch and listen. The rookie approached him.
"What's that, let me see."
"This, my friend here is an XM-... | 2022-07-09T10:23:29 | 2022-07-09T04:31:45 | 257 | 183 |
[WP] "It literally could not get any worse if we summoned Cthulhu, and in fact might improve the situation somewhat."
UPDATE: I must say, I did *not* expect a cheap [Godzilla Threshold](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodzillaThreshold) prompt to become my most upvoted post. I'm quite enjoying all of your s... | "Cthulhu? Really?"
William's facial expression and voice were both in the far end of the "are you serious" spectrum of existence.
"Yeah", I said, nodding vigorously. "You already know we're fucked either way. There's no chance, zero, of us getting out of this intact. At least if we bring about His return, maybe we c... | I never thought I would see her wearing a full body armor and wielding twin plasma machinegun as large as a motorcycle. Heck, I never imagined I would see her holding something larger than my dog.
Valiantly, she charged upon the hordes of gray six meter long worms, accurately evaporated their heads and hearts. But the... | 2016-12-22T02:34:42 | 2016-12-21T23:42:28 | 84 | 13 |
[WP] Your English teacher explains the themes and symbolismes of up a best selling book she does not know you wrote. Unfortunately, she has it all wrong. You raise your hand | Reading the book aloud in class does nothing for my self-confidence. At least once a chapter someone in the class raises their hand to go into every detail of what they didn't like. I sit in the class with my head down. When it's my turn to read aloud I can do nothing but grimace at myself in disgust over my word choic... | "So what is the story really about? Could anyone answer that for me?"
Silence.
"Alright, what if I gave you the option between 'Love overcomes all' or rather 'Science overcomes all'? Anyone? Derek?" She pointed at a boy in the back of the class, slumped in his chair.
"No idea."
"Anyone else? No? Alright. Lets take ... | 2016-04-20T06:21:06 | 2016-04-20T04:08:51 | 317 | 70 |
[WP] Area 51 has four level emergencies for a breakout. Level 3: Armed forces intervention. 2: Public statement. United Nations joint resistance. 1: Worldwide evacuation effort. Use of nuclear weapons permitted. And 0: Call the number on the sticky note (and pray to God his demands aren't too high). | "Sir, we just received the call from the Joint Chiefs. We've been upgraded to level 0."
"...fuck. Go to my office and find the green sticky note on my desk. There's a phone number on it. Send that number a text that reads 'Priority zero'."
"A text message, sir?"
"The guy on the other end, he doesn't...he doesn't rea... | *A sign reading "Area 51: Eldritch Containment Protocols Command" hangs limply from the now-smashed and burned fence it used to be firmly attached to. Beyond the perimeter, an unassuming grey bunker sits, split open by formless tendrils of void lapping at anything withing their reach.*
"General Bahncroft! The ECPC has... | 2017-03-21T06:25:13 | 2017-03-21T06:03:48 | 40 | 18 |
[WP] Compared to the rest of the galaxy humanity is by far the friendliest. To many star systems they are considered "the good neighbor," and are known for their helpfulness. One day an oblivious system declares war on humanity, only to find half of the galaxy responding to humanity's plea for aid.
EDIT: Tfw this prom... | The semi-bio cushions moulded themselves round Draz'nek's body as it reclined into it's throne, for want of a better word. The throne itself was more of a podium with an intricately carved base and a grand, sweeping panel at the back positioned as if it were a backrest; made of great planks and beams of material from e... | The alien vessels fell upon the Sol Coalition's fleet in waves, as if an interstellar tide had washed in. The lumbering human ships wheeled their guns about, massive artillery pieces launching their rocket-assisted shells across the field. Maneuvering thrusters flickered as the ships struggled to hold position upon the... | 2017-03-26T06:04:45 | 2017-03-26T05:50:12 | 221 | 42 |
[WP] One day you find $10m in your bank account with only the memo "Sorry" attached to it. | 'GOD DAMN IT JANICE YOU CHEATING BITCH'
Arthur screamed, his face red and contorted in unbridled rage. His secretaries visibly cringed at their employer's outburst.
To his credit, the furious CEO quickly steeled his temper and sank back into his leather chair.
'Get. My. Accountant.'
To say that Arthur Royle was a p... | His heart was pounding audibly, his hands were sweaty, and his brain couldn't decide wether to be happy or scared, so it tried a mixture of both.
"It's probably just a computer error... They won't *actually* let me withdraw it...", He thought, as he drove to the bank.
"Sir, you're going to have to show me some ID to w... | 2017-01-07T09:31:27 | 2017-01-07T08:45:34 | 35 | 12 |
[WP] We're always told that ending a story with "...and then they/he/she woke up" is an unimaginative way to end things. Tell a story where this ending makes it better. | A wonderful walk in the park with my wife.
*beep*
The crisp breeze caressing my skin.
*beep*
Her laughter echoing across the field.
*beep*
The color of her dress.
*beep*
A hug, a kiss.
*beep*
Romantic candlelit dinner.
*beep*
A long drive home.
*beep*
A soothing song on the radio.
*beep*
Her hand dancin... | It goes beyond the reach of humans to understand the consciousness of the planets. They are alive in a way that most humans can't fully comprehend because they are the sum of all their parts, they are a hive whereas their inhabitants are plugged into the consciousness - the planet is us and we are the planet.
This sto... | 2016-05-15T11:55:03 | 2016-05-15T11:40:09 | 34 | 11 |
[WP] 100 25 year olds have been chosen. each must choose a super power that cannot be repeated and cannot exceed the power of god. The goal is to see who can conquer the world. You have the number 100. The best powers have already been chosen. Then it's your turn and you choose..... | I stood speechless at the answer of the last candidate. Everyone else chose a super power following the spirit of the event, but the last one had a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. I glanced down at the written rules, wondering what idiot intern had threw together the wording, and how I was going to fire them immediate... | God this sucks. All the cool powers are taken. From flight to fire breath. From teleportation to telekinesis. Now it’s my turn to think. I have to think long and hard about this one. Then I remembered it. As a kid I loved watching videos online and the main videos I watched were videos on the terrors of video games. I ... | 2022-11-17T07:33:47 | 2022-11-17T07:32:46 | 420 | 12 |
[WP] You are the test subject for an experimental surgery to see wavelengths of light that humans normally cannot see. As you adjust to your new vision, you see one person in the corner furiously taking notes. "Who is that?" you ask. "Who is what?" asks the doctor, looking at the empty corner. | "Describe what you see, fifty-six," the doctor said, "are you experiencing any vibrant reds, blues, or greens in your vision?"
"No, nothing like that," fifty-six said, shaking her head, "Hannah is fine."
The doctor eyed the corner she stared at and put an X down next to his infrared box.
"When we came in you told me... | "Who is what?" asks the doctor, looking at the empty corner.
I blink a few times but the figure remains in place, occasionally looking up at me, only to squint and continue writing. They seem to be a totally normal person but their clothing strikes me as odd for the lab, dressed in shorts and a t-shirt. As I continue... | 2022-01-16T16:21:29 | 2022-01-16T15:54:16 | 1,972 | 111 |
[WP] Fun fact: There's only four actual people online. Everyone else is fake. If you are reading this, YOU ARE NUMBER FOUR. We've been trying to reach you for some time now. Find us. Quickly, before they do. | *Oohh - love the meta*, I think as I click the post, *I could probably write something, right? Play along with it, you know?*
Racking my brain, I can't really think of what to write. There's... 1..2..3..4 responses to the prompt already - that's one fake at least, plus replies... But if it took a while for them to con... | I can't stop my brain from driving me insane with the weirdest question lately. Why doesn't anyone care?
After a plop on my fancy office chair in front of my fancy lighted fixtures and mulled the body of text. Without a chance for coffee or actual sunlight to penetrate my blinds. It's easy to see why I felt this way.... | 2022-07-19T23:32:32 | 2022-07-19T23:24:14 | 36 | 13 |
[WP] You wake up to find yourself on a train with a note in your pocket saying "What ever you do, don't get off this train untill you arrive at the very last stop". Its been nearly 20 years and the train still hasn't arrived at the last stop yet. | Paul looked at his phone to check the time. It was 4:27 p.m. on October the 27th, 2040. Letting out a long breath he looked to the floor, head in his hands.
"Paul?"
Looking up from the floor, Paul turned to see who was calling him.
"Steve? W-what are you doing here?"
"I'm on my way to the city to grab drinks wit... | The only thing I remember is a kiss. Soft lips brushing my temple, warm breath on my skin, and the words _Until death do we suffer_.
I can't tell you how long it's been since I've been on this track. I was a child when I found myself here, and yesterday I discovered the first strands of gray growing out of that temple... | 2020-07-17T13:42:33 | 2020-07-17T13:21:25 | 31 | 15 |
[WP] On a trip out to wilderness of Norway, you found a weird hammer looking thing in the woods that feels tingly to touch. You decide to pick it up bring it to a local university but upon handing it to the chief of the archeology department he gets yanked to the floor and can't lift it back up. | “I found this in the forest, professor.” I held the hammer flat with both hands. It was larger than any hammer I’d ever used before, its body shimmering in the sunlight streaming in through the large windows of the office. On one side were engravings in a forgotten language. And I swore every time I shifted the hammer,... | At this time I suggest for the sake of the tale, all the legend and lore of Odin have a basis in fact
Since you were able to pick it up you assumed it to be a representation of Thor’s Hammer and a
archeological artifact possibly of significant importance. Not until you handed it to another
did you begin to suspect an... | 2019-01-09T14:30:52 | 2019-01-09T09:18:22 | 22 | 16 |
[WP] Everytime a volcano erupts, a dragon is born. The longer the volcano lays dormant before eruption the more powerful the dragon is. The larger the volcano, the larger the dragon. The supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park has just erupted. | It was all a flurry of screaming and rumbling and sirens. Visitors were sprinting to their cars or their bikes, abandoning their things. Park rangers desperately radioed HQ, organizing for the evacuation of major buildings. Animals were pouring out of forests to escape, spilling out and through the trees in a massive h... | Robert looked at the data. It was consistent with what he had been recording for the past few days. But it also meant that it was time to push things upstairs. This would be big and destructive. Plus there was the whole dragon issue. The government would want to get involved ASAP. He made the calls.
*****
Agent 32 g... | 2020-05-03T05:40:01 | 2020-05-03T05:37:07 | 126 | 22 |
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